8:00

The strips aren't entirely foolproof,

8:02

but research suggests that they

8:04

help lower the risk of

8:06

fentanyl overdose, particularly among younger

8:08

users. None of these ideas

8:10

are a magic bullet that will fix

8:13

the problem overnight, hence the term harm

8:15

reduction and not magic bullet, which is

8:17

apparently just a blender, which is a

8:19

huge letdown. Painkiller abuse is,

8:21

at this point, deeply entrenched in

8:24

American society and will require a

8:26

variety of approaches from various angles

8:28

over an extended period of time

8:30

to make better, or

8:33

hear me out, or we

8:36

can just blame immigrants. Just since

8:38

the time I was elected Speaker, less than 100

8:40

days ago, more than 700,000 illegals have

8:45

been welcomed into our country illegally

8:47

by the Biden administration. American

8:50

school children have been forced into

8:52

virtual schools. Why? So

8:54

migrants can sleep in their school buildings.

8:57

Korean war veterans of the US have been

9:00

booted from nursing homes that

9:02

were sold to house migrants. Our

9:05

streets are being flooded with fentanyl. Hundreds

9:07

of thousands of children and adults are

9:10

being poisoned and losing their lives. Grr!

9:12

You tell them, Mike, you weird little

9:15

cabbage. See, with most debates around drug

9:17

addiction in America, it all comes down

9:19

to supply versus demand. We can either

9:21

make it harder for Americans to get

9:23

their hands on the drugs they desperately

9:25

wish to purchase and consume, or we

9:27

can treat the underlying issues that get

9:29

Americans hooked on those drugs in the

9:31

first place. As evidence from

9:33

all the stuff I already said, we aren't

9:35

doing great when it comes to addressing the

9:37

demand stuff. Maybe a D, D minus,

9:40

in this case, D stands for dick

9:42

poor. So then we have

9:44

the supply. That's typically seen as something

9:47

the GOP is primarily concerned about, and

9:49

gets mad at Democrats for not caring

9:51

about. Grr! And gripped by a cold

9:53

fear usually reserved for space marines who

9:56

realize the alien they're fighting has acid

9:58

for blood, right? Right-wing pundits

10:00

and politicians assure us that

10:03

America's fentanyl problem is directly

10:05

linked to immigration and border

10:07

security. And by extension, our

10:09

fentanyl-loving president. Last July,

10:11

Illinois Republican Congresswoman Mary Miller

10:14

tweeted that the Biden administration

10:16

opened our borders and flooded our

10:19

streets with fentanyl. And here's Republican

10:21

Arizona Rep Andy Biggs opening a

10:23

House Judiciary Committee session on border

10:26

security last year. It is open.

10:31

The border is dangerous. Drugs

10:35

pour across international

10:37

terrorists, criminal gang

10:39

members, people from

10:42

all over the world, indeed over

10:44

150 nations, have

10:47

come through. We can't even vet

10:50

most of those individuals.

10:52

The reasoning is clear. If we want

10:54

to get America off the fentanyl train

10:56

and onto the sobriety blimp, all we

10:59

need to do is keep out the

11:01

tired, poor huddled masses yearning to distribute

11:03

drugs shaped like candy. By the way,

11:05

forget lollipops, go for a fake pixie

11:07

stick. All right, it's way easier. There

11:10

you go, some free fentanyl advice. You're

11:13

welcome. And much like our

11:15

solutions for drug addiction, our

11:17

solutions for drug smuggling are

11:19

even more punitive. Some might

11:22

say, horrifying. Greg Abbott put

11:24

out an official disaster declaration

11:26

about the border saying, President

11:28

Biden's open border policies have

11:30

paved the way for dangerous

11:33

gangs and cartels, human traffickers,

11:35

and deadly drugs like fentanyl

11:37

to pour into our communities.

11:39

Ronald Fleshbag DeSantis supported the

11:42

idea of just fucking shooting

11:44

any migrants that might be

11:46

smuggling drugs. And Vivek Ramaswamy,

11:48

well, he's just doing his

11:50

own thing, I guess. He

11:53

might be an idiot. The

11:55

point being that the GOP has

11:57

largely agreed that in order to

11:59

stop fentanyl. deaths, the most pressing

12:02

goal is to crack down on

12:04

the border, specifically stopping migrants.

