Unfortunately, that is still a small catch. hundreds of metric tons come into the US every year.
Grok had this to say:
2019 RAND report estimated U.S. cocaine consumption at around 150 metric tons in 2010, down from 300 in 2006, indicating significant inflows despite interdictions. Seizures alone don’t tell the full story—Customs and Border Protection seized about 121,667 pounds (roughly 55 metric tons) in fiscal year 2022, per their data, but that’s just what they caught. Given that the U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine, with much of it sourced from Colombia via Mexico, the true figure could easily be 200–300 metric tons or more annually, though no precise number exists without speculative leaps. Global production trends, like the UN’s 2021 estimate of 2,304 metric tons produced worldwide, also suggest a large chunk heads to the U.S. market.
Even if it's a small amount compared to the overall amount trafficked over a year's time, more than a few people are going to end up dead over this seizure.
The cartels just don't shrug when they lose this much product.
We've been playing that game with them for years though. All it does is give them an excuse to raise the prices and then they make even more money. The profit margin on coke is insane. They buy it from them farmers for like $500 a kilo and then retail it for 50k a kilo in San Diego. They have an almost unlimited supply. Its just like De Beers did with diamonds in the 1980s (an other diamond monopolies before them) https://www.diamondportfolio.com.au/investor-centre/market-information/de-beers-monopoly-broken/
The war on drugs is and always has been a joke. Coke is not gold, its a product just like diamonds. The CIA has been in on it the whole time. They make more money WITH the illegality fear and false sense of scarcity than without it.
That is my point. You have to go after the actual problem, not just wack-a-mole. This is currently just a show of force and coms to the normies (who don't yet understand this) that The Sharif is back in town. Like I said, from the black hat CIA's point of view, Its a problem they want to have. Now they just have an excuse to raise the price, unfortunately. Now on the other hand, once we have the wall completely finished and properly manned AND get back complete control of the maritime and air aspects of smuggling it will be a different story....Even then, it would still be wack-a-mole.
You are underplaying this by a lot. If 150 tons is the current influx for a year, they just confiscated 14.5 tons in one bust. That's almost 9.6% of a years worth in cocaine alone.
Say your ballpark of 300 tons is accurate, it becomes ~4.8% in one bust. Yeah it sounds small, but with the current hand at the tiller , do you think it will stop there?
Yeah, I get what you are trying to say but talking about the deeper level is more interesting and I already know I'm right about how the cartel works. Again, it's awesome that they are finally at least showing people that they are back in business with serious busts. I'm stoked. Just call a spade a spade though. That's what I'm really saying. I'm more pissed that they have been playing this game against us for so long and I want to use this as an opportunity to help people understand. Send more drones and blow their home bases up. They are freaking terrorists now.
you haven't changed your rule set at all. the current game actually is whack-a-mole because the money is being attacked on multiple fronts. USAID and many other things have been closed. they are in a landscape of diminishing resources and are beginning to run out. every one of these thousand cuts counts.
Yeah, its definitely positive, I totally agree. Like a lot of things we have been seeing lately it's still just coms to the normies that we a winning. If you really want to stop the cartels, the "war on drugs" isn't the answer. All you would have to do to completely bankrup the central and south American cartels is 1) Find some way to destroy the coca plant in South America. 2) Legalize cocaine in the USA but make it very illegal to get caught under the influence while attempting to do anything responsible (like what they do with DUIs or drinking on the job but actually enforce it).
Agreed the war on drugs was bs, just cover for CIA and other projects.
Totally disagree about legalizing drugs. If you wanna do drugs, go to Canada, they'll even give you a flop house and clean needles, spoons, anything you want.
Well then option one of what I said before. If they can make a bio weapon that targets specific people's DNA then how come they cant make one that infects one plant species? (they can) Problem solved. Hit them where it actually hurts.
13k kilos is pushing 10% of that 150 metric tons. Those numbers are also from before the meth, opiate and fentanyl crises. Gen Zers arent doing coke like Gen X was in the 80s so it follows that those coke numbers would be much lower now when compared to 2006. Gen Z does a lot more of the party drugs like Molly and then adderall is big. They do like to mix adderall with coke sometimes though. They call it a creamsicle. I think its because adderall is orange???
Source: I work with a shitload of Gen Z in the trades and I only pretend to be deaf.
KEK to the pretend to be deaf part. Yeah, its pushing 10% but lets see some real numbers. They ship it based on need. Supply and demand. I mean, I'm sure they lose shipments bigger than this to rival gangs from time to time....My point is that it's just a show right now.
I'm really more interested in how those drone strikes on their home bases are going!
