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Al Bernasconi's avatar

Again, this is on the GOP Senators that confirmed him knowing FULL WELL he was woefully UNQUALIFIED. They need to be held accountable for this as much as Hegseth. They are incriminated in this fiasco because THEY FAILED IN THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES!

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Bob Nickerson's avatar

All maggats must be disenfranchised forever.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You're not informed

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Steve Doll's avatar

As to?

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The Angry Prole's avatar

I am informed and those who are like me.

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GREGG PLAPAS's avatar

and then some .....!

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Laurie Farnam's avatar

Absolutely spot on!!

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Bryan's avatar

Hegseth is a moron, morally bankrupt and grossly incompetent yet there is a decided impotence in the system of govt to excise this supperating sore viz Hegseth et al

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Larry's avatar

Ben, maybe you can answer a question for all America. If the now House of Putin is turned Blue before November 2026, will they have the power to go after the Goebbels of the Department of War America, Hegseth, and charge him with War Crimes. Demented Don has illegal immunity and will throw all his

Administration under the bus, see Ice Barbie and El Salvador, and they will not have immunity. America needs to hear to give us a sense that the Rule of Law will happen this time.

The Reality of the Defense In the actual Nuremberg trials, the defendants did employ variations of two main defenses: "I was just following orders" (the Befehl ist Befehl or "an order is an order" defense). This "superior orders" defense was broadly rejected by the tribunal. The judges held that individuals are still responsible for their actions when those orders are illegal or violate international law. A claim of general ignorance about the full extent of the atrocities, particularly the mass exterminations of Jews and other civilians. The real-world legal principle established was that following an unlawful order is not a valid defense against war crimes, as individuals have a moral and legal duty to refuse such orders. The court determined that many high-ranking officials were aware of the crimes and could have refused to participate without fear of execution themselves, often simply by requesting different assignments

Seventy-nine years ago this autumn, a US Supreme Court Justice named Robert Jackson, the US chief prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, began his opening statement with these magnificent words:

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

What makes this inquest significant is that these prisoners represent sinister influences that will lurk in the world long after their bodies have returned to dust. We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence, and of the arrogance and cruelty of power. They are symbols of fierce nationalisms and of militarism, of intrigue and war-making which have embroiled Europe generation after generation, crushing its manhood, destroying its homes, and impoverishing its life…. Civilization can afford no compromise with the social forces which would gain renewed strength if we deal ambiguously or indecisively with the men in whom those forces now precariously survive.

These words matter a great deal in this moment of boiling insanity, during which Holocaust deniers, revanchist Nazis, conspiracists, bigots and religious fanatics, who preach a gospel of political domination, sit together under a MAGA flag with iron devotion to their leader.

Kill them all.

— Pete Hegseth, ‘Secretary of War,’ September 2025

Imagine a Venezuelan village next to a drug lab in the jungle. Imagine something going wrong.

Imagine Pete Hegseth giving the order to wipe out the village:

Kill them all.

Imagine the order being given on an American street corner to a 20-year-old marine:

Kill them all.

Shall we pretend such things have not happened before, including in America?

Eighty-five years ago, the western powers, which included England and France, allowed Adolf Hitler to carve up a European country in the middle of the continent.

Today, it is Donald Trump playing the role of appeaser, demanding that Ukraine submit to aggression by a tyrant already preparing his next conquests. The Witkoff-Kushner pact is every bit as pernicious as the Molotov-Ribbentrop act with one main difference: it is far more materially corrupt and constructed around self-enrichment schemes by Trump and his oligarchs, working in partnership with Putin and his.

Churchill was right, just as today, it has been Trump’s most steadfast and honest critics who have been right about the situation that is accelerating in danger for free people everywhere. A rising tide of malice, hate, and extremism boiling for 10 years time has intersected with a deep American derangement at a moment when Trump is spiraling out of control psychologically and physically.

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WJB Motown's avatar

First of all....NOKINGS III need minimum of 10 million in the streets......ASAP. The TRUMPENBURG trials preparttions should be starting NOW!!!

Chuckles and Jeffries need to Go NOW!!!!! Out with AIPAC$$$$ and in with young, energetic leadership that is for the American people.....

You history is spot on........why the fuck does the pedo-party want to rinse and repeat.

