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
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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.
