Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes

Friday, October 24, 2025

The president said he would bypass Congress rather than ask for approval for his military campaign against drug traffickers, even as he said it would expand from sea to land.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 01:30 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

JUST IN: Secretary of Defense Hegseth says the U.S. carried out another strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing six people.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Oct 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM

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White power!

#1 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-24 06:23 AM

Trump is killing people. Predicted.

Trump will kill more people. Predicted.

These people will increasingly be Americans. Predicted.

He's going to provoke a Rising.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-24 08:02 AM

"even as he (Trump) vowed to expand the operation from attacks at sea to targets on land"

There is your (predicted) war with Venzuela.

War means killing, and so Trump is going to do it.

You voted for peace, MAGA.

Time to show if any of you have any balls left at all.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-24 08:05 AM

"Trump the Butcher"

Has a ring to it, doesn't it?

Problem is: Trump thinks so, too.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-24 08:07 AM

*** SECDEF Pete Hegseth Announces Third Attack of the Week: Four More Murdered ***

"These strikes will continue, day after day. These are not simply drug runners " these are narco-terrorists bringing death and destruction to our cities. These DTOs are the 'Al Qaeda' of our hemisphere and will not escape justice," Hegseth bleated, using an initialism for "drug trafficking organizations."

"We will find them and kill them, until the threat to the American people is extinguished," Hegseth warned.

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Murder-Death-Kill, the Republican way.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 11:49 AM

... President Donald Trump brayed that he would bypass Congress ...

When has Pres Trump followed the laws that Congress has passed?

imo, that is likely one reason why Pres Trump wants his shutdown to continue, i.e., there is no real Congress while there is a shutdown.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-24 12:27 PM

Trump believes he is immune to impeachment for his high crimes and misdemeanors and obvious abuses of power.

Thanks to republicans he may be right.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-24 01:43 PM

*** US Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Heading to Caribbean Sea to Join the Armada ***

Source: WSJ Trumpf War Criminal.

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 02:04 PM

The Trumpf junta picked a great time to attack Venezuela: Hurricane season: www.accuweather.com

#9 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 02:08 PM

Charred and mangled corpses are washing ashore on Trinidad and Tobago.

Links:

www.nytimes.com

drudge.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-24 02:15 PM

Kings don' need no stinkin' 'Authorizations'.

They are their own authorizing authority.

This case is a particularly yuge joke... he controls the entire Congress, but won't ask for their Authority?

Because what he's doing is so patently stupid that even a couple of his own in the Congress might balk.

#11 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-24 02:20 PM

Blatantly Illegal. Murderously Chaotic.

Intellectually Challenged.

Trump defines America...

He's a Mirror, or a Kaleidoscope on the Spirit of our Times.

Goin' Down.
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#12 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-10-24 04:38 PM

Of course he will bypass Congress. He never planned on asking permission or getting approval.

Kings do not need the permission of the People to do things in the name of the People.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-24 05:50 PM

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