Cartels are in real trouble
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Well that's pretty much what I posted above. Good luck to anyone importing anything across the Mexican border
Bottlenecking U.S./ Mexico does seem like it could hurt the economy but I am not an economist.
Well...
That appears to be the death knell for my "You Can Take Our Lives But You'll NEVER Take Our FREEDOM" P-nut & Fred commemorative T-shirts...
I had opened a production line in Ciudad Juárez after getting shut down in China (workforce imprisoned) and Chicago (workforce disappeared before being imprisoned) and Indianapolis (workforce attempted to unionize and I had to shut down before all 5 of them sued me) and now with the 65% Cartel "fees" and the upcoming 25% tariffs I don't even believe I can make a profit with the nearly zero overhead... 😖
Things were getting dicy anyway..., with our Cartel liaison telling us we had to use packaging with false bottoms and his having hung my most recent purdue grad Manager/"Manufacturing Engineer" up by his toes over a pit of starving coyotes (he resigned the next day... Kids!!)...; things were starting to spiral out of control down there... When the DEA wanted to contract me as a C.I. (Confidential Informant) it was time to pull the plug on my dream (I'm not going anywhere south of That border, it's dangerous enough up here!)....
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R. I. P.
P-nut & Fred
My you be remembered forever (or at least for a couple more months)...
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I may petition this administration for a south lawn statue of the intrepid dou but I'm afraid they've moved on... I would point out that the pair had nearly as much to do with "The Donald's" reelection as Tik-Tok and Joe Rogan but I don't have any hard data to work with... 😕
That appears to be the death knell for my "You Can Take Our Lives But You'll NEVER Take Our FREEDOM" P-nut & Fred commemorative T-shirts...
I had opened a production line in Ciudad Juárez after getting shut down in China (workforce imprisoned) and Chicago (workforce disappeared before being imprisoned) and Indianapolis (workforce attempted to unionize and I had to shut down before all 5 of them sued me) and now with the 65% Cartel "fees" and the upcoming 25% tariffs I don't even believe I can make a profit with the nearly zero overhead... 😖
Things were getting dicy anyway..., with our Cartel liaison telling us we had to use packaging with false bottoms and his having hung my most recent purdue grad Manager/"Manufacturing Engineer" up by his toes over a pit of starving coyotes (he resigned the next day... Kids!!)...; things were starting to spiral out of control down there... When the DEA wanted to contract me as a C.I. (Confidential Informant) it was time to pull the plug on my dream (I'm not going anywhere south of That border, it's dangerous enough up here!)....
🇺🇸
🍺🍺
R. I. P.
P-nut & Fred
My you be remembered forever (or at least for a couple more months)...
🍺🍺
🇺🇸
I may petition this administration for a south lawn statue of the intrepid dou but I'm afraid they've moved on... I would point out that the pair had nearly as much to do with "The Donald's" reelection as Tik-Tok and Joe Rogan but I don't have any hard data to work with... 😕
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We'll see how it plays out. The idea that goods cannot be separated from a terrorist organization from a normal commercial enterprise seems insane to me, but I'm not an expert on Mexico. If Mexico wants to keep the millions of jobs that support the U.S. economy, it has quite an incentive to get its affairs in order.
I'm sure you'll be surprised to find out that not only is MS-13 in Indy, but a lot of other gangs are as well.
CVS has the deep pockets. A single doctor doesn't. It begins and ends with that.
No, I did not see the dna test. How about we deport American born gang members too? It's what these countries have done to us. They swept out their mental asylums and prisons.
Like saying to your neighbor, "I love you, but stay off my lawn".
Time to send in the Marines. They apparently forgot that Joe Biden is not the President. They will soon learn. FAFO.
Now that is how you stop an intruder. I believe someone said that they also would do this for someone breaking into their house.
If the Mexican government ok'd this then I'm not really against. However this is going to blow a hole in the budget, bigly. Also it will only disrupt their supply chain for a brief time. Won't stop it. Need to stop the demand somehow.
I know your being glib because God forbid anyone question your dear leader. However I said I'm cool with military action against current drug cartels. I'm only pointing out that it will be a neverending war until we somehow figure out how to stop the demand. If we're not serious about stopping demand than a war in Mexico is just a waste of money long term.
They're being let in to train Mexican forces, but it's one step closer to unleashing them.
I'd like to see this as a positive but from what I recall (sorry no links to back it up), the last time we trained military and paramilitary Mexican outfits to go after the Bag Guys, the Cartels simply turned the tables on us and either out bid us for the best trained of them or simply murdered those who wouldn't join them.
Sending in a small outfit that's semi-dependent on the Mexicans for their physical security seems like a Really bad idea to me...
I'd rather we treat the Cartels like the terrorist organizations that they are and Find, Fix, and Destroy them wherever they may be...
Playing around "training" the Mexicans just sounds like "sound bite" show politics as usual at best; putting our troops in harms way for zero likely tangible return, at worst...
I seem to remember that one of the cartels (Zetas?) have a bunch of ex-Mexican commandos on the payroll.
Edited to add https://ctc.westpoint.edu/a-profile-of-los-zetas-mexicos-second-most-powerful-drug-cartel/
Mexico announces major meth seizure in cartel heartland amid pressure from Trump to curb drug trafficking
Mexico has announced a series of major drug discoveries in recent weeks in an apparent attempt to highlight increased efforts to combat drug smuggling.
www.cbsnews.com