Yeah, no kidding...150lbs of pot isn't even illegal in a lot of states.....So @ their price of between 300 and 500 per kilo for 13000 kilos of cocaine hydrocloride/sulfate/nitrate (it doesnt get cooked into crack until it reaches the us because cocaine base has a much shorter shelf life) thats about 65 million $ hit to their wallet. Add the cost of shipping/paying off the right people add another 30-40 mill. So about 100 mill lost. Now all the dealers in the US all the way up the chain have a new excuse to cut (with toxic garbage chemicals a lot of the time) and charge more because its big news. I've been watching this shit happen for a very long time.
know whats going on here. Kash is killing off deep state dark money on his end, musk on his end and the other cabinet members are doing the same. They are crippling their dark money everywhere they look. This is how you win the long game.
BREAKING: The FBI and our interagency partners have successfully executed a major drug seizure targeting the Mexican Cartels and FTO’s, as part of our “Panama Express Strike Force” with
This is over 13 thousand kilos of cocaine and other drugs the Cartels were seeking to funnel into your American streets for hundreds of millions of dollars.
No more.
Incredible work from our Tampa field office team and law enforcement partners.
Thank you to our interagency partners
@TheJusticeDept
@USCG
@HSI_HQ
and more for your work in delivering on the mission.
That is 169,000,000 grams. Cut it, and cook it into rocks, and everyone could have a few rock's, on the house. But on a more serious note; at $100/gram street value, that comes out to $16.9 billion, just from one bust.
How does that much cocaine usually make it into our country? How does it get through customs? Obviously, way more people involved than just the cartels.
thats gonna leave a mark........
Unfortunately, that is still a small catch. hundreds of metric tons come into the US every year.
Grok had this to say:
2019 RAND report estimated U.S. cocaine consumption at around 150 metric tons in 2010, down from 300 in 2006, indicating significant inflows despite interdictions. Seizures alone don’t tell the full story—Customs and Border Protection seized about 121,667 pounds (roughly 55 metric tons) in fiscal year 2022, per their data, but that’s just what they caught. Given that the U.S. is the world’s largest consumer of cocaine, with much of it sourced from Colombia via Mexico, the true figure could easily be 200–300 metric tons or more annually, though no precise number exists without speculative leaps. Global production trends, like the UN’s 2021 estimate of 2,304 metric tons produced worldwide, also suggest a large chunk heads to the U.S. market.
Even if it's a small amount compared to the overall amount trafficked over a year's time, more than a few people are going to end up dead over this seizure.
The cartels just don't shrug when they lose this much product.
We've been playing that game with them for years though. All it does is give them an excuse to raise the prices and then they make even more money. The profit margin on coke is insane. They buy it from them farmers for like $500 a kilo and then retail it for 50k a kilo in San Diego. They have an almost unlimited supply. Its just like De Beers did with diamonds in the 1980s (an other diamond monopolies before them) https://www.diamondportfolio.com.au/investor-centre/market-information/de-beers-monopoly-broken/
The war on drugs is and always has been a joke. Coke is not gold, its a product just like diamonds. The CIA has been in on it the whole time. They make more money WITH the illegality fear and false sense of scarcity than without it.
cutting into the cia's end of it would be the point. it's all about the money supply.
That is my point. You have to go after the actual problem, not just wack-a-mole. This is currently just a show of force and coms to the normies (who don't yet understand this) that The Sharif is back in town. Like I said, from the black hat CIA's point of view, Its a problem they want to have. Now they just have an excuse to raise the price, unfortunately. Now on the other hand, once we have the wall completely finished and properly manned AND get back complete control of the maritime and air aspects of smuggling it will be a different story....Even then, it would still be wack-a-mole.
You are underplaying this by a lot. If 150 tons is the current influx for a year, they just confiscated 14.5 tons in one bust. That's almost 9.6% of a years worth in cocaine alone.
Say your ballpark of 300 tons is accurate, it becomes ~4.8% in one bust. Yeah it sounds small, but with the current hand at the tiller , do you think it will stop there?
Yeah, I get what you are trying to say but talking about the deeper level is more interesting and I already know I'm right about how the cartel works. Again, it's awesome that they are finally at least showing people that they are back in business with serious busts. I'm stoked. Just call a spade a spade though. That's what I'm really saying. I'm more pissed that they have been playing this game against us for so long and I want to use this as an opportunity to help people understand. Send more drones and blow their home bases up. They are freaking terrorists now.
you haven't changed your rule set at all. the current game actually is whack-a-mole because the money is being attacked on multiple fronts. USAID and many other things have been closed. they are in a landscape of diminishing resources and are beginning to run out. every one of these thousand cuts counts.
Coke is one of those drugs that I would never even consider doing.
I've seen how it's made and you have no idea what it was cut with before you got it.
