It’s wild how Democrats have tied their fortunes to defending foreign drug runners
Democratic lawmakers press for transparency over ‘double tap’ strike
Democratic lawmakers on Sunday continued to sound the alarm over allegations that military leaders called for a “double tap” strike on an alleged drug boat, intentionally killing the two survivors of an earlier attack.
Rep. Adam Smith (Wash.) called for accountability while Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) demanded video of the strikes be released. Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.) called the strikes “unconstitutional,” and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (Ill.) called the strikes “murder.”
“Everything that they’ve done has been illegal. It’s illegal under international law. It’s illegal under the Geneva Convention. And it certainly is illegal under domestic law,” Duckworth told CNN’s State of the Union. “It was essentially murder with that double tap strike.”
The boats are in international waters. And, actually, international law and the Geneva Convention kind of allow it.
They might as well be pirates, and they wear no uniforms. They’ve been designated as a terrorist organization. International law and the Geneva Convention allows for foreign fighters wearing no uniforms to be summarily killed. It’s why many Somali pirate boats are fired upon and even destroyed
The Pentagon has come under fire after reporting from The Washington Post alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized a deadly second strike to kill all remaining survivors on a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs in international waters. POLITICO has not independently verified the Post’s reporting.
Hegseth on Saturday defended the second Sept. 2 strike, saying the attackers were not fully neutralized. “From what I understood then and what I understand now, I fully support that strike,” Hegseth said at the Reagan National Defense Forum. “I would have made the same call myself.”
Still pitching that lying, anonymously sourced hit piece, Politico, which even the NY Times said was false?
Rep. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Sunday defended Hegseth, telling ABC’s “This Week” that a majority of Americans “support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water in the Caribbean who are trying to poison Americans.”
Thing is, not all get blown up. The Coast Guard recently seized a boat with approximately $74 million worth of cocaine. And many other boats have been captured rather than blown up. The strikes, which occur at night, seem designed to scare off drug runners, while if it’s day they are seized and captured.
“I have way more sympathy for my friends, my cousins, my neighbors, those people who’ve been poisoned by these narco terrorists, people who’ve been skinned alive by these cartels that they bring people to the United States than I do for these narco terrorists,” Schmitt said.
And there is the issue: Democrats have decided to take the side of the drug runners and cartels rather than the American people, much like with illegal aliens/fake asylum seekers.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would support releasing the footage. His administration has repeatedly defended the boat strikes, which have killed more than 80 people since September, as an attempt to protect Americans from being killed by what he has called narco-terrorists.
There are around 7,100 monthly drug overdose deaths in the U.S. Mostly not from cocaine, more like fentanyl. So, 80 dead drug runners is meaningless. But, Democrats care more about them then Americans.
Hey, perhaps we could capture the boats and sell the cocaine outside of the US and use the proceeds to fund support for US veterans. Would Dems be OK with that?
Anyone can type shit on twitter-X, and William is overreliant on twitterers as “experts”. twitterer Mammoth claimed the boaters are pirates!
Has the trump administration invoked piracy as the reason for blowing the boats out of international waters?
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) Article 101, defines piracy as illegal acts of violence, detention, or robbery committed for private ends by the crew/passengers of a private ship or aircraft on the high seas or outside any state’s jurisdiction, against another ship, its persons, or property, including participating in such acts. Key elements are private ends, action on the high seas, and involvement of a private ship/aircraft, distinguishing it from armed robbery in territorial waters, and granting universal jurisdiction to all states to repress it.
So the boaters, even if it eventually proven they are transporting drugs, are not pirates.
We have NOT declared war on Venezuela or anyone else.
If we fabricate justification for killing persons on the high seas for transporting drugs, couldn’t we also kill persons on street corners for selling them? If not, why not? Why not a real War on Drugs!
This is not about drugs – we know that Donnie cares little about drug users and addicts. We wish he and the MAGAt movement cared about the health of Americans at all. Donnie is spending billions of your tax dollars militarizing the Caribbean to pressure Maduro to either abdicate or to give U.S. business tycoons access to Venezuelan energy reserves.
Don’t be fooled. Twice as many Americans die in auto accidents than are killed by Venezuelan/Colombian cocaine.
Again Jabba the Rimjob is complaining about the US battle against the narco-terrorists!
Surprise!
Again Chubby is in the minority on this issue…
If you stretch statistics to equate “approximately 75%” with “29%” (Reuters/Ipsos Nov 2025) the commenter would be right. No doubt, he/she “inadvertently” avoided an actual citation in support of their claim, although he/she does frequently post false information.
Just 29% of Americans Support US Mlitary Killing Drug Suspects, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/just-29-americans-support-us-military-killing-drug-suspects-reutersipsos-poll-2025-11-14/
So only 29% of Americans are in favor of the U.S. striking against narcoterrorists operating in the Caribbean. There, fixed it.
Joe Biden, on national TV in 1989.
“America is under attack literally. An attack by an enemy that is well financed, well supplied and well armed, and fully capable of declaring war against a nation and its people. We are fighting, and losing a war on our own soil. Let’s go after these drug lords where they live with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists”.
It’s almost like liberalsg are the biggest hypocrites on the planet…nah, couldn’t be…
They aren’t hypocrites because they don’t believe what they are saying even while they are saying it. Certainly Joe Biden should never be used as an example of making a truthful statement that he believed.