The story of Rome’s imperial decline is a story of shrinking consensual civilization and rising brute force. The center weakened. Armies fought with each other to gain control of the government.
Sending a naval task force to hunt & kill drug runners seems like an inefficient way to do things. Even to “send a message,” as some wags label these kinds of events. And yes, if you know that the boat is filled w drugs & bad guys, why not just capture the boat?
I suspect that there’s much more going on. Such as a looming move by Venezuela to take over western Guyana, with its onshore gold and offshore oil resources.
I submit there is just as much evidence for that incompetent monkey Hegseth was sitting in the war room feeling lonely, chatted up the other Trump Toady Bros on Whatsapp and said "watch this"
It would be Trump's dream if Maduro invades Guyana. That would be the excuse he needs to pounce on Maduro like Bush 41 did on Saddam H. But, I expect it would be much more difficult to roust out the militia from the jungles of Venezuela than from the deserts of Iraq.
Did you ever try catching a drug boat with four 150 h.p outboard engines. Cant be done. Yes they knew it was a drug boat. Bill you always have all the negative answers but never anything positive to contribute. If you have all the answers to all Americas problems how about running for public office.
I've seen a recent youtube video of a USCG helicopter-borne sharpshooter shooting the engines of a boat that wouldn't stop.
The counter was for the crew to shield the motors with their bodies.
It strikes me that shooting just one of the eleven (accidentally), would have countered that counter, and the survivors could be arrested and interrogated.
Or perhaps the boat was carrying the un-redacted, complete Epstein files, and so it really had to go boom.....
Far easier to throw stones than to catch them. I give my measure of patience to “the man in the Ring”, always. The “nattering nabobs of negativity”, not so much.
Mr King is a former navy S3 pilot. I'd venture to say he has a pretty good idea of what could be done if they had wanted to disable the boat rather than murder the occupants and forgo any intel they could have provided.
We don’t normally call enemy casualties in a war as having been “murdered”. We call victims of drug Lords as having been murdered. The drug Lords themselves? They just get “neutralized”.
Not in the fantasy leftarde world. The victims are the criminals, the criminals are the heroes and anyone trying to do the right thing is the oppressor.....
Yes brother Starboard, The ignorance and outright lies, from the left, trying to defend the indefensible. Defending drug cartels, defending getting rid of law and defunding police. Defending criminals, defending crime, defending socialism and communism. Defending the murder of the unborn, defending illegal immigration, defending illegal everything is just more proof that the largest terrorist organization in the world is the democratic cult of mental illness and crime. Unfortunately they live amongst us…
but they wanted to kill the occupant. Now, don't you think the next boat load of misfits will be thinking 2 or3 or 4 times before making that journey... wake the F up.
Unfortunately, the TACO Clown and his minions are out-of-control. They absolutely have no clue what they are doing. Worse than a emperor without clothes. America has lost the trust and confidence of the rest of the World. The U.S. has become just a Big Bully trying to extend its hegemony by threats (economic and military) to the rest of the World. The World is learning and beginning to figure out ways to fight back. Militarily, the U.S. has lost its edge. As easily as the Government blew that boat out of the water, there are powers today with hypersonic weapons can do that to any of the U.S. Navy ships. There is no defense. So the continue spending of $100s of billions of US$ on our military worldwide is foolish and stupid. Frankly, just really stupid. But the neocons led by the TACO Clown can't help themselves. They have no plan, no long term strategy, no understanding of diplomacy or how to build our economy through peaceful and bilateral means. Under Trump the U.S. is just a BIG BULLY. And, yes, there is a good chance he won't live through this term. Once you see the media come together and profess how wonderfully healthy Trump is anyone with a 1/2 brain knows what that means. The U.S. empire is picking up speed in its fall into the swamp. And, history tells us there is no other way - those in charge can't/won't change. to paraphase John Paul Jones - "if the government goes, they go with it, their post is there". They would rather command our ashes (if they survive) than lose their power. And, to paraphrase Oliver Hazard Perry - "We have met the enemy, and it is US." And, yes, I am well aware of the Trump Devotees will find this offense. So be it.........
Wow…after reading this, I sure hope you didn’t pick this week to stop sniffing glue, Ol’ Man. You make Bonner look like a rose-colored glasses wild-eyed optimist.
What if one of your children took these drugs thinking they were safe and died as a result. Would you then be so high and mighty about killing these terrorist and murderers.
Why not off Fauci then? He and his COVID injections killed millions. No trial, No proving anything - just kill. Unfortunately, the Peace President can't stop starting wars. Trump is beyond delusional. He believes he is "the" World's dictator and the World is clearly giving him the "middle finger". The U.S. economy is crashing, U.S. Treasuries are crashing, and Trump is off starting wars here, there, and everywhere. Tariffs and Sanctions don't work? No problem I just start wars. Deranged beyond believe. It shows how low the U.S. has sunk when the best we can come up with for President are Trump or Harris. Really? Beyond belief!
