WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:04.120 And welcome on board everybody to another edition of mid Rats. 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.200 I appreciate y'all taking time to join us today, and 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:09.960 we already have a cabal of folks who are joining 4 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.800 us live. I'd like to extend the invitation. If you 5 00:00:12.839 --> 00:00:15.599 are so inclined, Kent's already done it, go ahead and 6 00:00:15.679 --> 00:00:19.399 roll into the chat room in the course of today's show. 7 00:00:19.519 --> 00:00:23.399 This is a maritime melee show, which means we have 8 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:25.239 our list of things we want to talk about, but 9 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.600 we're always interested in what you have as well, So 10 00:00:28.039 --> 00:00:30.359 in the chat room is a great place for you 11 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:33.079 to go ahead and put those comments in there. Also 12 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.719 want to make the altar call. If you don't already, 13 00:00:36.039 --> 00:00:40.320 go over to iTunes, Spotify, spreaker, wherever you get your 14 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.520 podcasts aggregated, find mid Rats and go ahead and subscribe 15 00:00:44.759 --> 00:00:47.039 that way. If you can't join us live, we'll always 16 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.600 be ready for you when your schedule so allows. And 17 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:53.119 after a couple of weeks break Mark and I were 18 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:55.439 back and I just wanted to kick it off because 19 00:00:55.479 --> 00:00:59.079 this is the day before the eleventh day of the 20 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:04.840 eleventh month that we call Veterans Day, so on behalf 21 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.519 of the two veterans who do this little podcast and 22 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:11.120 for all of our buddies who are out there as well, 23 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:14.959 a happy Veterans Day. And also I do this on 24 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:18.200 a not irregular basis. And I don't know why, Maybe 25 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:22.680 it's my anglophilia, but I've always liked the way that 26 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:28.799 the Commonwealth Nations, led by the mother country, Great Britain, 27 00:01:28.879 --> 00:01:31.879 how they do Remembrance Day. It's a much more sober, 28 00:01:32.040 --> 00:01:35.640 a much more serious, more different theme too. It's more 29 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:39.480 in line with the American Memorial Day, except again it's 30 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.000 a much more somber and serious organization and not an 31 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.120 excuse to go to the beach and go off this summer. 32 00:01:45.480 --> 00:01:49.879 So for all my all our friends in the anglosphere 33 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.760 wearing their red poppies, I hope you have a good 34 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:57.599 Remembrance Day. Besides that, hey, we all survived the election 35 00:01:57.719 --> 00:01:59.640 here on the Eastern Seaboard, didn't we mark. 36 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:02.159 Yes, we did. And by the way, as long as 37 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:04.840 we're congratulating view, we got to congratulate to US Marine 38 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:08.479 Corps on their ten millionth birthday whatever it is. Anyway, 39 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:11.479 a lot of good people marines and they deserve to 40 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:13.319 enjoy a birthday celebration. 41 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:17.280 I don't know is that is that who or yut 42 00:02:17.560 --> 00:02:18.400 or what is that? 43 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.159 For the Marines. 44 00:02:20.520 --> 00:02:23.159 Yeah, that's always a great way to get him started. 45 00:02:23.560 --> 00:02:26.479 I speak, I speak limited marine. Well, buy him a 46 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.319 whole in your box of crayons the next time we 47 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:29.479 wait takes some mount. 48 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.879 For dinner work. Yeah, I can't survive their physical training 49 00:02:32.879 --> 00:02:35.479 requirements anyway, so I'm just always nice of the Marines. 50 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:36.319 They're good in a bar fight. 51 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:39.159 By the way, I should tell you that listeners that 52 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:43.000 Sally is having some technical difficulties with his as usual 53 00:02:43.080 --> 00:02:46.680 with his not so if he just leaves, If he 54 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:54.879 just leaves, you'll hear me tab dancing. Well, I don't 55 00:02:54.879 --> 00:02:55.560 worry when. 56 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.759 Yep I popped out for a second. Apologies to the listeners. 