Summary

JD Vance’s ski trip to Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort was met with hundreds of protesters following his confrontational behavior toward Ukrainian President Zelenskyy.

Demonstrators carried signs calling Vance a “traitor” and suggesting he “go ski in Russia.”

A resort employee posted an unauthorized political message in the snow report criticizing the administration’s environmental policies.

The backlash follows concerns over Vance’s alignment with Trump and his remarks urging European nations to engage with far-right parties.

    • RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works
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      20 hours ago

      JD Vance like Ted Cruz is incredibly intelligent. He did quite well at every step of his academic career. He’s smart he’s just smarmy and willing to lie which makes him appear less educated which is intentional. Remember many conservative voters do not want people who appear smarter than they are so the smart ones have to play dumb.

      Vance sucks but he’s not stupid. He is just vile.

    • VubDapple@real.lemmy.fan
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      21 hours ago

      He’s plenty smart in terms of verbal fluency and debate. However he lacks introspective capacity or moral center or empathy, without which he is simply an ambitiously sharp tool being wielded by others (like Thiel)

    • in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      Never underestimate the stupidity of a pawn. Yet here we are, being forced to make the chess pieces and chess board for minimum wage.