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?

I’d rather be Mrs Vance than Mrs No Idea Keir .

Repulses a few gobby hair shirt communists. . For an increasing number of people who see the UK collapsing around them maybe there needs to be another way .

My new favourite comment 🤣

Luckily for you, you won’t have much competition 🤣

For now! Plenty of anti abortion money flowing into the UK. We can't be complacent.

Well, Usha, if you could tell your husband to go and play minigolf in the rain, buy fudge, and get in an argument about whether or not the kids can go on the trampolines rather than meeting right wing politicians, making statements about our laws, and bothering the locals with your cavalcade, the 'family holiday in Britain' schtick would be more convincing. Ta.

I think being vice president to a misogynistic rapist is pretty nasty, tbh.

Oh stop gaslighting, most Brits despise him

JD Vance is less liked among the UK public than Donald Trump, Sir Keir Starmer or any other major UK politician, a new poll shared with Sky News has found.

Just 14% of the British public have a favourable view of the US vice president, compared with 21% for Mr Trump and 29% for the prime minister and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage

https://news.sky.com/story/jd-vance-even-less-popular-with-brits-than-donald-trump-new-polls-shows-13335490

As someone who has lived in the US, I’d say it’s more shocking how little many Americans know about the rest of the world, and how blind they are to how quickly their freedoms are being eroded by an autocratic government.

What confuses Americans is our lack of constitution, and an inability to understand the differences between a young country that has a prescribed constitution, and a much older country where the starting point was do what you like, unless it was outlawed. In the US, the constitution sets out what they can do and what your rights are - though as can be seen the government is happy to ride roughshod over that, with no meaningful protection for citizens when that happens. For us, without a formal constitution, we can do anything, unless it’s actually illegal. Now, that leads to differences and court cases and an evolution of law. But I’d rather live in a country where everything is allowed, unless it’s not, than a country that only allows you to do what they say, and can override that with impunity.

It’s best summarised as most of the developed European countries having a framework which gives us freedom from things. Where as the developing US has a framework which is a freedom to do things ;)

I’ll tell you what shocks us….you elected a paedophile, racist, illiterate rapist as President.

Farage can fuck the fuck off with that one.
and NRA money coming in to roll back our gun laws

We have freedom of expression.

So in the USA I can call someone a racial slur all day and get away with it, because it is free speech. In the UK it crosses a line into a crime.

I don't understand why the USA is so obsessed with wanting to call people names.

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Vance said we have no freedom of speech so people are showing him what our laws allow.

In the main we do. We also have access to abortions and socialised health care so win win. 👍

Reform are consistently riding high in the polls and people are Demonstrating in the streets . This government is hated .

We had one school shooting in the early 90s.

What has American done about school shootings? Why they teach small children active shooter drills. Sounds much better than the UK 😑

@CharmingDryad

can you explain why we don’t?

Reform couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, so the polls currently don't matter, and everyone in power knows it.

Unless they can magic 300 great candidates from this air to fight the next election - remember how many of the ones who stood were AI pictures with no discernible history of ever having been human beings 🤣 - AND their glorious leader can muster up the energy to do some fucking work, they are nowhere.

I’m really hoping it’s just a small percentage of overall population who feel that way. Most of the people protesting can’t afford to vote reform. They can’t afford the healthcare costs if they got in.

i know people are angry and need change. But you can’t undo 14 years of austerity in a year.

This in spades, Vance can fuck right off home and if we never see him or his puppet master on British soil again then that will be fantastic.

And that is not OK. Non citizens aren't afforded due process either, in direct contravention of the Constitution. Maybe you shouldn't throw stones until you've sorted out your glass house. And while you're at it, remove that beam from your eye.

Don't be silly, isn't your president suing people for criticising him?

Yet a lot of MNers have previously made a lot of noise about voting for labout in the last election and how they had always done so, stable door bolted.
I don't vote as all the parties are shit in one way or another.

Oh behave and stop agitating.

As a Christian I agree with you. No one should be harassing women and staff of either sex outside clinics and then claiming it is prayer.

Communists!! Have we travelled back in time to McCarthyism and the 'Reds under the beds' scare?

JD Vance is a toxic, God bothering hypocrite with repellent right-wing views. He is happy to stir up anti-immigrant hate despite being married to the daughter of Indian immigrants. He openly despises the UK so I don't know why he wants to holiday here.