Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution
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In a complete reversal of his stance in 1995, Joe Biden now wants to coddle drug addicts instead of punishing them.
In his 1995 crime bill, he made it so there was a mandatory minimum sentence of 5 years for the smallest amount of crack. Now he wants them to have "safe smoking kits/supplies".
Apparently, this is about "racial equity".
As noted in The Free Beacon, the LGBT+ community is also being targeted (as well as black communities) under this program.
Not surprisingly, the program has no rehab program funding, even though this program is called; Harm Reduction Program Any sane person would think that rehab would be the best harm reduction there is.
The Free Beacon also noted that Democrat-run cities have backed away from such programs since it's viewed as enabling drug addicts, rather than helping them get off of drugs.
NOTE: This program is not just about crack pipes, but needles, condoms, etc.
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@raphjd Biden is fulfilling a promise he made to his son Hunter to provide free crack pipes and decriminalize heroin.
In Canada, they now consider smoking marijuana to be a "sacrement". Personally, I am nauseated by the smell of marijuana, and tell people that it will make their skin like leather and result in dementia. (both true).They have a massive problem in Canada with heroin too, and they seem to think the best way to stop crime involving heroin is to legalize that too!
Democrats successfully made murdering babies legal, so I guess there is no limit to what is legalized.
It's ironic that people are freaking out about 900,000 people in the USA - mostly elderly or with comprised immune systems - have died of Covid in the past 2 years BUT nobody gives a damn that in the past 2 years, about 2,000,000 healthy babies have been aborted (murdered) in the USA.
No wonder women are fucked up in the head. There are mental consequences to having mechanical abortions or even chemically induced abortions.
Here I am being misogynistic again. Someone give me a spanking.. PLEASE! hehe
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I have 4 cousins (same family) that all got addicted to drugs; namely heroin. Thankfully they are all "clean" now.
While they tend to support Biden, since they are still young, they are furious over this. They want money for rehab, not making it easier to do drugs.
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My guess is that HHS changed its minds after it became public.
But again, there is no rehab anywhere in the program.
As a side note, Snopes isn't always the most honest fact-checker. On their own, they have had scandals about fact checks and Facebook had labeled their 120 fact-checkers (including Snopes) as opinion, not fact in the lawsuit I post about not long ago.
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I think the saddest part of all of this is all of the crack users that could have been helped by this program that will not receive that help. Glass pipes (expensive) help prevent lip burns which contribute to the spread of HIV and hepatitis amongst crack users. Plastic or metal pipes can cause irreparable damage to crack users' lungs.
One can take the position that we shouldn't be helping a drug user take drugs, but that's ignorant and not the position taken by the actual experts in harm reduction. Even the commission created by President Trump came back with a recommendation to distribute safe drug syringes to prevent disease spread.
Keeping a drug user from contracting HIV while they're using drugs isn't the government enabling their vice. What it means is one less person living with a lifetime of HIV after they get clean.
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@hubrys said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
I think the saddest part of all of this is all of the crack users that could have been helped by this program that will not receive that help. Glass pipes (expensive) help prevent lip burns which contribute to the spread of HIV and hepatitis amongst crack users. Plastic or metal pipes can cause irreparable damage to crack users' lungs.
One can take the position that we shouldn't be helping a drug user take drugs, but that's ignorant and not the position taken by the actual experts in harm reduction. Even the commission created by President Trump came back with a recommendation to distribute safe drug syringes to prevent disease spread.
Keeping a drug user from contracting HIV while they're using drugs isn't the government enabling their vice. What it means is one less person living with a lifetime of HIV after they get clean.
@hubrys you miss the point.
To our
conservativeTrumpite bretheren here, drug users are irredeemable leeches on society. Our tax dollars should not be spent on giving them anything - not food, not shelter, and certainly not a safer way to use!The real conundrum for them are the babies of crackheads! You see, there is no expense too great to save the life of the unborn, but as soon as that meth or heroin addicted little thing is born, why they're worthless scum that should be allowed (encouraged, even) to die to save us taxpayers from having to support them!
Hyperbolic? That WAS the intention - but sadly, it really more of a slight exaggeration than true hyperbole.... truly sadly....
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Even my 4 formerly drug-addicted cousins are furious that this program has absolutely no money for rehab.
If we can pay for gender studies in Pakistan, then we can help our own people. Of course, Pelosi Repubs like @bi4smooth will blindly defend anything the DNC does. His extreme TDS is evident in the fact that he can't make a post without mentioning Trump.
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@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
Even my 4 formerly drug-addicted cousins are furious that this program has absolutely no money for rehab.
Why would it have funding for rehab? That wasn't the purpose of this specific block grant proposal. That's like saying "How dare the military's funding for the manufacturing of this jet not include money for troop housing!" Paying for jets and paying for troop housing are two different expenditures. Here, harm reduction and rehabilitation are two different expenditures.
