Huff Post: Things Are Getting Real For Democrats As Food Cliff For Millions Approaches
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It got real when Trump began executing people rather than arresting them. At least 61 people have been killed on 15 vessels. There is even a wiki page keeping track of how many people Trump murders:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_United_States_military_strikes_on_a
lleged_drug_traffickers
Even the Nazis kept secret how many people Hitler murdered, but Trump is proud of his murders. He brags!
Getting Away with Murder
Trump has now ordered the killing of at least seventeen people on the high seas—with no accountability.
By David Cole | October 23, 2025 issue
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/10/23/getting-away-with-murder-t
rump-strikes/
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose any voters. At the time it felt like an empty boast. No more.
Between September 2 and September 19 the US military, acting on President Trump’s orders, bombed three boats traveling in international waters, reportedly killing seventeen civilians in cold blood. Ordinarily when US armed forces kill civilians, the president does not brag about it, yet Trump is apparently so proud of the executions that he posted video footage of them on Truth Social. And while ordinarily the killing of any civilian prompts investigations and apologies, in this instance the administration has promised only that there are more to come. “To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America,” Trump said during his speech at the UN General Assembly on September 23, “please be warned that we will blow you out of existence.”
There was no conceivable legal authority for these killings. We are not at war with drug traffickers. The “war on drugs” is a metaphor, not a legal term of art that authorizes killing the “enemy.” The human beings on these boats were civilians, and even if there were an actual war going on, the laws of war prohibit targeting civilians unless they are directly engaged in hostilities. Even if the boats’ occupants were, as the administration alleges, carrying illegal drugs, that offense would at most have authorized their arrest, trial, and, if convicted, incarceration for a period of years. It would not authorize the death penalty, much less their summary execution without trial.
Trump has called the dead “narcoterrorists” and has asserted that the eleven killed in the first strike were associated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, a “foreign terrorist organization.” But that designation authorizes only economic sanctions against the group, such as freezing their assets, and criminal penalties against Americans who do business with them. It does not authorize any use of military force, much less the intentional lethal targeting of civilians.
The boats did not pose any conceivable threat to the United States requiring lethal force. They were found on the high seas, reportedly coming from Venezuela. The first boat, according to The New York Times, had turned around before it was bombed, and the military reportedly continued to bomb it even after it had been disabled. Secretary of State Marco Rubio acknowledged that they could have interdicted the vessel, but said that instead they bombed it to send a message: “This president is not a talker; he’s a doer—he’s going to do it.”
Trump has maintained that drug cartels kill tens of thousands of Americans every year, presumably through overdoses, and that other nations are not doing enough to stop the trade. The result, he insisted in a letter to Congress after the first strike, is that “we have now reached a critical point where we must meet this threat to our citizens and our most vital national interests with United States military force in self-defense.” But the fact that drugs are a scourge in the US in no way gives the president the authority to start killing drug dealers—here, abroad, or at sea. And it is farcical to cite “self-defense” to justify bombing these ships to smithereens, without even a shred of evidence that th
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Originally posted by second:
It got real when Trump began executing people rather than arresting them. At least 61 people have been killed on 15 vessels. There is even a wiki page keeping track of how many people Trump murders:
Oh. THAT is when it got real, huh?
So the last 9 years of TDS bullshit out of you was just fake then?
Shut the fuck up. This thread is about food stamps and the Democrat shutdown, idiot.
As for Venezuela... Stop sending drug boats to our shores and we'll stop killing you before you get here.
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, you are deranged. I'm not joking.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
It got real when Trump began executing people rather than arresting them. At least 61 people have been killed on 15 vessels. There is even a wiki page keeping track of how many people Trump murders:
Oh. THAT is when it got real, huh?
So the last 9 years of TDS bullshit out of you was just fake then?
Shut the fuck up. This thread is about food stamps and the Democrat shutdown, idiot.
As for Venezuela... Stop sending drug boats to our shores and we'll stop killing you before you get here.
Trump Administration Admits It Doesn’t Know Who It’s Killing In Boat Strikes
Officials acknowledged they don’t know the identities of the people they’re killing and can’t meet the evidentiary burden to prosecute survivors.
By Nick Turse | October 31 2025, 4:30 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/31/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-unpri
vileged-belligerants/
The Trump administration has made a series of startling admissions about the people it is killing in its undeclared war against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Trump officials acknowledged in separate briefings provided to lawmakers and staffers on Thursday that they do not know the identities of the victims of their strikes, and that the War Department cannot meet the evidentiary burden necessary to hold or try survivors of the attacks. Such victims who find themselves in the water are now deemed “unprivileged belligerents,” a murky designation under international humanitarian law.
Since September 2, the U.S. military has been attacking boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean, killing more than 60 civilians. The Trump administration insists the slayings are permissible because the U.S. is engaged in “non-international armed conflict” with “designated terrorist organizations,” or DTOs. Two government officials told The Intercept that the administration secretly declared a “non-international armed conflict” weeks before the first attack of the campaign.
Trump has justified the attacks, in a War Powers report to Congress, under his Article II constitutional authority as commander in chief of the U.S. military and claimed to be acting pursuant to the United States’ inherent right of self-defense as a matter of international law. The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel has also produced a classified opinion that provides legal cover for the lethal strikes.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/trump-offers-first-legal-justific
ation-for-venezuela-boat-strike
Experts in the laws of war and members of Congress say the strikes are illegal extrajudicial killings because the military is not permitted to deliberately target civilians — even suspected criminals — who do not pose an imminent threat of violence. The summary executions are a significant departure from standard practice in the long-running U.S. war on drugs, in which law enforcement arrested suspected drug smugglers.
“We are not in an armed conflict with these cartels. And so this is just murder.”
The administration has no plans to seek an authorization for the use of military force similar to the 2001 AUMF, which authorized counterterrorism operations by the U.S. military against those responsible for 9/11, Pentagon briefers told lawmakers on Thursday. “Even if Congress authorized it, this would still be illegal under U.S. and international law because we are not in an armed conflict with these cartels,” Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., a member of the House Armed Services Committee who attended the briefing, told The Intercept. “And so this is just murder.”
Jacobs said the Pentagon officials who briefed her on Thursday admitted that the administration does not know the identities of all the individuals who were killed in the strikes. “They said that they do not need to positively identify individuals on the vessels to do the strikes,” Jacobs told The Intercept. “T
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I noticed you getting all huffy and virtue-signally, SECOND, so ...
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Obama’s covert drone war in numbers: ten times more strikes than Bush
Obama embraced the US drone programme, overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency. A total of 563 strikes, largely by drones, targeted Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen during Obama’s two terms, compared to 57 strikes under Bush. Between 384 and 807 civilians were killed in those countries, according to reports logged by the Bureau.
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert
-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush/
Jeez, what a Karen, clutching his pearls.
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Why don't you go back to crying about your 300,000 dead kids from lack of USAid funding, idiot?
Nobody is going to cry for Venezuelan drug boats being blown out of the fucking water, douche bag.
Just wait until we really kick it into high gear here and start removing illegals by the millions.
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