Once again giving context to the immediate reaction from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum following the operation to exfiltrate Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, during the return flight to Washington DC President Trump spoke about how President Sheinbaum is “a little afraid” of the cartels in Mexico.
When asked about his previous offer to have the U.S. military intervene in the drug and human trafficking operations within Mexico, President Trump said, “I would say every single time I’ve talked to her I’ve offered to send troops.” Following up with, “she’s concerned, she’s a little afraid, the cartels are running Mexico. Whether you like it or not, the cartels are running Mexico.” WATCH:
This is not just an ordinary off-the-cuff statement when you consider the ramifications. There is no closer geographic nation to the mainland United States other than Mexico, and President Trump is being brutally honest in his statement that Mexican President Sheinbaum is afraid of the cartels. The cartels run the Mexican government.
Mexican residents living in the United States and sending money back to Mexico are a major economic driver of Mexico’s GDP. Currently the best estimate of GDP is that personal remittances make up around 4% of their domestic economy. The United States sent $62.5 billion dollars in remittances to Mexico in 2024, 96.6% of the total received by the country. 47% of remittances from the United States to Mexico are sent from California and Texas [source].
The remittances essentially subsidize the average Mexican family, while the illegal cartel income is estimated around $12 billion annually [source]. The total Mexican GDP is around $1.7 trillion [source], Canada is roughly $2.4 trillion, the United States is around $30 trillion.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT: Mexico condemns military intervention in Venezuela – The Government of Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally in recent hours by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the Charter of the United Nations (UN).
Based on its foreign policy principles and its pacifist vocation, Mexico makes an urgent call to respect international law, as well as the principles and purposes of the UN Charter, and to cease any act of aggression against the Venezuelan government and people.
Latin America and the Caribbean is a zone of peace, built on the basis of mutual respect, the peaceful settlement of disputes and the prohibition of the use and threat of force, so that any military action puts regional stability at serious risk.
Mexico emphatically reiterates that dialogue and negotiation are the only legitimate and effective ways to resolve existing differences and therefore reaffirms its readiness to support any effort to facilitate dialogue, mediation or accompaniment that would help to preserve regional peace and avoid confrontation.
It also urges the United Nations to act immediately to contribute to the de-escalation of tensions, facilitate dialogue and create conditions that allow for a peaceful, sustainable solution in accordance with international law. (link)
“I would say every single time I’ve talked to [President Sheinbaum] I’ve offered to send troops. She’s concerned, she’s a little afraid. The cartels are running Mexico. Whether you like it or not, the cartels are running Mexico.” ~Donald J Trump
PROMISE #10: “Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders.” ~ Donald J Trump
The cartels are also running much of California, so there’s that.
I’m sure if there is some hesitancy, it is because so many Americans are living in Mexico because it’s cheaper.
Americans in Mexico are very specifically protected, especially expat communities.
Just sayin’.
No American should be living in Mexico
Send note to Romney.
and ms.linda….
I came here when Obummer got elected and for the most part have enjoyed the last 12 years here, it’s like the wild west and i like that. However things have been changing in the atmosphere here and there is no doubt in my mind that when the US starts hitting cartel targets in Mexico I will have to leave for the US to avoid the fallout that WILL come down on ex-pats here.
Hostage taking and public executions are part of the cartel’s toolkit of terror. I hope and pray you are out of there before it starts. Those killers are merciless.
My thinking is that this President and his cabinet have generated strategic, focused plans to eradicate them. What we are observing currently isn’t some political animal’s half hearted attempt to look strong and make people feel good.
Watch the Congress. The ones that benefit from narco dollars will try to blunt every move the President seeks to execute. It’s not about ideology; it’s about the Benjamins, always is.
President Trumps whole first year has been “ Strategic Focused Plans “
I love it .
Somewhere, probably in Presidents Trumps mind , is a flow chart of strategic focused plans for his entire 4 year term . Which was probably formulated in the previous 4 years after the stolen election .
The amazing thing is we have been in awe of his plans for the USA .
In reality he has a plan for the entire world .
What an amazing time to be alive !
Everyone thinks that great Empire of the United States is coming to an end .
I think this is the beginning of the greatest empire the world has ever seen .
It’s not an empire.
It’s a New World of Freedom.
Empires do not like Freedom.
Don’t be picky – our empire will inspire others.
Call it a litmus test.
Bad asses will complain about a brilliant strategic move.
When you are getting beat up, you usually cry.
The left is crying.
The losers in Congress don’t give a flip about America – all they care about is money and power.
Pard, I’d start packing the car.
