CNN Interviews Cartel Member

[Dee]

Why are you selling drugs to America. answer: Gotta eat.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/04/cnn_interviews_sinaloa_cartel_members_about_trump.html

[GTS225]

A better question might be;  Why is CNN meeting with a drug smuggler that is BREAKING U.S. law, as if it's a perfectly normal and legitimate thing to do?  If the meeting is taking place in CONUS, then why isn't CNN being held for suspicion of drug running?

Roger

[Lloyd Smale]

well i personaly dont like it press from both sides do things like this since the days of al capone.

A better question might be;  Why is CNN meeting with a drug smuggler that is BREAKING U.S. law, as if it's a perfectly normal and legitimate thing to do?  If the meeting is taking place in CONUS, then why isn't CNN being held for suspicion of drug running?

Roger

[ironglow]

  A very cogent and useful point..  A matter of "supply and demand".  Clearly, if there were no demand, no supply would be needed !

  However, this surely does not excuse the cartel thug nor CNN from culpability, as I see it !

  I look back and see how smoking has cut down over the last couple decades, and realizee the power of advertising, and determination.

  Today 11% or Americans smoke regularly, while in 1960, 42% of Americans smoked regularly.  Smokers were first, relegated to "smoking areas", then  to the outdoors.

  Although it was tough, folks were in some cases, "shamed" into quitting, but much of the reform I believe, was because people discovered just how harmful smoking is.

  Mexico doesn't have near the drug use problem that we have.  Pres Trump claims he asked the Mexican president why this was so. He says she told him it was because they advertise against it !

  I can recall a few weak efforts to do the same her in the USA..but they were WEAK indeed, and soon perished.

  Just as  public service announcements, described trhe negative effects of smoking and the deleterious action of smoking on the human body, people..especially the youth should be informed of the destroyed teeth, the addled minds and the ravaged skin of drug users...

   Such advertising should picture drug users as LOSERs...even featuring graphic examples of such persons.

  Below is one of the old poster, which highlighted the "loser" aspect of drugh use.

[GTS225]

I'm not so sure even stronger anti-drug PSA's would achieve much........after all, for it/them to be effective, they actually have to reach the consciousness of the user, and that's pert 'near impossible until they hit rock bottom.

Roger

[ironglow]

I'm not so sure even stronger anti-drug PSA's would achieve much........after all, for it/them to be effective, they actually have to reach the consciousness of the user, and that's pert 'near impossible until they hit rock bottom.

Roger

   Don't know for sure, but it seems worth a try.  An ad campaign, showing the damage done, and warning young folks from becoming any such "loser' should save perhaps some of them.

   

[Dee]

We've replaced drunk with alcoholic, and we've replaced dope fiend with drug addiction. The latter of both sound more sensitive, and polite.

An alcoholic drinks to get drunk, and someone on drugs likes to get doped up (or down).
Both conditions have been declared "a disease" which I say is "horse hocky", its a weak character, and a loser lifestyle.

Either direction these types choose, rehabilitation comes from within, not from the outside. These knuckleheads have to want to change.

Be that as it may, the Cartel member is correct. His customers are in the United States, and without them, he's out of business.

But on the other hand, the end is, the drunk,  and the dope fiend ends up preying on innocent Americans, so lock them up, and let the military handle the Cartels as none of the above contribute anything but, misery, and suffering to society.