JD Vance's visit to Vermont ski resort interrupted by pro-Ukraine demonstrators after Zelensky exchange
JD Vance's visit to Vermont ski resort interrupted by pro-Ukraine demonstrators after Zelensky exchange
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.”
"Go Ski in Russia Traitor" was my favorite protest sign by a long shot
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.
That's why he's mocking Zelenskyy. He could've sold his country to Putin and gone skiing, but instead decided to fight.
"KAMALA IS A DO NOTHING VICE PRESIDENT!" - JD Vance
"Well, I tried gaslighting a world leader who is our ally in a crucial war, that didn't work, so I'm out of ideas. Time to go skiing I guess." - Also JD Vance
I mean it is something..... Is it a good thing? No. But its still a thing!
It wasn't only Vermont, but across the US ( Guardian link)
"Protesters took to the streets in New York, Los Angeles and Boston, with hundreds gathering to express support for Ukraine and its president"
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.
Just use blowup couches. Cheaper and I think gets the message across just as well given other blow up sex toys.
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.
And he would fuck every single one.
The couches were showing too much skin, they were asking for it!
Many free couches on Facebook marketplace
Go ski in hell, Vance.
Vermont Understood The Assignment
the comments below the article are disgusting shudder
Yep, but it's The New York Post, so to have something other than awful people commenting would be out of character.
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.
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.
EDIT -
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?
There were literally people holding signs that said "Go ski in Russia, traitor". Stop dragging everyone down to your miserable level, please.
what did you want to see a running gun battle with the secret service? wait, we'll get there
Considering the general apathy of Americans, it's a pretty good sign to see.
Isn't enough now, wouldn't have been enough 2 years ago. Americans need to work far harder than they're used to.
Hey some of them are hardcore frontline activists that even changed their avatar.
Fr. They'd probably piss their pants if they got hit by a brick thrown by a fascist, or if a police officer yells at them.
