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Yep. 💯

I don’t think it’s legal, but I think this can be a hook that allows Republicans to force people under oath and to testify, and at some point the weight of evidence and legal analysis might push them to deal with the former fact as well as the latter fact

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Hegseth needs to go NOW, along with the entire administration!

It is murder.

Spot on. And the "terrorists" were not terrorists, they were alleged criminals.

One reason for calling it a war crime, is the fact that the United States will not accept rulings from the ICC. But we ARE bound by the Geneva Convention which applies to any armed conflict. (To include these murderous acts.)

Aye, the first strike was 100% illegal in every metric, but the US likes to see itself as above inconvenient international laws like that, so that argument is harder to make land. The second strike was just cold-blooded and an invocation of no quarter. And that's easier to convince folks on.

Definitionally, crimes against humanity, I believe, in a non-war situation

Absolutely. Like with most of the regime's lawless actions, there's so much wrong with it you don't know what to unpack first.

Yeah, it's not a war crime, for the worst possible reason. (Also, the whole concept of JSOC, the war and non war crimes directorate, should be called into question)

He is indicating that no official declaration of war is required.

The US is engaged in an armed conflict with Venezuela. Attacks are a feature of armed conflict.

Wait now, it has been STIPULATED TO BE A WAR

I agree

And justifying it as "They were bad guys" is BS... with no due process. They may have been peasant fishermen. It was cold-blooded murder like the My Lai Massacre.

Never forget, trump killed half a million Americans by denying covid - til he couldn't. Republicans twisted abortion until women & children died. People went nearly 2 months with no representation, some lost their healthcare & food, many went unpaid for weeks. GOP're murderers. Plain & simple.

100%.

Sen Cotton’s statement says the policy. These are terrorists attacking America until dead.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EXACTLY 👍 SCAPEGOAT MITCH

Truth 💯! If there is any justice, Hegseth WILL BE court-martialed, and be rotting in prison for murder!

Please call or e-mail your reps in DC and tell them what you think about murder on the high seas. It only takes a few minutes and it doesn't cost any money. We don't need money in politics. We just need people to participate. Also see my Initiative No. 2 on my website: www.nationalfinancialplan.com

Truth

That is absolutely correct.

Thank you for your perspective, slit throat.

Simply crimes against humanity Nobody can split hairs on that

A distinction completely lost on Trump.

There is so much 💩 💩 coming from The Felon of 34 & his 🤮 Minions I was thinking of sending Our White House a few rolls of this to assist in clean up!!

Well, no, that would be exaggerated because of the "widespread" part of the definition of crimes against humanity. The scale is not big enough. Please compare with real convictions for crimes against humanity. Murder in first degree, of all 80 killed sailors.

Cold blooded murder crimes committed without authorization from congress still murder by administration and compromised leader

What do you mean there is no war? You have very much been at war with Venezuela for decades. Your country runs an illegal blockade, an act of war. You've tried to assassinate their president and install a puppet a dozen times.

It’s bloodlust. And it was visible to his voters when he went on that death row execution spree during his final months in office. Absolutely horrifying that one like him is in charge.

My family had three generations of veterans. We didn't have a fourth bc in Trump 1.0 I told my son if he even thought about it, I would lock him in the closet til he was 50. I knew he was eventually going to misuse the military, they're just Green Army Men to him.

Teflon Heggie serial killer?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Impeach High Crimes Donald J Trump pc93.substack.com/p/impeach-hi...

Completely agree that it’s past the time for a major reset for The United Nations! Plus the nations involved have really never been United!!!

Thanks for sharing, will take a looksie.

Agreed. Trump/Hegseth,. serial killers, 83 people. Due Process Denied: The Legal Case Against Extrajudicial Killing in Venezuela Waters,. pc93.substack.com/p/due-proces...

#impeachtrumpnow

Exactly.

youtu.be/tNOkNEH5NSk?...

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Are law enforcement pulling drug smugglers out of their cars and trucks at the southern border and executing them on the spot yet?

I agree. I do also want to say that murdering shipwrecked people is such an unambiguous war crime—it’s important. They attempt to obscure and cloud the truth and rationalize crimes, especially for RW info bubbles. Every unambiguous thing is important to help break obvious truths into those bubbles.