Re. Fraudci: Trial First, Public Hanging at Dawn....
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What if one of your children took Oxycontin, with a prescription of course!, and then became addicted to opioids? Would you recommend executing the Sackler Family for selling the drug? Or would you defend them, like Rudy Giuliani did, so they could keep most of their illicit profits?
Yep, Rightedge, Same Ol' Sh*t, different day. Nothing but criticism. Why? That's easy, there is nothing to say positive about the TACO Clown. And, the World is turning away rapidly from his 3-Ring Circus. US Treasuries crashing, US economy crashing - but you of the delusional bent just can't see it. You like being bosses around by a tyrant. I get it. Unfortunately, you don't, but - then again, that isn't news to anyone with a lick of sense.
Are you talking about elections? Seriously, elections in the U.S. like they matter. The World doesn't care about elections in the U.S. The World is tired of the U.S. trying to enforce bully tactics. Period! They are coming to together to isolate the U.S. and its delusional view of its power. The U.S. economy is crashing. There are $9T in US Treasuries that need to be rolled-over through 2026 plus the continued and increasing annual federal deficit. Get a gripe - this isn't about elections. Unbelievable!
The boat was not blown out of the water. Anyone who saw the video could see that. It was a slow burn. And I believe that The Venezuelan ambassador said it was murder.These are just poor little kids. Gosh I guess there wasn't enough money in cartoons and kickball.
Bill, you are so negative. So where is the best country to live, when should we expect that you will obtain citizenship there and when will you give up your USA citizenship? It is time for you to put your money where your mouth is. I agree that the USA has serious problems but where is your solution that Americans will actually vote for?
Thinking people consume facts, evidence and opinion from MULTIPLE sources when deciding on a position or action to take. In the leftist world, not so much.....
Bill has his opportunity to go to any of his many homes in Baltimore, Argentina, Nicaragua, France, and Ireland! I could’ve left some out, idk! Doug Casey and Matt Smith both live in Uruguay. One of them owns a regenerative farm, and one of them owns a ranch. I believe that’s correct.
Blowing up a shipment of illicit drugs on the way to poison Americans is the moral equivalent of smashing a mosquito that is biting your leg. Both are parasites in need of elimination.
Now, I fully realize we can never totally end illegal drugs. But if we make it more expensive and more dangerous, fewer will succumb to the temptation. Simple supply and demand, right Bill?
If the US wanted to make it more expensive to traffic illegal drugs there would be a cell block at a Max Security Fed Prison filled with the Banksters who launder the drug money
Wouldn't it be easier to go back to pre Woodie Wilson times when drugs were legal and addiction was a medical problem? No matter what the Feds say they are doing they'll never stop drug trafficking. Prohibition just made illegal alcohol trafficking a very profitable business for organized crime. Same thing is happening with drug trafficking.
Great article today, Bill - lots of straight-up facts about things we can't do much about, even with a President who is trying to eradicate much of what you write. IMO of course. Just one small quibbling question:
So Tren de Aragua is just like ANTIFA? A figment of our imaginations?? Funny how you discount evidence and conclusions from your former spook apparatus when it is convenient to your narrative. Do just a tiny bit of research on TdA + Venezuela. Then come begging for forgiveness from the families of the THOUSANDS of 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 dead people throughout Central and South America (particularly in Venezuela) whom met their untimely ends at the hands of a terrorist organization that you want us all to doubt even exists. Denying a well-documented and EVIL Reality in your never-ending quest to "get" the Big Man.
I think i figured out why Bill is always so negative on America. He spends his time in rural France, rural Ireland, the mountains of NW Argentina..... and BALTIMORE.
“If we knew so much about the boat – who was on it, where it came from, what it was carrying -- way down near South America…why not wait for it to arrive in North America…and ask some questions? Who was it going to meet? What it was really doing? Why not find out?”
My thoughts, too. Why not track it, see if the boat rendezvous with another vessel, and capture it when it enters US territorial waters?
Of course, this assumes the boat is headed for U.S. waters. It might not have been. Headed to Mexico or somewhere else for overland transport. Then how to interdict?
Completely justified by the EVIDENCE of our eyes - drug running boat on a known drug smuggling route, coming from a drug manufacturing area and Country, plus we could see the drug parcels in plain sight. Yet still there are people who cry for the criminals - because Orange Man Bad in any and ALL circumstances.....
4k Video of Drone-fired missiles destroying the jungle and urban drug labs would be GREAT. And no, I don't give a whit if they are on Mexican or Venezuelan territory. The "leadership" of those Countries allows this activity to take place and the end result is dead Americans (mostly kids), so bombs away........
