April 30, 2025 • 30 mins
Explore Mexico's struggles as a narco-state, facing human trafficking and fentanyl distribution that threat both locally and globally. Historical issues like NAFTA amplify immigration challenges, turning instability into a growing danger. Dual citizenship adds personal safety concerns. Urgency calls for international collaboration to combat cartel power and human trafficking. /// The Scalpel is proud to partner with Brickhouse Nutrition. Dr. Rose uses and highly recommends Field of Greens. Your purchase through this link supports The Scalpel Podcast. /// https://scalpeledge.com/brickhouse ------------------------------------------------- In this episode Dr. Rose and Blake Farenthold explore Mexico's complex journey as a "narco-state," where criminal cartels wield significant influence over its governance and operations. This dynamic has led to critical issues such as human trafficking and the devastating impact of fentanyl, which has claimed countless lives in the United States. The historical backdrop of NAFTA underscores economic dependencies, while recent policies reveal the turmoil caused by political ideologies. The instability in Mexico is not just a distant concern but a pressing issue due to its proximity to the U.S. border. Personal stories, like the speaker's wife with dual citizenship, add an emotional dimension, highlighting real-life impacts on families and communities. urgency is paramount as leaders worldwide must collaborate to dismantle cartel power and curb human trafficking. This episode calls for a serious and concerted effort to address Mexico's crises, emphasizing the need for international unity and action.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, this is ever producer of the Scalpel with doctor
Keith Rose, presenting the second part of a conversation between
doctor Rose and former South Texas Congressman Blake Barenthal on
The Blake Parenthald Show. And we're going to kind of
pick up where we left off. Each of these episodes
(00:22):
stand on their own, but there's there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
To be gleaned from these.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So if you want to jump back one episode, go
ahead and do that. We're going to explore Mexico's.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Journey as a as a.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Narco state where criminal cartels have have significant influence over
the government and operations and create human trafficking and the
impact of fentanyl in the United States specifically, but you know,
probably around the world. You know, you don't hear too
much about fentanyl being an issue in other countries.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And this, uh, the instability in Mexico, it's it's not
just a concern, but it's it's an issue because of
proximity to the US border. But you know, there there
are opportunities to actually work together to potentially have you know,
(01:23):
the US could provide some services that may not be
available specifically to the Mexican government providing the services would
benefit the United States. Is that something I'm sure that's
already happening to some degree, But what else.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Can we do?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
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Speaker 3 (02:38):
So you've got President Trump rounding up his first one
hundred days. It's going quickly. My concern, and I'm always
looking ahead, is when Trump's term is up. Are we
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going to have somebody of the strength and moral character
and quite frankly financial resources to keep up this fight
as a next president, I think short of the financial resources,
I'm becoming more of a Vance fan.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But I think JD. Vances is the heir parent. And
here's why. I like what he says and I like
what he does. And JD. Vance is incredibly smart, incredibly smart,
and I'm sure he scares a lot of people, but
I think that he will definitely carry on and then
(03:42):
you're going to have another eight years of Maga and
Dad Vance is definitely Maga Blake, and that's what we
want him.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What do you do? What do you see on the
Democrat side? You don't think they would be stupid enough
to put up AOC, You know what.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I used to think Democrats wouldn't be stupid enough to
do this, and then Democrats look at you and go
hold my beer. I think the Democrats aren't stupid. But
the Democrat president is never stay Probably Obama is never
a person that that's making all the decisions. A Democrat
(04:22):
president is someone like I talked about in the intelligence world,
that someone that can be controlled. Joe Biden was just
a sock puppet for the Democratic Party or the powers
that be, the globalist.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And that's my belief is the Democrats' best hope of
taking the presidency is to put a celebrity up that
they're going to control.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna put up someone that has
appeal to the masses and that they can control. And
and again I go back to the intelligence community. I mean,
look at I mean, Biden was elected. I'm gonna say,
and it's all coming out now. It was a stolen election, blake.
And if anyone wants to go after me on that,
I actually have the receipts and I will tell you
(05:09):
that it's it's gonna come out more and more, and
the countries involved are going to shock people. But at
the same time, it's all about control. Now, I think
again COVID, the silver lining of COVID is the American
people aren't going to let that happen again. I don't
believe as long as we remember what happened, it's in
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the Democrats' best interest to get a few generations behind
them and forget what happened during COVID so that they
can pull off something like that again.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I don't think that's a big as big of
a population as you think that believes the election actually
was stolen.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It Blake, I'm just going off of what I know.
I'm I'm not saying that I think the population thinks
one thing or not. Look Joe Biden, let's look at
Let's look at the macro first, Joe Biden could not
bill six circles at a rally. Now, President Obama, as
much as I didn't like him, he was elected. Legitimately,
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he would fill entire stadiums. People would wait for hours.
