Dirty Honey

Rock Steady

Trump Begins MASS DEPORTATION Of Somalis In Minnesota

10% dead in weeks.. Sudan is COLLAPSING

FUCK THE UK! A Man Brutalized a Woman and Put Her In the Hospital. In a Private Conversation, She Called Her Attacker a "Faggot," ... She Was Arrested

5-10 YEARS IN PRISON FOR SAYING THE “F-WORD”

Not just for saying it as a homophobic slur but also just for using it in private DMs or text messages.

You will be arrested for a hate crime and could face a lengthy prison sentence.

But Starmer says we have free speech. pic.twitter.com/TBjM7kRmFr

— Kiera Diss (@KieraDiss) December 2, 2025

The UK needs to go away.

In the UK, a woman who was hospitalized after being brutally assaulted by a man faced legal consequences when she vented to a friend, calling her attacker a "faggot."

Police were notified, she was investigated for a non-crime hate incident (later escalated), charged with malicious communications, and ultimately convicted of committing a homophobic hate crime.

The victim of physical violence ended up with a criminal record for using an offensive slur about her own assailant in a private conversation.

Britain has absolutely lost the plot.

Hey, UK government. Die alreqady, and leave the English people in peace.

Fuck you!

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

In the opposite world view this is totally fine. pic.twitter.com/v5CahE52GL

— Rich Stewart 🔰 (@richdstew) November 29, 2025

The UK government are fags for Islam.

Humpday Blues

Morgan Luna

Memphis Blues

Quanterry Alvin Whitley

Quanterry Alvin Whitley learned first-hand how the FAFO concept can go very badly when you try to steal someone else’s hard-earned possessions. In the Richmond Heights neighborhood of Miami last weekend, he and three of his thug friends fooled around, committing a home invasion.

A neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera recorded the sounds of Quanterry and his buddies reaping the whirlwind. Yes, it captured Whitley screaming like a little girl after getting shot and before he assumed ambient temperature.

As for the homeowner, he says that he was terrified during the ordeal. He also said it was the first time he ever shot his gun.

Congrats to him then. He did pretty well, all things considered. It probably wouldn’t have ended well for him if he’d froze… or not had a gun at all.

CBS News has the story:

The homeowner, who didn’t want to share his name or face, said he didn’t know any of the suspects and that he only pulled the trigger when one of them entered his house.

CBS News Miami obtained ring camera video that captured the moment shots were heard while the four suspects were trying to enter a home on Southwest 110th Avenue.

The homeowner said he told the men outside his property to leave, but they didn’t. And when one of the men entered his home, he fired, admitting it was the first time he had ever used his gun.

“Never, never. Never pulled it out, never used it. Ever like ever,” the homeowner said. “I’ve never been in trouble, like I don’t bother anybody. Nobody bothers me. This was just the worst day of my life, the worst night of my life.”

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue came to the scene and rushed the injured suspect, later identified as 26-year-old Quanterry Alvin Whitley, to the hospital, where he later died.

Meanwhile, Whitley’s mother is upset over the homeowner’s defensive actions. Local 10 caught her denying that it was her son who broke into the home.

If you want to know the upbringing (or lack thereof) that led Quanterry down the path of stealing other people’s stuff and ignoring lots of other long-held societal norms, her reaction to the incident is telling.

More from CBS:

CBS News Miami spoke with Lashundia Jackson, the mother of Whitley. She said the homeowner should never have fired his weapon.

“I would like to say he did not do a home invasion. That is inaccurate. That is not who he is. That is not who he was. He would not do that. He was not that type of person,” Jackson said of her son.

The evidence — including her son’s body inside the man’s home — suggests otherwise.

She said, “The way he (the homeowner) said his mother came out and said they better get off the porch or she is going to call police. Then why shouldn’t they call the police at that moment if that was what they needed to do to avoid shooting him and killing him? Why shouldn’t they call?”

Jackson continued, “I want to know why? Why? Why. What really happened and what is going on?”

Why? Because Whitley and his three pals decided they were going to commit a home invasion…and they suffered the sudden consequences of an error in victim selection. It’s not like the now-dead home invader had suddenly chosen to dabble in crime.

Police records show Whitley had been arrested before for burglary and aggravated assault. But his mother said, “He was a father. He was a son. He was a brother. He was a cousin. He was everything. Did he have run-ins with law enforcement? He did, but a home invasion was not one of them.”

