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Pete Hegseth, Boat Strikes, and Killing for Optics

from Pete Hegseth, War Crimes, & The Breakfast Rush | The Tim Dillon Show #473 · #473

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He pivots to Pete Hegseth allegedly ordering a second strike to kill survivors of a boat strike targeting drug traffickers, framing the Venezuela military escalation as a distraction from the Epstein scandal and economic troubles.

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  • Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of War, is denying he committed a war crime after reports he ordered military to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of drug smuggling.
  • Washington Post reported Hegseth gave a verbal order to kill all aboard suspected smuggling vessels, leading to a second strike on survivors in early September.
  • Tim connects the Epstein cover-up as an albatross the administration can't shake while the economy tanks and people feel apprehensive about the holidays.
  • Holiday celebrations have deteriorated into people in sweatpants and onesies on couches, lacking the formality and pride of dinners past.
  • Instead of formal dinners with multiple courses and conversation, families now sit together looking like trauma victims on pills and IKEA furniture.
  • Tim's complaint about the decline of holiday formality is finally gaining agreement from people who are starting to acknowledge the holidays don't feel right anymore.
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Pete HegsethJeffrey EpsteinNicolás MaduroMike Turner

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