JD Vance went skiing in Vermont this weekend. A local Indivisible chapter organized a protest along the entrance to the ski resort the VP was visiting. Via Yuliya Komska on Bluesky, this small demonstration appears to have achieved its goal.
Vermont showed up to sour Vance’s ski vacay! ❤️ Photos by a friend
— Yuliya Komska (@ykomska.bsky.social) March 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Here are the two best photos from her post if you can’t or don’t want to click through:
Very glad to see Vermonters making the effort to get in the VP’s face when the opportunity presented itself. If you were there, or if you’re participating in activism you feel comfortable discussing online, do let us know in the comments.
ETA: Found two more photos showing even better numbers and signs. Popping them below the fold for those on mobile devices:
MazeDancer
UK stepping up. Starmer and Zelensky meeting this evening, right about now, actually.
And then Zelensky meets with the King tomorrow.
Kinda wish the President would wear white tie and tails or full dress military uniform.
But he is wiser and more measured thanI.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I don’t recall Vermont a hot spot of protestors.
Also, I though their super power was they worked during the weekends.
And, it just occurred to me, that attempt to shame the Zelensky that only ended up showing Zelensky has more balls than that entire room, was that also an indirect attack on Musk? Remember; a True Trumper is a total chickenshit.
Kosh III
Help me Obi-wan. I kinda get why jeans are not great but as I’ve never skied could someone elaborate as to why this would be so insulting.
I hope it ruined his trip.
Steve LaBonne
Trump is merely what he always has been, a gangster with a barely double digit IQ. I reserve special contempt for that nauseating little toady Vance, who has chosen that disgusting role.
Baud
Good on VT.
True patriots in the original sense of the word.
Kelly
@Kosh III: Main problem with jeans is they are made of cotton which gets wet an stays wet the rest of your day. Wet clothes cause evaporative cooling chills you to the bone.
Papa Boyle
I’m not a Trump supporter and I didn’t vote for him, but I’ll admit I was looking forward to the calm, cool and collected emotional steadiness you just can’t get with a female president.
This morning I’m still having trouble explaining my president’s and vice president’s lack of emotional control. Both of them are manifestly manly men! What is happening??
Rose Judson
@MazeDancer: Yup, the StarmerBot is demonstrating Actual Human Emotion toward President Zelenskyy:
Other MJS
@Kosh III: Not a skier, but I imagine it’s akin to “your mother wears army boots.”
@Kelly: Thank you.
Chetan Murthy
@Kelly: From back in HS, I remember that people who skied in jeans were poorer (couldn’t afford ski pants — ski passes were a shit-ton cheaper then), and they scotch-garded their jeans, as well as wearing gaiters. Or something like that.
trollhattan
@Other MJS:
When I was in college half of the skiers would wear ‘proper’ ski togs and the other half disdained convention. The scheme involved unloading an entire can of Scotchguard onto a pair of Levi’s and hitting the slopes. Cotton is the worst possible thing to wear in snow because it absorbs water like so many sponges, and there was a kind of not following convention and getting away with it dynamic by treating them beforehand.
This was California and I can’t guess the Vermont secret code, but they’re likely accustomed to newbies getting into trouble and needing rescue, after doing everything wrong. Here, it’s now boarders who get lost or into avalanches after skiing out of bounds.
The spirit of Sonny Bono lives too, with high-speed crashes into trees. My wishes for JD in this regard need not be stated.
TBone
My {dyed in the wool hippies} Aunt and Uncle lived in Brattleboro for years. If alla this had happened during their yutes, they’da been there with signs too! My Aunt LOVED the pictures of me protesting I sent recently.
TBone
The Tiedrich treatment of the last
decadeweekthis week in stupid: March 1 edition – by Jeff Tiedrich
Another doozy!
Baud
@Papa Boyle:
Heh. Hormones are an bitch. What can you do?
TBone
@Baud: I could tell ya! But then I’d have to kill ya!
TBone
David Johansen down.
NEW YORK DOLLS – THERE’S GONNA BE A SHOWDOWN ( VIDEOCLIP )
MazeDancer
@Rose Judson:
Wowza, that’s a real hug! Keir even smiling.
Europe must be having a giant range of emotions. Terror, like us all, of course, but some excitement. And feelings of connection and purpose.
