Back in 2011, got the flesh eating bacteria, raw nerves exposed, prescribed a strong narcotic~~ addiction, sought treatment & worked my ass off to get off the pills. It’s CRAZY how takes over a year before start leveling out. But addiction requires access to treatment! All this focus on stopping supply, no one states the obvious- DRUGS OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING EXIST BECAUSE THERE IS A DEMAND - ITS ECONOMICS 101 supply and demand. All the talk of opioid epidemic & all the focus on stopping trafficking and blaming the fentanyl ?
And let me tell you how effing HARD it was! Most of the ppl I went to rehab with are dead. So to be effective, long term treatment is needed. That takes money but I would love to see a smidge if the focus being on DEMAND end- all the talk & money used for border? What if all those empty migrant holding spaces wet converted to treatments beds? So much $ going to militarize border yet zero talk about DEMAND IN THE US.
Gotta stop all that fentanyl. Unless it's trafficked by our friends, like pardoned Ross Ulbricht, in which case it doesn't count, because what part of "pardoned" don't you understand?
Important fact: Ross Ulbricht is white, and a US citizen, which makes him resemble the majority of those bringing fentanyl across the border. So: message sent! Don't be brown. It's simple, right?
Mexico and Canada have learned the important lesson from tyrants worldwide that promising to give him what he wants in a way that allows him to claim victory will allow you to get exactly what you want from him right now.
May I just say one unpopular thing: If the Mexicans should secretly agree, to hit some of the kid-killers across the borders one time would not be wrong. The mexican civil war, we-hey.
"How much have we missed Donald Trump’s signature...? Not even a little tiny bit, we’re not members of the White House press corps."
I'm not convinced that a majority of the WH press corps are thrilled with having to cover Mooseballs Mussolini again. IMO, they would have preferred a return to the good old days when a WH spox wasn't spending most of their time behind the podium spewing hatred, vilifying the opposition, blaming anything that goes wrong on the other party, flinging "Presidential" bovine scat, when reporters didn't lob softballs so the spox could spin the answers accordingly, when they weren't scared shitless about reporting facts and truth -- about losing their White House credentials and the very real possibility of violence directed at them and/or their loved ones....
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"Mexico will send 10,000 new troops to its northern border to help slow the flow of drugs across the border that Trump and Stephen Miller see in their Nazi fever dream nightmares"
The Mexican army and National Guard will probably facilitate the flow of the millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US. They have no desires to see violent prisoners and residents of mental facilities from other countries remain in Mexico; let the Gringos deal with the marauding hordes.
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"Trump announced that he will postpone for one month the 25 percent tariffs on Mexican goods that he signed into existence over the weekend"
Postpone, not eliminate. The Fulvous Flatulence wouldn't end the possibility of tariffs, if he did he would just have to reissue an EO; he needs to keep the threat in place, like the Sword of Damocles, should Pres Sheinbaum decide to try to maintain Mexico's sovereignty, and to buck future demands from the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster.
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"objected to passengers on those flights being handcuffed and shackled and generally treated without an ounce of human dignity"
Why would the Pumpkin Pestilence be at all concerned with the dignity of those he is exporting. They are, after all, both illegal aliens *and* POCs, so, by definition, they are less than human.
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"the White House loudly trumpeted that Colombia had caved to all of the president’s demands"
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon… no matter how good you are the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway." IMPOed [some rando on substack]
There are no "violent prisoners and residents of mental facilities from other countries": the business about mental facilities comes from Il Douche's inability to understand what the word "asylum" means, and any violent people among the migrants are those who failed to be imprisoned in their home countries, the notion that countries let people out of prison to go bother the US being just another of the Dumb Antichrist's fever dreams.
