Vance, Rubio blast Germany for labeling far-right party AfD as 'extremist'

[Eugene]

Source: The Hill

Vance, Rubio blast Germany for labeling far-right party as ‘extremist’

by Filip Timotija - 05/02/25 8:29 PM ET

Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio blasted Germany’s government for labeling the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party as an “extremist” political group.

“Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes,” Rubio said in a Friday post on social media platform X. “Germany should reverse course.”

Rubio’s condemnation came shortly after the German domestic spy agency designated AfD as an extremist entity that is a threat to democracy, permitting the government to bolster surveillance and oversight.

The designation, which was announced Friday, followed a 1,000-page report by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The office conducted a three-year investigation into the entity, arguing that the political party is violating the “fundamental principles” of the constitution, including the rule of law, democratic principles and human rights.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5280643-vance-rubio-blast-germany-for-labeling-far-right-party-as-extremist/

[Lovie777]

1. They are...

Just like the RWers here in the USA.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. "....just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition."

And exactly what the TSF Regime wants to do here.

[Botany]

3. What a piss poor Sec. of State. Diplomacy anybody?

This is internal domestic issues in a foreign nation no matter what he thinks
he should have the brains that God gave a goose to not speak about it.

[Quakerfriend]

12. Exactly! - Their opinions mean NOTHING to the

free world.

[Botany]

14. Real diplomacy is done quietly.

That is why Secs. of State Clinton, Kerry, and Blinken* were so good they understood
that diplomatic negotiations done correctly are done by adults with very little publicity.


* Blinken had it tough with Israel, Russia, Ukraine, and those Russian friendly republicans
in Congress who actively worked to hurt Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion of its
lands and its crimes against the Ukrainian People.

[Mike Nelson]

4. To the typical...

... Trumpster, they are mainstream. Here, Democrats, Judges, and even "never Trumpers," who oppose the Dear Leader are "extreme" and "left-wing lunatics."

[Pachamama]

5. After Hitler and Germany rebuilt - they understood what protections needed to exist to prevent it happening again

The German Constitution is not perfect but it has this power to designate extremist groups for a very important reason.

After America (hopefully) survives MAGA and Trumpism and emerges from the suffering and carnage - the future American Constitution will need to have these protections too so Trumpism never rears its hateful dangerous head again.

[Wounded Bear]

13. Yeah, there is currently no ability to designate domestic terrorists...nt

[Balatro]

6. They are shamelessly saying this with a straight face

as they go after ActBlue and anyone who opposes them with the full force of government extortion and sham investigation.

[bronxiteforever]

7. From a government that sponsors a foreign torture gulag

and believes it is legal and moral to send its own citizens there I don’t think Vance and Rubio have any moral authority to say anything.

If you proclaim you are a Christian to the world and used to tweet daily Bible verses but personally support and encourage the forced deportation of a child with stage 4 cancer , I am pretty sure your action make your words meaningless.

[Sailingdiver]

8. Pretty sure NO ONE cares what the

sycophantic fluffers have to say.

[MLWR]

9. This MAGAt "administration

needs to butt the fuck out of foreign nations' internal, domestic affairs. Regardless of what they might want or think*, they are not the ruler or emperor of the entire world.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Like Germany

Cares what they think.

[2naSalit]

11. On top of the obvious...

They are also afraid that the enhanced surveillance of the afd might expose their participation or leonskum's or someone else they need to protect.