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Marsha Day's avatar

If Congress thinks letting Trump &Co. run amok keeps them their jobs, they are sadly mistaken. We can’t do anything about the Supreme Court except demand term limits, but we can do something about Congress.

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John Schwarzkopf's avatar

We are not at war with Venezuela, therefore this is not a war crime, it's piracy.

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Carol Pladsen-Bloom's avatar

If drug smugglers, they were dumb ones. A fairly small boat, as boats on oceans go, would be mostly drugs and a few people. Moving drugs with 11 people wouldn't happen. Smugglers aren't stupid (in that way, anyway).

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Jay Wilson's avatar

Right. Can they not do the math? How about ONE pilot and 2000 pounds more drugs…

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Robert jerman's avatar

Another page from the dictators handbook… It’s a show of force to stroke his ego and to provide a distraction… No different than sending troops into Los Angeles, DC, or Chicago… No different than flying jets overhead when the Epstein victims are talking… That’s what wanna be authoritarian figures do

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Patricia Davis's avatar

I repeat. I did not ,nor will ever , vote for this.

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Vi Mooberry's avatar

The lack of outrage by elected lawmakers in Washington, DC boggles my mind. Trump has been wound up and just keeps going and going much like an Ever Ready battery . As the saying goes, "The chickens are coming home to roost", but sadly, they don't. We are facing invasion of cities, military control, lack of elections, and incompetence of the highest order in the White House and Halls of Congress, as well as in SCOTUS, FBI, and ICE and still the insults continue to pour from the mouth of he who would call himself, President. I call him and his lawlessness pure insanity.

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Kasey Coff's avatar

That looked like a pretty flimsy craft for drug smugglers. While it may have been deliberate to look innocent, wouldn't drug smugglers have boats big enough to stash contraband out of sight? Wouldn't smugglers have some fairly strong firepower?

Too small for cargo, too many people for fishing... I'm back to thinking "people smuggling." Is there a secret order to stop illegal immigrants any way possible...?

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Kyra C. Bowman's avatar

The blatant lawlessness of this administration boggles my mind. Murder on the High Seas can be the next Netflix movie but no one would find it believable. What if those were not evil drug smugglers but evil human traffickers? Innocent people could have died. The more time that passes, the madder I get.

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