Do you support Trump’s war on drugs

[PeterPilot]

Organized religion is why western civilization is 'civilized'. But as western society becomes more secular civilization is breaking down.

That is the illusion they want you to embrace sir, but it is an illusion, religious psychobabble and propaganda.

 

[Failzero]

That is the illusion they want you to embrace sir, but it is an illusion, religious psychobabble and propaganda.

From a Bloodthursty Pedo Warlord who had hallucinations in a cave ?

 

[Hafar1014]

That is the illusion they want you to embrace sir, but it is an illusion, religious psychobabble and propaganda.

The atheists nations USSR Red China and Cambodia slaughtered over 100 million people. Maybe religion aint so bad

 

[Woodznutz]

That is the illusion they want you to embrace sir, but it is an illusion, religious psychobabble and propaganda.

Not for those who understand religion.

 

[badbob85037]

He should be going after the low-hanging fruit, the addicts and users. He doesn't understand how the drug business works, meaning the way drugs are distributed and sold. Disrupting supply chains won't work as the cartels anticipate those losses and oversupply the market.

Reagan lost the War on Drugs a long time ago.

 

[Woodznutz]

Reagan lost the War on Drugs a long time ago.

That usually happens if you choose a losing strategy. A war on drugs needs to be broken down into manageable sized components. The battleground needs to be within the cities and towns, not in South America. Like politics all crime is 'local' and needs to be addressed locally. The "head" of the beast isn't the cartels, it's the users. They fund the whole enterprise.

 

[Failzero]

Reagan lost the War on Drugs a long time ago.

Time to revisit with different tactics …

 

[PeterPilot]

Not for those who understand religion.

I understand religion very well. As I've pointed out, I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment regarding religion.

As I've probably mentioned before, religion is based upon faith. Indeed, the 2 words are almost synonymous.

Faith is the act of believing something that you know cannot be proved.

I'll pass. Call me faithless if you like, and it would be accurate. I would rather be reasonable than faithful.

 

[Woodznutz]

I understand religion very well. As I've pointed out, I am a strong supporter of the First Amendment regarding religion.

As I've probably mentioned before, religion is based upon faith. Indeed, the 2 words are almost synonymous.

Faith is the act of believing something that you know cannot be proved.

I'll pass. Call me faithless if you like, and it would be accurate. I would rather be reasonable than faithful.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.​

 

[Zavulon]

Nice picture, but there is one question - why the turtle use Russian RPG-7 grenade launcher (say nothing that launching grenade this way would destroy the helicopter)?

 

[Woodznutz]

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Nice picture, but there is one question - why the turtle use Russian RPG-7 grenade launcher (say nothing that launching grenade this way would destroy the helicopter)?

Not to mention that all three drug boats are about to collide.

 

[sparky]

