If Barack, Joe, Or Kamala Did This...

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Opinion - Where’s JD Vance? VP takes eighth vacation in seven months

When you’re the right-hand man to Donald Trump, the guy who wants to convince working-class America that he’s their champion, jet-setting across the globe on lavish retreats doesn’t scream solidarity. It screams out-of-touch.

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Vice President JD Vance has been in office since January, and already he’s racked up more vacation days than most Americans could dream of in a decade. The man who built his brand railing against “elites” has basically become one — living like the very people he claimed to stand against.

His latest trip? A summer holiday in the Cotswolds, the region of England nicknamed “the Hamptons of the UK.” Vance rented a sprawling manor that goes for about $10,000 a week. Between his motorcades clogging tiny country roads and the protests that followed him across the pond, it’s safe to say his family getaway got more press than privacy.

But this isn’t an isolated incident. This is vacation No.8 this year.

 

[ideologyhunter]

I wondered why I hardly ever saw him on the news, other than hollering at Zelensky.

 

[ZiprHead]

 

[Spacetime Inhabitant]

People are often more "soft spoken" to children.

 

[Tigers!]

One of your former vice presidents, John Nance Gradner was not exactly complimentry of being vice-president

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Never heard of him and he was FDR's VP for a couple terms. Tells you how the office typically doesn't matter. Dick Cheney was much different. Vance is just another guy trying to ride the coat tails of Trump and has risen too far, too quickly. He went from no one to VP is about 3 years, with almost all of his political success due to his babyface turn on Trump. Vance is one of these new age old-school Catholics and he scares the heck out of me.

 

[laughing dog]

Isn’t Vance on vacation a good thing for the people of the USA?

 

[ideologyhunter]

Cat ladies want to like him. Clearly he doesn't want the cats, at least in mid-state Ohio, to turn up on the dinner plate. But there's all that breeder shit with Jaydee.

 

[bilby]

A VP has only one job; Do nothing until the President dies. If the President doesn't die (and most tend to survive their term), this can be rather boring.

Some VPs try to spice up the boredom by bullshitting to reporters, or by defrauding the republic, or by making an idiot of themselves in various ways.

JFK had the idea of keeping the VP out of trouble by giving him NASA to play with, but that only really worked when NASA was doing big exciting things.

The problem is that you really can't give the VP anything really important to do, in case he suddenly has to drop it to start presidenting.

He's like a firefighter waiting for a call out; He can play cards, or pump iron in the gym, or read a book, but whatever he does he needs to be able to drop it at any instant and rush off to do his real job. Firefighters rarely go eight years without an alarm, though.

 

[Terrell]

He is drawing plenty of booing crowds, with a few "couch fucker"s thrown in at the expense of the taxpayer.

 

[ZiprHead]

A VP has only one job; Do nothing until the President dies. If the President doesn't die (and most tend to survive their term), this can be rather boring.

Some VPs try to spice up the boredom by bullshitting to reporters, or by defrauding the republic, or by making an idiot of themselves in various ways.

JFK had the idea of keeping the VP out of trouble by giving him NASA to play with, but that only really worked when NASA was doing big exciting things.

The problem is that you really can't give the VP anything really important to do, in case he suddenly has to drop it to start presidenting.

He's like a firefighter waiting for a call out; He can play cards, or pump iron in the gym, or read a book, but whatever he does he needs to be able to drop it at any instant and rush off to do his real job. Firefighters rarely go eight years without an alarm, though.

You know, if that was all he was doing no one would have a problem with it. But that is not what he is doing.

He is jetsetting all over the world on the taxpayers dime, costing us millions upon millions of dollars without even providing minimal diplomatic services in the foreign nations he is visiting. He is a carbuncle on the ass of the US.

 

[Toni]

A VP has only one job; Do nothing until the President dies. If the President doesn't die (and most tend to survive their term), this can be rather boring.

Some VPs try to spice up the boredom by bullshitting to reporters, or by defrauding the republic, or by making an idiot of themselves in various ways.

JFK had the idea of keeping the VP out of trouble by giving him NASA to play with, but that only really worked when NASA was doing big exciting things.

The problem is that you really can't give the VP anything really important to do, in case he suddenly has to drop it to start presidenting.

He's like a firefighter waiting for a call out; He can play cards, or pump iron in the gym, or read a book, but whatever he does he needs to be able to drop it at any instant and rush off to do his real job. Firefighters rarely go eight years without an alarm, though.

You know, if that was all he was doing no one would have a problem with it. But that is not what he is doing.

He is jetsetting all over the world on the taxpayers dime, costing us millions upon millions of dollars without even providing minimal diplomatic services in the foreign nations he is visiting. He is a carbuncle on the ass of the US.

You are forgetting his most important function: to be a potential successor to Trump who is so unpalatable to the masses that he’s made Trump virtually assassination proof. Ditto re: impeachment proof. Trump has no integrity so he would t resign if Congress ever found a set of balls and convicted Trump. Or almost. It’s just the tech nerd version of Mike Pence any now Trump doesn’t even bother to pretend to care a smidge about religion. Re: impeachment. Why do you think that Mike Johnson, as useless and talentless fuck who ever held elected office is Speaker of the House?

Of course Vance gives tech nerds a very bad name, so don’t @me.

They all three give human beings a bad name.

 

[DBT]

I've heard that his popularity is waning. He is a fluent, confident public speaker. But unfortunately, what comes out of his mouth can be a problem.