He was a thug. He FA’d and then he FO’d. He learned the hard way that not everyone is meek and mild and will submit to being victimized. And in this case, Whitley’s intended target also likely saved the taxpayers of Florida hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The End Of The Gaia Worship Climate Religion

It has been a long, lucrative ride. Predicting the eco-apocalypse has always been a profitable business, spawning subsidies, salaries, consulting fees, air miles, best-sellers and research grants. Different themes took turns as the scare du jour: overpopulation, oil spills, pollution, desertification, mass extinction, acid rain, the ozone layer, nuclear winter, falling sperm counts. Each faded as the evidence became more equivocal, the public grew bored or, in some cases, the problem was resolved by a change in the law or practice.

But no scare grew as big or lasted as long as global warming. I first wrote a doom-laden article for the Economist about carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the air in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. I soon realized the effect was real but the alarm was overdone, that feedback effects were exaggerated in the models. The greenhouse effect was likely to be a moderate inconvenience rather than an existential threat. For this blasphemy I was abused, canceled, blacklisted, called a “denier” and generally deemed evil. In 2010, in the pages of the Wall Street Journal I debated Gates, who poured scorn on my argument that global warming was not likely to be a catastrophe – so it is welcome to see him come round to my view.

The activists who took over the climate debate, often with minimal understanding of climate science, competed for attention by painting ever more catastrophic pictures of future global warming. They changed the name to “climate change” so they could blame it for blizzards as well as heat waves. Then they inflated the language to “climate emergency” and “climate crisis,” even as projections of future warming came down.

“I’m talking about the slaughter, death and starvation of six billion people this century. That’s what the science predicts,” said Roger Hallam, founder of Extinction Rebellion in 2019, though the science says no such thing. “A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years,” tweeted Greta Thunberg in 2018. Five years later she deleted her tweet and shortly after that decided that Palestine was a more promising way of staying in the limelight.

Scientists knew that pronouncements like this were nonsense but they turned a blind eye because the alarm kept the grant money coming. Journalists always love exaggeration.

We may be reaching peak Blair’s Law here: “Coined by Australian journalist, Tim Blair as ‘the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force.’” QED:

FIGHT! FIGHIT! FIGHT!

We’re going to wipe out your institutions and if you think you’re going to somehow convince us that fighting back violates our principles, you’re going to have a very sad time of it. https://t.co/XZNmOkwudt

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) December 1, 2025

All these bitches be toxic

My biggest takeaway from visiting Del Rio, TX, where I’m sure neither of these white ladies who brunch have ever been, was not how many border agents are Hispanic, but how much the local Hispanic community supports them. They should really go there. https://t.co/x99JyCGyZk

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) December 2, 2025

JUST EXACTLY WHO IS HE THE MAYOR OF? Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Declares He Won’t Cooperate With ICE… and Suddenly Starts Speaking Somali to His Audience Mid-Speech

BEYOND PARODY: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey says he will refuse to cooperate with ICE and then begins speaking in Somali mid-speech pic.twitter.com/5r3pgWJztF

— TheBlaze (@theblaze) December 2, 2025

Minneapolis far-left Mayor Jacob Frey abruptly shifted a public address into Somali, all while promising that city police will refuse to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

At a press conference held on Tuesday, Frey stood alongside St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, Ward 6 Council Member Jamal Osman, Police Chief Brian O’Hara, and other city leaders, reacting to reports that the federal government is preparing a targeted immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.

The planned operation reportedly intends to deploy some 100 federal agents to focus on residents of Somali descent, including both ‘documented’ immigrants and those with final deportation orders.

“Minneapolis is proud to be home to the largest Somali community in the country,” said Mayor Jacob Frey.

“They are our neighbors, our friends, and our family – and they are welcome in our city. Nothing Donald Trump does will ever change that.”

Then, as if reading from a different script, Frey pivoted mid-speech and addressed part of his remarks directly in Somali: “We love you, we stand with you, we aren’t backing down.”

UNREAL: Mayor Jacob Frey Declares He Won’t Cooperate With ICE… and Suddenly Starts Speaking Somali to His Audience Mid-Speech

 AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

OUTRAGE: Minneapolis Police Chief Urges Somali Community to Dial 911 on Masked ICE Agents — Promises Cops Will “Intervene” Against Federal Arrests

AND THIS:

No room for Third Worlders. 

