Imagine being such an inbred, insular snowflake that you show up to one of the world's gastronomical treasures with your own food. Enjoy 'em pork rinds, Furniture Molester.
His self-centeredness is mind-boggling. Multiple planes? A phalax of Suburbans? Holding up traffic and making Olympic athletes late for their events? He obviously thinks he is a Very Special Person. Glad he got booed.
But the magas, who fuss about a single mother making minimum wage getting $100 in SNAP to feed her kids, think this is just fine. Magas stands for Magas Are Gullible Monsters.
DId you notice, however, there is zero footage of the many witness reports of prolonged crowd boos when his picture came up on the screen? I've searched around and only see the same clip, where the boos are cut out and replaced with cheers as the USA athletes parade in front of the camera. We are living behind the Iron Curtain now.
People in other countries saw and heard what happened but ABC chose to censor itself to avoid irritating the Vicious Snowflakes Protection Society being run out of the White House.
Fascists like to parade their military and surround their ‘leaders’ like JD Couchhumper with a massive (insane amounts of planes hauling Chevy Suburbans and other crap for the Vance and entourage; including food) show to proclaim their ‘superiority’ to the world.
Well, he does know that Frump gets excused, Vance access to vehicles will be limited to the little Mattel collection at the prison library, where he can check them out to go play with Frump on life-support at the prison hospital!1
That is the best description of JD that I’ve ever heard! I’ve been calling him a cardboard cutout, but yours is far better. Thanks, do you mind if I steal it? I’ll give you attribution.
Hey LHS and Jane in NC, come on now...of course it takes that many vehicles to move all those sofas, Barka loungers, settees, sofas,divans, davenports, settees, daybeds...and no he's not an incel, oops, I meant inbred, but Jane you are right... hes' a Hillbilly remember, back in the good Ole days of that BS. Pre eyeliner. And he's dragging around a BROWN person! OMG that's not his wife that's his nanny, maid, gardener...um at this point whatever.I guess he's holding her deportation papers close at hand so when Kirks wife says "Let;s go" so will Usha.
And as for food, wait...they only drink the blood of young children ...right? Immortality and all that. Imagine having to be around with the people who want to be immortal. Doesn't that sound like hell.
“We frame economic power as a contest between capital and labor, but the real star of the American economy is consumer spending, which accounts for 68% of GDP. The Great Recession saw a 3.4% drop in consumer spending — at the time, the most severe year-over-year decline since World War II. The U.S. economy registered a 9.8% drop in consumer spending during the second quarter of 2020, when Covid shut down the world as we knew it. In both instances the U.S. government responded aggressively, spending hundreds of billions, primarily on bailouts, to pull us out of the Great Recession, and trillions, primarily in direct aid, to get us through the pandemic. The lesson? When consumers stop spending, American leaders start listening. As Geo Hussar explained to his YouTube followers at the end of September, “this is not seizing the means of production, but seizing the means of consumption,” adding that if every American dropped their consumption, on average, by 2%, “that would be the most loud and potent form of protest.”
From Professor Erica Chenoweth:
“The third thing that successful movements do is they innovate new tactics. This is very important because movements that tend to over-rely on a single technique like protests, like demonstrating every Friday, something that becomes very routinized, end up succumbing much more quickly first of all to protester fatigue, but the second thing is they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents.
So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.”
“So how can we make a Trump implosion more likely? The public can help by doing what Target’s customers and Disney’s audience did — make it clear that they will stop paying money to institutions that lend aid and comfort to the authoritarian project.”
From The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Most people are already spending exclusively for items needed for survival: rent, food, and health care. So I suggest the most effective thing they can do is DELETE YOUR META (including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp), X, and TikTok accounts NOW. Those platforms are the bread and butter of the tech billionaires now embedded in our Nazi government, and it won't cost you a penny. Those are also the platforms where your data is being hoovered up by Peter Thiel and algorithms are pushing forward Nazi propaganda.
… Talker Research: “A nationwide survey of 5,000 Americans shows 52% now struggle to pay bills like rent on time each month, while an equal number are struggling to afford necessities like groceries."
The top 20% of earners account for 63% of consumer spending. Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of the U.S. economy. Those top earners lean Democratic by 53% to 46% Republican. Those Democrats and disaffected Republicans are the ones who need to stop spending in order to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of America.
I understand that. Yet a massive boycott of a major media empire, a boycott that has a stated objective such as Get out of ICE, has impact. And it educates the public.
