By Paul Bean
Comedian and political commentator Jimmy Dore mocked the protesters of Vice President JD Vance’s visit to Sugarbush last weekend for a ski trip with his family. He also accurately claimed their Democrat Party connections.
Jimmy said on his show yesterday afternoon in reference to the Guardian headline: ‘Pro-Ukraine Protests Erupt Across US after Trump and Vance ‘Ambush’ Zeleknskyy,’ “Really they erupted? Protests did not erupt. It was more like a wet fart… Are you kidding me? You’re kidding me. They’re protesting JD Vance going on a Ski Trip…”
The protests were planned earlier in the week by the Mad River Valley Chapter of Indivisible, a non-profit organization that has chapters around the country. Their website says, “We’re a grassroots movement of thousands of local Indivisible groups with a mission to elect progressive leaders, rebuild our democracy, and defeat the Trump agenda.”
The site also takes credit for organizing the protest: “We asked and you answered with a huge Vermont showing.
Thank you for all who stood up. Indivisible Mad River Valley thanks everyone who showed up to express their outrage at the current administration on Saturday March 1, while JD Vance and family were on a ski vacation at Sugarbush.”
“So they’re just horrible Democrats,” continued Jimmy. So that’s all this is. A ‘grassroots organization group… I bet they’re taking dark money…By grassroots they mean founded by congressional staffers with dark money, I think that’s what they mean by grassroots.”
A website photo of Indivisible members visiting with a staffer at the Vermont office of Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vermont) seems to validate at least some of Dore’s claim.
As for Dore’s claims about dark money, here is a link to Indivisible’s national organizations financials.
“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent handed Musk access to the system that moves trillions of dollars,” says a section of Indivisible’s website titled ‘Stop the Trump Musk Coup.’ “What’s the plan? Cut off funding for social programs? Leak financial data to his private empire?,” continues their website. “No one knows—because there is no oversight. No one elected this man. And yet, now he’s holding the government’s financial infrastructure hostage.”
“PLEASE DONATE TODAY before you forget.” IMRV wrote on their Facebook Page.”And guess what? No Donation is TOO LARGE!”
The Mad River Valley chapter of Indivisible website has information on events, how you can take action, and meetings. “IMRV is completely volunteer-driven,” says their donation page with a link to and Act Blue donation link, the Democratic Party’s fundraising apparatus. “Your donation will support the direct costs of our activism. We need to fight fascists and save Democracy!”
