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surfered

(11,454 posts) Wed Dec 17, 2025, 11:16 AM Dec 17

Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction.

The Congressman is referring to Ross Ulbricht who founded Silk Road, online marketplace that facilitated the trade in narcotics and other illegal products. He was sentenced to 40 years.

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Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. (Original Post) surfered Dec 17 OP

I don't care about one guy gulliver Dec 17 #1

I get your point, but declaring it as such does not accomplish what you stipulated AZJonnie Dec 17 #3

It's like Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy. Scrivener7 Dec 17 #4

Exactly! AZJonnie Dec 18 #6

Two weeks ago today, I had surgery to fix a detached retina in my left eye. greatauntoftriplets Dec 17 #2

This is moronic even coming from trump LetMyPeopleVote Dec 17 #5

gulliver

(13,713 posts)

1. I don't care about one guy

Reply to surfered (Original post)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 11:49 AM

Dec 17

If we take fentanyl more seriously as a result of declaring it a weapon of mass destruction, I'm 100% for it.

The exception proves the rule. For example, if Trump let this one guy go for whatever reason but still cracked down on thousands of criminals in the fentanyl supply chain, reducing the supply, letting the one guy go would be negligible and not even worth mentioning. Obviously, with Trump, you wonder if he's just blustering and won't actually do anything.

AZJonnie

(2,769 posts)

3. I get your point, but declaring it as such does not accomplish what you stipulated

Reply to gulliver (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 17, 2025, 12:24 PM

Dec 17

There's no mechanism in which widespread public health resources are brought to bear to combat a disease epidemic just because a POTUS says some drug is a WMD.

If he'd declared COVID was a WMD back in 2020, what *more* would have suddenly happened to combat the disease that was not already happening as a result? Nothing, that's what.

This is an excuse for extra-judicial murder of brown foreigners and to justify war.