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Speaker 2: Three stories.
Speaker 1: Story number one Mexico's cartels versus US cartels.
Speaker 2: This is a little little research.
Speaker 1: I did, having been inspired by a conversation with my
friend Hector. Story number two the tragedy of Trump caving
on phones and TV tariffs. I was getting so excited
about this. And story number three, the newest woke discovery
is that Jesus Christ was autistic. We'll talk about all
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the times to which God has decided we shall live.
Speaker 4: And I am in.
Speaker 1: Mexico and Port of Art, a beautiful place down here
with Renewed Healthcare, getting actual health care rather than disease care.
And I had occasion to take a trip with a friend, Hector,
who works at renew and we had a fascinating conversation
about Mexico and the United States, and I was asking
him about the government here, and this is when we
were driving around. There are seven police forces that work
in and around here. The army is present here. There
are two police forces I think attached completely to tours,
at least one for sure. There's the Federalists, there's the
local police, and so port of Arta is a relatively
safe place. One of the things this guy mentioned to
me was that the cartels patrol basically the water and
they cooperate with the government here, and in some ways,
the Kiblisco cartel is the government here, and it's so
fascinating because they actually have in many ways better drug
policies than like the separate country of Washington State, for instance.
You don't self fentanyl here. That's you might get forgiveness
once from the cartels, but if you get caught doing
it again, you are out and you're ended, I mean ended.
They just it's bad business. And as he and I
were talking about this, Hector said, I know, that's really
weird that the cartels, you know, cooperate with government, and
I said, it's not weird. We have the same thing
in the United States. We just call them a different name.
And if you think about it from their perspective, and
I don't sponsor what they do. Obviously, I don't use drugs,
and I don't think other people should use drugs.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean.
Speaker 1: Drugs you have to use for the doctor occasionally, but
certainly not the amount that we're pushed in the United States.
And if you look at from their perspective, they're business people, right,
they don't consider themselves terrorists or they're business people. And
their business is a tough business and it's non regulated,
and so they regulate at the point of a gun,
and it's not a happy picture. But I said, but
we have our own cartels, and he laughed.
Speaker 2: He got it.
Speaker 4: You knew what I was saying. And because he's worked around.
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and I.
Speaker 1: Just started exploring some numbers and for this I used
Grock from Twitter dash X and I want to go
through these numbers with you because it got down to
a pretty extraordinary point.
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So some images I polled through this Grock investigation. I
looked at the GDP comparison between the United States and Mexico,
and the recent numbers they could poll was twenty twenty
three United States twenty seven point three four trillion dollars
in Mexico one point seventy nine trillion.
Speaker 4: And Grok made a point.
Speaker 1: About talking about the diversification of revenue sources in the
United States versus that of Mexico. United States has a
lot more diversified takes or sources of revenue.
Speaker 4: So far far bigger economy, but then a smaller.
Speaker 2: Base of people in Mexico. And as I was.
Speaker 1: Talking to the locals here, and I've been talking to
a lot of people, it's just about all tours in
these days, tourism and construction, a little bit of shipping.
So the cartels are somewhat outsized. They're cartels versus our cartels,
and you know what I mean by our cartels. So
drug trafficking estimates per drug sales in the United States
are nineteen to twenty nine billion premiere, probably in Mexico
for Mexican cartels, and yeah, this is coming the United States, marijuana, cocaine, methanphetamine, heroin,
fentanyl being key products. Twenty ten RAND study estimated that
six points six to eight billion just from drugs exports
to the US, while older reports from twenty eleven suggests
thirty five to forty five billion globally, with the US
is the primary market.
Speaker 4: They talk about fentanyl.
Speaker 1: Other activities, and there's drug trafficking always precedes human trafficking
because human trafficking is a better business. You use the
drugs once, make them once, sell them once and you
can exploit human beings endlessly until of course they in
the case of that rich and merciful death and hopefully.
Speaker 2: To the Lord.