And here I thought I was the Only One that called people *Pard*, Spikedaddy 😊
It all goes back to Bogart’s Doggo , *Zero*, his pet in real life , who played *Pard* in the movie High Sierra .
Lifelong SuperFan of Humphrey , so much so my Ma would let me miss school if one of his movies came on during the day ! My grades were pretty good is the Only Way I see that happening then 😜
Wierd comment. Why not?
Wife and I have a charity event we do on Isla Mujeres every January. It’s a fantastic little island, extremely safe, with great people and a world class beach on the North end.
We have met many Americans that live there full or part time. It’s cheap, the weather in the winter is warm, it’s great for older people like me who have arthritis that especially bugs me in winter here in Michigan.
We don’t live there, just visit, wife won’t let us move away from the grandkids.
But, it’s a great alternative if you have a somewhat limited budget, money goes a lot further than here. I know many people renting places for 700-1000 a month long term in the winter months that are very comfortable. And transportation and food are cheap, especially away from the main tourist areas.
Long story short, it’s a wonderful safe place to spend winters on the cheap.
As several friends and relatives have found out the “hard way,” if you do not have private property rights guaranteed, you have nothing to protect what you have there, including your life, not even on a temporary “visit” basis. Don’t fool yourself. I have seen it taken, and you have no where to turn.
Frankly not much different here, if you think about it. That said, I would never choose to own down there, the amount of maintenance annd upkeep are incredible with the humidity. TV’s last maybe two years, even curtain rods rust. Appliances, you name it. All short term before needing replaced.
The islands off of Cancun?
Yes
That you STILL live in Michigan kind of tells your story.
Inexpensive. Not cheap. De nada!
The Caves of the Sleeping Sharks, near Isla Mujeres. Went scuba-diving there back in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Great little island, away from busier Cozumel.
No Mexican should be living in the USA. Just sayin.
Yes, I agree.
No sane human being should be living in Mexico.
Many expats in the more southern countries, I guess they are safer.
I am in Mexico for freedom not safety.🖖🏻
And NO snow…😆
And beautiful God loving people.
It’s the only way they can survive and meet their legal obligations on their US wages and yes that includes government workers having to live across the line. No American should HAVE to live in Mexico.
Who’s protecting those tax-avoiding expats? As an American I feel no loyalty whatsoever to protecting them, and certainly don’t want a dime of taxpayer money to be spent on their protection, so let the chips fall where they may.
President Trump should block all individual remittances being destined to Mexico or other countries south of the U.S. border. Wait until they start squealing then require all those attempting to make those remittances to appear in person in court upon where they are seized and deported. Word will soon spread and the illegals will try to pay cash to agents who illegally cross the border frequently. Discover and seize those agents then block them from being able to ever return to this country.
Agree. And the Americans living in Mexico should become Mexican Citizens and give up their American citizenship.
What if they like living in a country where they know who and what the cartels are running the country?
Huh? We have to assume they like living in that country where the cartels are, else they wouldn’t be living there. My point is only that we don’t provide them any protection from the US perspective. They wanna live in a cartel-controlled country then they give up their US citizenship.
I suppose I should have said it was sarcasm. /s
Do we not live in a cartel run country now? We just call it Deep State and they lurk in the background and get whacked out people to do their wet work. ~ not /s
Or at the very least U.S. protection.
The cartels are here in the US as well.
I have been here for over a decade and have refused repeatedly to take duel citizenship for better work opportunity just because I am an American and will never be anything else but an American.
😊 Well said.
You and GB need to put down your crack pipes. It’s making you both bat shit crazy.
Sorry cat with the MAGA hat. I find it hard to suffer these folks, even if they are real.
Mexico doesn’t hand out citizenship to foreigners for the most part. And when they do it generally doesn’t include private property rights and certainly not voting privileges. Mexico has a history of offering private property rights at times only to revoke them at a later date.
Isn’t that interesting?
MEXICO Doesn’t hand out citizenship to foreigners.
Then the US should:
Be Like Mexico!!!
Why do you care if Americans avoid taxes (perfectly legally) BY NOT LIVING IN AMERICA?
You may not know it but America is one of only two countries (along with Eritrea) that taxes its citizens WHEREVER THEY LIVE. They are required to file returns regardless of where they live. One distinct disadvantage of being an American citizen.
You may know this because you used the term tax avoidance (legal) rather than tax evasion (illegal).
Part two of your post I endorse.
Again, I advocate not spending any money on expats’ protection when they’re living outside of our borders. Most everything else is secondary as far as I’m concerned.
How expats “citizenship” affects that is only of concern (to me) if it requires the U.S. provide some sort of protection at cost to domestic taxpayers.