US just has bad choices – rage, depression, heart-break, panic. Yes, some determination to fight back. But, still…they’re firing the food inspectors. Which comes first bird flu or food poisoning?
cmorenc
Happened to see Pete Hedgeseth’s book: “War on Warrios” on new books shelf at library, and spent 10 minutes skimming it – however stupid, toxically masculine and deeply misogynistic you might expect, and how fucked-up you think his view of mitary leadership is, it’s far worse, but also unintentionally darkly hilarious in that many of the traits he describes as being contrary to healthy society with a service ethic (selfishly out for wealth and self and not service to others etc) perfectly fit Donald Trump. Worth a brief 10-minutes skim if you want to truly understand just how far off the rails and dangerously idiotic Hedgeseth actually is.
sixthdoctor
The end of this is definitely a chef’s kiss moment.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: I share that unstated wish!
Also, since fashion has entered the chat, can anyone explain this shit?
The reason for the too-long red tie is pathetically obvious, but I don’t think even Trump’s are long enough to end up under his scrotum while seated. And what in the wide world of fuck is up with the leggings?
TBone
@Betty Cracker: puking emoji goes here
The other thing I noticed yesterday was that his sleeves are so freaking short (you can’t see that well from the angle of your posted photo though).
Mebbe that tie is bullet proof, protecting his
jewelstiny package. That’s where I’d aim.Old Dan and Little Ann
@Kosh III: When I was a pre-teen skiing in the 80s the people were skiing in jeans were typically out of control yahoos. When I lived in Colorado for a few years the only people skiing in jeans were from Texas or Oklahoma.
Gin & Tonic
As a lifelong skier, who actually skied in Vermont yesterday, Kelly and the other commenters are right. It may have been cool and unconventional three or four decades ago, but these days skiing in jeans marks you as a noob, or, in derogatory skiing parlance, a jerry.
Gin & Tonic
@Betty Cracker: Derek Guy says his pants are too narrow. I think that’s popular among wannabe hipsters.
sixthdoctor
This is the way; no violence, no harm, but protests should follow these people the rest of the days the way the theme music follows the leads in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.
TBone
@Gin & Tonic: “narrow ass” is a derogatory thing
trollhattan
@Old Dan and Little Ann:
Stayed offseason in a Steamboat ski condo that was strewn with copies of DALLAS! magazine and various Texas paraphernalia. The message was clear as to who owned the joint.
Calling the Rockies The Texas Alps was quite common ’round those parts.
TBone
@sixthdoctor: well done!
trollhattan
@sixthdoctor:
But, but, but that’s just so unsocial.
Scout211
@Betty Cracker: Men’s “skinny fit dress pants” are a thing for young men. I say young men because that does not include middle-aged men who try to look young, like Vance.
Papa Boyle
@TBone: Question for you: was this unhinged emotional episode by my president and vice president a 4D chess move/one weird trick to bring down the price of eggs? I heard somewhere that bringing down the price of eggs was going to be a top priority of my president.
Betty Cracker
@Scout211: Denmark could bring all these fuckers down in two month’s time with an Ozempic blockade.
AM in NC
I love this so much. These horrible, evil people need to be shunned/protested EVERYWHERE they go – make their kids embarrassed to be seen with them. Rub their faces in how awful they are and that we KNOW it, and strip them of any possibility of joy in public. Boo them at the Kennedy Center or any show they attend. Protest them at sporting events. Refuse to serve them at restaurants.
Make their lives as miserable as we can, because they are making our lives miserable in far more serious ways.
trollhattan
Live too far from New York to comprehend what you did that was so bad to deserve an unending string of psychopath mayors, but get ready because here comes the Como train.
bluefoot
@Kosh III: I was in VT over the holidays and saw someone with a “trump skis in jeans” sticker. I’m told it’s a Vermonter insult that basically says you’re an idiot.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: What, is Anthony Wiener chopped liver? (Yes. Yes, he is.)
LeftCoastYankee
@Betty Cracker:
He’s covering his enthusiasm for the “blonde” sofa.
TheOtherHank
@TBone:
I think the long tie is sign of fealty to Trump. That’s how he wears his ties, so that’s the way a real man wears one
Badpenny
zhena gogolia
I love that “go ski in Russia” sign.
Martin
I’m wondering how long before our allies start asking us to leave military bases. That feels like the next step.
Gin & Tonic
@Martin: I just saw that a major Norwegian supplier of bunker oil (diesel for ships) will no longer be refueling U.S. Navy ships.
Baud
Never let up the pressure.
He’s lying about what he feels but make them lie about stuff we want rather than the things the MAGA want.
