These liars really do believe we're all stupid. VP JD Vance spoke to reporters as he was arriving at Joint Base Andrews ahead of yet another midterm rally in Alaska this Monday, and was asked about the so-called PSAs his administration has been running on our dime that even some Republican members of Congress have criticized (not that they're going to do anything about it).
Vance brushed off the criticisms and played the false equivalency game with actual PSAs that went out during the Obama administration for the Affordable Care Act, before pretending the ads weren't partisan because they're not "advocating for a particular candidate."
Sure, Jan.
The ACA ads encouraged people to sign up for a health insurance plan at healthcare.gov, which is not at all the same as ads featuring the president calling people communists. The funds were also appropriated by Congress specifically to educate people about the ACA. No money was taken from other appropriations for it.
REPORTER: Mr. Vice President, do you think the PSAs are a good use of taxpayer dollars, even in a midterm cycle where Republicans have a major cash advantage?
VANCE: Well, look, if you look historically, you know, go back to the Obama administration with the Affordable Care Act, you have the people's government using tax dollars to advertise about what the government is doing. It's part of actually, think, living in a constitutional republic.
You have to be honest with the American people about what you're doing, about what's going on. And part of that is getting out there and telling the message.
So, I don't think there's anything unusual or unorthodox about it. I'm sure that some people probably don't like it, but if you look at the message of those advertisements, they're not partisan, they're not, you know... it's not like we're advocating for a particular candidate.
We're trying to tell a story, I think, about how great the United States of America is.
They're attempting to tell everyone how great Trump supposedly is, and it's backfiring. Rep. Jamie Raskin discussed the fact that they're might be illegal on the evil bird site:
This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.
— Rep. Jamie Raskin (@RepRaskin) September 24, 2026
