Joe Biden LAUGHS While Talking About Grieving Mother Who Lost Two Sons to Fentanyl

Phantasmal said:
He was laughing at Marge, not the fentanyl deaths.

Also, do Trumpublicans not understand the meaning of the word “seized”? Marge doesn’t, that’s clear.
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And if trump had none it you would have had an aneurysm. If only Trump had done it.
 
AProudLefty said:
Y O U made the claim that the borders are open. If that's the case, there wouldn't be massive seizures.

Come on you're intelligent.
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The borders are, for all intents, open. Massive seizures mean nothing on their own. Example. If seizures have doubled, but ten times more illegal drugs are successfully entering the country, then the seizures are failing and the border is open for all intents. You can't measure success of seizures without knowing how much is still getting in and it's clear a lot is and the government has no clear idea what that amount really is.
 
Does he really believe he made a salient point there? More gets through with you in office because you refuse to secure the border, it's a miracle we seize ANY at all because you refuse to stop illegal entry. Your policies are killing people Brandon, they really are. They are killing people that you then laugh at, and are still killing people even if you do tell stories about nurses breathing in your face and children who love to rub your hairy legs.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
I'm wondering how he knew the fentanyl they took came into the US during the Trump administration. Joke must be psychotic or psychic--doubt that--or something....
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https://www.theoaklandpress.com/202...uesday-before-u-s-congressional-subcommittee/
Her intense grief just doesn’t let up, Kiessling said. Nor does the number of young people killed by the same substance that took the lives of her sons, Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, along with their friend, 17-year-old Sophia Harris, on July 29, 2020.

Or perhaps Joe knows something about time that you don't.
 
AProudLefty said:
Y O U made the claim that the borders are open. If that's the case, there wouldn't be massive seizures.

Come on you're intelligent.
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I don't think he is. He doesn't even know the difference between 'incentives' and 'mandates'.

And he can't even comprehend that Biden seizing MORE fentanyl than Trump is a good thing. Methinks TA Garbler is having a panty-wetting hissy fit.

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It is time to turn the screws on China AND Mexico to slow/stop the flow of Fentanyl. Biden needs to grow some balls and protect Americans.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
I don't think he is. He doesn't even know the difference between 'incentives' and 'mandates'.

And he can't even comprehend that Biden seizing MORE fentanyl than Trump is a good thing. Methinks TA Garbler is having a panty-wetting hissy fit.

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That is because MORE Fentanyl is crossing our border you moron. If under Trump a 1,000 lbs of Fentanyl comes across and we caught 10 lbs and under the Biden administration 10,000 lbs come across and we catch 5,000 lbs is that an improvement? The best metric of increasing Fentanyl availability is the increasing fentanyl OD deaths.

In 2021, 70,601 people died from a fentanyl overdose in the US. That figure is up 25% from 2020 and is nearly double the amount of fentanyl overdose deaths in 2019.
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https://usafacts.org/articles/are-fentanyl-overdose-deaths-rising-in-the-us/
 
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Joe Capitalist said:
I don't think he is. He doesn't even know the difference between 'incentives' and 'mandates'.

And he can't even comprehend that Biden seizing MORE fentanyl than Trump is a good thing. Methinks TA Garbler is having a panty-wetting hissy fit.

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It isn't if he's letting more get in undetected than Trump did at the same time. You obviously never progressed beyond 6th grade arithmetic.
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
I thought that the timing of her son's death during the Trump Administration, while blaming Biden for killing her son was laughable!

In fact, I can't stop laughing about how stupid this person was!
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Little lizard, you are correct to a point but, border crossings now number in the millions and the cartels are having a field day. Chinese encounters at our border are up over 700% so yes there was fentanyl when Trump was president but right now well over 100,000 deaths per year from this drug land squarely on Brandon's and that idiot he put in charge, Heels Up Harris.
 
