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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.

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Pleased to speak to @nickturse.bsky.social about USG rescue efforts for the survivors of boat strikes.

"It does not appear as if they were eager to rescue additional survivors and then be faced with the question of what do we do with them?'"[image or embed]

" Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) Feb 17, 2026 at 9:48 AM

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"Last fall, the Trump administration produced a classified legal opinion that justified the lethal strikes against a secret list of at least two dozen cartels and suspected drug traffickers classifying them as enemy combatants, CNN has reported."

Sorry, taking the word of these murderous clowns just isn't possible.

In addition, see "Even Bush's Torture Guy Thinks Trump's Boat Strikes Cross the Line" (newrepublic.com).

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-02-17 03:09 PM | Reply

The Trump administration is murdering Americans in our own streets and lying to cover it up. No reason to believe them about the people on the boats.

#2 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-02-17 03:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Why is FIFA 2026 still on schedule? Who is coming from where to a murderous country that will have heavily-armed, masked ICE goons at every event?

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 03:55 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

nice....looks like we're getting better at getting rid of narco-terrorists by the dozen -1.

OH I"M SORRY>....I forgot you people are desperate to save that "profession"

#4 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:00 PM | Reply

where's the big headline on the mass shooting yesterday.

DAD GUM IT I KEEP FORGETTING.....the killer was trans...AGAIN........soooooooo

never mind.

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:01 PM | Reply

Stupidfuckdan is retarded and blind.

drudge.com

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 04:13 PM | Reply

Here's the gunperson's X:
xcancel.com

#7 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-02-17 04:13 PM | Reply

Stupidfuckdan is retarded and blind.

That's what makes him such a good Deplorable Trumping MAGAt.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-17 04:17 PM | Reply

facts gentlemen...( and whatever the hell you two freaks are).......its' the facts..

#9 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:23 PM | Reply

so 11 narco-terrorists are at the bottom floor....hopefully in 20 pieces a person.

that should equate to a couple of thousand lives saved by trump.

that equates to a couple of hundred kids to reenact the hitler youth movement4

instead of being in class.

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:28 PM | Reply

Sad, turning the US Military into the WH Gangster's new Murder, Inc:

en.wikipedia.org

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:29 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

oops....forgot the posters who stained this tread...rein / clown and other low brow fanatics..

you see....the last point was a quite cleaver way of interfacing a different topic into

the topic here.

you'll get better at recognizing such things when you grow up.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:33 PM | Reply

#11 | Posted by Corky

so the chairwoman of the RETORT ladies auxiliary says that the potus doing his top

constitutional responsibility of defending out borders is 'murder'

--sound right.

#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 04:42 PM | Reply

This is putting innocent US citizens in more danger in the long term.

#14 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-02-17 04:50 PM | Reply

It should be made clear to everyone from Hegseth to the man or woman pulling the trigger that these murders are illegal, murder has not statute of limitations and everyone WILL be held accountable.

#15 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-17 04:58 PM | Reply

I was told by many reliable sources that the military would refuse flagrantly illegal orders.

Yet, here we are

#16 | Posted by truthhurts at 2026-02-17 04:59 PM | Reply

STD

Don't say you don't like doing blow off the booty of your Honduran caretaker.

#17 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2026-02-17 05:14 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Sad, turning the US Military into the WH Gangster's new Murder, Inc:
en.wikipedia.org

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-17 04:29 PM | Reply | Flag: History Repeats Itself

During WWII, many of our pilots proudly painted "Murder, Inc" on the sides of their fighters and bombers, except the Tuskegee pilots who painted the tails of their planes red.

The Germans shot down such a Murder Inc-decorated bomber and got a small propaganda piece out of it, saying that all Americans were gangsters.


#18 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 05:22 PM | Reply

#3 Coriolanus: If you follow ticket sales at all, it is obvious that the FIFA World Cup has become almost wholly a corporate affair. Regular soccer/football fans even from America are barely welcome.

