Hoo, boy. I would NOT want to be Vice-Admiral Frank ‘Mitch’ Bradley, I can tell you that. It looks like Team Evil is teeing him up to take the fall for the murders of the two survivors in one of their criminal boat strikes. That tells you a few things, or it should. They know the strikes are illegal. One does not protect themselves from legal activities. They’re concerned that down the road, they’ll be asked to answer for their crimes against humanity. The murders happened. Team Evil is a-okay with the murders happening, but they don’t want to be held responsible for their actions. So? Downhill rolls the shi— er, consequences.

Our fearful misleader “has complete faith” in Hegseth’s decisions, but Whiskey Pete doesn’t want that role, at least so long as these might be war crimes. He has his story ready. Well, kind of. “I didn’t, personally, see survivors,” Whiskey Pete told reporters during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. “The thing was on fire. It was exploded in fire and smoke. You can’t see it. This is called the fog of war.” Uh-huh. Good story, Whiskey Pete. Uh, just one more thing, if you didn’t know there were survivors, why order the “double tap” attack?

No, not him. Just ask him. Despite claims that Hegseth gave the order to “kill them all,” Hegseth thinks Bradley “made the right choice.” So, it was Bradley’s choice? Well, Bradley has subordinates, too. He can blame one of them. That just keeps going until they find some private first class to take the fall. THIS, right here, is the reason Congress critters got together and reminded low-ranking soldiers they have an obligation to refuse illegal orders.

Remember Abu Gharib? That was a prison in which American soldiers were torturing prisoners. First we were treated to semantic games. “No,” we were told, “it’s not torture. These are ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.'” When decent humans rejected that bunk, Bush 43 and company started looking at who to blame. Specialist Charles Graner, Jr. Private First Class Lynndie England. Specialist Sabrina Harmon. Specialist Jeremy Sivits. Specialist Roman Krol. Specialist Armin Cruz. Sergeant Javal Davis. The highest ranking person convicted? Why, that would be Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick.

Do you know what all of those people have in common, besides being the scapegoats for the torture? They don’t set the policy. They don’t make the rules. They did a lot of terrible things, so they should have been punished – and were – but they didn’t do those terrible things in a vacuum. Someone made that “okay.” Someone with lots of rank set the tone, made clear what was expected – and how it was expected. But only low ranking soldiers paid any price. And isn’t that the way? There’s even a poem about it:

“I’m not allowed to run the train, the whistle I can’t blow.
I’m not allowed to say how far the railroad cars will go.
I’m not allowed to shoot off steam, nor even clang the bell.
But let the damn thing jump the track and see who catches hell.”

I don’t know. “The party of personal responsibility” seems to be going to an awful lot of trouble to make sure they don’t have to take any responsibility. I mean, why should they take the blame just because they did it, right? As of Wednesday, Team Evil was trotting out a new excuse. “No, we were just sinking the boat.” What, the one you had just blown up? You didn’t think a freshly blown up boat would sink on it’s own?

I preferred it when men of honor said things like, “The buck stops here…”

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On December 1, 2025, I wrote, “Donny has now promised to pardon a guy, Juan Orlando Hernández, who ran hundreds of pounds of cocaine into the US.” That was technically correct but it didn’t tell the whole story. Hernández brought 400 TONS of cocaine into the US. One ton is 2,000 pounds.

400 tons is 800,000 pounds! 800,000 pounds of cocaine and Donny thinks a pardon is right. Meanwhile, do you have a little vial of cocaine in your pocket while you go out fishing for the day? Death to you, because the death penalty is how we handle all “drug dealers,” right? Well, those who can’t pay us, anyway.

The truth is, Hernández hit Donny where he lives. Donny had no choice, couldn’t fight it. Hernández said Donny was pretty and that BIDEN made him bring 400 tons of cocaine into the US, so of course Felon 47 had to pardon him. Well, the flattery and the BBS were important, necessary, even, but the multi-million dollar bribe was pretty important too. Do I know Donny took a multi-million dollar bribe? Do I have evidence? No. That’s just my opinion. But it’s based on the reality that he takes bribes all the time from anybody who wants anything from him and in Donny’s criminal world, if you can’t pay, you don’t get to play.

Meanwhile, I’m happy to report, a family down in Columbia has filed a lawsuit against US airstrikes on defenseless fishermen. Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a 42-year-old fisherman, was among over 80 people murdered in 21 confirmed airstrikes carried out by Team Evil since September. His family says he was fishing. They insist he didn’t have any drugs.

I know, a lawsuit isn’t going to have much impact on a guy trying to antagonize a foreign sovereign nation into a war so he can steal their oil. What it DOES is, it gives us more evidence that these victims of Trump/Hegseth war crimes were innocents than evidence we’ve seen from Team Evil that they’re drug runners. That, along with our knowledge that Donny and company are inveterate liars, causes me to seriously doubt his claims…

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Felon 47 pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D, TX-28) and his wife. Democrats, fercrissakes. They hadn’t even been convicted, yet. They were indicted last year on charges of receiving almost $600K in bribes from Mexican and Azerbaijani companies. I would guess they used the formula: “You’re the prettiest, my Glory. I sure wish Biden hadn’t set us up and rigged the whole thing. Oh, yeah, here’s a million dollars.” It likely didn’t hurt that Cuellar is considered one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress…