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    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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    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

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      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.

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    14 hours ago

    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

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    17 hours ago

    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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      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.

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      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.

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      18 hours ago

      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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        And yet, when used in medicine, the drug has to be ingested or injected. We can’t just rub it on the skin.

        Hmmm

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        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.

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

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    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.

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      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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          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.

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