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[AmosArch]

Well, not that I care all that much about narcotraffickers are getting justice but apparently the second strike was not ordered by Hegseth and it was on the boat not on poor narcotraffickers clinging to planks of wreckage ala Leo Dicaprio in Titanic. Now unless people think that simply firing a second shot at a target is a war crime I think we can just wrap this up as more nonsense lies by the usual suspects parroted by the usual suspects predicted. Or was there something else, like maybe we forgot to powder the narcotraffickers butts and sing them to sleep?

[bloocow2]

Anyone else think that Pete Hegseth should be fired at this point? Or do the honourable thing and resign? I was looking through the latest reports of this drug boat fiasco, and he just... doesn't seem to know what on earth he is doing. First he denies the media reports (while not being specific about exactly what was incorrect). Then he says that even if they're true, it's justified because he's defending America.

If he stopped there, I could almost respect it. Like, I think it's wrong, but at least he's standing behind some kind of opinion.

But then he said that he didn't give the order to kill the survivors. And then that he wasn't in the room when that order was given. And now that he didn't even see the survivors, that the decision was all the responsibility of this Bradley guy.

Even if he's not just throwing his commander under the bus to protect himself... guess what? Your subordinate giving a possibly-illegal command without your authorisation still reflects badly on you! It means you're out of touch, and probably a bad leader!

Alongside the Signal chat stuff, the pointless feuding with the media, and all the rest of it... I feel like, even if you approve of what the administration is doing with regards to defence, you should get rid of this guy. Nobody seems to respect him, and he's an absolutely incompetent clown show.

[bloocow2]

Get rid of Kash too, the guy is a complete idiot who shouldn't be running anything.

[AmosArch]

Its not anymore illegal than the rest of the strikes if it was on the boat which hadn't yet sunk according to the latest reports.

[not guilty]

Defense Secretary Hegseth is throwing Admiral Bradley under the bus, or perhaps making him walk the plank from the ship. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/01/white-house-second-boat-strike-00671488?nid=0000018f-3124-de07-a98f-3be4d1400000&nname=politico-toplines&nrid=1d57e675-1c74-4b33-b474-1abbc22168f5

Unless President "Bone Spurs" Trump issues preemptive pardons, the next administration should indict them both for murder under 18 U.S.C. §§ 2 and 1111 and for conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 956(a)(1) (making it a felony to conspire within the United States “to commit at any place outside the United States an act that would constitute the offense of murder … if committed in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States” if “any of the conspirators commits an act within the jurisdiction of the United States to effect any object of the conspiracy”). Tie their tails together, string them over a clothesline, let them fight it out and let twelve men and women good and true sort out who should go to prison or face hang­ing, elec­tro­cu­tion, the gas cham­ber, fir­ing squad, or lethal injec­tion as the Court may designate pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3596(1).

[AmosArch]

Thus started the tit for tat retaliatory and counterretaliatory prosecutions of successive Administrations all because out of all the problems in the world the Dems chose to settle up battle lines to protect some suicidally dumb narcotraffickers who went ahead with attempting to poison American kids anyways even though they knew they'd likely be blown up. The history books will write. Sounds good I think you guys should do it.

[not guilty]

United States District Court judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction ordering federal immigration officers to stop making arrests there without a warrant unless they could show that a suspect was a flight risk. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.285268/gov.uscourts.dcd.285268.68.0.pdf

In an 88-page ruling, the Court raised doubt over whether immigration agents in the city had been complying with federal law. She barred the government from making arrests without a warrant or proof that a person could escape before a warrant is obtained. This is the latest in a series of decisions in lower courts that have challenged President Trump’s immigration tactics as he escalates his mass deportation agenda and expands his deployment of law enforcement officers to major urban centers across the country. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/us/politics/warrantless-immigration-arrests-dc.html

IOW, living in the United States while Latino doesn't support probable cause for a warrantless arrest.