“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.
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 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.
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.
Are you auditioning for the Olympic Mental Gymnastics team or something? He lied. The end.
Yes it would’ve been clearer but that’s not what he said, he almost lost her to the poison that IS coming over the border (emphasis is mine). That is a lie.
It is a widely acknowledged fact that a lot of opiates are smuggled in from Mexico.
Then you shouldn’t have any trouble providing a citation or two? Otherwise, this is as weak as it gets…
Here’s an excerpt from what the DEA is saying:
The Sinaloa Cartel and the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (also known as CJNG or the Jalisco Cartel) are the main criminal organizations in Mexico, and the most dangerous. They control clandestine drug production sites and transportation routes inside Mexico and smuggling corridors into the United States and maintain large network “hubs” in U.S. cities along the Southwest Border and other key locations across the United States.
The scope of the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels’ control over each segment of the criminal drug trade has effectively eliminated any competition in U.S. markets, and enabled cartel members to establish a presence in every U.S. state
Source. Warning, it’s a long PDF.
It’s not exclusive. One probably led to the other.
