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Keifer Allan's avatar

"FOG OF WAR" ... um.. what war? Only Congress can approve war. Try again murderers.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Yes, and there were no bombs or bullets flying around Hegseth in the nice room where the order was given. It may have been exciting to Pete, to have the power to actually KILL with a simple 'voice command', which is ever so much more cool than in the video games I am sure he enjoys. But his 'giving into the excitement' is not a defense. Most likely he just didn't want to leave any civilian witnesses, not realizing he had witnesses much worse for him than civilians.

Remember, these bombings were not for any valid reason, Pete knew he had NO reason to believe there were actual drugs on that boat, and was perhaps worried a witness might be able to prove he was not a drug carrier. Did I forget to mention both Trump and Hegseth are idiots?

The burden of proof on ANY of the bombings as being 'necessary' is on the Administration. If you are in an active war zone in the middle of an actual declared war, then it is generally presumed the people there are most likely enemy combatants and you do not always need to let them shoot you first. But there was no declared war, there was no 'war zone', there were no uniforms or actual evidence drugs were on the boats, no American or even American equipment was in any danger whatsoever. In other words there was ZERO justification for using bombs on the boats in ANY of these encounters.

Trump is so used to treating accusations the same as convicted in court, that he just naturally jumps straight from 'they could be drug runners' to 'Kill them all'.

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Susan Callihan's avatar

While he casually pardons a major drug runner.

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Light Warder's avatar

Let's find the betting line on whether our SCOTUS says The Fog of War is justification for murder.

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Keifer Allan's avatar

Bet it goes 6-3

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Ugh. Disgustingly as always.

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Jax's avatar

All those sycophants have their noses so far up trumpf’s rump they’ll do whatever he says.

South Park needs to have all of them with brown stains on their faces, not just Pam Bondi!

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Martha Kenne's avatar

Yes!

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Linda Weide's avatar

Hegseth is the "Secretary of War CRIMES!" I notice in a picture shared on Jeff Tiedrich's Substack that Hegseth's sign in the administration meeting is spelled "SSecretary of War." Is that a mistake or a message? I think the latter.

Jeff Tiedrich post. Scroll down a bit to the picture of Hegseth and his sign. https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/shh-dont-wake-preznit-fuckwit-cabinet?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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William Patterson's avatar

As a British news commentator says "If they couldn't see through the fog why did they order a second strike?"

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I appreciate that other nations are holding trump and his staff accountable. I think they know the majority of Americans do not support this, but I don't think they understand why we don't do anything about trump....I for sure don't.....

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PeachBlossom's avatar

That hit me like a "well, duh" point. I'm ashamed that didn't occur to me!

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Patti War's avatar

That was only BS !

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Cheeto Busy Buying Votes Using Billionaires Money

It’s no secret that Cheeto has a cadre of kiss ass billionaires around him to buoy his shit policies and regime It’s also no secret that there is a huge wealth gap in this country with billionaires getting richer as the middle and lower income classes struggle to make ends meet Only an asshole like Cheeto would dream up a scheme to buy votes with less than a promise he would follow through

Michael Dell of Dell Computers is making a “donation” to kids of low income families to the tune of $6B (yes that’s with a “B”) to fund what will be called “Trump accounts” Of course this is not out of the generous heart of Dell He’s been cajoled to make a Republican Nazi “business deal” donation for Cheeto so he can make good with his “Trump accounts” or baby accounts

This money according to the deal will be invested for the children So what makes this different than Dell investing for himself? And what happens when Cheeto is not president? Will the money get pulled and go away? So this is just another Cheeto grift to possibly persuade some voters who don’t know any better And furthermore BOYCOTT Dell There are plenty of other good computer companies out there In short any company that contributes to this Nazi regime should be boycotted eg Target, HP, Home Depot, Avelo Air, Amazon, Spotify, WaPo, AT&T, TMobile, Comcast etc, etc, (https://bit.ly/4oB62p4)

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Jeff Lazar's avatar

The weirdest part of the Dell story, for me, is that both of them are Jewish...yet they capitulated to the Ameri-Nazis.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Interesting....Jewish defensive move so Cheeto won't send them to Israel

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Anne Gayler's avatar

American Nazi are persecuting the people with brown skin first before they go after the Jews.