Separately, we want to know what elected officials and what candidates are taking donations from say companies or big investors in concentration camps…
"It’s just one part of a broader movement. NYU professor and talking head Scott Galloway has for instance launched a movement called “Resist and Unsubscribe”, which points its ire at ten companies, including OpenAI. It also asks people to stop using Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Paramount+, Uber, and X. All of those companies are “subscription-driven consumer tech companies we have identified as having outsized influence over the national economy and our president”, Galloway writes on a devoted page set up for the campaign. (It also targets other companies – AT&T, Comcast, Charter Communications, Dell, FedEx, Home Depot, Marriott and UPS as "active enablers of ICE”, most of which focuses on contracts for services to the US government.)"
The writer goes on to say that a good part of the internet would be gone if all of these places were boycotted. Even Galloway said he had to stay on Instagram to get his messages out.
I'm not buying Galloway's claim he has to stay on Instagram. He just negated his entire virtue signalling argument. Scott has many platforms from which to get his messages out. He could be much more effective if he got people to stop funding Mark Fuckerberg by setting an example.
That said, I will not be boycotting AT&T for a justifiable reason: they're the only phone co. that supports landlines, and I refuse to give up my copper wire landline that requires NO ELECTRICITY to function and is the one communications device that cannot be diisabled if the internet goes down. I have, however, NEVER subscribed to Meta, Google, X or most of the other companies cited above and have lived a happy, connected life without it all these years.
AT&T has been trying to get out of our rural area for some time now. They got shot down not too long ago so we still have it. Yes, I still have a phone line also. I give it out as my home phone because I don't answer it. lol It gets nothing but scams and requests for donations. Whoever buys that phone number is in for a big disappointment.
I don't have any of those social media platforms either. From whaT I hear about them I don't want them.
Perhaps I had seen references to Galloway on other substacks; but, not paid attention to his name. I saw and read the article before I read Ron's bulletin.
In reality almost every business is tied into major companies. Bezos alone is involved in at least 10, besides Amazon.
To avoid anything involving big business you'd have to live off the grid. Even then you'd have to get your seeds or plants from someplace.
That's why you have to pick and choose according to your essential needs. I simply will never regard any Google or Meta product as an essential need; rather, they are a convenience I can do without. I'd love to subscribe to some YouTube channels, but I refuse because I will not accept evil Google's "Terms of Service" required to set up an account, which is required to subscribe to YouTube. So I suffer with ads.
I encourage anyone to stop using Google search and start using duckduckgo.com. I've been doing it for several years and feel no loss whatsoever.
He's a mixed bag, but you can tell him what you think here: Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email pivot@voxmedia.com
I've done it several times, some good, some bad, but in my latest feedback, I read him the riot act over his opposition to the CA billionaire tax and his proposed "solution," which he should have known would never pass Congress.
Thx. This line was the best part IMHO: "When Vance visited the UK, the restaurant staff walked out and refused to serve him."
Yet another reason—in addition to fears of poison or spit in his food. It's the price tyrants must pay, and my one consolation. Enjoy the hatred the world feels, Shady Vance. I have no sympathy and revel in the fact you know how despised you are.
I bet Jill Biden didn't take an entourage like that when she represented the US at the Olympics. And she sure as hell wasn't booed by the fans in the host country.
You said that right. I worked with a guy who would brig his own instant noodle soup bowls on field assignments so he could pocket the per diem. Maybe JD is a cheap (inbred) son-of-a-bitch.
you’re an Olympic athlete, steeped in discipline, fortitude, and pride to represent the country…pushing mental and physical capabilities to their limit for years…only to nearly not compete because of the undeserved entitlement of one who poorly represents said country ? “Your lack of responsibility is not my emergency”…or is it? Imagine being an Olympic athlete, to be delayed by someone who got booed by the hosts?
Did Vance even recognize that his motorcade was impeding the athletes ability to get to the games? He’s such a self-important blowhard, I’m sure he still doesn’t realize what he did…Not that he’d care.
.....and don't you (well--all of us actually) find it interesting that the republiCRAPS aren't saying anything about it? If this was Obama or some other Democrat president, they'd be screaming and yelling about "wasting taxpayer money." But of course, if a repuklicrap president is doing it (especially this one), n problem. Our "god" is worth it and "we owe him."
RFK JR is an Orange shitstain on humanity......Satan has a nice warm place for him in hell. The souls of the people he mass murdured will be looking down from heaven as he fries in Hades for eternity.
