Vice President Vance on Friday chided European leaders for their criticism of Elon Musk wading into their elections, comparing Musk’s actions to Swedish activist Greta Thunberg urging American leaders to take action on climate change.
“I believe that dismissing people, dismissing their concerns, or worse yet, shutting down media, shutting down elections or shutting people out of the political process protects nothing. In fact, it is the most surefire way to destroy democracy,” Vance said.
“And speaking up and expressing opinions isn’t election interference, even when people express views outside your own country, and even when those people are very influential,” he continued. “And trust me, I say this with all humor: If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg’s scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.”
Interesting how he said elon musk and not donald trump.
If I was American I’d be so embarrassed
They play the victim card so hard.
This is a brain dead comparison, Musk’s influence is highly destructive to democracy, while Greta’s influence is only advocating for a global shift to protect the future of the planet.
He’s mustering anger from his brain dead base. His words aren’t meant for the rest of us. He needs to distract the Maga crowd from the damage Elon is actually doing.
It’s also braindead because on the one hand you have the richest man in the world backed by the most powerful man in the world. And on the other you have pretty much a very popular influencer.
Question, what has Greta Thunberg done? Afaik, she’s only protested and post on social media.
She’s a woman who speaks without being spoken to
How dare she!
It’s Vance’s turn to say the stupid shit today then.
To you and to me, it’s stupid. To the people he wants to influence, it’s red meat.
Bad headline: I already hoped they’d deport Musk to Europe, so we could have physical access… :(
Getting back real, Vance:
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came without a credible peace plan
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read moralistic bullcrap about how it’s good to have your elections bought and manipulated (in the Romanian case where the court told to hold new elections - thousands of TikTok influencers and an unknown quantity of other actors working for a candidate who declared zero campaign expense).
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proposed to Zelensky that Ukraine give up 50% of its natural resources for US support (Zelensky politely refused)
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“If I can say dumb ass shit don’t worry I will say some even dumber ass shit.” - Assistant to Vice President Trump J.D. Vance.
I need you to rephrase all news to make it not so depressing.
How fragile are these men? My God.
One person with no power vs one person with all the power.
I wouldn’t say she has no power. She has the power to constantly upset these assholes.
Not even close to the same, but I’m glad she has that power.
This is a key difference.
Random American vice president: “Holy cows make the best steaks”
Europe: *stampede*
not a single articulate moment from these clowns ever
Yes, because a foreign climate activist trying to appeal to politician for a cleaner future is the same as an apartheid billionaire funding and endorsing a fascist party to get them elected.
Funny how we don’t see much of her anymore. Does it has anything to do with the fact that she publicly made the link between Capitalism, colonialism and the climate crisis ?
I guess we’ll never know !fr*nch punctuation 🤮
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she got arrested again for being pro-palestinian.
Continuing to be based as hell.
Europe didn’t have to survive with Thunberg, she wasn’t in the government and had no decision making authority.
Which is a shame…
