J.D. Vance tells Air Force graduates "You can't boo me, I’m the Vice President"
The Vice President of the United States stepped up to address the graduating class of the Air Force Academy and delivered an awkward speech. But it wasn’t just weird, it was a direct reversal of his previous remarks. A little over a year ago, standing before graduates at the Naval Academy, J.D. Vance built an entire commencement speech around the promise that this administration was finished with “open-ended conflicts” and “undefined missions,” that Trump would be the president who stopped sending Americans to die in other people’s wars. Yesterday morning, with the United States actively at war with Iran, he told a new graduating class to prepare for “an entirely new era of warfare,” and that within just 60 days, they could be the ones asked to enforce it. The anti-war candidate became the war’s recruiter the moment war became politically useful.
During the speech, Vance told the crowd, “You can’t boo me, I’m the Vice President of the United States.” This theme runs through the entire administration: the belief that criticism itself is the problem. And nowhere is it clearer than in the assault on the press. CBS carried out a brutal purge of its 60 Minutes newsroom, firing two of its most respected correspondents and pushing out its two top producers. Cecilia Vega named it on her way out: “Let’s call this what it is: censorship, both imposed and self-driven.” The administration released a draft nondisclosure agreement that would gag the entire federal workforce from speaking to journalists under threat of criminal penalty. And the Justice Department reportedly opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the woman who took Trump to court for sexual assault and won, now being investigated by the same department run by his former defense lawyer.
But the resistance is growing, and it is coming from people with everything to lose. Most of the artists scheduled to perform at Trump’s America 250 celebration have reportedly declined. And at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards, an 18-year-old high school senior named Santiago Campos accepted a scholarship funded by CBS and named for 60 Minutes founding correspondent Mike Wallace, then stood in front of the room and said the network’s recent direction “stains the legacy” of the man it honors. He won that scholarship for reporting on immigration raids, drawing on his own family’s deportation stories. “What the people want,” he said, “is the truth.” June 14, Trump’s 80th birthday, is the next nationwide day of No Kings protests. The next generation is already picking up this fight with their eyes wide open. And November is coming.
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VP JD Vance Commencement Address: C-SPAN video
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Somebody in a comment section made a type of and it came out JV Dunce, which is really more appropriate
Boo hoo, you big baby!