One of the consequences of the unfolding revelations in Washington is that we must reexamine the past in light of this new data. We now know that the political process was captured by the Blob and used to serve the Blob. That means the alleged policies of past presidents were probably not their policies at all. They were simply staying ahead of the policies put forth by the Blob.
At the same time, much of what we want government to do has gotten worse as the Blob has assumed control. Name a problem and not only has it gotten worse, but the cost of addressing it has grown out of control. One great example is the war on drugs that has tracked closely with the growth of the Blob. The cost of fighting it has spiraled out of control, while the problem has only grown worse.
It is the nature of managerialism to look for things to manage, but managing is not the same as solving or even mitigating. You cannot remain a manager if what the problem you are tasked to manage gets solved. In fact, solving the issue is exactly what you must seek to avoid, which means you become part of the problem. This is what we have seen with the drug war going back to the Reagan years.
That is the show this week. It is a dive into the rabbit hole of the drug war to try and explain how the drug menace is the result of managerialism. At every stop along the way, government either deliberately or incompetently advanced the flow of drugs into the country and the diversity of drugs available. The reason we did not have a drug epidemic a century ago is we did not have managerialism a century ago.
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This Week’s Show
Contents
- Intro
- The War On Drugs
- What Happened?
- Maxine Waters Was Right
- The Poppy Fields
- Syrian Captagon
- Purdue Pharma
- Fentanyl & Meth
- Marijuana Legalization
- Drugs, Protection & The State
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The Sacklers are evil greedy demons… not to be compared to a great man like Hitler.
Our government joined the war on drugs, on the side of drugs
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Being a Cincinnatian, I actually had the chance to meet probably the most pivotal character in the cocaine traffic. “Freeway” Ricky Ross was the main conduit between the CIA and the streets when Ollie North was trying to raise money for the Contras. Ross was very shrewd and made more than two billion dollars in today’s dollars while living in California. What was he doing in Cincy? He was obsessed with tennis from a very young age and had moved here for the ATP Masters tournament. He was a skinny guy and spoke in a gentle voice and you would… Read more »
McFerrin, not McFadden.
I remember hearing about him, but I thought he was suicided because he uncovered evidence that White Flight to the suburbs had been a deliberate part of a long-term real-estate scam using blacks to drive whites out of the (potentially extremely valuable/desirable) inner-city neighborhoods they used to occupy, then use “gentrification” to drive the blacks out in turn once property values had cratered sufficiently…
Whatever got him killed, he made the mistake of trying to actually get the story, beating feet around town and the country and asking hard questions. In other words, being a newsman rather than a journalist.
Gary Webb died from two gunshots to the head.
From a revolver, if memory serves…
Obvious suicide!
Templar: “a long-term real-estate scam using blacks to drive whites out of the (potentially extremely valuable/desirable) inner-city neighborhoods they used to occupy, then use “gentrification” to drive the blacks out in turn once property values had cratered sufficiently…“ Just like Maui & Pacific Palisades. We poor stupid idiot goyische shkotzim lack the innate ability to properly acknowledge & anticipate & analyze & confront & eradicate the satanically sadistic psychopathy known as, “Chutzpah”. My guess is that even now, after everything we’ve learned these past few decades, a good 75% or more of our populace would refuse to recognize “Chutzpah” for… Read more »
The oxycontin epidemic was a planned and organized genocide, deliberately targeted at White Heritage Americans, by jews, waged as a front in the Great Replacement, killing off the Whites as their replacements were imported. And they pretty much got away with it. By my estimation, there would be roughly 2 million more Whites living in AINO today were it not for this monstrous crime (counting not just the direct victims, but also the children they would have otherwise had, and the children their children would have had). This has electoral consequences (which were intentional), although it seems to have failed… Read more »
What came first, OxyContin or the hollowing out of American industry and the great rust belt of middle America? We need to consider “diseases of despair” as well in our condemnation. If the solution were only so simple as to blame one law, or one greedy Pharma…
I disagree. I don’t think it is a coincidence that the opiate epidemic started around the very same time China got into the WTO and thousands of US factories closed. Drug addiction is a disease of hopelessness and dysfunction. People generally don’t stick needles in their arms because everything is going great. Granted, you will always have a small number of people who will use drugs or abuse alcohol no matter the conditions they exist in. But they are the small minority. Dope has been around a long, long time. Specifically Heroin has been around since the 19th century when… Read more »
You can watch the Netflix documentary about Oxycontin and the Sacklers. The facts of the case are not in dispute. My conclusions would no doubt be considered fringe. But what other conclusion can one draw from the fact that the Sacklers deliberately chose not just the regions but neighborhoods to be targeted, and the individual doctors? Why those regions and not others? No one asks these questions.
