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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,240 posts) Fri Sep 5, 2025, 12:49 PM Friday

Pete Hegseth's Answer To Basic Legal Question Takes A 'Clown Show' Turn

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after declaring the Pentagon had “absolute and complete authority” to bomb a suspected Venezuelan drug vessel, but then offering no legal basis to back up that claim about the Donald Trump-ordered deadly strike that killed 11 people.

A reporter pressed Hegseth on Thursday: “What legal authority did the Pentagon invoke to strike that boat full of drug smugglers?”

Hegseth shot back: “We have the absolute and complete authority to conduct that.”

But he did not cite any law or mechanism granting such authority.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseths-answer-basic-legal-074322637.html

Go home Pete. You're drunk again.

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Pete Hegseth's Answer To Basic Legal Question Takes A 'Clown Show' Turn (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP

Might makes right. That's all the law they need. Easterncedar Friday #1

Power comes from the barrel of a gun. bluedigger Friday #2

They're autocrats and ultimately despotic monarchists Prairie Gates Friday #3

Baseless Assertions Martin Eden Friday #4

This will go down as one of the most shameful and embarrassing decades the 1WorldHope Friday #5

Easterncedar

(4,879 posts)

1. Might makes right. That's all the law they need.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:02 PM

Friday

And until someone stops them, they’ll keep doing it, and it will escalate.

bluedigger

(17,302 posts)

2. Power comes from the barrel of a gun.

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Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:16 PM

Friday

We're all Maoists now.

Prairie Gates

(6,118 posts)

3. They're autocrats and ultimately despotic monarchists

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Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:18 PM

Friday

They speak the authority into being, and that's it. They are fundamentally lawless people.

Martin Eden

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4. Baseless Assertions

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 01:28 PM

Friday

Without baseless assertions, Trump and his apparatchiks wouldn't have much to say other than insults, hyperbole, and denials.

1WorldHope

(1,564 posts)

5. This will go down as one of the most shameful and embarrassing decades the

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Fri Sep 5, 2025, 03:21 PM

Friday

Ununited states has ever seen, since that genocide of the original citizens of this land and those bright years of slavery, oh wait, then there was that darn Jim Crow.
Who ever told sold us the story that we are such a great country anyway? May the spirits have mercy on our souls.

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