JD Vance
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She's been clean and sober for a while, but I'm very proud of her.
I know you're watching this.
And he had just quit his job for this pharmaceutical lobbying organization where he was talking about quitting.
He's like, man, we just did something that's very dark.
And basically what they had figured out is because American Indian tribes, Native Americans, have tribal sovereignty.
And so they figured out, I guess, that if they gave some Native American tribe some fraction of a fraction of a penny of the royalties from the sale of opioids, that they could actually insulate themselves from litigation around the prescription opioid epidemic.
And I guess this guy was just like โ thought it was so dirty that he was like, I can't work for this organization anymore.
And I was like, holy shit, that is some pretty dark stuff.
So you guys are giving some Native American tribe-like pennies so that you can insulate yourself from pharmaceutical litigation.
I should follow up on this to see if that actually happened.
Just to be clear, if the media tries to fact check me, this is what I heard from a friend.
Well, let's let Jamie fact check it right now.
Yeah, Jamie, I'm very curious if this actually happened.
But I think it did happen because I saw the look on this guy's face and he was like, man, this is some pretty dark stuff.