This is so he can get wartime and "emergency powers" to stop the midterm elections
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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About time the USA started treating domestic terrorism appropriately...
...oh
Soooo can we declare Purdue Pharmaceutical and the Sackler family terrorists organization under that rhetoric? Asking for a friendly nation.
Nope only applies to illicit fentanyl. Same reason coca cola is the nation's only legal supplier of cocaine.
Good thing we can chemically test for traces that let us know the manufacturer and often lot.
Wasn't there a bust of like 1000 lbs of fentanyl crossing the border from the US into Canada recently?
Sucks their "shithole country" (Trump's rhetoric, just borrowing it) allows such dangerous weapons of mass destruction to cross the border of a peace keeping nation. Maybe they need NATO sanctions?
I believe there was, but Donny dumbass doesn’t care about that.
Hmm fenyntal as a weapon wasn't on my list of war crimes to add to the Geneva checklist but we can throw it to the boys to figure out how to make it work and be novel enough to add a section or two to the next version
It was on mine. Open up the drug trade. Work with the Mexican gangs. Flood more than just fentanyl and create a massive drug crisis. Much bigger than the one that exists now. Hard to fight both at the same time and affects your ability to field an army.
Then maybe we should stop exporting it.
Yeah we should totally ban drug smuggling!
Serious question, should I get a gun?
The statistics are overwhelmingly clear; the most likely person to be killed by a gun is its owner.
Yah show me those statistics cause I highly doubt that.
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/01/111286/access-guns-increases-risk-suicide-homicide
https://time.com/6183881/gun-ownership-risks-at-home/
It makes sense, more proximity to a weapon is more potentially deadly encounters. An intruder very rarely enters your house, but you pass the gun safe in your closet every day.
Yeah, but those statistics weren't taken in a country that is being invaded or going through a civil war
True, and I'd agree on the civil war point.
If you're prepping for an invasion your best bet would be supporting wartime mobilizations instead of personal defense. Bootstrapping a total war economy is no joke.
Your government can probably handle the logistics of recruiting/arming/training people better than local defense cells. However, even if you're not enlisted they'll still need people to work the factories, drive the trucks, sell war bonds, etc...
What are you talking about, history is over. /s
Yes
The only resistance that could stand a chance against the US army would be organized by the Canadian government, in which case they’d provide you with the weapon.
No, fentanyl might be more effective at mass destruction. /s (obviously)
It's this that "newspeak" I've been hearing about?
Oh for fuck sakes.
Fentanyl is the preferred opiate in hospitals. Cheaper per dose. US used to be able to "influence" Afghanistan to help its drug trade profits. Fentanyl is cheap because it doesn't need controlled plants in addition to potency.
Hard to get an exact number for hospital theft amount of fentanyl, but
3,600 cases of alleged drug theft at healthcare facilities over the last five years, including 280 cases so far in 2020.
111,000 instances here where the folks that were reviewing [drug inventories] could not figure out why the math didn't add up,"
What is almost certain is that US healthcare system is a larger source of illegal fentanyl than Canada. If the absurdity that it is a WMD is taken, there should be military security around hospitals before it's placed at the borders.
The death potential of the vial of Anthrax Colin Powell quoted to UN was based on using an eye dropper to kill individuals one by one. WMDs actually require mass deaths from one event as a definition.
Canada needs to immediately stop military cooperation with US. Kick them out of NORAD unless they pay high rent. Stop threatening US enemies, and accepting them as our own.
yep, when my wife was giving birth, they gave her Fentanyl.
Guess all hopsitals are terrorists.
I had fent for abdominal surgery.
I got it for a wrist reconstruction, the nurse said ill give you some fentayll now and I asked isn't that the drug that's killing everyone?
Her answer before I was off with the fairies.
"Yeah but you won't know if you die"
Alright, folks. Time to get on !MapleResistance@lemmy.ca, !Canada@50501.chat, and !resist@fedia.io. !preppers@lemmy.ca could use some love too
For a guy who said he wasn't gonna go to war, he sure as fuck sounds like a guy getting ready to go to war.
Since the major sources of fentanyl brought into the USA are from Mexico, South America, and originate in China I get the feeling he will either invade the south or just use this as an excuse to grab more power without actually mobilizing. He sure as fuck doesn't have the balls to deal with daddy China, he praises the shit of out Xi.
I just hope the economy finally crashes before he gets the chance.
Here comes the "special military operation", but it's not a declaration of war so he doesn't need congressional approval.
Actually thanks to the 2001 AUMF he doesn't need Congress as long as it's part of the (still ongoing, never officially ended) "war on terror". Which, presumably, would include stopping WMDs.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
I'm not being facetious and I'm not joking, and I don't think he is either.
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Not guns?