Heck, even booze was a crap shoot at one time, you had no idea if someone had spiked it with lacquer thinner or something else that could kill you.
Exactly. Al Capone became one of the richest gangsters ever from selling bootleg garbage liquor.
Yeah, its definitely positive, I totally agree. Like a lot of things we have been seeing lately it's still just coms to the normies that we a winning. If you really want to stop the cartels, the "war on drugs" isn't the answer. All you would have to do to completely bankrup the central and south American cartels is 1) Find some way to destroy the coca plant in South America. 2) Legalize cocaine in the USA but make it very illegal to get caught under the influence while attempting to do anything responsible (like what they do with DUIs or drinking on the job but actually enforce it).
Agreed the war on drugs was bs, just cover for CIA and other projects.
Totally disagree about legalizing drugs. If you wanna do drugs, go to Canada, they'll even give you a flop house and clean needles, spoons, anything you want.
Well then option one of what I said before. If they can make a bio weapon that targets specific people's DNA then how come they cant make one that infects one plant species? (they can) Problem solved. Hit them where it actually hurts.
I agree, most drugs like coke should be legal with very stiff penalties for being high in public or for allowing minors to have access.
Coke and all sorts of drugs were legal through most of the 1800's and there were very few addicts.
Maybe survival was so much tougher that you had to concentrate on just staying alive and that gave you little room for recreational drugs.
13k kilos is pushing 10% of that 150 metric tons. Those numbers are also from before the meth, opiate and fentanyl crises. Gen Zers arent doing coke like Gen X was in the 80s so it follows that those coke numbers would be much lower now when compared to 2006. Gen Z does a lot more of the party drugs like Molly and then adderall is big. They do like to mix adderall with coke sometimes though. They call it a creamsicle. I think its because adderall is orange???
Source: I work with a shitload of Gen Z in the trades and I only pretend to be deaf.
KEK to the pretend to be deaf part. Yeah, its pushing 10% but lets see some real numbers. They ship it based on need. Supply and demand. I mean, I'm sure they lose shipments bigger than this to rival gangs from time to time....My point is that it's just a show right now.
I'm really more interested in how those drone strikes on their home bases are going!
150 lbs of pot is a show.
14.5 TONS of crack is NOT.
FBI has every right to be proud of this one. Best thing they've done in years, and it's a huge haul.
Yeah, no kidding...150lbs of pot isn't even illegal in a lot of states.....So @ their price of between 300 and 500 per kilo for 13000 kilos of cocaine hydrocloride/sulfate/nitrate (it doesnt get cooked into crack until it reaches the us because cocaine base has a much shorter shelf life) thats about 65 million $ hit to their wallet. Add the cost of shipping/paying off the right people add another 30-40 mill. So about 100 mill lost. Now all the dealers in the US all the way up the chain have a new excuse to cut (with toxic garbage chemicals a lot of the time) and charge more because its big news. I've been watching this shit happen for a very long time.
know whats going on here. Kash is killing off deep state dark money on his end, musk on his end and the other cabinet members are doing the same. They are crippling their dark money everywhere they look. This is how you win the long game.
Well said
Now what is the CIA going to do for spare change? :)
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BREAKING: The FBI and our interagency partners have successfully executed a major drug seizure targeting the Mexican Cartels and FTO’s, as part of our “Panama Express Strike Force” with
This is over 13 thousand kilos of cocaine and other drugs the Cartels were seeking to funnel into your American streets for hundreds of millions of dollars.
No more.
Incredible work from our Tampa field office team and law enforcement partners.
Thank you to our interagency partners @TheJusticeDept
@USCG
@HSI_HQ and more for your work in delivering on the mission.
https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1902765537278546138
Ouch. That's gotta hurt.
Share it with the American People!!
That is 169,000,000 grams. Cut it, and cook it into rocks, and everyone could have a few rock's, on the house. But on a more serious note; at $100/gram street value, that comes out to $16.9 billion, just from one bust.
Freaking unbelievable! C_A black ops are going to suffer.
How does that much cocaine usually make it into our country? How does it get through customs? Obviously, way more people involved than just the cartels.
Who is FTOs?
cia allows it in
Exactly my point. If that issue doesn't get addressed you can have all the he busts you want and it won't be enough.
Foreign Terrorist Organization
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I hope Kash has good protection!
Hunter: "And the cocaine is stored exactly where?"
Top KEK.
13k kilos. I thought the 340 kilos i was involved with was a major seizure. Holy moly.
Does this have any connection to the Panama Canal? Excuse my ignorance.
Were any arrests made?
I wanna know what they're going to do with the drugs seized? Because the dirty FBI will just sell them in the black market, no?
Burn them all on live TV