JD Vance visits Milan, Italy

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  From a security perspective, these only serve to create an extensive roadblock. Disable one in front, one in rear, and you’ve got them kettled.

  Whoever came up with this idea should be fired.

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  • TheRealKuni@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neo has a really good video on the presidential motorcade and how it works. It is absurd in a place like Milan, certainly, but every part of it is there for a reason.

    Here is that video on Nebula

    And here it is on YouTube

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      One size doesn’t fit all.

      Moreover, the president is getting the treatment of a king. They are ostensibly fungible assets. There’s a succession plan. The more they’re protected, the more they’re a target (and invading foreign countries doesn’t help).

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    • coaxil@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was a very interesting video, thanks for the share

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Disable one in front, one in rear, and you’ve got them kettled.

    Loads RPG

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the secret service wants to know your location.

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    • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I had the same impulse when seeing that convoy. I think there should be enough stuff from the war in ex-yugoslavia floating around, and with the current political climate there shouldn’t be an issue finding 50-100 people to place on rooftops.

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  • ageedizzle@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I guess from a security perspective it also helps to obfuscate Vance’s whereabouts. It’s difficult to know which one of the 40 vehicles he’s actually in.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Obfuscation is part of the motorcade, but not to the extent you would think. The motorcade has two presidential limos, and the POTUS is typically put in one while the VP is put in the other. The order is random. The idea being that if you manage to bomb one, you’d only get one of the two, and you’d have no way of knowing which one you got until after the fact. And that’s assuming the bomb is even effective, because the presidential limos have RPG-proof windows and heavy armored plating underneath the body panels.

      Most of the motorcade is focused on things like landmine detection, biological weapon detection, chemical weapon detection, standby security forces in case they need to fan out/circle the wagons and create a secure perimeter, monitoring local radio chatter, etc…

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    • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only the first two vehicles show signs of armouring. I don’t think that all this theatrics would happen and then not put the cargo in the armoured car.

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      the one with the softest leather…

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s them applying the same stray as in the US even though they are in Milan and the roads are twice as narrow.

    I suppose they think there is so many cars it would be hard to know in which the couch fucker is. But still you are correct to say that convoy could be easily completely blocked. And in that case you could have an army to defend it it would be a very bad situation.

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  • RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Or given a raise if something happened.

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  • Marthirial@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unless you are not in America, being surprise at the incompetence and stupidity of these fuckers in power is unacceptable.

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• Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  His charade parade likely cost an American figure skater a gold medal. The traffic jam his ego created delayed her arrival to the venue so much she had to skip her entire warmup.

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• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Supposedly he brought his own food with him to Italy. Why would anyone bring American food to fucking Italy

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  • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because he thinks someone will try to poison him. The Stalinist paranoia has set in.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is it really paranoia if its a very credible realistic fear?

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    • Mirshe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like father, like son. Part of why Trump eats so shitty is the same fear.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s probably some Secret Service thing, because the threat of poisoning is actually real. In America, the Secret Service goes to great lengths to vet potential restaurant stops wherever the POTUS/VP is going to be. But they don’t exactly have jurisdiction to do that when they’re in another country.

    Notably, Trump’s love of fast food has made the Secret Service’s job extremely frustrating… He apparently has a tendency to just spontaneously demand a drive-thru stop, giving the Secret Service no time to actually run security checks on the staff ahead of time.

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    • Sasquatch@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah but that means those fast food places don’t have a chance to prep the poison, either🧠🧠

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I wonder how much piss, shit, and semen Trump gets on a regular basis from these spontaneous McDonald’s stops. 🤔

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I doubt he eats that much of the fast food himself, and that it’s more of a public image thing, he wants to look like he’s eating it.

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the olive garden breadsticks are FREE

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Btw, did taste-testing ever truly help? Only a small part of the potato salad can be poisoned…

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• UnspecificGravity@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This stupid spectacle is deliberate because the US is so fucking important, and stupid.

