I have never seen such a case of collective, sniveling butthurt in my life.

AND IT'S GLORIOUS

As I told y'all on Friday, our Mr. Vance went to Munich. The Vice President of the United States, instead of the usual touchy-feely, globalist argle-bargle, launched a truth MOAB (Mother of American Broadsides) on the rising authoritarianism evinced by the hierarchy of the European Union and leaders of the countries contained within assembled for the international security conference being held there.

He didn't just sprinkle generalized criticisms, either. He called out offenders by name and dirty deeds.

 ...J.D.'s gentle jibes about over-regulation and censorship probably should have been taken as warning shots because his next speech a few days later- in Munich at the Security Conference in session there now - turned into a barn burner of epic proportions. 

Vance delivered a rousing lesson in what inherent rights and freedoms are and what they mean in action. He called out real-life, real-time examples of European authoritarianism one by one and dropped them in the perpetrators' laps as they listened to him.

Jonathan Turley called it 'a historic defense of free speech.'

...Speaking to European leaders at the Munich Security Conference, he shocked his audience by confronting them over their attacks on free speech in the West.

For the free speech community, it was truly Churchillian — no less than the famous Iron Curtain speech in which Churchill dared the West to confront the existential dangers of communism.

Roughly 80 years after Churchill’s speech, Vance called our allies to account not for the growing threat from countries like Russia or China, but from themselves. To a clearly shocked audience, Vance declared that he was not worried about “external actors” but “the threat from within the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, values shared with the United States of America.”

Vance then pulled back the curtain on the censorship and anti-free-speech policies of the European Union and close allies ranging from the United Kingdom to Sweden. He also chastised one of the most vehemently anti-free speech figures in Europe, Thierry Breton, who led the EU efforts to control speech with draconian measures under the infamous Digital Services Act.

Vance called out the hypocrisy of these nations asking for greater and greater military assistance “in the name of our shared democratic values” even as they eviscerate free speech, the very right that once defined Western Civilization.

The point was crushing.

In response, German leaders - particularly stung for being called out as they were also the hosts of the conference - called for a waahmbulance...

JUST IN: German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius starts whining about JD Vance's speech, says it was "not acceptable."

Looks like Vance's speech was a success.

The whining came after Vance ripped European nations for criminalizing free speech and acting like tyrants.

"If I… pic.twitter.com/zM9DBo7V3M

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 14, 2025

..."If I understood him correctly, he compares the condition of Europe with the condition that prevails in some authoritarian regimes." 

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. This is not the Europe where I live."

...and the biggest box of 'Oh, meine, Gott - he's the meanest thing ever!' Kleenexes they could find.

Yes. J.D. Vance made the Germans cry bitter, hurt, impotent tears.

Munich Security Conference Chairman Christoph Heusgen gets emotional and breaks down in tears after JD Vance’s speech criticizing European leaders.

“We have to fear that our common value base is not that common anymore.” pic.twitter.com/dGH3gkloly

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 17, 2025

Herr Heusgen was also weepy because he was leaving as chair after many years, and how sad to have to go out on such a note for him. Rude Americans spoiling the party...not the Afghan fellow in the car running down his fellow Germans the day before the conference started.

Don't go too soft on him, though. It's just another instance of Germans not being able to handle the truth after mocking it.

Like, oh, Herr Heusgen only a few years ago. He thought Donald Trump at the UN was pretty riotous when Trump warned them about...what was it again? Russian gas?

He was happier back in 2018 laughing at Trump warning against dependence on Russian oil- during Trump’s speech!
Well, he isn’t laughing now. pic.twitter.com/wQut0KbLm0

— Sir Starmeroid (@SStarmeroid) February 17, 2025

The Germans seem to be stepping on themselves quite a bit lately, and all the tears and snorts in the world aren't going to save them, especially as they are incapable of saving themselves.

60 Minutes was kind enough to reinforce the assertions in J.D.'s speech, although I'm not sure that's what they meant to do, being closet fascists themselves. Sharon Alfonsi talked to a smug group of German hate-speech monitors who helpfully explained how you could go to jail for insulting a politician or have your house raided for sharing a meme.

The program was delighted to go along with the German 'defenders of democracy' crushing and criminalizing freedom of speech and expression to do so.   

FREE SPEECH NEEDS BOUNDARIES is the new 'fire in a crowded theater' excuse. Only the Huns have codified it.

Good Lord. Germany’s plan to stop fascism looks a lot like… fascism. https://t.co/EawDLd76iw

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 17, 2025

"...It's a crime to insult somebody in public?...And a crime to insult them online as well?"

"Oh, yes. The fine could be even higher if you insult someone on the internet!"

This is not just insane, but insanely dangerous. pic.twitter.com/LVA8S7F9zv

— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) February 17, 2025

And if you do, here they come.