JD Vance is a disgrace. He will never apologize. But he should. That poor woman worked harder than he ever will, training her entire life with early mornings, grueling workouts, tons of practice, achieving her ultimate goal of representing the US at the Olympics. And this Douche’s preening, slow roll thru Milan with his massive and unnecessary entourage of ICE thugs — while he is 100% NOT representing the US — made her late and cost her the gold? What a Fawker.
I know, Rita. Was reading an article in The Atlantic about some of the government civil servants who were fired by DOGE or resigned last year, most of them highly accomplished and possessing tons of institutional knowledge. It’s heart-breaking to read and realize what we’ve lost and how long if ever we can get that expertise back. It occurred to me then that November 2024 was the apex of a decades long slide by a great portion of the citizenry into what can only be called national stupidity, and on November 5 of that year this country voted for stupidity to lead it. I’m guessing I won’t be around to see our recovery from the damage these scum have caused. It may take decades…..
That is a great article to share with people who believe the civil service is a bunch of lazy leeches who don’t do anything that matters. The individual profiles turn faceless bureaucracy into real people who care passionately about what they’re doing.
It also draws people in for the explanation of the stable core of information and expertise that the civil service provides to every administration, and how diverse the tasks involved are. It becomes clear that most of what the government is supposed to do for people is impossible without these nonpartisan staffers, which is why they weren’t fired without cause before trump.
Finally, it shows the devastating impact the cuts, disruption and loss of continuity will have for the next few decades.
It’s a longer read so if the people you want to persuade won’t get through it, maybe send them separately the descriptions of the people who were lost and ask a question that will maybe provoke a little thought. There are 25 profiles, most quite short, so it can be a drip of information and thoughts over a few months.
There’s a humor column by Alexandra Petri that’s a splendid companion to the serious article. She tries to do all the jobs the government no longer does on her own. It’s funny in places but also moving and drives that point in hard: there’s a reason out taxes pay people to provide services to the public.
Perfect Question...Can't feed our own kids in this country...can just imagine how many kids could be fed with this disgusting gluttonous man who is just as shallow as the pedo in the white house.
It is pathetic that Vance travels to foreign countries with his, most likely, inferior American food. Half the value of travel is trying new things, especially food. He claims to like & even cook Indian food, but he’s afraid to try Italian? lol.
I have had proximity to several presidential motorcades over the years. I was held up in a George W. Bush motorcade on I-10 in New Orleans back in 2001. I don't know how many vehicles there were but it was a fraction of the time JD Vance's motorcade held up traffic. In 2016, President Obama appeared in Cleveland at our lakefront airport. We were warned that his departing motorcade would hold things up for people leaving, maybe 10 minutes at most. As I recall, the photos showed maybe around 12-15 vehicles. In 2004, I saw presidential candidate John Kerry's motorcade leaving an event and it was about 5 cars. What makes JD Vance such a special snowflake? It would've been better for our country's worldwide image if he had stayed home.
I had to wait at a Manhattan intersection for President Obama’s motorcade one fine day in American democracy. It was very well planned, and not very many vehicles. Very classy, in fact, as one would expect.
I live in NYC. You cannot imagine the hell we are in if anyone good or bad comes to town...especially for the UN. What used to be 6 lane major avenues we have lost lanes for bikes, buses, delivery trucks, construction, you name it. I wish the UN would leave NY. We don't need them here.
UN week is crazy. Especially Lexington Ave. This past October during UN week, I was in CP for a walk and was surprised when I saw a group walking at a good pace on the path nearby Cedar Hill, where I had paused. At first I thought they were an unusually late autumn group of tourists. But they were walking a-pace and mostly in business-casual. As they got closer to me, I saw in the center toward the front a woman’s profile and head, very recognizable to me. She and I made eye contact briefly as they passed by, and she knew I had recognized her, Ursula von der Leyen. As they passed I called to her “Thank you” and she called back “You’re welcome” over her shoulder as they continued.
That is a great story and I'm impressed teresa. I would have never recognized her.
A few years ago after covid I was finally going to an event I was so looking forward to on Madison Avenue. I had ordered a car service a couple of days before. I put on makeup, was all dressed and ready to go when I got a text they couldn't get me. Biden was in town. I was so upset.
Imagine being such an inbred, insular snowflake that you show up to one of the world's gastronomical treasures with your own food. Enjoy 'em pork rinds, Furniture Molester.
His self-centeredness is mind-boggling. Multiple planes? A phalax of Suburbans? Holding up traffic and making Olympic athletes late for their events? He obviously thinks he is a Very Special Person. Glad he got booed.
