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[Swizzle]

1 hour ago, uhhello said:

I think the intent behind the demonstration is to be a deterrent 

MOAB. That's a clear, but mistifying, deterrence-message.

 

 

 

Edited Thursday at 10:41 PM by Swizzle
FixDaLink

[Stoker]

1 hour ago, uhhello said:

I think the intent behind the demonstration is to be a deterrent 

The profits from a single drug boat making it in far outweigh the costs of rounding up the crews' families and telling them you'll cut off all their heads if they don't get in the boat and sail.

[uhhello]

46 minutes ago, Stoker said:

The profits from a single drug boat making it in far outweigh the costs of rounding up the crews' families and telling them you'll cut off all their heads if they don't get in the boat and sail.

Okay?  Lets just keep doing the same thing then.  That's been working great.  I'm not saying this is some groundbreaking 'we're going to win this war on drugs thing' but I'd say it's a much greater deterrent than the status quo 

Edited Thursday at 11:49 PM by uhhello

[tac airlifter]

1 hour ago, Stoker said:

The profits from a single drug boat making it in far outweigh the costs of rounding up the crews' families and telling them you'll cut off all their heads if they don't get in the boat and sail.

So we should let them operate unimpeded because they might hurt us if we resist?

No, they should fear us.  Every enemy should fear us.  I'm tired of policy by weak dick cucks.  Maximum violence is the answer to anyone seeking our harm.

[bfargin]

Direct covert strikes (complete destruction and elimination) on every upper echelon Mexican drug guy’s houses, buildings, and businesses should happen immediately.

[Lawman]

Direct covert strikes (complete destruction and elimination) on every upper echelon Mexican drug guy’s houses, buildings, and businesses should happen immediately.

Spend 30 minutes with the JTF-North guys down at Eagle Pass…. You’ll very quickly come to the conclusion we were doing TF3-10 in the wrong place.


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[uhhello]

Bring back Ding Chavez and John Clark...

[FourFans]

In general, I'm strongly against "political signaling" by way of military action, but in this case, I'd say it was used appropriately.  Doesn't feel like they actually thought through the second and third order effects though. 

I feel like Tom Clancy already wrote this this story line...but @uhhello beat me to it...

Edited Friday at 03:18 AM by FourFans

[fire4effect]

32 minutes ago, uhhello said:

Bring back Ding Chavez and John Clark...

I like how John Clark quoted the Sundance Kid. "Think You Used Enough Dynamite Butch?" At least in the book version.

Edited Friday at 03:20 AM by fire4effect

[ClearedHot]

Things happen all over the world every night, sometimes they come to light.

US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says

[uninformed]

"...they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel...".  Well, coming from Reuters and the New York Times and "Citing unidentified sources...", I'm not convinced.  Also, sounds a little sloppy for SEALs to "splash" ashore.

[brickhistory]

1 hour ago, uninformed said:

  Also, sounds a little sloppy for SEALs to "splash" ashore.

To be fair, the sound probably originated from the literary agent, not the SEALS themselves...

[BashiChuni]

im sure one of our "quiet navy professionals" will write a book about it. 

 

[uhhello]

Seems like something NK would have jumped on and made a stink about.  

[Lord Ratner]

On 9/4/2025 at 2:12 PM, Stoker said:

This statement woefully overestimates the value of the people on the boat, to the people who own the boat. But hey, it got a cool headline and maybe distracted from some files Pam Bondi promised she was going to release...

Who cares? It's still cheaper to just blow them up.

[StoleIt]

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Things happen all over the world every night, sometimes they come to light.

US special forces killed North Korean civilians in botched 2019 mission, NYT says

Sounds fictional. In what peace time situation (or even war time) does the ROE allow them to blatantly murder unarmed civilians?

That's either made up or there is WAY more to the story.

[Lord Ratner]

On 9/4/2025 at 8:14 PM, tac airlifter said:

So we should let them operate unimpeded because they might hurt us if we resist?

No, they should fear us.  Every enemy should fear us.  I'm tired of policy by weak dick cucks.  Maximum violence is the answer to anyone seeking our harm.

But Epstein!! It's the only thing that matters now, yet another conspiracy with no witnesses. 

 

I thought it had potential, but once Gloria Allred shows up you know it's a hoax.

[arg]

I wonder if NK shellfish divers are like the cuban construction workers we encountered on Grenada

[SpeedOfHeat]

-An American city in flames.

-Trump depicting himself as LTC “Kilgore,” a fictional character defined by sadism and lunacy.

-A name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and a threat that Chicago…. Chicago, Illinois, USA, …..is about to find out why.

But let me guess, …..you guys still think this is fine.  Totally normal behavior, no?

People that find this unconscionable and sickening just have TDS.

“Mean tweets” is all, right?

