Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, another deliberate and happy warrior, appears on Face the Nation to deconstruct the narratives presented by NBC and Kirsten Welker.
Starting with the Mexico and Canada tariff issues, Welker incorrectly frames the current issue around economics. Secretary Lutnick presents the issue of the current Mex/Can confrontation for what President Trump has prioritized, the issue of illegal fentanyl smuggling across the border.
100,000+ Americans are killed each year with the intentional and purposeful transportation of Chinese drugs through the U.S. southern border of Mexico and the U.S northern border with Canada. Both nations could, if they wanted, crack down on the illegal and dangerous drug trade; neither has prioritized the problem. Again, 100,000+ Americans are killed each year. Think about it. WATCH:
“This is the way you run the country,” Lutnick said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Welker. “You shut the border. You get our neighbors to do their job. It’s not only us who has to do their job. Why are our neighbors, who live and breathe off our economy, not taking care of America?”
“You have to remember this is a drug-related issue,” Lutnick said. “You’ve got fentanyl pouring into this country, killing 75,000 Americans, autopsied. And the president, you know, thinks it’s many, many more, multiples more.”
They don’t prioritize because they are corrupt, and profiting from it. How many opium fields were torched in Afghanistan when we were there? NONE!
Sweetie, the opium fields were started and protected by the US CIA decades ago. We PAID the local warlords to run the fields. We oversaw the harvests and our Deep State collected the billions upon billions in profit.
The 40-IQ, inbred Afghanis did not operate the opium fields. America did.
Within the first two months of US leaving Afghanistan, the Taliban were destroying the poppy fields and killing the Afghanis working for the CIA. The Taliban has been more receptive to American interests in ending the global drug trade than our own IC and Congress.
God Bless Howard Lutnick, a Patriot. He lived the survivor’s guilt and aftermath of
September 11th first hand. Salvaged his brother’s and his company Cantor Fitzgerald and was true to all their employees.
He’s exhibited the kind of loyalty I wish all PDJT’s picks could exhibit. He’s the real deal. LFG Howard
Which cabinet members haven’t projected loyalty Trump and 🇺🇲?
Sec Lutnick is great! Peter Navarro says Tariffs are because of National Security issues…I agree. We have to get the economics under control, and our national security shored up.
Economic conditions improve when Trump starts drilling oil again . Need about 6 month’s and the economy rolls
I absolutely love listening to lutnick. He is smart, entertaining and quick on his feet. We are lucky to have him as a partner in the MAGA team.
His positivity, clarity, confidence , and straightforward demeanor totally disarmed her.
The usual msm methods came to naught. He slaughtered her with cheerfulness.
She will go home and cry into her “my pillow”.
I rather doubt that she owns a My Pillow.
Does anyone beside Trump and Sundance think that making fentenyl harder to get is going to do anything other than raise the price or shift demand over to less expensive drugs? Fentanyl is pouring across the border because there is user demand for it. Attempting to apply an external solution (closing the border) to and internal problem (drug addiction/self medication) is a losing battle.
This is the first time this has been seriously tried. Let’s see.
The majority of fentanyl deaths are accidental, due to it being “hidden” in other drugs. There us very little “user demand” for it, other than by criminals wishing to cause deaths.
If true…
From Dr. Robert Malone:
“Over 400 US deaths per day on average due to Fentanyl…The vast majority of those Fentanyl deaths are poisonings, not deaths due to intentional Fentanyl use. Virtually all street drugs (tablets, powders) are either cut with Fentanyl or are Fentanyl being sold as something else such as methamphetamine (meth). Marijuana is often adulterated with fentanyl. “Gummies” can contain fentanyl. Fentanyl is ubiquitous in street drugs…”
[see 2nd and 4th paragraphs]
https://www.malone.news/p/a-test-to-stop-fentanyl-deaths?utm_source=substack&publication_id=583200&post_id=158675549&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=15h8p9&triedRedirect=true
Very true. Ask any ER physician.
There is a home test kit to check for fentanyl that was just mentioned yesterday 5/9/2025 on Dr. Malone’s website/newsletter:
[email protected]
from CDC: Drugs may contain deadly levels of fentanyl, and you wouldn’t be able to see it, taste it, or smell it. It is nearly impossible to tell if drugs have been mixed with fentanyl unless you test your drugs with fentanyl test strips.
Test strips to detect fentanyl are inexpensive and typically give results within 5 minutes, which can be the difference between life or death. Even if the test is negative, take caution as test strips might not detect more potent fentanyl-like drugs, like carfentanil.Drugs may contain deadly levels of fentanyl, and you wouldn’t be able to see it, taste it, or smell it. It is nearly impossible to tell if drugs have been mixed with fentanyl unless you test your drugs with fentanyl test strips.
Test strips to detect fentanyl are inexpensive and typically give results within 5 minutes, which can be the difference between life or death. Even if the test is negative, take caution as test strips might not detect more potent fentanyl-like drugs, like carfentanil.
CBP officers have been given training on how to handle suspected fentanyl doses.
Yes, the dosage for Fentanyl is extremely small, and someone can absorb it through their skin and be in danger within moments.
I’ve seen video of an officer searching a suspect’s car and falling unconscious.
If not for the quick administration of Narcan (Naloxone), the officer would have died.
Supplies of Narcan are kept available for officers to use for anyone appearing to suffer from opioid overdose.
You can’t over-administer Narcan… and it has no effect on someone who does not have opioids in their system. So it’s really ‘safe and effective’ in treating someone suffering from fentanyl.
One of the reasons officers now are always reminded to wear gloves when interacting with suspects or suspects’ belongings, is due to the increased risk of fentanyl exposure.