The facts about the Sackler family are true and I don’t dispute them. What I dispute is the idea that you are going to have much success destroying an in-tact community with such drugs. Yes, some people will and I don’t dispute that either. But the vast majority of it comes down to not just availability (drugs have always been available), but also the hopelessness of broken communities. The hollowing out of our manufacturing happened at the same time as Oxy started further wrecking communities and are no doubt co-conspirators.
And the result of the Sacklers and the resulting hysteria wrt someone, somewhere getting high, is that the last time I was in the hospital, there were forms to sign stipulating that I would receive such and such medically prescribe pain killers, for such and such time (10 days, tops), and if out out the hospital, I would have to come directly to the hospital pharmacy where I would take my “medicine” under supervision. We were talking *major* surgery here! The Fed’s—or any other government agency—has no business in such minutiae. This is complete bullshit. (BTW, stop basing your entire… Read more »
Yep. Many legitimately in pain now can’t get relief, which pushes newbies into black markets that are quite profitable for gov, fed or state (cops, guards, prisons, programs etc.)
Like the devil himself, the State now is into torture. . . but for your own good, to be sure! Trust them. They will let you know just how much pain you can stand.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
– C.S. Lewis
You see this on the issue of homelessness. It seems they want better houses homeless with cleaner needles. They don’t want to actually solve the problem.
Well, if the “problem” is “virtue signaling”, the current “solutions” work wonderfully for some people.
Oh, it’s worse than that. It’s a grift. Everyone involved in the homeless racket is rich.
In that you have a point. In my younger days any number of fellow students dropped out of graduate programs and took positions in charities. They made so good money too, while I lived on an research assistant’s stipend.
The last point Z is talking about also speaks to the homeless issue. There is a massive industry built around “helping” homeless people, especially in cities like NYC and LA, except the homeless problem gets worse every year. And if you look at what the homeless “advocates” talk about, it’s basically about letting them do whatever they want and indulging their every vice. Hence we go from “hey let’s build a shelter so homeless people don’t have to sleep in the cold” to “that bum has the right to set up a tent in your front yard and pleasure himself… Read more »
Im my libertarian days I remember Jeffery Tucker saying, the drug war is not a war against drugs but a war against the populace.
The CIA proposed to purchase the entire world supply of LSD in the early 1950s, supposedly to keep it out of the hands of the Soviets. Production was shifted to the US.
The Soviets had no problems with LSD afaik, but within about ten years the USA was awash in the stuff. The “Elite” held that only they should partake, others wanted to dose everyone. “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”. The “counter culture” sure had a massive corporate presence. It’s almost comical in retrospect.
Check out Louis Jolyon “Jolly” West
Large corporate presence, large military presence. Prolly coincidence.
But Jeffrey Tucker is a retard and a fag. He was virulently anti-Trump for all the typical leftist reasons. He is a typical left wing libertarian despite his connections with the Rothbardian side of libertarianism.
Also, one should be willing to reexamine their beliefs when they are proven wrong. The loosening of drug war law enforcement in places around the country and in some other countries have made the drug problem worse, not better. In 2010, we had only 1 example in Amsterdam. Now we have quite a few and all of them have been total failures by any metric.
I agree but I thought his assessment was correct none-the-less. Criminalizing drugs allows them to penalize just about all human behaviour, not that I think they should be legal but, just something to think about.
When drug consumption was illegal, at least I could walk down a street in Manhattan without it smelling like a Cheech and Chong movie set. When it was illegal, you didn’t have unlicensed pop-up stores selling blunts and edibles to 13 year olds who then go on to fry their brains.
This isn’t even getting into Portland’s disastrous experiment with legalization.
