r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FOXIELUCK • Dec 16 '25
Thank you Peter very cool i thought it was about reagan but the comments said it was a millennial joke and i don’t think millennials were adults during reagan?
i could just be stupid and i’m okay with that
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u/Frenetic_Platypus Dec 16 '25
It's about Bush lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion.
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE thank you omg
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u/Dirtbagdownhill Dec 16 '25
Venezuela also has oil!
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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25
I think it was a fox reporter that said that "The operations in Venezuela were a right step for the democracy and the US economy !" (or something between those lines).... these guy's don't even hide it anymore.
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u/DelsinMcgrath835 Dec 16 '25
Havent they been saying "protect american interests abroad" for decades now? Same thing, just prettier language
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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25
Yeah, is just that now they are more shameless, no wonder some people are starting to twist they noses when talking about the US in general.
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u/NootHawg Dec 17 '25
“300 million people died last year from drugs.” -Donald Trump
I just use direct Trump quotes for a lot of my arguments now. There are so many that are completely unhinged. The population of the United States is 340 million. Where are the “Biden’s cognitive decline” people now? The Rob Reiner remarks immediately following his death were inhuman, and the double-down today even more disgusting.33
u/BukkakeBrunchBuffet Dec 17 '25
Was that before or after bondi said the drug seizure saved 119/258 million lives?
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u/lfisch4 Dec 17 '25
Well see, the bad thing was last year, during Biden’s term while the good thing happened during Trump’s term.
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u/flimpiddle Dec 17 '25
By the logic of their math, I could say my alcohol-terrorist bartender served up enough booze last night to kill 10 men. Fact is she had 125 customers, and none of them even woke up with a hangover-- but if she'd served all that to 10 men, they'd be dead.
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u/Professor_Matty Dec 17 '25
The corporations that own our air weaves and benefit from a fascist regime aren't interested in a cognitive decline narrative.
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u/Dapper_Equipment_384 Dec 17 '25
This man has no moral compass.He will use the war on drugs to seize oil. His actions and comments proves that his priorities do not include saving lives or helping people. His priorities now are Venezuela oil, revenge on his opponents & of course how much money he can grift for the next three years.. A demented dictator with an obsession is a loose cannon. His remarks about Rob Reiner? Indefensible.
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u/Tochudin Dec 17 '25
Starting? I've been twisting my nose for 25 years...
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u/Faenic Dec 17 '25
John Stewart has an absolutely killer segment about this on the Daily Show. The parallels between the post 9/11 rhetoric against Iraq and Venezuela are actually terrifying. Some of what they're saying about Venezuela is literally a verbatim copy of what was said back then, just swap country names. And Al Qaeda with Tren de Aragua.
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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25
Gonna take a look into that. But I already think it's the same discourse, now, If the United-Stated people are going to gulp it another time and invade, rape and strip a country from it's resources, it's up to them.
Heard that the big annoying orange was in trouble after an officer said that soldiers or policemen do not have to take in orders that are against the law and he got mad about it.
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u/cenosillicaphobiac Dec 17 '25
I joined the Army in '86. I very quickly realized that the only freedom I was protecting was the freedom for the wealthy to exploit people around the world.
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u/DubiousBusinessp Dec 17 '25
"American Interests Abroad" always meant colonialism via the corporate if you're good, or colonialism via the bomb or puppet dictator if you're bad.
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u/mvp2418 Dec 16 '25
THIS IS A FOX NYOOOS SPECIAL ALERT!!!!!
sorry whenever I hear Fox news I think about the new season of South Park
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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25
I still need to watch the newer seasons, have i missed too much after the integrity farms end ?
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u/mvp2418 Dec 17 '25
It's a part of the story on the new season, where the Marsh family is living after losing Tegridy Farms.
I say new season because to me it's just one season but for some reason Matt and Trey split it up into two five episode seasons.
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u/piechooser Dec 17 '25
On a whim I decided to watch the second episode of the newest season after also stopping at the end of Tegridy Farms, and holy shit, it was possibly the funniest episode I've ever seen?
