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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

More blood lust.

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

#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 | Reply

Now you know why they're in the caribe.

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Oh look, another distraction.

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

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-03 02:49 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Funny: 1

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 shit up like fava beans with Chianti.

So we can too right?

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

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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

- 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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

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

Our fear chickens have come home to roost.

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

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 | Reply

"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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Shit, 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 | Reply