Jim
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Jim
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Just another incredulous American Dad wondering what became of our empathy for one another. 🚫 DMs
Dumbfuckistan Katılım Ekim 2009
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@RepNancyMace The American people already get to vote on who they want to represent them. If they do not want foreign born reps, there is a simple solution. Vote for someone else.
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@DineshDSouza Right, who could possibly see a cause and effect relationship between Trump's chest beating adventures in Iran and the price of gas?
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BREAKING: Here is what some active-duty Marines are calling Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon — and it doesn’t make him look good.
Pete Hegseth wanted to be called the "Secretary of War," instead of Secretary of Defense. Now, his own troops have a different title in mind.
Rep. Seth Moulton — a Marine combat veteran who actually served in Iraq, unlike the Fox News host currently running the Pentagon — dropped a bombshell this week that should stop every American cold: "I know active-duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth's department as the Department of War Crimes."
These aren’t former officials, nor political opponents. These are active-duty Marines, the people Hegseth commands. These are the people who have watched him operate up close. They are calling their own department the Department of War Crimes — and according to Moulton, they're doing it because of what they've been ordered to do.
The nickname is a savage mashup of Hegseth's own self-aggrandizing rebrand of the Department of Defense as the "Department of War" — because nothing says serious military leadership like cosplay branding — and the growing mountain of evidence that his tenure has been defined by actions that legal experts are calling war crimes.
The list is staggering: Airstrikes in Yemen that allegedly hit residential buildings, killing at least 224 civilians. Strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities of questionable legality under both domestic and international law. An alleged no-survivors attack order issued against vessels in the Caribbean. A lightning invasion of Venezuela launched without congressional authorization. And now Trump's announced intention to target Iranian civilian energy infrastructure — the same playbook, Moulton noted pointedly, that the United States spent years condemning Vladimir Putin for using in Ukraine.
"It's meant to hurt civilians," Moulton said. "This is the same stuff we criticized Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine."
Over a thousand civilians have been killed in the Iran war. More than a hundred of them were children, killed when a missile — believed to be American — struck a school.
Hegseth's spokesperson responded to questions about war crimes by quoting the man himself: "They target civilians. We do not, and I can tell you this administration and this Pentagon focuses on that very, very closely."
A school full of children would beg to differ. If they could.
And "Department of War Crimes" isn't even the only nickname Hegseth has earned in the building. Pentagon staffers have also taken to calling him "Dumb McNamara" — a reference to Vietnam-era Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who sent tens of thousands of Americans to die in a war he privately knew was unwinnable.
The comparison is not a compliment. McNamara, for all his catastrophic failures, was at least regarded as intellectually serious. Hegseth, the Fox & Friends Weekend host who needed a Vice Presidential tiebreaker to get confirmed, is regarded as having McNamara's appetite for escalation without the analytical credentials.
Same body count. Fewer brain cells.
This is the man running America's military. This is the man who has fired over a dozen decorated generals and replaced them with loyalists and personal aides. This is the man whose troops — the ones actually carrying out his orders — have given his department a name that should haunt every single person who confirmed him.
Please like and share this post if you believe "Department of War Crimes" should never be how America's military is described accurately — and certainly not by its own Marines.

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@ustechgod @Angry_Staffer Didn't they close the Strait in response to our massive bombing raids? Seems defensive to me. The Strait was open before this excursion began.
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@Angry_Staffer False! Even if it were civilian infrastructure, closing the Strait is an offensive move; ending their blockade is defensive.
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Never thought I’d see the President of the United States threatening to commit blatant war crimes on social media, but here we are.
Manu Raju@mkraju
Trump’s new threat: US will be “completely obliterating” electric plants, oil wells and Kharg Island if Straight of Hormuz is “not immediately” reopened
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@labslg @Angry_Staffer SCOTUS has given Trump blanket immunity for damn near anything he does while in office, so he feels totally unbounded.
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@Angry_Staffer But when you believe you can do no wrong, it’s not a crime is it, war or otherwise?
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