Vance Derangement Syndrome Emerges from the Fevered Swamps of Trump Derangement Syndrome
Protestors were carrying signs that called the vice president a “traitor,” a “Putin puppet,” and a “national disgrace.” One angry protestor carried a sign that told Vance “to go ski in Russia.”
Could it be that Vance Derangement Syndrome may one day eclipse the world-wide pandemic of Trump Derangement Syndrome? Very possibly. Democrats are resigned to another four years of President Donald Trump and they know he can’t run again. But according to a straw poll taken last Saturday at CPAC, Vice President J.D. Vance is the runaway favorite to win the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. And that makes him the number one target of the Left.
📊@CPAC STRAW POLL RESULT: When asked who they think should be the 2028 Republican nominee for president, CPAC attendees chose Vice President @JDVance.
JD Vance – 61%
Steve Bannon – 12%
Ron DeSantis – 7%
Marco Rubio – 3%
Elise Stefanik – 3%
Donald Trump Jr. – 2%
Tulsi Gabbard -… pic.twitter.com/rrefVnuzgN— CPAC (@CPAC) February 22, 2025
Vance is shaping up to be the most powerful vice president in modern memory. So much so, in fact, that he’s already making enemies—particularly after his fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference last month where he took EU leaders to task for their suppression of free speech and a whole host of other sins.
Vice President @JDVance: “When President Trump talks about the need to bring peace, whether it’s in Russia and Ukraine or in the Middle East, we have to recognize that as a policy oriented toward saving lives and carrying out one of Christ's most important Commandments.” pic.twitter.com/0FB4Q5xFVz
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) February 28, 2025
There is no doubt that the Left’s animus toward Vance deepened after his public dressing down of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during Friday’s now-infamous Oval Office meeting. As unbelievable as it sounds, one X user predicts that, ultimately, Vance Derangement Syndrome will be ten times worse than Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Vance Derangement Syndrome will be 10X worse than TDS https://t.co/zWKd5NSqc7
— Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry (@pegobry_en) March 1, 2025
There may be something to it. As Vance arrived with his family for a weekend of skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Waitsfield, Vermont, on Saturday, hundreds of pro-Ukrainian demonstrators lined the street leading toward the mountain. They were waving Ukrainian and transgender pride flags and carrying signs that called the vice president a “traitor,” a “Putin puppet,” and a “national disgrace.” One angry protestor carried a sign that told Vance “to go ski in Russia.”
A source told Fox News that protestors appeared near the slopes where the Vances were skiing.
The New York Post reported that some “even camped out by a ski-lift near where they thought the Vances were skiing.”
According to the Post, Vermont Republican Governor Phil Scott allegedly “urged protesters to take into consideration that Vance would be traveling to the state.”
In a Thursday statement, the governor said, “I hope Vermonters remember the Vice President is here on a family trip with his young children and, while we may not always agree, we should be respectful. Please join me in welcoming them to Vermont, and hoping they have an opportunity to experience what makes our state, and Vermonters, so special.”
Pro-Ukraine protesters, armed with Ukraine flags and transgender pride flags, gathered in Vermont where JD Vance and his family were vacationing. It’s always the same people. pic.twitter.com/pjrWekzah2
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 1, 2025
A second source told Fox that the Vances had planned to “stay at a four-star inn near the resort, but that they moved to an undisclosed location instead, though that decision preceded the protests.”
The Guardian reported that the protest had been planned before Friday’s diplomatic debacle “by the Mad River Valley chapter of Indivisible, a grassroots group, but additional protesters said they were motivated to join after watching Vance and Trump’s combative Oval Office meeting.”
Indivisible is a “grassroots group” like the Democratic Party operatives who recently showed up at House Republican town halls and outside lawmakers’ district offices pretending to be outraged Republican constituents, were a “grassroots group.” Few people are buying it.
This is a paid for protest! There are NEVER this many people in this small remote town.
