We Already Know The Solutions, We Only Lack The Will

“Because I saved your whatever-it-is that was safely hidden before you dropped a Hellfire missile on it.” – The Mummy (2017)

Google™ is female.  It won’t even let me finish a sentence without making suggestions.

I’m stuck in a conference room that smells like stale donuts and broken dreams.

Okay, that sounds like a detective novel that ends up with the hot dame double-crossing the private dick over the insurance money and a bottle of bourbon, but that’s not this post.  Really, it’s just a business meeting and the meeting is done.  But since everybody in the building knows each other, the meeting is in the lingering phase where we’re solving all the problems of the world.

Apropos of nothing, I say, “You know, 37% of the elderly have been taken advantage of by foreign scammers.”  I have no idea if this is true, but it’s very specific.  I pause.  “That means that there are 63% who are still available to be scammed, so if we’re not millionaires, it’s our own fault.”

How did we clear bingo parlors in North Vietnam?  B-52.

The reality though, really does piss me off.  Americans lost $12.5 billion in 2024.  These aren’t just Nigerian princes with emails littered with the comical spelling errors, no they are also slick Mumbai call centers with intense marketing campaigns.  I had heard an estimate (that I can’t find) indicating that upwards of 80,000 Indians worked in these call centers, all laughing as they entice American grandmas to go to Target™ to get gift cards.

It actually does make me quite mad.

I lean forward, fed up.

“The solution is and always has been dead simple. The NSA has these call centers mapped down to their curry orders and can tell you the last time Gupta changed his underwear.  They know where they are.  Trump could launch a BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile carrying 1,000 pounds of high explosive tomorrow into a call center.  Turn it into rubble.  Get on TV and say,  ‘Another missile is on the way.  Shut down the scam call centers.’

“When they don’t, another missile hits.  Trump gets back on the TV.  ‘Another one tomorrow.  And the day after?  We shut India off of the Internet and satellite communications.  We mine the harbors.  Your choice.’  The world would be stunned.  The calls would stop.”

One of my friends said, “Well, that escalated quickly.”

No, it didn’t.  It was and is the obvious solution.  It could stop tomorrow if someone had the spine.

I hate it when my friend tells me about going to chiropractic school.  Too much backstory.

Since Trump took office, he’s shown what spine looks like (with the exception of the Epstein papers).  His border policies, travel bans, and tariffs weren’t just talk he did what he promised and got a rare federal budget surplus in June due to them.  This is unlike every other empty suit before him who campaigned on “tough on (drugs, crime, illegals)” then promptly developed amnesia on day one in the Oval Office.

Our problems:  drugs, terror, illegals, scams, and more all have simple fixes.  The only thing missing is the will to implement the solution.

We’ve got a laundry list of messes, and the solutions are the first thing you’d think of if you weren’t a spineless bureaucrat.

Drug Trafficking: Cartels pump fentanyl across the border, killing 100,000 Americans yearly.

Solution:  Deploy the military to the border, treat cartels as enemy combatants.  Drone strikes with AGM-114 Hellfire missiles slamming into stash houses or cartel overlord’s haciendas, streamed live by the White House at the top of each and every hour for a week, and I imagine that getting drugs across the border will be the least of the concern of what remains of the cartels.

Repeat as necessary.

Remember, for an orphan, any back of chips is “family sized”.

Terrorism:  A stronger immigration screening policy and 9/11 would never have occurred.

Solution:  Denaturalize radical aliens and ship them home.  Make Somalians in Minnesota Somalians in Somalia again, and then sink any boat leaving Somali.  Deport or detain without apology.

Illegal Aliens:  Millions of illegals cost taxpayers $150 billion annually—schools, hospitals, welfare.  Their foreign culture and zero desire to assimilate pushes the country onto the path of Civil War.

Solution:  Arrest the CEO of any company employing illegals.  Sentence for the C-Suite?  A year for each illegal employed.  Create Wilder’s Square Mile:  a square mile, fenced camp on the border with Mexico.  Illegals found will be dropped off there until processed, like an AirBNB® with no Wi-Fi.  The border with Mexico is open, so they can leave if they want to.  If the illegals don’t leave?  Seize all of their assets – bank accounts, sneakers, cars, houses, anything they own is forfeit.  End sanctuary cities with federal troops.  One mayor in custody for insurrection, others comply.

I opened a sanctuary for large marine mammals:  Habitat for Huge Manatees.

