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[–] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 255 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Fuckin LOL. That’s too on the nose man. It’s Iraq all over again

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 188 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 85 points 1 week ago (14 children)

You're missing the other countries he's used fentanyl to harass: Mexico, Canada, and China.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, but all of those are evil countries corrupted by the insidious hand of the Marxist Antifa

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[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We just need to send Pete Hegseth to the UN with a little vial of enough fentanyl to kill a handful of horses.

Bonus, make it real fentanyl and he probably won't make it out of the bathroom alive.

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[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I mean, it worked last time, and the only consequence was making billions of dollars in the process.

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[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fly an EMS helicopter. We use fentanyl every day for pain management.

This world is a joke

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So you transport and utilize WMDs on the daily?

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's something really cool to brag about on a date lmao

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[–] PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

And we thought G.W. Bush was an idiot... I kinda miss that guy now.

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[–] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

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[–] finley@lemmy.zip 44 points 1 week ago
[–] obinice@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The us had elections in WW2 and the civil war.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

I’m well aware.

But this is speculation on what Trump could do to justify his usual unprecedented antics.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

Can't wait to go to work tomorrow and accuse our anesthesiologists of war crimes!

[–] freeman@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago

The US is now post-parody.

[–] MostRegularPeople@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine getting charged with a personal amount of WMDs

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[–] SourGumGum@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So America is harboring WMDs? Quick somebody assemble a coalition of the willing to liberate them.

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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

drone strikes on Pfizer and Merck facilities are imminent! The Sackler family are being sent to Gauntanamo!

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[–] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Cool throw the Sachlers in prison for war crimes then. The opiod epidemic stems from them.

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

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...

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't this the drug that cops in America freak out at if you merely mention it?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That doesn't really narrow things down.

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[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Sounds like you have a wmd that's easy for police to plant on people.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

OMG, I was under a weapon of mass destruction during surgery a few weeks ago!

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why does everything have to be so extreme. I tired of this chaos.

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[–] PKscope@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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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[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So is FUCKING LITTLE BOYS. Put this closet cock sucker in a box with no door.

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[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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