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larry gassan's avatar

Its lethal performative War Boner Exercise for Josh Hawley, who mysteriously never served.

Jacqueline Klein's avatar

trump on Thursday; I have no problem releasing the video. Fast forward; “I didn’t say that” followed by third grade level insults.

Reader's avatar

Yet every single one of them would and I'm sure has gone to parties where the head honchos are, the guys who make the money. They drink and chat and shake each other's hands and tell jokes. The runners are indeed the poor guys. Getting rid of them changes absolutely nothing. And everybody knows that. This is murder for murder's sake. They are snuff films.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Billionaires have yachts. Yachts travel about in international waters. Yachts look like they could carry a whole shitload of guns and cash for the "narco-terrorists". Venezuela would be well within its rights if it responded to any intel supporting that possibility with drone strikes.

Wookiee Monster's avatar

“And if the US does those things, what even are the Western Civilization Values that everybody is supposed to be fighting for? Whatever they are, it is a dark vision.”

Actually, they’re very white.

For example, in 2016, Peg Hagueseth was talking about the possibility of receiving illegal orders from a black guy. So you can see how that’s totally different from today, where Hagueseth made sure to remove the only black guy in the chain of command.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. Murder on the high seas is murder. Not a war crime; we're not at war. The maladministration of That Thing in the Offal Office is a suckfest of hypocrites and liars. AOT, K.

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I wonder if it's penetrated what's left of Chump's little pea brain that murder is not an official duty of the President, the only basis for granting him immunity.

That's why we have the CIA.

Gary Seven in Space's avatar

" a military lawyer, who told him that bombing the survivors was just fine"

Why is Boarding and Impounding not an option?

Asking for Posterity...

easelox is on timeout's avatar

wang too small for sissy moves like that

boo radley's avatar

we're ALL asking.

as a biologist I can't help but think that kilos of cocaine (plus a sunken boat!) won't be good for the environment either. But there was nothing stopping them arresting these dudes.

Phil Blythe's avatar

Sharks driving boats they rebuilt in a cocaine fueled frenzy! This has to me a movie.

boo radley's avatar

They literally must be fighting Rambo. "Sir, sir, he looked like he was going to throw a bag of cocaine at me, sir, and I know that DRUGS KILL."

Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Well they canceled the EPA here, so I guess Ocean Environmental Fuck Ups is not a high priority to them...

boo radley's avatar

Bradley said that the boat was headed to Suriname and the cocaine was likely going to end up in Europe or Africa. Which begs the question: so why the fuck are we killing these poor assholes again?

Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Do you have any idea exactly how small Pete Hagueseth's penis is?

boo radley's avatar

I have met and done dirty things with men with literal micropenises who had far more masculinity and confidence than he'll ever have. His emotional peepee is forever flaccid.

Resist Herr GropenFuhrer's avatar

I would just like to point out, as one of the ONLY type of Nazis that are allowed on Wonkette (grammar ones), that <<this>> is technically incorrect:

Apparently 41 minutes elapsed between strikes, where the survivors were clinging and waving from the overturned hull of the boat, not armed, and not a threat. And not radioing for backup like Defense WAR department sources had claimed at one point. <<And the boat was not even pointed in the direction of the US, but headed to Suriname, in the exact opposite direction.>>

Technically (TECHNICALLY!), the boat HAD BEEN headed to Suriname, prior to being blown to smithereens. After that, it was not headed anywhere, because (as noted) it had been blown to smithereens and was now, as they say, "dead in the water".

Other than that minor detail, you are entirely correct -- it was a huge, illegal clusterfuck, as you can easily tell by all the pearl-clutching by GOP and changing stories by Trump & DoD.

I hope Hegseth goes to a NATO conference in Europe (oh, wait -- that'll never happen now ... maybe a friend's wedding? Oops, no friends ... hmmm...) and gets his ass Pinochet'ed off to Switzerland (or anyplace else that would ignore Trump's squeals of outrage) for his very own war-crimes trial. Wouldn't that be nice?!*

* A: Yes.

