The drunkard womanizer whose own mother once accused him of being an abuser of women (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hegseth-mother-accuses-abusive-women/)....
The drunkard womanizer who once, on an normal day of drunkenness duty at a seedy bar, yelled "Kill all Muslims" ....(https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-trump-allegations-history-b2657456.html)...
...that upstanding citizen, by the name of Pete Hegseth, was recruited by Donald Dumb, a.k.a. Dozy Don, to lead the Department of Hore (renamed from Dept of Defense because he couldn't defend himself against accusations of perpetual drunkenness and harrasment of women).
That man is now on another drinking binge in which he is yelling things like "Kill them all" about fishermen plying their trade on boats in the Caribbean Sea. Like his demented boss Donald Hump, he lies with every breath he takes. He has presented not one single piece of evidence to justify his targeted assassination of ordinary fishermen on the pretext that they were smuggling drugs, while his demented senile boss - Dozy Don - is pardoning one of the kings of drug smuggling in Central America, the former president of Honduras and "friend" of Donald Dumb, one Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence in the US for drug-trafficking conviction. (https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/11/trump-pardons-drug-trafficking.html).
This is typical Republican mode of operation: Born in the historical violence of the southern US, Republicans think that violence can solve all problems. But they never learn from their own history of failures at using wanton violence. Donald Dumb is now preparing the country for a military intervention in Venezuela despite its illegality and his failure to notify Congress as the constitution requires him to do. He promised his herd of MAGA morons that he doesn't want to drag the US into foreign wars, but like every other promise he made to the mentally disturbed half of the country (peasants, rednecks, hillbillies, inbred Appalachians, southern secessionist racists and lynchers of Africans, and other ignorant idiots who believed his lies), he is breaking that promise.
It seems evident by now that Donald Trump's plan has always been as follows:
- He is simply a criminal without any ethical or moral compass.
- Someone like him, presented as a candidate for office to the American people, would normally fail because the vast majority of Americans (i.e. Democrats, Independents, and moderate Republicans) are not racists and criminal-minded.
- Knowing he doesn't stand a chance at getting elected by the majority, he decided to run a campaign of lies and false promises specifically targeting both the "deplorables" (radical right wing nativists and xenophobic fringe of the Republican party, ) AND the dissatisfied independents and moderate republicans. He promised them everything they wanted to hear (lower prices, less crime, prosperity, backward religiosity, etc.) and they believed him 1- because deplorable ignorant people are usually illiterate and have no references (intellectual, educational, etc.) with which to judge actions other than their primal emotions, and 2- because moderates and independents had been brainwashed into believing that democracy doesn't work (thanks in no small part to Russian propaganda). In voting for Trump, the latter thought that a "strong super-hero populist" could override common sense and history and discard democratic principles and replace them with "only his personal charm and strength of character" that may have a chance at fixing non-existent problems. They seemed to provisionally ignore the racism and hatred IF substantive issues can be fixed.
His strategy was to fool all these people long enough for them to vote for him, knowing that once elected he can give them the middle finger, discard them, and get on accomplishing his real goal: Enriching himself from his new position of power. He still throws them easy crumbs, like racism and xenophobia, but on issues of real susbtance he is screwing them big time and asking them to be patient. When asked today whether they are disappointed, most MAGA morons will say yes, we are disappointed because he has not delivered on substance while ramping up the hatred and warmongering - they keep saying " I didn't vote for this" - but a small minority (his base) still backs him because of his racism and hateful stance on immigrants.
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Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY
Sat, November 29, 2025
U.S Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is lashing out at a report that he ordered military officials to "kill them all" during one of the Trump administration's strikes in the Caribbean aimed a boat allegedly carrying drug cargo.
"As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland," Hegseth, 45, said in a Nov. 28 post on X.
The defense secretary was responding to a Washington Post story citing two anonymous sources that claimed he ordered troops to leave no survivors after a missile struck the vessel, which was traveling off the Trinidad coast, as two individuals were clinging to the smoldering wreckage.
Since September, the Trump administration has attacked at least 21 boats traversing international waters, killing 83 people. Trump and other officials defend the boat strikes as an attempt to crackdown on illegal narcotics flooding into the U.S., but lawmakers from both parties have criticized the administration for providing no intelligence briefings or other evidence about what the vessels are carrying.
"At this point, I would call them extrajudicial killings," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said during an Oct. 26 appearance on Fox News Sunday. "This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers − they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who shared the story about Hegseth's alleged order, raised similar concerns about the constitutionality of the strikes in an Nov. 28 post on X.
"If you want to know why Hegseth is panicking about reminders that there is accountably for giving or carrying out illegal orders, it’s likely because he knows he has given illegal orders to murder people," Murphy said.
The report comes amid a U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, which Trump has argued is necessary to combat gangs, such as Tren de Aragua, and others like Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel. A Venezuelan criminal organization known as Cartel de los Soles, for example, was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. on Nov. 24.
Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which are at the center of humanitarian rules and international standards, any wounded or sick combatants are to be retrieved and receive care by either side in a conflict.
But in his Nov. 28 post slamming the report, Hegseth argued that each "trafficker we kill is affiliated" with a terrorist group and the current U.S. operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law.
"The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence," he said. "The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists. Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them."
[LI: Not one word is ever uttered by Trump administration officials on WHY DO AMERICANS USE TONS OF ILLICIT DRUGS? WHY DO AMERICANS ENCOURAGE SMUGGLING OF ILLICIT DRUGS WITH A SKYROCKETING DEMAND? WHY DO TRUMP AND HIS MISCREANTS NOT TRY TO CONVINCE AMERICANS THAT DRUGS ARE BAD, OR ENHANCE MEASURES OF DETERRENCE AND PUNISHMENT FOR DRUG USERS? IF TRUMP CAN REDUCE OR CUT OFF THE DOMESTIC DEMAND, THEN ALL DRUG SMUGGLING WOULD COME TO A STOP AND THE DRUG CARTELS WOULD GO OUR OF BUSINESS. But then Trump would lose the pretext of drug trafficking to violate laws and the territorial integrity of other countries, and to topple unfriendly regimes and prop up friendly ones.]
Legal scholars and others continue to raise questions about the legality of the boat strikes and spokespersons for the White House, Justice Department and the Pentagon have not responded to USA TODAY requests for comment on what laws the administration is using to justify the attacks.
Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in an Nov. 28 statement that his powerful panel has directed inquiries to the defense department about the strikes, "and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances."
Wicker, along with Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the ranking Democrat on the committee, have sent Hegseth multiple requests for basic information including legal justifications and intelligence underpinning individual strikes.
Several legal experts have spoken out, too, saying Trump and his administration's rationale marks an unprecedented step by U.S. using the military, rather than law enforcement, to enforce the drug war with congressional approval.
During Trump's first term he expressed admiration for foreign leaders who instituted the death penalty for drug traffickers, including former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte who is facing crimes against humanity charges at the International Criminal Court for war on drugs policies.
Trump said last month he saw no reason to involve Congress when asked about the boat strikes, suggesting lawmakers and voters wouldn't mind such actions in the name of stopping illegal narcotics.
"I don’t think we’re necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war," Trump said. "I think we’re just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We’re going to kill them. They’re going to be, like, dead."
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Hegseth slams 'kill them all' report on Caribbean boat strikes
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