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bigtree

(94,672 posts)
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 07:16 PM Aug 2025

Vance just wrapped up a stay at $10.8K/week estate, and is already on his next vacation. People can't afford groceries.

Democrats @TheDemocrats 1h
This guy just wrapped a stay at a $10.8K/week estate, and he's already on to his next vacation.

People can't afford groceries.


FactPost @factpostnews
JD Vance is now vacationing in a $28,000 per week luxury Scottish estate.



No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC
So far this year JD Vance has gone on vacations in Vermont, Massachusetts, and California... and now he wants to go to Hawaii.

All blue states that MAGA calls “hellholes.”


FactPost @factpostnews
Vance plans his next vacation: "We all really want to go to Hawaii at some point in the next couple years. Hopefully we can find some excuse as Vice President to go"

White House Xray @xray_media *Automated
On August 12, his 18-vehicle motorcade visited a UK farm shop. Now he needs an "excuse" for Hawaii. The Secret Service has apparently been downgraded from a protection detail to a luxury travel agency.

This is a pattern. In August, the Secret Service literally raised a river for his birthday boat trip. In July, he was booed at Disneyland. In February, protesters cut his Vermont ski trip short. The admin uses public funds to demand luxury in the very "hellholes" it publicly condemns.






...and Trump and his family are reeling in the big bucks, grifting off of his presidency:

Rebecca Ballhaus @rebeccaballhaus
The Trump family’s crypto venture has generated more wealth since the election—some $4.5 billion—than any other part of the president’s business empire. A major reason for the success is a partnership with an under-the-radar trading platform quietly administered by Binance, whose founder is seeking a pardon from Trump.

https://wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-family-crypto-1e7ab14a


Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren
Trump accepted a $400M luxury jet from Qatar. But for Trump to use the plane, it has to be secure.

What will it cost to modify and take the plane apart? At least $1 BILLION from taxpayers.

Trump’s hiding that by using funds from one of our nuclear programs.





...meanwhile, for the vast majority of Americans:

Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar
According to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Republican’s Big Beautiful Betrayal will take $1,200 a year from Americans most in need—while handing the richest more than $13,000 a year. It’s no wonder Americans oppose this bill.




...and this Dickensian inhumanity, punishing Americans for being poor or mentally ill:

Trump administration threatens jail time for homeless on DC streets

“Homeless individuals will be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. “And if they refuse, they will be susceptible to fines or to jail time.”

According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, there were about 5,600 homeless people in Washington, DC down from about 8,300 in 2016. Of those homeless people counted in January 2025, about 1,000 were sleeping on the streets any given night. The majority of the rest were either staying with friends, in hotels or in one of the city's shelters.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-threatens-jail-time-for-homeless-on-dc-streets/ar-AA1Kq5oC
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Vance just wrapped up a stay at $10.8K/week estate, and is already on his next vacation. People can't afford groceries. (Original Post) bigtree Aug 2025 OP
the USA has military bases in the UK where he could stay for free. where's the outrage lol nt msongs Aug 2025 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author bigtree Aug 2025 #2
he'd be more comfortable off the coast of Cuba bigtree Aug 2025 #3
J.D. Antoinette. chowder66 Aug 2025 #4
Worst vice president ever! Initech Aug 2025 #5
you got that right Initech....makes me democratsruletheday Aug 2025 #6
I was a kid when Dan Quayle was VP. Initech Aug 2025 #8
Vacation Vance Prairie Gates Aug 2025 #7
Haven't checked lately what the salary of a VP is, but he's definitely moving in some elite circles. Sogo Aug 2025 #9

msongs

(74,203 posts)
1. the USA has military bases in the UK where he could stay for free. where's the outrage lol nt
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 07:17 PM
Aug 2025

Response to msongs (Reply #1)

bigtree

(94,672 posts)
3. he'd be more comfortable off the coast of Cuba
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 07:45 PM
Aug 2025


nice accomodations:




(weird posting sequence, so reposted)

democratsruletheday

(1,922 posts)
6. you got that right Initech....makes me
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 12:59 PM
Aug 2025

ashamed that I bitched about Dan Quayle and George HW Bush as much as I did back in the day. They were genuinely decent, albeit dense guys compared to this POS

Initech

(109,271 posts)
8. I was a kid when Dan Quayle was VP.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:22 PM
Aug 2025

I knew from watching late night TV that he was bad, but I had no idea we'd be stuck with these dipshits. Quayle feels overqualified by today's standards!

Prairie Gates

(8,479 posts)
7. Vacation Vance
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:06 PM
Aug 2025

The more he's on vacation, the less Trump has to deal with him. It also puts him in a bad light for when Trump tries to foist a continued term on us, or install one of his imbecile progeny.

Sogo

(7,305 posts)
9. Haven't checked lately what the salary of a VP is, but he's definitely moving in some elite circles.
Thu Aug 14, 2025, 01:26 PM
Aug 2025

nt.

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