Call it murder then cuz that’s what it is.

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They're just mask off. Trump is Obama minus the thin veneer of fake civility.

Brother what? You lived through Iran-Contra. You saw the Abu ghraib pictures. Highway of Death? Those were fucking civilians.

Trump will come to save us.

Yes

If we can do it to them, doesn’t that mean they can do it to us?

There should be international comeback on these illegal acts, IMO.

Haven't heard any journalist questioning if it was a water taxi for laborers from Trinidad.

Republicans did that

That's no shovel. That's a space station!

This isn't fucking Call of Duty, Assholes. Peace prize my ass . This admin is a joke, a pathetic dangerous joke. Let's elect drumt for president...it'll be funny. It's really funny isn't it. Morons

Killing the survivors: a crime Blowing up the boat in the first place: also a crime

This!

They are operating on an “opinion” on what the president can call a terrorist organization. They are reclassifying ordinary criminal activity as “terrorism”. This is squarely on the corrupt SCOTUS which is enabling this through its distorted judicial rulings not based on legal precedent.

This exactly

"The whole chain of command are murderers." That sentence really struck a note. Maybe that's exactly the problem.

That they contemplated for almost an hour, first degree murder. Crim law was my best class so far

💯 truth

Completely agree! This is how this crooked administration does EVERYTHING!!

Cant say then didnt know. That admiral knew. Following orders is not a defense. Watching these men for 44 minutes seeing them hanging to the side of their wrecked boat they were no threat. The whole chain has problems. Reminds me of Abu Grabe under W. Wtf

Murders

This is not on, plain sickening & heads should roll.

Well yeah but that's saying the quiet part out loud— they've served in the US military, of course they've murdered people or ordered murders. These murders are just being shared publicly because they expect no one can hold them accountable.

Once a person steps over the “line of the Law”, it’s much like coming thru the “fog of war”! There will be consequences when you see the light of day on the other side and accountability is there waiting on you!

Just remember what a wagon train circling looks like Gulf of Tonkin- slap on wrist My Lai massacre- slap on wrist Iraq WMDs- slap on wrist

(*grabs knees, pulls them to chest, rocks back and forth for a bit*)

I agree

Hear! Hear!

Exactly

Oh my God- you guys nail it->

It's murders all the way down

The whole chain of command, including every crew member of whatever rank. "Following orders" is no defence, clearly established precedent at Nuremberg. The reckoning will, one day, come.

It's murder. The admiral is lying.

Just to be clear, there doesn't need to be a formally declared war for something to be a war crime. War crime isn't even the formal name for what we usually refer to as "war crimes".

Blood on the hands of these administrations goes all the way back to the estimated needless deaths due to pandemic mismanagement.

Oh but wait...what about the Epstein files...the depths they will go to try to move the needle away from the "dark pit"

War crimes plain and simple...the chain of command will now be saved/sold to the best liar...

Department of Murder

Even if it were punishable by death, there's a lack of due process.

Killing over more dirty oil

It’s amazing the things severe TDS makes the Democrat support. Now you’re defending Narco terrorists who kill American citizens. You don’t even get that, do you. 🙄

Smell the Incompetence.

The commander-in-chief takes the 'responsibilty.' Too bad he really does not understand the word.

Metaphorical wars do not override constitutional due process requirements or the lex specialis principle that drug trafficking is governed by law enforcement standards. /b

youtu.be/05MD0RB-Lb4

And their leader is a skallywag!!

No war. Just a crime!

And even if they were drug smugglers (which they weren't), they could have just arrested them. It's in the middle of the ocean, it's not like they were going to flee anywhere.

Can we hold Bush and Obama accountable for what we used to call "double-tap strikes" now?

Thank you! Accepting this frame and using their invented terms like "narcoterrorist" just skips over the fact that THEY JUST MADE ALL THIS WAR SH*T UP bc doing the most depraved race/hate based terrorism at home & abroad for clicks, likes & memes is their whole reason for being.

If America doesn't soon, the rest of the world may have to.

Let's ask the mothers of children killed by drug poisoning and see what they have to say.

An admiral just retired in agreement with you

Lacking - states accusing them. Including mine