Trump Blows Up Another Venezuelan Drug-Smuggling Vote While Rand Paul Cries His Short Little Heart Out

The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.
Those who died in the strike were aboard the vessel, and no U.S. forces were harmed, the Republican president said in a social media post. It's the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean as Trump's administration has asserted it's treating alleged drug traffickers as unlawful combatants who must be met with military force.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the strike Tuesday morning, said Trump, who released a video of it, as he had in the past. Hegseth later shared the video in a post on X.
Trump said the strike was conducted in international waters and "Intelligence" confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with "narcoterrorist networks" and was on a known drug trafficking route.

The U.S. has struck another alleged drug boat in international waters off the coast of Venezuela. According to President Trump, six people were killed, and U.S. intel linked the boat “designated terrorist organizations” conducting narco-trafficking. @WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/WPXRXthDl2
— Ross Ketschke (@rossk_news) October 14, 2025

For Rand Paul, the Constitution always means whatever he decides it means this morning.

The same guy who claims he would defund the military and just pay privateers to kill our enemies simultaneously gets squeamish about killing drug dealers.

I use to think Rand Paul was ok, weird, but ok. Now I've lost all respect for him. A boat load of drugs heading toward America is no different than a loaded missile directed at our coastline and Rand doesn't see the threat. What does he get out of these drug runs? https://t.co/5JLquutKbO
— Gray Wolf (@GrayWol28162414) October 9, 2025

Paul's "but I support privateers!" claim is bullshit. He's simply a left-wing pacifag with some of his father's racial baggage, and he talks about "letters of marque and reprisal" to sound tough and badass while he pushes Code Pink's extreme pacifism on the country.

Last week, Lumpy Fettermen joined Republicans in blocking Democrats' -- and peacefag dope-hippy Rand Paul's -- attempt to block Trump from intercepting drug boats.

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., voted down an attempt block the Trump administration's missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats on Wednesday, hours after a nominee to serve as the CIA's top lawyer dodged questions from Democrats about the secret legal justification for the strikes at his confirmation hearing.
The Senate voted 51-48 against a War Powers Act resolution sponsored by Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. -- the first time members of Congress went on the record about the strikes.
If passed, the resolution would have blocked Donald Trump's administration from conducting further strikes without congressional approval.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the only Republicans to vote in favor of the resolution. Fetterman was the sole Democrat to break with the rest of his caucus, mirroring his vote earlier this year for a similar resolution in response to the Trump administration's strike on Iran. (Fetterman's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.) Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, did not vote.
"There is also the policy issue of the risk of the U.S. getting embroiled in another war."
The vote came days after the fourth confirmed boat strike conducted by the U.S. military. Those strikes, which the administration claims hit boats carrying drugs, have taken the lives of at least 21 people.
...
Speaking on the Senate floor, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee, defended the Trump administration's actions.
"People were attacking our country by bringing in poisonous substances," he said. "The people carrying those drugs were terrorists, plain and simple. They were trafficking drugs that finance a designated foreign terrorist organization."
"We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."
His fellow Republican, Paul, said that the terrorist label has been twisted out of recognition.
"The blow-them-to-smithereens crowd might stop to ponder that a good percentage of the ships that we actually search turn out not to be drug smugglers," Paul said. "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

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1 Time for Rand to go

Posted by: Oreo Cookies Union at October 14, 2025 06:23 PM (VE6XX)

2 Posted by: Oreo Cookies Union at October 14, 2025 06:23 PM (VE6XX)

Off sock/

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:24 PM (VE6XX)

3 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 14, 2025 06:24 PM (eB6bb)

4 I love watching shitty people get blown up.

If that's wrong I don't want to be right.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:24 PM (aTgV0)

5 "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

Blood and Roses FTW.

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at October 14, 2025 06:24 PM (lWPQK)

6 Trump Blows Up Another Venezuelan Drug-Smuggling Vote

Yeah, they'll never vote in US elections again...unless the Dems have their way.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 14, 2025 06:25 PM (ynpvh)

7 Sharks still follow the course of the drug boats.

Posted by: toby928 from the future at October 14, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

8 7 Sharks still follow the course of the drug boats.
Posted by: toby928 from the future at October 14, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

Those are gonna be so high sharks

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (VE6XX)

9 Paul's "but I support privateers!" claim is bullshit.

He's not for rum and the lash?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (ynpvh)

10 Every group of people can make a mistake.

Posted by: Adriane the Careful Critic. . . at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (3ZUWJ)

11 The thread seems oddly familiar.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (jc0TO)

12
Those are gonna be so high sharks
Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (VE6X

Some not so

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:27 PM (VE6XX)

13 Dear Penthouse Forum:

I never believed this could happen to me. I was running 5000 kilos of coke to Florida and then I was in Hell.

What happened?

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:27 PM (aTgV0)

14 Rand is no different than Bernie Sanders.

It's ALL bullshit. ALL the time.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (BG2Yo)

15 I didn't know, last year, that I was voting for this, but I sure as hell was!

Trumpmas! Every! Day!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (kHop/)

16 11 The thread seems oddly familiar.

all grey boxes look alike.

Posted by: anachronda at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (v3pYe)

17 Aqua Buddha disappoints.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

18 8 7 Sharks still follow the course of the drug boats.
Posted by: toby928 from the future at October 14, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

Those are gonna be so high sharks
Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (VE6XX)

Yeah, we don't call our Pushers name Great White because of his color!

Posted by: Hammered Head Shark at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (mP0Kj)

19 14 Rand is no different than Bernie Sanders.

It's ALL bullshit. ALL the time.
Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (BG2Yo)

I've got more sympathy for his neighbor now

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM (VE6XX)

20 >>I use to think Rand Paul was ok, weird, but ok. Now I've lost all respect for him. A boat load of drugs heading toward America is no different than a loaded missile directed at our coastline and Rand doesn't see the threat. What does he get out of these drug runs?

Exactly what I said this morning. In fact, drugs have killed far more Americans than died on 9/11 and the total of just about all if not all US wars.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM (viF8m)

21 >>all grey boxes look alike.

Doubly so at night!

Posted by: Zombie Franklin at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM (BG2Yo)

22 "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

They mamas say they good boys and jes got mixed up wit the wrong crowd.

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

23 Dems hate blowing up narcos for the same reason they hate USAID losing its funding and the same reason they hate illegals being deported.

They're losing ALL their votes and ALL their money.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (/p+XQ)

24 "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

They mamas say they good boys and jes got mixed up wit the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM

They were already admitted to Harvard.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (jc0TO)

25 So, supposedly peace deal in Gaza... well...

There is a Gymnastic World Championship going to be held in Indonesia, and they will not let the Israeli team have Visas to attend... specifically citing Gaza.

We should not attend either...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (mP0Kj)

26 Rand is no different than Bernie Sanders.

It's ALL bullshit. ALL the time.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:28 PM

rand paul does vote conservative 45% of the time, bernie sanders votes against conservative measures 100% of the time so there is a difference. But yes it is time for Kentucky to choose someone else.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (0N4FZ)

27 >>"We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

Drowned in their own Tears.

...and Missile Fire. But, mostly, Missile Fire.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (BG2Yo)

28

Willowed
This bikini blonde with very white teeth doesn't mind the occasional quick hit:
http://tiny.cc/dutt001
Posted by: Joe Mannix

9gag.com has a series of memes that seem appropriate here. No images, so you'll have to use your imaginations...

Shot glass, filled with cider, a wood nut in the glass - caption: wood nut in cider

Wooden dodge ram pickup truck - caption: wood ram

How many can all y'all come up with?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (QVmho)

29 Cocaine Sharknado

With Gary Busey and, of course, Zendaya.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (aTgV0)

30 "They were already admitted to Harvard.
Posted by: toby928"

They were on the way to turning their lives around.

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

31 They mamas say they good boys and jes got mixed up wit the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM

They were already admitted to Harvard.
Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (jc0TO)

You misspelled Hell

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:31 PM (VE6XX)

32 >>rand paul does vote conservative 45% of the time, bernie sanders votes against conservative measures 100% of the time so there is a difference.

