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Botany

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

Reply to sop (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 30, 2025, 10:04 AM

3 hrs ago

They are open boats that can not go through the open ocean without running the chance of
swamping from waves and rain and they are outboard motor boats that can not go more than
50 miles miles. These attacks are about oil and Epstein.

Also the penalty for drug trafficking is not the death sentence too.

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Trump murders more Venezuelans. "U.S. military carries out 30th strike on alleged drug boat" [View all] Botany 4 hrs ago OP

It will not stop.............. Lovie777 4 hrs ago #1

We are producing future Venezuelan Terrorists and very likely 10s of thousands of deaths if Botany 4 hrs ago #5

Note to the Orange Menace: Attilatheblond 4 hrs ago #2

Trump is a murderer. When does our Congress and judiciary deal with him? travelingthrulife 4 hrs ago #3

And the effin planet shrugs its shoulders malaise 4 hrs ago #4

If that's not a crime I don't know what it is. Dave Bowman 4 hrs ago #6

Thirty illegal murderous strikes on alleged "narco terrorists," yet not one shred of evidence? Strange. sop 4 hrs ago #7

Even IF those boats were carrying drugs there is no way they should end up close to the U.S.. Botany 3 hrs ago #8

They carry Greg_In_SF 2 hrs ago #9

Even if they had totally packed those boats with extra fuel they might be able to get 100 miles or so .. Botany 2 hrs ago #11

The drugs Greg_In_SF 1 hr ago #12

Is that an image of a boat blown up off the coast of Venezuela? sop 1 hr ago #14

This one is Greg_In_SF 1 hr ago #15

The guys on that boat are obviously up to no good, they're clearly not fishermen. sop 58 min ago #17

See my reply #23 below. n/t Justice matters. 11 min ago #24

Do you like fishing? Botany 52 min ago #18

Drug traficking does not lead to a death-penalty sentence. Justice matters. 13 min ago #23

The US is using million dollar missiles to sink small wooden boats w/ Marijuana on them. n/t Jacson6 2 hrs ago #10

They haven't even shown these boats were carrying marijuana. sop 1 hr 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 1 hr ago #16

Marijuana is sold legally in @ least 40 out 50 states and in almost in every state where it is illegal some ... Botany 33 min ago #20

This is true. It's legal here in Nevada as well with dispensaries all over the place where I live rollin74 26 min ago #21

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

When fascism is toppled via civil war, class war or revolution mlitary and anyone else involved in crimes against yaesu 48 min ago #19

Yeah, but in the US of A, they "look forward" now. Justice matters. 7 min ago #25