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The Mighty Ox's avatar

For a second I thought this "I'm on a Boat" scene was the mountaintop scene from Better Off Dead.

(A loud, bugged-out, cokey Charles de Mar to Lane Meyer, trying to concentrate on his speed run down a black diamond slope) "Dude! I just realized! This mountaintop is ALL SNOW!! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA THE STREET VALUE OF THIS PLACE IS?!!"

Chino Cherokee's avatar

"....So far, the campaign has burned though $4.7 billion, struck 59 small boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, and killed 196 FISHERMEN...."

FIFY

KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

" ... fabricated, inflammatory and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland."

It is astounding how much that rodomontade reminds one of the Red Army as described in Pravda.

bakeneko's avatar

Gawrsh, Smegbreath, you can't imagine just *how* reassuring that is.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zy5o4kUG4I

Paul Riddell's avatar

Well, it’s not like the administration is going to go after the users. If it did, you’d have to take off and nuke every business and law school in the country from orbit, just to make sure.

"M"'s avatar

They'd have to nuke the entire White House

Remember that report about all those drugs "Doctor" Ronnie Johnson was handing out in the 2016-2020 White House ...?

Paul Riddell's avatar

Considering the number of Southern Methodist University brats working for the Administration, can we tell the difference?

tehbaddr's avatar

This is good news for Donald Trump!

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Jr.!

Hank Napkin's avatar

Be forewarned kids! Random senseless state sponsored murder: Just another side effect of the cocaine

archy's avatar

Speaking of smuggling 400 TONS of cocaine into the US, I give you...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Orlando_Hernandez

clairence's avatar

"while absorbing the occasional loss of shipments on small boats."

>The Times is telling us they were carrying drugs.

"boats from Venezuela whose cargo is usually destined for Europe or Africa."

> interviewee telling us they were carrying drugs.

boo radley's avatar

To be fair, I can't imagine the price of gasoline hasn't caused the price of coke to rise at ALL, lol.

Seriously, fuck them wannabe shitheads.

Mexfiles's avatar

I've never been convinced that the US government is seriously trying to curb narcotics usage as much as it is using the threat of intervention to curb the trade as a tool for maintaining (or obtaining) control over other resources in the Americas. Case in point: the claims the present Mexican government is somehow more "narco-friendly" than the previous neo-liberal ones (in which the head of national security was working for El Chapo?) and putting their considerable thumb on tomorrow's presidential election in Colombia... or, for that matter,their backing of US neo-liberal Daniel Noboa (whose family business is exporting bananas... and cocaine).

The_Shadout_Mapes's avatar

I am pretty mad that not one of my high school counselors or Career Day advisors told us about the job tracking Baltimore’s cocaine use. Especially since my high school was in the suburbs. Probably for the best, though.

verne's avatar

so if the boats aren't being interdicted and summarily blown out of the water by the us military, how does private pocket square know, for a fact, that all of those on board are known terrorists? no chance vacationing tourists from the us or europe might rent a boat to go fishing in the caribbean?

Mexfiles's avatar

What's a "terrorist" anyway? And what's so terrifying about some guy in a small boat?

oscarphile's avatar

Everyone with brown skin is terrifying to MAGA

Biff52 Lost Canadian's avatar

I've always been a fan of the little man in the boat!

what?

verne's avatar

precisely.

gotta stoke the rage 'n fear...truly pathetic, weak, and in need of a rolled up tube sock to offset obvious insecurities

Bagels of Doom's avatar

"Signs are also emerging that traffickers are simply adopting other methods for smuggling cocaine"

Huh! Who woulda thunk?

Bagels of Doom's avatar

"morally abhorrent" is a nice way of saying "breaking every international law and then some".

Erisian's avatar

"the campaign has burned though $4.7 billion, struck 59 small boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific"

Well, obviously they were all guilty since they were all using known maritime drug smuggling routes, aka commercial trade corridors and/or were disguised as fishing boats.

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"It’s as if Trump’s [sic] most murderous foreign policies have only made the world worse, somehow."

"Remember, no matter how vile Trump [sic] is today, he’ll be worse tomorrow." Stuart Rothenberg

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"cocaine, by far the top drug smuggled out of South America, is as easy to get in much of the United States as it was before the strikes began.”

Yeah, but the blowing up of boats has greatly reduced the amount of Fentanyl being smuggled into the US. Oh, wait, is it possible that the geniuses in the regime have confused coke with Fentanyl (a vast majority of which doesn't come via water)?

> "This fact sheet uses two separate datasets to confirm what has long been reported by law enforcement sources and other researchers: that the majority of fentanyl smuggled across the southern border enters not on the backs of migrants crossing the border on foot, but in the vehicles and on the bodies of U.S. citizens and other lawful entrants seeking admission at land ports of entry." https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/fentanyl-smuggling/

[NB: "many Americans falsely believe that migrants are the ones bringing fentanyl into the country. This narrative has been fueled by political rhetoric that seeks to link the issue of migration at the southern border directly with the opioid epidemic." ibid Any guesses where this bovine scat originated?]

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