Thanks for the analogy. I figured your average cartel foot soldier wouldn’t be much trouble for a SEAL, but didn’t know if any former-Mexican SF guys at the top who received US training or anything might be more of a formidable opponent.
(And I think SD has more NFL players than ND. Let’s not act like we’re equals with those weirdos.)
It is my completely uneducated guess that Tulsi probably believes that all of those cartel guys who were deadly as individuals at their training peaks became less deadly in that way as they acquired vast fortunes.
She’s actually a military officer though, so I would defer to her opinion about the Cartel Commando vs.USA combat scenario in a gentle but confident kind of way, if she would ever write me back.
In the meantime…
Let us all behold the political ascension I’ve been predicting for years of The United States of America’s most enchanting stateswoman OF ALL TIME.
I am currently pondering ornamentation possibilities for my Tulsi and 2Jar Forever tattoo.
It would have to be a full back piece, but picture this:
Its a front facing view of me and her looking proudly outward and upward, with roots reaching down into our hair from the tree of freedom. Its rugged trunk and branches form to create an approximate shape of the united states as they reach skyward to the star spangled banner rippling through the night sky spanning from shoulder to shoulder, which are beaches with craggy rocks and waves breaking upon them, all done in Salvador Dali surrealist style.
It might have to go down to the butt cheeks though for the faces to fit, and for it all to make artistic sense.
Just off the top of my head, ya know, just spit ballin. Haven’t been dreaming about it for years or anything.
I would imagine equipment and training are the primary factors.
Cartels are used to being the boogeyman. And they are scary. They don’t play by old school rules and will attack innocent families, including children. And the torture and brutalizations are intentionally publicized to breed compliance. So while they may shoot at each other in “gun battles” of sorts, their strength is really terrorism. When they show up, you listen. Even if its dying without fighting back, because of you do they will literally rape and torture your kids and wife to death next.
Their equipment is probably above normal retail grade available stuff, but not by much. It’s not hard to make an AR full auto, for example. And you can get some sweet thermals as a citizen. They may have grenades though.
Our military, on the other hand, has blackout helicopters, satellite precision, full force of supporting air attacks and whatever else, and instead of crating a scary presence to manipulate, they are trained and experienced in targeting a compound and eliminating it in a precision style. This is something cartels are not used to.
See the tiger ear/eye meme in the meme only thread.
It’s pretty rare to see them face a full on attack, but even when the Mexican Marines do it, the cartels lose.
Until they find out who was on the task force and start raping, killing and displaying dead bodies hanging from busy freeway overpasses in broad daylight as discouragement for next time.
Plus there’s the money aspect. If they were legitimized businesses, they would no doubt be some of the wealthiest companies on the planet. By far. And everybody has a price. Within Mexico, they often have a tip-off from one or many high up people on the dole. So surprise would be key too.
Thanks for the input.
Most of the workers at my aforementioned masonry company (not my company; the one I brought up) will, when coming across a different crew of Mexican workers at job sites, immediately question each other about where they’re from. If they make any connections that they don’t like, they will leave to work on a different site until the first group has finished and left.
If they think that the cartel from their region wouldn’t like them associating with these guys, then they just don’t risk word somehow getting back to them that they happened to work on the same job.
It’s pretty insane how far the cartels can reach.
My wife is in education, and when we lived in Houston she worked for a Title 1 school, aka poor.
In a large city this means ghetto.
The kids parents were the area gang members and leaders, and they were part of the broader cartel drug distribution network.
One day, the US Marshall’s locked down the campus, escorted a 7th grade girl out and in to witness protection, never to be seen again.
Her dad, the leader of the area gang, had been skimming money off the top of proceeds. The cartel found out, greenlit the entire family, dispatched hitmen from Mexico and they killed everybody. They were waiting for her to get out of school. A kid.
The point was a show of force for whoever was next in line.
For the record, this never made the news.
Now Texas may be a border state, but it’s also huge. The area covered from the border to Houston would match crossing one or multiple states in other regions.
A lot of their guys are former Mexican special forces, and while that may not sound as intimidating as US special forces they’re exceptionally good at carrying out international hits undetected.
And the workers in your town are an example of why unchecked immigration is bad. It really is a small world. Word from a construction site in the Dakotas or whatever can get back to Juarez, Mexico as quick as a phone call and somebody is going to die. It also shows they are at least loosely tied in many cases. Many of them pay coyote debt by smuggling for the cartels, at least once. And then they “know”, and are tied.
