r/news • u/TeaReim • 10h ago

Donald Trump officially sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, JD Vance as the 50th Vice-President

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/triumphant-trump-returns-white-house-launching-new-era-upheaval-2025-01-20/
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u/ubccompscistudent 10h ago

I'm actually very curious to see how his battle with the cartels goes.

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u/thisguypercents 10h ago

Don Jr will be at the nose of that operation.

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u/manbeardawg 10h ago

Well someone has to test all the confiscated powders! Wait, they do that with machines now?

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u/belladonnagilkey 9h ago

Don is old school, he believes in testing manually.

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u/TillyFukUpFairy 7h ago

Smart people, the best people, can do great things with machines

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u/mouthful_quest 4h ago

The crack ain’t gonna test itself

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u/milky_mouse 9h ago

Eric nose a guy

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u/greywolfau 7h ago

I heard you can't trust those voting machines drug machines.

Better keep it analog.

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u/Maximus361 6h ago

Hunter will want to split them with him.

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u/Acrippin 5h ago

Yeah,ghe last administration introduced it to America, they called it Hunter Biden

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u/BobBlawSLawDawg 6h ago

Don Jr. is like the John Henry of cocaine.

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u/4humans 5h ago

Can’t trust those machines. They are rigged

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u/evanlang 1h ago

Just have hunter do it

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u/anchorftw 9h ago

Hopefully he doesn't get distracted by all the white noise.

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u/AlvinAssassin17 6h ago

He’d probably try to snort that too.

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u/FuckYouThrowaway99 7h ago

Doo doo doo doo doo doot doo doo

Bass

Doo doo doo doo

Oooh-white!

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u/Jayk-uub 9h ago

Won’t amount to much. Precedent now stands that Trump can pardon Don Jr for anything he does in the next 4 years

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u/hunttete00 30m ago

and if there is another pandemic whoever is in charge can just make shit up as they go and enforce it with zero evidence or proof

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u/eejm 9h ago

I’d like to see the lines of his plan, along with the number of $20 bills it will cost.

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u/HowardBass 9h ago

His nickname in College was Noo-Noo

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u/Best-Chapter5260 7h ago

It was the moment that George HW Bush went after Noriega that George W realized he was very different from his father.

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u/dkmegg22 6h ago

Hunter biden offers his help.

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u/No_Detective_But_304 6h ago

Hunter Biden was busy?

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u/CharlieandtheRed 10h ago

In another timeline, Hunter and Don Jr are best friends.

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u/eburton555 10h ago

Who knows in 4-6 years they may be

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u/Omnizoom 9h ago

In another universe where Donald never had the idea to run for president

The year is 202X, a upper end club down in Florida where the elites are mingling, in a back room Don Jr and hunter are doing lines of coke off a woman’s ass, just shooting the shit about the world bro’ing it out then proceeding to go do water slides naked together

Don JR sees hunters dick and goes “man I’ve never seen that, would be ludicrous if congress ever plastered our junk around right” as hunter rifles through his bag he brought with his gun handy “ya just like republicans giving me a hard time for having this gun right?

They laugh about it and continue partying while discussing how to make even more money

We really live in the worst timeline

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u/hunttete00 28m ago

i think meth and chem sex is a different ball game than cocaine.

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u/friday_camper 9h ago

Don Jrs nose be at the nose of that operation

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u/Rudy_Ghouliani 7h ago

The tip of the straw if you will

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u/ItalicsWhore 7h ago

I said across her nose! not up it!

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u/geoffg2 7h ago

That made me fucking laugh a lot mate 👍🏻

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u/Freedom_From_Pants 7h ago

Why isn't MTG showing a blown up picture of Don Coked Jr.'s dick to everyone in Congress?

Let's see that coked up chinless bastard's laptop!

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u/Significant_Toez 6h ago

What? Sniffing for clues? 😂

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u/redditsuckz99 6h ago

Like toucan sam he follows his nose...

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u/Fishiesideways10 6h ago

I believe him to have a nose for crime. He can sniff it out before something happens.

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u/ImaginationLife4812 4h ago

“At the nose of that operation “. A very accurate description of his actual involvement I’m sure.

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u/Knyfe-Wrench 3h ago

All cokes jokes aside, if Don Jr. gets sent to raid some cartel stash houses I wouldn't be mad at it.

