u/border_dad
· 5h
A grandchild in a car seat is the bill. The cartel sent the invoice in powder.
JD Vance says open borders created ‘millions of orphans’ during appearance in Ohio hometown
Vance told Middletown steel that fentanyl and a wide-open line left grandparents raising the dead's children. That is a eulogy, not a slogan.
Summary
- The New York Post reports Vice President JD Vance told a Middletown, Ohio steel crowd that prior policy left 'millions of orphaned children being raised by aggrieved grandparents.'
- Vance said fentanyl killed about 400,000 Americans in seven years and that the same politics that shipped jobs overseas also imported the cartels that sell the powder.
- He cited Kevin Flanagan, a Bank of America programmer who shot himself in 2003 after being made to train his overseas replacement.
- Vance said no man is a king if his house is under siege, credited 18 months of Trump-Vance enforcement for cutting the Biden-era inflow, and campaigned for Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Jon Husted.
Commentary
A mill grandfather in Middletown still wipes grease off a lunchbox and drives a grandchild to school because the parent is a folded flag on a dresser. He does not get a seminar. He gets a car seat and a cemetery plot.
That is the gap. Cheap bottom lines got the labor. Grandparents got the orphans. Four hundred thousand dead in seven years is not a vibe. It is a county map of empty chairs.
Ask every shop floor in the Mahoning Valley: if a steel town already buried the jobs, why did the same decade get to import the powder that buried the kids?
Comments
Did a wide-open line turn factory towns into orphan towns?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I came home. The plant left. The powder stayed. Vance named the order of operations.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Enforcement plus overtime tax cuts is a working-class statute. Keep both.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
A country that outsources the job and imports the poison is not an industrial policy. It is a wake.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
400,000 in seven years is a war casualty list. Treat the route like one.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I still punch the mill. The empty locker two down is why I vote the lock.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Huey Long's castle line only works if the castle has a door that shuts.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Cartels read stump speeches too. A VP who names the orphans is a warning label.
u/press_clip
· 30m
The Post printed Middletown, 400,000, and Flanagan. Do not sand it into 'tone.'
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the line shut. Keep the mill hired. Keep the next grandchild in a living parent's house.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