Hey Starboard, remember the celebration when they took out Pablo Escobar? Did nothing to stop drugs trafficking. It's the old law of supply and demand. As long as there's a demand for drugs here there will be a supply. Lots of money to be made. Why not just go back to pre Woodie Wilson days when drugs were legal and addiction was treated as a medical problem? You could use all the money saved from enforcement to provide treatment for the addicts who wanted it. Or why not at least take a good look at the demand side?
Now I just would like to state an opinion. "opinion". We all know that illicit drugs will not be stopped from coming in. What if the enforcement jailed the user and the supplier ? This would probably eliminate the demand side. My view. How could this be incorporated, I have no idea. But I am sure that the new Florida prison would be over capacity. There must be a way to curb the use of illicit drugs. Does some one have a better solution? I am all ears !
Because we arrest drug dealers every day by the thousands. I'm just worried about the environment. Oh my god how many fish are gonna be killed by cocaine? Maybe there's a whale killed by fentanyl. Maybe even a killer whale. The bang bang trip might taste better , though. Those poor children who died in the gulf. How can we ever sleep again? Tears and tears.... For the fish of course.
Congratulations! Ten months in and the wheels are already rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue like flaming hubcaps at a demolition derby. Impressive. Most administrations wait until year three before the shit really hits the fan. But they’ve got tariffs, productivity drops, and drone strikes on fishermen all lined up like items on a McDonald’s value menu. Trump’s the only guy who can make the Roman Empire look like it had a decent retirement plan. At least they gave the peasants bread and circuses, Trump gives them inflation and cable news hysteria. The economy is looking like a Greyhound bus rolling down an icy hill with no brakes! They’re bombing boats off Venezuela, BOATS! Not submarines, not destroyers, but freaken BOATS! And they call them terrorists? They were sailing like Jack Sparrow for the love of flapjacks 🥞! Looks like they’re turning regime change into a hobby! I heard about this boat thing and they said they killed 11 terrorists. I dunno, kinda sounds like the fish were the real winners. You ever notice every time the government says “terrorist,” it’s like when a guy says, “Don’t worry, she’s 18”? You just know something’s fishy.
And Social Security? Yeah, that’s a great deal. You give the government money your whole life, and when you ask for it back, they tell you it’s insolvent. Insolvent! The only thing more insolvent than Social Security is the Chicago Bears’ offensive line.
But hey, follow the yellow brick road, borrow against the future, print more cash, and when the scam collapses, just bomb someone and call it patriotism. Rome had gladiators and aqueducts. We’ve got drone strikes and TikTok bans. If this administration were any more desperate, it’d be standing on Michigan Avenue with a cardboard sign that says “Will Invade for Oil.”
Yeah, I had a squeegee on Manheim , but you were the windshield, smeared with thirty years of bad decisions. I wiped once and the only thing that came off was your dignity.
Personally, I don't give a rat's buttocks about what all the pearl clutchers are crying and second-guessing about. Bottom Line, Folks - we could SEE the drug parcels in a type of boat that is PREFERRED BY and known to be used by drug traffickers, operating on a well-established drug smuggling route, leaving a Country that is documented to be run by "government officials" who dabble in drug trafficking. The situation could hardly be more obvious - to anyone who can think objectively.
I'm seeing leftarde "media" and Never-Say-Yes Rand Paul question where the drugs were heading, maybe they were bound for Europe or even Asia. Have these morons ever looked at a map or have even the slightest clue about what kind of craft is needed to cross the open ocean? Remarkable Stupidity and Gaslighting - and many here jump onboard the pure ABSURDITY solely because they hate Trump. Weak and Pathetic individuals, one and all.
Look, that boat was going ONE place, just like the little piggy. It was ultimately headed to the MARKET - that is the US. So just like you cry over the deported criminals, rapists, human traffickers and terrorists, now y'all will cry over DRUG SMUGGLERS destroyed in the act of SMUGGLING DRUGS.
Keep going, geniuses. You may never win another election in the next 50 years and I'm right here for it....
Better if the boat was in US waters and given a warning to "heave to" before destroying it and its crew on the open sea.
Presuming they did indeed give up, and that they were indeed taking drugs somewhere, the intelligence they provided would have made Trump look savvy.
Since the vessel and its crew were destroyed, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt; that is, our intelligence services knew the vessel they destroyed was indeed carrying drugs to the US. I hope so.
Agreed on your first paragraph. And every soldier knows hot Intel is better than a cold body. What is also being ignored by the pearl clutchers is that they didn't just "stumble" upon this shipment - we likely knew precisely where it came from, who set things up and perhaps even the identities of the dead scumbags. That fast dinghy was not a vital information cog in the grand plan of taking out these organizations. The "media" assumption is that we just found a needle in a haystack and blew it up. As usual, whatever they are telling us could not be further from the truth.
