# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Tags:** trump\
**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\
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Or this Monty Python classic:

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qdNCEL5JKF8/hqdefault.jpg "Monty Python - Twentieth-Century Vole") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdNCEL5JKF8)

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
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Someone’s been up all night shitposting again.

[![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54961200032_9146f23923_b.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54961200032_9146f23923_b.jpg)

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
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Ha! Their American accidents are quite good (well, Gilliam’s, of course).

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
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Today on _The President’s Brain Is Missing_;

“Affordability is the greatest con job."

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74eatp4ls2x)**
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> Trump: "I think affordability is the greatest con job."

“They’re finding money in our country now that they never knew existed. The other day – $30b. Where did it come from? I said, ‘Why don’t you check the tariffs shelf?’ They said, ‘Sir, that tariff hasn’t started yet.’ I said, ‘No, it started 2 months ago.’ They call back- ‘sir, you’re right’”

(Not only is this not true and incoherent, it’s like the tenth time he’s told this exact story)

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74fokgyej2u)**
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> Trump: "They're finding money in our country now that they never knew existed. The other day -- $30b. Where did it come from? I said, 'Why don't you check the tariffs shelf?' They said, 'Sir, that tariff hasn't started yet.' I said, 'No, it started 2...

“I wouldn’t be proud to have the largest Somalian-- look at their nation. It’s just people walking around killing each other”

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74fgtwx6c2x)**
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> Q: The mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying he's proud to have the largest Somali community in the country--
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> TRUMP: Then he's a fool. I wouldn't be proud to have the largest Somalian-- look at their nation. It's just people walking around...

“Plastic instead of steel – think of that. And people died because of that. It was plastic in an auto accident and it broke up and people were shattered because of that crazy deal.”

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74egsy4uw2m)**
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> Trump: "Plastic instead of steel -- think of that. And people died because of that. It was plastic in an auto accident and it broke up and people were shattered because of that crazy deal."

“Can we uhhh, talk about it? Right there is a man. Come here, let me say hello to you.”

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74dn3xucu2p)**
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> Trump: "Can we uhhh, talk about it? Right there is a man. Come here, let me say hello to you."

Sean Duffy: Biden and Buttigieg did an analysis -

Trump: BOOT EDGE EDGE!

Duffy: …Edge edge. I’m sorry.

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m74cso5xbi2d)**
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> DUFFY: Buttigieg-- 
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> TRUMP: Boot edge edge!
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> DUFFY: Edge Edge. I'm sorry

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> > [@Sherrerd](#):
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> > When the big-money donors decide Donny isn’t worth it, Donny will know it. And feel it.
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> And probably respond by threatening them; it’s his pattern.

Yes, but threatening a billionaire and threatening a Somali resident of Minneapolis aren’t quite the same thing. One has more resources for getting rid of the threat (and threatener).

Donald’s confusion continues: here he can’t seem to get clear who JD Vance opposed in 2024 and who Donald opposed in 2024—both are “men,” apparently (37 second video at the link) –

> **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m6zn7jxeuo2t)**
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> Trump on Tim Walz: "I think the man is a grossly incompetent man. I thought that from the day I watched JD destroy him in the debate. I was saying, 'Who's more incompetent, that man or my man?' I had a man and he had a man. They were both...

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/126 "2025-12-03T22:44:59Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Donald’s confusion continues: here he can’t seem to get clear who JD Vance opposed in 2024 and who Donald opposed in 2024—both are “men,” apparently

I believe the men he’s referring to are Walz and Vance. It’s a backhanded swipe at JD.

Meanwhile, Trump’s right hand is bruised up again;

[![](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiedxoowpeerj6dbnec2qi43wwdzxhqmjgu6uvybptosspdthlgxue@jpeg) ](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/bafkreiedxoowpeerj6dbnec2qi43wwdzxhqmjgu6uvybptosspdthlgxue@jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
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> [@Smapti](#):
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> I believe the men he’s referring to are Walz and Vance. It’s a backhanded swipe at JD.

That was my first reaction: that Donald was off-handedly dissing Vance.

But on further listens I think he genuinely forgot he _wasn’t_ facing Joe Biden in 2024—“I had a man [Biden] and he [Vance] had a man [Walz]. They [Biden and Walz] were both incompetent.”

If you listen on you hear him realize it was Harris, not Biden, that he’d faced in 2024–Trump starts saying “she.”

(Not that I’d mind if Donald started expressing contempt for Vance on any regular basis; that could only be good for the nation.)