IMHO, if you choose to live outside of the United States that’s your choice and you’re free to make it. But the country’s responsibility to you should stop at the border.
If the US still taxes citizens living outside, it’s borders that’s a whole other issue. I’m sure there are valid reasons for that, and also there are ways to stop it.
As an American you are required to pay taxes on your income no matter where in the world you live.
So here in Mexico I would be taxed twice if I wasn’t off the grid.
When you decide to travel outside the US someday, I hope you never have the need to call the US Embassy for assistance.
Simple way to stop paying taxes is to relinquish citizenship or qualify for foreign earned income exclusions. But if the country is not good enough to live within (it has every imaginable kind of geography and climate) then why bother with citizenship and the associated taxes….unless one plans to return to live here later.
I have no intentions of traveling outside of the country for the remainder of my life. Been there, done that; got the tee shirt.
I am a proud American, I gave the best three years of my life to my Uncle Sam (17-20) I am a combat veteran and will never relinquish my citizenship.
Taxation is theft pure and simple, America was born because of a tax on tea.
Thank you for your service, and I don’t disagree with your view of taxes. 😎
Thank you for your support.🖖🏻
For me, the law follows the flag. It’s your right as an American, regardless of where you happen to be. We’ve gone to war with Mexico over the rights of Americans in the past, and can do so again in the future.
tariffs paid for everything useful and necessary…. until Woodrow Wilson and his Bolsheviks pulled off the Federal Reserve AND income tax.
Trump’s idea will resonate with anyone who actually works.
Grifters and fraudsters, thief s, Somalians, Welfare bums will not like his ideas.
MN is a possible win for Conservatives in 2026!
do you still live with your mother???
Both US and Mexico have the concept of “tax resident” who is taxed on their world-wide income. US law has a “savings” clause that requires US citizens to file a return based on world-wide income, regardless if Mexico considers the person a “tax resident”. US citizen needs to claim foreign tax credit on form 1116 to avoid double taxation.
The is absolutely no doubt about worldwide taxation, you have to file a return no matter where you live. The issue of double taxation is dealt with by one of two methods:
1) Foreign tax Credit – which allows you to “pay” your US taxes with the tax credits you obtain by paying tax in your country of residence https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/foreign-tax-credit and
2) Foreign Earned Income Exclusion, where you may exclude up to $126.000 of foreign income from US taxes, if you a single filer: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/figuring-the-foreign-earned-income-exclusion
In addition you need to declare alle your foreign bank and financial accounts to the US Treasury’s office of Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on pain of monetary penalties which can be substantial. https://www.irs.gov/businesses/comparison-of-form-8938-and-fbar-requirements
So leaving the US as an expat to avoid taxes is a non-starter of a strategy I’m afraid.
Same scenario resulting in PT’s comment of making Canada 51st state. PT has a mess on his hands. I’m closely watching CA. He’s posting a lot on TS re: Newscum since the extraction. Maybe, how goes CA re: feds might be prelude to Mex action. It’s a mess.
Since PDT is showing the willingness to go after the drug trade at its source, he should be warning that eunuch Carney in Canada that if he doesn’t shut down those Canadian Fentanyl labs, the US will. Fentanyl ODs in most northern US cities are still at an all time high.
I think the Treasury Scott Bennet was creating a way to block some of the money. We’re invaded by Mexicans that get unemployment and all kinds of benefits in the US. So our country have been funding the fraud against Americans. Thank the House and Senate
And to clarify BFAW’s post about ex-pats being protected, I believe she means that the cartels do not allow the criminal elements here to excessively rob or disturb the ex-pats communities because they want them to spend their money locally. Sh*t happens but not like the Mexican Nationals have to deal with.🖖🏻
How many tax paying US citizens have to live in Mexico and come back to US everyday to work? I know some.
The cartel is running the entire U.S. border.
True up until 1/20/2025. Not so true now. Thank you President Trump. And thank you all who voted for President Trump.
And Arizona. And New Mexico. And the Rio Grande Valley communities in South Texas. Lots and lots of reports of voter intimidation, harvesting, fraud, murders in those other border states. What happens in Mexico does not stay in Mexico.
How about we take out the Mexican cartels working here inside the country first, then take out their headquarters in Mexico?
The cartels run Mexico, and the Mexican politicians in Mexico City own and operate the cartels….
And they own Arizona.
Is it even possible to take out all the cartels?
I have American friends on the coast who had their property confiscated by the Mex govt.
They’re alive and well in my state of Arizona.
A work acquaintance drives trucks, he’s Mexican and sharp. Not bilingual. He worked his normal job (60 hours), and then had a side trucking business.
He was driving a large truckload of marijuana and was busted. The FBI asked him to name names, out the cartel. He refused.
