Honestly, I still can not understand how people are missing what President Trump is doing. It just boggles my mind. I couldn't vote for 2 things, but both Americans are spoiled and borders are critical are the right answers. We're so accustomed to safety that we miss what is happening right under our noses. Some people aren't so lucky. And for those American families that have lost someone....well, the left should be kissing their sneakers. They've suffered more than we'll ever know. And we should all be so damn grateful.
I think “all of the above” is appropriate, except for travel. Travel is critical…other than right now, of course. Ironic, isn’t it, that Canadians traded their typical tropical wintering in Florida for Mexico this year. Bet they’re regretting those decisions right about now. Our tariffs trump Mexico’s instability. Choose wisely next year, neighbors to the North.
Spot on, Nard! Canucks suffer from the WORST case of TDS. An old college friend opted out of her annual tennis clinic in the Sunshine State purely because her “elbows up” (major cringe) crowd bullied her into an impulsive decision to go to Puerto Vallarta! I believe she missed the “dust up” by a mere week! Dumb shites.
I'm Canadian (dual citizenship), and this TDS bs is so tiresome.
The Canadian government hasn't done anything material to benefit Canadians for a decade, but they want to criticize Trump who is clearly actively working to help Americans.
Unfortunately, the voters of Canada are boomers that don't want any change, because it threatens their house values. Fuck the younger generations, eh?
Hell, the rest of us might do the same thing if we were in their position, but I like to think I wouldn't be such a dick about it ;)
Kidding aside, I just think of my poor kids just entering adulthood and without material financial support, will be completely unable to manage a lifestyle anywhere near what we (GenX) manage to have.
Oh, you poor, jealous, fecal filled, TDS filled, covid jabbed, mentally unhinged thing. Mexico is a craphole laden with cartels. And yes, let Canadians go there as they can enjoy a bogo; giardia (yes, I know you have to look that up) and some cartel violence with breakfast.
After her first day in Mexico, my sister had to be flown back to nearest US hospital because she ate a piece of freaking fruit, drank local water and got seriously sick with giardia.
Giardia! 30 years ago, husband brought it home from India (having forgotten? refused?) to heed my warnings about consuming only bottled water and cooked food). County Board of Health paid me a call to inquire. That was unsettling.
My two would have been Change Is Messy; and also Border Are Critical. Just ask Miss Claudia how messy change is… she is radically changing her tune. I don’t know what DJT is saying to her, but I say - “Keep it comin’, Mr. President!”
I don't think I've done it myself--not intentionally, in any case. I have to guess that you are at least partially correct about my "divorce" though. Given the incredible amount of propaganda that we're all force-fed daily, how could it be otherwise?
The media they suck up in high dudgeon is per studies, 97% leftist. That’s why. I used to buy the left garbage that the media was almost entirely Right. Shows how gaslit I was then. My husband says he’s well informed. He wouldn’t be able to find the truth if he spooned it up with his Raisin Bran every morning, sadly. Yahoo News is his go to. Sure, Sweetheart.
The left-funded protest-industrial-complex in the US will be updating their training material to include footage of the cartels' hijinks. Commandant Soros must be green with envy.
Borders don't exist, they are artificial lines drawn on a map full of countries that you were taught to believe are real. It's simply a belief installed in our minds as children. Countries & borders only exist in your programmed mind. Thinking something that doesn't exist, and never existed is critical - is insane. But that's what decades of mind control does to the human brain. Sad.
Wow, congrats! You figured out the secret of the universe while I was being programmed. Excuse me while I go help myself to my neighbor’s snack cabinet. I'll be sure to reassure him that with your help, I've been able to rise above such primitive illusions as "artificial boundaries."
Oh no Jenna, the sign of success is when you end up on the Left’s radar and they come in droves to discredit your perspectives and minimize your influence. I’ve barely started in the comments today and already there are three TDS inflicted rageaholics spewing their retardation all over here.
A border is what a sovereign country is willing and able to defend, often by force. Of course borders aren't natural, except maybe a large river, an ocean or mountain peaks. Even those borders must be defended. The story of Hannibal is an invader willing to cross the Alps into Italy, something thought impossible before it was done. The idea that there can ever be "No Borders" is childish at best. It is dangerous ignorance at worst. You are not even a country if you can't protect your citizens. That has been true for thousands of years
Your points are taken, and well spoken. However, the joke on those of us that believe in countries and citizenship...these are THE MOST DANGEROUS superstitions..to quote Larken Rose. No borders is the natural world, as you recognized. In fact, belief in countries and borders are what is childish and dangerously ignorant. But your government mind control programming from birth tells you I am wrong and you are correct.
Wow. God Almighty Himself even made a border when He posted a flaming cherubim to guard the Garden of Eden to bar entrance to that land. There IS such a thing as a natural border, but that was taken off the table when carnal humanity entered the picture. The world you are imagining is a Utopia, and is unreal and impossible until the new heaven and new earth come to fruition. IMHO.
LOL, the Bible was written by men, not "God". You are assuming something you cannot prove based on scrawled language on parchment. I am not imagining a utopia, I am seeing through the false matrix beyond the mind manipulation so rampant it has people believing in things that don't exist. But, yet you think I am the one who is imagining things! Hilarious 😆
You sound like a university student. Full of jealousy hate anger. Gotta ask yourself where that came from. Were you a hateful child or a happy child. How disappointed are your parents. How often do u fight with everyone. Maybe it’s you!! Perhaps you have been captured. Think for yourself or someone else will think for you without thinking of you.
Hey "Warrior" -- I've read Larken Rose and a bunch of other Libertarian texts, and while I agree with them in principle, there's a huge gap between the Libertarian Eden where all people live by the non-aggression principle and current reality here on the ground.
True freedom (if it really exists) implies responsibility on the part of every citizen. Hell, our liberals don't even want to have to show ID to vote or understand the Constitution or even know what civics is. We're surrounded by morons who will vote for Kamala AGAIN if given half a chance. These people are irresponsible and have no place in a Libertarian Utopia. What are you going to do with them?
So go ahead and live in your Platonic Ideal world - but realize it only exists in your head. The rest of us have to play the hand we're dealt, while we wait for illumination from on high to reach everyone at the same time.
