US ‘conducted a lethal strike’ on ‘drug vessel’

Tuesday, September 02, 2025

The United States "conducted a lethal strike" against an alleged "drug vessel" in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday. "As @potus just announced moments ago, today the U.S. military conducted a lethal strike in the southern Carribean against a drug vessel which had departed from Venezuela and was being operated by a designated narco-terrorist organization," Rubio said in a post on X after President Donald Trump referenced the incident in Oval Office remarks.

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Where's Donald's Peace Prize?

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-02 06:06 PM

jesus ------- christ this ------- is out of ------- control

He needs to stroke out and die, like yesterday/

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-02 06:22 PM

Murder-Death-Kill. No prisoners, no trial, no judge, no jury, no jurisprudence. This is basically an act of war against Venezuela.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-02 06:50 PM

This is basically an act of war against Venezuela.

#3 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

There is a de facto state of war against Venezuela.

Trump's fault.

Odd way to get that Nobel.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-02 06:58 PM

This is basically an act of war against Venezuela.

#3 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

You really aren't paying attention to the EOs that have been signed.
www.whitehouse.gov

The AEA, declares TdA enemies. The boat was positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists.

jesus ------- christ this ------- is out of ------- control

Perhaps but consider this, Trump might have saved more US lives than all the bombing the US did in the Middle East.

#5 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-02 07:13 PM

More blood lust.

#6 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-02 07:50 PM

#4: Yes, indeed. And the favorite tool of the 21st-century Axis of Evil is Extra-Judicial Killing (XJK).

Who authorized my tax dollars to conduct this XJK? You wonder how many innocent AMCITs in Latin and South America are going to get whacked in revenge for this.

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-02 07:55 PM

Now you know why they're in the caribe.

#8 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-02 09:45 PM

Who authorized my tax dollars to conduct this XJK?

#7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-09-02 07:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Commander in Chief Clause
Foreign Affairs Power
Authorization for Use of Military Force
Maritime Drug Law Enforce Act
Anti-Terror statues 18 USC 2339B
Law of Armed Conflict
UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (a terrorist organization is stateless)
Self-Defense under UN Charter Article 51 (carrying drugs makes it a legit target)

#9 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-02 09:48 PM

Now that said, it's a wild departure from precedent. Normally you just send a CG cutter over to board and seize their boat. Cutters have 57mm automatic cannon and helicopters. If you're willing to risk them you'll always win vs a drug mule boat.

#10 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-02 09:50 PM

If you don't like the lawful basis for the strikes, unless you went 3rd party the last 20+ years, this is the war powers you, we, etc voted for.

#11 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-02 09:51 PM

Oh look, another distraction.

#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-03 02:16 AM

Yea right. Drug ship. Has nothing to do with the general hostilities of the last 10 years.

#13 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-09-03 07:17 AM

Oh look, another distraction.

#12 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

It's safe to assume that Trump is lying about everything here except that some ship was destroyed.

Release the Epstein files.

I want to see how many minors Donald diddled; or how many of his diddling friends he is trying to protect.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-03 09:27 AM

You morons cheer on the murder of an unarmed woman by Capitol Police because she was some place she shouldn't have been, but cry foul when known terrorists are taken out.

19% There are reason(s)

#15 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-03 02:44 PM

A good rule of thumb when it comes to Trump is to assume what you hear tumbling out of his pie hole is, absent rock-solid evidence to the contrary, not what a normal would recognize as the truth.

#16 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-09-03 02:49 PM

crying about ashli babbit 5 years later. pathetic. she got herself shot.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-03 02:49 PM

known terrorists are taken out.

#15 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's Donald Trump.

For all you know he incinerated a boatload of nuns.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-03 02:52 PM

crying about ashli babbit 5 years later. pathetic. she got herself shot.

#17 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE

It's definitely pathetic but he is getting desperate. Donald Trump is losing court battles all over and Pooty is kicking sand in his face. And the "Epstein files" haven't even come out yet. But his victims are finally talking.

