U.S. Military Boat Strikes and Venezuela Thread

[TimHauck 3,312]

44 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

More TimHack lies

to be expected

NORAH O'DONNELL: We will talk about immigration in a moment, but I just wanna talk about the scale of the military operation around Venezuela, because it has been described to 60 Minutes as using a blowtorch to cook an egg. Is this about stopping--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't think so. Look--

 

NORAH O'DONNELL: Is it about-- let me ask you, though. Is it about stopping narcotics? Or is this about getting rid of President Maduro?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, this is about many things. This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one, because we have other countries--
 

 

@Meglamaniac wrong again 

[TimHauck 3,312]

17 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I might agree with you here. For one thing Trump wanted to invade VZ in 2018. For another liberals might say it’s about tge oil. Others might say it’s so Trump, his families & donors can profit. And still others might say it’s about communism.

But IMO Trump doesn’t care about communism. He’s great friends with Kim, Xi & Putin, & also if he was really mmm y about getting communism out of our sphere he’d start wuth Cuba, not Venezuela.

He’s copy pasting my posts again trying to mock me.  In reality he’s just showing once again how much of a sheep he is

[Meglamaniac 792]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

NORAH O'DONNELL: We will talk about immigration in a moment, but I just wanna talk about the scale of the military operation around Venezuela, because it has been described to 60 Minutes as using a blowtorch to cook an egg. Is this about stopping--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't think so. Look--

 

NORAH O'DONNELL: Is it about-- let me ask you, though. Is it about stopping narcotics? Or is this about getting rid of President Maduro?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, this is about many things. This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one, because we have other countries--
 

 

@Meglamaniac wrong again 

LOL

Drugs included

[Meglamaniac 792]

3 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

NORAH O'DONNELL: We will talk about immigration in a moment, but I just wanna talk about the scale of the military operation around Venezuela, because it has been described to 60 Minutes as using a blowtorch to cook an egg. Is this about stopping--

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don't think so. Look--

 

NORAH O'DONNELL: Is it about-- let me ask you, though. Is it about stopping narcotics? Or is this about getting rid of President Maduro?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, this is about many things. This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one, because we have other countries--
 

 

@Meglamaniac wrong again 

Not even close to what he said

 

lol at anyone that thinks this is really about drugs 

Venezuela isn’t. Trump has said so himself.

[Meglamaniac 792]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

He’s copy pasting my posts again trying to mock me.  In reality he’s just showing once again how much of a sheep he is

Who's trying??

More TimHack lies

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

2 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. 

Cuba did this, not Venezuela.

[Meglamaniac 792]

3 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Cuba did this, not Venezuela.

What does that have to do with anything on the subject of is this about drugs, nothing that's what

Keep trying, you are getting dangerously close to TimHack level

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

Just now, Meglamaniac said:

What does that have to do with anything on the subject of is this about drugs, nothing that's what

Keep trying, you are getting dangerously close to TimHack level

Well because if that’s Trump’s reason - along with fighting communism - we should be fighting Cuba, not its client.

[Meglamaniac 792]

Just now, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Well because if that’s Trump’s reason - along with fighting communism - we should be fighting Cuba, not its client.

OK

[squistion 2,540]

6 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Cuba did this, not Venezuela.

Trump said Venezuela was doing this but fact checkers couldn't find proof to back up his claim.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/crime-drop-in-venezuela-does-not-prove-trumps-claim-the-country-is-sending-criminals-to-u-s/

 

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

Just now, squistion said:

Trump said Venezuela was doing this but fact checkers couldn't find proof to back up his claim.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/crime-drop-in-venezuela-does-not-prove-trumps-claim-the-country-is-sending-criminals-to-u-s/

 

Of course not. He’s muddling what Castro did & the term ‘asylum’ to confuse people, which he’s done.

[TimHauck 3,312]

12 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

Not even close to what he said

 

lol at anyone that thinks this is really about drugs 

Venezuela isn’t. Trump has said so himself.

Q:  is it about stopping narcotics?

Trump: no.

Also Trump: This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one

 

@Meglamaniac wrong again. 

[Meglamaniac 792]

5 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Q:  is it about stopping narcotics?

Trump: no.

Also Trump: This is a country that allowed their prisons to be emptied into our country. To me, that would be almost number one

 

@Meglamaniac wrong again. 

More TimHack lies again

Oh, by the way

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

 

[TimHauck 3,312]

24 minutes ago, Meglamaniac said:

More TimHack lies again

Oh, by the way

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

 

This reminds me of when people claimed Aaron Rodgers didn’t lie about being vaccinated when his answer to the question of if he’d been vaccinated started with “Yeah”

I’m guessing you were one of those.

[Meglamaniac 792]

6 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

This reminds me of when people claimed Aaron Rodgers didn’t lie about being vaccinated when his answer to the question of if he’d been vaccinated started with “Yeah”

I’m guessing you were one of those.