sSdptoenrog30g0a9342t4a7m72m9h3f31mh73lu76agaa98g9hfl200i39a ·


THE PART OF FENTANYL NO ONE WILL SAY OUT LOUD
America is being poisoned on purpose.
And almost nobody in Washington is willing to admit it.
Not by addicts.
Not by corner dealers.
Not by kids making reckless choices.
By a global pipeline built to kill Americans long before most people realize what’s happening.
We’re not dealing with “drugs” anymore.
We’re dealing with an industrial machine that begins in China, moves through cartel syndicates in Mexico, and ends with parents planning funerals for children who should still be alive.
And yet our leaders speak about fentanyl like it’s a policy discussion.
A “substance issue.”
Something that can be talked to death in a hearing room.
Meanwhile, synthetic opioids are killing more Americans each year than Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.
That’s not a crisis.
That’s an attack.
And the people running it are counting on our silence.
Most Americans still don’t understand how fentanyl actually gets here.
They know the tragedies.
They’ve heard the statistics.
Some have buried someone they love.
But very few understand the pipeline that makes it all possible.
A lot of people still picture the drug world the way television taught it—
a Walter White figure in an RV cooking meth in the desert.
That myth makes the threat feel small. Local. Contained.
But fentanyl isn’t Walter White.
And nobody is mixing this poison in an RV anymore.
Fentanyl is industrial. Organized. International.
And the people behind it operate with the efficiency of corporations.
Here’s the part almost nobody hears:
It starts in China—not in garages or basements—in real facilities quietly diverting “research chemicals” into criminal networks. When pressure builds, production doesn’t stop; it shifts. India and other countries step in whenever China tightens controls.
Then the chemicals move south. South America handles laundering. Mexico handles the super-labs and the export.
These aren’t amateur labs. They’re factories capable of producing millions of counterfeit pills at a time. And in recent DEA testing, seven out of ten of those pills contained a potentially lethal dose. That isn’t a mistake. It’s the business model.
Then it heads north. Cars. Trucks. Freight. Mail. Tunnels. Couriers. And as our border weakened, the flow went from a trickle to a flood.
Between 2019 and the early 2020s, fentanyl seizures jumped more than 400%. Not because we became better at finding it, but because the supply became overwhelming.
A porous border doesn’t just let people through. It lets a drug war through. And the cartels treated that opening like an invitation.
Once fentanyl enters the United States, it spreads fast: stash houses, pill presses, suburban dealers, encrypted apps. It reaches every ZIP code. This isn’t a big-city problem. It’s a national poisoning.
This is where my experience comes in.
I’ve prosecuted trafficking cases. I’ve sat with agents, studied routes, read ledgers, and watched these networks operate with chilling precision. And now I represent families whose children were killed by a drug they never intended to take—young men and women who stepped unknowingly into the last link of an international supply chain.
America sees overdose numbers.
I see the machinery behind them—the packaging, the payments, the timing, the routes.
None of it is random.
None of it is accidental.
Fentanyl is an imported product.
And its final destination is far too often an American funeral home.
Two-thirds of all overdose deaths in this country now involve synthetic opioids.
Two-thirds.
Which brings us to what happened on the water this week.
A suspected smuggling boat ran dark. Ignored commands. Came straight toward shore. And this time, U.S. military forces didn’t chase it, warn it, or wait to see what happened next. They struck it, and the vessel exploded.
Some people couldn’t believe it. I could.
It took a presidential order to stop that suspected smuggling boat — a hard call from the top — while the rest of Washington still treats this crisis like something that can be managed with hearings, press releases, and excuses.
And while U.S. forces were out there taking a suspected trafficking vessel off the water, we had people online—and a few loud voices in the media—insisting it was “probably just fishermen.”
Fishermen don’t run dark.
Fishermen don’t ignore commands.
Fishermen don’t sprint toward the American coastline in the middle of the night.
Anyone who has ever worked a real trafficking case knows exactly what that behavior means. Pretending otherwise isn’t just naive—it’s dangerous.
Because when you understand the pipeline—where it starts, who directs it, how the product moves, and what happens when even one shipment gets through—you don’t see a boat.
You see fifty thousand funerals waiting to happen.
This is a war.
Not a metaphor.
Not rhetoric.
A real war being waged against the American people.
And here’s the part that should keep every parent in this country up at night:
The people killing our kids never hesitate.
Never apologize.
Never slow down.
So why are we?
Why is the most powerful nation on earth fighting this with half-measures while families bury children who never even meant to take fentanyl?
If someone broke into your home tonight to harm your child, you wouldn’t “debate” it.
You’d stop them—hard.
That’s the shift this country needs.
Not after another obituary.
Not after another empty seat at a kitchen table.
Because if we don’t start hitting back with everything we have, the next funeral you hear about won’t be a stranger’s.
It will be someone you love.
If this opened your eyes, share it. Someone you love may need to read it before it’s too late.
And if you want the truth without filters, follow this page.
God Bless America

 