Unless your reply was intended for the edification of others, may I politely suggest that you consider getting your sarc meter recalibrated;
* "millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US" was clue number one that this section was sarcastic in nature. The total undocumented immigrant population as of July 2023 was ~11.7 million, an increase of a paltry 800,000 YoY. (https://cmsny.org/us-undocumented-population-increased-in-july-2023-warren-090624/):
* Clue number two was the entire sentence: "The Mexican army and National Guard will probably facilitate the flow of the millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US." The army nor National Guard can set policy, especially about who gets stopped at the border and who they will let cross -- much less who they will help to illegally cross the border (as if);
* Number three was the quote you used. It seems obvious that I have no love lost for Mooseballs Mussolini so anything I say that is attributable to him should be considered open mockery. ("I’d love to ask him, and will, why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country[.]” https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/02/donald-trump-debate-claim-criminals-flooded-border-debunked/)
I can see how number three could give a false impression, but overall I think that section was self-evident sarc. If nothing else, the quote at the end of my post should have made it clear as to how I feel about the Fulvous Flatulence by comparing him to a pigeon shitting on a chessboard.
May I politely suggest to you that it is impossible to tell who is being sarcastic and who is in the grip of cult-think these days. "millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US" was not, for example, any kind of clue that you were sarcastic given how many believe that.
"If nothing else, the quote at the end of my post..." You put up a huge wall of text that you should not have expected people to read in full.
1) Sheinbaum has given Trump a big propaganda victory. The MSM will cheer on his "mighty victory getting Mexico to submit" and this will boost his political capital. Sheinbaum should have called his bluff and made him introduce the tariffs.
"It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are," said Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell. "'Oh you want 10,000 troops?' says world leader who already deployed 15K. 'Great 10k it is.'"
The voter suppression link is kind of a big deal, if corroborated quantitatively. We know it exists, the numbers cited change the character of the injustice, not least since they point to a different election outcome. The issue deserves to rise higher on the list of fascist crimes to be addressed if there is ever a significant post-fascist restoration. Significant as in power to compel red states to stop that shit, to remove fascism enablers from the courts, to roll back Citizens United.
I talked to my Trumpy Neighbor about the tariffs. I asked her how, if the tariff increases the price for the consumer, the cost of goods is actually going to come down?
She did not know, but she trusts Trump when he says the costs will come down after they go up.
I realize that some people here think I am wasting my time talking to Trumpy Neighbor. Point taken, but I also find it instructive to try to understand how Trump followers try to justify their undying loyalty.
Not a trained psychologist, but interested in how, even though she knows that Trump lies incessantly, she believes him. A contradiction which I can't make sense of.
It is more that she is willing to pretend to believe him, for the sake of speaking the "creed" that validates her membership in the movement, a movement she wants to be part of for reasons she knows better than to speak aloud, so instead she speaks aloud things that she really does understand are false.
Hopefully, it's too late to stop the boycotts of US companies that already kicked off here in Mexico over the weekend. If people drink less Coca Cola and buy less US products, a win for the Mexican economy. Hell, being handicapped, I buy most of my groceries online and have them delivered. Unfortunately, Walmart has the easiest to use website, but I spent a couple hours setting up alternative sources.
In her address to the nation yesterday, the Presidenta also pointed out that the "fentanyl crisis" started with USDA approval for the Sackler family's fine line of addictive substances. And that while Mexico is quite willing to cooperate with the US on getting a handle on its narcotics addiction problem, it's a public health matter.
As to the weapons, less reported, but still going thru the courts are those lawsuits by Mexico against US arms manufacturers and targeted suits against some gun shops on the US side of the border.
Back in 2011, got the flesh eating bacteria, raw nerves exposed, prescribed a strong narcotic~~ addiction, sought treatment & worked my ass off to get off the pills. It’s CRAZY how takes over a year before start leveling out. But addiction requires access to treatment! All this focus on stopping supply, no one states the obvious- DRUGS OR HUMAN TRAFFICKING EXIST BECAUSE THERE IS A DEMAND - ITS ECONOMICS 101 supply and demand. All the talk of opioid epidemic & all the focus on stopping trafficking and blaming the fentanyl ?
And let me tell you how effing HARD it was! Most of the ppl I went to rehab with are dead. So to be effective, long term treatment is needed. That takes money but I would love to see a smidge if the focus being on DEMAND end- all the talk & money used for border? What if all those empty migrant holding spaces wet converted to treatments beds? So much $ going to militarize border yet zero talk about DEMAND IN THE US.
Hey Gary, if you don’t already know, Mexico and Biden agreed to the 10,000 soldiers in December 2024. Trump is too stupid to know that.
Gotta stop all that fentanyl. Unless it's trafficked by our friends, like pardoned Ross Ulbricht, in which case it doesn't count, because what part of "pardoned" don't you understand?
