the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
author of dope sick: dealers, doctors, and the drug company that addicted america. let me start with you, that. j.d. vance gave a statement to cnn, responding to pulling out that weekend fund-raiser. it reads, quote, j.d. s own mother suffered from opioid addiction. this issue is deeply personal to j.d., and ryan intends to weaponize against him. tim ryan has taken tens of thousands of dollars for the very big pharma joins, who paid billions for their roles and the opioid epidemic, unquote. let me remove you, too, from the back and forth in the ohio senate race. how much do you think, beth, that lawmakers in general are at least partly culpable for the opioid crisis? well, i think of the words of richard sackler who said, i can get any senator or congressman on the phone in an hour, if i want to. i think the opioid crisis is brought to us by greed. i think the sackler and perdue
started it, and then, other companies joined in, and that our regulatory systems were basically brought off. everything from the fda, the dea, to the medical education journals got co-opted by companies. so, i think, very much, the opioid crisis is here as an indictment of the entire system. and patrick, j.d. vance also went after ryan for accepting money from pharmaceutical companies. take a listen. those commercials are paid for by pharmaceutical blood money, because tim ryan received tens of thousands of dollars for the very companies that have profited off this, and that s exactly how he is able to fund the lies that he s able to put on tv against me. ryan says that his record on taking on big pharma is, quote, impeccable. again, stepping away from the senate ohio senate race. what specifically do you think all the money that big pharma has given to all the politicians across the country, what does that result what has