We might already have a winner for the dumbest remark from a left-wing politician in the year of our Lord, 2025.
During a live broadcast of a government meeting, Gustavo Petro, the left-wing president of the narco-state Colombia, compared cocaine to whiskey and said the latter is “no worse than” the former. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
“Cocaine is illegal because it is made in Latin America, not because it is worse than whiskey,” Petro said, according to CBS News. “Scientists have analyzed this. Cocaine is no worse than whiskey.”
“If you want peace, you have to dismantle the business (of drug trafficking),” he went on to say. “It could easily be dismantled if they legalize cocaine in the world. It would be sold like wine.”
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro speaks during the eighth commemoration of the signing of the…
