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    Just a friendly reminder too that a 2015 report from the ATF found that 71% of the guns the cartels use are bought in the United States and carried south across the border. The United States is just as complicit in the rise of cartel related crime as the cartels themselves!

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    Cartels have boats, but no one’s shipping drugs up to Canada just to smuggle them south: They just get shipped directly to the US

    Trump is just making up an excuse to justify cutting off trade with Canada.

    Really, the whole fentanyl thing seems like scaremongering: People do overdose on it, but you won’t die from touching it or inhaling trace quantity. It’s not even the most potent opioid known, not even close to it.

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      It’s fascist ploy to make friends fight over shit that probably doesn’t exist from the start. We’re all being played.

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      Watching his press sec be like ‘one backpack?! It went up 2000% !!!’

      So last year someone brought a literal baggie of fent south?

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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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    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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    Pitting Canada against the USA is a tactic designed by people smarter than Trump. Obviously. It’s working on millions of citizens of both countries, including you. Don’t be ashamed. It wasn’t Trump that manipulated you.

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      Hey now dem dur fittin wirds. anna take it oot back? I didn’t vote for that orange piece of shit. I saw this coming from a mile away it just kind of seems like if cartels are in Canada then its the US that needs to be fixed instead of Canada dealing with a problem we pretty much created a market for them to grow.

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    You’re trying to apply conventional logic to the orange one. That doesn’t work. Stop doing that. It’s all about his frail ego, flooding the zone with bs, denying everything and never giving in, and blaming everybody else for stuff he’s done.

    And just to give the poor, battered, beleaguered, ever-so-stable leader a break, there are sea lanes and flight routes available to the cartels as well. They didn’t have to go through the US (but probably did).

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    You’re clearly giving it too much thought. It’s just stupid, blatant lies. There is no point in entertaining them or even questioning them.

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      I grew up to hate bullies and this just reminds me of bullying. Not saying US is the better country or anything. But really want to have a shirt printed up that says I side with Canada. I prolly get killed since im stationed in the deep south at the moment. But would be worth it.

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    Canada can blame US for unregistered gun coming into the country.
    Preventing gun smuggling should be one of the negotiation item

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    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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        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