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This Week and Next, October 4, 2025

This American Car Crash and Why We Can’t Look Away

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Joshua Powell
Oct 04, 2025
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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…

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