Finally, the US government targets a dictator who murders thousands of Americans every year.

[CowboyTed]

Okay, Kreskin.

You just proved that leftards are completely out of touch with reality.

Tomorrow before I leave for LA I'll be speaking with my Venezuelan next door neighbor on the phone. She does my graphics, she's an important person in my operation.

Are leftards always this hateful?

Never mind, that was a rhetorical question

Trump isn't in charge he just got rid of one dictator and his second is in charge now...

 

[Dr Grump]

Madro is a bad guy, sure... But Trump just put the next one in charge and went after the Oil...

Is there anyone stupid enough to think this will stop drug deaths?

This is a smash and grab for Oil.

Problem is that it won't work... Trump can't see it yet..

Yep. He doesn't see much.

 

[Dr Grump]

No. Drugs. Oil is not what this is primarily about.

But his efforts also have potentially significant implications for a great many matters related to international relations.

Of course it is about oil. Venezuela is a major supplier to China of oil. In a 2020 DEA report about the importation of fentanyl to the US, Venezuela isn't even mentioned. However, China and Mexico are. As the main proponents. I wonder if the Orange Buffoon is going to invade Mexico and China and hogtie their leaders and bring them back to the US?

 

[Dr Grump]

WH

The U.S. drug overdose crisis reflects sequential epidemiological waves driven by pharmaceutical policy, illicit drug market dynamics, and persistent gaps in addiction treatment access. From approximately 6,100 deaths in 1980 to 105,000 in 2023, the nation has experienced an uncontrolled catastrophe among working-age adults. While the substances involved have evolved—from crack cocaine in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the 2000s, to heroin in the 2010s, and finally to illicit fentanyl—the underlying driver has remained constant: inadequate treatment capacity, fragmented public health response, and market forces that exploit chronic pain and addiction.

The recent decline is notable but fragile, occurring amid restricted opioid supply quality and increased harm reduction efforts. Sustained reversal of this crisis will require comprehensive expansion of medication-assisted treatment, broader access to mental health services, and fundamental restructuring of how the nation addresses addiction as a public health emergency rather than a criminal justice issue.

---

Data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 2024. CDC FastStats Drug Overdoses; CDC Data Briefs 522 (2024), 491 (2024); CDC/SAMHSA Opioid Epidemic Reports; National Institute on Drug Abuse; County Health Rankings 2025.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db81.pdf
2. The Role of Cocaine Mortality in a Resurgent Overdose Epidemic | Rockefeller Institute of Government
3. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia
4. Drug Overdose Death Statistics [2025]: Opioids, Fentanyl & More
5. Products - Data Briefs - Number 522 - December 2024
6. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/hq062716_attach.pdf
7. New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
8. U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded
9. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States | SHADAC
10. Drug Overdose Deaths*
11. FastStats
12. Products - Data Briefs - Number 491 - March 2024
13. Data Resources
14. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835230
15. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time - Wikipedia
16. Drug overdose deaths - Health, United States
17. Continuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York
18. U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
19. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/opioid-overdose-deaths-fall-trump-budget-cuts-2026
20. Opioid Overdose Death Rates and All Drug Overdose Death Rates per 100,000 Population (Age-Adjusted) | KFF State Health Facts
21. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
22. Drug Overdose Death Rate (per 100,000 population) | KFF State Health Facts
23. Deaths Due to Drug Overdose and Alcohol Are Down Nationally, But Progress is Uneven Across Population Groups and at Risk Due to Cuts in Federal Health Programs - TFAH
24. Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data
25. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db356-h.pdf
26. Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature - PMC
27. How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Rippled Across America (Published 2016)
28. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00256-0/fulltext
29. Products - Data Briefs - Number 356 - January 2020
30. Products - Data Briefs - Number 273 - February 2017
31. Products - Data Briefs - Number 428 - December 2021
32. Restored CDC | NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation
33. The Buyers - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS
34. NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation

What about the bigger picture as to WHY it is happening. I thought the US was the greatest country in the world.

 

[Hafar1014]

I feel conflicted by this. I think Trump is a moronic idiot. But Maduro is an idiot, too. It depends what Trump does next. If he wants to do it, he should go the whole hog. Get the US military in there to set up an election with the US military running it.

How many hotels have you built

 

[Hafar1014]

Do you think all or even mo cocaine comes from Venezuela?

You’d be wrong

And do you think removing Maduro will end ALL cocaine coming to America even from Venezuela?

