Trickle down tax cuts, Just Say No, Nuclear build up, and a return to the failed policies of the most damaging presidency in Modern American History. Ronnie Raygun would be so proud. I wonder which one of Trump’s cronies will get this new no bid billion dollar waste of money contract to espouse the evils of drugs. Maybe they can reanimate Nancy for the campaign. I am sure Dr. (Bannon) Frankenfuck has the means.
Well those other “Just Say No” campaigns did not have “really tough, really big, really great advertising” led by President Donald J. Trump. The “don’t take opioids” advertising campaign will be…a complete failure, especially if they don’t put resources toward real prevention and treatment efforts. Limit the supplies, go after the drug companies, doctors and pharmacists who profit off abuse, and then also provide medical and therapeutic treatment. Oh yeah, it’s gonna cost more than $57,000. And don’t take money from HIV/AIDS or other programs where it’s needed. It’s been declared a public health emergency - new appropriations of all necessary funding must be part of any real effort to do anything. But, that’s where we gotta wonder how serious they really are.
Yup, go to the source and strangle big pharma and cut this off at the knees. Reagan failed to put a stop to the ephedra pouring into the country and instead relied on ineffectual advertising to solve the meth problem which did absolutely nothing. I’m sure the private prison industry is very happy with his decision.
Unsuccessful? Worse, they became a running gag. Fools.
Trump has great faith in P.T. Barnum type slogans, nicknames and advertising campaigns. They are what won him and his Russian handlers the Electoral College Vote, if not the Popular Vote (but they are working on that).
The purpose of Trump advertising has never been to solve a problem. It’s always been to get gullible people to buy his crappy products. This is just another example of that great tradition.
Policy for this bunch is never about policy. It’s always a knee-jerk response to criticism, and it always sounds as if it was thrown together in the ten minutes before they hold the press conference. This “solution” shows that they haven’t bothered to even talk to anyone who has studied this issue. If they had checked, they might have found out that members of “the base” are impacted by this. “Just Say No” was designed to make the drug users of Reagan’s time look worse (because they were assumed to be, well, from “the inner city”). This problem is not limited to “the inner city.”
AYFKM? Even the South Park jokes about this are 20 years old.
Duh-uh.
But a massive “just say no” campaign is cheaper and easier than leaning on drug companies, doctors and pharmacies to stop pushing drugs. Not to mention providing comprehensive treatment to all who need it.
Advertising is so much crap to an addict. It is an even bigger joke to the dealers. Opioid addiction is the invisible hand of the market at work. Demand and supply and profit; lots of profit. Dotard is just negotiating a bigger cut for himselff. He seriously has no compassion for anyone, much less someone needing help.
Advertising? Just say no? This is an egg. This is your head. This is your head on Trump. Any questions?
It’s too fucking early in the morning for this level of insanity and uselessness.
And didn’t we just hear yesterday from our Deputy Attorney General that ads (from foreign governments at least) don’t work on Americans?
Exactly. It’s laughable, it’s an unintentional joke. There is not a single person in Trump’s administration or wider circle who has a single viable, helpful policy idea. Not one. I assume Mattis and McMaster spend 18 hours a day staving off complete chaos and have no time for advancing proposals. If this country ever decides that maybe competence and experience matter after all, we might begin to get a serious effort in place to combat complex, ingrained, multicausal problems like this. Not before.
Let’s be sure to go after the “gateway” drugs! You’re just one toke from ruining your life and sleeping on a steam grate.
Obviously trump* could not care any less about the opiod problem.
Yep. Recycled Pablum.
Maybe they’re going to repurpose the egg thing too. I’m going with this one:
This is your brain on drugs. It looks more like LSD than opiates though…so they’ll have to work on that.
Maybe an egg falling asleep or nodding off?
Why would anyone expect anything but idiocy from this administration? The opioid crisis is real, it is serious, it is complicated. It is exactly the sort of thing that Trump and his malevolent minions are entirely incapable of responding to in a thoughtful, effective fashion. 30,000 people per year are dying from overdoses (fentanyl and heroin, mostly) and Trump says he’ll solve this crisis with an advertising campaign. What an idiot.
He hasn’t successfully coordinated anything at all yet. He is demonstrably incapable of overseeing any sort of organizational action. Examples abound: Puerto Rico supply distribution, repeal of health care for vulnerable populations, tax changes, and even simple screening and release of documents with a 25-year advance notice! Those problems were not remotely as complex as opiate abuse. I’m waiting for him to announce to all of us that nobody knew what a difficult problem it was.
It’s the opioid crisis that brought this about and it doesn’t target young people. People take opiates because their lives suck. It shouldn’t escape us that areas Trump ran his campaign shtick the most are some of the hardest hit by the opiod crisis. I can’t believe that was not deliberate. People in West Virginia live shitty lives. Go there. Take a look for yourself. If you’re happy with just a bag of pepperoni rolls and a 10 point buck on your fender life can be good for you in WV. If happiness for you is the night shit in a coal mine and 3 drinks in a bar at 7 AM West Virginia is the place for you. Like I said: go there and take a look. The mood is dark there. The people are morose and feel done at age 40. Oxy makes that all go away. Trump took Oxy’s lead and promised to make it all go away. They voted for him in droves and he’s done nothing. So they stick with Oxy and all Trump’s got for them is “just say no” to a powerfully additive substance the donor class get rich off.
People take opioids to numb the pain of a shitty life. Their life sucks because Trump and his ilk started sucking the goody out of it back in the 70’s and haven’t let up since. If Trump can pull this off and those fucking hill billiys don’t catch on it’s time to write America’s epitaph. If this president can survive 4 years and all it takes is FOX to keep him alive the USA is dead.
We Amuricans are very intelligent. We Amuricans elected a really, really great great manly man to be our preznit.