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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This might be a DCUM first...no MAGAs have come hear to defend Vance putting the "V" in vacation. He and his wife are disgusting humans. [/quote]

Nah.  Just opened this for the first time.

We are ignoring all your whiny threads about Vance and Trump and anyone else in this administration.

After watching Biden take 3 or 4 day "work weeks" (and we question how much he was truly working) and the liberals not say one damned thing about his lack of work ethic and his weekly vacations at the beach and elsewhere, I don't care how many times Trump golfs, or where Vance goes or what he does when he makes his trips.  Things are actually getting done in this administration.  [/quote]

The mental gymnastics you people can do to defend this administration should be an Olympic sport. It is truly impressive.

I asked ChatGPT to compare Trump and Biden days off plus travel expenses. Here’s a short summary of what it said. Yes, I know it is not always accurate, so feel free to fact check.

“When comparing Biden and Trump’s leisure (and mixed business/leisure) travel, Trump spent about 240 days at his own properties during his presidency, while Biden has logged about 183 days (including partial days) at vacation settings like Delaware and Camp David. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) audited four of Trump’s early Mar-a-Lago trips, finding they cost taxpayers $13.6 million, but no comparable audited totals exist for Biden’s trips, making cost comparisons unreliable. Bottom line: Trump took more leisure days, and his trips have documented multimillion-dollar taxpayer costs; Biden took fewer, but his exact costs aren’t publicly tracked in the same way.”

There is no data yet on Vance’s travel, and I don’t think anyone is accusing Harris of excessive travel/days off. But I have to say, it is laughable that you are trying to compare Biden traveling to Delaware (short trip, home, family) to all of Vance’s globe-trotting in just 6 months with his family in tow.

Anywho. A few notes from ChatGPT. The partial days for Biden include things like spending a few hours at the beach on a workday. If you are only counting full days in vacation settings, it is around 117.

You should also note that Trump personally profited from his trips to Mar-a-Lago and other resorts because the government and even foreign officials spent money at his businesses while he was in office. Secret Service and other federal agencies paid millions of taxpayer dollars to Trump-owned properties for lodging, meals, and workspace during his visits (the House Oversight Committee found at least $1.4 million in Secret Service payments alone), and foreign governments and entities spent at least $7.8 million at his hotels and clubs. Since Trump never divested, that money ultimately flowed back to him, meaning his “working vacations” doubled as a way to generate profit from both U.S. taxpayers and foreign dignitaries. Carter gave up his peanut farm, da*mit.

Also, keep in mind that this is data from his first term. He is much more emboldened this time and has no Fs to give as far as accountability to taxpayers. [/quote]

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