Fat chance

This isn’t about drugs

Never was

This is called a valid point that makes no sense.
This is about Russia China Cuba and Iran destabilizing America and spreading communism in Central and South America. Drugs are used to fund Hezbollah and terror who has assets there. Thats over now.
Control of oil gives us leverage over Cuba Iran and China. Cuba will be cut off and the economy already in poor shale will collapse.
This is about the security of this entire hemisphere and stopping the invasion from the new axis of evil.
It also exposes the democrats as useless defenders of socialists who once again take the side of a criminal dictator.

 

[Dr Grump]

How many hotels have you built

1) None.
2) Same answer as "How many times have I been convicted of a felony."
3) BTW the answer to your question that you are also dying to ask "How many times have you been bankrupt". The answer is never.
4) You could also ask me "How many times have I hired Useless bastards to run various parts of my business, only to find out later on how useless they were and then blame them for being useless even though I hired them in the first place." Again, the answer is never.
5) You could also ask me how many times did I visit Epstein's island. Again, never.

 

[Hafar1014]

1) None.
2) Same answer as "How many times have I been convicted of a felony."
3) BTW the answer to your question that you are also dying to ask "How many times have you been bankrupt". The answer is never.
4) You could also ask me "How many times have I hired Useless bastards to run various parts of my business, only to find out later on how useless they were and then blame them for being useless even though I hired them in the first place." Again, the answer is never.
5) You could also ask me how many times did I visit Epstein's island. Again, never.

You lost and there is nothing you can do about Trumps success. Every one defines democrats as useless failures who defend criminals.
The one thing Trump is above all else is a winner.

 

[Dr Grump]

You lost and there is nothing you can do about Trumps success. Every one defines democrats as useless failures who defend criminals.
The one thing Trump is above all else is a winner.

I am not a democrat. However, I am a critical thinker and not in goose step to your glorious leader/king.
Trump is a useless prick. Then again I could be doing a disservice to impotent men.

 

[Hafar1014]

I am not a democrat. However, I am a critical thinker and not in goose step to your glorious leader/king.
Trump is a useless prick. Then again I could be doing a disservice to impotent men.

We had useless brain damaged president named Biden who was so impaired he wrecked the economy and created one disaster after another. He was so bad his own party removed him.

 

[Dr Grump]

We had useless brain damaged president named Biden who was so impaired he wrecked the economy and created one disaster after another. He was so bad his own party removed him.

Biden was okay, but he wasn't a great president. The only good think he did was put things back on an even keel after the disaster of Trump 45. But he should have given notice 18 months before the election so the Dems could pick somebody half decent. Kamala wasn't that person.

 

[SaxonJackson]

I can't think of a better and more righteous target to incur the wrath of the US military than I can drug cartels, and those helping them.

Over a hundred thousand Americans die every year from drugs coming from these cartels across the US border.

Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures | National Institute on Drug Abuse

See facts and figures on overdose deaths as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

nida.nih.gov

It is almost equivalent to all the American deaths in the Vietnam war, yet America has not acted like they were really at war until Maduro was targeted.

And guess what, I could care very little about all the conspiracy theories as to why Trump really went after Maduro, because no one I know questions that he was helping to run illicit drugs into the US, nor do they question that he subverted election results to stay in power. He is basically an illegitimate thug who deserves to be put in a high-speed boat in the Gulf of Trump and turned into fish food.

When will America ever wake up?

And I am tired as hell of Democrats bending over backwards to defend and protect criminal thugs like Maduro.

To hell with them all!!!

Here's another organization that murders lots of Americans each year -- and it's "legal" in the USA. No bombs. No military intervention:

"Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide once again in 2024, more than cancer, HIV, traffic fatalities and suicide combined. Total deaths from abortion were 45.1 million unborn babies."

Abortion the leading cause of death worldwide in 2024, killing more people than World War One - National Right to Life

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide once again in 2024, more than cancer, HIV, traffic fatalities and suicide combined. Total deaths from abortion were 45.1 million unborn babies. Abortion accounted for just over 42% of...

nrlc.org

If the Federal Government (whether under the control of the Demicans OR the Republicrats) was actually concerned about mass murder and the death of innocent victims, they'd be bombing every "Planned Parenthood" center in the USA. But they squeeze their eyes shut and pretend it isn't an issue.

 

[scruffy]

Biden was okay, but he wasn't a great president.

Biden SUCKED. He was one of the worst presidents we ever had.

 

[Dr Grump]

Biden SUCKED. He was one of the worst presidents we ever had.

Meh. Whether you look at historian polls, right-wing polls or left wing polls, he doesn't even rate in the bottom 10. Probably deserves to be in the bottom half of presidents, but to me he was more of a 'meh' president.

