It's amazing. Kamala gets subjected to the neutral "how you gonna pay for that" tsking. And here they just straight up lie. These have zero, zilch, nada to do with Fentanyl, of which, virtually zero comes from Canada.
They’re even using this dishonestly - 42 pounds got intercepted - which is a 2000% increase! And enough to OD 9 million people! Well what we intercept from Mexico in a given year would OD the entire country man woman and child with plenty left over, so… their flock is so goddamn willfully stupid
You kinda get the sense they just fed this shit to an inexperienced 23 year old reporter who laundered into an article in The Times and now they're running with this obvious lie.
The Times has always considered this their main daily function with government. Just repeat what any administration says. Let the investigative reporters pitch longform correctives to any lies told to the beat reporters. No way that could be manipulated into being an efficient propaganda op, eh?
I see she’s a health and wellness reporter so this makes it even more absurd she’s simply repeating the bs rationale for it. Zero critical thinking involved. Then again, what better way to move up the ladder than by doing the bidding of Sulzberger and Kahn.
It’s possible. Only article from her a found on him was a puff piece on his food allergy stance (she does not mention it’s an anti vax thing, nor anything else about him that would be useful in context)
Why stop at the overdoses? At a certain level aren't the tariffs standing athwart death in a general sense, or perhaps even acting as a blockade against human failure in all its many forms?
And the Grim Reaper - Mister Death himself, remember him? Sleepy Joe just let him into the country whenever he wanted. Nobody’s seen him for a while and you know why? He can’t get his favorite outfits anymore, and those big blades farmers use. Give it up for our farmers folks, we love them.
In 2024, 21,000 lbs of fentanyl was seized at the Mexican border, and 43 lbs were seized at the Canadian border. Canada is not a source of fentanyl for the U.S. (the same cannot be said in reverse, btw). Nobody believes the bullshit about tariffs being about fentanyl from Canada.
Right...who is debating the belief part? But by law, that is the official reason behind it. This isn't hard to look at the legal, office support for the tariffs (which makes it all the more ridiculous that they pulled em back in 2 days).
Please don't post direct links to the New York Times. Your screenshot made your point nicely. We shouldn't be subsidizing a fascist propaganda outlet whose lies are killing millions of people.
The whip-saw effects of his on-again, off-again tariff orders create ripe opportunities for stock market manipulation. The Times should write about that. But maybe find another reporter. This one’s not up to the job.
First, more Fentanyl comes into Canada from the US than comes out of Canada to the US. No one mentions the amount of guns smuggled into Canada and Mexico from the US which empower drug gangs. Maybe the US should take some responsibility in stemming that flow of illegal weapons. That just might help
You're many years late to that story. They've been lying on behalf of treason and fascism since dirt was new fangled; even if they did decide that Vietnam was a bad idea and publish the Pentagon Papers.
At least the first time around the messaging was that he'd turn the stove off if Trudeau would help police their side of the border, not that the economics carnage would actually solve anything.
That was also a lie, but at least it's cognizable.
Hey Katie Mogg does that mean it’s ok for life threatening overdoses to continue for a month? Maybe it’s less threatening in March since it’s a damp month? Or does it mean the admin is too busy thwarting other things like govt jobs? Maybe we’ll just take regular doses of the fentanyl for a month?
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Or kill all of them, just like Mao did with the sparrows.
WTF?
How far are you going to sink?
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I presume this means that the flow of fentanyl has stopped. What wonderful news!
The tariffs cannot do what they are purporting to do; fentanyl is a pretext, not a reason.
Reads more like a GB news headline.
But there are ways (public libraries & archives) to get around that.
Wouldn't tariffs, in fact, incentivize smuggling?
That was also a lie, but at least it's cognizable.