Vance used 14 airplanes to bring him and 100 vehicles (two of them armored) to Milan.
Waste, fraud and abuse for Lord Flaunteroy.
Sir Dufus!!
Wow! Unbelievable. I wonder who is paying for this extreme excess?? Not him. Taxpayers again, who else!!
But the magas, who fuss about a single mother making minimum wage getting $100 in SNAP to feed her kids, think this is just fine. Magas stands for Magas Are Gullible Monsters.
Good one!!
It seems like he's pretty paranoid about how the rest of the world perceives him.
He has delusions of greatness.
He should be. Everyone hates him. I'll bet his wife does, too.
Yes, Pl. EVERYONE HATES HIM. And this is what the "Guardians Of Pedophiles" aka the GOP are selling as a replacement.
Kids for sure! they probably get "couch questions" at school!!
Oh, get out! Really??
DId you notice, however, there is zero footage of the many witness reports of prolonged crowd boos when his picture came up on the screen? I've searched around and only see the same clip, where the boos are cut out and replaced with cheers as the USA athletes parade in front of the camera. We are living behind the Iron Curtain now.
People in other countries saw and heard what happened but ABC chose to censor itself to avoid irritating the Vicious Snowflakes Protection Society being run out of the White House.
Well, trump is being guided by his handler, the USSR Old Guard, putin.
Got that right.
I saw the original video on CBC.
Can you provide a link? Did it include audio of the prolonged boos?
CBC video via Brian Tyler Cohen
https://www.facebook.com/briantylercohen/videos/jd-vance-mercilessly-booed-at-olympic-opening-ceremony/1703933521013494/
Thx, but I don't ever go to FB because Nazi F*ckerberg tracks you if you do; was hoping you had the link directly to the CBC video.
Yup! AI has its orders now!!
How many millions did that cost the American taxpayer?? No healthcare but Vance can travel in luxury like this??
Revolting!!
Fascists like to parade their military and surround their ‘leaders’ like JD Couchhumper with a massive (insane amounts of planes hauling Chevy Suburbans and other crap for the Vance and entourage; including food) show to proclaim their ‘superiority’ to the world.
Fuck ‘bearded gerber baby’ Vance, our asshole VP.
Well, he does know that Frump gets excused, Vance access to vehicles will be limited to the little Mattel collection at the prison library, where he can check them out to go play with Frump on life-support at the prison hospital!1
Shapeshifting grifter
Shapeshifting. 🎯 Like water in a pitcher. No shape of its own, takes on whatever is necessary.
That is the best description of JD that I’ve ever heard! I’ve been calling him a cardboard cutout, but yours is far better. Thanks, do you mind if I steal it? I’ll give you attribution.
Yup, especially does end-runs around the suit tailor's original plan!!
Sir Grifter catless-man declares!!
Don't they have advance people to help them understand that the streets will not accommodate their giant motorcades?
Does his entitled ass even care?
Probably not
No.
Being in Italy only once in my life, I could've told them that their streets wouldn't accommodate these giant vehicles!!!
Sounds below their pay-grade!!
Hey LHS and Jane in NC, come on now...of course it takes that many vehicles to move all those sofas, Barka loungers, settees, sofas,divans, davenports, settees, daybeds...and no he's not an incel, oops, I meant inbred, but Jane you are right... hes' a Hillbilly remember, back in the good Ole days of that BS. Pre eyeliner. And he's dragging around a BROWN person! OMG that's not his wife that's his nanny, maid, gardener...um at this point whatever.I guess he's holding her deportation papers close at hand so when Kirks wife says "Let;s go" so will Usha.
And as for food, wait...they only drink the blood of young children ...right? Immortality and all that. Imagine having to be around with the people who want to be immortal. Doesn't that sound like hell.
Further evidence that he is a tasteless GOP - Guardian of Pedophiles.
Economic Warfare
From No mercy/No malice
By Professor Scott Galloway
“We frame economic power as a contest between capital and labor, but the real star of the American economy is consumer spending, which accounts for 68% of GDP. The Great Recession saw a 3.4% drop in consumer spending — at the time, the most severe year-over-year decline since World War II. The U.S. economy registered a 9.8% drop in consumer spending during the second quarter of 2020, when Covid shut down the world as we knew it. In both instances the U.S. government responded aggressively, spending hundreds of billions, primarily on bailouts, to pull us out of the Great Recession, and trillions, primarily in direct aid, to get us through the pandemic. The lesson? When consumers stop spending, American leaders start listening. As Geo Hussar explained to his YouTube followers at the end of September, “this is not seizing the means of production, but seizing the means of consumption,” adding that if every American dropped their consumption, on average, by 2%, “that would be the most loud and potent form of protest.”