Speaker 1: So a reasonable range for twenty twenty three is likely
twenty five to forty billion leading terms of higher end
if phenthanol rise and non drug activities are factored in,
and the Sonolas, the Hollisco new generation cartels dominate Sonla alone,
probably pulling in three to seven billion annually.
Speaker 2: So that's Mexico and I dug a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1: And the comparison between USGDP and GDP revenues cartel revenues
US GDP again twenty seven point three four trillion dollars
in Mexico, GDP one point seventy nine trillion, and cartel
revenue is thirty billion or so in Mexico. And if
you expand this comparison US thirty twenty seven point three
or four trillion Mexico one point seven to nine trillion
US pharma. So if you're looking at the drug business
and you're looking at what what are the cartels selling.
They're selling psychotropic experiences, they're selling sexual experiences, they're selling
dealing with life challenges, calming the minds, distracting the mind.
In the United States, our cartels are doing the same thing. Now, granted,
there are some very important medicines, and that's not pretender.
Speaker 4: It's not.
Speaker 1: There's antibiotics, which are utter gift from God. There's other
medicines that are vitally important ivermectin, hydroxychloroquin, some other fairly
non controversial, very helpful for us. So let's not pretend.
But when we're talking about our nation that has some
what ninety million people taking some form of psychotropic that's
to deal with life issues, depression and anxiety, which I
think had been over you know, over over.
Speaker 2: Pushed over, prescribed as it were.
Speaker 1: But then again, I'm not a doctor. I'm just looking
at the data. So US farmer revenue is seven hundred billion,
our economy's twenty seven point three or four trillion, Mexico's
GDP one point seventy nine trillion, and their cartel revenue.
Speaker 2: Is thirty billion.
Speaker 1: So just to recap that, this is where it gets creepy.
This is where it gets really creepy to me. So
you have our cartels versus their cartels. Our cartels cooperate
with government, our cartels are some of the biggest donors
to campaigns in the world. They control some of the
biggest positions in traditional television advertising, eight out of the
ten top revenue slots.
Speaker 2: On TV.
Speaker 1: They are pushing drugs. You can't buy directly from them.
You have to go through an intermediary, and you have
they're pushing that. So I looked at per citizen values
for cartel revenue dash pharmer revenue. The United States, farmer
revenue per citizen is two thousand and fifty three dollars.
Average yearly income is eighty thousand. This is what Grock says.
That sounds high to me, but that's what Grox says.
The ratio twenty fifty three divided by eighty thousand and
sixteen one hundred and sixteen equals two point five six
percent a revenue per citizen two five six percent per
the average citizen. In Mexico, the cartel revenue per citizen
is two hundred and thirty three pay our dollars. We
did this in dollars. Average income per citizen is ten
thousand dollars and thirty ten thousand and thirty dollars, So
two hundred and thirty three divided by ten thousand and
thirty equals point zero two three two or two point
three to two percent per citizen. It is nearly the
same as the United States revenue per citizen. In relation
to our cartels. And again, what are they selling. The
selling experience is sexual and otherwise they're selling I don't
want to say mind control because they don't think it's control.
I think it's loosening the mind. And they're doing this
to bodies and minds and souls. The cartels in Mexico,
at least according to my friends, they they work with
the government. Our cartels work with the government. Now I'm
not saying that our cartels are in going out and
in armed conflict and.
Speaker 2: Doing with the cartels do here.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason why so many of the
Mexican law enforcement officials wear masks, and it's not because
of flues. They hide their identity. They have to, particularly
in northern Mexico. So while there's some differences, there is
a very very key similarity.
Speaker 2: There is help.
Speaker 1: There's the cartels helping government here, there's cartels helping government
the United States, and it goes either way with government
helping cartels and may God have mercy on us for
choosing to take the bodies and minds he gave us,
and to I think, in my judgment, abuse in this way.
And thanks to my friend for sharing this all with me.