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

[Tree of Knowledge 2,135]

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[TimHauck 3,312]

On 9/3/2025 at 2:49 PM, Strike said:

You know who hasn't whined about this?  Venezuela.  You'd think if they thought these were just innocent fishermen or something that they would have filed some sort of complaint or at least commented on it but I haven't seen that.  Any of our resident libs got a link, or are you all just like the suburban white women speaking for all the inner city black folk?

Update?  Have you seen it yet?

[Strike 6,023]

5 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Update?  Have you seen it yet?

You want an update on a 2 month old post?  Is there some new evidence of them complaining about it AT THE TIME I posted that they hadn't?   You and your attempted gotchas man.........

[TimHauck 3,312]

Just now, Strike said:

You want an update on a 2 month old post?  Is there some new evidence of them complaining about it AT THE TIME I posted that they hadn't?   You and your attempted gotchas man.........

Actually there was.  You conveniently ignored it 

[Strike 6,023]

2 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Actually there was.  You conveniently ignored it 

Link?

[TimHauck 3,312]

33 minutes ago, Strike said:

Link?

Oh yeah, I forgot you first tried saying the link didn’t work.  But you ignored when I reposted a different link to the same article, as well as an additional link I provided (which if you actually reply I’m sure you’ll dismiss as having never heard of), and you also ignored the video from @Gepetto which I later called out as having what you were looking for as well.

On 9/4/2025 at 9:13 PM, Gepetto said:

 

 

On 9/5/2025 at 5:37 AM, TimHauck said:

https://elpais.com/america/2025-09-04/cabello-advierte-a-maria-corina-machado-si-nos-aprietan-nosotros-la-apretamos-a-ella.html
 

Translated excerpt:

The Minister of the Interior and Justice, and the second-in-command of the Chavista regime, Diosdado Cabello…also expressed skepticism about the U.S. version of events:

“At first they said it was a ship, not that little boat they found,” he said. “They immediately aligned themselves with the version that was sold. Many doubts have arisen, many unanswered questions. Where’s the gasoline on that boat? We’ve intercepted a lot of drug trafficking—those boats always have more barrels of fuel than drugs so they don’t get stranded at sea. You don’t see any gasoline here. Eleven people don’t fit in that little boat. And no one is calling it out.”

“When you’re going to tell a lie, you have to get the details right,” Cabello said. “If the United States really wants to combat drug trafficking, it should focus on the Pacific, where 87 percent of the drug flow exits,” he argued. “All of this is fabricated. There’s an agenda—get rid of the Bolivarian revolution by any means, with a fake, to produce regime change.”

For the Chavista leader, the stories linking Maduro’s government to the Tren de Aragua or the Cartel of the Suns are nothing more than “Netflix stories.”

 

 

On 9/5/2025 at 5:54 AM, TimHauck said:

Venezuela Communications minister accused the video of being AI:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/venezuela-claims-video-of-u-s-forces-destroying-cartel-vessel-is-fake-and-made-with-ai/ar-AA1LNmGj

Concretely, Communication Minister Freddy Ñañez said in a Telegram channel that "it seems" Secretary of State Marco Rubio "keeps lying to his president."

"After getting him between a rock and a hard place, now he gives him an AI video as 'proof,'" Ñañez added. "Marco Rubio, stop trying to encourage a war and trying to stain President Donald Trump's hands. Venezuela doesn't pose a threat."

 

On 9/5/2025 at 10:22 AM, Strike said:

I clicked your link.  Took me to the MSN homepage;  no article saying what you're claiming in this post 

 

On 9/5/2025 at 10:59 AM, TimHauck said:

Works for me.  It’s a repost of this article:

https://www.latintimes.com/venezuela-claims-video-us-forces-destroying-cartel-vessel-fake-made-ai-589116

 

On 9/5/2025 at 12:03 PM, Strike said:

No.  When I'm posting from my phone I don't have time to deal with crap like broken links.  I tried your link 3 times and it didn't work.  I stand by my statement on that.

 

On 9/5/2025 at 3:17 PM, TimHauck said:

I posted an additional link for that one as well as a completely separate link from a different official. One of those officials was also in the video that Geppetto shared saying similar.  You’re wrong, but it’s OK. I know you still won’t admit it because you’ll just say you never claimed it didn’t happen just that you hadn’t seen it.

 

[Strike 6,023]

11 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

I think they’ve gone to the UN over this. There’s been an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council at Venezuela’s request. The awful thing is the criminal, evil Maduro regime has a legitimate gripe because the US is completely & clearly in violation of international law.

Ugh.  That post was from TWO MONTHS ago.  You used to be a good poster.  It's a shame what you've become.  Don't be a @TimHauck.  You can do better.

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

Ugh.  That post was from TWO MONTHS ago.  You used to be a good poster.  It's a shame what you've become.  Don't be a @TimHauck.  You can do better.

Sorry, I didn’t realize, I’ll delete it.

[TimHauck 3,312]

Just now, Strike said:

Ugh.  That post was from TWO MONTHS ago.  You used to be a good poster.  It's a shame what you've become.  Don't be a @TimHauck.  You can do better.

Yeah and @Gepetto posted evidence from one day after you posted that that they were already saying it two months ago.

