Sounds like we need to end protection for the press when they are in an active warzone. Hope active combatants target them like anyone else. They clearly think they’re above the rest of us, let them dodge a few bullets in the name of their trade.

Reads like a ‘national enquirer’ headline

Not only in the US, all over the free world. China slowly buys off our politicians, our land, our companies, and our freedom!

Apparently so is cheddar cheese, got held up for a while with a block of white cheddar because it looked and scanned like c4

Maybe is a pivot on the branding the water they are using in the waterboarding is now blessed.

They also don't realize their are more Asian American's in the US then their are Mormons either.

Pray the yayo away. Nothing else seems to be working. I guess next is the Holy War on Drugs, no one expects the Colombian Inquisition!

> but because the police try to fight them with prayers

Hugs not bullets is what the current ruling party in Mexico says.

> They have failed.

The chosen people?

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That’s just good marketing.

Oh so this just makes perfect sense..

I wasn't even considering the occult symbols and mythos down there that could be used to further a cartel's purposes.

The exorcisms and prayers would work as a level of social crowd control too. Driving out the "evil spirits" that are controlling the cartel. It gives the people a narrative that emboldens hope, rather than defeatism in spite of the circumstances of their environment.

The Cartel consists of people possessed by the devil, but god is on our side, so don't give up just yet

Jon Huntsman Jr. was governor of Utah before being appointed ambassador to China in 2009. I dunno if that's relevant.

They (Colombian military) thought Pablo Escobar was a mystical being that could appear and disappear at will and show up at your door to kill your family.

Shit, Sante Muerte...Santeria. Plenty of stuff that's downright cultic out in cartel country. It doesn't surprise me at all that he's doing this, since locals there can be very superstitious, and the cartels have developed their own mythology. This is no more unreasonable than burning sage on rez, or going to confession. I'm sure there's psychological benefit at play here, even if you don't actually believe.

The shit they've been trying for decades hasn't worked, might as well give the whacky ideas a shot.

Saudi Arabia's War on Witchcraft

But what if the Mormons start baptizing dead Chinese like they do with dead Jews? That could even out the numbers real quick!

And in case you were wondering if baptizing dead Jews is a thing, sadly it is.

And failing 95% of the time.

Hail yourself

sounds like it's a good time to be a criminal in Colombia

The Mormons are too uneducated to realize there are more Chinese than Mormons in the world.

Nothin more primal than pounding some bush meat

It’s all Capitalist greed, exploiting the masses so one percenters can admire extra zeros on their bank statements.

718% profit for one company!

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/egg-profits-cal-maine/index.html

HAHAHAHA....yeah ok man...whatever u say...