Yes, that was amazing to read! Kudos to J.C. Sheppard, who came up with this test kit.
Agree. In fact, prior to legal opioids becoming a Sch 1 drug in Oct 2014, there were about 15,000 OD deaths per year, mostly from heroin. In hearings b4 the FDA pain med docs and Neurologists told the FDA and Congress exactly what would happen. By restricting supply, without.addressing demand 3 things would occur they said.
1. Legitimate pain patients would suffer.
2. Illegal drugs would fill the vacuum created by the removal of legal drugs from the market.
3. Death rates would soar.
Everything they predicted has come true. And yet, nothing different has been done. Patients and their doctors continue to suffer. The cartels and China have filled the void. Deaths have increased massively.
As it is with nearly everything else, the government sucks. You cannot hate them enough.
Reducing supply is one part of the problem, reducing demand is another. Attacking the distribution network is effective, but intercepting the product before it kills is also effective. The borders were open for four long years, and DA’s that do not prosecute anyone illegally in the country allows cartels to operate and distribute with total impunity.
So, to reduce the 100,000+ drug deaths, close the border (reducing supply), deport illegal aliens (destroying the distribution network), impeach or allow overlapping territory from DA’s that will enforce the law (further destroying the distribution network) and finally increase the number of good manufacturing jobs (reducing demand). All of which are currently being done.
“reducing demand is another”…….exactly! This is one of RFK Jr. mandates from President Trump. A focus on Mental health issues………………
Mental health issues, I question. Drug usage, alcohol usage, any usage of anything that any one person “chooses” to put into their bodies, is a CHOICE. Crutches, excuses, nothing more, personal choice…..
If you dry up the supply, the users will have to do something else.
Ultimately this is a deep spiritual problem.
True, and since this is the case, why focus on supply rather than demand? Whether we want to admit it or not, lots of Americans want to consume drugs. The supply of something can be cut off, but another will take its place. Same thing happened with cocaine in the 80’s giving rise to meth. We would have been better off with dealing with the effects of cocaine, imho.
No… it is a lack of Critical Thinking problem… lol
Fentanyl is deadly NOT because it is a stand alone drug…but because it is usually mixed with some other drug…and THAT makes it more deadly.
Going after fentanyl is a very worthy objective. This isn’t an either/or situation.
But what is your magic solution to tne demand side of the equation?
There is a home test kit to test for fentanyl that I just read about in Dr. Robert Malone’s newsletter.
Please see my above reply to MaryfromMarin.
Treatment.
Grow your own. Marijuana is legal in 26 states. It is an effective painkiller. It is simple to grow (even I can do it). The output from one plant can keep a hard-core stoner busy for most of a year.
Learn to meditate. Sit in a quiet place and pay attention to your breathing, the air moving in and out, the movement of your lungs. Even if you don’t believe in God, you will calm down enough to see the world as it is and make rational decisions about things.
Pray. See meditation above. “Be still and know that I am God” is really a thing. Again, you come to a place where you can rationally deal with problems.
One thing at a time, foundation, walls, roof.
Poor logic. You’re simply assuming what it is you want to prove to be true.
Making it harder to get will make it harder to addict new users. It may do nothing positive for the existing users, but if it prevents others from access I’m all for it.
Consumers will simply find something else. Reality.
I’ve dealt with that reality and the consequences of that reality for a very long time. Not everything is as dangerous as the next.
Reality.
Personally, I wouldn’t be opposed to shooting the local, regional and national dealers and manufacturers.
Raising the prices of cigarettes is proven to reduce smoking.
Increased cost of booze is proven to reduce drinking.
Making it harder to get illicit drugs will also reduce drug use.
Many fentanyl overdose deaths are people who thought they were buying some other drug but got drugs laced with fentanyl. Drug dealers spike other drugs with fentanyl because fentanyl is cheap. Make fentanyl expensive and they will no longer use it to adulterate other drugs.
Most people who consume illicit drugs are actually casual users who only use occasionally. Deterring those occasional users means that fewer of them will ever slip into hard-core drug addiction. Stopping those users dries up supply. Yes the hard-core addicts will find something else to abuse but they are only the tip of the iceberg.
Some of those hard-core addicts might find their way into treatment. Many will commit crimes to get more money for higher prices and will end up in jail (forced, involuntary cold-turkey.) Some addicts will die. So YES, existing users will use less and will dwindle in number.
Because (B) is not being done sufficiently does not mean you can’t do (A).
That’s poor logic. My bleeding leg needs amputated, but let’s deal with my headache.
You position it as an either/or. It is not. Poor logic. Anyone who has experience directly with addiction knows it’s always an AND. It’s always multifaceted.
A losing battle? Absolutely incorrect.
The “external solution” of closing the border is step one, and absolutely essential. Nothing gets solved without that critical step.
The “internal solution” is step two, which is just as essential as the first step, and runs concurrently to step one.
Make the Economy Great Again. Drill Baby Drill. Bring the factories and businesses and manufacturing plants that were stolen from us by the globalists back to America. Deport the immigrants who criminally broke into our country and who criminally stole our jobs so that Americans can work again.
Make Education Great Again. Burn the Department of Education to the ground and return control of education to parents and their State and Local Representatives. Encourage comprehensive school choice everywhere in America.
Make America Healthy Again. Make Common Sense Common Again. Bring back hope and conquer despair. Revive the American Dream. Encourage a Great Awakening to the Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Restore Constitutional Republicanism rooted in the God’s Laws.
ALL of the above leads to reduced drug use, crime, sickness, promiscuity and despair. In turn, we will see increased prosperity, security, good health, joy and hopefulness.
