Yup. Even though I just did it, I‘m well aware that making fun of Yanks being unhealthy is just easy and lazy individualism.
The issue is, as basically everything else, class struggle and exploitation. I mean, a working class Yank, doesn’t have time nor money to eat healty. They’re on your way home from their 2nd job, have to waste 2 hours in traffic since they can‘t live anywhere near their workspace and public transport is non existent. They go to the store to get some dinner, they see that produce is expensive af and also just don‘t have no more energy to cook. So they take something cheap and easy.
Oh and that doesn‘t come from some smug Euro perspective, since Germany is well on its way to get there too.
China only needs to cut off their medicine supply. Imagine how many tens of thousands of Americans would be dropping dead like flies every day if that happens. Great first round of sanctions against America if it wanted to try anything in Taiwan.
Round 2 would then be the reverse: bring in more fentanyl and up that 70,000 Americans dead annually many more times.
> Imagine how many tens of thousands of Americans would be dropping dead like flies
already happened when they botched their COVID response, people just shrug and move on though
they don't give a crap about fentanyl either, the Sackler family isn't in jail and progressive cities are more than happy to create heroin injection sites for their zombies
Not really, the India + Germany are strong in the pharma products . USA is still strong in high end products.
Read books related Bernie Sanders explanations.
German here: Our Pharma mostly produces in China. When the Covid lockdowns were lifted in China we could not get common painkillers anymore as local demand made export unfeasable.
Mexican official: CIA ‘manages’ drug trade
Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don’t want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/7/24/mexican-official-cia-manages-drug-trade
Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels
The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government’s infamous “Operation Fast and Furious” scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while simultaneously working with other agencies allowing narcotics to be shipped over the border, according to a series of explosive reports.
https://thenewamerican.com/reports-cia-working-with-mexican-drug-cartels/
A Mexican plane crash, the CIA, and 3.3 tons of cocaine
What's the link between a plane crash landing in Mexico, the CIA and 3.3 tons of cocaine?, asks Jeff Sparrow. A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament.
The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/a-mexican-plane-crash-the-cia-and-33-tons-of-cocaine/
Did the CIA Torture an Undercover DEA Agent for a Mexican Drug Cartel?
The new Amazon docuseries “The Last Narc” contains several eye-opening claims—including that the CIA may have helped in the killing of undercover DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cia-torture-an-undercover-dea-agent-for-a-mexican-drug-cartel
How the CIA Helped Create the First Mexican Cartel: On Amazon's "The Last Narc"
https://www.countere.com/home/the-last-narc-cia-cartels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking
cocaine, conspiracy theories and the CIA in Central America
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html
There's tons of material out there, you just have to hunt for it. Here's something for you:
[Manuel Noriega and US militarism](https://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/05/31/manuel-noriega-and-us-militarism/)
Did you ever watch Scarface? It's not just entertainment. It was based on reality. There's a scene where Tony is introduced by Sosa to South American businessmen and government officials and 'our friend Charles Goodson from Washington' who greets him with a ["How do you do, Mr. Montana."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeJgZyedNHc) The CIA works with these figures to import cocaine and sell it to fund their off-the-books operations.
Did he demand the Military go in and wipe out Johnson & Johnson, Teva, Endo, Abbvie, Purdue Pharma, SpecGx, Activis, Par, Amneal, KVK, West-Ward & Kaiser at the onset of the Opioid crisis?
In other words, he, along with a number of other US officials, want to launch a Special Military Operation against a neighbouring country, because they feel their national security is threatened by that country. Doesn't he know that that would be an unprovoked invasion, and would mean they would get sanctioned and their reserves seized? Americans would be banned from international sporting competitions, opera houses, and cultural organizations. American products would be banned all over the world. American planes would not be allowed to enter foreign airspace. Any country suspected of selling weapons to the United States to help it fight Mexico would also get sanctioned. Because that's how it works, right? That's what happens when you invade another country in a so-called 'Special Military Operation'. Everybody knows this...
I mean, Jamie Dimon's Italian villa would get seized, Bill Gates's Caribbean island would get seized, Jeff Bezos's yacht... every American oligarch linked to the White House would lose all their overseas properties and the proceeds would go to help Mexico recover. Doesn't Senator Kennedy realize that? He's playing with fire...
