JD Vance’s Strong Debut in Paris
Posted By: Dreadnought, 2/13/2025 7:49:41 PM
'Artificial intelligence is, we believe, going to make us more productive, more prosperous, and more free.” So proclaimed Vice President JD Vance at his first foreign speech, given to an AI forum conducted jointly by the French and Indian governments. He outlined the reality that America is the current leader in AI and intends to remain so. He said the Trump administration’s view is that AI is good for economic growth, for worker productivity, and for discovering breakthrough tech, in not only the world of “bits” but the physical world as well, in medicine and manufacturing. He outlined broad principles that would guide America’s approach to AI tech. We will invest
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Vice President JD Vance made news in Munich by accusing the European political elite of not really believing in democracy. But another line stood out for me that I think is also worth noting. Vance defended the unique dignity of human life. From the speech:
Contrary to what you might hear a couple mountains over in Davos, the citizens of all of our nations don’t generally think of themselves as educated animals or as interchangeable cogs of a global economy.
It’s just one sentence in a 20-minute speech. But I think it is important and urge the vice president to expand upon that thought
A German diplomat once best known for laughing at Donald Trump’s warning that Germany’s dependence on Russian energy would become a problem was unable to finish his speech at the Munich Security Conference as he apparently found the implications of emissary JD Vance’s message from the Trump White House too upsetting.
Top German diplomat Christoph Heusgen, infamous for being one of the group of chuckling Germans laughing off Donald Trump at a 2018 United Nations General Assembly broke down in tears on the podium at the Munich Security Conference as he gave the closing speech of the three-day event. Heusgen spoke in a conscious repudiation
It is not coincidental that mere days after Vice President JD Vance went into the Munich Security Conference and denounced European censorship regimes, CBS’s 60 Minutes would air a report extolling the virtues of German censorship. The report filed by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi makes sure to highlight prosecutors who go after memeposters as defenders of civility.
The report opens with Alfonsi laying its predicate- censorship as protective of “civility” and “discourse”, and with the airing of a predawn cartoon deemed to be racist (click “expand” to view full transcript): SHARYN ALFONSI: If you've ever dared to read the comments on a social
USDA Axes Millions in Contracts, Including
$230K for ‘Brazilian Forest and Gender Consultant’ 14 replies
$230K for ‘Brazilian Forest and Gender Consultant’ 14 replies
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed millions in contracts that were active under the Biden administration, including for a “Brazilian forest and gender consultant” and a “Central American gender assessment consultant.”
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the cuts on Friday, saying that the department has terminated 78 contracts totaling more than $132 million. Rollins said 1,000 contracts are also currently under review for potential termination.
The findings are the result of a review by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Associated Press Refuses to Use ‘Gulf
of America’ Despite Updating Other Geographical,
Ethnic Terms 15 replies
of America’ Despite Updating Other Geographical,
Ethnic Terms 15 replies
The Associated Press is still refusing to refer to the Gulf of America by its new official name, despite the publication having previously changed its style guide to conform to the renaming of other geographical locations and ethnicities around the world.
The oceanic basin, settled between the southern coast of the United States and the northern coast of Mexico, was known as the Gulf of Mexico until President Donald Trump changed the name in an executive order on his first day back in office. While the order, referred to as “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness,” only officially applies within the U.S., many companies
Wall Street's diversity dilemma deepens
as JPMorgan's Dimon sounds off on 'stupid'
DEI expenses 0 replies
as JPMorgan's Dimon sounds off on 'stupid'
DEI expenses 0 replies
Wall Street’s defense of its DEI initiatives suddenly got a lot more complicated.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, a longtime advocate of diversity and using bank resources to aid minority communities, told employees this past week during a town hall that he "was never a firm believer in bias training" and had questions about money being spent on certain DEI programs.
"I saw how we were spending money on some of this stupid *, and it really * me off," Dimon said, according to a recording of the town hall obtained by Yahoo Finance. "I’m just going to cancel them. I don’t like wasted money in bureaucracy."
Bloomberg first reported on those comments.
A CHILD has been killed and four other people have been injured after a man went on a random stabbing spree attacking passersby in Austria.
The suspect, said to be a Syrian asylum seeker, was arrested near the central square of Villach town. The victim is said to be a 14-year-old boy.
Images of the arrest show the suspect smiling with his index finger raised as police officers surround him with weapons.
A 42-year-old man who works for a food delivery company witnessed the incident from his car.