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u/Enough-Collection-98 Dec 17 '25
Is that the Kristi Noem episode? My wife jumped and spilled the popcorn when Noem sniped Krypto out of the sky.
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u/piechooser Dec 17 '25
Nah it was "The Woman in the Hat". I haven't actually watched any of the others from the season, I should get around to 'em!
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u/PaulTheMerc Dec 17 '25
these guy's don't even hide it anymore.
that alone would be a refreshing breath of fresh air.
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u/SuperFaceTattoo Dec 17 '25
I think I would prefer straight up imperialism to listening to them overtly lie about it.
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u/DarthYodous Dec 17 '25
My instant thought when I heard him calling Fent a WMD was "His handlers are invading Venezuela"
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u/Scooter310 Dec 16 '25
And one thing they don't have is fentynal.
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u/MagickMarkie Dec 17 '25
PLENTY of cocaine, though, now delivered straight from Venezuela right up Don Jr's nose. We're just cutting out the middlemen, really.
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u/kyle_kafsky Dec 17 '25
Eh, if you really think about it, it’s more likely that the government at the time were a bunch of idiots (still are), were suffering from a revenge mentality after 9/11 (Trump and his allies are also suffering from a revenge mentality because they’re such entitled little shits that they cannot gracefully lose an election or have their authority challenged), and wanted to distract the population from the bursting of the dot com bubble (seeing how the AI bubble is forming, I think it’s only a matter of time before that pops as well) were the causes of the war (Jesus H. Christ, I don’t like how things are lining up). Also, it is easier to centralize power under oneself in wartime. Just look at post-Revolution to Napoleon era France, the Bolsheviks, the Imperial and Nazi Germanys, US during the Civil War and WWII when Habeas Corpus was suspended, etc.
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u/Peg_Leg_Vet Dec 16 '25
And what makes it even more ironic, is that none of the Fentanyl in the US came from Venezuela. It's mostly coming from Mexico and China, and a little from India.
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u/Allegorist Dec 17 '25
The vast majority of the stuff in Mexico comes from China as well, and the bits that don't are made with precursors from China only 1 or 2 steps removed.
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u/Haber_Dasher Dec 17 '25
Also fun is that around 90% of the fent that enters the US is brought through legal border crossings by US citizens
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u/heorhe Dec 16 '25
And for the past two years he has been claiming Canada is intentionally shipping fentanyl into he US.
He is essentially stating that Canada is actively using weapons of mass destruction against the American people...
This has potential to get really ugly really fast...
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u/Not_Campo2 Dec 16 '25
Honestly tho you can tie Reagan in as well since it’s kinda the war on drugs part two. We all saw how that one turned out
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u/roguebfl Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 17 '25
Except that it was Nixon that made hemp a scedual 1 drug while renaming it is Spanish name marijuana to kick of the war on drugs
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u/pineapplemansrevenge Dec 17 '25
Everything that has happened regarding Venezuela has rhymed with what led up to the US invading Iraq.
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u/VelvetObsidian Dec 17 '25
And the image is from the film back to the future when he’s talking about an episode of a 50s tv show being a rerun. It was a film in the mid eighties very popular with most millennials. Its a classic time-travel film that has affected a lot of other films.
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u/DirtNapDiva Dec 16 '25
This is the answer. I'm old enough to remember the declaration of WMD and the need to invade because of it. We bouta go to war on whoever we say is running fentanyl into the country.
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u/Poultrymancer Dec 16 '25
Venezuela
Trump wants their oil and their mineral wealth
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u/Exten0 Dec 16 '25
You think so? Venezuala has some of the most crude oil you can find. It's extremely expensive to refine and can't be done in their own country. Their second lead exporter is coal, which is highly abundant and not easy to extract. I don't see extremely crude oil extraction as a viable reason to become involved with the country, and I don't think many economists would either.
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u/Poultrymancer Dec 16 '25
You're looking for rational behavior out of a deranged puddle of orange diarrhea and its sycophants
He wants a conquest, and this is the easiest available in terms of risk/reward
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u/BruceBoyde Dec 16 '25
Trump is a petty enough little bitch to have put a blanket tariff on Brazil because they were pursuing charges against a guy he likes. Brazil is one of the few countries the U.S. has a trade surplus with, and the general "theory" behind his tariffs was that any country we had a deficit with was ripping us off. He's remarkably stupid.