Personally, I believe this specific action was meant to send a clear message - particularly in light of the post-action comments made by Rubio and Hegseth....
PS - We have the greatest INTEL Services on the face of the planet. We have the ability to listen in to EVERY type of communication device at any time, we have satellites in orbit that can read the logo on your shirt pocket and likely had Human Assets embedded on the ground BEFORE we announced this new "War on Drugs." ALL of those assets are now in play and producing results, likely by the hour in many cases. To assume we are operating blindly and just got lucky sighting this shipment is pure folly to feed the soft-headed (leftardes) among the populace because it reinforces their inane hatred for Trump and all things/people Conservative....
The corruption of all things was The Congressional, Military, Industrial Complex. It drove the American economy, during WW2, to dizzying heights, prodigious production, and profits. Millions of men coming home, the ghost of the Great Depression, no one wanted to see it end. Eisenhower warned us in 1959. The propaganda machine ramped up, government was the source of riches.
Somehow, they forgot the foundation of it all…Industrial.
We became flimflam, Ponzi Scheme, financial, fake money, robbery, and world mayhem.
Kill the beast!
Everyone glories in it, our team, our heroes, our killers, and destroyers. What is it, 10 million dead, multiple countries devastated, for what.
It even controls Trump, he is no chump; he enjoys being Big Man.
Where would we be without Social Security. How many would have used the forced savings productively. The medical industry is a disaster; what would Americans do without Medicare and Medicaid. It’s not private, the government picks up 75% of the expense and private steals 100% of the entire industry. It’s an abomination. The drug cartel Trump should worry about is the pharmaceutical industry, the real drug pushers.
The biggest reason SS is in trouble is the devastating lack of diversity in income, the top 20% receive 70% and most of that is capital gains.
Illegal migration has had a negative economic impact, lower wages, more welfare. State Medicaid providers and hospital emergency rooms are inundated with non-English speakers.
don't forget television's influence in portraying a handsome man for the first time running for POTUS in 1960.....women voting in increasing numbers also played a role.
Judge Napolitano was talking about this yesterday and he was appalled by it! Venezuela apparently has huge oil reserves, some of the largest in the world! The US has a $50 million bounty on Maduro‘s head! Could this possibly be about regime change? Idk but it never seems to end well when it is!
Actually, I took a small position in another silver miner yesterday. Right now, I'm concentrating my resources more on the miners than the metals themselves...
I have been doing that for some time. Bonner doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal and Dyson does not know the difference between cash and bonds. In the name of safety he recommends a dangerous bond trade ( to improve yield on cash TLT put sale) and instead of holding cash a short term Bond fund all at a time when the miners exploding to the upside
For everyone who thinks the US is serious about ending illegal drug trafficking just take a look at opium production in Afghanistan. Opium production skyrocketed under US occupation and starting decreasing as soon as we got kicked out. Plus, who can forget Iran/Contra and the CIA pumping the ghetto with crack in order to get money for their terrorist friends in the Contra. Plus, the Sackler Family retained most of their wealth in spite of helping get the opioid crisis started thanks in part to the great work of Trump's buddy Rudy Giuliani. Finally, show me one Banksters in a Fed prison for laundering drug money. In fact, Obama refused to prosecute HSBC for laundering drug money because it would have affected the financial system.
Sending a naval task force to hunt & kill drug runners seems like an inefficient way to do things. Even to “send a message,” as some wags label these kinds of events. And yes, if you know that the boat is filled w drugs & bad guys, why not just capture the boat?
I suspect that there’s much more going on. Such as a looming move by Venezuela to take over western Guyana, with its onshore gold and offshore oil resources.
Time will tell.
I submit there is just as much evidence for that incompetent monkey Hegseth was sitting in the war room feeling lonely, chatted up the other Trump Toady Bros on Whatsapp and said "watch this"
You really shouldn't publicize your delusional fantasies. It makes you look stupid to the rest of the world. But please, carry on....
It was in the gulf of america and it was a drone. No naval task force . I understand though we don't want to kill a fly with a hammer.
It is most certainly about American interests in that oil field!
It would be Trump's dream if Maduro invades Guyana. That would be the excuse he needs to pounce on Maduro like Bush 41 did on Saddam H. But, I expect it would be much more difficult to roust out the militia from the jungles of Venezuela than from the deserts of Iraq.
Did you ever try catching a drug boat with four 150 h.p outboard engines. Cant be done. Yes they knew it was a drug boat. Bill you always have all the negative answers but never anything positive to contribute. If you have all the answers to all Americas problems how about running for public office.
I've seen a recent youtube video of a USCG helicopter-borne sharpshooter shooting the engines of a boat that wouldn't stop.
The counter was for the crew to shield the motors with their bodies.
