Crowd SILENT as JD Vance’s joke BOMBS on stage

0:00 If you were wondering what negative charisma looks like, here's Shady Vance offering up a masterclass in it as he bombs on stage. >> Thank you, Mr. President, very much for your leadership, but also for the the kind words about me personally. I knew exactly what I wanted to say, but then after the president said that I was so smart and that I didn't want to repeat our congresswoman who froze for 20 seconds over in Munich, now I'm tempted, sir, just to freeze for 20 seconds and just stare at the cameras. And maybe they'll say nice things about me like they do about Congresswoman Cortez, but I I have three very brief messages. I mean, my god. I know that this is the board of peace, but JD Vance is out here doing his level best to murder any semblance of comedy. I am sorry that I ever said Greg Gutfeld wasn't funny.

0:46 Now, what Vance is talking about is this moment from AOC at the Munich Security Conference just a few days back. Would and should the US actually commit US troops to defend Taiwan if China were to move? >> Um, you know, I think that uh this is such a uh you know, I I think that this is a um this is of course a a very long-standing um policy of the United States. Uh and I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure that we never get to that point and we want to make sure that we are moving in all of our economic

1:32 research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that question to even arise. >> Now, two points here, a little bit in conflict with each other, but here's what my takeaway was. Was that a good answer by AOC? No. If you're going to go to the Munich Security Conference, you have to be prepared for these questions. If you're going to be a contender for president of the United States, which I think and hope AOC will be, you have to be prepared for these types of questions. With that said, where she eventually got was that we need diplomatic solutions before blindly upending the global order. And with that sentiment, I wholeheartedly agree. And a purportedly anti-war MAGA base also once used to agree before their god king then decided that he wants to be the king of the world and start attacking sovereign countries who also just so happen to be

2:19 our own NATO allies. All of which is a point that I made on Piers Morgan's show. >> And it's a bit scary amidst all the people on the left floating the idea of AOC being the next candidate in 28 and vying for more power. That's a little scary to me. So I I don't really know. Does that mean that she would or she wouldn't? I guess I don't have many thoughts about that clip other than >> I don't know what the hell she was saying. >> I I I think that's super unfair. I I think that I think that's super unfair. I I think what what she's basically being asked here is if >> is if the US should like engage in in in what may be tantamount to a war with the other biggest global superpower on Earth. And like that's not an easy question. >> Yes, that's not an easy question to answer. And I actually think yeah, she

3:05 stammered in in the beginning and God knows that we've all stammered in the beginning of of of difficult questions. But I think that her answer was that we need to engage in diplomacy so that it doesn't get to that point is a perfectly acceptable answer and frankly a much better answer than Donald Trump saying no, we do need to like annex Greenland or bomb Cuba or or take over the Panama Canal. I mean, what are we doing here? A AOC gave a perfectly reasonable example. even if even if it wasn't as clean as we would have all hoped, a perfectly reasonable response, a diplomatic solution in the face of an administration right now that is doing the polar opposite and basically ushering in a new era of imperialism. I would 10 times out of 10, a thousand times out of a thousand uh uh defer to AOC's answer here as far as international relations uh go than what

3:52 we are currently living through in this very moment. So, I find it pretty rich that JD Vance is attacking Alexandria Kaziocortez, a young member of Congress, for not having the perfect answer on international relations, while he himself is currently a part of an administration whose foreign policy is some errant synapse fires in Trump's brain and the GOP follows whatever mindless dribble falls out of his face like it's sacrianked. And we have seen the consequences, by the way, of that exact foreign policy where Trump has decided that he's an all powerful ruler. And in response to that, our own allies are running not into our own arms, but into those of China, the one country that Trump purports to want to stop. And yet now he's just strengthening them, making them more ascendant while plunging the United States further into solitude. All because he thinks he's

4:39 going to spark a second era of imperialism. something I spoke about with Obama's deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodess, here. I mean, does it seem like this could be the the gateway into a second round of imperialism by by big, you know, autocratic countries, of which I would include the United States under under Trump's administration? >> It feels like we're already there because it feels to me like Trump views the Western Hemisphere, >> like Putin views the former Soviet Union. Yeah. Like China views, you know, its neighborhood, the South China Sea and Taiwan. and he's comfortable in a world in which these big powers basically do whatever they want. Um, and there's no more respect for sovereignty. There's no more respect for any rules. Uh, and you know, unfortunately that that usually ends poorly, you know, like

5:24 the reason we made all the rules against big countries doing that is we went through two world wars. Now, I'm not suggesting we're like on the precipice of that yet, but it just you this is a dynamic that you don't want to play with here. And we'll see how they if they can land the plane in Venezuela. There there are a lot of questions about whether the remnants of the Maduro government will go along with this, what the Chinese and Russians will do in Venezuela because they have a lot of people there uh themselves or a lot of influence there. You know, whether there'll be more violence, um what the US troops will be on the ground. Um but in any case, you just don't open up this Pandora's box of kind of returning to imperial rule ruleless uh geopolitics. >> And of course, to watch that interview and all of my other interviews, the best way to do so is to subscribe to my channel. It's 100% free, but a great way

6:10 to support my work. Now, the most pathetic part of all of this is, as I mentioned, we don't derive any benefit from this foreign policy that Trump and his administration are engaging in. Turning ourselves into a pariah on the global stage is not going to help us, not going to make us wealthier, not going to make us safer. The only benefit is that one man, Donald J. Trump, gets to feel important. This is about coddling his ego. And the consequences of that is that 350 million Americans are in a world that is decidedly less safe and decidedly less safe for Americans. But hey, at least Trump gets to feel important. And at the end of the day, that's what really matters. So, look, maybe JD Van should spend a little less time on his hack comedy routine and a little more time actually listening to the merits of what AOC said, which is

6:57 that engaging in foreign wars, especially, by the way, those to benefit our oil companies, is not only unpopular, but makes us less safe. We should be in favor of defending democracy, not upending the global alliances that protect it. But then again, that would take an administration that actually wants the United States to remain a democracy. And that's not what we have with Donald Trump and JD Vance. So, I don't know what's worse here, the White House's record on foreign affairs or JD Vance's comedy portfolio. But either way, Americans are making it pretty clear that we're not interested in any of it. Before you go, if you enjoyed this content and you want to see more and support independent media, please subscribe to this channel. The subscribe button will be right here on the screen. But second, the reality is that we are

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