An Important Message

 So, apparently there are no new ideas. 

The Second Trumpreich is not only gearing up for mass deportations, inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's "Operation Wetback" (the actual name given to the 1954 action), but is also hard at work trying to find just the right tone for their ad campaign created to keep Americans from using Fentanyl. The felon-elect spouted this on his social media platform named without irony "Truth," “I will be working on a large-scale United States Advertising Campaign explaining how bad fentanyl is for people to use. Millions of lives being so needlessly destroyed. “By the time the campaign is over, everyone will know how really bad the horror of this drug is.”

If you were alive in the 1980s, and certainly the former game show host was while he was busy suggesting innocent young black men should be executed for crimes they did not commit and being a slumlord's slumlord, you might remember when Nancy Reagan came up with the brilliant "Just Say No" campaign. Yes, boys and girls, everything old is new again, and while it's a pretty sure bet that Melania will be unavailable to give the new version the punch that Nancy did once upon a time, I'll be there are plenty of folks who are staring at that big bag of fentanyl even as you read this and wondering, "Hey. There's a big fat white guy who's addicted to McDonalds who doesn't want me to ruin my life with this stuff." And that will be, as they say, that. 

Of course now might be the time to open up that can of worms in which we find all the reasons for drug abuse. One that tops a lot of lists is mental health concerns. Which might be the target of its own ad campaign, since mental health services have had their budgets cut by millions over the past over the past decade or so. So making a few TV spots that no one will see because no one watches commercial TV anymore sounds like a much better plan than trying to solve the problem at its source. "Feel bad? Don't take drugs. You should try buying something you don't need instead. But not drugs." 

Which might come as a shock to newly ordained Czar of Government Efficiency Elon Musk, who insists that his prescription for Ketamine is to helpful :for getting one out of the negative frame of mind." which might also come as a surprise to TV funnyman Matthew Perry, god rest his soul. And to all those people in Mexico and China who are going to be tariffed into submission by a new administration that doesn't understand who tariffs work. Or drug dependency. Or windmills. Or solar eclipses. Or health care. Or a free and independent press. Or how toasters work. 

Sleep tight, America. 

Don't do drugs.