"I haven't looked into it. But they chose this boat out of thousands. If you give me an alternative hypothesis for why they bombed this boat, I will consider it. The normal leftist line is that racism is the root cause of all government action. This doesn't fit, because basically everyone on boats in that region would be black or brown. Yet only this boat was struck. So racism can't be the answer. And that's the only answer the left ever has."

Why are you commenting if you haven't looked into it. The Trump administration has not said if they had any intel other than observing a fast-moving open dory that had four high powered outboards on it.

The story I've heard is that Trump had announced he had a major announcement, and he would make a speech on September 2 in the Oval Office. He was 45 minutes late. The announcement was lame, that he was moving the Space Force to Alabama. The delay was to announce this great victory against the drug trade. The Navy had not blown up anyone yet. They searched frantically and had killed these 11 unknowns by evening. These people were killed to appease the Chancelor.

If my worst fears regarding this administration and the previous one are true, hanging following Nuremberg-style trials is going to viewed by most sane Americans as far too humane of a punishment for Antony Blinken and Marco Rubio.

Blinken for his very active role in the Palestinian genocide, Rubio for the same reason + unprecedented war crimes like this extrajudicial murder on the high seas.

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Anonymous wrote:Unbelievably based. We should absolutely be droning the crap out of ships, trucks, carrying drugs. Trump should have mentioned this in his campaign. It's probably quite a popular approach.

We should drone the crap out of child trafficking rings based on Epstein Island.

We should drone the crap out of health insurance CEO fraudsters who are killing people and very day.

We should drone the crap you invaded the Capitol to overthrow an election, and their co-conspirators

Do you really believe insurance execs are the same as murderous gang members trafficking drugs? I know some people have issues with insurance companies but most people don't. My insurance company has spent hundreds of thousands on me to save my life. Why should we kill their executives? That's completely indefensible.

But drug trafficking is a death sentence eligible crime in much of the world. And TdA is a drug running terrorist organization, so well within the parameters for extrajudicial assassination.

Epstein island has been sold.

Re the Capitol rioters, it might be over the line to kill people for trespassing. But if you offer up the BLM folks for a similar fate, I'm willing to consider.

DP Healthcare execs kill more people vs non state sanction drug organizations. Look at Purdue Pharma and OxyContin. Why shouldn’t drug companies and healthcare insurance executives and employees be summarily executed just like those alleged “gang” members on that boat? They are doing the same thing as those people you killed on the boat. The majority of people in this country would cheer if Trump bombed the limousines of healthcare, hedge funds, drug companies CEO’s.

Though in this case Trump killed the equivalent of a bunch of fedex drivers. Though there is no proof these guys were even involved in drugs.

So do most liberals now have permissive attitudes about murdering executives of industries they find unscrupulous? Or is this a fringe belief?

Oh this is a very common and popular right wing view.

So does this fall within the outer perimeter of executive power and hence confer immunity?

I'd like to know if whatever military personnel involved were hand-picked to have no conscience and no risk of refusing to obey such orders. >ven Hitler had to use the SS to run the camps because the regular military would have never gone alone with mass murder of civilians.

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Anonymous wrote:Unbelievably based. We should absolutely be droning the crap out of ships, trucks, carrying drugs. Trump should have mentioned this in his campaign. It's probably quite a popular approach.

We should drone the crap out of child trafficking rings based on Epstein Island.

We should drone the crap out of health insurance CEO fraudsters who are killing people and very day.

We should drone the crap you invaded the Capitol to overthrow an election, and their co-conspirators

Do you really believe insurance execs are the same as murderous gang members trafficking drugs? I know some people have issues with insurance companies but most people don't. My insurance company has spent hundreds of thousands on me to save my life. Why should we kill their executives? That's completely indefensible.

But drug trafficking is a death sentence eligible crime in much of the world. And TdA is a drug running terrorist organization, so well within the parameters for extrajudicial assassination.

Epstein island has been sold.

Re the Capitol rioters, it might be over the line to kill people for trespassing. But if you offer up the BLM folks for a similar fate, I'm willing to consider.

