> Under Voorhees, Camp Crystal Lake questions teenagers’ commitment to not getting chopped up into little pieces
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Projection.
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Glass house and all that.
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>In the past, the State Department has used the report to call out countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, nondemocracies that, despite their closeness with Washington, have faced routine U.S. scrutiny for limiting free speech and political expression, among other repressive, antidemocratic activities. **During his tour of the Middle East this month, Trump told an audience in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, that the United States would end such “lectures.”**
>There are other signals from the State Department that suggest this new hard line on Europe is escalating. On Tuesday, for instance, a team of U.S. diplomats began an overseas trip billed as one part of the Trump administration’s effort to [push Europe on free speech](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-officials-head-to-europe-to-fight-for-free-speech). **On the agenda was a meeting in France to interrogate a court ruling there that barred the country’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, from seeking public office after she was convicted of embezzlement.**
>The trip to Europe was to “underscore the administration’s support for freedom of expression and the ability of all voices to be heard in the political process,” a State Department official told The Washington Post.
>**Trump has drawn parallels between the case against Le Pen and his own legal battles in the United States, calling the case against her a “witch hunt” and arguing that it was the same “playbook” used against him.** The case was “another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech,” Trump wrote in [a social media post in April](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114277430639309106).
>**The day after the State Department delegation left for France, Rubio announced his new “visa restriction policy” widely seen as targeting the European Union’s efforts at global tech regulation. Trump has** [**regularly railed against social media regulation**](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/20/trump-free-speech-executive-order-censorship/) **since tech giants removed him from their platforms in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.**
So basically, he sympathizes with right-wing grifters, so we need to defend their right to do whatever they want without consequences. But he doesn’t give a damn about anyone else, and they can go to Hell.
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> Under Voorhees, Camp Crystal Lake questions teenagers’ commitment to not getting chopped up into little pieces
Projection.
Glass house and all that.
>In the past, the State Department has used the report to call out countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, nondemocracies that, despite their closeness with Washington, have faced routine U.S. scrutiny for limiting free speech and political expression, among other repressive, antidemocratic activities. **During his tour of the Middle East this month, Trump told an audience in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, that the United States would end such “lectures.”**
>**“In recent years,” the president** [**declared**](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/in-riyadh-president-trump-charts-the-course-for-a-prosperous-future-in-the-middle-east/%23:~:text=“In%20recent%20years,%20far%20too,dispense%20justice%20for%20their%20sins%20…)**, “far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it’s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins.”**
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>There are other signals from the State Department that suggest this new hard line on Europe is escalating. On Tuesday, for instance, a team of U.S. diplomats began an overseas trip billed as one part of the Trump administration’s effort to [push Europe on free speech](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-state-department-officials-head-to-europe-to-fight-for-free-speech). **On the agenda was a meeting in France to interrogate a court ruling there that barred the country’s far-right leader, Marine Le Pen, from seeking public office after she was convicted of embezzlement.**
>The trip to Europe was to “underscore the administration’s support for freedom of expression and the ability of all voices to be heard in the political process,” a State Department official told The Washington Post.
>**Trump has drawn parallels between the case against Le Pen and his own legal battles in the United States, calling the case against her a “witch hunt” and arguing that it was the same “playbook” used against him.** The case was “another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech,” Trump wrote in [a social media post in April](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114277430639309106).
>**The day after the State Department delegation left for France, Rubio announced his new “visa restriction policy” widely seen as targeting the European Union’s efforts at global tech regulation. Trump has** [**regularly railed against social media regulation**](https://archive.is/o/zSUhw/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/20/trump-free-speech-executive-order-censorship/) **since tech giants removed him from their platforms in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.**
So basically, he sympathizes with right-wing grifters, so we need to defend their right to do whatever they want without consequences. But he doesn’t give a damn about anyone else, and they can go to Hell.