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Republicans Don’t Give a Damn About Americans
REPORT: The House could vote as soon as Tuesday night on a $40 billion package of military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
Trump wanted $4 billion for his Wall and the GOP couldn’t come up with it. The GOP has had massive power time and time again over the last 40 years and hasn’t secured our border. But they can get behind giving 10 times that amount to a country it isn’t in our interest to worry about.
Why don’t conservatives move as swiftly to stop the endless fentanyl killing Americans? The child molesters destroying our children? How about the murderers and gang members infesting our streets and terrorizing our communities? The GOP will win and they’ll do nothing to stop any of it but fundraise and beg for the White House. A curse on both parties. They’re all trash.
Ben Sasse has spoken up more for Ukraine in the last 24 days than he did for Americans getting forcibly locked down, choked out, and experimented on for 24 months. And he's hardly alone among Republicans. I had almost forgotten he was actually a U.S. Senator.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) May 10, 2022
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That’s very nice and you are not paying attention to the news.
This is a WHOLE different discussion, but my life experience is that the issue is “bio-chemical” for many, if that’s even the right word. This is why it’s difficult to understand from person to person. It’s also why some take anti-depressants and others don’t.
It’s an opioid. That is bad enough. Fentanyl has MANY extra complications comprehensively. They need to force it away from the southern border.
What news? The news that people with no jobs, no income, can somehow drink or take drugs for free?
Shut the border down in the way that anybody with common sense understands, and then worry about that.
***There is an order of battle here that is obvious.***
Shutting down the border because of illegal immigration is one thing. I just don’t think shutting down the border to stop drugs can be as effective. For starters, you can’t create illegal immigrants for cheap labor, WITHIN the US. But you can create plenty of illegal drugs, WITHIN the US.
Violence and murder and sex trafficking are all part of the drug cartels’ business. The U.S. government has basically relinquished control of the border to them.
Securing the border means less of the above. How can you not see that?
It’s more valuable per ounce. It creates more problems per ounce.
Nobody is talking about creating fentanyl within the borders right now.
Why would they? It’s currently cheaper to make it in China and import it through Mexico.
You are making my point.
The way I remember it, it came through the mail. It’s obviously better to have it go over the border.
Cheaper now, but if you were able to 100% stop it at the border, that doesn’t mean fentanyl disappears. They just set up labs to make it in the US. Maybe the profit margin is less, maybe the prices go up… but it doesn’t disappear.
Which is obviously good. Law enforcement wants this and it makes perfect sense.
For the record, I have never seen one thing about the manufacture of it. I have no idea how it compares to meth or anything else. You obviously don’t have to grow it like heroin.
Maybe the violence and the murders and the sex trafficking of minors disappears or reduces greatly.
Congress Could Nearly Double U.S. Border Budget With $40 Billion They’re Sending Ukraine
Congress refuses to address our own crises, virtue-signaling about aid to Ukraine without ensuring the money falls into the proper hands.
Our government is robbing us blind.
The “biochemical” argument is a flat-out excuse. There is no urge to take your first dose of anything.
For those who say that the open border doesn’t have anything to do with fentanyl supply, in that it will just be made in the US if the border is closed, is there any evidence of this? I understand that you can make meth in your garage, but fentanyl? I’d like to know if it requires a large professional lab and infrastructure which can be located, or if it can be made in a back room.
As far as I know, most of our drugs, of any sort, have historically been made (or grown) out of the US and shipped in. And I’m pretty sure there is a logistical reason for this.
Why would it/they? It’s just being produced in a different location, the distribution remains essentially the same. If anything, with domestic production some of those problems might actually get worse.
As far as I remember ever reading, it’s a 100% chemical thing. No crop involved. Not even greenhouse type stuff. In the past it might have been considered too complicated and too difficult to produce by small local operations, but that’s probably changed by now.
Well, biochemical/whatever depression could lead someone to try things, but they’re certainly not addicted YET.
I tried sucking on a whole nutmeg once. Very disappointed.
Do we succeed at production enforcement while failing at the dissemination and use levels? Maybe we aren’t as ineffective at the drug war as believed?
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R45812.pdf
Marijuana is cited as the more prevalent US produced drug. Meth production stateside is to a much lesser extent. While not providing numbers, it does appear we are better at production interference than retail interference.
How are you going to close the border given who is in the Oval Office?
The problem wasn’t just the Oval Office.
Powerful rhetoric.
Your argument is that the border control doesn’t make any difference.
Things advance all the time, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has figured out ways to make fentanyl that are easier than in the past.
Blah blah blah. Set a google alert and get back to me.
I don’t know how to make fentanyl, but obviously the Chinese do, and probably the Mexican cartels…
More devastating rhetoric. Are you here all night?
No, that isn’t my argument. Border control might make a difference, but I’m skeptical it would make a long-term change because of the incentives to get drugs through no matter what. Skeptical it won’t help is not the same as being sure it won’t.
Border control would be desirable even if it had no long-term affect on drugs.