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Botany

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11. Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so ..

Reply to Greg_In_SF (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 11:43 AM

Dec 30

…. and the tip of Florida is 1,500 miles across the Caribbean. And if the boat was loaded with
fuel where would they keep the drugs?

Nice try.

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Trump murders more Venezuelans. "U.S. military carries out 30th strike on alleged drug boat" [View all] Botany Dec 30 OP

It will not stop.............. Lovie777 Dec 30 #1

We are producing future Venezuelan Terrorists and very likely 10s of thousands of deaths if Botany Dec 30 #5

Note to the Orange Menace: Attilatheblond Dec 30 #2

Trump is a murderer. When does our Congress and judiciary deal with him? travelingthrulife Dec 30 #3

And the effin planet shrugs its shoulders malaise Dec 30 #4

If that's not a crime I don't know what it is. Dave Bowman Dec 30 #6

Thirty illegal murderous strikes on alleged "narco terrorists," yet not one shred of evidence? Strange. sop Dec 30 #7

Even IF those boats were carrying drugs there is no way they should end up close to the U.S.. Botany Dec 30 #8

They carry Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #9

Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so .. Botany Dec 30 #11

The drugs Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #12

Is that an image of a boat blown up off the coast of Venezuela? sop Dec 30 #14

This one is Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #15

The guys on that boat are obviously up to no good, they're clearly not fishermen. sop Dec 30 #17

See my reply #23 below. n/t Justice matters. Dec 30 #24

Do you like fishing? Botany Dec 30 #18

I do like fishing Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #27

No doubt. And a certain kind of fishing. Where the boat moves through the water and drags bait behind it.. Botany Dec 30 #29

LOL Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #32

Sounds serious Torchlight Thursday #35

Drug traficking does not lead to a death-penalty sentence. Justice matters. Dec 30 #23

It is against international law to kill them without solid evidence Iwasthere Dec 30 #30

The US is using million dollar missiles to sink small wooden boats w/ Marijuana on them. n/t Jacson6 Dec 30 #10

They haven't even shown these boats were carrying marijuana. sop Dec 30 #13

I doubt anyone is going to all the trouble and expense of smuggling marijuana to the U.S. on boats from Venezuela rollin74 Dec 30 #16

Marijuana is sold legally in @ least 40 out 50 states and in almost in every state where it is illegal some ... Botany Dec 30 #20

This is true. It's legal here in Nevada as well with dispensaries all over the place where I live rollin74 Dec 30 #21

Although the Marijuana sold in pot shops tends to be too harsh for me. Botany Dec 30 #22

I haven't heard anyone Greg_In_SF Dec 30 #26

When fascism is toppled via civil war, class war or revolution mlitary and anyone else involved in crimes against yaesu Dec 30 #19

Yeah, but in the US of A, they "look forward" now. Justice matters. Dec 30 #25

He's just giving the orders...the US military is committing murder. GCG Dec 30 #28

Kick BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 30 #31

Article doesn't say they were Venezuelan, and it was in the Pacific, so unlikely to be muriel_volestrangler Dec 30 #33

Killing your neighbors or trying to impose your will on them with unreasonable demands is never a good idea Botany Dec 30 #34

He's looking for any excuse to kill Torchlight Thursday #36