Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor
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.
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.
Yellow cake fentanyl is being produce in Africa and Iran.
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
And we thought G.W. Bush was an idiot... I kinda miss that guy now.
He was/is. Someone being even dumber doesn't change that.
Cut that shit out. There is a DIRECT line from Reagan to Bush to Trump- and it’s American citizens’ inaction that allowed it to play out.
Maybe he is incompetent, but the administration is not. And malicious? Yes they are.
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.
Also...remember when his whole campaign was all about criticizing Republican warhawks for the "disastrous war in Iraq", and how he'd never support something like that?
Yeah. Good times.
So how is biden doing these days?
Oh, in treatment for prostate cancer. Not terrible, but still stressful. It'd be nice to have a healthy president, if only we had the choice.
In all fairness, I don’t think any of this crazy is coming from Trump. It’s the perfectly sane fascists he has hired.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
And if not, I sincerely hope that a cheeseburger takes me out before any of that.
Can't wait to go to work tomorrow and accuse our anesthesiologists of war crimes!
The US is now post-parody.
So America is harboring WMDs? Quick somebody assemble a coalition of the willing to liberate them.
Imagine getting charged with a personal amount of WMDs
Some smoke detectors have some radioactive materials in them.
drone strikes on Pfizer and Merck facilities are imminent! The Sackler family are being sent to Gauntanamo!
We could do that or we can invade a bunch of countries and strip away rights from people.
One can dream
Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.
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...
Temu Iraq War
does this man know how much of a joke he is? or is it lost on him?
Oh, this is no joke. It lets them use any laws relevant to WMD on citizens suspected of having fentanyl.
Laws are based on words and definitions. If you change the words and definitions, you change the laws. It's also why we've been in a "state of emergency" for the entire year.
Isn't this the drug that cops in America freak out at if you merely mention it?
That doesn't really narrow things down.
Just by asking this question, you have sent several on-duty cops to the ER with rapid heart rates and extreme agitation, well-known signs of opiate overdose.
And yet, when used in medicine, the drug has to be ingested or injected. We can't just rub it on the skin.
Hmmm
You think that is a feat? My mere appearance is enough to break certain people's minds, my mere existence sends certain people into a murderous, catatonic rages. The knowledge I have is such a threat to the government that if I utter it to enough people I risk a prison sentence.
My sibling in sin, this is only a sample of my power.
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
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.
You can remove the /s… that’s going to be Trumps playbook moving forward.
Maybe just the “yay” was /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.
Sounds like you have a wmd that's easy for police to plant on people.
OMG, I was under a weapon of mass destruction during surgery a few weeks ago!
good shit aint it
I broke and dislocated my shoulder (twice in 2 days for the dislocation) and Fentanyl was great
Certainly gets a rave review from me.
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.
So is FUCKING LITTLE BOYS. Put this closet removed in a box with no door.
That ... would be a weapon of ass destruction, which is not technically the same thing. Also, lets not disparage those who enjoy a dick in their mouth.
It's not the dick, it's the cowardice we disparage.
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.
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
This is why only the legislature should be "designating" things like "terror groups" and "WMDs" .
Edit: A view I think should be pushed on this is that anti-terror laws are just a type of war mobilization against a stateless enemy. Each time a group is declared war on (aka designated a terrorist) there should both be a vote in the legislature per the constitution and the government should have a clearly written scope and budget for such a war, including a tax levy
Faithless
"Mass Destruction"
Whether long range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether you're soar away sun or BBC 1
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction
You could a Caucasian or a poor Asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether inflation or globalization
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether Halliburton or Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
We need to find courage, overcome
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
That was 2004
Such a good album too, a real masterpiece
If I'm ever in combat, I hope like hell the only things they drop on me is fentanyl.
So I guess that means hospitals cant use it anymore.
Sucks for everyone with a major injury.
