Sen. JD Vance wasn’t pulling any punches during the vice presidential debate on Thursday, and frankly, he brought up something the Democrats really don’t want to talk about: censorship. While CBS News’ Nora O’Donnell tried to steer the conversation toward whether Vance would contest the 2024 election results (because apparently, we’re just going to keep re-litigating 2020), Vance had a different take—one that hits a little too close to home for the Biden-Harris camp.
Vance made it clear that he and Trump are “focused on the future” and are ready to tackle real issues like the inflation crisis, which is something that’s crushing Americans daily—though, of course, you won’t hear much about that from the left. But when it came to democracy and the threats it faces, Vance didn’t tiptoe around the obvious: censorship, especially the kind of censorship the current administration has championed, is the real danger to our freedoms.
He pointed out that while Kamala Harris and Tim Walz love to toss around the phrase “threat to democracy” like it’s confetti, they conveniently ignore the actual threat: the suppression of free speech.
“I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country, but unfortunately, it’s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about. It is the threat of censorship,” Vance said.
And here’s the kicker: Vance’s comments came just days after the Meta revelations. Coincidence? I think not. It’s no wonder Harris and Walz don’t want to talk about this—because it exposes the hypocrisy in their “threat to democracy” talking points. They’ve been screaming about how democracy is under attack, while simultaneously giving Big Tech a nudge and a wink to quash any dissenting voices.
Vance brought up how the Biden-Harris administration has been caught with its hand in the cookie jar, pushing Big Tech companies like Facebook (or Meta, whatever they want to call themselves these days) to censor content during the COVID-19 pandemic. Don’t take his word for it; just ask Mark Zuckerberg, who recently admitted that the administration “repeatedly pressured” his company to filter out what they didn’t like. Ah, yes, nothing says “democracy” like silencing people who disagree with you, right?
Mark Zuckerberg has admitted that the Biden-Harris administration repeatedly pressured his company to censor content.@benshapiro exposed Zuckerberg and the government’s involvement in censoring content a month ago during his testimony to Congress. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/ax69By9Bbf
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) August 27, 2024
Mark Zuckerberg just admitted that Facebook & Instagram were censoring critics of the vaccine and COVID policy without evidence that their claims were false. pic.twitter.com/N1krOfowNN
— Ben Swann (@BenSwann_) June 12, 2023
According to Vance, censorship at this level—what he called “industrial scale”—is a far more serious threat to our democracy than what Donald Trump said on January 6th, when he urged his supporters to “protest peacefully.” But of course, the left would rather fixate on Trump’s rhetoric from nearly four years ago than address how they’ve been systematically silencing Americans for the past two. It’s easier to point fingers at Trump than admit that your own party is leaning heavily into authoritarian tactics to control the narrative.
“That, to me, is a much bigger threat to democracy than what Donald Trump said when he said protesters should peacefully protest on January the 6th,” Vance added.
VANCE: “I believe that we actually do have a threat to democracy in this country. But unfortunately, it’s not the threat to democracy that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz want to talk about.
It is the threat of censorship.” pic.twitter.com/UXyayO95JL
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) October 2, 2024
So, yeah, Vance made a solid point during the debate that the left would rather dodge. If you want to talk about threats to democracy, maybe we should start with the people who are actively trying to suppress free speech. But hey, why have an honest conversation when you can just blame Trump for everything?
