• dan1101@lemmy.world
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    Out of all the embarrassments the second Donald J Trump administration has unleashed on the world, Hegseth is the most dangerous to world peace and stability.

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      If they were really sure they were trafficking drugs, they could also just seize the boats rather than blowing them up. I think there’s a good reason they’re not doing that.

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        No, no, no.

        The “evidence” for the “crimes” committed by those on the boat having been either incinerated or blown into a million tiny pieces and sunken to the bottom of the ocean is just an “unfortunate” side-effect.

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      I’m sure it’s also to threaten the legitimate government into acquiescence and potentially lay the groundwork for a potential war on “terror”

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      and distract from the fact the border isnt really being patrolled because the cbp is helping out ICE, allowing cocaine to flow into the us unabated.

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    Hey America? If you could stop executing people with Hellfire missiles without giving them a trial first? That’d be greeat.

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    So it’s not about Venezuela? Or are they just blowing up any boat any where they want now? Which would mean they lied to Congress… Which means…

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    Jesus f****** Christ this last was off the coast of Columbia thousands of miles away from the US. No f****** proof that the boat was carrying what they said or that it was headed to the United States has been provided. The m************ sending this God damn s*** and killing people without adequate process is just one more reason I can’t f****** deal with this f****** s***

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      I’m with you, but you know you can let those fucking swears fly, right? 🙂

      Edit: okay almost missed it, one nitpick:

      killing people without adequate process

      Nah I actually don’t think the US government should be killing people even with due process. Literally the last people in all of history so far that I want to be given power over life and death.

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        I’m sorry yes speech to text did that to me on automatic and I didn’t have time to change it. And as far as the killing thing I agree with you but if it’s going to be done and there needs to be process

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    So yeah, let’s have a multi-theater war right on both sides of us. These people are trying to destabilize the USA on purpose. But why?

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      But they do suck. Two things can be true at once!

      More concretely: every president since forever has supported the creep of executive power, in particular Genocide Joe and Drone-bama. They allowed this shit to happen.

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        Yup. Harris would be carrying out fewer international drone strikes, but it definitely wouldn’t be zero.

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        I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests. The legislative and judicial branch was to be the check on their power. Congress has failed in that role since the 60s.

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          I don’t blame Presidents acting in their own best interests

          Wtf of course I blame Presidents for acting in their own best interests when those interests are fascist!

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            Right? It’s a super brain dead take. The presidential oath and things like the emoluments clause (i know, it’s quaint of me to think that ever mattered) explicitly ‘bind’ a President to act in the country’s interests.

            It’s just mask-off Americanism though, we can finally admit the true core belief of our culture: nothing is immoral in the pursuit of profit.

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          They’re your fucking elected representatives, not the fucking king - they’re supposed to work for you not “act in their own best interests” and you sure as hell have a fucking D U T Y to blame them for breaking their legal, ethical and moral duty to use the power entrusted to them by Americans in the interest of Americans, not for themselves.

          God damn, fucking American bootlicking brainwashed muppets looking up to “their betters” even harder than the equivalent sort on this side of the Atlantic. At least we Europeans have a fucking good excuse for all those “looking up to your betters” muppets, having had Monarchies for most of the last 2 thousand years which only ended in the late 19th and early 20th century, whilst Americans have had a supposedly “of the people for the people” democracy since the 18th century.

          No wonder the US is even more fucked up than Europe with all the instinctive pulling down of their pants and shouting “give it to me more, big daddy” (and not even in a good, kinky way) whenever some POLITICAL CELEBRITY who is supposed to be an elected representative does whatever is in their own best interest.