Kudos to Virginia! Shows we can fight back and win.

So why is tr@mp threatening to (re)shut down the strait if hormuz? It is not open now, and don't we want it opened?

@thebhp.bsky.social
Love the podcast!
How can more folks find out about it?

I'm listening to 18th and 19th century European history podcasts. After listening to the French Revolution and the ruse and fall of Napoleon, it became obvious to me anyway, that MAGA are royalists, supporting this wanna be king/tyrant no matter the outrages committed

Yikes! Thanks T-Butt.

Fortune reports "The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it."
Steve H. Hanke, David M. Walker

Aren't MAGA the ones with TDS? It's deranged to support this idiot, isn't it?

Great news! Supreme Court struck down Tr@mp tarrifs!

Not Trump though. It's Chechnya dictator Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Putin. Dictators like the same things, right?

I read an article about a world leader who is a friend of Putin. It sounded very familiar. "This person, a flamboyant leader known for his love of MMA fighting and lavish parties as well as numerous human rights abuse allegations under his ... rule..."

Howard County MD for the win. According to the Baltimore Banner,
Howard County revokes permit for ICE detention facility in Elkridge.
ByLillian Reed
Published February 2, 2026 5:06 p.m. EST

Verizon is down, down, down. Since 1230 in Maryland.

From MeidasTouch
They will happily come to your state. To your street. Cause chaos. Murder you. And then call you a terrorist.

This is the Trump regime.

A murderous regime that hates the American people.

I have this ready to go when the happy day comes (natural cause, of course)

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Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds. ByJoe Walsh
If you squint, you can see it says Trump, Trump, and Trump. He loves miners you know.

He's been given MRIs. He has mystery bruises that he's covering with Maybelline. And we're supposed to accept this idea that he's some cross between Chris Hemsworth and Albert Einstein

Gotta love Jimmy Kimmel "Something is wrong here," he said. "The guy who is running our country is being given unscheduled dementia tests.

I like Senator Mark Kelly for President. Veteran, astronaut, and progressive enough but appeals to independents.

You fix the military by making sure the people giving orders understand the law — or are replaced if they don’t.

This isn’t treason.
This is civics.
And the people yelling the loudest are the ones most afraid you’ll learn it

If Department of Defense is leaning into a “shoot first” posture that doesn’t follow maritime law, then they’re the ones issuing potentially illegal orders, not the people warning troops to follow the law.
7. Final point

You don’t fix the military by telling troops to obey illegal orders.

• Congress controls war, not the president
• The U.S. military is loyal to the Constitution, not individuals

Ordering troops:
“Shoot that boat even though we’re not in a war, it’s not a threat, and the law doesn’t allow it”
—that’s the thing the UCMJ is designed to prevent.

It’s not complicated:
• Lawful orders must be obeyed
• Unlawful orders must be refused
• Political fantasies do not override law

6. Why the political outrage is backwards

Telling troops:

“You must refuse illegal orders”

is not treason.

And this is why the people screaming “treason!” at Mark Kelly don’t want to talk about details. Because once you understand what an illegal order actually is, you realize this isn’t abstract at all.

Some of these orders may already be crossing the line.

Which means:

If troops were ordered to destroy those boats without an imminent threat, that is a manifestly illegal order.

Exactly the kind of thing the UCMJ requires troops to refuse.

Even if they were, that doesn’t magically transform those boats into:
• Combatants
• Military targets
• Enemy vessels
• Armed threats

Drug smuggling is a CRIME.
It is not an act of war.

There is no legal theory under which drug suspicion authorizes sinking a vessel.

5. Now let’s talk about the Venezuelan boats.

The government is now publicly admitting that U.S. forces have shot Venezuelan vessels out of the water, with the justification that they were “drug boats.”

Blowing up civilian vessels in international waters
Acting like the high seas are a free-fire zone
Using military force without congressional authorization

None of that becomes legal just because the administration spins it after the fact.

What is NOT legal?

Here’s what is not allowed:

Shooting a boat because it “might” have drugs
Destroying a vessel because it fled
Using lethal force as a shortcut to interdiction
Treating smugglers as enemy combatants

• You must try to board
• You must escalate force only when absolutely necessary
• Lethal force is LAST resort and only if there is a threat to life

Drug smuggling suspicion does not make someone a combat target.
Ever.