He was deported, made it back in 4-6 weeks. Lost his primary job, picked up another.
Been watching this since 1980. One time a reporter grabbed my husband and wanted to hear his tale of woe as a Mexican in Arizona. He laughed and said “What are you talking about? Look around. Mexicans have ALL the jobs!” I just always wondered what happened to the people that used to live in those neighborhoods that are all Mexican now? Where did they go?
So I take it from your commentary that you’ve been a good little enabler and kept your mouth shut, eh?
The cartels have eyes everywhere. Sometimes you need someone at the top to pave the way like our current president is trying to do. Just like Mark Kelly claiming that his new border entry is going to stop illegal drug entry and none of the media repeated what he said while locals suddenly started coughing and spraying their coffee. We need to know exactly how this new border port of entry is going to stop inbound. With the cartels if a young adult crosses them they cut off the head of the family even if they had nothing to do with it and didn’t even know about it. Don’t ask me how I know. Choose life such as it is and wait for the right opportunity.
And Arizona. And likely in many other mostly blue states. Texas is not immune. Easy money to just look the other way.
And Arizona too.
Kelly is scared.
Andy Biggs as Govenor could make some huge effective changes.
Kari Lake was robbed.
Everyone knows it.
The first
politicianer President to say the quiet part aloud.Trump does not do pretend.. for that I am thankful.
He pretends a little bit.
He has to in order to function in Washington DC.
“It also urges the United Nations to act immediately to contribute to the de-escalation of tensions, facilitate dialogue and create conditions that allow for a peaceful, sustainable solution in accordance with international law.”
A peaceful, sustainable solution in accordance with international law?????
Drug cartels are protected by international law?
Really??
Exactly.
How much did the NAFTA treason make it easier for the IC-Cartels to operate?
Cartels means CIA.
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Dennis Hopper played Barry Seal in the 1991 movie DOUBLECROSSED.
I never thought about it before, but Perot’s giant sucking sound was North of the border too.
They sucked away jobs as we sucked up drugs.
If
anyone wants to be reminded as to the sheer power of Donald J. Trump you just need to look to Ross Perot as an example.
Ross Perot was a brave, honest ,self made billionaire who risked his wealth and personal well being to warn us what was coming and ran for president to help save this country.
Even though he was a man of great accomplishment the deep state ground him up and taught him a lesson to never try that again.
It was child’s play back then compared to what and who is against Trump these days to say the least.
I really can’t comprehend how Brilliant and strong Trump is while I watch things unfold.
Remember he is almost 80 years old.
Where does he get the energy.
Quarter pounders. All day long.
God loves him.
Touched by the hand of God . How else can you explain it ?
A strong work ethic and NO alcohol.
Outsmarting? When? Can you name an instance?
Diet coke! And a need to succeed after almost being killed. Twice.
Gracias Dios 47 was not!
I wonder how long and how much, DJT analyzed Perot’s campaigns for President. After all, Perot was a successful businessman, who was a patriot.
However,
In my humble opinion,
Perot did not have the extraordinary skillset that DJT has, when it comes to connecting with people and maintaining focus.
DJT suffered numerous reversals in business, and learned how to survive.
When Perot ran, not enough people believed the ‘deep state’ even existed – so his comments were treated (or made to appear) as those of a near-lunatic.
We are fortunate to have Our President.
Also remember, DJT did seek the Reform Party nomination in 2000.
Sucked family owned businesses away for the bigs that produce inferior products.
When President Trump speaks truth I’m afraid for him more than Sheinbaum of Mexico.
The cartels don’t like publicity.
Nor do our banksters.
During “45”…for emphasis…I remember the news about “45” showing some one in the ME, a photograph of their home…
i think it was the leader of the Taliban during 45’s tenure?
top Taliban policy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar – probably
https://thehill.com/homenews/4874162-trump-taliban-threat-abdul/
EPIC !!!
and the deep state is running the United States. Which do we care the most about?
The deep state has no borders. Gotta go where they are. Cartels are important to the deep state.
Can you point to the DS compound, command, and control hierarchy? I you can then sure, let’s start there.
Sheinbaum calling on ‘international law’ and the UN. Is drug dealing permitted under ‘international law’???
It is in her mind, that is, as long as they keep paying her to push for their protection under the heading of “international law”. The best thing that could happen to Mexico would be for Trump to repeat the act he just did. Exterminate the cartels and let them know that if needed, it can be done again.