57 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:03.919 I've i've, i've reset circuit breakers, did the atheon reset 58 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:06.759 and my whole it spectrum, but for some reason it 59 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:08.879 keeps popping out for a few seconds of time. So 60 00:03:08.919 --> 00:03:14.039 hopefully that doesn't bother many folks today. Yeah. 61 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:17.520 I think one of the things we were going to 62 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.759 discuss is the effect of the of the election. And 63 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:22.960 you know, of course, we don't know yet who these 64 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:27.439 secretary of Defense will be uh or who and what 65 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:29.840 the fallout is going to be from the the on 66 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:34.120 the Department of the Navy and the other service branches. 67 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:42.840 But in this last iteration, President Trump was indicated a 68 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:44.680 lot of pro Navy stuff, and I hope we get 69 00:03:44.719 --> 00:03:47.680 a Navy person in there as a Secretary of Defense 70 00:03:47.879 --> 00:03:52.639 after a long stint of Army people running the show. So, 71 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:54.599 you know, we need to talk about a lot of things. 72 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:56.319 But one of the things I wanted to bring up 73 00:03:56.360 --> 00:03:58.199 is the first. The first thing is not to make 74 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.919 any serious blood and to not show yourself in the 75 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.919 foot with the decisions you make. And that includes, in 76 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.520 my mind right now, things not undoing some damages that 77 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.560 we've chosen to do to ourselves, which includes the theoretical 78 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:17.600 closing of the Red Hill Orange Oil Storage Facility fuel 79 00:04:17.639 --> 00:04:22.160 storage facility in Hawaii, and I would highly recommend that 80 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:26.319 they not do that because that is vital to our 81 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.000 efforts in the Western Pacific to have a source closer 82 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.879 than the continent of the United States for arche amounts 83 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:36.160 of fuel. And I think that it hasn't whatever they're 84 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:38.839 doing to decommission, it has not gone far enough that 85 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.360 they can't be undone and at least keep it undone. 86 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:46.360 The closure undone until we get an adequate replacement that 87 00:04:46.839 --> 00:04:50.680 has a similar, if not greater capacity, because it's absolutely 88 00:04:50.759 --> 00:04:52.160 vital to our national security. 89 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:57.120 Yeah, and it's one of those things that it for 90 00:04:57.199 --> 00:04:59.920 those that know, they know that it's much more port 91 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:05.800 and the intention it's getting and whether you're looking at 92 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.079 on the edge of living memory. I mean, I don't 93 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.680 know how many volumes of books have been written about 94 00:05:12.199 --> 00:05:15.240 the failure of the Japanese to hit our fuel storage 95 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:18.040 in Hawaii. You know, they never did their third wave, 96 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.519 which they should have done. That really gave us the 97 00:05:20.560 --> 00:05:23.160 ability to kick things off in the Pacific War. And 98 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.639 also there's a reason why the Ukrainians are attacking the 99 00:05:27.759 --> 00:05:33.560 Russian fuel infrastructure here. You can't fight without fuel, and 100 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:36.279 there's nothing out there that can replace what's happening in 101 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:46.120 Red Hills and Red Hills was a failure of leadership, management, inspections, 102 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.759 all the usual problems. Anybody that's lived in Hawaii knows 103 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:53.800 what that's like. That that should not be a reason 104 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.120 why we should put our nation at strategic risk. We 105 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:00.480 can clean it up and do it right. Nothing they 106 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:05.040 can replace it right now. We just need to just 107 00:06:05.160 --> 00:06:08.000 do what needs to be done. Let the usual suspects 108 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.480 in Hawaii. I yell, all they want to but you 109 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:11.519 gotta do what you gotta do. 110 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.879 Yeah, there's a really good GEO report where I'm going 111 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:20.319 to link to in the chat room on Redhill, and 112 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:22.240 what you one of the main things you're going to 113 00:06:22.279 --> 00:06:23.800 get if you look at that is that there was 114 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:29.199 the chain of command for that facility was way too complicated. 115 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:32.720 You know, most of the times you you have a facility, 116 00:06:32.759 --> 00:06:35.639 you want one one group in charge, one person you 117 00:06:35.720 --> 00:06:38.480 can run of the whole show. And that really isn't 118 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:42.040 the way it worked. And they were using contractors, and 119 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.480 the contractors screwed up, and you know, there's a lot 120 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:47.240 of there's a lot of blame to go around, but 121 00:06:47.319 --> 00:06:52.199 it isn't it isn't necessary to point fingers at this point. 