what kind of shithole senator roots for war crimes?

Tom Cotton justifies murder, because one guy was ‘taking off his shirt.’ what the fuck?

Dec 08, 2025

no one could have predicted that the party of Nazis, racists, fascists, misogynists, white supremacists, transphobes, puppy assassins, half-dressed degenerate wrestling coaches, compromised Russian assets, dead pedo besties, blackout-drunk rapist judges, bone-saw murder defenders and concentration camp fanboys would also be the party of war crimes apologists.

imagine being so devoid of humanity that you’ll happily be on the wrong side of a massive human rights violation. if you’re a Republican like Tom Cotton, you don’t have to imagine. it’s how you live your entire shitty life.

check out Cotton, casually hand-waving away the slaughter of Venezuelans whom our Mad King — without presenting a single shred of evidence — sentenced to death.

Meet the Press host Kristen Welker: “you say they weren’t incapacitated, and yet Democratic Congressman Adam Smith of Washington, the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, saw this very differently. he saw that video, he said, quote ‘it looks like two classically shipwrecked people.’ other lawmakers who saw the video said the two men appeared to raise their arms, potentially to signal that they were trying to surrender. Senator, why did Admiral Bradley interpret those as anything other than these two men trying to seek help and survive?”

Senator Tom Cotton: “well, again, they were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. they weren’t floating helplessly in the water. and Kristen, I don’t think it matters all that much what they were trying to do. it looked at one point like they were trying to flip the boat over, presumably to rescue its cargo and continue their mission.”

Welker: “or to stay afloat?”

Cotton: “maybe they were signalling to other airplanes, or drug cartel boats, ’cause they’re in waters that are just off drug cartel areas. a one point, a guy takes off his t-shirt, right? like he’s trying to get a suntan. it doesn’t really matter what they were trying to do. what matters is that they were not in a shipwrecked state, distressed, dog-paddling in the water, at all.”

what in the hallowed name of Hair-Splitting Jesus is this garbage? how is sitting on top of a wrecked ship not literally being a SHIP WRECK SURVIVOR?

look, the DOD’s own Law of War Manual is very clear about this, when it says NOT TO SLAUGHTER SHIPWRECKED SURVIVORS.

it doesn’t equivocate. it doesn’t say ‘if they’re waving, drop those bombs.’ nor does it say ‘if they take their shirts off, they’re asking for it.’

it doesn’t say ‘if they make it to an island and there’s a professor and a movie star and some dumb-as-shit first mate, kill them all dead.’

and it sure as fuck doesn’t say ‘let’s get Tom Cotton’s opinion before we do anything.’

all it says is DON’T DO IT.

Tom Cotton knows this — yet he’ll happily go on the Sunday shows and gaslight about how ‘we had to kill those guys, one of them was taking off his shirt.’

does Tom Cotton ever listen to the bullshit that seeps out of his mouth? how is he not deeply ashamed to indifferently wave away murder because ‘one dude was topless’?

spoiler alert: it’s because he’s a ghoul — they’re all fucking ghouls, every one of these Republican shitweasels.

but now we really need to hear from Democratic Rep. Jim Himes — because he saw that same video Tom Cotton did, and he came away from it with a very different version of what happened.

“I think it’s really important that this video be made public. it’s not lost on anyone, of course, that interpretation of the video, which you know, six or seven of us had the opportunity to see last week, broke down precisely on party lines. and so this is an instance in which the American public needs to judge for itself. I know how the public is going to react, because I felt my own reaction…. this video was profoundly shaking. and I think it’s important for people to see what it looks like when the full force of the United States military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under. just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we’re doing.”

huh. according to Tom Cotton, those two dudes were having a high old time, waving to their friends and sunbathing. but according to Jim Himes, they were clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under.

someone’s lying. gee, if there were only some way to know who to believe — the lying liar with an extensive history of lying, or the guy who wants everyone to see the video, and witness with their own two eyes what happened?

