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This is treason. Plain and simple. Trump is prioritizing The Heritage Foundation’s over the American people and the USA Constitution. The Heritage Foundation has coveted the USA military for decades if not a century.

Trump is disorienting the USA military from its legislated purpose. The guy is a sick bastard. Republicans are signed on to this? The Western Hemisphere, with Russian assistance will destroy this country after taking NATO.

This is pure unadulterated cowardice and stupidity.

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The fanatical Christian Hemisphere. Putin and Xi are welcome to everything east of Greenland and West of Hawaii. It is obviously contamination to the Heritage Foundation’s ideology.

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Trump is god. 

Congratulations Kash Patel.

Donald Trump is a scared man. According to Pam Bondi Trump gave his administration an order to make Washington, DC safe enough for a child to walk safely from one boundary to the other.

That is not a realistic order. But, in acting according to Trump’s wishes Patel set out to make the boss happy. What could be better than to stick a finger into previous administrations’ eye and find the attempted terrorist that would seek to blow up party headquarters with a pipe bomb. 

Patel found the evidence in the case fill that has been ongoing and solved it. He took the existing evidence to the next level. He done good.

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The man who believes the conspiracy theories back then, still does today. He believes in Trump. But, what he portrays is very worrisome. A man able to believe “The Big Lie” and willing to act violently because of it.

This is where Trump’s politics blurs reality and he thinks it’s just fine because it serves his purpose.

According to many on the Supreme Court an extreme amount of cases they hear are politics. The truth doesn’t matter in those cases because politics can be based in lies. The final goal in politics is to accumulate power even with highly unethical practices like gerrymandering. So, the fact that “The Big Lie” exists is just great politics. 

According to Trump life is a game where the wealthiest thrive while everyone else just didn’t live right. Oops, to bad.

So, while Kash Patel is going about life making DC safe for Trump he also proved how “The Big Lie” actually existed in the hearts and minds of people like Brian Cole, Jr. The Big Lie was so big it drove fear through Brian and he did what any honorable American would do; act against the perpetrators.

Setting up pipe bombs is simply illegal and wrong. For that Brian Coke will be going to prison. 

Got that?

Brian’s actions were based in a lie and now he is facing prison. He believed a lie and he is paying for it. 

I don’t know how life got twisted around like that for Brian, but, I think it is pretty lousy.

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Why is Putin expecting Trump to deliver?

Because the alternative is unthinkable.

Putin won’t surrender.

The ideology is more important than any Russian speaking people. This is Putin’s destiny. 

To Trump, Putin is in the club of the powerful that know what is best for the world. Vladimir is just a good ole boy. Vladimir does not consider himself a good ole boy. He expects Trump and his minions to take orders and deliver. 

“I like to win.” It is far easier for the USA military to take on drug cartels with half subs than face the fact the USA’s real enemy have real subs.

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Americans know what is happening. 

Vladimir Putin is waiting. Putin is willing to entertain Trump and his minions because he anticipates Trump delivering. The talks aren’t about peace, it is about surrender and Putin thinks he is playing his part.

The Caribbean is Trump’s change in focus for the USA military. It has nothing to do with national security and allies. It is about abandonment. Trump wants to abandon all that makes the USA great to dominate the Western Hemisphere. Not a country, not a continent, a hemisphere. It can’t be done. He can’t buy Argentina. It is impossible to do what Trump is seeking to do. It is delusional.

If Trump is able to move the focus of the USA military to the Western Hemisphere then he can abandon the East to the communists, including Europe. Donald John Trump is unable to live up to the real mission of the USA, so he abandons it.

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All this is inappropriate.

Intelligence is not law. Drug runners headed to Suriname is not a threat to USA. I believe the Admiral was carrying out some kind of order, but, unless Suriname asked for assistance in alliance with USA there was no reason at all to destroy the boat or kill people on it.

