OK - I'm Perplexed - Are You?

#DepravedDementedDonnie and his loyal sidekick #PentagonPete have apparently decided that one of the greatest threats to our homeland security is... tiny boats, the size of a Home Depot canoe. They float in international waters and may or may not be carrying a few grams of cocaine to America. But, without any confirmation of such, the blustering bombers have ordered military “blow-them-out-of-the-water” tactics, thereby killing (murdering?) dozens of Venezuelans who are on those tiny boats. The claim is that these small boats are smuggling cocaine into our country, though no evidence of that has been given to Congress or the American people – not a shred – not a sliver – not a sprinkle – not even a microscopic cocaine flake. Since #DeceitfulDonnie and #ReadyForMyCloseupPete are both habitual liars, how do we know these boats are smuggling cocaine and aren’t just plain ol’ fishing boats, manned by plain ol’ fishermen? You think maybe the goal is the spectacle, not seizure?

For argument’s sake, let’s say our #PutUponPresident and #PetulantPete are right and these low-level drug mules armed with sunburns and bad life choices are cocaine smugglers - how much cocaine could actually fit on those small boats carrying a half dozen drug mules and two sardine tins? An ounce? A Ziploc baggie? Perhaps a kilo? And, how do #ConvictedFelonDonnie and #PrettyBoyPete know that these cocaine canoes, with a piss-poor amount of cocaine, are headed to America and not just up the coast somewhere closer to Venezuela to make a few pesos to buy food for their families? From most news account, in real life actual cocaine smugglers use cargo ships or semi-trailer trucks in cahoots with corrupt officials – it’s not “Gilligan’s Island: Narco Edition.”

And, AND, since the drug fentanyl is the drug that’s actually killing Americans by the thousands, why is our #BoneSpursPresident and #TattooedPete murdering these “maybe or maybe not” drug mules over tiny quantities of cocaine? As most druggies (when sober) will tell you, cocaine is not fentanyl.

So... why isn’t this “stop the cocaine-smuggling boats” (if that’s really what they are) not a Coast Guard mission? The Coast Guard are actually trained, staffed, funded and equipped to stop these small boats, seize any illegal contraband and arrest any smuggling mules for interrogation. But, instead, we get the Pentagon, because nothing screams “tactical mastery” like launching multimillion dollar weapons at something smaller than a Boston Whaler.

It’s almost as if this is a White House video game for the MAGA crowd …#CarnivalBarkerDonnie can hawk this latest Christmas item for sale to go along with his gold sneakers, Trump Bibles and Trump watches.

Hence my first perplexity.

Perplexity #2: If our #BribeTakingPresident and #MachoManPete are so heroically devoted to stopping the drug that is actually killing Americans (you know fentanyl), then why do they keep hyperventilating about the wrong drug in the wrong place supposedly by the wrong people via the wrong method? Fentanyl isn’t arriving on dinghies cruising past Barbados. It’s coming through land ports, hidden in cars and trucks, and trafficked by organized cartels - something even the DEA has explained repeatedly.

If our #DementedDeludedDonnie is truly trying to stop the smuggling of fentanyl into our country, why isn’t he trying to do so where the drugs are actually coming from? Which, as we’ve been told a zillion times, is on land, in large quantities, smuggled across our southern border from Mexico. Yet, fentanyl is still streaming into the United States. Hasn’t #LiarInChiefDonnie claimed he totally closed our southern border – sealed and double-locked it? Hmmmmm. Maybe he just closed the part that keeps brown refugees out.

And my third perplexity? Why then, in the name of logic, if he wants to eliminate drug traffickers, did #DepravedDonnie pardon the ex-Honduran president, one of the world’s most prolific drug traffickers who smuggled over 4 TONS of cocaine into the United States, killing who knows how many Americans, adults and children?

#TryingMyLastNerveTrump claims this poor ex-Honduran president is in jail for #trumpeduppoliticalcharges issued by President Joe Biden. Yeah, right. A phrase #DuplicitousDon apparently believes works like Febreze: spray it on anything and the stench disappears. Or has money been exchanged and paid to #ConManDonnie – a bribe, perhaps? A second hmmmm. Wouldn’t be the first time this #KingOfGriftPresident accepted money for political favor. Even so, why pardon a drug trafficking king while murdering inconsequential, pathetic drug mules, if you’re trying to keep drugs out of America? It’s not a good look.

And why has he (not Congress) declared “war” on Venezuela?

Do you see my problem here?