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finesse said:
Interesting article from the Cato Institute.



  • Fentanyl smuggling is ultimately funded by U.S. consumers who pay for illicit opioids: nearly 99 percent of whom are U.S. citizens.
  • In 2021, U.S. citizens were 86.3 percent of convicted fentanyl drug traffickers—ten times greater than convictions of illegal immigrants for the same offense.
  • Over 90 percent of fentanyl seizures occur at legal crossing points or interior vehicle checkpoints, not on illegal migration routes, so U.S. citizens (who are subject to less scrutiny) when crossing legally are the best smugglers.
  • The location of smuggling makes sense because hard drugs at ports of entry are about 97 percent less likely to be stopped than are people crossing illegally between them.
  • Just 0.02 percent of the people arrested by Border Patrol for crossing illegally possessed any fentanyl whatsoever.
  • The government exacerbated the problem by banning most
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He's such a moron. Piss off an ally/neighbor over a meaningless amount of fentanyl.
 
you dont really think that our govt wants to stop drugs from entering this country do you? its all for show the 'war' on drugs lmao
 

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2023:
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Ex-GOP student leader's links to Jan. 6 Capitol riot and a neo-Nazi web site

Asked if he crossed the Capitol threshold on Jan. 6, Oliver Krvaric, scion of a powerful GOP family, replied, \
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Ex-GOP student leader's links to Jan. 6 Capitol riot and a neo-Nazi web site​


“… The security footage is among videos released during the trial of another Jan. 6 participant, a member of the Proud Boys prosecuted for seditious conspiracy. In it, and in other photos from the day, his face remains partly concealed behind the mask.

But all signs point to Oliver Krvaric, a young Republican star and scion of a powerful GOP family from San Diego. Krvaric is most notable for his job at the time of the riot.

A USA TODAY review of arrests concluded Krvaric would be the first full-time employee of the Trump administration identified entering the Capitol in the insurrection. On Jan. 6, 2021, Krvaric was working for the Office of Personnel Management on a short-lived Trump executive order that sought to rid federal agencies of certain diversity and inclusion training.

By then, the 22-year-old had built a public persona as an up-and-coming student GOP leader. Even earlier than that, his name had been used to create an identity on a site for white supremacists.

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As for the online persona, an email address in Krvaric’s first and middle names was used in 2016 to create a profile on a neo-Nazi website. That user praised Adolf Hitler, backed deportation of non-white people and expressed disgust of the LGBTQ+ population.

Kvaric said he did not recall the posts. He did not deny making them, and said he did “not particularly” recognize the email address behind them. …”
 
Callatoroy said:
This was really about the growing influence of China in Central America. The pocket change is just beer money. Biden asleep in rehobeth beach the last 4 years.
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How in the world do you know this is what “this was really about?” Because Trump said so?
Trump first said his tariffs were about “trade deficits,” then it was about raising money to pay down debt and fund the government, then it was to stop fentanyl.
And if that were truly the goal, then his way of accomplishing that is a really bad way of going about it.
Like we saw with his first round of tariffs (and are seeing with this one): the effect of the tariffs only made trade for American businesses harder, and raised China’s influence.
 


“… The move to purge people who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith had ostensibly come from the acting attorney general, James McHenry, who sent the formal termination notices that said they could not be trusted to implement Trump’s agenda.

But the genesis for the firings was Trump himself, according to two people directly familiar with the matter …

Trump’s intervention to remove the prosecutors in Smith’s office was seen by some of his advisers as the start of their efforts to make it normal practice to have the attorney general work with the West Wing to enforce and enact its political agenda.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

After Trump instructed his advisers that he wanted the prosecutors gone, the White House presidential personnel office, led by longtime Trump ally Sergio Gor, issued a memo that directed the justice department to proceed and gave the move a degree of legal cover. …”

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Possibly the least surprising scoop ever.
 
The fresh duties, announced by China’s Ministry of Finance, levy a 15% tax on certain types of coal and liquefied natural gas and a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, large-displacement cars and pickup trucks. The measures take effect on February 10.

The Ministry of Commerce and China’s customs administration also announced new export controls effective immediately on more than two dozen metal products and related technologies. Those include tungsten, a critical mineral typically used in industrial and defense applications, as well as tellurium, which can be used to make solar cells.
 
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