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EU warns that VPNs are being used to bypass online age-verification systems, calling their use "a loophole in the legislation that needs closing" (Alex Lekander/CyberInsider)
https://cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-a-loophole-that-needs…

EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push
The European Parliamentary Research Service has warned that VPNs are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems.

"So, if it doesn’t happen, I’m blaming JD Vance,” Trump said, to laughter.
“If it does happen, I’m taking full credit.”
Does Vance still not realize that the joke is on him?
The interesting thing is not that he keeps debasing himself
but that he gets less and less in return each time.
As his political fortunes dim, his soul has become a depreciating asset.

Opinion | How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?
The vice president gets saddled with the Iran war and eroding popularity.

The planets #Venus and #Saturn in #conjunction 1/2 hour ago over Bochum, Germany - easily caught with a hand-held bridge camera at 1/4 and 1/3.2 second, f/2.8 and ISO 800 but marginal even in 11x70 binoculars: bad sky transparency, caused mostly by Sahara dust AFAIK took its toll. At these images with the best *photographic* contrast the Sun was 8 1/2° below the horizon while Saturn and Venus were 3 1/4° and 3 3/4° high, with the latter 83 times brighter.

"JD Vance has railed against the EU, accusing it of blatantly interfering in Hungary’s upcoming elections, even as the US vice-president said he had travelled to Budapest to “help” Viktor Orbšn win Sunday’s vote."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

Vance blasts EU, lauds Orbšn in Budapest (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5819317-vance-praises-orban-budapest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p65#a260407p65

JD Vance repeatedly criticised allegedly unprecedented and “disgraceful” foreign interference in the Hungarian parliamentary election,
while effectively strongly endorsing Viktor Orbšn to win the vote on Sunday
in what critics will no doubt see as his very own interference with the country’s electoral process.

Vance stumps for Hungary's Orban as Trump-aligned movement faces critical test (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/07/vance-orban-trump-election/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p68#a260407p68

Speaking to reporters as he departed Budapest, J.D. Vance said:
"[Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf] said we refuse to give up the right to enrichment.
“I thought to myself, you know what?
My wife has the right to skydive,
but she doesn’t jump out of an airplane
because she and I have an agreement that she’s not going to do that
because I don’t want my wife jumping out of an airplane,”
Vance said in reaction to Ghalibaf’s comment

Vance makes bizarre skydiving wife analogy as he discusses Iranian ceasefire demands

JD Vance heads to Hungary to support Viktor Orbšn ahead of high-stakes election (Domi Suskova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/jd-vance-visits-hungary-viktor-orban-trump-russia-eu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p27#a260407p27

JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday
in an 11th-hour attempt to boost key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
before an all-important election on Sunday, but the U.S. vice president’s trip appears unlikely to swing an increasingly bitter race.
Trump has already issued several endorsements of Orbšn
— a Kremlin-aligned proponent of “illiberal democracy”
— but polls suggest those interventions have done little to boost the struggling prime minister,
who …

Vance in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s last throw of the MAGA dice
U.S. interventions by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have so far failed to reverse the Hungarian leader’s flagging fortunes.