 

[TNHarley]

I can't think of a better and more righteous target to incur the wrath of the US military than I can drug cartels, and those helping them.

Over a hundred thousand Americans die every year from drugs coming from these cartels across the US border.

Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures | National Institute on Drug Abuse

See facts and figures on overdose deaths as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

nida.nih.gov

It is almost equivalent to all the American deaths in the Vietnam war, yet America has not acted like they were really at war until Maduro was targeted.

And guess what, I could care very little about all the conspiracy theories as to why Trump really went after Maduro, because no one I know questions that he was helping to run illicit drugs into the US, nor do they question that he subverted election results to stay in power. He is basically an illegitimate thug who deserves to be put in a high-speed boat in the Gulf of Trump and turned into fish food.

When will America ever wake up?

And I am tired as hell of Democrats bending over backwards to defend and protect criminal thugs like Maduro.

To hell with them all!!!

Dude, this isnt about drugs. Thats why he pardoned a KINGPIN. Hell man, most of the drugs coming to and out of Venezuela, goes to Europe. It doesnt even come to us!
When will America wake up? I agree. You would think the countless times we have done this, and it went to shit, we would have learned by now. But we havent.
LOL this fat ignorant **** can "take care" of corruption in Venezuela, but cant here? LOL
This whole thing is a joke. People have zero standards.

 

[BackAgain]

Of course it is about oil. Venezuela is a major supplier to China of oil. In a 2020 DEA report about the importation of fentanyl to the US, Venezuela isn't even mentioned. However, China and Mexico are. As the main proponents. I wonder if the Orange Buffoon is going to invade Mexico and China and hogtie their leaders and bring them back to the US?

No. Not “of course.” What a silly post.

You can keep saying it, but you’re saying it doesn’t make it true.

Sometimes you make moderately intelligent posts.

But that wasn’t one of them.

 

[Votto]

Dude, this isnt about drugs. Thats why he pardoned a KINGPIN. Hell man, most of the drugs coming to and out of Venezuela, goes to Europe. It doesnt even come to us!
When will America wake up? I agree. You would think the countless times we have done this, and it went to shit, we would have learned by now. But we havent.
LOL this fat ignorant **** can "take care" of corruption in Venezuela, but cant here? LOL
This whole thing is a joke. People have zero standards.

You are correct, it is not JUST about the drugs. If it were, he probably would have been left alone.

It is the big picture that doomed Maduro, a man whom exported around 80% of the oil to China, a man who at every turn tried to undermine the United States supporting all of their adversaries around the world, and openly rigging the elections so that the entire world knew he was not the legitimate ruler as well did not help him. Brutalizing and oppressing his own people is yet another strike against him, as the average cookie cutter despot does. And lastly, the hordes of immigrants fleeing for their very lives in coming to the US has put a great deal of pressure on the US economically.

But to give the action legitimacy, all one has to do is point to the illegal drug trade even democrats acknowledge he was engaged in. And even though it is a small portion of the drugs coming across the border, it still accounts for thousands of American lives being snuffed out by this dolt of a dictator. That type of activity SHOULD be viewed as an act of war, as they struck first blood.

Then you get a blow hard like Margery Taylor Green spouting that Trump ran on America first, claiming Trump has forsaken this? No, it was and is in America's interest to do exactly what Trump did, in relation to saving American lives from drugs, in stopping all the illegal immigration to escape that Marxist hell hole, and politically on the world stage to uphold the Monroe Doctrine to keep all adversaries out of the sphere of power in the America's, meaning China can no longer have access to all that oil.

But for me, it is enough just to see Left wing loons like Mamdani tear up in horror that one of his comrades has been brought to justice as he tries to turn the US into Venezuela.

 

[kyzr]

You are correct, it is not JUST about the drugs. If it were, he probably would have been left alone.

It is the big picture that doomed Maduro, a man whom exported around 80% of the oil to China, a man who at every turn tried to undermine the United States supporting all of their adversaries around the world, and openly rigging the elections so that the entire world knew he was not the legitimate ruler as well did not help him. Brutalizing and oppressing his own people is yet another strike against him, as the average cookie cutter despot does. And lastly, the hordes of immigrants fleeing for their very lives in coming to the US has put a great deal of pressure on the US economically.

But to give the action legitimacy, all one has to do is point to the illegal drug trade even democrats acknowledge he was engaged in. And even though it is a small portion of the drugs coming across the border, it still accounts for thousands of American lives being snuffed out by this dolt of a dictator. That type of activity SHOULD be viewed as an act of war, as they struck first blood.

