Meanwhile In America

[bolty58]

4 hours ago, Bertie said:

So, we wake to the pound shop bully threatening tariffs on the EU and perhaps the UK.  Despite Trump today saying Starmer has been “very nice” I really hope Starmer ditches any sycophantic urges, sticks two fingers up and joins the global outcry in condemning Trump’s erratic behaviours.  The sane world needs to stand in solidarity.  The post WW2 words of the German pastor Martin Niemoller have never rung more true:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

 The epitome of drama queen. FFS.

[bolty58]

19 hours ago, Dimron said:

Imagine if he did this to the UK

If you look at the globe you can understand his ambition of acquiring Canada and Greenland as these are on the shortest route to enemy Russia and associated countries.

If he installs a puppet such as Farage he will also have a vassal state like Belarus is to Putin's Russia

On re-reading this I have now realised what semillon is.

[Traf]

50 minutes ago, gonzo said:

What kind of job would require you throw a concrete slab in to a pond?

Sounds fun.

Lifeguard at Farnworth baths

[Traf]

5 hours ago, Bertie said:

He does it himself when he opens his mouth.

One of my favourites is when he claimed the noise made by wind turbines can cause cancer.

[Bertie]

1 hour ago, bolty58 said:

 The epitome of drama queen. FFS.

That’s rich 😂

[Dimron]

1 hour ago, gonzo said:

What kind of job would require you throw a concrete slab in to a pond?

Sounds fun.

He's following MacGregor's X-Y Theory...

[Dimron]

1 hour ago, bolty58 said:

On re-reading this I have now realised what semillon is.

Dry

[Spider]

For balance, I do admire Trumps war on fentanyl. It’s destroying large swathes of American society.

tackling it head on is great and fair play to him.

His methods are a bit shit but no gripes on the reasons.

 

[Winchester White]

1 hour ago, Spider said:

For balance, I do admire Trumps war on fentanyl. It’s destroying large swathes of American society.

tackling it head on is great and fair play to him.

His methods are a bit shit but no gripes on the reasons.

 

What is this fentanyl shite?

Our head office is in Reading and they seem to have quite an issue with drugs and homelessness but this fentanyl seems really bad in the US.

[Zico]

7 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

What is this fentanyl shite?

Our head office is in Reading and they seem to have quite an issue with drugs and homelessness but this fentanyl seems really bad in the US.

It's what killed Prince 

My other half was on it when giving birth and said it was amazing

[Cheese]

8 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

What is this fentanyl shite?

Our head office is in Reading and they seem to have quite an issue with drugs and homelessness but this fentanyl seems really bad in the US.

Basically synthetic heroin.

[gonzo]

23 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

What is this fentanyl shite?

Our head office is in Reading and they seem to have quite an issue with drugs and homelessness but this fentanyl seems really bad in the US.

 

Turns towns and cities in to this. 

Thank the lord it hasn't made it properly over here.

 

 

[Zico]

8 minutes ago, gonzo said:

 

Turns towns and cities in to this. 

Thank the lord it hasn't made it properly over here.

 

 

Remember seeing this about it in San Francisco a few years back 

 

 

[Spider]

33 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

What is this fentanyl shite?

Our head office is in Reading and they seem to have quite an issue with drugs and homelessness but this fentanyl seems really bad in the US.

Latest opioid that completely zombifies folk.

Sister just got back from San Francisco (she’s been a few times) and says whole suburbs are clogged with groups of users just spacked out in the street.

most cities have it as a big problem.

So trump is spot on by tackling it.

not sure charging Canada more for maple syrup will sort it but he thinks different.

[MancWanderer]

18 minutes ago, Spider said:

Latest opioid that completely zombifies folk.

Sister just got back from San Francisco (she’s been a few times) and says whole suburbs are clogged with groups of users just spacked out in the street.

most cities have it as a big problem.

So trump is spot on by tackling it.

not sure charging Canada more for maple syrup will sort it but he thinks different.

Went to San Fransisco last year. Amazing place but fuck me it’s grim in parts. There’s one-legged folk face planted on the pavement still in their wheelchairs absolutely zombified. City centre is fucked. Loads of shops closed down  as folk won’t walk past the piles of addicts just lying there. 

[bolty58]

11 hours ago, Bertie said:

That’s rich 😂

No, the US will be rich.

The art of the deal.

Watch and learn son.

[bolty58]

3 hours ago, Zico said:

It's what killed Prince 

My other half was on it when giving birth and said it was amazing

Saint George Floyd was on it so, as in all things related to that great man, it must be good?

[bolty58]

12 hours ago, Dimron said:

Dry

Often been accused of that.

I see that they are starting to capitulate. Probably not China but the rest will fall into line.

Can you imagine the lemon leading the UK getting results so quickly? Not a fucking hope in hell. 10,000 French troops on their North coast?  Ten thousand dirigibles more likely.

Hopefully he soon has to choose between the EU and the US. Will be as delicious for the reds as the Birmingham school gates were. Sadly, I think I already know the direction the dope will opt for. Fabulous opportunity spurned.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

10 hours ago, Spider said:

Latest opioid that completely zombifies folk.

Sister just got back from San Francisco (she’s been a few times) and says whole suburbs are clogged with groups of users just spacked out in the street.

most cities have it as a big problem.

So trump is spot on by tackling it.

not sure charging Canada more for maple syrup will sort it but he thinks different.

Time will tell, but he's had a response so far.

I'm surprised that Canada seems to be a hotbed of fentanyl export.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/imposing-duties-to-address-the-flow-of-illicit-drugs-across-our-national-border/#:~:text=Criminal networks are implicated in,nitazene synthesis labs in Canada.

Some details.

[gonzo]

Spice seems to have cleared up over this way.

That was a really heavy couple of years.

Don't see any zombies at all now. Not sure what stopped it.

We are back to just your bog standard crack and smack heads scurrying about like rats now.

[Bertie]

8 hours ago, bolty58 said:

Saint George Floyd was on it so, as in all things related to that great man, it must be good?

Ah well - he deserved what he got then didn’t he 🙄!

Hard to see how fentanyl crisis can be fixed easily.  Supplies will always get through as long as demand is there.  Same drug problem the world over. Instinctively I’d (also) want to go for punitive measures against dealers and users, but root cause in US think is the absolutely massive homelessness, social care and healthcare problems.  Been to many US cities with work and it’s shocking everywhere.  Denver had pavement ghettos.  San Francisco is absolutely zombie apocalypse.  Even San Diego was going down the pan. Just can’t see either republicans or democrats having the will to fix.

[Duck Egg]

The Canadians repeating that less than 1% of Fentanyl in the US came across their border.  Surely the US agency (FEMA?) signing Oxycontin off as safe and pushing it onto GPs as a harmless painkiller was more responsible for the epidemic? 

[gonzo]

Doesn't even look like a good high.

At least with Heroin or Crack it's a big euphoric buzz.

That stuff just looks it sends you to sleep stood up.

Be better off watching our treacle ball.

[mickbrown]

Perfect opportunity for Trump's hedge fund/tech bro mates to make a shedload of money.

Get the nod that the orange whopper will announce tariffs, get your sell orders in. #

Get the nod he's holding fire for 30 days, get your buy orders in.

Rinse and repeat. Easy money

Cynical? Moi?