On Wednesday, a WIRED exclusive revealed that one of JD Vance’s financial policy advisers has posted a lot on Reddit about illicit substances. Given Vance’s hard stance on drugs, WIRED’s Tim Marchman and Makena Kelly join Leah to discuss why it matters that a member of his staff seems to have been using them. Mentioned this week: JD Vance Adviser …
Leah Feiger: And he's not doing this in a vacuum. David Gilbert: For the last couple of weeks, he's been pushing this idea that has been seeded by Trump and others in the GOP that floods of immigrants are going to come into the country, brought in by the Biden administration, who are all going to be registered and allowed …
Tim Marchman: I think there are three reasons why this boiled up, and they're all pretty material. One is, she was on the plane with him right before he went into what is proved to have been a pretty disastrous debate, especially because he started ranting about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs, which of course they're not doing, and …
Leah Feiger: Yeah, Tess, report back. David Gilbert: So my conspiracy this week comes from a group that I've followed for quite a while, and it's an offshoot of the wider QAnon conspiracy, deeply fetishizing John F. Kennedy and his family. David Gilbert: They're now tracking it via flight radar online, so they can see where the flight path goes. …