It seems more likely that the cartels will become more mainstream. They are inextricably linked to all layers of the social stratum therein. One solution might be one or two will be deemed our ‘partners’ as long as they terminate their human/drug/tech international trafficking and President Trump will provide cover as Mexico hearkens unto the twenty-first century. As bad as the invasion has been in this country, the reverberations of the migration hit Mexico worse. And our northern neighbors are going to be tougher to deal with as the nefarious marxist stench is more difficult to diffuse. But our first order of the day (after giving thanks to the Lord), is that we must clean up the voter rolls, institute one-day voting, ban mail-in voting, monitoring the counting of the votes… .
In bizarro international law,
Drug dealing is ‘the worldwide trade for pharmaceuticals’.
How much of those remittances are the wages of slaves sent to the Cartels?
How much of all the money sent to bring invaders in, got paid to cartels to smuggle people in?
How much stronger did cartels get because we kept our borders open?
How much do cartels benefit from Democrat pro criminal policies?
Reconquista.
….and the most important question which you omitted: How many politicians, democrats or republican are on the payroll of the cartels? The answer to that one will change the whole game!
The Seditious Six benefitted greatly from smurfing, also. Act Blue is full of illegal money laundered.
USAID/NGO type funneling. They knew the entire time that they were enriching the cartels with human trafficking. They knew that it allowed the US to be flooded with drugs and criminals. They also knew the Chinese/Iran/Cuba networks were benefitting. There is know way they didn’t know those 3 things!
Sounds like they where helping them. Because how could you know all that, and not doing anything other than facilitate it?
The Democrats knew the Blue Cities were hell holes of drugs, crime, and child and women trafficking. They let the criminals right back out on the street with No Bail. The Democrats kept the Cartel Criminal Enterprise functioning. Do you think the Democrats did that for free?
These two whistleblower ladies tried to expose how the criminals compromised law enforcement (including judges) by targeting their children. They both got suicided.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Sydney_Land_and_Nehemiah_Kauffman
Multiply that across the nation relentlessly.
To start things off and get a handle on all the players, we need the pay off list and names of every US politician and government employee. Trump has broken the international cartel’s crystal ball; it’s now way past time to go all the way. I wonder what the odds are that Clinton, Pelosi, Obama and many many others have been enriched by deadly drug money? Thune, Cornyn … ?
Everyone a leach on civilized society.
Arizona.
Just above someone posted a link to a podcast about Barry Seal. add to your list the Bushes. HW and Clinton stood on the runway a Mena as drugs were brought in. Do people think the Mena AR connection is a “myth” — it is not.
Start by doing a DOGE Audit of UNIDOS-US.
LaRaza, to gain legitimacy-morphed in that organization.🤬
UnidosUS – Latino civil rights and advocacy
Then start with the other organizations…then corrupt government
officials – local,State and Federal- who are affiliated or took donations.
And don’t forget the Judges and propaganda mouthpieces like Navarro.
As I have said many times….El Chapo bragged about the number of
Politicians and officials he had on his payroll.
He may be in prison but his cartel is still running.
💥 💥 💥 💥
I would also highly concentrate on Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa who is
known for his “Miami” connections, family involvement in drugs.😉
It’s from his family the term— Banana Republic- really became known!
They were smuggling drugs in…Bananas 🍌.
Miami does seem to be one giant corrupt cesspool.🤷♀️🤢
Trump: “We did. You know what? You know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime. You know that? But we pulled it out. We had a Supreme Court decision. We can go back. We’re allowed to go back in, but we’ll go back in when the crime starts. Look, the crime will soon start because they now know that we’re out, and at the appropriate time, we’ll go back in, and we may, if we you know, we’re allowed to, the most powerful thing we have, we haven’t used, the Insurrection Act.
Reporter: You’re considering using the Insurrection Act? Where?
Trump: “We always did. I’ve always considered it, but we haven’t needed it anywhere. 48% of the presidents of this country have used it. Bush used it, I think, 22 times or something. You know that, right? I mean Bush the elder.”
Hmm…Insurrection Act?
To correct what is going on in many of these corrupt blue hives this is what it will take, maybe a National Emergency get to Non-Article III Courts and deliver justice to these crooks including corrupt players in the Judicial/DoJ.
MAGA!
America First means cleaning out the criminal enterprises operating inside and outside of America. IMHO These drugs are a bioweapon to weaken our youth and destroy the American way of life. This always reminds me of “If I were the Devil”. We lost site of God, removed Him and the devil moved right in. God Bless President Trump for saying the obvious.
If it was really about the drugs, why aren’t we attacking China?
Remember COVID?
Joan, DARPA GAVE them COVID to weaponize against us.
The Chinese operation is economic. Try to keep up.