It strikes me that shooting just one of the eleven (accidentally), would have countered that counter, and the survivors could be arrested and interrogated.
Or perhaps the boat was carrying the un-redacted, complete Epstein files, and so it really had to go boom.....
And police officers should be trained to be able to shoot the gun out of a bad guys hand, right? Oh, wait… that’s only a fantasy.
Far easier to throw stones than to catch them. I give my measure of patience to “the man in the Ring”, always. The “nattering nabobs of negativity”, not so much.
Mr King is a former navy S3 pilot. I'd venture to say he has a pretty good idea of what could be done if they had wanted to disable the boat rather than murder the occupants and forgo any intel they could have provided.
We don’t normally call enemy casualties in a war as having been “murdered”. We call victims of drug Lords as having been murdered. The drug Lords themselves? They just get “neutralized”.
Not in the fantasy leftarde world. The victims are the criminals, the criminals are the heroes and anyone trying to do the right thing is the oppressor.....
Yes brother Starboard, The ignorance and outright lies, from the left, trying to defend the indefensible. Defending drug cartels, defending getting rid of law and defunding police. Defending criminals, defending crime, defending socialism and communism. Defending the murder of the unborn, defending illegal immigration, defending illegal everything is just more proof that the largest terrorist organization in the world is the democratic cult of mental illness and crime. Unfortunately they live amongst us…
but they wanted to kill the occupant. Now, don't you think the next boat load of misfits will be thinking 2 or3 or 4 times before making that journey... wake the F up.
Unfortunately, the TACO Clown and his minions are out-of-control. They absolutely have no clue what they are doing. Worse than a emperor without clothes. America has lost the trust and confidence of the rest of the World. The U.S. has become just a Big Bully trying to extend its hegemony by threats (economic and military) to the rest of the World. The World is learning and beginning to figure out ways to fight back. Militarily, the U.S. has lost its edge. As easily as the Government blew that boat out of the water, there are powers today with hypersonic weapons can do that to any of the U.S. Navy ships. There is no defense. So the continue spending of $100s of billions of US$ on our military worldwide is foolish and stupid. Frankly, just really stupid. But the neocons led by the TACO Clown can't help themselves. They have no plan, no long term strategy, no understanding of diplomacy or how to build our economy through peaceful and bilateral means. Under Trump the U.S. is just a BIG BULLY. And, yes, there is a good chance he won't live through this term. Once you see the media come together and profess how wonderfully healthy Trump is anyone with a 1/2 brain knows what that means. The U.S. empire is picking up speed in its fall into the swamp. And, history tells us there is no other way - those in charge can't/won't change. to paraphase John Paul Jones - "if the government goes, they go with it, their post is there". They would rather command our ashes (if they survive) than lose their power. And, to paraphrase Oliver Hazard Perry - "We have met the enemy, and it is US." And, yes, I am well aware of the Trump Devotees will find this offense. So be it.........
Wow…after reading this, I sure hope you didn’t pick this week to stop sniffing glue, Ol’ Man. You make Bonner look like a rose-colored glasses wild-eyed optimist.
Then again, it could be he just makes it all up like Bongo Bill does.
LOLOL :)
What if one of your children took these drugs thinking they were safe and died as a result. Would you then be so high and mighty about killing these terrorist and murderers.
Why not off Fauci then? He and his COVID injections killed millions. No trial, No proving anything - just kill. Unfortunately, the Peace President can't stop starting wars. Trump is beyond delusional. He believes he is "the" World's dictator and the World is clearly giving him the "middle finger". The U.S. economy is crashing, U.S. Treasuries are crashing, and Trump is off starting wars here, there, and everywhere. Tariffs and Sanctions don't work? No problem I just start wars. Deranged beyond believe. It shows how low the U.S. has sunk when the best we can come up with for President are Trump or Harris. Really? Beyond belief!
Re. Fraudci: Trial First, Public Hanging at Dawn....
Here ya go. You can educate yourself for free. Be sure and check out the HUNDREDS of verified Sources and Footnotes at the end of this New York Times/Amazon #1 BEST SELLER:
https://archive.org/details/kennedy-robert-f.-the-real-anthony-fauc-pdf
What if one of your children took Oxycontin, with a prescription of course!, and then became addicted to opioids? Would you recommend executing the Sackler Family for selling the drug? Or would you defend them, like Rudy Giuliani did, so they could keep most of their illicit profits?
Blah-F'in-Blah. Still selling the LIE that you are a center-of-the-road Libertarian, just calling 'em like you see 'em??
GTFO - no time for discredited, unhinged LIARS....
Yep, Rightedge, Same Ol' Sh*t, different day. Nothing but criticism. Why? That's easy, there is nothing to say positive about the TACO Clown. And, the World is turning away rapidly from his 3-Ring Circus. US Treasuries crashing, US economy crashing - but you of the delusional bent just can't see it. You like being bosses around by a tyrant. I get it. Unfortunately, you don't, but - then again, that isn't news to anyone with a lick of sense.
