America’s Endless “Wars”: The Drug Fight, Constitutional Drift, and Political Theater

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The war on drugs continued. America, we love our wars. We do. I’ve made fun of this. Again, it’s the way that we’re sold things here in this country. The politicians like it. The media loves it. We can have the war on poverty. We can have a war on crime. We can have a war on drugs. We can have a war on terror. We can have a war on climate. We can have wars on everything.

That’s how we’re sold things here in the United States. We frame everything in terms of wars. I don’t see it in other places. I really don’t. It’s kind of unique here to the United States. War on drugs. War on drugs been going on for some time. How’s that been working out? How’s that been working out? And hey, listen, okay, I’m not one of those, hey, I’m a libertarian guy, but yeah, did you think?

You think I like walking around the streets of New York City and smelling pot everywhere? No, I don’t. I don’t. I don’t understand that, quite frankly. They don’t allow you to walk down the street of Manhattan and chug vodka. You can smoke pot wherever you want. I can’t get my arms around some of the nonsense they’re putting through. But anyway, talked about the war on drugs for some time and the absolute failure that it’s been.

talk about, well, we need more treatment, we need more of that. You know, I’m sorry, you know, we can’t have cities where people are bent over, bent over on Trank or whatever there else there are, we just you can’t allow this this nonsense to happen. And we do. We do. I, I talked about this. And maybe, maybe I was a little flippant. Maybe I was a little flippant a couple of weeks ago when I was saying, well, maybe not so much. I gotta be honest. But if you were to

If you were to poll Americans right now and ask them big concerns with America, think drugs are a big thing right now? you barely even shows up on the fricking radar. And I made a comment when the program was talking about inflation and job numbers here in the United States. And I said, do you think Americans care about Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean? I know. And I actually had some points made by some of the listeners.

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Bad points and since that, know, I’ve no people that have died because of drugs. I get that. I get that. But what I’m here to tell you, OK, if you think if you think that you think those drug boats are carrying fentanyl. Trank to the United States. They’re not. They’re not.

Not a good business model. Not a good business model when you can just ship it from Mexico, because that’s where it’s made. It’s funny, it was part of the one of the greatest television series of my period of all time, just Breaking Bad. And you know, the Mexican cartels, they wanted in, man. They wanted in, you know, they recognize how they show it. We don’t have to bring all of this stuff up from Colombia and have it refined and grow it. I mean, there’s costs involved with farming.

Is there not? Now there’s precursors and whatnot for fentanyl, but do you ever see how small, how small an area square footage it takes to make this crap? Not a lot. Again, you’re Walter White there in Breaking Bad. He needed a hell of a lot more space to crank out the meth. Let’s just leave it at that than you do for fentanyl. So it’s cheaper, cheaper to do it in Mexico. So.

we’re watching these boats being blown up. Now, again, I’m a Rand Paul, Thomas Massey guy. I believe in the United States Constitution. However, president has got an end around. He’s got George W. Bush had an end around, Barack Obama had an end around, Biden had an around, Trump’s got an end around. You go back to, what is it? What’s the year? it, well, no, the day, I the year, 2001. Was it September 18th?

I think September 18th, 2001, the authorization use of force, the president can do whatever he wants when it comes to terror. Trump already called, you know, going to war, terrorist organizations, so he can effectively bomb anybody. Heck, President of the United States could declare the Boy Scouts, the Boy Scouts, a terror organization, start bombing them. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, the terrorists, can start bombing them, according to this. That’s the problem.

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That’s the problem is that we decided, we decided post 9-11 that, hey, everybody’s scared. There’s a terrorist under every bed, terrorists in every corner. Remember, remember the little coded system with the colors, the threat levels that we’d get. You remember all that? Let’s keep America scared. Boogie man under events everywhere. We gotta be scared all the time. Take the constitution, flush that crap down the toilet.

Still, hey 2025, the president still has that authorization to wage war on terror. Okay, so it’s legal. Unfortunately, we as a society at some point time, we’ve got to do something about this nonsense. We have to get back to the rules and laws that we’re supposed to follow. Now, you might think it’s fine. Blow up the cocaine boats, because that’s what it is, it’s cocaine. And we we talked about this on the podcast.

The cocaine making a comeback here in this country. However, however, the height of the cocaine epidemic was about 10,000 people that died. 10,000 people that died, height crack cocaine epidemic. Again, that’s not good. Okay. again, I lived in New York, worked on wall street. Okay. Saw a lot of it. So a lot of people that got addicted had to go to rehab. Saw people that used it didn’t.

It was everywhere. It was everywhere. I don’t know what it’s like now. I’m not there now. What I do know is not fentanyl and it’s not trach. I said cocaine’s hell of a drug. Like the Dave Chappelle skit when he was doing real Hollywood stories. was James, funny skit. But.

That’s not what’s killing people. That’s not right now in this country. It’s not cocaine. Okay, we know this. Where is it coming from the fentanyl? Where’s all this crap? It’s coming from Mexico. Coming from Mexico. Again, a super corrupt country. We know. We know. And again, if you read the right papers, okay, that means one’s not just here from the United States, the type of carnage.

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The cartels, the crap that they’re involved with down there, the torturing of, it’s otherworldly for crying out loud. But we do a lot of business with Mexico. We do. the president needs some wins when it comes to the war on drugs. He’s getting some wins for some people. Okay? You’re not getting out of a drug boat. It’s a win. However, again,

Shouldn’t we at some point in time think of going back to the Constitution and the rule of law? You want to go after drug lords, you want to wage… Fine, fine. Do it the right way. Go to Congress and say, you know what? Enough of this. We’re going after them. But then you know what? You got to be consistent. You got to go after those cartels in Mexico. Watchdog on wallstreet.com.