SUNLIGHT IS THE BEST DISINFECTANT: JD Vance torches European leaders for ‘criminalizing’ free speech in extraordinary Munich speech.

Vice President J.D. Vance took his culture war to Europe on Friday, warning that its greatest threat came not from China or Russia but from within as he delivered a blistering attack on what he said was the continent’s retreat from its traditional values.

Vance said free speech and democratic institutions were being eroded in an address to the Munich Security Conference.

He accused European politicians of forcing people to shut down social media accounts and urged leaders to do more to stem illegal immigration.

Vance reserved particular scorn for America’s closest ally, and the case of a British man arrested after praying near an abortion clinic.

‘Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making,’ he said.

‘If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you, nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.’

If his audience of European VIPs had expected Vance to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine, outlining Donald Trump’s peace plan, they were in for a shock.

Some shifted in their seats as he attacked European politicians head on.

Good, they deserve every bit of Vance’s scorn: Oh Hell Yeah! JD Vance Pulls Zero Punches Roasting All of Europe at Munich Security Conference (Watch).

JD Vance went to the Munich Security Conference and roasted the entire continent of Europe for being petty tyrants and criminalizing freedom of speech, including a British man arrested for praying at an abortion clinic.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 14, 2025

UPDATE:

OMG.

VP JD VANCE: If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk. pic.twitter.com/qLvQsYLttY

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 14, 2025

MORE: Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans…don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun:

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

WE KNOW: Liberal Women the ‘least happy and loneliest’ in America, according to a new survey.

THE PROBLEM TURNED OUT TO BE SO EASY TO FIX THAT IT’S ALMOST AS THOUGH THE CRISIS UNDER BIDEN WAS ENTIRELY BY DESIGN: Illegal border crossings hit record lows after Trump’s swift crackdown — and could be on track for levels not seen in 60 years.

IT’S ALL TRUE:

It should be a political imperative among conservatives to let the left continue training all their fire — outside of Lawfare 2.0 — on Elon Musk.

Hundred billionaire devotes time, energy, resources — at no cost to taxpayer — to identifying, exposing, and working inside admin…

— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 14, 2025

Of course, everything Benjamin wrote in Musk’s defense is exactly why Democrats try to vilify him.

THE OFFICERS IN DIRE NEED OF CASHIERING CONTINUE TO SELF-IDENTIFY, WHICH IS NICE OF THEM:

The US Navy is doing the same thing. https://t.co/386fv8HsxV pic.twitter.com/dlSkiJuBTu

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) February 14, 2025

A MAN AMONG MEN: “Yes – people like this walked the earth in our lifetime.”

CHANGE: Vanity Fair’s Shocking Profile of Barron Trump.

Previously: Amazon licenses Melania Trump documentary, as Jeff Bezos cozies up to president-elect.

JOSH BLACKMAN: DID THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION DISOBEY A DISTRICT COURT INJUNCTION IN YOUNGSTOWN? “Most of the current rhetoric about an apparent ‘constitutional crisis’ is woefully misinformed.” “For starters, President Trump cannot possibly have ignored any court order because no court order runs against him. Even if Trump has been a named defendant, any injunctions would apply to members of his administration, not the apex official. Moreover, Trump’s Justice Department has dutifully appealed every adverse ruling (as best as I can tell). I’ve seen no evidence that Trump, or anyone in his administration, has given an order to ignore a court ruling. Some judges ordered immediate compliance, but that sort of demand is simply not realistic. The federal government cannot change direction so quickly in the face of many litigation demands. We saw these dynamics during the travel ban litigation. Attorney General Sessions described the nationwide injunction as an order to turn a battleship around 180 degrees immediately. It cannot be done.”

KURT SCHLICHTER: We Are Totally Going to Crush the Democrats’ Puny Lawfare Offensive.

THE PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT TRUMP’S LACK OF “DECENCY:”

Sarah Palin brought out her kids once and you called one a retard and made rape jokes about the other….. https://t.co/HrMQMQAheR

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) February 14, 2025

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to lay off 10% of employees.

TREAT YOURSELF: Dyson V8 Cordless Vacuum Cleaner. #CommissionEarned We have one of these and they are great.