They are equally genuine in their positions.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:31 PM (BG2Yo)

33 22 "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."

They mamas say they good boys and jes got mixed up wit the wrong crowd.
Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:29 PM (vFG9F)

They were all aspiring Spanish Rapers...

And you all hate Spanish Rap!

Posted by: Atrocious Rabbit at October 14, 2025 06:31 PM (mP0Kj)

34 "23 Dems hate blowing up narcos for the same reason they hate USAID losing its funding and the same reason they hate illegals being deported.
They're losing ALL their votes and ALL their money.
Posted by: qdpsteve at October 14, 2025 06:30 PM (/p+XQ) "

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:31 PM (kHop/)

35 Something tells me the cartels are not showing these videos to the runners.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:32 PM (aTgV0)

36 28, LOL

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:32 PM (kHop/)

37 The AP says Trump blew up a boat that he "accused" of carrying drugs

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:32 PM (VE6XX)

38 Rand is no different than Bernie Sanders.
....
Posted by: garrett

Maybe. Has Rand come out in favor of giving the vote to murderers and rapists.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 14, 2025 06:33 PM (0Htd1)

39 At least with Rand Paul you don't have to spell his name backwards like with the old man in order to avoid the old man's acolytes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 06:33 PM (mO7bs)

40 Where ~~Eagles~~ Illegals Dare.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:33 PM (L/fGl)

41 This is bullshit.
Trump needs to release the high-resolution video.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:33 PM (/lPRQ)

42 "The blow-them-to-smithereens crowd might stop to ponder that a good percentage of the ships that we actually search turn out not to be drug smugglers," Paul said. "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."
______________________________

I kind of liked the Smithereens. Except the lead singer had that whole bowl haircut going on.

Posted by: Orson at October 14, 2025 06:35 PM (dIske)

43 I think the beating and death threats got to Rand.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 14, 2025 06:35 PM (kUxzU)

44
If passed, the resolution would have blocked Donald Trump's administration from conducting further strikes without congressional approval.

===============

Hilarious. Let me guess, on a strike-by-strike basis?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 06:35 PM (oKXMA)

45 I always hear the Miami Vice intro music in my head when watching these boat videos.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

46
This is bullshit.
Trump needs to release the high-resolution video.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

============

And audio. Where the hell is the audio!?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 06:36 PM (oKXMA)

47 sock_rat_eez, thanks for highlighting that.

Posted by: qdpsteve at October 14, 2025 06:36 PM (/p+XQ)

48 I am not hugely jazzed by the USA blowing up enemies around the world just cause they suck, but its hardly new. For 25 years the US president has killed civilians around the world based on intel, the only thing that's different is that these are in the water instead of on land.

Where were the complaints when we droned wedding parties and guys driving through the desert?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 14, 2025 06:36 PM (dfIr7)

49 Kentucky is represented by Mitch the GOPe sellout and Rand the libertarian or whatever. Somewhere between the two you might make one solid conservative senator

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 06:36 PM (mO7bs)

50 "I always hear the Miami Vice intro music in my head when watching these boat videos.
Posted by: toby928"

heh

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:36 PM (aTgV0)

51 >>> Trump blew up more drug smugglers

It was just one last job, and then they were going to retire and use the money to build that home for the orphans they always dreamed of. They promised! Would they lie to you?

I was out... and they pulled me right back in.

Posted by: LizLem at October 14, 2025 06:37 PM (gWBY1)

52 Cut Murkowski some slack. She's just voting her economic self-interest.

Posted by: Wally at October 14, 2025 06:37 PM (Y2QVe)

53 Jeanine Pirro also has a video where she stands by all (1000s?) of barrels of meth precursors. They were seized with a ship going from China to Venezuela, so another interdiction, but in this case they have the proof of the cargo.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (vbXSk)

54 Wild assertion without evidence:
The USN is using expensive missiles to sink small boats instead of using gunships because it keeps the press from getting pictures of floating corpses and burning wreckage to decry the barbarism of killing psychopathic, evil transnational gangsters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (B2vkr)

55 My whole fucking department has been sick and still coming to work. Assholes.

“I don’t want to use my PTO being sick……”

GFY.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (W2Pud)

56 42 "The blow-them-to-smithereens crowd might stop to ponder that a good percentage of the ships that we actually search turn out not to be drug smugglers," Paul said. "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereen

Hey Rand... I imagine they had proof of the drugs on board

Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (VE6XX)

57 Rand Paul has a drug habit?

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (+qU29)

58 Do missiles have a Best By Date?

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:39 PM (jc0TO)

59 They're not expensive.

They're just little cheap missiles.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:39 PM (aTgV0)

60 I always hear the Miami Vice intro music in my head when watching these boat videos.
Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

That made me think of the hot bikini girls in that intro! Andele en fuego!!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 14, 2025 06:40 PM (WdMlw)

61 Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do?
Whatcha gonna do when they smithereens you?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:40 PM (L/fGl)

62 The Senate voted 51-48 against a War Powers Act resolution sponsored by Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. -- the first time members of Congress went on the record about the strikes.
++++
And had it passed, the House would have buried it. And if it somehow made it to Trump's desk, he would have vetoed it. And there is no way they can get a supermajority, not right now.

The Dems love failure theater sometimes, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:40 PM (B2vkr)

63 >>They're not expensive.

>They're just little cheap missiles.

Suddenly we are counting pennies in the Defense Budget?

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:40 PM (BG2Yo)

64 Ah, libertarians.
"Do what thou wilt an it don't mess with the drug supply."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 14, 2025 06:41 PM (a+4eV)

65 That Lump is growing on me… shocking development

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 14, 2025 06:41 PM (WdMlw)

66 47 *high-five emoji*

truth is true, innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:41 PM (kHop/)

67 ">>They're not expensive.

>They're just little cheap missiles."

What's wrong with some target practice?

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 06:41 PM (vFG9F)

68 Who got the bright idea everyone on the planet now gets a court appearance before the United States?

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 06:41 PM (+qU29)

69 His fellow Republican, Paul, said that the terrorist label has been twisted out of recognition.
++++
True, though not for the reason he states.

The US Government declared that going to *church* was akin to terrorism. Questioning COVID policy was akin to terrorism. Every damn thing is terrorism except, you know, terrorism.

I actually agree that these guys aren't terrorists. They *are* enemy combatants at war with the United States, though.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:42 PM (B2vkr)

70 They're brigands and pirates.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 06:42 PM (jc0TO)

71 I saw Cheap Missile open for Screaming Shatner last week on Ebay.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (aTgV0)

72 Hostis humani generis. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Hang 'em from the yardarm at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (TbWk/)

73 I love cocaine.

Posted by: Lisa Murkoaksky at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (gKWVE)

74 Wild assertion without evidence:
The USN is using expensive missiles to sink small boats instead of using gunships because it keeps the press from getting pictures of floating corpses and burning wreckage to decry the barbarism of killing psychopathic, evil transnational gangsters.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Why not hover overhead and drop lit sticks of dynamite on them?
Dukes of Hazard style.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (/lPRQ)

75 "Fuck 'em" Shall be the whole of the Law.

Fish gotta eat. Same as worms.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (96+sQ)

76 Ass, gas, or grass...nobody rides for....boom!

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 06:44 PM (tubbA)

77 The US has to pay to decommission unused ordinance like missles. The Russians never had this problem. They just shoot all the old stuff into the Barrents and call it training. It’s like the 4th of July up there sometimes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 06:44 PM (b4o9z)

78 "Why not hover overhead and drop lit sticks of dynamite on them?
Dukes of Hazard style.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher"

:

ick hardens::

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (aTgV0)

79 >>>Time for Rand to go

Because there's no room for disagreement whether it is a good idea to use military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity against ships and citizens of a foreign nation?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (i24o9)

80 Recreate the ancient use of Greek Fire ... using modern napalm.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (/lPRQ)

81 CBS nightly news headline, "Trump Kills Six "NarcoTrafficers"..."

Posted by: javems at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (8I4hW)

82 They're brigands and pirates"

And so cute & such!

I saw the movie!

