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Trump dispenses with trials, orders military strike on alleged Venezuelan drug-trafficking boat (Now up to 2, 3, 4...)

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What, the biggest fraud case in US history is nothing.
I'm waiting for a link or something.
Was he fine as president lol. Or are you going to continue the gas lighting.
Show me a doctor's certification that says otherwise, or admit you're making it up.
Just did.
Link?
‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
Trump has already instructed the Department of Justice to investigate links between Epstein and notable Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton
Clinton said release the files, as he's got nothing to hide. Trump tried to suppress the files.
former Harvard President Larry Summers and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman.
Who? LOL
Like I said if they want to judge and throw stones then be prepared for the same level of scrutiny and judgement that will come upon themselves.
Bring it! Let the chips fall where they may.


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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee said Sunday that surveillance video of U.S. military strikes targeting an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2 would contradict how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other Republicans have described it.

“When they [the survivors] were finally taken out, they weren’t trying to flip the boat over. The boat was clearly incapacitated. A tiny portion of it remained, capsized, the bow of the boat. They had no communications device. Certainly, they were unarmed,” Rep. Adam Smith, one of the Democratic lawmakers who saw the video, said. “Any claim that the drugs had somehow survived that attack is hard, hard to really square with what we saw.”
 
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Attacking drug mules is going to be more effective than "conventional methods"?

How do you figure that attacking panga boats and killing all the occupants is more effective than interdicting, interogating and prosecuting higher value targets?
I don't know. I'm not a secretary nor an admiral nor with military intelligence. I'm just an observer. And my observations usually don't come with the perfect solution to what I'm observing.
 
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I don't know. I'm not a secretary nor an admiral nor with military intelligence. I'm just an observer. And my observations usually don't come with the perfect solution to what I'm observing.
Yet here you are defending it on Christian moral grounds.
 
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I am not American so I could not vote lol.
Steve, I know that you are a middle-aged Australian. But if I didn't, I would be forced to conclude that you were a 19-year-old homeschooled MAGA Trump superfan who went 5 years ago to the Capitol riot with his father (who stopped watching Fox News because it was "too woke" after firing Tucker Carlson) and is now aggrieved that his boss at the Piggly Wiggly won't let him wear his red MAGA cap while bagging groceries and who only recently learned that throughout his primary (home) schooling Pres. Obama had been ordering drone strikes in Afghanistan.

Even the most ardent American Trump defender here (and I have tangled with them all) have a far better awareness than you do and are not nearly so into the "deranged level of bias" (to quote you immediately below this) that you are. They have a lot better idea what America is like. They know our history a lot better. They experienced the news coverage of strikes under earlier presidents. They've watched the "drug war" for decades. They had to decide who to support in the 2016 election that first brought Trjmp to power. And I think more importantly, they know which of the conservative media and political figures who are concerned by these events have backed Trump in the past. (Even I don't know that one all that well.)
I am explaining how there is a deranged level of bias and partisan politics against Trump and by extenstion his admin and supporters.

That this motivates haters to create falsehoods in the negative before any evidence or facts come out. They have been busted time and time again.

So all this negative spectualtion is not just coming hate and is biased.
In the last few days (including since the post I am responding to) you have invoked "Russiagate", "Epstein", Trump's legal issues, "FBI investigations in to GOP members of Congress", Larry Summers, "Bill Clinton and Epstein", Soros, Fraud in minnesota, the "deplorables" comment, and so on and so forth with the MSM and leftists and "anti-Christian bias". (The last I can only assume is because some of us arguing with you or against the strikes are non-Christians.)

None of this has a single thing to do with this CURRENT EVENTS topic. At this point, I can only conclude that the concept of "on topic" is incomprehensible to you.
 
