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Mighty Scout Flies's avatar

Yes - even we, watching TV can tell many of those boats had no cabins, just open outboards not going far. Where's the due process? *rumps guesswork kills a lot of potentially innocent people

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Laurie T Miller's avatar

No guess work. This is what dictators do, murder.

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Julie's avatar

If you asked me a few years ago, if I agreed with Rand Paul, I would have said you were out of your mind. But he's right.

Shaun, I really like the Objections & Answers format. It is concise, clear, and a great guide for conversations with those buying into the propaganda.

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Midi Drew's avatar

I don’t often agree with Rand Paul, but he’s 100% correct here.

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cheryl sukhtian's avatar

31st of May 2010. Israel attacked and bombed ships heading to Gaza with desperately needed medical supplies and food. Israel killed 9 of the courages people on board one of the boats.

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cheryl sukhtian's avatar

Message for Rand Paul, Israel murders people on boats carrying aid for Gaza. Trump isn’t the only hypocrite in Washington.

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lucie's avatar

Right now it's your bonehead president. You know tge pooping on America

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Mighty Scout Flies's avatar

2 things can be true at once and not necessarily related. Your point?

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Alison Bailey's avatar

Well this needs to go viral too

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Bob Nickerson's avatar

Little Rand is the new Big Balls. Hooray.

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Laurie T Miller's avatar

The good news in Rand Paul speaking up is the fact that leaders are starting to abandon their "strongman" dictator Trump, this is part of the process of how dictators fail.

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MKboyanddogmom's avatar

Never ever ever thought I would agree with Rand Paul- and I do on this situation.

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Tom Wells's avatar

Saddam Hussein was a murderous dictator. I recall a video showing him walking behind a row of prisoners shooting them. Apparently Bush Junior was appalled that his Papa had not killed Saddam in the war to preserve Kuwaiti 'rights' to transverse drill into Iraqi oil fields. So Junior killed Saddam - and 650,000 others (Lancet Survey total excess deaths, over 90% violent, March 2003\[Dash]June 2006. And then we kept on bombing them at least to 2020.

In 2001 I read a report of Israelis across the river celebrating as airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center - I was mystified. I did not then understand the territorial ambitions of the Mossad, nor that AIPAC had de facto control of 'our' mideast policy.

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Clarity…. LWest's avatar

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An interesting glitch to tRump’s reasoning for targeting countries outside of the USA….

SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 3:07PM

US Citizens Were 80 Percent of All Convicted Drug Traffickers in 2024

By David J. Bier and Sahana Krishnamurthy

On September 2, the US military conducted a strike on a small boat near Venezuela believed to be carrying illegal drugs, resulting in the deaths of 11 individuals on board.

In a statement, President Trump claimed the crew was made up of members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and later released a video showing drone footage of the attack. On September 15, his administration killed three more people on another boat in the Caribbean

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US citizens still made up 78 percent of offenders (9,362 out of 12,004 convictions nationwide). In other words, Americans dominate all drug trafficking convictions, not just fentanyl. The idea that illegal immigrants are the primary drivers of the problem simply doesn’t match reality; US citizens remain the clear majority of those convicted of drug trafficking. As the figure below shows, US citizens clearly outnumber all other groups combined.

https://www.cato.org/blog/us-citizens-were-80-all-convicted-drug-traffickers-2024

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Laurie T Miller's avatar

So, was Rand Paul's real name Ann Rand while Trump began ruining the lives and murdering our population using ICE as his nationwide police force, until he started murdering foreigners in international waters, a bridge to far?

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Fran Carbonaro's avatar

Good to see some of those on the Right rebutting Trump's lies.

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Dave Stewart's avatar

Who will Trump find a primary Paul?

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lucie's avatar

They have no regard for life. Petey blow it away likes what. Trump murder fisherman. Wake the fckup people

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Old lady's avatar

The world knows that these are lies. No one trust a thing coming from his mouth nothing!!!!!!!

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