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (tubbA)

83 Nothin wrong with cocaine.

Running out of cocaine is when the problems start. Best not to start.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 06:46 PM (96+sQ)

84 To understand Rand you have to know that he's trying his best to follow the "Non-Aggression Principle" that's central to American libertarian thought. His father was the same way.

At least Rand is consistent on this one issue.
He also went after Obama hard for droning terrorists in the Middle East for the same reasons, especially when O hit that one guy who was an American citizen.

I think both the Paul's fail on foreign policy and use of military force, but they seem to truly believe it all.

I just don't think American constitutional rights extend to Venezuelan drug dealers who are more than likely doing with the approval, of not the support, of the Maduro regime.

If they could nail Chinese fentanyl manufacturers (and from elsewhere like Mexico & Canada) with drone strikes I'd be behind that mission 110%.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:46 PM (6ydKt)

85 "72 Hostis humani generis. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: Hang 'em from the yardarm at October 14, 2025 06:43 PM (TbWk/)"

& the boat they rode up in

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:46 PM (kHop/)

86 >>I actually agree that these guys aren't terrorists. They *are* enemy combatants at war with the United States, though.

Enemy combatants wear uniforms. Terrorists do not.

I honestly can't even believe this is controversial. These guys weren't going fishing. They were bringing drugs to the US just like they have been doing for years.

The policy of waiting until they get here and then, well not doing much of anything, has been a colossal failure while enriching our enemies. These guys are killers. Kill them before they get to the US.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2025 06:46 PM (viF8m)

87 Wild assertion without evidence:
The USN is using expensive missiles to sink small boats instead of using gunships because it keeps the press from getting pictures of floating corpses and burning wreckage to decry the barbarism of killing psychopathic, evil transnational gangsters.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM

Possibly but there is a metric a$$ ton of surplus US weapons still on the black market from when biden pulled out of afghanistan 4 years ago. And IIRC we left behind hundreds of stinger AA missiles, maybe even more. You don't want to mess around if you suspect the bad guys have one of them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 14, 2025 06:47 PM (0N4FZ)

88 Drug smugglers are like pirates. Criminals at sea, and AFAIK, international law allows for blowing them out of the water.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 06:47 PM (8zz6B)

89 "Running out of cocaine is when the problems start."

Holy shit bro. That's exactly why coke sucks.

It runs out a 3:30 in the morning.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 06:47 PM (aTgV0)

90 "77 The US has to pay to decommission unused ordinance like missles. The Russians never had this problem. They just shoot all the old stuff into the Barrents and call it training. It’s like the 4th of July up there sometimes.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 06:44 PM (b4o9z) "

THIS!!!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:47 PM (kHop/)

91 Our local TV media writes this story in such a way that its a bad thing to blow up unknown boats. Not sure if they disapprove of it, but they are upset that it happened.

Posted by: Colin at October 14, 2025 06:47 PM (wlQdF)

92 “I don’t want to use my PTO being sick……”
......

said Typhoid Mary

Posted by: wth at October 14, 2025 06:48 PM (UjdFS)

93 Enemy combatants wear uniforms. Terrorists do not."

Indeed. Summary judgment. Enjoy the flash.

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 06:48 PM (tubbA)

94 How do you know she's a witch?

She looks like one!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at October 14, 2025 06:48 PM (vd6bO)

95 I do not weep for assholes who would dissolve my wife and child in a barrel.

I'm weird like that.

I have no problem letting the Navy kill them since they won't let me do it.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (96+sQ)

96 This is good for the US Navy who need the live fire to stay sharp. This is why the US Army and Marines should be patrolling the southern and northern borders to eliminate any Messicans or Canucks or Moslems that try to bring their unwashed asses across without asking. Kill a few hundred and viola! no more illegals crossing the border.

Posted by: Kill Them All at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (R/m4+)

