Were these boats running copies of the Epstein files or something?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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Out of all the embarrassments the second Donald J Trump administration has unleashed on the world, Hegseth is the most dangerous to world peace and stability.
I'm 1000% convinced they are just blowing random boats up JUST so they can tell maga retards "see how much we're doing to keep drugs out of the country"
While Don Jr snorts all of colombia up his nose
I’m sure it’s also to threaten the legitimate government into acquiescence and potentially lay the groundwork for a potential war on “terror”
If they were really sure they were trafficking drugs, they could also just seize the boats rather than blowing them up. I think there's a good reason they're not doing that.
No, no, no.
The "evidence" for the "crimes" committed by those on the boat having been either incinerated or blown into a million tiny pieces and sunken to the bottom of the ocean is just an "unfortunate" side-effect.
and distract from the fact the border isnt really being patrolled because the cbp is helping out ICE, allowing cocaine to flow into the us unabated.
Hey America? If you could stop executing people with Hellfire missiles without giving them a trial first? That'd be greeat.
Destroying the lives of innocent people around the world is definitely an American thing
No can do, it's a long-standing cultural tradition.
Kinda feels like they are trying to start a war by eliciting a response, right?
That wouldn’t be a war, but a massacre. South America has no military weight against the most expensive army in the world.
But the two countries have forests. Colombia even has mountains.
Definitely. Venezuela and Columbia
Must have been carrying a lot of Epstein files!
Jesus f****** Christ this last was off the coast of Columbia thousands of miles away from the US. No f****** proof that the boat was carrying what they said or that it was headed to the United States has been provided. The m************ sending this God damn s*** and killing people without adequate process is just one more reason I can't f****** deal with this f****** s***
Reading that was like listening to a snoop Dogg album bought from Walmart in the 90's.
Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry! Jer-ry!
I'm with you, but you know you can let those fucking swears fly, right? 🙂
Edit: okay almost missed it, one nitpick:
killing people without adequate process
Nah I actually don't think the US government should be killing people even with due process. Literally the last people in all of history so far that I want to be given power over life and death.
I'm sorry yes speech to text did that to me on automatic and I didn't have time to change it. And as far as the killing thing I agree with you but if it's going to be done and there needs to be process
So it's not about Venezuela? Or are they just blowing up any boat any where they want now? Which would mean they lied to Congress... Which means...
Which means....don't rent a charter on the ocean. Fish lakes and rivers.
THEY LIED TO CONGRESS?!?!
Nothing. There have been no ramifications for this administration. And if there were, it'll be by some lawsuit that has to go to the supreme court and, nevermind they're in his pocket too.
its a nice distraction for the media to the BBB, epstein files, and the ice raids.
I don't know if it means anything, I'm pretty sure they just lie about every possible thing
Putin: My school. Nice...
So yeah, let’s have a multi-theater war right on both sides of us. These people are trying to destabilize the USA on purpose. But why?
Personal debts to Putin.