“America is full up. It is closing time for Chinese spies, Somalian fraudsters, Mexican welfare queens, Haitian cat eaters, Afghanistan assassins, Muslim terrorists, European anti-Semites, Venezuelan drug-runners, Nigerian princes, Palestinian protesters and filthy French fifth columnists. This is America’s last call for alcohol. Like the bartender always says, you don’t have to go home, but you just can’t stay here.”

MULTICULTURALISM HAS FAILED AND THE WORLD HAS BECOME UGLY

The Budos Band

Old Engine Oil

Only 1/3rd of French People Have a Private Sector Job

This is probably the scariest chart you'll see today. Let me translate it for you: only one-third of French people have a private-sector job.

How are they supposed to feed the remaining two-thirds with their taxes? It’s starting to feel like a failed state. pic.twitter.com/HLIHfG1PHo

— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) December 2, 2025

Harvard Hires Divinity School Graduate Who Assaulted Israeli Classmate

The Harvard University student who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an anti-Israel "die-in" protest, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, has a new job: He is a teaching fellow at… Harvard. 

Tettey-Tamaklo, who was removed from his position as a proctor overseeing freshmen in the wake of the incident, began work as a "Graduate Teaching Fellow" at Harvard in August, according to his LinkedIn profile. He says he works to "advise faculty on curriculum design."

England Arrests Man Over Shotgun Photo TAKEN DURING HIS VISIT TO AMERICA

And this is why we have the first and second amendments in America https://t.co/fKXW3zFzMx

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2025

HARVARD: "ABOLISH THE WHITE RACE"

It needs to stop https://t.co/WN2BZdKumH

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2025

DOGE IS STILL QUIETLY SAVING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS

🇺🇸 ELON: DOGE IS STILL QUIETLY SAVING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS

They're requiring 2 tiny fields on every federal payment:

1. A proper congressional authorization code
2. A comment field that actually says something

That's it.

And suddenly, hundreds of billions in pure fraud… pic.twitter.com/bKmiBza32r

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) December 1, 2025

Leon Russell

A Song For You

Edith Pageaud

Rachmaninoff: Prelude In C Sharp Minor

Paradise Abandoned: Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire -- Trailer

Paradise Abandoned: Inside the Pacific Palisades Fire -- Trailer

How did a single spark incinerate my hometown?

I watched outsiders squeeze our suffering into their simple little stories: climate change, an absent mayor, “diversity equity and inclusion," the raw laws of… pic.twitter.com/66kec8CxgM

— Rob Montz (@Robmontz) October 30, 2025

Tucker Carlson, AIPAC, and Qatar

Molly Tuttle

Flatland Girl

Trump Declares All Biden Autopen Documents Null and Void

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social platform, as he often does. The Friday afternoon post stated, "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, is hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect. The Autopen is not allowed to be used if approval is not specifically given by the President of the United States." It is unclear how significantly this could impact governmental programs and policies, but certainly it will shake up the federal government.

Next, Trump went so far as to say that Joe Biden was so totally incompetent mentally and physically that he had nothing whatsoever to do with the autopen scandal and would be lying if he said he did.

The president insisted, "The Radical Left Lunatics circling Biden around the beautiful Resolute Desk in the Oval Office took the Presidency away from him. I am hereby cancelling all Executive Orders, and anything else that was not directly signed by Crooked Joe Biden, because the people who operated the Autopen did so illegally. Joe Biden was not involved in the Autopen process and, if he says he was, he will be brought up on charges of perjury. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

Belgium: Faceless Nativity Scenes To Avoid Offending Muslims

Meanwhile in Belgium, Muslims were very offended by Nativity scenes because they consider images with faces haram, so public Christmas cribs must now be completely faceless.

This is what total surrender to foreign Islamists looks like. pic.twitter.com/YqmEBATgHU

— Dr. Maalouf ‏ (@realMaalouf) November 27, 2025

Trump Declares "Airspace Above and Around Venezuela To Be Closed In It's Entirety"

BREAKING: President Trump says the airspace “above and surrounding” Venezuela is now “closed in its entirety.”

It appears that something is about to happen in Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/X3qxzjez3Y

— The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) November 29, 2025

EXPOSED: US Labs Breeding Deadly Foreign Ticks in Bid for mRNA Vaccines

EXPOSED: US Labs Breeding Deadly Foreign Ticks in Bid for mRNA Vaccines

U.S. government-funded labs are actively breeding colonies of exotic Hyalomma ticks imported from Africa to study Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF), a brutal tick-borne virus with a 30% mortality rate that’s never been detected in America.

