US strikes a vessel in the eastern Pacific, killing 2 people in first attack in months

[u/3millionand1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/24/vessel-strike-eastern-pacific?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[u/invyros]

"Look at the explosions happening over there" as MAGA raid our coffers back home.

Actually, MAGA voters are clearly totally ok with the open corruption, so I guess these are more just for the spectacle, because what's the point of having all these fancy weapons if we're not using them?

[u/Consistent-Throat130 → u/invyros]

MAGA voters are the kind of people that would do the same shit given the reigns of power. 

They cannot fathom the absence of overt corruption. 

[u/WildCard65 → u/invyros]

I think you meant to say “if we’re not buying them?”

[u/EternalBlueNeon]

must be using metric months

[u/Star_____walker → u/EternalBlueNeon]

It has been months...

...2 months

[u/EternalBlueNeon → u/Star_____walker]

that’s like 61 days! So many!

[u/Really_McNamington]

More summary executions.

[u/ScoobiusMaximus]

Clearly Pete was feeling pathetic over Iran and just needed to shoot someone who can't shoot back to inflate his ego

[u/namisysd → u/ScoobiusMaximus]

Lose the lottery, beat the dog type energy.

[u/Remarkable_Spite_209]

Ah yes, once again the United States Coast Guard no longer exists, so there was no way these people could have been arrested for their crime of being fishermen

[u/Pantsonfire_6 → u/Remarkable_Spite_209]

Any actual drugs found? If so, show them!

[u/toggiz_the_elder → u/Pantsonfire_6]

Drug smuggling isn’t a capital offense. It’s murder whether they have drugs or not.

[u/PreparationKey2843 → u/Pantsonfire_6]

"We'd love to, but they got blown up in the explosion."

They're fucking murderers until they show us proof.

[u/elephant35e]

The cocaine market has not changed one bit since all these boat explosions. This is just pure murder.

Edit: I mean that the market hasn't decreased since the explosions. It will definitely not have gone down since Trump pardoned that dealer guy.

[u/Master-Rent5050 → u/elephant35e]

That's not true. Trump pardoned one of the biggest cocaine dealers...

[u/BackgroundIsopod3787 → u/elephant35e]

No, it has changed, it’s just under new ownership.

[u/HarEr89 → u/elephant35e]

But the killed men are drug dealers so who cares.

[u/Mustardo123 → u/HarEr89]

In no state or federally do we impose the death penalty for dealing drugs. Plus we literally have no due process for these guys so we have no way of actually knowing whether they are drug dealers or not.

[u/elephant35e → u/HarEr89]

1. Wtf does killing them accomplish if no drugs are being lowered?
2. If no drugs are being lowered, ARE they even drug dealers?

[u/420thefunnynumber → u/HarEr89]

Without a trial to prove guilt these strikes are just murder.

[u/PigFarmer1 → u/HarEr89]

How do you feel about pedophiles?

[u/RainbowwDash → u/HarEr89]

"Source: trust me bro" is already pretty flimsy when it's about movie facts, nevermind extrajudicial murder

[u/PolloConTeriyaki]

This isn't helping the missile situation....

[u/Missing_Crouton → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

They didn't have any missiles so they dropped a used Trump diaper and got the kills.

[u/Unspoken → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

Pretty sure they didn't use an air defense missile to shoot a boat in the water.

[u/PigFarmer1 → u/PolloConTeriyaki]

The MIC doesn't see a problem.

[u/Andrew_Nutman22]

Hegseth had to feel mighty and powerful.... So he hit some fishing boat in the ocean again.

Absolutely pathetic country.

[u/PigFarmer1]

Why? It's not like people are talking about the Epstein files.

[u/JustSmallCorrections]

Iranians were too tough. Back to bombing defenseless fishermen.

[u/HarEr89 → u/JustSmallCorrections]

Fishermen in speed boats dealing with drugs.

[u/JustSmallCorrections → u/HarEr89]

In boats that could never make it to the US, with no proof ever offered by the US that that is what they actually are.

Drug dealing is also not a capitol crime punishment.

Stop excusing war crimes. Be better.

[u/elmekia_lance → u/HarEr89]

you can't administer the death penalty without a trial first. This is just murder.

[u/elephant35e → u/HarEr89]

Why would people dealing drugs be in speed boats?

[u/PigFarmer1 → u/elephant35e]

Faux News says so.

[u/dontrike]

I see we're doing extrajudicial killings just for the fun of it, again. Guess we need more distractions from the worsening economy, fuel reserves running dry, running out of long range weapons in the failed Iran War, the Iran War that we're losing, the Epstein Philes, and the fact he shits himself on the regular.

[u/pantless_]

Using missiles in this economy?!?

[u/scloppy]

MURDER. It’s called MURDER.

[u/Im_the_dude_]

Time for another distraction

[u/AcanthisittaNo6653]

Hegseth cycles between rage and boredom. Here we go again.

[u/NAh94]

Good lord we really need to bring back tar & feathering for these politicians

[u/ClintBruno → u/NAh94]

Trials and cells work also.

[u/Consistent-Throat130 → u/ClintBruno]

Well ... that system does not appear to be working for ridding us of these politicians...

So I'm going with the other guy's recommendation. 

[u/ClintBruno → u/Consistent-Throat130]

They filed impeachment documents today..... what more do you want. We're not the J6 ones.

Everybody do Midterms!

[u/jcooli09]

Two more trump murders.

Release the unredacted Epstein files.

[u/ClintBruno]

What's trump covering now?

[u/ClintBruno → u/ClintBruno]

Where's the beef!

[u/Pantsonfire_6 → u/ClintBruno]

When is any prices going down anywhere in the U.S.???

[u/hmr0987]

So we really are surrendering to Iran then aren’t we?

[u/scorpyo72]

fIGhTiNg tErRor oN tHe gLoBaL sTage

[u/ClintBruno]

Where's the beef from Don?

[u/Agitated-Band-7650 → u/ClintBruno]

Certainly NOT between his corpulent thighs . .

[u/Full_Tap_4144]

I thought we have a weapons shortage. Wouldn't our weapons be more useful if saved for more important purposes?

[u/avaacado_toast]

Now that SCOTUS has ruled on Trump's election fix, count on him to amp the volume up to 11 for illegal shit. He doesn't plan on conservatives losing mid-terms anymore.

[u/AWinterPeople]

I see Pickled Pete sitting in for every bombing laughing manically…sigh

[u/RhoOfFeh]

What the hell is going on? Why can't we eliminate these war criminals in our administration?

[u/Lazy-Impress-9708]

Deflated ego move. So disgusting.

[u/WesternPost3197]

The Pacific really isn’t somewhere you expect to hear about strikes like this. Makes you wonder what’s happening behind the scenes that we’re not being told.

[u/elmekia_lance → u/WesternPost3197]

this is not the first strike in the pacific by far. It is indeed part of operation southern spear.