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Linda Weide's avatar

I will assume they are secular and therefore it is just historical, not personal.

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David Maceira's avatar

Here's a list of the Top Donors for the 2024 election cycle. It names them, the company(s) they own, how much they donated and which party they donated to. Spoiler. The majority of them donated to republi-Nazi's.

https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donors

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Irene Finn's avatar

Thanks for the link. Interesting read.

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David Maceira's avatar

Follow the money...

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MargaretT's avatar

Thank you.

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Jax's avatar

My guess is no children will ever see any benefits from that deal- except trumpf’s satan spawn!

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Protect the Vote's avatar

That's the whole point....looks good in the beginning but in the end, there's nothing Replacing the current "social safety net" BUT that's the Republican Nazi way Screw everyone because "god dammit I worked hard for my $$$" Utter nonsense and an excuse to avoid societal responsibility Abject greed

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Anne Gayler's avatar

I think Dell is using this as a tax dodge.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Absolutely

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Christopher Reid's avatar

And the underlying point of it all is to stop talking about the Epstein Files, which the media has followed dutifully

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Teri's avatar

I'd love to see this turn out right! It's beyond time for some of these liars to see consequences for their actions.

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Irene Finn's avatar

It is long overdue!! Trump always seems to grease his way out of accountability.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Poltroon Pete is SecDef. He should know what the hell is going on.

That's all I've got.

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

This evil regime is exploding in real time and they can’t stop this. The facts are there from the top down. It’s time these people pay for their actions. They are not above the law.

Michael, you’re a great writer. Thank you.

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Jax's avatar

Do you realize how many times he has proven he is above the law based on his criminal history and lack of consequences. I’ve given up hope of actually seeing him pay for his crimes while he’s alive. The only thing that keeps me warm and fuzzy is knowing he can’t worm his way out of his sins in the afterlife!

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

Don’t ever give up hope!

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Lissa Whyte Douglas's avatar

He really writes well, doesn’t he?

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Nancy Richardson's avatar

Yes, he does write well.

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cnlights2's avatar

Fog of war?😂Fog of alcohol. Fog of the dumpsters disaster. As the walls come tumbling down...

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WJB Motown's avatar

The current White Trash House....ball room walls will come tumbling down when TacoTits finishes that last bucket of KFC and the heartless heart says "Im outta here."

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Jzayman's avatar

That’s what I was thinking. It was probably the Fog of Alcohol!

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Linda Ann Robinson's avatar

Hegseth not even an effective liar with "fog of war." Brain fog closer to the truth.

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Kathryn's avatar

I don’t think trump is pacing or screaming endlessly at anyone: he doesn’t have the energy or stamina anymore. Long nights rage posing trash make him too weak to stand let alone pace back and forth.

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cnlights2's avatar

Maybe not. But picture it: he looks like a little girl. Add the screaming and its hilarious! (sorry to all little ones!).

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David Maceira's avatar

t is so predictable. Shit hits the fan when his inept Secretary of Murder fogs his way into a potential congressional investigation. Since it's likely to implicate his orange immenseness we get the standard shambolic "I know nothing" Shultz treatment. Bullshit. As we've all seen t-Rump's schtick of flaccid continuous lies is like a broken record. It's older than the pyramids and twice as dusty.

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Untrump's avatar

Good call! Rename the DOD , the Department of murder for 12 year olds playing Army!

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Ellie Alive In 25's avatar

I'm only surprised he didn't claim it was a shark with a magnet.

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Barbara Lee's avatar

😝

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Fixed Fire's avatar

He's enjoying this distraction while they continue to redact the Epstein files.

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CAROL F. HAUCK's avatar

Pete is another rotten fucker. No shortage in the Donny regime.

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Nicole's avatar

Go Michael Go!!! We love you!

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nothappynow's avatar

There is a recent video showing Hegseth telling whoever was in the audience that it's illegal to do the double tap it's insane he had it's right there he said it I think in 2017 or 2018 he knows the law

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