Jackson Jambalaya

“Sid Siding” tells me what I’ve always know about Wicker…

Sidney's Venezuelan Cruise in the Carribbean must be threatened by Trump vaporizing Maduro's little fishing adventures in which poor peasants attach 3 or 4 outboards on speed boats to catch fish for Maduros' Cartel del los Soles.

every ship in international waters without a country's flag is a pirate ship and can be treated as such.

the US has been doing this since we began as a country.

see the first line in the Marine hymn

They were declared Narco Terrorist. It's perfectly legal to do so.

"I hope President Trump's decision to accelerate military aid to Ukraine and to threaten crippling sanctions will drive this conflict closer to its end."

Although I support aiding Ukraine, it seems to me that this should be Congress' decision, not the President's, and that Wicker is abdicating his office.

makes me wonder how much Wicker gets from Ukraine / cartel

If the corruption investigations in Ukraine are any clues, he’s likely got billions sitting in shell accounts.

Sanctions have had very little effect on Russia since everything is Made in China and they share a border. Sanctions against Russia are the biggest fucking joke on the planet. Maybe Bigger than face diapers, the clot shot, and social distancing. And Russians are winning. They have been winning all along. The only setback Russia has was when Wagner Group took the CIA’s money. You see how that turned out?

Sid makes some good points. Vietnam was a disaster overseen by idiots. Iraq was a disaster overseen by idiots.

BUT - between the Democrats that claim they’re worried about a so-called “threat to Democracy,” but then oppose and inflict chaos into everything the party that “won” (House, Senate and the White House) tries to do (and won via so-called democracy votes) combined with the Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and all of the other blood sucking opportunists that are only in politics to enrich themselves, we’ve ended up with a system in America that no longer functions.

So - unless Roger Wicker and his fellow congressional members can do something about the insane amount of disfunction (that might accurately be referred to as a civil cold war), and actually solve problems on issues like the incredible ease of drugs coming into our country, Mr. Wicker might better tread lightly when opposing the killing of thugs that are taking advantage of our country’s high level of idiocy.

Because Roger Wicker - can be replaced.

It is an interesting pure power strategy. To be determined if it works as a deterrent for trafficking. I do not think in the calculus of cartels they ever considered a)how much their routes were already known; b)the USA's willingness to neutralize such routes.

The broader question is what percentage of the cargo comes via those means anyway. Or is all of this just optics for a bigger play/ justification.

I think a conversation about our willingness to deter drug trafficking into the USA cannot be looked at in a vacuum and we must ask the hard questions as to its real purpose.

Our intelligence agencies have been alleged of using drug running funds for off balance sheet operations since the 80s, and most recently we pardoned the drug dealing convicted Honduran president because he is politically convenient at the moment against a left-moving current Honduran regime.

What made Roger come out of hibernation? It's not even an election year.

I tend to believe that the West provoked that war by preventing Ukraine from working things out with Russian and pushing toward Ukrainian membership in NATO under leadership dominated by the military industrial complex, and that Wicker was an element of that movement which will result in either Ukraine losing at least a third of their country or WWIII.

Wicker the warmonger couldn't carry Stennis' jock. This sort of opinion column apologia by Salter is repugnant.

RINO Roger is at it again.

He and Democrat Delbert can't exit politics fast enough.

BLAST them out of the water!

where is the carribbean?, never heard of it.

Do you honestly think RINO Wicker gives a shit about some drug runners in a boat? He doesn't even care about his own constituency, unless it's reelection time. He just hates Trump. Must be costing him some money.

More drug boat strikes today please.

POP. Protection of Pork.

We didn’t just “provoke” the war. Ukraine had a democratically elected president. Obama’s CIA funded an outright coup and color revolution to overthrow him. Then, Joe Biden then sent Hunter Biden as his bagman to skim millions from the aid packages we sent them. When Trump was elected, he demanded they investigate this well known fact. He wanted Biden, Hilary, and Obama prosecuted. The media and Deep State then did everything to thwart and distract. When the rigged 2020 election was finished, Biden got his war. The deep state turned the millions of corrupt aid dollars into literal trillions.

Democrats and RINOs always come down on the wrong side; in this case, it's lining up on the side of drug cartels.

The narrative that the Venezuelan drug boats are carrying drugs that are killing tens of thousands of Americans is disingenuous, as it's cocaine coming out Venezuela originating from labs/coca fields in Colombia. Fentanyl originates from labs in Mexico.

So, to kill two smugglers with the "double tap" who survived the first missile and were hanging on for life is problematic.

Note: I am retired from drug enforcement and lifetime (60+ years) registered republican.

Why? Why are we always so concerned about the “rights” of POS criminal thugs causing severe harm to society instead of the rights of those being harmed?

