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Greg_In_SF

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12. The drugs

Reply to Botany (Reply #11)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 12:42 PM

22 hrs ago

are stored in compartments and the fuel is kept in barrels. The boats don't go directly to the US. They go to various Caribbean islands and drop off the drugs there before they eventually reach the US.

This isn't rocket science my friend.

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

It will not stop.............. Lovie777 Yesterday #1

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

Note to the Orange Menace: Attilatheblond Yesterday #2

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

And the effin planet shrugs its shoulders malaise Yesterday #4

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

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

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

They carry Greg_In_SF Yesterday #9

Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so .. Botany 23 hrs ago #11

The drugs Greg_In_SF 22 hrs ago #12

Is that an image of a boat blown up off the coast of Venezuela? sop 22 hrs ago #14

This one is Greg_In_SF 22 hrs ago #15

The guys on that boat are obviously up to no good, they're clearly not fishermen. sop 22 hrs ago #17

See my reply #23 below. n/t Justice matters. 21 hrs ago #24

Do you like fishing? Botany 22 hrs ago #18

I do like fishing Greg_In_SF 20 hrs ago #27

No doubt. And a certain kind of fishing. Where the boat moves through the water and drags bait behind it.. Botany 20 hrs ago #29

LOL Greg_In_SF 19 hrs ago #32

Drug traficking does not lead to a death-penalty sentence. Justice matters. 21 hrs ago #23

It is against international law to kill them without solid evidence Iwasthere 20 hrs ago #30

The US is using million dollar missiles to sink small wooden boats w/ Marijuana on them. n/t Jacson6 23 hrs ago #10

They haven't even shown these boats were carrying marijuana. sop 22 hrs ago #13

I doubt anyone is going to all the trouble and expense of smuggling marijuana to the U.S. on boats from Venezuela rollin74 22 hrs ago #16

Marijuana is sold legally in @ least 40 out 50 states and in almost in every state where it is illegal some ... Botany 21 hrs ago #20

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

Although the Marijuana sold in pot shops tends to be too harsh for me. Botany 21 hrs ago #22

I haven't heard anyone Greg_In_SF 21 hrs ago #26

When fascism is toppled via civil war, class war or revolution mlitary and anyone else involved in crimes against yaesu 22 hrs ago #19

Yeah, but in the US of A, they "look forward" now. Justice matters. 21 hrs ago #25

He's just giving the orders...the US military is committing murder. GCG 20 hrs ago #28

Kick BlueWaveNeverEnd 19 hrs ago #31

Article doesn't say they were Venezuelan, and it was in the Pacific, so unlikely to be muriel_volestrangler 18 hrs ago #33

Killing your neighbors or trying to impose your will on them with unreasonable demands is never a good idea Botany 14 hrs ago #34