[Woodznutz]

sSdptoenrog30g0a9342t4a7m72m9h3f31mh73lu76agaa98g9hfl200i39a ·


THE PART OF FENTANYL NO ONE WILL SAY OUT LOUD
America is being poisoned on purpose.
And almost nobody in Washington is willing to admit it.
Not by addicts.
Not by corner dealers.
Not by kids making reckless choices.
By a global pipeline built to kill Americans long before most people realize what’s happening.
We’re not dealing with “drugs” anymore.
We’re dealing with an industrial machine that begins in China, moves through cartel syndicates in Mexico, and ends with parents planning funerals for children who should still be alive.
And yet our leaders speak about fentanyl like it’s a policy discussion.
A “substance issue.”
Something that can be talked to death in a hearing room.
Meanwhile, synthetic opioids are killing more Americans each year than Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.
That’s not a crisis.
That’s an attack.
And the people running it are counting on our silence.
Most Americans still don’t understand how fentanyl actually gets here.
They know the tragedies.
They’ve heard the statistics.
Some have buried someone they love.
But very few understand the pipeline that makes it all possible.
A lot of people still picture the drug world the way television taught it—
a Walter White figure in an RV cooking meth in the desert.
That myth makes the threat feel small. Local. Contained.
But fentanyl isn’t Walter White.
And nobody is mixing this poison in an RV anymore.
Fentanyl is industrial. Organized. International.
And the people behind it operate with the efficiency of corporations.
Here’s the part almost nobody hears:
It starts in China—not in garages or basements—in real facilities quietly diverting “research chemicals” into criminal networks. When pressure builds, production doesn’t stop; it shifts. India and other countries step in whenever China tightens controls.
Then the chemicals move south. South America handles laundering. Mexico handles the super-labs and the export.
These aren’t amateur labs. They’re factories capable of producing millions of counterfeit pills at a time. And in recent DEA testing, seven out of ten of those pills contained a potentially lethal dose. That isn’t a mistake. It’s the business model.
Then it heads north. Cars. Trucks. Freight. Mail. Tunnels. Couriers. And as our border weakened, the flow went from a trickle to a flood.
Between 2019 and the early 2020s, fentanyl seizures jumped more than 400%. Not because we became better at finding it, but because the supply became overwhelming.
A porous border doesn’t just let people through. It lets a drug war through. And the cartels treated that opening like an invitation.
Once fentanyl enters the United States, it spreads fast: stash houses, pill presses, suburban dealers, encrypted apps. It reaches every ZIP code. This isn’t a big-city problem. It’s a national poisoning.
This is where my experience comes in.
I’ve prosecuted trafficking cases. I’ve sat with agents, studied routes, read ledgers, and watched these networks operate with chilling precision. And now I represent families whose children were killed by a drug they never intended to take—young men and women who stepped unknowingly into the last link of an international supply chain.
America sees overdose numbers.
I see the machinery behind them—the packaging, the payments, the timing, the routes.
None of it is random.
None of it is accidental.
Fentanyl is an imported product.
And its final destination is far too often an American funeral home.
Two-thirds of all overdose deaths in this country now involve synthetic opioids.
Two-thirds.
Which brings us to what happened on the water this week.
A suspected smuggling boat ran dark. Ignored commands. Came straight toward shore. And this time, U.S. military forces didn’t chase it, warn it, or wait to see what happened next. They struck it, and the vessel exploded.
Some people couldn’t believe it. I could.
It took a presidential order to stop that suspected smuggling boat — a hard call from the top — while the rest of Washington still treats this crisis like something that can be managed with hearings, press releases, and excuses.
And while U.S. forces were out there taking a suspected trafficking vessel off the water, we had people online—and a few loud voices in the media—insisting it was “probably just fishermen.”
Fishermen don’t run dark.
Fishermen don’t ignore commands.
Fishermen don’t sprint toward the American coastline in the middle of the night.
Anyone who has ever worked a real trafficking case knows exactly what that behavior means. Pretending otherwise isn’t just naive—it’s dangerous.
Because when you understand the pipeline—where it starts, who directs it, how the product moves, and what happens when even one shipment gets through—you don’t see a boat.
You see fifty thousand funerals waiting to happen.
This is a war.
Not a metaphor.
Not rhetoric.
A real war being waged against the American people.
And here’s the part that should keep every parent in this country up at night:
The people killing our kids never hesitate.
Never apologize.
Never slow down.
So why are we?
Why is the most powerful nation on earth fighting this with half-measures while families bury children who never even meant to take fentanyl?
If someone broke into your home tonight to harm your child, you wouldn’t “debate” it.
You’d stop them—hard.
That’s the shift this country needs.
Not after another obituary.
Not after another empty seat at a kitchen table.
Because if we don’t start hitting back with everything we have, the next funeral you hear about won’t be a stranger’s.
It will be someone you love.
If this opened your eyes, share it. Someone you love may need to read it before it’s too late.
And if you want the truth without filters, follow this page.
God Bless America

All our government reps are concerned with is getting reelected (mic drop).