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Steve, I know that you are a middle-aged Australian. But if I didn't, I would be forced to conclude that you were a 19-year-old homeschooled MAGA Trump superfan who went 5 years ago to the Capitol riot with his father (who stopped watching Fox News because it was "too woke" after firing Tucker Carlson) and is now aggrieved that his boss at the Piggly Wiggly won't let him wear his red MAGA cap while bagging groceries and who only recently learned that throughout his primary (home) schooling Pres. Obama had been ordering drone strikes in Afghanistan.
Not only is your idea of me warped but your idea and steroetypes of Trump supporters is also twisted and strange. My info and view comes from expert analysis and not MAGA.
Even the most ardent American Trump defender here (and I have tangled with them all) have a far better awareness than you do and are not nearly so into the "deranged level of bias" (to quote you immediately below this) that you are. They have a lot better idea what America is like.
I disagree because I am basing this off the politicians and expert political commentators. How is it deranged when its truth lol.
They know our history a lot better. They experienced the news coverage of strikes under earlier presidents.
They are the ones who said it lol. Where do you think I got this. I have also been following this for years. I actually got caught in the first Iraqi war in Kwait. I think you underestimate my knowledge and experience.
They've watched the "drug war" for decades. They had to decide who to support in the 2016 election that first brought Trjmp to power. And I think more importantly, they know which of the conservative media and political figures who are concerned by these events have backed Trump in the past. (Even I don't know that one all that well.)
But I do so I am more informed than you.
In the last few days (including since the post I am responding to) you have invoked "Russiagate", "Epstein", Trump's legal issues, "FBI investigations in to GOP members of Congress", Larry Summers, "Bill Clinton and Epstein", Soros, Fraud in minnesota, the "deplorables" comment, and so on and so forth with the MSM and leftists and "anti-Christian bias".
Which is real.
(The last I can only assume is because some of us arguing with you or against the strikes are non-Christians.)
There you go. You jump into my posts and don't even know what your complaining about. It was in response to the one sided moral claims about the Narco boats.

I used those examples to show how they are bias and have no moral ground. You don;t need to know a detailed history of American politics or Trump to know this as its quite plain to see. Even the Australian commentators say the same.
None of this has a single thing to do with this CURRENT EVENTS topic. At this point, I can only conclude that the concept of "on topic" is incomprehensible to you.
They do when people are making bias moral claims. The perfect rebuff is to show how they have no moral ground to stand on and they have allowed the same and it was quite ok then. But not now because its Trump.
 
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I'm waiting for a link or something.
I have already given it. How can you not know about this. Like I said the biggest Fraud in US history under the watch of the Dems. So when you claim Trump lacks credibility then you have to apply the same to the Dems. Even moreso as they make Trumps look like childs play.

How Minnesota Became the Land of 10,000 Frauds
The simple explanation: The state makes it easy for criminals to get away with their wrongdoing.

Government watchdog says evidence in Minnesota fraud cases 'overwhelming'
Show me a doctor's certification that says otherwise, or admit you're making it up.
Do you honestly believe Biden was cognitively sharp and capable. You really have been brainwashed.

'Diminished faculties,' 'faulty memory,' 'significant limitations': A damning report on Biden's mental state

Cover-Up of Biden’s Mental Decline “Bigger Than Watergate”

Joe Biden's advisors hid his decline

Biden occupied the presidency incapacitated cognitively so there are bound to be coverups and decisions made without him and on his behalf. It will all come out. The truth always comes out in the end.
I gave them ewo posts back. Obama was one of the faceless men and those around him. He orchestrated the fake news to get Trump along with Hilliary and others.
Clinton said release the files, as he's got nothing to hide. Trump tried to suppress the files.
Now he has released them.

Bill Clinton identified more than 50 times in Jeffrey Epstein doc dump
https://www.news.com.au/world/bill-...m_source=SEM&utm_medium=PPC_SEM&utm_campaign={campaign}&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=14741959806&gbraid=0AAAAADnTK2_XasBOupW1rQbdPfw_waqnL&gclid=Cj0KCQiAi9rJBhCYARIsALyPDtv5cunU-sq0aSS4clscDhhgIVb92mz7D93FO1VdMmFL805wd1l9QAoaAhGNEALw_wcB

Larry Summers was a Dem under Obama and was head of Harvard Uni until he had to resign for his connection to Epstien.
Bring it! Let the chips fall where they may.
Ok thats good and I agree. Let the truth come out so we can finally have some transparency as to what has happened. I am sick of those in power taking advantage. If thats either part then so be it.
This is dishonest. Your posting a pic that has no context and may be innocent as being guilty. I gave you specific examples. Summers has resigned for his connection. I gave you fact based linked as support. Trump has done nothing wrong in this photo and its dishonest to imply otherwise.

This is the exact same bias and dishonesty in distorting what has happened with the Narcos as innocents and that Hegseth and Trump are murders and commiting war crimes.
 