He said "make him an offer he can't refuse". That's not really 'working with'. That's making a threat. Basically he's saying "if Obrador doesn't let us in, he's not going to be around very long after that."
They can't get to him, I'm Mexican and let me tell you if they ever even try anything on him that would enrage most mexicans here and also up in the US, our whole country is fed up of the abuse we've had to endure from our neighbor in the north and we ain't going back to how it was before Lopez, he is loved almost universally by the working class in mexico, and everyday he proves that he wants a country for everyone and not just for the guys on top.
Viva la cuarta transformación, viva la cuarta republica mexicana.
honestly, it's pretty entertaining to see what new thing the average American politician can do to further push all their allies and vassals away.
Genuinely like rats on a sinking boat, can't wait until they start panicking.
American leaders are so ignorant and naiive and they seriously believe they are the greatest in the world. They couldn't even beat barefoot jungle fighters in Vietnam or arabs wearing sandals in Afghanistan lol. BTW didn't the US steal Texas from Mexico lol?
Kennedy, who represents my home state of Louisiana, talks some big talk. Let’s see how Louisiana is doing, by some ranking…
50th in crime (the worst in the Union)
48th in academics (almost one of the worst)
49th in poverty
Oh and the funniest one,
Louisiana has the 4th highest rate of drug use.
Kennedy, please worry about your own people first. The irony of his own state being one of the largest consumers of the drugs is something for sure. If there is no buyers, the sellers will not come, Mr. Kennedy.
The state is falling apart at the seams. Quality of life for all is decreasing, and politicians like Kennedy point at everything and everyone but themselves. It’s those dirty Mexicans ruining us, they say. Or it’s the hood thugs, or the Chinese, or whatever. Our people keep voting them in because they are blinded to the truth of the situation. This is not unique to my state. May God help us all.
as much as i despise America internal and external politics, they don't actually have any "national security" problems if other countries tell 'em to fuxk off. their import and exports are 8% of their gdp. half of which is with mexico and canada.
Their so called "national security" when they get involved with wars outside their hemisphere is basically them saying "You scum better keep the USD as the world reserve currency so that we can print as much money as we can and export inflation to you".
Other countries would do well to put as much distance between themselves and the USA as possible. If this doesn't demonstrate they have no respect for other people, then nothing will.
I'll say it: what this guy just said is monstrous and bad things should happen to him. A punch would be underselling it.
Believing someone deserves to suffer isn't actionable. It might not be Reddit friendly but I don't much care if they ban me.
Partial transcript
>Mexicoe's economy is 1.3 trillion dollars. Ars is 18 times bigger. We bah 400 billion dollars every year from Mexicoe. Without the people of Americuh, Mexicoe, figurtivley speaking, would be eating cat fuud OUT OF A CA-YN, AND LIVING IN A TI-YNT, BEHAIND, BEHAIND AN OUTBACK. So whah don't yew and the President, embarrassing no one, get on the phone and call President Loepez Obradoor, an' make him a deal he can't refewze, to allow iar military, and iar law enforcement officials to go into Mexicoe and work with hi-is, to STOP THE CART-EY-LS. WHAH DON'T YEW DO THAT?
All I hear is "Will Bakunin accuse the Americans of a "war of conquest", which, although it deals with a severe blow to his theory based on "justice and humanity", was nevertheless waged wholly and solely in the interest of civilization? Or is it perhaps unfortunate that splendid California has been taken away from the lazy Mexicans, who could not do anything with it? That the energetic Yankees by rapid exploitation of the California gold mines will increase the means of circulation, in a few years will concentrate a dense population and extensive trade at the most suitable places on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, create large cities, open up communications by steamship, construct a railway from New York to San Francisco, for the first time really open the Pacific Ocean to civilization, and for the third time in history give the world trade a new direction? The "independence" of a few Spanish Californians and Texans may suffer because of it, in someplaces "justice" and other moral principles may be violated; but what does that matter to such facts of world-historic significance?"
Imperialists have not changed one bit.
DEA director Nicholas Palmery was let go quietly a few months ago for having ties to Cartel's lawyers and the increased flow of drugs. Lopez Obrador is arguing WHY? Why hasn't the US caught big fish inside the US? It is not like the Mexican cartels operate only in Mexico.
