The commander of the arm of the U.S. military responsible for Donald Trump’s illegal military occupations of American cities said he is willing to conduct attacks on so-called designated terrorist organizations within the U.S.
This startling admission comes after months of extrajudicial killings of alleged members or affiliates of DTOs in the waters near Venezuela, which experts and lawmakers say are outright murders.
Gen. Gregory Guillot’s sopenness about the potential for unprecedented military action within U.S. borders comes as the White House, Pentagon, and Justice Department continue to refuse to rule out summary executions of Americans on Trump’s secret enemies list, after weeks of requests for clarifications from The Intercept.
My first impression reading his bizarre comment was that Trump believed a MAGA cultist killed the Reiners for their politics, and he was happy about that and taking credit for what happened. Basically, “look what happens to meddlesome priests”.
I guess its probably too soon or insensitive to ask what his son’s politics were but I’m doing it. The Reiners were supposed to meet with President and Mrs. Obama later that night so their argument that led to the murders being about politics doesn’t seem completely impossible.
The 32 year old son had been in rehab 18 times. He’s a really screwed up dude, so trying to find some sort of logical motivation is unlikely. Like many of these shootings, the ultimate “reason” may be very unsatisfying to everyone.
If you look at a single incident and try to assign blame, you’ll likely never be satisfied with any answer. However, if you look at this as a category of incidents, then it’s actually quite easy to find ways to reduce the number of occurrences.
For example, for drug related offenses, you could be looking at solutions like decriminalizing drugs and offering more social programs. Lab tests with rats have shown that when the rats have a strong community, they will naturally stop abusing drugs. It wouldn’t be surprising if the same thing works with humans. We should be spending government money to encourage the development of caring communities.
For mental health related offenses, the same sorts of things can help. Having support can be the difference between life and death. Although psych meds can be lifesavers, the government needs to invest not only in pharmaceuticals and making pharmaceutical companies rich, but in treating the person.
And it goes without saying, but the violent sort of fascist rhetoric that we constantly see from the GOP and MAGA in particular, shouldn’t be tolerated from our politicians. Ideally, I’d like to say the same for news, but that’s a more difficult problem to solve.
That’s what’s getting me so bad about all of this. Constantly.
There was some sort of facade of gentlemanly/ladyly respect in politics before, but now there’s just a klan of bullies who say and do whatever they want and say “So, what are you gonna do about it?”
And the opposition can seemingly do naught but shrug and hand over all of our lunch money.
Clearly DJTJ told him that Hunter Biden would keep him flush with all the drugs he wanted if he offed his parents, but as with any deal made with the Trumps it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on before being flushed down the White House toilet. /s