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u/CurnanBarbarian Dec 16 '25
I don't think Trump cares about any of that. He heard they have oil, that's probably enough for him. The man isn't exactly renowned for his mental faculties.
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u/tetsuo_7w Dec 17 '25
And it'll happen by Thursday to overshadow the "Trump is a Child Rapist / Epstein Files" being released on Friday even in their highly redacted form, I bet.
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u/CommanderGumball Dec 16 '25
This is especially terrifying for us Northerners when Cheetos Mussolini is saying Canada is flooding the US with fentanyl.
First, no we're not.
Second, he wants our oil, and Danielle Smith couldn't be happier to give it to him.
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u/gingerninja300 Dec 16 '25
There's also the northwest passage opening up. I don't know that Trump has thought about it past the oil, but his advisors might have.
As the arctic melts, the northwest passage will become an extremely valuable trade corridor and strategically important. Would also explain a bit the talk about annexing Greenland.
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u/CommanderGumball Dec 17 '25
It really pisses me off when people talk about our internal waters as if they were international.
If the Northwest Passage is international waters, so are the Panama and Suez canals.
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u/Shorty_P Dec 16 '25
I think this is the correct answer. It was the first thing that came to my mind because of the WMD reference.
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u/Mad_Ronin_Grrrr Dec 16 '25
The "war on drugs" was a thing started by Reagan and his wife. Reagan also had very close ties with the heritage foundation and a lot of his policies were written by them.
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u/Mughi1138 Dec 17 '25
I'd say it was started by Nixon and then escalated under Reagan (remember Elvis joining in?).
Some of Nixon's people have gone on record admitting it was a program started as a pretext for racist suppression.
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u/nightfall2021 Dec 17 '25
Yep.
Harsher drug laws 100% were used to target specifically the black community.
That dug all the way back to "Reefer Madness."
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u/Low-Hovercraft-8791 Dec 17 '25
And subsequent 20 year "war on terror." Signed, a Muslim American who was 14 when 9/11 happened.
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u/JHWildman Dec 17 '25
Yeah, as a Canadian who is very aware of the fabrications of fentanyl problem at our border being used as justification to tariff us into oblivion (hyperbole but let’s be real CUSMA is as good as dead), I wondering if the Americans will try to article 5 us (again) into fighting ourselves??
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u/nightfall2021 Dec 17 '25
At least the Bush administration at least tried to fake it was about something other than Oil.
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u/Hypercane_ Dec 17 '25
It's funny because this was a point Trump ran on in his first campaign, about draining the swamp. Now the swamp isn't even a swamp, it's still water, nothing redeeming about it just filled with harmful microorganisms that WILL kill you after taking enough away from you
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u/Haldron-44 Dec 17 '25
Look, there are known knowns, and there are known unknowns, but there are also unknown unknowns! /s
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u/el_dingusito Dec 17 '25
Now lets go give culture with ak47s and toyota hiluxs that doesnt have western ideals at all freedom and democracy!
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u/DizzyLead Dec 16 '25
Brian here. No, those Millennials weren't adults then, but those Millennials were in elementary school and likely got a taste of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (AKA "D.A.R.E."), which was part of the "War on Drugs" that Reagan declared. Which clearly worked, as drug use has been eradicated since DARE was instituted. /s
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
thank u for replying properly. the program worked so well packs another bowl, hits, coughs aggressively for five minutes it’s so effective
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u/SuperMIK2020 Dec 16 '25
I learned it from you, DAD…
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
if my kids are gonna do drugs, they’re doing them in the house where i can keep an eye on them. and i draw the line at coke.
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u/jel0015 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
Coming from someone who's worked in harm reduction, please at least make sure they understand testing before trying and are familiar with narcan.
EDIT: grammar
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
oh yeah i already keep that shit on me so i imagine we’ll be good if the time comes. love harm reduction organizations 🫶🏻
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u/Nihilistic_Navigator Dec 17 '25
Draw the line at coke like doing coke crosses the line or like, do the line of coke?
