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| POTUS At Opioid Summit: Countries That Kill Drug Dealers Have Much Less Of A Drug Problem, You Know |
| 2018-03-02 |
| [HOT AIR] I’m trying to locate this on the spectrum between "take him seriously but not literally," as his supporters do, and "take him literally but not seriously," as the media does. I think it falls somewhere in the gray zone of stuff he’d like to do and would do if American norms were different. But since they aren’t, he’s left musing wistfully about how much better things would be if law enforcement could just take the gloves off with the bad guys, a theme he’s returned to occasionally as president. It’s also a point he’s reportedly made in private. The fact that we’re hearing it now fits with POTUS’s drift recently towards "letting Trump be Trump," to borrow a phrase from Corey Lewandowski. He was enthusiastic about gun control yesterday; he declared a trade war on steel and aluminum imports this morning; now here he is fantasizing about a Duterte-type solution to America’s drug problem. All of those positions are what you’d expect from a nationalist strongman. Maybe the days of POTUS rubber-stamping conservative policy pushed by Ryan and McConnell are over. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 So.. if Khat field in Yemen were treated with paraquat would the civil war end in total hangover? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-03-02 20:29 |
| #8 Banning drugs makes about as much sense as banning guns. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2018-03-02 18:09 |
| #7 Trump often puts out controversial comments. As #1 said, he likes scratching at and trolling the opposition. I watched a panel with the head of DHS and other agencies and it sounded like the Trump admin. has a fairly comprehensive program to deal with a complex opioid problem which has many dimensions. Part of the problem is addiction that results from the medical treatment of acute and chronic pain. Without thinking too hard, I can think of a number of friends, neighbors and relatives who been affected by opioid addiction as the result of both legal and illegal drugs. This goes across all socio-economic strata. The neighbor across the street lost a son, a WWII vet down the street lost a grandson, a friend, a retired cop is dealing with his son's addiction who was injured in an IED explosion in Iraq. I could mention others and I suspect others here probably could similar stories. My great nephew is a 1st responder and about 50 percent of their calls are for drug over-doses. Addiction is a serious and complex problem. I hope an impact can be made by Trump's program. Wish Mueller's Russian-Trump collusion probe would go away. It is a waste of time and money and nothing has been found in over a year. It has become an instrument for obstructing justice of the real criminality and collusion. Time to get on with more important things like the opiod addiction problem. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-03-02 18:08 |
| #6 Comparisons to Duterte won't sway those like me; hell we were talking about him at Wednesday's campfire. Probably because we are tired of watching nice places turn into shitholes. However. There are a number of countries where drug dealing is the death penalty, and has been for a long time. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2018-03-02 16:29 |
| #5 And then there is also abortion. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-03-02 08:44 |
| #4 And yet we do hit jobs via drones or commando raids against financiers of terrorism. They're not pulling a trigger, setting off the bomb, or are in the front lines either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-03-02 08:32 |
| #3 It might appear that our failure to terminate them will result in their terminating us. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-02 07:28 |
| #2 Honestly I am fine with any participation in the drug trade being punished by death. I am tested constantly in my job because druggies get people killed or maimed and it's not always just them paying the price. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2018-03-02 07:23 |
| #1 He does likes teasing them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-02 05:06 |