If J.D Vance's mother was in international waters...

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TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ
J.D. Vance's mother was a drug addict and dealer. Opioids. She stole the drugs from the hospital and I am sure ruined at least a few lives along with hers and J.D.'s. She was also given due process and not summarily executed.

___Speaking to The New York Times in September 2024, Aikins shared that her addiction began during her nursing career. After taking a prescription pill for a headache, she enjoyed how the medication made her feel and soon began stealing other, stronger medications while on the job. She wasn't just taking prescription medicines for herself, though. As Aikins revealed to the Washington Examiner, "I sold drugs from the hospital I was working at, in particular morphine. I stole morphine." Ultimately, she ended up being caught, and though the hospital initially sent her for treatment, when she admitted to having relapsed, she was dismissed. That wasn't all. Aikins' nursing license was also suspended, taking away the one opportunity she had to give herself and her kids a better life.

In addition to losing her source of income, Aikins also admitted to the Washington Examiner that her suspension put her into a very dark place. "I hated it. I hated myself. My whole identity was in being a nurse. I felt like that was my calling. I just thought the opportunity was gone," she shared. Sadly, her addiction had become so strong that she couldn't stop using drugs, which in turn made her feel as though returning to her calling was never going to be a possibility for her, anyway. "I had graduated to heroin. I just thought I would never be a nurse again," she said. Sadly, Aikins' addiction is just part of her heartbreaking story.

https://www.nickiswift.com/1726282/tragedy-jd-vance-mother-beverly-aikins-so-sad/

As her addiction worsened, so did her judgment. “I sold drugs from the hospital that I was working at, in particular morphine. I stole morphine,” she said. “I got caught. I got sent to treatment. And then I got out of treatment and I was doing good for a while and I relapsed. And I self-reported to the Ohio Board of Nursing that I had relapsed, and they suspended my license.”

“You can’t practice. You can’t do anything as a nurse. You have to follow their recommendations. And I originally started out with a one-year suspension, and I couldn’t get it together. I couldn’t quit using. I couldn’t quit. So I just kind of let that go. I just couldn’t get it together,” she explained, the weight of her addiction momentarily flashing over her features.

At that time, she had moved on to the hard stuff: “I had graduated to heroin. I just thought I would never be a nurse again.”

“Obviously, she got sidetracked by the addiction issues. And it’s a little bit of guesswork here, but I do think that one of the things — if you know somebody who’s ever been addicted, they go through periods, maybe it’s a few months, maybe it’s a few years, where they’re clean. And for me at least, I’d kind of given up hope that she would just be clean and stay clean,” Vance explained.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3200425/vance-homecoming-recover-redemption-beverly-aikins/


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2. What, exactly, is the "non sequitur" point to which you refer?

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3. They were not banging on trump.

When JD was confronted with the war crime which happened, he was good with it. He said he did not Cate what it was called. He was not the least bit phased by people being killed or punished with no due process. This relates to him, because we are pretty sure even though his mom was a drug dealer, she should get a trial and a death sentence.

It was telling JD he should not be a fucking hypocrite.

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4. Even a GOP senator thinks JD Vance's line on war crimes accusations is 'despicable'

Vance suggested he didn’t care whether the U.S. was committing war crimes in targeting suspected drug smugglers. It was a bridge too far for Rand Paul.

Trump’s line on “dictatorial” police-state tactics and Vance’s line on extrajudicial slayings of suspected drug smugglers is effectively the same:

The ends justify the means, and the rule of law is an inconvenience worthy of indifference. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-08T12:02:03.855Z

It was against this backdrop that JD Vance offered an unexpected defense. Politico reported:

Vice President JD Vance defended using America’s military for ‘killing cartel members’ that bring drugs into the United States on Saturday, dismissing a critic who asserted a recent airstrike on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs was a war crime. ‘Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,’ Vance posted to X on Saturday morning.

This was a difficult argument to take seriously. The “highest and best use” of the U.S. armed forces is to summarily execute suspected criminals?

The vice president did not, however, end there. In a follow-up missive, the Ohioan argued that the Democratic position is “let’s send your kids to die in Russia,” while the Republican position is, “actually let’s protect our people from the scum of the earth.”....

This proved to be a bridge too far for Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky.

“Did [Vance] ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??” the senator wrote via social media. “What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial.”

Nevertheless, the administration is already warning other would-be drug traffickers that they might also be blown up, suggesting the recent developments were the first step in a larger offensive, not the last. Watch this space.

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5. There's actual evidence JD's mom was a hard core heroin user, drug dealer and a thief, but she received due process.

There's no actual evidence the eleven Venezuelans blown up in international waters were doing anything wrong, yet JD believes it's ok they didn't receive due process.

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6. Yeah, she's a real piece of work.

She occasionally pops up on the local news here. Once she threw a hissy fit because she didn't think the newly-erected signage in Middletown honoring her idiot son was sufficient.

Complete tool.

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7. We cannot trust what this administration tells us

What is the proof of drug running? Even then, it’s not a capital offense. How about interdiction…what the Coast Guard does all the time.

His base is like the Taliban…always demanding public executions. They’re sick.

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8. She conceived a weapon of mass destruction