And here you go..... The difference between a first strike and a second strike is really no difference at all.

[22lcidw]

In other words you can't, I am pretty sure you know all about wearing white pointy hats.

You expect Republican people to know your people. Yet you do not know the other side yourself. That legislation the first two-years of Joe and all of those EO's put us on not a good course. Very quickly things deteriorated. You did not even listen to the people. If Trump changes something you call him every name in the book. Perhaps the last administration should have also.

 

[justoffal]

Completely ass backwards tried-and-failed thinking which betrays a stunning ignorance of the nature of drug addiction.

Addiction is a disease and should be treated as such. Heal the addict, and crime plummets. Demand plummets.

Death heals everything....
There are many addicts that do not want to be healed.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Death heals everything....
There are many addicts that do not want to be healed.

Many, eh? Way to say nothing.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I kind of predicted this.... If the entire activity is illegal which is a ludicrous claim in the first place.... then what difference does it make whether one strike or two strikes causes any lethality?

Democrats are barking up the wrong tree.
The intention IS lethality.... Anyone who thinks a guided ordinance designed to sink a speed boat from a distance is only going to destroy machinery is completely stupid and delusional.

In effect once the ordinance is launched all human life has already been virtually sacrificed. There is no expectation of survival from this kind of attack.

The rules of warfare we're not designed to coddle enemy combatants. They were designed to protect non-combatants. To have any legal footing at all they would have to prove that the president had no right to declare such a war. I don't think SCOTUS it's going to make a ruling like that.


Sen. Rand Paul says, “I think both strikes are actually illegal” #shorts - YouTube

Also has anybody seen any footage that proves there were any survivors in the first place?
Or is this just another gas light?

Yeah, if you murder people, does it matter if you murder them or not?

What a ******* argument.

 

[Care4all]

You are one president behind the times

Under biden the border with mexico was wide open and drug smuggling was easy and profitable

Now under Trump its mostly closed and smuggling over water is more important

Not what I found in researching! Some bit does ....but very little of cocaine or fentanyl come or came thru on foot on coyote backs outside of crossings even under Biden....the bulk of it.... measured in tons or tens of tons has always been through our ports of Entry in passenger cars of mostly Americans, and in the truckloads of manufactured goods being trucked over the boarder, and via shipping containers at our ports of entries mixed with produce and goods....or caught by the Coast Guard, at Sea before landing.

Venezuela is one of Columbia's corridors for their cocaine to the Caribbean, which is the staging point to serve all of Europe. Some does come to the USA but Europe is the Caribbean's main importer of the cocaine....from all that I have read so far....

Our cocaine mainly comes via something they call the Pacific Corridor, which is a sea or land route through South and Central America in to or through Mexico to key southern ports of entry, or directly to sea ports of entry here.

This Venezuelan operation of shooting up these smaller boats truly will not make a smithereens of difference in the whole scheme of things in the USA....

....and sending a battle fleet there??? What the heck for....?

OBVIOUSLY, this operation in Venezuela is not about solving the USA's cocaine problem...that is just the guise for something bigger, like regime change, and/or U.S. first dibs on Venezuelan Oil contracts from the largest oil reserve in the World that sits in Venezuela....imo.

 

[OODA_Loop]

The link between terrorism and drug trafficking organizations, or DTOs, is now at the forefront of public debate due to President Donald Trump’s recent designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.


His suggestion to deploy U.S. Special Forces to dismantle cartels has met with speculation. In fact, U.S. Special Forces and federal law enforcement agents have cooperated successfully against international DTOs in the past — and their sacrifices are unfortunately being forgotten.

www.militarytimes.com/opinion/2025/02/07/this-program-equipped-the-us-military-to-take-down-drug-traffickers/

 

[Superbadbrutha]

You expect Republican people to know your people. Yet you do not know the other side yourself. That legislation the first two-years of Joe and all of those EO's put us on not a good course. Very quickly things deteriorated. You did not even listen to the people. If Trump changes something you call him every name in the book. Perhaps the last administration should have also.

WTF are you talking about?

 

[Mac-7]

Not what I found in researching! Some bit does ....but very little of cocaine or fentanyl come or came thru on foot on coyote backs outside of crossings even under Biden....the bulk of it.... measured in tons or tens of tons has always been through our ports of Entry in passenger cars of mostly Americans, and in the truckloads of manufactured goods being trucked over the boarder, and via shipping containers at our ports of entries mixed with produce and goods....or caught by the Coast Guard, at Sea before landing.

Venezuela is one of Columbia's corridors for their cocaine to the Caribbean, which is the staging point to serve all of Europe. Some does come to the USA but Europe is the Caribbean's main importer of the cocaine....from all that I have read so far....