Is it a hard battle? Absolutely! Is it a losing battle? With God’s blessings we cannot lose. Pray continually, have faith and be part of the blessed solution.
You couldn’t be more incorrect if you wanted to be. Americans want drugs. The demand is there. Someone will rise to meet that demand.
Everything else you’ve stated is fluff and wishful thinking, but I get it.
No…. you don’t get it at all. You get paid to disrupt and waste space.
It’s actually getting boring seeing all you B grade operators hanging out.
It appears that the number of B grade operators trolling on CTH has increased after USAID was shut down. Coincidence?
Probably not. Out of work spies and grifters have to do something to earn their keep.
Excellent and, like PDJT has often said, impossible is a starting point.
That ‘blessing’ has been missing, which is one reason for the “state of things'”
Exactly.
This man gets it.
Here’s what’s happening: “Recreational/Illicit” drugs are being “cut” with Fentanyl – making already dangerous drugs much, much more deadly. No, making Fentanyl “harder to get” is not the goal here. The goal is to stop Chyna from killing Americans which is going on via Fentanyl crossing the borders of Canada and Mexico. (Think of it like this: Alcohol is Bad…and leads to many deaths in the U.S. each year. But, just think if Arsenic was intentionally added to some beers/wines/whiskey, etc. by another country in order to kill Americans! That is Exactly what is happening with regards to Fentanyl).
Also, raising the price will just force consumers to look for cheaper, perhaps more deadly, substances to consume.
And, if that turns out to be the case, I guarantee someone will be there to supply it.
It will also embolden government to “take the lead” on the issue requiring more tax dollars to solve a problem it has created.
Funny how many commenters recognize this dilemma on so many other things, but on this one, they directly contradict themselves.
Cognitive dissonance is a thing.
“force cosumers”… really???
Semantics. You know what I mean. Don’t pretend otherwise.
I share your doubts… there is a LOT of stupidity out there… why ANYONE would put this stuff (or any harmful chemical) in their body, is the question. SO weak!
Do you take any prescription drugs that are prescribed for you from your doctor?
point of order. fentanyl is probably the most inexpensive, low tech drug that has ever been produced for a drug addicted culture. In the eighties, they would have doped fentanyl over cocaine to put that in perspective, if it were available. Not only way more cheap, must size/quantity/density if magnitudes of order smaller in size and easier to smuggle, as well the profit margins are incredibly higher than any of the other classic drugs. So I find it hard to believe that making a dent in the supply of FEN will in and of itself give way to other less expensive drugs. Now I do believe that reducing supply will have that sort of effect, but that’s like saying…we should give it a shot, because the criminals will just come up with another scheme. That is NEVER a good reason to police. It’s not some game, where we sprint to the finish line and pat ourselves on the back and the game is over. No, drug law enforcement and applying justice to drug sellors/traffickers and drug user will always be a thing. It is never going to just be “over”. And lets be clear, the same policies to lock down our borders for FEN will have the same effects for all of the other hardcore drugs that make it over the border.
I call that a win, win, win.
it is not a losing battle. You see the stats. Here is what I see and have seen and have been in the front line of the drug war for the better part of nearly 2 decades *US COAST GUARD*
between 1985 and 2005, I was personally and directly a part of a large force that seized and removed approximately 2.9 MILLION TONS OF COCAINE, 43 MILLION TONS OF HEROIN, and so many other hard core drugs including synthetic heroin and opiates, from the soil and streets of AMERICA. That is lives saved. A LOT OF LIVES SAVED.
never once, did I ever doubt I was or was not making a difference. I KNEW BY THE SHEER AMOUNT OF DANGEROUS DRUGS REMOVED THAT LIVES WERE SAVED. About the only time I got beat up, is when we got a dry haul. I knew every patrol mattered. Lives were on the line.
it is NOT a losing battle if you only pay attention to the one sided stats. yes, America has a drug problem. yes, it has increased to deadly drugs. But imagine if law enforcement did nothing. What would the stats show?
we would be having an entirely different conversation. And I would expect you might not be convinced that the war on drugs is a worthless effort seeing the number of dead people into the millions and millions versus the “mere” hundreds of thousands officially reported and verified.
As a Christian and a believer in the rule of law, I have a duty and responsibility to my nation and my country. Every life does matter. Even the drug feign, the doper and the college kid who just want to get high with his friends. Those people matter. They matter because we are supposed to help people who cannot help themselves, who are weak. This is how a society must behave morally. I believe in this and all of my Coast Guard team members felt the exact same way. We treated it as a war, because it is. And we made a difference. We saved lives. It is not a complicated issue.
God Bless America
Well said!
Cutting off fentanyl supply is one part of the problem. But it is a HUGE part.
Cutting off pipelines that steer people into drug abuse is another part. Cutting off the money-laundry pipeline into NGOs and Blue cities who enable and ENCOURAGE illicit drug use, vagrancy (aka “homelessness,) no-bail laws, “safe use” zones, needle exchanges etc. are also part of the overall plan. Trump’s actions are targeting all of those.
Boosting the economy and jobs so people see opportunity will make them less likely to sink into despair and drug abuse. Trump’s policies are working that issue too.
Encouraging people to find faith and family are proven ways to keep them off drugs. Trump’s movement is helping spark an American revival.
Fentanyl is already the cheap drug, which is why it’s being mixed into other drugs.
Make Fentanyl unaffordable, worked in the Philipines, Marcos only had to hang a few Drug Dealers and the price went thro the roof. Some folks bring joy to the world when they arrive, other folks bring joy when they leave, Drug dealers are in the second group.