122 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:55.079 It's necessary to keep the thing alive until we find 123 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:58.639 a way to replace it and if we're going to 124 00:06:58.680 --> 00:07:02.040 replace it, and one of the other things, you know, 125 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.000 as as long as I'm on the theme of let's 126 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.279 not shoot ourselves in the foot, I saw the other 127 00:07:06.360 --> 00:07:09.879 day that a discussion about not putting some of the 128 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:14.959 anti ballistic and other defenses on Guam because we seem 129 00:07:15.000 --> 00:07:18.000 to have some kind of budget issues. Well, you know, 130 00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:21.000 I think that GWAM is a pretty important place in 131 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:23.360 the scheme of things for the defense of the western 132 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:28.439 of our Western Pacific friends and our own asset am 133 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:33.360 a GWAM that the trust territory is the Pacific. There 134 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.160 are a lot of American citizens out there who who 135 00:07:36.600 --> 00:07:40.839 deserve to be protected, and to do it to deny 136 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.120 them that protection because we spent a lot of money 137 00:07:44.199 --> 00:07:47.360 on and you can you can name your wherever you 138 00:07:47.399 --> 00:07:51.680 think miss the current administration has sent money they shouldn't have. 139 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:55.680 You know that that is not a good reason to 140 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.879 to not fully fund the effort to protect that that island, 141 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:03.000 which is vital to our national security. And and as 142 00:08:03.040 --> 00:08:05.720 longer on that line, I mean as we need to 143 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:08.800 really take a hard look at to spit at reopening 144 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:11.199 a lot of the facilities we had available to eas 145 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:13.639 during World War Two. And we'll talk about that a 146 00:08:13.639 --> 00:08:15.839 little later, but you know, we need to relook at 147 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:19.000 what we're doing on the on the whole the Alaskan 148 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.920 Aleutian Island chain, and we need to look at the 149 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:24.959 you know, places like mid Midway and Wake and Johnson, 150 00:08:25.000 --> 00:08:27.319 the toll and and a lot of these other places 151 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:30.360 that we used to used to have as seaplane bases 152 00:08:30.360 --> 00:08:32.480 and other things that see see what would be useful 153 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.960 in today's modern with today's modern technology in the world. 154 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:39.159 And that was one of the great things to see 155 00:08:39.200 --> 00:08:43.240 earlier this year is they're reclaiming the airfield tenion just 156 00:08:43.480 --> 00:08:46.039 you know, right along the lines of what you mentioned there, 157 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:50.080 which is exactly what we we need to do. Also, 158 00:08:50.120 --> 00:08:52.639 I put in the in the show chat a link 159 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:55.960 to a substack of mind from the fourth where I 160 00:08:56.000 --> 00:09:01.519 addressed the anti ballistic missile problem and a few options 161 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:06.960 out there about GUAM. It's a serious issue and it's 162 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.200 not being addressed in the serious manner. And one thing 163 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:13.559 that I worry about is analysis paralysis. We need to 164 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:16.200 not We don't have the luxury of saying we'll make 165 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:19.399 a decision in physical year twenty thirty and we'll start 166 00:09:19.440 --> 00:09:22.159 doing something in fyscal year thirty, you know, twenty thirty 167 00:09:22.200 --> 00:09:25.879 two now, where we've wasted too much time doing things 168 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:27.960 like that. We just need to take action, and you've 169 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:31.159 outlined a few that are right there. We have CBS 170 00:09:31.200 --> 00:09:37.279 for a reason, and it's time to move forward and 171 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:40.720 to take action. One thing for this election. That's going 172 00:09:40.799 --> 00:09:45.279 to be interesting. We're already starting to see some of 173 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.440 the players that may be coming in to the new 174 00:09:48.480 --> 00:09:52.759 Trump administration because people are policy. One of the things 175 00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:55.519 that I saw there are people who are having their 176 00:09:55.559 --> 00:10:00.759 profile raised significantly. Earlier this year, we had Bridge Coleby 177 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:03.240 on here at mid Rats and he's grown up to 178 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:05.639 the big leagues. He