Mrs. Betty Bowers: JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

[Swede]

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans."

REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) 2025-10-05T00:05:00.246Z

[surfered]

1. Shameless lying is a prerequisite for working for this administration

[SergeStorms]

39. It seems to be....

the only prerequisite to obtain employment in King-Kon's administration.
Everything, and I mean every thing, is a lie.

[AZJonnie]

2. The statement actually leaves some wiggle-room, logically

If, for example, she happened to OD after taking drugs she got on "the street", the statement could be true.

It is CERTAINLY a lie to say that "Mexicans" were responsible for her addiction (which is one reading of his words, but not the only one). She already admitted she got hooked on opioids after starting on Rx'd pain pills, and then began stealing from hospitals where she worked, and then was eventually fired and lost her license. BUT she also said that did not stop her using. Ergo, it logically follows that it is possible (likely, in my experience) she was procuring drugs on the streets afterward.

These assholes are pretty good at CONVEYING lies without them being demonstrable, proven lies. They use weasel words like these ALL THE TIME

[rampartd]

20. review vance's comments after the springfield "eating the dogs" incident

their mo is to say whatever it takes for the media to deliver their message.

[travelingthrulife]

30. These drugs don't come with a stamp on them stating 'I'm from Mexico'

We make all sorts of illicit drugs in this country. How does he know the origin country?

[AZJonnie]

36. He didn't say the drugs were hecho en Mexico, he said she got them from Mexicans

And those are not synonymous ideas

I mean, to be clear, I think he's full of shit But the meme in the OP has a logical flaw, e.g. it's a fallacious counter-argument. That's really all I'm saying about it

[sop]

3. The VP of the Party of Personal Responsibility is blamimg Mexicans because his mom chose to use drugs.

Mom wasn't responsible, she was a victim.

[70sEraVet]

22. So, when it's drugs, the point-of-origin is to blame.

But when it's GUNS, the manufacturers must be protected from lawsuits - after all, "guns don't kill people, people kill people"!

[Gimpyknee]

23. Exactly!

[Marthe48]

4. Generational liars

n/t

[maxsolomon]

5. Therefore?

All Mexicans don't deserve the blame for those that supplied a demand from American users.

[JoseBalow]

8. I blame capitalism

[soldierant]

16. A whole lot of people in the US

have (or did have) relatives who were killed (or almost killed) between 1943 and 1945 by blond white men.

[TygrBright]

6. WHAT?!? Veepy Weirdo Beardo LIED about something? Who'd-a thunk it! n/t

[AverageOldGuy]

7. Why was his mother using drugs in the first place?

[BurnDoubt]

12. She couldn't look her couch in the eye anymore?

[11 Bravo]

14. REC (As soon as I can stop laughing!)

[moniss]

25. The best comment on the internet for the day. nt

[MorbidButterflyTat]

38. Boom!

[GreenWave]

9. When will he man up and use his real name?

Bowman, as in he will bow to his boss.

[thomski64]

15. What's the J for, i imagine the D is for

Davenport...

[Gimpyknee]

24. Davenport?

You’re really showing your age my friend. I wonder how many of the younger DUers will make the association here. In any event, well done!

[CTyankee]

41. It took me a moment but then I got it, cuz I'm old and I remember such things!

[paleotn]

10. And he still isn't worth the pills his mommy tried to trade him for.

He's proof that piles of shit sometimes fail upwards.

[IbogaProject]

11. Turds of a feather

Are all prone to lying, cheating, stealing and worse.

[mgardener]

13. So she was not responsible?

She Got The Drugs.
They were not forced on her.

[brakester]

31. The first time

they weren't forced on her, maybe,
but as addiction goes, after that, she was a victim.

[Hekate]

40. I have a very hard time calling someone who steals pain meds from patients a victim

The victims are the patients whose pain is not a trivial matter. I say this in the waiting period before knee-replacement — I have a high pain tolerance, but recently hit a tipping-point and experienced level 10 for a couple of days and nights. When I finally got it under control, it still remained high, exhausting, but below agony. We have others here at DU who live in a state of chronic very high-level pain all the time.