Fentanyl’s danger is in its high potency. It has powerful CNS suppressive effects. My company provides fentanyl reference standards to the diagnostic testing industry. We need to have narcan on hand and down detector alerts on employees because the amount that can kill you is very small.
Only a foolish few are using straight fentanyl. For some reason, the illicit drug industry has decided to use it to cut into other illegal drugs and boost the high. But it comes at the price of high overdose deaths. And they seem not to mind that. Odd. It doesn’t seem to be about making money, does it ?
President Trump is correct to demand that our neighbors help protect our citizens.
Agree but the real problem is the US politicians are being subsidized by the Cartels. Think that is BS investigate the career politicians in office and you will find this to be true and of course nothing will ever be done.
Everyone smart here in Canada knows there is no fentanyl issue with Canada.
Trump needs a border crisis in order to declare his tariffs by emergency order and avoid congress. Thus the emergency can’t end.
Trump’s folks are doing a blitz on US media this weekend claiming Canada is full of fentanyl..
Less than 1% of it comes from Canada and it appointed a fentanyl czar etc. to take action.
Fact is you need scanners, handheld and larger. You can’t strip every vehicle, search every package.
Canada is buying some scanners but not enough and the US doesn’t even come close to having enough.
So neither nation is going to stop fentanyl without that.
Bless your heart.
You’re entitled to your opinion, but I don’t believe you’re in the right with your condescending southern statement. Scanners will not solve the problem, but he understands the basic gist that failure is going to occur.
Lighten up, Francis.
Since 2016 50,000 Canadians have died of fentanyl overdose.
Yes. You have an issue.
Your government is beyond compromised with CCP and its sympathizers. It’s coming indirectly from China, I don’t know where you’ve been.
So, do you believe that if the CCP was taken out of the equation somehow that some other source for some other, perhaps more deadly substance, would not take their place in the market for demand?
I beg to differ. There IS an issue with fentanyl in Canada
March 9, 2025 8:24 pm
@brianlilley
Kevin Hassett, one of Trump’s top advisors says we are ignoring fentanyl.
“I can tell you that in the situation room I’ve seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada’s got a big drug problem.”
https://nitter.poast.org/brianlilley/status/1898808377934856284#m
I think they should be published all over the place so Turdeau and Canada can be shamed for their darn lies
Turdeau let everyone in.
Even Hezbollah terrorists who run the labs and use the money to fund terrorism.
Then they established driving schools for truckers who transport the fentanyl across the border
Canada is totally corrupt and WORSE than Mexico for trucking fentanyl and drugs
Foreign nationals are the truck drivers
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1885184973268832436.html
Canada:
Dodgy colleges. student visas to anyone with bucks
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884813232201674799.html
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Summary:
10/ to recap:
– money laundering capital of the world
– no school regulations
– criminals run certifications
– desperate folks from developing countries w/no standard of entry
– no scrutiny for x-border traffic
Still surprising this is happening?
CANADA IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE
CBSA whistleblower believes transnational gangs have compromised agency databases, helping terrorists, spies and mafias enter Canada
Luc Sabourin wants re-examination of cases including alleged “mass shredding” of foreign passports that included suspects in Canada sought by CBSA
Luc Sabourin, a former CBSA officer, chokes back tears as he recalls the day a man from one of Canada’s most violent crime families — a refugee from Palestine linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel — stood outside Sabourin’s home in Gatineau, Que., and uttered brutal and visceral threats against Sabourin’s children.
OMG
There is SO MUCH INFO ABOUT THE CRIMINAL CANADIAN GOVT, BANKS ETC in this guys X account. Its absolutely a shocker
https://nitter.poast.org/StephenPunwasi/://www.thebureau.news/p/cbsa-whistleblower-believes-transnational
Canadas Five Eyes has been infiltrated by criminals
RCMP intel leaker helped major Hezbollah financier: Trial
“It was very clear from what I was seeing, that Mr. Ortis wanted to get in touch with Altaf Khanani” Ottawa trial hears
https://www.thebureau.news/p/rcmp-intel-leaker-helped-major-hezbollah
He has a lot. Thats why real estate is so expensive. They use the money they laundered to buy real estate in Toronto and elsewhere
https://nitter.poast.org/StephenPunwasi/
CryMore….your country is crawling Fentanyl labs and likTrudy is another clueless marxist that thinks he has vaginaa
“Everyone smart here in Canada…”
See the problem?
Tariffs are an Executive Branch issue. Congress not needed.
Before there was fentanyl there was China White heroin (Burma Triangle). Incredibly pure as opposed to cheap and dirty Mexican Brown. Vancouver was ground zero, the triads/Big Circle Boys were fleeing the surrender of Hong Kong, they were living large way back in the 90s. Fentanyl is heroin x 10.
The Canadian smuggling networks go back to prohibition days, very connected and professional. None of that dirty war cartel stuff. Except maybe the Rock Machine/Angels (Quebec/French Connect) biker war, that got interesting.
You could probably throw in the Purple Gang (Russia/Poland) up in Detroit, it was US based but they got nothing without that good Canadian Whiskey.
I forgot about that good BC bud going south, but the coke was going north. Everybody got in on that game.
Canadian Govt. is calling the drug overdose epidemic in Canada a public health crisis. Is your government lying?
You guys are so oblivious to what’s going on around you.
A few months ago the RCMP busted a fentanyl “Super Lab” in British Columbia. They seized enough drugs to kill 95 million people and also found enough weaponry to arm a battalion. That was just one lab. All the precursor materials were shipped in from China without being detected.
Yes Canada has a problem. Canada has not yet gotten as bad as Mexico, but you are heading rapidly in that direction.