— Jammles (@jammles9) March 1, 2025
Friday’s diplomatic debacle prompted additional pro-Ukraine protests on Saturday in New York City’s Times Square, in front of a SpaceX facility in Los Angeles County, and at an “emergency rally” for “fair peace” at Boston Common, as per the Guardian.
Americans are showing up in huge numbers in Time Square in support of President Zelensky and Ukraine.
Trump awoke a monster.
The world really does seem to stand with Ukraine over Trump. pic.twitter.com/KsDYHZu3gD
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 2, 2025
– "Zelensky is a hero!"
According to media reports, a rally in support of #Ukraine is taking place in New York near the #Tesla showroom. pic.twitter.com/swsppmPwrr
— Let's make the russians poor! (@KorsasErik) March 1, 2025
For a vice president to provoke such a strong reaction from Democrats is remarkable. In some ways, J.D. Vance is even more formidable than Trump. People expect Trump to be boorish and overbearing, but Vance’s polished demeanor masks his sharp wit, keen intellect, and, yes, his killer instinct. He thinks on his feet, leaves far-left talk show hosts in a state of consternation, and his debate opponents, utterly deflated.
Yes, it’s entirely plausible that, after a few more speeches like the one he delivered in Munich or another pointed rebuke like the one he gave Zelensky, the incidence of Vance Derangement Syndrome could one day surpass that of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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They’re just getting ahead of the curve — in 2028 they’ll be telling us Vance is the next Hitler and demanding a return to reasonable Republicans like the Bushes and Trump. It’s the same playbook, everytime.
In 2028: “Trump was a business man who worked on getting deals done, unlike Vance who’s an ultra hardcore conservative and unreasonable.”
I don’t think so. They will just be making fun of Vance. Humor is much more effective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU
You’re right. We’ll be laughing at whatever joke of a candidate the Dems run. Kamala, pritzker, newsom. All pathetic losers.
They already are calling him Hitler. One of the signs said Vance was a Nazi.
Like everyone Stalin hated, he called a fascist. Weird.
Vance Derangement Syndrome is a sure sign of his merit. The past month has been very entertaining, I am certain that things will be even more entertaining going ahead.
No one surpasses Trump
But Vance is proving to be a most excellent VP
And hopefully Trumps successor
Vance is the best life insurance for Trump. A VP that the Left fears more.
Hopefully Vance with be 2 terms, giving 12 years total to root out all of Deep State and get rid of all RINOs.
This is what happens when you fail to kiss Zelensky’s butt.
No, when you tell the leeches they have to go. The useful idiots are being told to be angry so as to protect the grift.
How do you get on a liberal’s bad side?
Criticize any one of the following:
a. Palestinians
b. Waste/Fraud/Abuse
c. DEI
d. Zelensky
“Americans are showing up in huge numbers in Time Square in support of President Zelensky and Ukraine.”
Any group in Times Square smaller than the New Year’s Eve crowd is a miniscule sampling of New Yorkers, and says nothing about the rest of the country.
If they support Ukraine, they should show it by their actions. Pass the hat. Give generously. I’m sure it will be a large amount. Then turn it over to Hunter Biden and let him deliver it.
Or they could get over to JFK or LaGuardia and get a flight to Ukraine so they can join the fight. They could arrive in time to participate in the Spring offensive….but they won’t b/c they don’t really believe their own BS.
Pretty sure the only Spring Offensive in the works will be Russian.
Well …most them probably catch v pitch so they’ll be familiar with their assigned role in the upcoming process this Spring.
If the war continues, over time, going to Ukraine could become an annual pilgrimage like going to Mecca or something.
Actually there is an annual pilgrimage to Uman, which is in the Ukraine. In Soviet days, when Uman was a closed military zone and pilgrims risked arrest and possible death, there were a few dozen dedicated people who went anyway. Once travel became possible it boomed to a festival of over 10,000 people.
Since the war started the Ukrainian government and those of neighboring countries have been trying hard to discourage it, including by closing borders, but each year thousands have braved it anyway, putting up with all the hardship that is put in their way as well as the risk from Russian bombs or drones.