Doug, I am glad you at least recognize the principles involved..you are way ahead of most of the people here making brainwashed comments. What you missed is that one cannot be free and be a citizen...the concept of citizenship means you are subject to a ruler which obviously means you cannot be free, by definition. Civics is slavery indoctrination, which worked like a charm as evidenced by nearly everyone in this substack. 😉
Sure, I get that - I'd forgotten that distinction. But again, these are high Libertarian concepts that have almost zero connection to the world in which we live. They're great principles to guide you, even to strive for, but they'll land you in a cage if you try living by them in this world.
I once had a psychedelic epiphany where I lost all ego, experienced my essence as pure energy, and saw all of "everyday reality" as a complex, nested system of barely-perceivable social games in which we all participate, mostly without any conscious awareness.
While I cherish that experience - I liken it to a direct conversation with God (even though no words were spoken), when I came down from that mountain and returned to the everyday world, my epiphany had barely any value, at least to anyone but me. You had to be there. I see pure Libertarian philosophy in a similar light.
Unless you can bring a large number of people within that "fold" within a critical time period (Larken has been attempting that), the idea that we can bring a Pure Libertarian Paradise into being is extremely unlikely. I tried for a time and met with nothing but resistance. Yes, we are brainwashed from a young age into a slave mentality. We are trapped in Plato's Cave, watching the shadows dance on the walls. Knowing that and having a couple of bucks in your wallet may buy you a cup of coffee.
It's the Cassandra Complex, it's the plight of everyone in the Matrix who takes the Red Pill - you can't wake people up unless they want to be awakened, and this world makes it so easy for everyone to stay asleep.
Perhaps you confuse Jenna's group with a potential source of recruits for your Libertarian Utopia - this will result in considerable disappointment. Most people here are concerned with getting America back to a place where our government is smaller, more just and doesn't have the power to fuck with us as it did during the Pandemic - I would be one of those.
While I'd certainly love to fly your plane with you into John Galt's world, I think it's important to recognize that is a metaphor from a novel, and we're not in that world.
Borders are simply boundaries that exist because we choose to create them. I have a home and I lock the door. I have doors inside my home for privacy. I have property boundaries that I paid for. I live within a city limits, a county, a state and a country. I expect set benefits and restrictions at every level. They each come with a social contract. Every one if these is a border and you are simply delusional if you think they don't exist.
If welfare was not an issue that might be more useful. The simple fact is that we as a nation (or whatever you prefer to call us) cannot accept and then support the billions that might prefer to live here.
Where do these stupid ideas come from? How does this humanly make sense? I suggest u go to a country without borders then. Might hard to find one. Or one that doesn’t require ID to shovel snow!!!
I cannot help it that humanity has been mind manipulated by a death cult into believing utter nonsense, but I am trying anyway...unsuccessfully it seems. Try pointing out the border of a "country" to a "space alien" and say..you see it's right here. And the alien says, there's nothing there but soil and water. And you say, but it's right there..the border, of my country..pointing to the dirt. The alien get's back in his ship and files a report to it's home world. The report: These human's are completely delusional, don't come back here.
ME (to myself): Don't respond, don't respond, don't respond...
MYSELF (to me): Actually, you're not the boss of me.
I (to Natural Law Warrior): The alien ostensibly came HERE (where we are) because HERE wasn't THERE (where he's from). Presumably some sort of border exists between the two? Or are you now saying HERE AND THERE ARE ONE AND THE SAME because there's no... actual fence? Should we tell NASA to stop mapping planets because ‘it’s all just molecules?"
Try explaining time zones to your alien. Or ‘inside’ vs. ‘outside.’ Or why you need a passport to fly to Paris even though it’s just more land and ocean. Plenty of things exist without cartoon force fields around them. Gravity has no signposts either—should we just float into space out of protest?
Your alien's report would read, "Humans believe anything they can't physically see must not exist. Do not tell oxygen."
Jenna, I think what you're pointing out here is that there are various abstraction layers between concepts.
There are quantum physicists and mystics that will tell you time and space don't exist, at least in the way our minds tend to perceive them. Likewise, the desk in front of me is made up of trillions of atoms, each of which is made of tiny nuclei orbited by electrons a fraction of their size - all of which aren't "matter" in the way we think of it, but are mostly space occupied by energy fields.
Seen that way, I should be able to push my hand right through the desk - but I'll break every bone trying that, because although my hand is made up of essentially the same stuff as the desk, those energy fields matter.
Jumping up several abstraction layers from there, I think Warrior, while [he?] has points worth considering, is mixing metaphors and is struggling with various abstractions. Making straw-man arguments about space aliens and "pure freedom" misses the point you were making in the original post - that there are very good reasons to enforce national boundaries, because there are profound differences between nations.
As "imperfect" as American "freedom" is, even though I realize that the concept of "country" is bound up in dozens of interlaced "games" in my slavery-brainwashed head, this country is just a better place to live in than Mexico.
Our mental games are better - they resulted in a land where opportunities are better for security and happiness, at least until fairly recently. That it has become corrupt isn't a reason to toss it out - it's a reason to stomp down the corruption to a reasonable level. I think that's a discussion worth having and a reachable goal to strive for. Once we get there, we can talk more effectively about improving our freedom.
Um, why bother pointing out a border to a space alien is devoid of meaning when the only thing that matters is pointing it out to those on the border's other side. That's why we have surveyors. Borders also contain ethnic and linguistic groups, not s meaningless thing. Any chance you are a sovereign citizen who doesn't think passports or drivers licenses are valid? Do you "travel," but don't "drive"?
Only wild animals actually live in the world you speak of. And,indeed,many perish when they come up against the “borders” humans create in the form of fenced land,buildings ,freeways ,and ,habitat destruction. But,humans,as we exist in this dimension/ timeline can not conceive of a world without borders,except in songs and acid trips. Without the absolute majority of humanity dreaming the same dream,it is not physically,3D possible…unless you have some instructions?
Let’s hope if u have a vagina you are not taped or murdeted and if u have a or is you are also not butt raped or murdered . Cartels don’t care about life.
“But here’s the part too many Americans miss: safety isn’t the default setting of the universe—it’s a luxury purchased through constant, often uncomfortable maintenance.” Day-um. That right there is very bad ass. I’ll be thinking about that one for a while (as I drink my coffee in my comfy rocking chair in my cozy house that’s NOT on fire…).
Friends were in Cancun last week for a farm business convention. They will not be going back, regardless of the perks. The road from the resort area to the airport is prime real estate for kidnapping/gunning down travellers.
