‘Chubby Face’: Brits Rain Protest Down on Vance

Say what one will, Vice President J.D. Vance has no qualms vacationing in blue areas, whether it is Vermont, California, or New York- indeed, he is maintaining a one-vacation-per-month schedule while in office, and now Vance is over across the pond in the lovely U.K., where he is being welcomed with all the vitriol he received when skiing. The Brits seem to have less tolerance for Vance than even those from Vermont. According to a report in the Guardian, the anglos are intense and pretty sharp in their criticisms, hounding Vance everywhere he goes.

Natasha Phillips, who had travelled 70 miles from Bath to attend the event billed as a “Dance against Vance”, bore a placard saying: “JD Vance – the guy who bullied a war hero from the comfort of his couch. The way he treated Volodymyr Zelenskyy was disgusting,” she said. “The Ukrainian people are heroes. British people admire the way they are standing up to [Vladimir] Putin. I wanted to come here to show that.”

Please note that people who are not beholden to Vladimir Putin, those who live in Europe – whether members of the E.U. or not – have far more sympathy for the people of Ukraine against their murderous invaders than the red-hats here who seem to hold Putin in the same regard as they do Trump. To that end, it is probably good for Vance to get out and see the world, actually hear from people who see Trump’s Russo-accommodating foreign policy for what it is, shameless appeasement of a war criminal.

One placard said: “Make Charlbury great again – go home.” Another said: “Not too posh to protest.” A third: “Rolling hills. Not rolling back climate change.” There were plenty of versions of the meme of Vance as a bloated baby. In June, a Norwegian man, Mads Mikkelsen, 21, accused American border officials of denying him entry into the US because he had the meme saved on his phone

Not to be too critical of our friends in the U.K., but if they are going to protest bloated babies in this administration, they are going to have to be a little more specific. Of course, Trump himself just took a quick summer vacation to the north in Scotland. Vance’s time in England proves that protest will follow these people up and down the otherwise beautiful island.

Clarkson later sarcastically shared a video of a peaceful Cotswolds scene and wrote: “Utter chaos caused by Vance. How will we ever manage?” In the interest of political balance, Vance’s predecessor as VP, Kamala Harris, was spotted in Charlbury’s pub, the Bull, last month.

Harris was there this summer, too? Where is this place? It sure sounds nice, located between London and Bristol. According to Grok:

Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire. The Cotswolds is known for its rolling hills, charming villages, and honey-colored stone architecture, and it lies entirely within England, primarily in the south-central and southwestern parts of the country.

Ah, so they are expressing the wonderful charm of the idyllic rolling hills by inviting Vance to get bent and keep himself on this side of the ocean. Fair enough. If one goes to Google and looks at the pictures of the area around Charlbury, it becomes fairly obvious why this appears to be the new “it” spot for people of means, just as obvious as to why they want to keep Vance out. It is beautiful.

And that makes the protests that much more satisfying. Very little upsets the tranquility of those just adorable cottages and verdant pastures quite like seeing a moving truck with intentionally fattened faces greeting you and your young kids. That is another good fortune because whatever else Vance plans to do while in office, he has made little clearer than the fact that he will be vacationing, thank you – and there’s fck all anyone can do to shame him out of it.

Vance has been to Vermont, California, Ohio, and the Cotswolds; surely Hawaii, perhaps St. Thomas, Aspen, or Montana will be coming soon enough. Be just as sure that he will get a not-so-polite greeting in every local. Vance may only occasionally punch-in, but protesting him is now a full-time job. The Brits got to work.

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