Alright, let’s talk about something refreshing. Not a press conference. Not a task force. Not another government study that costs $40 million to conclude drugs are… bad.

No, ladies and gentlemen, it looks like America finally remembered how to win a fight.

El Mencho has been arrested, and the CNJG cartel has been hit hard.

Did you know that El Mencho was arrested in San Franciso and RELEASED. Back in 1989.

Because while most of Washington was busy holding symposiums about “root causes” and hosting empathy workshops for criminals, President Trump just helped take down one of the most powerful cartel bosses on planet Earth. El Mencho. Gone. Finished. Game over for one very important résumé in organized crime.

And the reaction has been fascinating.

Not from the cartels. They reacted exactly how you’d expect. Panic, scrambling, hiding money, switching phones every eight minutes. Totally normal criminal behavior.

Do you know that the president of Mexico said she didn't want to use force against the cartels because it would violate their human rights.

"Returning to the war against the narco is not an option. First, because it is outside the framework of the law."

The interesting reaction came from politicians.

Suddenly, people who never showed urgency about fentanyl deaths are deeply concerned about… escalation. Isn’t that amazing? For years Americans were dying by the tens of thousands, and Washington’s response was basically a candlelight vigil and a grant proposal. But the moment a cartel leader gets eliminated, now we need caution. Now we need nuance. Now everybody’s a geopolitical philosopher.

It’s almost like stability was working out pretty well for somebody.

Let’s be honest about what cartels are. These aren’t guys in pickup trucks making bad decisions. These are multinational corporations with better logistics than most Fortune 500 companies. They run supply chains, security divisions, intelligence networks, and marketing operations. The only difference between a cartel and a tech startup is one sells poison and the other sells your data… and sometimes I’m not sure which one Congress regulates more.

CJNG, El Mencho’s organization, wasn’t just a cartel. It was an army with branding. Drones, armored vehicles, territory control. These guys weren’t hiding from governments. In many places, they were the government.

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One of my acquaintances tweeted, “Whoever the producer of tonight’s State of The Union broadcast is, has to be the biggest troll in America.”

They said this because with the president said, “Because they refused to call their daughter a boy”, the cameraman panned to that Democrat Congressional freak man who is playing a woman.

Then, when President Trump mentioned, “Somali Pirates” the camera cuts to Ilhan Omar.

Bravo!

This is a guy who just ended his videographer career.

Understand that prior to the SOTU, news broke that the CIA retracted 19 politicized intelligence products many of which improperly inserted DEI nonsense into intel analysis. These reports spanned over a decade, and included assessments on white women, white males and violent extremism, LGBT issues, abortion, and more.

I joked recently, “It’s ok to be Christian, heterosexual, and white again”.

I told people that it’s best to wait a few days after an event like the SOTU, because the topic will have soaked a bit. To use cooking terms, the sauce becomes a reduction, whereby we get all the great flavor combinations.

And what a sauce the Democrats have concocted.

Included in the fallout is this update from sources close to high-ranking Democrats who have revealed growing internal panic following the party’s response to President Trump’s SOTU address. These sources described Democrats’ counter-protests and boycott events as a “disaster”. Apparently, the events are described as leaving the Democrats appearing “childish” and “disorganized”.

I saw videos of one event, and it looked like a third-grade production put on by adults. Leftists wore with frog and giraffe costumes and performed lame attempts at comedy

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Have you stopped to consider the number of lies Democrats tell themselves?

It’s enormous.

I don’t know how they live themselves, except to say they’re scared to leave the cult.

Blatant lies.

Covid. Vaccine effectiveness. Masks. Etc.

Guns. Border policy. 2020 election. 2022 midterms. J6.

The strangest thing about the hypothetical was not the shouting. It was the silence.

At precisely midnight, something shifted. No executive order. No Supreme Court ruling. No viral hashtag. Just an inexplicable civic condition: every Democrat in America, from city council to Capitol Hill, suddenly lost the ability to lie.

Not exaggerate. Not deflect. Not rebrand. Lie.

By sunrise, the cable news studios looked like aquariums after someone forgot to oxygenate the tank. Pundits opened their mouths with the usual choreography, but what came out was unfiltered oxygen. Raw. Bracing. Occasionally fatal to reputations.

The first hearings convened before breakfast.

A senior Democrat, long fond of describing January 6 as an existential threat on par with Pearl Harbor and 9/11, leaned toward the microphone and admitted that while the riot was disgraceful, the apocalyptic rhetoric proved politically invaluable. It unified a fractured caucus. It redirected scrutiny away from pandemic policy failures. It froze debate. “Most secure election in history,” another repeated, before clarifying that security and public confidence are not synonyms, particularly after states rewrote voting procedures under emergency authority while private actors poured hundreds of millions into local election administration.

He even cited the now well documented “Zuckerberg grants,” the $419 million channeled through the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a figure reported widely in 2021 and dissected in state legislatures thereafter. What had once been framed as “philanthropy” was now described, under duress of honesty, as asymmetrical infrastructure. Legal, perhaps. Neutral, not exactly.

Then the conversation pivoted to COVID.

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