Trump suggests death penalty to stop opioid epidemic

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested using the death penalty on drug dealers to address the opioid epidemic, equating providing lethal drugs with murder.

"We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people," Trump said at a White House summit on opioid abuse. "If you shoot one person, they give you life, they give you the death penalty. These people can kill 2,000, 3,000 people and nothing happens to them."

Trump said countries that impose the death penalty on drug dealers have a better record than the United States in combating substance abuse.

"Some countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty — and by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do," he said.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/donald-trump-death-penalty-suggestion-opioid-crisis-376176

Sounds like another dotard chest thumping crotch grabbing episode.

[RandySF]

1. He would kill a lot of his voters.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. He'd wind up killing the doctors that over-prescribe the opioids

fueling the addiction in the first place...

[Blue_true]

3. Well.

There are going to be lots of drug distribution company Execs and sales people wearing shrouds.

[pangaia]

4. Go fuck yourself, moron...

[sheshe2]

5. Hmmmm

Didn't I read here somewhere tonight that Dotard had a 10 year addiction to amphetamines? He wants his drug suppliers dead now?

Okay.

[duforsure]

6. He's probably jealous of dictator in the Phillipines

The one who brags about killing people there.

[GP6971]

8. That!! n/t

[nycbos]

7. George Carlin said it best on this subject.

"And you know, in this country, now there are alot of people who want to expand the death penalty to include drug dealers. This is really stupid. Drug dealers aren't afraid to die. They're already killing each other every day on the streets by the hundreds. Drive-bys, gang shootings, they're not afraid to die. Death penalty doesn't mean anything unless you use it on people who are afraid to die. Like... the bankers who launder the drug money. The bankers, who launder, the drug money. Forget the dealers, you want to slow down that drug traffic, you got to start executing a few of these fucking bankers. White, middle class Republican bankers."

And I'm not talking about soft, American executions, like lethal injection. I'm talking about fucking crucifixion folks! Let's bring back crucifixions. A form of capital punishment the Christians and Jews of America can really appreciate. And I'd go a little further, I'd crucify people upside-down. Like Saint Peter, feet up, head down. And naked. I'd have naked upside-down crucifixions on TV once a week at halftime on the Monday Night Football game! Halftime! Monday Night! The Monday Night Crucifixions! You'd have people tuning in, don't even care about Football! Wouldn't you like to hear Dan Dierdorf explain why the nails have to go in at a certain angle? And I'll guarantee you one thing. You start execut- you start nailing one white banker per week to a big wooden cross, you're going to see that drug traffic begin to slow down pretty fucking quick. Pretty fucking quick- you won't even be able to buy drugs in schools and prisons." anymore!

[Flaleftist]

20. !

God I miss George Carlin.

[Weed Man]

9. I support death penalty for speed abusers

You go first, Trump, since we know you a speed eater. Diet pills prescription since 2014 but known abuser since 1982 per Kurt Eichwald

[Butterflylady]

10. Is there no cognitive ability in his tiny brain?

By the time one dealer is executed, another one takes their place. Then another, then another and so on. It's a billion dollar business and executing dealers is not the answer.

[TheFrenchRazor]

11. i guess we could just kill people with chronic pain, because they're going to end up killing themsel

themselves anyway, if the anti-opiate hysteria, War on Drugs goes on much longer.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

12. Remember: Drugs Don't Kill People; PEOPLE Kill People

There's no point in making the drug laws any tougher because people are always going to find a way to get drugs. The only way to stop a bad guy with drugs is a good guy with drugs. If EVERYONE had drugs, the drug dealers wouldn't have anyone to do business with.

This is fun.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

13. Wait, I've Got Another One!

By making drugs tougher to get, you're only punishing the RESPONSIBLE drug users.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

14. I Can Do This All Day

If you keep people from killing themselves with drugs, they're just going to kill themselves with something else, like a hammer, or a lamp, or a swimming pool. Are you going to give the death penalty to swimming pool salesmen? Are ya? ARE YA? HUH?!?!?!?

[ChoppinBroccoli]

16. The Answer To The Drug Problem Is..............MORE DRUGS!!!

Although, to be fair, more drugs is the answer to pretty much every problem.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

17. And With That Last Post, I Have Just Been Hired As Chief Spokesperson For Big Pharma

Thanks to all the little people who made this possible.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

18. Wow, This Is So Unexpected!

And now that my efforts on behalf of Big Pharma have cause drug use to skyrocket, resulting in massive profits for the drug industry, I have been appointed to a Cabinet-level position in the Trump administration in charge of implementing drug laws.

[LeftInTX]

15. He'll change his mind tomorrow

Instead he will propose giving them gold medals or something stupid.

[babylonsister]

19. Whoa! He is still a fucking moron. nt

[edbermac]

21. And Limbaugh will be first in line.

Rush doing his impression of being strapped in Old Smokey.