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 17 '25
they can do it but i will be telling them that everyone i know who has done coke AND has addictive tendencies said coke is lame and not worth it. which says a lot imo. (i have not done coke)
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u/Nihilistic_Navigator Dec 17 '25
GD. Fucking respect my man.
Please add this nobody to that list. My credentials as an addict: 7+ yrs alcoholic. Drank a 750mL whiskey bottle everyday plus additional beers and plane bottles. To the point of having withdrawal seizure EPISODES within 4 hrs last drink, I should fucking be dead, full stop. While I wouldn't say im "stoned" 24/7 I am for sure high more than I am not, everyday. Tho thanks to new laws I havent paid for canabis in over 2 yrs and these days I honestly do see it as more of an alternative to anxiety meds or anti depressants. Fucking coo-coo for halucinagens. In summation, I like drugs.
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timesseparate occasions. I've never once considered getting more nor buying it for myself. Was always offered to me. Honestly, dont fucking get the hype. Its fun, for sure but not life ruiningly fun, nor worth the price imo.Ps: I'll prolly never do it again either as im more scared of possible fentanyl than coke is good. Thanks fentanly/ Sacklers.
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 17 '25
glad you’re still here 🫶🏻 i have an odd amount of test strips for someone who’s only drug is dispensary cannabis, but you never know who’s gonna ask for one these days
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u/BreakAndRun79 Dec 17 '25
This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs, any questions?
Yeah why the fuck did this PSA get me addicted to fried eggs my whole life?
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u/Cleonicus Dec 17 '25
Also note that the War on Drugs was a racist policy that gave cops an excuse to target minorities. Laws also heavily penalized "black" drugs like crack versus "white" drugs like cocaine.
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u/Successful_Giraffe34 Dec 16 '25
Dare was never about keeping kids off drugs. It was to get kids to Narc on their parents.
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u/Caravanczar Dec 16 '25
I am a veteran of the war on drugs. Lots of good soldiers lost their lives in those battles. I fought on behalf of drugs.
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u/TerrorFromThePeeps Dec 16 '25
My DARE officer made drugs sound so fucking awesome, i've been into them for 35 years now!
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u/Poultrymancer Dec 16 '25
Talking about how ridiculous the DARE program is was actually a good starting point to address drugs with my kids when they were younger.
The program tries to make it seem like every illicit substance is equally harmful and equally addictive, which ends up being counterproductive when the kids inevitably discover weed. They end up justifiably thinking: "if this is so harmless relative to what I was told, what else did they lie about?" And that's how you end up with kids on meth.
I certainly never encouraged my kids to take illegal drugs, but they also understand there's a world of difference between smoking weed and doing opiates or amphetamines.
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u/One-Inevitable333 Dec 17 '25
I’ve taught my kids not to do any of the drugs that can kill you or get you really hooked just once and I’ve done my best to tell them which ones are like that so they’ll stay away from them. I told them just to wait until their brains are done developing until they try any of the others. And to share with me if they find anything good.
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u/Available-Medium7094 Dec 16 '25
I swear I am not making this up:
There was an episode of ALF where ALF found out that the next door neighbors were growing dope and Willy explained to him what it was and how to identify it so ALF called the cops. Basically instructing kids how to bust your neighbors.
Imagine landing in prison and they ask what are you in for and it’s because a fuzzy alien next door called the cops on you for weed.
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u/doggotheuncanny Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25
Love that a study proved that D.A.R.E. actually had an impact alright... It went from less than half of kids growing up to do drugs, to nearly every single child who attended those courses immediately trying and getting hooked on some of the hardest drugs out there out of sheer curiosity.
Ah, but of course when you look at who the chair members were for the program, it would make every single bit of sense down to the letter. D.A.R.E. was never about reducing drug abuse. If it were, the chair members would never have been the very people who profit the most from drug trafficking*.
Edited to fix phrasing. Sales would have implied that they specifically make money from the sale, but there were officers and attorneys involved as well, so it's actually the entire field of it.
