The New York Times has once again made Glenn question its sanity. It recently released a piece arguing that if Trump stops the Mexican drug cartels, it could hurt the American economy! Okay then … Instead of that nonsense, Glenn breaks down what he believes Trump MUST do to eliminate the cartels, which have poisoned Americans with fentanyl, killed Americans, and trafficked people within our nation. So, maybe instead of being sympathetic to the cartels, Trump should treat them like Al Qaeda and ISIS: “You are going to see death and destruction of these cartels.”
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Stu, I just want to give you this. And tell me, how you get here.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: New York Times. Mexican drug cartels are responsible for the untimely deaths of hundreds of thousands of people over the past few decades. When factoring in the fentanyl, they smuggle into the United States, cartels are also culpable for the deaths of over 200 Americans every day.
They deal with murder and addiction, mass kidnappings, rape, torture, political intimidation, yada, yada.
But the New York Times has a concern about the economic impact of Trump's plan to identify and hold the cartels responsible.
STU: Oh, no!
GLENN: Now, I'm trying to think about the positive impact the New York Times might have found with the cartels. I mean, job creators?
STU: Yes. Yes. Absolutely.
GLENN: Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
STU: You've got that.
GLENN: They're kind of in the medical business.
Kind of!
STU: The medical -- okay.
GLENN: Well, they're kind of pharmaceutical companies.
STU: Sure. Sure. You can treat certain ailments with their products.
GLENN: They're into the entertainment business.
STU: Yes!
GLENN: Tell you the entertainment. Or child entertainment.
STU: Depends on how you want to be entertained.
GLENN: Sure. Sure.
STU: Would we get any good movies or music, if there were no drugs in this country.
Probably not. That's going to be. Hollywood is in trouble.
GLENN: Hollywood changed.
STU: Are they trying to say basically, these cartels are used as coyotes, essentially. And the people who are coming in for free, cheap labor. Free or cheap labor.
Won't be coming in anymore.
That hurts our economy.
Again, I don't think that's a good argument. Is that what they're trying to get to?
GLENN: What they're saying is, this will be hard on the banks. This will be hard on the banks.
STU: Why would cartels going away, be hard on banks?
GLENN: Well, because the banks are going to be responsible for knowing if your client is a part of a drug cartel. And, you know --
STU: Okay. So what additional -- I mean, is this going to cause additional layers of paperwork for everybody, essentially?
GLENN: I don't know. I guess.
STU: And not just cartels. But, you know, for your friendly neighborhood drug dealer.
GLENN: You know, I -- I think, I mean, if you're in that business. You probably aren't using a bank. You know what I mean?
Now, if you're using a cartel. You want to use the banks. If you're coming in, you know, every year with $1.5 billion, or, you know, even have holdings of a trillion dollars, you know, I might want to ask, how are you doing that?
I'm in the import/export business. I would like a little bit more.
You know, you also put down, you're in the entertainment industry, and pharmaceuticals. But I haven't seen anything on the shelves.
From you.
STU: Now, Elizabeth Warren has reliably told me that criminals only use cryptocurrency. So maybe that -- why would they need the banks?
I don't understand. Why would it affect the banks in any way?
GLENN: I don't know. I don't know.
You know, as I said yesterday. If I were an entrepreneur, and I were in Mexico, I might start coffins.com. You know, because I think there is going to be a run on coffins. And, you know, as long as Gavin Newsom isn't in there, he won't put a, well, there's a coffin shortage. So let's not raise the price of coffins. He's not going to do that.
You can price on demand, I'm guessing, in Mexico. So when there's a rush on coffins, because I don't know. Our special forces have killed all of the people in the drug cartels. You can make some money.
STU: What's your impression on what Trump actually does here? We talked a little bit about what happened yesterday. What's the specific plan?
I know you don't -- you're not going to reveal anything.
GLENN: Because I don't -- I -- I --
STU: You have thoughts and impressions, let's say.
GLENN: Thoughts and impressions.
STU: What are you -- when basing this completely on your thoughts and impressions.
GLENN: Yes. And not anything else.
STU: What would be the approach here to take out the cartels in Mexico?
GLENN: He would assign people to make a list of who those terrorists are.
STU: Will they be checking it twice?
GLENN: They will check it twice.
STU: Will they find out who is naughty or nice?
GLENN: That's what they're looking for now. And then they will give it to the president. And then they will say, here's the case against these guys. And this cartel. And many other cartels.
And the president will say, what do you recommend?
And they say, we go in at night, with our -- you know, night vision.
And we kill them all.
And he says, okay.
And so then we go in at night, and kill them all. And in the morning, everybody wakes up, surprised, because they're dead. Called coffins.com.
STU: Okay. And it just leaves like a -- like a rotating, just a repeating ad on the television for coffins.com.
GLENN: Coffins.com. Are you a member of the cartel?
You might be -- you might consider becoming a franchisee owner of coffins.com.
Yeah. I think that's what he's going to do. He's not going to play around. You will see death and destruction of these cartels, and, you know, I don't -- I don't -- I would be shocked to find out if that was our Special Forces, doing that.
Gosh darn it.
STU: Yeah. That would be a shocking thing.
So it's an essentially undercover plan. Where you're sending undercover people.
GLENN: I'm not sure how he will do it. If it's undercover. Or it might be Survivor. Except it's a real kind of situation. This week on Survivor, who will survive in this cartel?
STU: Do you have the -- maybe -- do you have some sort of arrangement with the Mexican government on this.
Like, do you say to them, look, we're coming in, whether you like it or not.
