I am not a loser.
Lawmakers voice support for congressional reviews of Trump’s military strikes on boats
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Into the Night
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Nonsensical. Ignored.
AI is not a law, Kewpie. It is not any act of Congress either.
Go learn what 'fact' means, Kewpie. It does NOT mean Universal Truth.
The act authorizes firing on drug smugglers.
False authority fallacy. Wikipedia is not an act of Congress.
1) What the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act actually was
- The MDLEA was enacted in 1986 as part of broader anti-drug legislation to strengthen U.S. law enforcement authority at sea.
- Its core purpose was to combat illegal drug trafficking on vessels, including on the high seas, by applying U.S. narcotics law to:
- U.S. vessels on the high seas
- Foreign vessels that consent to U.S. enforcement
- Vessels without nationality
- It expanded the Coast Guard’s authority to board, search, seize, and arrest suspects engaged in maritime drug trafficking in places where U.S. jurisdiction applies. Wikipedia+1
Key point: The MDLEA focus is on criminal jurisdiction and enforcement (boarding/searching/seizure), not on authorizing deadly force by the U.S. military against vessels at sea. Wikipedia
Yes.2) Did the Act authorize the military to fire on drug-smuggling boats?
Blatant lie.
There certainly is. See 21 U.S.C. § 881.
Into the Night
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The type of craft being used is the proof. The satellite images are the proof. Killing them is completely justified.
Trump did not pass the 1986 law. He is simply enforcing it.
Into the Night
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Not an act of war, Hugo.
Congress already approved the destruction of smuggling boats.
Into the Night
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Yeah. You are.
The cackling twit you voted for lost the election.
The party you support lost the election.
You have already lost this argument.
You have already lost multiple arguments, reverting to your usual mindless chants as a result.
Loser.
Into the Night
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Drugs are not oil, Hawk.
Blockading vessels from Venezuela is an act of war. It has been authorized by Congress. See Public Law No. 116-94 .
So the world is watching. An act of war is not piracy.
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Tobytone
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Oh, you most definitely are, you're just too stupid to know it.
back to ignore
Into the Night
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YAFI.
Tobytone
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Um, what's it say about designated terrorist?WHy?
Did you get duped AGAIN?
AI SUmmary with citations:
Here’s a fact-checked explanation of the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act of 1986 (MDLEA) and the question of whether it authorized the U.S. military to fire on drug-smuggling boats — including what Congress actually did and didn’t do.
- The MDLEA was enacted in 1986 as part of broader anti-drug legislation to strengthen U.S. law enforcement authority at sea.
- Its core purpose was to combat illegal drug trafficking on vessels, including on the high seas, by applying U.S. narcotics law to:
- U.S. vessels on the high seas
- Foreign vessels that consent to U.S. enforcement
- Vessels without nationality
- It expanded the Coast Guard’s authority to board, search, seize, and arrest suspects engaged in maritime drug trafficking in places where U.S. jurisdiction applies. Wikipedia+1
No — the MDLEA did not explicitly authorize the U.S. military to fire on smuggling boats as a matter of course.
- The law is a criminal enforcement statute that defines illegal conduct and gives law enforcement (not military combat authority) tools to pursue suspects on the high seas. Wikipedia
- Its primary mechanism is criminal jurisdiction and prosecution — meaning seizure, arrest, and bringing traffickers into the U.S. justice system — rather than military engagement orders. Congress.gov
There is no clause in the text of the MDLEA that says “the military may shoot drug boats in international waters.” Online claims to that effect misinterpret general interdiction authority as combat authorization, which is incorrect. Factually
These cartels are lawfully designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Full stop. The State Department slammed that label on them in February after Trump's Executive Order kicked off the process. Congress? They get zero say in designations. Thank God, because if we had to wait for Democrats to sign off on fighting terrorists, every last scumbag terrorist would still be breathing, probably running unopposed for mayor in San Francisco or a safe House seat in New York. Hell, they'd already be getting pallets of your tax dollars wired straight to their compounds. Wait...........Isn't that exactly what Democrats have been doing with Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Taliban for years?
Bottom line: nobody with a functioning brain gives a damn what you anti-American, crime-worshipping, cartel-cheerleading douchebags think. Trump is blowing up their boats and bank accounts, and the world is better for it.