Well, Vance has been to Ukraine, because he went there on Google Maps. So he’s got cred.
When are you headed over to Ukraine to join the fight, Junior?
Vance has no need to go to Ukraine to demonstrate the sincerity of his position. He, like Trump and the vast majority of US Citizens, don’t see any obligation for the USA to send more $ and no US Military forces to fight a war.
Those who take up the opposite tack, such as yourself, are more than welcome to demonstrate the sincerity of your own words by going to the front. Please let us know when you depart and we’ll be sure to keep you in our thoughts/prayers. I suspect you are unwilling to do so.
If they support Ukraine, then volunteer to go fight in the trenches. Tell these fools that they can go make a stand against Trump and Putin and continue the forever war. Use the monies we pull from the UN and load them up on busses and fly them to the conflict. Maybe just tell them you are going to where you can really make a difference.
Why anyone would protest to stop a peace process to end this carnage is unexplainable other than blind obedience to a globalist ideology. WWI trench warfare forever.
After Zelenky left Washington, he went to the UK and they gave him a LOAN to help fight the unwinnable war and so the killing can continue a little longer.
Only Trump can negotiate a peace settlement.
A pittance of a loan, too. At the rate they’ve burned through OUR money, $2.5 billion won’t even last a weak.
Nothing terrifies Democrats like a competent opponent achieving a position to deny them their graft,
I guess they should have gone to the polls and voted for Kamala. Oh they did and she still lost? Oh well. Guess the only opinion poll that actually matters said people feel otherwise.
Democratitis…newest form of mental illness. No known cure nor is one being sought.
“Vance Derangement Syndrome will be ten times worse than Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
I really don’t care, Margaret.
Vance seems like a rhetorical moron to me. He’s too young to know that if you use the moral high ground, you don’t have it.
Maybe he’s talking to an audience younger than he is, that is to say, more moronic.
And no one knows moronic like you…
Rhetorical moron? Uh-huh, compared to who, pray tell, Cicero?
Now do zelensky trying and failing to claim the moral high ground.
I suppose it’s possible that Vance is a rhetorical moron. However, he’s most certainly not an ACTUAL moron like you are.
Watch Hillbilly Elegy and you will come to the humbling realization that he’s accomplished more in college than you have with your entire life.
I haven’t read / seen it, but characterized it once as Vance’s Mein Kampf. There’s another movie opportunity.
A nice accomplishment movie, In Harmony (2015), which I think is free on Prime, if you’re interested in an alternative taste, call it mature.
Other odd movies to my taste In A Day (2006), Stranger than Fiction (2006), Closed Circuit (2013), Last Chance Harvey (2008). Not a lot of Rocky’s in there.
You’ve obviously read Brain Krampf, amirite?
Kenneth Burke, “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’: in The Philosophy of Literary Form, is a nice analysis.
Remember that time in Meij Kampf when young Adolf fell in love with an Indian woman.
You haven’t read it, but you know enough to slander it?
Just more evidence you’re a dishonest POS who shouldn’t be allowed in polite company.
I would pay good money to see you in a debate with Vance. It would be delicious.
it would be short.
You have lost your marbles. I’m inclined to never even read your post again.
I believe that the people holding anti-Vance signs at the top of your article were in Vermont. Vermont is the State that elected and re-elected Bernie Sanders. It is where socialists go to live among other socialists. If JDV had asked me, I would have advised him to skip VT and avoid it completely in the foreseeable future.
Also screamin Dean’s state
There’s plenty of great skiing in PA. Would have been a nice thank you to the people of PA for continuing to stand by him and his boss.
Give a Marine a mission….
Vance is probably chuckling to himself, “Let those knuckleheads hate me, so long as they fear me too.”
One thing that Elizabeth didn’t mention in her list of Vance’s formidable traits/political skills, is his natural affability and charm. You simply cannot fake that persona. Vance is a genuinely nice and personable guy, with intellect and political skills to match. In short, an all-star.