97 My whole fucking department has been sick and still coming to work. Assholes.
“I don’t want to use my PTO being sick……”
GFY.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 14, 2025 06:38 PM (W2Pud)
~~~~~

I'm with you nurse. If you're sick, stay the hell home.

Posted by: IrishEi at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (3ImbR)

98 Those are gonna be so high sharks
Posted by: It's me donna at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (VE6XX)

Wait until the sharks get 2-300 feet in the air, and shoot 'em down with AA.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (8zz6B)

99 The policy of waiting until they get here and then, well not doing much of anything, has been a colossal failure while enriching our enemies. These guys are killers. Kill them before they get to the US.
Posted by: JackStraw

Bump it up a notch and hit them before they leave the docks, then when the goods are still in storage ...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (/lPRQ)

100 More like Nightly Propaganda Ministry
Trump kills Sailors out on a cruise

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (+qU29)

101 >>Bump it up a notch and hit them before they leave the docks, then when the goods are still in storage ...

That requires a lot more paperwork.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:50 PM (BG2Yo)

102 >>>Every damn thing is terrorism except, you know, terrorism.

Bronco Bama: That's wokeplace violence.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 06:50 PM (i24o9)

103 "84 To understand Rand you have to know that he's trying his best to follow the "Non-Aggression Principle" that's central to American libertarian thought. His father was the same way."

this is ... not wrong.

problem with Non-Aggression is, well, the whole Aggressor Sets The ROE thing.

wel innit?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at October 14, 2025 06:50 PM (kHop/)

104 Holy shit bro. That's exactly why coke sucks.

It runs out a 3:30 in the morning.
Posted by: eleven

Two days from now.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at October 14, 2025 06:50 PM (UjdFS)

105 What is Rand's position on Narcan?

My guess is he wants it available OTC, but right now cities are funding it and giving it away for free. I bet he supports that.

(My position is that it should be as illegal as the opiates. It is par aphelia for facilitating addiction since it removes the risk. I have seen kids in court find thousands of dollars for rolling paper and cigarette lighters, justified as "paraphernalia" and narcan is worse.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (pNXuD)

106 The old saying shoot the archer not the arrows kind of applies

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (/6GbT)

107 Are you a terrorist?

https://is.gd/yDl8NA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (L/fGl)

108 Things getting thrown at ICE and CPD after a car accident involving ICE in Chicago. Conehead and Lardass are loving it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (mO7bs)

109 The narcos have subs too. Usually homemade death traps that are good for one trip, but they have seized a few over the years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (b4o9z)

110 OT: we have the names of the two rascals who (allegedly) ended Ian Watkins' prison sentence
youtu.be/_9S8Dqtc1nc
Rashid Gedel and Samuel Dodsworth.

Posted by: Lisa Murkoaksky at October 14, 2025 06:52 PM (gKWVE)

111 17 Aqua Buddha disappoints.

aqua velva > aqua buddha

Posted by: anachronda at October 14, 2025 06:52 PM (v3pYe)

112 Narcan should come in a form that gives the user a Tattoo.
And you should only be allowed one of those tattoos.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (BG2Yo)

113 Bump it up a notch and hit them before they leave the docks, then when the goods are still in storage ...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (/lPRQ)

They'd have to take out the cocoa fields.

I think we tried all that in the 80s & 90s down in Colombia when we finally helped to take down the cartels there, but then everything just moved to Mexico and they started making more meth.

It's a long game of whack-a-mole to stop drug trafficking.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

114 Presdent Trump blowed up them smugglers real good!
-Johnny LaRue Farm Film Report

Posted by: Captain Fantastic at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (VPPG8)

115 Could Senator Adam Schiff point me to the legislation he sponsored attempting to stop former President Obama from hitting anyone he cared to with Hellfire missiles from drones in the Middle East?

Yeah, though so.

Posted by: JB1000 at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (JSu2X)

116 "There is also the policy issue of the risk of the U.S. getting embroiled in another war."

"Getting" embroiled? We're not getting there; we're there. Ever heard the phrase "war on drugs"? It's been around for, now, decades. It's a real thing but no previous administration took it more seriously than lip service. But now it's Fentanyl-laced and industrially-sized homicidal.

Narco-states are terrorist states. Having them at the border is bad enough. Turning the US into one would be civilization - if not world - destroying.

THIS is the kind of response I'd hoped we'd have had thirty years ago. THIS is yet another thing I voted for.

Apparently Rand Paul et al want to sign on to a suicide pact out of "principle". Count me out. I'd kinda like to see my fellow countrymen live and prosper.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (gLikB)

117 Are you a terrorist?"

Si.

I do wonder tho - does BLM/black supremacy count as terrorism in the UK?

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (tubbA)

118 >>paraphernalia

How was I so wrong in how I thought that word was spelled?
paraphernaia

Both the r and the a come as a surprise.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 14, 2025 06:54 PM (pNXuD)

119 ... I honestly can't even believe this is controversial. These guys weren't going fishing. They were bringing drugs to the US just like they have been doing for years. ...
Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2025 06:46 PM (viF8m)
++++
I don't think it's controversial. I can understand some people who do, like Flounder's argument above about this being "military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity." That's a totally fair discussion point. I think that high-seas interdiction is a solid move given that these *are* foreigners and the inefficacy of brown interdiction under LE rules, but there is room for argument on this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:54 PM (B2vkr)

120 >>The narcos have subs too. Usually homemade death traps that are good for one trip, but they have seized a few over the years.

Depth Charges, while cool, don't give the same Video Footage we have come to crave.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:55 PM (BG2Yo)

121 OT: we have the names of the two rascals who (allegedly) ended Ian Watkins' prison sentence

Oh well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 14, 2025 06:55 PM (LjSYW)

122 Hostis humani generis. Fuck 'em

THis is my attitude toward the drug cartels, and its pretty obvious that the Trump administration agrees. Enemies of all mankind are outside the law, without its protections.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 14, 2025 06:55 PM (dfIr7)

123 It's a long game of whack-a-mole to stop drug trafficking.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

You can’t really stop it, but with strong enough deterrence people will find another way to make a buck.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 06:55 PM (b4o9z)

124
And had it passed, the House would have buried it. And if it somehow made it to Trump's desk, he would have vetoed it. And there is no way they can get a supermajority, not right now.

The Dems love failure theater sometimes, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

=============

They'll use their "efforts" as selling points. "I pushed back against Trump's illegal and indiscriminate murders of people who had not even been accused of a crime much less charged or convicted!"

Governor Awesom keeps coming up with loser ideas that he'll use in the same way. The latest is the Bureau for De$cendant$ of American $lavery, which will go nowhere but bring him much glory. "I established a state agency to create solutions for our shameful racist past and achieve equity for people deprived of a legacy of generational wealth!" (Results? A slightly deeper hole in the Cali budget.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (oKXMA)

125 Cincinnati Woke Police Chief-ette just solved crime.

https://is.gd/mlOA8B

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (L/fGl)

126 You lost that debate under Obama, Rand.

You convinced no one then.
Or since.

The policy isn't the problem now: you are

Its like Massie in the House: Build a coalition of support or shut up.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (HXT0k)

127 I don't think it's controversial. I can understand some people who do, like Flounder's argument above about this being "military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity." That's a totally fair discussion point. I think that high-seas interdiction is a solid move given that these *are* foreigners and the inefficacy of brown interdiction under LE rules, but there is room for argument on this.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:54 PM (B2vkr)

We used to run Drug Enforcement ops out of San Diego on my US Navy Destroyer... 30 years ago.

Hell... remember when we invaded Panama to get Noriega, on DRUG charges?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (mP0Kj)

128 Bump it up a notch and hit them before they leave the docks, then when the goods are still in storage ...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at October 14, 2025 06:49 PM (/lPRQ)
++++
That would be an act of war against a nation-state. Whole different ball of wax. This is targeted attack of non-state actors under false flags in international waters where there is effectively no law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (B2vkr)

129 OT: we have the names of the two rascals who (allegedly) ended Ian Watkins' prison sentence
youtu.be/_9S8Dqtc1nc
Rashid Gedel and Samuel Dodsworth.

Posted by: Lisa Murkoaksky at October 14, 2025 06:52 PM (gKWVE)

Can we take up a collection?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (i24o9)

130 We don’t have any depth charges in the inventory anymore. It’s all torpedoes now.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (b4o9z)

131 military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity."

What law enforcement can reach out and touch them?

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (tubbA)

132 Do not monkey with this valve without notifying DC Central.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (Qw3Dr)

133 Depth charges just leave a oil slick

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (+qU29)

134 >>We don’t have any depth charges in the inventory anymore. It’s all torpedoes now.

I am, as the kids say...Much Disappoint.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 06:57 PM (BG2Yo)

135 Willowed from a couple of threads back:

399 One hour and 15 minutes from now, I will have been married for 25 years. Felt the need to announce that.
Posted by: Lincolntf at October 14, 2025 05:15 PM (n79dR)

Happy and blessed anniversary!

Posted by: Barkingmad59, wandering lurkette at October 14, 2025 06:58 PM (0lzjf)