Venezuala is 1/ Iraq-oil 2/Vietnam-jungle warfare fighting a united South American coalition anti-US army.

Hoping that NATO (minus Orange Hitler) holds the line and does not appease the Putin-Trump alliance.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Yes they NEED to go now but will not, as the GOP continues to support them almost 100% I haven't even seen Susan Collins says any of this is "concerning". I grew up right after the McCarthy era and sort of grew up thinking the Republican Party hated communism and I still cannot adjust to their total embracing of it and fascism now. And all these self proclaimed followers of Jesus embrace the mantra kill them all, with the all being anyone who isn't white.

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WJB Motown's avatar

We remember Reagan saying those iconic words, Tear down that wall." That seems like yesterday when that happened.

The fascist fake Christian Nationalists do the opposite of the actual teachings of Jesus......it is all just total insanity.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

And I think it is a shame that mainstream media will not hold anyone either in the administration or congress accountable for their hypocrisy...no one ever asks things like if Jesus says to feed the hungry why are you cutting snap benefits, or if Jesus said welcome the stranger why do you not welcome the stranger....

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WJB Motown's avatar

Mainstream media is starting to get the message a tiny bit. John Fugelsangs book "Separation of Church and Hate".......doing great on the NYTimes book list is the go to right now. Now into 2nd...3rd printing. (Great interview on Justice Matters with Glen)

Sounds like you have it already.

The Satanic fake Christians believe Jesus carries an AR-15.........

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I don't have the book...thanks for the recommendation!

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Robert ChocolateBob Bullard's avatar

Let's follow their lead slogan and do exactly what they are preaching ..... Make America Great Again BY CONVICTING DONALD TRUMP!!

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You liberals are poorly informed and propagandized as you support Ukrainian Nazis, NATO/Imperialism, war, etc. You're not leftists and you're not antifa. You're part of the problem. To be blunt: Real leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's 💉, and the ridiculous TQIA+ nonsense. Getting rid of Trump won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before him. It wasn't a democracy or republic, either. Unlike you liberals. I have factual and educational material to back up my claims.

Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter

https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

Marxism and the Bourgeois Left

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

📑2014 Princeton Study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

The United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic.

📕Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz

The Shadow President

https://youtu.be/xPqpqs_cixg

Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. While you're there. Educate yourself on other topics as well. Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

Convicting Trump and actually having that conviction have real consequences would be a step in the right direction but I fear so much damage has been done we may never be the nation we were a year ago. Yes, we do have a sordid history from our beginning of taking away land from the folks already here and slaughtering them to slavery to the treatment of various immigrants to enacting NO Okies laws in California during the dust bowl to putting Japanese American in concentration camps in WWII...BUT we also have a history of a whole lot of rule of law and a whole lot of taking steps towards equality and justice for all, and we were respected on the world stage. Will that respect ever come back, and with it enough trust to invest in America, to spend tourist dollars here, to immigrate to find jobs picking crops? When will foreign doctors start to come back to America to fill the shortages we have? I think so much has changed on the world stage that it will never be the same again.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You liberals are poorly informed and propagandized as you support Ukrainian Nazis, NATO/Imperialism, war, etc. You're not leftists and you're not antifa. You're part of the problem. To be blunt: Real leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's 💉, and the ridiculous TQIA+ nonsense. Getting rid of Trump won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before him. It wasn't a democracy or republic, either. Unlike you liberals. I have factual and educational material to back up my claims.

Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter

https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

Marxism and the Bourgeois Left

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

📑2014 Princeton Study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

The United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic.

📕Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz

The Shadow President

https://youtu.be/xPqpqs_cixg

Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. While you're there. Educate yourself on other topics as well. Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

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WJB Motown's avatar

There is nothing here that is new. What are you??? A member of the GOP???

Just a pile of projection from an angry person with no ideas to solve problems.

Why dd you repeat this jet stream of nothingness???

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62mar's avatar

From what I understand there is nothing in writing that says trump is not prosecute able.

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KCM's avatar

Except for the Supreme Court ruling that gives him immunity on all official actions deemed within the purview of the presidency.

