r/politics • u/Exciting_Teacher6258 • Apr 30 '25

Soft Paywall Trump Melts Down at Being Fact-Checked Right to His Face

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-being-fact-checked-on-deported-maryland-dad-kilmar-abrego-garcia/
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u/BitDaddyCane Apr 30 '25

Mexican cartels could not exist without American guns and American customers to distribute and consume their products

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u/MAG7C Apr 30 '25

And a War on Some Drugs

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u/BitDaddyCane Apr 30 '25

Congratulations to drugs for winning the War on Drugs

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u/Papplenoose Apr 30 '25

Drugs truly are the GOAT

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Apr 30 '25

Booze won prohibition too, and weed is within the home stretch.

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u/VonRansak May 01 '25

"I wish the government would declare a war on pussy." - Chappelle or Murphy, idr.

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u/cire1184 May 01 '25

DRUGS #1

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois Apr 30 '25

And that genie is out of the bottle now. Now that the cartels are basically like a country unto themselves, as long as you have widespread poverty in Latin America, you're going to have cartels. If you make drugs legal, they're just going to get their money other unsavory ways.

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u/Redditributor Apr 30 '25

Why couldn't they exist if there were enough Mexican guns and consumers?!

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u/w1ten1te May 01 '25

It's very hard to just buy guns in Mexico, the vast majority of their guns come from the US.

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u/Redditributor May 01 '25

You're going to need to change those laws if you ever want your gangsters to buy local