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The Constitution Does Not Allow the President To Unilaterally Blow Suspected Drug Smugglers to Smithereens

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Somewhere off the coast of Venezuela, a speedboat with 11 people on board is blown to smithereens. Vice President J.D. Vance announces that “killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military.”
When challenged that killing citizens without due process is a war crime, the vice president responded that he “didn’t give a shit.”

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But over 20,000 people are murdered in the U.S. each year, and yet somehow we find a way to a dispassionate dispensation of justice that includes legal representation for the accused and jury trial.

Why? Because sometimes the accused is actually not guilty.

As passions subside, a civilized people should ask: To be clear, the people bombed to smithereens were guilty, right?

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The administration has maintained that the people blown to smithereens were members of Tren de Aragua and therefore narcoterrorists.

Certainly, then, if we know they belong to a particular gang, then someone must surely have known their names before they were blown to smithereens?

At the very least, the government should explain how the gang came to be labelled as terrorists. U.S. law defines a terrorist as someone who uses “premeditated, politically motivated violence…against non-combatants.” Since the U.S. policy is now to blow people to smithereens if they are suspected of being in a terrorist gang, then maybe someone could take the time to explain the evidence of their terrorism?

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Few independent legal scholars argue the strikes are legal. Even John Yoo—a former deputy assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush, who infamously authored the Bush administration’s legal justification for “enhanced interrogation techniques”—has criticized the Trump administration’s justification for the strikes, saying: “There has to be a line between crime and war. We can’t just consider anything that harms the country to be a matter for the military. Because that could potentially include every crime.””

https://reason.com/2025/10/08/the-constitution-does-not-allow-the-president-to-unilaterally-blow-suspected-drug-smugglers-to-smithereens/?nab=1

Trump’s Labor Department Admits That Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Causing a Shortage of Farm Workers

Posted on by Lone Candle

“The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is making it harder for American farms to find seasonal workers and putting the nation’s food supply chain at risk.”

https://reason.com/2025/10/08/trumps-labor-department-admits-that-trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-causing-a-labor-shortage/?nab=1

The Border Czar and a Bag of $50,000

Posted on by Lone Candle

Trump Border Czar appears to have accepted a 50k bag of cash as a straight up corrupt bribe. The Trump administration either denies or pleads ignorance. On immigration, this man says he’s simply enforcing the law, but when it comes to enforcing corruption against him, the Trump administration doesn’t care. Trump officials inherited this investigation, and chose to drop it. Trump isn’t draining a swamp, he is growing it. His official had accepted a 50k bag of shady influence cash and not only do they drop the investigation, they pretend like it doesn’t matter. They don’t actually care about corruption!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxMjce6kSJY

Israel’s Next Move: Create ‘Six Little Gazas’ In West Bank | Jasper Nathaniel | TMR

Posted on by Lone Candle

Israel is dividing and conquering the West Bank, illegally creating settlements across the land, applying Israeli law to these settlements, and keeping the Palestinian West Bankers in their place. Israel has a former settler terrorist (as determined by the Israelis) as the effective governor of the West Bank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmV6wswtG8k

Trump’s Troops Return to a City That Moved On: Dispatch From Portland

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Five years after the city’s fiery 2020 protests, Portland is mostly calm. That hasn’t stopped Trump from reviving old battles, fueled by false memories and made-for-TV outrage.

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there have been rocks and sticks thrown at ICE agents and the shining of lasers into officers’ eyes. According to recent reporting in The Oregonian, there have been 29 arrests during ICE protests this year, 18 of them in June. Still, most nights see a few dozen protesters at most. Comparing this to the 2,000-plus nightly protesters in 2020 is not just apples to oranges; it’s apples to an apple-flavored sugar crystal on an Apple Jack.

This clearly doesn’t matter to Trump, who has shown little to no interest in what’s actually happening, instead relying on historical memory of the city’s fiery days to animate the proposition that “war-ravaged” Portland must be made to heel.”

https://reason.com/2025/10/06/trumps-troops-return-to-a-city-that-moved-on-dispatch-from-portland/?nab=1

Is the Israel-Hamas War Really Over? | The Ezra Klein Show

Posted on by Lone Candle

For the moment, Hamas and Israel have a cease fire. The most likely outcome is things returning to the pre-war status quo: a terrorist theocratic dictatorship in Gaza who is determined to destroy Israel and kill Israelis, and Israel waiting for the next opportunity to “mow the lawn” while continuing West Bank settlements and maintaining control over that territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWX9gRsrigw

The ‘Doom Loop’ is facing the Air Force – Can it survive?

Posted on by Lone Candle

The U.S. may not have enough pilots to win a long war against a peer competitor. It takes a long time to train pilots, and they don’t stick around because flying commercially pays more. The pilots we do have don’t get enough flying hours. The U.S. Air Force has similarities to Japan and Germany’s air forces at the beginning in WWII. Germany and Japan did not have enough pilots or a robust enough pilot pipeline to maintain skilled pilots throughout the war.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tl-8VOAxXg