Doloras LaPicho's avatar

" this guy was watching a video feed in a climate-controlled room, not Pink Floyd’s father in a trench in World War II or something."

the crowd on r/PinkFloydCircleJerk are going to love this

Gary Seven in Space's avatar

"Hellooo hellooo helloooo"....

VwllssWndr's avatar

Yep, called it. They're cooking up "intel" to justify the attacks the way they cooked up WMD intel under W to invade Iraq.

"M"'s avatar

I need people to also be looking at the fact that all the people they are deliberately murdering are brown

IN THE CONTEXT of all these other things

While People Weren't Looking - Donald Trump Made White Nationalist Power Official Policy

https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/while-you-werent-looking-trump-made

America Just Got a Whole Lot More Racist Last Week

https://www.youtube.com/live/6WP_GpJlWJs?si=IymF8u3Td_pAFcj6

When White Nationalism Becomes Policy

https://youtube.com/shorts/IW-rWcpBHQw?si=FkkE8-584mzzBX2t

VwllssWndr's avatar

Absolutely. It's racial terrorism endorsed by the White House.

Thinking more and more maybe we should have had a different name for our presidential mansion.

"M"'s avatar

Do you really think so? Slaves built it. It … seems like it was named exactly what the Founding Fathers meant, considering the majority of them were also slaveowners

The Constitution - A Scam BY Rich White Men FOR Rich White Men

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5QdHsNyWlA

Hank Napkin's avatar

RELAX! TRUMP TERM ONE: "You think we don't do that stuff? We don't kill people?"

"M"'s avatar

I don't really know any person of color who heard THAT

regardless of what he said

I need people to also be looking at the fact that all the people they are deliberately murdering are brown

IN THE CONTEXT of all these other things

While People Weren't Looking - Donald Trump Made White Nationalist Power Official Policy

https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/while-you-werent-looking-trump-made

America Just Got a Whole Lot More Racist Last Week

https://www.youtube.com/live/6WP_GpJlWJs?si=IymF8u3Td_pAFcj6

When White Nationalism Becomes Policy

https://youtube.com/shorts/IW-rWcpBHQw?si=FkkE8-584mzzBX2t

Hank Napkin's avatar

Please remember that when “quoting” Codename : Shambles from memory one will have the tendency to correct the grammar and make the statement somehow comprehensible. I readily admit to this failing. But I also insist that Codename : Shambles did in fact say this — or nearly this — during an interview in response to being asked about some Russian atrocity. With his usual sense of equanimity and panache Codename : Shambles was simply pointing out that the U.S. is just as shitty as all those shithole countries.

Enter Ranting's avatar

Trump will release the footage right after his tax returns from 2016.

Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Are they STILL auditing those...?

Shallow state's avatar

He seems so committed to the commission of war crimes, it raises the hair on the back of my neck thinking about what Tom Cotton may have done during his service as an infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's like the sensation some people report when they encountered a serial killer.

"M"'s avatar

Google "Tom Cotton" and "stolen valor"

I need people to also be looking at the fact that all the people they are deliberately murdering are brown

IN THE CONTEXT of all these other things

While People Weren't Looking - Donald Trump Made White Nationalist Power Official Policy

https://drstaceypatton1865.substack.com/p/while-you-werent-looking-trump-made

America Just Got a Whole Lot More Racist Last Week

https://www.youtube.com/live/6WP_GpJlWJs?si=IymF8u3Td_pAFcj6

When White Nationalism Becomes Policy

https://youtube.com/shorts/IW-rWcpBHQw?si=FkkE8-584mzzBX2t

Runfastandwin's avatar

every gop voter is complicit. don't let them off the hook.

Trux Mint In Box's avatar

“During that 41 minutes, Pete Hegseth was not there, though before he’d claimed to have been there the whole time, now insisting he just “didn’t stick around.”

At this point it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if Hegseth just uses these events where he has to be in the SCIF to get away from his wife long enough to bang some side piece.

“You up?”

“Yeah I can blow up another boat if you know what I mean. lol. 🍆”

We all know Hegseth wouldn’t hesitate for a second to blow up a brown person for a piece.