[Strike 6,023]

Just now, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Sorry, I didn’t realize, I’ll delete it.

Uh, the quote literally had the date in it.

[TimHauck 3,312]

3 minutes ago, Strike said:

Ugh.  That post was from TWO MONTHS ago.  You used to be a good poster.  It's a shame what you've become.  Don't be a @TimHauck.  You can do better.

So you’ve seen it now?

[Strike 6,023]

1 minute ago, TimHauck said:

So you’ve seen it now?

Dude, just stop.  You're like a gnat.

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

12 minutes ago, Strike said:

Uh, the quote literally had the date in it.

Thanks, missed it.

[TimHauck 3,312]

10 minutes ago, Strike said:

Dude, just stop.  You're like a gnat.

Are you going to acknowledge they were saying it 2 months ago?

[Strike 6,023]

22 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

Are you going to acknowledge they were saying it 2 months ago?

No.  Are you going to keep being a Rainman if I don't?  

[Maximum Overkill 2,449]

Coast Guard’s record-breaking cocaine haul in 2025 could have poisoned half the US

Thank you Mr. Trump. You are definitely the King!!! 

[TimHauck 3,312]

31 minutes ago, Strike said:

No.

As I expected.  But it happened.  I even gave you an out because I figured you’d just say “I didn’t say that it didn’t happen, just that I hadn’t seen it!”

So just wanted to make sure you saw it now.  And that it existed within a day of you claiming you hadn’t seen it.

HTH 

[Strike 6,023]

10 minutes ago, TimHauck said:

As I expected.  But it happened.  I even gave you an out because I figured you’d just say “I didn’t say that it didn’t happen, just that I hadn’t seen it!”

So just wanted to make sure you saw it now.  And that it existed within a day of you claiming you hadn’t seen it.

HTH 

Whatever you say Dustin.

[Meglamaniac 792]

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

[Strike 6,023]

1 hour ago, Meglamaniac said:

Are we at war with Venezuela yet?

BOOK MARK IT

I dunno but we keep taking out the bad guys:

https://x.com/SecWar/status/1987863821868732447

[HellToupee 2,231]

10 minutes ago, Strike said:

I dunno but we keep taking out the bad guys:

https://x.com/SecWar/status/1987863821868732447

Pete is getting things done

[squistion 2,540]

The extra-judicial killings without due process or a shred of evidence continues. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/us-boat-strike-deaths-hegseth.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251110&instance_id=166143&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=125207237&segment_id=210322&user_id=14502a7228c5a9b835a15627514bfe28

U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday.

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

In a post on social media, Mr. Hegseth cited “intelligence” and included two short video clips of the bombings of two separate boats that he said were traveling “along a known narco-trafficking transit route in the Eastern Pacific.”

One of the boats appeared to be at a full stop with two visible passengers and possibly with an outboard motor raised out of the water. The other was moving at high speed. But in neither case did Mr. Hegseth provide evidence for his claim that the three men aboard each of the two boats were smuggling narcotics. He said the attacks took place in international waters.

A wide range of specialists in laws governing the use of force have denounced the killings as illegal because the U.S. military is not allowed to intentionally target civilians who pose no threat of imminent violence, even those suspected of being criminals. The Trump administration says the strikes are lawful because President Trump has “determined” that the United States is in a formal armed conflict with drug cartels.

Mr. Trump has falsely asserted that each destroyed boat saves 25,000 American lives. In reality, as many as 100,000 Americans die each year from drug overdoses, but most of those deaths are a result of fentanyl, which comes from labs in Mexico. South America produces cocaine.

The strikes on Sunday came as the U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean was expected to grow sharply with the arrival as soon as this week of the Gerald R. Ford, the United States’ largest and newest aircraft carrier, and three destroyers. The Ford carries about 5,000 sailors and has more than 75 attack, surveillance and support aircraft, including F/A-18 fighters.

The Pentagon currently has about 10,000 U.S. troops divided roughly evenly between eight warships in the region and on bases in Puerto Rico. [...]

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1 hour ago, squistion said:

The extra-judicial killings without due process or a shred of evidence continues. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/politics/us-boat-strike-deaths-hegseth.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251110&instance_id=166143&nl=breaking-news&regi_id=125207237&segment_id=210322&user_id=14502a7228c5a9b835a15627514bfe28

U.S. Military Kills 6 in Strikes on Suspected Drug Boats, Hegseth Says

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

The U.S. military killed six people on Sunday in two more strikes on boats suspected of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday.

 

Excellent news!! 

Keep it going. 

[SaintsInDome2006 661]

3 hours ago, squistion said:

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September.

76 people. The US is acting as an outlaw nation. We’ve angered & activates placid allies in a region right on our soft southern border. We’ve moved 10%(!) of our naval assets away from global hot spots. We don’t arrest the people we capture. We’re given no information on any of it nor is Congress. Meanwhile it’s totally ineffective & stupidly costly. And the one true enemy nation 60 miles from our coast is completely untouched as is Nicaragua.