SCOTT PINSKER: Captain America, Palestinian Protestors, and ‘Cultural Appropriation.’ “Who, then, is the greatest storyteller to ever walk on planet Earth? I say it’s Stan Lee.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Kash Patel Clears Committee Vote, on to Cloture/Confirmation Vote Next Week.

THEY KNEW EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE DOING:

DOGE: "Legally untouchable because it was already fully funded and operational. Congress can't defund it because it's not a new program, just a repurposed one. Since the (prior program) was originally an IT oversight program, DOGE now has full access to all Federal data systems.… https://t.co/x7wTfJOSzQ

— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) February 13, 2025

OH: Over half of LLM-written news summaries have ‘significant issues’—BBC analysis. “In an extensive report published this week, the BBC analyzed how four popular large language models used or abused information from BBC articles when answering questions about the news. The results found inaccuracies, misquotes, and/or misrepresentations of BBC content in a significant proportion of the tests, supporting the news organization’s conclusion that ‘AI assistants cannot currently be relied upon to provide accurate news, and they risk misleading the audience.'”

So AI isn’t really any worse than the Beeb is.

STATE-FUNDED PROPAGANDA: Justice Department spent $100 million pushing DEI in schools, watchdog finds.

THEY’RE CERTAINLY TAKING A HARD LOOK: Is DOGE Going to Kill the F-35?

TIRED YET? Trump Slams McConnell in an Epic Takedown for His RFK Jr. Vote.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Bowdoin College disciplines SJP students after pro-Palestine encampment violates policies.

IT’S NOT MUCH MORE THAN A MONTH SINCE I PREDICTED THAT 2025 WAS GOING TO BE THE YEAR THINGS COME TO A HEAD. Boy, was I ever right!

UGH: 10 Days From Natl Elections, Another ‘Immigrant’ Drives Another Car Into a German Crowd.

Ten days are left to the national elections for the Bundestag, called in the wake of a no-confidence vote after the collapse of Olaf Scholz’s ruling coalition last November.

There is a lot on German plates right now and a ton of anxiety on the part of formerly comfortable centrist/center-left parties for whom elections were basically perfunctory exercises.

A rising populism in response to their decades of indulgence in the most extreme and radical versions of progressive schemes from NetZero to unfettered immigration without assimilation has knee-capped the once mighty German industrial state, devastated economic growth, and endangered its citizens while destroying their standard of living.

More and more, as events unfold, Germans are signaling they want not just their country back but their Germany back, even as the ruling elites who have brought them to this state chastise and warn them of the dangers of feeling like Germans.

Fueling much of the resentment has been the waves of immigrants who have flooded unhindered into the country and the ‘cultural differences’ they have brought with them that have impacted the lives of everyday Germans adversely across the country.

Much more at the link, including the attacker’s “mental illness.”

YES.

It should be a political imperative among conservatives to let the left continue training all their fire — outside of Lawfare 2.0 — on Elon Musk.

Hundred billionaire devotes time, energy, resources — at no cost to taxpayer — to identifying, exposing, and working inside admin…

— Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) February 14, 2025

SMART MOVE: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought is doing something today that will draw anguished cries of protests from all the usual suspects. Vought is giving his top political deputies delegated authority to make spending allocation decisions.

Why will that send them all around the bend, again? Because OMB is part of the Executive Office of the President and is the central office for managing the day-to-day operations of all federal departments and agencies. It also prepares the President’s budget and has authority to cancel programs that conflict with the Chief Executive’s policy agenda.

Here’s the thing: The deputies to whom Vought is delegating authority are political appointees. Check out my exclusive story this morning at the Epoch Times to understand further why this is a big deal sign the Trump administration is doing what no previous Republican administration has successfully attempted.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Screw Seed Oils, I’m Giving RFK Jr. a Chance. “Let us pause for a moment to enjoy the political theater going on here. Donald Trump, Republican Destroyer of Worlds, Orange Man Bad, and Literally Hitler has a Kennedy in his Cabinet. And it’s not one of those Kennedy cousins we only hear about when he or she goes to rehab.”