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juju's avatar

Many of the things Trump is doing are not normally "official actions" nor " within the purview" of the presidency. All you need do is read the Constitution to see that his behavior did not come from that document, was not in any way inspired by that document, and as a matter of fact contradict it . . .

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KCM's avatar

Agree, juju. The ruling is a stain on the Constitution that has given Trump a literal free rein to commit illegal acts. It's an interesting question whether this immunity will apply to international law violations.

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Debbie E's avatar

Maybe the SC will reverse their immunity decision....yeah, how naive of me to think that they would.......

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62mar's avatar

I don't think he can on international charges

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ajay ess's avatar

thank you. brilliantly stated. that moment in history in 1945 to the conviction of nazi criminals in 1946, showed the moral obligation of the usa to lead the world in terms of JUSTICE.

trump and his gang of murderers have deleted that obligation and poured shit all over the legacy of the nuremberg trials.

your post should be printed and pasted into every bulletin board of every corner store in the whole of rural america to let those voters know just exactly what they have done to shame the memories of the amazing allied soldiers who lost their lives for the cause of freedom and justice. we were the home of the brave, free, and just....now we are the home of murder and corruption.

to all trump gang members - you will be tried at the next nuremberg trials.

to all trump media and trump voters.... SHAME. SHAME. SHAME. ON YOU ALL FOR BRINGING SHAME TO THE USA.

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Quantum Kitty's avatar

I felt your angst in every word💚

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Carol's avatar

You hit it out of the ballpark, Larry. We are in big big trouble!

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You liberals are poorly informed and propagandized as you support Ukrainian Nazis, NATO/Imperialism, war, etc. You're not leftists and you're not antifa. You're part of the problem. To be blunt: Real leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's 💉, and the ridiculous TQIA+ nonsense. Getting rid of Trump won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before him. It wasn't a democracy or republic, either. Unlike you liberals. I have factual and educational material to back up my claims.

Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter

https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

Marxism and the Bourgeois Left

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

📑2014 Princeton Study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

The United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic.

📕Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz

The Shadow President

https://youtu.be/xPqpqs_cixg

Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. While you're there. Educate yourself on other topics as well. Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

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Heather's avatar

Hegseth thinks he is a star in a war movie, in the background, looking good in a uniform, ordering his minions to do all the dirty work but never actually appearing on the front line.

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Len Layton's avatar

There’s also the murder stuff

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Quantum Kitty's avatar

Why do i still feel sure when its all said & done hegseth will receive a pardon from trump & land on his feet?? I hate this defeatist attitude that strikes at my heart every couple of days, only to awaken with renewed determination, then back to defeat - rinse & repeat 🙄

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Marcus Stevens's avatar

Can Trump pardon someone from International War Crimes?

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Alan Greenstein's avatar

I think not. Trump has no jurisdiction at the Hague/ICC. In fact, the ICC can charge Trump as well. I realize that our home grown war criminals and criminals against humanity would never be turned over to the ICC, but Trump, Hegseth, whoever, can still be tried in absentia, and could be immediately arrested if they set foot in a country that is a member of the ICC. With all these crimes being committed by an inhumane regime, something unprecedented in our nation's history, UNTIL NOW ... When the Democrats get back in power, the US should finally join the ICC.

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Quantum Kitty's avatar

Watch DemocracyNow on you tube entitled

Could Hegseth face war crimes probe for killing survivors of US boat strike?

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peter's avatar

dont think so,as its panel of international judges!which usa has only one seat,so that person can vote no,and other countries yes,and usa out-voted,shooting a vessel one thing,going and killing survivors is a crime

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62mar's avatar

No

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Doc Blase''s avatar

62Mar is right; there is no ongoing war against an armed organized group, therefore war crimes is not the correct precedent for prosecution.

It's extrajudicial homicide, which is worse. And being that the venue is international I don't think the crimes are pardonable by a President, either; an unconstitutional Supine Court opinion or no.

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Quantum Kitty's avatar

Well he pardoned the x president of Honduras - so i guess he not only is king, but he is god 🙄🙄🙄

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Edward mead's avatar

YES

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Susie S's avatar

I hear you, Q Kitty!!! It's a constant roller coaster of just TOTAL BULLSHIT. I am so ashamed of my country right now, it makes me cry. It's very hard for me to believe that people STILL don't see what's really going on with Trump's plan (ie, the authors of the Mandate 2025.)