DP Healthcare execs kill more people vs non state sanction drug organizations. Look at Purdue Pharma and OxyContin. Why shouldn’t drug companies and healthcare insurance executives and employees be summarily executed just like those alleged “gang” members on that boat? They are doing the same thing as those people you killed on the boat. The majority of people in this country would cheer if Trump bombed the limousines of healthcare, hedge funds, drug companies CEO’s.

Though in this case Trump killed the equivalent of a bunch of fedex drivers. Though there is no proof these guys were even involved in drugs.

So do most liberals now have permissive attitudes about murdering executives of industries they find unscrupulous? Or is this a fringe belief?

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Anonymous wrote:Even Rand Paul finds this act appalling although, because even the bravest among Republicans are afraid of Dear Leader, he is choosing to condemn Vance for his "despicable" comments praising it instead of the act itself.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’

Rand Paul has always been against drones etc. Not new. He railed on Obama for years about this stuff.

Lone voice of reason in Washington. No wonder the media paints him as nutty. Same as MTG

Anonymous wrote:Even Rand Paul finds this act appalling although, because even the bravest among Republicans are afraid of Dear Leader, he is choosing to condemn Vance for his "despicable" comments praising it instead of the act itself.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’

Rand Paul has always been against drones etc. Not new. He railed on Obama for years about this stuff.

Even Rand Paul finds this act appalling although, because even the bravest among Republicans are afraid of Dear Leader, he is choosing to condemn Vance for his "despicable" comments praising it instead of the act itself.

“JD ‘I don’t give a shit’ Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the ‘highest and best use of the military.’

Anonymous wrote:This thread needs its subject heading changed to reflect what was done. No drug just murder of refugees.

“Said to be carrying drugs” by the administration which lies about everything. Thread title is pretty accurate.

This thread needs its subject heading changed to reflect what was done. No drug just murder of refugees.

Ya ok sure, what?

there is no proof of anything other than civilians on a boat who were blown up by the US Military for no reason

Anonymous wrote:Word is leaking out about the attack. Apparently the boat was going to be intercepted and boarded. Trump said no blow it up.

It is now looking like these were just people trying to escape Venezuela and they were not heading for the US. Good chance of women and children on the boat. Drug boats do not have a lot of people on them because every person means less drugs can be carried.

If this was done during war, it would be a war crime. You cannot target civilians. There are a whole bunch of other US military regulations and rules this strike violates. No lawyer would approve of this strike.

This was not done during war so it is straight up murder. Everyone involved will be in serious trouble in a few years. Sounds like Rubio was very involved.

Yeah ok, sure.

Word is leaking out about the attack. Apparently the boat was going to be intercepted and boarded. Trump said no blow it up.

It is now looking like these were just people trying to escape Venezuela and they were not heading for the US. Good chance of women and children on the boat. Drug boats do not have a lot of people on them because every person means less drugs can be carried.

If this was done during war, it would be a war crime. You cannot target civilians. There are a whole bunch of other US military regulations and rules this strike violates. No lawyer would approve of this strike.

This was not done during war so it is straight up murder. Everyone involved will be in serious trouble in a few years. Sounds like Rubio was very involved.

Anonymous wrote:If Trump is so concerned about drugs, why was Ross Ulbricht pardoned? Oh yeah, he’s a rich white guy.

Ross Ulbricht, who created the Silk Road dark web marketplace and was serving a life sentence for drug distribution, has embarked on a strange and unexpected comeback after President Trump pardoned him in January.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/technology/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-comeback.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Exactly! This story should be the response to any MAGA post about anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Did Trump have concrete, 100% proof that this boat was smuggling drugs?

It's amazing how US citizens just believe everything they hear and are OK with killings when it's done to foreigners.

This. I guess everyone is okay with summary executions and war crimes now. It starts with brown people. Eventually they will come for you too.

Isn't the population of Venezuelan predominately European or mixed European and indigenous?

Do you think the average American/MAGA sees them that way? I'm Puerto Rican. A mix of European, Indigenous, and Black. I assure you most Americans can't even wrap their minds around me being American. They certainly don't see me as White. And many would see no issue with me being rounded up with the other "illegals" even though my people have been here for centuries.

So yes, Americans will brush this off as not concerning them because these people will not even cross their empathy radar.

My Venezuelan grandma is as MAGA as it gets.