[AMV] VS #1280 Waar ICE de lieverdjes zijn

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:53 schreef Ronald-Koeman het volgende:

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Zouden ze in Oslo ondertussen al spijt hebben dat ze 'm uberhaupt aan mevrouw Machado hebben gegeven denken jullie?

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:47 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Even tussen alle bizarre theorieën en fantasieën door dat Trump de Nobelprijs heeft opgeëist (ja ik heb er smakelijk om zitten lachen) nog even wat positief nieuws en bewijs dat een gesloten grens levens red.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:47 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Even tussen alle bizarre theorieën en fantasieën door dat Trump de Nobelprijs heeft opgeëist (ja ik heb er smakelijk om zitten lachen) nog even wat positief nieuws en bewijs dat een gesloten grens levens red.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:47 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
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Even tussen alle bizarre theorieën en fantasieën door dat Trump de Nobelprijs heeft opgeëist (ja ik heb er smakelijk om zitten lachen) nog even wat positief nieuws en bewijs dat een gesloten grens levens red.

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Deaths peaked nearly 110,000 in 2022, fell a little in 2023 and then plummeted 27% in 2024, to around 80,000. That was the largest one-year decline ever recorded.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:24 schreef Peligrosso het volgende:
Een buurman gaf mij gisteren zijn elfstedentochtkruisje.
Zo fucking trots ben ik nu. Wat heb ik toch een doorzettingsvermogen.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:03 schreef -XOR- het volgende:

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Dat was dus onder Biden, met grenspaus Harris.
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BidenGod

HarrisGodin

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:09 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ja beide kampjes claimen natuurlijk graag een cum hoc ergo propter hoc overwinning, maar de vermoedelijke oorzaak lijkt gek genoeg te liggen in zaken als het feit dat de beschikbare fentanyl minder puur wordt waardoor de hoeveelheid overdosissen sterk afneemt. dat is een fenomeen dat zowel in de VS als in Canada wordt waargenomen en in beide landen het aantal drugsdoden sterk reduceert. Ironisch genoeg is het mogelijk te danken aan de Chinese overheid.

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Researchers cannot yet say with confidence why deaths have gone down. Experts have offered multiple possible explanations: increased availability of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, expanded addiction treatment, shifts in how people use drugs, and the growing impact of billions of dollars in opioid lawsuit settlement money.

Some also point to research that suggests the number of people likely to overdose has been shrinking, as fewer teens take up drugs and many illicit drug users have died.

Two other theories recently joined the list.

In a paper published last week in the journal Science, University of Maryland researchers point to the drug supply. They say regulatory changes in China a few years ago appear to have diminished the availability of precursor chemicals used to make fentanyl.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 03:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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'Network of insurrectionists'

De echte insurrectionists waren Trump en zijn mob

En Homan gaat ze allemaal aan de schandpaal nagelen!

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Maar ondertussen mogen ICE-agenten maskers dragen en rondrijden in ongemarkeerde auto's want die moeten natuurlijk wel anoniem blijven:

Ranking Member Raskin Demands DOJ and DHS Produce Records Regarding Hiring of Jan. 6 Riot Participants
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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:08 schreef Beathoven het volgende:

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Held! Welke heb je nu gereden en hoe oud was je!?

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Threat Inflation

Today, Donald Trump announced that he is considering using the Insurrection Act to send the U.S. military to Minneapolis if state officials do not quell anti-ICE protests there. Deploying federal troops on American soil against the objections of state and local officials is an extreme measure––and seems likelier to inflame than to extinguish unrest there, given that needlessly provocative actions by ICE officers helped create conditions on the ground. Yet the president seems eager to suppress the actions of people he calls “professional agitators and insurrectionists.” For months, members of his administration have laid the rhetorical groundwork for a martial crackdown.

