Is there anyone here connected to media?

[stollen]

I used to live in the Philippines and Okinawa, where I saw plenty of small private fishing boats off the coasts of these countries. I'd watch the crew haul in their nets to see what was caught...mostly crustacean odds/ends and seaweed.

Media, I'd like answers to these questions:

Question 1: Why doesn't our navy, with all its technology, know the difference between a drug cartel and a group of village fishermen trying to eek out a living?

Question 2: Why are we using expensive missiles and SEAL Team Six (or any SEAL team) to take out a village's outboard motorboat and its passengers?

Question 3: When Obama was president, he used SEAL Team Six to take out Osama Bin Laden. If we can't find a better use for these extensively/expensively trained elite forces, shouldn't they be disbanded so we can use the money to refinance the health organizations designed to help anyone in our country associated with PTSD from war time experiences? Trump had them dismantled.

[Walleye]

1. Administration doesn't believe there is such a thing as commercial or subsistence fishing

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They don’t eat fish cause that’s for women, they think commercial fisherman should be out there with rods and reels. The amount of ignorance in this government is staggering.

[stollen]

2. ALL gop administrations are FUBAR

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W's admin couldn't find WMD but could read my license plate from outer space.

[GreatGazoo]

4. "Truth is the first casualty of war" -Churchill

Wars are often begun with false flags or with accusations which, by design, the target country cannot disprove.

"Saddam has WMD!"
"No I don't"
"Prove it!"
"I can't."
"Okay then we are invading to search."

It is the international equivalent of "I smell weed"
"No you don't and I do not consent to searches."
"Okay then let's see what this drug sniffing dog says..."

[stollen]

5. WMD could have been disproved

W kicked out the UN inspectors and started bombing immediately. All because of....Bin Laden?? Recall the PNAC document, brought to us by the same people who wrote Project 2025.

[GreatGazoo]

3. Venezuela is in the cross hairs because of oil, not drugs

Oil is only profitable when the WTI price is above $60. The threat of Russian supply come back is being counterbalanced by taking away Venezuelan oil.

Oil markets are awaiting the outcome of the talks to see if a deal could lead to the removal of sanctions on Russian companies, including major oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil, that would free up restricted oil supply.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/oil-prices-fall-on-weak-demand-as-markets-await-ukraine-peace-effort-for-supply-signs.html

[stollen]

6. This is where focus should be

including mine.

Biden worked so hard to keep the US out of recession and build back the economy and alliances after Trump's COVID. The world was hurting economically. Biden was successful to pull it all together, the right president at the right time. Then this orange self-important self-serving assclown and his degenerate family get back in to undetmine progress and restoke mayhem everywhere. It feels like we're in the period between WWI and WWII.

[allegorical oracle]

7. Last week, heard an interview with the wife of a Venezuelan fisherman on NPR. She said

that these strikes are affecting the fishing industry. Normally, she said, her husband goes out 15 miles from shore to catch the best fish. Now, they limit themselves to 10 miles from the coast. Consequently, their catches are much smaller, as is their income. They're well aware of the danger the U.S. presents.

Really do wonder how many of these deadly strikes have struck fishing boats. Suspect it's more than a few. Fishing boats making a 30-mile round trip to reach their top fishing ground would need effective engine power, which could be mistaken for drug craft.