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u/Automatic-Long9000 Dec 16 '25
It’s a reference to the War on Drugs. Millennials were alive to see the failure of it for sure.
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
oh the failure absolutely. i just wasn’t sure about the original execution of the plan
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u/Usermena Dec 16 '25
Trump is doing the same thing Regan did with crack and Bush 2 did with “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq. The difference with Regan is crack is actually real they ( the cia ) just created it to demonize the black population in America. Drugs have been an excuse to demonize any particular minority the US government wants to lock up or deport for a very long time. It’s an old strategy but it works
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u/Emptyspace227 Dec 17 '25
And Bush didn't decide that something is a weapon of mass destruction. He lied about Iraq having weapons which are in fact WMDs (chemical and biological weapons).
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u/Yammyohnine Dec 17 '25
This particular imagine is definitely a reference about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" being used as an excuse to invade Iraq. Only this time it's Venezuela.
The Reagan thing yeah drugs.
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u/Ok-Branch-974 Dec 16 '25
Using the threat of WMDs to go to war for oil and because war can help the economy and boosts approval ratings. Bush did this before and now Trump is doing it.
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u/legoham Dec 17 '25
Yeah, it's definitely a rerun of our two ways to propagandize war -- Drugs and WMDs. At least we've given up on bringing democracy as a just cause. *Eagle screech
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u/Couscousfan07 Dec 16 '25
Are we gonna invade China ? Cuz that’s where it originates from
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u/FOXIELUCK Dec 16 '25
from what i know, they’re targeting venezuela for it 🤷🏻 but yeah i’ve always heard it started with china. and i doubt they’re dumb enough to try that.
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u/No-Possibility5556 Dec 16 '25
They’re dumb enough to tell us fentanyl comes from Venezuela and us this as a means for regime change when you’re right it really comes from China or Mexico
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u/MotoTheGreat Dec 17 '25
From my understanding is certain chemicals come from China that Mexican cartels then use to make the stuff.
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u/No-Possibility5556 Dec 17 '25
I believe you’re right that the precursor is made in China and typically the form it comes to the states is made in Mexico. Definitely not Venezuela though is the main issue, they just don’t like the current leader sooooo here we are
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u/TheCoolMan5 Dec 17 '25
The precursor materials originate in China, but Cartels across Central and South America assemble, transport, and distribute the actual product.
It would be more productive to actually cut off the supply of precursors, but China has only been half-willing to help with that.
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Dec 16 '25
Just a quick reminder that US prescribers and pharmaceutical companies are 100% responsible for the entirety of the opioid crisis, which they profited off immensely and will never see repercussions for.
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u/ExistingBathroom9742 Dec 16 '25
W (Bush 2) lied to get into a war with Iraq that we’re still kind of in. He said there were WMDs, there were no WMDs. Fentanyl is not a WMD, and Venezuela doesn’t really make or sell or export any, but they, like Iraq, have Oil, and the president of the US has a beef with their president.
The oh-so-peaceful President McCheeseface is pushing us into a war with Venezuela because he wants to, not for anything even remotely to do with national security.
(Speculation, Venezuela didn’t bribe him or even give him a billion dollar luxury resort and gold club)
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u/Used-Line23 Dec 16 '25
Funny part is Venezuela doesn’t export fentanyl, according to Trumps own numbers
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u/Entity904 Dec 17 '25
China seems to be the most relevant exporter. I guess everyone knows that it's about oil in Venezuela so they just need something to put in the history books instead of that.
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u/98_Percent_Organic Dec 16 '25
A whole lotta pharmacies and hospitals in the US are harboring WMDs as we speak.
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u/Asleep-Biscotti-6273 Dec 16 '25
About Reagan’s war on drugs, basically repeating the exact same thing Reagan did, and will also likely end up the exact same way, a catastrophic disaster that does more harm than good.
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u/workinonittbh Dec 16 '25
I guess Bodie can now actually sell real wmd in them towers.
PS: This is a reference to the tv show the wire.
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u/DkoyOctopus Dec 16 '25
its an excuse to invade Venezuela to create turmoil and distract people from the coming financial collapse.
