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[–] style99@kbin.social 56 points 2 years ago (17 children)

Before anyone calls this hyperbole:

Ron DeSantis recently suggested that he would be open to ordering drone strikes on Mexican drug cartels and migrants, whom he accused of carrying drugs over the border. “We’re authorizing deadly force. They try to break into our country? They will end up stone-cold dead,” he said, and he’s not alone. Trump, Reps. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Mike Walsh (R-FL), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Trump’s former deputy secretary of homeland security Ken Cuccinelli have all proposed various military actions in Mexico, up to and including sending in ground troops.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.one 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

He gets off on cruelty. I guess his time inflicting suffering at Guantanamo wasn't enough, though.

[–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why would anyone ever want the commanding officer of a torture prison to run their country?! What do they think he's going to do?? It drives me crazy that anyone would want this, let alone even be okay with it.

[–] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

One of the biggest states in the country has already elected him right up to his term limits too.. We're absolutely fucked as a country

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