Joe Biden, no one waited, no one cared. He was
in the basement mode. He was in the basement. Then
you look at losing all the Bellweather bell Weather districts
that show what elects a president. Then go on top
of that and look at how all the massive mail
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in votes came in. I've seen stolen elections in Iraq
and other countries. Anytime you stop the counting of votes
and say we're going to resume in the morning, what
that's code for? We got to see the margin we
need to overcome. Now, have I seen evidence that the
election was stolen? Yes, I have. Have I seen cyber evidence,
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Yes I have. Have I seen other evidence, Yes I have,
And this will come out in the long run. And
I can say that without any fear reprisaled dominion. Please
come after me, because I know what's going on. And
here's the thing. This election wasn't stolen because you can
only flip so many votes, you can only vote shift
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so many times. And you had groups like Charlie Kirk's
group and Scott Presler's group that just got the early
voting out. They hustled the American people decided that they
didn't want to live under progressive socialism. And I give
all the credit, and the credit goes to God for
letting this happen. And we have President Trump back in office.
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My memory is not so short to remember Blake that
the President had that what the American people know to
assassination attempts on his life, and I can tell you
there were probably a lot more. And we as a
nation need to come together and recognize that this experiment
that the founders started two hundred and fifty four plus
(07:59):
years ago works, and it works if you stick to
the original plan. Things don't go wrong. They start wrong
every time you try to get outside the original design
of what works. You start putting in factions, you start
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putting in foreign influence, you start doing what George Washington
warned against in his farewell letter to the American people.
Then you get subversion. You get political warfare, and political
warfare is very dangerous, and it'll be interesting to see
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you ask about President Trump and how he did it
on his first round. I think they're headed in the
right direction. But the problem in Washington, DC is you
have a lot of what we would call brownie and movement.
It's movement, but it's not accomplishing anything. Evidently, meet are
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substituted fractual operational functions. So people get together and say
we need to do this, and then you have endless
meetings at endless restaurants, at endless places, but very little
gets done. That's what at least on of the things
I have visibility I'm singing. That has nothing to do
(09:20):
with President Trump. He actually gets stuff done and his
people do, but it's not gonna until they start addressing
these root causes, until they start arresting and purp blocking
people that are committing seditious conspiracy against this president and
his administration against the United States. I think it's going
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to be tough, and there's a pretty healthy list of
people that they could start bringing in for questioning.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So what do we do down here in South Texas?
I mean, it feels like we're almost relegated to the
role of spectator.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, Blake, you you aren't. You aren't because every district,
every area can do something. Everyone big knows someone small,
everyone small knows someone big. So what do you do well?
First of all, in our community, we need to implement
the kind of government locally that we want nationally, which
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is one with integrity, which is when that gets things
done and.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Why you get things done. Is a tough one in
our city.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's very tough. But I lay that on us for
electing these people and not holding them accountable there and
that's that's easier said than done, but it needs to happen.
It needs to. We need to hold people accountable. We
need to start shining the light on things that are
not being done correctly, and shows like this are great
(10:55):
for that. I mean, you're carrying on Jim's mantle of
exposing you know what's going on. I'm not going to
go into details, but I was involved with something in
the city we had city contracts, they were given to
someone else. It wasn't done correctly, and one of the
city council people actually resigned over it. This is a
(11:15):
long time ago, because they thought this is corrupt, this
is wrong. But the city attorneys were all in because again,
if people have self interest over community interest, that's a problem.
And maybe that's human nature, but again that's getting back
to the basic integrity issue.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I could faith I could not have run for office
or served an office if I didn't feel like I
was trying to do what was best for my community,
be that the local district or the cut. And you
(12:01):
know I got in trouble a couple of times because
I put the country over the local district.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's a fine line where you have to I mean,
you're you're elected to represent your local district, but at
the same time, not at the expense of causing harm
in the nation. And I guess, Blake, what you have
to do is you have to be able to speak
to people plainly and tell them, look, this is why
I'm doing this, and if they don't want you there,
(12:29):
then they can vote you out. You weren't voted out,
you were upon in a very big political game with
speaker banner. Unfortunately, and it's Washington is broken, there's no question.
But you don't fix it by putting more money into it.
You don't fix it by making it larger and more powerful.
(12:50):
The way you fix broken systems is you tear them
out and start over, start over. And yeah, I'm not
talking about violently tearing it. I'm talking about cutting the
size and scope of government regulations. I mean, Corpus Christie
thrives on the oil and gas industry, so I want
(13:11):
to see and that. But here's the thing that is
right in line with what America does well in the
economy when the oil and gas industry is booming, and
when we started cutting down work on pipelines, when we
started pounding the oil and gas industry making it more
more difficult.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And buying Chinese and buying mills and mills and solar farms.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Every look at every wind driven device that you drive
by on I thirty seven and know that it took
more energy to make that device than it will ever
produce in its lifetime. Let that sink in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'll never forget the port put in four windmills as
a demonstration project, and I was at the ribbon cutting
for those and they opened opened up the bases and
let me look in and all of the controls were
in Chinese. All the lettering the Chinese, all the displays
(14:12):
on the LCD were Chinese. And I thought to myself,
who's profiting from this America?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's just it's a Latin phrase, qui bono? Who benefits?