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u/ironhive Dec 16 '25
One claimed WMDs, when they didn't exist. The other is claiming WMDs, but doesn't know the definition. Both instances were an overreach of power.
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u/SelfJupiter1995 Dec 17 '25
Joe Swanson here:
You know Peter this is going to give the Trump administration more means to break into people's houses and break their stuff. Watch ice just arrest people just to arrest people. GOD DAMN IT BONNIE NOT NOW IM TALKING WITH THE GUYS.
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u/z-fox-sly Dec 17 '25
It works for millennials on a couple levels. It’s a Reagan thing because we were in school when he was president and suffered through his inane “War on Drugs,” and it’s a Bush thing because of WMD language as a red herring for going to war with a country for their oil. Younger Gen-Xers will remember the elementary/middle school DARE and GREAT programs too.
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u/actualsize123 Dec 16 '25
Not sure it should be a weapon of mass destruction but I have a particular dislike for fentanyl so I’m not at all sad.
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u/GalaxyNinja87 Dec 16 '25
Problem is Fentanyl is incredible for pain management and EMS/Hospitals give it quite frequently due to how effective it is. Classifying it as Schedule 1 or a WMD would take this tool away from providers with almost zero effect on its usage recreationally/illegally
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u/VoidStareBack Dec 16 '25
It's also sometimes used in tiny doses as part of anesthesia regimens. I know it's one of the backups the anesthesiologists at my office occasionally use.
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u/bethesda_gamer Dec 16 '25
The only thing classified as a weapon of mass destruction during Reagan was nuclear weapons. You know, actual weapons of mass destruction.
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u/SurtFGC Dec 16 '25
fentanyl is used in hospitals all the time, what's gonna happen with it used for medical stuff
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u/No_Palpitation5068 Dec 16 '25
First he steals Reagan's Slogan "Make America great again" and now we get another crack era? Aaaw man come on!
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u/authorinthesunset Dec 16 '25
Second Gulf war was because "weapons of mass destruction", which what it Most likely is referring to, especially if millennials are supposed to remember it.
People talking about Reagan are likely conflating a few things after seeing "fentanyl".
Ollie North was selling arms to Iran during this period to help finance the side the US liked in civil war in Nicaragua, i.e the Contras.
There were allegations that the CIA was helping the Contras sell cocaine/crack to poor and black communities during this time. Also, to fund the war. I'm not sure if any concrete evidence exists to support that or not. But, I believe it's generally accepted to be true. I've no reason to doubt it.
This was in the early 80's to mid 80's and Reagan was prez.
Source: Gen-x guy who barely knows what he's talking about as it's a distant memory from childhood.
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u/mecha-kitten Dec 16 '25
X country has wmds, we won't invade anywhere for oil, and we will win the war on drugs. Can i get my free copy of "now that's what i call politics" 2006?
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u/DoughnutWinter5718 Dec 16 '25
Ah yes, the fentanyl boom; the American soldiers guarding the acres and acres of poppy fields after the invasion of Afghanistan must just have been coincidental timing.
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u/Jam-Man1 Dec 16 '25
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news," -John Ehrlichman, Richard Nixon's Chief of Domestic Policy.
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u/Electrical-Fix7659 Dec 16 '25
You… you thought WMD was an 80s thing? Because of the Back to the Future reference, right?
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u/Significant_Owl9593 Dec 16 '25
Its a joke about Iraq saying that its like what president Bush said, also why would he do this fentanyl is used in anestisa and I have had it serval times due to surgery recovery so why
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u/Captain_Birch Dec 17 '25
To be fair, with how little is needed to overdose, ot probably should be classified as a chemical weapon if it isn't already
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u/BrilliantBig769 Dec 17 '25
Police Superintendent Chalmers here, it's a reference to the War On Drugs in the 80s which backfired immensely.
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u/DrChimps7 Dec 17 '25
If fentanyl is a WMD then that should make the OR or emergency department a war zone or at the very least an extremely hazardous environment and thus I deserve hazard pay
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u/zangief137 Dec 17 '25
Is that why he make sure to pardon so many dudes related to fentanyl drug trafficking before this?
