I've bought a couple things from them since this fiasco, but I'll never forget that they put signs up stating that you HAD TO BRING A PICTURE OF YOUR HORSE TO PROVE YOU OWNED ONE, otherwise you couldn't purchase Ivermectin…which is technically 'over the counter', BTW
Man accused of threatening to kill US presidential candidates found dead while on trial
https://www.the-express.com/news/us-news/141622/man-threatened-to-kill-us-presidential-candidates-found-dead
>In a shocking twist, Tyler Anderson was found dead while a jury was deciding whether or not he was guilty of sending threatening text messages to presidential candidates.
A man on trial for threatening to kill three presidential candidates has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict in New Hampshire. Jury deliberations in the case against Tyler Anderson, 30, began on Tuesday. They were set to continue on Thursday, but prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the case because Anderson was dead.
A court filing said “the government has learned that the defendant is deceased.
According to court documents seen by WMUR, Anderson sent threatening text messages to the campaigns for Republicans Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley and Chris Christie last year. The New Hampshire US Attorney’s Office said in a text sent last November, Anderson allegedly threatened to “impale” and “disembowel” one candidate. In December, the Office said Anderson threatened a second candidate in a series of text messages, including that he would “blow” the head off of the candidate and conduct a “mass shooting.”
Two days later, Anderson allegedly threatened via text message that he would “blow” the “brains out” of a third candidate and “kill everyone” who would attend an upcoming campaign event. Anderson was arrested in December before being released on conditions. A federal judge ordered that he avoid contact with any presidential candidate and their campaigns. He was undergoing mental health treatment and was also ordered to take all of his prescribed medications.
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https://patch.com/new-hampshire/concord-nh/man-who-threatened-gop-presidential-candidates-found-dead-concord
>Tyler Anderson was found dead in a parking garage on Wednesday night after partially deadlocked jury found him guilty on a single count.
>A former UNH staffer
China quietly uses cartel drug trade to upend American harmony at home
China’s ongoing shadow war with the U.S. involves cleaning drug money for Mexican cartels so the gangs can fuel the deadly overdose epidemic and sow discord in American institutions, said an analyst who spoke to The Washington Times.
Beijing’s suspected silent partnership with the Sinaloa Cartel came into focus last week when federal prosecutors said a California-based money laundering scheme had wealthy Chinese nationals exchanging currency to conceal the Mexican criminal organization’s drug profits.
Prosecutors said they had no evidence that the Chinese nationals knew they were cleaning dirty money, but a former federal agent questioned how Beijing could be in the dark about the tens of millions of dollars moved by the operation. China aggressively surveils its citizens at home and abroad.
Beijing tacitly approves of the relationship with the cartels, the official said, because it erodes America from within.
“The Chinese basically are stirring the pot to keep America addicted … keep them divided,” Michael Brown, a former special agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration and now the global director for counternarcotics technology at Rigaku Analytical Devices, told The Times. “It’s part of a larger strategy, I believe, on the part of China, to weaken American ethics, morality and their ability to push back,” he said. Mr. Brown called China’s support for the cartel one of its “nonaggressive attacks” on the U.S.
Spying on military bases, stealing intellectual property and encouraging cyberattacks are pseudo-offensives intended to chip away at U.S. sovereignty, the former agent said. Few of those have been as corrosive to Americans’ peace of mind as the Sinaloa Cartel’s expansive fentanyl trade. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid about 50 times more potent than heroin, is pegged as the main culprit in overdose deaths that spiked in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows drug overdoses soared from about 75,000 per year in the spring of 2020 and stabilized at more than 100,000 per year by the summer of 2021.
The Biden administration’s lax border policies with Mexico have lowered barriers to the drug trade. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said 27,000 pounds of fentanyl were seized during fiscal 2023, more than the previous two fiscal years combined.
The Sinaloa Cartel buys the chemicals it needs to make fentanyl from China, with state-level support for providing the drug’s ingredients to other countries.
A congressional report released this spring accused the Chinese Communist Party of offering tax rebates to companies that manufacture the chemicals as long as the companies sell those chemicals outside China. Federal prosecutors said the Los Angeles-based money laundering ring used some of the more than $50 million in cartel cash it processed to buy those precursor chemicals.
Martin Estrada, the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, told the Los Angeles Times that American brokers would instruct the Chinese nationals to send money to Chinese companies that made clothing, electronics or the chemicals needed to manufacture the powerful opioids. The consumer goods were shipped and sold in Mexico, where Sinaloa representatives collected their now legitimized drug money in pesos. Mr. Estrada said the chemicals shipped to Mexico went right to the cartel, allowing it to make more fentanyl and methamphetamine and strengthen its drug empire on American soil. Prosecutors said the Chinese nationals involved were working around the CCP’s restrictions on foreign investments.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/25/china-quietly-backs-cartel-drug-trade-upend-americ