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Not only is your idea of me warped
Are you not middle-aged Australian?
but your idea and steroetypes of Trump supporters is also twisted and strange.
I had to build the most extreme caricature of an ignorant MAGA Trump superfan to come close to your dogmatic and uninformed presentation on the current US president. I was certainly not stereotyping American Trump supporters.
My info and view comes from expert analysis and not MAGA.

I disagree because I am basing this off the politicians and expert political commentators. How is it deranged when its truth lol.
Guests on "Lindell . tv" do not meet the normative definition of experts.
They are the ones who said it lol. Where do you think I got this. I have also been following this for years.
The other posters? I could believe that you take the worst of their ideas and layer on your own ignorance of American politics, culture, and history.
I actually got caught in the first Iraqi war in Kwait.
Which is not America. (My HS classmates also got stuck fighting that war.)
I think you underestimate my knowledge and experience.

But I do so I am more informed than you.
Than me wasn't the issue. It was your knowledge relative to the other conservative posters. I'd still put up their understanding of American reality over you any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Which is real.
Real or not, it is irrelevant to the thread and THAT was my point.
There you go. You jump into my posts and don't even know what your complaining about. It was in response to the one sided moral claims about the Narco boats.
You were whingeing about anti-Christian bias related to criticism of Trump's policy/action which is rather silly as Trump is at best a nominal Christian. (And I understand the moral depravity of your position on narco boat killings.)
I used those examples to show how they are bias and have no moral ground. You don;t need to know a detailed history of American politics or Trump to know this as its quite plain to see. Even the Australian commentators say the same.
Are the Aussie commentators really that bad? (or just the ones on the "Fox News" of Australia.) (I am well aware that Ruprect Murdock is Australia's worst crime against America.)
They do when people are making bias moral claims. The perfect rebuff is to show how they have no moral ground to stand on and they have allowed the same and it was quite ok then. But not now because its Trump.
But how can you *know* what any poster's position on drone strikes by Obama or whatever was? You certainly don't know mine. Now please, let's go back to discussing the news item on the current sequence of drone strikes on drug boats off the coast of Venezuela
 
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Are you not middle-aged Australian?
Yes and thats part of the problem. You assume certain demographiscs with certain beliefs and positions. Classic IP.
I had to build the most extreme caricature of an ignorant MAGA Trump superfan to come close to your dogmatic and uninformed presentation on the current US president. I was certainly not stereotyping American Trump supporters.
What exactly about what I said was dogmatic.
Guests on "Lindell . tv" do not meet the normative definition of experts.
What exactly was said that was not in line with the expert opinion. See this is where my lack of knowing what sources are stereotyped themselves. I just go by the content of what was said. If that happens to be a source you don't like thats not my problem.

The content is in line with the experts and that why I linked it. Purely on what was said and not where it came from. I don't care where it came from because the whole idea of certain sources being good or bad is itself a subject and often biased opinion.
The other posters? I could believe that you take the worst of their ideas and layer on your own ignorance of American politics, culture, and history.
No not the other posters but the experts. That is where I am getting my information. Its not the worse or any subjective qualification. Its the facts.
Which is not America. (My HS classmates also got stuck fighting that war.)
The point is you don't have to be an American to know American politics. You can know American politics from Americans who know American politics and then you use your senses to take that info in. I do understand english and what words mean lol.

When they say the evidence shows that massive fraud has been committed and show the evidence I can be informed. Then refer to that as counter evidence to someone who claimed that Trump was a fraudster. That they have no moral ground to stand on.
Than me wasn't the issue. It was your knowledge relative to the other conservative posters. I'd still put up their understanding of American reality over you any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Most of this is not about American or Australia or any nations politics. Its plain right and wrong. The moral truth, commonsense, reality, whatever you want to call it.
Real or not, it is irrelevant to the thread and THAT was my point.
And my point was that this was a sub thread over moral hypocracy. About the same people that are morally outraged have double standards and thus bias.

From what I was seeing with people making all these extreme claims about Hegseth and TRump being murderers and commiting war crimes. That same old extreme narratives ike Kirk and Trump are Nazis ect. It was my point that these same people have been quiet happy to allow 10 times worse bad behaviour and have no moral leg to stand on.

