Republicans hate America 13: Amerithrax II: Fentanyl Boog-a-loo

In the Corporate Media rush to pretend George W(orst) Ever wasn't a complete fuck-up chickenhawk noob and instead you could tell by his Flight Suit crotch was actually made of Presidential Timber who Kept Us Safe was the memory-holing of the Amerithrax attacks;  which were quickly wrapped up as W(orst) was leaving office and conveniently blamed on a long-since dead biologist.

Well, rightwing domestic terrorrists are back to using the USPS as a vector for their terrorism again.  White Republican Domestic Terrorists are mailing Letters laced with Fentanyl to Election Offices Nationwide. 

The Threat to the United States from conservative extremists has grown and grown in the post World War 2 Era;  50 years of non-stop rightwing agitprop, 40 years of Ronnie Raygun blaming the government for all of white mens' woes, 25 years of Faux News Slander and Lies, 15 years of white hot rage at President Barack Obama, and 8 years of Dotard Traitor Trump fascist claptrap have brought us to now, an era when Republicans don't believe in the concept of the United States and consider voting by The Other to be a criminal act in and of itself; as a consequence Republicans have jettisoned the Democratic Republic and seek to replace it with an Authoritarian built upon the pillars of white power and Christian oppression.  

Letters containing fentanyl and other powders sent to election offices across the United States in early November temporarily disrupted ballot counting in several offices, highlighting the potential for threat actors to use this tactic to disrupt US election processes. This is consistent with previous attempts to send letters with suspicious substances to election-related offices and other government buildings during past elections with the intent to intimidate workers or disrupt procedures. Prior to the November incidents, the most recent case occurred during the August 2023 Washington state primary election, in which an election office received letters containing trace amounts of fentanyl.

 

Suspicious letters containing white powder were mailed in early November to election offices in California, Georgia, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington state. At least four of the letters tested positive for fentanyl in preliminary tests and at least one of the letters contained baking soda, according to open-source reporting and the US Postal Inspection Service. The sender or senders and their motives are unknown and investigations are ongoing.

The "sender and motives are unknown" Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.  Now, whom do we know that is obsessed with "Election Integrity" and absolutely convinced the 2020 Election he lost was "Rigged"?  Who, I ask you, made a "perfect phone call" to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger asking him that "all he wants is for him to find 11,780 votes" to win the state's electoral college votes.

Republicans absolutely know that Traitor Trump won Georgia, but it was stolen from him; along with Nevada and Oregon.  Remember going up to the election conservatives were predicting a Landslide Trump victory and even now in 2023 a vast majority conservatives still believe Trump won in 2020.

California is added in because as we saw in the recent Newsom/DeSantis "debate" conservatives claim California is a hellhole instead of the economic powerhouse and place everyone wants to live in. 

The Pierce County auditor’s office in Tacoma, Washington, released images of the letter it received, showing it had been postmarked in Portland, Oregon, and read in part, “End elections now.”

Now, with the Corporate Media running with daily Fentanyl scare stories, you'd think this would be a bigger story but when you understand the media in this country is owned by the obscenely rich who want and yearn to have Trump back in power to crush labor and conduct a little authoritarian "grass mowing" the lack of nightly coverage makes sense.

The only thing Republicans want to talk about with Fentanyl is how the Biden Administration is seizing too much of it and how it's "illegals" bringing it in when in reality the Fentanyl is being readily shipped her by the monstrous thinly regulated Pharmaceutical companies and hidden in plain sight drug smugglers;  

The head of a police union in the San Francisco Bay Area faces federal charges for allegedly smuggling thousands of synthetic opioids into the U.S. from multiple countries with the intent to distribute them. 

San Jose Police Officers Association Executive Director Joanne Marian Segovia, 64, has been charged with attempt to unlawfully import a controlled substance -- specifically valeryl fentanyl, a fentanyl analog -- according to a complaint filed in federal court earlier this week. 

Between 2015 and 2023, Segovia received 61 shipments that were labeled "Wedding Party Favors," "Shirts Tops," "Gift Makeup," "Chocolate and Sweets," "Food Supplement," "Health Product" and "Supplement," originating from countries including Hong Kong, Hungary, India and Singapore, according to the complaint. In reality, they were illicit drugs, prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California allege.

Of course, white people have always enjoyed the assumption of being innocent while Blacks and Hispanics have always been targeted as guilty of something and a priori criminals by nature.  So as people smuggle fentanyl through ports of entry the people working in the area know there is no shortage of regular people, perhaps struggling financially or with addiction themselves, who are willing to drive a car load through the border.

"They're looking for somebody we're not going to pay a lot of attention to," says Michael Humphries, the port director in Nogales, Arizona, "They target certain people and they offer money to drive through," says Humphries, who spent decades with U.S. Customs and Border Protection trying to catch smugglers at official ports of entry. "I've been at this for over 36 years, and it's been like that forever."