Since 2016 50,000 Canadians have died of fentanyl overdose.
Yes. You have an issue from below………..
Mr Lutnik is a testament to American courage & resilience. I wish him the best in his efforts on our behalf.
“Again, 100,000+ Americans are killed each year. Think about it.”
Sadly this has been going on for over a decade. Many American families don’t have to think about it, we have lived with the catastrophic results. May PDJT achieve wildly successful results.
Nobody else cared about the massive amount of death & destruction, God bless PDJT for publicizing the carnage & acting against it.
The demographics of the 18-45 year-olds dying from fentanyl and drugs laced with fentanyl are telling.
Majority(over 50%) white males.
Their families are destroyed emotionally forever. I belong to a support group of parents who have lost children in all different circumstances. The mothers and fathers of those who have overdosed from drugs which are now mostly laced with fentanyl are totally broken.
The crack epidemic in the 1990’s was not as bad as this. This is instant death with tens of thousands more mostly young men dead.
Seems fentanyl is 0bama’s revenge on the white community…for the ravages of crack on the black community.
Ahem, the CIA kept the flow of crack and cocaine flowing into the U.S. in the 80’s.
Have to wonder how many are also vets.
The Trump cabinet is comprised of intelligent people who care about average American citizens and are trying to save the republic.
The uniparty don’t give a shit about the citizens and are out to enrich themselves, family and friends while destroying the republic. The Biden administration was full of evil wackos who should have been on display in a carnival side show.
Well, it didn’t take long for claims that fentanyl from Canada is not a problem to be posted here. I’m sure they are rejoicing over Mark Carney being the new PM too.
There’s plenty of fentanyl being mfg. in America. Our judicial system is soft on these killers. We can point fingers at Canada and Mexico and say they are not doing enough to stop the shit crossing the border, but we are not doing enough to also put a stop to it.
Maybe you missed the fact that the new Administration just came into office on January 20 this year? And it was hamstrung the last time it was in. Or, did you miss that too?
The judicial system, courts at every level, are soft on drug dealers. I didn’t miss anything. The liberal judges are present when either political party is in office. Courts where the fentanyl cases are tried are 95% local or state.
My point is, put pressure on the effing courts to do their jobs and quit turning these people loose.
The courts are packed with soros judges and prosecutors
Anyone dealing street level drugs are murderers because they ALL know by now that anything they sell is laced with fentanyl, including pot. They can no longer be given leniency.
They are
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/carneys-coronation-just-what-justin-ordered
Simce Carney was the former governor of the bank of Canada and the Canadian banks were involved in money laundering the proceeds of the fentanyl labs run by Hezbollah, Sinaloa and Palestinians, is Carney complicit???
Uneven fight: Can this green banker win against Trump?
It’s the most uneven match up. Canada is betting it all on a former central banker with almost no political experience to take on Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Mark Carney, Bank of England, I am remembering something about an Opium War? I think weird stuff sometimes.
Temporarily, we hope.
If there were 100,000 people being killed by Chinese bombs launched from Mexico and Canada, we would be at war with all three. The deaths are much quieter than bombs or guns, though I would maintain they are still deliberate deaths that weaken the US. China has been doing this for many years, starting with the 95% pure heroin that could be purchased for $2 in Vietnam by US solders. The triads have partnered with the CCP for mutual benefit, though if the triads sell into China the partnership would abruptly end.
The initial round of tariffs are a reminder to our neighbors to focus on drug trade going through their territory and killing Americans. Good behavior will be rewarded, bad behavior will be punished. It is so simple even a Marxist politician can understand it.
If anyone doubts Trumps sincerity or priorities on this subject, they could go back to the first things he said as President, in his 2017 Inauguration speech. Which was criticized as being so dark, at the time.
The whole Sunday talk show thing seems rather quaint. Yesterday’s news
Always a great positive and infectious delivery Mr Secretary. Even there nbc shill couldn’t end the segment on a sour note.
Question….480,000 American people died from smoking cigarettes! Nobody cares! I Question the motives….
Apples to Oranges………
If you cannot see the difference.
Is it really apples to oranges, or is that just want you want to believe?
Spoken from somebody who is totally clueless about how drugs turn America into Gotham City. Come back and talk to us when you’ve been on the front line of the drug trafficking.
Just as a for instance, a lawyer was walking to his car from his office when a drug addict held him up, killed the lawyer with a knife over a silly watch. Drug addicts look for easy marks.
I don’t see smokers doing that.
I’m actually not clueless. I probably understand more than you realize, but, you created a strawman for an argument since that wasn’t BoboTrumps point.
Sure, John. You’re as believable as Trudeau.
Lol. Your way of saying you don’t really have an answer.
One of the main differences is the cartels don’t sell cigarettes and make huge profits that they use to undermine and control communities. Just ask people in AZ about this. Or people in Canada who are waking up to it, and we all know about Mexico.
Another differences is that cigarette smoking doesn’t make you zone out, which for many is a reason to take drugs. Drugs are effective st short term pain control. The only real solution is to address the source. President Trump is contributing to that by bringing back middle-class jobs.
If you want more, cigarettes whether you like it or not is a business. Drugs build a criminal enterprise that we laughingly call cartels. The cartels use this money to make more money through trafficking. Does all this sound like a good plan to you?
You, like so many others, are missing the point completely and entirely. It’s about demand. Demand drives a market. Any and every market. If there was no demand for a thing, no one would bother producing that thing because there is no demand for it. I don’t know how much clearer reality can get. Do you just refuse to see for some reason? Sincere question. Not trying to antagonize.