The Admiral is not a stupid man, where is the permission to carry out this TASK of an enormous Navy presence come from? Believing there is danger to the USA is not a legal capacity to define this mission. Intelligence is just that. It is a good lead, but, any activity by the military has to be based in fact as well. If we are to believe there were two boats then the mission included both vessels and the cargo, not simply an estimation.

Someone is really screwing up. Who is it? 

Americans don’t deploy a full aircraft carrier strike group to stop speed boats. That is over kill. It is no different than deploying the National Guard or military to carry out arrests and policing. It is not proper use of those assets. It creates danger otherwise not present.

In urban warfare, Former President Obama made the kill order. No one else. The intelligence was given to him and the order issued by him personally was carried out. When Osama bin Laden meet the USA military and his capture and death, Firmer President Obama was in the Situation Room observing every detail on camera and when a helicopter failed to carry our troops and the evidence of their mission. One helicopter would have to do, but, if the mission required different assets Obama was present to see it through. This mess in the Caribbean is completely inappropriate. Very messy.

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Americans need a deeper understanding of their military.

Military studies 101:

Two basic concepts, calculated risk and overwhelming potential.

The great Late Secretary of State Colin Powell was right. He is the best model for American soldiers facing danger, combat, or death. 

Powell got it right. 

No theorizing is necessary.

Righteousness????

 Tom Cotton stated the boat strikes are righteousness? Cotton is a lawyer justifying murder with religious hubris? 

That is called jihad.

Our soldiers do NOT carry out COMBAT as zealots and Cotton is lay out of line!

Zealots die in combat because their heads aren’t screwed on straight. They justify their actions by divine purpose waiting and acting on emotional spirituality. That is bullshit!

Trump and his minions are turning the USA military into basket cases.

Righteousness as a motivation for killing is called a CONVICTION punishable by at least 25 years behind bars.

Righteous is not a legitimate defense for any military engagement. Defense, be it for the country or self is the ONLY motivation for military killing or homicide.

End of discussion.

More incompetence from the Trump administration.

This is ideology. There is absolutely no factual reason to make these changes in vaccines.  I am convinced over my lifetime vaccines have saved my life.

The currently still valid and underfunded Affordable Care Act requires PREVENTIVE CARE of all Americans. Vaccines are preventive health care. I have received my preventative care this year including vaccines.

Considering vaccines are preventative care, these recommendations are unconstitutional. This is not a First Amendmebt issue. It is more the constitutional right to one’s own body and wellness. It is part of the right to happiness. Wellness definitely impacts happiness and quality of life.

Every American has a right to thrive without government oppression of any kind. 

Why does this administration attack children and their viability? Natural immunity is cheaper but very dangerous.

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Everyone is on very thin ice.

I suppose if thin ice is all one has in defense of actions taken when homicide is the result, it is enough. 

A few thoughts. There is no war declared. Carrying out drug runner interventions in the Caribbean Sea is very messy, especially when there are far better alternatives that do not require an aircraft carrier battle group in waters considered to be mostly friendly and allied.

I find this entire scenario outrageous, expensive, and very much out of line with the mission of the USA military.

This has to be one of the most irresponsible uses of an aircraft carrier in Navy history. Congress needs to assert itself in limiting the use of the USA military with drug trafficking from anywhere in the world.

This is not a war. Not by a long shot. I sincerely believe this is murder and while the people on the boats may be criminal in their intent they never had a trial or proof of their purpose. I believe due to sincere lack of proof of the crime in these interdictions the families of these men have legal recourse.

Trump and Hegseth are among the worst leadership this country has ever had and this is more proof of it. Hegseth is not qualified to speak to admirals and generals by the sheer fact he is abusing power granted to him by the title alone as Secretary of Defense. He is even operating under an alias of Secretary of War.

Trump and Hegseth have no respect for the power easily at their disposal and they have absolutely no respect for Congress. They are both operating outside their defined office as if dictatorial powers actually exist. 

