Reply With Quote
Loomer is a loon
Uttlerly bat crazypants
I see no difference considering Acosta was there at one time and none of yall ed about his antics. At least she's somewhat right at times though I do think she's a sleeze.
Loomer is a loon
Uttlerly bat crazypants
And Acosta?
a very typical self-important journalist, tbh
Acosta for sure doesn't know how to suck Donald Trump's d!ck right
Republican Senators spilling the tea to the press
https://www.defenseone.com/policy/20...cotton/409297/Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark, listed several: the pause in Ukrainian security assistance, the uncoordinated review of the AUKUS agreement, opposition to deploying more U.S. troops to the Middle East during the Iran-Israel war in June, the cancellation of a meeting among top Japanese and U.S. officials, and the recent cancellation of a rotational Army brigade deployment to Romania.
“I understand that media reports can be wrong, believe me, but it just seems like there's this Pigpen-like mess coming out of the policy shop that you don't see from, say, intel and security and acquisition and sustainment,” Cotton said.
It’s not clear whether the senators’ ire for the Pentagon’s policy shop will upend Dahmer’s chances at confirmation. A spokesman for Wicker did not respond to a query from Defense One about whether the senator intended to vote in the affirmative.
“Mr. Dahmer, you're clearly avoiding answers to questions that you should have been acutely aware of in your position,” Reed said. “That does not bode very well for your future role in the Department of Defense, since it's essential that this committee has accurate and specific knowledge, and I think you've essentially indicated to us that you won't cooperate with us.”
Daniel Larison with a no bull take
These boat bombings are straight up murder
https://daniellarison.substack.com/p...-continues-364The Trump administration murdered six more civilians in the Pacific:
The United States struck two alleged drug-carrying vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Sunday, killing six people on board, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, as calls mounted for investigations into the strikes.The U.S. military has murdered more than 70 people in the Caribbean and the Pacific over the last two months. The president and the Secretary of Defense have given illegal orders to kill civilians on these boats at least 18 times and every time the orders have been carried out. The president wants to use the military as his own assassins, and it appears that no one is willing to refuse that assignment.
The government has a secret list of 24 organizations that it considers “designated terrorist organizations.” At least one of the groups, the so-called Cartel de los Soles, doesn’t really exist. Others have little to do with the drug trade. The rest are drug cartels that have nothing to do with terrorism. One thing they all have in common is that they aren’t engaged in an armed conflict with the United States. The “conflict” is completely made-up because no one is attacking or threatening to attack the U.S. or American forces in the region. The administration’s justification for the murder spree is a lie built on top of a lie built on top of another lie.
The Intercept spoke to Brian Finucane about the administration’s secret list, and he said this:
“The administration has established a factual and legal alternate universe for the executive branch,” said Brian Finucane, a former State Department lawyer who is a specialist in counterterrorism issues and the laws of war. “This is the president, purely by fiat, saying that the U.S. is in conflict with these undisclosed groups without any congressional authorization. So this is not just a secret war, but a secret unauthorized war. Or, in reality, a make-believe war, because most of these groups we probably couldn’t even be in a war with.”
The administration’s own briefings have confirmed that they don’t know who the people on the boats are, and they aren’t interested in finding out. Thanks to news reporting, we are slowly getting a better picture of who the president’s murder victims are. The Associated Press investigated earlier U.S. boat attacks and mostly found poor men trying to make a living:
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.
The men had little in common beyond their Venezuelan seaside hometowns and the fact all four were among the more than 60 people killed since early September when the U.S. military began attacking boats that the Trump administration alleges were smuggling drugs.
Many of these men may have been criminals, but they were at most small-time smugglers looking for ways to make a little more money for their families. They had done nothing that could possibly justify killing them, and they were no threat to the military that blew them up. To call these men “narco-terrorists” is a lie, and to murder them because of that lie is utterly de able.
The president cannot lawfully do any of the things he has been doing with these strikes. These boats aren’t lawful targets. The men on the boats aren’t combatants. There is no conflict and no threat of armed attack. Even if there were a conflict going on, these strikes would still be war crimes. There is absolutely no legal or moral justification for these attacks. The military’s own lawyers must know this, but they have been cowed into silence by war crimes enthusiast Pete Hegseth.