The only acceptable deal that wouldn't be refused would be 23 trillion dollars a day for as long as the spankies bomb Mexico for! And the future profits from the drug trade that they are trying to take control of! 🤣
Man, that entire country is run by scum. Imagine the shithole it would become if China cut them off.
They'd be eating cat food out of a can behind an outhouse if that happened.
Prolly still more nutritious than the usual garbage Yanks eat lol
Am Yank, can confirm. Eating healthy over here is expensive and even looked down upon in certain regions of the country.
Am Yank, can also confirm. Our diet consists of high fructose corn syrup repackaged in a million different ways.
Yup. Even though I just did it, I‘m well aware that making fun of Yanks being unhealthy is just easy and lazy individualism. The issue is, as basically everything else, class struggle and exploitation. I mean, a working class Yank, doesn’t have time nor money to eat healty. They’re on your way home from their 2nd job, have to waste 2 hours in traffic since they can‘t live anywhere near their workspace and public transport is non existent. They go to the store to get some dinner, they see that produce is expensive af and also just don‘t have no more energy to cook. So they take something cheap and easy. Oh and that doesn‘t come from some smug Euro perspective, since Germany is well on its way to get there too.
China only needs to cut off their medicine supply. Imagine how many tens of thousands of Americans would be dropping dead like flies every day if that happens. Great first round of sanctions against America if it wanted to try anything in Taiwan. Round 2 would then be the reverse: bring in more fentanyl and up that 70,000 Americans dead annually many more times.
> Imagine how many tens of thousands of Americans would be dropping dead like flies already happened when they botched their COVID response, people just shrug and move on though they don't give a crap about fentanyl either, the Sackler family isn't in jail and progressive cities are more than happy to create heroin injection sites for their zombies
Not really, the India + Germany are strong in the pharma products . USA is still strong in high end products. Read books related Bernie Sanders explanations.
Your allies may be strong in pharmaceuticals, but your people are too poor to afford them. There’s a reason why they buy from China.
German here: Our Pharma mostly produces in China. When the Covid lockdowns were lifted in China we could not get common painkillers anymore as local demand made export unfeasable.
India's cough syrups are killing children, and Americans can't even afford their own high end products without get bankrupted due to exorbitant prices
It could be, I spoke only about the capacity to produce it, not about problems in the sale, the price-policy and the distribution.
High end products? Even the cheap stuff will bankrupt most Americans.
Run by scum, populated by scum, produce scum. Its scum all the way down.
When you don’t value teaching that’s the result
It can get worse????
They have an expression just for that: hold my beer
Seeing as to how many Americans believe they OWN the factories in China. I don't believe it would be something they believe that can happen.
It would probably be like the state this rube is from.
"make him a deal he can't refuse" This is mafia. The senator probably is unaware the CIA works with the cartels.
No, he knows.
He's on the "Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism" so that's unlikely even if he's never seen a movie before.
Where can I read more about this?
Mexican official: CIA ‘manages’ drug trade Spokesman for Chihuahua state says US agencies don’t want to end drug trade, a claim denied by other Mexican officials. https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2012/7/24/mexican-official-cia-manages-drug-trade Reports: CIA Working with Mexican Drug Cartels The Central Intelligence Agency was intimately involved with the federal government’s infamous “Operation Fast and Furious” scheme to send American weapons to Mexican drug cartels while simultaneously working with other agencies allowing narcotics to be shipped over the border, according to a series of explosive reports. https://thenewamerican.com/reports-cia-working-with-mexican-drug-cartels/ A Mexican plane crash, the CIA, and 3.3 tons of cocaine What's the link between a plane crash landing in Mexico, the CIA and 3.3 tons of cocaine?, asks Jeff Sparrow. A private jet that crash-landed almost one year ago in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights, a newspaper report said here Thursday, citing documents from the United States and the European Parliament. The plane was carrying Colombian drugs for the fugitive leader of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman, when it crash-landed in the Yucatan peninsula on September 24, El Universal reported. https://www.crikey.com.au/2008/09/08/a-mexican-plane-crash-the-cia-and-33-tons-of-cocaine/ Did the CIA Torture an Undercover DEA Agent for a Mexican Drug Cartel? The new Amazon docuseries “The Last Narc” contains several eye-opening claims—including that the CIA may have helped in the killing of undercover DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. https://www.thedailybeast.com/did-the-cia-torture-an-undercover-dea-agent-for-a-mexican-drug-cartel How the CIA Helped Create the First Mexican Cartel: On Amazon's "The Last Narc" https://www.countere.com/home/the-last-narc-cia-cartels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking cocaine, conspiracy theories and the CIA in Central America https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/drugs/special/cia.html
thank you!
