Very strange for him. No couchs to fuck there, then why go? Also wonder just how tight security will be?

WARREN, Vt. — Here in the Mad River Valley, where the Trump administration is about as popular as a rainstorm on the slopes at Sugarbush, news that Vice President JD Vance was coming for a ski weekend was greeted with surprise more than derision.

Not that there isn’t plenty of derision. Activists have planned protests in Warren and neighboring Waitsfield. Local social media sites are chockful of bitter recriminations, saying Vance is not welcome here because of the administration’s policies against DEI and the mass firings at various federal agencies, among other reasons.

But for many locals, the idea of Vance coming to the state that not only rejected the Trump/Vance ticket by the widest margin, but to an especially liberal part of the state where the administration is wildly unpopular, doesn’t add up.

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    “I hope Vermonters remember the vice president is here on a family trip with his young children and, while we may not always agree, we should be respectful,” he said.

    And I hope Vermonters keep it real and pelt that giant douche with dog shit and rotten eggs because that’s as much respect as he deserves whether with his children or alone.

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      Better to do it in front of his children so they learn not to be a giant piece of shit empowering people that will discriminate against his own children.

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      Yeah, now that eggs are so cheap and all (went to the grocery yesterday and they’re rationed here). I haven’t checked dog shit prices but that’s too good for him anyway.

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      He seems to be the type of person who demands respect from everyone, but only respects people who agree with him.

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        Honestly I suspect he wants others to get upset and be “disrespectful” just so he can use it as further proof that those who disagree with him are all horrible people, and that he is therefore better than them.

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          Yeah, see the temper tantrum he threw during the meeting with Zelensky. They were just desperate to get a rise out of him, and they couldn’t even manage that.

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    I think the reason is fairly obvious: he’s showing that he can go anywhere in his kingdom, even the places where he is the most unpopular.

    And everyone else has to scramble, whether they like him or not.

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    I hope vermonters take this opportunity to express their dissatisfaction every minute he’s there on vacation. …and piss in his coffee and spit in his food. He deserves no less.

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    Is he wearing jeans and a Starter jacket?

    The image of Vance on rentals, in skinny jeans and a Buckeyes jacket makes me laugh.

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    This makes me wonder: when someone like this goes on a ski vacation… does that mean that a bunch of his secrect service detail has to also ski / be able to ski competently?

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    Just gonna say it. There’s no fucking way to secure an entire mountainside. One determined person with very little advanced knowledge of the event could let his brain breath from a mile away and be gone before anyone knows where the shot came from