Portland – the one word rebuke to everyone advocating “legalize everything!” because they did, during the Coof when everyone was distracted by all the nonsense about the vaxx and the masks. It’s still uninhabitable today and the rents have gone way up in my suburb because anyone who isn’t a junkie or criminal has moved out and come here. Granted Portland was always a steaming pile of hipster shit but I knew it would get worse when they legalized everything. And even here everything smells like a Cheech and Chong movie set but at least we don’t have to worry… Read more »
The problem is always whether we can reasonably proscribe various “drugs” vs whether these drugs are dangerous to societal well being. Just about every known drug is problematic in one use or another, unfortunately most elective use cannot be prevented. Latest example is Marijuana. Oldest, alcohol.
The problem of course is the “because we can do little, we should do nothing” nihilism that arises. I fear we are forever to be in that quandary.
We can start by making the importation or manufacturing of hard drugs a capital offense. They are killing 100,000 people a year, not to mention torturing millions of addicts and wrecking their lives and family’s lives. A lot of people who import drugs get little to no punishment when they are caught. Most of them are mules and don’t know much of anything. AFAIK, they are not using the vast surveillance apparatus for enforcing drug trafficking laws. A lot of the kvetching about the drug war is just lies and or exaggeration. There is a lot to criticize about the… Read more »
100%.
China had an opium problem. Capital punishment fixed it.
Singapore never has…because it’s a rapidly enacted death sentence for mere possession.
In the US, we allow 100,000 death and ten times as many destroyed lives per year while allowing the Sacklers to grow rich beyond belief and the cloud people chuckle when the son on the VP leaves his cocaine stash in the guest room of the White House.
Not going to work I fear. Here is but one reason—which I’ve actually observed myself. Drugs sold on the street right next to my university involved 10-12 yo “runners”. When my car was stopped at a long light, they solicited me. If I gave them money, they ran around the building complex next to the street and got my product. And no, this was not a scam. I witnessed successful transaction after transaction occur. You gonna execute a 10 yo? Not gonna work. I suppose you could execute the addict, but as I said the addict’s mind is broken. You… Read more »
They put Charles Manson in prison for life and he never physically killed anybody. Somebody is running those ten-year olds so those people can be collared and shown some real justice. That would stop it pretty fast.
Yeah, and the 60+ yo grandma who drives a car up from Nogales port of entry gets executed as well, since she had a bag of fentanyl shoved in her wheel well. Not gonna happen.
Lot’s of thought talk here, no experience. Before you make the fallacious argument of more and more extreme punishment, perhaps you investigate just how many of these folk have 1) been caught, and 2) got off with light or no sentence, then 3) recidivised.
When those criteria are met, we can justify harsher punishment.
I anticipated this response by saying “the importation or manufacturing of hard drugs” Do I think we should make mere possession a capital offense? No. My best friend of decades is in the ground and he died with a needle in his arm (on Kensington ave noless) under the age of 45. 40 something year olds should not be in the ground. If there wasn’t all these hard drugs smuggled into the US (or precursors), these 10-16 year olds would have nothing to push. Also, I support capital punishment for dealers using 10 year olds in their dealing. You cannot… Read more »
I think you underestimate building will. I have ZERO problem executing the lot. This is utterly existential. There are no boundaries and there is only one rule. The numbers like me are growing and will continue to grow by leaps and bounds when Pres. Trump’s civic nationalism fails. All I want is a thin veneer of authority backed by adequate local support, the better fifth of the local population should do. However, by the time we get to that point, and we WILL get to that point, serious (war, rather than law) deportations will be on the table. No one… Read more »
CompSci: “I witnessed successful transaction after transaction occur. You gonna execute a 10 yo?“
ABSOLUTELY.
Execute them, their parents, and their older syblings.
All of them.
