Fuckin LOL. That’s too on the nose man. It’s Iraq all over again
That's exactly why he's doing this.
False claim one; Fentanyl is a WMD
False claim two; Fentanyl is coming from Venezuela.
Enjoy twenty more years of quagmire America.
You're missing the other countries he's used fentanyl to harass: Mexico, Canada, and China.
Okay, but all of those are evil countries corrupted by the insidious hand of the Marxist Antifa
At least those countries are at least associated with fenntanyl and its supply chain. Venezuela is not as far as I'm aware. So it makes the whole thing much more preposterous.
And just to clarify, we should not be starting any wars over the drug trade since that is much more effectively combatted by dealing with the causes here at home. As long as there is demand there will always be supply.
You're assuming he's talking about using this as an excuse to invade Venezuela. I'm assuming he'll use it as an excuse to invade Canada and Mexico. He's already made up bullshit about how it's pouring over our border, and he's already threatened our country with annexation.
More fentanyl flows into Canada from the US than flows into the US from Canada.
I mean, it worked last time, and the only consequence was making billions of dollars in the process.
That and further tarnishing the states' image on the world stage. But that's a moot point now. Everyone can see they (the gov) are the baddies.
It's literally all American foreign policy since the 1940s.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and
This is a good summary of what we've done to South America. Ask Anna for a copy. There are various YT docos out too on the topic.
I fly an EMS helicopter. We use fentanyl every day for pain management.
This world is a joke
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
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.
I mean, it was inevitable.
Even if you follow and believe his line of logic about Biden in 2022, saying Biden is too old, then you have to ALSO follow the logic that trump is 2 years younger than Biden. Which means by 2024 trump is the same age that Biden was "too old to be president".
Our last president who didn't qualify for AARP left office in 2017.
Well Trump has the advantage of not actually doing the job. Less stress.
So, anybody that's ever knowingly handled, trafficked or deployed a Weapon of Mass Destruction on US soil is going to be hunted down by anti terror agents, I'm assuming?
Doctors, nurses, delivery companies, pharmaceuticals manufacturers, etc, yes?
Not to mention the number of countries in the world and free agents that now have access to huge numbers of WMDs, all of whom now need to be closely monitored and the US must change its relationship with all of them, given the seriousness of what they now possess.
And obviously, anybody that's ever publicly deployed a WMD anywhere will have to be detained if they attempt to enter the USA. Can't have potential terrorists wandering about the country after all, not if they're on record as committing the unspeakable act of using a Weapon of Mass Destruction on a peaceful public populace.
This is just a flimsy justification for America's military invasion of Canada, given their repeated, official accusations from the very highest levels in their government, that Canada is flooding huge amounts of fentanyl into the USA.
To claim it is a WMD, after claiming Canada is attacking their country with it, and then to not take any military action against Canada to defend against these WMD attacks, would be admitting military defeat.
Has the USA admitted that Canada has bested them on the field of battle? Are they too scared to meet Canada head on? Sure seems like it.
If they really cared about drug addiction and the consequences the sacklers would be in prison and he wouldn’t be pardoning every drug trafficker that gives him a bribe
He will use the to justify a war. Which he will then use as an excuse to not have elections (because he saw Zelenskyy do it.) But I bet a cheeseburger takes him out before any of that.
The us had elections in WW2 and the civil war.
I’m well aware.
But this is speculation on what Trump could do to justify his usual unprecedented antics.
His idiot followers don't know that.
The stupid! It burns!
JFC but I am so goddam tired of uttering the words “What a fuckin’ moron,” every time I read about him.
Because you're taking him at face value.
He knows that fentanyl isn't a nuke. He knows that. But by saying it, and by not having anyone to stop him from saying it, he gets to get away with saying it.
That doesn't make him stupid. That makes him evil.
I'll simplify the situation. It's like when you're in elementary school, and the class bully grabs your wrist, and hits you with your own hand.
Then asks "why are you hitting yourself?"
The bully knows what he's doing. Normally this is when the teacher steps in to stop it. But what if the teacher didn't exist? And what if instead of a classroom, it was the whole world?
The bully isn't stupid enough to think you're just being self destructive. The bully gets off on the fact that he's having fun with no one to stop him.
And that's where we are with trump. A schoolyard bully with no oversight to stop him. And oh yeah, by the way, he also dictates the biggest military on the planet. With argueably the biggest stockpile of nukes.
I don't believe he knows a thing. The people he put in charge of his policy do know these things
Can't wait to go to work tomorrow and accuse our anesthesiologists of war crimes!
OMG, I was under a weapon of mass destruction during surgery a few weeks ago!
The US is now post-parody.
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
I want the Epstein files released too but idk how I feel about this being posted on things like this since its setting up for an invasion of a sovereign country, likely to cause uncountable innocent deaths. Not to mention the fact that this also sets a pretext for our country being invaded as well (I see you're also a .ca'er)
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.
This bitch tryin' to do the Iraq yellow cake bullshit thing? And I thought 1.0 was stupid, but this...
Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.
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
Fentanyl the WMD is all over every hospital and nursing home in America. Time to send in the UN inspectors and set up the no fly zones.
See what happens when you put past war criminal presidents on pedestals without any consequences?
Donnie wants that too.
Well done USA.
Man, my other in law just dislocated her replacement hip 2 weeks so, imma have to sue the ambulance company for going so nuclear on her, I heard she got two doses of the stuff on the ride to the hospital...
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.
Cool. At one point in my life, I was like 8% WMD by volume.
This fucking guy. Anything to distract from the pedophilia.
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