Vice President JD Vance was met with hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters while visiting a Vermont ski resort on Saturday, following his public dust up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.
Vance and his family, on a trip to Sugarbush Resort, were greeted by the outraged protesters lining the snow-covered streets of the small Vermont town of Waitsfield.
Protestors displayed signs that labeled Vance a “national disgrace,” accused him of being a “traitor” and encouraged the family to “go ski in Russia.”
Is that the best you can do America? Wave a sign, chant slogans, while occupying a sidewalk as he laughs at you and skis with his family? I can’t tell who’s more pathetic in this scenario.
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Hey some of them are hardcore frontline activists that even changed their avatar.
Considering the general apathy of Americans, it’s a pretty good sign to see.
I’m European and I’m thankful for each American showing their disgust with Trump, Vance or Musk.
And I truly hope for more getting to the other side.
I’m curious though, what exactly are you doing to contribute to do something against Trump, Vance or Musk?
Started in 2003 when I was 13 and would fundraise at middleschool against the war in Iraq.
Somewhat prioritized political literacy and critical thinking as a young lad, though I was lofty and idealistic in those days I was at least trying to do something. Genocide in Sudan and watching Schindlers List when I was 13-14 also fueled that fire.
Got extreme at one point, friends and I used to attack-on-sight Nazi’s and KKK every chance we could get, in some cases endangering their lives. I cooled off that stuff and attended the Occupy protests in 2011, was one of the 800+ people that got herded onto the Brooklyn Bridge by police and mass arrested. Did you hear about that one?
2013 I (naively) worked for Greenpeace for a few years, alongside environmentalist charities and activists in the SW Pacific (New Zealand, Fiji, Australia). Got there with $15 to my name after hitching a ride on a sailboat, ended up dressing up as an Orangutan in the boiling Australian sun and making police chase me (they never did catch me.) Worked with the Wilderness Society, worked alongside Bob Irwin (Steve Irwin’s dad) on the Fight for the Reef campaign to protect the GBR from getting dredged for coal shipping (our campaign successfully delayed them for a year, after which they dredged a world heritage site anyway.)
Since then I worked small, working with various charities from deaf kids to blind persons, attending every protest I could physically attend. A recent diagnosis of Graves Disease has put me on my arse for a while, but despite that I still stood up to the pogroms in the UK, using my body to block protestors from bricks. A brick hit my bad knee too, but i’d take a million more.
Does my resume satisfy you? Now lets see your card, what have you done?
That’s an impressive „CV of resistance“, although I only asked what you’ve done specifically against trump, Vance and musk, and if I’m nitpicking, I can’t see much apart from protesting. The same thing you expressed your disgust about saying „is that the best you can do“.
I do hope, that you continue to do as much as you’ve already done and I’m thankful for every single thing you do.
I also hope, that you start to inspire others to follow in your footsteps instead of making them feel bad for not doing enough.
I’m very happy that people like you exist. It’s just not as easy as you make it seem. I live in Germany and we face a very similar political fate. I feel pretty helpless. I go to protests, I donate money to causes that work against nazi shit. I invested heavily in changing my lifestyle to a much greener one. But all of that has just a tiny impact unfortunately. I’m too old to get physical plus I have to take care of my daughter. Many people are reliant on a functioning society.
As long as social media exists the way it does now, nothing will really change. I will be writing EU officials to boycott American tech. If Europe stops using that shit, propaganda is reduced to traditional media, which isn’t nearly as effective. But again, this is just a tiny drop in an ocean of things we would have to do.
Probably a different more luxurious and private ski resort where they won’t be bothered anymore.
Maybe. But you know what? Protestors ran off the VP from his weekend getaway. Even if he did just go to a “more luxurious” resort, he still went running tail between his legs from his originally planned vacation, and at the very least had to spend a bunch of time traveling instead of doing the skiing he planned to do. I can definitely tell who’s more pathetic in this scenario.
the comments below the article are disgusting shudder
I’ve stopped reading those. I might have put myself in a bubble, but I prefer a bubble over a heart attack because of rage bait comments from the antisocial dregs of society.
Every time I dare to read those comments, I end up regretting it. Can you please tell me what is wrong with those people? I really don’t like thinking that people are hopeless and the majority is probably not. But i need help dealing with those.
Vermont Understood The Assignment
We need to start throwing couches at him. Everywhere he goes, we need to throw a couch at him.
Look, I know it is going to take dedication, and be costly. You gotta buy a couch for the sole purpose of throwing it in his general direction.
But I’m not saying you can’t buy the shittiest couch at the thrift store. Or even buy YOURSELF a really nice new couch and throw your old one at him.
Come on. Do you have ANY idea how funny it would be seeing people going skiing, riding a couch down the slope. Then throw it at vance at the bottom of the hill???
There would be a moment where he realizes that people hate him so much that his entire life is everybody throwing couches at him!
It’s a group effort, but lets make it happen.
Would be great indeed but I fear there won’t be"that moment where he realizes …". In his view he’s doing everything right for his audience (grifter in chief, Putin, billionaires). Nevertheless “chapeau!” to the protesters, well framed in the ski resort setting - always to remind the amount of taxpayer paid relaxation while others suffer from their actions.
I am struggling to comprehend the insanity of contrast with one leader dealing with mangled bodies daily while the other mocks them then goes skiing.