just did an over hour long 179 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:10.759 interview with Tucker Carlson, who has the ear of the 180 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:16.120 senior leaders in this administration. Bridge, I would encourage and 181 00:10:16.120 --> 00:10:18.720 I'll put a link on the show page for the 182 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:22.519 mid Rats we had him on and for the Tucker 183 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:25.159 interview he recently did. I caught bits and pieces of it. 184 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.799 But you are also seeing other serious people that are 185 00:10:29.840 --> 00:10:34.919 going to make some changes in these bold faced areas 186 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:38.080 from what we've seen in the last few years. You know, 187 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:45.000 we're talking Israel, Ukraine, NATO, China, what's happening in the 188 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.600 Red Sea. As as people come on board, you're going 189 00:10:48.679 --> 00:10:50.720 to see who's going to be advising the president, and 190 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:52.639 you'll be able to find a paper trail on that. 191 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.600 But what I didn't expect to see. I don't know 192 00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.279 whether you had a chance to look at it. Yet 193 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.000 and I'll post posting the chat and on the show 194 00:11:02.000 --> 00:11:05.639 page as well. His President Trump had some very interesting 195 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.840 ideas about what he wanted to do, which you know 196 00:11:10.960 --> 00:11:14.120 is killing hundreds of thousands of American citizens, and that's 197 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:18.080 the drug cartels in northern Mexico. I got some of 198 00:11:18.080 --> 00:11:22.559 the quotes from the video was and this was President Trump, 199 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:27.440 time for America to wage war on the cartels. It 200 00:11:27.480 --> 00:11:32.240 will be the policy of the United States to take 201 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:37.080 on the cartels just like we took down isis a 202 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:42.879 full naval blockade of the cartel, special Forces cyber war 203 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:48.399 and defining them as a foreign terrorist organization. And the 204 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:52.120 lawyers in the group, you'all can start pulling us code 205 00:11:52.159 --> 00:11:56.200 empty squad that are triggered by those types of words. 206 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:59.960 That's something close to home that will be very interest 207 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:01.159 team to watch flesh out. 208 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.879 Yeah, I think I did see that, and I think it's, uh, 209 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.279 you know, there's a huge challenge there because it's we 210 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:14.559 also have to make keep peace with Mexico. Not that 211 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:18.720 they post much of themselves, post much of a threat 212 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:20.919 to us, but they are they are have been over 213 00:12:20.960 --> 00:12:23.159 the years of fairly good neighbor. It's you know, they're 214 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.320 just they're just unable to control what's going on. And 215 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:30.039 when your cartels are more powerful than your police and 216 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.840 uh and armed forces, you've got some real issues. And 217 00:12:32.879 --> 00:12:35.960 there's so much money in the cartels and I don't know, 218 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.039 you know where we're going to put a naval blockade 219 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:41.080 on them unless we're going I thought we were doing 220 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:42.720 a pretty good job of catching some of the stuff 221 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:46.200 coming up from from South America. But you know, I 222 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:48.000 know a lot of people. I used to work with 223 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:52.639 a lot of the Customs guys both to the you know, 224 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:57.159 their air their there U S Customs had an air 225 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:01.000 force made up of I guess retired Navy P threes 226 00:13:01.039 --> 00:13:04.519 and some other aircraft. But uh, you know that that's 227 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.879 a that's an interesting group of people, and they did 228 00:13:06.919 --> 00:13:09.279 a great job trump you know. But it's just as 229 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:11.279 long as a demand, it's not just a matter of 230 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.120 going after the cartels. We've got to cut down on 231 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:16.879 the demand. And you know, it's our friends in China 232 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:20.399 who are shipping all this fentanyl for here, so you 233 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.519 know that isn't That's another thing is we've got to 234 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:26.480 stop the flow of stuff from China. And it's you know, 235 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:29.080 you've seen all the zombies on this on the streets 236 00:13:29.080 --> 00:13:32.279 of various big cities and small towns for that matter. 