Not only that she was armed with a knife when she attempted an insurrection under orders from Dear Leader Trumpy so this magamoron is lying again.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 03:05 PM

He got them ebil drugsters! Thats some mighty fine shooting!

And we don't even know how many drugs, what kind or where they were headed and who was behind it.

We don't know anything except Trumpy sunk a boat.

So we will just have to trust that Trumpy ain't lying.

Sitz and Leftnut obviously can. They slurp this ---- up like fava beans with Chianti.

So we can too right?

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 03:13 PM

Not only that she was armed with a knife when she attempted an insurrection under orders from Dear Leader Trumpy so this magamoron is lying again.

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 03:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

Shut up raetard.

And her family got more money in settlement than E Jean Carroll will ever see.

#21 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-03 03:27 PM

"Murder-Death-Kill. No prisoners, no trial, no judge, no jury, no jurisprudence. This is basically an act of war against Venezuela."

TdA has been designated as a terrorist organization. If they are designated as confirmed hostile combatants as well, striking them is no different than striking ISIS and Al Quaeda used to be.

#22 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-09-03 03:28 PM

#21 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Got caught in a lie again did ya?

How embarrassing for you.

Ashly Babbit got exactly what she deserved.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 03:29 PM

- designated as a terrorist organization

Next up for designation, the Dem Party and any Repubs who vote to actually release the Epstein Files... Trump today saying that if his minions in Congress did that, he would consider it a, "hostile act".

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-03 03:38 PM

Donnie is blowing up people and then calling them terrorists?

Is he under any obligation to clarify whether the people he killed were in fact terrorists, or is he simply taking page out of Putins book to kill people before they have a chance to get in his way?

Seems like a brilliant way to get rid of people you don't want alive.

#25 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-03 03:40 PM

The sad thing about Ashli Babbitt's death is that it wasn't Turds who died in her place.

In the end, Ashli Babbitt was more of a man than Turds will ever be.

One shot for Ashli Babbitt!

#26 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-03 03:43 PM

Secret Service barricaded the door and told people to stay back.

Ashley Babbitt saw a window and decided to jump through, getting shot in the process.

Turds cries.

Quite the modern day MAGA love story.

Fact is, if the police outside the Capital Building shot a few of those stupid idiot MAGAts before they scaled the walls, a lot of the mob violence on J6th could've been averted.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-03 03:47 PM

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 03:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

US intel has a pretty decent track record the last decade or so.

Beautiful dogs, Ukraine invasion up to the minute, Iran facilities are still buried, etc.

#28 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-03 04:04 PM

If you don't like this level of Presidential power, Stein 2028!

#29 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-03 04:06 PM

Our fear chickens have come home to roost.

#30 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-03 04:07 PM

If you don't like this level of Presidential power, Stein 2028!

Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-09-03 04:06 PM | Reply

Oh lovely. A censored clone.

#31 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-03 04:12 PM

"US intel has a pretty decent track record the last decade or so."

Uh huh. Sure. Not according to King Trumpy.

What kind of drugs did they sink? And how much was there. Where was it really headed? Who was just killed in your name?

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 04:19 PM

Beautiful dogs,

Eaten

Ukraine invasion up to the minute,

A never ending disaster innocent civilians dying everyday.

Iran facilities are still buried,

And you know this how? Because Trumpy said so? lol

etc.

Etc, etc, etc.

This is the song that never ends
It just goes 'round and 'round, my friends
Some people started singing it
Not knowing what it was
And we continue singing it forever just because..

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-03 04:55 PM

----, I was waiting on that.

Guess I'll have to change my weekend plans.

#34 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-09-03 05:55 PM

Oh look, another distraction.
#12 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-03 02:16 AM

Yep.

Trump murdered 11 people as a distraction.

He will undoubtedly try closer to home as pressure mounts, imo.

