"It’s no wonder in such a world [the ideological world Republicans have made for themselves] that a man like Hegseth could rise to his current position, sustained and protected by cowardice and lies."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #EconomicElites #SuperRich #racism #xenophobia #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #WarCrimes #murder
/8

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"And it’s no wonder that he’s ordering the clearly illegal targeting of vessels and making allegations about them without offering any evidence. This is exactly where the moral rot that has consumed the Republican Party in this century was bound to land us."

#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #EconomicElites #SuperRich #racism #xenophobia #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #WarCrimes #murder
/9

"It’s no wonder in such a world [the ideological world Republicans have made for themselves] that a man like Hegseth could rise to his current position, sustained and protected by cowardice and lies."

~ Michael Tomasky

#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #EconomicElites #SuperRich #racism #xenophobia #WhiteSupremacy #misogyny #WarCrimes #murder
/8

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"In short order, Trump has managed to corrupt the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and the senior leadership of the US military (among other government agencies). He did so by compromising, neutralizing, or replacing small groups of leaders in each of those organs of democracy."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #WarCrimes
/1

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/thursday-served-as-a-bracing-reminder

"In short order, Trump has managed to corrupt the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and the senior leadership of the US military (among other government agencies). He did so by compromising, neutralizing, or replacing small groups of leaders in each of those organs of democracy."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #morality #ethics #corruption #SupremeCourt #military #DOJ #Hegseth #FrankBradley #JohnRoberts #WarCrimes
/1

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/thursday-served-as-a-bracing-reminder

"Hegseth has chosen the wrong man to pick on with his threat to court martial Senator Mark Kelly. The person who should be brought back into uniformed service to face a court martial is Hegseth himself."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Hegseth #MarkKelly #WarCrimes #murder #Pentagon
/1

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-bunker-with-pete

"Kingsley Wilson, Trump’s newly installed Pentagon press secretary, stepped to the microphone and declared that the boat strikes, including the follow-on strike that killed the survivors, were 'presidentially directed.' Her exact words were, 'The Secretary has been very clear in every statement that we’ve released about these strikes that they are presidentially directed."

#Trump #Hegseth #MarkKelly #WarCrimes #murder #Pentagon
/3

"What has unfolded this week is among the most chilling developments yet of this Trump regime. The White House, already under intense scrutiny for the deadly boat strikes off the coast of Venezuela, has now made a catastrophic admission. And it came directly from the podium of the Department of Defense."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Hegseth #MarkKelly #WarCrimes #murder #Pentagon
/2

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-rep-jim-himes-discusses

"Hegseth has chosen the wrong man to pick on with his threat to court martial Senator Mark Kelly. The person who should be brought back into uniformed service to face a court martial is Hegseth himself."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #Hegseth #MarkKelly #WarCrimes #murder #Pentagon
/1

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/in-the-bunker-with-pete

"Trump’s stain on our nation's no longer just financial #corruption and governing incompetence. He lashes out with the reflexive hostility of a man in a dementia ward, cornered by his own limitations

Just this past week, #Trump ’s language has become even more venomous and feral. His vocabulary has narrowed. His speeches have devolved into loops of resentment, sputtering hyperbole, and insults borrowed from the dullest middle school hooligan"

https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-president-is-crumbling-trumps #news #politics #mentalhealth #america #tv #us #unitedstates #usa #eu #war #ai #media #press #tech #venezuela #dc #warcrimes #culture #economy

"Trump’s stain on our nation's no longer just financial #corruption and governing incompetence. He lashes out with the reflexive hostility of a man in a dementia ward, cornered by his own limitations

Just this past week, #Trump ’s language has become even more venomous and feral. His vocabulary has narrowed. His speeches have devolved into loops of resentment, sputtering hyperbole, and insults borrowed from the dullest middle school hooligan"

https://www.blueamp.co/p/the-president-is-crumbling-trumps #news #politics #mentalhealth #america #tv #us #unitedstates #usa #eu #war #ai #media #press #tech #venezuela #dc #warcrimes #culture #economy

Paul Krugman notes the bizarre juxtaposition of the Trump administration sinking small boats while claiming with no evidence that they're smuggling drugs, and at the same time Trump declaring his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who has been convicted of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela #oil
/14

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-crypto-or-pro-crime

"Why does Witkoff appear to have so heavily favored Russia during the negotiations? The answer may be buried in Witkoff’s 33-page financial disclosure form, quietly posted to the White House website in September.

The document, known as form 278e, reveals that Witkoff has ongoing financial interests that link him to Russian oligarchs and others hostile to Ukrainian interests."

#Trump #Putin #Witkoff #JaredKushner #Russia #Ukraine #corruption #WarCrimes
/9

"In case anyone might have believed that the boat attacks were actually about drugs, Trump pardoned the former President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who actually did enable all of the narco-trafficking that Trump is accusing Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro of doing."

~ Marcie Jones

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela #oil
/9

https://www.wonkette.com/p/the-man-comes-around-tabs-mon-dec

"The Trump regime claims the [Washington Post] report is false, but the evidence has not been specifically debunked. No explanation has been given as to why the video was edited to omit this part of the attack [i.e., the second missile strike to kill men clinging to debris in the water after the first strike]."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela #oil
/5

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/war-crimeor-murder

"World-Eaters. Cannibals. Parasites.

All suitable synonyms for the Wall Street vultures, insecure, racist Silicon Valley bros, and Trump’s broligarch friends who are drinking all of our milkshakes as veterans and government employees line up at food pantries because they can’t afford groceries."

~ Wajahat Ali

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #crypto #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #SiliconValley #TechBros
/18

https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-venture-capitalist-cannibals

"It should not go unnoticed that Trump saluted a party that proclaims 'Become Ungovernable' as its guiding principle, written with the anarchy a-symbol."

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #crypto #broligarchy #libertarianism #PeterThiel #SiliconValley #TechBros
/17

"The answer is the influence of the crypto/tech broligarchy. In fact, many of Trump’s pardons of the most egregious criminals are closely linked to their influence. ….

Whatever libertarians were in the past, they are now an extremist party, opposed to laws against drug smuggling, money laundering, any type of prudential government regulation, and – in the case of Thiel – opposed to democracy itself."

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #crypto #broligarchy #libertarianism
/16

"But there is a pattern to this murderous madness, once one connects the dots between Trump’s mob-boss persona and the billionaire crypto/tech broligarchy. ...

Why would Trump, whose poll numbers are cratering, generate even more negative headlines by pardoning Hernández, who was duly convicted of conspiring to send more than 400 tons (!) of cocaine to America?"

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela #oil
/15

Paul Krugman notes the bizarre juxtaposition of the Trump administration sinking small boats while claiming with no evidence that they're smuggling drugs, and at the same time Trump declaring his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras who has been convicted of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States.

#Trump #Hegseth #WarCrimes #murder #Venezuela #oil
/14

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-pro-crypto-or-pro-crime