237 00:13:32.679 --> 00:13:36.080 You know, it's just it's just a problem that really 238 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.759 really needs to be attacked. And you know, if it's 239 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:41.080 if it's a we've had the war on drugs before, 240 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.639 I think the war on cartels, the war on on 241 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:51.200 this particular Chinese effort perhaps, you know, I think it's 242 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:56.840 intentional to weaken the United States. So, you know, I'm 243 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:58.799 very hopeful that that somebody is going to run that 244 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:05.200 program that is got the the nerve to pursue it vigorously. 245 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:10.519 Yeah, Chris, Chris Chappie, who does a YouTube channel for 246 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:13.399 Task and Purpose, And I'll link this on the show 247 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.240 page later as well. I was about to look it 248 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:17.919 up right now, but get distracted. We need to focus 249 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.360 on our conversation. He had a video that came out 250 00:14:22.759 --> 00:14:28.480 about the same time the President Trump made his comments 251 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:32.759 about the cartel. Where As Chris does he's got a 252 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.799 great team working for him. I assume he has a 253 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:36.519 team working for him. Either that or he's really good 254 00:14:36.519 --> 00:14:39.240 at your research. But there is there's a war going 255 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:43.960 on right now, a civil war inside the Cineela pronouncing 256 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:49.559 that correctly cartel that the Mexican military, which is really 257 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:53.919 the only uncorruptible force they have in Mexico, are are 258 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:56.799 going in and doing what looks like if you've seen 259 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.279 video of Fallujah, that's what's happening in city of a 260 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:03.320 million in Mexico right now. It's not getting much play 261 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:09.000 here north of the border. I know the new president Steinbaum, 262 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:11.759 whatever her name is in Mexico doesn't give the appearance 263 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.559 to somebody who's all that pro American, But there might 264 00:15:15.639 --> 00:15:19.720 be a convergence of interests here. If the Mexican government 265 00:15:19.840 --> 00:15:24.200 is already doing Flujah type operations in their own cities 266 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.159 against the cartels, that it might actually be a good 267 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:31.399 time that we can work together, especially with the intel 268 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:34.799 assets that we have in place, because if you're still 269 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:38.200 in protecting the American people, we already have people being 270 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:41.799 killed by the tens of thousands and the and I 271 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:47.320 think everybody here has either in their family or in 272 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:50.720 their friend's family somebody that has been affected by what 273 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:55.480 Fitanol has done in the last decade to people. So 274 00:15:55.679 --> 00:16:00.399 it's there's a lot of danger there because we've all 275 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:03.320 been part of, you know, the mowing the ocean and 276 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:07.559 the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. That I wouldn't say 277 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:10.799 it's futile, but it's got limited benefit that there are 278 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:18.679 other ways that you can interdict at the source the 279 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:26.240 actual production of these incredibly nightmare drugs. This is a 280 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:30.799 long time from Jimmy Buffett's pirate running grass and an 281 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:36.919 old shrimp boat. Are you know? Cocaine cowboys dropping kilos 282 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.960 out of the window, driving flying over Texas. This is 283 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.000 a whole different ballgame, and it also flows together really well. 284 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.679 There's been a really good reporting on this. If you've 285 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:51.480 seen it the last four years, the huge influx of 286 00:16:53.600 --> 00:16:59.480 illegal immigrants into the United States. They're not coming there 287 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:04.079 on their own. The cartels own the northern part of Mexico. 