We were on a West Coast cruise 10 years ago and had a port stop in Ensenada. There was one main drag with tourist-y places and we were told under no circumstances to leave the main drag or our safety could not be guaranteed. Decided at that point that future trips to Mexico were crossed off our list.
Now THIS is for what I voted. I'm glad Trump has taken the actions he has in this area, and glad Americans are being exposed to the REAL realities in Mexico.
BTW, I voted all of the above, including the 'travel' option. If people want to travel, there are plenty of things to see here in America; spend your money at home (just not in rabidly-Leftist conclaves).
One aspect as to why the cartels don't strike here is we are better armed than Mexican citizens. They understand that we wake up and get pissed...they might have machine guns but we have a million guys (10M?) who can shoot a deer hundreds of yards away.
Chiden tried importing thousands of ILLEGALS. The ideas was to create civil war. Hasn't worked yet. What doesn't the other 50% of US Citizens not understand about the human INVASION as ILLEGAL.
Jenna, another article that hits a home run! Your article has woken me up to realize again that we have a leader who is protecting us. By the same token, we need to take on the responsibility to protect ourselves when the time comes. I now want to go out and find ways to protect my family. Thanks for the wake-up call!
Cartels are one half of the equation. Are we doing enough to on the buyer's end? Drug and human trafficking are lucrative because they are financially profitable. It's easy to see the evil on the part of the seller. The buyers must be far more numerous than we know to keep the sellers in business. That's an evil that walks among us.
The Portuguese have an interesting system for drug users. There are virtually NO drugs in the country illegally due to the complete crackdown on dealers and the government takes people in hand who have a drug problem and they have no choice but to get off drugs under supervision. In other words, there is no tolerance for drug addiction. No tears and moaning about poor addicts. They get off drugs or go to jail or leave the country. No choice. One certainly doesn’t see drugged out bums lining the streets. Mandated drug treatment is the only option besides jail.
This is what I would like to see. Oregon's idea to just make hard drugs legal and get the government out of enforcement was a terrible failure. Oregon has collapsed as a viable state as a result with tremendous homelessness and crime
Most if not all blue state politicians exploit the homeless, who are mostly drug addicted, by using OUR tax dollars on fake ngo’s who rake in the money then use it to pay off their cronies & reelection campaigns. It’s an evil & corrupt plan that destroys the body & soul of human beings who will not and/ or cannot help themselves.
The problem is created by politicians & those that vote for them, enabling the drug addicted & then “provide “ the solution - more of our tax dollars = more suffering. The corruption runs deep.
And now they’re trying to get rid of hunting, fishing, livestock farming including raising backyard chickens, on the ballot. Some young skinny vegan guy is behind this. He wants 100% of farmland to be crops, not just 70% as it now is. Hilarious that anyone would sign the petition, but I think he’s half way there already.
Treatment can be used if it's seen as a necessity and not optional. Most addicts can recover but it's an intrusive, expensive process not supported by many of the public because they don't want to interfere with what they believe has been chosen by the addict.
But WHO PAYS for the addicts’ choice? The taxpayers. I’d be for choice if the addicts got no public money AT ALL as a consequence of their choice. As tax paying members of the public, I’m unhappy that their “choice” costs me tens of thousands a year. Many states actually even supply drugs and paraphernalia. My tax money going to a state acting as a glorified drug dealer is repugnant to say the least.
I understand your point. Canada is the same. On the other hand, we also pay for the medical treatment and social support of many people who make lifestyle choices that result in poor health outcomes. Those costs are immense.
So now we have to talk about whether socialized medicine is the answer to anything. I know lots of Canadians end up coming to America for different health conditions. Then there’s the MAID program where some are euthanized against their will and parents can “choose” death for their newborn children. “Medicine” going downhill fast for the poor Canadians.
It would be a boondoggle and giant scam , like autism "treatment". And create a massive industry with every incentive to keep a steady flow of adicts to "treat" for massive profits.
Buyers. You mean addicts. Word salad doesn’t change the meaning. No drugs no adficts. Ask BC the province that provides free drugs and safe places. Now we have 12 year old addicts.
Keep in mind that this wasn't about drugs. This was in response to the ten workers abducted on January 23rd from the Visla Silver mining operation (five of whom have now been found dead the other five are still missing).
With the rising value of silver and Trump declaring silver a "critical national security" material this escalated into a serious problem. (instead of the usual bribe the cartel "aka pay the toll" to ship your silver)
I’m not sure about that, John. From what I’ve read (and I’m admittedly no expert here), I haven’t found any evidence that the kidnapping of the miners had anything to do with El Mencho or the JNGC. Investigators say there was a local feud between members of the Sinaloa Cartel and this was most likely a tragic case of mistaken identity. The Trump administration’s attack on El Mencho was a well-planned and well-executed national-security and law-enforcement effort against El Mencho in an effort to take down the JNGC (a plan that preceded the abduction of the miners) and not retaliation for the kidnapping. The timing is interesting, though.
Yes, I'll agree, there has been no official statement that the two events are linked.
In my mind, it makes sense that the USA perceives the reliable flow of silver as critical and thus it follows that we are now in the process of fixing that problem.
I don't trust what the authorities (or media) "say". What is important to me is to look at what's going on and think about what makes sense to explain the actions occurring.
Cartels from several areas control a number of 'businesses.' Persian, Mexican, Chinese among others. It's not just drugs, for sure. Sam Cooper's Substack, The Bureau, is a window into the tentacles of the monster.
And anyone doubts the importance of a secure border find & watch President Trump’s honoring of the Angel Families yesterday. MSM reported it as an exploitation. POTUS named February 23 as Angel Family Remembrance Day. MSM continues to lie with their illegal alien crime rate numbers.
Our neighbor flew in and out of this airport for work and thankfully was back home just a couple of days before this chaos started. It's scary to think that he could have gotten stranded there if he would have left just a day or two later.
Anyways, I voted "other" like I usually do because things are rarely black or white. The Mexican government should have expected and prepared for this type of response but they went through with it anyways, so it makes one wonder.
