“You know, this is the only commencement speech that I’m giving this year and so I’ve watched a few highlights of graduation speeches where this or that corporate leader will discuss artificial intelligence, AI, and be met with literal boos,” Vance said as he wrapped up his remarks.
“Now, you can’t boo me. I’m the vice president of the United States,” he added, drawing laughs.
that’s pretty cringe
You know people that are true leaders have to remind people constantly they are leaders.
/s he is so pathetic
A leader and a supervisor are often conflated, but they are critically different. One uses power assigned to them, one draws power willingly given to them by using it correctly.
A lion does not concern himself with the opinions of sheep.
So please don’t be mean, sheep, or the lion will start crying.
Although in our current epoch lions and sheep don’t co-exist in the wild. Now Zebras, they will kick a lion’s face off. They are mean, so are cape buffalo. Lion’s better worry, when they try to pick off one of the herd, and the herd turns on them like a troop of baboons on a leopard.
Immediate flashbacks to the tangerine toddler getting huffy about it after people called Nazi Musk the President.
So pathetic.
And he’ll never again make that mistake of showing too much faith in a subordinate. That’s why he’s constantly playing Rubio and Vance against each other, keeping them both off balance.
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Please clap.
Please clap is an unfair comparison to stuff like this, if you know the backstory.
Gotta remind people…
Would love to sit in the crowd and face one of these toward “the speaker”
“Please, clap.”
You gotta remember that his audience was full of young ideologically aligned people who willingly decided to serve usa government. I bet they loved that shit.
Ideologically aligned is not quite accurate. I’ve met a couple of academy grads (and many military officers in general) and they’re generally pretty smart. Much smarter than JD Vance is. Some may be aligned ideologically, but I would say that most of them are probably not. It’s a 4-year pipeline too like any college, so they would have joined in 2022.
They have been noticing the attacks of the Trump administration on higher academia. They’ve been noticing the failures of the Trump administration in foreign policy. They’ve noticed the focus on trying to get rid of the queers and women instead of legitimate Force structure reform.
They’ve taken civics classes and understand how the government is supposed to work much more than the general population. They might not yell and protest JD Vance, but I don’t think many want to endorse him either.
Being vice president is the best reason to boo him. Cheney didn’t care about title, he was gonna shoot his friend in the face on a hunting trip regardless.
Cheney also knew how to pull the levers of power.
“I was told there wouldn’t be booing.”
This is big-time ‘Please Clap’ energy.
It’s going to be very satisfying in November, for about five minutes, when I watch this batch of Republicans get creamed in the elections. Then my brain’s going to kick in to remind me that it doesn’t matter, because all Democrats do when we give them power is make excuses about why they can’t do anything, and then the hopelessness is going to kick right back in.
I don’t have hope that the world will see this administration “get creamed” in November. They are trying really hard to fuck up the elections, delegitimize results they don’t like or commit voting fraud. Pick one or all. These people don’t ever want to leave office.
Those bastards know they could be ousted at anytime, that’s why they’re going to insane lengths to increase GOP presence and wreck the elections like no more different as elections in couple dozen of impoverished countries.
“Please clap” was a joke
“You can’t boo me” was also supposed to be a joke… both are pretty sad jokes I will say.
I find self deprecating humour to be better than pretending to have an ego.
What a sad little man.
I mean c’mon - I hate the guy too but that seems pretty cut and dry as a joke to me.
And had it come from any other politician in a different country, it actually might have been a funny one
Coming from this guy, it wasn’t a joke, though, it was a threat
It was a joke when Jeb said “Please clap”, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was also sad and pathetic
It’s the kind of joke only a loser asshole would make. “It’s just a joke” is the stupidest defense used by the stupidest people.
truly some small dick energy here
Bro, top republicans look so good right now, just raw alpha big dog energy.
I miss pre Botox Mike Johnson when you could see his ass turn red when he lied.
Couchfucker is so pathetic.
What a pathetic little removed. 🙄
Wee pee-pee energy
He might be right. He’s a complete ass for pointing it out. And the fact that he would think he might need to point it out should be cause for some serious self reflection. But ya, disparaging someone above you in the chain of command is going to run afoul of the UCMJ. I’m just not sure of the VP is considered in the chain of command.
Nawww… boo that couch-fucking moron.
You seem to know this, but for anyone happening on this thread who doesn’t, I’ll spell it out more clearly …
Vance’s statement that he can’t be booed is only true at a military graduation where they must follow the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
If he were speaking at any public university (or many private ones), the graduates and the audience could have booed to their hearts’ content. And I’m sure that’s part of the very calculated reason why he only gave the one commencement address this year.
So the only commencement speech he gave is the only one where the grads are literally ordered by LAW to keep their yaps shut.
So courageous.
The US Vice-president is not in the chain of command.
It depends entirely on what colour baseball cap the base CO wears on his days off.
It’s definitely against their rules to boo a government official, and even if it wasn’t the administration would order them punished, and fire everyone in the chain of command that refused to punish them.
He might be right.
No, he’s not. This is why the first amendment exists.
Soldiers give up a lot of rights when they sign their enlistment contract.
They like giving speeches to people that can be court martialled and ruined if they boo them.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO^OO
Vance:
