This is going to be a long harangue, so grab some ice cream or some other snack and settle in.
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First we had Drumpf bragging about a snuff video of his supposed presidential order to the US military to blow up a 20 foot motorized canoe (aka 'skiff') with a drone hellfire-type missile that was carrying (if you believe Drumpf and his lying minions) 11 "suspected" Venezuelan drug smugglers en route to the mainland US in a (once more for clarity) canoe full of drugs.
Now we have DonOld's Fox "news" flunky, fellow accused rapist, and alcoholic Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claiming that he has the "Absolute Authority" (aka, power) to kill "suspected" drug dealers:
Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-declares-he-has-absolute-authority-to-kill-suspected-drug-dealers/
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that the United States has “absolute and complete authority” to kill suspected drug smugglers in “defense of the American people.”
Hegseth was asked by a reporter on Thursday what legal authority the Pentagon invoked when it conducted an airstrike in international waters against a boat that the Trump administration alleges was carrying 11 “narcoterrorists” and members of the Venezuela-based crime group Tren de Aragua."
The "absolute authority" that Pistol Pete claims he possesses isn't inherent to his Defense Secretary position. So
where did he get this "absolute authority" to kill "suspected" drug dealers with no due process of any kind? Yes, we all know Secretary Kegseth isn't claiming that inherent power to kill people "suspected" of being drug dealers of his own accord, but in fact is claiming that frightening power because the orange menace he works for delegated it to Pistol Pete.
First
off, drug dealing is certainly a vile activity, all depending of course on which
"drug" you are referring to exactly. And don't give that look like you
don't know what the fuck I am referring to.
Drumpf believes his executive power
extends so far that he can order the US military, the US Navy, to use
deadly force against "suspected" civilian drug smugglers. Not against a hostile armed force or foreign military, but against an open, 20 foot long motorized canoe with carrying eleven humans "suspected" of being drug dealers.
I'm curious, does that
death by hellfire missile apply to the not only "suspected," but verified drug dealers in this country in
big Pharma who spent billions over the past several decades getting Americans hooked on all manner of
opioids, and the chain-pharmacy CEOs who got wealthy off of filling out
opioid prescriptions like they were handing out free candy. Tens, if
not hundreds of thousands of Americans have died from the "drugs" peddled by those American "drug dealers." Is
there a hellfire missile moment in their future? Yeah, I didn't think
so.
Pistol Pete Hegseth, by decree from his convicted felon, court declared rapist, suspected child rapist boss actually believes that he has the "absolute authority" to execute humans "suspected" of committing a criminal act (drug dealing) that isn't even a capital offense in any state in this country.
What kind of despotic rabbit-hole are these bastards taking this country down when they claim to possess these kinds of anti-constitution, anti-law, anti-precedent, anti-American power to murder people who are only "suspected" of committing a crime?
That's why I really hope their story is bullshit. I hope they didn't really murder those poor bastards in that boat with a hellfire missile fired by the United States Navy solely on the basis of being "suspected" drug dealers. What a horrible black eye that would be for this nation's reputation as a nation of law and order and one that respects human rights and human life.
But then, maybe that is Drumpf's goal. He has already isolated the US from our traditional allies and has cozied up to some of the world's most murderous despots.
He put a clownish, day-drinking Fox "news" flunky and white nationalist in charge of our entire combined US armed forces.
He put a group of unqualified, cosplaying, incompetent, quisling buffoons in charge of US national and homeland security.
His psychotic tariffs "strategy" has alienated our allies even further, and put America on the path to being a pariah state.
Just about everything Drumpf does at this stage diminishes America's reputation in the world. He is destroying this nation's trustworthiness around the world. That will not work out well for this country in the long run.
And of course, who mind you more than any one other person on this planet would benefit THE MOST by having the United States of America reduced to an isolated, degraded, and weakened state? If you answered dear old Uncle Vlad, give yourself a smiley sticker.
Lastly, if you noticed the word "suspected" underlined throughout this rant, it's because the powers that these bastards are claiming can very easily be turned inward on Americans, and this is an administration that has already shown a tendency to spit on the constitution, spit on our laws, and abuse and misuse the military for purely political opportunism, which in this case would be part of an effort to distract and keep the American public from finding out the truth about the American president likely having raped children.
---TFG