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https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/taking-root-monday-december-1-2025

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a widely covered story under the dramatic headline, “Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime.” War crimes! Already! The sub-headline sneered, “Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers.”

The ‘controversy’ —if there is any— arose after an anonymous whistleblower (sound familiar?) told the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered a “double strike” on a narco-terrorist boat. A first strike had disabled the decidedly non-fishing boat, and the second strike made sure that the boat and the terrorists on board were completely destroyed. ...

Democrats (and a few wobbly Republicans) are howling like wolves whose zookeeper has missed two consecutive feedings in a row. But how quickly they forget. Behold this headline from twelve years ago in 2013, under Obama, from the BBC:

Drones kill rescuers in 'double tap', say activists
22 October 2013

Here’s what sneaky Obama was getting up to: The military (or CIA) would launch a missile at a wedding or funeral where a terrorist was suspected of showing up. Then they would wait ten or fifteen minutes, and send a second missile, to kill all the rescuers and first responders who rushed in, hoping to capture a few more bad guys.

Needless to say, all this double-tapping caused an unpleasant degree of collateral damage. And I will give you one guess what Democrats said about Obama’s double-tapping at the time.

Nothing, that’s what. They were fine with it. They never demanded evidence, called for hearings, or threatened any war crimes investigations.

“President Obama,” the UK Times reported at the time, “claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a ‘targeted, focused effort’ that ‘has not caused a huge number of civilian casualties.’” You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few Pakistani firemen.

Plus, it all depends on what you mean by huge numbers of casualties. “Research by the Bureau,” the UK Times continued, “has found that since Obama took office three years ago, between 282 and 535 civilians have been credibly reported as killed— including more than 60 children.” Remember, those figures were only as of April, 2012. Obama kept it up for years longer.

That’s not even counting double-tapped terrorists. Those figures just reflect the bloody tally of peaceable civilians. Now —I’m just saying— but under Trump, we’ve killed zero civilians and even fewer children. So.

We wonder whether, in 2012, Democrats demanded investigations into Obama for war crimes? Nope. No, they didn’t. Democrats defended Obama’s strikes and double taps. No less a rotten apple than John Brennan, then Obama’s ‘counterterrorism advisor’, claimed that killing terrorists was legal anywhere, anytime...

In other words, to the extent any legal ambiguity actually exists, that ambiguity was created by Congress. And Congress lets it continue, on purpose. Nor did they get particularly wound up when Obama was killing hundreds of kids and first responders as unfortunate collateral damage in double-taps.

So I really don’t care what they think about whatever Pete Hegseth said or didn’t say.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/cunning-linguists-tuesday-december

Somewhere in hell, Saddam Hussein must be laughing ruefully. Yesterday, NPR ran an angry story headlined, “Trump designates street fentanyl as WMD, escalating militarization of drug war.”

Okay, I must pause right here to get something off my chest. And it’s not an alien face-hugger. Instead, I am getting very cranky about corporate media hypocritically calling it a drug war for 55 long years, but now suddenly complaining about “militarization” of the “war.”

What do these nincompoops think a war is? Who “militarized” it by calling it a “war” in the first place?

Seriously. It was reporters. The term was coined by the Chicago Tribune, after President Nixon in 1971 called drug abuse “public enemy number one” and promised an “all-out offensive.” (Nixon should have been looking for different enemies number one, but that’s another story.) Media manufactured the “war on drugs” label, repeated it approximately six trillion times over five decades, and now they want to whine about Trump militarizing drug policy? ...

But— is it WMD? Undoubtedly, fentanyl can cause mass destruction. It has been aerosolized and used in mass-casualty attacks before (outside the US). The hangup seems to be over whether an illegal drug can be considered a weapon or not. It seems odd to me that the same people quibbling over this definition happily expanded the word “vaccine” to include experimental mRNA gene treatments that don’t prevent infections, but whatever. ...

Trump’s EO clearly, specifically, and very precisely requires the Secretaries of the Treasury and War to “pursue appropriate actions.” In other words, Trump’s team has some kind of a plan. But they’re not warning the cartels what it is yet. The media will never forgive how unfair President Trump is being by not advertising his next moves to cartel chiefs.

Patrick says

Thing is the fraud is just so extensive we simply don't have the prison space for them all. Figure hundreds State and local government workers, along with tens of thousands Somalis. Judges are involved too, so you basically have to RICO act an entire State.

https://babylonbee.com/news/conservatives-want-women-in-handmaids-tale-outfits-declares-liberal-wearing-hijab

OK this is Liberaly hypocrisy on full display. There is so much going on in this video, it's every Liberal Also the Left summed up in one video.

1) Libby sees two transgendered weirdos chasing another transgendered weirdo down the street.
2) Libby stops to virtue signal that he's helping the victim of the assault by telling them to stop the police are on the way.
3) The victim jumps in the car uninvited, and that's where his SJW training ends.
rather than doing the right thing and at least driving a couple blocks away to get Twinkle toes out of harms way.
he immediately starts demanding for zer to get out of his car.
4) The assailant comes over to tug on the weirdo in his car, and SJW dude abides and encourages zer by misgendering the weirdo.
"Hey get HIM out of my car!"
I thought it was bad to misgender someone that clearly is trying to identify as sidewalk garbage?

"Get out of my CAR!"
"No it aint your car, you aint Black!"



Their commie social fabric destruction rules are for us to follow while they pillage and destroy great societies.

It's not just the left. Right is full of crap just the same. Right or Left doesn't fall out of the sky, we all come from the same society, it's a mirror.

Republican list of bullshit (much of this is from George Carlin rants which are still true):
- Republicans are fiscal conservatives when Democrats are in office, and inflation spend whores when themselves are in power.
- Talk free market, but then go and send billions in subsidies to every connected industry (agriculture, military, fossil fuels, etc...)
- Free market, and then Trump goes to bail out more bad mortgages by having FN/FR buy another 200 billion worth of shit mortgages.
- Activist judges are only those with whom we disagree, it's not activism if we like the ruling.
- Says they want to deport illegals, while at the same time leaving alone industries that literally hire most of them.
- Says supports freedom, voted for every surveillance state in name of national security.
- Complain that people don't want to work, but created tax policies that punish work and only reward asset ownership (go figure!!!!)

OUR WHOLE NATION IS SCREWED UP. What we hate in the left, we should hate in ourselves just as much, for we are no better and afflicted by same sins ourselves.