Is all of this Constitutional?

Well, most of it, probably.  Thomas Jefferson set the precedent in 1801. Barbary Pirates, Muslim slavers and pirates from North Africa raided U.S. ships, enslaved sailors, and demanded tribute from our new nation.  Jefferson, fresh in office, said “Enough, bitches.”  Or something like that.  But he had a secret weapon: Article II, Section 2 makes the president commander-in-chief to protect American interests.

Jefferson sent the USS Constitution to blast Tripoli’s ports, no Congress needed, and the Marines get a line in their song.  By 1805, the pirates begged for peace, “Please, just don’t send more of those Marines!”

All of the above echo Jefferson:  act fast, hit hard, protect the Actual Americans. The Constitution’s fine with it; only spineless elites disagree.

Why then, do these problems persist?

Here’s the dirty secret: the elites don’t really want to solve these problems.  The solutions aren’t hard, literally your first instinct, the first thing you think of is the thing that will work.

Drugs? Blow up a cartel.  Terror? Sink a boat.  Illegals? Deport ‘em, jail anyone who employs them.  Scams? Missiles to Mumbai.

So, why aren’t these problems solved?  In some cases, it’s because politicians are gutless and don’t want to anger India.  I don’t care much about what India thinks, but that’s another post.

In other cases, there’s a collusion of the darkest motives of our political system.  Illegals?  The Chamber of Commerce crowd wants cheap labor to pluck chickens and make beds, wanting the TradRight to not take action.  The GloboLeft love that the illegals swarm to states that vote Blue, and increase the number of members of Congress that come from, say, California.

My friend’s ex-wife asked if she could stay with him because she’s afraid because a stalker has been coming to her house.  She’s going to save him quite a bit in gas money.

The dame walks into my office – she’s got a pair of thirty-eights, and a pistol, too.  I could smell perfume that cost more than I made in a month as she walked in.

“John Wilder, I hear you’re a P.I. who . . . solves problems.”

“I sure am, sweetheart.”

I mean, I’ve found that you can solve almost any problem in the world with only three BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile carrying 1,000 pounds of high explosive.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

47 thoughts on “We Already Know The Solutions, We Only Lack The Will”

  1. “Arrest the CEO of any company employing illegals.”

    This coulda been a really really short post about solutions and will, John, and you coulda gotten an extra hour or more of sleep if you hadn’t buried the lede.

    The rest of your tangential commentary was still very amusing, tho. 🙂

    1. Arresting the CEO’s will fix the illegal problem overnight. Something still has to be done about H1B’s though as I think they are doing more damage to US infrastructure than Pedro.

      A good first step would be to remove the incentive of hiring cheap replacements in the first place. Just as we tariff goods coming in, there should be tariffs paid on H1B labor. If you really need Rakesh’s skill sets because you can’t find them here, that’s fine, but you can only bring him in for a year to train his American counterpart. During that time, the company will be required to pay for two people (Rakesh and his American trainee) at full industry wages until Rakesh goes home.

      On a different note…it’s a small step, but Tennessee just passed a law making it illegal for a landlord to rent to illegals. Hopefully they enforce it in which case it should have a significant impact.

    2. We’ll see. As long as the kids aren’t in call centers. Scamming is probably in their blood because their dad is a politician.

  4. “Thomas Jefferson set the precedent in 1801. Barbary Pirates, Muslim slavers and pirates from North Africa raided U.S. ships, enslaved sailors, and demanded tribute from our new nation.”

    Ah, the good ol’ days, when we knew how to deal with uppity wogs.

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  6. Taking human life with missiles launched against sovereign nations to curb telephone scams is nothing more than idle fantasy, and we all know it. Won’t. Happen. Ever. But jailing those in this country who knowingly hire illegals, and cutting off the gibsmedats handed out to anyone who sneaks in is certainly a more humane way to discourage undesirable behavior. Would it be effective? Won’t know until we try.

    The big, intractable problem, though, is defining ‘undesirable behavior’. Your illegal parasite living off social services is the opposition’s dreamer (and dream voter). Your fentanyl-pushing cartel devil is AOC’s starving migrant just trying to feed his family. The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is quite instructive. We had elected Democrat lawmakers flying down to El Salvador to plead the case for freeing this confirmed MS-13 human smuggler and wifebeating non-citizen, calling him a ‘Maryland Dad’, while these same lawmakers declared hurricane victims in poor red-Republican areas unworthy of government assistance.