Drugs and oil are the cover story. Venezuela had China running its ports for drug running, Russia amassing missiles on its shores that could reach the US and Iran manufacturing drones inside the country. Plus, the country has the only non-Chinese supply of a mineral required for missile production. This action is to maintain the ability of the US to protect itself from missiles of other countries ensuring US ability to manufacture weapon systems.
It’s all tied together
Yup….
Just not the way most people think ….or are being led to believe 🤷♀️
🐑🐑🐑🐑🤷♀️
Interview this morning with Glenn Diesen
Jiang Xueqin: Predictions for 2026 – Empire, Rivalry & Collapse – YouTube
♟️♟️The Grand Chessboard ♟️♟️ 🌎🌎 World Edition.
Nuclear weapons maybe…🤔
👏 👏 👊 👊 👍 👍
💥 💥 Boom💥💥
♟️♟️Grand Chessboard ♟️♟️
Next is….
♟️♟️The Great Bargain ♟️♟️
🎞️ 🎬 🎬 📽️ 🎬 🎬 Coming this April? 🎬 🎬 🎬 🎞️ 🎞️ 📽️
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Girdle your loins everyone!
This War business- —has just begun!
He has been pretty much on the money so far!
I make it a personal policy never to become a Democrat-Marxist…
staying inside a echo chamber bubble. 🤪
I travel outside the box 🪤 quite frequently. It’s healthy.😁
Fascinating conversation….listen all the way through.😉
Then sit back and watch the ♟️♟️moves.
Predictive History has some very interesting YouTube videos.
Glenn Diesen
Jiang Xueqin: Predictions for 2026 – Empire, Rivalry & Collapse – YouTube
PS…..
Glenn Diesen also did interview with Colonel MacGregor today too!
interesting….
Might want to check that one out too!
1965 and it is still the same today…
Here ya go:
Wow ! I recall listening to Paul Harvey’s minute during the Bob Grant show at lunch during the early 90’s
If you clean up outside the country and stop the money, enemies inside the country will fall like dominoes..
Sun Tzu
Whilst it is an act of God what President Trump is trying to accomplish, has anyone with far more knowledge than I, considered the consequences of millions of addicts being deprived of their daily dose?
Would ‘they’ cause problems?
Addicts will kill.
thanks for making me think already this morning.🤣
i don’t think you’re suggesting the general population acquiesce to the threat of
a bunch of violent addicts running rampant through the thoroughfares
because their street drugs are no longer available, right?
i would posit any violence would first be directed to their “neighborhood”,
i.e. homeless persons, other addicts, ladies-for-rent, etc., but that’s not ok either.
however, with the proliferation of methadone clinics and the like,
i would think there would be options to get an immediate fix,
followed by pharmaceutical therapy.
addict driven crime happens now, and it should be addressed now –
increased policing, stiffer criminal penalties, mandatory rehab, that kind of thing.
(hey, it took Robert Downey, Jr. a couple of tries and a stint doing hard time
before he got clean.
we don’t want any accusations of “white privilege” regarding rehab, do we?)
it’s dangerous out there period.
an islamist with a machete or an addict with a switchblade –
it’s ALL got to be addressed.
It will be a little touch and go until they go into withdrawals. Then it’s just harmless zombies .
( without the apocalypse )
grim, but i’ll take your word for it.🥴
it’s the idea of being held hostage to any group of people who have made very bad,
destructive, and dangerous (to themselves and others) decisions about
how they live their lives that pushes my buttons.
had about enough of being threatened.
thanks for the reassurance (?) tho, Jeff…i think.😂
have a great evening!
Thinnest veneer of pretending in existence is a free Mexico.
We have our own U.S. cartel known as the Democrat Party.
More powerful than any other cartel. They have over half of the weight of the US govt, plus the media, plus 98% of all govt and higher learning centers.
But that beast needs to be fed a lot, and daily. It is deathly afraid of sunlight.
Coming attraction???
Make it a territory only – no voting rights.
Miss Lindsey looks and acts like the leechy scum he is in this. His reptilian smile is so inappropriate. Lived protected in the bubble so long he has no clue how he appears. Thrown them all out
wander will ms.lindsey ..tip toe from this…
It is all getting very old quickly. I voted for getting rid of the likes of Lindsay Graham.
He hates America and the great Patriots of this country.
He and those like him are leech scum at best, why does the President feel so beholden to them, they hate him and work against him.
Also tired of he keeps his enemies close, how about get rid of your enemies before they get rid of you and us!
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His been looking for a strong father figure all his life so Trump is what he needs.
I’m Jeff
As I watched Graham, he reminded me of the Gollum in Lord of the Rings. And it fits with the Eye of Sauron. Graham was slinking back and forth and smiling like he found the Ring.