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Martha Kenne's avatar

I feel the exact same way!

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Robert  Taylor's avatar

Declassify the OLC memo and release it. Only NAZIS kill shipwreck survivors

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Not anymore. MAGAS can own this one.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

Said the ignorant liberal who supports Ukrainian Nazis

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Robert  Taylor's avatar

I block shitposters!

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Mike Hammer's avatar

But with Hegseth gone, who will order shooting protesters in the legs?

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

Noem

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Doc Blase''s avatar

Dumpty will find a way. It's all a murderous ploy to distract from the pedo files which remain mysteriously in limbo.

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Momma2007's avatar

Here’s a sobering fact… missile strikes are not approved by one man. These orders, and plans, involve approval and participation by multiple people in power more than once - including POTUS. Let THAT sink in.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

And it's contrary to the UCMJ which uses shooting shipwreck survivors as a specific example, so the trigger-pullers should know better and had a duty to refuse.

It's almost as though they haven't read Everything Trump Touches, Dies.

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Mark Karasik's avatar

Trump is a criminal moron who puts into positions power other criminal morons. Pam Bondi, Robert “Brain Worm” “I was a junkie for twenty years” “don’t take any advice from me about medicine”Kennedy Jr. Dog Killer Kristi Noem, But perhaps most egregious is Drunken Pete Hegseth, who barely had any military experience, and who like Trump has a history of sexual abuse and fiscal mismanagement. Also like Trump he was a TV personality. Also a sloppy drunk. Put them all in prison and throw away the key.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You liberals are poorly informed and propagandized as you support Ukrainian Nazis, NATO/Imperialism, war, etc. You're not leftists and you're not antifa. You're part of the problem. To be blunt: Real leftists don't support the democratic party, Reformist/Trotskyist individuals and organizations, the US military and empire, NATO, No Kings, Mamdani, Bernie, AOC, mRNA's 💉, and the ridiculous TQIA+ nonsense. Getting rid of Trump won't solve the problem. That of capitalism. The US was a terrible country long before him. It wasn't a democracy or republic, either. Unlike you liberals. I have factual and educational material to back up my claims.

Liberalism and Fascism

https://youtu.be/6ceSi2hLQ7g

Critique of the Western Left

https://youtube.com/shorts/k_aCwWTGgXQ

Battling the Fake Left

https://www.youtube.com/live/_O8UFkoPhz8

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers

https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/

No Kings Protests and The Democratic Party

https://youtu.be/hUa2Lr6em3Q

A March About Nothing

https://youtu.be/WDISVEdlLJs

Why The 'No Kings' Protests Didn't Matter

https://realleecamp.substack.com/p/why-the-no-kings-protests-didnt-matter?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

https://youtu.be/wyIxCAZ4vlY

The Folly of Greens and Social Democrats

https://youtu.be/BRkUl-ZaU1g

Marxism Vs. Liberalism

https://youtu.be/lc3_z9Vhihw

Marxism and the Bourgeois Left

https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/05/marxism-leninism-is-not-part-of-the-left/

📑2014 Princeton Study: Public opinion has “near-zero” impact on U.S. law.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

The United States can be considered the following: an oligarchy, a corporatocracy, an inverted totalitarianism system, a gerontocracy, a kakistocracy, a kleptocracy, and/or a techno feudalist society. But It is not a democracy, nor is it a republic.

📕Book Recommendation: We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few by Robert Ovetz

The Shadow President

https://youtu.be/xPqpqs_cixg

Refer to the information I've collected on my website via my profile regarding the evils of capitalism. Start with the Dialectical Materialism page. While you're there. Educate yourself on other topics as well. Oh, and stop assuming and calling everyone a Trump supporter who disagrees with and knows more than you. It's incredibly childish.

