Fentanyl kills 25,000 more ppl than gun-related and 39 of 54 of the @MichiganDems voted in favor of fentanyl #MIGOP #MILEG
— Matt Maddock (@matthewmaddock) April 23, 2025
When a gun is recovered at a crime scene, it's the job of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to trace it. Tim Sloan was ATF's attaché in Mexico from 2019-2022. As attaché he ran the ATF's four field offices in Mexico. In 2019, an incident at a cartel ranch near Guadalajara made a lasting impression on him.
"There was dead bodies everywhere...There were 55 gallon drums with body parts in 'em," said Sloan. "And all the weapons in that house came from the United States. All of them."
Sloan says most of the guns the ATF traced in Mexico were
sold directly to traffickers or to so-called "straw purchasers,"
someone who buys a firearm on behalf of another person
"You're offering a 23-year-old girl in Arizona $4,000, $5,000 just to go into a store and buy a gun for you," Sloan said. "She's going to do that. A lot of people are going to do that, especially if they have any addiction problems, but no criminal record."
If buyers do not have a criminal history, in certain states, they can buy as many guns as they want. After that comes the easy part, "just drive across the border, " explained Sloan.
The ATF traced 50,000 American guns recovered in Mexico from 2015 to 2022 to gun dealers across the United States…
State Representative Maddock: It's the guns, stupid. And they come from the USA. Michigan Democrats have nothing to do with it. State legislators who wallow in their absolutist interpretation of the Second Amendment of the US Constitution do.
But this isn't about guns or drugs. It's about this piece of work remarking
We're not doing this for the retired Communist professor. We're doing this for the families and the kids who gaze upon their great Gulf of America and put their toes in the water. "Look, mom," I'm in the Gulf of America."
This guy doesn't understand that being in the Gulf of Mexico- a different country- would more impress a child living in America than being in the Gulf of America. That should make a difference if one believes that the major factor in naming major bodies of water should be to bolster a child's self-esteem. (I'm guessing Maddock is not a child psychologist by profession.) He continues
Exciting things- like, uh, make people proud of our country, the most loved President in American history wants people to be proud of their country. The left want people to be ashamed of their country. And I don't think it's any coincidence that the people opposed to that are the same people that hate America. This is a way to show kids that our great faith that they should be proud of their country.
Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) says anyone that opposes his bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico hates America.
— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) April 24, 2025
"I don't think it's any coincidence that the people opposed to this are the same people that hate America." pic.twitter.com/HS8FqxB1a6
Now the "kids" should be proud of their country when they go into history or social studies class and learn that the body of water called the Gulf of Mexico throughout the world is called the Gulf of America here.
No reason to take pride in Thomas Jefferson's line in the Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights. Immaterial is pride in freedom of religion, of speech and the press, from armed police arbitrarily barging into your home, from not having to raise $10,000 bail for a shoplifting charge, even to own a firearm within reason.
And don't even think about pride in the Armed Forces, because the "Gulf of America" is our great inheritance as Americans.
Yet, most extraordinary in these times is a Republican state legislator holding a straight face while maintaining "that the people opposed to (a fentanyl bill) are the same people that hate America." The bill recently approved by the Michigan House of Representatives increases prison sentences for manufacturing and selling fetanyl, carfentanil, and heroin.
Some Democrats, wisely or unwisely, voted against the bill because of the disproportionately harsh impact they believe it would have on marginalized communities. This seems a little less hatred of country than
The Witch Hunt continues, and after 6 years and millions of pages of documents, they’ve got nothing. If I had what Hunter and Joe had, it would be the Electric Chair. Our Country is Rigged, Crooked, and Evil — We must bring it back, and FAST. Next stop, Communism!
Or of federal workers directed to give detail their workweek
And it's possible that a lot of those people will be actually fired. And if that happened, that's okay, because that's what we're trying to do. This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting and incompetently run.
Incompetently run is possible, because it was already 36 days after he took office that Donald Trump denigrated this country and its citizens, enough time for him to begin to sabotage the vibrant representative democracy he was handed. And on October 30 of 2022 he did inadvertently warn us, slyly and indirectly, of his upcoming crooked leadership. Maybe that's what his supporters mean when they say that Donald Trump has kept his promises.
Yet, it seems it should be of more than passing interest that the President of the country and leader of the (still, barely) Free World thinks its people are evil and disgusting; or more exactly, that the nation is evil and its citizens, disgusting. And significant it would be if anyone took notice..
That's less the fault of the media, which can barely be held responsible for something Donald Trump's critics care about, than of his critics. But that would mean the Democratic Party has noticed this and cares about it. It must do both, and at least one is absent.
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