Navy Vice Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, who Leavitt said ordered the second strike, is expected to provide a classified briefing Thursday to lawmakers
It isn’t.
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I've got new details coming soon on what lawmakers saw on the video of the second strike and what they heard in the classified briefing today. It's deeply unnerving stuff. Stay tuned.
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) Dec 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump’s recent racist attack on Somali-Americans creates a diversionary media rabbit hole still ruled by Mango Mussolini, The Great Semiologer(sic). He’s counting on your poor association skills, or at least those of the based MAGAs because naval killings of ‘boat people’ in the Caribbean are seen by the White House as ‘self-defense’ from the scourge of drugs coming from different countries.
Because the “fog of war” might be neither literal nor figurative when The Great Semiologer is in the Oval Office; it’s not fog or war, but the gaslit smoke blown up peoples’ skirts. Deporting 700 Temporary Protected Status Somalis will draw your attention from murderous war crimes.
from southcom to south park
Holsey, not Halsey
"Adm. Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support," Hegseth said Monday in a post on X.
So if you’re “continuing to salvage cargo”, rather than remaining afloat or treading water, you are resuming the hostile action and therefore the US Navy can eliminate with extreme prejudice, people “remaining an ongoing threat” to the US?
On September 2, the U.S. military hit a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people total after targeting two survivors who returned to salvage cargo. Navy Adm. Frank Bradley ordered the follow-up, following Pentagon protocol for those resuming hostile actions. The incident is part of 21 Trump-era airstrikes that officials credit with cutting sea drug flows by 91%, though critics from both parties question its legality and call for congressional oversight. Lawmakers are probing, with video footage potentially clarifying if the men posed an ongoing threat. (X.com)
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News --> The commander who oversaw Pete Hegseth's alleged killing of two boat bombing survivors is now likely to come in and face questions from the House Armed Services Committee, ranking Dem Adam Smith tells me.
In this piece, I try to make sense of this horror:
newrepublic.com/article/2037...
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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) Dec 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war.
Rand Paul says he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”
Trump hopes that a racist rant about Somalia will distract media because after all, he is The Great Semiologer, and aren’t they all something, something to divert from... Epstein and the pictures of the sex-mask dental chairs?
got smoked right away. Somalia remains hostile anarchy with no order.
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@Cagmadhige90
, a Somaliland independence advocate, posts a video purportedly showing recent Somali pirate attempts off Hobyo being swiftly repelled by a cargo ship's crew, framing it as evidence of Somalia's enduring chaos.
- The footage actually originates from a 2011 incident where armed guards and water cannons deterred pirates, recycled amid a genuine 2025 piracy uptick with 7 attacks reported in the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Aden per IMB data.
- Thread replies expose Somaliland-Somalia rivalries, with supporters echoing the anarchy narrative while opponents dismiss it as outdated propaganda, highlighting how viral clips fuel regional geopolitical divides.
- The post quotes a viral tweet criticizing Minnesota's Somali diaspora as a "proxy state" importing Somalia's chaos, amid November 2025 ICE raids and Trump's pledge to end TPS for over 700 Somalis, sparking community fears of deportations and violence.
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@BurtMaclin_FBI
responds satirically with a South Park clip from the 2009 "Fatbeard" episode, featuring kids as Somali pirates belting a crude sea shanty to mock the piracy stereotype and undercut the original post's alarmism.
- Minnesota's Somali population, the world's largest outside Somalia at around 80,000, has driven economic growth through businesses and elected officials like Rep. Ilhan Omar, yet faces persistent stereotypes tied to homeland conflicts like Al-Shabaab insurgency.
In December 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned as the head of the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) because of Pete Hegseth's Venezuelan boat strike orders.
Since September 2025, the Trump administration and the Pentagon have announced at least 21 strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats from Venezuela and the surrounding area, Axios reported, killing at least 82 people as of Dec. 1, 2025.
SOUTHCOM, the unified combatant command that covers Central and South America and the Caribbean, announced (archived) on Oct. 16, 2025, that Holsey, the force's commander, would retire on Dec. 12.
As the date neared, the claim about the reason for Holsey's resignation swirled online. One X user wrote, "Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders. RETWEET to thank Admiral Holsey for standing up for the Constitution!"
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According to legal experts who spoke to Reuters and The Associated Press, the Sept. 2, 2025, "double tap" strike could amount to a war crime. Other experts have questioned the general legality of the strikes. Some reporting has cast doubt on the Trump administration's claim that the people killed in the strikes were all "narco-terrorists" or cartel leaders.
www.snopes.com/...
At the time of this writing, the strikes appeared likely to continue. Hegseth announced (archived) Operation Southern Spear on Nov. 13, a joint mission by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and SOUTHCOM to remove "narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere."
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Senate Intel Vice Chair Mark Warner on the Signalgate report: "Hegseth endangered the lives of American pilots based aboard the USS Harry S. Truman as they prepared to launch a mission against terrorist targets."
He is calling for Hegseth to resign.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) Dec 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Like the Wizard of QZ, Trump is a not a semiologist, but an semiological amateur (semiologer (sic)) manipulating signs and symbols, hiding behind a curtain of bafflegab.
