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Conservative writer George Will: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement."
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Judge Napolitano: I worked with Pete Hegseth for 7 or 8 years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered. I think it's getting beyond politics now. The killing is out of hand.
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"It gives me no pleasure to say what Im about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... Theres absolutely no legal basis for it.
- Newsmax's Judge Napolitano
Newsmaxs legal analyst just said Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be prosecuted for a war crime.
Theyve even lost Newsmax on this one.
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ms liberty
(10,867 posts)But he's an ahole who has a way with words.
underpants
(194,286 posts)As a noted baseball fan he had a great quote on football
Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings." (huddles)
ms liberty
(10,867 posts)usedtobedemgurl
(1,902 posts)I remember when he said rape survivors claim they were raped because they enjoy the attention and the elevated social status. As a rape survivor, I spoke out against that opinion. Our own William Rivers Pitt (RIP) posted my writing to George on his Facebook page. His editor saw it and printed it on their website. Will assured me my rant about George and his backwards attitude would definitely be seen by George Will.
As a rape survivor, I fully embrace George's wonderful words.
PatSeg
(51,704 posts)Wednesdays
(21,496 posts)...then just charge him with Murder One.
PatSeg
(51,704 posts)He should have just stayed at Fox News.
DFW
(59,570 posts)Caracas would no longer be on the map.
underpants
(194,286 posts)🤔
DFW
(59,570 posts)Minimal likelihood there.
Paladin
(32,140 posts)Hegseth is Secretary of Murderous War Crimes, now and forever more.
KS Toronado
(22,530 posts)

Wednesdays
(21,496 posts)(It was a loss, but Democrats gained 15 percent over 2024), it should be a tsunami of 100 House seats next November!
jfz9580m
(16,330 posts)But I was confusing him with William Safire. I cant say I liked that archetype: Safire, Will, Buckley.
But they were definitely better than their ideological descendants i.e. Jordan Petersen, Eric Weinstein etc.
This crowd is their present iteration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web
I used to dislike Bill Kristol during the Iraq War, but even he has jumped ship. The Bulwark is never Trumpy. Good for them.
KS Toronado
(22,530 posts)jfz9580m
(16,330 posts)And voted for Biden in 2020.
Kristol did an interview with Jewish Insider in 2021 where he said that he identifies as more of a former Republican.[63] Defending Democracy Together spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in January 2024 to support Nikki Haley and to run advertisements against Trump in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, the Washington Examiner reported.[64] After the incumbent U.S. vice president Kamala Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee for U.S. President, Kristol endorsed her on The Bulwark.
The Bulwark isnt really my style, but they are definitely anti-Trump from the few pieces I have seen.
KS Toronado
(22,530 posts)Glad to see ex-Rs picking up the torch for our side.
JohnnyRingo
(20,362 posts)I really enjoy reading George Will in my local paper. He's a great writer.
The judge comes from a strict rule of law angle with a libertarian streak. For better or worse.
BOSSHOG
(44,329 posts)Mme. Defarge
(8,874 posts)What was the name of that moral slum of a national newspaper I unsubscribed to for not endorsing Vice President Harris when ran against ILL DUCE?
LeftinOH
(5,608 posts)His reputation as a "conservative writer" is meaningless now. Does he have a podcast? Do we ever see him on Newsmax or OANN? Does he have millions of social media followers? Does he sell patriotic & Christian themed merchandise on his website? Does he post memes on Facebook? If not, he is nobody to MAGA -- and the current administration knows this.