Biden was sharp as a tack. The laptop was fake. Trump is Hitler. The list is endless. Scream louder, please, and show everyone how hateful you are as you feign care for people, democracy, the list is endless. Frauds, the whole bunch, who would be persecuting for real if they had the opportunity, but now are being exposed. Bring it on!
It will be funny when they start blowing gaskets, hear attacks, brain bleeds, other aneurisms, flipping out-padded room.
Vance-Butker 2028.
Even if that were a good idea, Butker won’t be eligible until mid-2030.
Vice President Vance first came upon my radar when he was a regular guest on the “Tucker Carlson Tonight” show. I assume the same occurred for President Trump. Weeks ago I predicted “VDS” because piling the BS on Trump is pointless; whereas 4 years of piling on Vice President Vance (VPV) might help a hopeless situation or at least ease the pain of Democratisis.
To paraphrase an old WWII saying: “Flack is heaviest when you are over the target”
It could even be advantageous for Vance to stay as the VP pick for another candidate in 2028.
By then indie voters would be numb to the years of VDS the water-carriers would feel compelled to keep churning out, while the head of the ticket (like say DeSantis) can run on his record and enjoy some cover from the mudslinging.
No
Flak. Flack is something else.
Targeting Vance is fine. He’s a big boy. He can take it. Usha I’m sure will develop thick enough skin to deflect the insults as well. But it’s unconscionable for them to do this when he’s with his young children.
I’m so old I remember being told “the children” (Hunter Biden) were off limits.
Vance – #2 on the world’s most punchable face. WE all know who #1 is
Let’s review shall we. Vance said Trump was unfit for office. But then said he ‘changed his mind. But since he said that, ‘the moron’ was: 1) found liable for committing fraud in Ny. 2) indicted for mis-handling classified documents with a mountain of credible evidence to back it up 3) indicted by a grand jury in GA for asking the Sec of State to ‘find 11,000+ votes 4) continually lying about election fraud cause=ing a bunch of MORONS to raid the Capitol. So —the question is- are these the things that changed yout mind??
“WE all know who #1 is”
Yes, WE do. You.
I dunno. Biden and Obama are pretty high up there. And fauci.
So much derangement… 1) by illegally changing one law and creatively reinterpreting several others; 2) as a former President, he was entitled to possess those documents; 3) never happened, according to testimony of everyone involved; 4) multiple cases of fraud have already been proven and there is credible evidence for even more. And there was no “raid”, except in the fevered imaginations of the Left.
signs of a cult.
A belief that the leader is right at all times
A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation.
Congrats – you’re in !!! You get free TRump Bible and red hat!!! But I’m sure you already own both. LAFFRIOT
“signs of a cult.”
A belief that the leader is right at all times
— Biden is sharp as a tack!
— Kamala ran a flawless campaign!
A belief that the leader is the exclusive means of knowing “truth” or giving validation.
— doubt Biden/Harris? misinformation! deep fakes! white fragility!
— cut your Trumper family out of your life, it’s the only way!
— safe spaces!
— words are violence and so is silence! Naziiiiiiiiis! cancel! deplatform!
Oh, look — the village idiot, dunce, poser, fake, loon, dim-witted clown, is back.
Moron, at least you’re finally wearing your dunce cap, as I’ve repeatedly admonished you to do.
Progress!
The only fraud found in the New York case was committed by the prosecutor and judge.
should be eady to overturn on appeal then. Oh wait!….Laffriot…
So far- amount of judgments/verdicts against Trump that have been overturned??
ZERO POINT ZERO. …..LAFFRIOT
There hasn’t been time to overturn them. And if you haven’t noticed, he’s been busy. But the judgments, all three of them, are so patently and obviously ridiculous that no fair-minded person pays them the slightest attention. They would certainly not incline any fair-minded person who would otherwise have voted for him to vote against him instead.
Pace yourself, loser. You have 4 years of impotent crying ahead of you, if you don’t delete yourself first.
And yet a majority of Americans felt he was better than Joe and Kamala. So he’s your President for the next four years. And there’s absolutely nothing you can do about it. Enjoy!
