@TheDailyBurble
It's not looking great, is it? There are formal investigations in 7 European countries so maybe one of them will crack the case and work out that it's a huge sex abuse ring.

@TheDailyBurble
It seems that way. We don't know where these investigations will lead so we have to just wait and hope. If they don't lead to justice for the abuse victims we have failed.

"The debt that we owe to Virginia Giuffre, her courage, her strength in telling this story, it IS why we are here now.

It's just a terrible, terrible indictment that it wasn't because a woman's word was sufficient for this investigation to take place."

Carole Cadwalladr.

#EpsteinFiles

@MissConstrue
I think the Italians must pity him rather than despise him. JD Vance's whole life is a cultural desert.

@Wyatt_H_Knott
I was just thinking about that earlier. He doesn't have any luck with winter sports. I remember the signs. JD Vance skis in jeans!

@Wyatt_H_Knott
Well, of course. In Europe, where we measure the success of a politician by how much they can be seen in public without getting boo'd, Vance is an abject failure. Don't care how many cars he's got.

@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.

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

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.

@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.

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

@jcrabapple @pthane
You're fighting your corner and I can respect that. But that's only because I'm not Italian.

@AngelaScholder
It's not WTF! It's KFC!

@patrick
Well, yes, that's the serious answer. I prefer to imagine a plane full of KFC buckets.

@cybso

@jcrabapple @pthane
The fact is once you put pineapple on a pizza it stops being pizza and turns into Italian style American hot bread. Sorry, but I don't make the rules...

@mason
Of course, this wouldn't even make a very long list of terrible things Vance has done so. But as a food lover it blew my mind.

@jcrabapple @pthane
That's controversial, to say the least.

@Ladylullabunk
Yes, or he thinks they will refuse to put pineapple on his pizza.

@pthane
You know JD Vance puts pineapple on his pizza.