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Customs and Border Protection has confirmed that, no, agents did not stop a Norwegian traveler who showed them a meme of a bald Vice President JD Vance.

“Fact Check: FALSE,” the CBP wrote on X. “Mads Mikkelsen was not denied entry for any memes or political reasons, it was for his admitted drug use.”

And no, the agency is not referring to Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen, but rather the similarly named 21-year-old who was denied entry at Newark Liberty International Airport on June 11.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't believe their cover story.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

Government was trying to kidnap a guy in a Colorado town, there's an emergency response network to shut those shits down, and they did. The government morons retroactively tried to claim he was wanted for terrible crimes he did in Italy and was from El Salvador. Of course, there was no record of this being true in any of those countries, even the FBI's most wanted list was devoid of this supposed bad guy. (I'm sure they'll be sure to create fake dossiers in the future.)

Now, because of that, all the news was polluted with "These people did bad and stopped the FBI from doing good," when the headlines should read, "Hero Activists Save a Person from Treasonous Thugs Violating the Constitution." The government will probably refer to the news articles as circular logic proof that it was real at some point.

Troubling times, they've always lied, of course, the lies are just so much more toxic nonsense and there is less desire than ever to pursue facts or truth, as long as the evil deed is done. America is cooked.

Send help, or set up refugee programs, everyone else, we need it

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 2 points 3 days ago

Interesting how they always find a convenient scape goat.