I have to laugh at the politicians in Venezuela. Maduro could never defeat the USA military and the rightful and freely elected president believes Trump is a liberator. She has no real idea of the workcraft of Trump. He is not a liberator. Trump is a racketeer. Even if it were possible to bloodlessly remove Maduro, the price to the new president with the USA military occupying Venezuela; she has no reassurance of power, except as a figurehead.

The United States Rule of Law calls the military the Department of Defense for real reasons. It is not a liberation force. It is a defense force and always has been. The USA military is highly lethal. No country in this world wants this country’s military within their borders. 

With all that said, Hegseth is way out of line in his time as Defense Secretary. Congress needs to be acting to contain the misguided ideology of this Defense Secretary. The Caribbean Sea has a role in providing sun filled warmth to vacationing Americans and NATO is in a far more precarious situation than it has been since WWII.

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“Republicans are immoral.”

Cute. Putin is stating he takes back everything he said about a peace deal. NATO needs to prepare for conflict with third world Russia and its mercenary armies that never get a chance to collect their first paycheck.

To return to Trump’s war on boats; with a toe hold in Venezuela why does anyone suppose it was important to bring Balsanaro to the USA seeking asylum? Then he pardons Hernandez. Hello? 

Trump has pardoned a record number of convicted criminals and what does Congress do about it? 

Crickets.

Oh, cute. Trump is adding a new chief architect to the East Wing demolition. He isn’t firing anyone. That would be admitting he screwed up. There could be real world reason why his buildings ended up in bankruptcy.

Americans need to consider building a new presidential residence somewhere else because it is going to take a long time to reconstruct this one. It will be unfair to put the next First Family through all that.

But, I am turning now to Alaska.

There was a vote today regarding a plot of land of the Alaskan coastal plain. Here we go with petroleum again.

There is a segment of land named “1001” or talked about as “ten oh one.”

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I have never heard a former president defamed on the Senate floor as much as Former President Biden was today. Any why? Because Lisa Murkowski couldn’t get her way with Joe to exploit endangered species habitat to benefit the petroleum industry profits.

Now, mind you Murkowski, who I consider to be a fairly level headed Senator, stated they had done ALL the environmental studies and there was no reason for then President Biden to get in the way of Alaskan energy.

And this is the sad part. Murkowski’s environmental studies left out one very important environmental FACT; the climate crisis. Former President Biden was not having cognition problems, he was standing on solid moral grounds and if anyone wants to challenge that fact I suggest taking it up with the Vatican.

There is no reason to drill in Alaska except for the wealthy people on the dole from the industry and the Alaskan authorities. Oh yeah, there is the money to get elected, too. Croney money.

Think about this for a minute. The Alaskan Pipeline is enormous. Our allies drilled there at one time. Yes, for profits, but, the north shore dried up.

Air pollution, heat exposure, wildfires, and disease all come from the climate crisis that claims more than 500,000 human beings a year. A YEAR. Yes. Disease. Ever hear of the New World Screwworm? It had migrated into Texas and why? Because things in Texas are now a happy place for this pest due to global warming.

The climate crisis and its greenhouse gas pollution is a huge moral issue and Republicans choke on the words, climate crisis. You won’t hear one of them say it. Exploding Smokey Mountains or not, there is no vocabulary for such events that aren’t explained away by ancient political rhetoric.

So, while the Republicans and their cronies spent a lot of money to prove their activities in Sector “ten oh one,” won’t cause problems for the fishing industry it says nothing about the migrated fish north from the equator now calling higher latitudes home because of hot ocean waters. Republicans will never admit there is volumes and volumes of research that OUR OWN AGENCIES have carried out supporting the climate crisis FACTS and the need for RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT.

More later.

Republicans are immoral.

I don’t think they figured it out yet, so I thought I would point to a couple of issues to illustrate.