288 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:07.279 They're paying money to the cartels. They've made billions and 289 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:11.000 billions of dollars off of that. So by securing our 290 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:16.799 southern border at last and cutting off that business of 291 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.000 smuggling people across the border in the in the millions, 292 00:17:21.079 --> 00:17:25.559 that also will constrict one of the income sources from 293 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.119 the cartel. And for those parts of the border that 294 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.039 aren't yet secure of what they've been able to do 295 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:35.839 is you overload the border patrol with ten thousand people 296 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:38.559 coming through Eagle Pass, Texas, and then you can run 297 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:41.920 your fittinol forty miles to the west through the desert 298 00:17:41.960 --> 00:17:44.599 and nobody's going to catch them. So there's some synergy 299 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:47.799 there of a few policies that can be changed that 300 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:52.039 really could make some address to address the issues. And 301 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:54.160 it really is a national security issue. It's more than 302 00:17:54.240 --> 00:17:59.839 just just drug control. It's it's a cancer on our 303 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:05.240 larger society. And if we can control the supply coming in, 304 00:18:05.640 --> 00:18:08.240 then some smarter people will have to work on why 305 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.079 there's such a demand for it inside the US. 306 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.720 Yeah, President Shinebaum, I think it is the coach, you know. 307 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:18.880 She She has had at least one call with President 308 00:18:19.200 --> 00:18:22.839 to elect Trump and apparently it was cordial. So we'll 309 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:25.799 see how this goes. But you know, the first problem 310 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.519 Mexico has is admitting they have a problem. Could use 311 00:18:28.559 --> 00:18:33.279 some help. And you know, any a joint task force 312 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:39.759 be uh combined, combined to ask words right would be 313 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:44.000 would be a good idea. If we're gonna uh, it 314 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:47.240 would be better to be invited than to then to 315 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:49.960 bloods in our way and. 316 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:51.680 In military to military would be a good way to 317 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:56.319 approach it because One of the things that Chris Chiappie 318 00:18:56.599 --> 00:19:01.960 outlines in his video is when the Mexican military, which 319 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:05.839 is the use they use naval, infantry and marines as well, 320 00:19:05.880 --> 00:19:08.440 it's not just the army. When they go in, one 321 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.279 of the first things they do is they surround the 322 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:16.279 local police headquarters and disarm the police because the civilian 323 00:19:16.839 --> 00:19:21.799 police are so corrupt that they can't be trusted. People 324 00:19:21.799 --> 00:19:24.720 talk about interagency law enforcement, Okay, you're going to have 325 00:19:24.839 --> 00:19:29.960 a bunch of FBI and Border Control people talking to 326 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:36.039 civilian police people south of the border. To me, that's 327 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:42.319 just an invitation for intel leakage and all sorts of problems. 328 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:44.640 If we can find a way to have it military 329 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:47.160 to military, there's more of a chance to you having 330 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:49.680 some security on what actions you're going to be taking. 331 00:19:50.519 --> 00:19:55.079 But people know that there's not You're not having a 332 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:59.839 bunch of people who have Age of Aquarius views of 333 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:01.480 human nature that are going to be coming in the 334 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:03.240 Trump administration. I don't think. 335 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.519 Yeah, again, it's gonna really depend on I mean, the 336 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:10.039 Secretary whoever the new Secretary of State's going to be 337 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.279 and the new Secretary of Defense are gonna have some 338 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.440 they're gonna have their work cut out for him, because 339 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:17.559 in the way things work, especially if you if if 340 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:20.440 President elect follows up on his promise to get rid 341 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:24.200 of a lot of the the folks in the swamp, 342 00:20:25.519 --> 00:20:27.400 so called swamp, then you know they're gonna have to 343 00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:30.039 They're gonna have an uphill fight against a lot of resistance. 