• Majorllama@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I’m not gonna touch the insane ramblings of the Cheeto, but I will remind you that the oceans exist and you can very easily take a boat from Mexico to Canada without ever entering the US if you wanted to.

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        1 month ago

        Honestly planes are a little harder. Pretty much all airspace is monitored so it’s more likely to be noticed.

        Then again I haven’t smuggled drugs for the cartels in years so maybe they figured out a way around that little problem.

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          Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.

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            30 days ago

            Couldn’t they also just legally request a route and land on an official airport (no matter the exact size) with a few people on board as a sort of “VIP” flight and then just smuggle the drugs out of the plane/airport?

            It wouldn’t be the first nor last time someone in a harbor or airport was bribed to “misplace” some cargo they handled/saw/whatever.

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    He’s just setting things up for the invasion of Canada. Fentanyl, cartel, none of this is real. The idea probably comes from Putin.

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      I personally think the whole Fent stuff is bs. Like cops od’ing if they even touch the pill with barehands and shit. If that was the case then the people who have trouble swallowing pills who take Fent we should just tell them just hold it in your hand for a little bit. I have literally been putting pills in a bottle and drop one on our medical plate pick it up with barehands and toss it in the bottle. Never got high or even a buzz.

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        26 days ago

        I think the “holding” thing is referring to if they touch feet without gloves and then rub their eyes or any other mucosal membrane, they can experience the drugs effects. Where I work, we get regular fent OD training and are given Narcan to carry around so…I can’t imagine it’s extremely dangerous as suggested to bystanders.

        Edit: I’m leaving the autocorrect as it is because it’s hilarious

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    30 days ago

    bold of you to assume he thoroughly thinks out half his comments. hell, one time he proposed banning guns to stop school shootings, which republicans said democrats would do as a reason to vote red for years, and every trump-supporting gun owner was down bad for it. but it never happened

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      29 days ago

      He said nothing of the sort.

      “I like taking the guns early,” Trump said during a televised meeting on gun laws at the White House on Wednesday. “To go to court would have taken a long time.”

      Say that to a supporter, but pretend Biden said it. I’ve popped a couple of heads off with that trick!

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    1 month ago

    Not really. The reality is they could use planes, subs, boats. No need to go through or even over the US.

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        30 days ago

        Canada touches the Atlantic and the pacific and so does the US and so does Mexico. Why would you have to go from one ocean to the other? Just sail up the coast pick an ocean and go