12:06

That is their number one solution

12:08

to this crisis. But

12:11

you might notice that whenever these pundits

12:13

and politicians talk about immigration, they always

12:15

kind of tack on fentanyl in a

12:17

vague sense. It's always like, we've got

12:20

this open border for all these migrants.

12:22

Plus, you know, fentanyl is

12:24

a problem. I mean, if you get what

12:26

I'm saying. Every American recognizes

12:29

that they're not safe with this open

12:31

border. His lawless actions have resulted in,

12:33

you know, 150,000 fentanyl deaths. That's Republican

12:35

Tennessee Rep. Mark Green on Fox News.

12:38

Here he is doing it again on

12:40

Instagram, along with helpful captions. Well, we've

12:42

learned a considerable amount of what's going

12:45

on right now on the border. And

12:47

it's much of what we already anticipated.

12:50

Just in this one sector, we found out today that

12:52

the cartels are making $32 million a

12:54

week. That's one of nine sectors,

12:56

$32 million a

12:58

week, just trafficking humans. That's not

13:00

counting the, you know, fentanyl that

13:02

they're pouring into this country. See,

13:05

there's a reason that fentanyl is always kind

13:07

of lumped in like that. It's a bit

13:10

of a reveal for this episode, actually. And

13:12

that reason is because spoilers.

13:15

Immigrants aren't actually smuggling fentanyl into

13:17

the United States. Seriously,

13:20

the thing the GOP is hinging all

13:22

their fentanyl policies on is

13:24

not happening. At least that's not the primary

13:27

way it gets brought in. And when you

13:29

stand back and think about it for a

13:31

second, of course that's not

13:33

what's happening. A lot of the people

13:35

seeking a new life in America by

13:38

crossing our Southern border are fleeing from

13:40

drug cartels in the first place. They're

13:42

so anti-fentanyl, they picked up their lives

13:44

and moved to another country to get

13:46

away from it. Can you say the

13:48

same? Last year, 88% of

13:51

entrants to a migrant shelter in Nogales

13:53

on the Mexico, Arizona border said

13:55

they were coming to the U.S. to escape

13:57

violence as opposed to coming here for solution

44:00

to addiction or that we can blame

44:02

it on the neighbors. In fact, quick

44:05

aside, you're not allowed

44:07

to say from now on that we

44:09

need to restrict immigration because of fentanyl.

44:11

And if you do, you should be

44:13

forced to say that more than restricting

44:16

illegal immigration and asylum claims to stop

44:18

fentanyl from flowing into this country, you

44:20

think we should actually restrict Americans from

44:22

going to Mexico and coming back from

44:25

Mexico. We can't go anywhere anymore. Us

44:27

with our fentanyl problem and our public

44:30

and specifically school shooting problem. We have

44:32

to stay put and deal with our

44:34

stuff. And then we can think about

44:36

going to Mexico or to Alaska via

44:38

Canada. Okay, so that's

44:41

the news. I thank you

44:43

for sharing it with me. And

44:47

the booster, now, now, now, now, now, now.

44:49

I'm so sorry, Mr. Director. I tried to

44:52

warn you. I made a bunch of clumsy

44:54

references. I held up the mirror, the whole

44:56

bit. Oh, they pushed me into

44:58

a man. I'm actually, I'm super cool

45:00

and I'm down. They found my grow

45:02

lab, okay? They found my grow lab

45:04

and they use my grow lab against

45:06

me. You gotta believe me. You gotta

45:08

believe, oh, he's gone. Okay,

45:11

well, send him a gift basket or something.

45:15

You're not gonna get me, cop. Freeze!

45:18

Nevermind. I won't send

45:20

him anything. Okay, you know, come to think of it. I

45:24

don't think cops normally dress in suits. Who,

45:26

who's. Hey,

45:39

all my lawyers! ["The

45:42

Star-Spangled Banner"] ["The

45:45

Star-Spangled Banner"] I

45:55

don't have any lawyers. Fuck!

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