344 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:34.200 And that meeting that was reported where somebody was, you know, 345 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:36.480 what do we do if he I'm not sure what 346 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:38.880 in the content that you know, we never know because 347 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:41.240 not sitting in the meeting, but apparently the context was 348 00:20:41.559 --> 00:20:43.960 what do we do if he decides the US US 349 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:52.799 military to help round up the illegal immigrants and ship 350 00:20:52.839 --> 00:20:57.799 them out? And you know that that whole meeting of 351 00:20:57.920 --> 00:21:04.079 senior people, I assume pretty disturbing and it bodes not 352 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:09.519 well for a smooth implementation of policies that the President 353 00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:11.359 electors said he would like to see in place. 354 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:18.200 If that's going to be I think a defining point 355 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:21.599 in the first year of the administration. I pointed out 356 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:25.000 earlier this week that in a fifty to fifty nation, 357 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:33.599 you would hope that the people who populate our bureaucracy 358 00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:38.480 for our government for all the people would roughly represent 359 00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:43.599 the people within a couple of standard deviations. So you 360 00:21:43.640 --> 00:21:47.640 would hope that the voters in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and 361 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:50.680 Washington d C. They don't have to be, you know, 362 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.720 fifty to fifty when they vote, but sixty forty would 363 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:56.960 be fine. You know, sixty five something like that would 364 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.359 would be okay. But when you look at at the 365 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:05.400 election results in Washington, d C. I'm maybe off a 366 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:08.480 percentage point or two, but it doesn't matter ninety three 367 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:14.279 percent for President Biden, whether you are pro Biden or 368 00:22:14.440 --> 00:22:19.000 pro Trump or if those numbers will switched around. That's 369 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:22.319 not healthy. So when you have that much of a 370 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:27.559 hyperpartisan environment where you have a lot of people who 371 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:32.079 they're not used to being around people who have different 372 00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:38.839 policy positions than they do, they can react in unhelpful 373 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:41.880 manners kind of what that report has where they're getting together. 374 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:46.039 I mentioned a few times I live in a metropolitan 375 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:51.400 area of a million people. It voted for President Trump 376 00:22:51.960 --> 00:22:54.839 by a point and a half. In twenty sixteen, it 377 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:59.799 voted for President Biden by I think three points and 378 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:04.680 twenty twenty and the twenty twenty four election they voted 379 00:23:04.680 --> 00:23:07.400 for Trump again by about a one point seven points. 380 00:23:07.519 --> 00:23:14.519 It's a fifty to fifty metropolitan area. Everybody gets along here. 381 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:17.440 There are no riots, there are no threats. Everything's fine. 382 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:22.359 Everybody gets along here because you're you drive down a street, 383 00:23:22.440 --> 00:23:27.359 you see Abiden, a Trump, Abiden, a Trump, abiden a 384 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:30.000 Trump sign, and that's just how folks live. I think 385 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:34.640 that that makes for a healthy environment. That's not healthy 386 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:37.240 in Washington, DC when you have ninety three percent all 387 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:39.759 for one political party. We see that manifested in some 388 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:43.720 of the trials and the jury selections and things like that. 389 00:23:44.720 --> 00:23:50.640 But how they address those people in the bureaucracy that 390 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:55.119 are not willing to do their job still because they're 391 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:59.599 hyper political. There's going to have to be accountability. There's 392 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:04.319 going to be some person health action. There has to be, 393 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:06.039 and you have to make examples of people. If I 394 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:08.279 don't care what your personal politics are, If you have 395 00:24:08.319 --> 00:24:12.720 a legal order, you execute it. You and I both 396 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:17.240 have have served under different political administrations, and I've been 397 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:20.640 given orders by Republicans and Democrats, some of which I didn't. 398 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:25.839 Beginning to get a little fuzzy on your sound, so 399 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:28.440 over the yeah, I think I think you're right. I mean, 400 00:24:28.480 --> 00:24:30.319 it is astonishing when you saw those things and I 401 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.880