Posted on 11/02/2025 9:56:35 AM PST by John Semmens
Ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Jim Himes (Conn) took issue with the Trump Administration policy of having the US Navy blow up drug smugglers boats, saying "Sen Graham (SC) and other Republicans say it's okay to kill suspected drug smugglers, just so long as the American public supports it. What will they say when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez orders a strike on a MAGA demonstration or suppresses the speech of individuals who disagree with her policies? Do they really want to establish a precedent that the president can do whatever he or she wants?"
"What precedent is he talking about?" Graham asked. "President Obama ordered a drone strike on a US citizen then bragged 'it turns out I'm really good at killing people. I didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine'. President Biden used government agencies to intimidate social media companies to censor the free speech of individuals who opposed his covid policies. Democrats already established the precedents."
Himes said "Graham is trying to say two wrongs make a right. This is twisted ethics. The things that Presidents Obama and Biden did were in the past. They can't be undone. The things that Trump is doing are going on now. They can be stopped."
Meanwhile, Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Az) warned that "US military service men and women may face war crimes trials for following Trump's orders to blow up drug smuggling boats. Congress hasn't declared war on these smugglers. That means the President's orders to attack them are illegal. As the prosecutions in Nuremberg after World War II demonstrated, soldiers and sailors who carried out illegal orders from Hitler or other Nazi officials were also found guilty of war crimes and punished. Our soldiers and sailors need to have the courage to refuse to obey Trump's illegal orders lest they end up in prison or be executed along with him themselves."
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These kinds of statements just prove how insane the left is. It’s a disease that removes all rational thought.
“These kinds of statements just prove how insane the left is. ...”
Actually, it just proves how rotted our society has become. Those scumbags say these things, and get re-elected, easily.
Dumbass Americans are real morons. And the polls show it to us every day. They love the DemonRATS who want to kill ICE and all non-RAT Americans and now I see that subhuman aho, Mark Kelly, wants to punish all military personnel who follow the commander in chief’s orders. Come on Arizona, you can do better than that aho Kelly. The boy is retarded.It’s obvious that before the end of this decade either the Americans or the DemonRATS will have to be exterminated. Whatever you do, don’t let the left get your guns!!!
If you don’t believe that the people are getting dumber every, just look around you at the things they are doing.
Yo Jimmy! Has President Trump made it more difficult for your boyz from Venezuela to make their deliveries? Just asking for a friend. FUJH.
AZ Senator Mark Kelly Fentanyl is so upset he wants to imprison all military personnel for stopping the foreign murderers from murdering Americans. Come on Arizona. You can do better than this McCain Wannabe turd. Why does Kelly want the Venezuela drug cartels and Maduro to continue murdering Americans to make room for Pedo Joe’s illegal alien criminals.
These people are literally insane.
“What will they say when President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez orders a strike on a MAGA demonstration or suppresses the speech of individuals who disagree with her policies?”
Nothing just like when Biden got away with leaving hundreds of dead bodies in his wake.
President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
LOL when pigs fly she’s at the end of her political career and a few others people are becking away from that party the skunk has been around to long.
They can have my guns, however, they’ll be hot, empty, and dirty.
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