Watch the opening statement made by Jason DeFord, a country rock star also known as “Jelly Roll,” at a Senate hearing on legislation to tackle the fentanyl crisis.
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👍👍👍👍👍, that’s what we care about.
Powerful speech.
Prettsy sad that this man ever met up with a tattoo gun and expects to be taken seriously…!!!
I just hope they were listening. His words were eloquent…so is his music.
If our "leaders" had half the heart Jelly Roll has we wouldn't be needing these hearings.
Fentanyl is the gateway drug to death.
We need more people like this !
He must have been on fentanyl when he let somebody do that to his face 😮
Druggie trash should know better than to take the crap
When you have to ask Congress to solve a problem, you've reached peak desperation. These are the same people that can't keep the lights on and pay the bills.
He's a rapper not country singer
You can hear the compassion in jelly rolls voice but you can see the board members 😈 Tupac said it best they don't give a F*** US! Or anybody on planet 😢
What a loser.
not sure why everyone says this is so powerful, i mean he isn't wrong but this isn't some MLK-tier speech
Why would I listen to a person with tattoos on he's face. I don't take this guy seriously. I could care less for drug addicts. Do dum choices , win dum prices . Stop wasting our tax dollar on drug addicts.
The proactive thing is to close the border.
Behemoth and Leviathan
Root cause = economic structure. There will be winners and losers. How do you deal with being a economic loser? Considering how all encompassing it is? Especially when you're born into economic loss? And it creeps up from there. Root cause, not only cause.
AMEN! 🙏
No idea why he's here he knows the people supplying it and allowing it are in that room just a a clown in the circus .
Time to leave the democrat plantation forever. Close the Border
Redbar is watching
Never thought I’d see senate get talked their ear off about fentanyl from a Dunkin’ Donuts version of post Malone
Somebody needs to wake "Jelly Roll" up to the junk food crisis. 😂
Well done Jelly Roll 👍🏻
Couldn't be more eloquent
TRUMP AGAIN FOR PRESIDENT 🇺🇸 2024
pharma and the treatment corporate execs seem to get a bigger and bigger cash cow the more and more people become addicted to and die of opioids…especially pushing MAT or other medications you have to take lifelong to deal with the addiction…i know the people who work in treatment centers are pushed to get higher numbers, more calls with addicts, do more to make more money. i wonder if part of the issue just might lie in getting a better idea of how these entities operate behind the scenes? 🤔
Well said
Wow. Amazing speech. It will fall on deaf conservative ears unless they can s9mehow weasel some money out of it.
Are you really going to listen to a guy who looks like that?
His speech is passionate!
Statistics are incorrect because no state is keeping a definitive count. It's more like 98% of opioid deaths….there is no real heroin, no pills no other way to die from opiates that fentanyl yet DEA is off on another path chasing doctors & chronically ill patients while this has been an epidemic in every state since 2019-2020! By 2021-2022 the tranq amputations started. He forgot to mention tranq which is now tainted the fentanyl supply & there is no help narcan can't help. Why has it taken the government 6yrs to recognize the real pandemic on streets is fentanyl
NBC should tell the corrupt Biden administration to close the border…but you won’t, and he won’t…so the devastation goes on🤬🤬
Is it true that China sends the ingredients for making fentanyl to Mexico to ship across the border into the U.S.?