Your complaints are ignorant and nonsensical. You are REACHING to try to find something wrong here.
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AH, because I want there to be funding for rehab, you call me ignorant and nonsensical.
It's funny that you are angrier at me than you are at HHS for removing the crackpipes from the smoking kits.
Liberals, including Pelosi Repubs, have no problem with funding gender studies in Pakistan while having no money for rehab for our own people.
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@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
AH, because I want there to be funding for rehab, you call me ignorant and nonsensical.
It's funny that you are angrier at me than you are at HHS for removing the crackpipes from the smoking kits.
Liberals, including Pelosi Repubs, have no problem with funding gender studies in Pakistan while having no money for rehab for our own people.
So now we have the real issue
We (the US Gov't) is apparently paying for some kind of gender study in Pakistan. Anything and everything else we fund that @raphjd finds the least bit objectionable or excessive will now be compared to "gender study in Pakistan"Even Forbes (no fan of Dems or Joe Biden) says this claim is nonsense! But curiously, they DO trace it's origin to a Russian troll farm and an obscure gay porno site (unnamed in the article)... Read for yourself
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Let's face it, you love liberal spending programs in faraway countries because the money isn't spent on Americans, because you and your ilk are all about America Last.
I also know you are a total idiot, and can't figure out that my point was, if we can fund shit like gender studies in Pakistan, then we should have enough money for our own people.
Why is Forbes defining what "safer smoking kits" are? Are they HHS?
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Therefore, yes one could interpret funding “safe smoking kits/supplies” as potentially funding “crack pipes.” But context matters. And many of the “crack pipe” claims on social media didn’t really include the harm reduction context.
The article is quite preachy, but it does admit that free crack pipes "potentially" could be included.
Also, I checked out the author and he's a lefty. Funny, that.
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@raphjd
Rehab has been privatized and it is a lucrative industry@ Throw someone in rehab, exhaust their deductable and simply, funnel the addict into a 12 step cult rife with sexual predators (old slimers) looking to groom young and vulnerable members. Most leave rehab, the recidivism rate is perverse, however the failure to help treat addiction by the 12 step model guarantees multiple visits to these glorified spas. Look into SMART and Rational Recovery. I don't want any of my money going into the coifers of the 12 step machine, I'd rather it go toward fentanyl test strips and needle exchange. This crack pipe hogwash is hyperbole. This service is simply a continuation of harm reduction that started in the 80's to try and quell the AIDS epidemic. The only thing these (most likely volunteer) organizations will be handing out junkies that they haven't already been providing for years is the NARCAN inhaler. -
If it's just the same old worn-out system that we've used since the 80s, then now with the crackhead crazy spending the Dems are doing, you'd figure they'd do a lot more with it.
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@raphjd
The do nothing dems, the racist republicans and the rest are all still hunting for q drops. What a time to be living. -
@dadesnine said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
@raphjd
The do nothing dems, the racist republicans and the rest are all still hunting for q drops. What a time to be living.The Democrats are (thankfully) powerless - with their slim majorities, then have to water down virtually every possible proposal to win over every possible Democrat - because the Republicans are truly united in opposition.
I always find it hilarious when @raphjd and other Trumpites talk about how well organized and "loyal" Democrats are to their leaders! Hogwash! Leading democrats is like herding cats - and some of them are rabid!
I don't mind this fact - it means that "when its their turn" (and it will always be either their turn now, or again at some time in the near future - that's the nature of American politics! The same can be said of Republicans - it may not be our time NOW, but our time is coming again! Count on it! Just as surely as we regain power, we'll lose it again, too!)
So @raphjd has gone from "Biden is going to spend $30million on crack pipes" to "Some of that money could be spent on crack pipes"... as-if those were synonymous...
Typical...
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Your leftist "proof" even said it could be.
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@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
Your leftist "proof" even said it could be.
Are you drunk today? High? On anti-psychotic drugs?
Saying that "Biden is going to spend $30 million on crack pipes" is not the same as "some of a $30 million grant might be spent on crack pipes for drug addicts"
You really do believe your hyperbolic "much ado about nothing" rant is justified because they "could potentially" purchase crack pipes? What about all that Gov't money spent on free condoms?
What about all that Gov't money spend on home COVID-19 test kits? (Want to know how stupid that is? My household - with 6 people living here - got 4 test kits. My son's household - with 1 person living there - got 4 test kits.)
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Blah, blah, blah
Even your leftist "proof" said it could be. That is akin to admitting it's true.
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@raphjd said in Biden to spend $30mil on crack pipe distribution:
Blah, blah, blah
Even your leftist "proof" said it could be. That is akin to admitting it's true.
You're right - you could shoot 35 schoolchildren with that new gun of yours, so let's just arrest you for the murders NOW to avoid all the bloodshed.
You're such a moron about these things...