It’s amazing how many of Trump’s platform promises have been kept in less than a year, yet the media and so-called Trump supporters like Tucker Carlson find only fault. Mockingbird psyops is never-ending.
We unfortunately have our own cartels running the USA Mr. President. I think you should have realized that last year when they nearly killed you.
What about going after the corporate heads of Western Union and other such services if it is found they are helping get drug money into Mexico. In my my mind there is no way the cartels are not sending money into Mexico that way broken down into smaller amounts of course.
Drug cartels laundering money in Canada YUGE operations in the Cities of Vancouver,Toronto and Montreal .
2. It paid for education and universal ‘free’ health care.
8. Over the ensuing ten years, cutting was diminished and heavy regulation covered the rest. By 2002, written regulations piled on top of each other stood seven feet high, taller than a man.
9. Forested communities died.
10. 100,000 families lost their livelihood.
11. Resource jobs have huge multipliers, not only forested towns died, so did regional metropolitan centers. Greens, replete with success, hit other resource industries – mining, ranching – which died. More families bankrupted.
12. They were told to go into tourism.
13. Which pays minimum wage and can only support a family if everyone, even the children, work. And, it’s seasonal.
Fear not!
Proverbs 10
Yes, Lord!
Latin America and the Caribbean is a zone of peace”
In the movie Mars Attacks! the aliens run around murdering humans while carrying speakers broadcasting “We come in peace! We come in peace!” The aliens, of course, find this hilarious, because the humans believe them.
You can bet that the US military is mapping out the cartel controlled areas across Mexico down to the square centimeter.
It’s not a matter of if the US will conduct counter cartel operations, but when we’ll be told it has been going on for months.
Shipping drugs into this country is an act of war.
Who was it that said the Mexican elections were flawless again?
Come on…you were soooo conclusive last time we met….
You were jumping up and down about how clean Mexico’s elections are….
Wanna play?
NO MERCY!
Pictured here: Sen. Ruben “Escobar” Gallego, Sen. Mark “Cali” Kelly and Gov. Cartel Katie Hobbs dutifully parrot their Cartel Owners’ talking points
Rest in the Vine: Venezuela Today, Arizona Tomorrow!
Thanks for omitting Lindsey’s re-election posturing.
I haven’t seen Miss Lindsey that giddy in a long time. Just sayin’.
I’m actually surprised that the cartel income is 12 billion. Less than 1% of their GDP? That can’t be right, can it?
The United States should be taxing the heck out of the remittance sent back to Mexico.
Mexicans in America have their allegiance to Mexico not the United States. Tough to say but true.
They fly their flags in California – no shame whatsoever.
The cartels will ‘run Mexico’ until the US drug war is called off and the cartels main source of revenue undercut.
US drug demand will be met by one of two ways: 1) cartels and black market, 2) govt overseen and regulated system.
That’s it. There is no option 3. Making a drug or substance ‘illegal’ does not eliminate its demand or make it disappear. As we have learned with 50 years of experience and stupidity, the demand will be met in the black market. Like it or not.
We can carpet bomb Latin America and depose leaders and invade nations until we are blue in the face, and we have been doing it for 50 expensive years. But it does not change these stubborn realities about drug demands, supplies, and voluntary market transactions.
Risks of recreational drugs, further, are vastly overblown and exaggerated. I am not advocating for anything. But even risky potent street fentanyl kills ~65,000/yr — while alcohol kills ~175,000. We recognized all the realities of demand for recreational drugs (which alcohol is, and a powerful one at that) 92 years and ended Prohibition.
The sooner we end the ‘drug war,’ the sooner we stop wasting billions/trilions, stop invading Latin Am, stop treating LatAm nations like criminals, get illicit fentanyl off the streets, and more.
People will still die from drug overdoses, just as they still die from alcohol. But the numbers will go down and we can live without the dea police state trying dictating personal choices, which is foundational to our liberties and Constitutional rights.
Some people that care for themselves, and others,
do not desire or like the added risk of being in the public with other people in the public (incl. driving or grocery shopping) that are under some untold influence (chemical).
p.s.
Whereas there is no perfect safety,
some would prefer reasonable public (and private) safety
so that productive, personal choice, functions may reasonably occur to help others to do the same.
imho
But alcohol kills far more people than marijuana or cocaine or even street fentanyl.
We regulate alcohol–you can’t drink it on the sidewalk and there are public intoxication laws and laws vs drunk driving.
We can do all these things with all drugs.
Alcohol is one of the most powerful of all ‘recreational drugs’ and we have learned to live with it.
You are repeating the same bogus arguments used by state after state to legalize marijuana – “it will reduce crime,” “it will dry up the black markets,” “it will raise tax revenue,” “it will save money and lives.”