New designer drugs are constantly being synthesized. It’s an almost insoluble problem, not that we shouldn’t try to suppress them by going after the criminal cartels that produce them. But I’m afraid the bigger problem is that the government really does want a sedated, helpless, demoralized populace. We’ll see what the Trump admin can do about it. The global elites behind it are after a global population collapse worldwide to “save the planet”. The drug onslaught is just one prong in their attack to reduce the most independent populations. The ongoing drug attack on Appalachian culture is just the most… Read more »
I recall reading a fiction book that had a guy deliberately poison a large drug supply, and the users – including celebs, politicians’ kids, etc. – began dropping like flies. I’m fine with that. History offers minimal encouragement on means to get weak and/or despairing people to desist from using substances deleterious to their health. I don’t know that I regard illegal drugs as much different than all the ‘legal’ prescription ‘antidepressants’ people take. Life can suck – and you just have to deal with it. Those who can’t cope opt for drugs, alcohol, grift, violence, cheating, etc. No, I… Read more »
This. In sooo many aspects of life, we’ve abandoned “strict Darwinian selection”. We simply can’t rectify these two aspects of recreational drug use. In short, you want to abuse drugs, then accept the consequences and die in the street come winter—or sooner when you starve to death or overdose. We want it both ways. We pick these people up, stabilize them in the nearest hospital, then release them to repeat the process of human degradation all over—until finally it is “all over”. It’s a wealthy society’s “solution” to the problem of drug addition, but we are fooling ourselves and helping… Read more »
Drug and alcohol rehabilitation is a multi billion dollar industry, a lot of which is paid for by Obamacare. I don’t know how many people it really helps, whether or not it’s worth it. There are success stories, I just don’t know what they are as a percentage, or whether or not it balances out economically. For the ones who do get better, it is common that after a couple decades of substance abuse, they are basically unemployable anywhere other than the substance abuse treatment industry. So you could say it’s sort of a jobs program for recovered addicts and… Read more »
“There are success stories, I just don’t know what they are as a percentage,…”
Try ChatGPT:
“General Population: Approximately 40% to 60% of individuals treated for substance use disorders experience relapse. This rate is comparable to relapse rates for other chronic diseases, such as hypertension or asthma.”
Albeit, the true/best answer is more varied and nuanced and dependent on the drug. For example, alcohol needs to have its own consideration apart from opioids and stimulants. And of course, one relapse problem puts you in a much higher category of relapse probability.
A couple years ago, the “health experts”, giddy on all the cred they thought they earned during the pandemic, started talking up how EVERYONE needed to start carrying around narcan as we went about our day. This is so we can save people we see overdosing on the street or whatever. Obviously this didn’t catch on but they still say this. It speaks to the insanity of the situation we live in, where normal people are supposed to care more about the lives of junkies than the junkies do, and where we are supposed to put the safety and wellbeing… Read more »
I agree, but I also maintain that long time drug users are “broken”. They no longer are competent to live in society on their own. The point being that you “can’t fix crazy” as they say. (And by the way, in my burg, all city police carry Narcan…). 🙁
One of the most jarringly incongruous bits of propaganda the government puts out is their treatment of dangerous drugs like heroin and fentanyl vs. cigarette smoking. Here in the rust belt, it’s common to see billboards or commercials from state or county boards of health reminding you that doing hard drugs doesn’t need to be an impediment to a normal life, just make sure you’ve got narcan and you shoot up with a friend. But watch a TV commercial pertaining to smoking and it’s a guaranteed death sentence that results in only misery, pain, disfigurement, and the grave. What on… Read more »
A couple years ago, the “health experts” … started talking up how EVERYONE needed to start carrying around narcan as we went about our day. It’s impossible to imagine how hard people in deep blue shitholes like Portland will virtue-snivel about this stuff. I live close enough to Port-o-Potty that recently I actually saw some silly college-age girl (of course) wearing a little button pin on her backpack advertising that she carried Narcan. I have to admit it crossed my mind that some clever local entrepreneur probably made some good money selling those pins and other similar ones to silly… Read more »
Many years ago, I volunteered at a shelter, serving meals. I’d say 10% of the people were regulars, and hopeless. What to do with the hopeless but to let them hit bottom and rebound, or die? I dare say it’s more humane.
Homeless is spelled, “C.A.T.O. 4, 3, 2, 1”
C: Crazy, 4 out of 10
A: Addicted, 3 out of 10
T: Tramp/ transient, 2 out of 10
O: Out of luck, 1 out of 10
On a good day 90% of the “homeless” will always be with us.
Granted I ain’t done a study, but I’d say the crazy number is too low. Probably most of the T and a lot of the A is also C.
We bring back “institutions”. In the bad old days of my youth, we called them “insane asylums”, but we had an (IMHO) a valid concept—some people can not live independently among society, they are not equipped for it. Similarly, if we can’t stand stepping over the drugged out bums on the street, then we maintain them in some sort of confined area where they can be watched. But as said, this is expensive, but the kindest way to handle those who are “broken”. But hell this is America—the home of the free—let the bums rule the streets until they go… Read more »
Bringing back asylums is a great idea. Get people the help they need. I’m all for that, but they have to want help, or it’s a waste. No good but the good person’s pride.
