http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43465229
There's so much storm over Cambridge Analytica it seems this little gem almost got lost.
What in the actual fuck. He acts like a god damn dictator who is trying to keep power.
That's frighteningly familiar
Trump needs to stop giving Duterte high fives underneath the table
Did he also ask those other countries if their people lived in fear of their government? That's what you really want Trump, you want us to fear you.
Of course he thinks this shit.
He still thinks he knows best about the central park 5 despite clearly being ignorant as fuck about it all.
Remember kids, its not the big pharma companies that are pushing the opioids to the people, its the big scary drug dealers.
Does this apply to pot dealers too? Because death penalty for selling what is essentially alcohol is beyond ludicrous.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381
Don't want any Trump Unofficial (tm) dealers undercutting his friends.
Bullshit statement tbh- do we know how close he is to big pharma?
War on Drugs on steroids, absolutely zero interest in actually treating the underlying causes of addiction.
Fuck Trump and fu k his entire administration.
This man needs immediate removal from office before we go down a very dangerous road.
"Just because he praised Dueterute doesn't mean he wants to kill drug dealers, just give him a chance guys." Also;
Mr Trump said on Monday: "We have to change the laws and we're working on that now. The Department of Justice is working very hard on that."
However, such a move would require an act of Congress.And it would probably fall afoul of previous Supreme Court rulings on proportional punishment.The US president seemed to accept on Monday that his policy faced an uphill battle.
"The ultimate penalty has to be the death penalty," he said. "Now maybe our country's not ready for that. It's possible, it's possible."
Don't vote Republican.
He like to use Singapore as an example, but he doesn't seem to understand that we are fucking small in comparison to America. Even though its brutal af, its worked because its easy to control trafficking when your country is the size of a city.
Also, 500 grams of weed get you death penalty
Also you are guilty until proven innocent here.
With the way the USA is structured institutionally, I don't think this country will be able to fully legalize weed nation-wide. for at least another decade
That's not a high-five.
Guilty until proven innocent is the Republican motto.
Unless you're a white male Republican, which then they just made a simple mistake and Jesus forgives.
His hand is moving and there is a slapping sound but that ain't Trump giving him a high five
It's funny because by his own admission he consumes like 500mg of caffeine a day.
Caffeine is a drug. Hmmmm.
Rodrigo Duterte is that you?
Oh no, it's just a big fan of Rodrigo Duterte.
To be honest it's a pretty common stance nowadays.
Yes, let's place the blame for the opioid epidemic... started by pharmaceutical companies and enabled by doctors... on drug dealers? So will doctors get death penalties or will this just target poor people?
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/21/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-outlines-death-penalty-use-for-drug-crimes.html
Surprising no one, Jeff Sessions is now on board with killing.
Man, I can't get how someone can support the death penalty for anything.
At least until convictions are correct 100% of the time. I'm not talking 99.99%, 100. Anything less means someone innocent is getting killed by the state and that shouldn't happen.
killing *drug dealers* on it's own is a really stupid fucking thing to espouse as a new form of justice. the dealers aren't the ones making and processing the drugs, they're the middle-men. maybe if you hacks would concentrate on improving relationships with our landlocked cousins in mexico and worked on actually tackling the source of the drugs we'd get some where, but that's not an easy fix that make people feel good is it
I don't support the death penalty generally but these don't seem nearly as bad as many had thought
In the memo sent to U.S. attorneys Wednesday morning, Sessions said that some of the "appropriate cases" to seek the death penalty include murder related to racketeering crimes, gun deaths occurring during drug trafficking crimes and murder related to criminal enterprise.
Kinda iffy on this one though.
The memo also encouraged prosecutors to pursue capital punishment in cases involving "dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs."
According to the U.S. statutes, an "extremely large" quantity of drugs means distributing at least 600 times the amount of a given substance that would bring penalties of five to 40 years in prison.
Yeah, but if you're black that's one joint.
All this will do is increase the price of drugs and allow it to become more lucrative to those who know how to navigate around authorities and the law.
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