I’m going to go with the guy who wants to release the tapes.

and while we’re at it, how about showing us the actual results of Donny’s MRI — and where are those fucking Epstein Files already?

hey everyone! a brand new version of the shit that went down just dropped.

that’s a very different story from the one we were told a few weeks ago.

could these fucksticks please get their stories straight already?

but we really need to talk about this bit, from under the first headline.

Adm. Frank Bradley said U.S. intelligence had identified the 11 people on the boat and determined the military was authorized to kill them as part of Trump’s campaign against alleged drug-smuggling vessels.

lost in all this smokescreening about ‘were the survivors actually shipwrecked or not’ is that those boats should never have been bombed in the first place. we’ve lost sight of the fact that we are not at war with Venezuela — and these fishing boats are not legitimate military targets.

don’t take my word for it. listen to three experts from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

“International law does not allow governments to simply murder alleged drug traffickers,” the experts said. “Criminal activities should be disrupted, investigated and prosecuted in accordance with the rule of law, including through international cooperation.”

this whole business of bombing fishing boats is a half-baked — and blatantly illegal — policy shit out by a racist game show host, and implemented by a Fox News dunk-tank clown.

these are not serious people — but there’s nothing funny about the damage they’re inflicting on our country, and the world.

and it’s a policy that’s hypocritical as fuck — because if those guys on the fishing boat didn’t want to be literally blown out of the water, maybe they should have had the foresight to have been a well-connected crony of Donny Convict’s, and secured a pardon instead of a death sentence.

speaking of which —

George Stephanopoulos: “Do you support this pardon of the former Honduran president?”

Senator Eric Schmitt: “I’m not familiar with the facts or circumstances...”

Stephanopoulos: “what do you mean you’re not familiar with the facts and circumstances of the pardon? it’s been well-reported all across the country, the former president of Honduras. he was convicted of conspiring to bring in four hundred tons of cocaine into the United States, also guns, and other materials, it’s been front-page news across the country. aren’t you curious about that?”

Schmitt: “I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. with your previous guest, you had zero pushback, because he’s giving the Democrat talking points, like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad.”

oh, how lovely. Eric Schmitt doesn’t want to talk about Donny’s corrupt pardons, so he pretends to know nothing about it. and then, when confronted with the facts, he dismisses them as Democratic talking points, and childishly insults Stephanopoulos.

and why not? it’s the kind of shit Dear Leader gets away with all the time. no one should be surprised that Donny’s infantile antics have been adopted by the entire Republican party. I suppose George Stephanopoulos should be thankful that Schmitt didn’t shove his finger in his face and go ‘shut up, piggy.’

now let’s end with a short history lesson — because do you know where Donny got this whole ‘let’s kill all the drug dealers’ idea?

he got it from his pal Rodrigo Duterte, the former Philippine president.

Duterte had this super-cool thing where he’d accuse people he didn’t like of being drug dealers, and then have his secret police murder the shit out of them. oh, and Duterte never presented evidence that any of his targets had committed crimes — because evidence is for sissies. that’s not how authoritarians roll.

you’ll never guess who was a huge fan of Duterte’s extra-judicial killings.

President Donald Trump congratulated his Filipino counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, during a phone call last month for doing “an unbelievable job on the drug problem” in the Philippines, where the government has sanctioned the extrajudicial killing of suspects.
“I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem,” Trump told Duterte, according to the transcript. “Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing and I just wanted to call and tell you that.”

all during his first term, Donny never shut up about how impressed he was with what Duterte was getting away with, and openly wishing he could pull that shit in America.

here we are, four years later, and Donny’s fucked-up dreams have become reality.

hey, do you know where Duterte is right now? rotting in a prison cell in The Hague, awaiting his trial for “crimes against humanity related to his ‘war on drugs.’”

that Duterte is finally facing consequences for his fuckery is cold comfort to the families of the thousands of people he had murdered, but still — it’s something that Donny, Pete Kegstand, and Admiral Bradley might want to keep in mind as they mull their next move in Donny’s ‘war on drugs.’

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