I did some basic research and made some assumptions. 1-2 million cocaine users that self identify. More likely 10-20 million users with a lot of those being casual take it or leave it users. Probably just under a million chronic users.

So let’s let’s say about million grams a day over a million users. That is about two tons. I think this is probably an underestimate, honestly.

Obviously my methodology is not great, just rough guesses based upon the best information.

https://www.samhsa.gov/data

A rough estimate for cocaine use alone would be anywhere from 4,000-12,000 pounds a day for illicit US use. It is a staggering amount of drugs that need to be made or imported for US citizens.

They also need to send several more times than this to keep supply flowing because of interdiction, waste, and shrinkage. So we are talking about 100,000-250,000 pounds of all illicit drugs every single day.

The War On Drugs was unbelievable success for it’s true intentions. A lot of people don’t understand that it was really a war on minorities. At best it was a political tool to suppress the public and at worst it was a multigenerational genocide.

Instead of giving people the hope and tools for a better future, our government used it to strip our rights, normalize police militarization, destroys countless families, and let people die from overdoses needlessly.

The loss of life is staggering. The dramatic drop in quality of life is mind boggling. The reparations the government would owe if this reality would reach the masses would be easily a hundred trillion dollars if you also count the destruction in Mexico and South America.

Do people realize how much drugs are brought into the US everyday? These small boats wouldn’t even be able to supply a small city. This is a complete joke. War on Drugs theatre.

Did you forget decades of drone strikes with highlights such as blowing up a civilian wedding?

You are not wrong, just a couple hundred years late to the party.

Blah blah. You can’t change something if you don’t understand it.

I am pretty sure you mean that we exist because of the ruling class. The American Revolution wasn’t really a popular uprising. It was a bunch of wealthy people seizing power through propaganda and terrorism.

There was never the “people” as you put it. It was a country by the rich for the rich with a nice helping of liberal propaganda the placate the masses.

We should turn his birthday into National Greed Day. A day to recognize how money has corrupted government!

Ah yes, blame the people not in charge just like the ruling class likes.

The best was when he accused Walz of a billion dollars in fraud after pardoning multiple people who have actually engaged in billion dollar fraud.

Ross Ulbricht 1-3 billion dollars drugs/money laundering

Philip Esformes 1.3 billion Medicate/Medicaid fraud

David Gentile 1.6 billion pyramid scheme

Changpeng Zhao 2+ billion dollar crypto scam/money laundering

And runner up

Eliyahu Weinstein pardon by Trump for 44 million fraud and then went on to commit 230 million more fraud three years later.

Once you get into tens of millions the list goes on a really long time.

Just researching and putting this list together was horrific. Fuck everyone putting up with this criminal administration.

Court orders tax payers on the hook for criminal administration.

For real.

It is amazing the media can’t seem to draw the line from death threats to resignation. They always talk about the reasons why but not in this situation. I have only read one article in Mother Jones pointing out the harsh reality of what is going on.

Umm Trump just said nuh uh.

And SCOTUS just backed him up.

Sue them out of existence. They are not going to stop.

This did not make it better.

Guns have always worked as an oppressive force against Americans. The clowns that say otherwise are living in made-up fantasyland.

Didn’t they already downplay the whole insurrection thing? Hard to take these clowns seriously.

Our insurrection was invading the capital with the intention of killing the Vice President!

Your insurrection is telling the army it is okay to refuse to attack US citizens!

They messed up so bad and it hasn’t even happened before in the history of law. A screw up of historical proportions. They don’t even know what to do, they can’t even comprehend how badly they fucked up.

It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious matter.

You make some really good points. I had to look it up and apparently it is not uncommon to have a country that has never had a woman as its top leader.

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-countries-never-had-female-leader-1906993

Also, if you add up all the years women have actually been a leader it is just a token amount.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/not-just-the-us-the-countries-that-have-never-been-led-by-a-woman/0bidx04kt

So clearly this is not just a US thing. Why women are so grossly underrepresented in politics appears to be pretty universal.

The leader of the KKK endorsed Obama over Hilary. Let that sink in.