BTW, lmk when the Trump administration drives down demand. Not going to happen. I don’t believe you understand the economics behind it. I know you mean well and are probably sick and tired of all the death and destruction, as probably all of us are, but Trump is just a guy, not a god. He will hit his limits on reality.
I understand demand. But unlike you I don’t think demand is a stable number independent of circumstances. Demand fluctuates according to need and for many people need is driven by pain.
Yes there are people who want recreational drugs, mostly young without families and upper class rich and bored.
But the large numbers of drug users in the last 20 or more years are people who feel hopeless. These are people who lost jobs as the globullusts have been destroying this country. President Trump is bringing middle-class jobs back, which will create an enormous change.
Further, people are much more likely to use for any reason when drugs are readily available. Making them less available causes people to seek other options. Drugs become an option for the rich.
Busy happy people who are living a life they cherish are much less interested in drugs — what you call demand — than people who don’t see a way out of their misery.
Drop dead immediately versus a maybe 40 year habit. Nope, exactly the same.
Why don’t you just add some car accident statistics.
At least 40k died on American roads. I also question the motives.
Yup seatbelts are not enough. We need rubber baby buggy bumpers on all cars.
No, what we need to admit is that government solutions are not the answer to problems they’ve created.
Not many people drop dead after trying cigarettes for the first time. But that happens a lot with fentanyl.
People don’t “accidentally” smoke a cigarette thinking it was chewing gum. But people do consume other drugs they didn’t know were spiked with fentanyl.
If a major airliner crashed and burned every day of the year, would they think differently? I know some who have died from fentanyl.
OK, I’m going to break with tradition here. My belief is Lutnick is Trump’s Zionist handler at this time. Not going to make me popular, but I’m ok with that. I don’t trust Lutnick.
What the Hell does “Lutnick is Trump’s Zionist handler” mean?
You are not making any sense to the common folk here at the Treehouse.
Okay, you don’t trust Lutnick. Your choice. Big Whoop! You’re entitled to your opinion
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It means I believe that Lutnick was part of a deal with Trump by his Zionist contributors. Just like nearly every congresscritter has an AIPAC handler, I believe Lutnick is Trump’s. Very savvy choice, too, since he’s in a seemingly inoccuos position.
I’m more than willing to admit I could be mistaken. Time will tell.
Do you know how far back Lutnick and Trump go as NYC businessmen?
Right.
I didn’t think so.
Trump is handled by NOBODY … lol reading this chat your remarks are clueless and unhinged. Looks like AOC gave you your talking points. LMAO
I’m confused – did I click ZeroHedge by mistake?
Yup Israel is super focused on the USA fentynal problem.
Strawman much?
Laddie, you weren’t popular to begin with.
There is one way to fix the drug demand ‘problem’ and co-incidentally the homeless ‘problem’.
Re-open mental institutes and hospitals.
There Cloward-Piven closure was designed to overwhelm the public
I agree.
The cruelest maneuver made by those private groups like the ACLU and others who wanted the mental hospitals closed because muh liberty and freedom of mentally ill patients…give me a break.
Until you have lived through family mental health issues and have to deal with the “agencies” and all their BS jazz…there are no words to describe the frustration and hopelessness.
With the adult majority end up in homelessness because most families get to the point that they cannot control an adult and do not have the financial, emotional or mental health knowledge to assist in the care and needs of that individual.
Closing Mental Health Hospitals was not only stupid but it was very, very cruel to those who can benefit from that professional health service.
Despicable, deranged society.
Rant time from my longevity on the front lines of health care….
That came about by the ‘policy’ of pushing “the least restrictive environment” within health care, for those needing the newly coined “behavioral health”.
Those closings also go back to the ‘preparatory’ stages for the huge changes in health care that Pelosi pushed thru one Christmas Eve, for one that SD calls a light bringer.
Mental health care evolved into what it is today, by bean counters, oh and is ineffective. Back then, am talking 80’s, a mental health hospital stay for depression, could be 6 weeks…patients were ‘housed’ in a psyche hospital receiving intense and long going psychotherapy and possibly medications. And nothing else. The business aspect figured these people could ‘live at home’ and do out patient therapy. And thereby cutting the cost to the health insurance industry. Those least restrictive environments were a liberal idea using constitutional rights as its backbone in order to get the money back into the pockets of insurance companies.
The above is also where and how the “social workers” became involved, heavily, into counselling and weak forms of ‘therapy’.
These so called changes in all health care, including mental health care/behavioral health care, were planned for…way back. The US has its own “central planning committee”…and these plans were in the works, going way back,80’s & 90’s.
The goal was then and now…insurance only wants one in the hospital, any hospital, as long as it is ‘justified’, by them. And the same with the hospitals, only as long as they ‘get paid’.
And they are very adept at slow walking it, health care changes, and talking about the ‘benefits’ presented to citizens, to get a buy in. Then and now. AND sadly, it works.
From my perch on the tree branch…I see many cases where the only goal is to get the patient out of “crisis” because that is the money maker today…life threatening situations, behaviors, thought processes etc. (so no one get sued for loss of life when the patient succeeds in a suicide attempt or drug overdose).
Recidivism is very high when trying to deal with addictions and other types of mental health care issues especially those with true bonafide schizophrenia, bipolar and serious depressions. Medication compliance is a huge issue. If the patient can afford the medications to start with.
Side note…many get addicted because of a broken heart…they turn to a drug momentarily, to ease the emotional pain of a broken relationship. I lay this blame on the break down of family and marriage.
God Bless America. WE need those blessings.
Side note….its pretty gruesome to see a 20 month old hallucinating from having ingested a ‘parent’s’ meth…
Excellent explanation of some very important facts. Thanks Aggiegirl.