Important fact: Ross Ulbricht is white, and a US citizen, which makes him resemble the majority of those bringing fentanyl across the border. So: message sent! Don't be brown. It's simple, right?
Ta, Gary. Dump is truly the bilgliest loser. Ever.
Mexico and Canada have learned the important lesson from tyrants worldwide that promising to give him what he wants in a way that allows him to claim victory will allow you to get exactly what you want from him right now.
So 10,000 troops on a border that extends just about 2000 miles - so one soldier every half mile.
Yep, that oughta do it.
*5,000 fewer troops on the border.
1 soldier every 1/5 mile
May I just say one unpopular thing: If the Mexicans should secretly agree, to hit some of the kid-killers across the borders one time would not be wrong. The mexican civil war, we-hey.
Right! It would be great to have the Mexican troops help us round up the ar-15s killing our kids at school!
𝘞𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘩 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘩𝘦’𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸-𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳....
Why not, since they were never coming across in anything like the amounts he was claiming in the first place?
That's the great thing about imaginary problems. They have imaginary solutions.
https://substack.com/profile/157420297-margery-traylor-trashe/note/c-90830468
"How much have we missed Donald Trump’s signature...? Not even a little tiny bit, we’re not members of the White House press corps."
I'm not convinced that a majority of the WH press corps are thrilled with having to cover Mooseballs Mussolini again. IMO, they would have preferred a return to the good old days when a WH spox wasn't spending most of their time behind the podium spewing hatred, vilifying the opposition, blaming anything that goes wrong on the other party, flinging "Presidential" bovine scat, when reporters didn't lob softballs so the spox could spin the answers accordingly, when they weren't scared shitless about reporting facts and truth -- about losing their White House credentials and the very real possibility of violence directed at them and/or their loved ones....
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"Mexico will send 10,000 new troops to its northern border to help slow the flow of drugs across the border that Trump and Stephen Miller see in their Nazi fever dream nightmares"
The Mexican army and National Guard will probably facilitate the flow of the millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US. They have no desires to see violent prisoners and residents of mental facilities from other countries remain in Mexico; let the Gringos deal with the marauding hordes.
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"Trump announced that he will postpone for one month the 25 percent tariffs on Mexican goods that he signed into existence over the weekend"
Postpone, not eliminate. The Fulvous Flatulence wouldn't end the possibility of tariffs, if he did he would just have to reissue an EO; he needs to keep the threat in place, like the Sword of Damocles, should Pres Sheinbaum decide to try to maintain Mexico's sovereignty, and to buck future demands from the Sociopathic Marigold Swamp Monster.
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"objected to passengers on those flights being handcuffed and shackled and generally treated without an ounce of human dignity"
Why would the Pumpkin Pestilence be at all concerned with the dignity of those he is exporting. They are, after all, both illegal aliens *and* POCs, so, by definition, they are less than human.
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"the White House loudly trumpeted that Colombia had caved to all of the president’s demands"
"Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon… no matter how good you are the bird is going to shit on the board and strut around like it won anyway." IMPOed [some rando on substack]
fnord
There are no "violent prisoners and residents of mental facilities from other countries": the business about mental facilities comes from Il Douche's inability to understand what the word "asylum" means, and any violent people among the migrants are those who failed to be imprisoned in their home countries, the notion that countries let people out of prison to go bother the US being just another of the Dumb Antichrist's fever dreams.
Mr Eckert,
Unless your reply was intended for the edification of others, may I politely suggest that you consider getting your sarc meter recalibrated;
* "millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US" was clue number one that this section was sarcastic in nature. The total undocumented immigrant population as of July 2023 was ~11.7 million, an increase of a paltry 800,000 YoY. (https://cmsny.org/us-undocumented-population-increased-in-july-2023-warren-090624/):
* Clue number two was the entire sentence: "The Mexican army and National Guard will probably facilitate the flow of the millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US." The army nor National Guard can set policy, especially about who gets stopped at the border and who they will let cross -- much less who they will help to illegally cross the border (as if);
* Number three was the quote you used. It seems obvious that I have no love lost for Mooseballs Mussolini so anything I say that is attributable to him should be considered open mockery. ("I’d love to ask him, and will, why he allowed millions of people to come in here from prisons, jails and mental institutions to come into our country and destroy our country[.]” https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2024/07/02/donald-trump-debate-claim-criminals-flooded-border-debunked/)
I can see how number three could give a false impression, but overall I think that section was self-evident sarc. If nothing else, the quote at the end of my post should have made it clear as to how I feel about the Fulvous Flatulence by comparing him to a pigeon shitting on a chessboard.