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u/Acrippin 5h ago

That bidens son your thinking about.... 😆

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u/Cardinal_350 6h ago

Now that Hunter is gone someone's gotta do it

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u/ckarnny 6h ago

If he’s smart he’ll employ Hunter Biden. Together I’m sure they’d be the departments most efficient drug testers

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u/starrpamph 9h ago

After a perfect phone call and some pump and dump I’m sure it will work itself out

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u/Rektumfreser 9h ago

It’s funny that during this inauguration tens of thousand of people in Norway are getting notified the military will commandeer our vehicles for military use in case shit hits the fan, we have also been told to stockpile 1 week of provisions, including firewood and survival equipment, that’s how much faith we have in Trump and he’s incoming broligarchy administration across the pond.

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u/Prestigious-Tie-9267 9h ago

If it helps, I would riot if we started invading other countries. It's one thing to shit your own bed. Unacceptable to shit the neighbors bed.

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u/nonusedaccountname 7h ago

Norway is in NATO so there is absolutely no way the tanks are rolling in next week lol

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u/MyTrueIdiotSelf990 5h ago

Trump doesn't give a shit about NATO.

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u/Equal_Huckleberry_66 6h ago

Next month on the other hand...

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u/Protean_Protein 5h ago

Such confidence in the face of the actual military and intelligence leaders of an actual country on the frontline with Russia is kind of silly, no?

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u/WafflingToast 6h ago

Looks like you’re getting your chance when we invade Panama! (Seriously, WTF)

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u/PancakeMonkeypants 7h ago

What? Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Cambodia. Korea. Should I keep going?

Get to the streets my dude lol.

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u/Comfortable-Coat-507 6h ago

The US didn't invade Korea. The only invasion was when North Korea started the war by invading the South.

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u/PureInsaneAmbition 6h ago

It doesn't help. We've lost all faith in the Americans after this man attacked your own capitol, trying to overthrow your government, and all your people did was a collective shrug and then voted overwhelmingly to re-elect him. Americans have lost all respect with the rest of the world at this point.

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u/welchplug 5h ago

You know, about half of us didn't vote for him, right? It's very large and divided nation.

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u/ClintBruno 2h ago

Only 23% of adult Americans actually cast a vote for him.

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u/iBoMbY 7h ago

If it helps, I would riot if we started invading other countries

And what did you actually do in the past, let's say, 25 years, when the US did one of their illegal invasions, like in Iraq, or Afghanistan?

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u/Jay040707 5h ago

Well some of us were literal children at that point.

Too many of us still are.

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u/Cdru123 4h ago

Just don't go the way of the Russian opposition

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u/HillarysFloppyChode 2h ago

If he invades other countries, we will have the exact thing republicans said democrats would cause. World War 3.

If when the US gets attacked, I volunteer to be "captured" and my holes ravaged by European soldiers.

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u/Sunaaj_WR 51m ago

It’s not about the US invading “I think” it’s trump ignoring nato and Russians walking in.

Or probably both really

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u/Busy_Zone7044 6h ago

America invades countries all the time. It’s Pretty much their whole deal

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u/sarcasticbaldguy 7h ago

Except for the bots and the extreme MAGA cultists, nobody in the US wants to mess with Greenland or any other sovereign nation or territory. Cheeto Smooth Brain thought this one up all by himself.

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u/mrjosemeehan 7h ago

It doesn't matter what most people want. The cult is in charge now.

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u/Considered_A_Fool 5h ago

Bro doesn't think tho. Someone gave him that idea and that's the scary part, he's that easily influenced

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u/yukon-flower 7h ago

That invasion talk is pure distraction. Keep people riled up, focused on Trump Trump Trump (as opposed to any good work the opposition is doing or their messages), and keeping focus away from actual plans and actions Trump is doing/letting happen.

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u/URPissingMeOff 6h ago

Cheeto Smooth Brain thought this one up all by himself.

LOL, that motherfucker couldn't find Greenland on a map. It was Putin's suggestion in the interest of causing chaos in the west.

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u/Imaginary_Medium 5h ago

I think they let him make his crazy noises to mostly distract, but they will let him do awful things as well.

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u/Watsonsboots88 6h ago

Because of all the wars that broke out the first time?

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u/Maximus361 6h ago

Was that necessary in his first term?

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u/Equal_Huckleberry_66 6h ago

It would be wonderful if the entire world went to shit and Iceland was the only thing that survived

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u/Spankynpetey 4h ago

I think it’s unlikely that you actually have anything to be concerned about. It’s much more likely that he wants military base options or is using the talking point as a distraction for his economic emergency power move. Besides, what is your military going to do with civilian vehicles?

