Topic: Opium

The historical roots of American power are linked to the global opium trade, citing the wealth of families like the Delanos (FDR's ancestors) and institutions like Harvard and Yale. The hosts argue that the CIA continues this legacy by protecting poppy fields in Afghanistan and managing the domestic drug market for profit and power. They suggest that the "swamp" Trump aimed to drain is actually this deeply entrenched, multi-generational criminal organization.

A discussion on the historical roots of American wealth reveals that families like the Roosevelts and institutions like Yale and Harvard were funded by the 19th-century opium trade. Mo Fax argues that while previous groups sold drugs to those "below" them, black Americans are at the "bottom of the bottom," selling drugs like fentanyl to their own community. He references *The Godfather* to illustrate this systemic hierarchy.