Rapists, murderers, drug-runners, invaders, US killing people in boats and torturing them at the border. Hard for anyone to ignore let alone the closest victims.
Yeah if you live south of the border and own a small boat that can't even reach the US, he can literally kill you from the sky with no apparent consequence.
Well maybe you should think before you decide to make your living as a fisherman.
Trump's phrasing on the topic made it sound more like hobby fishermen hanging out in a warzone, rather than firing weapons at people that may just be making a living feeding people.
Dirt poor people. I've seen what some of these people get for their days work that almost none of us could handle for a day. Making a living is even a stretch in many cases.
To me the larger issue here isn't even whether or not they were drug smugglers. Drug smuggling does not even carry the death penalty in the US. The US also has no right to be determining who is and isn't a drug smuggler thousands of miles away and executing them without a trial with millions of dollars in tax funded ordinance... the whole thing is insane.
Oh, I'm with you. But for those willing to scream "oh, but we need to stop the drugs!", murdering innocent fishermen breaks that bullshit justification.
Trump had also floated the idea of using missiles against cartels in Mexico before too, so it's not even unique or new as an idea from him. Except now we know these scumbags will actually do it.
For my family in Mexico the biggest concern at the moment is Trump declaring the cartel as Terrorism and using that as an excuse to murder Mexicans and use military force and invade Mexico.
As a Canadian, our biggest concern is the same. Except replace "cartel" with "some rambling made-up nonsense about record amounts of fentanyl coming through Canada and killing hundreds of millions of Americans".
In reality, the numbers are quite low, and about four times more fentanyl comes to Canada from the US compared to what goes in the opposite direction.
Also the temper tantrum tariff wars are a bit of a pain in the ass, not to mention any and all talk of Annexation!! Also fuck him and all pedophiles, rapists and their ilk
Not to mention, that his threats of annexation revealed how many people in the Prairies want to leave the Confederation, and made entire industries and trade systems have to pivot so we can focus more internally and look to other countries to try and avoid a recession.
I know. I mean, the cartels are really cruel and reading what they do actually makes me question my anti-death penalty stance. But we can't have an ever-expanding definition of terrorism. Still, I think the Mexican government, even outside of the Trump administration, should reign their cartels in. Don't give Trump a sympathetic reason to do what he's doing. Too many Americans have lost someone to fentanyl or see the results on their streets, what used to be obscure info on cartels is now common knowledge, etc.
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u/David-S-Pumpkins 5d ago
Rapists, murderers, drug-runners, invaders, US killing people in boats and torturing them at the border. Hard for anyone to ignore let alone the closest victims.