#19 | Posted by moder8 at 2026-02-17 05:23 PM | Reply

so the chairwoman of the RETORT ladies auxiliary says that the potus doing his top
constitutional responsibility of defending out borders is 'murder'
--sound right.
#13 | Posted by shrimptacodan

We get 10% of our cocaine from there.

And that's about it for our drugs.

So how is this protecting us?

And how is pardoning other drug traffickers protecting us?

#20 | Posted by Sycophant at 2026-02-17 05:40 PM | Reply

Hi Moder8

Thanks for that info about FIFA.

Remarkable that a country blowing things up in Africa, the Caribbean, and soon the Middle East, and a nation that abducted the leader of a foreign country, wouldn't be sanctioned by FIFA and the IOC as a Rogue nation and Pariah state.

Look at Russia.

#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 05:47 PM | Reply

And how is pardoning other drug traffickers protecting us?

#20 | Posted by Sycophant

fair question...

who sent those boats AND people like the two animals who raped and murdered the 12 year old girl?

MADURO....

#22 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 05:58 PM | Reply

Trump loves to see people getting hurt. It's as simple as that.

#23 | Posted by cbob at 2026-02-17 06:00 PM | Reply

"...the two animals who raped and murdered the 12 year old girl?" - Pedodent Trump and his BFF Epstein, on Virginia Giuffre.

Good call, rightnut bushlover2 afkabl2 STD

#24 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:01 PM | Reply

Knowing this place is poster driven so this is for them not management.

--but where is the thread on the Munich Meetings ?

not here because AOC made the illiterate slut sound almost smart ?

NOT HERE BECAUSE HILLARY SAID " MIGRANT POLICY WENT TOO FAR ?">..

or not here because Rubio expressed the Trump policy better than Trump ever did ?

---and HOW ABOUT the kids doing the hitler youth imitations.....from a school that I

researched in minnesota was performing at a 27 % in math and a 36 % in reading...but they could get

up and walk out.

okay........BACK to the GREAT NEWS of 11 fewer bad guys breathing....

#25 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:02 PM | Reply

#25 rightnut bushlover2 afkabl2 STD says unintelligible words that have no meaning.

Like his life.

How many of your former "students" have taken their own life, afkabl2 STD?

I bet the number exceeds the actuarial tables.

#26 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:06 PM | Reply

I was in Honduras a couple weeks back. I struck up a conversation with a server at a beach bar. I learned that he had been seized by ICE and deported this past fall after Trump revoked TPS. When he returned home, knowing he had been in America and spoke English fairly well, he was quickly approached by cartel members who threatened him and his family if he refused to work for them.
He opted to flee his home and move to the city I was visiting. Fortunately no harm has yet come to the family members he left behind.
That experience has had me wondering how many of the people the Trump administration is murdering are working for the cartels of their own volition as opposed to being forced into the role through intimidation.

#27 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-02-17 06:14 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Thanks for the informative vignette, Johnny Hotsauce.

#28 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-17 06:18 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Stupidfuckdan cheered as the brain dead orange child rapist pardoned the drug kingpin who flooded America with 400 tons of cocaine.

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 06:20 PM | Reply

GEESUSH HOLY f....just got the cringe hearing AOC talk about Taiwan.....

NO ONE should have to actually wish it was kamala talking instead of someone else.

listen to it and tell me she's a presidential candidate..........BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#30 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:23 PM | Reply

#30 Flag: Calling himself STD makes him feel close to his venereal disease-riddled mom

Just this year** 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 plonks

** and 317 days left in 2026 ! ! ! !

#31 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:25 PM | Reply

#30

bwaaa....you don't realize how stupid this makes you sound.......

#277 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You don't realize how someone as close to the bottom of the barrel as you are doesn't really have the ability to call someone else stupid...