"TACO" Dated reference lost on younger and more intelligent viewers. Ed McMahon to Johnny Carson. Same shit different day...? Try a burrito.
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Sure thing - consider me properly chastised and publicly shamed. Please keep going and let's see what happens in '26 & '28.....
Are you talking about elections? Seriously, elections in the U.S. like they matter. The World doesn't care about elections in the U.S. The World is tired of the U.S. trying to enforce bully tactics. Period! They are coming to together to isolate the U.S. and its delusional view of its power. The U.S. economy is crashing. There are $9T in US Treasuries that need to be rolled-over through 2026 plus the continued and increasing annual federal deficit. Get a gripe - this isn't about elections. Unbelievable!
You make no sense at all, if you’re from America please find a better place to live. If you’re not f… you!!!
Nicely put, Davey. So poetic and well spoken. Your command of the English language is far and away amazing. Did you actually finished high school?
The boat was not blown out of the water. Anyone who saw the video could see that. It was a slow burn. And I believe that The Venezuelan ambassador said it was murder.These are just poor little kids. Gosh I guess there wasn't enough money in cartoons and kickball.
Bill, you are so negative. So where is the best country to live, when should we expect that you will obtain citizenship there and when will you give up your USA citizenship? It is time for you to put your money where your mouth is. I agree that the USA has serious problems but where is your solution that Americans will actually vote for?
...although I appreciate Bill's info, it seems BPR advises not to invest in equities unless of course it's shipping containers.
I have done well with their advice, but theirs is not the only picks that have performed.
IMO not "investing" in equities over last 6 months would be to your detriment.
There are too many moving parts to assume any one outcome.
^^^THIS^^^
Thinking people consume facts, evidence and opinion from MULTIPLE sources when deciding on a position or action to take. In the leftist world, not so much.....
Bill has his opportunity to go to any of his many homes in Baltimore, Argentina, Nicaragua, France, and Ireland! I could’ve left some out, idk! Doug Casey and Matt Smith both live in Uruguay. One of them owns a regenerative farm, and one of them owns a ranch. I believe that’s correct.
Blowing up a shipment of illicit drugs on the way to poison Americans is the moral equivalent of smashing a mosquito that is biting your leg. Both are parasites in need of elimination.
Now, I fully realize we can never totally end illegal drugs. But if we make it more expensive and more dangerous, fewer will succumb to the temptation. Simple supply and demand, right Bill?
If the US wanted to make it more expensive to traffic illegal drugs there would be a cell block at a Max Security Fed Prison filled with the Banksters who launder the drug money
Just because we're doing one thing doesn't mean we can't also do other things. I would be all for increased enforcement of laundering, too!
Wouldn't it be easier to go back to pre Woodie Wilson times when drugs were legal and addiction was a medical problem? No matter what the Feds say they are doing they'll never stop drug trafficking. Prohibition just made illegal alcohol trafficking a very profitable business for organized crime. Same thing is happening with drug trafficking.
Yep
Great article today, Bill - lots of straight-up facts about things we can't do much about, even with a President who is trying to eradicate much of what you write. IMO of course. Just one small quibbling question:
So Tren de Aragua is just like ANTIFA? A figment of our imaginations?? Funny how you discount evidence and conclusions from your former spook apparatus when it is convenient to your narrative. Do just a tiny bit of research on TdA + Venezuela. Then come begging for forgiveness from the families of the THOUSANDS of 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙩 dead people throughout Central and South America (particularly in Venezuela) whom met their untimely ends at the hands of a terrorist organization that you want us all to doubt even exists. Denying a well-documented and EVIL Reality in your never-ending quest to "get" the Big Man.
Shame on you....
I think i figured out why Bill is always so negative on America. He spends his time in rural France, rural Ireland, the mountains of NW Argentina..... and BALTIMORE.
“If we knew so much about the boat – who was on it, where it came from, what it was carrying -- way down near South America…why not wait for it to arrive in North America…and ask some questions? Who was it going to meet? What it was really doing? Why not find out?”
My thoughts, too. Why not track it, see if the boat rendezvous with another vessel, and capture it when it enters US territorial waters?
Of course, this assumes the boat is headed for U.S. waters. It might not have been. Headed to Mexico or somewhere else for overland transport. Then how to interdict?
...who or what was on the boat is irrelevant, it was the message sent.
Completely justified by the EVIDENCE of our eyes - drug running boat on a known drug smuggling route, coming from a drug manufacturing area and Country, plus we could see the drug parcels in plain sight. Yet still there are people who cry for the criminals - because Orange Man Bad in any and ALL circumstances.....