"If you thought dismantling the world’s deadliest organized crime network was going to work like unplugging your Wi-Fi and plugging it back in, you must be new here." 🤣🤣
Such a hilarious line. I disagree that the Mexican cartel is the world's deadliest organized crime network though. For those of you who have gone down all the various rabbit holes, you all know that they end up in the same place. The world's deadliest organized crime network is the ruling class made up mostly of psychopathic pedophiles that want to track and control everything that we do. Of course they ostensibly appear to be so benevolent with their concerns about world hunger, climate, national security and defense, and all things good, but we all know that these are the reasons that they use so that they can continue building out their digital control grid to enslave us all.
I know, it all sounds crazy, but for those of us that have been paying attention, it is the truth. We're not in Kansas anymore and we haven't been for a long time!
I assumed you voted "other" because this all for-show and the Cartels are working together with Elvis (and possibly Epstein) to distract us from what's really going on (the imminent revelation that earth is really flat).
Having had an affinity for drug gang movies like El Chapo, Sicario, Scarface and Blow, I do not underestimate the violence of drug cartels. Movies really can't even do it justice. These people are animals without conscience. The Mexican Cartels are just a variation on the Italian Mafioso which America had to fight for decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s, to eradicate. But the Mafia had rules. The Mexican Cartels do not. This is why I could not believe when Biden and his minions like Mayorkas, left our southern border wide open. It is like "Do you want to die?!" Our government's primary responsibility is to protect us. Exposing us to that kind of violence is the furthest thing from safety
Y’all… a friend texted me yesterday that another friend is on her way to Cancun with her husband and daughter because ‘they checked and that area isn’t affected.’ It’s probably not affected now, but with a situation as volatile as this one, I think I’d cancel my spring break. Anyone else?
I mean… I agree with you wholeheartedly. But maybe it won’t spread, I guess. I just wouldn’t take the chance for a vacation. I’d trade in and go to Florida for the beach or something. Cancun can wait til next year.
Cancun is not great at all. Been there done that. People begging for money there everywhere you go pulling on your clothes and getting too close. It is also so dirty and you get food poisoning. No thank you.
I hope they will be safe but she is a very stupid woman.
She checked the liberal news and they said no problem?
It is interesting how there are multiple worlds with multiple beliefs and most of them don't reflect reality. You have to dig and decide for yourself what the truth is. You can't trust anyone that "that area isn't affected".
They will likely get a good dose of reality and some good stories if they are fortunate enough to make it back.
Hi Jenna, borders are critical! And all the others apply as well, but most important is the border thingy! TGIT (Thank God It’s Trump) or we would be burnt toast. Love your illustrations :)
Yeah, I've got a friend-of-a-friend trapped in PV right now. She chimed into our Signal group chat Sunday night, confirming most of the mess I soon thereafter read about and saw videos of. Buildings burning and plumes of smoke. All public transpo suspended. Most stores closed and shelves largely emptied. Flights in/out cancelled. Etc. What a mess. For now, she says she feels safe in her resort, but who knows how this all unfolds. I used to think that all the nasty stuff stays outside of the fancy resort towns so that the tourist money keeps a flowin' into the country, but either I was naive or the status quo has escalated/devolved.
I would have voted for 2 items: #2 and #4. We need our borders closed, and Americans are spoiled. We have no idea what it is like to live in a 3rd world country where violence exists every day, and life could be lost at any moment.
As an American born and raised in 3rd world countries, I grew up understanding that placing your feet anywhere besides the US came with an inherent amount of danger. I’ve been exposed to 3 revolutions, 2 in Venezuela and the last one Gaddafi’s overthrow of the government in Libya. Been evacuated by the US military from foreign countries twice. Americans HAVE NO IDEA how fortunate we are that we live in a stable society…or at least we did until liberals embraced their demented notion of “democracy”.
I've been to Mexico at least 25 times and always felt a little uneasy, and I've lived in a country that was not really safe if you left the confines of the military base where I lived (Philippine Islands), in fact before I got base housing we employed a guard with an AK-47 to watch our house while we slept...and many parts of the country were off limits to Americans for safety reasons, so yes, Americans are spoiled by not having to deal with lawlessness up close and personal in most places. And borders are absolutely necessary and the allowing of unvetted people to cross when they don't even share our value of respect for law is unmitigated madness. I'd like all the screamers for open borders to house some unvetted migrants in THEIR homes. Oh wait, that's been tried in Martha's Vineyard, and they sent the National Guard to deport them.
Honestly, I still can not understand how people are missing what President Trump is doing. It just boggles my mind. I couldn't vote for 2 things, but both Americans are spoiled and borders are critical are the right answers. We're so accustomed to safety that we miss what is happening right under our noses. Some people aren't so lucky. And for those American families that have lost someone....well, the left should be kissing their sneakers. They've suffered more than we'll ever know. And we should all be so damn grateful.
I think “all of the above” is appropriate, except for travel. Travel is critical…other than right now, of course. Ironic, isn’t it, that Canadians traded their typical tropical wintering in Florida for Mexico this year. Bet they’re regretting those decisions right about now. Our tariffs trump Mexico’s instability. Choose wisely next year, neighbors to the North.
Spot on, Nard! Canucks suffer from the WORST case of TDS. An old college friend opted out of her annual tennis clinic in the Sunshine State purely because her “elbows up” (major cringe) crowd bullied her into an impulsive decision to go to Puerto Vallarta! I believe she missed the “dust up” by a mere week! Dumb shites.
I'm Canadian (dual citizenship), and this TDS bs is so tiresome.
The Canadian government hasn't done anything material to benefit Canadians for a decade, but they want to criticize Trump who is clearly actively working to help Americans.
Unfortunately, the voters of Canada are boomers that don't want any change, because it threatens their house values. Fuck the younger generations, eh?
Spot on. It’s the “all about me” generation of Comfortable Canadians.
Hell, the rest of us might do the same thing if we were in their position, but I like to think I wouldn't be such a dick about it ;)
Kidding aside, I just think of my poor kids just entering adulthood and without material financial support, will be completely unable to manage a lifestyle anywhere near what we (GenX) manage to have.
Mexico is still safer for Canadians than your fascist police state.
Oh, you poor, jealous, fecal filled, TDS filled, covid jabbed, mentally unhinged thing. Mexico is a craphole laden with cartels. And yes, let Canadians go there as they can enjoy a bogo; giardia (yes, I know you have to look that up) and some cartel violence with breakfast.
After her first day in Mexico, my sister had to be flown back to nearest US hospital because she ate a piece of freaking fruit, drank local water and got seriously sick with giardia.