Hegseth:

Thune stated he does not approve of Hegseth leading the Department of Defense, but, he serves at the pleasure of the president so Thune sees no reason to move against him. That is called talking out of both sides of your mouth. It is politically SMOOTH so he can maintain the fear level of Trump in the Senate while CYAing the Republicans in case it all turns sour in the electorate.

The issue with Hegseth is very clear. He is killing people. I don’t care if it is with one strike or two. He has no real reason to kill people. He should be asking the Congress for more Coast Guard operations to eliminate the arrival 100 percent of any drug runners.

Trump today backs Hegseth’s killing people. Why? Because Hegseth is scapegoating an Admiral that won’t mutiny Hegseth for ordering the deaths of people in boats. So, Trump figures he can blame the Admiral after scouring every other officer in the military leadership so he can run roughshod over the Admirals that are left for carrying out illegal orders given by him to Hegseth. Trump intends to blame the Admiral for the deaths as he was acting alone with a hubris of power.

The fact of the matter is Trump has celebrated these extra-judiciary killings many times in the public realm. Trump is the most responsible for the misdeeds of his war on Venezuelan boats. We don’t know and never will if there was any contraband involved. It is basically a war on boats.

I am going to take license with this idea that Trump prioritizes with his war on boats.

Donald stated he wants to take Canada and Mexico with force if necessary. That is an entire continent. North America to be exact. He has already changed the map to read “The Gulf of America.” Add to that he wants to take Greenland and consider it North America, too. 

How much petroleum is that? But, more than that, with his attempts at alienating our allies, who will come to the rescue of the people Trump determined to be garbage. Yes, human beings he calls garbage.

With his war on boats, who will come to stop the carnage within the North American continent? Add to that his expansion into Venezuela which gives him a toe hold on South America. He has already put the largest and most sophisticated aircraft carrier in the Caribbean Sea. Don’t tell me I have a wild imagination with a huge compliment of the USA Navy in the Caribbean, but, hey who cares, all this is happening at the pleasure of the president. 

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I have a question. Only one.

Does doing nothing but chasing profits result in a far lower quality of life?

Hint: Million-Billionaires always figure they can provide for optimal quality of life because of their wealth. What are the costs these jerks experience and when does it all become a really dumb way of looking at life?

...That financial gut punch (click here) won’t just affect big governments and corporations. According to the United Nations, the world is heading toward a gain of nearly 3 degrees of global warming in the next century, even with current climate policies and goals – and researchers say individuals could bear the economic burden.

The researchers in Wednesday’s study, published in Nature, said financial pain in the short-term is inevitable, even if governments ramp up their efforts to tackle the crisis now.

“These impacts are unavoidable in the sense that they are indistinguishable across different future emission scenarios until 2049,” two of the study’s researchers from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Maximilian Kotz and Leonie Wenz, told CNN via email....

When does pure living become unattainable?

...But Zillow (click here) has now deleted this climate index after complaints from real estate agents and some homeowners that the rankings appeared arbitrary, could not be challenged and harmed house sales. The complaints included those from the California Regional Multiple Listing Service, which oversees a database of property data that Zillow relies upon.

Zillow said it remains committed to help Americans make informed decisions about properties, with listings now containing outbound links to the website of First Street, the non-profit climate risk quantifier that had provided the on-site tool to Zillow....

Ya think?

Okay, so it was three questions.

This is a problem that must be solved. American minorities have increased stress under Trump.

December 3, 2025

By Fernanda Figueroa and Jaylen Green

Two pregnant Black women nearly 1,000 miles apart (click here) were ready to do what many do every day: welcome new bundles of joy, and just before the start of the holiday season. Instead, the health of both women and their babies was put at risk after hospital staff did not immediately provide the needed care.

One woman was discharged and delivered her baby on the side of an Indiana highway, while the other nearly gave birth in a Texas hospital’s emergency waiting room. Both women survived, but are still reeling from ordeals that have drawn national attention — in part, because they were captured on video and shared on social media.