#284 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-12 05:04 PM

#32 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:27 PM | Reply

Stupidfuckdan nods like a mongoloid when he hears the orange chomo gibber about magnets. BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#33 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-02-17 06:28 PM | Reply

registered here now ?.....oh my.....what will I do....what WILL I do....
#192 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-01-24 06:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

You truly are the most worthless, inane, stupid piece of ---- here. Just wanted to remind you. Many agree with me. **

#220 | Posted by cbob at 2026-01-24 07:05 PM Flag: Newsworthy 3

** at least 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 people agree with cbob

#34 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:28 PM | Reply

Stupidfuckdan cheered as the brain dead orange child rapist pardoned the drug kingpin who flooded America with 400 tons of cocaine.

#29 | Posted by reinheitsgebot a

notice how I replied to a question from someone with a higher IQ than Hank Johnson.

and then understand that I"m not in a cult that demands just one opinion...like you

and HANS.

--and I'll save you dopes the trouble on one topic. It's nice to have some legal / supreme court

experience....
--"
The supreme Court has already ruled on this. "Public Schools cannot organize , sponsor or promote political activities during class time" West Virginia vs Barnett (1943). "Teachers cannot join students in political protests while on duty" Tinker vs Des Moines (1969)."

--all you need is love.

#35 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:30 PM | Reply

#172 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You really are like a woman. You get everything you want; your party in total control, dead libs in the street.
And you STILL complain.

If you can't crack a beer and enjoy getting everything you wanted, then go take a Midol and make me a sandwich. Bitch.

#177 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-01-26 10:07 AM

#36 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:30 PM | Reply

cbob....

another useless weasel coward..who can't take it when the truth is shoved....in their face.

#37 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:32 PM | Reply

One simply cannot gat a break from these people...

#38 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:34 PM | Reply

#37 And there you have it, folks: shrimpsized(30-40)genitaliahiddenbyataco"Danielle" (38 plonks) hates beautiful women.

Not that that is surprising news.

#39 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:36 PM | Reply

#177 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-01-26 10:07 AM

#36 | Posted by A_Frien

HANS>.......try and convince me and the other patriots that you aren't living a pathetic lonely existence with

no life.

gawd dayum it mr. limpit....get a effing life because you one you're using now is in the

f/g gutter / tank.

#40 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:38 PM | Reply

The Greatest Hits ...

#118 I figured out why you chose a name to be shortened to STD. You have an ABI caused during your birth because your mother had a venereal disease. Calling yourself STD makes you feel close to her, doesn't it?

#121 | Posted by Chantresse at 2026-01-23 02:47 PM

#41 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:39 PM | Reply

I love beautiful women / all women actually....you should try one some time.

#42 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-17 06:39 PM | Reply

The Greatest Hits ...

Always remember, if STD happens to call someone "too f/g illiterate", just remind him that he's too f/g stupid to even recognize words that are spelled correctly, to wit:

#50 STD says, "too f/g illiterate to know how to spell unanimous..."

...in response to my #47:

The reviews are in and the verdict is unanimous

#47 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-01-29 12:43 PM

Quite obviously, STD "thinks" that unanimous is NOT spelled unanimous.

I believe that he is unanimously stupid.

But, I report, you decide.

;-)

#43 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:39 PM | Reply

The Greatest Hits ...

Just this year** 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 plonks

** and 317 days left in 2026 ! ! ! !

And yes, Eb, as you can clearly see, people here do vote with their killfiles.

#44 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:40 PM | Reply

The Greatest Hits ...

bwaaa....you don't realize how stupid this makes you sound.......

#277 | Posted by shrimptacodan

You don't realize how someone as close to the bottom of the barrel as you are doesn't really have the ability to call someone else stupid...

#284 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-12 05:04 PM


#45 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:41 PM | Reply

#42 And there you have it, folks... PROOF POSITIVE, in his own words: shrimpsized(30-40)genitaliahiddenbyataco"Danielle" (30 plonks) hates beautiful women.

Not that that is surprising news.

#46 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-17 06:42 PM | Reply

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