This was also based on the fact that the language was implying guilt in doing something morally wrong without the intel. This showing a willingness to jump to the negative due to political bias and partisanship.

This was reality. I am am merely pointing this out. I have not said anything about the right or wrongness of the situation. Just pointing out howw the usual Trump haters are quick to jump the gun (pardon the pun) lol.
You were whingeing about anti-Christian bias related to criticism of Trump's policy/action which is rather silly as Trump is at best a nominal Christian. (And I understand the moral depravity of your position on narco boat killings.)
I was not making a case for Trump being a Christian or that this is about Christ v non or Dems v Rep or Left v Right or anti immigration or anything.

I was simply using those examples of the hypocracy of how the Dems under Biden and Obama did all that they accuse Trump of and have no moral leg to stand on. That it was their now proven extreme bias that causes people not to trust a word they say.

So when people start jumping the gun again and making all these assumptions of guilt and extreme claims of war crimes its history repeating itself. So its right to point it out.
Are the Aussie commentators really that bad? (or just the ones on the "Fox News" of Australia.) (I am well aware that Ruprect Murdock is Australia's worst crime against America.)
You can't help yourself can you. Doubling down now on IP. Us Aussies must be dumb, they could not possibly know anything. That bad old Fox News.

Did you notice at I mentioned that "even the Australian experts agreed". I said they were agreeing with the American experts
But how can you *know* what any poster's position on drone strikes by Obama or whatever was?
It does not matter because everyone will pick a side and both sides are as bad as the other lol. But usually when people are so fixated on the opposition [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] political.

But even if its moral there are mmore than one position. So when someone starts claiming "shoulds" then we can say that they have jumped the gun because they don't have the facts. Thus exposing their bias in assuming a wrong for that particular situations when similar ones or other views are just as relevant.
You certainly don't know mine.
If someone states that what happened is X and this "should not" have happened as its morally wrong. Then they are declaring their position. We can read a lot from the actual words that come out of peoples mouths lol. Its the most direct way of knowing what they think and believe.

Thats unless you think what people about a situation or themselves cannot be trusted.
Now please, let's go back to discussing the news item on the current sequence of drone strikes on drug boats off the coast of Venezuela
Actually I am going to bow out. I don't see any point and I have said all I can say on the issue. It will be a continual back and forth of peoples subjective moral beliefs on the situation without the clear facts. Which are yet to come out.
 
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Trump punts to Pete (or is he throwing his war secretary under the congressional bus?)
Will Hegseth release the video?

President Donald Trump on Monday said he will let Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decide whether to release the full video of a controversial military strike on alleged drug smugglers off the coast of Venezuela, backing away from comments last week when he said that “whatever” footage the Pentagon possesses “we’d certainly release, no problem.”

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump denied saying Wednesday that he was open to releasing the video — despite doing so on camera — and then attacked the journalist who asked him about his previo
us comments, calling her “fake news.”

“I didn’t say that. You said that,” Trump said. “Whatever Hegseth wants to do is okay with me.”

 
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Definitely a concern. Obviously, if someone (Houthis) had the temerity to attack a civilian US ship, the US would respond by dropping bombs on their leaders.

Venezuela doesn't have the wherewithal to do that, but we'll see what Maduro does. It's probably good PR for him to stand up to Trump, but it would likely be a poor choice to take on the US Navy.
Venezuela should have the wherewithal to do that, yes Maduro should fight hard to ensure Venezuelan terrorists get to poison the USA humans with drugs that make money which keeps cartels funded --like it was under the Biden Admin. Yes indeed!
It'll probably be great PR for him and the anti-Trumpists in Congress, if he stands up to Trump and his the US Navy bullies.
 