Each instance highlights the long-standing and rising disparities in health outcomes for Black women, who die at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth, according to a 2023 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report....

Black women and families have a higher rate of impoverishment. It could be due to many factors including racism, lack of availability of education, or other oppressive forces due to segregation. This disparity needs to be solved. The stress women of lower income are under can be causing many problems including heatlh issues and maternity deaths.

As a side note: the average age of home buyers has changed from 32 years old to now 59 years old. Former Vice President Kamala Harris' plan to bring eligible working Americans to the housing market in providing $25K for a down payment would be the beginning of ending the LOCK OUT of Americans from purchasing their home a part of the American Dream.

Earnings of Women Aged 20–59, by Age Group and Race/Ethnicity, 2020–2021 (click here)

This is third world MAGA. Loyalty to the corrupt and corruptable.

December 3, 2025

By Michelle L. Price

President Donald Trump (click here) pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife in a federal bribery and conspiracy case on Wednesday, citing what he called a “weaponized” justice system.

Trump, who has argued that his own legal troubles were a partisan witch hunt, said on social media without presenting evidence that Cuellar and his wife, Imelda Cuellar, were prosecuted because the congressman had been critical of President Joe Biden’s immigration policies.

Trump, a Republican, said in a social media post that Cuellar “bravely spoke out against Open Borders” and accused Biden, a Democrat, of going after the congressman and his wife “for speaking the TRUTH.”

Federal authorities had charged Cuellar and his wife with accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for the congressman advancing the interests of an Azerbaijan-controlled energy company and a bank in Mexico. Cuellar is accused of agreeing to influence legislation favorable to Azerbaijan and deliver a pro-Azerbaijan speech on the floor of the U.S. House....

Part of the peace plan or did Cuellar remind Trump who exactly asked him to bring about plans in Congress of the Azerbaijan energy company? It might make for prolific election fodder otherwise.

December 2, 2025

By Michael Rubin

On August 8, 2025, (click here) Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan met US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. According to the White House press release, the three leaders “signed a historic joint declaration for peace after decades of bitter conflict and scores of lives lost — a landmark achievement for international diplomacy that only President Trump could deliver”.

In reality, peace remains distant. Whether his Gaza peace plan, the peace between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, or his much-ballyhooed claim that he ended the “1,000-year-old” India-Pakistan conflict in a mere 24 hours, the reality is that Trump’s declarations of peace are akin to holding a grand opening ribbon-cutting for a building whose foundation is not even completely dug....

And what exactly is responsible for these climate catastrophes and death?

A new normal? Really?

There is nothing normal here nor should the global community believe there must be a new normal. Not when it comes to the climate crisis and the tragedies that accompany it.

December 3, 2025
By Aniruddha Ghosal and Anton L. DelGado

Songkhla Province, southern Vietnam

Southeast Asia (click here) is being pummeled by unusually severe floods this year, as late-arriving storms and relentless rains wreak havoc that has caught many places off guard.

Deaths have topped 1,400 across Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, with more than 1,000 still missing in floods and landslides. In Indonesia, entire villages remain cut off after bridges and roads were swept away. Thousands in Sri Lanka lack clean water, while Thailand’s prime minister acknowledged shortcomings in his government’s response.

Malaysia is still reeling from one its worst floods, which killed three and displaced thousands. Meanwhile, Vietnam and the Philippines have faced a year of punishing storms and floods that have left hundreds dead.

What feels unprecedented is exactly what climate scientists expect: A new normal of punishing storms, floods and devastation.

“Southeast Asia should brace for a likely continuation and potential worsening of extreme weather in 2026 and for many years immediately following that,” said Jemilah Mahmood, who leads the think tank Sunway Centre for Planetary Health in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia....

Investing in fossil fuels only fuels hardship for Americans of all generations.