136 I kind of liked the Smithereens. Except the lead singer had that whole bowl haircut going on.
Posted by: Orson
_____

Fun fact: They picked the name as a hat tip to Yosemite Sam.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 06:58 PM (XvL8K)

137 My friends sent me home with a ton of Canadian Thanksgiving food. So much food. Turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie. Maybe a nap.

Such wonderful people.

I'm good to them too.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (Sco7b)

138 What a waste of a perfectly good boat load.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, Artiste at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (UjdFS)

139 "There is also the policy issue of the risk of the U.S. getting embroiled in another war."

"Getting" embroiled? We're not getting there; we're there. Ever heard the phrase "war on drugs"? It's been around for, now, decades. It's a real thing but no previous administration took it more seriously than lip service. But now it's Fentanyl-laced and industrially-sized homicidal.

Narco-states are terrorist states. Having them at the border is bad enough. Turning the US into one would be civilization - if not world - destroying.

THIS is the kind of response I'd hoped we'd have had thirty years ago. THIS is yet another thing I voted for.

Apparently Rand Paul et al want to sign on to a suicide pact out of "principle". Count me out. I'd kinda like to see my fellow countrymen live and prosper.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (gLikB)

The article isn't clear on the "War" part.

People are getting nervous that all of this is a pretext for preparation to take out the Maudro regime with American military assistance.

I don't know if that's happening or not, but I've read a few articles over the past few weeks with that speculation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (6ydKt)

140 A little music for this thread:

youtu.be/vqML7WbOun8

Posted by: JQ at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (rdVOm)

141 My only complaint about these missions is that it is a losing tactic and we need something that (a) does not cost us so much, and (b) is not easily worked around using drone boats.

- How much does each of these missiles cost us? Maybe there is no cheaper option but I wonder.
- Where are these boats going? Why not just blow up that big ship.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (pNXuD)

142 Another boat off Venezuela struck summarily killing 6 people. How is this legal?

It’s not legal, but Trump has shown that the law, even international law, only matters if someone enforces it.

These are actually crimes against humanity, not war crimes, because this is not considered an interanational armed conflict. He is a war criminal for other stuff, don't get me wrong, but this is CAH.

This is what happens when Israel is allowed to also flaunt international law. Eventually US politics do the same. Who’s gonna stop em?

If Venezuela did the same thing to us those dipshits would be crying and demanding we bomb Venezuela, most peaceful President my ass

the US is building up their military near Venezuela and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a precursor to war.

Trump and his family are so arrogant they might think these violent gangs won't seek retribution against them in the future once he's out of office he doesn't have so much security, or "friends".

this is the kind of thing that will actually catch up to Trump. International war crimes. He is immune domestically, but not at The Hague.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ycI94)

143 Time for Rand to go
Because there's no room for disagreement whether it is a good idea to use military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity against ships and citizens of a foreign nation?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 06:45 PM (i24o9)

The Luaps have raided the US treasury while the whole time crying about the debt and constitution while bringing as much pork as anyone back to their districts.

Plus the hair....Time to go Dnar.

Posted by: Luap Dnar's Neighbor Who Beat His Ass at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (R/m4+)

144 Is the annotation in the clip 5M as in 5 meters?
That's a small boat to be crossing the waters.
It didn't show the lead up as before. No fun.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:00 PM (wBe+K)

145 399 One hour and 15 minutes from now, I will have been married for 25 years. Felt the need to announce that.
Posted by: Lincolntf at October 14, 2025 05:15 PM (n79dR

Congratulations to both of you!

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 14, 2025 07:00 PM (Sco7b)

146 It's a long game of whack-a-mole to stop drug trafficking.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

It would help to have a 3-strikes policy for users. Third conviction for simple possession buys you a bullet. Users are going to die a miserable death anyway, sooner rather than later, and in the meantime they bring misery to their families, and to the people they victimize in crimes to support their habit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:00 PM (8zz6B)

147 Cincinnati Woke Police Chief-ette just solved crime.

https://is.gd/mlOA8B
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (L/fGl)
++++
So thugs need to "learn how to behave." Okay. Who is to teach them? If the parents fail to teach them, or if they refuse to learn, then must come consequences.

Consequences like imprisonment and restitution for their crimes. If they continue to refuse to learn, the periods of punishment and removal from civil society must become longer until they are locked up for good.

Just some food for thought for the Chief over there in Cincy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:00 PM (B2vkr)

148 preparation to take out the Maudro regime with American military assistance."

Yeah. 'Cause Trump has been invading everywhere...

/

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:01 PM (tubbA)

149 Rand Paul would suck a dick for a Tic Tac.

Just a hunch. He's got one song and all he can do is keep playing it louder.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:01 PM (U3L6v)

150 If those boats had just stopped and allowed the hold to be inspected I sure those misunderstandings would have been cleared up.

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 07:01 PM (vFG9F)

151
It's a long game of whack-a-mole to stop drug trafficking.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:53 PM (6ydKt)

You can’t really stop it, but with strong enough deterrence people will find another way to make a buck.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

==============

This is where targeting the consumer comes in. More involuntary confinement and rehab, more funding and promotion of family-friendly and community-friendly policies that nourish individual mental health, more education, that sorta thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 07:01 PM (oKXMA)

152 "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens."
---
If they were innocent, you'd know.

Because their families--who know they are dead--who, if they were innocent, would know they were just out fishing, (in a high-speed motorboat, as one does) would be raising hell, with a private hotline to every Democrat in the Senate.

They are not.
Not a peep from the families.
Not one.
Because not one man on those boats was innocent.

So fuck off, Rand--you're a lying by implication bitch.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (HXT0k)

153 This is what happens when Israel is allowed to also flaunt international law.

==

lol, this is what happens when one has a terrible case of IDS

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (g47mK)

154 >>My only complaint about these missions is that it is a losing tactic and we need something that (a) does not cost us so much, and (b) is not easily worked around using drone boats.

- How much does each of these missiles cost us? Maybe there is no cheaper option but I wonder.

Nothing trains like Experience.

The cost of the Intel on correctly identifying these shipments far exceeds the cost of the ordnance employed.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (BG2Yo)

155 >>I don't think it's controversial. I can understand some people who do, like Flounder's argument above about this being "military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity." That's a totally fair discussion point. I think that high-seas interdiction is a solid move given that these *are* foreigners and the inefficacy of brown interdiction under LE rules, but there is room for argument on this.

I think a big reason our efforts for the last number of years have been largely ineffective is because we have been treating it largely as a law enforcement problem. I don't view it that way. I view cartels at best as foreign government adjacent but more likely sponsored. And the deadly drugs they are bringing are just another weapon.

This seems much more like an act of war using irregular troops to me. I don't for a second believe the guys bringing the drugs could make it happen without government protection if not sponsorship. We've been dealing with this crap for pretty much my entire life as a law enforcement situation and we haven't stopped it. Time to try a more aggressive approach. Less Sonny Crocket, more Rambo.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (viF8m)

156 The article isn't clear on the "War" part.

People are getting nervous that all of this is a pretext for preparation to take out the Maudro regime with American military assistance.

I don't know if that's happening or not, but I've read a few articles over the past few weeks with that speculation.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (6ydKt)
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Could be, but I kind of doubt. I also hope not.

I strongly suspect this is practice running for where the Latin American war will actually be: Mexico. The USN is getting target and combat practice on enemy vessels and training up for when we quarantine Mexico when the cartel war there gets bad enough that we have to intervene.

I hope I'm wrong about that, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (B2vkr)

157 All of this is a build up to taking Venezuela. They can't just do it because it's not in the playbook or they believe it's necessary to break it to the unwashed piecemeal. Bring them up to speed slowly so they are cheerleaded up to the action.
Much like Busch did in the lead up to (stupid) Iraq.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:03 PM (wBe+K)

158 Splodey go

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at October 14, 2025 07:03 PM (8NJrH)

159 I hope the Cafe is all aquatic creatures.

Posted by: wth at October 14, 2025 07:03 PM (UjdFS)

160 The Babylon Bee has a funny video out riffing on the notion that the drug smugglers deserve due process: "Navy Airdrops Public Defender Onto Drug Boat".

https://tinyurl.com/4376nxkk

Posted by: Paco at October 14, 2025 07:03 PM (mADJX)

161 one needs to go through some mighty antisemitic contortions to somehow make US blowing up narco traffickers in the Caribbean about Israel

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2025 07:03 PM (g47mK)

