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https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fentanyl-weapon-of-mass-destruction-executive-order-draft-scoop

Well this is absolutely frightening in so much that Trump is going to force his way into Canada via military operations by claiming fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.

Anyone remember the Bush Administration and WMDs they said were there but never were?

Elbows up Canuck’s. The time to prepare is most likely closer than we think.

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[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

The only WMD around these parts is Krasnov himself.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

This is so he can get wartime and "emergency powers" to stop the midterm elections

[–] oxysis@lemm.ee 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Can't wait to be jailed for being an enemy of the state for fucking anything

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

If that time comes, remove as many as you can and don't be a prisoner

[–] oxysis@lemm.ee 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t want to be a prisoner but let’s be honest they already know what I have typed. It’s already been green lit to spy on queer folx for being queer.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That's why you need to get a bottle of fash away and make sure they orally take the product for best results. Emergency use only.

To avoid getting banned, I'm not going to spell it out but you can read between the lines.

[–] pticrix@lemmy.ca 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Soooo can we declare Purdue Pharmaceutical and the Sackler family terrorists organization under that rhetoric? Asking for a friendly nation.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nope only applies to illicit fentanyl. Same reason coca cola is the nation's only legal supplier of cocaine.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Good thing we can chemically test for traces that let us know the manufacturer and often lot.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

About time the USA started treating domestic terrorism appropriately...

...oh

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wasn't there a bust of like 1000 lbs of fentanyl crossing the border from the US into Canada recently?

[–] Isaac@waterloolemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

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?

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

I believe there was, but Donny dumbass doesn’t care about that.

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] chuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I mean all i had on my mind was poisoning a water supply with the stuff but I think that's already on the list somewhere. Other idea was all pows would be turned into drug addicts using it but I assume that's on the list already

Either way like I said we can kick the idea around the room for better ideas

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Serious question, should I get a gun?

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Serious answer, you should have gotten a gun years ago. The writing has been plastered on the wall for ages.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah, probably. There's lots of good options, but it's hard to go wrong with a 12-gauge shotgun.

Edit: and as someone else said, prepare for levee en masse. Get started now, grow a garden if you have space, start guerilla gardening if you don't, teach yourself to forage, can, and fix shit like tears in clothing. For food crops: beans. Beans beans beans beans beans. And potatoes. You'll hate life, but you'll be alive to hate it.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

The statistics are overwhelmingly clear; the most likely person to be killed by a gun is its owner.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago

So you're saying yes?

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

Oh for fuck sakes.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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.

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/05/918279481/some-health-workers-suffering-from-addiction-steal-drugs-meant-for-patients

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.

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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

It's this that "newspeak" I've been hearing about?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 100 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Since the major sources of fentanyl brought into the USA are from Mexico and 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.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

I just hope the economy finally crashes before he gets the chance.

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

Alright, folks. Time to get on !MapleResistance@lemmy.ca, !Canada@50501.chat, and !resist@fedia.io. !preppers@lemmy.ca could use some love too

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here comes the "special military operation", but it's not a declaration of war so he doesn't need congressional approval.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 82 points 1 day ago (9 children)

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.

[–] Retropunk64@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Si vis pacem, para bellum

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Then maybe we should stop exporting it.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 20 hours ago

Yeah we should totally ban drug smuggling!

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