 

[Zavulon]

sSdptoenrog30g0a9342t4a7m72m9h3f31mh73lu76agaa98g9hfl200i39a ·


THE PART OF FENTANYL NO ONE WILL SAY OUT LOUD
America is being poisoned on purpose.
And almost nobody in Washington is willing to admit it.
Not by addicts.
Not by corner dealers.
Not by kids making reckless choices.
By a global pipeline built to kill Americans long before most people realize what’s happening.
We’re not dealing with “drugs” anymore.
We’re dealing with an industrial machine that begins in China, moves through cartel syndicates in Mexico, and ends with parents planning funerals for children who should still be alive.
And yet our leaders speak about fentanyl like it’s a policy discussion.
A “substance issue.”
Something that can be talked to death in a hearing room.
Meanwhile, synthetic opioids are killing more Americans each year than Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined.
That’s not a crisis.
That’s an attack.
And the people running it are counting on our silence.
Most Americans still don’t understand how fentanyl actually gets here.
They know the tragedies.
They’ve heard the statistics.
Some have buried someone they love.
But very few understand the pipeline that makes it all possible.
A lot of people still picture the drug world the way television taught it—
a Walter White figure in an RV cooking meth in the desert.
That myth makes the threat feel small. Local. Contained.
But fentanyl isn’t Walter White.
And nobody is mixing this poison in an RV anymore.
Fentanyl is industrial. Organized. International.
And the people behind it operate with the efficiency of corporations.
Here’s the part almost nobody hears:
It starts in China—not in garages or basements—in real facilities quietly diverting “research chemicals” into criminal networks. When pressure builds, production doesn’t stop; it shifts. India and other countries step in whenever China tightens controls.
Then the chemicals move south. South America handles laundering. Mexico handles the super-labs and the export.
These aren’t amateur labs. They’re factories capable of producing millions of counterfeit pills at a time. And in recent DEA testing, seven out of ten of those pills contained a potentially lethal dose. That isn’t a mistake. It’s the business model.
Then it heads north. Cars. Trucks. Freight. Mail. Tunnels. Couriers. And as our border weakened, the flow went from a trickle to a flood.
Between 2019 and the early 2020s, fentanyl seizures jumped more than 400%. Not because we became better at finding it, but because the supply became overwhelming.
A porous border doesn’t just let people through. It lets a drug war through. And the cartels treated that opening like an invitation.
Once fentanyl enters the United States, it spreads fast: stash houses, pill presses, suburban dealers, encrypted apps. It reaches every ZIP code. This isn’t a big-city problem. It’s a national poisoning.
This is where my experience comes in.
I’ve prosecuted trafficking cases. I’ve sat with agents, studied routes, read ledgers, and watched these networks operate with chilling precision. And now I represent families whose children were killed by a drug they never intended to take—young men and women who stepped unknowingly into the last link of an international supply chain.
America sees overdose numbers.
I see the machinery behind them—the packaging, the payments, the timing, the routes.
None of it is random.
None of it is accidental.
Fentanyl is an imported product.
And its final destination is far too often an American funeral home.
Two-thirds of all overdose deaths in this country now involve synthetic opioids.
Two-thirds.
Which brings us to what happened on the water this week.
A suspected smuggling boat ran dark. Ignored commands. Came straight toward shore. And this time, U.S. military forces didn’t chase it, warn it, or wait to see what happened next. They struck it, and the vessel exploded.
Some people couldn’t believe it. I could.
It took a presidential order to stop that suspected smuggling boat — a hard call from the top — while the rest of Washington still treats this crisis like something that can be managed with hearings, press releases, and excuses.
And while U.S. forces were out there taking a suspected trafficking vessel off the water, we had people online—and a few loud voices in the media—insisting it was “probably just fishermen.”
Fishermen don’t run dark.
Fishermen don’t ignore commands.
Fishermen don’t sprint toward the American coastline in the middle of the night.
Anyone who has ever worked a real trafficking case knows exactly what that behavior means. Pretending otherwise isn’t just naive—it’s dangerous.
Because when you understand the pipeline—where it starts, who directs it, how the product moves, and what happens when even one shipment gets through—you don’t see a boat.
You see fifty thousand funerals waiting to happen.
This is a war.
Not a metaphor.
Not rhetoric.
A real war being waged against the American people.
And here’s the part that should keep every parent in this country up at night:
The people killing our kids never hesitate.
Never apologize.
Never slow down.
So why are we?
Why is the most powerful nation on earth fighting this with half-measures while families bury children who never even meant to take fentanyl?
If someone broke into your home tonight to harm your child, you wouldn’t “debate” it.
You’d stop them—hard.
That’s the shift this country needs.
Not after another obituary.
Not after another empty seat at a kitchen table.
Because if we don’t start hitting back with everything we have, the next funeral you hear about won’t be a stranger’s.
It will be someone you love.
If this opened your eyes, share it. Someone you love may need to read it before it’s too late.
And if you want the truth without filters, follow this page.
God Bless America