I've been a lot of thinking about our pretend economy
and what President Trump could have done with the tariffs
if he had stayed stayed the course in electronics, and
a lot of this occurred to me as I drove
through Mexico, which me to story number two, President Trump's
the tragedy of President Trump backing off of the electronics
and the triffs of the electronics. Now that this occurred
to me about the same time as I was going
through Mexico and and and talking with a friend of
mine about the differences in government, and we went around
the real part of Port of Arta. This is where
the citizens of Mexico live, most of them. And I
don't want to be rude or dismissive of the city,
but there's part of the city corps that is completely unattractive.
And I'm not, you know, speaking out of out of school.
They know this, they know there's parts of their cities
that that that looks terrible. There's very very beautiful parts.
And it's not all just the resorts where by mats
and you know tourists go. There are some unbelievably beautiful
mountains montagnous montagnous, montagnous in jungles.
Speaker 2: Here and waterfalls here.
Speaker 1: And everyone knows about the beaches. But there are some
places here that are as abjectly in poverty as any
I've ever seen, and sometimes depressingly. So I went to
church on Sunday with the Amazing Grace, which is a
mission here that is really trying to reach people at
risk of being trafficked, and get to meet some of
the girls who were have been given scholarships to go
to school. Althwise, they wouldn't be going to school, it
would couldn't afford college. They'd be working rather than going
to high.
Speaker 4: School, junior high.
Speaker 1: And they talked about the reality on the street for
parts of part of our tech. So what does this
have to do with President Trump and the tariffs. Well,
as I was driving around and I saw some poor
kids playing. I mean, I'm talking about houses.
Speaker 2: That don't look the least bit.
Speaker 1: Safe, missing windows, clearly not sanitary at least on the outside.
I'm sure that the families do the best they can
on the inside. What do I see the kids doing
happily playing in the dirt like they're just happy kids
and running around playing in the dirt, playing ball games,
a couple of kids swinging from trees.
Speaker 4: And no faults.
Speaker 1: And it really got me to thinking about what China
has done to us, because China's done something to us
that is very sneaky, super smart, and it is absolutely
maoist in nature. So I'll share this with you in
just a second, as we hear from the new economiccount Director,
Kevin has set talked with the always helpful Jake Tapper, who,
as you know, is not a liberal.
Speaker 4: Just ask him.
Speaker 5: These policies, which the president successfully had acted in the
first term, are going to increase the demand for labor,
increase wages up by almost sixty five hundred dollars in
the first three years the Trump administration. And so what
it means is that even if you accept the daysayer's
perspective on what might happen to the price of a
cup of coffee, that the person walking into the coffee
shop is going to have a lot more money. In
the fifteen years after Trya entered, the wto real wages
went down so wages went down by more than prices
as we thought these cheap goods were going to revolution
atize America.
Speaker 2: In fact, it was the opposite.
Speaker 4: Welfare went down.
Speaker 5: We had Angust Eaton write a whole book about the
deaths of despair that we're related to this, And so
I think we're very optimistic about the fact that people
are going to have more money in their pockets and
that they're going to have a higher standard of living.
Speaker 1: The standard living trap. That's what I want to talk about,
the standard of living trap. This is what occurred to
me as I drove through Mexico and where of the
differences and the sizes of our economy, the diversity of
our economy, and yet watching real people doing real things,
seeing people not living in the resorts, visiting with people
about what this used to be, and the fishing that
used to occur here, and people telling me, oh, in
the stream over here, we used to go cash shrimps.
They say, they plural that way we caught shrimps and
would our moms would cook them for us. I started
to think about what China has done to us, and
it's so brilliant. We're going to hook your companies on
really high margins because we're massive manipulators of currency. That's
the Chinese comments Party. We don't care about human life,
so we're going to abuse people in factories. We don't
care about human life, so we're going to use prison labor,
and we're going to bet you're going to use it too.
And we're going to bet that companies, like US media companies,
you're going to come over to China and show off
the Olympics, knowing that they there is a concentration camp
of of of people in the background, but they're gonna
blur it out or pretend it's not there, and they
did that. American companies have been addicted to these these
artificially low prices, and so the American consumer, you know,
as President Trump was talking about actually enforcing these tariffs
against consumer electronics before he caved, and he did cave,
and it's not that's guys, that's not five layer chess.