Tazj
I have to applaud these people and their efforts to shame the shameless. I’ve seen video of the protests and there were two women who made excellent points. One said of Vance “he’s out here recreating while thousands of people are losing their jobs and healthcare.” Another commenting on Ukraine said, “we’ve always supported Ukraine here but seeing what happened yesterday galvanized everyone even more.”
I hope the Democrats take this and run with it. Sorry, if you’re the party of the working class and not elitist you don’t get to run off on a ski vacation when people are losing their jobs and grocery prices are so high. Not when every Democrat’s vacation along with Nancy Pelosi’s freezer is scrutinized.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Heh.
Chapter 324 of a Democrat cratering his career doing things that get Republicans elected president.
Old Dan and Little Ann
@trollhattan: That’s depressing. I worked at the top of Keystone for 2 years. I heard the following question a few times. “Where do y’all store the moguls in the summertime?”
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Can’t be sure that Navy ships won’t be assisting Russia.
Hegseth will blame trans people, of course.
trollhattan
different-church-lady
@Baud:
“I’m going to do everything I can to make sure measles breaks out everywhere!”
AM in NC
@Betty Cracker: As Ireland could with a Viagra blockade.
Baud
@different-church-lady:
Herd immunity!
Martin
Welp, 18F got killed.
18F and Code for America were initiatives by Obama to unfuck the healthcare.gov portal launch. They stayed on as a continuing program inside GSA to help agencies with their web interfaces with the public. These were basically in-government consultancies, folks that worked in tech that would often take sabbatical from Google, etc. to work for the feds for a few years and bring their experience in. They had no budget but would get paid out of other agencies budgets for work performed. They also built the new IRS electronic filing portal.
Going forward I’m guessing this work will be contracted out to X exclusively.
zhena gogolia
I just put up my Harris-Walz sign again.
Decent People Live Here.
A Ghost to Most
As an avid off-roader, I have come to expect that if another vehicle is causing damage or jackassery on the trails, it will have Texas plates.
Baud
Good people, via reddit.
zhena gogolia
@Baud: I love Elvira.
WaterGirl
@Martin: Nodding.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Will this administration come to understand the meaning of “unintended consequences”?
Spanky
@WaterGirl: When Henry comes to understand Shakespeare.
glc
@sixthdoctor: Nice. Also weird, he needs to develop some blathering skills.
Shalimar
@Betty Cracker: Chopped liver isn’t as bad as chopped wiener.
Shakti
@Baud:
Oh, he’s leaving a lot unsaid about why that’s a top priority.
I accept his existence as much and in as equal measure as he accepts mine and not an iota more.
Shakti
;@Betty Cracker:
I am convinced some of these choices are to demonstrate fealty, his adherence to hierarchy by wearing deliberately uglifying clothing. Sometimes people wear stunt clothing to highlight their good looks. This isn’t that. Vance wears a suit because his boss wears a suit. However cannot be seen to wear a better suit, because doing that would be like upstanding a
bride on her wedding dayTrump at his meeting.Trust and believe the snit about clothes is pretense. But also Zelensky is better dressed than the other two, and these two would be very angry if he showed up in a suit, which would properly fit and also upstage them. …Narcissism.
charon
@Kosh III:
I used to wear jeans skiing, I have no idea why that is an insult
charon
@trollhattan:
If you ski well enough to not fall, jeans are fine.
Even if they do get a bit wet, rarely, so what?
Betty Cracker
@Shakti: Speaking of weddings, remind me to tell y’all one day about how Bill invited the town drunk to our wedding, and she showed up drunk and accompanied by her 15-year-old daughter, whom drunk mom had bullied into wearing her (drunk mom’s) 15-year-old wedding dress. To a wedding. Oh never mind. I just did.
Jerry
Same. I grew up on skis in Northern Michigan with three ski resorts within 10 minutes of me and I always skied in jeans. But then again, I was just a dirtbag local and not some rich-ass fudgie that could afford all of the latest and greatest skiing tech.
Shakti
@Kosh III: Jeans are heavy and absolutely stupid things to wear for playing in the snow, let alone skiing. They don’t even keep you warm, while somehow being awful to sweat in, (especially with layers) they get wet quickly if you fall.
A child’s bunny suit would be better.
Saying he wears jeans to ski that is like saying a West Virginian who claims to be from Appalachia doesn’t know how to dress for snow, let alone fancy pants skiiing. And he’s venture capital rich now, so he could afford all the fancy gear he wants, lmao.
He wears gold toe socks to ski too.
Disclosure: I’ve skiied maybe once in my life and owned no ski clothes.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Sheryl Crow did the same.
