Of course Trump would think congratulating someone for being honored is better than actually honoring someone for what theyāve done to deserve it. *sigh*
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Oh dear god, why canāt he just die already?
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Does he really think drugs will be stopped by a border wall? Donāt most drugs come by air or sea - or are smuggled through border checkpoints?
I doubt MS13 gang members will be deterred by a wall. Also maybe someone should tell him that MS13 is a domestic gang that went international, not the other way around since he seems to believe this so much.
Maybe he should spend the border wall money on a giant dome that can enclose all the red states.
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Well, if you believe the whispers that have been on the wind since Nixon was the POTUS, the biggest drug importers are our government, and the useless war on drugs is just an excuse to keep Blacks and other āundesirableā citizens incarcerated.
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Indeed Iāve heard this before, along with how crack was invented by the CIA to destroy black neighborhoods.
While I have no doubt the government does and has done all kinds of shady and illegal/immoral shit in the āwar on drugsā I donāt believe thereās a massive and coordinated conspiracy going on.
I have to think that with something of this magnitude it wouldnāt have been relegated to the conspiracy nut realm for so long. People love to talk and far worse things have been leaked far sooner with much more damning evidence.
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All I know for sure is this:
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
Any other āwarā with such a dismal āsuccess rateā would have been ended by now.
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There definitely was a recorded undercurrent of racism involved in the war against drugs under Nixon, though.
āYou know, itās a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose itās because most of them are psychiatrists.ā --Richard Nixon, 1971
Then thereās the (admittedly, disputed) quote from his domestic policy chief: āWe knew we couldnāt make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.ā
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Oh, donāt get me wrong. I fully believe the entire war on drugs is a sham and it disproportionately affects poor minorities. Thanks to ongoing prison privatization (which has already been further deregulated thanks to the Racist Elf) people definitely have a financial interest in keeping others incarcerated.
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Anytime the government declares war against a concept it would never have a conceivable ending
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Fair point.
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/856233279841849344
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/856234989591121922
EDIT
The poll in question said he would win the vote 43% to 40% from the respondents.
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āAlso, Santa, the Easter Bunny, and Unicorns are all still alive today, and support me 100%.ā
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Wait, is it the fake media falsely saying Hillary won the popular vote, or is it that there were three million illegal votes that should not have been counted? Iām so confused. head_explodes.gif
ETA why is he still harping about it?
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Iāve heard the quote but not the dispute. Do you know anything about whoās disputing it?
From what Iāve read, Ehrlichmanās children have disputed it, and Pat Buchanan (previously Nixonās speechwriter) has claimed that the quote didnāt describe policy. I havenāt looked much into the evidence either way, though it seems like a hell of a quote to accuse someone of making it up.
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Looks like this piece has the story of the quoteās origin.
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Iām getting to this level with each passing day:
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This basically says it all:
Weāre fucked.
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