But, don't expect Faux News or the vile House Republicans to stop fear-mongering Fentanyl, rightwing media propagandists figured out 60 years ago screaming about Crime! Crime! Crime! was a winning strategy, facts don't matter.  And when Republicans speak about Crime what they mean is Black and Hispanics,

Again, I commend you for manning the thin blue line that holds back a jungle which threatens to reclaim this clearing we call civilization. - Chickenhawk Ronnie Raygun speaking to International Association of Chiefs of Police, NOLA., 09/28/1981

"Holds back a jungle"... It's not that modern Republicans are more racist than in the past it's that the Corporate Media has been more than willing to ignore the vile racist and outright fascist crap Republicans have been spewing for decades.  And they still do it now as Trump's Vermin speech and his call to round-up various groups of people is still getting less coverage than HRC correctly calling Trump Supporters "deplorable".  There are a large cohort of Americans who want Trump back in power, the Plutocrats want it for the elimination of regulations and taxes, but the truly violent Republicans want it for the elimination of millions of Americans.

President Joe Brandon's SOTU shows the Republicans have nothing to offer the American people

 And the Gross Qanon Party is naught but bigots and trolls.

Seriously, they couldn't help themselves, the heckling and Karen tantrums from the Congress.  I hope the Corporate Media which is invested in the concepts of the comity of the Senate and the civility of the House report on how uncouth, obnoxious and down right stupid the Republicans came off last night.

Shouting, jeering, screaming about the border.  Fentanyl is not coming in over the border by some Breaking Bad Los Pollos Hermanos Gus Fring Mexican Drug Cartel empire.  It's here.  It's being produced by the biggest drug pushes in world history the Sackler Family and their Pharmaceutical co-conspritators.

President Biden also tastefully handled the pissy Republicans griping about him laying out their stated plans to swindle America out of her Social Security.  As well as, pointing out "the facts" about who blew up the debt and deficit when Trump and his Republican allies in Congress, added $8 Trillion in just 4 years.  It was absolutely masterful when President Biden responded to the shouts from Major Traitor Greene and other deplorable Republicans with, "So folks, as we all apparently agree, Social Security and Medicare is off the books now, right?” 

Republicans really fucking hate when you tell the truth about their ideology and policies.

But, this is what happens when a party spends all its' time huffing each others farts and listening to the incestuous rightwing propaganda bubble.  You end up believing your own lies.

It was a good performance by President Biden who has done a very good job these past two years.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 25: Phony Fainting from Fentanyl finds familiar Fox News fibbers flogging falsehoods

Renee Parsons' body "went completely numb" from 
touching a fentanyl dollar.  As a conservative
Renee's numb from the neck up already.

One of the best old time YouTube videos I've ever seen was this Let the Bodies Hit the Floor mocking of Benny Hinn and his faith healing con.  The ridiculous undulations of people supposed infused with the Holy Spirit coupled with the pilfering of the wallets should have been the tell.  It's absolutely clear the people are either play acting as they writhe upon the ground or go flying backwards as though they've been hit by a Benny Hinn Hadouken or they are in on the con.

Nowadays, Police Officers soooo misunderstood and mistreated by the society they ostensibly Protect & Serve, want to get on the racket; hence the ridiculous play acting and panic attacks Officers are engaging in after they supposedly touch a scintilla of Fentanyl.

Fentanyl has been around for 50 years and lacing heroin with it is not new either, but has been going on for a couple decades at least.  But, in the last couple of years Police Officers have taken to proclaiming they have been overdosing and almost dying from casual contact with suspect fentanyl.  

According to reporting by Peter Andrey Smith of The Washington Post in 2021, 

By my count, more than 200 police officers, first responders, nurses and guards at correctional institutions have claimed to have suffered adverse reactions based on incidental contact with fentanyl. (Other researchers put the total number of such reports even higher.) 

What the fuck is going on?  Well, the most likely explanations are deliberate lying or suffering from a folie à plusiers (a shared mass psychotic disorder).  The deliberate fakery could come from any number of reasons; for instance malingering which wasn't just invented for military members who deliberately shirk their duty, or a desire to convince people of the "real" dangers facing police officers, and a psychological need/desire to be lauded for your sacrifice.

I think a lot of this goes back to the demonization of certain out groups of people.  Fentanyl right now is associated with "bad people" i.e. illicit drug users and sellers and Cops are the "good guys" and you always need to update the reasons for the War on Drugs and et voila now we have another reason to throw those people in jail.  And make no mistake all of this is target to get white people back in line with puritanical hatred of drugs.

Drugs are the greatest invention/discovery for mankind.  Misuse of drugs is a problem but, it's a problem which needs to be treated medically.  Indeed this is the only way to effectively, safely, and humanely deal with drug addiction.  But, not in America!  No in America you go to jail for using drugs.

You see for a while now, during the Opioid epidemic, white people's trained fear and hatred for the "criminal" drug using community (hippies and blacks) has been waning as families across the USA suffer the effects of drug addiction and thus have garnered some empathy for other people.  Conservative and Republican leaders can not allow such tolerance and empathy to take hold.  Imagine if Americans declared no more sending people to prison for drug addiction!

Because there is HUGE Money to be made from jailing people.  Now, I'm not claiming these lying Officers are involved in a massive conspiracy to benefit the Prison Industrial Complex intentionally but, they sure as fuck are helping it and affording lying white rightwingers the opportunity to go onto Faux News to declare white liars to claim fentanyl overdosing from touching a dirty drug users dollar almost killed her and required her husband to have to drive 100mph to get overdose treatment.  Utter bullshit.  Rightwing dangers of drugs agitprop.  And all because Copaganda and the lying Thin Blue Line which buttresses such bullshit.