WaterGirl
@Spanky: LOL. sad truth, but told in a way to make me laugh.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Best wedding photo ever was Bill eyeing your cake.
Shakti
@Betty Cracker: Ha ha wow. *grimaces*
I feel sorrier for the 15 year old (assuming she had no desire to do this) and also the math (which I will not do). But also… how dare they. I hoped they were bounced out of there quickly.
Vance is an adult with abundant free will and choices.
And looking at my posts: any niceness or desire to spare people’s pride is rapidly leaving my body. :/
ljdramone
@charon: yup, actual ski pants are kind of hot when spring skiing out west, when there’s still many feet of base but the air is well above freezing.
At least that was the style* back in the late Eighties when I last skiied the Wasatch Front.
*jeans and gaiters, so wet spring snow wouldn’t get in your boots. My gaiters were all punk rock n’ stuff, black with a repeating pattern of purple skulls.
Betty Cracker
@Shakti: Yeah, we felt for the daughter too. She was a good kid, pretty resilient. Had to be. We didn’t eject the mom. We had an open bar, so it would have taken a team of Clydesdales to dislodge her. Good lord, it just occurred to me that kid would be in her early 40s. Quelle horreur!
Kayla Rudbek
@Kosh III: Jeans are too inflexible of a fabric to wear while doing exercise where you move your legs a lot (which is why you don’t see pro cyclists wearing jeans to ride either). Spandex makes you look like a sausage, but you can move in knit spandex better than you can move in woven jeans.
Kayla Rudbek
@Kelly: and this as well, cotton kills, wool keeps you alive in the winter
sab
@Kelly: Also too, jeans will kill you boating in warm weather because they weigh so much when wet. You will sink like a stone.
sab
@zhena gogolia: You are brave. I live in Ohio so I never had one in the first place.
sab
@Betty Cracker: Oh dear. My husband quit drinking almost forty years ago, but when we first started dating he still used to meet all his old buddies at the bar every Sunday.
He refused to invite one of them (a sweet guy but a serious drunk) to our wedding reception. I felt bad, but husband said “you haven’t met his girlfriend.”
Ruckus
@Papa Boyle:
They are not manly men.
They are pompous, arrogant ass lickers.
Ruckus
@Gin & Tonic:
I was in the USN half a century ago and the ship switched over from bunker oil to JP5, jet fuel for the steam boilers which powered turbines for the props and electricity. This ship was sold a fair number of years ago to one of the smaller northern European countries and was cut up over 30 yrs ago. My understanding is that the USN hasn’t used bunker oil for over 1/2 a century. On of the reasons was that the boilers had to blow stacks every so often to clean out the remains of burning bunker oil. After switching over to JP5 we blew stacks far less often because jet fuel was far more efficient than bunker oil. I doubt that they went back, over half a century later. It just seems to me there were way too many advantages from making steam using JP whatever than bunker oil, even if it was more expensive.
persistentillusion
@A Ghost to Most:
As a Coloradoan, I must agree. If it’s driving badly, in a city of bad drivers, its probably from Tejas, which skies in jeans.
persistentillusion
@Jerry: I wore a tie-dyed overall to ski Wilmot (southern Wisconsin, adjacent to Chicago). Reasonably good skier, fell and left what looked like psychedelic blood splatter, to my annoyance.
Jerry
LOL
I think what saved me from apparent frostbite and hypothermia by wearing inappropriate winter wear, according to some of our friends in this thread, is that my body didn’t GAF about winter. I loved it and spent all of the time that I could out in the snow. Hell, I would just sit in a snowbank and stare at the snow coming down. IN JEANS!!!! I would also go camping in the winter. And it’s not like I grew up in the Detroit area that got an ankle’s depth of snow, I grew up where we averaged 130+ inches of snow every winter. By January, stop signs at intersections were meaningless because you had to pull out pretty much into oncoming traffic to see around the snowbanks. But what do I know.
ironcity
@Ruckus: JP of any kind is good fuel for gas turbine engines such as for old DD-963 class. I believe Bunker oil is for the 1200 psi steam plants (with steam turbines?) that are now rare/never in warships. The fuel for diesel propelled ships is some kind of bunker oil, even today, and can be a mixture of various light to not so light distillates. As a brownshoe didn’t have much to do with the boat drivers but we all thought it was funny that they had such a hard time understanding that when they put a Allison TF-30 jet engine in the bowels of a ship they were going to have to have a way of getting it out and unstacking it for maintenance. I think the fix was cutting a hole in the air plenum and welding eyes and rails all up the way from the engine room and just winching it up.