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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[–] 115 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Sure glad we booted all those freeloaders from Medicaid.

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  • [–] 87 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 75 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    The party of fiscal responsibility, everyone.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (9 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (8 children)

    America's awake.

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

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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...!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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.

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (3 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?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months 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).

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago*

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

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Government efficiency at its finest

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Maybe we could let him borrow Kobe's chopper?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Meet the new emperor. Same as the last emperor.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Silly couchfucker

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Swamp. Drained. /s

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Hope Vance Jr grows up to despise his father

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

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

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months 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.

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