From Professor Erica Chenoweth:
“The third thing that successful movements do is they innovate new tactics. This is very important because movements that tend to over-rely on a single technique like protests, like demonstrating every Friday, something that becomes very routinized, end up succumbing much more quickly first of all to protester fatigue, but the second thing is they often subject their participants to a higher risk of repression or communal violence from opponents.
So movements that are capable of having the capacity to shift to methods of dispersion, like stay-at-homes or strikes or forms of economic noncooperation, tend to be much more effective because they have the capability of maneuver when the state begins to ramp up violence against them.”
https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/podcast/20201116-protests-perspective-civil-disobedience-activism-erica-chenoweth-deva-woodly
From Professor Paul Krugman
“So how can we make a Trump implosion more likely? The public can help by doing what Target’s customers and Disney’s audience did — make it clear that they will stop paying money to institutions that lend aid and comfort to the authoritarian project.”
From The Peaceful Solution-Part 1
How much do you want to stop His Royal Heinous and the fascist takeover of the country?
Enough that you’re willing to make a small sacrifice? Like altering your spending habits for a month or two or three? That could be all it would take to get the attention of the oligarchs (formerly known as The Robber Barons in the first Gilded Age, also The Fat Cats, The Greedy Bastards).
A brief demonstration of We, the People’s, power of the purse could persuade them to quit supporting HRH and the politicians who enable him.
We quit spending, except on essentials, businesses lose money, stock market goes down, Greedy Bastards pay attention to our demands.
Easy for someone as rich as Galloway to reduce his already huge daily spending, but keep this in mind: "The wealthiest 10 percent now account for roughly half of all spending." [https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-wealthiest-10-now-drives-50-of-spending-and-that-s-a-problem/ar-AA1T8f5k]
Most people are already spending exclusively for items needed for survival: rent, food, and health care. So I suggest the most effective thing they can do is DELETE YOUR META (including Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp), X, and TikTok accounts NOW. Those platforms are the bread and butter of the tech billionaires now embedded in our Nazi government, and it won't cost you a penny. Those are also the platforms where your data is being hoovered up by Peter Thiel and algorithms are pushing forward Nazi propaganda.
… Talker Research: “A nationwide survey of 5,000 Americans shows 52% now struggle to pay bills like rent on time each month, while an equal number are struggling to afford necessities like groceries."
I agree.
I deleted FB with zero regrets last November. And I deleted my almost inactive x account.
I would like an Amazon boycott, the purchasing platform and the streaming.
The top 20% of earners account for 63% of consumer spending. Consumer spending accounts for about 70% of the U.S. economy. Those top earners lean Democratic by 53% to 46% Republican. Those Democrats and disaffected Republicans are the ones who need to stop spending in order to stop and reverse the fascist takeover of America.
Exactly my point.
I understand that. Yet a massive boycott of a major media empire, a boycott that has a stated objective such as Get out of ICE, has impact. And it educates the public.
Separately, we want to know what elected officials and what candidates are taking donations from say companies or big investors in concentration camps…
"It’s just one part of a broader movement. NYU professor and talking head Scott Galloway has for instance launched a movement called “Resist and Unsubscribe”, which points its ire at ten companies, including OpenAI. It also asks people to stop using Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Paramount+, Uber, and X. All of those companies are “subscription-driven consumer tech companies we have identified as having outsized influence over the national economy and our president”, Galloway writes on a devoted page set up for the campaign. (It also targets other companies – AT&T, Comcast, Charter Communications, Dell, FedEx, Home Depot, Marriott and UPS as "active enablers of ICE”, most of which focuses on contracts for services to the US government.)"
The writer goes on to say that a good part of the internet would be gone if all of these places were boycotted. Even Galloway said he had to stay on Instagram to get his messages out.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/people-are-saying-boycott-amazon-this-is-why-it-s-almost-impossible/ar-AA1VUqjJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6988fb5907904a059191d75b1518b8cc&ei=44
I'm not buying Galloway's claim he has to stay on Instagram. He just negated his entire virtue signalling argument. Scott has many platforms from which to get his messages out. He could be much more effective if he got people to stop funding Mark Fuckerberg by setting an example.