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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> (Not that I’d mind if Donald started expressing contempt for Vance on any regular basis; that could only be good for the nation.)

He repeatedly said during his campaign rallies last year that he picked Vance because nobody would possibly want him to be president, so there’s no way he could get impeached.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/129 "2025-12-03T22:56:42Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> He repeatedly said during his campaign rallies last year that he picked Vance because nobody would possibly want him to be president, so there’s no way he could get impeached.

Classic Donald. Keep 'em in line by snarking on them continuously.

I suspect that Don Jr. and Eric are _very_ familiar with this dynamic.

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**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\
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> [@Smapti](#):
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> He repeatedly said during his campaign rallies last year that he picked Vance because nobody would possibly want him to be president, so there’s no way he could get impeached.

He stole that from Nixon, who said the same thing about Spiro Agnew.  
Rememberig things from 50 years ago better than what happened yesterday is typical for Alzheimer’s disease.

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
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“I had a man.” Donny? What happened on Epstein’s Island stays on Epstein’s Island.

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> [@crowmanyclouds](#):
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> What happened on Epstein’s Island stays on Epstein’s Island.

Probably the “Bubba” mentioned in one of Epstein’s emails.

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> [@solost](#):
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> _Of course_ no one in his inner circle would tell him he sounds ‘stupid’

Because to MAGA he doesn’t. They think when he talks about it he is trolling the libs. They think it’s hilarious. I keep an eye on an old co-workers Facebook feed and it’s amazing how he dismisses anything stupid Trump does as just getting one over on the libs. And all his MAGA friends laugh. Did you know he is just pretending to fall asleep because it drives the lamestream media crazy? They do not live in the real world and everyone around Trump knows it.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/134 "2025-12-03T23:31:05Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> Yes, but threatening a billionaire and threatening a Somali resident of Minneapolis aren’t quite the same thing. One has more resources for getting rid of the threat (and threatener).

Not compared to a President. Billionaire or homeless person, both can be squashed as easily.

Don’t confuse privilege with actual power. The wealthy don’t get away with the things they do because the government can’t stop them, but because it _doesn’t care._ If a government _does_ decide to care it can squash the wealthiest individual like a bug. Just ask all the Russian oligarchs who “fell out of windows” how well their money protected them.

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**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/135 "2025-12-03T23:43:09Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> Just ask all the Russian oligarchs who “fell out of windows” how well their money protected them.

That is certainly true. But I was thinking more of the power that American billionaires have over the members of Congress they own. Possibly they own a few Cabinet members, too.

If they really decided that Donald was bad for business, they do have recourse. (Will they make that decision? Probably a lot depends on what Vance is willing to promise, and how much they believe him.)

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**Post date:** [December 4, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/136 "2025-12-04T00:11:11Z")

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We’re about 72 hours or so away from Trump shouting the n-word into a live mic.

> **[Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3m74fsnkrls2w)**
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> Trump: "It’s a hellhole right now. And those Somalians should be out of here. They've destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her. She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with – go back to your...

> **[Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3m74g2m2p2s2w)**
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> Trump, continued: "What the Somalian people have done to Minnesota is not even believable. It’s not even believable. And a lot of it starts with the governor. A lot of it starts with Barack HUSSEIN Obama, because that’s when people started coming...

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I need names. Names of the assholes standing behind and chuckling and smiling. Fuck every one of them.

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**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\
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[Lock him up! Lock him up!](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-watchdog-finds-hegseth-signal-184806181.html)

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> WASHINGTON (AP) — [The Pentagon’s watchdog](https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-signal-messaging-app-attack-plans-f8581bcb447b91d2e7f9cb7809ae0f06) found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he [used the Signal messaging app](https://apnews.com/article/hegseth-atlantic-war-plans-signal-yemen-houthis-c0addd08c627ab01a37ea63621cb695e) to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Yemen’s Houthi militants, two people familiar with the findings said Wednesday.
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> Hegseth, however, has the ability to declassify material and the report did not find he did so improperly, according to one of the people familiar with the findings who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the information. That person also said the report concluded that Hegseth violated Pentagon policy by using his personal device for official business and it recommended better training for all Pentagon officials.
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> Hegseth declined to sit for an interview with the Pentagon’s inspector general but provided a written statement, that person said. The defense secretary asserted that he was permitted to declassify information as he saw fit and only communicated details he thought would not endanger the mission.

His defense is a load of rubbish. Okay, so he has the authority to declassify information but he didn’t bother to do that before, or even after, he shared classified information. And he was using his private phone to do that.