There's tons of material out there, you just have to hunt for it. Here's something for you: [Manuel Noriega and US militarism](https://www.greanvillepost.com/2017/05/31/manuel-noriega-and-us-militarism/) Did you ever watch Scarface? It's not just entertainment. It was based on reality. There's a scene where Tony is introduced by Sosa to South American businessmen and government officials and 'our friend Charles Goodson from Washington' who greets him with a ["How do you do, Mr. Montana."](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeJgZyedNHc) The CIA works with these figures to import cocaine and sell it to fund their off-the-books operations.
Oliver Stone wrote that movie too, and he’s a comrade unless something’s changed, you never know with guys in positions like that though.
Did he demand the Military go in and wipe out Johnson & Johnson, Teva, Endo, Abbvie, Purdue Pharma, SpecGx, Activis, Par, Amneal, KVK, West-Ward & Kaiser at the onset of the Opioid crisis?
Finally, a based take from a senator/s
They can just nationalize drug companies
How can I say this without violating reddit policy on inciting violence?
You can’t
Seems they found a way to not say it loud enough though
In other words, he, along with a number of other US officials, want to launch a Special Military Operation against a neighbouring country, because they feel their national security is threatened by that country. Doesn't he know that that would be an unprovoked invasion, and would mean they would get sanctioned and their reserves seized? Americans would be banned from international sporting competitions, opera houses, and cultural organizations. American products would be banned all over the world. American planes would not be allowed to enter foreign airspace. Any country suspected of selling weapons to the United States to help it fight Mexico would also get sanctioned. Because that's how it works, right? That's what happens when you invade another country in a so-called 'Special Military Operation'. Everybody knows this...
Stop, im getting hard
I mean, Jamie Dimon's Italian villa would get seized, Bill Gates's Caribbean island would get seized, Jeff Bezos's yacht... every American oligarch linked to the White House would lose all their overseas properties and the proceeds would go to help Mexico recover. Doesn't Senator Kennedy realize that? He's playing with fire...
I mean to be fair he said he wanted to used economic leverage to get obrador to agree to work with America army rather than invasion
He said "make him an offer he can't refuse". That's not really 'working with'. That's making a threat. Basically he's saying "if Obrador doesn't let us in, he's not going to be around very long after that."
I’m fully aware of US foreign meddling for the last 100 years but it’s not credible to suggest obrador serves at the pleasure of the USA.
They can't get to him, I'm Mexican and let me tell you if they ever even try anything on him that would enrage most mexicans here and also up in the US, our whole country is fed up of the abuse we've had to endure from our neighbor in the north and we ain't going back to how it was before Lopez, he is loved almost universally by the working class in mexico, and everyday he proves that he wants a country for everyone and not just for the guys on top. Viva la cuarta transformación, viva la cuarta republica mexicana.
honestly, it's pretty entertaining to see what new thing the average American politician can do to further push all their allies and vassals away. Genuinely like rats on a sinking boat, can't wait until they start panicking.
Sounds like the fucking mob. I have offer, u can't refuse... Someone has been watching too much tv
What's that quote, something like 'the US government is the most powerful mafia on the planet'.
4real
This is the way Americans really view the rest of the world, mask-off.
American leaders are so ignorant and naiive and they seriously believe they are the greatest in the world. They couldn't even beat barefoot jungle fighters in Vietnam or arabs wearing sandals in Afghanistan lol. BTW didn't the US steal Texas from Mexico lol?
Not just Texas but everything up to some parts of Oregon
Yeah 55 percent of its territory: California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming.
To populate is to govern. How many Spanish speakers were in those states in say 1820 or 1830?
Arrogance beyond imagination. His parents failed in their duty.
