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

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.

[Easterncedar]

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

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

[bluedigger]

2. Power comes from the barrel of a gun.

We're all Maoists now.

[Prairie Gates]

3. They're autocrats and ultimately despotic monarchists

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

[Martin Eden]

4. Baseless Assertions

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

[1WorldHope]

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

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.