He drove toward the suspect and helped to prevent things from getting worse, police spokesperson Rainer Dionisio told Austria's public broadcaster ORF.
Trump posts quote attributed to Napoleon
on social media: 'He who saves his country
violates no law' 7 replies
on social media: 'He who saves his country
violates no law' 7 replies
President Donald Trump posted a quote that has been attributed to emperor Napoleon Bonaparte on social media Saturday.
"He who saves his country violates no law," Trump wrote, without elaborating on what he was referring to with the post.
Trump's post comes amid some rulings from a federal judge limiting the authority of the new Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, to access payment systems in the Treasury Department.
DOGE is currently able to access the payment records at the departments of Labor and of Health and Human Services
It also comes amid Trump's interest in acquiring Greenland and making Canada the 51st state of the U.S.
TEL AVIV — In a ceremony surrounded by masked Palestinian militants and rubble from the Gaza war, Hamas released three Israeli hostages holding U.S., Russian and Argentinian citizenships on Saturday.
It was the sixth group of hostages freed as part of a fragile ceasefire deal that nearly collapsed this week between the Palestinian militant group and Israel. In exchange for the released hostages, Palestinian authorities expect Israel to release 369 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
The three male civilian hostages released are Sagui Dekel-Chen, a 36-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, Alexander Trupanov, a 29-year-old dual Russian-Israeli citizen, and Yair Horn, a 46-year-old dual Argentinian-Israeli.
Has morning really dawned in America? More Americans certainly believe so than they have in years -- even though it may not be twenty years.
That claim came from Rasmussen Reports' Mark Mitchell, based on its own latest survey. Donald Trump has a 10-point advantage now in job approval as well as a three-point advantage in the passion positions, both remarkably different than in his first term. However, the real change is in the right/wrong direction tracker, which went positive in Rasmussen's series for the first time in two decades, according to Mitchell:
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency can continue to access sensitive records from at least three federal agencies after a federal judge in Washington denied a request to block Musk's budget-slashing team from the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
U.S. District Judge John Bates, in a late-night ruling, denied a request made by a group of unions and nonprofits to issue a temporary order blocking DOGE from the sensitive records maintained by the three agencies.
Elon Musk has repeatedly targeted Bates over the last week on X – including calling for the judge's impeachment – after Bates issued a decision
JD Vance: Everything We Do Should be to
Defend Democracy, But Europe is Abandoning
Shared Values 3 replies
Defend Democracy, But Europe is Abandoning
Shared Values 3 replies
America finds Europe’s retreat from shared values as the continent turns away from democracy and towards censorship “shocking”, Vice President JD Vance told leaders in Germany in a hard-hitting speech. Europe is increasingly acting like the ‘bad guys’ in the Cold War as it turns towards censorship and fails to uphold democracy, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told a stunned hall at Germany’s major annual Munich that despite obsession among the European elite about subversion by Russia and China, actually the greatest threat to the continent is “the threat from within”. In a withering check-list of failures
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Rubio defends Vance's Munich speech as
CBS host suggests 'free speech' caused
the Holocaust 31 replies
CBS host suggests 'free speech' caused
the Holocaust 31 replies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Vice President JD Vance's speech in Germany slamming Europe's penchant for censorship on Sunday. Rubio clashed with CBS host Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation" after she suggested that free speech had been "weaponized" to bring about the Holocaust in Nazi Germany.
Brennan highlighted Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference in Germany last week, which criticized European allies for adopting a "soviet"-style approach to censorship.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to five people briefed on the proposal or with direct knowledge of the talks.
The unusual deal would have granted the United States a 50 percent interest in all of Ukraine’s mineral resources, including graphite, lithium and uranium, as compensation for past and future support in Kyiv’s war effort against Russian invaders, according to two European officials. A Ukrainian official and an energy expert briefed on the proposal said that the Trump administration also sought Ukrainian energy resources.
Not Many Americans Are Going to Tolerate
What These Federal Workers Had to Say
Last Night 26 replies
What These Federal Workers Had to Say
Last Night 26 replies
CBS News was a dumpster fire on Sunday. Face the Nation’s Margaret Brennan thought the Nazi Holocaust occurred because there was too much freedom of speech and the press in Germany. Then, 60 Minutes decided to produce a segment about Germany waging a total war on freedom of speech, taking offenders away…on a train ride. Finally, there is this pity segment on government workers who are lost after getting fired.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appears on Meet the Press to discuss his position toward ending the conflict with Russia. Within the conversation [04:11], Zelenskyy said, “I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine.”
