If I Were A Drug Cartel Kingpin...

[kybkh]

I would promote three major political policies with every dollar of extra capital I had.

1. Open Borders - Obvious reasons why.
2. Gun Control - Not that I wouldn't send mi hombres without firearms. Just so the population I was selling to could only offer token resistance.
3. Keeping Drugs Illegal - Obama had every chance to legalize marijuana. Hillary could have promoted its legalization. Neither did.

The Drug Cartels have who knows how much money invested in California politics. God only knows how much dirt they could bury any number of well-known people under by dropping the dime.

[DBTrek]

Interesting observation.

You may be on to something.

[Speaker to Animals]

The way it worked in 1980s Florida was through indirect corruption, though. It was mainly the banks that were directly colluding with the cartels. They flooded the South Florida economy (and to a lesser extent that of Central Florida) with huge amounts of money. The banks would then ensure the politicians kept the system running profitably. Then, because the economy was being propped up by the drug money, really nobody wanted to question it. The whole country was in a huge recession, and yet you had luxury stores opening up everywhere, sports cars driving around everywhere (and I mean expensive as fuck cars back then), and all of that basically propped up every other sector. The guy who owned a furniture store was selling furniture to the guy who owned the high-end jewelry store who sold to drug dealers. Do you think Mr. Furniture Store wants to burn the whole system down so that people stop dying on the streets? Nope. Not until his kids get hooked on drugs or get killed.

If the cartels directly deal with the politicians, the intelligence services would catch wind of it most likely and find a way to destroy the politicians to get rid of the problem. That's my take on it.

But, what they more likely do is deal directly with very large international banks who help move around money, launder it, and hide it. Then those banks deal with the politicians probably through third party lobbyists. Finally, you will have pretty much ALL of the California small businesses, retailers, etc., lobbying to keep the system running because it's the basis of their business now.

You have to burn this shit down. Enforce your borders. Kick out the invaders. Weed out the corruption. If people's businesses are only able to run on blood money, then they need to update their resumes. Fuck them. Seriously, fuck them.

[Speaker to Animals]

Also, realize, that most international banks have their very own intelligence services. They are not easy to crack. At all.

[Haumana]

I would promote three major political policies with every dollar of extra capital I had.

1. Open Borders - Obvious reasons why.
2. Gun Control - Not that I wouldn't send mi hombres without firearms. Just so the population I was selling to could only offer token resistance.
3. Keeping Drugs Illegal - Obama had every chance to legalize marijuana. Hillary could have promoted its legalization. Neither did.

The Drug Cartels have who knows how much money invested in California politics. God only knows how much dirt they could bury any number of well-known people under by dropping the dime.

I was there during the first attempt at legalizing marijuana and it was pointed out by a number of people that the Pelosi/Feinstein camp were in lockstep with the Mexican cartels on all 3 of those issues and a few others. The initiative failed by the slimmest of margins at that time.

[kybkh]

We ain't talking play money here. From what I understand a couple of million can get you set up right nice. The rest is walking around money.

So in a spirit of empirical humility, we shouldn’t accept as gospel the estimate, from the Justice Department, that Colombian and Mexican cartels reap $18 billion to $39 billion from drug sales in the United States each year. (That range alone should give you pause.) Still, even if you take the lowest available numbers, Sinaloa emerges as a titanic player in the global black market. In the sober reckoning of the RAND Corporation, for instance, the gross revenue that all Mexican cartels derive from exporting drugs to the United States amounts to only $6.6 billion. By most estimates, though, Sinaloa has achieved a market share of at least 40 percent and perhaps as much as 60 percent, which means that Chapo Guzmán’s organization would appear to enjoy annual revenues of some $3 billion — comparable in terms of earnings to Netflix or, for that matter, to Facebook.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magaz ... lions.html

[kybkh]

Imagine a typical weekend in New York City. Experts estimate that at least one percent of the population - 80,000 plus - spends $200 on illicit drugs. That alone would amount to $16 million dollars a week or $832 million a year. And that's just New York.

All those drug sales mean that large amounts of cash accumulate in stash houses and collection points around the country. For the multi-billion dollar narcotics business - like any commodities business -- it is essential that the suppliers and transporters be paid. That means the money must make its way south, and the traffickers, aided by specialists in money laundering, have devised myriad methods to insure the efficient and safe delivery of their profits.
When the drug money ultimately makes its way into the foreign economy, it is used to pay the salaries of shippers and processors, as well as the bribes that supplement the incomes of government officials on both sides of the border (just a throw away line. just like they pay their accountants they bribe American officials no biggie, the real story is somewhere else). Whole regions of Mexico, Colombia and points in between have become dependent on the demand for drugs in the United States.

--Never even thought about this, if you are a true Globalist you drug money is just another redistribution program and white genociding all in one.--

While the drug money may provide much needed influxes of capital to these economies, experts now agree that over time the money can devastate legitimate business and long term development. "A normal businessman, he needs money, he needs capital and he's going to borrow that," says former State Department official Jonathan Winer, "He's going to pay 6%, 8%, 10% [interest] on that money. He's going to earn a profit on it to pay that back. But the drug trafficker is happy to pay 6% or 8% or 10% loss, reverse interest, to have that money laundered. So they have a competitive advantage over everybody. So they go into a business--they can take that business over. And no one can compete."

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontlin ... /math.html

[kybkh]

Anyone doubting the Cartels influence in California politics are blinded by their privilege.

FBI eyes Mexican Mafia control of Los Angeles County jails

Federal agents are making arrests and executing search warrants targeting the Mexican Mafia's control of Los Angeles County jails.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says the suspects were being processed Wednesday and will appear in court later in the day.

Federal prosecutors are scheduled to hold a news conference later in the day to announce the results of what they've dubbed "Operation Dirty Thirds."

The Mexican Mafia is an organization of imprisoned street gang leaders who control drug trafficking operations and order retaliatory violence both inside and outside California prisons and jails.

FBI agents were seen leading people into an arrest processing area set up in Whittier Narrows, east of downtown Los Angeles.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-eyes-mex ... 40498.html

[MilSpecs]

The guy who owned a furniture store was selling furniture to the guy who owned the high-end jewelry store who sold to drug dealers. Do you think Mr. Furniture Store wants to burn the whole system down so that people stop dying on the streets? Nope.

So Ethan Allen is actually a code name for the head of the international drug cartel? Diabolical.

[Speaker to Animals]

Are all women like Cathy Newman?