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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJ. D. Vance is now using the term "blood libel" to describe criticism of ICE!
Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE.
— Bill Kristol (@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T17:35:03.517Z
Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee.
And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me.
It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

"Blood Libel"...what a crock of orchestrated bullshit
sakabatou
(45,356 posts)thomski64
(765 posts)for the Battle of Kent State. ??
tetedur
(1,359 posts)In one of the replies someone said it better than I can:
Incorrectly invoking the very real blood libel trope to defend a gestapo is literally the most anti-Semitic thing James Bowman could do.
Johonny
(24,791 posts)Bill ready to go until JD Vance and Trump squashed it, so not we're attacking random people on the street based on racial profiling.
viva la
(4,319 posts)His wife seems to have gone zombie. But her parents, the professors, the immigrants, the teachers of many international students, must be cringing.
What does he care, though. He might have Trump's approval for an additional month now.
HappyH
(105 posts)I think the Gestapo was better dressed and better groomed.
mr715
(2,042 posts)So they were somewhat less cowardly
GenThePerservering
(3,081 posts)SeattleVet
(5,751 posts)it turns out that he was saying it as a GOOD thing.
mcar
(45,380 posts)