This high-stakes research, aimed at developing mRNA vaccines and analyzing transmission in livestock, is raising red flags among experts who warn of catastrophic lab leaks that could unleash the disease on U.S. soil, devastating agriculture and public health.

The program involves multiple facilities, including the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Manhattan, Kansas (tied to the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, formerly on Plum Island), UC Davis in California, and Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, according to research from the White Coat Waste project, first reported by The Highwire.

These sites are establishing tick colonies to experiment on CCHF transmission in cattle, sheep, and goats, assessing risks for the virus establishing itself here based on climate and ecology.

BLOOMBERG: Trump Was Right On Tariffs, All The Really Smart Economists Were Wrong

Bloomberg's analysis is still big on bullshit, but at least they are admitting Trump was right and they were wrong.

The Answer To Why Bill Gates Suddenly No Longer Believes in Climate Change ... Hint: IT'S ALL ABOUT AI

Farms FIGHT BACK Against Data Center Takeover, AI Dystopia Is Coming

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives

Graveyard

Are We Grooming Children for The Communist Party?

This is one of the most important messages ever released by President Trump.

Read every word. https://t.co/vdiKG4X9Q2

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 28, 2025

So, we import people and they go on welfare, and their children grow up knowing nothing else.

I have a friend who was an VP of Operations for a bus company, which, during COVID, lost all their tourist business. He thought his company was on the way to closing. 

But have no fear, there was a solution.

You see, the local school district gave him a call. They also had a problem, and they needed buses to solve the problem. 

What? What was their problem, you ask? Of course the students weren't going to school, so why would they needed buses?

It seems, the local school district had thousands of students to feed. And they needed buses to make it happen.

Now, this is NOT a COVID story. 

COVID merely unmasked the story. 

The school district was administrating a massive free food handout system for a huge number of students. 

And if the students weren't at school, they couldn't hand out the food. 

So they needed buses to pick up the kids, so they could hand out the food.

My friend added up the numbers, and realized that the preponderance of students in this particular school district were in free food handout system.

This is just one system among thousands across the country.

Here is the percentage of foreign born, homeless and foster youths in this school system:

And if you wonder to yourself, how many of those are "foster children", it's almost 0%. I would imagine homeless children also make up about 1-2% at the most.

So, what we had here was a school district where almost all the students were foreign born.

And being that we are talking about a school district in California, we can take a wild guess where these students were born. 

My question is this: If a huge swath of kids are being brought up in the welfare system, where the state supplies their basic needs, aren't we grooming them for Communism?

When I was a child, I was taught to be ashamed of taking handouts. 

Why are we grooming kids to expect handouts from the government?

ChatGPT Causing Psychosis, Shocking Allegations In New Lawsuit

Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson

Ryestraw

Humpday Blues

John Renbourn

Blues In A

Sedition Is Everywhere These Days

The radical partisanship of these teacher unions has been a major contributor to education decline in the US.

They see the K-12 school system as as a political means for adults to further their agenda. This is why the unions fought so hard to close schools during COVID; it was… https://t.co/vOOfjMKEXw

— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) November 25, 2025

Tennesse: Dem Candidate for US House of Representatives Appears to Have Been Trained By Antifa

🚨MORE INSANTIY🚨 Resurfaced video from 2019 shows Democrat Tennessee candidate Aftyn Behn SCREAMING and SOBBING as officers had to forcibly drag her out of Gov. Lee's office. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/rcUnwQeXlN

— Nicole Silverio (@NicoleMSilverio) November 24, 2025

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Excellent find. I think we are getting very, very warm as to whose NGO's idea it was to have the Senators produce a video about refusing illegal orders.

National Lawyers Guild issued a document about refusing illegal orders on 11 November. And now they have partnered with Win… https://t.co/yu66Amnzjd pic.twitter.com/Yvm3fpkoV7

— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) November 26, 2025

AND THIS:

So far this week the Left has pushed:

- A Seditious message to our military
- Fake story about the Chief of Staff getting fired
- Fake story about the Attorney General getting fired
- Fake story about the FBI Director getting fired.

The question is why, and why now?