Giardia! 30 years ago, husband brought it home from India (having forgotten? refused?) to heed my warnings about consuming only bottled water and cooked food). County Board of Health paid me a call to inquire. That was unsettling.
That’s why they call Canadians “snow Mexicans”
Ha! I never heard that one! Makes me chuckle!
🤣 Would you like some bacon with your fascism? F**k off!
What??? 🤣😅🇨🇦
I believe the evidence proves otherwise 🤣🤣🤣
My two would have been Change Is Messy; and also Border Are Critical. Just ask Miss Claudia how messy change is… she is radically changing her tune. I don’t know what DJT is saying to her, but I say - “Keep it comin’, Mr. President!”
I wonder how long Claudia will remain in office.
It's simple Wendy.
Trump = BAD! (Where BAD = Hitler)
Once you've got that down, remember that anything Trump/Hitler does is, obviously, bad.
It helps if you can divorce yourself from reality.
Divorcing yourself from reality is essential to the leftist worldview.
It would seem by your writing here you have divorced yourself from reality quite clearly.
I don't think I've done it myself--not intentionally, in any case. I have to guess that you are at least partially correct about my "divorce" though. Given the incredible amount of propaganda that we're all force-fed daily, how could it be otherwise?
The media they suck up in high dudgeon is per studies, 97% leftist. That’s why. I used to buy the left garbage that the media was almost entirely Right. Shows how gaslit I was then. My husband says he’s well informed. He wouldn’t be able to find the truth if he spooned it up with his Raisin Bran every morning, sadly. Yahoo News is his go to. Sure, Sweetheart.
Mostly true for mine,too:(
The left-funded protest-industrial-complex in the US will be updating their training material to include footage of the cartels' hijinks. Commandant Soros must be green with envy.
Borders don't exist, they are artificial lines drawn on a map full of countries that you were taught to believe are real. It's simply a belief installed in our minds as children. Countries & borders only exist in your programmed mind. Thinking something that doesn't exist, and never existed is critical - is insane. But that's what decades of mind control does to the human brain. Sad.
Wow, congrats! You figured out the secret of the universe while I was being programmed. Excuse me while I go help myself to my neighbor’s snack cabinet. I'll be sure to reassure him that with your help, I've been able to rise above such primitive illusions as "artificial boundaries."
Love it Jenna. Typical Jenna Snark. My morning is complete!
Oh no Jenna, the sign of success is when you end up on the Left’s radar and they come in droves to discredit your perspectives and minimize your influence. I’ve barely started in the comments today and already there are three TDS inflicted rageaholics spewing their retardation all over here.
I wonder where they're coming from?!?!?! Gah! I *know* I shouldn't respond but sometimes I can't resist... ;)
Who says you shouldn’t respond? It’s always hilarious when you do 😂
Hahaha!
And ,I thought the secret to life,the universe,and,EVERYTHING was “42”.
Good one, and programmed you remain. 😆
lol.
You miss the day in civics class where they defined a nation-state for you? And one of the characteristics is a defined border.
Thanks for posting; we can safely ignore you now.
A border is what a sovereign country is willing and able to defend, often by force. Of course borders aren't natural, except maybe a large river, an ocean or mountain peaks. Even those borders must be defended. The story of Hannibal is an invader willing to cross the Alps into Italy, something thought impossible before it was done. The idea that there can ever be "No Borders" is childish at best. It is dangerous ignorance at worst. You are not even a country if you can't protect your citizens. That has been true for thousands of years
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf
Your points are taken, and well spoken. However, the joke on those of us that believe in countries and citizenship...these are THE MOST DANGEROUS superstitions..to quote Larken Rose. No borders is the natural world, as you recognized. In fact, belief in countries and borders are what is childish and dangerously ignorant. But your government mind control programming from birth tells you I am wrong and you are correct.
Wow. God Almighty Himself even made a border when He posted a flaming cherubim to guard the Garden of Eden to bar entrance to that land. There IS such a thing as a natural border, but that was taken off the table when carnal humanity entered the picture. The world you are imagining is a Utopia, and is unreal and impossible until the new heaven and new earth come to fruition. IMHO.
Exactly. Natural law must waft through life missing a few truths. Sad.
The joke is on you, but you don't seem to notice. 🤓
Good point about Eden. Also, it is valuable to read Thomas More.
LOL, the Bible was written by men, not "God". You are assuming something you cannot prove based on scrawled language on parchment. I am not imagining a utopia, I am seeing through the false matrix beyond the mind manipulation so rampant it has people believing in things that don't exist. But, yet you think I am the one who is imagining things! Hilarious 😆
You sound like a university student. Full of jealousy hate anger. Gotta ask yourself where that came from. Were you a hateful child or a happy child. How disappointed are your parents. How often do u fight with everyone. Maybe it’s you!! Perhaps you have been captured. Think for yourself or someone else will think for you without thinking of you.
Hey "Warrior" -- I've read Larken Rose and a bunch of other Libertarian texts, and while I agree with them in principle, there's a huge gap between the Libertarian Eden where all people live by the non-aggression principle and current reality here on the ground.
True freedom (if it really exists) implies responsibility on the part of every citizen. Hell, our liberals don't even want to have to show ID to vote or understand the Constitution or even know what civics is. We're surrounded by morons who will vote for Kamala AGAIN if given half a chance. These people are irresponsible and have no place in a Libertarian Utopia. What are you going to do with them?
So go ahead and live in your Platonic Ideal world - but realize it only exists in your head. The rest of us have to play the hand we're dealt, while we wait for illumination from on high to reach everyone at the same time.
Doug, I am glad you at least recognize the principles involved..you are way ahead of most of the people here making brainwashed comments. What you missed is that one cannot be free and be a citizen...the concept of citizenship means you are subject to a ruler which obviously means you cannot be free, by definition. Civics is slavery indoctrination, which worked like a charm as evidenced by nearly everyone in this substack. 😉
Sure, I get that - I'd forgotten that distinction. But again, these are high Libertarian concepts that have almost zero connection to the world in which we live. They're great principles to guide you, even to strive for, but they'll land you in a cage if you try living by them in this world.
I once had a psychedelic epiphany where I lost all ego, experienced my essence as pure energy, and saw all of "everyday reality" as a complex, nested system of barely-perceivable social games in which we all participate, mostly without any conscious awareness.