GLENN: He already did. He already said that.
STU: He said that. But there's a certain level of Donald Trump saying things in a negotiation.
GLENN: I don't think there are.
Like yesterday. Yesterday, at the WEF. They asked the president of Panama. You know, are you worried about the president just taking the Panama Canal. And he said, get serious. Please, get serious. I think Donald Trump might be serious about that one. Not Greenland.
He never said he will take Greenland or Canada. Even though, the Canada one would be easy.
He's not doing that. But he's very clear. I am going to kill the cartels. Because they're terrorist operations. And they're operating here in the United States. And causing pain and suffering.
Soil kill them all.
STU: He's designating them terrorist groups. And we know what's happening with al-Qaeda and whatever. When you designate a terrorist group. What you consider. And other countries don't consider the legal authority to do this type of thing.
GLENN: Right. Because Mexico no longer has the legal authority to do anything. Because they're run by the cartels.
Soul see a lot of feigned outrage at the beginning. Until he gets rid of the cartels, and then they will go, thank you.
STU: Well, that's what I wonder.
Because we've had this relationship with certain other countries, where we've gone to them, and said, hey, we're doing this, whether you like it or not. And they -- some of them are angry and outraged.
But a lot of them are like, oh, no. You shouldn't.
If you need to know where they are, let me know. They would love to get rid of this problem.
And depending on who you're talking about in the Mexican government, you like to get rid of this. Because they're challenging your power essentially.
GLENN: The people will be very happy. The people in Mexico will be very, very happy.
STU: Right.
GLENN: And so it's not going to be real unpopular in Mexico with the average, everyday people.
STU: But what would be unpopular. Let's just say we had a problem with, you know, I don't know. Cartels in our country. And the Mexican government was upset with the reverse situation happening.
They're crossing the border. Doing all these terrible things.
They send in their Special Forces into our country without our approval. We're a sovereign nation. Right?
We would be upset about it.
GLENN: Yeah, we would be upset.
STU: Now, we're the big boys on the streets. So we don't have to care necessarily about that?
GLENN: Let's actually flip that. Okay?
Let's say we were in the situation that Mexico is in. Where we tried to vote mayors in. We tried to vote governors in.
And they're just slaughtered in the streets because they say, I'm taking on the cartels.
STU: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: And they slaughter everyone in -- in government that is even whispering about that.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: So we've tried to vote them out. And we as people, know that our government is now in bed with the cartels. And it's getting worse and worse and worse.
And Mexico says, you know what, enough of these cartels, they are you hurting our people.
STU: Uh-huh.
GLENN: And so we will come across the border. And we will take care of them, because you won't. Would you really be upset. Oh, my gosh. They're violating our borders.
I would be all for it, quietly.
STU: Right. That's the part I think is interesting.
GLENN: Yes.
STU: I think if I were the president of the United States. And in this situation. And the president of Mexico says, we've got these great Special Forces, we're coming in and taking them out. Whether you like them or not.
That's what I would say. Because as a country, you can't just give your nation to the other nation. Right?
Like, if we have the authority to cross the border. And they just are like, yeah, please, any time. You can come over and police in our country, please do so. Then they're not a sovereign nation.
GLENN: Yeah, we're not policing.
STU: Kind of, we are. Just a very aggressive form --
GLENN: No. This is an international terrorist group that is crossing our borders.
STU: It's still a form of law enforcement.
GLENN: Yeah, it is.
STU: But you would maybe say, we would never allow that. But you would want it to occur. And you would encourage it and assist it any way possible.
GLENN: Yes. And you would take note of everyone who opposed it, strongly, and meant it. You would be like, okay. They're part of it. I've got it.
STU: They're part of it. Right. And you would probably be right.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: So I hope that's what Mexico does.
I just don't know -- this woman who is trying to get into little peeing contests with Donald Trump over these types of things. I don't think that's a good approach.
GLENN: No, this isn't a little peeing thing.
STU: That's what she's doing.
Oh, yeah. Well, if you're going to rename the Gulf of Mexico, we will look at this region. This is actually ours, or whatever she's trying to pull.
GLENN: We're going to stop sending you sombreros. Okay. Whatever.
STU: There was a sombrero threat.
GLENN: I don't know if that's really that damaging.
STU: That's what she was doing. Essentially, she was acting like a guest on The View. Oh, yeah. Well, I'm a strong woman. And look at me, I will rename your -- stop it.
That nonsense. If that's what she decides to be, she probably won't do it this way.
She probably will complain about it.
GLENN: Correct. And if she is corrupt and in bed with the cartels, the people of Mexico will decide that, after all of the pressure is off, because we've killed the cartels.
STU: I hope that --
GLENN: I think there is -- they're going to try cause problems in here. But I have to tell you, you have no idea, what you're up against with the United States military.
Our Special Forces. You have no idea. Well, these are highly trained.
Are they? Uh-huh. No. No. No. I will put my money on the US Special Forces. And I don't think they're going to win in that fight.
STU: Let me ask you this. Related question.
We've complained a lot about DEI and the military.
That the military has gone soft. That we've had all these problems.
Pete Hegseth wrote a book about it. He's an essential part of why he's going into this role.
Are we too far gone? Is it possible that we don't have enough of the -- of what we need in the military to accomplish these tasks anymore?
GLENN: For Mexico? No.
STU: We're okay.
GLENN: No. For multiple fronts? Yes.
For our Special Forces, for our teams to go in, in the dead of night and kill all these people, no. That's not beyond.
STU: We're still prepared for that. Good to hear.