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Good. Central America needs to get its shit together. Wife is currently in Costa Rica now which is one of the decent ones. Seems like Belize is getting it together.

It's a 3-4 hour flight max for 90% of the lower 48. So easy to get to. They should be swimming in tourism money this time of year. Although global warming is kicking our ass the next 10 days here in IL, lol.

High incarceration rate, always the sign of morality, NEVER of fascism. After all, the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world!! Mostly for victimless crimes...

NuttBoxer says

... the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world!! Mostly for victimless crimes...

Do no crime - serve no time. Easy.

RWSGFY says

Do no crime - serve no time. Easy.

Some J6 types may have a different opinion.

HeadSet says

RWSGFY says

Do no crime - serve no time. Easy.

Some J6 types may have a different opinion.

J6, Kyle Rittenhouse, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning... Teachers and French speaking Cambodians during Pol Pot's regime... Ukrainian farmers under Stalin, people who refused to mask during the scamdemic, people in jail for tweets, and if things go the way you want, someday you.

Never, ever confuse law with morality, ever!

The J6 protesters had other options but they fell for the trap. I'm not condoning what Dems have done to them, but they are in the same position as the black people that get shot for charging police officers.

ElYorsh says

but they are in the same position as the black people that get shot for charging police officers.

Just to add some context to your comparison...

Only reason I thought this article was interesting was caption on reddit is Putin get's 85% of the vote and arrests opposition = dictator. Bukele does the same = role model!

https://joestclair.substack.com/p/el-salvador-from-highest-murder-rate

NuttBoxer says

Only reason I thought this article was interesting was caption on reddit is Putin get's 85% of the vote and arrests opposition = dictator. Bukele does the same = role model!

https://joestclair.substack.com/p/el-salvador-from-highest-murder-rate

There is a difference if a country is overrun with murders and infighting and a country where law and order is in place. Nothing is absolute, everything is relative. Government should always strive for maximum civil liberties, but a country at war (even with itself) is a different beast requiring different measures at times

<<< This.

When you're getting up to a 100 murder rate, it's time to rebalance civil liberties for a time.

Dude went full Col. Kurtz - jail anybody reasonably suspected of gang activity - and boom. "Viet Cong activity in the sector dropped to a tiny trickle"

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/froggycrats-friday-february-23-2024

Finally, here’s your uplifting video clip, from this week’s CPAC conference. The speaker is El Salvador’s new conservative president Nayib Bukele, who famously solved his country’s record murder rate by jailing a record number of gang members. Now El Salvador has one of the lowest murder rates in South and Central America. (Liberals quickly pointed out that correlation does not prove causation. It could have just been a coincidence.)

https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1760854235833606240

President Bukele began encouragingly by announcing that globalism is dead in El Salvador. But then he warned that globalism is alive and well here in the United States. He explained, “These dark forces are already taking over your country. You may not see it yet, but it's already happening.”

Oh, we see it, Nayib. Don’t you worry about that.

Sometimes I wonder whether South America is trending conservative because they are shipping all their marxist agitators northward. Here’s another terrific two minutes of President Bukele explaining how they turned the crime rate around in El Salvador.

Bukele obviously likes the boiling frog story. Ironically, that old story turns out not to be true, because frogs will, in fact, try to jump out of overhot water. The problem is that, in the pursuit of diversity, a spring surplus of dumb but virtue-minded tree frogs elected banded hawks, cottonmouths, and alligators, who won’t let them get out of the pot.

And now, when you ask it to draw pictures of frogs, Google’s AI only draws birds, snakes, and carnivorous reptiles.

Anyway, enjoy President Bukele’s encouraging words, as he brings news of the conservative counter-revolution from South of the Border. Maybe since South America was first on board the communist express, this is a predictive trend. Maybe the conservative turnaround is on its way here, too.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-abolition-of-woke-monday-march

Over the weekend, El Salvador’s new president Nayib Bukele — who famously cured his country’s crime problem by promptly jailing giant numbers of gang members — announced his latest plan: banning every last trace of woke gender ideology in his country’s schools.




Describing gender ideology as “unnatural” and “contrary to God,” President Bukele said the change was necessary to restore civil society. I don’t know who needs to hear this, but gender ideology is a psychotic, uncharitable, harmful, virtueless, immoral philosophy that all normal people should shun and revile.

I don’t know about you, but I sense a tide turning.

https://notthebee.com/article/there-were-two-murders-in-el-salvador--look-at-the-presidents-response-

There were two murders in El Salvador ... look at the president's response

A few days ago, there were two homicides in the northern part of our country. We have already captured the two culprits, members of the 18 Sureños gang. At this moment, 5 thousand soldiers and a thousand police officers have surrounded the districts of San José Cancasque, San Antonio Los Ranchos, Potonico and San Isidro Labrador, to completely dismantle that clique. We are not going to stop until we eradicate what little remains of the gangs.

Crime is like an order of magnitude beyond the Pareto Rule (80/20), probably because most criminals are brain-damaged idiots. It's probably 99/1 for violent crimes.

White collar crime on the other hand is America's biggest business, if DOGE is to be believed (full disclosure - I believe it).

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1932569145024921790

Patrick says

https://www.wnd.com/2025/12/body-slammed-el-salvador-president-gives-fantastic-response/

Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, is responding sarcastically to Hillary Clinton’s allegations about his notorious Terrorism Confinement Center known as CECOT, which houses many migrants and gang members deported by President Donald Trump.

The former U.S. secretary of state posted on X an 11-minute video of the PBS Frontline documentary titled: “Surviving CECOT.”

“Curious to learn more about CECOT?” Clinton wrote. “Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison.”

Bukele responded in biting fashion, saying: “Madam Secretary Hillary Clinton, If you are convinced that torture is taking place at CECOT, El Salvador is ready to cooperate fully.

“We are willing to release our entire prison population (including all gang leaders and all those described as ‘political prisoners’) to any country willing to receive them. The only condition is straightforward: it must be everyone.

“This would also greatly assist journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands of former inmates available for interviews, making it far easier to find additional voices critical of the Salvadoran government (or willing to confirm whatever conclusions are already expected).

“Surely, if these testimonies reflect a systemic reality, a much larger pool of sources should only reinforce the claim, and many governments should be eager to offer protection.

“Until then, we will continue prioritizing the human rights of the millions of Salvadorans who today live free from gang rule.”