Temu Iraq War
Flip side, Venezuela probably does actually have fent
While i agree this is the dumbest way to approach it, opiates have been the destroyers of civilization for hundreds of years. I remember learning about opium dens in grade school.
Are we taking down pharmaceutical companies now? Or did ice forget to protect our borders by looking at what was actually crossing them?
I hate this timeline.
The last few wars on drugs were just so effective
Cool. At one point in my life, I was like 8% WMD by volume.
This fucking guy. Anything to distract from the pedophilia.
That seems like a lot when I hear it kills law enforcement just being in its presence.
That shit makes me so angry. I made a full presentation in uni about it last year. Not one single case of an OD from skin contact has ever occurred. It’s simply not possible. They are the ultimate drama queens.
I think people are missing something pretty important here: this creates justification to use the US military against its citizens. Sure, it may just be to justify an invasion of Venezuela, but I suspect it’s more substantial than that. Saying the cartels have WMDs within the United States manufactures a threat that the military needs to fight. These “WMDs” are in every state and every city. They have manufactured a credible reason to use the military anywhere in the US against any group of people because it’s so pervasive.
Well… That sucks. Makes a depressing amount of sense.
the cartels and foreign networks that have turned fentanyl into the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18-45
why even add this? the cdc’s data doesn’t even mention it in the top 10 causes.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command
literally 1984
Yesterday he said the US has earned $18 trillion from import tariffs when the entire US trade is around $7 trillion.
Truth means nothing. Reality means nothing.
Cool we made 18 trillion, prices should be going down any minute now
What do you mean “going down”?? They’re already lowest in history, the best prices under any president, anyone can tell you that, the prices are some of the most beautiful prices you’ve ever seen, people come and tell me they have never seen prices so low like this, they say how do you do it, how, because prices were high under crooked Joe Biden and would be even worse under crooked Kamary Harrton, but thanks to our beautiful tariffs we are now respected, the world respects us, and politicians from all over the world come to me for advice on running their countries because we have the most beautiful prices in history! Thank you for your attention to this matter.
If this is a preamble to justify a new decade of carpet-bombing a third world country again: I sort of really hope it the final straw that finally gets NATO to intervene; treating the USA as a global threat. I know it’s just a pipe dream, but I can dream nonetheless
The best NATO can do is to help the constitutionalist side in a US civil war while fighting russia at the same time (who will try to provide support to the monarchist side, but it will be hard without controlling both coasts and Canada). Hah, maybe russia/China would try to smuggle help in through Mexico.
Rats! My penis has been snubbed once more!
Oh come on. I just want something, anything, that could be plausible being the context for whatever they do next.
Fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction?
That’s going to cause a lot of hospitals to close because they can’t maintain the security requirements to house it.
But that’s the point. Close hospitals, more people die.
I’m sure the U.S. will try to justify some invasion with this since they used that excuse exactly to invade Iraq
Are they in Iraq though?!
yay! now all they have to do is plant or falsely charge you with possession of fentanyl and you’re listed as a terrorist, deported via NSPM-7, and disappeared forever.
/s
You can remove the /s… that’s going to be Trumps playbook moving forward.
Maybe just the “yay” was /s
That’s an extremely mild response for a WMD. They can bomb the shit out of anyone anywhere at any time and just say they suspected they might be smuggling fentanyl. This is really just carte blanche to murder people at will.
Also attacking or invading other countries is absolutely on the cards, as long as the body of evidence for WMDs is on a par with what was used to invade Iraq.
Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.
Fentanyl is, if not the most common, a very common opiate used in hospitals, with virtue of being the cheapest. It’s overdose danger, is that a normal dose is of much smaller size, and then so is a fatal one. Usually GOP/CIA is pro addicts and overdoses because you need to vote GOP harder to punish them harder.
Instead of lying for “easy to win wars so that the US/Trump can look tougher and/or perhaps cancel elections”, if opiates were a real issue, then programs including forced detox, but free voluntary detox too, A pharma incentive to make better non-addictive pain relief (aspirin/tylenol/advil), or making a deal with Taliban to produce “state opium farms” so that our hospital system (source of street fentanyl through theft) can go back to “safe opiates”… are all direct solutions to a stated problem instead of false tariffs and war excuses.
The entire war on drugs was created so they could make blacks and hippies felons so they couldn’t vote.
It’s never been about the betterment of society.
When you think back… WMD was what justified the war in Iraq. Now he says this drug is a WMD and is coming in to USA from Canada. Is this his push to justify a full scale attack on Canada?
Little more to the south. But you’re spot on
Sadly, Canada has supported US on designation of Mexican cartels as “state sponsored terrorists”, and continues to provide logistical support for boat murders. Humanizing Trump/US empire does justify “Canadian values are to submit to being the next US invasion target”. Gaslighting of Canadians to permanent submission to US is only policy/values we have.
Trump’s threatening of Canada has everything to do with the Tar Sands and trying to bully oil suppliers out of the market to keep the oil price from crashing.
Starting an actual conflict with Canada wouldn’t really help that longterm for the US, which doesn’t mean it won’t happen but makes it an accidental eventuality that could happen as an unintended less-likely outcome rather than an intended effect.
The US is now post-parody.