Hence the ditch, as ugly as it is. Some people will see what they want, and decide they don’t want it. I met a couple of them. Others will be out of their misery and won’t be inflicting it on everyone else. Which tends to happen anyway.
Realistically, there’s only two ways to deal with the insane. I’ve lived long enough to see them both tried, and they both suck. While putting the legitimately insane in institutions would probably be the most reasonable and humane thing to do, let’s remember why we aren’t doing it anymore. Recollect that the hospitals and insurance companies made a cottage industry out of locking people up. Apparently, kids smoking weed were sufficiently “insane” to warrant being locked up in institutions (without criminal charges or due process). That is why it is almost impossible to involuntarily commit anyone these days, the practice… Read more »
One thing I’ve learned in the past few years: American blacks are wiser than the racist right gives them credit for. They’ve been yapping about government drugs in the ghetto for decades; they don’t pay taxes or deal with banks, they act like they’re never home and unreachable, they instinctively distrust media, they didn’t fall for the Covid vax, and they pretend to like Dems because of the gibsmedats. They are irreverent and recognize Game, take advantage if they can, and most importantly: they scare people.
White people need to learn a thing or two about our AA countrymen.
Nuggras yapping about drugs in da hood is like them blathering about about peace and love. It’s a farcically hypocrical con gullible, multiculti whites fall for like Charlie Brown and the football.
And they’re not our countrymen. They’re an inimical race, partically a different species.
I didn’t write brothers or fellow citizens, but they do live in the same country as us and partake in many similar activities.
Did you mean partially or particularly? I have asked myself that question on occasion, doubting my sanity under the constant negrophilia of our dominant culture. Apparently at the base level though, they were hybridized from a Homo Erectus-like progenitor. At least we get a “blast from the past” when we encounter one resorting to his/her natural inclinations, i.e., the classic “chimp-out.” I also respect Marko’s opinion however, as I think he is entirely correct about them. I’ve spent a lot of time around them. They will try to undermine your priors if you let them wheedle their way in, that… Read more »
“Practically.”
Seems my fingers go in a different direction from my mind quite a bit these days.
Good post, but I don’t agree that they didn’t fall for the covid vax. Everywhere I went I saw blacks wearing masks. It also could be that they were hiding from the law… one never knows with the criminal race.
True, they masked up more thoroughly than whites did. In fact, I still see them walking down the street with masks strapped to their chins. But blacks believe in ghosts more than science.
The worst of all with the masks are the orientals. They’re supposedly smarter than whites but they sure don’t demonstrate it.
Definitely the worst Covid hysterics. There was this Chink restaurant I used to patronize. A very good takeout joint. Well, when the Covidiocy struck, the owners and staff naturally donned the moron masks–nothing unusual in that. However, in addition to wearing masks, they forbade customers entering their restaurant to pick up their orders. Instead, they nuggra-rigged this little kiosk in the front of the building where you slipped them the money/debit card, they processed it, and then handed you your order through this little window. And if that wasn’t ridiculous enough, they continued this asinine theatre derangee until they went… Read more »
They’ve been doing it in their own lands for a long time for flus and pollution. It’s practically traditional at this point
True. However, they didn’t begin wearing them wholesale and continuously in AINO until 2020.
Yep, years before the Coof I read an article written by a Westerner shitlib explaining that the East Asians were “germophobic” in the extreme and that’s why you’ll see them on trains or busses wearing face diapers. I imagine he had some explaining to do to the local Coof-commisars about that if anyone remembered what he wrote.
Ironic, given that any white man with an ounce of testosterone scares the shit out of them.
They have a lot of weird beliefs. For instance the idea of being “cock-strong”. They believe that if a man doesn’t get enough pussy, then his hand strength increases to a vise-like amplitude. They attribute being “cock-strong” mostly to white men whom they think don’t get enough pussy. I shook hands with a black guy once and I kept increasing the pressure. Finally, I was near my limit and I saw a trace of fear cross his face. I gave it my last effort when he suddenly gave out this yowl and jerked his hand away. I could tell he… Read more »
Ha ha.
