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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Since President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. has taken aggressive steps to curb the flow of drugs from the Southern hemisphere. The administration has conducted about 45 strikes against suspected smuggling vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean, killing more than 150 people.

    Love to drop a kilo of explosives on some poor bastard out fishing, because I’ve got a hunch.

    Noboa has courted the Trump administration over the past year in the hopes of securing assistance. He came to Washington for Trump’s second inauguration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Ecuador in September, and told reporters that the U.S. would “blow up” criminal groups if needed.

    So… funny story about President Noboa

    In a March 23 debate held for candidates in forthcoming presidential elections, challenger Luisa González and incumbent President Daniel Noboa exchanged accusations of corruption and ties to organized crime.

    After Noboa accused González of links to money laundering, González repeatedly questioned her rival about Noboa Trading, a banana exportation company owned by the president’s family.

    “They export drugs in banana boxes belonging to Mr. Daniel Noboa’s company to Croatia and Italy,” González said of Noboa Trading.

    Noboa responded by tacitly admitting that there have been cases of drug trafficking through the company’s shipments but denying any wrongdoing.

    If there’s one thing narco-traffickers hate, its competition.






  • Idk about “winning”, but definitely “flooding the zone so hard that you struggle to find normal music anymore”.

    Check out Bandcamp if you’re looking for “same vibe, different artist”. They’ve got a ton of musicians on the platform that do a great job of churning out period and style specific material that’s still human-made and different enough from the original that it doesn’t feel like the same song.

    But YouTube Music, Spotify, and Soundcloud are all just drowning in the slop. The only winning move is not to play them.