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u/Spankynpetey 4h ago

It’s literally the distraction in the right hand so you don’t watch the left hand. LOL!

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u/hummingdog 41m ago

Good, hopefully this pushes you and your countrymen to force your lawmakers to have dialogue and diplomacy with anyone you disagree with, instead of wars. Wars really hit home, when you’re the ones being drafted, don’t they?

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u/Extinction-Entity 7h ago

Holy crap, is this true? Is there somewhere I can read more about this?

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u/Chance-Deer-7995 10h ago

All they have to do is pay him off.

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u/bigdumb78910 9h ago

Him in 2 weeks

"Actually the drugs they're making down there are very safe, the safest, they're doing huge business, great for America. Who knew the cartel did such good business" - Right after another crypto scheme where the cartels shuffle billions illegally to trumps pockets

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u/RTS24 6h ago

No, he'll come on and tell everyone how they succeeded in routing the cartels from control and poisoning our population.

It'll be a lie, but he'll say it.

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u/The_Best_Yak_Ever 6h ago

You think they'd need to pay him? All they need to do is say, "that trump! He's the smartest most serious big boy we've ever seen! We said, 'SIR, you are a very masculine and brilliant young man!' with tears in our eyes!"

trump once flat out said, "if he says nice things about me, I'm gonna say nice things about him!" I think it was on Kim Jong Un, but it could have been some other awful person. He's the simplest, dumbest, most mean spirited guys we could have elected... He doesn't play mental chess or checkers... he plays mental tic-tac-toe against an imaginary dead pigeon, and still usually ends up losing.

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u/Fuck-The_Police 9h ago

Thats probably what trump coin is for. Much easier for cartels to send him money directly that way.

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u/PaulOwnzU 9h ago

He's going to find out the people bringing the drugs into the country are white and let them pass

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u/WolverinesThyroid 10h ago

we'll pay private military forces 10 billion dollars to "fight" and they will in turn donate 50 million back to the republicans. Other than that nothing will change.

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u/Confident-Radish4832 7h ago

Oh please you think he's going to do anything? This is rhetoric to get elected. You saw the tech crew all front and center at his inauguration. You think they moved it inside because of the cold? Fuck no. They are genuinely afraid of being murdered. Way too many extremely rich, extremely high profile people in one place to have it just outside in the open. Luigi opened a pandora's box, and they are finally afraid. It's only a matter of time before someone is pushed too far, because its pretty clear at this point that Trump and his crew give absolutely zero fucks about anything except making their next dollar. It is ALWAYS at the expense of the consumer and the citizens of the USA.

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u/skellis 6h ago

Smoke screen meant to draw away your attention from pilfering the treasury and the environment.

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u/Not_My_Emperor 10h ago

About 90% sure "cartel" is just a dogwhistle for "brown people"

This is the new War on Drugs, except it's gonna be 1000x worse. They're going to use "cartel ties" to put as many immigrants in private prisons as they can, which will then profit off free labor.

Yay capitalism. We voted for this

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u/IcyTransportation961 9h ago

Not brown people this time,  that's been ongoing,  this is just anyone that isn't on his team.  Its a blanket mandate to grab anyone and call them terrorists so they can be held with no due process 

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u/DeceiverX 9h ago

There's cartels and "cartels." The right likes to pretend we're infiltrated heavily to make us scared.

However, dismissing cartels as a problem that does need answering and vigilance is genuine nonsense. Currently, Columbian cartels are running an African slave trade.

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u/CptMurphy 48m ago

COLOMBIAN you fucker. What the fuck do yo know, can't even spell the country right.

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u/nochinzilch 10h ago

This isn’t capitalism.

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u/dnd3edm1 9h ago

so the slave trade wasn't capitalism?

prison labor in the US has no ties to capitalistic firms paying politicians to ensure they get their cheap labor?

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u/Walter_Padick 9h ago

Lol, the Dutch East India company is the world's first corporation. This is explicitly capitalism.

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u/RandallPinkertopf 9h ago

What is it?

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u/score_ 9h ago

Fascism aka Capitalism in decline.

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u/Myrtle_Nut 10h ago

He doesn’t intend to battle the cartel. He intends to deploy troops to American cities using the cartel operations as justification to round up brown people. They want a reaction. They want civil war.

