Your tax dollars at work: Vance has a lake drained so he can go kayaking

You can't make this shit up. Vance wanted to go kayaking with his family for his birthday, but he didn't like the water levels in his chosen river. So he had the Army Corps of Engineers drain the lake that feeds that river.

Estimated direct cost: $3 million. Estimated cost of that water no longer being available to downstream farmers: many times that.

But hey, Vance got his boat floated!

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Now, for  ALL of the actual facts, as reported by Snopes, that Lewis conviently left out of his misleading post -- - In early August 2025, a claim spread online that U.S. Vice President JD Vance's team had the water level of an Ohio river raised for a family boating excursion. As first reported by The Guardian, it is true that the U.S. Secret Service, ahead of a boating visit from Vance, requested that the Army Corps of Engineers Louisville change the outflow of an Ohio lake in order to raise the water levels in an attached river. However, the Secret Service and the Army Corps said adjustments to water levels occurred to ensure the safety of Secret Service personnel, and the vice president's office said its security detail did not notify them of the decision. -- Both the Army Corps of Engineers and the Secret Service said any adjustments to water levels ahead of Vance's trip were for the safety of Secret Service personnel. An anonymous source interviewed by The Guardian alleged that the request was also to create "ideal kayaking conditions," but neither The Guardian nor Snopes could independently confirm this claim. "The Secret Service often employs protective measures without the knowledge of the Vice President or his staff, as was the case last weekend," a spokesperson from Vance's office said in an email. His office did not immediately provide on-the-record responses to other questions asked by Snopes. -- In an email, Gene Pawlik, a spokesperson for the Army Corps of Engineers, confirmed that the "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Louisville received a request to temporarily increase outflows from Caesar Creek Lake to support safe navigation of U.S. Secret Service personnel." Pawlik said the request "did not require a deviation from normal procedures. -- "It was determined that the operations would not adversely affect downstream or upstream water levels. Downstream stakeholders were notified in advance of the slight outflow increase, which occurred August 1, 2025," Pawlik wrote-- As of this writing, the only indication that Vance's team requested an adjustment to water levels at Caesar Creek Lake for "ideal kayaking conditions" was the anonymous source's allegation in The Guardian. Snopes could not determine the identity of the aforementioned source. Stephanie Kirchgaessner, one of The Guardian's reporters on this story, said in an email that she could not provide more information than what she and her colleague, David Smith, already reported. -- Strangely, some precedent exists for raising the water levels of a river ahead of a vice president's canoe trip. During former Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign, the local utility decided — without a request from Gore's team — to raise the water level by dumping "millions of gallons of water into the drought-stricken river" to "keep Gore from the embarrassment of running aground," The New York Times reported in 1999. --- https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/07/vance-ohio-water-level-river/

Millions of bucks blown to keep Trump's mini-me happy.

 Another Lewis lie debunked -  WHEN IT COMES TO #Trump or #Vance, THE LEGACY MEDIA LIES ALL THE TIME! "The hit piece was curious because The Guardian admitted that it could not confirm the allegation. Nevertheless, it breathlessly reported on “Canoe-Gate” with the headline, “JD Vance’s team had water level of the river raised for family’s boating trip.”In the article by Guardian writers Stephanie Kirchgaessner and David Smith, the outlet’s writers suggested that the water-raising was done for recreational reasons, stating “one source with knowledge of the matter who communicated with the Guardian anonymously alleged that the outflow request for the Caesar Creek Lake was not just to support the vice-president’s Secret Service detail, but also to create ‘ideal kayaking conditions.’” They then added, “The Guardian could not independently confirm this specific claim.” Hmmm, that “specific claim” is the entire story. USSS spokesman Anthony Guglielmi explained that the USSS conducted a trip to the Ohio area ahead of the vice president’s trip, and one of their vessels actually ran aground. That is why the USSS asked for the increase: “It’s very normal, it’s very routine.” He said that the decision was made without input or involvement from the vice president’s office. Instead of confirmation, they went with confirmation bias, reaching out to familiar figures who immediately expressed disgust or outrage."

A good buddy of mine was in Indianapolis this week and said he saw Vance.  He was met with a tremendous Booing from the people that were gathered at the Indiana Statehouse.  Apparently there are some people in Indiana that aren't fans.  LOL