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Lionfish said:
Little lizard, you are correct to a point but, border crossings now number in the millions and the cartels are having a field day. Chinese encounters at our border are up over 700% so yes there was fentanyl when Trump was president but right now well over 100,000 deaths per year from this drug land squarely on Brandon's and that idiot he put in charge, Heels Up Harris.
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Stop with the "HEY LOOK! SHINEY! LOOK OVER HERE!" bullshit!

The truth is the fentanyl problem was here long before Biden became president, and it is no worse now than it was under the Trump Administration.



Deaths from fentanyl jumped 23% in President Joe Biden’s first year in office to more than 70,000, but they’ve been increasing since 2014 and also rose during Donald Trump’s administration.

Although immigration encounters at the southern U.S. border have spiked under Biden’s watch, experts say most of the fentanyl coming into the U.S. from Mexico is coming through legal ports of entry. The vast majority of people sentenced for fentanyl trafficking are U.S. citizens, data shows.

The southern border is not wide open. Funding and staffing levels for border protection have remained consistent between the Trump and Biden administrations, and border laws and policies continue to be enforced.

See the sources for this fact-check

President Joe Biden may have been seeking a bipartisan solution to America’s staggering fentanyl crisis when he raised the issue at his State of the Union address Feb. 8. But some lawmakers in the audience immediately tried to lay blame at his feet.

"Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year," the president said after introducing a father who lost his 20-year-old daughter to the drug.

There was an immediate uproar from Republican lawmakers, with some shouting "border" at Biden. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., yelled, "It’s your fault!"

It was a sentiment echoed by many Republican politicians and others on social media in the aftermath of Biden’s address.

Kayleigh McEnany, a former press secretary for Donald Trump and now a Fox News co-host, wrote in a Feb. 7 Facebook post, "Joe Biden: ‘Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.’ Why? Because of Joe Biden's wide open southern border he has done nothing to fix!"

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.

Although U.S. deaths from fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, have risen sharply since Biden took office, data shows they’ve been increasing for the past decade, including during the Trump administration. Immigration encounters at the southern border have escalated under Biden, but the southern border is not open. Experts say the vast majority of fentanyl being smuggled in comes through ports of entry, not people trying to sneak into the country.

Sanho Tree, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said conflating migrants and drugs is an "old script" pushed for political advantage by Republicans.

Fentanyl "is not carried on the backs of migrants. Drug traffickers deal with professionals, not amateurs, and they prefer U.S. citizens," he said.

Fentanyl deaths in the U.S.

Alexandra Coscia, a Fox News spokesperson for McEnany, pointed us to several articles, including one from PolitiFact, that show the scope of the fentanyl crisis, as well as data showing yearly increases in the amount of the drug seized at the border. In 2021, according to a Washington Post article Coscia sent us, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. — two-thirds were from fentanyl — and the number of people killed by the drug has climbed 94% since 2019.

But that article, an overview of a multiple-part investigation by the Post, also blamed "successive administrations" for failing to detect the growing problem. It links to another Post article that said, "Presidents from both parties failed to take effective action in the face of one of the most urgent threats to the nation’s security."

There were 71,238 U.S. deaths from synthetic drugs, mostly fentanyl, in 2021, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a 23% increase from 2020, Trump’s final year in office, when there were 57,834 deaths. Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other drugs have been rising since 2014, according to CDC data.

Why is fentanyl so deadly? Adam Isacson, defense oversight director at the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and human rights advocacy group, said the U.S. seems to be in what he called "the third wave of the 21st century opioid crisis."

After prescription opioids, "pill mills" and heroin, he said, "traffickers have found fentanyl even easier to produce — no need to plant poppy fields," he said.

"Each wave of opioid is even more concentrated than the last, requiring smaller and smaller amounts to get high — or to overdose. It’s just too easy and cheap now to accidentally administer a fatal dose," Isacson said.

Drug users often don’t know exactly what they’re taking, he said. "It’s not like there’s a label" showing the contents.