Insurrections are rare in U.S. history, but according to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, we’ve had lots of them just since 2024. In his telling, the perpetrators of recent insurrections against the United States include Joe Biden; the Colorado Supreme Court; U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani; U.S. District Judge Jennifer Thurston; Democrats; protesters in Los Angeles; protesters in Paramount, California; protesters in Compton, California; the city of Los Angeles; U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong; various “radical communist judges”; the Chicago Police Department; a crowd that the Chicago police didn’t stop; an Oregon judge; and “Democrat lawmakers.” (Miller has never called the MAGA movement’s storming of the Capitol an insurrection.)

The rhetorical abuse of insurrection is part of a larger pattern. The president and his allies constantly engage in what we might call threat inflation, giving Americans the impression that they face catastrophe on all sides and that the government therefore must respond maximally. In the administration’s telling, drugs enter America via not smugglers, but “narco-terrorists.” Immigrants never sneak into America; they “invade.” And anti-ICE protesters are “domestic terrorists” and “insurrectionists.” These designations rarely match the reality on the ground. Instead, they stoke fear beyond what reality justifies.

A particularly extreme example occurred just last month: Trump issued an executive order that declared fentanyl “a weapon of mass destruction,” a dubious turn in the history of that term. The phrase weapons of mass destruction was coined by Archbishop Cosmo Gordon Lang after the 1937 bombing of Guernica to anticipate the massively damaging aerial bombings of future conflicts. “Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean,” he wrote, “waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction?”

The term grew only more apt with the advent of the atom bomb, and has been used in recent decades to refer to existential threats to cities or even nations. It had not typically been used to refer to any of the voluntarily ingested substances that kill lots of Americans, such as alcohol, cigarettes, and cocaine—until the Trump administration sought to justify the extrajudicial killing of drug smugglers and perhaps to prepare the public to accept military escalation against various drug cartels.

Nor does the logic of the new use stand up to scrutiny. If the CIA discovered a plot to smuggle a weapon of mass destruction, as that term is understood by most Americans, into the Port of Long Beach, no president would hesitate to shut down the whole West Coast supply chain and search every container until the nerve agent, biological weapon, dirty bomb, or nuclear device was found. Yet if a kilogram of fentanyl, theoretically enough for 500,000 overdoses, were in a container ship, the U.S. government would not shut down a major port to find it. Tens of thousands of pounds of fentanyl are smuggled into the U.S. every year.

Clear thinking requires us to distinguish between the existential emergency posed by weapons of mass murder and substances that cause many deaths accumulated slowly over time, as more and more people use them. And the Trump administration would most likely reject applying its own logic consistently. For example, if a news organization waited for fentanyl shipments to arrive in a bunch of U.S. cities and then led a prime-time broadcast with the storyline Trump and his national-security team failed to stop WMD attacks on at least 20 American cities last month, the White House would rightly argue that the outlet was misleading and manipulating its viewers.

The American public is similarly misled each time Trump or members of his team erroneously assert that the country confronts a superlative threat. Terrorism is another word the administration likes to throw around—a particularly ironic threat to exaggerate, in that the intention is to stoke more public fear to achieve political goals. After the ICE officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis, Americans spent days watching and arguing about videos of the incident. Reasonable people disagreed about how to apportion blame. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem could have waited for an investigation before commenting; if she chose to speak, she could simply have argued that the woman who was killed gave the officer in front of her car reason to fear for his life. Instead, she not only presumed to know the motive of the woman who was killed; she also attributed to her the most malign motive possible. “What happened in Minneapolis was an act of domestic terrorism,” Noem declared. Vice President Vance has bizarrely called the incident “classic terrorism.”

The absurdity of Vance’s designation is most evident if, as David French suggested in the The New York Times recently, you compare videos from Minneapolis with actual terrorist attacks. “Many of us have seen footage, for example, of the horrific ramming attack in Nice, France, in 2016 that killed 86 people—or of the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Va., the following year, where a white supremacist drove directly into a crowd of ‘Unite the Right’ counterprotesters, killing a woman, Heather D. Heyer, and injuring dozens of others,” French wrote. “In both cases, the murderous intentions of the men driving the vehicles—deploying them as weapons—were unmistakable.”

