It’s hard to grab hold of the idea – of which of the morons in the USA administration will crack first?
I think that it has to be Pete Hegseth, the Minister for War. Perhaps “crack” is not the appropriate word. “Be thrown under the bus” might be more accurate.
The immediate problem is the rather gripping thought – of the vision of injured fishermen hanging desperately onto the debris, the wreckage, of their bombed boat. And then getting bombed again, and killled. Now, apparently, there exists a video of this wretched event.
CBS reported on December 4th, that U.S. lawmakers met behind closed doors, and viewed a video of a second strike on the boat. Well we, the public, are not allowed to see this video. Democrat Rep. Jim Himes said:
“… what I saw in that room was one of the most troubling things I’ve seen in my time in public service.”
“You have two individuals in clear distress without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who are killed by the United States.”
Even without seeing the video, our imaginations are struck with the horror of this event. And if it was not so terrible, why the need to cover it up?
And it’s not just that picture which is covered up. There’s also the trail of denials, blames, contradictory statements about that attack – an incident that clearly breached international law, in the Geneva Conventions, The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and also the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual.
The Washington Post reported that Pete Hegseth had given the order to “kill everybody,” but this was later denied by Admiral Bradley, who was in charge of the operation, and also by Hegseth and the White house.
The family of Colombian fisherman Alejandro Carranza Medina, believed killed by the US military in a boat bombing in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 15, has filed a formal complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth of murder over the unlawful attack. The complaint also notes that President Donald Trump – the commander in chief of the US military – “ratified the conduct of Secretary Hegseth described herein.”
That legal initiative mightn’t get anywhere, but the entire chain of command could be held liable for killing the survivors of the boat strike. The United States clearly imposes a duty to refuse unlawful orders.
That thought must be striking a bit of terror in the minds of the military officers involved – and indeed in any U.S. military officer who might one day be given a similar order.
Anyway, wriggle around as he might, Pete Hegseth is at the top of decision-making on the whole illegal bombing of civilian boats in international orders – unless you count Donald Trump as the top decision-maker. Trump would like this issue to just fade away. But if it doesn’t – well, then, perhaps a head should roll.
In his first presidency, Trump made a record number of his associates’ heads roll. But here’s the difference – some of them were quite skilful, and capable.
Not so these days. Some examples:
Notably RFK Jr, is totally unsuited for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Tulsi Gabbard, with no strong background in Intelligence, is Director of National Intelligence: Attorney General, Pam Bondi has a background in criminal law, but is most notable for unflinching dedication to Donald Trump, no matter what. Director of DOGE, Elon Musk – well, he had to go, in the inevitable clash between two grandiose egos. Steve Witkoff’s background as real estate developer gave him no expertise to qualify him as Special Envoy to the Middle East. Marco Rubio as Secretary of State does have experience in politics, but is notable for having a fanatical war-hawk’s hatred of Cuba and China.
What all Trump appointees do have in common is unswerving devotion to Donald Trump. And that’s not going to be enough to sort out the Trump administration’s messes, with more surely to come.
But now, to come back to Pete Hegseth. Yes, he does have university degrees in politics. But even with university degrees you can still behave moronically. And Hegseth sure does. He has a history of alcoholism, and an accusation against him of sexual assault. Even his mother accused him of being an abuser of women (though she later retracted this).
Hegseth was forced out of two veterans groups due to his alcoholism, and accusations of financial mismanagement. Colleagues at his former employment at Fox News reported his drinking problem there.
Apparently Hegseth promised to stop drinking if confirmed in the job as Defense Secretary. There are rumours that he hasn’t stopped. But anyway, that’s not his only problem. There was his careless use of commercial messaging app Signal to talk about an impending operation in Yemen.
All this has got Republican law-makers worried… and the midterm elections will be coming up. Trump might just have to start the head-rolling if this boat-bombing issue doesn’t go away.
And Pete Hegseth is the obvious first candidate.
By the way, the Internet is awash with stuff about Trump being not only a deranged narcissistic megalomaniac (which we all knew), but on top of that, claims that dementia is setting in on him. (How long will the moron-in-chief last, anyway?)
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Officially, until the mid-terms at least.
Unofficially, the rats are already leaving the sinking ship, so it’s basically down to which unhinged murderous thug is susceptible to random processes, and there are way many of them! Slow decline over the next six months.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0176268024000752
Clearly some have done a mathematical theory about it which isn’t surprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain
The Donald and his Trumpy amdministration needs severe cretinoscopy interventions then intense surgical imbecilectomies.
Oh, don’t you see? They’re trying to incorporate and ‘modernize’ the much conveniently adjusted Monroe Doctrine of 1823 (extant – sort of). A doctrine that has covered off much American coercion, brutality and abuse since its inception.
Have a look at the trumpian Nov2025 ‘National Security Strategy’ NSS. It’s without any doubt whatsoever an ego-centric, paranoid, neo-fascist document that once again reveals America’s xenophobia, and coercive brutality that earmarks it as a politically isolationist (re-aspiring) hegemony.
Indeed under King TACO T-Rump, heads will roll.
If that description of the two men in the water being killed makes the mind jerk (as it should) imagine if the actual bombings of babies in hospital in Gaza were shown or the IDF using children as shooting targets or seeing the soldiers laughing as they raped a young man or the ones who dressed up in slaughtered women’s clothing and dancing with joy…or the video of a woman picking olives being kicked to death. Would ANY of these scenes change American minds in being manipulated by Zionists to pay $bills to Netanyahu to commit Genocide?
Would it?
I feel sick.