While I cherish that experience - I liken it to a direct conversation with God (even though no words were spoken), when I came down from that mountain and returned to the everyday world, my epiphany had barely any value, at least to anyone but me. You had to be there. I see pure Libertarian philosophy in a similar light.
Unless you can bring a large number of people within that "fold" within a critical time period (Larken has been attempting that), the idea that we can bring a Pure Libertarian Paradise into being is extremely unlikely. I tried for a time and met with nothing but resistance. Yes, we are brainwashed from a young age into a slave mentality. We are trapped in Plato's Cave, watching the shadows dance on the walls. Knowing that and having a couple of bucks in your wallet may buy you a cup of coffee.
It's the Cassandra Complex, it's the plight of everyone in the Matrix who takes the Red Pill - you can't wake people up unless they want to be awakened, and this world makes it so easy for everyone to stay asleep.
Perhaps you confuse Jenna's group with a potential source of recruits for your Libertarian Utopia - this will result in considerable disappointment. Most people here are concerned with getting America back to a place where our government is smaller, more just and doesn't have the power to fuck with us as it did during the Pandemic - I would be one of those.
While I'd certainly love to fly your plane with you into John Galt's world, I think it's important to recognize that is a metaphor from a novel, and we're not in that world.
Larkin rose is a very very stoopid spreading karen
Larken can never compete with your level of stupid to his credit.
Borders are simply boundaries that exist because we choose to create them. I have a home and I lock the door. I have doors inside my home for privacy. I have property boundaries that I paid for. I live within a city limits, a county, a state and a country. I expect set benefits and restrictions at every level. They each come with a social contract. Every one if these is a border and you are simply delusional if you think they don't exist.
If welfare was not an issue that might be more useful. The simple fact is that we as a nation (or whatever you prefer to call us) cannot accept and then support the billions that might prefer to live here.
Where do these stupid ideas come from? How does this humanly make sense? I suggest u go to a country without borders then. Might hard to find one. Or one that doesn’t require ID to shovel snow!!!
All those wars fought over a thing you say doesn't exist? Ok then.
I cannot help it that humanity has been mind manipulated by a death cult into believing utter nonsense, but I am trying anyway...unsuccessfully it seems. Try pointing out the border of a "country" to a "space alien" and say..you see it's right here. And the alien says, there's nothing there but soil and water. And you say, but it's right there..the border, of my country..pointing to the dirt. The alien get's back in his ship and files a report to it's home world. The report: These human's are completely delusional, don't come back here.
ME (to myself): Don't respond, don't respond, don't respond...
MYSELF (to me): Actually, you're not the boss of me.
I (to Natural Law Warrior): The alien ostensibly came HERE (where we are) because HERE wasn't THERE (where he's from). Presumably some sort of border exists between the two? Or are you now saying HERE AND THERE ARE ONE AND THE SAME because there's no... actual fence? Should we tell NASA to stop mapping planets because ‘it’s all just molecules?"
Try explaining time zones to your alien. Or ‘inside’ vs. ‘outside.’ Or why you need a passport to fly to Paris even though it’s just more land and ocean. Plenty of things exist without cartoon force fields around them. Gravity has no signposts either—should we just float into space out of protest?
Your alien's report would read, "Humans believe anything they can't physically see must not exist. Do not tell oxygen."
Jenna, I think what you're pointing out here is that there are various abstraction layers between concepts.
There are quantum physicists and mystics that will tell you time and space don't exist, at least in the way our minds tend to perceive them. Likewise, the desk in front of me is made up of trillions of atoms, each of which is made of tiny nuclei orbited by electrons a fraction of their size - all of which aren't "matter" in the way we think of it, but are mostly space occupied by energy fields.
Seen that way, I should be able to push my hand right through the desk - but I'll break every bone trying that, because although my hand is made up of essentially the same stuff as the desk, those energy fields matter.
Jumping up several abstraction layers from there, I think Warrior, while [he?] has points worth considering, is mixing metaphors and is struggling with various abstractions. Making straw-man arguments about space aliens and "pure freedom" misses the point you were making in the original post - that there are very good reasons to enforce national boundaries, because there are profound differences between nations.
As "imperfect" as American "freedom" is, even though I realize that the concept of "country" is bound up in dozens of interlaced "games" in my slavery-brainwashed head, this country is just a better place to live in than Mexico.
Our mental games are better - they resulted in a land where opportunities are better for security and happiness, at least until fairly recently. That it has become corrupt isn't a reason to toss it out - it's a reason to stomp down the corruption to a reasonable level. I think that's a discussion worth having and a reachable goal to strive for. Once we get there, we can talk more effectively about improving our freedom.
Um, why bother pointing out a border to a space alien is devoid of meaning when the only thing that matters is pointing it out to those on the border's other side. That's why we have surveyors. Borders also contain ethnic and linguistic groups, not s meaningless thing. Any chance you are a sovereign citizen who doesn't think passports or drivers licenses are valid? Do you "travel," but don't "drive"?
Only wild animals actually live in the world you speak of. And,indeed,many perish when they come up against the “borders” humans create in the form of fenced land,buildings ,freeways ,and ,habitat destruction. But,humans,as we exist in this dimension/ timeline can not conceive of a world without borders,except in songs and acid trips. Without the absolute majority of humanity dreaming the same dream,it is not physically,3D possible…unless you have some instructions?
In all of your talking, thinking is wholly murdered. Sad. Next.
Tell that to the British girls and their parents.
Let’s hope if u have a vagina you are not taped or murdeted and if u have a or is you are also not butt raped or murdered . Cartels don’t care about life.
Proofread much?
That’s why i picked “combo “..
Missing what Trump is doing? I guess you "missed" his pardoning of some two hundred drug traffickers?
“But here’s the part too many Americans miss: safety isn’t the default setting of the universe—it’s a luxury purchased through constant, often uncomfortable maintenance.” Day-um. That right there is very bad ass. I’ll be thinking about that one for a while (as I drink my coffee in my comfy rocking chair in my cozy house that’s NOT on fire…).
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Agreed!
The Mexican Tourist Industry just evaporated. I pray for the stranded tourists safety.
Friends were in Cancun last week for a farm business convention. They will not be going back, regardless of the perks. The road from the resort area to the airport is prime real estate for kidnapping/gunning down travellers.
