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Marcuse

(7,446 posts)
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:00 PM Mar 2018

Trump Calls For Drug Dealers To Be Executed And Cites China President For Life Xi As Inspiration.

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by muriel_volestrangler (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that China’s President Xi Jinping first got him thinking about introducing the death penalty for drugs dealers.

“We catch a drug dealer, death penalty. That’s it,” Trump told the crowd.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-drugs-dealers-be-executed-and-cites-chinas-president-life-xi-839767



However:
The DEA says most of the fentanyl comes from China, with traffickers sending the product through the mail directly to customers in the U.S. or supplying Mexican cartels, which cut the fentanyl into heroin.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmq4bx/exclusive-china-wont-arrest-two-fentanyl-kingpins-wanted-by-us

Add that to the list of things of which *45 is ignorant.
Personally, I believe China is exacting vengeance for the Opium Wars.
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Trump Calls For Drug Dealers To Be Executed And Cites China President For Life Xi As Inspiration. (Original Post) Marcuse Mar 2018 OP
Military parades, executions.....what's next......gladiators on the lawn?? dameatball Mar 2018 #1
Dont tempt him jmowreader Mar 2018 #11
Wasn't he ducking stools with the Russian hookers? Oh wait, that was pee. dameatball Mar 2018 #13
Stoning adulterers! forgotmylogin Mar 2018 #12
Or castrating them. n/t LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2018 #14
Funny how that works,,,,,, Cryptoad Mar 2018 #2
Like gun toting teachers, many Americans Voltaire2 Mar 2018 #3
His base will love it. They don't do well with nuance. bitterross Mar 2018 #4
Bingo!! Sums up about twenty people I know. dameatball Mar 2018 #6
This needs to be remembered duforsure Mar 2018 #5
When is the OxyMoron going to be lined up? edbermac Mar 2018 #7
I know someone addicted to Fox News.....just sayin. dameatball Mar 2018 #8
Don't agree duforsure Mar 2018 #9
Now this is really scary shit. That a US KPN Mar 2018 #10
Locking - duplicate thread muriel_volestrangler Mar 2018 #15

dameatball

(7,394 posts)
1. Military parades, executions.....what's next......gladiators on the lawn??
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:02 PM
Mar 2018

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
11. Dont tempt him
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:53 PM
Mar 2018

I figure pillories and ducking stools are next.

dameatball

(7,394 posts)
13. Wasn't he ducking stools with the Russian hookers? Oh wait, that was pee.
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 03:12 PM
Mar 2018

forgotmylogin

(7,520 posts)
12. Stoning adulterers!
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 03:00 PM
Mar 2018
14. Or castrating them. n/t
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 03:19 PM
Mar 2018

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
2. Funny how that works,,,,,,
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:22 PM
Mar 2018

the only world leaders that Trump has any respect for is that of the World Dictators ...
the rest of Trump's Merry band of Hate Mongers ask if there is any more pizza?

Voltaire2

(12,962 posts)
3. Like gun toting teachers, many Americans
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:22 PM
Mar 2018

will like this. We are an ugly nation full of ugly hate filled people.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
4. His base will love it. They don't do well with nuance.
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:26 PM
Mar 2018

They love the "plain talk" and "bold decisiveness." Otherwise known as vile rhetoric and blundering.

dameatball

(7,394 posts)
6. Bingo!! Sums up about twenty people I know.
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:30 PM
Mar 2018

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
5. This needs to be remembered
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:29 PM
Mar 2018

For people who commit treason.

edbermac

(15,933 posts)
7. When is the OxyMoron going to be lined up?
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:31 PM
Mar 2018

dameatball

(7,394 posts)
8. I know someone addicted to Fox News.....just sayin.
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:35 PM
Mar 2018

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
9. Don't agree
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:37 PM
Mar 2018

But a President lying to the American people should have consequences.

KPN

(15,637 posts)
10. Now this is really scary shit. That a US
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 02:38 PM
Mar 2018

President is actually saying this? This takes the cake as far as scary -- and the crowd cheered?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
15. Locking - duplicate thread
Sun Mar 11, 2018, 03:29 PM
Mar 2018

of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142010418 . Please continue discussion there. Thanks.

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