To not understand the JD Vance weird face meme all over the Cotswolds?

[BlueJuniper94]

So I understand he is not popular and has recently been holidaying in the Cotswolds. But I don't understand this big exaggerated AI face some group has been putting on billboards and driving around.

Firstly, are they mocking his appearance? That's not very nice, no matter what someone's politics are, their actions should be the target not what they look like.

And if it is about his remarks about free speech - again, I really don't understand how this image "owns" him, he's a foreign politician. UK gov aren't going to care about that, wouldn't it make sense to prove the point by criticising power that is actually British?

Fill me in please, I don't understand - what am I missing?

Someone wasn’t allowed in the USA because they posted that meme face.
he apparently hates it.

he called the uk an irrelevant country. Yet wanted to holiday here
he said we don’t have free speech.
He shut down an entire village with an entourage larger than the kings.
He stopped people getting freely to their homes and having visitors.
he had meetings with political far right figures on his supposed holiday.
his (not so) secret service knocked on doors asking for people’s social media handles.

It's a protest. The image is unpleasant but someone having it on their phone and being disallowed entry into the US is extremely authoritarian. For the VP of the US to say we don't have free speech: well, we do, mostly (unless you want to criticise the Israeli state but that's a different matter) and they are heading towards not having it - so people are protesting.

He is an awful, awful man btw. It goes far beyond 'not popular'.

I thought it was Jack Osbourne.

Did his people really knock on locals' doors? Did people refuse to give the details? I hope so.

Yes. They did. Reportedly some told them to fuck off.

J D Vance is actively attacking the UK politically, people can and should protest that. The Trump administration is hypocritical to its core.

Good for them. Free enough speech for him, I hope.

You really don’t have free speech in the UK though. It’s shocking to us Americans.

Oh bore off, you have no idea. This rhetoric is straight out of the Vance playbook. More fool you for believing it.

That's OK, sweetie. We're happy for you to stay away.

Yeah I don’t get it either OP. Is he overseeing the admission of individual tourists himself depending on whether they like a meme of him that “he hates”?
The BBC says “A Norwegian tourist says he was denied entry into the US after immigration agents took issue with a meme of Vice President JD Vance on his phone.
US Homeland Security officials say he was turned away for admitting drug use.”
I’d understand a local protest if he’s being a pain in the arse to locals. I understand why people might not approve of his beliefs and policies, but people’s loathing of him and DJT is beyond disagreeing, it’s its own thing.

As a 62 year old Brit, I've never found anything that I wanted to say to be banned. I've been free to insult whoever I like for 6 decades.

If you mean I can't stand and pray outside an abortion clinic. Good! Fantastic!.

Having been a clinic service user, the last thing I needed on a difficult day was some religious weirdo trying to interfere in my decision making. We have an abundance of beautiful churches to pray in.

I saw a video yesterday of a man arrested for walking home in the snow.

Keep your shock to your own country.

Please don't make us laugh so hard so early in the day. Pop off and ask Stephen Colbert about free speech in USA. Land of the Free -bie tor Trump and Co.

I didn’t even know he said that until this thread. It’s simply a fact that UK law allows much more leeway to punish speech that threatens the “public order.” See the treatment of feminists in recent years in the UK.

People are nasty . The guys on holiday with his family .

Agreed . We are becoming more and more censored by the left .

what was he arrested for? I haven’t read this story.

I'm sure most of the U.k doesn't give a fuck about Vance or Trump.
America is welcome to the knob twins,
I'm sorry for the poor peeps who didn't want tango man in office.

@hattie
JD Vance is the nasty one! Are you Mrs Vance?

Hardly, motorcades, knocking on doors and being knobbish about the UK, he can fuck off home as soon as he likes.

Unfortunately we have to give a fuck, because they are interfering in our politics. It would be great if we could all just watch the shit show from a distance.

He did yeap.
And called the UK a random country, apparently forgetting UK has fought some wars by the side of US.
He also said Zelensky had not said thank you.... same meeting where an idiot standing by Vance asked Zelensky why he was not wearing a suit.....
Also, being caught as saying he does not want to help Europe/ UK to deal with their problems or do their job for them, regarding the leaked communication amongst top politicians in US just before a planned attack on the Houthis of Yemen.

We do have reasons not to like this guy.
Have you seen how US citizens "welcomed" him on his skiing vacacion just after the Zelensky drama!

Firstly, are they mocking his appearance? That's not very nice, no matter what someone's politics are, their actions should be the target not what they look like.

Are you aware of the comments Trump regularly makes on the appearance of others? Or the misogynistic regressive beliefs on women from MAGA in general?

He can dish it out well enough, I'm sure he can cope. It's nothing compared to how South Park treated him, and he took that as a compliment.

Quite right.