Why is two less “smugglers” of drugs in the world “problematic?”

Serious questions since we know Leftist Democrats and RINO’s are just looking for an excuse to oppose Trump on anything possible because “it is not in their best pocket lining personal interest.”

Brain drain is real. Ignorance, myopia, hypocrisy, idiocracy. . . Thankfully we're all good Christians, right? Lord help us all, indeed.

I'm former FBI and we should have gone to war with Mexico long ago.

@11:53 do you live in Mississippi?

I’m Bob Bigelow and I say Kill ‘Em all and let God sort it out!

There’s nothing more predictable than the sad sacks over at maga whenever there is even the slightest bit of criticism directed at their dear leader or his “administration.” This comment thread is a perfect illustration.

@12:29 PM (11:53AM here) If the boat was pulling into a slip at a marina in Florida would it be ok to shoot them? Is it ok to shoot/kill a pilot who is hanging from a parachute whose plane you just shot down?

We did. Remember the Alamo!

Missiles are being fired from the island of Tabago to hit these boats. These missiles cost million$, a lot more then it would cost to track them to their alleged destinations in the US and arrest them. How do we know that those packages contain drugs? Presumably the CIA is watching loading activities on land in Venezuela?

Again, could we shoot them when they arrived at a US port? Is this just the lazy way out to avoid a trial and incarceration?

"Shoot them all and let God sort it out?"

when the british navy hunted down, captured and hung thousands of caribbean pirates in the 1600's nobody cried over that.
caribbean islanders cheered.
i live in the caribbean an we cheering right now.
trump is only doing what the british navy did 300 years ago
only the names change.
drug runners and cartels are modern day pirates.
an like pirates, they aint nice guys
it takes a man like trump to understand that.
listen up RINO ronny an little sidney, and maybe you will learn a lil history.

I knew when I saw both the dimocraps and RINOpublicans agree to support Ukraine that some sketchy shit was up.

1:57, Are you making AI do your homework for you again?

Pete Hegseth is a child playing Army. He's too incompetent to even realize that he may have committed a war crime by firing on a shipwreck.

And he fired all the senior JAG lawyers, so there is nobody there to tell the man-child "no."

Well phrased.

to 139
..i thought the island of tobago was in Louisiana where they make the hot sauce?

This one is off the coast of Venezuela. Trinidad and Tobago.

Has there ever been a more empty suit in the US Senate than Roger Wicker?
I don't think so.

Who cares about our nasty children getting on drugs? The precious cartel workers are far more important.

Not one shred of evidence has been provided by this administration to support the drug running premise. If you think drugs are coming into this country via small boats from Venezuela you're even dumber than the average American. Period.

Keep hitting those boats.......sink 'em at least a hundred miles off shore. then leave the survivors so they get to think about drowning for a while or till the sharks come. Either way good riddance, doesn't bother me one bit, other than give me a good laugh!

Former HUD secretary Ben Carson stated we could build a three bedroom, two bath house for every homeless person in the US with the money we have sent to the Ukraine.
Screw Ukraine. How about spending US money on US citizens?

to 316....well if it isn't boats, then tell us how the coke and fentanyl gets in this country?

does it swim here?

Again, small boats from Venezuela? Consult a map then get back to me. Or google it, and it will enlighten you that most drugs enter the US via land routes thru Mexico. Again, ignorance and lapping up the "official", or convenient, narrative.

@3:20
Karma, or TooL, would say "Learn to swim"

10:08 am and 2:59 pm - tied for the winner's spot today.

Think about how dumb the average person is, then realize half of them are dumber than that.

1:21PM, was the boat pulling into a slip at a marina in Florida? Was there a drug smuggling pilot hanging from a parachute?

You’re not the only one that can play that bureaucrat/attorney/technicality debate tactic BS game that’s put this country on the path to ruin.

When they get done with the Venezuela boat strike’s they need to start killing the Mexican drug cartels as well.

Signed: a former long term member of the ACLU, before they became the Anti Civil Liberties Union.

to 414................'''most drugs''........well the how bout the rest of em?

and whats your definition of of ''small''?

4:29, You seem to have confused "average" with "median."

t0 4 14.. it took trump about 10 days to secure the mexican border.
thats precisely why the embarkation point for coke and fentanyl is now Venezuela.
maybe you the one who needs consult a map.

@841am - 'declaring' them so doesn't make them so. and even if it did, it still wouldn't fit the requirement for the actions being taken by the 'declarer'; especially the 'take no quarters' declaration by the Secretary of Defense (short-termer that he is) fits no legal action by anybody's definition.

Never can understand how so many people were perfectly fine with the Dem/RINO status quo running the country into the ground.

Wicker is an absolute disaster for Mississippi.