White House Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2025/10/24/white-house-flaunts-its-indifference-to-the-law/

White House Flaunts Its Indifference to the Law
October 24, 2025 at 6:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“Since he returned to office nine months ago, President Trump has sought to expand executive power across numerous fronts. But his claim that he can lawfully order the military to summarily kill people accused of smuggling drugs on boats off the coast of South America stands apart,” the New York Times reports.

“A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders — regardless of whether the 37 people blown apart, burned alive or drowned in nine strikes so far were indeed running drugs.”

[sop]

1. Trump fancies himself as '007 Donald,' the president with a license to kill.

[Chasstev365]

2. A HUGE FUCK YOU to John Roberts and the other 5 partisan hacks in robes:

And a dishonorable mention to both Bushs for appointing them to the Supreme Court.

[rubbersole]

10. three Bushs...don't leave out Jeb! while governor of Florida.

The "caging" of over 60,000 purged Hispanic voters in Florida before the 2000 election enabled the SC to step in and steal the presidency from legally elected President Al Gore.

[DemocracyForever]

12. Jeb's felon purge" is only part of the story

What really made the 2000 election theft possible was the hand duplication and counting of 10,000 absentee ballots in the most heavily republican counties in Florida which favored Bush by 2 to 1. Florida law in 2000 allowed for the hand duplication and counting of ballots that the counting machines couldn't read in order to comply with the requirement that all votes where the intent of the voter is clear be counted. The county election supervisors were required to keep detailed logs of every ballot that was counted in this manner. The Florida law that allowed for the hand duplication and counting of ballots that the counting machines couldn't read applied to all ballots that the counting machines couldn't read and not just absentee ballots located in Florida's most heavily republican voting counties. These hand duplicated absentee ballots are in the Jeb Bush-Katherine Harris vote count and are what made it possible for Jeb's brother to be able to steal the 2000 election. The only media outlet to ever report this story was the Orlando Sentinel in an article on 5/7/2001 titled, "Mangled ballots resurrected".

BTW, most of the voters illegally removed in Jeb's felon purge were African-American democrats.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Trump seems to get off on his power to have people killed, just like Putin.

Hw lng before he and Miller turn ICE loose to start killing anyone who fights an illegal arrest or protests against them?

[KS Toronado]

6. As the old saying goes, "that's coming 'round the bend"

[BradBo]

4. Trump just likes killing for killing's sake.

[2na fisherman]

5. Our President With So Many Pathologies

Add necrophiliac to Trump's psych profile. He does get off on this. For further information on the psychology of this check out:

"In Erich Fromm's The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, necrophilia is defined as the "passionate attraction to all that is dead, decayed, putrid, sickly," and is presented as a fundamental human trait, not an instinct. Fromm contrasts it with biophilia (love of life) and argues it's a symptom of a desire to transform the living into the unliving, driven by a fear of life and a need for absolute control. He uses case studies of figures like Hitler to illustrate how this passion for destruction manifests in human psychology and society."
(Google AI)

[Picaro]

7. The military should be refusing these clearly illegal orders

But they’re not. Which is very consistent with what militares have done throughout recorded history. When this ends there will probably be trials and again the participants will claim that they were just following orders. Of course and Nuremberg provides a precedent that is undeniable and inescapable..

[Grins]

8. "We in the Republican Party are the law-and-order team." - Speaker, Mike Johnson, RNC, 2024.

“We in the Republican Party are the law-and-order team. We always have been, and we always will be, the advocates for the rule of law.” - House Speaker, Mike Johnson, in a feat of magnificent self-deception, RNC, 2024.

This is so easy.

[steventh]

9. War crimes in plain sight.

It's infuriating. Heart breaking. Dare I hope for justice for these murder victims and their families? I hope to live long enough to see the murderers get their consequences in full measure.

[relayerbob]

11. This isn't just indifference

It's like he specifically hunts for laws to break, just so he can.