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JD Vance sought last week to use a military helicopter to ferry himself and his son across Washington for a golf lesson, one of a number of allegedly unusual travel requests that has left the Republican’s security detail “fed up,” MS Now reports.

The alleged travel plans aboard Marine Two were ultimately canceled due to weather, but Secret Service agents nonetheless discussed it among themselves unhappily, according to the outlet.

Past vice presidents have had Secret Service agents drive their children to activities, rather than use military hardware, which can cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour to operate.

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[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 118 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure glad we booted all those freeloaders from Medicaid.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

and from the ACA marketplaces too, i think they to drop thier plans, because it became unaffordable.

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 91 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good thing all those poor kids won't get free lunches at school anymore so they can afford all these free helicopter rides

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

And Vance's kid can get to his golf lesson

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 79 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The party of fiscal responsibility, everyone.

[–] Snailpick42@lemmus.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

They are entitled to it, they don't want money spent on the poor and charity. They have supply side Jesus on their side.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is how he feels about his boss,

These are not serious people. Wake up America, you're being taken for ride just like how this couch fucker is taking rides on your dime. Ya'll are very fucked, so fucked that it's probably irreversible at this point.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

America's awake.

That's why Donald is polling lower than Jimmy Carter.

[–] Trashcan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The only reason he's polling low numbers is because the unnecessary war in Iran is pushing gas prices up. If he hadn't done that, I don't believe he would be polling this low. Which means he fumbeled it. And the voters didn't care until it cost them their wallet.

My god, this whole ongoing SS ICE fuckery should have gotten some use of the 2nd amendment...!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That is not correct.

Iran exacerbated the issue, but the low polling goes back to the Anti-ICE actions in Minnesota.

People voted for two things in 2024: stronger immigration policy (not to be confused with rebranding the Gestapo, these are two distinctly different things) and affordability. Doesn't help that Donald explicitly promised no more forever wars, but his massive unpopularity goes back to allowing ICE to run rampant in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Watching masked thugs chase down and tackle fifth graders pissed off voters on both teams.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And higher than basically any other democratically elected western leader. He was elected twice, after all.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I can't speak for anyone outside the US.

But here, polling lower than Jimmy Carter puts you among the worst, if not the worst, US presidents ever. That he was elected twice is irrelevant.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Carter wasn't that bad (though we was a centrist while in office, and only later adopted some based political views). There was biased media back then, too, and the thing that made him look worst was the Iran hostage crisis, which Reagan colluded with the mullahs to prolong for just that purpose.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

He was objectively a shitty president, but yes, Reagan's meddling didn't help things.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It is very much relevant. He was polling worse than Carter in his first term. Didn't help much, did it? He won even bigger the second time.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Obviously it did, as he lost the 2020 election, unless we're ignoring cause and effect.

The problem isn't Donald in this scenario. The problem is that people's lives didn't improve in a material way following the 2020 election (and in fact grew significantly worse), which unfortunately laid the groundwork for a second Donald presidency.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A series of last-minute travel requests, known as “off the record” movements,

Not like this administration likes to do anything on the record.

Vance’s plans to travel from his home at the Naval Observatory to the golf course at Andrews Air Force Base would’ve represented a flight on a familiar route, while avoiding public impacts such as traffic jams

Ah, he thinks he's too good to sit in traffic.

[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not to defend vance, fuck him, but a motorcade would indeed be disruptive to regular traffic. Or don't vice presidents travel in convoys?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

a military helicopter ride is around 27k-30k per RIDE, its much more wasteful.

[–] Axiochus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Not debating that, seems plainly true to me.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I always hated when a motorcade made my commute even worse (I live in the DC area and commuted near Andrews AFB, so it did happen now and then - I usually ran into them on the Suitland Parkway).

[–] marighost@piefed.social 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine the outrage if Obama took his daughter to, say, a music lesson in a Blackhawk.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Can't be worse than wearing a tan suit.

[–] luthis 29 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Gif of Trump saying he's going to drain the swamp

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem with draining a swamp, or any other dirty water, is once you've drained it all that's left is the scum and crap making it dirty.

[–] luthis 8 points 2 weeks ago

Concentrated shit at the bottom, maybe Trump did drain the swamp lol

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

He's a filter feeder.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's not like we needed to fund the CDC anyway /s

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

Blowing my years long security budget in a single day by sending my kid to disney world on an aircraft carrier.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Government efficiency at its finest

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Republicans take deficit spending seriously, A thousand privately funded ads told me so!

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe we could let him borrow Kobe's chopper?

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 6 points 2 weeks ago

Swamp. Drained. /s

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Meet the new emperor. Same as the last emperor.

[–] green_goglin@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 weeks ago

Silly couchfucker

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hope Vance Jr grows up to despise his father

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Is Vance actually his father?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I reckon if David Lammy (the UK Deputy Prime Minister) attempted that, the army would tell him to get his own fucking helicopter.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today -5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ever drive in DC traffic? I hate Vance, but I get it. It would be hard to ignore that option if it was available to you.