And we saw what happened. We now know, according to
government sources, that that COVID was gain of function testing
in China.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And we were funding it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
We were funding it. But here's the problem with what's
going on. Eventually this stuff comes out and does it
all of it the press, it comes out and they're
just like, oh, yeah, this happened, and then that's one
story they can say they admitted it way after the fact,
and then it's like move on. Nothing to see here.
There's no accountability. We had.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We had years of oh my god, we're all going
to die from COVID in this uh uh.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You know bat that somebody ate, yeah, pangolin, Yeah, and
there's and there there's there was no jump in the
genetic chain. It was gain of function testing. And if
you looked at the actual science early on, I came
out and said it, this is man made. I went
to the commissioner's court and said it you probably go
(15:39):
back and pull the tape. I warned that Imber I
was the only doctor speaking against it, but I did
because I just thought it was the right thing. Now
I understand why other doctors didn't. And but what I'm
saying is what happened to our intellectual curiosity, what happened
to actual science? That the science is not what propagandas
(15:59):
tell you it is. The science is not what Medscape
puts out there on pre published studies that haven't been
peer reviewed or or run through the course. The science
is actually the science. That's why we take biology, physics, biochemistry,
animal physiology, all this stuff. There's a reason for these
(16:21):
classes is to understand the basic science and foundation of
what we are doing. And somewhere we replaced basic research
and problem solving.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
We're doing with the CDCs.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Google, Yeah, with web research, and we see it published
on the web and it looks good on a website,
so it obviously must be true.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well, and the I mean I've always said, I've said
this since the early nineties. Anybody would twenty dollars to
buy a domain.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Name, right, But anyway they can put up thing they want.
There to be some kid in his mother's basement in
his underwear putting up stuff. Yeah, I'm just curious what
your readers are saying.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I think I've read most of them. I didn't not
on think I got to that one as a gen
X guy and a parent. Decline of public education in
public schools begin with the removal of Bible classes and
those that taught it. Why did we not have a
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choice like those today demand that they have. The principles
of being a good human being are lost in the narrative.
It's being steered by lunatics who are allowed to lead.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, it's again, it's a it's a complete breakdown in society.
But societal breakdown comes from breakdown to the family. When
you have strong families, strong leadership in the families, it's
hard to pull as many Shenanigans. When you have parents
that speak out, it's really hard. I mean, I love
moms for America, I love citizens defending freedom. These are grassroots,
(18:25):
true grassroots groups that are going to be generational and
they are just concerned parents speaking out. Ma Larry texting,
he says, I have read the whole Ukrainian situation. When
Russia goes back to the UN, United States agree not
to push for the East. I agree, meaning if Ukraine
became part of NATO, we could have put military bases
there and we wouldn't want military bases in Canada. I
(18:47):
agree Ukraine should not be part of NATO. And there's
one thing about I don't think Russia has our best
interest at heart, no shape or form. But what I
do know is that you still don't. It's a provocation
that we don't need to have.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So here's my question. Do you leave more sleep over Russia,
China or Iran in North Korea.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't lose sleep. I have faith, But my concerns
are Iran has the largest embassy in the world. For
Iran is in Mexico City, which is really a conundrum
because they don't do any trade or business with Mexico,
but they have largest embassy in the world there. Iran
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is very upset with US for killing Sulamani, who needed
to die, and Iran is it will do things to
cause harm to our nation and our allies. Russia has
an economy about the size of Texas, and if we
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had politicians that understood that scope of Russia, and we're
serious about degrading Russia. There are ways to do that
economically North Korea. Same thing. But what you have is
people in your backyard that don't have your best interest,
and you're going to see an access of cartels, primarily
the Sinaloa Cartel of Iranians and Blake of Chinese people
(20:35):
that are being moved to the United States. I think
that there is communication, this is my supposition with rogue elements,
prime former leaders in the intelligence community that are trying
to undermine this country for various reasons. So you have
a real problem. You have a president down in Mexico
that is completely controlled by the cartels or by whoever
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has power down there, and it's not Shinbam, and so
you have a power struggle right now inside of Sinaloa
between the Chapitos and the Elmyo branch. You have Guzman
in prison, but evidently he's able to talk to who
he wants to. You have a lot of American troops
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that I understand are going to be going down there
to train people, and we need to make sure they're
training actual Mexican military and not cartel plants. You have
Venezuela that still doesn't have our best interest. You have
the Triborder area where.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Venezuela and you have anything that could threaten us, though
yes they do they have.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What Venezuela does is it's an entry into South America
Blake and the Venezuela is tight with Cuba, and then
you have Bolivia that aligns with them. Then you have
the Triborder area down there near Venezuela where Hezbola has
a strong training camp. So you have a base of
operations in which to run insurgent activity up through Central
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America into Mexico and into the United States. And we
don't have a handle on that yet. You have Venezuela
who still has a lot of oil wealth, and Venezuela
is what China uses and Iran uses to skirt sanctions
buy and sell oil, and you have a lot of
rogue oil trading going on. You have I mean, I
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could spend two shows explaining all this. But yes, there's
a lot of problems and it's not a one off fix.