#35 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-09-03 06:33 PM

"Murder-Death-Kill. No prisoners, no trial, no judge, no jury, no jurisprudence. This is basically an act of war against Venezuela."

There would have been a legal review prior to the strike, but no, declared hostiles are not entitled to a trial. If they were, we would still be processing Germans and Japanese from WWII, with millions in waiting from Al Quaeda, ISIS, and others.

#36 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-09-04 01:06 AM

Madbomber has it occurred to you that the Military is a Cult.

Morality exists apart from Legalese concocted to give -------- Freedom of Action that is overly broad and illegal.

You seem to think killing is Okey Dokie if the correct forms are filled out.

---- that.

---- You.

#37 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-09-04 01:48 AM

The same people who are all upset about this didn't give 2 shiats when Obama ordered a drone strike on a US citizen in Afghanistan.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-04 10:58 AM

These people were trying to smuggle poison into our country and effeteposer is in tears that they got blown up.

#39 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-04 10:59 AM

Bell,

"These people were trying to smuggle poison into our country and effeteposer is in tears that they got blown up."

Maybe its the drugs they're crying sbout?

#40 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-09-04 11:12 AM

The same people who are all upset about this didn't give 2 shiats when Obama ordered a drone strike on a US citizen in Afghanistan.

#38 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-04 10:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

All they know now is -

dUh, mUh dUe pRoCeSs

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-04 11:16 AM

All the information we're getting about this is from Trump.

So all of it is lies.

#42 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-04 11:25 AM

There could have been anyone of anything in the boat. It could have been cheerleaders smuggling marshmallows.

Donald Trump is a Liar.

Only people who don't value truth choose to believe him.

#43 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-04 11:26 AM

dUh, mUh dUe pRoCeSs

#41 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Due process is a fundamental human right. Fundamental human rights belong to all humans not just Americans.

Perhaps you are not human so that why you don't care about them?

They could have just as easily been stopped by disabling the engines and we would now know exactly who they are and what they were up to but that would not do for an authoritarian dictator wannabe who lives in a world of lies.

#44 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 11:36 AM

They could have just as easily been stopped by disabling the engines...

Rubio says blowing them up is more effective than intercepting them.

www.cnn.com

#45 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-09-04 11:45 AM

If Trump discovered a cure for cancer Zed would fall in love with cancer cells.

#46 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-09-04 12:25 PM

Rubio says blowing them up is more effective than intercepting them.

First I'd have to say if these were narcos then either really dumb narcos or were sacrificed to test the Americans resolve.

Ok so the testing is done. They now know what they need to know. The gloves are off.

They will now just find another method/route. And we gained no intelligence from the interdiction.

Unless Trumpy plans on creating a total blockaide of all traffic to and from Venezuela we learned nothing and the Narcos learned what they needed to know.

Or they were not narcos at all but 11 dumb and now dead tourists. Maybe we'll find out the truth in ten years or so.

#47 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:26 PM

If Trump discovered a cure for cancer Zed would fall in love with cancer cells.

#46 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Trumpy couldn't "discover" his way out of a wet paper bag

But you'd believe it was true anyway and wanna suck his teenie tiny ------.

#48 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:30 PM

If men could have babies BELLRINGER would want to have Trumpy's.

But so sorry Satan is gonna beat you to it! (See the latest South Park Episode for details)

#49 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:33 PM

#44 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 11:36 AM | Reply | Flag:

Now you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists.

You'd cheer for us to loose a war if we were attacked, just because Trump is President.

Sick and pathetic. Same as your party's approval numbers.

#50 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-04 12:37 PM

"Now you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists."

How do you even know they were "foreign terrorists".

Because Trumpy said so? LOL

Trumpy ordered them to be blown them up before anyone bothered to check.

#51 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:41 PM

You'd cheer for us to loose a war if we were attacked, just because Trump is President.

Our enemies have figured out they don't need to attack us at all.

