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Speaker 1: the cartels by missile, That's what seems to have happened
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean after a ship leaving Venezuela, a go
Speaker 1: fast boat with drugs in it was blown up by
Speaker 1: what seems to be a missile strike. And now the
Speaker 1: Trump administration is not only discussing what happened, but saying
Speaker 1: it's the beginning of a whole change in policy. Look,
Speaker 1: I watched it live.
Speaker 2: We knew exactly who was in that boat, We knew
Speaker 2: exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who
Speaker 2: they represented, and that was Trendea Ragway, a narco terrorist
Speaker 2: organization designated by the United States trying to poison our
Speaker 2: country with illicit drugs. Last year under the Biden administration,
Speaker 2: all four years, one hundred thousand Americans died from drug
Speaker 2: related from drugs, from the use of drugs, many of
Speaker 2: which poured in from Central and South America through our
Speaker 2: southwest border.
Speaker 1: Now we're stealing the border.
Speaker 2: But President Trump is willing to go on offense in
Speaker 2: ways that others have not been.
Speaker 1: There are some things to work out here. First of all,
Speaker 1: the narco terrorist designation is something that shouldn't just be words.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't just be something that goes through some bureaucratic
Speaker 1: system to go then be talking points for the Treasury
Speaker 1: Department or the State Department that they're doing something. There
Speaker 1: should be consequences to being labeled the narco trafficker. Now
Speaker 1: I understand arrest seizure of funds, but that hasn't been
Speaker 1: enough to stop the narco trafficking rings that continue to
Speaker 1: bring large amounts of drugs into our country and kill
Speaker 1: a lot of Americans in the process. Remember, it's not
Speaker 1: just the drug overdoses, although that's the number that we
Speaker 1: most understandably focus on talk about the casualties from the
Speaker 1: War on drugs on our side, it's also the societal
Speaker 1: decay and the criminality that builds around these different drug activities.
Speaker 1: So drug gangs in Chicago, for example, when people talk
Speaker 1: about gang activity, what are gangs involved in? Usually drugs,
Speaker 1: maybe selling guns, but selling drugs, drug wars for turf
Speaker 1: and that leads to a lot of the homicides, right,
Speaker 1: because how do they fund themselves, how do they get money,
Speaker 1: and how do they try to get more clout on
Speaker 1: the street. They're selling illegal drugs and this has been
Speaker 1: the case for as long as any of us have
Speaker 1: been alive. So this is what's going on, and the
Speaker 1: Trump administration has said this is not going to continue
Speaker 1: the way that it has been in the past. You know,
Speaker 1: we used to talk about a war on drugs in
Speaker 1: a rhetorical sense under the Reagan administration. But then I
Speaker 1: know that there were dea efforts and paramilitary stuff going on.
Speaker 1: But when you're now just going to blow up designated
Speaker 1: narco traffickers as a military target, which is what just happened,
Speaker 1: this is a dramatic escalation. We've never seen anything quite
Speaker 1: like this before, and I think you're going to see
Speaker 1: a lot more in the military takes on the cartel realm.
Speaker 1: I've been told this for a while by the Trump
Speaker 1: White House. This is going to be happening, that they
Speaker 1: are going to essentially take the counter terrorism apparatus and
Speaker 1: use it as a counter narcotics apparatus. So think of
Speaker 1: it this way. The federal agencies, the technology, the infrastructure,
Speaker 1: the personnel that they have used in the past to
Speaker 1: go after al Qaeda is now going to be used
Speaker 1: to go after the Maduro cartel. Mduro is actually a
Speaker 1: designated head of a drug cartel. It's important remember that
Speaker 1: the head of Venezuela is a designated drug cartel leader,
Speaker 1: and he's making probably billions of dollars off of illegal
Speaker 1: drug sales in the United States and has to distribute
Speaker 1: that among his cronies and others at some level. But
Speaker 1: he's making a lot of money, and he's a very bad,
Speaker 1: very dangerous guy. So when we talk about what can
Speaker 1: be done here, let's understand what has been done in
Speaker 1: the past. Fails does not stop the importation of these
Speaker 1: illegal drugs into the country in tremendous quantity. And something
Speaker 1: now is very different from the Trump administration approach kinetic
Speaker 1: strikes as they used to say in the old counter
Speaker 1: terrorism days, missiles, warheads on foreheads. This is the era
Speaker 1: we are entering of the actual war on drugs. And
Speaker 1: now you have the Mexican cartels to think about as well.
Speaker 1: I think for a lot of US try Aragua and
Speaker 1: ships off of Venezuela. That's one thing. The Mexican drug cartels.
Speaker 1: We've seen the extreme First of all, they're right up
Speaker 1: against the United States, up against their border. We've seen
Speaker 1: the extreme violence that they are capable of on their
Speaker 1: side of the border. You go back to two thousand
Speaker 1: and ten roughly and eleven twelve, what was going on
Speaker 1: in Juarez. It was al Qaeda level sadistic violence from
Speaker 1: the cartels. And they've had many years now of getting
Speaker 1: rich not just on the illegal importation of illegal selling
Speaker 1: of drugs, also the human trafficking component. They've made a
Speaker 1: ton of money bringing illegals into this country because they
Speaker 1: control that smuggling operation as well. So they're incredibly well funded,
Speaker 1: and we may go after them and find that this
Speaker 1: starts to look a lot more like a major paramilitary operation,
Speaker 1: something along the lines of what we saw in the
Speaker 1: War on Terror. Not with one hundred thousand US troops
Speaker 1: in Mexico obviously, but drone strikes, special operations personnel. This
Speaker 1: could be happening. The fact that the Trump administration is
Speaker 1: willing to blow a speedboat with I think I think
Speaker 1: eleven people in it, just blow it up, that means
Speaker 1: that they're taking a whole new view view of what
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Speaker 1: what's going on with the Chris Martin of what's that
Speaker 1: band called Coldplay? Situation. Here, just take a little little
Speaker 1: diversion for a minute. This guy brings some Israelis up
Speaker 1: on stage and he says, oh, well, here's what he said.