Now there are members and cartels that want to come
forward and kind of give up the goods because they're
very concerned. Because we have a strong president and we
have a great borders are in Tom Homan, but we
need to we need to push that position to get
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the information to shut down potential problems that are just
a few hours south of here.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Good talking about the cartel's influence in Mexico in the
training that we're going to do, I mean, how do
you sort the good guys from the bad guys? I
mean the tattoos? Well, I mean, I mean, how do
you know who's a good guy and who's a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, that's why you have to have strong intelligence services.
And the thing is that you have to have strong
intelligence services, not only human intelligence, but you have to
have signals. Now, if singles intelligence services, say in the
United States are not giving the president the information because
they're potentially not are they're told not to giving the information.
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I'm saying this is happening, and I'm not saying it
isn't happening, then it's hard for decision makers to understand
and make decisions. Well, I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I worry about Mexico and our border situation. Trump can't
deport them of efficiently enough. He's going for the obvious, uh,
Mexican and trans national gang members, but you know what
about the spies.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, I mean you have people, a lot of American
people don't understand. You have Cuban intelligence, which is one
of the strongest intelligence organizations in the world, and I
again take a long explanation, but they are. You have
Venezuelan intelligence, you have Iranian intelligence, and then you have
rogue members of potentially our intelligence community all coordinating and
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it's a toxic mix.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well do you think we're at the center of it
here or we're just to pass through for South Texas?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I think that that's hard to say, Blake. I mean,
it's the old school cartel folks were stay away from fentanyl,
don't cause problems in the populace, just move drugs. The
new cartel groups are like, we'll do fentanyl, we'll have labs,
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we'll do people. And so you have massive trafficking. But
you got to realize something. You can't have trafficking on
the level we have right now without complicit elements inside government,
whether they're local, regional, or national.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just as you look at the statistics and I was
reading this several months ago, with all the human traffic
that's going on, there are more slaves in the world
now than any other time in our history.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So there's a question for any readers. Good morning, Blake.
My question is why are we trying to control Mexico
to try to fix initiation that's been going on for years.
It's not going to be able to fix.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, we don't want Did we do this to ourselves
with NAFTA before you get to.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That, No, what we did, like Mexico has become a
narco state. We don't want to control Mexico, but what
we do want is a neighbor that's not a narco state,
that has capabilities equivalent to a rogue nation state militarily,
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intelligence wise, and otherwise. And so you can't have trillion
dollar cartels with human trafficking and fentanyl distribution which has
killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. We need to get
a handle on that. Now. There's ways to do that.
We could support President Shinbam and tell her that, look,
this is what we want you to do, and we'll
give you the TACIT support to wipe out the cartels.
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Could we do that? Yes, if we had the will
and we weren't subverted from the inside, I mean you,
but the cartels are very sophisticated, But the good news
is they're not cohesive for all their people, and there
are sensitive choke points. There are weak links that could
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be exploited, but again you have to have accurate intelligence
to exploit those. I don't think we need to get
caught in a quagmire in Mexico, but I would allot
rather pay attention to a country that is three hours
south of here than one that's five thousand miles from here.
That doesn't affect us at all.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm I'm agreeing. Then I'm going to disagree with the
person who texted in as well. It's like you're living
in your apartment and a drug dealer moves in next door.
Well that on a simplified basis.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You have trafficking going on, human trafficking, lives being destroyed,
and it wasn't this bad. I remember growing up and
being in Corpus Christy Blake, you know, fifteen years ago
we could go to Mexico. Yeah, we could go to
the border and have dinner and come back and it
wasn't a big drama. Now, I'm not saying there wasn't
any crime, but there wasn't that degree. But with am
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Low and now with Shinbon again, what you're seeing is
controllable people versus leaders in a nation and Mexico people.
I'm married to a Mexican lady who has dual citizenships.
She's wonderful, she's amazing, and that culture is amazing. Mexico
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City is one of the most as one of my
favorite cities in the world, and it breaks my wife's
heart that she can't visit everywhere in Mexico safely anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Now, our family for a long time had a house
outside Guadalajara, but I haven't been down there in.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Close to twenty years, right, And you got to realize
that Mexico flooded our country with immigrants or with illegal aliens.
