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it but merchandise and TV shows. People are paying a lot of money for that thing you say is the worst thing. Which in this case there's a whole lot of people like it. Humor is subjective. So thanks, Greta, for destroying Germany I guess. Did a little bit less than Hitler but she's making a dent. I mean I don't think it would be fair, I think you'd agree with this. Can we agree it would be unfair…
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Okay so apparently the Mexican military captured one of the top drug cartel leaders, the leader of the Guadalajara cartel. Now I don't know my cartels too well but that would be maybe the third biggest cartel? I don't know. The Sinaloa might be the biggest. I don't know. Is it like the third biggest? Does anybody know? I didn't get that from the story. The Los Zetas, the Sinaloa. So they might be maybe third biggest or something.
Now somebody said, oh this is good. It means the Mexican government is operating against the cartels and here's solid evidence that they're serious about it because they got, they caught the head of the cartel. What do you think? Oh he said no. Do you think that's what this story is? That the Mexican government now is getting hard, they're going hard against the cartels? Nope. It's Sinaloa I don't know what it is. It is Sinaloa I guess, thank you. No, the bigger cartel has friends in the army, thank you. That is the correct answer. The correct answer is that another cartel controls the military and the government and told the military and the government to get rid of their competition. That's what it looks like to me. I'm alleging, I don't know this of course, so I'm alleging. But it looks to me like one of the cartels took out the weaker cartel. That's all it looks like to me.
If you hear that the Mexican military moves against the head of the Sinaloa cartel then you have my attention. But when the military that may in fact side with a lower cartel, I'm just wondering maybe possibly when they take out a business competitor of the biggest cartel, I don't know if that's telling you what you think it's telling you. You know what I mean?
So here's a question I asked and you always see these pictures of the coyotes, the cartel employees who are helping the migrants get across. Apparently the cartels make huge amounts of money charging the immigrants a god-awful amount to get across the border and they can't get across without the cartels because the cartels are literally guarding the border on their side. So when we see the videos you can always see the coyotes and they're real obvious. You know exactly which ones are the coyotes and you know which ones are the poor immigrants who are trying to get to a better life.
And I ask you this: why can't we use snipers and take them out? Now we require an act of war or
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something probably but we could get that done, right? Now or drones, right? Drones. But if we can see them and we know they work for the cartel and we know it's, you know, they're bringing in the fentanyl and killing us by tens of thousands a year, do you think that we couldn't? Now politically it would never happen so I'm not saying this is practical. I also live in the real world where it would…
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