Cartel Fighters Make a Desperate Alliance
by Padrino 
, Rosarito/Zihuatanejo, Monday, June 30, 2025, 08:30 (495 days ago)
Cartel Fighters Make a Desperate Alliance That Could Transform Underworld -- The New York Times
The War on Drugs: Fifty+ years and everything is going exactly according to plan.
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Cartel Fighters Make a Desperate Alliance
by ZihuaRob , Zihuatanejo, México, Monday, June 30, 2025, 10:39 (495 days ago) @ Padrino
Cartel Fighters Make a Desperate Alliance That Could Transform Underworld -- The New York Times
The War on Drugs: Fifty+ years and everything is going exactly according to plan.
Note: Link to The New York Times article is good for 30 days from date of post.
Violent criminal organizations are the predictable response to banning substances used by over 40 million U.S. citizens alone, and millions of others worldwide. It's almost as if the governments WANT them to exist just to have an excuse for all those jobs and multi-million dollar budgets dedicated to "fighting" them. What a joke!
Cartel Fighters Make a Desperate Alliance
"It's almost as if the governments WANT them to exist just to have an excuse for all those jobs and mu"lti-million dollar budgets dedicated to "fighting" them."
Absolutely. A lot of people (including former DEA warriors like Michael Levine) have since written about how Nixon, by constructing a Drug War, immortalized the conflict, rather than end the problem. And then there's lunatic propagandist Harry Anslinger. Oy vey.
https://www.amazon.com.mx/Drug-Crazy-into-This-Mess/dp/0415926475
The War On…
by Little Guy , Monday, June 30, 2025, 20:42 (495 days ago) @ Yandosan
America had a “War On Poverty”. Look around. Poverty won.
America had a “War On Drugs”. Look around. Drugs won.
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by Padrino , Rosarito/Zihuatanejo, Monday, June 30, 2025, 22:57 (495 days ago) @ Little Guy
America had a “War On Poverty”. Look around. Poverty won.
Poverty exists not because we cannot afford to feed the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.
Ah, before anyone cries, "Socialist!" please know that I am stockbroker. I believe strongly in capitalism. However, nothing we humans have ever created has been perfect and that includes capitalism. As in the first Guilded Age, the pendulum has swung far too much in favor of the upper class, in my humble opinion. The trick is to get us back toward the center where entrepreneurship is still rewarded but the power of their subsequent immense resources is kept in check. Don't hold your breath for that to happen anytime soon.
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Just wait, the wealth is gonna trickle down. Pennies from Heaven.
Ronald Reagan promised.
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by Little Guy , Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 13:01 (494 days ago) @ Yandosan
Just wait, the wealth is gonna trickle down. Pennies from Heaven.
Ronald Reagan promised.
Maybe Reagan didn’t make it to Heaven to sprinkle the pennies. Perhaps his Trump-like behaviour caught up to him.
I was saddened to read that Reagan was not a moral man, having had multiple relationships between his marriages. I was shocked to read that Reagan impregnated Nancy before marriage, and that his children were neglected by both sets of parents (Reagan and Wyman and Reagan and Davis).
Reagan was a fornicator in between marriages, and an adulterer in his second marriage.
Cheating on your spouse isn't right, but why shouldn't one look for some action outside of marriage?
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by Little Guy , Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 13:30 (494 days ago) @ frostbite
I think the leaders of the “Disciples of Christ” denomination in which Reagan was raised or the Presbyterian Church through which Reagan professed his Christian beliefs could give you a better response than me.
Perhaps Reagan’s religious commitment was similar to that of a prominent Canadian. I once asked my clergyman father, “Did you know that Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx is a Pentecostal?”
My father’s satirical reply was, “The Pentecostal Church is the one he chooses to not attend.” 
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by Keytime , Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 20:56 (494 days ago) @ Little Guy
So was Washington, Jackson, Kennedy, ETC. Does not make them a bad leader
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by Casa Juan , Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 23:08 (494 days ago) @ Little Guy
Reagan seems like a brillant statesman compared to the orange man!
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by Ironwood , Wednesday, July 02, 2025, 21:52 (493 days ago) @ Casa Juan
Reagan seems like a brillant statesman compared to the orange man!
I've always liked the line:
"If you waded in Reagan's deepest thoughts, you wouldn't get your ankles wet."
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by midalake , Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 18:48 (494 days ago) @ Yandosan
edited by midalake, Tuesday, July 01, 2025, 19:00
Just wait, the wealth is gonna trickle down. Pennies from Heaven.
Ronald Reagan promised.
We NOW know the "Trickle-Down" is a golden shower to the working class.
With that "big, beautiful bill" passing, I suspect that some solids will be added to the shower.
