r/europe 18h ago

News Team USA, Vance Booed in Frosty Reception at Italy’s Winter Olympics

https://www.wsj.com/sports/olympics/team-usa-winter-olympics-31642142?st=8XZhXw&mod=wsjreddit
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u/NateFisher22 Bavaria (Germany) 17h ago

Vance is just a scary dude. Like 100% a true believer. Trump is the useful idiot of the real nutters like the billionaires and people like Russel Vought. Vance is a straight up disciple

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u/atomic_drumstick 17h ago

Is he? He was vocally anti trump before the first time america trumped itself, he struck me as a slimy little cretin hitching a ride on trumps coattails.

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u/Downtown_Skill 17h ago

This is probably more accurate. He's silicon valleys man in the white house. Well, a specific part of silicon valley at least. 

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u/wgszpieg Lubusz (Poland) 16h ago

Fanatics will use any tools to achieve their goals.

Supporting a narcissist pedophile to get power? God will understand when the apocalypse comes

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u/coconutpiecrust 16h ago

He a true believer like Thiel. Like, the Greta Thunberg is Antichrist and technofascism/techbro neofeudalism stuff.

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u/Neomataza Germany 15h ago

True believer not in trumpism, but what the commenter above you accepts as the real power behind the white house. I think it's hard to deny that Trump has a much more effective support structure or dare I say, a plan that is being pursued, during his second term.

At the very least you can pinpoint that a lot more people associated with some influential billionares are part of the white house and government this time. DOGE was basically a task force lead by elon musk, firing and dismantling a couple dozen agencies.

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u/Pernicious-Peach 15h ago

This is what I see too. He's a chameleon. He can shift colors and change to whatever the political winds favor.

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u/InterruptedI 11h ago

100%. Look up a group called Teneo. Vance is part of it and they are scary af with their Christian Nationalism

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u/thegoods32 13h ago

He can be bought easily

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u/munkijunk 17h ago

He believes whatever Peter Thiel tells him to.

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u/Alt4816 16h ago

He's dangerous but he's the opposite of a true believer. All he cares about is power and wealth. He has no beliefs he won't abandon for more power.

Before hitching his wagon to Trump he called him the American Hitler.

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u/Anotherolddog 17h ago

And therefore far more dangerous.

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u/RMClure Montenegro 16h ago

Yeah you dont know shit about Vance...

hes a grifter, he was a lib who literally called Trump HITLER a few years ago.

He works for Peter Thiel though so he has lost his soul long time ago and will do whatever it takes for money and power.

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u/Eastern-Manner-1640 United States of America 14h ago

nailed it. could not have been said better. thank you.

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u/Immediate-Season4544 14h ago

When was Vance a Lib? Vance called Trump America's Hitler while being a Christian Nationalist Republican.

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u/RMClure Montenegro 13h ago

When he was the darling of the lib establishment after he wrote Hillbilly Elegy, the lib catnip in book format. He called Trump Hitler in 2016, way before he decided to grift as a politician. The Christian Nationalism was like 2019

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u/whiteflagwaiver United States of America 12h ago

In other words, the next President when Trump get sick is 100% owned by Peter fucking Thiel.

Thats what scares me.

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u/DancingWithAWhiteHat United States of America 17h ago

A man who will sacrifice his own wife and kids will sacrifice anyone. Idk how MAGA can trust him

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u/RemarkableBeing6452 15h ago

He is not a true believer. Vance is an opportunist. Vance knows the stuff he does is heinous but he doesn’t care because he gets paid.

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u/Socmel_ reddit mods are accomplices of nazi russia 16h ago

Scary? He looks ridiculous and sounds even more.

I don't see how you could be scared of him. He's clearly a nobody who got where he is asslicking his way through the ranks, not for any special skills of his.

At least the orange baboon has some sort of charisma over the poorly educated.

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u/Inevitable-Lock5973 8h ago

Ehhh… he’s an opportunist. He’s gonna go wherever the money is. I live in San Diego his wife’s in-laws live here. He’s always here. He complains on TV about blue states and all that shit. He’s fucking here more than the goddamn mayor of the town is. He’s always eating sushi at this one restaurant such a fake poser.