— Shawn Farash (@Shawn_Farash) November 25, 2025

POSSIBLY, BECAUSE TRUMP IS RIGHT OVER THE TARGET? THE BROWN SHIRTS OF ANTIFA, AND THE NGO'S WHO FUND THEM?

Pro-Vax Canada Has a 2.5 Times As Many Measles Cases As The US Which Is Led By Anti-Vax Dictator RFK Jr.

When people tell you the measles outbreaks in the US are because of RFK Jr. and his "antivax" views, politely remind them that there have been 5,138 cases of measles in Canada this year and the cause is migration. pic.twitter.com/VrqCyYhNU8

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) November 25, 2025

One of the reasons that Canada more Measles is because RFK Jr. exports all his anti-vax cooties up North, so we American citizens aren't as negatively impacted.

British Government Wants to Eliminate Jury Trials

What is most frightening is that this effort to ban jury trial is aimed at the heart of the British middle class. It is set up precisely to impact the cases where one only faces months in jail. It will apply to “crimes” that are passed to control the population through…

— Don Kilmer (@donkilmer) November 25, 2025

Little Feat

Midnight Flight

‘Sedition’? Democrat bid to foment Trump resistance inside U.S. military draws blowback

🚨 JUST IN: Jesse Waters reveals two CIA agents confirmed that the seditious Democrats' calls for rebellion is part of a LARGER OPERATION to sow mass distrust in the military for a catastrophe under President Trump pic.twitter.com/DVmGjD3Ww0

"But they didn't come up with it…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 24, 2025

Democrats released a video last Tuesday purporting to support U.S. service members and intelligence officers who would defy illegal orders, but some of those Democrats have also made thinly-veiled threats that U.S. troops and spies will be in legal jeopardy if they don’t defy such alleged orders.

The half dozen Democrats from the House and Senate — five of them veterans of the U.S. military and one a former CIA analyst — released a video that argued that “you must refuse illegal orders” and professed to servicemembers that “we have your back.” 

But a number of the Democrats in the video have strongly implied that troops who don’t disobey orders that the Democrats believe to be illegal could face criminal prosecution, with the Democrats conjuring warnings tied to prior prosecutions of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, of U.S. Marines in the film A Few Good Men, of troops stationed at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and of soldiers involved in the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, implying current U.S. troops could face the same fate.

The congressional Democrats were also not on the same page about whether the U.S. military was currently engaging in illegal activities, with some Democrats admitting that they were not sure if any current U.S. military actions were illegal, while others have previously said or are currently saying that U.S. troop deployments to American cities and U.S. strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats are illegal.

Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Chris DeLuzio, D-Pa., Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H., and Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., put out their video last week titled “Don’t Give Up the Ship” as the members of Congress took turns directing a message directly to U.S. troops and members of U.S. spy agencies, calling on them to refuse purported illegal orders without specifying which orders, if any, they believed broke the law.

Pentagon says actions are legally well-founded

The Justice Department told the press this month that the U.S. strikes off the Venezuelan coast are in fact legal, and the Pentagon similarly defended the legality of the strikes.

President Donald Trump responded on Truth Social on Thursday by alleging that the video is “called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET.”

The Democrats released a joint statement on Thursday saying, “What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our service members should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders.”

Secretary of the Department of War Pete Hegseth said on X on Monday that five of the six Democrats in the video don't fall under the jurisdiction of the Department of War and the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) because “one is CIA and four are former military but not ‘retired’, so they are no longer subject to UCMJ” but that “Mark Kelly (retired Navy Commander) is still subject to UCMJ — and he knows that.”

The UCMJ is the regulatory code underlying the U.S. military’s criminal justice system. 

The War Department similarly tweeted Monday that it had “received serious allegations of misconduct” against Kelly and that “a thorough review of these allegations has been initiated to determine further actions, which may include recall to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.”

Kelly said in response that he would not be “silenced by bullies.”

Democrats ask military to join "resistance" to Trump

“We want to speak directly to members of the military and the intelligence community who take risks each day to keep Americans safe. We know you are under enormous stress and pressure right now. Americans trust their military, but that trust is at risk right now,” the Democrats said. “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens. Like us, you all swore an oath to protect and defend this Constitution. Right now, the threats to our Constitution aren’t just coming from abroad, but from right here at home.”