That said, I will not be boycotting AT&T for a justifiable reason: they're the only phone co. that supports landlines, and I refuse to give up my copper wire landline that requires NO ELECTRICITY to function and is the one communications device that cannot be diisabled if the internet goes down. I have, however, NEVER subscribed to Meta, Google, X or most of the other companies cited above and have lived a happy, connected life without it all these years.
AT&T has been trying to get out of our rural area for some time now. They got shot down not too long ago so we still have it. Yes, I still have a phone line also. I give it out as my home phone because I don't answer it. lol It gets nothing but scams and requests for donations. Whoever buys that phone number is in for a big disappointment.
I don't have any of those social media platforms either. From whaT I hear about them I don't want them.
Perhaps I had seen references to Galloway on other substacks; but, not paid attention to his name. I saw and read the article before I read Ron's bulletin.
In reality almost every business is tied into major companies. Bezos alone is involved in at least 10, besides Amazon.
To avoid anything involving big business you'd have to live off the grid. Even then you'd have to get your seeds or plants from someplace.
That's why you have to pick and choose according to your essential needs. I simply will never regard any Google or Meta product as an essential need; rather, they are a convenience I can do without. I'd love to subscribe to some YouTube channels, but I refuse because I will not accept evil Google's "Terms of Service" required to set up an account, which is required to subscribe to YouTube. So I suffer with ads.
I encourage anyone to stop using Google search and start using duckduckgo.com. I've been doing it for several years and feel no loss whatsoever.
Maybe not a popular opinion, but I find Galloway insufferable.
He's a mixed bag, but you can tell him what you think here: Send us your questions by calling us at 855-51-PIVOT, or email pivot@voxmedia.com
I've done it several times, some good, some bad, but in my latest feedback, I read him the riot act over his opposition to the CA billionaire tax and his proposed "solution," which he should have known would never pass Congress.
I’ve been following him. Count me in as well.
Do you ever sleep? You’re always the first, or one of the first, to comment on Robert Reich at 3:15 a.m. central time.😁
I'm in!!
I wonder how much this vacation for Vance is costing us? What an asshole!
DL Demon Queen....Failed Drag Queen Vance will ditch his wife for an evening and get on Grindr Europe!!!
Not to mention densest VP ever. Made me smile
Rapidly becoming on of the most hated AND most ridiculed, which is really saying something after Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney.
Those two were saints compared to Dictator Terrorist Dump and his incompetent sidekick........and DQ and DC two were bad enough.
He's probably worried about getting poisoned. Welcome to the world of tyrants, Shady Vance.
I'm surprised he doesn't have a food taster.
He probably does. Or maybe he uses Kristi Noem's dog.
SO bad! 😜😂😂
I just said it 2 minutes ago answering Jane from NC's comment from 2 hours ago. i did not even see your post, but we are on the same wavelength
Maybe trump told him he had to eat hamburgers."Vance took food to Italy.
Cheetos, Lite beer, Kraft Mac&Cheese, Frosted Flakes cereal…?"
This is a great breakdown of Vance's entourage. Also they took up four (4) floors of the hotel.
https://barrygander.substack.com/p/not-worth-your-time-butvance-is-taking
Thx. This line was the best part IMHO: "When Vance visited the UK, the restaurant staff walked out and refused to serve him."
Yet another reason—in addition to fears of poison or spit in his food. It's the price tyrants must pay, and my one consolation. Enjoy the hatred the world feels, Shady Vance. I have no sympathy and revel in the fact you know how despised you are.
Yes, I really liked that too. lol Wonder if they all ate in the hotel rooms? Did they bring coffee pots and microwaves?
I bet Jill Biden didn't take an entourage like that when she represented the US at the Olympics. And she sure as hell wasn't booed by the fans in the host country.
You can roll like that when the rest of world doesn't hate the sight of you. Dr. Biden was an asset to our country instead of an embarrassment.
He's afraid of being poisoned. I cannot imagine any other reason.
Isn't his family vegetarian? That's what I heard during the campaign. It's possible they wanted food that they were sure didn't have meat.
I want to know why Vance and his baby mama are getting a free vacation to Milan at taxpayers' expense.
Milan is a major city. Why would Vance or his wife be bringing their own food?
You said that right. I worked with a guy who would brig his own instant noodle soup bowls on field assignments so he could pocket the per diem. Maybe JD is a cheap (inbred) son-of-a-bitch.
Possible he's cheap, but since the taxpayers are footing his bills, I think he's the type to take full advantage - and then some.
Not a bad guess! (toronto)
All his food would taste like spit...or worse.