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• LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Gee they sure are scared. Wonder why? Aren’t they the good guys doing good things around the world to help people and uphold justice and international law and ot kt otowom etenec, I e jo2okt to hh6bhbdm:h;hi$$+!!

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Were you abducted while typing this?

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    • LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Keep being scared little piggy!

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• 1stQ@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lots of big black vehicles…
  Those are the villains of this movie, right?

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• kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One IED and that fuck is gone.

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  • ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see you there wanting me to upvote this, but I won’t because reddit banned me for much less

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    • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This ain’t Reddit

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This isn’t reddit anc I wish JD vance a happy IED eating

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      May we ask some of what you were banned for? Just voting or comments? I always drop accounts after a 2nd violation so I don’t get permabanned but want to quit completely as their violations are usually not against the rules, and often I think for other reasons, dishonest.

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    • bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t heard of lemmus, but if they ban you for that you just need to find a different instance!

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure the other 39 cars will be a lot of help.

    You wouldn’t even need to bother with the bomb, just shoot him when he gets out of the car his smug face is a pretty big target.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sigh… reminds me I have to file my US tax returns.

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• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “I told you… (deep breath) they all need to have BENCH SEATS in the REAR! WHAT the FUCK do I PAY YOU PEOPLE FOR???”

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, they’re just scared. Their whole system runs on fear.

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• Formfiller@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Boooooooooooooooooooo

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  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Boooooo!!! Go back to your couch!!!

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• febra@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So much European taxpayer money wasted on a fleet of pedophile protectors. Stop welcoming them here.

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• PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Jesus, these Italians oughtta do something about this shitfuck traffic.”

  “Sir, the motorcade is quite literally 100% of the traffic in the city.”

  “It’s only 40 cars, why can’t they build us a 40 lane road? Is this not a first world Christian nation?”

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• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Spreading freedom uh democracy uh unnavigable traffic! It’s cute that they brought some gridlock from home so that the Americans would feel at home.

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• floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, some of them believe they have the authority to use their siren and act like Italian police, almost causing an incident in the process.

  I’m sure everything will turn out well.

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is Just Dumb taking another family vacation? Looks like something straight out of Chechnya.

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• Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No problem, just blow up all 40.

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• Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What a bullshit…i hope some crazy dude does something, what? Who know

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• Swordless_Dante@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Isn’t 40 cars too few? I mean, he could have at least taken 90 🌚

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I bet italian people feel so honored by his visit

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Italy is run by a Fascist party, and Fascism is doing well.

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    nbcnews.com/…/italy-fascist-salute-rome-rally-acc…

    That was just over a year ago.

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    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We have a fascism return in different part of Europe, but it looks more like a meme return than something really that dangerous. We have prove that USA artificially financed these extreme right-wing parties thru Bennon, an Epstein friend.

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    • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Italian People = Facist?

      well US people = Facist?

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• umbraroze@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope the locals were like “I didn’t know which car to boo for, so I booed to all of them”

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  its costed 10 million for all of this.

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Doge didn’t see anything

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• birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Compensation car for a Clansman.

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• ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There is a war lord from my country who has been the head of parliament for at least 30 years who used to send out a huge convoy of cars and security only to be driving himself in an old busted up car. I don’t know if that’s true, it could have been a rumour. Also I hope the couch fucker tries to fuck a folding couch and it snaps his little sausage off.

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• ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He needed this many so that Italy wouldn’t try hanging him

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  • _Nico198X_@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wish. Meloni can’t help sucking up to them.

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If he wanted to bring his sofa harem with him, he should have rented a truck.

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• recked_wralph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait. Are these motorcades just staged and ready in every country they might visit? Or do they fly the vehicles ahead of them?

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  • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They are flown ahead of the visit. I’m sure there are multiple fleets and perhaps a few doted around the country for frequent visits at NY, camp David or maralargo. But for other countries it’s a fly in and fly out.

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    • recked_wralph@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Insane

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• Philharmonic3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The california tropics, often shortened to just cal trops, are so easy to make and fun to play with in the street!

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• BlushedPotatoPlayers@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Meanwhile the pope was okay with a Fiat 500

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