December 1, 2025

The U.S. Department of Energy (click here) today renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) the National Laboratory of the Rockies. The renaming is effective immediately and will be reflected in all public communications and official correspondence.

“The energy crisis we face today is unlike the crisis that gave rise to NREL,” said Assistant Secretary of Energy (EERE) Audrey Robertson. “We are no longer picking and choosing energy sources. Our highest priority is to invest in the scientific capabilities that will restore American manufacturing, drive down costs, and help this country meet its soaring energy demand. The National Laboratory of the Rockies will play a vital role in those efforts.”

“For decades, this laboratory and its scientific capabilities have pushed the boundaries of what's possible and delivered impact to the nation,” said Jud Virden, laboratory director of the National Laboratory of the Rockies. “This new name embraces a broader applied energy mission entrusted to us by the Department of Energy to deliver a more affordable (that benefits Trump's fossil fuel cronies) and secure energy future for all.”...

The fossil fuel industries should be held responsible for these tragedies. This is not damage from a hurricane. It is complete catastrophic collapse of infrastructure due to a stalled system over the Smokey Mountains. Stalled systems such as the remains of Helene only started since 2005. These are new catastrophic events that has developed out of the Climate Crisis. There is no federal plan to deal with the climate crisis, hence, the collapse of infrastructure well planned for weather events that were normal to Earth. This stalled and catastrophic remnant of Helene was not normal and the USA was not prepared for the needs of the people or how to protect them. It was treated as a hurricane and not the burgeoning catastrophe it became.  

September 22, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell

Damage (click here) from Hurricane Helene on the Blue Ridge Parkway

This level of damage was noted after the eruption of Mount St. Helens. Not a hurricane. The mountain tops of the Smokeys blew apart sending enormous amounts of debris below destroying towns and killing Americans.

One year after Helene, (click here) emotions run high. Physical reminders of the destruction remain, but the anniversary is a mental reminder, one that threatens to reopen certain scars.

“It is OK to feel like you are grieving a loss right now, because we did lose a lot,” David Jackson, president of the Boone Chamber of Commerce, told Carolina Public Press.

“We lost time. We lost people. We lost places. We have been so concerned and busy with restoring that not everybody has fully processed what happened. This one-year milestone will do that.”

Beside that grief, however, is hope. For Fabrice Julien, professor of health science at UNC-Asheville, balancing the two isn’t always easy....

Russia is already a third world country.

The hideous amounts of blood and treasure it spends on Putin's obsession with rebuilding the Soviet Union has taken in back in time, not forward. It no long has space launch capacity. In addition to this failure, the Russia wing of the International Space Station is in very bad repair. It probably should be jettisoned. 

The United States of America is headed for third world status.

The Paris Accords were ignored and now the Executive Branch of the USA federal government is seeking to turn the clocks back decades for the sake of profits. This RECOMMENDATION (not regulation) was to assist the private sector to build better buildings NOT CHEAPER ONES.

The abuse of the atmospheres of Earth is extensive and needs to end. The petroleum industry is the primary driver of greenhouse gas pollution and this is more of the same. The generations of Americans have a right to a future unencumbered by past sins of climate. This is the most ridiculous use of Executive Power in this country. Trump is a sellout and nothing more. He is in office to cause problems not solve them. It is why he is trying to convince others he must be king to ensure all of the roll backs remain in place.

He and all the fossil fuel companies should be sued for reckless endangerment of human life, species destruction, ocean heating, coral loss (carbon sinks) in willful ignorance of the reality all moral people know to be paramount to Earth's benevolent climate. Trump and his minion administration has proven that death means nothing to them so long as they are safe in their beds at night.

A Notice by the Energy Department on 12/03/2025 (click here)

As outlined in Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy,” agencies are required to, “review all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and any other agency actions (collectively, agency actions) to identify those agency actions that impose an undue burden on the identification, development, or use of domestic energy resources.” 90 FR 8353. As part of that review, DOE has identified the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building as a guidance document that does not align with Administration priorities.

