JD Vance's entourage to the Olympics came over in 14 planes, with 1 plane entirely full of food supplies.

@wesdym No joke here. I was stating the obvious. I may have said: "could have you expected anything different?" That thing of flying a plane of food is playing overwhelmingly the american cliché.

I add that probably also Italians would do the same if they were to go to America, but instead of a plane full of Coca-cola and processed foods (as I prejudicially expect it to be), they would hide spaghetti and tomato sauce within their clothes.

@ProjectFearlessness I agree - it looks redicules to the world - posey, boasty and con man style. @martinvermeer

@arjen
Or maybe fried chicken. But definitely not Tacos!

@ProjectFearlessness @Barbramon1

Seeking some rich Corinthian leather upholstery. Oh baby!

@ProjectFearlessness President Carter took 12 international trips. He used a single Boeing jet, and his security protocol was managed by the Secret Service and the country he visited.

Traveling with an army and armored cars was a Ronny idea. Every president since has increased the payload and number of flying units.

Each one of the planes used by VP Bootlicker McCouchFucker costs at a bare minimum, $200k per hour to operate. That's not the fully loaded big planes that carry the armored vehicles. Those are double the cost.

But we don't have the funding for kids to have school lunches. Ok, sure Jan.

@MissConstrue
Exactly. Here in Europe we can laugh at the ludicrous notion of bringing a plane full of American food to Italy, but we're also angry at the hideous carbon footprint and cost of all this.
I imagine in America it's the same except there is no laughter, just anger.

OK, so JD Vance having a 100 car motorcade travelling through the streets of Milan is one way of projecting political power.

But if he really wanted to impress Europeans he could have just gone and done his own supermarket shopping.

@ProjectFearlessness

Good for Angela Merkel!

"It's a small world, and it smells bad.
I'd buy another, if I had
back, what I paid
for another motherfucker in a motorcade.

One million points of light.
One Billion dollar Vision Thing!"

~ Sisters of Mercy.

Who paid for the goddamn motorcade? Don't say, "the taxpayer".
It was the People's Money. It was Public Funds.
It was money that could have gone to feed the hungry and homeless Americans.
That money was stolen from the common person.

@ProjectFearlessness I always respected Angela Merkel. Would love to stand behind her on line and discuss her plans for those zucchini while we wait.

@ASprinkleofSage @seb321 @ProjectFearlessness Still better than bringing American food to Italy. Just barely.

@ProjectFearlessness I once saw a presidential motorcade in NYC. Seems it's standard practice to have an ambulance at the end. Operating on the assumption that somebody wants to kill or injure the president?

For that reason alone I don't want to be president.

@ProjectFearlessness Upon further thought, if I were VP and could command an international fleet I might bring an empty plane to Italy so I could fly a full load of Italian food to the US.

Not that there isn't some good Italian food made here, but we're talking the REAL THING, made for the Olympics. That's gotta be extra extra!

@ProjectFearlessness

They cannot have nice things. They cannot appreciate them.
They would rather use their tongues to literally & figuratively lick boots. That is how oppressed and cowardly and wicked they are.

@Karen5Lund
I thought the exact same thing! We're on the same level when it comes to the corrupt abuse of power.

@ProjectFearlessness Could Vance’s excessive protection mean a ‘Night of the Long Knives’ is imminent; a purge within MAGA to burry the Epstein problem? #MADMAGA

@Dialectician
Maybe, but I don't know if the two things are connected. All I know is that if I were JD Vance and the last time I went to Italy I killed the Pope, I'd have a ridiculous amount of security too.

@ProjectFearlessness
Re the pineapple on pizza 'controversy'

My dear friend Franco, that runs Franco's my every morning Italian place, has to sit down, clutching his Naples born and bred heart, muttering, "Santa Maria", at the mere mention of such an aberration.

HOWEVER...

Dylan the French born waiter reacted like someone having an allergic attack when he saw that Franco had on display 'Pistachio Croissants'... Ashen faced it was, "Non! Sacre bleu! Abomination! Merde!!!!"

@ProjectFearlessness
As you know, in Vance's world doing the supermarket shopping and the housekeeping are the wife's jobs. His wife will agree. However, I'm almost sure they let a maid do these jobs.

@ProjectFearlessness one airplane per word

@ProjectFearlessness He’d only get lost and horny in DFS.