Most fentanyl is smuggled across the southern border, but not by immigrants

Most illegally sourced fentanyl in the U.S. comes from Mexico through the southern border. Fentanyl seizures at the border have been rising since fiscal year 2015. Most recently, fentanyl seizures climbed from 11,200 in fiscal year 2021 to 14,700 in 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows.

So far in fiscal year 2023, which started in October, border officials have seized more than 9,400 pounds of fentanyl. In November alone, 4,500 pounds were seized, nearly as much as was seized in all of fiscal year 2020.

Most fentanyl is smuggled at ports of entry by U.S. citizens, not by immigrants crossing the border illegally. About 9,100 pounds of the 9,400 seized so far this fiscal year were seized there.

"The drug cartels have no need to send the drugs with people who are crossing the border without authorization," said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications and public affairs director at the Migration Policy Institute. "They are able to reach the U.S. market with ever-rising quantities of fentanyl by going through official crossings."

Immigrants who seek asylum and turn themselves in to authorities at the border are "not suitable contraband carriers," said Josiah Heyman, director of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Neither are people who sneak into the country between ports of entries. Those immigrants are often arrested, and some get lost or die in the desert, he said.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...dens-border-policies-to-blame-for-fentanyl-d/
 
T. A. Gardner said:
It isn't if he's letting more get in undetected than Trump did at the same time. You obviously never progressed beyond 6th grade arithmetic.
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But you don't know that. Nobody does.
You're just wrongly assuming that because you're a far right wing extremist who lives to distort facts in favor of the republiclowns.

I rest my case.

iu
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The borders are, for all intents, open. Massive seizures mean nothing on their own. Example. If seizures have doubled, but ten times more illegal drugs are successfully entering the country, then the seizures are failing and the border is open for all intents. You can't measure success of seizures without knowing how much is still getting in and it's clear a lot is and the government has no clear idea what that amount really is.
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Ok, so what you're saying is 'the government has no clear idea what the amount of fentanyl breaching the border really is'.

But YOU do: "it's clear a lot is". You want to tell us how you know this, TA Garbler? And don't give me that bullshit that more is being seized, thus more is getting through. That's just your assumption. That's not facts. Once again, you're just trying to 'spin' the numbers in the Republiclowns favor. You have no proof more is coming in so maybe you should just STFU.

iu
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
Stop with the "HEY LOOK! SHINEY! LOOK OVER HERE!" bullshit!

The truth is the fentanyl problem was here long before Biden became president, and it is no worse now than it was under the Trump Administration.



Deaths from fentanyl jumped 23% in President Joe Biden’s first year in office to more than 70,000, but they’ve been increasing since 2014 and also rose during Donald Trump’s administration.

Although immigration encounters at the southern U.S. border have spiked under Biden’s watch, experts say most of the fentanyl coming into the U.S. from Mexico is coming through legal ports of entry. The vast majority of people sentenced for fentanyl trafficking are U.S. citizens, data shows.

The southern border is not wide open. Funding and staffing levels for border protection have remained consistent between the Trump and Biden administrations, and border laws and policies continue to be enforced.

See the sources for this fact-check

President Joe Biden may have been seeking a bipartisan solution to America’s staggering fentanyl crisis when he raised the issue at his State of the Union address Feb. 8. But some lawmakers in the audience immediately tried to lay blame at his feet.

"Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year," the president said after introducing a father who lost his 20-year-old daughter to the drug.

There was an immediate uproar from Republican lawmakers, with some shouting "border" at Biden. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., yelled, "It’s your fault!"

It was a sentiment echoed by many Republican politicians and others on social media in the aftermath of Biden’s address.

Kayleigh McEnany, a former press secretary for Donald Trump and now a Fox News co-host, wrote in a Feb. 7 Facebook post, "Joe Biden: ‘Fentanyl is killing more than 70,000 Americans a year.’ Why? Because of Joe Biden's wide open southern border he has done nothing to fix!"

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.

Although U.S. deaths from fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, have risen sharply since Biden took office, data shows they’ve been increasing for the past decade, including during the Trump administration. Immigration encounters at the southern border have escalated under Biden, but the southern border is not open. Experts say the vast majority of fentanyl being smuggled in comes through ports of entry, not people trying to sneak into the country.