The video continued: “Our laws are clear: You can refuse illegal orders. You must refuse illegal orders. No one has to carry out orders that violate the law or our Constitution. We know this is hard and that it’s a difficult time to be a public servant. But whether you’re serving in the CIA, the Army, our Navy, the Air Force — your vigilance is critical, and know that we have your back. Because now, more than ever, the American people need you. We need you to stand up for our laws, our Constitution, and who we are as Americans. Don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t give up, don’t give up the ship!”

The six Democratic congressional offices did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent to them by Just the News.

Democrats suggest U.S. troops might find themselves in "legal jeopardy"

A number of the Democrats in the video have suggested that U.S. troops could be prosecuted for following purportedly illegal orders issued by President Trump or Secretary Hegseth. As of publication time, none of the orders issued by either Trump or Hegseth have been declared "illegal" by any court or authoritative body of law.

Houlahan told MSNBC on Saturday that the point of the video was to tell U.S. service members that “we’ve got your back.” But this message was seemingly diluted by other Democrats in the video hinting at potential prosecutions.

Slotkin appeared Sunday on ABC News' This Week talking about how U.S. service members can figure out whether an order is illegal, and the Democratic senator immediately brought up the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals and the movie A Few Good Men where Marines are prosecuted at Guantánamo Bay.

The appeal to pop culture instead of law

“I don't — I mean, going back to Nuremberg, right, that ‘well, they told me to do it, that's why I murdered people’ is not an excuse. If you look at popular culture, like, you watch, you know, A Few Good Men, like we have plenty of examples since World War II, in Vietnam, where people were told to follow illegal orders, and they did it, and they were prosecuted for it,” Slotkin said. “So, the best thing for people to do is go to their JAG [judge advocate general] officer, their local law enforcement, or a legal officer in their unit, and ask for some explanation, ask for help. And that's what we've been advising people to do.”

The U.S. National World War II Museum states that “over the course of thirteen total trials from 1945 to 1949, beginning with the International Military Tribunal in 1945, Nazi leaders stood trial for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit these crimes” and that “in all, 199 defendants were tried, 161 were convicted, and 37 were sentenced to death.”

The Rotten Tomatoes movie review website says of A Few Good Men that "Lt. Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a military lawyer defending two U.S. Marines charged with killing a fellow Marine at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Although Kaffee is known for seeking plea bargains, a fellow lawyer, Lt. Cdr. JoAnne Galloway (Demi Moore), convinces him that the accused marines were most likely carrying out an order from a commanding officer. Kaffee takes a risk by calling Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) to the stand in an effort to uncover the conspiracy."

Slotkin has also suggested that U.S. service members might find themselves in legal jeopardy for participating in U.S. strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats. “It’s crazy when young officers up and down the chain are seeking legal cover so they don’t get sued one day for what could be illegal strikes,” Slotkin tweeted last Wednesday as she shared a clip from a speech she gave at the Brookings Institute in early November. The Democratic senator had sent the exact same tweet earlier this month as well.

“People who are participating in these strikes are doing memos for the record and then taking them to their JAGs and being like, ‘Hey, I don’t ever want to be personally liable on these strikes. Can you kinda cover me legally?’ I mean, that is some crazy stuff when young officers up and down the chain are seeking legal cover so they don’t get sued one day for what could be illegal strikes,” Slotkin said in the video clip of her speech. Slotkin did not disclose any specific memos or requests for legal advice from soldiers allegedly concerned about legal liability and only referred to a purported conversation with an unnamed sailor.

Crow went on NewsNation last Wednesday and told U.S. troops that “you have to follow the law.” He said “let’s use some examples” and pointed to examples of U.S. troops who had been prosecuted for purportedly following illegal orders or taking illegal actions. The Democratic congressman specifically pointed to Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Army Detention Center for captured Iraqis from 2003 to 2006, and to the My Lai massacre, the killing of South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. forces in 1963.

Crow said that “we’re concerned about this because of the rhetoric of this president.”

The Democrat, a former U.S. Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient, also told Fox News last Thursday that “we're standing by our troops, our service members, who are often put in very difficult situations, and Donald Trump has put them in very difficult positions, and has alluded to putting them in even more difficult positions in the months and years ahead.” 

Crow then hinted that U.S. service members could be investigated under the UCMJ if they followed allegedly illegal orders, saying, “We are reminding folks about what the Uniform Code of Military Justice says, what the Constitution says, what the law of war says.” 

A local Colorado news outlet, The Denver Gazette, reported last week that Crow wouldn’t specify what “unlawful” or “unconstitutional” orders they were referring to. Crow’s office didn’t respond to key questions and said Crow wouldn’t be available for an interview. 