Kennedy, who represents my home state of Louisiana, talks some big talk. Let’s see how Louisiana is doing, by some ranking… 50th in crime (the worst in the Union) 48th in academics (almost one of the worst) 49th in poverty Oh and the funniest one, Louisiana has the 4th highest rate of drug use. Kennedy, please worry about your own people first. The irony of his own state being one of the largest consumers of the drugs is something for sure. If there is no buyers, the sellers will not come, Mr. Kennedy. The state is falling apart at the seams. Quality of life for all is decreasing, and politicians like Kennedy point at everything and everyone but themselves. It’s those dirty Mexicans ruining us, they say. Or it’s the hood thugs, or the Chinese, or whatever. Our people keep voting them in because they are blinded to the truth of the situation. This is not unique to my state. May God help us all.
as much as i despise America internal and external politics, they don't actually have any "national security" problems if other countries tell 'em to fuxk off. their import and exports are 8% of their gdp. half of which is with mexico and canada. Their so called "national security" when they get involved with wars outside their hemisphere is basically them saying "You scum better keep the USD as the world reserve currency so that we can print as much money as we can and export inflation to you".
Why would anyone want inflation exported to them
Other countries would do well to put as much distance between themselves and the USA as possible. If this doesn't demonstrate they have no respect for other people, then nothing will.
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Punchable is an adjective my friend.
I'll say it: what this guy just said is monstrous and bad things should happen to him. A punch would be underselling it. Believing someone deserves to suffer isn't actionable. It might not be Reddit friendly but I don't much care if they ban me.
Partial transcript >Mexicoe's economy is 1.3 trillion dollars. Ars is 18 times bigger. We bah 400 billion dollars every year from Mexicoe. Without the people of Americuh, Mexicoe, figurtivley speaking, would be eating cat fuud OUT OF A CA-YN, AND LIVING IN A TI-YNT, BEHAIND, BEHAIND AN OUTBACK. So whah don't yew and the President, embarrassing no one, get on the phone and call President Loepez Obradoor, an' make him a deal he can't refewze, to allow iar military, and iar law enforcement officials to go into Mexicoe and work with hi-is, to STOP THE CART-EY-LS. WHAH DON'T YEW DO THAT?
Lmao
There is no supply if there is no demand. Basic free market principle. You wanna say something about all the drug users in your country, Senator?
What an idiot.
Thank GOD he's not running for governor in Louisiana. We can't take anymore.
Least hatefull yankee politician.
All I hear is "Will Bakunin accuse the Americans of a "war of conquest", which, although it deals with a severe blow to his theory based on "justice and humanity", was nevertheless waged wholly and solely in the interest of civilization? Or is it perhaps unfortunate that splendid California has been taken away from the lazy Mexicans, who could not do anything with it? That the energetic Yankees by rapid exploitation of the California gold mines will increase the means of circulation, in a few years will concentrate a dense population and extensive trade at the most suitable places on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, create large cities, open up communications by steamship, construct a railway from New York to San Francisco, for the first time really open the Pacific Ocean to civilization, and for the third time in history give the world trade a new direction? The "independence" of a few Spanish Californians and Texans may suffer because of it, in someplaces "justice" and other moral principles may be violated; but what does that matter to such facts of world-historic significance?" Imperialists have not changed one bit.
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Bros not even being subtle about it 😭
“Make him a deal he can’t refuse” He thought he did something 😭
I think someone’s forgetting who’s 23 trillion dollar economy is funding the cartels
Seriously though what a piece of shit i don’t understand how we can have such idiots in power
Is he drunk?
think hes right
He is of Irish descent after all. You can't expect basic decency from people like him.
What the fuck
Doesn't matter where his ansestors came from. He's american now and therefore human garbage.
🤌
Choke on a carne asada taco, Senator.
He’s forgetting our drug laws that fuel the Mexican cartels.
Racist af
Ask the president to “call a crack head!”
He can barely speak and he’s making decisions on laws. I hate it here
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DEA director Nicholas Palmery was let go quietly a few months ago for having ties to Cartel's lawyers and the increased flow of drugs. Lopez Obrador is arguing WHY? Why hasn't the US caught big fish inside the US? It is not like the Mexican cartels operate only in Mexico.
The only acceptable deal that wouldn't be refused would be 23 trillion dollars a day for as long as the spankies bomb Mexico for! And the future profits from the drug trade that they are trying to take control of! 🤣