We are doing a perfectly fine job of attacking ourselves.

"We have met the enemy and it is us."

#52 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:44 PM

Now you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists.

#50 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Prove that these people dead in that boat were terrorists.

#53 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-04 12:51 PM

Now you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists.

#50 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

This is the line you'll use when Trump shoots Americans dead in the street after his martial law edict.

I tell you what----

Release the Epstein Files.

Trump is a sexual terrorist.

#54 | Posted by Zed at 2025-09-04 12:53 PM

If Trump discovered a cure for cancer Zed would fall in love with cancer cells.
#46 | POSTED BY BULLBRINGER

How would Trump do such a thing? Would he discover it in his McDonald's Happy Meals or on the golf course?

Tell us all, because it's quite clear you have some glorified version of Trump in your imagination where he cures cancer.

How exactly would Trump stumble upon a cure for cancer.

Would it be like when the Nazis experimented on the Jews?

ICE would subject undocumented immigrants to scientific experiments and discover a cure for cancer?

I could see you celebrating that and telling people the ends justify the means.

#55 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-04 12:53 PM

#50 | Posted by lfthndthrds

It's hilarious how much of a sycophantic s*&^heap you are.

We have the most dishonest, corrupt administration of our lifetimes and you're like "yup, I believe every word they say!"

Idiot.

#56 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-04 12:54 PM

Now you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists.

Same due process you domestic terrorist Deplorable Trumping MAGAts receive.

Otherwise it's just murder.

You'd cheer for us to loose a war if we were attacked, just because Trump is President.

What was the last war we won? WW2? You really are a boomer.

Sick and pathetic. Same as your party's approval numbers.
#50 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

Sick and pathetic. Same as America will be once RFKJR and republicans gut vaccine mandates and healthcare.

Happy extinction!!!

#57 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-04 12:59 PM

First I'd have to say if these were narcos then either really dumb narcos or were sacrificed to test the Americans resolve.

Why dumb? Perhaps they were just doing what they have always done and allowed to get away with. Seems efficient until it isn't.

They will now just find another method/route. And we gained no intelligence from the interdiction.

How do you know this? I showed links to where the US is flying spy planes on the edge of Mexican airspace, I suspect they are doing it all over Central America. Why do you think you need to "capture" someone to get "intelligence"? Why would you think it would be "good" intelligence if torture doesn't work?

#58 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-04 01:01 PM

How do you even know they were "foreign terrorists".

Because Trumpy said so? LOL

Trumpy ordered them to be blown them up before anyone bothered to check.

#51 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 12:41 PM | Reply | Flag

How did Obama not know he was drone bombing a civilian wedding and a funeral?

You need to sit this one out, no one cares what you clowns think anymore.

#59 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-09-04 01:02 PM

Due process is a fundamental human right.

No its not, its an American right.

#60 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-04 01:03 PM

If Trump discovered a cure for cancer Zed would fall in love with cancer cells.
#46 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Wait until the DoJ bans guns for transgenders, Zed will fall in love with guns.

#61 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-04 01:05 PM

" you dumb asses want due process for foreign terrorists."

You cruel bastards can't even admit illegals are "persons".

Extradition without Due Process is kidnapping.

#62 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-04 01:07 PM

Why dumb?

Because everyone and his brother knew that the U.S. Navy was just sitting off the coast itching for a confrontation. They had even alerted the civilians and called for the militias to be activated.

Thats why foreign agitator.

#63 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-04 01:08 PM

"(Due Process is) an American right."

No, it's the right of "all persons" on American soil.

Why are you misrepresenting Constitutional rights?!?

#64 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-04 01:10 PM

Due process is a fundamental human right.

No its not, its an American right.

#60 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

No it's a fundamental human right.

Just because some authoritarian countries don't recognize human rights does not mean they do not exist.

We hold these truths to be self evident. Sorry if you are too stupid to understand that simple phrase.