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>to summarily execute whomever you vaguely suspect, If the US had only a vague suspicion about the boat, I would be very critical of this strike, but the Sec

>to summarily execute whomever you vaguely suspect, If the US had only a vague suspicion about the boat, I would be very critical of this strike, but the Secretary of Defense said that "We knew exactly who was in that boat. We know exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented," and none of the half dozen articles critical of the strike I skimmed tried to suggest that that assertion is wrong or exaggerated or that the US didn't have reliable information about who was on the boat or what they were doing.

jauntywundrkind 1y ago
The administration seems abundant happy to throw around insane accusations about gangs and cartels with basically zero back up or evidence. Right out of the gate, it's been a petty attempt to puff up and enemy. Claiming Aurora Colorado was taken over by Tren de Aragua started basically a year ago, and was absurd nonsense, edging closely on pure fiction. https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/11/false-claims-gang-takeover-trump-aurora/ https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/11/false-claims-gang-ta... What's happened with Kilmar Armando Ábrego García shows the commitment and dedication to gross injustice at all costs, purely to press a point, no matter how fabricated. This random father & sheet metal union apprentice is some big time crime dude, because you said so? Get real. This administration enjoys lying, enjoys making big bold grandiose claims that it seemingly has not a lick of evidence to support. The whole claim about Tren de Aragua being some awful terrible threat seem fantastical & absurd. Maybe there are a couple small problems here in the homeland that they cause, but the administration has invented a Boogeyman, has created as much Fear Uncertainty and Doubt as it can, over the most marginal tiniest problem of the most marginal significance, with which this giant justifies throwing its weight around against the fly. It's pathetic, akin to being afraid of the subway or a city. They breed cowardice & terror for their sick political ability to string up their base in suspense & terror mongering & so it seems here. Pathetic pathetic pathetic losers of no caliber not just disproportionally responding in extremely wasteful ways, but doing so in direct insult to the American citizenry with its falsified fake terror-mongering. Absolutely infernal & dementedly sick lowness. Zero respect for anything the admin says right now about this whole made up fake news fake war. Vance saying that this ignormaneous bullshit of no consequence is the highest purpose of the US military shows how incredibly zero standards they set, to denigrate the troops with this pointless small irrelevant police action as opposed to doing real things in the world. The admin also hasn't told Congress anything, cancelling the meeting over it. It's all made up phantasms. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/trump-drug-boat-strike-venezuela-meeting https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/trump-drug-boat-strike-vene...

jauntywundrkind 1y ago

The administration seems abundant happy to throw around insane accusations about gangs and cartels with basically zero back up or evidence. Right out of the gate, it's been a petty attempt to puff up and enemy. Claiming Aurora Colorado was taken over by Tren de Aragua started basically a year ago, and was absurd nonsense, edging closely on pure fiction. https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/11/false-claims-gang-takeover-trump-aurora/ https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/10/11/false-claims-gang-ta... What's happened with Kilmar Armando Ábrego García shows the commitment and dedication to gross injustice at all costs, purely to press a point, no matter how fabricated. This random father & sheet metal union apprentice is some big time crime dude, because you said so? Get real. This administration enjoys lying, enjoys making big bold grandiose claims that it seemingly has not a lick of evidence to support. The whole claim about Tren de Aragua being some awful terrible threat seem fantastical & absurd. Maybe there are a couple small problems here in the homeland that they cause, but the administration has invented a Boogeyman, has created as much Fear Uncertainty and Doubt as it can, over the most marginal tiniest problem of the most marginal significance, with which this giant justifies throwing its weight around against the fly. It's pathetic, akin to being afraid of the subway or a city. They breed cowardice & terror for their sick political ability to string up their base in suspense & terror mongering & so it seems here. Pathetic pathetic pathetic losers of no caliber not just disproportionally responding in extremely wasteful ways, but doing so in direct insult to the American citizenry with its falsified fake terror-mongering. Absolutely infernal & dementedly sick lowness. Zero respect for anything the admin says right now about this whole made up fake news fake war. Vance saying that this ignormaneous bullshit of no consequence is the highest purpose of the US military shows how incredibly zero standards they set, to denigrate the troops with this pointless small irrelevant police action as opposed to doing real things in the world. The admin also hasn't told Congress anything, cancelling the meeting over it. It's all made up phantasms. https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/trump-drug-boat-strike-venezuela-meeting https://www.axios.com/2025/09/05/trump-drug-boat-strike-vene...