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ihaveaquestion

(4,326 posts)
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:20 PM 2 hrs ago

Tom Cotton's Drug Boat Theory Doesn't Add Up - The Bulwark



Dec 4, 2025 Bulwark Takes
Tim Miller and JVL take on the wildly conflicting stories coming out of Congress after lawmakers watched the same “double tap” strike video. From Jim Himes’ alarm to Tom Cotton’s macho fantasy version.
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Tom Cotton's Drug Boat Theory Doesn't Add Up - The Bulwark (Original Post) ihaveaquestion 2 hrs ago OP
Stay in the fight? Johonny 2 hrs ago #1
Gee, ya think, Captain Obvious? Mysterian 2 hrs ago #2
They think we're all idiots! Justice matters. 1 hr ago #4
You forgot something jmowreader 1 hr ago #5
The stupid "war on drugs" never worked, does not Justice matters. 1 hr ago #3
So where are the drugs? Jersey Devil 1 hr ago #6

Johonny

(25,148 posts)
1. Stay in the fight?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:29 PM
2 hrs ago

Jesus, these people are so full of shit. This, in the same week Trump pardons a top drug trafficker. The GOP is morally bankrupt. There are no good people on that side. They will justify any crime.

Mysterian

(6,108 posts)
2. Gee, ya think, Captain Obvious?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:43 PM
2 hrs ago

I was thinking two badly injured men could flip a capsized large sea-going vessel and restore it to working order!

jmowreader

(52,825 posts)
5. You forgot something
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:52 PM
1 hr ago

After they flipped the large sea-going boat over and restored it to operating condition, they then were going to swim around in the water picking up all the drugs so they could continue to the United States in this boat.

Justice matters.

(9,194 posts)
3. The stupid "war on drugs" never worked, does not
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:35 PM
1 hr ago

work, and will never "work" in a thousand years and beyond.

The solution is to "prevent" the use of drugs by helping the people taking them, by controlling the quality of the drugs themselves to make sure there is no poisons in them, and to provide professional assistance when it's needed.

The way the lawmakers actually deal with it is wrong, has always been wrong, and it will never be "won" but it sure is a total waste of taxpayers money spent on a unwinnable war (and all the corruption and the crimes against humanity related to their failed coercion policies).

Jersey Devil

(10,709 posts)
6. So where are the drugs?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 03:02 PM
1 hr ago

OK, so now the boat is sunk and all the "narco-terrorists" are dead. Why didn't the Navy zoom in and pick up some of these floating boxes/packages of drugs so they'd have evidence to show the world that the claims of drug smuggling weren't pure bullshit?

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