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Intention Hello and welcome to Intentional. I am your host,
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are you ready, because it's time for us to stand up,
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speak out, get involved, and let's be intentional. So drugs
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are pouring into our country from Mexico and Canada and
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unbelievable amounts. A large percentage is in the form of fentanyl,
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which is made and supplied by China, with more Americans
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dying from fentanyl overdoses every year. Then the total number
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of Americans who lost their lives in the Vietnam, Iraq
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and Afghanistans wars combined, this drug war is now the
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number one killer of Americans age eighteen to forty five.
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So today we are going to discuss this killer epidemic
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with J. C. Shephard. He is the founder of the
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Fentanyl Test, which is the first FDA cleared urine dipcard
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for over the counter use. JC has aligned his testing
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company with top officials in the Trump administration as well
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as the Make America Healthy Again movement to really maximize
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the number of lives that fentanyl testing can save. But
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before we bring JC in, let's watch this clip.
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Three hundred thousand people a year to fentanyl, not one hundred,
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not ninety five, not sixty like you read. You know
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you've been reading it for years. We lost, in my opinion,
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over the last couple of years, on average, maybe close
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to three hundred thousand people dead. And the families are ruined.
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You know, when they lose a daughter, when they lose
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a son, the families are never the same. You're never
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going to be the same. So you're talking about a
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million people. But when the daughters die, I see it.
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Daughters die and the sons die because they're.
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Fent it all.
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And in some cases I don't even know they're taking it,
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they're buying something else and it's laced with fentanyl, and
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they end up dying. And I've known many people who
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have lost children to vent it all and for other reasons,
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but defent it all such a big killing. And those
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people are never the same people. I mean, I've seen
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people that for the rest of their lives they are
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the same people. They're so different it's not even believable.
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Dynamic people, happy people that are they die a miserable death.
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And that's because of the crap that comes in through
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China and through Mexico and through Canada.
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It comes a lot of it comes through Canada.
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Through the overdose. I'm unbelievable, unbelievable. I'm gonna call it here.
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It's a normal afternoon on the ballstep of San Francisco's
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main government building, the snapshot of America's fentanyl crisis. It
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doesn't just look still everybody else. An average of one
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person every ten hours guys in this city have a
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fentonal overdose. It's often here in the drug rubbish Tenderloin district.
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This is horrifically sad and we need to talk about it.
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So welcome with me. J c. Shephard, Hello, JC, how
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are you hello.
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I'm very well, Thank you so much for asking. But
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you know that that clip you displayed, it certainly hits home.
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And to be quite honest with you, I'm one of
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the only people that have been saying it's well more
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than what is reported in the media, first and foremost,
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and also by the CDC, because the only thing that
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you're getting statistics from, the only people that are passing
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away are the ones that are actually getting autopsied. The
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ones you just saw on the street there that were
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going through an episode of most likely passing away, they
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never get autopsies, They're never counted. So I know Trump
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was railed in the media for that number saying it's
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completely false. It's absolutely one hundred percent true, and it's
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probably more than three hundred thousand, to be honest.
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Wow, Wow, that is horrifying. It is It is a tragedy, JC,
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that this is happening in America. Fentnyl overdoses have become
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like the leading cause of death for minors in the
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last what five years or so. I mean, you know
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you said it yourself. You know Trump believes there was
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three hundred thousand, three hundred thousand precious souls that die
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of this poison coming across our border in one year.
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I mean, it's over the top. I know that. Like
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as I was doing kind of re search and just
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I'm a nurse and so I was kind of like
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going through journals, I noticed that they called them waves
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and they went back. Now this was the CBC. They
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were going back to like the nineteen nineties, and they
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talked about like opioids around the nineteen nineties. Then in
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twenty ten, you see like this bump from Heroin where
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there was a lot of Harrowin used throughout America. But
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then like twenty thirteen, like there's this straight rocket line
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that just goes all the way up and it's like
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a rocket blasting off or something. So you know, one
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of the things that I mean I can point my
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finger to and say, okay, that's a catalyst is maybe
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like a massive supply or like we've emboldened the narco
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cartels from widening open up the border. But JC, you
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and your organization have focused on the epidemic. You've been
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finding solutions to save lives from these toxic substances. So
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in your opinion, what is really driving all of this
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and what is making it so difficult just to battle
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this and shut it down.
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Yeah, certainly. I mean a lot of that you hit
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on the head first and foremost is China wants everything
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that the United States has. The best way to get
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it is to basically kill us, you know, And I
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know that's a lot for people to kind of understand,
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but realistically, they want our farmland, they want our jobs,
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they want basically everything that we have in this in
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our United States, and they found an incredible way to
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make this happen through the cartels, especially when the border
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is pretty much left on supervised and even you know
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in the Biden administration, where Texas was trying to defend
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their own border from this, the federal government shut that down. So,
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you know, when you have an administration like we had
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that was actually allowing us to have weapon, I will
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go as far as saying that they were allowing this
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it was impossible to combat. And to be quite honest
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with you, there is probably enough fentanyl he already to
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kill every single American twenty times over. So this is
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not a problem that's going to go away. We're going
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to stop it, certainly from coming in a lot better
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than we have been. But and Trump was right, they
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say they only caught I think nineteen kilos that came
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across the border from Canada. Nineteen kilos is enough to
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kill almost one hundred million people. That's what people don't
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really understand. And I saw your graphic. That's what I
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tell people. When you look at the head of a penny,
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if you were to cover up the date, just the
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date on the head of a penny, that is enough
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to kill almost every single human being on Earth in
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terms of you know, their BMI structure. And it's truly unbelievable.
