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JD Vance has one and only one talent: fully suppressing his already weak gag reflex when in his resting state: on his knees servicing whoever can advance his future career.

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JD Vance speech was received as outrageous, everyone is appalled by his lecture here in Europe.

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So is anyone with a brain and the willingness to use it, here in the USA. It takes IMAGINATION to grasp what a speech like Vance’s implies for the world, especially Europe (and Ukraine, obviously)—the Trumpists see only that Vance stuck it good and hard to those snooty Europe elites over there, who think they’re so smart with their foreign languages and serious attitudes. The MAGA crowd are literally not thinking beyond his insulting tone. (I’m sure they’re also ticked off that nobody laughed at Vance’s “joke” about Greta Thunberg, whose name he, a Yale Law grad, couldn’t be bothered to learn how to pronounce.)

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it's as if we all allowed 3 year olds to have loaded guns... now we can't stop them because we are afraid? We are in the up/down black/white world of oligarchs What/who is it going to take to stop this...

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They have to be revealed, stopped in court and we the people have to scream shout and vote!

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The problem with Vance is his hypocrisy. It is contradictory to urge another country to promote free speech while demanding total loyalty at home.

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Dear Mehdi, first of all I would like to show you my highest respect and admiration for all you do. However I feel that despite your engaged, constructed and strongly argumented text, I believe this is not the right method to surpass those MF. Unfortunately as long as money is the only value in this world, we will have those Hitler/Göbels/Himmlers’ replica working and supported by dumb racist WASPs. We are currently under a strong backlash of history. Things can’t be solved only with words. The real war to conduct is against this privileged class who believe the world is only due to the strongest… by the way some of those strongest believes they are Mufassa, but they surely are more Scar-like…. Anyway, as you said with Bassem you can’t shame the shameless. To kill cancer you have to kill its sick cells. I am amazed, watching from outside, to see only limited people (Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmys’ Kimmel and Fallon, Mickael Moore, yourself…) fight openly against the cancer while the Obamas’ and other dems do not even move an ear… let’s hope something will happen that may stop this backlash and bring us back to a situation where we can really fight the only danger that will kill us all: Global warming.

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Jamil, You absolutely nailed it! Look at the Democrats in Congress. We have individuals like Hakeem Jeffries who recently participated in fundraising for AIPAC. Did you see his interview with Nicole Wallace? He couldn't bring himself to use the word "corrupt" when talking about NYC Mayor Adams. His response was simply to let the people decide. And then we have another questionable leader in the Senate, often referred to humorously as 'Schmuck Schooner'. Where are the Clintons, the Obamas, and the other influential figures? They seem to be hiding in their luxurious retreats or enjoying vacations, rather than showing any concern about this alarming situation!

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I call him Schmucky Chuckie.

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Honestly, these guys are an embarrassment!!

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💯

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Dearest Mehdi,

at least in Germany there’s no-one imprisoned for his free speech.

All those lunatics are trying to do is brainwashing Europe just as they did brainwash their own country.

I recommend you get out as long as you can and settle somewhere else in the world…. It’s a toxic place.

Regards from the former East.

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Germany is hardly an example of the respect for free speech. The German government harasses, intimidates and oppresses ANYONE and EVERYONE who voices support for Palestinians or criticizes Israel’s GENOCIDE in Palestine. The German police state violently suppresses Pro Palestinian rallies and is now banning the speaking of Arabic at rallies.

Read about it here: https://www.the-independent.com/voices/gaza-palestine-germany-protest-police-ban-arabic-b2696733.html

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JD is pathetic, as is Trump. Integrity is important, something the Trump‘s and JD and the whole basket of deplorable’s do not have. You’re the best Mehdi.

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You are not a dummy.

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This was brilliant & made my day. Thank you, Mehdi

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Go, Medhi!

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Vance is stupid, insensitive, and extremely rude. His speech to the European leaders was truly offensive and like his boss, Elon Trump, he is working hard to destroy the 80-year-old Atlantic Alliance. Why? So that Trumpo can have more power and influence.

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Then why are they attacking college students and everyday citizens with their congressional hearings trying to make us bow down to Israeli rhetoric as they try to make it criminal to speak in this country 🤔

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Ad hominem is the only argument they have.

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Thank you. This is Trump's primary strategy. Kill the messenger, debase, discredit, shame, those who speak truth. He's like a child who covers his eyes with his little hands, thinking that makes you disappear.

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I wonder how the actual dummy Vance would react to a challenge to debate you? The answer, obviously, is NO!!

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That coming from a guy who's boss wants to remove restrictions on being able to sue for libel and would prefer a system more British.

But if we're going to get into the comparison game, maybe JD can explain why Rittenhouse and Zimmerman got trials for exercising their "right to self-defense" but Reinoehl got a summary execution without trial.

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It's really like this is a George Orwell novel. Maybe the prequel to 1984!

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