This guy really needs the broadcast or social media team (or whatever) to check things for him before he opens his yap. He’s damn near as bad as Trump is. This time, he fluffed up big time, and people are letting him know it! Normal people learn to think for at least a few moments before saying something. But JD is an idiot and just lets loose. Thank you to Raw Story:
Critics pounced on JD Vance on Sunday after the vice president scrambled to answer a common question about the Trump administration’s motives for attacking Venezuela. Vance, over the weekend, took to X to explain the administration’s attack on Venezuela on a purported mission to stop fentanyl trafficking, considering the controversial drug doesn’t flow from there. “First off, fentanyl isn’t the only drug in the world, and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was),” he claimed, adding, “Cocaine is bad too!”
Excuse me? No fentanyl comes from Venezuela. It’s just cocaine. But JD said fentanyl did. No, it comes from China. No, it goes through Mexico. It flies in and it boats in. The boats are not the size that the US military is targeting, which are either fishing or heading somewhere else, and not necessarily carrying drugs. JD is ridiculously stupid. Open mouth, insert foot. Good grief. And it continues:
That response didn’t sit well with numerous political observers, including Jennifer Jenkins, who is running for U.S. Senate in Florida. “Fifth – and this is me speaking as an American who’s tired of being lied to: Thanks for admitting it. This was never about fentanyl. It’s oil,” she added to Vance’s text. “I don’t want another forever war sold with better branding. And neither do most Americans.” //// News insider David Clinch replied by saying, “On the surface this reads like ‘America First‘ and re-establishing some kind of lost status, when in fact it is a retreat from America’s status as the World’s only true Super Power to an old ‘Great Powers + Spheres of Influence‘ status that suits Russia and China just fine.”
Did JD pay someone to take his exams in college, like Trump probably did? Gotta love rumors. And you have to wonder about the part of the country that reelected Trump for president, because he does NOT have the smarts that it really takes to be president. JD is in no way an heir to the Trump crown, that’s for sure. And he accidentally told the truth. Not supposed to do that, especially if it makes you look even worse. The political observers above know a whole lot more than JD does.
Literary editor Eric Nelson made a historical comparison: “Are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don’t act like that.”— JD Vance (ahahahahaha!) //// Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler, of EmptyWheel, was stunned by what she called a serious “admission” about the administration’s earlier moves. “WOWOWO. @JDVance confesses the Administration has been lying about the murderboat strikes,” she wrote Sunday. “Will he report @StephenM to be prosecuted to Pam Bondi?”
Okay, I must be missing something because I don’t see how JD admitted the truth. Please feel free to tell me. But these folks did, and we can certainly take their words for it. Anything that disses on JD is a good thing. Anything that disses on Trump is even better. It hasn’t even been a full year yet, as we have some days left. How will we survive three more years after the hammering he’s given us so far? This is … exhausting.
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“… Idiot…” is succinct, isn’t it? It’s surprising he hadn’t also blamed the drug couriering – for the big end of town – on those ‘childless cat ladies’ who have to go out for ‘dogs to eat’. In addition, it’s also quite surprising, given he’s confirmed stupid, that he hasn’t blamed Liberal supporters for assisting the ‘childless cat ladies’ to smuggle the fentanyl, so it could be used to ‘do in’ both you know who and his enablers and supporters.
I think they are saying that he accidentally admitted the truth when he said fentanyl isn’t the only drug in the world.