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Walleye

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3. I have been thinking that since the beginning. I recoil every time they use the term.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 11:02 AM

Dec 24

It’s absolute nonsense. They’re either narco traffickers or terrorists. They aren’t both. I suspect many of them are neither We haven’t had a real terrorist attack since, well, January 6, 2021. Notice how the news people dutifully repeat it constantly. They don’t care that it’s not really a word. They’re just doing what they’re told.

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As Trump/Miller work to start a land war in and on Venezuela remember NARCOTERRISM is a made up word. [View all] Botany Dec 24 OP

True, but all words are made up. DavidDvorkin Dec 24 #1

Won't be much of a war but as usual there will be no US post war plan and Venezuela will be in tatters dutch777 Dec 24 #2

I have been thinking that since the beginning. I recoil every time they use the term. Walleye Dec 24 #3

All we can do is keep saying that NARCOTERRORISM is a made up word. Botany Dec 24 #4

Yes, and it's also stupid and nonsensical Walleye Dec 24 #5

Ask Barbie McSpokesblond if she knows it is a made up word and that narcotic dealers don't Botany Dec 24 #6

They really seem to have no knowledge of the past. Including the failed war on drugs. Walleye Dec 24 #7