Yes it did. Personally don't care. Don't enjoy vacationing in a 3rd world craphole with drug cartels nor getting Montezuma's Revenge.
We were on a West Coast cruise 10 years ago and had a port stop in Ensenada. There was one main drag with tourist-y places and we were told under no circumstances to leave the main drag or our safety could not be guaranteed. Decided at that point that future trips to Mexico were crossed off our list.
It’s El Salvador before Buceli
Now THIS is for what I voted. I'm glad Trump has taken the actions he has in this area, and glad Americans are being exposed to the REAL realities in Mexico.
BTW, I voted all of the above, including the 'travel' option. If people want to travel, there are plenty of things to see here in America; spend your money at home (just not in rabidly-Leftist conclaves).
Another excellent piece...
Nothing like a President with Big Balls and determination.
The bigger question is, when are Americans going to be exposed to reality in America. 😉
One aspect as to why the cartels don't strike here is we are better armed than Mexican citizens. They understand that we wake up and get pissed...they might have machine guns but we have a million guys (10M?) who can shoot a deer hundreds of yards away.
Chiden tried importing thousands of ILLEGALS. The ideas was to create civil war. Hasn't worked yet. What doesn't the other 50% of US Citizens not understand about the human INVASION as ILLEGAL.
When they show up. BELLY UP. Castle Doctrine!
Thank goodness for the second amendment
Better not to shoot deer and go for the cartel members. Also will have many women like myself, locked, loaded and ready to pick them off one by one.
Jenna, another article that hits a home run! Your article has woken me up to realize again that we have a leader who is protecting us. By the same token, we need to take on the responsibility to protect ourselves when the time comes. I now want to go out and find ways to protect my family. Thanks for the wake-up call!
Get locked and loaded!
Cartels are one half of the equation. Are we doing enough to on the buyer's end? Drug and human trafficking are lucrative because they are financially profitable. It's easy to see the evil on the part of the seller. The buyers must be far more numerous than we know to keep the sellers in business. That's an evil that walks among us.
Buyers are addicted which is entirely the point of narcotics. What do you want to do to them? Jail them? That did not work.
The Portuguese have an interesting system for drug users. There are virtually NO drugs in the country illegally due to the complete crackdown on dealers and the government takes people in hand who have a drug problem and they have no choice but to get off drugs under supervision. In other words, there is no tolerance for drug addiction. No tears and moaning about poor addicts. They get off drugs or go to jail or leave the country. No choice. One certainly doesn’t see drugged out bums lining the streets. Mandated drug treatment is the only option besides jail.
This is what I would like to see. Oregon's idea to just make hard drugs legal and get the government out of enforcement was a terrible failure. Oregon has collapsed as a viable state as a result with tremendous homelessness and crime
Most if not all blue state politicians exploit the homeless, who are mostly drug addicted, by using OUR tax dollars on fake ngo’s who rake in the money then use it to pay off their cronies & reelection campaigns. It’s an evil & corrupt plan that destroys the body & soul of human beings who will not and/ or cannot help themselves.
The problem is created by politicians & those that vote for them, enabling the drug addicted & then “provide “ the solution - more of our tax dollars = more suffering. The corruption runs deep.
And now they’re trying to get rid of hunting, fishing, livestock farming including raising backyard chickens, on the ballot. Some young skinny vegan guy is behind this. He wants 100% of farmland to be crops, not just 70% as it now is. Hilarious that anyone would sign the petition, but I think he’s half way there already.
Switzerland, too. Same with homelessness. There is no “choice,” no “compassionate” free will. THAT is true compassion.
Why Portugal is a highly sought after ex pat country.
That's the part that Canada doesn't do. Treatment is seen as optional.
Free drugs is NOT treatment it is sanctioned murder. Next sanctioned murder in Canada is MAiD
Treatment can be used if it's seen as a necessity and not optional. Most addicts can recover but it's an intrusive, expensive process not supported by many of the public because they don't want to interfere with what they believe has been chosen by the addict.
But WHO PAYS for the addicts’ choice? The taxpayers. I’d be for choice if the addicts got no public money AT ALL as a consequence of their choice. As tax paying members of the public, I’m unhappy that their “choice” costs me tens of thousands a year. Many states actually even supply drugs and paraphernalia. My tax money going to a state acting as a glorified drug dealer is repugnant to say the least.
I understand your point. Canada is the same. On the other hand, we also pay for the medical treatment and social support of many people who make lifestyle choices that result in poor health outcomes. Those costs are immense.
So now we have to talk about whether socialized medicine is the answer to anything. I know lots of Canadians end up coming to America for different health conditions. Then there’s the MAID program where some are euthanized against their will and parents can “choose” death for their newborn children. “Medicine” going downhill fast for the poor Canadians.
Canada is a shell. Its existence does not look good or viable long term.
Boom!
It would be a boondoggle and giant scam , like autism "treatment". And create a massive industry with every incentive to keep a steady flow of adicts to "treat" for massive profits.
Buyers. You mean addicts. Word salad doesn’t change the meaning. No drugs no adficts. Ask BC the province that provides free drugs and safe places. Now we have 12 year old addicts.
Keep in mind that this wasn't about drugs. This was in response to the ten workers abducted on January 23rd from the Visla Silver mining operation (five of whom have now been found dead the other five are still missing).
With the rising value of silver and Trump declaring silver a "critical national security" material this escalated into a serious problem. (instead of the usual bribe the cartel "aka pay the toll" to ship your silver)
I’m not sure about that, John. From what I’ve read (and I’m admittedly no expert here), I haven’t found any evidence that the kidnapping of the miners had anything to do with El Mencho or the JNGC. Investigators say there was a local feud between members of the Sinaloa Cartel and this was most likely a tragic case of mistaken identity. The Trump administration’s attack on El Mencho was a well-planned and well-executed national-security and law-enforcement effort against El Mencho in an effort to take down the JNGC (a plan that preceded the abduction of the miners) and not retaliation for the kidnapping. The timing is interesting, though.
Yes, I'll agree, there has been no official statement that the two events are linked.
In my mind, it makes sense that the USA perceives the reliable flow of silver as critical and thus it follows that we are now in the process of fixing that problem.
I don't trust what the authorities (or media) "say". What is important to me is to look at what's going on and think about what makes sense to explain the actions occurring.
On this, we agree ;). As I said, the timing is interesting. And I’ll never stop kicking myself for not buying Silver a couple of months ago!