From personal experience having been “not right” since grade school I would venture large percentage of those people would benefit from a proper diagnoses.
Example: If you have darker skin it is virtually impossible internally to produce enough Vit D in most of the USA. Quality meals with proper supplementation would cure a lot of mental issues. In my case young skinny runt though I might have been I have obstructive sleep apnea. Difficult to be sane when you don’t sleep. Now I have a CPAP machine and life is much better.
How many thyroids have been destroyed by fluoride ???
You are “depressed”. Take this pill.
WHY am I depressed?
It’s a chemical imbalance.
But why do I have a chemical imbalance?
Your time is up get out of my office.
I would urge anyone suffering from anything start with
https://orthomolecular.org/
and then a Functional Medicine practitioner!
You’re on the right track. If America wants to claim to be a Christian nation, whatever its adherents do must be based on real love and not money. Money does not solve problems and the fulfillment of Christs earthly ministry was based on love.
‘There’ or ‘Their’??
I’m so happy that Lutnick is a part of the Trump admin. I will always remember him for how he got through 9/11 when the majority of his company Cantor Fitzgerald employees were killed on 9/11 in 1 World Trade Center. He was taking his son to the first day of “big boy school” which is why he wasn’t in the Towers and survived. His story was broadcast on the Weekend Today show with Soledad O’Brien and David Bloom.
@neveragainlive1
Mar 7
The RCMP confirmed that President Donald Trump was correct about fentenyl drugs being a major problem. This means that Justin Trudeau and Doug Ford are not telling the truth.
OVER 4000 organised crime groups in CANADA
https://nitter.poast.org/neveragainlive1/status/1898089914710855754#m
Doug Ford is a bully and a fool.
And we all know who Trudeau is.
Of course they are lying.
“Who is in charge – you and the other cabinet secretaries, or Elon Musk?” Ha HAAA! We got him now! That’s some hard hitting journalism right there.
Anyone who believes the prices are going to come down instantly are 1) either part of the political cabal pushing this narrative or 2) just outright stupid.
WE had 4 years of a tyrannical cabal purposely destroying our economy with cutting off our oil and gas drilling, killing not only chickens but an amazing number of disastrous fires, etc. at meat and poultry processing plants and farms, bringing in illegals who have bled our society dry and completely bankrupt and our students are completely illiterate and propagandized by completely mentally ill eunuchs teaching them that they are not who God made!
What in Hell did any critical thinking rational person believe would devolve from that kind of psychological and destructive behavior in our governmental leaders policies that we have to pay for?
It’s just plain NUTZ to believe our economy is going to be back to where we were prior to 2020.
Use common sense.
President Trump is not accepting his salary (again).
Elon Musk has volunteered his services and I for one appreciate his efforts.
Just remember “No good deed goes unpunished.”
I’m noticing some stabilizing of prices (not just eggs) and also, our local farmers are expanding their herds, meat/poultry and milk production and are working to produce more locally at more reasonable prices and gas is less than $3.00/gallon.
I’m seeing positive signs locally economically, with more businesses opening up and prices stabilizing.
It’s going to take time, because we are still stuck with the mess of the prior 4 years and they did all they could do to sabotage President Trump and his new Administration on their way out the door.
Rather than look at the negative side of every issue, try the positive side.
I’m quite impressed with President Trump and his new Administration and I don’t expect them to be perfect and know they have all walked into a big mess that needs cleaning up, which takes time.
I’m staying MAGA here and not complaining that President Trump and his A-Team have not solved all the world’s problems today.
Very well said Abigail! Thank you! Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Team Trump is making a tactical error on drug prices. Why not just ask the question back at these people, “How king does it take to raise new chickens to replace the tens of millions of chickens that the Biden regime slaughtered?”
This is going to take months. Just say so. Eggs are laid by chickens and it takes about 4 months to grown a chicken capable of producing more eggs. Be patient, take the issue away. Educate, but also shove it back in the media’s faces.
It would be hilarious to just watch Lutnick ask that insufferable moron how long she thinks it’ll take to regrow 125M chickens…
Food for thought, no pun intended….
Easter is coming in less than 6 weeks…
Exclusive: TD Bank appoints compliance monitor after $3 billion US penalty for money laundering
Canadian lender TD Bank appointed Guidepost Solutions as the compliance monitor for its anti-money laundering program after U.S. regulators hit the lender with $3billion in penalties last year.
Guidepost Solutions will monitor TD’s business in the United States as part of a multi-year program to fix TD’s anti-money laundering problems and strengthen its controls, Chief Financial Officer Kelvin Tran told Reuters in an interview.
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/td-bank-appoints-compliance-monitor-after-3-billion-us-penalty-money-laundering-2025-02-27/
TD banks is just ONE bank in Canada involved in money laundering the profits from fentanyl smuggling
Feb 27
Fun fact:
Canada is a global economic power house. Just ask global leaders like the Sinaloa Cartel™️, who adopted Made In Canada solutions to power 4 key areas of their business that fueled its growth:
– information
– technology
– banking; and
– security
https://nitter.poast.org/StephenPunwasi/status/1894951618543857936#m
Receipts at the link
Let’s maybe look at this through a different lens and maybe snap the issue into sharper focus.
How many of you would be up in arms if you didn’t have access to television producers or cellphone producers at low cost? I’m willing to bet a lot.
So, what is the real issue here? You’re conflating an economic issue with a moral one. That is the problem. I get it, but until you get your minds around that, you aren’t going to solve s$%t. Consumer demand always rules the marketplace. Porn is another great example.
If you believe fighting supply will win, you’re going to be very disappointed. Not going to happen. Use your heads, not your feelings.