... I agree with your premise Star, my point is even if it were a red-flag op and they were mannequins, the message sent is great and long overdue!
4k Video of Drone-fired missiles destroying the jungle and urban drug labs would be GREAT. And no, I don't give a whit if they are on Mexican or Venezuelan territory. The "leadership" of those Countries allows this activity to take place and the end result is dead Americans (mostly kids), so bombs away........
Hey Starboard, remember the celebration when they took out Pablo Escobar? Did nothing to stop drugs trafficking. It's the old law of supply and demand. As long as there's a demand for drugs here there will be a supply. Lots of money to be made. Why not just go back to pre Woodie Wilson days when drugs were legal and addiction was treated as a medical problem? You could use all the money saved from enforcement to provide treatment for the addicts who wanted it. Or why not at least take a good look at the demand side?
Now I just would like to state an opinion. "opinion". We all know that illicit drugs will not be stopped from coming in. What if the enforcement jailed the user and the supplier ? This would probably eliminate the demand side. My view. How could this be incorporated, I have no idea. But I am sure that the new Florida prison would be over capacity. There must be a way to curb the use of illicit drugs. Does some one have a better solution? I am all ears !
☝️Yes, that what you said was the point. The message.
Because we arrest drug dealers every day by the thousands. I'm just worried about the environment. Oh my god how many fish are gonna be killed by cocaine? Maybe there's a whale killed by fentanyl. Maybe even a killer whale. The bang bang trip might taste better , though. Those poor children who died in the gulf. How can we ever sleep again? Tears and tears.... For the fish of course.
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Congratulations! Ten months in and the wheels are already rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue like flaming hubcaps at a demolition derby. Impressive. Most administrations wait until year three before the shit really hits the fan. But they’ve got tariffs, productivity drops, and drone strikes on fishermen all lined up like items on a McDonald’s value menu. Trump’s the only guy who can make the Roman Empire look like it had a decent retirement plan. At least they gave the peasants bread and circuses, Trump gives them inflation and cable news hysteria. The economy is looking like a Greyhound bus rolling down an icy hill with no brakes! They’re bombing boats off Venezuela, BOATS! Not submarines, not destroyers, but freaken BOATS! And they call them terrorists? They were sailing like Jack Sparrow for the love of flapjacks 🥞! Looks like they’re turning regime change into a hobby! I heard about this boat thing and they said they killed 11 terrorists. I dunno, kinda sounds like the fish were the real winners. You ever notice every time the government says “terrorist,” it’s like when a guy says, “Don’t worry, she’s 18”? You just know something’s fishy.
And Social Security? Yeah, that’s a great deal. You give the government money your whole life, and when you ask for it back, they tell you it’s insolvent. Insolvent! The only thing more insolvent than Social Security is the Chicago Bears’ offensive line.
But hey, follow the yellow brick road, borrow against the future, print more cash, and when the scam collapses, just bomb someone and call it patriotism. Rome had gladiators and aqueducts. We’ve got drone strikes and TikTok bans. If this administration were any more desperate, it’d be standing on Michigan Avenue with a cardboard sign that says “Will Invade for Oil.”
Hahaha!
Yeah, I had a squeegee on Manheim , but you were the windshield, smeared with thirty years of bad decisions. I wiped once and the only thing that came off was your dignity.
Not sure but I think I actually did see you with that sign. On Manheim with a squeegee.
Personally, I don't give a rat's buttocks about what all the pearl clutchers are crying and second-guessing about. Bottom Line, Folks - we could SEE the drug parcels in a type of boat that is PREFERRED BY and known to be used by drug traffickers, operating on a well-established drug smuggling route, leaving a Country that is documented to be run by "government officials" who dabble in drug trafficking. The situation could hardly be more obvious - to anyone who can think objectively.
𝗕𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀.
I'm seeing leftarde "media" and Never-Say-Yes Rand Paul question where the drugs were heading, maybe they were bound for Europe or even Asia. Have these morons ever looked at a map or have even the slightest clue about what kind of craft is needed to cross the open ocean? Remarkable Stupidity and Gaslighting - and many here jump onboard the pure ABSURDITY solely because they hate Trump. Weak and Pathetic individuals, one and all.
Look, that boat was going ONE place, just like the little piggy. It was ultimately headed to the MARKET - that is the US. So just like you cry over the deported criminals, rapists, human traffickers and terrorists, now y'all will cry over DRUG SMUGGLERS destroyed in the act of SMUGGLING DRUGS.
Keep going, geniuses. You may never win another election in the next 50 years and I'm right here for it....
Better if the boat was in US waters and given a warning to "heave to" before destroying it and its crew on the open sea.
Presuming they did indeed give up, and that they were indeed taking drugs somewhere, the intelligence they provided would have made Trump look savvy.
