as the old joke goes, how do you know when a politician is lying, their lips are moving.Semantics...
Not fully, with competing ideologies.Not useful. Not leading to understanding. What do you expect with a fully indoctrinated population that isn't too smart to start with?
are you rich? I'm not rich for the US, but comfortable.Smart people get rich.
I vote, do you?The average guy votes,
No family and no jobs if you don't count this volunteer gig as a moderator.even if it's of no use to anyone and works two, or even three jobs to feed his family.
its too late for me to die young and pretty, but I expect I will die soon enough.The bottom falls out and leads a terrible life before dying too young.
Yes the open border is government supported. The fentanyl supply chain is a joint operation between china and Mexican drug cartels. China no doubt wants to destabilize the US, the cartels just want to make money.Look at the drug problem. Even after investing boatloads of money in the "War On Drugs", nothing changes. What would you expect if the main drug importer is a govt operation?
During 2022, Germany was responsible for 19 percent of the world's total fentanyl consumption. This drug can be used as an analgesic and is about 100 times more potent than morphine. Global consumption of fentanyl has increased steadily in the last decade. This statistic displays the distribution of the global fentanyl consumption by region from 2018 to 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/459497/worldwide-share-of-fentanyl-consumption-by-country/Why is the US the only nation being overrun by Fentanyl?
The mexican cartels are operating relatively unfettered. It is remarkable how much fentanyl is being intercepted by border agents suggesting even more is coming through. The street price of fentanyl is crazy cheap. Addicts are not known for their judgement. Many innocents (?) die from buying drugs that are contaminated with fentanyl.
They don't have a targeted effort from a major enemy like china. China could cut this off in a second but it serves them to destabilize the US.Well, there's some overspill into Canada, of course. Oh, yeah, let's blame the Chinese. If it's the Chinese, why are other countries not overrun by Fentanyl?
prescription opioid painkillers are a different problem. Street fentanyl is made in Mexico from raw materials imported from China.Fentanyl isn't new. It was first created in Belgium in 1959. It was first used in the States in 1968. It wasn't a problem for decades, as it was only used as a painkiller in palliative patients (read: people already dying from cancer). It became a problem because US pharma started selling it for minor pain problems. It's use exploded (and so did the profit), cause there are many Americans who need to kill a pain in order to get to work, due to inhumane work conditions and non-existant medical care for all.
Nice try.... The drug cartels are profit minded but not capitalist.Still, nobody understands that the real cause of the Fentanyl explosion is capitalism. Nothing else. Pure greed. But hey, socialism is the devil...
Socialism is not evil just a failed system that seduces ignorant with false promises. Any student of history has seen multiple examples of those failures.
JR