Trump does not lack the capacity for understatement. In February 2020, at the beginning of a pandemic that would kill more than 1 million Americans, he said, “One day—it’s like a miracle—it will disappear. And from our shores, we—you know, it could get worse before it gets better. It could maybe go away. We’ll see what happens. Nobody really knows.” That’s how Trump talks when he wants the country to keep its cool.

Confronted with far less deadly threats in his second term, Trump and his allies inflate them daily. They do so to push policies that overreact to the country’s challenges rather than carefully calibrated responses. In the process, their rhetoric fuels the polarization that makes political violence and civic instability more likely. There is less to fear from reality than from the administration’s fearmongering itself.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:10 schreef -XOR- het volgende:

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De vermoedelijke oorzaken voor de afname staan ook gewoon in het artikel:
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Maar de Trump-wappies kun je werkelijk alles wijsmaken.

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The Maryland and Pittsburgh researchers raised questions about whether Trump administration policies could slow momentum.

They noted relations between the U.S. and China strained last year when Trump placed sharply higher tariffs on imports from China, and speculated China might ease efforts to police fentanyl precursors.

They also noted Trump has promised a $2,000 check to Americans to help offset the rising prices resulting from tariffs placed on China. Those checks could cause some drug users to splurge and overdose, said Burke, who urged federal officials to think through how the money is disbursed.

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Op donderdag 15 januari 2026 20:19 schreef Ericr het volgende:
Bekijk deze YouTube-video

Life will soon imitate art again.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:37 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Sterke tekst in de dagelijkse nieuwsbrief van The Atlantic:
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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:50 schreef phpmystyle het volgende:
Ik vraag mij echt af of een eventuele order van Trump om Groenland gewapende hand over te nemen uitgevoerd zou worden. Schieten op Europeanen is een behoorlijk drempel.

Ik ben het zelden eens met Mart de Kruijf maar EU troepen daar NU stationeren kan als een struikeldraai werken in mentaal opzicht. Ik denk dat dat ook zo is.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:51 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Waarom zou je militair veroveren wat je via ordinaire chantage kunt afdwingen?

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:51 schreef Perrin het volgende:

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Waarom zou je militair veroveren wat je via ordinaire chantage kunt afdwingen?

Trump bedreigt ons, chanteert ons, schroeft onze duimschroeven aan, belooft ons wat moois in de toekomst en we leveren het hem kwispelend op een zilveren dienblaadje.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:52 schreef phpmystyle het volgende:

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Trump zet natuurlijk nu softpower in om het te proberen omdat dat het goedkoopst en makkelijkste is. Zou iedereen doen.

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De Venezolaanse oppositieleider María Corina Machado zegt dat ze donderdag tijdens een bezoek aan het Witte Huis haar Nobelprijs voor de Vrede aan Donald Trump heeft aangeboden.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 09:53 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc redenatie. Er kunnen (en zullen) dozijnen redenen hiervoor zijn die niks te maken hebben met het opblazen van vissersbootjes in de Caraibische zee.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:55 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)rijs-aangeboden.html

Een dame met een hoge walgfactor..... de hielen likken van een bezetter, dictator, koloniaal.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:55 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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Een dame met een hoge walgfactor..... de hielen likken van een bezetter, dictator, koloniaal.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:57 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Die zal hiermee in eigen land toch wel een beetje haar eigen glazen ingooien ja.

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The president of Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota on Tuesday called for the immediate release of tribal members who were detained at a homeless encampment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minnesota last week.

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Op vrijdag 16 januari 2026 10:53 schreef ExTec het volgende:

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Nee.

Groenlanders zelf gaan nooit akkoord.