😂furniture molester
A Hillbilly that never got out feasting on the taxpayers!!
you’re an Olympic athlete, steeped in discipline, fortitude, and pride to represent the country…pushing mental and physical capabilities to their limit for years…only to nearly not compete because of the undeserved entitlement of one who poorly represents said country ? “Your lack of responsibility is not my emergency”…or is it? Imagine being an Olympic athlete, to be delayed by someone who got booed by the hosts?
Did Vance even recognize that his motorcade was impeding the athletes ability to get to the games? He’s such a self-important blowhard, I’m sure he still doesn’t realize what he did…Not that he’d care.
The Demonic Bearded Gerber Baby is every bit as narcissistic as his Fuhrer, so I'm sure you're right about not realizing or caring about what he did.
Of course not! He's too egotistical and self-centered just like his Dimwit Boss in the Oval Office. He believes he deserves that "honor."
He took eight vacations last year, on the taxpayers' dime.
.....and don't you (well--all of us actually) find it interesting that the republiCRAPS aren't saying anything about it? If this was Obama or some other Democrat president, they'd be screaming and yelling about "wasting taxpayer money." But of course, if a repuklicrap president is doing it (especially this one), n problem. Our "god" is worth it and "we owe him."
I remember the hoopla every time the Obamas were on vacation. Republicans were apoplectic.
Amen.............!
Yup-he's 8 for 8 in host country rejections! For sure he knows he slowed down the athletes-he is a major player in the "cruelty game"!
Well, spoiling athletic excellence would suit his couch-licking sports profile sublimely!!
A perfect example of where you do everything right, only for your plan to get thrown out the window because of someone else's idiocy.
RFK Jr, is a stain on his father’s legacy. Bottom line: anyone that is part of the t/rump regime is a failure at being a human being.
I refuse to call him RFK, because I believe it insults his father's legacy. I call him Kennedy.
A "Really F'ed-Up Kennedy "
I call him worm brain.
"Roadkill Robert"!
Call him Booby
definitely
RFK JR is an Orange shitstain on humanity......Satan has a nice warm place for him in hell. The souls of the people he mass murdured will be looking down from heaven as he fries in Hades for eternity.
Yes, should have been rejected at quality control!!
JD Vance is a disgrace. He will never apologize. But he should. That poor woman worked harder than he ever will, training her entire life with early mornings, grueling workouts, tons of practice, achieving her ultimate goal of representing the US at the Olympics. And this Douche’s preening, slow roll thru Milan with his massive and unnecessary entourage of ICE thugs — while he is 100% NOT representing the US — made her late and cost her the gold? What a Fawker.
Anyone else think all that hand-holding with Usha was a performance?
His whole life is one big performance.
One big bad performance.
....and like audiences used to do in the old days--through rotten veggies and other rotten foods at the performer.
In his full-time performance, YES!!
Thanks, Ron. GAWWWWD ALMIGHTY…Bobby, Jr. with Conor Macgregor is enough to make one throw up! Two predators…
Fantastic roundup
Pretty dreadful mostly, but we've gotta hold onto those bright moments too, like the Dem. LA Martinez Win, 🎯, chalk up one more...
Thank you for your work
WE THE PEOPLE have had enough of this evil regime. We want justice and we want it now.!
Thanks Ron for bringing facts with receipts.
Oh, geezus, thks for nothing JD you vacant soulless couch effer
He prefers sexinals
Each and every citizen affected by ICE should scream "pedophile protectors"! Make sure that they know why and what they are doing there.
God, I need a shower. The profound criminality and lies of Trump and Republicans makes me nauseous. I have no empathy for any of these scum.
I know, Rita. Was reading an article in The Atlantic about some of the government civil servants who were fired by DOGE or resigned last year, most of them highly accomplished and possessing tons of institutional knowledge. It’s heart-breaking to read and realize what we’ve lost and how long if ever we can get that expertise back. It occurred to me then that November 2024 was the apex of a decades long slide by a great portion of the citizenry into what can only be called national stupidity, and on November 5 of that year this country voted for stupidity to lead it. I’m guessing I won’t be around to see our recovery from the damage these scum have caused. It may take decades…..
I know. But I really, really want to live long enough for Trump's death. He makes Caligula look good.
Ha, yeah, I guess we’re lucky the dumbass doesn’t own a horse.
That is a great article to share with people who believe the civil service is a bunch of lazy leeches who don’t do anything that matters. The individual profiles turn faceless bureaucracy into real people who care passionately about what they’re doing.