Then you get a blow hard like Margery Taylor Green spouting that Trump ran on America first, claiming Trump has forsaken this? No, it was and is in America's interest to do exactly what Trump did, in relation to saving American lives from drugs, in stopping all the illegal immigration to escape that Marxist hell hole, and politically on the world stage to uphold the Monroe Doctrine to keep all adversaries out of the sphere of power in the America's, meaning China can no longer have access to all that oil.

But for me, it is enough just to see Left wing loons like Mamdani tear up in horror that one of his comrades has been brought to justice as he tries to turn the US into Venezuela.

Don't celebrate the removal of Maduro yet, the NYC judge is a 93-year old commie.

 

[CowboyTed]

The U.S. drug overdose crisis reflects sequential epidemiological waves driven by pharmaceutical policy, illicit drug market dynamics, and persistent gaps in addiction treatment access. From approximately 6,100 deaths in 1980 to 105,000 in 2023, the nation has experienced an uncontrolled catastrophe among working-age adults. While the substances involved have evolved—from crack cocaine in the 1980s, to prescription opioids in the 2000s, to heroin in the 2010s, and finally to illicit fentanyl—the underlying driver has remained constant: inadequate treatment capacity, fragmented public health response, and market forces that exploit chronic pain and addiction.

The recent decline is notable but fragile, occurring amid restricted opioid supply quality and increased harm reduction efforts. Sustained reversal of this crisis will require comprehensive expansion of medication-assisted treatment, broader access to mental health services, and fundamental restructuring of how the nation addresses addiction as a public health emergency rather than a criminal justice issue.

---

Data Sources: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), 2024. CDC FastStats Drug Overdoses; CDC Data Briefs 522 (2024), 491 (2024); CDC/SAMHSA Opioid Epidemic Reports; National Institute on Drug Abuse; County Health Rankings 2025.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db81.pdf
2. The Role of Cocaine Mortality in a Resurgent Overdose Epidemic | Rockefeller Institute of Government
3. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia
4. Drug Overdose Death Statistics [2025]: Opioids, Fentanyl & More
5. Products - Data Briefs - Number 522 - December 2024
6. https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/hq062716_attach.pdf
7. New Report: U.S. drug overdose deaths rise again after hopeful decline
8. U.S. overdose deaths fell by 27% last year — the largest one-year decline ever recorded
9. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States | SHADAC
10. Drug Overdose Deaths*
11. FastStats
12. Products - Data Briefs - Number 491 - March 2024
13. Data Resources
14. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2835230
15. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time - Wikipedia
16. Drug overdose deaths - Health, United States
17. Continuing Crisis: Drug Overdose Deaths in New York
18. U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
19. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/14/opioid-overdose-deaths-fall-trump-budget-cuts-2026
20. Opioid Overdose Death Rates and All Drug Overdose Death Rates per 100,000 Population (Age-Adjusted) | KFF State Health Facts
21. https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
22. Drug Overdose Death Rate (per 100,000 population) | KFF State Health Facts
23. Deaths Due to Drug Overdose and Alcohol Are Down Nationally, But Progress is Uneven Across Population Groups and at Risk Due to Cuts in Federal Health Programs - TFAH
24. Products - Vital Statistics Rapid Release - Provisional Drug Overdose Data
25. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db356-h.pdf
26. Worldwide Prevalence and Trends in Unintentional Drug Overdose: A Systematic Review of the Literature - PMC
27. How the Epidemic of Drug Overdose Deaths Rippled Across America (Published 2016)
28. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00256-0/fulltext
29. Products - Data Briefs - Number 356 - January 2020
30. Products - Data Briefs - Number 273 - February 2017
31. Products - Data Briefs - Number 428 - December 2021
32. Restored CDC | NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation
33. The Buyers - A Social History Of America's Most Popular Drugs | Drug Wars | FRONTLINE | PBS
34. NVSS - Public Use Data File Documentation

And Venezuela had very little too do with it...

Meanwhile Trump pardons a guy who imported 300 tonnes of Cocaine into America.. Yep, he doesn't give a **** about drugs...
Trump also pardoned the creator of the silk road

Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht​

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o
This baby is all about Oil... GOP got us into Iraq for Oil and now they got us into Venezuela....

 

[CowboyTed]

Yep. He doesn't see much.

I don't think Trump has thought this out much...

When the people are protesting on the streets and the replacement starts gunning them down... That is on Trump, you broke it...

This outrage will then be directed towards the US Oil Companies...

The stupidity of this is pretty outstanding, he grabbed a dictator.. That's all... He hasn't done any regime change... He thinks shit is going to change, it is not..