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Trump signs executive order classifying fentanyl as a ‘weapon of mass destruction’

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Yeah, as soon as the boat strikes started I started waiting for it to start happening this side of the border.
Step 1: Classify Antifa as a terrorist organization - Complete.
Step 2: Anyone who speaks out against the government is Antifa - In progress
Step 3: Deploy the military against "terrorist organizations" - A general has now stated to a committee that he would carry out such orders against Americans on American soil.
 
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A real long shot. Going out on a limb. But maybe he just wants the danger of illegal fentanyl taken very seriously. Considering it's resulted in approximately 350,000 American deaths in the last five years. Not to mention the tens of thousands who are stumbling around like zombies because of it. But nah, lets go with the conspiracy theory that it's really about exterminating liberals.
 

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I’m trying to understand the logic where a medically useful drug is a “weapon of mass destruction” while equally deadly, much more widely used and available and much less useful illegal drugs somehow are not being treated the same. If you believe fentanyl is a WMD then how are you excusing alcohol and other harmful drugs? Shouldn’t they also be listed the same way? Your position is inconsistent.
Have you forgotten the failures of the Prohibition Amendment years?
 
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Have you forgotten the failures of the Prohibition Amendment years?
No need to go back to the 1920s for examples of prohibition’s failure, its failing just as hard with the current illegal drug trade.
 
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A real long shot. Going out on a limb. But maybe he just wants the danger of illegal fentanyl taken very seriously. Considering it's resulted in approximately 350,000 American deaths in the last five years. Not to mention the tens of thousands who are stumbling around like zombies because of it. But nah, let’s go with the conspiracy theory that it's really about exterminating liberals.
Yeah you’re probably right. The government is concerned for our health and safety.

Hey, on that subject… What steps have this administration taken to help on the drug rehabilitation side of the problem?
 
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I’m trying to understand the logic where a medically useful drug is a “weapon of mass destruction” while equally deadly, much more widely used and available and much less useful illegal drugs somehow are not being treated the same. If you believe fentanyl is a WMD then how are you excusing alcohol and other harmful drugs? Shouldn’t they also be listed the same way? Your position is inconsistent.
There's a big difference between pharmaceutical grade FDA approved fentanyl administered by medical professionals, and the impure and unstable illicit junk sold out on the street. 0.002 grams (roughly equivalent to 12 grains of table salt) of fentanyl is deadly. And Fentanyl is about 50 times more addictive than heroin. If you were to compare it to alcohol, it would have to be a type where 1/2 of a teaspoon of it is deadly.
 
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Yeah you’re probably right. The government is concerned for our health and safety.

Hey, on that subject… What steps have this administration taken to help on the drug rehabilitation side of the problem?
Oh I'm sure absolutely none whatsoever, which proves that Trump is out to bomb beer and cigarette trucks in the US and all anti-trumpers. This is most certainly the start of a final solution genocide of your kind.
 
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It appears to me that some are excusing the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by illegal fentanyl.
No. Some people are expressing the undeniable fact that the president is an idiot.
 
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illegal fentanyl kills hundreds of thousands of Americans. That sounds a lot like a weapon of mass destruction to me.
Then you should take steps to take out the sources. The government will tell you where they are.


dea.gov/resources/facts-about-fentanyl
 
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Oh I'm sure absolutely none whatsoever, which proves that Trump is out to bomb beer and cigarette trucks in the US and all anti-trumpers. This is most certainly the start of a final solution genocide of your kind.
I’d have thought you could come up with at least one answer to show this administration actually cares about helping drug users get off the stuff and not just blowing up Venezuelans out at sea.
 
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I’d have thought you could come up with at least one answer to show this administration actually cares about helping drug users get off the stuff and not just blowing up Venezuelans out at sea.
Right, instead of nipping it in the bud. Pulling it out at the root. Greatly reducing availability. The government should do nothing about that, and instead provide treatment to after people get addicted to it. Let's just wait until they're hooked on the stuff and then try to fix them. Provided it doesn't kill them first. That really is the most logical and caring way to handle the problem.

Instead of destroying the stuff before it gets here, open up hundreds of treatment centers for the 1000 people per day who get addicted to a highly available and cheap extreamly addictive and deadly drug.

tldr; Don't stop it, just treat it.

But really that's moot because what's really happening is the government wants to kill liberals and also get everyone's oil.
 
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Or it's give everyone free money and stuff because only poor people get hooked on drugs. After all you never hear about wealthy celebrities getting hooked on drugs. The musician Prince would have nerver died from a fentanyl overdose if he had been given enough welfare.
 
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Right, instead of nipping it in the bud. Pulling it out at the root. Greatly reducing availability. The government should do nothing about that, and instead provide treatment to after people get addicted to it. Let's just wait until they're hooked on the stuff and then try to fix them. Provided it doesn't kill them first. That really is the most logical and caring way to handle the problem.
We should be doing both. Finding ways to get people to avoid going down that path altogether as well as helping the ones who already have.
Instead of destroying the stuff before it gets here, open up hundreds of treatment centers for the 1000 people per day who get addicted to a highly available and cheap extreamly addictive and deadly drug.
I agree with this approach. I've never said you shouldn't stop the flow of drugs into the country. It's just too bad they're not really interested in the second part of your approach to the issue. Their lack of action on drug rehab kinda undercuts the point being made that they're interested in saving lives here.
But really that's moot because what's really happening is the government wants to kill liberals and also get everyone's oil.
No, just Venezuelans for now.
 
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Cars and guns kill way more people than, say, nucular weapons ever have. More than chemical weapons. They sound like a WMD on steroids to me.

Do you know they also use boats! to bring in cars into our country! I'm going the prepare a presentation to the UN so we can get a coalition of the willing fired up.
Who knew all this time, the Japanese have been enacting their revenge.
 
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We should be doing both. Finding ways to get people to avoid going down that path altogether as well as helping the ones who already have.

I agree with this approach. I've never said you shouldn't stop the flow of drugs into the country. It's just too bad they're not really interested in the second part of your approach to the issue. Their lack of action on drug rehab kinda undercuts the point being made that they're interested in saving lives here.
How much should the government be spending on it? How many government funded rehab centers are needed?
No, just Venezuelans for now.
But that's just a stepping stone to achieving the massive conspiracy to genocide everyone Trump doesn't like, right?
 
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Cars and guns kill way more people than, say, nucular weapons ever have. More than chemical weapons. They sound like a WMD on steroids to me.

Do you know they also use boats! to bring in cars into our country! I'm going the prepare a presentation to the UN so we can get a coalition of the willing fired up.
So until cars are classified as weapons of mass destruction, nothing else should be.
 
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Step 1: Classify Antifa as a terrorist organization - Complete.
Step 2: Anyone who speaks out against the government is Antifa - In progress
Step 3: Deploy the military against "terrorist organizations" - A general has now stated to a committee that he would carry out such orders against Americans on American soil.
It looks like america is ruled by the anti-antifascists.
 
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Does this mean he will invade China?
Of course not. Any country with ACTUAL weapons of mass destructions is a valued partner.
 
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