    My own idle fantasy is directing those Tomahawk cruise missiles down the Democrat aisle of congress, taking special aim at the likes of the “squad” and blowing their hijabs into next week. Figuratively, of course.

    1. Well, by those lights, invading the top 1/3 or so of Mexico should be no problem since there’s a good deal of historical precedent.
      Don’t just smash the cartels infrastructure, loot it to the bare walls and sell it here.
      And do remember to repatriate the warehouses full of cash. We can put it towards the national debt

    2. Tomahawks may not happen, but I recall reading where one internet company started blocking traffic coming in from some Indian servers. They did it because so many of the emails and calls were illegal/scam related and it wasn’t worth the hassle.

      I don’t know if they still do that, but the threat of the US cutting off India servers would be a huge wakeup call for them.

  7. Unfortunately, not all the scams are run out of some shanty town where people poop in the streets (not talking about ScamFran here). Local groups are doing it too – and they are SLICK – very polished – and very aware of how your bank’s security and anti-fraud systems work (down-to-the-second timing). I firmly believe that many of the people working the domestic side are former call-center agents. I was recently scammed – bank accounts emptied in less than 4 hours (oddly, my bank’s “fraud prevention” didn’t seem to notice anything strange). When I described how the scam worked to the security people, their general reaction was “Man, if I didn’t know that there are certain things the bank can’t do, I would have fallen for that, too.”

    To make it worse, catching these scumbags would be easy if you were a cop. The scammers work in teams and often leave very simple trails. Give me the power of the police and I could have caught the filth within a week – no problem – but – if the theft wasn’t that much money (say under $20K), the cops don’t give a shit, and probably don’t have the budget or manpower to actually pursue the theft. Property crime is rarely investigated.

    Some takeaways from my experience (which may sound obvious): Never engage with a caller “from your bank” beyond thanking them for the information and hanging up. Never. Do not respond to texts “from your bank” – call the bank directly. If you think the call is legitimate, call the bank back using the phone number on their website – do not use the number a caller might supply. Be aware that they can spoof your bank’s caller ID – so it might actually look like a call from your bank. Realize that a scammer **might not try to scam you on their first contact**. They will start to build confidence – working the con – and might not actually start “working” you until their third call. Also realize that much of your personal data is already out there and leaked on the dark web – COUNT on it – so scammers will “know” things that you might think that only your bank will know. The scammers will get you to do *normal* things – but out of sequence – and this is an exploit.

    More tips: Stop using your debit card. Use a credit card instead – and just pay off your CC at the end of the month. Why? Because if they run a scam on your debit card, the money comes out of your account and you are OUT the money until the “investigation” is completed. With a CC, you can dispute the charges and not be out the money. Additionally, there is a 70% chance that you will LOSE YOUR MONEY with debit card fraud. I was only able to (after 3 months) dig out of the hole I was in by writing some concise and polite letters to some C-suite types at my bank asking why their “state of the art” anti-fraud system somehow thought it was normal when my accounts started exhibiting behavior that hadn’t been seen in my 37-year history with the bank.

    Your bank will NEVER, EVER, ask you to return a CC or debit card to them. If they do, you’re talking to a scammer – even if they claim to have Fed Ex come to pick up the card.

    Your bank will never CALL YOU and ask for identifying information like PINs or passwords. Be very, very aware of who initiated the call – YOU or THEM.

    If it were up to me, I’d drag these douchebags into the street, douse them in gasoline and set them on fire … then put them out before it killed them so that they could spend the rest of their pathetic lives looking like melted wax sculptures and horrifying everyone around them. I guess it’s good for them I’m not in charge.

    1. Funny, I had a phone call just earlier today about “my account” and someone trying to access it. Only problem was … I don’t have an account at that bank.

      Re returning cards, some will. If you have one of the metal cards that can’t readily be shredded or cut with kitchen scissors, the issuing company will often send envelopes for you to return the old cards when they send you the new ones. Or at least they did when I had a card like that.

    2. I was helping a friend and being helped by staying with her elderly dad and helping him out. I literally walked in on him as he was being phone scammed by a tag-team caller and a dumb-virus on his computer.

      I unplugged the computer while he was talking, convinced him to hang up on the scammers and got him to call his bank directly.

