“They censor us, but it doesn’t change the truth,” he said before telling a whopper of a lie about his mama in a new ad. "Joe Biden’s open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more Democrat voters pouring into this country.
“This issue is personal,” he added. “I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border. No child should grow up an orphan. I’m J.D. Vance, and I approve this message because whatever they call us, we will put America first.”
The only problem here is that he lied. As a nurse, JD Vance’s mother stole prescribed medications from her patients, and that was not because of undocumented immigrants. Vance got the community note routine on Xitter.
I don’t think that’s technically a lie. His mother almost died due to her opiate addiction. Opiates are being smuggled across the border. He could have been a little clearer but he’s saying that he wants to stop the smuggling of opiates because he knows how harmful they are from personal experience, not that his mother almost died specifically due to those opiates that are being smuggled across the border.
Huh, maybe she shouldn’t have been working for a hospital which, according to you, dispensed to their patients opiates that were smuggled across the border.
If only there were a politician trying to build a medical system that supported patients and secured jobs for medical workers so that they wouldn’t feel the need to use illegal narcotics! And if only that politician were part of a party that tried to get help for people with drug addictions instead of labeling them a criminal, thus causing societal pressures that sent people spiraling into dark lonely corners that harm entire families.
Alas, such things sound far too productive and positive, so we should instead promote victim-blaming, vote for a wannabe-dictator, and perpetuate lies that deflect problems with local solutions onto “others” for state-funded oppression programs.
That’s a lot of gymnastics to give Nazis the benefit of the doubt. They know exactly what they are doing.
He could have been a little clearer but he’s saying that he wants to stop the smuggling of opiates because he knows how harmful they are from personal experience, not that his mother almost died specifically due to those opiates that are being smuggled across the border.
Could have been a little clearer? He blantlantly tried misleading the listener. That’s called a lie. He lied.
"I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border“ sure sounds like lying to me. There’s clear omission of key facts leading people to the wrong conclusion.
It would have been clearer to say “I nearly lost my mother to the sort of poison that is now coming across our border,” but he’s recording an ad and he needs to be concise. I would agree that he was being misleading if he was trying to use his mother’s addition as evidence that opiates are being smuggled from Mexico, but he isn’t. (It is a widely acknowledged fact that a lot of opiates are smuggled in from Mexico.) Therefore even if some listeners do assume that his mother was addicted specifically to Mexican opiates, that doesn’t substantially affect their understanding of what he’s saying.
Why are you defending a fascist liar who intentionally lied? Lol like adding a word was too much, he just didn’t have time!
You are going to get all sorts of shit defending a liar. One can only guess why you’re doing it. Hmmm, I wonder
Its not widely accepted…back when his mother was addicted to opiates it was likely “China white” in that area of the country; likely imported from the middle east / asia. Heroin coming from mexico has historically been the “black tar” variety.
Thats if she was taking heroin. If it was Rx opiates she didn’t need to go further than her pain doctor back then. The rules have changed a lot over the years but 10 years ago she would have been able to get those filled by her provider.
It would have been clearer. But he didn’t word it that way. He worded it VERY VERY specifically to direct racial hatred at “dirty druggie Mexicans” using the most textbook of textbook definitions of lying.
Take them at face value when they are explicitly saying what they mean. This guy is a raging racist prick.
Let me know how cartel fentanyl got into our medical supply and then I’ll be concerned. Til then, go defend fascists somewhere else.
Lying is NOT against the Bible so WHO CARES?
Oof those are some fashy dog whistles. Equating Democrat voters with outsiders and migrants, implying to their base that true Americans are white conservatives. Lying is only one small provable part but not even the worst of it.
At this point can’t we just re use the same line about republicans that’s used about drug addicts?
How can you tell they are lying?
Their lips are moving.
I appreciate the correct pronoun of Xitter.
Pronounced SH- IT-TER.