Instead, after legalization marijuana use exploded, crime is higher than before, the cartel black markets are bigger than before, it is costing taxpayers far more because of more traffic accidents/deaths, more users and addicts, diminished quality of life.
Alcohol kills more people than street-drugs because alcohol is so much more available and socially acceptable.
If we make street-drugs more available and socially acceptable they will kill a lot more people.
None of your hysterical claims are based in reality. Marijuana use ‘exploded’? Where? How are you measuring that? Crime increased? Where? How is that measured and connected to marijuana use? More traffic accidents? Again, where how is this being measured? Diminished quality of life? Where?
Nonsense and hysteria.
If ‘street drugs’ are made legal, the cartels are going out of the drug business and illicit fentanyl will dry up. Cocaine can be purchased at CVS and it won’t be cut with cheap high-potency fentanyl, and death rates will drop. Pain patients can buy opioid medicines OTC and won’t be forced to the street and to the cartels and illicit fentanyl. And we’ll save $200B / year when the dea is thankfully shut down.
You are making the old discredited hysterical arguments from Prohibition (if we legalize alcohol we’ll have drunks in the streets and more people will drink and it will all get worse).
Mexico is run by cartels then we need to stop doing business with the cartels. Simple. Things will change fast.
The cartels (mexican and others) are running many of our big blue cities and several states. When you generate hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal revenue, you have to do something with it. They invest in many american businesses and also invest heavily in american politics and media. They also undoubtedly have a role in vote fraud, likely a big role.
The cartels are also the funding force behind much of this anti-ICE activity, including the threats of violence and drive-by shootings. These aren’t enraged hispanics doing this. These are bought and paid for cartel foot-soldiers.
If Trump wants to have a completely honest conversation about drug cartels, he has to include the US cities they run and the states. It doesn’t just stop at the mexican border. He knows that and so do his AG and FBI director.
In 1990 citizen Trump called the war on drugs a ‘joke,’ said that we were losing badly, and that it was time to end it and cut off the cartels main source of funding.
What would happen if Sheinbaum just resigned? Would the cartels make her stay? How did she even get elected in the first place? She had to know what she was getting into.
You answered your own question.
Re: economics, cartels, illegalities, terror
Regarding what the President said,
has anyone had any doubt what has been going on ( cartel influencers), in Mexico, for years???
[ and no, Mexico leader(s) would not publicly say so, so as to cater to other leaders ]
p.s.
has anyone had any doubt what has been going on ( 4th branch, corrupt miss influencers, electioneering ), in USA, for years???
p.s.
A good foreign policy within the laws (as some have seen in 2025)
helps
to achieve greater U.S. domestic policies and subsequently improves the affordability within the U.S.
Does anyone recognize the dynamics?
p.s.
affordability:
Because of foreign AND domestic policies,
an area in the u.s. ( Denver suburb )that often saw $ 3.80 to $4.60 per gallon gasoline 1 to 3 years ago
is now seeing, as of last weekend $ 1.90.
And that can have a positive ripple affect into lower prices over time
(not the high inflation bran don years, resulting in current high prices of many consumer needed products).
p.s.
watch out…the com-dems may become even more desperate to find a way to fool voters (again) and / or
electioneer their way
and / or miss create chaos so as to mal practice the ‘do not let chaos go to waste’
to gain miss control (again, and perhaps in a different, tricky, way with its complicit media).
imho
Love thy neighbors
The cartels have infiltrated all levels of government and politicians. The insider trading and lobbyists are also a huge issue.
FELIZ AÑO NUEVO, Nicolás and Cilia … (GREAT pic, BTW, Sundance)
And “ONLY 32 Cubans ” (who have been the worldwide “bad boys” and interrigators, and ‘security personnel’ ever since ’59 …i.e. everywhere in the Western Hemisphere, N. Vietnam, Africa, Iran, and many more than I care to list herein … ) … personally, I would have preferred MORE Cubans in the final tally, but FWIW, I’ll take what we can get …
Important article by Roger Simon on Substack. https://americanrefugees.substack.com/p/what-maduro-know
Why is Ms Lindsey on the same flight? Is s/he rooting for more wars then rather than just extradition of Maduro?
I really dislike lindsey
All you randy Rand Paul worshippers….best to pay attention …. he is NOT your huckleberry…..
Watch the Congress. The ones that benefit from narco dollars will try to blunt every move the President seeks to execute. It’s not about ideology; it’s about the Benjamins, always is.
Remittances back to Mexico should not be allowed in our country. It’s just more incentive for them to come here, take our jobs and supply money to their families.