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.

Immediate flashbacks to the tangerine toddler getting huffy about it after people called Nazi Musk the President.

So pathetic.

Please clap is an unfair comparison to stuff like this, if you know the backstory.

Gotta remind people...

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.

What you describe, while true, is not just an American thing. People are largely sheep. Everywhere lazy, greedy people are fine being told what to do, so long as they perceive that benefits them personally over others. Makes me think the human race is hopelessly fucked.

But on the other hand, I know many people personally who are basically good people, yet they support despots. They appear deceived based on fears they've long held.

Also you got me thinking. How do you rebel? I've been giving this a lot of thought recently. Do I go smash flock cameras with hammers? Mass organization attempt? In much of the world we already live in a surveillance state. Shit is depressing

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vance:

They didn’t, but they also didn’t cheer. The room was dead silent from the clip I watched.