But they had the help of the State Department. And
I know because I had relatives on my wife's side
working down there that told us what was happening. And
we had you had congressional yeah, Democrat congressional staffers in
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Mexico helping organize people crossing with Catholic charities.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Do you think they got conned into believing that they
were going to get these people in and they were
going to be voters, or do you think it was
something more sinister? Than that.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I think that it look it's I think there were
several ideologies in play, but the bottom line was we're
going to bring in a new block of voters. Because
they were telling these folks before they crossed, the Democrats
are doing this for you. Biden's doing this for you.
Vote Democrat. They were giving them paraphernalia and pamphlets. They
were this is open borders brought to you by the
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Democrat Party. And that's one of the reasons President Trump
was elected.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
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Hey, this is ever producer of the Scalpel with doctor
Keith Rose, presenting the second part of a conversation between
doctor Rose and former South Texas Congressman Blake Barenthal on
The Blake Parenthald Show. And we're going to kind of
pick up where we left off. Each of these episodes
(00:22):
stand on their own, but there's there's a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
To be gleaned from these.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
So if you want to jump back one episode, go
ahead and do that. We're going to explore Mexico's.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Journey as a as a.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Narco state where criminal cartels have have significant influence over
the government and operations and create human trafficking and the
impact of fentanyl in the United States specifically, but you know,
probably around the world. You know, you don't hear too
much about fentanyl being an issue in other countries.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
And this, uh, the instability in Mexico, it's it's not
just a concern, but it's it's an issue because of
proximity to the US border. But you know, there there
are opportunities to actually work together to potentially have you know,
(01:23):
the US could provide some services that may not be
available specifically to the Mexican government providing the services would
benefit the United States. Is that something I'm sure that's
already happening to some degree, But what else.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
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Speaker 3 (02:38):
So you've got President Trump rounding up his first one
hundred days. It's going quickly. My concern, and I'm always
looking ahead, is when Trump's term is up. Are we
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going to have somebody of the strength and moral character
and quite frankly financial resources to keep up this fight
as a next president, I think short of the financial resources,
I'm becoming more of a Vance fan.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But I think JD. Vances is the heir parent. And
here's why. I like what he says and I like
what he does. And JD. Vance is incredibly smart, incredibly smart,
and I'm sure he scares a lot of people, but
I think that he will definitely carry on and then
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you're going to have another eight years of Maga and
Dad Vance is definitely Maga Blake, and that's what we
want him.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
What do you do? What do you see on the
Democrat side? You don't think they would be stupid enough
to put up AOC, You know what.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I used to think Democrats wouldn't be stupid enough to
do this, and then Democrats look at you and go
hold my beer. I think the Democrats aren't stupid. But
the Democrat president is never stay Probably Obama is never
a person that that's making all the decisions. A Democrat
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president is someone like I talked about in the intelligence world,
that someone that can be controlled. Joe Biden was just
a sock puppet for the Democratic Party or the powers
that be, the globalist.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
And that's my belief is the Democrats' best hope of
taking the presidency is to put a celebrity up that
they're going to control.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, they're gonna They're gonna put up someone that has
appeal to the masses and that they can control. And
and again I go back to the intelligence community. I mean,
look at I mean, Biden was elected. I'm gonna say,
and it's all coming out now. It was a stolen election, blake.
And if anyone wants to go after me on that,
I actually have the receipts and I will tell you
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that it's it's gonna come out more and more, and
the countries involved are going to shock people. But at
the same time, it's all about control. Now, I think
again COVID, the silver lining of COVID is the American
people aren't going to let that happen again. I don't
believe as long as we remember what happened, it's in
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the Democrats' best interest to get a few generations behind
them and forget what happened during COVID so that they
can pull off something like that again.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
But I don't think that's a big as big of
a population as you think that believes the election actually
was stolen.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It Blake, I'm just going off of what I know.
I'm I'm not saying that I think the population thinks
one thing or not. Look Joe Biden, let's look at
Let's look at the macro first, Joe Biden could not
bill six circles at a rally. Now, President Obama, as
much as I didn't like him, he was elected. Legitimately,
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he would fill entire stadiums. People would wait for hours.
Joe Biden, no one waited, no one cared. He was
in the basement mode. He was in the basement. Then
you look at losing all the Bellweather bell Weather districts
that show what elects a president. Then go on top
of that and look at how all the massive mail
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in votes came in. I've seen stolen elections in Iraq
and other countries. Anytime you stop the counting of votes
and say we're going to resume in the morning, what
that's code for? We got to see the margin we
need to overcome. Now, have I seen evidence that the
election was stolen? Yes, I have. Have I seen cyber evidence,
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Yes I have. Have I seen other evidence, Yes I have,
And this will come out in the long run. And
I can say that without any fear reprisaled dominion. Please
come after me, because I know what's going on. And
here's the thing. This election wasn't stolen because you can
only flip so many votes, you can only vote shift
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so many times. And you had groups like Charlie Kirk's
group and Scott Presler's group that just got the early
voting out. They hustled the American people decided that they
didn't want to live under progressive socialism. And I give
all the credit, and the credit goes to God for
letting this happen. And we have President Trump back in office.
