Back to episode — Episode 1874 Scott Adams - Lots Of News About Fentanyl, Trump, Elections, And Affirmative Action
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even pretending to enforce it. So that's part of their pushback. They're not going to enforce fentanyl. Okay so what do you do? Well here's some things that the Republicans are doing. Governor Abbott in Texas signed an executive order declaring the cartels a terrorist organization which I understand allows them to treat every fentanyl overdose as murder. Now the practical implications of that are…
← Previous segment →akes. We're going to kill you. You're gone. Your whole operation and all your children all dead. That's the negotiation. Now here's the thing with the cartels. They have the Putin problem. They don't have that retirement plan. The cartel can't just retire. Now it could stop selling fentanyl and still make plenty of money and still be a cartel. So they do have a way to go if they don't want to escalate it to full warfare. I don't think they do. But you should also offer them a retirement plan that looks like this roughly speaking. Right this is just an example and it would go like this. We'll give you stock in pharma manufacturing startups in Mexico. So we'll move our pharma manufacturing to Mexico because the U.S. is just too hard regulation wise. And we'll build some manufacturing there but it will only be the manufacturing part. It's not the R&D and the high-end stuff. It's just manufacturing. And we'll give the cartel heads I don't know two percent of the stock. They won't have any control. They won't have any management. They just get some stock just like anybody who buys stock. And you say here's the deal. If you shut down everything illegal we'll let you stay rich. You can even own this stock and your family will be safe forever. You'll have full pardons and your family can just live and you'll have your rich legacy forever. But if you sell one more piece of fentanyl you're all dead. Hello. I know that what we're doing now doesn't work.
But let me ask you this. Do you think that Trump could not negotiate with the head of a cartel? And let me ask you the second question. Is there anyone else in the whole world who could do that? I don't know of anybody. I mean maybe I could but it'd be pretty hard. Trump could because Trump is used to negotiating with gangsters. You need somebody who's used to negotiating with actual murderers. Trump does that. Trump has experience negotiating with actual murderers because if you're in construction in New York you've had to. There's no way he avoided those guys. He had to. So he must have figured out some kind of way to live with the mafia through negotiation. So apparently he knows how to do this. So I would say that a Trump presidency gives you the only chance you have of negotiating with the cartels to do something about fentanyl. It's the only one.
Now I told you that I'm gonna push for a single issue vote for the presidency. And the single issue I suggest would be the fentanyl overdoses. So that whichever party has the better plan for that just gets your vote. Now you're not committed. I mean you're a free citizen in the United States. You can vote any way you want. But if you want anything to happen on fentanyl you have to at least put out there the idea that you could move a million vote
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s one way or the other based on who has the better fentanyl plan. I'd like to see them compete. So as of today the Republicans have the better fentanyl plan. Declare that they're terrorist organizations. Declare that it's a weapon of mass destruction. Those are good plans. And then at least have the conversation about bombing them. Matt Gaetz, right? So if you voted today and you wanted to make th…
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