We didn’t ask for your opinion on how we choose to solve our problems, and we, quite frankly, don’t really care what your opinion is. You either fix the problem on your side of the border or don’t. It’s totally up to you.
We all have choices to make in life.
Which border are you referring to? I’m an American.
And, respectfully, my opinion has just as much weight as yours.
anyone doubting or having concerns about why team Trump would show up and give interviews with the main stream maniacs, understand some important goals:
a. these are NOT COWARDS. They believe in the work they are doing is right and good for this country.
b. for far too long the main stream maniacs have twisted and manipulated the maga movement and President Trump AND YOU AND ME to the general public. It is good, even if they do not realize how this will impact the political landscape, that they invite US, OUR CHAMPIONS TO EXPLAIN IN SIMPLE TERMS THAT DO NOT REQUIRE PRONOUNS OR GALACTIC SIZED STRETCHES OF THE IMAGINATION…NOR DOES IT REQUIRE HYSTERIA AND FEAR MONGERING. This is a good development. I doubt we will ever change the culture and devious practice of the main stream maniacs, but they are willing to give us this space and we should be encouraged that our champions are well prepared for the traps and will not be drawn into petty and absurd speculation.
c. millions and millions of PEOPLE watch these shows. Globally, around the world, people are watching and comparing notes. Look at what is happening in American. Look what the President IS DOING AND THE REASONS WHY! They cannot ignore these things and not notice their own central governments are not looking out for their own best interests. MAGA is universal. At it’s core, it renews that what it MEANS to have liberty, American style. the best kind! unfortunately, the only one of its kind. That is going to change. It is going to change, because people around the world are sick and tired of the coward and self enriching elites telling them what they can do, what they can buy, what they can talk about, and whom they can elect as their leaders. maga is universal and the main stream maniacs will be unable to change this transfer of power. All they can do is annoy, insult and cast doubts. It will have the opposite effect in my opinion. The people you see who have held these “news” show positions are on their way out. and not simply because they are stupidly wrong in issues, but there is a certain justice coming..I believe an exposure of great and evil corruption and fraud is about to happen. And these people will be held accountable, even if not directly involved, but by the fact that they decided to look the other way.
d. we actually have something to look forward to on cable. This is a good use of time, compared to the last 8 plus years where you might get 5 minutes of facts and relatively decent reporting in a 24 hour news cycle. Let that sink in. the vast amount of time on cable is not telling truths. it’s false narratives, twisted, and intentionally missing context and facts. The agenda has been to put the audience in a type of trap…all hope is lost…there is not good in the world…stop trying to make it better…that has been the message clearly in every single broadcast. this is the instrument of psyops at scale. in order to render the people powerless, overwhelm them with crisis after crisis and show how hopeless the situation is. Most people just give up.
WE NEVER GAVE UP BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN GOD. A GOD WHO IS FAIR AND JUST AND LOVING AND WHO HAS MADE A PROMISE TO NEVER ABANDON HIS CREATION.
so when you watch these programs on tv, just remember, we are in the fight now and making what ought to be. we will win and the world will be a better place because of these victories. We are changing the world because it’s the right thing to do.
God Bless America
AMEN Regi! Spot on as usual! Praise GOD!!! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Yooooouuuuuuuu’rrrre GREATAERG !!!!! (In my best Tony the Tiger voice….)
You know, not many mention this, but I know for a fact
that many poisoned by fentaniyl are left brain dead for
years with much heartache and pain.
Eyes Right…
I’m really beginning to like this guy—common sense.
Given that the amounts of fentanyl coming in from Canada are so minute in comparison with Mexico, I wonder if the final result of this strategy of imposing such tariffs on Canada is really worth it in the long term.
I mean, fentanyl is being produced in Canada, and Canada is responding to US demands to take action, but they need to do more, too.
But these tariffs are really causing a lot of animosity to grow in Canada against their southern neighbor, and it is also providing a weapon to PM Justin Trudeau’s liberal party, to rally around a “common enemy” in what they see as unfair treatment by the USA.
This is unfortunately boosting Trudeau’s party ratings, which is really bad for Canada, in my opinion.
Trudeau is bad for Canada and needs to go.
So, are these tariffs perhaps unnecessarily creating more of an enemy in many Canadians, and is this really necessary?
I say this as Canadian, who is not living in Canada anymore, but I hear what people I know in Canada are saying.
Canada also has a Uniparty, with a parliamentary system even easier to manipulate than the US’. Be cautious here. I haven’t seen a reasonably competent government there since Chretien. He got a handle on finances and told George W. to eff off. Food for thought.
personally not worried about what Canada or Canadians think. Nor is POTUS
It’s MAGA unless you didn’t know
Many Canadians are falling into the MSM trap of liars. Fentanyl might not be the entire issue but its big enough and why does it have to be only ONE issue
Did you see the tariffs that Canada puts on USA products??? Well efffff Canada
Is Kristen Welker or Margaret Brennan more obnoxious?
Yes.
HA! You beat me to it!
And what do the Canadians then do? They elect another Leftist PM that has openly shown his hatred for Trump, which means the United States.
Lutnick is having the time of his life and it is contagious. The creativity is on display and he is enjoying serving we the people.
@catturd2
In reality, most people are quite pleased with President Trump’s agenda and the work that DOGE is doing, but Soros funds most left-wing activists and demonstrations to create division and the appearance of unrest.
Too bad the legacy media idiots didn’t show this much concern over prices the last 4 years!!
More interested in hearing about the NGO immigration industry and ‘newcomers’ hopping the border
I love how upbeat and confident and happy Lutnick is. He makes me smile. His enthusiasm disarms even the msm.