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Al Draycott's avatar

Thanks Michael: Great article. The leader of one of the finest military in the world once paid $50,000 for consensual sex. Go figure. Blasting and murdering alleged drug dealers and possible fishermen out of the Caribbean sea while his leader pardons drug dealers and cartel leaders left right and center. Trump's pardon czar Alice Marie Johnson operates "Pay for a Pardon INC" Just made that up.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

Only ignorant fools and bourgeois politicians support the United States military and US in general. We must never salute and show respect towards the American flag. The United States was founded on genocide and built with slavery, with the United States empire responsible for countless deaths. The American flag is soaked in blood. The only time to smile when in the presence of the flag is when it's on fire or being torn to shreds. When it comes to holidays like Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, that they are not worth celebrating as they are about brainwashing people that the United States is a great country and reinforcing that lie for those who already believe it. These holidays, I would argue, are primarily about selling and reinforcing the lie that service to the United States military industrial complex somehow made the country and that of the world a better place. After you take the time to learn about the history of the United States and its actions, you'll hopefully come to the same conclusion that I have, which is that there is NOTHING honorable about choosing to be a pawn for the military industrial complex in service to the bourgeoisie, or capitalists if you prefer. The fact of the matter is that the United States bullies and terrorizes the rest of the world as it refuses to take care of its own citizens, because of this I can't help but look at the United States' flag in disgust. The ONLY time when it was acceptable to support the troops and that of the military was during WW2. That's it. But even then, the United States didn't win the war. The Soviet Union did. The United States just swooped in at the last minute to do some minor cleanup and took all the credit. Almost immediately after the dust settled, the bourgeoisie wasted no time in stabbing the Soviet Union in the back by spreading anti-communist propaganda to get the public to fear and hate everything that gave power and any resemblance of freedom and prosperity to the proletariat. Now, if you know someone who has "served" and was injured or killed. Don't get mad at me for speaking truth to power. Direct your anger towards the United States government for sending them off to die in a pointless war, conflict, or military operation that the United States instigated. Let me be absolutely clear. Although I disagree with Veterans and military personnel, in general, for their choice to be a willing pawn for the military industrial complex who I feel are undeserving of an honor, that does not mean I hate them. Unless they were participants in war crimes and are proud of slaughtering people, whether directly or indirectly, that's a different story. People who are proud of killing others who wish they could do it over and over again, those are sick and twisted individuals. That caveat aside, I believe everyone deserves to have their needs met with a government that actually cares about the well-being of people both here and abroad. In conclusion, the underlying reason for all these wars and conflicts is that the United States needs oil to back up the petro dollar. Without the dollars influence and buying power, the United States loses most, if not all, of its hegemony and economic stranglehold over others. So, basically, the problem is that of capitalism. With that said, though, by no means does that mean other countries are innocent in their foreign affairs, but the United States is by far the worst. It's not even a contest.

■ Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases

https://worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires/

■ Companies associated with the military industrial complex

https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

■ The Myth of Western Civilization Exposed

https://youtu.be/OtJcXrpVZsA

■ Mapping US Imperialism https://www.globalresearch.ca/mapping-us-imperialism/5782752

■ US Spreads Misery across the globe

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/02/u-s-spreads-misery-across-the-globe-by-imposing-sanctions-on-a-third-of-humanity/

■ US sanctions kill 500k+ a year

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900189-5/fulltext

■ An estimation on the Death Toll of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/rIB4e8AfPcM

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Al Draycott's avatar

Thanks Angry Prole for your insight

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Julie Barrett's avatar

Disgusting and more despicable. This administration is such a cowardice sham. They all deserve what's coming... FAFO

The American people are taking note.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

You're incredibly ignorant and propagandized

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I want to know who carried out drunkard Hegseth's order? They are just as complicit as the drunk. It has to be military personnel carrying out the orders.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