Many people thought Trump was unfit for office. On paper, he certainly was. But in 2016 his opponent was even more unfit, so that canceled out.
Then he had four years in which to show what sort of president he could be despite all his flaws, and that turned out to be a pretty good one. So any fair-minded people who had been against him in 2016 changed their minds by 2020. Those who didn’t were generally those who weren’t really against him for his flaws, but for his good points.
Real people don’t give a shit about “found liable. What real people care about is whether he did commit fraud, not whether he was “found liable” for it. And the answer is that he didn’t.
“Indicted” by two crooked so-called prosecutors, one of whom was not even validly appointed, the other was exposed as corrupt and a moron, as well as a whore, both of whom were corruptly colluding with the Biden White House. In addition the GA indictment was for things that aren’t even crimes.
And you can lose those phony scare quotes around “find”. Trump asked Raffensperger to find those 11,000 votes, not to “find” them. He had every right to ask that, it was a completely reasonable and honest request. Putting scare quotes around “find” is just a scurrilous and completely dishonest attempt to create scandal where none exists.
A moron is someone who thinks “cause=ing” is a word. Trump was not lying, and the protest at the Capitol was almost entirely peaceful. There was no attempt to murder Pence or anyone else, the protesters killed no one, and did far less damage than any of the protests that you and your entire party supported so strongly.
that is a cult response if ever there was one.
Beliefs Unquestioning faith, Unusual or extreme beliefs, Fear of the outside world, and Belief that the group or leader is always right.
Right between the eyes.
If Americans believed your version of the law fare against Trump, they would not have voted for him. We don’t believe your version. Wake up and smell the coffee.
I’m betting that Vance becomes President in January ’27 after Trump resigns.
Why would Trump resign?
It’s a theory. If Trump resigns with less than 2 years left in his term, the VP serves out the rest of the term *and* is eligible to be elected two more times, for a total of 9-10 years in office. Still, in politics you can’t reliably look ahead more than a month or two. Three years is right out.
Yeah, I don’t see Trump resigning short of some sort of major health issue. It’s simply not in his nature. On the other hand, I don’t think he’s going to stuff Vance in a closet like most Presidents do with their VPs. We’re going to be seeing a lot more of JD, so brace yourself for more VDS-fueled meltdowns from the left.
Not sure how many of y’all have been to Sugarbush, but the predominant license plate in the parking lots says Empire State on it.
Trump Derangement Syndrome, Vance Derangement Syndrome, and Musk Derangement Syndrome are mere manifestations of the far more severe Sh*tlib Derangement Syndrome.
Sugerbush is in Warren not Waitsfield but Waitsfield is bigger and just 5 miles or so away. It also has a population of under 2,000. This was an astro turf “protest” of Massholes.
If you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.
Vance Derangement Syndrome? So the new term du jour is VDS? Does that mean the Dimocrats have VDs? One infection is bad enough. I can’t imagine two or more.
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I read a posting in POWDER about the protest of Vermonters at the Sugarbush Ski Resort. The article was very careful to mention Vance, and Vance alone. You’d never know he was there with his wife and three young children, 7, 5, and 3. The protests took place in front of the ski resort and in front of the lodge the family was staying at, as well as individuals taking it upon themselves to harass Vance on the slopes. Powder.com supports the protests, which were centrrrd around fury at cut backs to the National Park System, because Sugarbush is located in the midst of a park, and their poor mountain might collapse without the NPS staff holding it up … or something like that, in the meantime, Sugarbush has just been outed as a No Republican or Trump supporter resort. Great PR.
Vance made an utter fool of himself. He started a fight in front of their made up audience to try to humiliate Zelensky. Instead, He and his handler made fools of themselves and shocked the world.
They did Zelensky a huge favor throwing him out of the WH.
That is a long way from derangement.
Zelesnky has come back, with conciliatory language adn allowing Trump to mitigate some of the long term effects he has put in train. The best thing Trump can do in the future is keep that vile ex-Marine away from international relations.
Zelensky has done nothing like groveling, and never will.