It’s almost painfully obvious what a scam and a setup this whole “Pete Hegseth is killing innocent drug dealers!” thing is. Mysterious anonymous sources just happened to say exactly what the Democrats needed said following their illegal orders nonsense of last week, and exactly when they needed to change the subject from the murder of a soldier that was arguably contributed to by their illegal orders nonsense of last week. This is just the latest in an endless series of lies designed to undermine the will of the voters by undermining the Trump administration – throw it in the pile with Russiagate, trying to frame Trump, and Hunter Biden’s laptop, et al. But this latest phony scandal does raise an important question in American politics.
Are the people pushing this transparent nonsense cynical operators who know it’s ridiculous, or are they idiots who actually believe it?
Now, you wouldn’t know it from the coordinated regime media/ Democrat narrative tsunami, but, Pete Hegseth denies what the Washington Post claims were two anonymous sources saying that his instructions were to kill all the drug dealers in some unspecified illegal manner. Putting aside that it’s both legal and good to kill drug dealers hauling poison to our shores to kill our people, the hearsay claims of individuals who don’t have the courage of their convictions to come out and say it, or to report this allegedly illegal conduct officially, and also who don’t exist, the regime media/Democrat complex instantly accepted these anonymous slanders as gospel truth. Anonymous claims are the best claims because you can’t defend against them other than to deny them, which is exactly what the liars want. It’s all part of the okey-doke.
Suddenly, overnight, all the Democrats and all the regime media were on exactly the same message. I wonder how that happened. Well, that’s a key component of the scam. It’s an operation, albeit an ineptly executed one, and one which was disrupted by a subject of a different operation to undermine America, so it had to be accelerated to take the dead Guard soldier out of the news. Regardless, you’re either stupid or think we’re stupid if you’re pushing it.
Oh, where to begin? Well, let’s start with a chronology, which vet @TimOnPoint succinctly set forth almost immediately. You may or may not have noticed in the last couple of weeks that it suddenly, out of nowhere, for no reason, you had a bunch of Democrats announcing that troops are not supposed to follow illegal orders, which is something all soldiers are trained for, and it’s not a shock, surprise, or revelation to anyone. So, why did it happen just now? And why did billboards go up implying the troops should resist being deployed within the United States to protect our people from the barbaric Third World invaders the Democrats eagerly invited in? And why did Team Soros and the usual suspects fund this?
Of course, it was all leading up to this fake revelation, this bogus hit piece on Pete Hegseth that couldn’t be less convincing if 51 renowned intelligence officers signed onto it like they signed onto the Hunter Biden laptop being a Russian fake. Everything these people say is a lie, and when you start from that premise, you’re almost always going to be correct. Call it Kurt’s Razor. Occam’s Razor is that the simplest explanation is the one that’s most likely to be true. Kurt’s Razor is that anything the regime media says is almost certain to be a lie in whole or in substantial part, especially when it supports Democrat interests.
This scenario was designed to be perfect. They get everyone aroused about alleged unlawful orders, and then suddenly hear about this allegedly unlawful order. Except everything fell apart, starting with how it’s so obviously a propaganda play. They keep going to the anonymous sources well and don’t realize that it’s dry. We don’t buy it anymore.
Then it got worse for them when one of the Democrats’ new friends from Afghanistan decided he would take up their argument and do it one better by murdering a Guard soldier and shooting another airman. Suddenly, the Democrats, over Thanksgiving, were in the awkward position of having implied that the military was illegally on the streets of DC, keeping Democratic constituents from butchering each other, and having one of the people they invited into the country shooting our troops. Again, super awkward. Oh, and devastating for the families, but they don’t care.
Well, the narrative had to change, so Operation Pete Is Too Mean To Drug Dealers had to launch ahead of schedule on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Out drops this Washington Post scoop where, again, anonymous sources allegedly confirm exactly what the Democrats need to happen to support their bogus narrative. The Democrats/regime media contingency plan was simple: “Let’s get America talking about that instead of how we got more American soldiers hurt through our gross incompetence!”