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My memory is not so short to remember Blake that
the President had that what the American people know to
assassination attempts on his life, and I can tell you
there were probably a lot more. And we as a
nation need to come together and recognize that this experiment
that the founders started two hundred and fifty four plus
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years ago works, and it works if you stick to
the original plan. Things don't go wrong. They start wrong
every time you try to get outside the original design
of what works. You start putting in factions, you start
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putting in foreign influence, you start doing what George Washington
warned against in his farewell letter to the American people.
Then you get subversion. You get political warfare, and political
warfare is very dangerous, and it'll be interesting to see
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you ask about President Trump and how he did it
on his first round. I think they're headed in the
right direction. But the problem in Washington, DC is you
have a lot of what we would call brownie and movement.
It's movement, but it's not accomplishing anything. Evidently, meet are
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substituted fractual operational functions. So people get together and say
we need to do this, and then you have endless
meetings at endless restaurants, at endless places, but very little
gets done. That's what at least on of the things
I have visibility I'm singing. That has nothing to do
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with President Trump. He actually gets stuff done and his
people do, but it's not gonna until they start addressing
these root causes, until they start arresting and purp blocking
people that are committing seditious conspiracy against this president and
his administration against the United States. I think it's going
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to be tough, and there's a pretty healthy list of
people that they could start bringing in for questioning.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
So what do we do down here in South Texas?
I mean, it feels like we're almost relegated to the
role of spectator.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Well, Blake, you you aren't. You aren't because every district,
every area can do something. Everyone big knows someone small,
everyone small knows someone big. So what do you do well?
First of all, in our community, we need to implement
the kind of government locally that we want nationally, which
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is one with integrity, which is when that gets things
done and.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Why you get things done. Is a tough one in
our city.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
It's very tough. But I lay that on us for
electing these people and not holding them accountable there and
that's that's easier said than done, but it needs to happen.
It needs to. We need to hold people accountable. We
need to start shining the light on things that are
not being done correctly, and shows like this are great
(10:55):
for that. I mean, you're carrying on Jim's mantle of
exposing you know what's going on. I'm not going to
go into details, but I was involved with something in
the city we had city contracts, they were given to
someone else. It wasn't done correctly, and one of the
city council people actually resigned over it. This is a
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long time ago, because they thought this is corrupt, this
is wrong. But the city attorneys were all in because again,
if people have self interest over community interest, that's a problem.
And maybe that's human nature, but again that's getting back
to the basic integrity issue.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
I could faith I could not have run for office
or served an office if I didn't feel like I
was trying to do what was best for my community,
be that the local district or the cut. And you
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know I got in trouble a couple of times because
I put the country over the local district.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
It's a fine line where you have to I mean,
you're you're elected to represent your local district, but at
the same time, not at the expense of causing harm
in the nation. And I guess, Blake, what you have
to do is you have to be able to speak
to people plainly and tell them, look, this is why
I'm doing this, and if they don't want you there,
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then they can vote you out. You weren't voted out,
you were upon in a very big political game with
speaker banner. Unfortunately, and it's Washington is broken, there's no question.
But you don't fix it by putting more money into it.
You don't fix it by making it larger and more powerful.
(12:50):
The way you fix broken systems is you tear them
out and start over, start over. And yeah, I'm not
talking about violently tearing it. I'm talking about cutting the
size and scope of government regulations. I mean, Corpus Christie
thrives on the oil and gas industry, so I want
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to see and that. But here's the thing that is
right in line with what America does well in the
economy when the oil and gas industry is booming, and
when we started cutting down work on pipelines, when we
started pounding the oil and gas industry making it more
more difficult.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
And buying Chinese and buying mills and mills and solar farms.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Every look at every wind driven device that you drive
by on I thirty seven and know that it took
more energy to make that device than it will ever
produce in its lifetime. Let that sink in.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
I'll never forget the port put in four windmills as
a demonstration project, and I was at the ribbon cutting
for those and they opened opened up the bases and
let me look in and all of the controls were
in Chinese. All the lettering the Chinese, all the displays
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on the LCD were Chinese. And I thought to myself,
who's profiting from this America?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's just it's a Latin phrase, qui bono? Who benefits?
And we saw what happened. We now know, according to
government sources, that that COVID was gain of function testing
in China.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And we were funding it.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
We were funding it. But here's the problem with what's
going on. Eventually this stuff comes out and does it
all of it the press, it comes out and they're
just like, oh, yeah, this happened, and then that's one
story they can say they admitted it way after the fact,
and then it's like move on. Nothing to see here.
