President Trump Compliments Leader Who Executes His Citizens for Drug Charges
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May 23, 2017
If the latest comments and memos coming out of Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice didn’t raise concerns about the Trump Administration’s potential plans to reignite our nation’s failed war on drugs, his recent call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should sound alarm bells.A reminder: President Duterte has extrajudicially executed thousands of his own citizens on drug charges during his tenure leading the country.
The Washington Post received a transcript of the phone call and describes Trump’s comments on Duterte’s drug “policy” as follows:
…in their call [Trump] praised Duterte for doing an “unbelievable job on the drug problem.”
“Many countries have the problem, we have the problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that,” Trump said, according to the transcript.
After Duterte replied that drugs are the “scourge of my nation now and I have to do something to preserve the Filipino nation,” Trump appeared to take a swipe at his predecessor, Barack Obama, who had canceled a bilateral meeting with Duterte after the Philippines leader insulted him.
“I understand that and fully understand that and I think we had a previous president who did not understand that,” Trump said.
Read the full story in The Washington Post here.
38 Responses to “President Trump Compliments Leader Who Executes His Citizens for Drug Charges”
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Calling Jose Valdez. Calling Jose Valdez. You proud of YOUR president now, Jose? He make you warm and fuzzy all over?
I’ve got an idea, Jose, Mr. Patriot, you should take a vacation to the Phillipines–as honorary guest of Duterte. Oh, and be sure to pack some weed with ya. Maybe you, the Prince of Orange and Duterte can all share a blunt.
Trump and his GOP are the TRUE enemies of America.
Daaaaaaamn Bud, you called Valdez the Pez OUT!
The question is when will we as a nation call Trump out for THIS disgrace?
Trump and his GOP are the TRUE enemies of America.
Trump is a monster.
Oppose him. Or rot in hell with him.
Trump and his GOP are the TRUE enemies of America.
I have read SO MANY comments on news stories AGAINST liberals and progressives, of people who want a better future, people, who do NOT believe in just spending money recklessly, who do have character, who do have a soul…progressive activism is where America’s future should be, on marijuana, cannabis, on every issue! Republicans and conservatives are not the future! WE ARE. Young people ane progressives are, progressive activists who, no, do not believe in careless spending or policies that do not work, we believe rather, in things like clean energy, community policing, in the fight against racism, of FREE education, we are not Marxists or rabid socialists, we want the best for the least of us. We have to figure out a way to do that. On marijuana, Trump’s administration is a scary one. Perhaps not as bad as the Phillipines…but it could be. One thing I could not STAND, is when a police officer stops doing his or her “job,” and NOW starts a moral argument about how we young people should not be smoking weed. When a police officer crosses that line, and starts dictating MORALITY in an investigation, his or her, “job,” THAT is just wrong. Trump is BAD for marijuana and our cause. And we have to do everything we can to stand up and defend legalization, and that is exactly what I am going to do. But I have to say it again: Jeff Sessions is bad news. Bad news.
So much of what you say, Matt, is true. The American people seem to be moving in a progressive direction, even if the politicians and the media keep trying to retard that progress.
But you can’t keep repressing things forever, as shown by the abrupt collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989. Eventually the will of the people will prevail. The GOP’s attempts to keep pot illegal mirror their attempts to repress environmentalism, civil rights, voting rights, etc. Eventually the dam will break (and I hope the prohibitionist rats are swallowed up in the flood).
Slime like Newt Gingrich, Asa Hutchinson, and of course, Trump, love the idea of executing drug users. They want no charges against cops, ever, no matter how blatant the murder, especially when marijuana or other drugs are tangentially involved. They openly laud a “police state” and are presently working to undo what modest progress we have made in criminal justice reform.
War On Drugs is war on the American People, and all people, worldwide.
Trump and his GOP are the TRUE enemies of America.
Don’t forget — Trump has already demonstrated that the GOP is now an official tool of Putin, by changing the Republican party platform to be less pro-Ukraine, and less pro-Democracy, and more pro-Putin. Trump is a traitor. That’s already happened.