But the problem with being in a bubble is that you might not accurately anticipate how normal people will react. Putting aside that these events did not happen the way the Washington Post says (something the Pentagon told them before they ran with this story), the threshold problem for them is that most normal people think it’s good to kill drug dealers bringing drugs into America. We’ve lost 100,000+ Americans to drugs in recent years and finishing off a drug boat even as a couple of surviving drug mules bob in the water nearby seems perfectly reasonable.
It’s also perfectly legal to call in a second strike on a target that’s not completely destroyed. Ignore the Twitter lawyers and civilian pundits. You don’t have to stop shooting until you finish shooting. There’s no special law of war saying that if you don’t complete the job the first time, you can’t complete it on a second go-round. If the drug boat still exists, it’s a target. If the enemy is nearby, oh well. I keep seeing stupid people explain that this contravenes the Geneva Conventions. But, of course, the Geneva Conventions only apply to nations that have signed onto them and honor them. Last I heard, cartels were not nations, much less signatories to the Geneva Conventions. It’s not a get out a get-out-of-jail-free card for every Miami Vice wannabe hauling coke into Miami.
We’re hearing a lot of stupid people scream a lot about war crimes and murder, and all that. This is part of the plan – hysterical shrieking, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. The Democrats are promising that if they take the House, they’ll launch a bunch of investigations. That should be a lot of fun when Trump administration officials refuse to testify or otherwise participate in these festivals of onanism and toss the crumpled-up subsequent criminal referrals to the Department of Justice into the Eric Holder Memorial Circular File. You know, just like the Democrats did to us. That’s the big problem with deciding that you don’t feel like conducting business as usual; you’re going to find that the people you want to conduct business as usual against are going to do the same to you.
They are also threatening to prosecute Trump officials under a future Democratic administration. Well, you know that’s going to be a challenge because Trump is going to pardon everybody. After what happened to him and his administration by the fascist regime of President Eggplant, pardoning everybody is going to become routine. We’re seeing angry promises of petty retribution by Democrats against administration officials, even as they complain about the righteous retribution against their pals for actual wrongdoing. It’s more impotent whining from the party of impotent whiners.
So, take your threats of prosecution and shove them.
And you’re welcome because Trump is doing you a favor. Dumb people correctly point out that there’s no statute of limitations on war crimes, but what they seem to forget is that Barack Obama’s extensive drone program killed a lot of people who weren’t the main target. A lot of conservatives have been upset about that, but not me. I was all for it. I’m perfectly good with pals of terrorists getting killed along with the terrorists, even if they happen to hold US citizenship – this just goes to show that we need to denaturalize and deport a bunch of people. But if we’re going to change the rules, we can do that.
We can send a bunch of Obama administration officials to Supermax if that’s the new rule. There’s no one to pardon them; apparently, the autopen was broken when the subject came up after the last election. Like I always say, be careful about the new rules you want to impose upon your enemies, because they’re going to become your suppository.
This is a political plot and should be understood and fought in purely political terms. The real political danger from this is not that Donald Trump is going to be somehow tarred with the stigma of killing drug dealers too hard. The political danger is the distraction, and that’s what they want. They want to create an atmosphere of chaos and confusion, while taking Trump off his real objective, which is finishing the repair of the economy that the Democrats destroyed.
Some also argue that this is an attempt to support a color revolution, in which the left would attempt to make the present United States government unstable to take it over extra-constitutionally. Fortunately, these clowns are totally inept. It’s not going to happen. And that’s especially true because we know exactly what’s going on. After the blue falcon illegal orders thing, and the murder of our soldier by one of the tens of millions of Third World savages the Democrats invited to invade our home, and this latest bogus scandal, you’ve got a lot of very angry people, including a lot of very angry vets, who are not going just to sit back and watch this. The left may eventually spark a color revolution, but – as my upcoming new novel demonstrates – they might not like the color it ends up being.
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