Speaker 3: Where did you come from today? From Israel? Okay, well, well, okay,
Speaker 3: well listen, I'm gonna say this. I'm very grateful that
Speaker 3: you're here as stubens, and I'm treating you as cool Cuba.
Speaker 3: So no, regardless of why you come for, don't thank
Speaker 3: you for being here with great fun, thank you for
Speaker 3: being loved it. Fine, well, don't put your versal babe,
Speaker 3: the people in the audience for Palestine because we have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I'm gonna treat you like humans. And hey,
Speaker 1: everybody in the audience, let's talk about Palestine here for
Speaker 1: a minute. Hey, Palestinians in the audience. He thinks he's
Speaker 1: being a good guy. Actually, what's funny here is he
Speaker 1: thinks and he's not a very smart guy. You know,
Speaker 1: he'd say he's a good songwriter, I got a nice
Speaker 1: voice or whatever. He's a very limited understanding of politics
Speaker 1: the world in reality. But this just goes to show you.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Chris Martin of Coldplay would do
Speaker 1: this to any other nationality in the world. I don't
Speaker 1: think he would do it to Russians. I don't think
Speaker 1: you do it to North Koreans. I don't think he
Speaker 1: would feel the need to say, well, clearly you're a
Speaker 1: bad You're from like the bad people place, which is
Speaker 1: in this case Israel, and I want to tell all
Speaker 1: the people that you're oppressing, in this case Palestine, that
Speaker 1: I'm with them too, but I'll treat you like a human.
Speaker 1: This goes to the brain rot around the issue of
Speaker 1: Israel and Palestine, and that so many people would think
Speaker 1: just their gut instinct is that there is a need,
Speaker 1: they have a need to express to everybody that they
Speaker 1: have a problem with Israel and that they are on
Speaker 1: the side ultimately of the Palestinians than all this and
Speaker 1: it shouldn't have to be this way. It should not
Speaker 1: have to be this situation. But the media in a
Speaker 1: lot of cases is caught up in this victim ideology
Speaker 1: and this victim narrative of the Palestinians as the innocent
Speaker 1: victims of this whole situation. Even more so, you know,
Speaker 1: there's more animosity for somebody like this lead singer of Coldplay.
Speaker 1: There's more animal toward Israel than there is toward Russia.
Speaker 1: Think about that. That's the gut instinct of a doctrinaire.
Speaker 1: Makes it sound too fancy of a superficial surface level
Speaker 1: lib leftist today is yeah, i have to side with
Speaker 1: Palestine over Israel. And I'm more angry at Israel than
Speaker 1: I even am at Russia when it comes to Ukraine.
Speaker 1: So you see this on display, and it's indicative of
Speaker 1: a mindset with a lot of these people who go
Speaker 1: around saying they care so much about about Palestine. As
Speaker 1: has been pointed out many times, if the people in Palestine,
Speaker 1: or rather in Gaza, not in Palestine, that the people
Speaker 1: in Gaza were, if the whole plan was to kill
Speaker 1: them all, why haven't the Israelis killed them all because
Speaker 1: they could do it. If it was starvation, why are
Speaker 1: the Israelis providing them food? Because they're providing them food.
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Speaker 1: now you've got. Malcolm Gladwell has come out and said
Speaker 1: that he was a coward on the trans issue, and
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Speaker 1: I see this online. Woke is not dead. Woke is
Speaker 1: the ultimate zombie ideology because it was never about a
Speaker 1: good art. It's just about power. So I want to
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Speaker 1: too final, and a little too triumphant in their view
Speaker 1: of this, that Woke can make a comeback. These arguments,
Speaker 1: this ideology that pushed this was rooted in raw power,
Speaker 1: emotional blackmail, and inability to get people to go against
Speaker 1: what they knew to be publicly true in order to
Speaker 1: really debase them and debase their intellect. Right, Because once,
Speaker 1: as I've said so many times, once you get people
Speaker 1: to lie about the most obvious things, you can get
Speaker 1: people lie about all the things. And that there are
Speaker 1: now public figures who will come forward and say that
Speaker 1: they were unwilling to speak the truth on this, I
Speaker 1: think tells you a lot about how powerful the apparatus was,
Speaker 1: how powerful the system was that was pushing along these lines.
Speaker 1: And it is unrepent and the people who truly believe
Speaker 1: this stuff, to the degree that any of us can
Speaker 1: tell what that number is or what that percentage would be,
Speaker 1: the people who truly believe this stuff, they still believe
Speaker 1: it because it was never rooted in what is true.
Speaker 1: It was rooted in what they want to feel and
Speaker 1: how they want to position themselves vis a vis others,
Speaker 1: and that has not changed. So Woke is in recession.
Speaker 1: Woke is in retreat. But I do not believe woke
Speaker 1: is dead. And if it is dead, it's a zombie ideology.
Speaker 1: It's gonna wake from the grave and try to bite
Speaker 1: us just to question a when So, do not lose
Speaker 1: your vigilance do not lose your sense of this is
Speaker 1: something we may have to deal with again in the
Speaker 1: not too distant future. We're not gonna have Trump, who's
Speaker 1: an incredible brawler against this stuff, forever leading the movement.
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