This is one of the men that was murdered on the president’s orders:
A native of Güiria, a village on the southeast side of the peninsula, Robert Sánchez dropped out of school as a teenager and like many others in the region became a fisherman like his father, according to friends and relatives. The 42-year-old was considered among the peninsula’s best pilots, they said, having spent the better part of three decades mastering the area’s currents and winds, so much so he could navigate the waters at night without instruments.
As part of hired crews, the father of four spent his days fishing for snapper, kingfish and dogfish. The fisherman wanted to save enough money to buy a 75-horsepower boat engine so he could operate his own boat and not work for others. It was a dream Sánchez knew he was likely to never realize, relatives said: Most of his income — about $100 a month — went to feed his children.
Was Robert Sánchez a threat to the United States or to any other country? To ask the question is to understand how insane and vicious our government’s policy is. Of course he wasn’t a threat. He was a poor man hired to pilot a boat, and for that “offense” our military blew him up. Murdering him will have no effect on the drug trade, but it has stolen this father from his children and left them in an even worse condition than they were before.
Every time the military blows up another boat, it is executing more poor men without trial or even the slightest pretense of due process for a crime that doesn’t carry the death penalty. These men are not enemies of our country, and our government has no right to take their lives. It is crucial that we learn the names of the victims and demand that the murder spree stops. The administration is slaughtering these men in our name, and if we fail to stop them we will be letting them get away with mass murder.
division in Five Eyes, is that a good thing?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...nce-sharing-usThe United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America.
For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
The intelligence was typically sent to Joint Interagency Task Force South, a task force stationed in Florida that includes representatives from a number of partner nations and works to reduce the illicit drug trade.
But shortly after the US began launching lethal strikes against the boats in September, however, the UK grew concerned that the US might use intelligence provided by the British to select targets. British officials believe the US military strikes, which have killed 76 people, violate international law, the sources said. The intelligence pause began over a month ago, they said.
wanton murder does not encourage allies to cooperate and share intelligence
https://www.reuters.com/world/americ...us-2025-11-12/Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombian public security forces to suspend intelligence sharing with U.S. intelligence agencies until Washington stops attacking boats in the Caribbean.
"The fight against drugs must be subordinated to the human rights of the Caribbean people," Petro said in a post on X, referencing the two countries' history of collaboration against drug trafficking.
worth it how?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...ion-rcna242438Trump's Pentagon name change could cost up to $2 billion
Officially changing the Department of Defense to the Department of War can only be done by Congress and would require updating thousands of signs, rewriting digital code and creating new letterheads, placards and badges.
Because it's bad ass!
Now let's get back to DOGE cutting real programs and jobs that aren't bad ass.
(war drums in the Caribbean)
Emil Bove --> The Hague
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/g-s1-...s-assertations
Bret Stephens, NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...e=articleShare
Hegseth threating Mark Kelly for pissing off Trump is loser
Also, lol an alcoholic TV host picking a fight with an astronaut/US Congress member
This one is even more an automatic L than Comey was.
Trumplandia doesn't have a good sense of when it has already lost
Seems fairly clear the Kelly announcement was timed to distract from the massive Comey L.
covering one loss with another
an ostensible losing strategy
.My wife, Gabby Giffords, meeting with her cons uents, shot in the head. Six people killed around her, a horrific thing. She spent six months in the hospital. We know what political violence is and we know what causes it too, The statements that Donald Trump made incites others
that's pretty hard, tbh -- but Kelly just got threatened by SECDEF
Gabby Giffords got shot in 2011
recalled by heart, I think it was Sarah Palin who put the crosshairs on Giffords
Hegseth going to war against the Boy Scouts because they don't discriminate against gays
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1...gseth-cut-tiesCongress requires the Pentagon to support the scouting program's Jamboree, a gathering of thousands of young scouts held every three or four years. The U.S. military lends trucks, ambulances and medical teams, and puts on aviation and skydiving demonstrations, all at no cost to the Scouts. For the military, it's both a training exercise and an opportunity to recruit highly motivated, civic-minded kids.
But the law includes an exemption: the Secretary of Defense can withhold support if he determines providing it would be "detrimental to national security."
Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering "gender confusion."
His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to "cultivate masculine values." It also claims that with international conflicts and a tight budget, sending troops, doctors and vehicles to a 10-day youth event would harm national security by diverting resources from border operations and protecting U.S. territory.
Last edited by Winehole23; 11-25-2025 at 08:39 AM.
clown shoes
There are currently 2 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 2 guests)
Posting Permissions