There's no accountability. We had.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We had years of oh my god, we're all going
to die from COVID in this uh uh.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
You know bat that somebody ate, yeah, pangolin, Yeah, and
there's and there there's there was no jump in the
genetic chain. It was gain of function testing. And if
you looked at the actual science early on, I came
out and said it, this is man made. I went
to the commissioner's court and said it you probably go
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back and pull the tape. I warned that Imber I
was the only doctor speaking against it, but I did
because I just thought it was the right thing. Now
I understand why other doctors didn't. And but what I'm
saying is what happened to our intellectual curiosity, what happened
to actual science? That the science is not what propagandas
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tell you it is. The science is not what Medscape
puts out there on pre published studies that haven't been
peer reviewed or or run through the course. The science
is actually the science. That's why we take biology, physics, biochemistry,
animal physiology, all this stuff. There's a reason for these
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classes is to understand the basic science and foundation of
what we are doing. And somewhere we replaced basic research
and problem solving.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
We're doing with the CDCs.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
Google, Yeah, with web research, and we see it published
on the web and it looks good on a website,
so it obviously must be true.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Well, and the I mean I've always said, I've said
this since the early nineties. Anybody would twenty dollars to
buy a domain.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Name, right, But anyway they can put up thing they want.
There to be some kid in his mother's basement in
his underwear putting up stuff. Yeah, I'm just curious what
your readers are saying.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I think I've read most of them. I didn't not
on think I got to that one as a gen
X guy and a parent. Decline of public education in
public schools begin with the removal of Bible classes and
those that taught it. Why did we not have a
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choice like those today demand that they have. The principles
of being a good human being are lost in the narrative.
It's being steered by lunatics who are allowed to lead.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Well, it's again, it's a it's a complete breakdown in society.
But societal breakdown comes from breakdown to the family. When
you have strong families, strong leadership in the families, it's
hard to pull as many Shenanigans. When you have parents
that speak out, it's really hard. I mean, I love
moms for America, I love citizens defending freedom. These are grassroots,
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true grassroots groups that are going to be generational and
they are just concerned parents speaking out. Ma Larry texting,
he says, I have read the whole Ukrainian situation. When
Russia goes back to the UN, United States agree not
to push for the East. I agree, meaning if Ukraine
became part of NATO, we could have put military bases
there and we wouldn't want military bases in Canada. I
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agree Ukraine should not be part of NATO. And there's
one thing about I don't think Russia has our best
interest at heart, no shape or form. But what I
do know is that you still don't. It's a provocation
that we don't need to have.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
So here's my question. Do you leave more sleep over Russia,
China or Iran in North Korea.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I don't lose sleep. I have faith, But my concerns
are Iran has the largest embassy in the world. For
Iran is in Mexico City, which is really a conundrum
because they don't do any trade or business with Mexico,
but they have largest embassy in the world there. Iran
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is very upset with US for killing Sulamani, who needed
to die, and Iran is it will do things to
cause harm to our nation and our allies. Russia has
an economy about the size of Texas, and if we
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had politicians that understood that scope of Russia, and we're
serious about degrading Russia. There are ways to do that
economically North Korea. Same thing. But what you have is
people in your backyard that don't have your best interest,
and you're going to see an access of cartels, primarily
the Sinaloa Cartel of Iranians and Blake of Chinese people
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that are being moved to the United States. I think
that there is communication, this is my supposition with rogue elements,
prime former leaders in the intelligence community that are trying
to undermine this country for various reasons. So you have
a real problem. You have a president down in Mexico
that is completely controlled by the cartels or by whoever
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has power down there, and it's not Shinbam, and so
you have a power struggle right now inside of Sinaloa
between the Chapitos and the Elmyo branch. You have Guzman
in prison, but evidently he's able to talk to who
he wants to. You have a lot of American troops
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that I understand are going to be going down there
to train people, and we need to make sure they're
training actual Mexican military and not cartel plants. You have
Venezuela that still doesn't have our best interest. You have
the Triborder area where.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
Venezuela and you have anything that could threaten us, though
yes they do they have.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
What Venezuela does is it's an entry into South America
Blake and the Venezuela is tight with Cuba, and then
you have Bolivia that aligns with them. Then you have
the Triborder area down there near Venezuela where Hezbola has
a strong training camp. So you have a base of
operations in which to run insurgent activity up through Central
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America into Mexico and into the United States. And we
don't have a handle on that yet. You have Venezuela
who still has a lot of oil wealth, and Venezuela
is what China uses and Iran uses to skirt sanctions
buy and sell oil, and you have a lot of
rogue oil trading going on. You have I mean, I
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could spend two shows explaining all this. But yes, there's
a lot of problems and it's not a one off fix.