[There’s no need to worry about climate change when you are the one controlling the weather.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/newsom-trolls-ice-barbie-she-215030034.html)

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> California Governor Gavin Newsom sarcastically alerted America that “Trump controls the weather” after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem thanked the president for a peaceful hurricane season.
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> During a marathon Tuesday Cabinet meeting filled with the president’s secretaries [lauding him with praise](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-t-keep-eyes-195024638.html), Noem thanked Trump for keeping hurricanes at bay.
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> “You made it through the hurricane season without a hurricane—you kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that,” she said.

[Just gratitude and joy in denying people food.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/critics-quash-trump-cabinet-secretarys-035652278.html)

> [@](#):
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> Agriculture Secretary [Brooke Rollins](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/brooke-rollins) on Tuesday talked up efforts by [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/donald-trump)’s administration [to withhold food aid benefits](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/usda-brooke-rollins-snap-food-stamps_n_692f5148e4b052b5ba0432e0) from recipients in Democratic states.
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> Rollins told a Cabinet meeting that the administration would stop moving federal funds to the states starting next week unless the states provided recipients’ personal data to help “root out” fraud. In October, a federal judge granted blue states’ [request for an injunction](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70945300/106/state-of-california-v-united-states-department-of-agriculture/) blocking such a demand.
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> She proceeded to claim that former President Joe Biden “increased food stamp funding by 40%” during his reelection push last year, a claim that could be “outright false” or “misleading at best,” [Snopes noted last month](https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/11/07/snap-biden-administration/).
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> “So now as we continue to roll that back — so the partnership in Making America Healthy Again is also in food stamps … but, again, just gratitude and joy in this work and so, so grateful to you,” said Rollins to Trump.

[A flack for the felon admits the truth on the Felon’s News Network.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fox-news-military-analysts-says-213424216.html) (The formatting is from the link.)

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> Fox News anchor **Martha MacCallum** spoke to Fox News military analyst **Jack Keane** , a retired four-star Army general, on Tuesday and asked him to weigh in on the growing scandal surrounding Defense Secretary **Pete Hegseth.** Hegseth is under fire and being [accused](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/30/war-crimes-hegseth-venezuela-strikes-00671160) of war crimes by critics after it was revealed that the military carried out a second strike to kill survivors on an alleged drug smuggling boat.
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> MacCallum asked Keane, “On the way out here, general, if you can hear me okay, your thoughts on this issue of the strike. **Jacqui Heinrich** just got us up to speed on the reporting there with regard to the Secretary of Defense’s [decision](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-blames-fog-war-second-193938011.html) and the admiral who made the decision in the moment on those boat strikes on September 2nd.”
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> “Yeah, well, first of all, I think we should just hold our fire here a little bit and let’s get on with an investigation. I think the Pentagon should do the investigation. They do a lot of these things in the past, and they’re very good at getting the facts out with all the variables and complexities that are involved here. And things are flying around by people that just don’t know what they’re talking about,” Keane replied, adding:
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> > A couple of examples: if you have an operation on the ground and you have wounded soldiers as a result of it, of course, we don’t kill those wounded soldiers because we’re in control. Actually, the obligation is to take them prisoner and, after our wounded are treated, treat those wounded and evacuate them. But these are isolated events.
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> > Airstrikes done sometimes on the ground or sometimes at sea—and there’s nobody there in control of the situation. So if the target is people or it’s a facility and both of those are important, the objective is to kill the people and destroy the facility. If the target is a boat and people, the mission is to destroy the boat and kill the people. In about 25% of these kinds of attacks, we do reattack—either if the facility was the objective, to destroy the rest of the facility; if the people are the objective, to kill the rest of the people.

So the targets were not the boats, not the drugs, but the people. Thanks for clearing that up.

We have one of his flacks reciting the mantra about ability to declassify information, another thanking him for controlling the weather, yet another for giving her joy in denying food to children, and finally one who is excusing his murder of people at sea. This is barely inches away from [People’s Temple](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple) level cultism.

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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\
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> [@Monty](#):
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> His defense is a load of rubbish. Okay, so he has the authority to declassify information but he didn’t bother to do that before, or even after, he shared classified information. And he was using his private phone to do that.

He declassified it _with his mind_. Just like his boss.

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> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#):
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> He declassified it _with his mind_. Just like his boss.

And just like with his boss, I’m seeing a major flaw with that theory. For one to _use_ a particular tool, one must first _have_ that particular tool.

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