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| God, what were we talking about? | |
| I'm sorry. | |
| Enrique Tarrio. | |
| Washington DC, restrictive gun laws. | |
| So Tarrio brings in his guns. | |
| He brings in these clips. | |
| He gets arrested for it. | |
| He's going to probably serve time over this. | |
| And then it was kind of revealed in the, you know, it's like, no, Tarrio has previously talked to the cops. | |
| He's previously informed on his comrades. | |
| And he was previously, he served time for selling false diabetic test strips, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Which, wow. | |
| So this was a thing that happened, I don't know if this was a thing that happened in your country, but like seven or eight years ago. | |
| Around my area, you would see like signs, you know, they'd be like, you know, this kind of little like, you know, signs with a stake in them and whatever, and it'd be like, hey, have test strips, we'll buy them from you, you know, and then there's a phone number on them, you know, sort of thing. | |
| All right. | |
| And because of the nature of the capitalist infrastructure of the American healthcare industry, test strips for diabetes, which where you test your blood sugar, Got really expensive and so it turned out that like if you had extra ones that you weren't going to use or if you were poor enough that you needed the money more than you needed your medical equipment, you could sell them to one of these companies and then they would resell them at a markup, right? | |
| It's terrible. | |
| The whole process is terrible. | |
| I don't know what you mean. | |
| It sounds fine to me. | |
| What's the problem? | |
| From what I understand, and I have not looked deeply into his history, but from what I understand, he made it even more terrible by selling fake test strips in that time period. | |
| That didn't work or didn't do the thing, you know, whatever. | |
| And we kind of saw that and thought like, yeah, let's talk about the third man. | |
| Yeah. |