Sanho Tree, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive Washington, D.C.-based think tank, said conflating migrants and drugs is an "old script" pushed for political advantage by Republicans.

Fentanyl "is not carried on the backs of migrants. Drug traffickers deal with professionals, not amateurs, and they prefer U.S. citizens," he said.

Fentanyl deaths in the U.S.

Alexandra Coscia, a Fox News spokesperson for McEnany, pointed us to several articles, including one from PolitiFact, that show the scope of the fentanyl crisis, as well as data showing yearly increases in the amount of the drug seized at the border. In 2021, according to a Washington Post article Coscia sent us, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the U.S. — two-thirds were from fentanyl — and the number of people killed by the drug has climbed 94% since 2019.

But that article, an overview of a multiple-part investigation by the Post, also blamed "successive administrations" for failing to detect the growing problem. It links to another Post article that said, "Presidents from both parties failed to take effective action in the face of one of the most urgent threats to the nation’s security."

There were 71,238 U.S. deaths from synthetic drugs, mostly fentanyl, in 2021, according to the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is a 23% increase from 2020, Trump’s final year in office, when there were 57,834 deaths. Overdose deaths from fentanyl and other drugs have been rising since 2014, according to CDC data.

Why is fentanyl so deadly? Adam Isacson, defense oversight director at the Washington Office on Latin America, a research and human rights advocacy group, said the U.S. seems to be in what he called "the third wave of the 21st century opioid crisis."

After prescription opioids, "pill mills" and heroin, he said, "traffickers have found fentanyl even easier to produce — no need to plant poppy fields," he said.

"Each wave of opioid is even more concentrated than the last, requiring smaller and smaller amounts to get high — or to overdose. It’s just too easy and cheap now to accidentally administer a fatal dose," Isacson said.

Drug users often don’t know exactly what they’re taking, he said. "It’s not like there’s a label" showing the contents.

Most fentanyl is smuggled across the southern border, but not by immigrants

Most illegally sourced fentanyl in the U.S. comes from Mexico through the southern border. Fentanyl seizures at the border have been rising since fiscal year 2015. Most recently, fentanyl seizures climbed from 11,200 in fiscal year 2021 to 14,700 in 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows.

So far in fiscal year 2023, which started in October, border officials have seized more than 9,400 pounds of fentanyl. In November alone, 4,500 pounds were seized, nearly as much as was seized in all of fiscal year 2020.

Most fentanyl is smuggled at ports of entry by U.S. citizens, not by immigrants crossing the border illegally. About 9,100 pounds of the 9,400 seized so far this fiscal year were seized there.

"The drug cartels have no need to send the drugs with people who are crossing the border without authorization," said Michelle Mittelstadt, communications and public affairs director at the Migration Policy Institute. "They are able to reach the U.S. market with ever-rising quantities of fentanyl by going through official crossings."

Immigrants who seek asylum and turn themselves in to authorities at the border are "not suitable contraband carriers," said Josiah Heyman, director of the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Neither are people who sneak into the country between ports of entries. Those immigrants are often arrested, and some get lost or die in the desert, he said.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...dens-border-policies-to-blame-for-fentanyl-d/
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Little lizard,

Did you read your post?
 
I don't care if Biden laughed at some junky's mother.
He didn't suggest privatizing social security.

That's a reason to eviscerate somebody.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
But you don't know that. Nobody does.
You're just wrongly assuming that because you're a far right wing extremist who lives to distort facts in favor of the republiclowns.

I rest my case.

iu
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Your case is pure bullshit. Since even you admit we don't know how much is getting in, we have no way of knowing if the seizures are making a real difference. Given the increase in fentanyl deaths in the last two or so years, I'd say the problem has gotten far worse, not better.

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As anyone can see, deaths have been on the rise for some time, but since 2020 they have skyrocketed compared to previous years.
 
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