(A popular left-wing Internet meme, unknown creator. Screenshot by author.)
Posted on 11/13/2025 11:03:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
(A popular left-wing Internet meme, unknown creator. Screenshot by author.)
A popular left-wing meme (unknown author) compares Rodrigo Duterte, former president of the Philippines who was often called the “Donald Trump of Asia” for his fiery speaking style and unconventional leadership, with Donald Trump himself. Earlier this year, Duterte was arrested for his role in an “anti-narcotics campaign” that saw thousands killed.
Under international law, there is no question that Duterte went way overboard with his War on Drugs. Many killings were extrajudicial. He offered bounties for the dead bodies of known drug traffickers, without caring how they were killed, or by whom.
When Duterte was arrested, he was extradited to the Netherlands, where he will stand trial before the International Criminal Court. That’s appropriate. Estimates of the dead from his War On Drugs are between 6,000 and 13,000. To make a long story short, he was doing it wrong.
But when Trump (acting through Pete Hegseth and the War Department) blows up a drug boat in the “Gulf of America” or the eastern Pacific, it’s perfectly legal. Tons of cocaine, heroin and/or fentanyl sink to the bottom of the ocean. A few drug traffickers become shark bait.
Collateral damage is zero. U.S. casualties are zero. From a national security perspective, it’s hard to criticize these results, except to falsely claim that it’s a “human rights violation,” and those poor drug-traffickers deserve due process.
In the spirit of the holiday season, I offer two solutions for the lunatic left-wing fringe (LLWF). First, they could make Hunter Biden a prosecutor in Delaware, so that he can try to bring charges against Trump. After all, Hunter has been hit pretty hard by this, watching all that lovely cocaine sink to the bottom of the ocean on TV,
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I really don’t have a problem with what Duterte did.
Me, neither. I don’t even have a lot of sympathy for the addicts who create the market for it. The dealers and supplyers are worse, because they want to addict more users, but I think trying to save anything from that whole mess is a waste.
Neither do I, nor does my wife who is from the Philippines. On top of that it makes her furious that Duterte has been charged and arrested for making the Philippines safer during his tenor by taking on the drug lords. The current presidential occupant in Manila is a big user himself. Of course corruption abounds inside that country, like so many others.
Bill and Hillary wink they know who the pros are.
I guess drugs before chi-coms.
Offer them statehood if they clean up the corruption. They like America. Speak English and work hard. Go to church. Make Taiwan part of the package.
We gave them their independence in ‘48. They were better off under us no matter what their hearts felt. Just don’t allow the bad ones to travel here.
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