162 I don't think it's controversial. I can understand some people who do, like Flounder's argument above about this being "military force in what has heretofore been primarily a LE capacity." That's a totally fair discussion point. I think that high-seas interdiction is a solid move given that these *are* foreigners and the inefficacy of brown interdiction under LE rules, but there is room for argument on this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 06:54 PM (B2vkr)

Yes, and now play UK's:

>>>Are you a terrorist?

>>>https://is.gd/yDl8NA

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fat, Dumb, and Happy at October 14, 2025 06:51 PM (L/fGl)

I realize the argument against the UK striking US citizens on the high seas for alleged "terrorism" based primarily on the difference in the underlying acts being called "terrorism." And practically speaking, the UK wouldn't do it, because we are the biggest kid on the block. But might makes right is not an argument.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:04 PM (i24o9)

163 Real war with Venezuela would be like Bambi vs Godzilla.

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 07:04 PM (vFG9F)

164 It would help to have a 3-strikes policy for users. Third conviction for simple possession buys you a bullet. Users are going to die a miserable death anyway, sooner rather than later, and in the meantime they bring misery to their families, and to the people they victimize in crimes to support their habit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:00 PM (8zz6B)

Yeah, I hate to go the Singapore route, this is America after all, but it may have to get to that point with the strength and potency of the illegal & synthetic drugs coming out these days.

The stuff just keeps getting stronger and stronger.

We need to invest some money in combined drug rehab & mental hospitals. Far too many crazy fkn addicted people wandering around out there.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 07:04 PM (6ydKt)

165 If Maduro had a brain he would expatriate right now and live a long comfortable life. But like Saddam he can't read the wall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:04 PM (wBe+K)

166 this is the kind of thing that will actually catch up to Trump. International war crimes. He is immune domestically, but not at The Hague.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions
--------------------

You missed a few:
"Hey, anybody have any good connections? My sources have all dried up lately."

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 14, 2025 07:05 PM (pNXuD)

167 30mm on a drone? Seems it would still sink it

Posted by: A dude in MI at October 14, 2025 07:05 PM (/6GbT)

168 The article isn't clear on the "War" part.

People are getting nervous that all of this is a pretext for preparation to take out the Maudro regime with American military assistance.

I don't know if that's happening or not, but I've read a few articles over the past few weeks with that speculation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM

Congress declared a *war on terror* and Trump designated the narco gangs as terrorist organizations which made them legitimate targets under US and international law. I have not heard one whisper of Trump talking about regime change in Venezuela like biden did with russia.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 14, 2025 07:05 PM (0N4FZ)

169 The cost of the Intel on correctly identifying these shipments far exceeds the cost of the ordnance employed.
Posted by: garrett

-----------------
good point.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at October 14, 2025 07:05 PM (pNXuD)

170 We used to run Drug Enforcement ops out of San Diego on my US Navy Destroyer... 30 years ago.

Hell... remember when we invaded Panama to get Noriega, on DRUG charges?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 14, 2025 06:56 PM (mP0Kj)

That's fair.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:05 PM (i24o9)

171 Real war with Venezuela would be like Bambi vs Godzilla."

Marv Newland approves.

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:06 PM (tubbA)

172 ++++
Could be, but I kind of doubt. I also hope not.

I strongly suspect this is practice running for where the Latin American war will actually be: Mexico. The USN is getting target and combat practice on enemy vessels and training up for when we quarantine Mexico when the cartel war there gets bad enough that we have to intervene.

I hope I'm wrong about that, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
---------------

Mexico will be very messy.
We trained them and they aren't afraid.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:06 PM (wBe+K)

173 He's not for rum and the lash?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 14, 2025 06:26 PM (ynpvh)

Don't forget the sodomy!

Posted by: Cap'n Barky at October 14, 2025 07:07 PM (E15CN)

174 What, exactly, is a smithereen?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 07:07 PM (urtE/)

175 I hope I'm wrong about that, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:02 PM (B2vkr)

Mexico is a possibility too if Sheinbaum doesn't play ball.

Apparently some assets got moved to the Caribbean and some Marines sent to Puerto Rico.

People are thinking Panama/Noriega Part 2.

I don't think Trump wants that.
He balked when Bolton tried to push him into it during the first term.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 07:07 PM (6ydKt)

176 Iran is using Maduro's Venezuela to make some money : "Cartel connection: Hezbollah and Iran exploit Maduro’s Venezuela for cocaine cash :
'Hezbollah has become a main money launderer for narco-terrorism groups like Tren de Aragua,' fmr DEA official warns...The deadly U.S. strike in the Caribbean last week is being cast by experts as the latest move in a broader campaign to dismantle Iran and Hezbollah’s growing narco empire in Venezuela.

U.S. officials say Tren de Aragua works closely with the Cartel of the Suns — a network of Venezuelan military elites long accused of moving cocaine in collaboration with Hezbollah."

The more narco boats they blow up , the better.

Posted by: runner at October 14, 2025 07:07 PM (g47mK)

177 I want one of those fancy fantasy Letters of Marque and Kaboom that Shortshit McNoAgeofConsent is spouting off about.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (U3L6v)

178 This is what happens when Israel is allowed to also flaunt international law. Eventually US politics do the same. Who’s gonna stop em? ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ycI94)
+++++
1. You mean, "flout," you illiterate shitweasel.
2. Not everything is about Israel. Most things aren't about Israel. Also, general US policy - and ESPECIALLY its policy in this hemisphere - does not and never has considered Israel's (or anyone else's) opinion. Pull your head out of your ass.
3. The US rules the waves and its actions on the high seas are its prerogative and nobody else's. This is, again, particularly true in this hemisphere. You argue that this is bad or unfair, but the USN polices the high seas and enables trade. Like the British, Spanish and French before us. It changes from time to time, but somebody has to do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (B2vkr)

179 What, exactly, is a smithereen?"

One hundred thousanth of a hogshead?

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (tubbA)

180 >>> I have not heard one whisper of Trump talking about regime change in Venezuela like biden did with russia.
Posted by: Mister Scott
---

It will be organic. (assisted)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (wBe+K)

181 Black and White?

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (+U7B7)

182 10 retired Marines and a dog catcher from Hemet could take The Hague in an afternoon with a spork and a Ruger LCP.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (U3L6v)

183 "What, exactly, is a smithereen?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen"

A particle of a piece.

One flogistan.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (aTgV0)

184 178 This is what happens when Israel is allowed to also flaunt international law. Eventually US politics do the same. Who’s gonna stop em? ...
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ycI94)
+++++
1. You mean, "flout," you illiterate shitweasel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (B2vkr)

Hey, he might have meant flaunt. I suspect he flaunts all over town.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (urtE/)

185 the US is building up their military near Venezuela and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a precursor to war.

The left and the loony "right" are fixated on this idea of the US about to invade Venezuela. Their entire worldview seems to depend on this happening, they are so determined its any day now.

There's zero reason for anyone to expect that or believe it but they are certain Trump is a warmongering tool of the oil companies or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (dfIr7)

186 The Hague in an afternoon with a spork"

K-Bar tactical Spork FTW!

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (tubbA)

187 182 10 retired Marines and a dog catcher from Hemet could take The Hague in an afternoon with a spork and a Ruger LCP.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (U3L6v)

I assume you mean a tactical spork, and I likewise presume it will be retained as a backup plan.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 07:11 PM (urtE/)

188 Paco that was funny

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 07:11 PM (+qU29)

189 Trump and his family are so arrogant they might think these violent gangs won't seek retribution against them in the future once he's out of office he doesn't have so much security, or "friends".

See here we have someone demonstrating cognitive dissonance and the leftist ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time:

1) The cartels are violent, brutal, murdering scum who will try to assassinate a former US President
2) We shouldn't do anything to stop them because its bad and mean

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 14, 2025 07:11 PM (dfIr7)

190 As I've said before, this is the guy who was nearly killed three times by maniacal leftists and still can't pick them out of a lineup.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 14, 2025 07:11 PM (WHfpM)

191 US about to invade Venezuela"

It's because we're always invading everywhere... or something.

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (tubbA)

192 Rand Paul is not considering the Intelligence side of the situation. The cargo that this boat was carrying was most likely watched by satellite/drone/spy plane since it was in the creation phase. Tracked all the way to the port and watched it being loaded. We probably have a good estimate on the street value of the drugs onboard, but all that I mentioned above would probably cross the Intel "Sources and Methods" bar, and I am not sure the Senator from Kentucky even HAS such a Clearance.

Posted by: TXMarko at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (7flhA)

193 A particle of a piece.

One flogistan.
Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (aTgV0)

Thank heaven we cleared THAT up.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (urtE/)

194 >>> This is, again, particularly true in this hemisphere. You argue that this is bad or unfair, but the USN polices the high seas and enables trade. Like the British, Spanish and French before us. It changes from time to time, but somebody has to do it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
--------------

Trump wants hemispherical independence.
Said otherwise, he wants this hemisphere independent;