First of all, sinking some random boats in ocean has as much with the "war on drugs", as killing some random camels in desert has with "war on terror". Just meaningless demonstrative actions without any realistic possibility of achieving any practical goal.
Second, we all understand that it is not about drugs at all, it is all about oil.
Third, violation of international treaties, signed by the USA (and attacks against unarmed civilian boats is one of those violations) makes it's consequences. Back in 1999 the USA attacked Serbia and take Kosovo from them, and in 2008 Russia attacked Georgia and took South Ossetia and Abkhazia, in 2014 Russia took Crymea, and in 2022 started Special Military Operation. America attack cargo boats in Carribbean, and in next few years American (and not only American) ships will be attacked all over the world.

 

[sparky]

random boats in ocean

actually, they have been specifically targeted

violation of international treaties

educate us then Zeb.....

~S~

 

[Zavulon]

actually, they have been specifically targeted

It's just your words. And there were no any proof.

educate us then Zeb.....

~S~

First of all, it is United Nations Convention in the Law of the Sea. You, among other countries signed it. And by signing it, United States, among other things, agreed to limit usage of Navy force in high seas to three things: piracy, slave-trading and misusage of flag (if the captain of a Navy ship has reason to believe that in fact it is US ship).
There is no legal right for a US Navy ship attack (especially without proper warning) a civilian boat in high seas even if she suspects this boat in cocaine trafficking.

 

[sparky]

It's just your words. And there were no any proof.


First of all, it is United Nations Convention in the Law of the Sea. You, among other countries signed it. And by signing it, United States, among other things, agreed to limit usage of Navy force in high seas to three things: piracy, slave-trading and misusage of flag (if the captain of a Navy ship has reason to believe that in fact it is US ship).
There is no legal right for a US Navy ship attack (especially without proper warning) a civilian boat in high seas even if she suspects this boat in cocaine trafficking.

do you mean this Zeb?>>>

Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

~S~

 

[Zavulon]

do you mean this Zeb?>>>

Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

~S~

Actually, I meant United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

MDLEA is inner US document.
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The Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act (MDLEA), implemented in 1986 by the United States, is a piece of legislation combatting the illegal drug trade. The MDLEA establishes that it is illegal for anyone on board a vessel belonging to the United States or within their jurisdiction to deliberately produce or disseminate psychotropic substances.
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If a boat belongs Venezuela and it is high seas - it is not US jurisdiction.

 

[sparky]

well Zeb, we take care of our own here.......same as you do.....now you and I could argue legalities 'til the cows come home.....but that stands.....

~S~

 

[task0778]

Curious about how the US Navy or Coast Guard knows which boats out of Venezuela are drug runners? Probably based somewhat on observation/intel, but there's gotta be some margin of error here. Our form of justice requires sufficient proof of guilt before we sentence somebody to death, and I am not sure we are extending the same consideration to others.