I’ve noticed that disgustingly soft, squishy handshake is common among virtually all wogs. Whenever I experience it, I get a queasy feeling in my gizzard.
Wimpy, faggy handshakes make a bad first impression in my book. Ugh.
Depends on how many of them there are and where you meet them.
Don’t push your luck.
Wisdom….or animal cunning?
You could write an encyclopedia and make movies about Mena Arkansas and Clintons. Oh right, that has already happened. Or Air America or Iran Contra. And Fauci makes Mengela look like a piker. I thought we were Whitepilling his week!
It is absolutely not true that you can sue the cops if they violate your rights. “Qualified Immunity” should really be called Unlimited Immunity. The SCOTUS invented QI, but they made a rule that you can only sue the cops if they violate your civil rights and are on notice of it through court cases. But you need a precedent in order for the QI to be overcome. So there are very few precedents and no new ones can be created. It’s a catch 22. You need a case to set the precedent, but cases can only get through if… Read more »
Good discussion, but I don’t see American softies ever waging the kind of drug war that would work. So, what is best for long term mitigation of this unfixable problem? I’m not sure we have the right data to figure it all out. But we do know that political views are largely a product of biology, and so is one’s predilection for addiction. Do those correlate? If yes, in the long term what happens if we allow the Portland experiment to continue, on a mass scale? The place no doubt attracted a disproportionate number of addicts by legalizing so I… Read more »
Portland’s social problems started years ago when the idiotic liberal electorate kept voting for massive handouts to the homeless. Most of the local churches, for instance, are addicted (ironic isn’t it?) to grants from the State or city to provide freebies for the hobos. That and the mild winters attracted people from all over the nation who were allergic to work and sobriety. Then they got the bright idea to legalize all drugs. It may have been unintentionally like a well done marketing strategy. First, develop a market (bring in hobos from everywhere west of the Mississippi), offer something they… Read more »
There are people who can use alcohol and drugs without problems. What percentage are these versus those who cannot?
Presumably, this is why Prohibition was repealed. Most people judged that they could enjoy alcohol without bad consequences.
Cities like Portland demonstrate that when drugs are legalized an intolerable proportion of people cannot use them responsibly.
Are the only choices banning or legalizing all drugs? If we ban them, there is some proportion who can use them without problems, yet the damage done by those who cannot is terrible.
It depends somewhat on the drug and how it is used. If you take 100 people and shoot them up with heroin every day, after two weeks you’ll have 100 heroin addicts. Take 100 people and get them drunk every day, after two weeks, maybe you’ll have 5 alcoholics.
You know, Opioids – including heroin – are an “easy kick”, physiologically speaking: withdrawal, is 48-72 hours of “flu-like.” (Alcohol withdrawal, on the other hand, can be lethal if not adequately managed.)
But the will to stay off of the dope- ah, a different story! Once one has “Been To The Ball with THAT demon”, the desire to keep on dancing is…?
(That’s right – “demon.”)
The stat’s are (IIR), of those who touch alcohol, 14% or so will have some type of abuse problem during their lives. As far as opiates, I do not know. But one thing I’ve experienced over a lifetime is that people taken pain killers—who have *real* pain—do not normally become addicted. Don’t buy into the Fed FUD. The panic over people getting addicted has caused much grief and suffering.
The people who can use them without problems are not better people because they can. It still drags them down and constantly exposes them to the problems of addiction. There’s no upside to legal drugs. It’s only a marker of a society that has abandoned all hope.
Do you apply the same judgment to alcohol?
That’s the vibe I’m getting. I still have enough libertarian in me that if I thought drugs were being legalized out of respect for our individual choices, I’d be able to go along with it.
But when I see drugs getting legalized along with shoplifting and other abhorrent behavior, one is strongly left with impression that they aren’t doing it out of respect for our freedom, but simply because the authorities can’t be arsed with keeping order any longer.
