“We are considering that because a lot of people want to see it — the reclassification, because it leads to tremendous amounts of research that can’t be done unless you reclassify. So, we are looking at that very strongly,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

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    Not saying you’re wrong, but what is the latent purpose for using millions of dollars in military firepower to blow up poor drug mules at sea?

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      Yeah you’re probably right it’s probably about drugs too. They probably don’t like being undercut

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      Their military firepower manufacturing buddies get more money that way.

      On a more serious note, they’re testing the waters to see if anyone will do anything meaningful to stop them.

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        True, but they’re still dead. Mules or not, these are just poor guys in a boat. What is it that these warmongers are trying to do?

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          They aren’t trying anything. What they are doing is killing indiscriminately while drumming up a bullshit reason to start a war and invade another sovereign nation for its oil deposits.