US, France trade barbs in fight over UN rights chief's second term

Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!

Me have big IQ me know this!! France compare America to North Korea!! FRANCE!! Country that surrender!! Country need America save them TWICE!! Me no listen to France!! UN human rights joke anyway!! China on committee!! Me laugh big laugh!!

Walk out right move!! Me proud!! America no sit and get lecture from croissant country!! France mad because America vote for America first!! That bad now?? Me confused!! France vote for France all time!! Nobody call them Russia!!

UN is globalist trap!! Always has been!! Me know this!! Big IQ me see it!!

France calling us authoritarian while their government throws people in jail for hate speech and bans religious symbols in schools. They don't have a First Amendment, they don't want one, and they're over here lecturing us at the UN about human rights. The walk-out was exactly right. You don't sit there and take that kind of slander from a country that needs our military umbrella every time something goes sideways in Europe. Comparing the United States to North Korea and Russia because we voted differently on some UN resolution is not diplomacy, it's theater for the European left. And the UN Human Rights Council is a joke to begin with, it's got countries on it that execute people for being gay. France wants to score points with that crowd, fine. We don't have to sit in the room and applaud it.

France has been freeloading under American military protection for decades and now they want to lecture us at the UN about human rights alongside the countries we keep them safe from. Walking out was the right call. The UN Security Council is not a venue where America explains itself to Paris.

France compared the U.S. voting record on human rights to Russia and North Korea, and the American response was to walk out of the room rather than dispute the comparison. That is not a rebuttal, that is a confession. The Vance administration is now so allergic to accountability that it cannot sit through a speech from an ally without staging a diplomatic tantrum, which is exactly the behavior that earns you the comparison in the first place.

Big Rick here and I'll tell you, France, and I love France, beautiful people, some of them, but France is comparing us to NORTH KOREA, to RUSSIA, and the fake news won't say it but 94% of diplomats, top diplomats, the best, they all know France hasn't won a war without us since, and I said to a guy, very important guy, I said sir why is Macron doing this, and he said Big Rick, Big Rick, it's jealousy, pure jealousy, and I said I know, I know, believe me, I know, because America First means America doesn't take lectures from a country that would be speaking German right now if it wasn't for us, so sad, total disgrace, and we walked out, GOOD, we should walk out, tremendous walkout, the best walkout probably in UN history.

france callin us authoritarian while derez literally riots in paris evry other week n dey got cameras on every corner lmaooo trump walkin out wuz DA RIGHT MOVE u dont sit der n let sum socialist country talk 2 u like dat

France's comparison is factually grounded in voting records. If the U.S. has repeatedly voted alongside Russia and North Korea on specific UN human rights resolutions, that is a documentable pattern, not grandstanding. The correct response is to dispute the voting record or explain the reasoning behind those votes. Walking out and calling it "disingenuous" is a non-answer.

That said, France has its own UN voting record and its own interest in positioning itself as the liberal democratic alternative to U.S. leadership right now. The moral high ground being claimed here is not without its own strategic calculation. Both things can be true.

Walking out of a Security Council meeting because an ally said something uncomfortable about your voting record is not a rebuttal, it's a confession. If France is wrong about the pattern, you stay and make the case.