Speaker 2: That's that's cave.
Speaker 1: He had a great promise, which was to show us
to our face what we're willing to buy, uh, what
we're willing to get addicted to have. We're willing to
jettison American jobs, American manufacturing so we can have a massive,
wall sized TV in multiple rooms of our houses, and
that we can have in our phone in our pockets
a movie theater and a concert venue and a distraction
machine for games.
Speaker 4: Let's not lie.
Speaker 1: I mean Google Maps is cool, and Apple Maps is cool,
and texting is convenient, but everything else in these devices
is pure distraction. And it also gets down to the
heart of what we're called to do as human beings
who are created by God. We are not meant to
be consumers. And I've said this forever on the radio show,
and I've set it for the podcast. If you spend
more time on podcasting or videos than you do with
the word of God or your family, make my stuff
the first thing you drop, and replace that with church
time and family time. So I looked at the research
and this is a shocking, shocking chart. Time spent on
activities by Americans age twelve through fifty five. This is
twenty thirteen to twenty twenty three. You'll see some bumps
in here. For COVID, about two hundred hours a year
with families talking to one another, two hundred hours a year.
In sports, it's about fifty hours a year. This is
playing sports not watching them, playing them, you know, actually
out using your bodies. Video games is roughly about two
hundred hours a year on video games. Taking in all
visual media aside from games, you're talking here about some
four hundred to four hundred and.
Speaker 2: Fifty hours per year.
Speaker 1: Going to church church services is roughly about fifty hours
a year volunteering at church. It's a gray line at
the bottom. Average volunteering for churches comes in around twenty
hours a year. When God called us to become part
of his family, he called us to be the church.
And China doesn't mean us. Well, the Chinese government doesn't.
I think that they're probably at least passively aligned with Satan.
All these things are utter distractions, and this chart is
completely upside down.
Speaker 2: We're called first to.
Speaker 1: Have an abiding relationship with Jesus, and that abiding relationships
manifest as wanting to work for him, wanting to build
the kingdom. That's one of the signs that you have
been changed and given the fruit of the spirit. We're
then called to be within our families mother and father
spiritual liters of the I'm a father's primarily the spiritual leader,
both spouses coming under and lifting up the man taking
his direction from Jesus and leading in a godly way,
and the woman following in a godly way. So is
the so long as the man is reacting within the Bible.
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that we should
spend our time consuming. It praises some physical activity that
praises friends, that praise his relationship. But we in the
United States have been caught into a massive, massive, mental
and spiritual vice. People did panic about TVs and about phones,
and the Mockingbird media saw fit to make sure that
they did because the Mockingbird media can't have us waking
up and realizing we built our own mental and physical
spiritual prison with cheap goods from China, and I think
China knows that story. Number three notes from the Roads
a new woke discovery on Jesus, Jesus, the Lord Jesus,
and I'm learning about this during a wholy week not
the be discover this video of a woke female pastor
making the most amazing claim about Jesus Christ.
Speaker 4: Well, maybe not the most amazing.
Speaker 1: So far, we've learned that Jesus was confused about his identity,
didn't know what sex he was, didn't really mean that
he was fully god fully human, didn't really.
Speaker 2: Know God that well, was just this cat.
Speaker 1: The new one, though, has to do with a mental
condition and a neurological condition that this person says Jesus
displays in code. And I'll show you this in just
a seconds. There is a condition that our economy is
in right now.
Speaker 4: And I am.
Speaker 1: Really, really, really sad that President Trump decided to back
off on these tariffs on these consumer electronic goods. I
think it would be better for our society that they
go away. I think it would be better for our
souls that they go away. And it's sad to me
that President Trump backed off. That said, hopefully he's going
to continue the fight against China, because if he does,
we may have the first for real, pure daylight of
our economy for the longest time, particularly if you add
to this what he's doing with energy independence and bringing
manufacturing home. If your portfolio is not actively managed, I
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Speaker 2: How you set yourself up for success in this environment.