It also draws people in for the explanation of the stable core of information and expertise that the civil service provides to every administration, and how diverse the tasks involved are. It becomes clear that most of what the government is supposed to do for people is impossible without these nonpartisan staffers, which is why they weren’t fired without cause before trump.
Finally, it shows the devastating impact the cuts, disruption and loss of continuity will have for the next few decades.
It’s a longer read so if the people you want to persuade won’t get through it, maybe send them separately the descriptions of the people who were lost and ask a question that will maybe provoke a little thought. There are 25 profiles, most quite short, so it can be a drip of information and thoughts over a few months.
There’s a humor column by Alexandra Petri that’s a splendid companion to the serious article. She tries to do all the jobs the government no longer does on her own. It’s funny in places but also moving and drives that point in hard: there’s a reason out taxes pay people to provide services to the public.
Thank you Ron for highlighting the awful SAVE voter suppression act!
JD's probably afraid of someone spitting into his food. (And how much is that all going to cost us?)
Perfect Question...Can't feed our own kids in this country...can just imagine how many kids could be fed with this disgusting gluttonous man who is just as shallow as the pedo in the white house.
It is pathetic that Vance travels to foreign countries with his, most likely, inferior American food. Half the value of travel is trying new things, especially food. He claims to like & even cook Indian food, but he’s afraid to try Italian? lol.
I think he's afraid of being poisoned.
Good, let him ALWAYS be afraid of that. Have fun going to restaurants you horse's ass.
Maybe he was afraid they'd refuse to serve him.
Good point Susan!!
I hope that happens too that businesses ask them to please leave. Every small shame makes a difference.
Fortunately, the US ice skaters won the Team Gold Medal, in spite of JD Vance’s effort to sabotage the event.
"DIS" weasle Donnie, fitting words associated with his existence in this horrible timeline we're living in history
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Disdainful
DIscourteous
Discourage
Disgrace
Dishonest
Disrespect
Distrust
Disadvantage
Disagreeable
Disapperance
Disapppinted
Disapprove
Disarray
Disarticulate
Disasterous
Disavow
Disband
Disbelief
Discarded
Disliked
Discomfort
Disconcerting
Discontent
Discord
Discredit
love this
Lol, I was surprised how many words start with a "dis" that have meanings along these lines
I never realized how many there are until I saw your list
Theres a ton more lol
Dystopia sums it all up even if it doesn't start with "dis."
Haaa, everything works long as it's not a compliment
"sounds like" is good enough!
He’s like the Black Plague, right on que.
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Let's call it the White Plague this time.
I have had proximity to several presidential motorcades over the years. I was held up in a George W. Bush motorcade on I-10 in New Orleans back in 2001. I don't know how many vehicles there were but it was a fraction of the time JD Vance's motorcade held up traffic. In 2016, President Obama appeared in Cleveland at our lakefront airport. We were warned that his departing motorcade would hold things up for people leaving, maybe 10 minutes at most. As I recall, the photos showed maybe around 12-15 vehicles. In 2004, I saw presidential candidate John Kerry's motorcade leaving an event and it was about 5 cars. What makes JD Vance such a special snowflake? It would've been better for our country's worldwide image if he had stayed home.
Not to mention the Olympic athletes. He shot himself in the foot by handicapping our own athletes.
I had to wait at a Manhattan intersection for President Obama’s motorcade one fine day in American democracy. It was very well planned, and not very many vehicles. Very classy, in fact, as one would expect.
I live in NYC. You cannot imagine the hell we are in if anyone good or bad comes to town...especially for the UN. What used to be 6 lane major avenues we have lost lanes for bikes, buses, delivery trucks, construction, you name it. I wish the UN would leave NY. We don't need them here.
UN week is crazy. Especially Lexington Ave. This past October during UN week, I was in CP for a walk and was surprised when I saw a group walking at a good pace on the path nearby Cedar Hill, where I had paused. At first I thought they were an unusually late autumn group of tourists. But they were walking a-pace and mostly in business-casual. As they got closer to me, I saw in the center toward the front a woman’s profile and head, very recognizable to me. She and I made eye contact briefly as they passed by, and she knew I had recognized her, Ursula von der Leyen. As they passed I called to her “Thank you” and she called back “You’re welcome” over her shoulder as they continued.
That is a great story and I'm impressed teresa. I would have never recognized her.
A few years ago after covid I was finally going to an event I was so looking forward to on Madison Avenue. I had ordered a car service a couple of days before. I put on makeup, was all dressed and ready to go when I got a text they couldn't get me. Biden was in town. I was so upset.