# Mass murder on the high seas (Venezuelan "drug boat") **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 10, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910 "2025-09-10T13:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/261 "2025-12-05T14:17:06Z")
Let’s see: No evidence boat was carrying cocaine. Had 11 people aboard - why?! This boat was not heading to the US; too small, insufficient range. Tom Cotton remains an asshole. Kegsbreath and the Admiral made multiple bad/evil decisions based on, I don’t know, Ass-kissing? Maduro = bad, Honduran former leader = good??? The mind boggles. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/262 "2025-12-05T15:12:46Z")
> [@Dissonance](#): > > all he has to do is declare something to be a national emergency [My God! It’s coming right for us!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTrMBI5fvfA) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/263 "2025-12-05T15:20:16Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Cotton is an Evil MFer, chuckling and calling the missile strike ‘righteous’. Tom Cotton is a pin-head. The width of his skull is so small that it’s a wonder an adult brain could fit in it. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/264 "2025-12-05T15:56:04Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > So, part of the vessel was still afloat because it contained cocaine. I did not realize cocaine was so buoyant. I wonder if the Titanic would still be afloat today if they would have had the foresight to pack the hull with cocaine. I was today years old when I learned that boats only float because they have cocaine in them. Why isn’t the USCG just going around blowing up all of the boats everywhere? How are their own boats staying afloat?!?! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/265 "2025-12-05T17:39:44Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > How are their own boats staying afloat?!?! Synthetic opioids ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/266 "2025-12-05T17:46:19Z")
> [@Steve\_McQwark](#): > > So, part of the vessel was still afloat because it contained cocaine. If it was in plastic bags, well maybe. But it’s a long reach. Wouldn’t most small vessels stay afloat even if blown to smithereens? Certainly not seaworthy, plenty of debris to hold onto. I guess the engines could be heavy enough to pull it down. I don’t really know. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/267 "2025-12-05T17:53:59Z")
So far, no matter what his justifications may be, it sounds like Bradley ought to be prosecuted. Kegbreath gets away with it because he fortuitously stepped out of the room and missed the murders. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/268 "2025-12-05T18:52:08Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Kegbreath gets away with it because he fortuitously stepped out of the room and missed the murders. Not if his standing order was “no survivors”. I don’t know if this has been proven, but it’s been asserted. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/269 "2025-12-05T19:01:45Z")
Where I worked, if there was an accident or mishap, a drug test was automatically given. Given Kegbreath’s history, has anybody asked if he was sober when he gave the “kill them all” order? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/270 "2025-12-05T20:35:13Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Not if his standing order was “no survivors”. I don’t know if this has been proven, but it’s been asserted. That’s the key. If you can’t prove it, it doesn’t matter. If it could be proved, then just maybe there will be consequences. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/271 "2025-12-05T22:19:02Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Easy, we simply blow another boat to smithereens. Well duh, we had to save another 25,000 American lives. 22 boats times 25,000 lives saved with each boat sunk is 550,000 Americans saved from drug overdoses! > **[FACT FOCUS: There's no proof each strike on alleged drug boats saves 25,000...](https://apnews.com/article/trump-boat-strikes-drugs-25000-lives-c6e4c750b0dc6f15d397d598c9bd169f)** > > President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that strikes on suspected drug boats his administration began carrying out in September in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are saving hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. from fatal drug... ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/272 "2025-12-05T22:48:44Z")
A few more boat sinkings and the drug related death rate will drop by not 30 or 40%, which would be great, not 50% or 60%, no we’re going to get them down 1,000%, 600% 500% 1,500%. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/273 "2025-12-05T23:24:22Z")
Sadly, reducing the drug-related death rate by 1500% will, of course, exacerbate the housing crisis------we’ll be instantly creating millions of new Americans! Probably full-grown ones, too! They just pop into existence. Seriously, though: Tom Cotton is a disgrace. But I bet he reaps the Trump Regime rewards he was aiming at with his ‘_the two guys clinging to wreckage were Still In The Fight_’ claim. The Regime just _hasn’t_ come up with a convincing way to sell the idea that people in little boats are **A Fighting Force, Attacking The U.S**.----but they keep trying. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2025, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/274 "2025-12-05T23:27:44Z")
“These are the times that try men’s souls” - Thomas Paine ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/275 "2025-12-06T01:21:53Z")
I hope Cotton forgave his parents for having failed him. ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/276 "2025-12-06T01:39:06Z")
Hell, with that thinking Trump will eventually have made up for all the people he got killed during the pandemic due to his gross incompetence, mismanagement, outright lies, and rank idiocy. I mean that’s how it works right? One hypothetical life saved cancels out one very real death? That’s how you get into heaven right? That and extortion? (This post is dripping with sarcasm for our sarcasm impaired friends.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/277 "2025-12-06T01:56:19Z")
> [@Jihi](#): > > (This post is dripping with sarcasm for our sarcasm impaired friends.) Is it? Or is this the only sarcastic part of your post? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/278 "2025-12-06T02:20:03Z")
Actually nothing in that post was sarcasm. This post is sarcasm. And only this one. (We may be approaching the sarcasm singularity. I blame Trump and his corruption of reality and common sense.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/279 "2025-12-06T02:30:42Z")
[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLoBiRNWQAAeYq6.jpg) ](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GLoBiRNWQAAeYq6.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910/280 "2025-12-06T03:15:36Z")
It gets worse. > **[Survivors of Sept. 2 boat strike were waving before second attack, sources say](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/survivors-sept-2-boat-strike-waving-before-second-attack/)** > > Two people who survived an early September U.S. attack on an alleged drug boat were waving overhead before they were killed in a now-controversial second strike, according to two sources. Butcher Pete and Bradley literally murdered two people who were trying to surrender. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mass-murder-on-the-high-seas-venezuelan-drug-boat/1022910.md?page=15)