Our cocaine mainly comes via something they call the Pacific Corridor, which is a sea or land route through South and Central America in to or through Mexico to key southern ports of entry, or directly to sea ports of entry here.

This Venezuelan operation of shooting up these smaller boats truly will not make a smithereens of difference in the whole scheme of things in the USA....

....and sending a battle fleet there??? What the heck for....?

OBVIOUSLY, this operation in Venezuela is not about solving the USA's cocaine problem...that is just the guise for something bigger, like regime change, and/or U.S. first dibs on Venezuelan Oil contracts from the largest oil reserve in the World that sits in Venezuela....imo.

Cocaine, heroin, fentanyl.

All three could be on those boats

And the smugglers were not going to ride those open boats to europe

They were bound for America

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Paul is a libertarian an isolationist. Its legal moral and correct to kill drug dealers shipping drugs into America and the proceeds are used to fund Islamic terror.

Rand Paul is quickly working his way into a primary challenge or a loss to a Democrat if survives that. Republicans in KY are tired of his shit and lack of support for Trump.

 

[justoffal]

Cocaine, heroin, fentanyl.

All three could be on those boats

And the smugglers were not going to ride those open boats to europe

They were bound for America

Even if they were bound for Europe why would that make them any better?... It's one of the most vacuous arguments I've ever heard.

 

[elektra]

I kind of predicted this.... If the entire activity is illegal which is a ludicrous claim in the first place.... then what difference does it make whether one strike or two strikes causes any lethality?

Democrats are barking up the wrong tree.
The intention IS lethality.... Anyone who thinks a guided ordinance designed to sink a speed boat from a distance is only going to destroy machinery is completely stupid and delusional.

In effect once the ordinance is launched all human life has already been virtually sacrificed. There is no expectation of survival from this kind of attack.

The rules of warfare we're not designed to coddle enemy combatants. They were designed to protect non-combatants. To have any legal footing at all they would have to prove that the president had no right to declare such a war. I don't think SCOTUS it's going to make a ruling like that.


Sen. Rand Paul says, “I think both strikes are actually illegal” #shorts - YouTube

Also has anybody seen any footage that proves there were any survivors in the first place?
Or is this just another gas light?

The rules of war dont say, "ONLY WOUND THE ENEMY"

 

[justoffal]

The rules of war dont say, "ONLY WOUND THE ENEMY"

It's amazing how our resident lefties want to confer more rights on drugs smuggling scum then on the victims that get created once that stuff hits our shores.

 

[elektra]

It's amazing how our resident lefties want to confer more rights on drugs smuggling scum then on the victims that get created once that stuff hits our shores.

It is just awful

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

No, dipshit. I was on active duty when we were bombing the cartels. I was on active duty when cartel bosses were being arrested and expedited back to the US, one such event in which I participated.

Were you in a coma? Is your avatar Rip Van Winkle?

Now go back to watching your MAGA cartoon show.

...and then you woke up and realized that you had been dreaming, and the front of your underwear was wet!

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

Preserving the life of the enemy combatants is not a core part of the mission. Never was. Sinking the boats was always the stated mission.

You know the "mission"..........How?

The recovery and rescue operation you're talking about is very extensive and time-consuming and exposes American servicemen to danger.

From what?

I don't need to defend anything to see how stupid the response to this whole thing is.

But you still are.

American court systems do not have jurisdiction in international waters. The American military does. That's all I'm pointing out.

No, they don't.

In any case once they all find out it's not Hegseth on the hook.... But a man of color who is a Navy Admiral.... The entire thing will simply lose steam and become nothing but empty motions after that.

Not looking good for Kegseth.

 

[fncceo]

Gee, I thought the intention was to stop drug flow into the US..... now it’s to kill people?

I never thought I’d say this but … Dude… you really need to watch less “Star Trek”

 

[22lcidw]

WTF are you talking about?

You understand. Progs will save their own asses and not go down with the ship and blame Republicans for their own stupid legislative policies. Trump will change up those policies if needed. He is proactive and reactive.

 

[Care4all]

Cocaine, heroin, fentanyl.

All three could be on those boats

And the smugglers were not going to ride those open boats to europe

They were bound for America

NO NO NO!

the boats are bound to TRINIDAD, just 7 miles away from Venezuela....or Tobago, 75 miles.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

NO NO NO!

the boats are bound to TRINIDAD, just 7 miles away from Venezuela.

And 1800 miles from the US.

 

[Care4all]

Even if they were bound for Europe why would that make them any better?... It's one of the most vacuous arguments I've ever heard.

Geez, you really are playing dumb on that one......!!!