Originally published at: ‘The Order Was to Kill Everybody’: A Savage Incident at Sea
The Implications Are Vast and Serious The explosive holiday story from the WaPo – that on orders from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth the U.S. military deliberately killed survivors of one of the Trump administration’s lawless high seas attacks on alleged drug smugglers – may have finally stirred Republicans in Congress to at least pantomime as…
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Today’s Heather & Paul:
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The Destruction: Ballroom Edition
One of the golden rules of architecture is that any addition should not overwhelm the building it is meant to enhance, something McCrery allegedly told Trump. But that hasn’t stopped the president’s plans from expanding from a 500-seat ballroom, to one that will hold 999 people, to now Trump now wanting it to accommodate 1,350 guests and potentially be large enough to host a presidential inauguration.
And so much for submitting plans for review - even after firing everyone and installing toadies.
… to ignore permitting, zoning or code requirements
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Appropriate song, appropriate lyrics and a killer drummer.
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… contradictions and legal fears mount
Trump plans to hold a meeting at the White House Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to attend, as well as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
All the great minds in one place. Definitely not what will be in the Oval Office.
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WTF? The worst of the worst?
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so the calculation of reporters: don’t ask a “mean” question because then you might no longer have access, as opposed to being weak and cowardly for not asking … hmmm, tough one. Then again, they want to keep their jobs. God, I hate this timeline.
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Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández
This guy is being pardoned at Don Jr’s insistence.
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Meanwhile, the AMOC is grinding down, which will throw the British Islands into chaos. Kevin Anderson, a prominent Climate scientist thinks we have chosen to fail on tackling Climate Change. We are currently on the path to a worst case scenario a.k.a. business as usual.
A violent future awaits us.
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Posted on another thread, earlier:
They’re acting on Trump’s authority. No laws limit them. Trump can close the airspace of a foreign nation, unilaterally. Trump can murder people on the high seas. Trump can pardon convicted drug kingpins. Trump can sign crypto deals with foreign powers while holding office. Trump can raze historical buildings without permits. Trump can order political foes harassed, bankrupted and put in mortal peril at his whim. Trump can keep prosecutors in office, with their title, after courts have ruled their appointment illegal. Trump can order Congressionally mandated funding stripped from Federal agencies, and then close those agencies or Cabinet departments, despite their existence being Congressionally mandated by law.
People really need to stop wondering by what legal right Trump does things. He isn’t bound by our laws. Extrajudicial killings on the high seas, to no legal detriment, is proof of that. If you can murder someone and nothing happens, are you bound by laws?
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I spent part of yesterday reading the NYTMag’s cover story on the demolition of the Dept of Justice.
I finally gave up – too depressing – and returned to Garrett Graff’s “Watergate: A New History,” about a time when Congress and many DOJ lawyers took their oaths seriously and the good guys won out.
(There are some Nixon quotes that would fit comfortably in the mouth of the current guy.)
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Trump also said he had “great confidence” Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard the vessel, saying that Hegseth told him “he did not say that, and I believe him, 100%.”
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At the very least this means they think it is a hot issue, is going to go over Real Bad, and the two huddled to have direct conversation in how to cover this up. (assuming Chump isn’t lying)
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If “we” don’t know their names, we don’t know their identity. Which means we don’t know what they were doing at sea. Show “us” the drugs!
The prevention of smuggling is why the US Coast Guard was founded.
I suspect Kegsbreath and CF-DJT just want to watch the tapes of people dying. Sports Center for sadists.
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Soon he will say “people are saying it was unfair prosecution” - that was started under TFG’s first term when he was extradited to the US. “People said he should be pardoned. I mean, that they could do something like this to a President.”
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