Only ignorant fools and bourgeois politicians support the United States military and US in general. We must never salute and show respect towards the American flag. The United States was founded on genocide and built with slavery, with the United States empire responsible for countless deaths. The American flag is soaked in blood. The only time to smile when in the presence of the flag is when it's on fire or being torn to shreds. When it comes to holidays like Independence Day, Memorial Day and Veterans Day, that they are not worth celebrating as they are about brainwashing people that the United States is a great country and reinforcing that lie for those who already believe it. These holidays, I would argue, are primarily about selling and reinforcing the lie that service to the United States military industrial complex somehow made the country and that of the world a better place. After you take the time to learn about the history of the United States and its actions, you'll hopefully come to the same conclusion that I have, which is that there is NOTHING honorable about choosing to be a pawn for the military industrial complex in service to the bourgeoisie, or capitalists if you prefer. The fact of the matter is that the United States bullies and terrorizes the rest of the world as it refuses to take care of its own citizens, because of this I can't help but look at the United States' flag in disgust. The ONLY time when it was acceptable to support the troops and that of the military was during WW2. That's it. But even then, the United States didn't win the war. The Soviet Union did. The United States just swooped in at the last minute to do some minor cleanup and took all the credit. Almost immediately after the dust settled, the bourgeoisie wasted no time in stabbing the Soviet Union in the back by spreading anti-communist propaganda to get the public to fear and hate everything that gave power and any resemblance of freedom and prosperity to the proletariat. Now, if you know someone who has "served" and was injured or killed. Don't get mad at me for speaking truth to power. Direct your anger towards the United States government for sending them off to die in a pointless war, conflict, or military operation that the United States instigated. Let me be absolutely clear. Although I disagree with Veterans and military personnel, in general, for their choice to be a willing pawn for the military industrial complex who I feel are undeserving of an honor, that does not mean I hate them. Unless they were participants in war crimes and are proud of slaughtering people, whether directly or indirectly, that's a different story. People who are proud of killing others who wish they could do it over and over again, those are sick and twisted individuals. That caveat aside, I believe everyone deserves to have their needs met with a government that actually cares about the well-being of people both here and abroad. In conclusion, the underlying reason for all these wars and conflicts is that the United States needs oil to back up the petro dollar. Without the dollars influence and buying power, the United States loses most, if not all, of its hegemony and economic stranglehold over others. So, basically, the problem is that of capitalism. With that said, though, by no means does that mean other countries are innocent in their foreign affairs, but the United States is by far the worst. It's not even a contest.

■ Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases

https://worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires/

■ Companies associated with the military industrial complex

https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

■ The Myth of Western Civilization Exposed

https://youtu.be/OtJcXrpVZsA

■ Mapping US Imperialism https://www.globalresearch.ca/mapping-us-imperialism/5782752

■ US Spreads Misery across the globe

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/01/02/u-s-spreads-misery-across-the-globe-by-imposing-sanctions-on-a-third-of-humanity/

■ US sanctions kill 500k+ a year

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X%2825%2900189-5/fulltext

■ An estimation on the Death Toll of Capitalism

https://youtu.be/rIB4e8AfPcM

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Tammy Cocchiarale's avatar

You know I wish something could be done, but this shameful murdering has been going on for several months now. The difference is there seemed to be unarmed men afterwards. Well most likely there were unarmed men on the previous boats. He’ll get by as usual. I don’t see anything changing. Trump is still doing the same shit and so is everyone else. I do see some respite with the November elections, so yes I still have hope. Frankly, I’ll always have hope, but this regime is not leaving soon enough as they destroy our country and try to take down others on the side as well.

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J Frost's avatar

Looks like Batman’s joker.

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Melissa's avatar

Yep! I just wrote a post I haven't yet posted based on that very idea, came immediately to mind on seeing that photo. We probably are far from the only ones...

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JavaJunkyMonkey's avatar

Pete is digging his own hole. He's making it easy to get prosecuted.

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Doc Blase''s avatar

And get pardoned. That's the hell of it.

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Valerie Van Cleef's avatar

He committed a war crime. A punishable one. He should be prosecuted. He threw the General under the bus instead.

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Cappy Fann's avatar

We are not at war. It was murder.

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Valerie Van Cleef's avatar

Ok. Same ending.

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Valerie Van Cleef's avatar

Go away you maga troll.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

And yet you're totally cool with crimes when democrats do them. You're a hypocrite.

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Valerie Van Cleef's avatar

You talking to me?? I don’t care who’s doing the criming, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

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The Angry Prole's avatar

I don't believe you.

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Sandra Stewart's avatar

Hanible Hegseth has been play too many games. He looks at these boats like playing a video game of Battleship. He wants points, he wants to 'win', he doesn't see the people. The pain and suffering of their family members. He just turns the game off and waits to play again. We need to remove all of the Rumpt regime!

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Edward mead's avatar

Hagseth is doing what Trump tells him to do. Hagsebt is not the one giving orders It is TRump ONLY and putin

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Melissa's avatar

2025

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