The Dump Trump Song
Woke up this mornin
Pickin out seed
My vote done got cro$$checked
And they stole my legal weed
Next thing I know
This spoiled rotten ho
Is lyin on TV
Blamin our Drug Woe on Mexico
Do we need a singer?
They tried that $#!+ with Anslinger
So I wrote this little zinger
With my rhyming finger
But dontchu know thatcha
State cant create
With hate
You ate that “relate” plate
Now they closed the gate
Irrate
That Fredrick Douglas is doin great
Some learned their fate
Just a little too late, Nate
But theres still a free state
We need to legislate
So Lets participate
Why wait?
Click ACT!
And Dump Trump!
Use him to drain the swaump?
Better get a sump pump!
We dont need this cancer lump!
Impeach his rump
Depose his stump
Bet his $tupid @$$ will give Dem polls a bump
An Dump Trump
Drumph?
You aint about states n rights
Youre out for baits n bites
Hell, Id be angry too
If I had a lil dick like you
So quit Finasteride poppin
Your health care stoppin
Cold coppin
Food stamp choppin
You just speakin on the mike
Got yer brain cells floppin
Cuz youre
Leakin all the code words
Mouth is spewin Tweet-turds
Face look like some cheese curds
Shat from angry goat herds
Now youre praisin dick-taters
Beraters
Ego-maniac haters
Doin deals with Russian-Saudi traders
And heres the latest
To respect your mate is
The greatest
Sorry to say this
But you have no self-respect to play this
Biz,
you lack the manhood
Is,
why your wife done
Dis
Cold slapped your hand and
Fiz-
zled out you get what you
Givz
Thats why we say Truth
Livz
And one more thing…
Dump Trump!
You work for us chump!
Dump Trump!
Jump when we say jump!
You and Jeff-Gump
Can go straight to Hell and hump
Right to that sink hole
In Mari-Lago
And Dump Trump!
backstabbin that supported you
That was suposta read “And all the backstabbin bi+€£$ that supported you too!”
Correction #2:
“Traders” should have been spelled “traitors”
There should have been a (Whaaaa?) in parenthesis after “Douglas doin great”
And a “Ba-a-aaa” goat sound after “goat herds.”
All lyrics have a poor mans copywrite with an open source pending patent with the only rule to share the song for passion not for profit.
LMAO… “Baits and Bites?!”
Oooooh Watch out! Trump’s about baits and BITES!”
Lol…
Ok so I officially change that lyric to
“You aint about states rights
You cant escape these fights”
Julian,
You’re rap hits it on the head. Hits the walking-talking Cheeto on his head.
Go to rott in hell all you liberal twonfaced
Hypocrites!!
This guy named Nevada Bob
Thought his job was to sob
Over “liberal” whatever
Weed’s legal endeavour
Was lost when Gov gave him the cob
Geez, Nevada Bob, that’s some pretty deep stuff there. You’re obviously a fan of the Jose Valdez school of oratory persuasiveness–either that or the Donald Drumpf school of intellectual discourse. I mean, “liberal twonfaced . . . ” A “twon” sounds pretty scary.
Says the inbreed GOP supporter from Nevada. I’m guessing you think law and dictatorship makes and ensures freedom; And that freedom can only be granted by governments.
Keep bowing to those tyrants, you bigot! Like the loyalists to the king, look at where that got them: they lost their empire. I’m also guessing you have no idea what I’m talking about. People with an education will know.
why don’t the people in that country shoot or kill that terrorist? What are they waiting for, a head stone, a mass grave….
Trump and his GOP – the TRUE enemies of America.
Trump and his GOP are the TRUE enemies of America.
By not posting my comments, NORML obviously agrees with Trump’s approach. I will no longer support NORML.
LMAO, Vickie, by now Im sure you realized that it takes aboit 24 hrs to post on this website blog. If you want that done any faster please donate on the “donate” tab because despite what Project SAM or too many in the GOP would have us believe NORML is understaffed and underfunded.
Come on vike1322, don’t you realize that by not supporting NORML you are supporting the likes of Sabet, Sessions, and idiots like Chris Christie???
Nothing new here… Just Trump being Trump; you know, a clueless asshole!