Kelly also said on This Week on ABC late last month that “it’s questionable” whether the U.S. strikes off the Venezuelan coast were legal, claiming that “the White House and the Department of Defense could not give us a logical explanation on how this is legal.” The Democratic senator then suggested that U.S. troops involved in the strikes might be opening themselves up to prosecution.

“They were tying themselves in knots trying to explain this. We had a lot of questions for them, both Democrats and Republicans. It was not a good meeting. It did not go well. They have a secret list of 20 something — 24 organizations that they have now authorized to use — use kinetic action against without the normal approach that we have for law enforcement,” Kelly said. “Hey, we don’t want drugs in this country, especially fentanyl. But all these drugs, we — we should be working really hard to interdict them and prosecute the individuals that are smuggling drugs, not putting young service members at great legal jeopardy.”

Democrats can’t agree on whether Pentagon is currently issuing illegal orders

The Democrats appearing in the video couldn’t agree on whether they were arguing that the U.S. military was currently receiving illegal orders. Crow has said that he believes the U.S. military is currently carrying out illegal strikes — and he directly connected this claim to the context of the video.

The Democratic congressman told Fox News on Thursday that “we’re not talking about Venezuela in this video — we never mentioned it once — but since you raised it, I actually am deeply concerned.” But just two days earlier, Crow had linked the video to the U.S. strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats.

Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller responded to the Democratic video last Tuesday by tweeting that “Democrat lawmakers are now openly calling for insurrection.”

“Oh no, we triggered Snowflake Stephen!” Crow tweeted in response. “The President is trampling on the Constitution. Stop politicizing our troops. Stop illegal military strikes. Stop pitting our servicemembers against the American people.”

No specific orders named, but "we started a conversation" says Crow

Crow later backed away from this explicit linkage in media interviews. When he appeared on NewsNation last Wednesday, the Democrat was asked if he was saying Trump had already given illegal orders.

“We’re not talking about specific orders,” Crow replied. “We’re talking about the general obligation of uniformed service personnel to follow the Constitution and follow the law.”

The Democrat was then directly asked whether he believed the strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats were illegal. “To be really clear, I’m not talking about any one instance,” Crow replied. “In that instance, I have deep concerns about this president’s use of force against a variety of actors in the Caribbean without congressional authority.”

Crow also appeared on CBS' Face the Nation on Sunday, where he argued that “we wanted to start a conversation, and we did, about the dangerous rhetoric this president is using and the threats that he's made to use our military in an unlawful way.” When asked to give an example of a current illegal order by Trump, Crow did not give one, saying, “He has a history of doing this, and if we wait until the moment that he gives a manifestly unlawful order to a young soldier, then we have failed them. We have to start that conversation now and get people thinking about the distinction, which is exactly what we did.”

Crow’s office had actually directly called the strikes against Venezuelan drug-running boats “illegal” back in September. His office said at the time that Crow “introduced a War Powers Act resolution to block future unauthorized military strikes following the illegal use of force in the Caribbean Sea.” The Democrat’s office added that “resolution comes in the wake of unauthorized military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea that were not authorized by Congress.”

Slotkin: "I am not aware of things that are illegal"

Last Tuesday — the same day as the release of the video — Crow’s office again called the Venezuelan strikes “illegal.” His office said that he had “introduced a War Powers Continuing Resolution to block the Trump Administration from conducting unauthorized & illegal military strikes.” The Democrat’s office said the resolution “comes in the wake of at least 21 unauthorized military strikes against boats in the Western Hemisphere that were not authorized by Congress.”

Slotkin said on Sunday on This Week on ABC “to my knowledge, I — I am not aware of things that are illegal” that had been ordered by Trump, “but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela.”

When pressed on what exactly she was suggesting was illegal, Slotkin replied, “So, for me, my primary concern is the use of U.S. military on American shores, in our city — in our cities and in our streets. We've seen now the courts overturn the deployment of U.S. military into our streets, including here in Washington, D.C. … So, it was basically a warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something particularly against American citizens, you have the ability to go to your JAG officer and push back.”

Kelly implied in late October that he might believe the U.S. strikes off the coast of Venezuela were illegal.

“Now the Trump administration is talking about ‘regime change’ in Venezuela. When has that ever worked for us — in Cuba, Afghanistan, or anywhere else? This isn’t making us safer. It's having the opposite effect,” Kelly said in a late October tweet.”

