The President is murdering people and we’re acting like it’s a weather report.
Trump has ordered four military strikes in the Caribbean in five weeks, killing twenty-one people. No congressional authorization. No trials. No evidence. Just state-sanctioned execution posted to social media like kill-count bragging rights.
And America’s eating brunch and arguing about Bad Bunny.
September 1st: Eleven people blown apart on a speedboat. Trump posted the snuff footage. Called them gang members. Reporters asked for proof. He waved at the ocean: “Look at the cargo, it’s spattered all over the place. Big bags of cocaine and fentanyl.” Claimed “recorded evidence.” Never produced it.
Three more dead September 15th. Three more the 19th. Four more October 3rd. Twenty-one corpses in international waters. Not one arrest. Not one kilogram of drugs photographed. Not one shred of proof.
Marco Rubio—whose family fled dictatorship so he could become its American franchise—spelled it out: “Interdiction doesn’t work. What will stop them is when you blow them up, when you get rid of them.”
The Secretary of State. Advocating summary execution. On camera.
Here’s where it gets full fascist: Trump notified Congress he’s determined the U.S. is in “non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, now “unlawful combatants”.
He declared war. Unilaterally. Named the enemy himself. Congress never authorized military force. The branch constitutionally required to declare war? Just informed after the bodies started piling up.
Geoffrey Corn—who literally wrote the Army’s law-of-war guidance—said selling drugs is categorically different from armed attack. Trump doesn’t care. He’s figured out the cheat code: just do the authoritarian thing. If nobody stops you, you win.
The first boat? Multiple intelligence sources confirmed it had turned around, heading back to shore when struck. Not advancing. Not threatening. Retreating.
We hunted them down and killed them anyway.
For decades the U.S. interdicted vessels by seizing cargo, arresting crews, extracting intelligence. Evidence. Arrests. Trials.
Now? Trump and Hegseth—two walking mental health crises with nuclear codes—decided that’s not for them. Just kill. Film it. Post it.
And they’re getting off on it.
Watch them discuss these strikes. They’re not somber leaders making tough calls. They’re teenage boys who found dad’s Playboy. Excited. Proud. Aroused.
This is what happens when you give weapons to men who’ve spent their lives overcompensating. Trump—the draft dodger who fantasizes about being Patton. Hegseth—the Fox & Friends pinup who cosplayed warrior for bored Fox News watching housewives.
Neither commanded anything in combat. Neither understands military force beyond video game aesthetics.
But now they have actual missiles. And they’re playing with them like toys.
When Rand Paul objected to “killing someone without a trial,” JD Vance—asked if this constitutes war crimes—said he didn’t care “what you call it”.
The Vice President. Openly stating. He doesn’t care. If they’re committing. War crimes.
Senator Bernie Moreno celebrated: “Sinking [the] boat saved American lives”. No evidence required. Just violence as patriotism.
But the Caribbean massacres are just foreplay. Simultaneously, Trump’s occupying American cities.
September 30th: Trump and Hegseth summoned 800 generals and admirals from across the planet with days’ notice. Trump announced using Democratic cities as “training grounds” for military. “We’re going into Chicago very soon. Big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor. Stupid”.
On protesters: “I say they spit, we hit”.
The Commander in Chief ordering violence against Americans exercising First Amendment rights.
Trump noted the generals’ silence: “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before”. Professional officers watching their commander propose using them as domestic gestapo.
But not horrified enough to resign.
Hegseth—who demands being called “Secretary of War”—screamed about “fat troops” and “fat generals.” “It’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals in the Pentagon. It’s a bad look”.
A Fox News host lecturing four-star generals while purging military leadership for political loyalty.
He named targets: “Out with the Chiarellis, the McKenzies and the Milleys”. He’d said: “Fire the chairman of the joint chiefs. Any general involved in any of that DEI woke shit has got to go”.
He fired General Charles Q. Brown Jr.—America’s highest-ranking military officer, a Black fighter pilot—in February.
Stalin-level purge.
Trump told officers he’d created a National Guard “quick reaction force” for “the enemy from within. We have to handle it before it gets out of control”.
The enemy from within. Not terrorists. Democrats.
He’s sent thousands to Los Angeles, D.C., Portland. Threatened Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore, Philadelphia. Every one a Democratic city.
Chicago: ICE fired tear gas at protesters. Pritzker revealed DHS requested 100 troops.
Portland: Trump announced deployment on Truth Social. The Pentagon learned from his tweet.
A federal judge ruled the L.A. deployment violated the Posse Comitatus Act.
Trump ignored it. Kept going.
Because they’ve figured it out: just do the authoritarian thing. If nobody physically stops you, you win.
Pritzker: “The president is not sending troops into Republican cities. He’s made a list of political opponents, calling us domestic enemies”.
This is the U.S. military as partisan weapon.
The twenty-one dead had names. Families. Maybe criminals, maybe innocent—we’ll never know because Trump and Hegseth decided evidence is for weaklings.
Trump declared that in armed conflict, you can kill enemy fighters even when they pose no threat. He unilaterally declared such conflict exists. Named enemies himself.
The president can now designate you an enemy and order you killed. No trial. Just dead.
Senator Jack Reed: “Every American should be alarmed Trump has decided he can wage secret wars against anyone he labels an enemy”.
But we’re not alarmed. We’re scrolling.
No emergency hearings. No resolutions. Republicans celebrating. Democrats tweeting. Nothing stopping.
Here’s what should chill your blood: a significant chunk of America thinks this sounds good.
Killing without trial? Sounds strong. Military in cities? Sounds tough. They’re not bothered by lack of evidence because evidence is for lawyers. Not worried about militarized cities because those are Democrat cities anyway.
Trump and Hegseth are performing for men marinated in toxic masculinity. Men who think violence equals strength. Rules equal weakness.
So they post bombing footage. Mock “fat generals.” Promise to “hit” protesters. Turn killing into content for an audience that confuses cruelty with strength.
And it’s working.
This is the most dangerous moment in American history since Fort Sumter and we’re treating it like a reality show.
Twenty-one corpses. Military occupation. Federal judges ignored. War declared without Congress. Constitutional order burning.
And we’re scrolling past it.
This isn’t politics. This is fascism. Actual, textbook fascism happening in real-time.
And nobody’s stopping it.
Congress paralyzed. Courts ignored. Military silent. Opposition tweeting. Media treating it like just another story.
They’re not hiding it. They’re announcing murders on social media. Publicly deploying troops against cities. Openly defying courts. Brazenly purging military.
Daring anyone to stop them.
Nobody is.
If we don’t recognize this as constitutional apocalypse—if we keep treating this like normal politics—we’ve already lost.
Actually, we already have.
We’re just too numb to admit it.
This is month nine.
Thirty-nine months left.
It feels like the end of the American experiment.
Exactly