The Request for Information (RFI) for the development of the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building suggests that a key impetus for the development of the standard was the Biden-Harris Administration's goal of a, “net-zero emissions, economy-wide, by 2050 and a 100% clean energy electricity sector by 2035.” 89 FR 1086. These goals were detailed in the February 2021 Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.” 86 FR 7619. However, Executive Order 14008 was rescinded through President Trump's January 2025 Executive Order 14148, “Initial Rescission of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions.” 90 FR 8237. Thus, the goals outlined in Executive Order 14008 are no longer applicable and a guidance document that would support those goals, such as the National Definition of a Zero Emissions Building, is no longer needed....

This is one of our ships and crew.

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They are every bit American and a source of pride for this country and admired by all others.

The Trump Administration committed and continues to commit war crimes.

This was never necessary. This is a precursor to a premeditated war. If I can find the video on YouTube of the USA Coast Guard stopping drug runners in the Pacific Ocean I will post it here. The USA Coast Guard are magnificent.

Here is basically the PROTOCOL to stop drug runners. 

The speed boat is full of drug contraband and is moving with four marine engines at full throttle. Their goal is to make it to a destination for distribution of the contraband with four hours of fuel.

The drug runners are spotted by the USA Coast Guard on patrol no different than the spotting Hegseth is doing in the Caribbean. Once spotted the Coast Guard cutter ( click here) sets an intercept course. There is one problem, the speed boat has an advantage in distance and increasing the distance from the cutter. 

The commander of the ship is not worried because on board of the cutter are sharp shooters and a helicopter. The helicopter lifts off with a full compliment of competent soldiers specially trained for this mission. In no time the helicopter catches up with the speed boat. What happens next only speaks to the magnificent expertise of the USA top brass in preparedness and respect for life.

The helicopter pilot announces their arrival and demands the speed boat to stop. It does not. The second warning is blasted from the helicopter but this time it is stated there will be consequences if the boat does not stop. It does not. 

An order is given to the crew on board to prepare to fire. A third warning is announced and the speed boat does not stop. The side door of the helicopter is opened to reveal a gunman with a 50 caliper rifle. He takes aim at the speed boat’s first engine and fires. The first of four engines is penetrated by the 50 caliper bullet and ceases to operate.

This is a near impossible task. The speed boat is moving and even changing course to get away from the helicopter. The helicopter is flying in a trajectory to end the forward progress of the speed boat. The boat is on the ocean with waves and wakes from those engines. The engines are a moving target on an ocean with many moving parts.

The USA Coast Guard sharpshooter takes aim at the second engine and fires. The boat continues to try an evade the helicopter. The second engine is penetrated by a 50 caliper bullet, then third and then the four. The boat finally stops adrift on the ocean.

The helicopter hovers and announces all on board are under arrest and are to stand down. The sharpshooter remains on alert to end any thought of firing back at the helicopter. The cutter arrives to arrest the drug runners as members of the cutter crew populates the speed boat escorting the men to their ship and then confiscates all the contraband as proof to their mission. 

The drug runners are intercepted, the contraband in government hands with no bloodshed or threat to human life. This is an absolutely true scenario that occurs with the USA Coast Guard all the time. These ships are specially outfitted with taxpayers dollars, the crew is specially trained by taxpayers money, and the missions are paid for by taxpayer money. At no time along the way is there ever an understanding that the speed boat crew is expendable. The drug runners have no respect for human life but that does not mean the USA military shouldn’t either.

This country and it’s soldiers are honorable with a clear understanding life is precious and the USA respects international law.

Mr. Hegseth is violating international law in international waters and is committing heinous crimes against humanity. Mr. Trump is demanding these missions, boasting about them for his own deranged purposes. The Congress needs to act to end this brutality. Bloodshed is not a political advertisement. It’s however failed diplomacy.

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