not beholding to the rest of the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (wBe+K)

195 Isn't the oil in Venezuela all ruined?

Anyway...nobody is invading Venezuela.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (aTgV0)

196 this is the kind of thing that will actually catch up to Trump. International war crimes. He is immune domestically, but not at The Hague.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 14, 2025 06:59 PM (ycI94)
++++
I guess he doesn't know that the United States is not a member of the treaty under which the ICC operates and is not a party to the Rome Statute. It's one of those things that US politicians and diplomats pushed for and then refused to participate in. You'd think that eventually somebody would learn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (B2vkr)

197 "I can't believe that we are killing Venezuelans on the high seas when they may, for all we know, be marine biologists merely harvesting anti-carcinogenic material from seaweed in an attempt to find a cure for cancer".

Posted by: Bernie Sanders (probably) at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (mADJX)

198 What, exactly, is a smithereen?"

One hundred thousanth of a hogshead?

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (tubbA)

A very small Smither.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (i24o9)

199 59 They're not expensive.

They're just little cheap missiles.
Posted by: eleven

Yeah, if they weren't used for blowing up drug smugglers, they'd probably have to be sold for cheap at the army surplus store.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (0Htd1)

200 But might makes right is not an argument.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:04 PM

It's the only rule between nations. For ten thousand years. All our elaborate dances are to avoid things getting that far.

89. Athenians. For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences—either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us—and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (jc0TO)

201 >>US about to invade Venezuela"

Because, we're fresh out of Venezuelans.

Posted by: garrett at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (BG2Yo)

202 The russians blew up chechen rebels in qatar the french a green peace boat in new zealand for reasons

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (bXbFr)

203 AI answer:

The term is most commonly found in phrases like "blown to smithereens" or "smashed to smithereens". Its origin is believed to be from the Irish word smiodar (meaning "fragment") combined with the diminutive suffix -een.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (XvL8K)

204 187.

Tactical Spork, fresh out of a cold Ham and Egg MRE.

The LCP is just there to keep it fair for Europe.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (U3L6v)

205 this is the kind of thing that will actually catch up to Trump. International war crimes. He is immune domestically, but not at The Hague.

THey are also doing this: endlessly masturbating about Trump facing THE HAGUE because he is an illegal felon Nazi warmonger who does bad things badly in bad ways all the time while cackling and rubbing his hands together when he's not twisting his moustache.

Its one of their most pathetic fantasies. Also its adorable how they think that the Supreme Court noting that the president is able to carry out his legal duties as president and cannot be sued for them means he can do anything he wants and never face criminal charges.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (dfIr7)

206
If Venezuela did the same thing to us those dipshits would be crying and demanding we bomb Venezuela

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

=============

Well, yes, I suppose if Venezuela stopped us while we were running illegal drugs that are social and personal disasters into Venezuela, some dipshits among us would be making demands of some sort.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (oKXMA)

207 180 >>> I have not heard one whisper of Trump talking about regime change in Venezuela like biden did with russia.
Posted by: Mister Scott
---

It will be organic. (assisted)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (wBe+K)

Yup.
If Trump was going to do this, I'm thinking he'd insist the Venezuelan military do it, while the Marines & Navy (poosibly offshore) are there for backup.

He'd want this as clean and quick as possible.
Grenada '83 or Panama '89 style.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 07:14 PM (6ydKt)

208 10 retired Marines and a dog catcher from Hemet could take The Hague in an afternoon with a spork and a Ruger LCP.
Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:10 PM (U3L6v)

The Hague should be declared illegal and arrest the scumbags and put them on trial at...The Hague.

Posted by: The Hague Is A Marxist Toilet at October 14, 2025 07:14 PM (R/m4+)

209 Remember when the Russians gassed an entire theater of people to death?

That was weird.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:14 PM (U3L6v)

210 It's because we're always invading everywhere... or something.
Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (tubbA)

Sure.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (pNkJD)

211 This busty bikini brunette likes boats:
http://tiny.cc/kvtt001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (B2vkr)

212 Rand Paul is not considering the Intelligence side of the situation. The cargo that this boat was carrying was most likely watched by satellite/drone/spy plane since it was in the creation phase. Tracked all the way to the port and watched it being loaded. We probably have a good estimate on the street value of the drugs onboard, but all that I mentioned above would probably cross the Intel "Sources and Methods" bar, and I am not sure the Senator from Kentucky even HAS such a Clearance.

Posted by: TXMarko at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM

Will no one think of all the fish poisoned by these drugs? When Trump blows up a peaceful boat engaged in lawful commerce he is polluting the ocean and injecting poison and filth into the pristine waters of the earths oceans.

He is a wicked monster and needs to be stopped by whatever means are necessary.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (0N4FZ)

213 >>>There's zero reason for anyone to expect that or believe it but they are certain Trump is a warmongering tool of the oil companies or something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
------------

Venezuela is the seat of South America's communist plague.
Before Dominion voting came in and changed Venezuela it was
a jewel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (wBe+K)

214 "What's, exactly, is a smithereen?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK"

It's a bit smaller than a bit.

Posted by: fd at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (vFG9F)

215 Regime change in Venezuela would be to the great benefit of the Venezuelan people.

And you know what else is falling apart? Cuba. They have had numerous nation-wide power outages recently. They literally cannot keep the lights on. If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (8zz6B)

216 195 Isn't the oil in Venezuela all ruined?

Anyway...nobody is invading Venezuela.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:12 PM (aTgV0)

I don't know about ruined, but it's very dirty oil.
It can only be refined at a few refineries here in the States it's so dirty.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (6ydKt)

217 I hope we are launching Spotted Owls at these drug boats.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (U3L6v)

218 I will gladly convert my yacht - The Jolly Codger - into a fighting ship if I am issued a Letter of Marque.

Shooting at drug smugglers will provide an interesting change of pace from catching marlins.

Posted by: Paco at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (mADJX)

219 ... Will no one think of all the fish poisoned by these drugs? When Trump blows up a peaceful boat engaged in lawful commerce he is polluting the ocean and injecting poison and filth into the pristine waters of the earths oceans. ...
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (0N4FZ)
++++
Given the incredibly rapid recovery of the Gulf of America after the BP Macando well blowout, I'm not too concerned.

After all, the solution to pollution is dilution.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (B2vkr)

220 "To the US, there’s a new, dangerous reality that may be about to bring a whole new level of danger, as the Latin American cartels are sending their operatives to Ukraine to be trained in drone warfare."

https://tinyurl.com/4mz2kd72

Great, so soon the terrorists will be hitting US targets with drones, with the operator 10-20 miles away. I sure hope the MIC has some plan for fighting the drone wars to come.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (vbXSk)

221 Trump knows that whatever change happens in Venezuela it must happen from within, but this at the same time does not mean they can do as they damn well please to our country. This is commendable.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (pNkJD)

222
89. Athenians. For ourselves, we shall not trouble you with specious pretences—either of how we have a right to our empire because we overthrew the Mede, or are now attacking you because of wrong that you have done us—and make a long speech which would not be believed; and in return we hope that you, instead of thinking to influence us by saying that you did not join the Lacedaemonians, although their colonists, or that you have done us no wrong, will aim at what is feasible, holding in view the real sentiments of us both; since you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
Posted by: toby928

==============

Sounds a bit pre-Christian, but I guess one must be realistic about a world that is politically dominated by unneutered males.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (oKXMA)

223 "The russians blew up chechen rebels in qatar the french a green peace boat in new zealand for reasons
Posted by: Miguel cervantes"

I'm assuming English is not your native language.

This syntax is fascinating.

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (aTgV0)

224
New one

Posted by: fourseasons at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (3ek7K)

225 Rand Paul needs to hear the Marine Fight Song. It will hurt him to his core.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 14, 2025 07:18 PM (pNkJD)

226 214 "What's, exactly, is a smithereen?
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen of AK"

I believe it is 1/100th of a smither.

Posted by: Paco at October 14, 2025 07:18 PM (mADJX)

227 And you know what else is falling apart? Cuba. They have had numerous nation-wide power outages recently. They literally cannot keep the lights on. If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (8zz6B)

We could send in everybody in Hialeah, Florida down there and they'd have the place back up and running in a month.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 14, 2025 07:18 PM (6ydKt)

228 2004 for diha the rainbow warrior was 1987

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:18 PM (bXbFr)

229 >> Paul said. "We will never know, because they were blown to smithereens

He says that like it’s a bad thing.

We’ve played the interception game for years. It didn’t work and that failure to shift strategies cost countless Americans their lives.

And by the way, I’m all for going after the cartels where they live. Go to the source. It’s war.