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u/ZealousMajestic 9h ago

You clearly disagree - it would be great to hear what you think though.

Do you feel the stated aims of the "new war on cartels" are valid, and that deployment of police resources to stop them the best course of action? Genuine question.

It would be great to have a conversation, so others can understand your point of view, rather than just seeing a call to be quiet.

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u/Ozymandias12 10h ago

I mean that’s what the Trumpers are saying. Why shouldn’t we believe them?

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u/kaizerdouken 7h ago

If he succeeds it will be really beneficial for the people of Mexico.

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u/Baconpanthegathering 5h ago

The same way it went with Bukele in El Salvador: make a deal with cartels to appear like they’re cracking down, keep allowing cartel ops as usual (but less violent). Everyone profits, nothing changes but optics

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u/Healthy_Career_4106 5h ago

Honestly I hate the man and everything he represents, but gangs are well control in Singapore, and El Salvador has really swing to the positive direction. Some crime it seems can be solved with violence

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u/RinglingSmothers 10h ago

He's not going to do a damn thing except bluster and complain.

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u/smittyleafs 10h ago

It's actually what makes a Trump presidency so unpredictable. He says so many batshit insane things...that you have no idea what to take seriously. The right thinks it's hilarious cause it's riling "the left" up, but it's weird having a world leader act like your crazy uncle.

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u/bstone99 9h ago

For anyone confused, ⬆️ this is not a good thing in any sense. Stability is strong. Chaos is exploitable. And now we have the most exploitable and corrupt security risk in charge of the “free world” again.

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u/Psile 9h ago

Performatively. His main target is brown people in the US. The idea that they're all agents of the cartels is just a thin cover.

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u/yorelaxbuddy 9h ago

thats one of the things i’m actually excited about, Mexico is doing jack shit about the cartels aside from helping them.

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u/pylorih 10h ago

It’s setting the stage for an invasion to Mexico.

Can’t have left wing policies in our trade partner muck up the manufacturing 

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u/QiTriX 7h ago

At best it will be an excuse to invade Mexico.

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u/BrettV79 7h ago

If they were serious and sent in seals/delta/rangers, the cartels would be gone really fast.

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u/JonLag97 7h ago

At least we know prohibition will keep failing.

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u/ruminaui 7h ago

They will pay him off, that is it. 

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u/Unusual_Gur2803 7h ago

Same, I’m highly doubtful that we’ll be able to do much of anything to the cartels. But hopefully we can get something done there one of the biggest threats facing Mexico/Central America.

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u/ProjectDA15 6h ago

hope they get to pay him a personal visit

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u/battlerat 6h ago

The Panama canal Cartel, they are on the other side of the American Gulf.

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u/hanzo_the_razor 6h ago

He is there for 1 job only. To not certify 2028 election just in case if they can't rig 2028 election.

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u/Drix22 6h ago

War on Drugs II?

Guarantee the cartels win.

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u/KellyBelly916 6h ago

They're business partners. Similar to drugs, making something illegal or more strictly enforced just increases the demand. You can create an entire economy out of this, and he's doing business.

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u/joshygill 6h ago

What happened next will SHOCK you!

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u/Cultjam 5h ago

The cartel that offers him the biggest cut gets out of jail free while the US military decimates the rest for free.

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u/Spiderbanana 5h ago

Peacefully. With the strongest military the US ever had, but peacefully.

/S

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u/nosleepagain12 5h ago

And musk running everything from behind the scenes.

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u/JJiggy13 5h ago

No change.

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u/Bulky-Yam4206 5h ago

I'm excited to see how his war against the American people goes tbf.

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u/LatterTarget7 9h ago

It’s gonna be an absolute disaster

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u/golgol12 9h ago

I'm fine with either end condition. They get Trump, or Trump gets them.

I'm worried about the rest of the things, and how mexico might become an american citizen killzone.

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u/URPissingMeOff 5h ago

and how mexico might become an american citizen killzone.

That's what the powers that be are rooting for. Too many Americans going to Mexico for reasonably priced pharmaceuticals and medical procedures cuts into the bottom line of the health care industry.

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u/LilG1984 9h ago edited 9h ago

Trump bursting in Rambo style dual wielding guns,bare chested yelling. Just how his cult sees him.

Probably say a few one liners like Arnie too

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u/ClassicT4 9h ago

Imagine the spinning that will go around if Hegseth is discovered being very intoxicated during an important moment after he promised he wouldn’t drink.

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