Vice President JD Vance's speech before the Munich Security Conference has had the expected effect of triggering European elites.

As RedState reported on Friday, Vance showed up with a laundry list of examples of European nations stomping on basic rights. Those range from jailing people for silently praying outside abortion mills to canceling an election in Romania because the "wrong" side won. Here's a bit of what was said. 

SEE: JD Vance Triggers Munich Security Conference, Blasts European Hypocrites to Their Faces

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

VANCE: And unfortunately, when I look at Europe today, it's sometimes not so clear what happened to some of the Cold War's winners. I look to Brussels where EU commissars warn citizens that they intend to shut down social media during times of civil unrest the moment they spot what they've judged to be quote, "Hateful content." Or to this very country, where police have carried out raids against citizens suspected of posting anti-feminist comments online as part of quote, "Combating misogyny on the internet, a day of action." 

I look to Sweden, where two weeks ago the government convicted a Christian activist for participating in Koran burnings that resulted in his friend's murder. And as the judge in his case chillingly noted, Sweden's laws that supposedly protect freedom of expression do not, in fact, grant, and I'm quoting, "A free pass to do or say anything without risking offending the group that holds that belief." 

And perhaps most concerning, I look to our very dear friends in the United Kingdom where the backslide away from conscious rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britains in the crosshairs. A little over two years ago, the British government charged Adam Smith Connor, a 51-year-old physiotherapist and an army veteran with the heinous crime of standing 50 meters from an abortion clinic and silently praying for three minutes. Not obstructing anyone, not interacting with anyone, just silently praying on his own. 

As they say down South, a struck dog hollers, and hollering commenced after Vance left the stage. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius huffed and puffed that the American vice president would dare compare European nations that arrest people for free speech and cancel elections to authoritarian regimes that arrest people for free speech and cancel elections they don't like. 

Germany’s Defense Minister in response to JD Vance listing specific examples of European tyranny against basic rights.

“This is not acceptable. This is not acceptable. This is not the Europe where I live.”

No bud, it’s exactly where you live.

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— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) February 15, 2025

PISTORIUS: This is why I can not just ignore what we heard. I can not, not comment on the speech we heard by the U.S. vice president. We fight for your right to be against us. We fight for your right to be against us. That is the motto, one of the mottos of the Bundeswehr and it stands for our democracy.

This democracy that was just called into question by the U.S. vice president, not just the German democracy but Europe as a whole, he has spoke of the annulment of democracy, and 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.

Naturally, Pistorious continued his rant by calling the right-wing Alternative for Germany Party, which may win the next election, an "extremist" organization and citing "Russian propaganda" because these left-wing European elites have no other talking points. Don't want mass migration? You're an extremist. Any questioning of the status quo? That must be Russian propaganda. 

Well, I've got news for Pistorious and the rest of his colleagues. They don't get to decide what is "acceptable or not" when it comes to Vance or any other American official speaking the truth. You see, that's part of the whole freedom of speech think they claim to respect but don't. Someone was convicted of a hate crime and put in jail in Sweden for burning a Koran. Someone was arrested in Britain for silently praying outside an abortion mill. Germany did conduct raids to go after people for "anti-feminist" content on the internet. 

So while it may anger the Europeans to have their autocratic transgressions laid before them, they are the ones who committed them. The same goes for the canceling of an election in Romania. Former EU head Thierry Breton, who once threatened Elon Musk with criminal charges if he didn't agree to censor content online, tried to deflect on that issue.

Welcome to Europe VP @JDVance.

With all due respect, in 🇪🇺, freedom of speech is a core value of our democracy — it is non-negotiable. Never was and never will be.

Proof? Even fake news are allowed (sadly, sometimes echoed by top US officials) :

EU/DSA has never canceled… pic.twitter.com/bMGOph35oG

— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) February 14, 2025

Vance never claimed that the EU/DSA directly canceled the election in Romania. What he said is that a "former EU commissar" (talking about Breton) sounded delighted when a judge in the country hijacked the democratic process. In fact, Breton went so far as to claim that the EU could also cancel the election in Germany if the AfD were to win. 

Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton says the EU has mechanisms to nullify a potential election victory of the AfD:

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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) January 10, 2025

Are you starting to see how dishonest these people are? They cosplay as democracy defenders while violating basic rights and celebrating the nullification of elections based on nebulous claims of "foreign interference." That is the very definition of authoritarianism. The Europeans may want to pretend otherwise, but if they do not change their ways, then they can't claim to be any better than the Chinese or the Russians. 

People are sick and tired of this elitist hypocrisy, especially from our supposed "allies." Vance was right to call them out to their faces, and the fact that they are now screaming bloody murder over it only further proves the vice president's point.