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[–] Mawks@lemmy.world 318 points 1 year ago (8 children)

When asked in an interview how drone operators would know if the people being blown to smithereens were actually carrying drugs, he replied: “Same way a police officer would know … Same way somebody operating in Iraq would know. You know, these people in Iraq at the time, they all looked the same. You didn’t know who had a bomb strapped to them. So those guys have to make judgments.”

Holy F, as a mexican that crosses the border often for vacations... this is extreme and scary

[–] Lemmylefty@lemmy.world 191 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] kaitco@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, we joke, but this is pretty what he’s proposing.

This dude is pushing Putin-level shades of crazy.

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, that sounds like the old "Kill them all and let God sort them out" approach.

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[–] rephlekt2718@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Absolutely batshit rhetoric, this guy better lose hard………..

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[–] flossdaily@lemmy.world 200 points 1 year ago (10 children)

How about a new rule that if you vote for a war, you are automatically enlisted. And if you're ineligible to enlist you must either abstain or vote no.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Congress members get as many votes for war as they have draft-age family members. For each vote they cast, they must enlist 1 family member. Starting with their own children.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of em don't care about their kids. They can go fight, themselves.

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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 133 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is literal insanity.

Are they going to put Mexican Americans in internment camps next?

[–] afa@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Slightly misleading, he says that they should shoot at mexican cartels (which are now federally recognised as terrorist organisations) who are using planes and boats to smuggle drugs.

He’s still a price of shit who wants to eliminate rights though, but it’s always important to get the facts right.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.ml 107 points 1 year ago

The US has been waging unprovoked war on Latin America since before WW1.

The only thing new about this is that this irredeemable piece of garbage is stating the quiet part out loud.

[–] Lawliss@midwest.social 104 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This cunt talks about Iraq like he did something there. He was a fucking lawyer 😂.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 106 points 1 year ago

Posing as a human rights lawyer and illegally aiding in the torture of POWs at Guantanamo is the best way of forming a valid opinion on Iraq!

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[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 102 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bruh you've gotta use vague signals and let the think tanks work with journalists to manufacture consent first.

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[–] DTFpanda@lemmy.world 92 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It continues to amaze me how dumb half of America is.

[–] ConditionOverload@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Truly don't think it's half. It's just the way our elections and voting works. Every the stupid minority has a loud voice when we weigh votes instead of simply going for popular votes overall.

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[–] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 87 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Psychopathic, how can a politician like this have any popular support

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude is trying so hard to appeal to Trump's base, but it isn't working.

[–] fear@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Trump is a full blown cult of personality at this point, no one else will do. Maybe that's a good thing since he doesn't seem to have much time left.

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[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nothing is more American than invading other countries and murdering their people.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Certain groups in the US have been building up to this for a while. They genuinely do want a war with Mexico. They've been trying to use drugs as an excuse to do it.

Here is an excellent video going into this when it all started to get quite serious and AMLO (mexican president) started to aggressively fight back against it: https://youtu.be/3dw1pcDoewY

He's also called the american media sphere trying to build up to this fascistic "hitlerismo", comparing american media to goebbels.

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[–] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 74 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Does the "Presidents approval rating increase during wartime" thing occur if you just loudly state "I'm gonna do a war if elected"?

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It increases their approval rating with the military industrial complex lobbyists funding their campaigns, I'm sure.

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (79 children)

He heard they had pudding

Edit: apparently I'm a Russian bot lmfao putin-wink

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[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 62 points 1 year ago

"They aren't sending their best" used to be mask-off messaging that seemed too far. yea

[–] style99@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Before anyone calls this hyperbole:

Ron DeSantis recently suggested that he would be open to ordering drone strikes on Mexican drug cartels and migrants, whom he accused of carrying drugs over the border. “We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said, and he’s not alone. Trump, Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Mike Walsh (R-FL), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Trump’s former deputy secretary of homeland security Ken Cuccinelli have all proposed various military actions in Mexico, up to and including sending in ground troops.

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[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

the guy decided to run against a religious icon, and now he's eating so much shit it's incredible

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[–] anoncpc@hexbear.net 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why Trump will win. Trump maybe dumb, but he's not that stupid to go around telling peoples he gonna invade this and that.

[–] Redcat@hexbear.net 61 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Trump made Hillary eat so much shit over the Iraq War, and here you've got Ronny saying he wants to jumpstart the greatest refugee crisis in the world right at the border.

Why do you think your base wants a wall, Ron?

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The two biggest things we could do to curb the cartels in Mexico there is absolutely no political appetite for.

First we need a real federal gun registry database to start drying up the influx of weapons. Almost every gun in Mexico came from the US, almost half of the trace requests come up blank because these forms are all filed on paper in a warehouse that they aren't even allowed to index properly. The most nauseating thing is the gun Industry is in on it... don't believe me? Look up (38 Super El Presidente model).

Second we need to legalize drugs. You can make it so it needs to be bought through a doctor and or psychiatrist, but make all that shit pennies on the dollar. Weed revenue might have dried up, but a significant portion of the rest of their revenue comes from harder drugs.

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