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A woke pastor or fake pastor, as we sometimes say pastors,
claims that Jesus Christ is autistic, and there is nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: With autistic people. It's a fairly.
Speaker 1: Recent phenomena, and I have some ideas about that that
I'll not share here.
Speaker 2: So let's not be distracted.
Speaker 4: But let's listen to and watch the fake pastor.
Speaker 6: Jesus was hella autistic? Let's talk about it. So a
lot of people get very uncomfortable when I talk about
Jesus within the context of neurodivergence. However, I do want
to remind you that he had got in his brain.
There was no possibility for a nuotypical experience, absolutely none. However,
I do feel like there were very specific points in
his life where you can look at them and say,
absolutely that is autistic coded. So first of all, when
he left his parents and was at the temple for
three days and they find him and he's like, what
did you know? Where I'd be special interest? He would
preach for like three days in a row, and then
at the very end be like, oh yeah, they probably
need to eat, absolutely hyper focused. And then when he
does need to perform these miracles, he doesn't like being
asked to do it. But he always eventually does it
so easily, it's like it's not even an effort for him,
so like walking on water, totally autistic coded.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny, that's so funny. That's so funny.
Speaker 1: The desperation to make Jesus everything other than who he
is is one of the biggest indicators that the left deeply,
deeply fears Jesus. It couldn't be that Jesus Christ wanted
to focus on the spiritual needs above the physical needs.
It couldn't be that Jesus Christ wanted his disciples to
come to him and say that people haven't eaten. There's
so many here, Lord, what are we going to do?
It couldn't be that he wanted to have a teaching
moment where Jesus said, gosh, whatever will we do? How
are we ever going to feed them? My goodness, gracious,
what do we have? And they didn't come to him
and ask, They didn't come and.
Speaker 2: Say, Lord, Jesus, please provide for these people.
Speaker 4: They're hungry.
Speaker 1: They were thinking they needed to go into town and
be provided, And Jesus has described I've shown you so
much and you still don't get it. It couldn't be
that Jesus and going into the temple and teaching, became
engrossed into teaching. And it couldn't be that he had
assumed that his parents would obviously know that he had
a zeal for his father's house. That says as much
in scripture, you have a zeal from a house. And
it couldn't be, of course, that Jesus, in performing miracles,
didn't like to be asked because he wanted people to
want him, not the show, not the magic show. And
this is exactly what Jesus described, And no, he didn't
always do miracles. The fake pastor with the insane weird
purple smoke flame.
Speaker 4: Coming off behind her as an affect on her.
Speaker 1: Video failed to mention a time where Jesus was done
with that he had fed the five thousand, he had
gone across the waters, he had escaped effectively people trying
to draft him into leading them again as a general
and staying here and being the great miracle.
Speaker 2: Provider, the great food provider.
Speaker 1: And he fled from the crowds, but they followed him.
And then Jesus said to them, because they were there
wanting food, and he knew that they wanted the next meal.
Truly I tell you, if you do not eat my
flesh and drink my blood, it can have no part
of me. And they fled, and Jesus turned to his
disciples and said, are you going to run away as well?
And it was Peter who said, Lord, you are the Way,
the Truth, and the life.
Speaker 2: Where would we go? It couldn't be that Jesus.
Speaker 1: Christ wanted us to experience a savior who himself hadn't
eaten for three days. Jesus went up there snacking while
the other people were hungry. Jesus was showing that he
could be filled by every word that proceeds from the
mouth of God. The fact that the left, the sexual left,
and the political left.
Speaker 4: Is constantly trying to damage Jesus.
Speaker 1: And make Jesus as challenged as they are, shows that
they fear the true Jesus, fully god fully human, fully
capable of offering the free gift of redemption, which is ours
to take or reject. Rather than admit his deity, they
choose to reject his salvation. This is the Todd Hermann
show notes from the Road version. Please go be well,
be strong, be kind, and please make every effort
Speaker 2: To walk in the life of Christ.