How fentanyl deaths are causing some grieving parents to embrace Trump
How fentanyl deaths are causing some grieving parents to embrace Trump
Some parents who lost children to fentanyl say Trump’s tough talk resonates, even as many experts say his policy proposals are misguided.
Yea, it turns out that in the throes of grief we're pretty fucking vulnerable to conmen - this is why elder theft often takes place right after the loss of a spouse when someone falsely offers comfort.
That’s a funny way to say “Trump campaign manipulates emotions of grieving parents”
Instead of downvoting because you think the title makes the article pro-Trump, people should actually read the article
The title does make the article pro-Trump.
It takes what 8 paragraphs before statements like "The reality of fentanyl is that neither party has a magic-bullet solution." Start to appear. Considering the average reader barely gets beyond 5 paragraphs and journalists KNOW this, it is standard agenda-forwarding writing.
You see this all the time with Faux News: 10 paragraphs of 'Bidenz comin tah take yer BBQ burgers away!" followed by "policy proposal does not encompass propane tanks for home use" in fine print where possible.
There is almost certainly a much better version of this article out there. I'll edit a link in when I find it.
edit: here's a better version imo.
That article is pretty different. It barely touches on the kneejerk reaction from the right, which is the point of OP's article. It doesn't get in depth with voters at all, tbh.
If you wanted an article discussing the facts of drug smuggling, yes, your article is short, sweet, and to the point. However, all of that content AND MORE is included in the original, since the point of the original is how people have shifted right on drug policy, despite there being no evidence for Trump's statements.
I'm a little confused as to how the title makes Trump sound good. Facts are facts.
Instead of downvoting based on leaning it'd be much healthier for the community if people just downvoted based on truthfulness... granted I feel like that ship has fucking sailed but some of us do want to fight against the echo chamber.
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Leave it to the neoliberals to be both somehow too hard and too soft on drugs and piss off the majority of the country.
They won't decriminalize the harmless stuff everyone wants legalized, but also won't crack down on stuff like the opioid epidemic.
For what it’s worth, cracking down on drugs only makes it harder for people struggling with addiction.
The war on drugs only wasted shit loads of money to fuel the prison labor industry.
The war on drugs only wasted shit loads of money to fuel the prison labor industry.
Sounds like we need to do it better.
For all the gun deaths liberals like to talk about, these newer drugs are more dangerous and are the #2 killer after COVID-19 (and now that vaccination is widespread, Fentanyl is probably #1 now).
This can very well become a Democrat / Liberal weakness if y'all let it faster. Some kind of acknowledgement or even policy to address this large scale killer of Americans is needed.
But fentanyl activists say Trump is at least drawing attention to the issue, whereas the Biden administration, they say, is not.
“We don’t feel seen, we don’t feel heard,” said Allen. “I’m surprised that somebody hasn’t realized or figured out that this is a huge population of people, that if we believe that you were going to respond to this and do something about it, you could very easily earn our favor.”
And I feel that guy is a dumb ass. Next question
Who do so many people say fentan-all instead of fentan-ill?
Don't know why you got so many down votes, other than being tangential.
But I would guess it's because of -ol drug name familiarity like Tylenol/paracetamol and maybe some regional vowel differences. I kind of tend to say fentan-ul or fentan-le.
Why is there a white woman on the pic? It's usually blacks who die from this like George Floyd (wife beater)
George Floyd died from a cop kneeling on his back.
Your rampant ignorance is not only stunning, but incredibly offensive.
Be better.
The account is 2 hrs old. Not even worth a block.