“This administration, and with Pete Hegseth as the Department of Defense, they’re doing things that are — forget about being outside the norms — they seem to be violating the law,” Kelly said. “And they have a president that just doesn’t seem to care and is conducting himself in a way that is putting servicemembers at greater risk. Now we’re flying B-52s along the coast of Venezuela talking about regime change.”

Houlahan went on CNN on Thursday and pointed generally to court cases the Trump administration had lost during his second term, but she didn't give a specific example of an unlawful order given to the military in Trump's second term.

“Since January 20, judges — some appointed by the President — have ruled nearly 200 of his orders illegal. Now we have active duty personnel seeking legal advice in the event they are given an unlawful order,” Houlahan tweeted on Friday. “The truth remains the same: they are required to follow lawful orders, and they are also required NOT to follow unlawful orders.”

Goodlander argued on Thursday on CNN that the deployment of American troops on American soil could constitute an illegal order. When asked directly for a specific example of an illegal order under the second Trump administration, however, she did not give one. 

"The Uniformed Code of Military Justice is crystal clear on this point, and it is our responsibility, as the ones who write the laws, to be clear about what they say,” she said. “The Uniform Code of Military Justice is crystal clear on this point: it is the obligation of every service member to obey lawful orders and lawful orders only, and that's our simple and clear message, and it's an important one because there are legitimate concerns that this president is gonna issue and has issued unlawful orders to American troops who are operating on American soil."

Goodlander also said on Friday on CNN that “the president has talked openly about deploying the U.S. military to American cities, and whenever we’re talking about a situation where we’ve got American troops on American soil taking action against American citizens, it should give everybody pause.”

When asked if she had heard from U.S. troops or members of the national security community who believe they had been given unlawful orders, she replied, “I have heard from service members … What we see is an uptick of concern from the men and women who are serving in uniform about the legality of orders that are being given, and they want clarity, and they want to know that the country has their back — and we absolutely do, because we live under the rule of law.”

Deluzio also said on CNN on Friday that "you've had judicial rulings as recently as today saying the president's deployment of troops in American cities is unlawful.”

Pentagon defends strikes on Venezuelan drug traffickers 

The Justice Department told the media earlier in November that the U.S. strikes against alleged Venezuelan drug trafficking boats are legal, and the Pentagon also defended the legality of the U.S. going after the alleged drug boats off the Venezuelan coast.

The Washington Post reported this month that “the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel stated in a classified opinion drawn up in the summer that personnel taking part in military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in Latin America would not be exposed to future prosecution.”

A DOJ spokesperson said in November that “the strikes were ordered consistent with the laws of armed conflict, and as such are lawful orders” and that “military personnel are legally obligated to follow lawful orders and, as such, are not subject to prosecution for following lawful orders.”

“The War Department categorically denies that any Pentagon lawyers, including SOUTHCOM lawyers, with knowledge of these operations have raised concerns to any attorneys in the chain of command regarding the legality of the strikes conducted thus far because they are aware we are on firm legal ground,” Pentagon chief spokesman Sean Parnell said earlier this month. “Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in complete compliance with the law of armed conflict.”

Department of War investigates Kelly

The War Department released a lengthy statement on Monday about Kelly in particular, saying that the “serious allegations of misconduct” against him would be “handled in compliance with military law, ensuring due process and impartiality. Further official comments will be limited, to preserve the integrity of the proceedings.”

“All service members are reminded that they have a legal obligation under the UCMJ to obey lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful,” the War Department said. “A service member’s personal philosophy does not justify or excuse the disobedience of an otherwise lawful order.”

Hegseth argued on X that “the video made by the ‘Seditious Six’ was despicable, reckless, and false.”

“Encouraging our warriors to ignore the orders of their commanders undermines every aspect of ‘good order and discipline’. Their foolish screed sows doubt and confusion — which only puts our warriors in danger,” Hegseth said, adding that “the Department is reviewing his statements and actions, which were addressed directly to all troops while explicitly using his rank and service affiliation—lending the appearance of authority to his words. Kelly’s conduct brings discredit upon the armed forces and will be addressed appropriately.”

Kelly responded on X, claiming that “if this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work” and arguing that “I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”

It remains to be seen how far the clash between the Democrats and Hegseth’s Pentagon will go.