President Zelenskyy represents the interests of the European Union, multinational corporations, various elements of NATO memberships, the World Economic Forum, the CIA division within the U.S. State Dept., western banks and a confab of various western intelligence operations. After that, he represents the interests of Ukrainians. This is why he will not permit elections. (Video)
Canadian hockey fans booed “The Star-Spangled Banner” — setting off a brawl-filled game that ended with a US win Saturday night.
The game of the NHL-run 4 Nations Face-Off tournament could have been mistaken for a boxing event — with three fist fights breaking out between American and Canadian players following the widespread booing of the US national anthem by over 20,000 angry fans.
As soon as the singer, Royal Canadian Air Force member David Grenon, began belting, “Oh, say, can you see,” the crowd at the Bell Centre in Montreal let out an aggressive and booming chorus of boos that nearly drowned out the anthem entirely.
Rachel Maddow Criticizes Trump, Musk Over
$400M Tesla Contract—But It Was Under
Biden's Watch 18 replies
$400M Tesla Contract—But It Was Under
Biden's Watch 18 replies
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has once again found herself in hot water after making false claims about President Donald Trump giving Elon Musk a $400 million contract to buy armored Teslas. The liberal pundit, known for her questionable takes and liberal meltdowns, fabricated this narrative despite no evidence to back up the allegation. This latest misstep only adds to the growing list of inaccuracies from Maddow and other left-wing media figures attempting to distort the truth to discredit Trump and Musk.
Well, this is interesting. What a surprise. Dirty Judge Jack McConnell, who believes he was recently elected US president, halted President Trump’s current spending freeze. But Judge McConnell is not some innocent bystander. Judge McConnell’s organization has received $117.6 million in government funding in total (ending in 2023). Maybe that’s why he wanted the money to keep flowing. He’s expecting several more million this year!
When reviewing the production, it is important to remember – when Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to an assembly in English, his audience is not in the room in Munich. Zelenskyy is speaking to America, through the scripted remarks.
When Zelenskyy is scripted to speak to Europe, he speaks Ukrainian. When Zelenskyy is scripted to speak to America, he speaks English. .(snip)Acting as if he were a NATO member, he’s not, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy tells the European audience they need to plan for the U.S. to pull-back from NATO, and the European Union needs to assemble a collective “European Army.” (snip)., can send their soldiers into Ukraine to join the fight
Democrats Prepare for the Big House
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I came across an article today with a graphic showing a map of Washington, D.C. with tags indicating asking prices for homes that had just gone on the market. The article claimed that the D.C. housing market has dropped 36% in one week. I've been utilizing the "Bongino Rule," waiting 24-72 hours before commenting on an inflammatory story until more facts are revealed.
But I quickly came across similar, related stories, as well as a phenomenal thread on ‘X’ from Ted Cruz. Why is it, do you suppose, that so many people (some 15,000 at last report) in D.C. have put their homes up for sale that the glut has
Associated Press Refuses to Use ‘Gulf
of America’ Despite Updating Other Geographical,
Ethnic Terms 15 replies
of America’ Despite Updating Other Geographical,
Ethnic Terms 15 replies
The Associated Press is still refusing to refer to the Gulf of America by its new official name, despite the publication having previously changed its style guide to conform to the renaming of other geographical locations and ethnicities around the world.
The oceanic basin, settled between the southern coast of the United States and the northern coast of Mexico, was known as the Gulf of Mexico until President Donald Trump changed the name in an executive order on his first day back in office. While the order, referred to as “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness,” only officially applies within the U.S., many companies
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer declared his willingness to deploy British troops to Ukraine “in harm’s way” to deter Russian aggression hours before he is set to join an ’emergency summit’ on the matter in Paris on Monday.
The United States and Russia are meeting to discuss the Ukraine war in Saudi Arabia this week, but European leaders have not been invited to send delegations. Apparently prompted by being left behind in this regard, and likely too by the Trump White House’s suggestion that European nations actually decide what they are actually capable of doing on Ukraine, European leaders are meeting in Paris today for an “emergency summit”.
Parts of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic could be in for their biggest snowstorm of the season later this week if all the pieces come together, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
Confidence is increasing, with computer forecast models showing an impactful winter storm developing in the Plains and tracking across the central and eastern US. However, uncertainty remains about the system’s exact track and what the impacts will be for those along the heavily populated Interstate 95 corridor.
The energy for this storm moves out of the Rockies and into the Plains on Monday before heading east.