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Trump Designates Fentanyl as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (www.whitehouse.gov)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
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[–] 88 points 9 months ago (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 49 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    And we thought G.W. Bush was an idiot... I kinda miss that guy now.

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  • [+] -9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Bush was even worse than trump and unless trump turns somewhere into Iraq 2.0 he will continue to be.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    People forget who Bush was. They forget everything but his dumb laugh. The economy tanked under Bush. He started two wars. He ushered in the Patriot Act. Education was gutted. Tax cuts for the rich. Contracts for corporations.

    Bush laid the blueprints out for people like Trump.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don't know if you heard, but there's this place called "Venezuela"...

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yes and at this point he hasn't done anything nearly as bad as Bush in Iraq he very probably could but i truthfully see it more likely he doesn't and just bombs some land claims he destroyed drug operations and continues the aggression and so on he could turn it to Iraq 2.0 but so far he hasn't. To be clear what he's done already is terrible and he will almost certainly do more.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago*

    Give it a minute. The Bush administration hyped the idea of WMDs in Iraq for well over a year before they actually invaded.

    And considering the size of the military build-up that's been going on off the coast of Venezuela over the last several months, it's pretty obvious what their intensions are. There is no other practical reason for that amount of ships, planes and active duty personnel, other than invasion.

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