Once the gears of government begin turning on whatever’s ahead for deportation, we will need a deportation thread. If someone was able to magically whisk away every person here illegally in Lewiston, the immediate impacts would be massive.
I could only speculate about the scale, because our politicians go to every length imaginable to obscure all of the facts about who has been let in, why, where they live now, and all of that sort of stuff.
It is safe to say that our public school enrollment would massively drop overnight. Landlords would need to find many new tenants and would likely need to dramatically lower prices to find renters. Many non-profits would see their purpose evaporate and have to find other ways to make a living. Many businesses would face staffing issues. Friends and family relationships will be impacted.
The list of these potentially negative and disruptive impacts is quite long, which is why Americans can never go back to the wild idea that US Citizenship is a racist relic of white colonialism and ought to be redefined by any means possible.
Inviting all of those people in as lawbreakers and then crying human rights when the problems from this dishonest policy become overwhelming will rank just below slavery as one of the most morally reprehensible policies in our history.
Republicans certainly contributed to getting us here over the decades, but it looks like history is repeating itself with the Republican party being the ones to get it right eventually and lead us out of the mess we made.
In certain contexts, this is referred to as “right sizing”. It’s a true-up and good hygiene.
And it almost always happens in change management scenarios.
The dialogue will be Trumps alleged racism, but it’s as much of an economic policy as every other cut to bloated welfare programs.
I would be lying if I said it won’t be an incredible blessing to the City of Lewiston and the US Citizens and lawful residents who remain.
In fact, I think we would begin to improve very quickly in many aspects. If this happens and I actually am right about it, Lewiston will become perhaps the most ultimate policy own of all time for American Democrats and show that their policy was holding us back far, far more than anyone’s skin color or background.
We’ve been multi-cultural for a LONG time and functioned well enough until we went woke in 2018 as a state and then when Biden won it just got go so bad, so fast, in so many ways.
I still think it’s more about the policy than the people. We ended up with an unpredictable group of people, but I don’t see any reason why we can’t get back to some decently well-functioning institutions again.
We have a rocky road ahead to our right but it sure beats the cliff I saw ahead on the left.
Back to Poland, the left is incensed that they barely even entertained any of their awful ideas in the first place. I think Poles have now become top-tier oppressors. I couldn’t imagine how much whiter I could get, or more prone to sunburn, and well, what else is there to say about me?
For some context as to what’s happened to 'da Dems, Pete Hegseth and Elise Stefanik went to Princeton and Harvard respectively. Hegseth also got a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard, which he mailed back to them in 2022 LOL.
she is qualified, on the contrary it is because I do.
You wouldn’t ask me to write a letter of recommendation for her admission to Hamas. But Yale is no different than Hamas, a cult that abides no disagreement, and a cult certain of its purpose and mission beyond reflection. Yale is potentially even more dangerous. Hamas will be defeated shortly. Yale will continue to send its graduates into positions of power for years.
A recent study at Harvard found that roughly 50% of the students and professors wouldn’t discuss “uncomfortable” topics. An essential life skill is the ability to change your mind. She won’t learn that at any Ivy league school. Their reputations are still so strong that their faculty, staff and graduates all possess the arrogant certainty of religious fanatics.
I am sorry to disappoint you. I wish her the best in her search for a school,
I like him already. He can see it for what it is and he is not afraid to name it.
Ackman just did a long podcast with Megyn Kelly, worth listening to.
He has a daughter who tried to dissuade him from voting for Trump, and was citing the typical Leftist talking points, similar to the poster from waaaay back in this thread. (while unaware of or unwilling to go to the original unedited source)
Oh I got a little confused there. I thought he got named to something in the Trump Admin.
Still a great dunk on the woke left.
Ackman is a big name in the finance world, mostly known now for being one of the big donors “helping” Claudine Gay to “resign”. Educated at Harvard lol.
Best story, Ackman’s firm gets a group of Al Sharpton led protestors at the same time every week due to his stance on Claudine Gay. Ackman has walked through this group of “protestors”, and they have no idea who he is LOLLL!!!
Speaking of Sharpton, the DingDong campaign “donated” $500K to Sharpton’s “non-profit” BEFORE DingDong was “interviewed” by Sharpton on his MSNBC (a “news” channel) show with zero disclosure from either party.
Put that in your DingDong pipe and smoke it, muthereffers.
Thank God for white people because they’re the only ones who believe Sharpton has any relevance among black people.
Thank God for zecarlo because without him I wouldn’t understand how the world works.
When you thank God, you thank me, my son.
Correction: Thank God for ZeCarlo because without Him I wouldn’t understand how anything works.
