Here's why X is bad for Joe Biden
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:45 pm
And, by the way, I like siracha. That must certainly be bad for Biden.
Falsehoods Unchallenged Only Fester and Grow
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Trump’s fault, Biden’ fault? Who cares ? Fix it !!!!!!!!. Provisional data from CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics indicate that there were an estimated 100,306 drug overdose deaths in the United States during 12-month period ending in April 2021, an increase of 28.5% from the 78,056 deaths during the same period the year before.
The new data documents that estimated overdose deaths from opioids increased to 75,673 in the 12-month period ending in April 2021, up from 56,064 the year before. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids (primarily fentanyl) and psychostimulants such as methamphetamine also increased in the 12-month period ending in April 2021. Cocaine deaths also increased, as did deaths from natural and semi-synthetic opioids (such as prescription pain medication).
The provisional data presented in this visualization include: the reported and predicted (estimated) provisional counts of deaths due to drug overdose occurring nationally and in each jurisdiction; a U.S. map of the percentage changes in provisional drug overdose deaths for the current 12-month ending period compared with the 12-month period ending in the same month of the previous year, by jurisdiction; and the reported and predicted provisional counts of drug overdose deaths involving specific drugs or drug classes occurring nationally and in selected jurisdictions.
The reported and predicted provisional counts represent the numbers of deaths due to drug overdose occurring in the 12-month periods ending in the month indicated. These counts include all seasons of the year and are insensitive to variations by seasonality. Deaths are reported by the jurisdiction in which the death occurred.
The interactive web dashboard is available at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug ... e-data.htm.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fentanyl-s ... heres-why/During a briefing with reporters Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said it was "unequivocally false that fentanyl is being brought to the United States by non-citizens encountered in between the ports of entry who are making claims of credible fear and seeking asylum."
"The vast, vast majority is sought to be smuggled through the ports of entry and tractor-trailer trucks and passenger vehicles," Mayorkas added.
While successful fentanyl smuggling rates aren't calculated by the government, seizures of fentanyl along the southern border have in fact risen sharply in recent years. Experts say only a fraction of fentanyl is seized by Border Patrol agents between the ports of entry, with virtually none transported by migrants seeking asylum within the United States.
Fentanyl is being painted as part of the "border crisis," which refers to immigration. It isn't. The vast, vast majority of fentanyl comes through official check points. They are two separate issues.pjhimself wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 1:15 pmhttps://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-paper ... der-crisis. President Biden’s border crisis has included an increase in the flow of lethal synthetic opioids, threatening public health and safety.
The average amount of fentanyl seized from 2018 through 2020 was 321 pounds a month. Through the first nine months of this year, the monthly average is 830 pounds.
The potent drug is the leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States, a problem that has increased during the pandemic.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/07/enough-fe ... at-border/Enough fentanyl has been seized at US borders in just the last three months to kill over a billion people, a top-ranking border official admitted Tuesday.
The revelation came as two US Border Patrol chiefs were grilled during a Congressional hearing on border security.
Rep. Tim Burchett cited Customs and Border Patrol figures that at least 9,400 lbs of the ultra-dangerous synthetic drug has been stopped from entering the country since October, about 7,200 lbs of which was seized at the southern border.
“That’s enough fentanyl to kill every American five times over,” the Republican from Tennessee pointed out.
The US population was recorded at 332m in the 2021 census.
The lawmaker’s math was based on Drug Enforcement Administration information that as little as two milligrams of the synthetic opioid — an amount so small it easily fits on a pencil tip — is enough to kill a person.
The killer drug is 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Although it is used as a painkiller in hospitals, it has to be professionally handled and administered to prevent overdoses.
However, fentanyl is increasingly killing people who don’t even know they’re using it, as it’s often cut into pills that look like prescription pills and are sold as “Oxytocin” or “Xanax”
but actually lead to overdoses and death for people who don’t know what they’re taking or how strong it is. In 2022, synthetic opiate deaths averaged over 70,000 a month, according to official data, the highest amounts on record.
Actually, he's seizing more fentanyl than the previous president, but who cares?President Biden’s border crisis has included an increase in the flow of lethal synthetic opioids, threatening public health and safety.
I thought you were clear.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:13 pm If I'm not being clear, I'm taking issue with it being lumped into the immigration issue. Once again fentanyl comes through a legal point of entry 95% of the time. That isn't what comes to mind when someone calls out BORDER CRISIS! It's a LEGAL PORT OF ENTRY crisis.
ETA: But like I said earlier, I don't think that is the real problem or where to look to find a real solution.
I agree you were clear, but while I agree that increased fentanyl interdiction at legal ports of entry (where it is generally being smuggled by American citizens via legal border crossing, by the way) is good, this problem cannot ever be solved at the border because it's not a smuggling problem, it's an addiction problem. As Phoogie said, so long as there is demand for illegal drugs, there will be money in supplying them. I was having a conversation with some recovering addicts last year and someone wondered why dealers cut their drugs with fentanyl (since a dead customer is not a repeat customer) and was told (by someone with first-hand experience) that when someone dies of an OD, other users want to buy from the same source since that is the "good stuff".p0rtia wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:29 pmI thought you were clear.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Feb 08, 2023 3:13 pm If I'm not being clear, I'm taking issue with it being lumped into the immigration issue. Once again fentanyl comes through a legal point of entry 95% of the time. That isn't what comes to mind when someone calls out BORDER CRISIS! It's a LEGAL PORT OF ENTRY crisis.
ETA: But like I said earlier, I don't think that is the real problem or where to look to find a real solution.
So, 100% partisan, not even a pretense of being "news" or news-related, just a "position" that might advance Republican policies, if it wasn't based on outright lies, but it's Ernst, what do you want?The committee advances Republican policies by providing positions on legislation, floor debate, and votes.
Welcome to Fogbow.So, 100% partisan, not even a pretense of being "news" or news-related, just a "position" that might advance Republican policies, if it wasn't based on outright lies, but it's Ernst, what do you want?
I post things (for the most part) that are sourced elsewhere, as do you and others.. You posted a falsehood, I challenged it, that's how we roll. Now the Joni Ernst trash won't fester and grow here.
'Course, it works both ways. If you find us posting a falsehood, you are more than welcome to challenge it, to the best of your ability. I have never edited or deleted anything you've ever written since you joined Fogbow in 2013.
And what was it that needed to be cleaned up from a “jokes” thread ????????. Yeah, you're right, I deleted some posts - including my own - in an effort to clean up the jokes thread. So I did delete a few of your posts.
There are other issues for us all to deal with than this.
I never wanted to become a topic here.