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It's a weapon of mass destruction. I like how you
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tied this into war, because it absolutely is a war,
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you know, on the United States. And one thing I
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did just want to touch upon. Everybody says overdose. You know,
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every single media outlet says overdose. What we're seeing is
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roughly thirteen percent of individual that are actually utilizing fentanyl
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and being reported as a fentanyl death, that's a true
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overdose because they know they're using fentanyl. The other eighty
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seven percent, just like the adolescents, they're trying something, they're
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taking a pill, they're breaking up a pill, they're buying cocaine, methamphetamines, heroin,
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and it's being laced. Seven out of ten pills right
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now that you buy on the street illegally contain enough
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fentanyl to kill that person. So there's a major difference
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between poisonings and overdoses. And the overdose number is so
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low that it would be it would stagger your mind.
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Most people who do not know they're utilizing fentanyl, nor
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do they want to use it, and that's why our
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tests are so important.
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Well, I have to ask you this because I truly
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don't understand is are they lacing Are the cartels China, Mexico, Canada,
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whoever is doing this, I'm just going to call them evil,
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these evil people. Are they lacing things with fentanyl for
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the sole intent and purpose to kill people? Is that
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the goal here? Because you see it like like there
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was a cop the other day. I was watching Cops
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with my father in law, he loves that show, and
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there was a police officer and she touched like a
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twenty dollars bill and apparently it had like fentanyl on
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it and she's I mean, like immediately she just kind
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of passed out and they were having to give her
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Narcan and I mean, but what's the point there is
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it just to kill people?
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So realistically, China pays the cartels, so once they're once
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they passed this off, they don't they don't care what
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The cartels don't care what happens to the people. Now, dealers,
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theoretically you don't want to kill your customer. Certainly you
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don't want to have the major you know, increase in
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terms of a sentence and probably a life sentence or
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possibly even the death penalty in some states. So technically know,
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the dealers themselves don't want to kill anybody. But keep
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in mind there's a much larger picture for China dropping
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this into you know, the cartels, and the cartels bringing
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it over. In addition, they're finding different ways to do such.
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Because before our tests are harm reduction test aspect, which
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can test any surface, any substance, including liquids. Ours goes
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down to one nanogram, which is basically, if you think
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about this, it's a it's smaller than a grain of salt.
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a person's clothing anywhere, including in a drink or liquids.
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across there. They're finding ways to just ship the actual
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chemicals to make ventanol and then the tabolites to you know,
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in liquid forms to where you can't even hold that
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up because it's not a schedule narcotic. So they're finding
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ways to get this in the United States and they're
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setting up pill presses, pill mills to get these out,
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you know that. So there, I'll put it this way,
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there's no two creative people or more creative people on
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Earth than a drug addicted person. An attic will find
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a way to get their substance in their body, and
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obviously the cartel and a drug dealer certainly will find
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a way to get it to their people to make
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that money. So realistically, I think China and Mexico are
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the only ones that really do want to see you know,
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deafto Americans, but the localized drug dealers really don't. But
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they haven't been able to combat it because they're not
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making it.
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Themselves, gotcha, gotcha that. It's just it's one of the
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saddest things I think that I've ever watched. As you
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go through and I mean even here in the Midwest,
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you see people who are on the street and they're
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I don't know if it's fentanyl, but it sure looks
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like they are just like they're they're in that stupid
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they're just sort of hung over. They can't even stand up.
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It's it's horrific. Now we see that the Trump administration
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is serious. I mean, they want to stem the flow
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of fentanyl into the USA. So Secretary of Defense A. Hegseth,
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I know, he warned Mexico that the US military was
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ready to take you know, lateral action against the cartels
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if more isn't done. And we're like, you know, go go,
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Secretary Hegseth, go, And then the White House today, yeah,
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or go go go. The White House put out their
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statement they said, and this is a quote from them,
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that the President implemented tariffs on Canada and Mexico under
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the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to combat the extraordinary
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threats to US national security, including our public health post
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by unchecked drug trafficking, and then of course China they
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were included in with all those tariffs. He added a
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second ten percent tariff on them. So JC does does
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that make the difference and does it go far enough
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to stem and stop that flow of a fentanyl so.
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there's already so much here that that's not going to
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make a difference for what's already in the United States
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first and foremost. Secondarily, you probably have fifty times the
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amount that's enough to kill probably everybody in the world
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sitting somewhere in Mexico or throughout Mexico because it's just
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been manufactured for the last ten years from China and
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just being stored there. Then the mules bring it over,
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So it really just depends on how creative they get
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because they want to lace everything here because it gets
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people massively addicted. I mean, it's ten times more addictive
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than heroin. It's one hundred times stronger than morphine. So
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you know, you're talking about things that, like I said,
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they're designed to kill for China, and obviously Mexico doesn't care.
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If they could, they would, they would stand at the
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border and shoot us every single day if they've done
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that before. But you know, again down to the localized
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drug dealers, I hope you see some dissipation because they