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I have already given it. How can you not know about this. Like I said the biggest Fraud in US history
Not even close.
under the watch of the Dems.
Nothing to do with Biden or the Dems here. You're stretching for a connection.
So when you claim Trump lacks credibility then you have to apply the same to the Dems.
Dems didn't do this. Trump was convicted of fraud.
'Diminished faculties,' 'faulty memory,' 'significant limitations': A damning report on Biden's mental state

Either produce a doctor's certification that he was cognitively impaired, or admit this is all made-up.
Biden occupied the presidency incapacitated cognitively
Never happened. He out-negotiated multiple countries in two different trilateral summits during his term.
so there are bound to be coverups and decisions made without him and on his behalf. It will all come out. The truth always comes out in the end.
The truth came out about Trumps fraud, rape, and collusion, and you keep denying it.
I gave them ewo posts back. Obama was one of the faceless men and those around him. He orchestrated the fake news to get Trump along with Hilliary and others.
Obama didn't orchestrate anything fake. Nobody forced Trump to commit criminal acts.
Bill Clinton identified more than 50 times in Jeffrey Epstein doc dump
Identified? Everybody knows who he is. The question is, was he involved children like Trump and Epstein? No, he just rode in a plane. That's why Clinton said to release the files, because he's got nothing to hide.

But please tell us: what evidence do you have of Clinton committing any crimes with Epstein?
Larry Summers was a Dem under Obama and was head of Harvard Uni until he had to resign for his connection to Epstien.
I know who he is, but he's a minor character and not even as remotely connected as Trump.
This is dishonest. Your posting a pic that has no context and may be innocent as being guilty.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
I gave you specific examples.
No you didn't.
Summers has resigned for his connection. I gave you fact based linked as support. Trump has done nothing wrong in this photo
Nobody cares about Summers. They care about Trump's involvement with Epstein, which is why Trump has been suppressing the files.
This is the exact same bias and dishonesty in distorting what has happened with the Narcos as innocents
What narcos? When were they convicted of any crime whatsoever?
and that Hegseth and Trump are murders and commiting war crimes.
Killing someone who is shipwrecked, no matter who they are, is a crime.
 
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The US military has not previously directly attacked drug operations. However, the military has provided intelligence support to Latin American militaries:

"In the 1990s, the U.S. military assisted Colombian and Peruvian antidrug law enforcement activities by sharing information about civilian flights suspected of carrying drugs — like radar data and communications intercepts. But after those governments started shooting down such planes, the Clinton administration in 1994 halted the assistance for months.
The Office of Legal Counsel produced an opinion saying that military officers who provided such information while knowing it would be used to summarily shoot down those aircraft could be putting themselves at risk of later prosecution. Congress eventually modified U.S. law to permit such assistance.

And the Navy has long participated in intercepting vessels in international waters that are suspected of smuggling drugs toward the United States. But naval ships typically do so as a law enforcement operation, working under the command of a U.S. Coast Guard officer. Under an 1878 law called the Posse Comitatus Act, it is generally illegal to use the military to perform law enforcement functions."



....and such operations can lead to misidentifcation and inocent civilians dying:

"On 20 April 2001, the Peruvian Air Force (FAP) shot down a civilian floatplane, killing American Christian missionary Veronica "Roni" Bowers and her infant daughter Charity.[1]

While flying into the Loreto Region of Peru, Bowers, her daughter Charity, husband Jim, and six-year-old son Cory were being followed by a United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) observation plane. The Peruvian Air Force was operating as part of the Air Bridge Denial Program. The CIA did not attempt to identify the tail number of the church-owned plane per procedure."


This is great idea info. Thanks for sharing!
I had 2 questions after reading it;

▪︎Do you know how many months, the Clinton Admin waited, before continuing to aid Peruvian and Colombian GOVTs with the bombing of those planes --while awaiting Congress to modify the laws?
▪︎If you are aware of Sen. John Fetterman rejecting Adam Schiff's recent attempt to end Trump's power to bomb Caribbean drug trafficking boats... can you list why you would dispute or support Fetterman 's stance?
 
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Yes and thats part of the problem. You assume certain demographiscs with certain beliefs and positions. Classic IP.

What exactly about what I said was dogmatic.

What exactly was said that was not in line with the expert opinion. See this is where my lack of knowing what sources are stereotyped themselves. I just go by the content of what was said. If that happens to be a source you don't like thats not my problem.

The content is in line with the experts and that why I linked it. Purely on what was said and not where it came from. I don't care where it came from because the whole idea of certain sources being good or bad is itself a subject and often biased opinion.

No not the other posters but the experts. That is where I am getting my information. Its not the worse or any subjective qualification. Its the facts.

The point is you don't have to be an American to know American politics. You can know American politics from Americans who know American politics and then you use your senses to take that info in. I do understand english and what words mean lol.