      Twenty minutes later he was safe as houses, no harm done & we made am appointment for him to get his computer cleaned up.

      They nearly took this sweet old guy for everything, and it was the grace of God I happened to be there. I was just supposed to be helping with “strong healthy back with cooking skillz stuff’

      1. My dad got taken for $20k by a similar scam. Gave a total stranger a bag of $100 bills in a parking lot. Luckily my sister called and figured out what was going on. It was too late on the $20k but Dad was going back for another $10k at their request and she stopped him. I called the sheriff to try and arrange someone go out and catch the thief but they didn’t want to bother. Said they were overwhelmed with scammers and all they would do was file a report.

        Another one to watch for with dementia patients is electronic checks. Once they get one such check, the scammers will do draws every month under innocent sounding companies. Happened to my mom and I didn’t realize it for a few months because the charges looked like standard utility charges in the $100 to $200 range.

        You can’t hate these bastards enough.

  8. We’ve dealt with Black & LGBTQXYZ3+ Fatigue, and, finally, developing Indian Fatigue. About time. When we arrest the American CEO of a fraudulent call center, that’ll stop that (maybe). On the heels of that, yes, arrest the CEO of any TBTF food company.

    Trump mystifies me. I voted for him 3X, but his latest salvos are, to me, unhinged (especially on Epstein). The BBB-BS is questionable, other than extending tax cuts. Our infrastructure is collapsing, but we can send/waste another gazillion dollars of MIC weaponry to the Ukies.

    Well, as Bluto noted in “Animal House”, “My advice to you is to drink heavily.” Agreed.

    1. BBB is a mixed bag, just like Mr. Trump. If we could do better than Cheeto Slut Alpha America we would. But we can’t, and he’s better than we deserve. Grace of God.

      Epstein…

      Give it time.

      Give it hell. Seriously. Make it clear you want client list blood while granting Trump a pass as long as his structural changes to deep state power and American disenfranchisement proceed apace.

      He and his team has earned it.

      Be useful, for a change

      There’s a war on.

      1. You missed the first step – eliminate the district court judges who don’t know their place.

        And if nothing happens, the scammers will stop calling because the US will have become Mumbai. We’ll be the ones running the scam call centers. It’s all part of the leftist plan.

    2. More on Epstein tomorrow. I generally give Trump three weeks . . . and I do think he knows he has lost his base on this one.

  9. Why is this happening? I agree with everything you said. I will add, though, that much of that is really a side benefit to the people causing/allowing this.

    The real reason is they hate white people.

  12. To echo others, this is a drum I have been banging for a long time. The solution to illegal problem is not primarily immigrant raids although that has a place, mostly as a psychological weapon. The solution is self-deportation by making it unpleasant to live here. The supply will always be there until the demand dries up and the demand won’t dry up unless the consequences of flaunting labor laws becomes severe. Lock up Karen from HR for a week in the county jail for hiring illegals and you can be sure she will stop doing it. The CEO who lets it happen? A month in a state prison will cure him of that temptation and more importantly will do the same for his peers. If they can’t work, many (not all) will go home.

    1. Stripping both of all assets under RICO will stop it one helluva lot quicker.

      You want to get rid of a pest colony, you get rid of the queen, and destroy the nest. You don’t stomp the workers one by one.

  13. I like the ideas. A couple of problems.

    First, we would need to kill more than the half leaders and foot soldiers of both the terrorists and the cartels. A feature not a bug. The same groups that are against every war the US has fought, are going to have hysterics. Numerically a small group.

    Second, we need to tighten up E-Verify. So long as a good report is on file the Executives are good. The last conviction that I know of was 2008 Postville Iowa. Started as a ICE raid and escalated.

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    Oh wait.

    The Ellis Island on the U.S. Mexican border? Been on that one for years. Your edition is a step up!

  15. One bullet is usually enough to curb problems. When those in charge can’t sleep at night knowing they haven’t stopped the problem, and know that next bullet is for them, things change rapidly.

  16. E-Verify is a joke. Recently, it’s been proven that E-Verify is compromised. The illegals use stolen SSNs. The company runs them through E-Verify and they come back legit. Doesn’t matter to the company that Sean O’Connoly is a 5’ 2” mestizo. They followed the rules. Put Tyson’s CEO in prison, hell, county jail for a month, and shit will come to a screeching halt! Chicken will be $10 a pound for a while, but all that will unfuck itself in time.

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