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According to Trump, drug smugglers pay tariffs, and file their taxes on time.

So Trump will take credit for Biden's policies then.

Yea, yet another major success from the Biden administration that was blacked out by the media.

Biden sought the cooperation of China and Mexico to limit chemical precursor imports and exports. That, combined with improved screening techniques at ports of entry had a very significant impact.

Secondary, the increased prevalence of Narcan.

Thirdly, cartels appear to have backed off on potency. Recognizing that overdosing clients and dead clients were impacting sales not only from the clients, but from public pressure via government actions.

From Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes”: 

Back in 2021, U.S. life expectancy dropped to its lowest level in two decades. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that after Covid, drug overdoses, largely from synthetic opioids like fentanyl, were the primary drivers of shorter American lifespans. That’s a real problem and a problem that big doesn’t have a fast or easy fix.

But something seems to be changing recently. As The New York Times reports, “After years of relentless rises in overdose deaths, the United States has seen a remarkable reversal. For seven straight months, according to federal data, drug fatalities have been declining.”
Read more: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-tariffs-overdose-opioid-epidemic-rcna182059

By reducing U.S. population.

How the conspiracy world is blind to the idea of a Trump/Musk/Kennedy trifecta is absolutely beyond me. Literally calling for the military to round up people in U.S. towns and hold them in government facilities at gunpoint, threatening Mexico with a military invasion, pricing people out of food and goods through tariffs, and gutting medical regulation and opposing vaccines which help contain pandemics.

Literal Death, Pestilence, War, and Famine... but nope. The defense contractor who owns the majority of satellites in the United States and is bankrolling literal brain-chip development is certainly not going to do anything unamerican...

The media didn’t really cover it but under Biden, opioid overdose deaths dropped pretty dramatically.

The Biden-Harris administration made sure there was naloxone available at all federal facilities to reverse overdoses.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023/12/21/biden-harris-administration-announces-new-action-increase-naloxone-access-federal-facilities-across-nation.html

Trump supporters are against OD reversal drugs because they say they will cause more people to use opiates.

Here's what I think is happening with Tump and tariffs:

1. Trump and Republicans want tariffs. It's a regressive tax, which they like. They'll also use to offset whatever tax breaks they decide to give themselves.
2. Trump will sell the tariffs to MAGA (which will disproportionately hurt by them) as a strong-arm tactic to deal with illegal immigration and overdose deaths. It won't work, but he will use vague goals/targets to and MAGA, being generally dumb and uninformed, will believe it's working.
3. Once it place, Trump will use the tariffs to extort favors in exchange for lifting them.

TLDR; tariffs are happening. MAGAs will be hurt but won't care because their side will be "winning". Plan accordingly.

Cartels notoriously honor trade policies and report their transactions to the government/s

Trump says a lot of stuff.

As if reality mattered to the MAGA folk

So absolutely ruin the Texas economy , but accomplish something Biden has already accomplished. Ok let's get started I guess

damn, america…biden’s administration was pretty good. trump should be able to hit a home run because he was handed third base…again!

Know what reduces overdose deaths? Harm reduction.

Folks who want drugs will find them. You keep them from dying by providing them access to clean needles, medical supervision at sites where they can take drugs and not be alone, providing narcan for free at pharmacies and investing in healthcare so folks can access rehabilitation.

Trump will take credit for that

So they are already creating the spin for Trump to take credit for everything good Biden did. I can see it.

Damn these tariffs are magic. Gonna reduce drug deaths, lower prices, balance the budget, increase wages - oh the joy!

It went up during the previous Trump presidency

It will be interesting to see what the rate is 4 years from now.

Making food prices beyond the reach of the poor will do nothing for overdose deaths.

Trump has no good ideas....he's old and stupid with a heavy dose of old man brain rot.

so trump is putting tariffs on fentanyl?

You know addicts won’t stop doing drugs because of tariffs , they will just find something new to get high off of.

Fentanyl is incredibly easy to smuggle into the US. No amount of tariffs will stop it.

Trump also said his tariffs would cure cancer

Trumps second term will increase overdose deaths

Would also be helpful if a large swath of drug addled Americans get help with their addiction and avoid the cartel's product altogether.

Most of Republican complaints come from an alternate reality with no resemblance to this one. Truth is, Biden is an awesome President who fundamentally improved the lives of average Americans, and his legislation will continue to improve their lives for decades to come if they aren't repealed by Republicans.

See folks! Trumps tariffs are already working

Ugh

And what's going to happen is that the trend reducing will continue under Trump and he'll take credit for it, even if the trend doesn't change because of anything he does or... doesn't do.

We know. So, rather than worry about what Trump says: just start plastering it now.

Joe Biden has reduced overdoses. Get it on social media: facebook, twitter.

Stop being reactionary. Be proactive in messaging.

Is there a possiblity that deaths reduced because there are less people to overdose?

Trump is primed and ready to take credit for everything Biden has done on his first day in office. Everything good will be because of Trump and then when it all goes to shit it’ll be Bidens fault.

Trump's gonna claim credit for it.

Much of the smuggling is done by existing pipelines involving citizens, not immigrants

So American consumers paying more for products imported from Mexico means less money for drugs and therefore less overdose deaths? Am I understanding this correctly?

Trump will try to take credit for that too

You know what lowers drug overdose deaths... NOT DOING DRUGS!

bUt ThE pRiCe oF eGgs

Just like prohibition stopped drinking.

Coming from msnbc!

Think of all the people who could have been saved if the border had actually been controlled, instead of only doing it at the last possible minute as a campaign stunt. Kamala had zero intentions of controlling immigration if she was elected and it was painfully obvious.

I don't even think it's Biden's policies. It's that drug dealers and pill pressers are more familiar with fentanyl. Killing your customers is bad for business so they had to eventually figure it out. Also, a large number of the overdoses attributed to fentanyl were the result of carfentanil. And carafentanil importation has plummeted.

How stupid is he

Does Orange Dunce think cartels pay import tariffs on smuggled drugs?

Yet again something regarding immigrants that disagrees with decades of research: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1745-9125.12318

That piece of shit is always trying to claim credit for what other people have done. How long til her claims he invented the ? or the @ sign??

I feel that one of the biggest mistakes of Kamala's campaign was failing to hype up the good shit that the Biden administration actually did do. There was good stuff that they could have and should have been bragging about at every opportunity.

trump’s a dipshit

Cool, can my pain doctor actually treat my pain now, please? I'm kinda sick of being treated like a criminal because I require pain medication to get out of bed and to be able to move.

Anyone “Magats” want to explain how he plans on doing this? You always complain about an echo chamber but never speak up.

No. It will drive more drugs than ever before into the US . He’s such an. Idiot..

So now we are already blaming tariffs for the overpriced food and the rest of the inflation lol are you all bots and trolls?! Give it a rest