This is why I think social credit systems are underrated. We don’t ban things like guns and drugs because we’re afraid Jeff Bezos will get coked out and shoot up his backyard. What we’re afraid of is Jonquerious getting coked out and shooting up our neighborhood. So I have no problem with a system that allows responsible people like Bezos to use his own judgment with regard to firearms and drugs, while denying them to Jonquerious. When your operating principal is Equality Under the Law, your laws are going to end up getting made to accommodate the lowest common denominator.… Read more »
42:50 This section of this week’s Z-Man podcast reminds me of the opening scene of the film Layer Cake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8MGBn3KawM XXXX: When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers. But it wasn’t for me. Then came the Summer of Love. Hashish and LSD arrived on the scene. There were villains locked away for twelve years for robbing a bank of ten grand, doing time with drippy hippies down six months for smuggling two million quid’s worth of puff. I mean work it out, mate. We’re in the wrong fucking game.… Read more »
One of the most insidious policies of the drug war is forcing drug arrest quotas on law enforcement agencies which is how you end up with police acting as drug traffickers & also going around planting drugs. It also shows that the government never really had any plans on actually eradicating drugs from society, it was just another money making scheme with the populace getting shafted from every angle. It was a happy coincidence that they also turned every single aspect of the country into a hellscape of hopeless despair which primed the population for escapism. That was the lynchpin… Read more »
It was real in his mind: “WHEN RICK DOBLIN was in his early twenties, he had a dream in which he was escorted back in time to witness a Holocaust survivor’s narrow escape from the Nazis. In his mind, Doblin travelled to Eastern Europe to witness thousands of Jews lined up alongside a mass grave as the gunners open fire, toppling the bodies into the earth. The man spends three days alive underground before emerging and fleeing to the woods, where he survives the war in hiding. The man then tells Doblin that he survived this horror only to deliver a… Read more »
Protection rackets work best when people are afraid. The biggest gains for the administrative state have been when people were fearful: the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War, 9-11, and Covid all generated fear and a great leap in the reach of the administrative state. If Trump can return us to a relatively peaceful state by ending the new Cold War, the administrative state will take a big hit.
I am all for police actions against drugs. People do respond to incentives, including expense and fear of jail time. Recreation drugs are all bad at all times for everyone.* Allowing them is a nod to modern despair and tendencies towards hedonism. However, the “war on drugs” modernly is grift. How it’s attacked properly is to throttle the supply, which involves securing the borders and throwing the book at drug dealers. I would argue that open borders and concerns about jailing blacks over “just” drug use has created a non-war on drugs. Thus the unsurprising explosion of use, particularly in… Read more »
Ah, yes – The old alcohol is more dangerous than drugs bit. People who drink a triple after work are far more productive in the long run than people who light a joint.
And for every old person who dies at 62 of cirrhosis of the liver, there are a couple young people dead before their thirties from ODs or despair from the ruined life of a junkie.
The quandary is that there are people with low intellect out there and eventually broken minds. They can no longer make rational choices—as you and I would define. As such, incentives no longer work to entice these people into a productive way of life.
We don’t abandon laws about murder because people still commit the act. I don’t know why it’s allowable when it’s about drugs. Check that, I do know why. People want to indulge, rather than concern themselves with the potential addicts.
Easiest way to equalize society is to abandon all standards. Happens in education, culture and law, and probably other areas as well.
Not sure equalize ia the correct term. I think you might have meant to flush it down the drain.
The cartels should thank us for the war on drugs.
If the cartels didn’t exist, the CIA would have had to create them (….).
Making hard drugs legal doesn’t “solve” the cartel problem. See: big pharma.
Right. We are seeing that with sports gambling now. The problem is now exponentially worse and many millions more people are in the thrall of addiction today compared to when it was illegal.
Yeah drugs, man! (rubbing at eye with fist)
There was this time in the Sixties when . . . uh, I think I forgot. Man.
“Dave’s not here”.
Sounds interesting!
Man oh man. Yet another thoroughly effed-up innovation of the 20th Century.*
You really are shooting for all the marbles here, Zman!
*(and of course, like so much else, started up by our Usual Suspects, the means by which a gangster culture gained an enormous influence in the West, and then the world.)
Good show. The grifting must continue no matter the cost.
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What’s up with this Elon character and his doubling down on that weird St. Christopher’s pose of his?
It doesn’t seem protective, but rather creepy and out of place.
Is Mr. Musk sending a message to the pedophile clique?
Why don’t act instead?
It would be as easy as to publish the names of those involved, sit back and let the populace do the justice.
What’s a “St. Christopher Pose?”
I know a St. Michael pose – boot on Satan’s throat, sword held aloft – but St. Christopher?
Carrying a child on your back (St. Christopher was reputed to have carried the child Jesus across a river).