Since the vessel and its crew were destroyed, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt; that is, our intelligence services knew the vessel they destroyed was indeed carrying drugs to the US. I hope so.
Agreed on your first paragraph. And every soldier knows hot Intel is better than a cold body. What is also being ignored by the pearl clutchers is that they didn't just "stumble" upon this shipment - we likely knew precisely where it came from, who set things up and perhaps even the identities of the dead scumbags. That fast dinghy was not a vital information cog in the grand plan of taking out these organizations. The "media" assumption is that we just found a needle in a haystack and blew it up. As usual, whatever they are telling us could not be further from the truth.
Personally, I believe this specific action was meant to send a clear message - particularly in light of the post-action comments made by Rubio and Hegseth....
PS - We have the greatest INTEL Services on the face of the planet. We have the ability to listen in to EVERY type of communication device at any time, we have satellites in orbit that can read the logo on your shirt pocket and likely had Human Assets embedded on the ground BEFORE we announced this new "War on Drugs." ALL of those assets are now in play and producing results, likely by the hour in many cases. To assume we are operating blindly and just got lucky sighting this shipment is pure folly to feed the soft-headed (leftardes) among the populace because it reinforces their inane hatred for Trump and all things/people Conservative....
i disagree. It actually could be a little farther from the truth.....
What is a pearl clutcher?
Individuals who are easily offended or who display a sense of moral superiority.
Basically, all liberals...
The corruption of all things was The Congressional, Military, Industrial Complex. It drove the American economy, during WW2, to dizzying heights, prodigious production, and profits. Millions of men coming home, the ghost of the Great Depression, no one wanted to see it end. Eisenhower warned us in 1959. The propaganda machine ramped up, government was the source of riches.
Somehow, they forgot the foundation of it all…Industrial.
We became flimflam, Ponzi Scheme, financial, fake money, robbery, and world mayhem.
Kill the beast!
Everyone glories in it, our team, our heroes, our killers, and destroyers. What is it, 10 million dead, multiple countries devastated, for what.
It even controls Trump, he is no chump; he enjoys being Big Man.
Where would we be without Social Security. How many would have used the forced savings productively. The medical industry is a disaster; what would Americans do without Medicare and Medicaid. It’s not private, the government picks up 75% of the expense and private steals 100% of the entire industry. It’s an abomination. The drug cartel Trump should worry about is the pharmaceutical industry, the real drug pushers.
The biggest reason SS is in trouble is the devastating lack of diversity in income, the top 20% receive 70% and most of that is capital gains.
Illegal migration has had a negative economic impact, lower wages, more welfare. State Medicaid providers and hospital emergency rooms are inundated with non-English speakers.
Indeed, it seems globalist think industry is dirty and only for 3rd world countries.
Trump has offered remedies to your laments.
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Although you may have heard... some folks don't care much for Trump?
Good post, except the biggest reason SS is in trouble is because the gov spends it as fast as it comes in.
don't forget television's influence in portraying a handsome man for the first time running for POTUS in 1960.....women voting in increasing numbers also played a role.
Judge Napolitano was talking about this yesterday and he was appalled by it! Venezuela apparently has huge oil reserves, some of the largest in the world! The US has a $50 million bounty on Maduro‘s head! Could this possibly be about regime change? Idk but it never seems to end well when it is!
Yep , look at what happened in Ukraine.
Sad but true. I read the other day it was really, about; Operation Restoring Democracy but in actuality it was Operation Grab the Oil.
Lol you cant make this sh.... up. The capite censi or as my father was known to occasional describe the prevailing zeitgeist, senza capo.
Truly sad commentary on the current and expected future affairs of the USA.....
Actually, I took a small position in another silver miner yesterday. Right now, I'm concentrating my resources more on the miners than the metals themselves...
I have been doing that for some time. Bonner doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal and Dyson does not know the difference between cash and bonds. In the name of safety he recommends a dangerous bond trade ( to improve yield on cash TLT put sale) and instead of holding cash a short term Bond fund all at a time when the miners exploding to the upside
For everyone who thinks the US is serious about ending illegal drug trafficking just take a look at opium production in Afghanistan. Opium production skyrocketed under US occupation and starting decreasing as soon as we got kicked out. Plus, who can forget Iran/Contra and the CIA pumping the ghetto with crack in order to get money for their terrorist friends in the Contra. Plus, the Sackler Family retained most of their wealth in spite of helping get the opioid crisis started thanks in part to the great work of Trump's buddy Rudy Giuliani. Finally, show me one Banksters in a Fed prison for laundering drug money. In fact, Obama refused to prosecute HSBC for laundering drug money because it would have affected the financial system.
How did they know it was a drug boat? Perhaps it was eleven guys trolling at 50 miles an hour in the dark to catch a fish for breakfast.