Now there are members and cartels that want to come
forward and kind of give up the goods because they're
very concerned. Because we have a strong president and we
have a great borders are in Tom Homan, but we
need to we need to push that position to get
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the information to shut down potential problems that are just
a few hours south of here.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Good talking about the cartel's influence in Mexico in the
training that we're going to do, I mean, how do
you sort the good guys from the bad guys? I
mean the tattoos? Well, I mean, I mean, how do
you know who's a good guy and who's a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Well, that's why you have to have strong intelligence services.
And the thing is that you have to have strong
intelligence services, not only human intelligence, but you have to
have signals. Now, if singles intelligence services, say in the
United States are not giving the president the information because
they're potentially not are they're told not to giving the information.
(23:38):
I'm saying this is happening, and I'm not saying it
isn't happening, then it's hard for decision makers to understand
and make decisions. Well, I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
I worry about Mexico and our border situation. Trump can't
deport them of efficiently enough. He's going for the obvious, uh,
Mexican and trans national gang members, but you know what
about the spies.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Well, I mean you have people, a lot of American
people don't understand. You have Cuban intelligence, which is one
of the strongest intelligence organizations in the world, and I
again take a long explanation, but they are. You have
Venezuelan intelligence, you have Iranian intelligence, and then you have
rogue members of potentially our intelligence community all coordinating and
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it's a toxic mix.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well do you think we're at the center of it
here or we're just to pass through for South Texas?
Speaker 2 (24:50):
I think that that's hard to say, Blake. I mean,
it's the old school cartel folks were stay away from fentanyl,
don't cause problems in the populace, just move drugs. The
new cartel groups are like, we'll do fentanyl, we'll have labs,
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we'll do people. And so you have massive trafficking. But
you got to realize something. You can't have trafficking on
the level we have right now without complicit elements inside government,
whether they're local, regional, or national.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Just as you look at the statistics and I was
reading this several months ago, with all the human traffic
that's going on, there are more slaves in the world
now than any other time in our history.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So there's a question for any readers. Good morning, Blake.
My question is why are we trying to control Mexico
to try to fix initiation that's been going on for years.
It's not going to be able to fix.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Well, we don't want Did we do this to ourselves
with NAFTA before you get to.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
That, No, what we did, like Mexico has become a
narco state. We don't want to control Mexico, but what
we do want is a neighbor that's not a narco state,
that has capabilities equivalent to a rogue nation state militarily,
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intelligence wise, and otherwise. And so you can't have trillion
dollar cartels with human trafficking and fentanyl distribution which has
killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. We need to get
a handle on that. Now. There's ways to do that.
We could support President Shinbam and tell her that, look,
this is what we want you to do, and we'll
give you the TACIT support to wipe out the cartels.
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Could we do that? Yes, if we had the will
and we weren't subverted from the inside, I mean you,
but the cartels are very sophisticated, But the good news
is they're not cohesive for all their people, and there
are sensitive choke points. There are weak links that could
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be exploited, but again you have to have accurate intelligence
to exploit those. I don't think we need to get
caught in a quagmire in Mexico, but I would allot
rather pay attention to a country that is three hours
south of here than one that's five thousand miles from here.
That doesn't affect us at all.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
I'm I'm agreeing. Then I'm going to disagree with the
person who texted in as well. It's like you're living
in your apartment and a drug dealer moves in next door.
Well that on a simplified basis.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
You have trafficking going on, human trafficking, lives being destroyed,
and it wasn't this bad. I remember growing up and
being in Corpus Christy Blake, you know, fifteen years ago
we could go to Mexico. Yeah, we could go to
the border and have dinner and come back and it
wasn't a big drama. Now, I'm not saying there wasn't
any crime, but there wasn't that degree. But with am
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Low and now with Shinbon again, what you're seeing is
controllable people versus leaders in a nation and Mexico people.
I'm married to a Mexican lady who has dual citizenships.
She's wonderful, she's amazing, and that culture is amazing. Mexico
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City is one of the most as one of my
favorite cities in the world, and it breaks my wife's
heart that she can't visit everywhere in Mexico safely anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Now, our family for a long time had a house
outside Guadalajara, but I haven't been down there in.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Close to twenty years, right, And you got to realize
that Mexico flooded our country with immigrants or with illegal aliens.
But they had the help of the State Department. And
I know because I had relatives on my wife's side
working down there that told us what was happening. And
we had you had congressional yeah, Democrat congressional staffers in
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Mexico helping organize people crossing with Catholic charities.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Do you think they got conned into believing that they
were going to get these people in and they were
going to be voters, or do you think it was
something more sinister? Than that.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I think that it look it's I think there were
several ideologies in play, but the bottom line was we're
going to bring in a new block of voters. Because
they were telling these folks before they crossed, the Democrats
are doing this for you. Biden's doing this for you.
Vote Democrat. They were giving them paraphernalia and pamphlets. They
were this is open borders brought to you by the
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Democrat Party. And that's one of the reasons President Trump
was elected.
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