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)
Oh yeah, we're not in a good place. Neither is Venezuela, and likely neither is Cuba as a result of this shit show. I'm really disheartened at the moment. I think the meme is just cope for me, really hoping this ends up being just another distraction that blows up in their faces before they go through with it. 😔
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.
So, can some folks here correct my ignorance. I was under the impression that most of the fentanyl entering the US is being manufactured in China. It doesn't sound crazy to me that this is some sort of conspiracy to weaken the American public.
I'm not sure why we can't just decriminalize drugs so folks and do heroin in peace. Or maybe fix some of the problems that are causing people to do drugs.
Ok but where exactly did you get that impression and what evidence have you seen to actually prove it? If we didn't want drugs in our country it would be easy to prevent, but we're busy using their presence as a justification for mass incarceration/slave labor and our foreign policy so it would be inconcenient for the supply to suddenly dry up. You should be extremely skeptical of anything US media says. The obvious answer to the second part is "money"
I think that "easy to prevent" is a gross mischaracterization. The flow of goods into this country is mammoth. Checking literally every item, while possible, would crash the economy by bringing imports to a standstill. When you compare the cost of fentanyl in the system against stopping the flow of goods, the economic impact doesn't even come close.
We have an incredible, historic, and unprecedented access to goods from around the globe. These items are essentially on-demand for the American consumer, and many people fear the reality that an economic crash would bring; not that everyone would die slowly in the streets, but that we would become responsible for providing for ourselves in a manner that we have forgotten how to do.
So, in addition to checking every item, you would have to reshape the way that Americans live their lives.
I think I saw or heard something by Hamilton Morris about China being where most of the fentanyl is made. China has some amazing drug manufacturing facilities and they usually make stuff that people need. But the chemists there are really smart and can make lots of different chemicals.
If the drugs aren't coming from China where do you think they're coming from? My source is admittedly weak, that's why I was asking to be corrected.
Also how do you prevent drugs from entering a country? Wouldn't reducing the demands for drugs be a more permanent solution?
I was under the impression that most of the fentanyl entering the US is being manufactured in China. It doesn’t sound crazy to me that this is some sort of conspiracy to weaken the American public.
Reverse Opium Wars lolol
Generally China is being worryingly successful recently
You need healthcare to handle the ramifications of the drug pandemic that comes from legalizing heroin.
Do you have some of that healthcare because the Dotard sure as hell doesn’t. He’s too busy stealing from every pot of government money.
Hmm, attacking foreign places under the guise of weapons of mass destruction. Sounds familiar, but I can't place it.
/s
It is most certainly not coming from Venezuela.
The precursor is made in China, but not fentanyl itself. They sell the precursor, and, IIRC, it's largely finished in Mexico. The precursor is nominally legal, so it's shipped as close as it can be to be manufactured.
It's mostly cocaine coming through Venezuela I think. It's not being grown there, but it is one of several shipping routes.
Pain management is a profitable industry, there is an illegal black market around it, but I'm pretty sure pharmacies are still the largest supplier.
People go to the black market after the primary market fails, like they lose their insurance.
Cutting USAID was a weapon of mass destruction. Estimated 500.000 to 1.000.000 deaths. Source
How many defense contractors contributed to the ballroom?
more like name one who didn't!
What kind of powers and exception to the "rules" does he get to target someone "shipping a WMD" not that he needs to really bother.
GOOD! Now I can call in Bomb Threats to Children's Hospitals AGAIN!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
Just gaming the system. That he still has to game it and isn't able to simply ignore it is encouraging.
...until he needs it for medical reasons, of course. Then he will happily accept it while denying it to your family members.
I audibly laughed out loud. What even?
See what happens when you put past war criminal presidents on pedestals without any consequences?
Donnie wants that too.
Well done USA.
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
Trump ain't wrong here but those are just words. He's already fueled a lot of drug deaths by his policies. You could say that eating too much processed food is a weapon of mass destruction as well, looking at the death stats ( at least the stats that are not hidden under the new régime ).
Faithless sang it best. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzgBD2wysuI
So it’s a painkiller?