When they say the evidence shows that massive fraud has been committed and show the evidence I can be informed. Then refer to that as counter evidence to someone who claimed that Trump was a fraudster. That they have no moral ground to stand on.

Most of this is not about American or Australia or any nations politics. Its plain right and wrong. The moral truth, commonsense, reality, whatever you want to call it.

And my point was that this was a sub thread over moral hypocracy. About the same people that are morally outraged have double standards and thus bias.

From what I was seeing with people making all these extreme claims about Hegseth and TRump being murderers and commiting war crimes. That same old extreme narratives ike Kirk and Trump are Nazis ect. It was my point that these same people have been quiet happy to allow 10 times worse bad behaviour and have no moral leg to stand on.

This was also based on the fact that the language was implying guilt in doing something morally wrong without the intel. This showing a willingness to jump to the negative due to political bias and partisanship.

This was reality. I am am merely pointing this out. I have not said anything about the right or wrongness of the situation. Just pointing out howw the usual Trump haters are quick to jump the gun (pardon the pun) lol.

I was not making a case for Trump being a Christian or that this is about Christ v non or Dems v Rep or Left v Right or anti immigration or anything.

I was simply using those examples of the hypocracy of how the Dems under Biden and Obama did all that they accuse Trump of and have no moral leg to stand on. That it was their now proven extreme bias that causes people not to trust a word they say.

So when people start jumping the gun again and making all these assumptions of guilt and extreme claims of war crimes its history repeating itself. So its right to point it out.

You can't help yourself can you. Doubling down now on IP. Us Aussies must be dumb, they could not possibly know anything. That bad old Fox News.

Did you notice at I mentioned that "even the Australian experts agreed". I said they were agreeing with the American experts

It does not matter because everyone will pick a side and both sides are as bad as the other lol. But usually when people are so fixated on the opposition [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] political.

But even if its moral there are mmore than one position. So when someone starts claiming "shoulds" then we can say that they have jumped the gun because they don't have the facts. Thus exposing their bias in assuming a wrong for that particular situations when similar ones or other views are just as relevant.

If someone states that what happened is X and this "should not" have happened as its morally wrong. Then they are declaring their position. We can read a lot from the actual words that come out of peoples mouths lol. Its the most direct way of knowing what they think and believe.

Thats unless you think what people about a situation or themselves cannot be trusted.

Actually I am going to bow out. I don't see any point and I have said all I can say on the issue. It will be a continual back and forth of peoples subjective moral beliefs on the situation without the clear facts. Which are yet to come out.
Forget it. The fact is that two helpless men were killed after they survived the destruction of their boat. That is a fact, even the Trump administration cannot honestly deny it. The conservative Christian position (and yours) seems to be that it was a righteous act. I put it to you that you cannot reconcile that position with the Gospel of Christ. You have nothing to offer us except moral bankruptcy and we don't have to have the "moral high ground" to tell you so.
 
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Trump backtracks on releasing boat strike video, distances himself from controversy

"Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me," Trump said.

[HIs leadership certainly brings tears to my eyes.]

President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had "no problem" with releasing the video of the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed two survivors, is now reversing course and deferring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"I didn't say that," Trump claimed when pressed on Monday by ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott about his Dec. 3 comments.

ABC Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang asked the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 3, "Will you release video of that strike -- so that the American people can see for themselves?"

Trump responded, "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release no problem."
 
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Trump backtracks on releasing boat strike video, distances himself from controversy

"Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me," Trump said.

[HIs leadership certainly brings tears to my eyes.]

President Donald Trump, after initially saying he had "no problem" with releasing the video of the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea that killed two survivors, is now reversing course and deferring to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"I didn't say that," Trump claimed when pressed on Monday by ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott about his Dec. 3 comments.

ABC Senior White House Correspondent Selina Wang asked the president in the Oval Office on Dec. 3, "Will you release video of that strike -- so that the American people can see for themselves?"

Trump responded, "I don't know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release no problem."
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Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos

Lawmakers plan to withhold a quarter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget until the Pentagon provides them with the videos. The demand, quietly tucked into the final draft of the annual defense policy bill, calls for “unedited video of strikes conducted against designated terrorist organizations in the area of responsibility of the United States Southern Command” to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.

Congressional leaders released their final draft of the defense bill Sunday, which is expected to be approved — without changes — by the House later this week and then the Senate.
 
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