A person in a position of trust — doctor, nurse, PA, caregiver — who consigns their patients to intractable pain, is not the victim in this scenario.

[lame54]

17. Maybe the patients were Mexican

[eppur_se_muova]

18. So .... DEA should arrest his mother ? Seems like the most logical conclusion. nt

[Hassler]

19. Wow, using his current alias JD is a lying fraud

[Champp]

21. It's Satanic to lie all the time

According to my mother.

[Ruby the Liberal]

26. Wait - what?

Did this actually happen, or is Mrs Bowers just skewering him?

[rustbeltvoice]

27. you expected truth? from a smarmy Repuke?

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

There are many liars in the world, but this one tells you in advance, that he will lie anytime he wants.

[Jilly_in_VA]

28. Hey Shady McMaybelline---you're Catholic

How long do you have to spend in the confessional every week? Or do you have a friendly right-wing priest who just excuses everything? Maybe Uncle Clarence found one for you....

[Ol Janx Spirit]

29. Let's even pretend it is true. So what? I assume she tried her best to source them...

...from Americans once her supply of drugs she could steal from patients ran out, but she just couldn't find a good made-in-America dealer--so she turned to Mexicans. But if they hadn't been there then that would've been the end of the story? She wouldn't have turned to the Hondurans or Guatemalans? She wouldn't have looked to Canadians or some Asian source?

Let's help Shady make this an accurate statement:
My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans because she was either failed by the support systems around her or she ignored them in a self-destructive quest to feed her own addicted mind and body. She would have gotten them from wherever she could find them.

But by all means, offer up a scapegoat and justify violence against them. That seems to be your addiction now doesn't it?

[Vinca]

32. I have no idea what he's talking about, but his mother wasn't forced at gunpoint to take any drugs. It was a choice.

She probably needed them after she realized the offspring she'd produced.

[twodogsbarking]

33. Don't take drugs while pregnant usless it is Tylenol. Otherwise you might end up with, you know, a vance.

[twodogsbarking]

34. Meanwhile, Mexicans are complaining about relatives that were killed by guns that came from, well, Americans.

[vanlassie]

35. JD. Your Grandma poured gasoline on your Grandpa and set him on fire

Because he was drunk.
Your mother put out the flames

How have you figured out your blame story for that one?

Standard Oil??
Old Crow Whisky?

Your mother was fucked up by your Grandma, JD.

[airmid]

37. Absolute lie. And I know this first hand btw...from Middletown. Grew up there. Knew his mother well at one point.

I bought drugs from her frequently. Drugs she stole from the hospital and nursing homes she worked at. JD Vance is a shameless liar.

[Cha]

42. Fucking LIAR.

[Grins]

43. I hate stupid shit like this post

It really bugs me when I see crap like this.

Curious about the context, I looked and looked to find the actual quote and date. It wasn't easy. All I got were repeats and repeats of this same comment. Finally - a better source. Turns out it is from a 30-second campaign ad titled, "Are you a racist?"

Vance in that ad:

"Are you a racist? Do you hate Mexicans? The media calls us racists for wanting to build Trump's wall. They censure us, but it doesn't change the truth. Joe Biden's* open border is killing Ohioans, with more illegal drugs and more democrat voters pouring into this country. This issue is personal. I nearly lost my mother to the poison coming across our border."

'Poison.' Not 'Mexicans nearly killed my mother.' So who changed the text to something completely different?

Vance made that ad for his senate run - in April of 2022! This is more than three years old! So why is it coming around again?

* As much as Vance and the Rethuglicans want to blame everything on Biden, his mother was stealing good old American-made drugs back when Clinton was president. Abuse of prescription opioids and heroin became long before Bush, Obama, and Biden. Fentanyl was the new kid on the block but not until 2012.