John Sisino
@smarmyeod.bsky.social
Former glorified trash man, current glorified forklift operator. Happily crosscut.
Don’t be ninjerin’ nobody who don’t need no ninjerin.’
Istud dolebitis.
Don’t be ninjerin’ nobody who don’t need no ninjerin.’
Istud dolebitis.
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Per Trump, Hegseth now says he didn’t give the kill-them-all order. Andrew McCarthy: "Of course, if it is true that he didn’t give the order, how odd was it that Hegseth’s first two responsive posts over the weekend were exactly what you would expect from someone who did" give such an order?
“He that is good for making excuses, is seldom good for anything else.” - Benjamin Franklin
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-e...
New Explanation: Hegseth Did Not Order That All Boat Operators Be Killed | National Review
President Trump creates distance between himself and the second September 2 strike, but the problem is that there is no armed conflict, period.
www.nationalreview.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Per Trump, Hegseth now says he didn’t give the kill-them-all order. Andrew McCarthy: "Of course, if it is true that he didn’t give the order, how odd was it that Hegseth’s first two responsive posts over the weekend were exactly what you would expect from someone who did" give such an order?
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And also share the question widely - would like the broadest possible cross-section of people responding
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And also share the question widely - would like the broadest possible cross-section of people responding
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OK, internet, from a pretty awesome discussion with someone who has a different view than me, have a question. Is the following hypothetical bullying:
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
OK, internet, from a pretty awesome discussion with someone who has a different view than me, have a question. Is the following hypothetical bullying:
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
Someone on my block rants to his Facebook friends every Saturday about how he hates seeing the damn kike walking to synagogue
Please comment
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Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
December 1, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Wild how people like this, just like russians, still can’t comprehend that the Revolution of Dignity wasn’t staged. It was Ukrainians choosing freedom over fear. Imperialists and small minds always assume someone else must be pulling the strings, because they’ve never seen a nation with a spine.
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Worth remembering now
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Worth remembering now
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944
"The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."
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On this day in 2008, Capt. Robert Yllescas, 31, of Lincoln, Neb., died from wounds suffered Oct. 28 when an IED exploded near him as he walked to COP Keating. He left behind a wife and two little girls. Have a thought for those who love him if you could 🙏 🇺🇸
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
On this day in 2008, Capt. Robert Yllescas, 31, of Lincoln, Neb., died from wounds suffered Oct. 28 when an IED exploded near him as he walked to COP Keating. He left behind a wife and two little girls. Have a thought for those who love him if you could 🙏 🇺🇸
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“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
195. The Immigration Detention Flood
The Trump administration's attempt to quietly—but massively—expand who can be detained pending their removal has been met with overwhelming pushback from a remarkably large number of district courts.
www.stevevladeck.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“I can’t recall any other example of a federal policy that provoked quite so much litigation in such a short period of time—or in which so many judges from across the geographical and ideological spectrum so overwhelmingly rejected the executive branch’s new interpretation of the relevant statutes.”
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“Something significant needs to change on the ground for one side or indeed both sides to make them conclude that they have little or nothing to gain from continuing the war,” international politics expert Jenny Mathers said.
kyivindependent.com/what-happens...
kyivindependent.com/what-happens...
Why Trump's peace plan is unlikely to end Russia's war in Ukraine
As U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies his effort to force a negotiated end to Russia's full-scale invasion, a central question hangs over Washington, Kyiv, and Moscow: What happens next — and can...
kyivindependent.com
December 1, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“Something significant needs to change on the ground for one side or indeed both sides to make them conclude that they have little or nothing to gain from continuing the war,” international politics expert Jenny Mathers said.
kyivindependent.com/what-happens...
kyivindependent.com/what-happens...
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If your goal is a Catholic theocracy in the United States, there seems to be a bit of tension there in backing the people currently trying to purge the nation of its largest predominantly Catholic ethnic group.
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
If your goal is a Catholic theocracy in the United States, there seems to be a bit of tension there in backing the people currently trying to purge the nation of its largest predominantly Catholic ethnic group.
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It wouldn't be any better in an actual Catholic majority country, but there's something extra absurd in talking this way of a country where only about 1 in 5 are Catholic, many of those only nominally so, and also a large chunk are currently the target of a mass deportation campaign.
I mean, it just keeps going: "In a chapter about politics, McCall wrote that separation of the Catholic Church from the state was “reaping its bitter fruits” and that the only solution to the ills of modern government was Catholicism." #whatIsThisCrap
December 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
It wouldn't be any better in an actual Catholic majority country, but there's something extra absurd in talking this way of a country where only about 1 in 5 are Catholic, many of those only nominally so, and also a large chunk are currently the target of a mass deportation campaign.
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According to BBC, defending yourself is an escalation.
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
According to BBC, defending yourself is an escalation.
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And the fact is, as bad as things are, we are going to win. America has deep wellsprings to draw upon, hostility to tyranny is embedded in our culture and identity, and the attempted consolidation of an authoritarian regime is in fact already faltering and laying the seeds of its own destruction.
November 30, 2025 at 10:56 PM
And the fact is, as bad as things are, we are going to win. America has deep wellsprings to draw upon, hostility to tyranny is embedded in our culture and identity, and the attempted consolidation of an authoritarian regime is in fact already faltering and laying the seeds of its own destruction.
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AI is in fact capable of totally replacing one (1) specific human artist
I feel like this is one he might actually have done
November 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
AI is in fact capable of totally replacing one (1) specific human artist
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A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A Dishonorable Strike
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder
www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonor...
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Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Former US military lawyers speak out:
"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."
Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes
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Not that anybody is, nor should we, but you could grant arguendo everything else they claim about the boat bombing campaign’s justifications and legality, and that second strike to kill the survivors would still be murder in a way that has been considered an inexcusable outrage for centuries.
November 29, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Not that anybody is, nor should we, but you could grant arguendo everything else they claim about the boat bombing campaign’s justifications and legality, and that second strike to kill the survivors would still be murder in a way that has been considered an inexcusable outrage for centuries.
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Things can be illegal in multiple ways. Yes it’s all murder, but killing shipwrecked survivors is a very specific and notorious and well-established crime that’s absolutely prohibited in all circumstances, even if it was an otherwise real and legal war. It’s an extra layer of inarguable criminality.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Things can be illegal in multiple ways. Yes it’s all murder, but killing shipwrecked survivors is a very specific and notorious and well-established crime that’s absolutely prohibited in all circumstances, even if it was an otherwise real and legal war. It’s an extra layer of inarguable criminality.
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“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in a country where virtue and knowledge prevail.”
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
~Attributed to Samuel Adams.
Image: Samuel Adams portrait by John Singleton Copley. Public domain.
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
I follower a few defense experts.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
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I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking.
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
Trump Bribing Honduran Voters To Restore Narcotrafficking Government to Power
Trump endorsed the nominee of the right-wing party, while pledging to pardon its most recent president, who sits in U.S. federal prison for drug trafficking.
open.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I’d really love someone to explain to me how the admin’s Latin America policy is consistent regarding narcotrafficking.
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
(Please don’t reply to this saying it’s consistent because he supports right-wingers. That’s not what I’m asking!) open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...
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Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
Hagueseth
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
November 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Pete Hagueseth. We should make it a thing.
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To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
November 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
We executed multiple members of that crew.
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.
November 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" wasn't "havoc" in just the modern sense of chaos, it was a particular order that was understood as heinous even in Shakespeare's day, authorization after battle was over to slaughter and pillage, both debilitated enemies and noncombatants, without restraint.