By the way, we didnt declare Democrats or any other Americans the enemy of state or a terrorist organization. We declared drug cartels who are responsible for killing thousands of people, most of them young adults, every year.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 14, 2025 07:18 PM (bYeFf)

230 220. Same plan as for every other alligator that tries to threaten the US since 1776.

Kill it, skin it, make a belt.

"PULL!!!"

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (U3L6v)

231 If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM

I am willing to invest in the rebuilding after the Cubans throw off their shackles.

Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (jc0TO)

232 Depleted dummies are dumber than dirt

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (bXbFr)

233 Great, so soon the terrorists will be hitting US targets with drones, with the operator 10-20 miles away. I sure hope the MIC has some plan for fighting the drone wars to come.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (vbXSk)

There was a story a little while back of some weapon that took out a bunch of drones. Sorry I don't remember more details. They may have been Russian drones.

Still, hard to protect the entire US.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (Sco7b)

234 If the US invaded Venezuela a Commissar Judge would stop it before 1 day went by

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (+qU29)

235 >>>And you know what else is falling apart? Cuba. They have had numerous nation-wide power outages recently. They literally cannot keep the lights on. If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------------------

Cans of Wolf's brand chili along with AK's.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (wBe+K)

236 >>> 215 Regime change in Venezuela would be to the great benefit of the Venezuelan people.

And you know what else is falling apart? Cuba. They have had numerous nation-wide power outages recently. They literally cannot keep the lights on. If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (8zz6B)

How many aircraft does the Cuban government have? tanks and/or armored vehicles? How of those actually are *running* and would need to be disposed of?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (ULPxl)

237 "Remember when the Russians gassed an entire theater of people to death?

That was weird.
Posted by: Sifty Boones"

Afghanistan?

Posted by: eleven at October 14, 2025 07:20 PM (aTgV0)

238 234 If the US invaded Venezuela a Commissar Judge would stop it before 1 day went by
Posted by: Skip
---------

Don't ask, don't tell.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:20 PM (wBe+K)

239 Rand Paul is not considering the Intelligence side of the situation. The cargo that this boat was carrying was most likely watched by satellite/drone/spy plane since it was in the creation phase. Tracked all the way to the port and watched it being loaded. - TXMarko

Excellent point.

Posted by: Paco at October 14, 2025 07:20 PM (mADJX)

240 And you know what else is falling apart? Cuba. They have had numerous nation-wide power outages recently. They literally cannot keep the lights on. If the Cuban people say "fuck it", and commence a revolution against the Commies, they will need American assistance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 14, 2025 07:16 PM (8zz6B)

Almost everyone in Cuba has an STD or three from being a sex tourist destination for decades by dirty euros and canadians. That is why Pitbull is always rapping about culo.

Posted by: Culo! at October 14, 2025 07:21 PM (R/m4+)

241 What, exactly, is a smithereen?"

One hundred thousanth of a hogshead?

Posted by: man at October 14, 2025 07:08 PM (tubbA)

A very small Smither.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (i24o9)

The term is most commonly found in phrases like "blown to smithereens" or "smashed to smithereens". Its origin is believed to be from the Irish word smiodar (meaning "fragment") combined with the diminutive suffix -een.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 14, 2025 07:13 PM (XvL8K)

I totally nailed it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 14, 2025 07:21 PM (i24o9)

242 Plus the venezuelans have somd long range russian missiles

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:21 PM (bXbFr)

243 >> Great, so soon the terrorists will be hitting US targets with drones, with the operator 10-20 miles away. I sure hope the MIC has some plan for fighting the drone wars to come.

Anybody taking kinetic action against the US will regret the day they were born.

Posted by: Marcus T at October 14, 2025 07:21 PM (bYeFf)

244 >>> 220 "To the US, there’s a new, dangerous reality that may be about to bring a whole new level of danger, as the Latin American cartels are sending their operatives to Ukraine to be trained in drone warfare."

https://tinyurl.com/4mz2kd72

Great, so soon the terrorists will be hitting US targets with drones, with the operator 10-20 miles away. I sure hope the MIC has some plan for fighting the drone wars to come.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 14, 2025 07:17 PM (vbXSk)

*If* this is really happening, then fck the entire Uke military. Let Poo Tin kill them all. But we should get that shitty little punk Z.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 14, 2025 07:21 PM (ULPxl)

245 220 "To the US, there’s a new, dangerous reality that may be about to bring a whole new level of danger, as the Latin American cartels are sending their operatives to Ukraine to be trained in drone warfare."

https://tinyurl.com/4mz2kd72

Great, so soon the terrorists will be hitting US targets with drones, with the operator 10-20 miles away. I sure hope the MIC has some plan for fighting the drone wars to come.
Posted by: illiniwek
----------------------

Shotguns for everyone!
Not just for farmers.!!

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:22 PM (wBe+K)

246 237. Moscow

Posted by: Sifty Boones at October 14, 2025 07:23 PM (bdVvX)

247 NOOD

CAFE

WTF did Ace find?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at October 14, 2025 07:23 PM (ULPxl)

248 In more than 60 years we have gone to every place from saigon to panama yet we havent struck write in our backyard

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:23 PM (bXbFr)

249 This busty bikini brunette likes boats:
http://tiny.cc/kvtt001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
......

and peeing in the pool

Posted by: wth at October 14, 2025 07:25 PM (UjdFS)

250 237 "Remember when the Russians gassed an entire theater of people to death?

That was weird.
Posted by: Sifty Boones"

Afghanistan?
Posted by: eleven
----------------------------

It says:
Do not mess with the Russians.
They will do whatever it takes to ruin your day.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 14, 2025 07:25 PM (wBe+K)

251
THey are also doing this: endlessly masturbating about Trump facing THE HAGUE because he is an illegal felon Nazi warmonger who does bad things badly in bad ways all the time while cackling and rubbing his hands together when he's not twisting his moustache.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

===============

Trump trembling before a semicircle of brown, yellow, and black judges, some genders obvious and some not, all seated behind a panel waaayyy above his head. Hands cuffed behind his back, eminent personages ranged in the galleries, Melania and Ivanka softly weeping at the back.

The gavel STRIKES. He is hereby CONDEMNED to imprisonment in Elbonia! Cameras flash (even though this is 2028 they have flashbulbs), the crowd erupts in applause, he is dragged off shouting incoherently!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at October 14, 2025 07:26 PM (oKXMA)

252 In more than 60 years we have gone to every place from saigon to panama yet we havent struck write in our backyard
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:23 PM (bXbFr)
++++
Panama is in our backyard. Our hemisphere.

And most people forgot that we invaded the Dominican Republic in 1965 when communist revolutionaries there were trying to take over the government and opened fire on US diplomats. US took a chunk of Santo Domingo in a matter of hours, enforced a stilization, backed the establishment government, and it was over in a week when the communist revolutionaries were routed by establishment DR forces.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:29 PM (B2vkr)

253 And WTF Ted Cruz, who has turned into an insider trading useless bastard who thinks he can run for President?

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at October 14, 2025 07:30 PM (xaNfJ)

254 These independent folks in Congress sure do love them some suicide contract.

I think I'm all set with the indys for now. Yeah we get it you like weed, but I don't for one second question the destruction od these drug boat.

This is guys gotta go pronto

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at October 14, 2025 07:30 PM (XLfSN)

255 I could be remembering it wrong but thought the Russians were in the theater.
Not something I would remember exactly

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 07:31 PM (+qU29)

256 I meant nearly everywhere else the dominican republic wasnt really a threat camaano was a minor figure

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at October 14, 2025 07:34 PM (bXbFr)

257 2002 Chetans took over a Russian theater, at leat 90 hostages died

2022 Russia bombed a Ukrainian theater being used as a bomb shelter
, wide range of deaths from 16 - 600

Posted by: Skip at October 14, 2025 07:36 PM (+qU29)

258 Venezuelan oil is extra shitty. The Chinese can't even refine it.

Posted by: Boss Moss at October 14, 2025 07:37 PM (+U7B7)

259 253 And WTF Ted Cruz, who has turned into an insider trading useless bastard who thinks he can run for President?
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at October 14, 2025 07:30 PM (xaNfJ)

Here’s the AoS Two Minutes Hate for Ted Cruz.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 14, 2025 07:39 PM (pNkJD)

260 They should practice first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9_PJ8rC4

Posted by: DaveA at October 14, 2025 07:39 PM (FhXTo)

261 I am willing to invest in the rebuilding after the Cubans throw off their shackles.
Posted by: toby928 at October 14, 2025 07:19 PM (jc0TO)

The Cuban diaspora will be more than willing to do it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at October 14, 2025 07:42 PM (pNkJD)

262 211 This busty bikini brunette likes boats:
http://tiny.cc/kvtt001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 14, 2025 07:15 PM (B2vkr)

"You like tits. I got tits. What you got?"

Posted by: Easy The Elder at October 14, 2025 07:49 PM (E3WkF)

263 Is Paul in the pockets of the drug barons, or does he not understand the idea of international waters ... ?

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at October 14, 2025 07:57 PM (muRIc)

264 "

Posted by: ja at October 14, 2025 08:20 PM (8I4hW)

265 "There was a story a little while back of some weapon that took out a bunch of drones. Sorry I don't remember more details. They may have been Russian drones."

Grok: ...likely thinking of is the Epirus Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system, which made waves in late August 2025 with a dramatic demo where it fried the electronics of an entire swarm of 49 drones in a single pulse

Posted by: Fen at October 15, 2025 12:51 AM (qChqh)

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