And after all, come on, whatabout Hunter’s laptop???

[uhhello]

12 minutes ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

-An American city in flames.

-Trump depicting himself as LTC “Kilgore,” a fictional character defined by sadism and lunacy.

-A name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and a threat that Chicago…. Chicago, Illinois, USA, …..is about to find out why.

But let me guess, …..you guys still think this is fine.  Totally normal behavior, no?

People that find this unconscionable and sickening just have TDS.

“Mean tweets” is all, right?

And after all, come on, whatabout Hunter’s laptop???

Do you have a problem with his policies or just his dumb tweets?

[ViperMan]

42 minutes ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

-An American city in flames.

-Trump depicting himself as LTC “Kilgore,” a fictional character defined by sadism and lunacy.

-A name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and a threat that Chicago…. Chicago, Illinois, USA, …..is about to find out why.

But let me guess, …..you guys still think this is fine.  Totally normal behavior, no?

People that find this unconscionable and sickening just have TDS.

“Mean tweets” is all, right?

And after all, come on, whatabout Hunter’s laptop???

 

It's less gross than what Pritzker is doing. And that's not a joke. So far this year, nearly 300 people have been killed in Chicago. And while that number is "down," I find it deeply cynical for people like him who prefer to survey the mayhem and rule in hell while attempting to deflect attention from their utter and total failure as the responsible parties, instead pointing to a cartoon depiction of Trump as the "real problem."

I'm sure when your average south Chicagoan heads out of their hooch tonight to grab whatever they need for dinner, or the family, or whatever, that person will be far more worried about the likely criminal who isn't in jail vs. some made up concern about a meme. And that points at the real, underlying dynamic at work - not a tasteless meme. That's (one of) Trump's secret weapons he uses against the Left. The point of memes like this is that Trump can point at something true - that Chicago is a wasteland - and the dems will expose their galling lack of empathy for the people who are actually suffering by scapegoating him. He is their ultimate totem. Their panacea to every ill. That's the root of TDS. A less cynical question you might consider is what crime has the national guard committed? If you can't think of one, I submit, you too, are suffering from TDS...because it's not Trump patrolling the streets of Chicago, himself. Right?

But getting upset at cartoons is one of those things that the left has an absolute lock on. So posts like this are right on brand. It's identical in form to January 6th. Call it an insurrection. Call it WAR on Chicago. Cook your narrative soup at any temperature you like. I won't have any. The bottom line is that NONE of what the national guard has been called in to do has been illegal, or could even be considered problematic.

Imagine living in a crime-ridden city and your governor is more concerned about this than about your public safety...ehh, I digress. Whatever.

[bfargin]

Let’s be honest, democrats don’t care about Chicago and other once great cities that have become shitteholes because it’s mostly black Americans killing other black Americans. If the murder rate significantly increases in white and areas where politicians live, it’ll be more important. They’ll still y’all “racism”, but they’ll start to care when their lives are in imminent danger.

[Biff_T]

 

I like the Huey five ship.  

[TreeA10]

I hope Trump added Ride of the Valkyries to that as background music.

[GKinnear]

19 hours ago, SpeedOfHeat said:

-An American city in flames.

-Trump depicting himself as LTC “Kilgore,” a fictional character defined by sadism and lunacy.

-A name change from the Department of Defense to the Department of War, and a threat that Chicago…. Chicago, Illinois, USA, …..is about to find out why.

But let me guess, …..you guys still think this is fine.  Totally normal behavior, no?

People that find this unconscionable and sickening just have TDS.

“Mean tweets” is all, right?

And after all, come on, whatabout Hunter’s laptop???

Is it a provocative tweet...absolutely, and intentionally so.  It forces the Democrats to continue defending the wrong side of an 80-20 issue to most people on the streets in big cities run by Democrats over the last century.

It's curious how the last 2x times the Trump 2.0 sent in troops, in Los Angeles and D.C., Karen Bass and the LA City Council, Gavin Newsom and the CA Congress, and Muriel Bowser and the D.C. City Council, all remained in power and continue to this day in D.C. to exercise their rights and responsibilities as the duly and freely elected civilian government.

I mean, if Trump wanted a takeover, he would physically remove the government and install a puppet local government,  ala Iraq in 2004 under G. W. Bush in the immediate post-OIF op.

I think Johnson and the fat billionaire Pritzker will be physically ok as their lie of "what else could we do?" is exposed against crime.  Emotionally, they'll be slaughtered, but physically, they and their families will be fine.

This experiment in freedom didn't turn to shit just because G. H. W. Bush, Lyndon Johnson, JFK, Eisenhower, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland, Hayes, Grant, Lincoln, or Jackson sent in federal troops to local municipalities since 1807...lots of precedence in support of it.

Until there's a direct and actual threat against elected governments, I'm less than concerned about troops moving in.