fnord
May I politely suggest to you that it is impossible to tell who is being sarcastic and who is in the grip of cult-think these days. "millions upon millions of those trying to immigrate to the US" was not, for example, any kind of clue that you were sarcastic given how many believe that.
"If nothing else, the quote at the end of my post..." You put up a huge wall of text that you should not have expected people to read in full.
yeah...that's pretty much Erisian's M-O...wall of text...i learned to scroll past long ago...talk about pigeons and chessboards 🙄
It's only Monday and I have to disengage with news,,,,
If you leave on ESPN, you will learn so much about the SuperB owl, you can win trivia beers all day Sunday.
This is absolutely wrong.
1) Sheinbaum has given Trump a big propaganda victory. The MSM will cheer on his "mighty victory getting Mexico to submit" and this will boost his political capital. Sheinbaum should have called his bluff and made him introduce the tariffs.
2) Trump outsources militarized repression to Mexico and US leftists celebrate it as a win. Details in Spanish: https://laverdadjuarez.com/micrositios/incendio-estancia-migratoria-ciudad-juarez/#una-estancia-en-malas-condiciones
"It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are," said Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell. "'Oh you want 10,000 troops?' says world leader who already deployed 15K. 'Great 10k it is.'"
The author here thinks Sheinbaum promised 10,000 "new" troops, but that does not actually appear to be the case, correct me if I am mistaken.
That's also easy. You rotate out 15,000 send in 10,000 different people to take over.
The voter suppression link is kind of a big deal, if corroborated quantitatively. We know it exists, the numbers cited change the character of the injustice, not least since they point to a different election outcome. The issue deserves to rise higher on the list of fascist crimes to be addressed if there is ever a significant post-fascist restoration. Significant as in power to compel red states to stop that shit, to remove fascism enablers from the courts, to roll back Citizens United.
I talked to my Trumpy Neighbor about the tariffs. I asked her how, if the tariff increases the price for the consumer, the cost of goods is actually going to come down?
She did not know, but she trusts Trump when he says the costs will come down after they go up.
I realize that some people here think I am wasting my time talking to Trumpy Neighbor. Point taken, but I also find it instructive to try to understand how Trump followers try to justify their undying loyalty.
Bless you, you do the Lord's work.
However, unless you are a trained psychologist I don't know that you'll gain any insights.
Not a trained psychologist, but interested in how, even though she knows that Trump lies incessantly, she believes him. A contradiction which I can't make sense of.
It is more that she is willing to pretend to believe him, for the sake of speaking the "creed" that validates her membership in the movement, a movement she wants to be part of for reasons she knows better than to speak aloud, so instead she speaks aloud things that she really does understand are false.
Hopefully, it's too late to stop the boycotts of US companies that already kicked off here in Mexico over the weekend. If people drink less Coca Cola and buy less US products, a win for the Mexican economy. Hell, being handicapped, I buy most of my groceries online and have them delivered. Unfortunately, Walmart has the easiest to use website, but I spent a couple hours setting up alternative sources.
US beer and liquor sales to Canada will not recover either.
Same for me, and I mostly use Walmart. I get mostly Arab and African drivers. Excellent service.
For 'alternate sources' I will yell at my kids. Not enough ice flows to put me on so I get the last laugh.
In her address to the nation yesterday, the Presidenta also pointed out that the "fentanyl crisis" started with USDA approval for the Sackler family's fine line of addictive substances. And that while Mexico is quite willing to cooperate with the US on getting a handle on its narcotics addiction problem, it's a public health matter.
As to the weapons, less reported, but still going thru the courts are those lawsuits by Mexico against US arms manufacturers and targeted suits against some gun shops on the US side of the border.
Sheinbaum should tell PAB to stuff it, and tell him that once the US cuts the flow of guns into Mexico she'll reciprocate with fentanyl.