{smile} Gold and Silver have been very profitable to buy over the past four years!
Cartels from several areas control a number of 'businesses.' Persian, Mexican, Chinese among others. It's not just drugs, for sure. Sam Cooper's Substack, The Bureau, is a window into the tentacles of the monster.
And anyone doubts the importance of a secure border find & watch President Trump’s honoring of the Angel Families yesterday. MSM reported it as an exploitation. POTUS named February 23 as Angel Family Remembrance Day. MSM continues to lie with their illegal alien crime rate numbers.
Our neighbor flew in and out of this airport for work and thankfully was back home just a couple of days before this chaos started. It's scary to think that he could have gotten stranded there if he would have left just a day or two later.
Anyways, I voted "other" like I usually do because things are rarely black or white. The Mexican government should have expected and prepared for this type of response but they went through with it anyways, so it makes one wonder.
"If you thought dismantling the world’s deadliest organized crime network was going to work like unplugging your Wi-Fi and plugging it back in, you must be new here." 🤣🤣
Such a hilarious line. I disagree that the Mexican cartel is the world's deadliest organized crime network though. For those of you who have gone down all the various rabbit holes, you all know that they end up in the same place. The world's deadliest organized crime network is the ruling class made up mostly of psychopathic pedophiles that want to track and control everything that we do. Of course they ostensibly appear to be so benevolent with their concerns about world hunger, climate, national security and defense, and all things good, but we all know that these are the reasons that they use so that they can continue building out their digital control grid to enslave us all.
I know, it all sounds crazy, but for those of us that have been paying attention, it is the truth. We're not in Kansas anymore and we haven't been for a long time!
I came here to write the same thing: Mexican cartels are NOT the world's deadliest organized crime network. The global "elites" are.
I love it when we have something we agree on
I assumed you voted "other" because this all for-show and the Cartels are working together with Elvis (and possibly Epstein) to distract us from what's really going on (the imminent revelation that earth is really flat).
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And then here are thousands of cartel members in the USA just waiting for the signal to activate.
And it’s our liberal friends without arms who will fall victim to the ones they’ve been protecting for months🤦♀️.
Aw, too bad so sad on that one.
And we will take them down. Many civilians are very capable and know how to shoot with deadly accuracy.
Bingo. I think it’s a 50-75% chance we will see something in the next 10-14 days.
Having had an affinity for drug gang movies like El Chapo, Sicario, Scarface and Blow, I do not underestimate the violence of drug cartels. Movies really can't even do it justice. These people are animals without conscience. The Mexican Cartels are just a variation on the Italian Mafioso which America had to fight for decades, from the 1920s to the 1970s, to eradicate. But the Mafia had rules. The Mexican Cartels do not. This is why I could not believe when Biden and his minions like Mayorkas, left our southern border wide open. It is like "Do you want to die?!" Our government's primary responsibility is to protect us. Exposing us to that kind of violence is the furthest thing from safety
Y’all… a friend texted me yesterday that another friend is on her way to Cancun with her husband and daughter because ‘they checked and that area isn’t affected.’ It’s probably not affected now, but with a situation as volatile as this one, I think I’d cancel my spring break. Anyone else?
What an idiot she is. Go there when you know this could spread and take your child with you. NO words for that kind of stupidity.
I mean… I agree with you wholeheartedly. But maybe it won’t spread, I guess. I just wouldn’t take the chance for a vacation. I’d trade in and go to Florida for the beach or something. Cancun can wait til next year.
Cancun is not great at all. Been there done that. People begging for money there everywhere you go pulling on your clothes and getting too close. It is also so dirty and you get food poisoning. No thank you.
I hope they will be safe but she is a very stupid woman.
I’m not a fan of vacationing in Mexico at any rate. So many better and safer places to go.
Exactly Valerie, so many other places.
Thinning of the herd
She checked the liberal news and they said no problem?
It is interesting how there are multiple worlds with multiple beliefs and most of them don't reflect reality. You have to dig and decide for yourself what the truth is. You can't trust anyone that "that area isn't affected".
They will likely get a good dose of reality and some good stories if they are fortunate enough to make it back.
Hi Jenna, borders are critical! And all the others apply as well, but most important is the border thingy! TGIT (Thank God It’s Trump) or we would be burnt toast. Love your illustrations :)
Yeah, I've got a friend-of-a-friend trapped in PV right now. She chimed into our Signal group chat Sunday night, confirming most of the mess I soon thereafter read about and saw videos of. Buildings burning and plumes of smoke. All public transpo suspended. Most stores closed and shelves largely emptied. Flights in/out cancelled. Etc. What a mess. For now, she says she feels safe in her resort, but who knows how this all unfolds. I used to think that all the nasty stuff stays outside of the fancy resort towns so that the tourist money keeps a flowin' into the country, but either I was naive or the status quo has escalated/devolved.
How many American hostages will it take? Anything can happen there, and here.
I would have voted for 2 items: #2 and #4. We need our borders closed, and Americans are spoiled. We have no idea what it is like to live in a 3rd world country where violence exists every day, and life could be lost at any moment.
Time to get locked and loaded.
As an American born and raised in 3rd world countries, I grew up understanding that placing your feet anywhere besides the US came with an inherent amount of danger. I’ve been exposed to 3 revolutions, 2 in Venezuela and the last one Gaddafi’s overthrow of the government in Libya. Been evacuated by the US military from foreign countries twice. Americans HAVE NO IDEA how fortunate we are that we live in a stable society…or at least we did until liberals embraced their demented notion of “democracy”.
I've been to Mexico at least 25 times and always felt a little uneasy, and I've lived in a country that was not really safe if you left the confines of the military base where I lived (Philippine Islands), in fact before I got base housing we employed a guard with an AK-47 to watch our house while we slept...and many parts of the country were off limits to Americans for safety reasons, so yes, Americans are spoiled by not having to deal with lawlessness up close and personal in most places. And borders are absolutely necessary and the allowing of unvetted people to cross when they don't even share our value of respect for law is unmitigated madness. I'd like all the screamers for open borders to house some unvetted migrants in THEIR homes. Oh wait, that's been tried in Martha's Vineyard, and they sent the National Guard to deport them.
I had the same impression of Mexico when we visited (about a dozen times).
We started going to Costa Rica and it has a much cleaner and friendlier feeling to it. Pura Vida.