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@Junkster - did you move recently? I thought that you were embedded in one of the Carolina's. Not important, just making sure my crazy meter doesn't need another adjustment.
@Mark I have lived in the Mammoth Cave area of KY since 1996. I spend time during the summers hiking in the Boone/Banner Elk areas of NC. Too embedded here to ever permanently move.
Just don’t call it Kentucky. While one of the reddest of states some of our politicians here, notably Thomas Massie and Rand Paul are the rare breeds in the GOP who boldly and repeatedly stand up to that fellow in the White House.
I knew I might ruffle some feathers with my sarcasm. Apologies in advance to any of the good folks in Texas or Alabama. Randomly chosen, for comic effect.
I try to avoid the political wrangle. But I'm perplexed by the seizing of large super tankers loaded with oil as a way to fight drug use in the U.S. Notwithstanding "The Butterfly Effect" which teaches that everything is affected by everything else and knowing that the great comet extinguished the dianasours and paved the way for humans to evolve - it still seems like a stretch to me,
What's the tanker itself worth? More than one of those small drug boats I'd guess. And is a load of crude worth more or less than a load of cocaine or whatever the alleged drug boats deliver?
If I were in charge, I'd have the CIA plant bugs on these drug boats at sea and then intercept them humanely when they arrive in the U.S. If the CIA doesn't possess such tracking devices, they can buy some at Amazon for 15-20 bucks apiece. So the incredulity of this whole operation deeply perplexes troubles me.
@JD-co- Yes sir, you must have been reading my mind-waves. An ironic aspect of his political sabotage is that in many important areas his beliefs are in direct confrontation to those of the criminal he helped to empower. I certainly hope that he thinks about that every night as he tries to sleep.
It is not about drugs. trump pardons drug kingpins. Opioids ran rampant during the first trump administration, they did jack squat as it tore through the nation.
Drugs are being used as a pretense for these boat attacks. Trump dislikes President Maduro and may be trying to topple his regime. Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world. Trump and his accomplices may potentially use military operations to ultimately gain leverage over Venezuelan oil.
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What's the tanker itself worth? More than one of those small drug boats I'd guess. And is a load of crude worth more or less than a load of cocaine or whatever the alleged drug boats deliver?
If I were in charge, I'd have the CIA plant bugs on these drug boats at sea and then intercept them humanely when they arrive in the U.S. If the CIA doesn't possess such tracking devices, they can buy some at Amazon for 15-20 bucks apiece. So the incredulity of this whole operation deeply
perplexestroubles me.Trump dislikes President Maduro and may be trying to topple his regime.
Venezuela has the largest known oil reserves in the world.
Trump and his accomplices may potentially use military operations
to ultimately gain leverage over Venezuelan oil.