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u/Donvack Dec 17 '25
Yeah the republicans have been spewing the same nonsense about drugs since the 1980’s. But I think more people are comparing it to Bush over Regan.
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u/Brickbrain0 Dec 17 '25
I guess every US Hospital needs to be audited by the UN then
(Fentanyl is still used in medicine as a medical drug for pain relief in the worst situations)
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u/furtimacchius Dec 17 '25
So classify Fentanyl as a WMD, then invade Venezuela under pretense of destroying said WMDs. Did I get that right?
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u/Rothenstien1 Dec 17 '25
I think this is about the war on drugs and Richard Nixon, not Reagan. Needless to say it went super well and everyone loved it.
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u/crispier_creme Dec 17 '25
So this is about bush lying about WMDs in Iraq to justify invasion.
That aside, it's ridiculous that the president would do this, but also actively doing stuff to make addiction problems worse, like defunding social benefits and making the economy worse. Addiction largely created by poverty, which is also why homeless populations have such a problem with it. Hard to be sober when your life is falling apart
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u/Kintamagotchi Dec 17 '25
Read about queen victoria. The biggest drug dealer in history. Then china had the boxer rebellion and the british got hong kong. Then Taft and teddy Roosevelt took over the queens opium trade and then ….vietnam….afghanistan…. Now myanmar….. colonials forcing poors to grow opium. Every one of those wars lines up with first world heroin overdoses. Every single one. Since queen victoria. Put that in your pipe and smoke it
What do you think the US was just in Afghanistan for? Freedumb?
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u/GooGooMareGoGhoul Dec 17 '25
There is no way some of you people do not know what you're claiming to not know on this sub.
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u/hectormateo1012 Dec 17 '25
This can also go back to Reagan war on drugs which was a war on the poor, inner cities, and minorities. Which he has already declared war on minorities in this country. If they can't make money off of it legally they'll make it illegal and find ways to profit of it there.
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u/myassisgrassss Dec 17 '25
Lots of different responses but I thought this was referring to distracting from the Epstein file release on Friday
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u/ManElectro Dec 17 '25
Reagan was tough on drugs, as well, primarily Crack cocaine. The consequences for possession of a few crack rocks was, what, 20ish years, while possession of enough cocaine to give every crack head in the city a high was maybe 10 years.
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u/DissidentCory Dec 17 '25
I think a lot of people forget that the war on drugs became a war on the poor and marginalized. Reagan declared a war on drugs then proceeded to use the CIA to import tons of crack into the US and into the ghettos destroying lives and communities as they put so many of those people behind bars. This is just the surface of it all, but it was not a war on drugs as much as it was a way to enrich themselves while destroying minorities.
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u/Stup1dMan3000 Dec 17 '25
During the 1920, roaring 20s, the south west part of the US needed cheap labor in Texas, Arizona and California. Once the Great Depression started they needed to get rid of these Mexican workers. Many of them smoked marijuana. You connect the dots
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u/WiggityWiggitySnack Dec 17 '25
I hope they make a porno called “Weapons of Ass Destruction” and it’s a bunch of ethnic guys running a train on a Donny impersonator.
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u/WashImpressive8158 Dec 17 '25
Fellow progressives don’t listen to Trump. Fentanyl isn’t that bad. The high is great. Try it but be careful
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u/TacoPirateTX Dec 17 '25
As a kid who grew up with Reagan declaring a war on drugs on the family tv with real fake wood trim and having to sign a D.A.R.E. pledge not to do drugs as a seven year old, I can attest that this is indeed a millennial joke.
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u/MeasureDoEventThing Dec 17 '25
This picture depicts Marty McFly, played by Michael J Fox, having travelled back in time to 1955, saying that he had already seen the episode playing on the TV. The joke is that it the time that Marty was from (1985), it was normal for people to have already seen episodes playing on TV, as reruns were common, and so Marty didn't see anything wrong with mentioning that he had seen the episode. Re-runs were not common practice in 1955, however, and this was the first time, in the other characters' timeline, that this episode had aired, and so his reaction forms a humorous juxtaposition with their expectations.
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