Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
www.whitehouse.gov
DEFENDING AMERICA FROM A CHEMICAL WEAPON: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order designating illicit fentanyl and its core precursor
  • PNW_Doug@lemmy.worldEnglish
    702·
    3 months ago

    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.worldEnglish
      361·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • Archangel1313@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • n0respect@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 months ago

      In all fairness, I don’t think any of this crazy is coming from Trump. It’s the perfectly sane fascists he has hired.

  • 007Ace@lemmy.caEnglish
    45·
    3 months ago

    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?

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    3 months 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

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyzEnglish
      34·
      3 months ago

      America’s military invasion of Canada

      What does that even look like, the day after US troops occupy TorontoOttowa? Canadians waging an insurgency from the woods, occasionally killing some random cops?

  • SourGumGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    3 months ago

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

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    3 months 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…

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    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

    • bampop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      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.