DOD contractors “mistakenly” landed on a Mexican beach, declared it US property and planted “restricted area” DOD signs, triggering a tense confrontation with armed Mexican forces.
Mexico removed the signs, insisting the area is theirs.
Yet another example of total incompetence.
U.S. “contractors” planted signs declaring that a Mexican beach was U.S. territory.
Bugs Bunny looks for Pismo beach.
Thats a piss poor salute by the way, especially by a former military guy.
🤯
🤬
Trying to make all of the Mexicans go back to Mexico while simultaneously trying to make Mexico part of the US. Make it make sense.
This man is incompetence personified. Trump was born incompetent and has been his entire life. His administration is systemic incompetence.
MAGA Keystone Cops or what?
That is right up there with chasing a mexican submarine for hours then starting a religion.
IN ALL FAIRNESS, THEY THOUGHT IT WAS NORWAY.
Accidentally??!! Doubtful, but if so, wtf?!!
Dear #Mexico, You are most welcome to declare my parcel as #Mexico territory! Just tell me where to get the proper signage!
Not a mistake, a test.
Trump's Bay of Piggy moment
Is that a salute or a hangover headache?
Is anyone shocked? Hegseth’s DOD couldn’t find their a**hole with a mirror on a stick.
Incompetent or Russian style toe over the line trial balloons? They are telling us who they are, and if we keep on being quiet single issue voters, who we are. None of this is acceptable !
I've run out of synonyms for "idiots".
Lethal war fighters capture empty beach.
Nation of arrogant dumb ignorant idiots with the imbecile president
This should be more newsworthy but because the felon called for the execution of congress members and a female reporter a derogatory name, it is buried in the muck...
Our government is full of morons.
Someone drew a swastika in the sand and the DOD contractors thought it was a US Coast Guard base.
So no one from hegseth down the ranks can't read a map? Soldiers need more training it seems
Was it really an accident though... The Regimes track record says otherwise
And we are supposed to believe this at the same time, we are supposed to believe the validity of the drug boat murders with absolutely no proof. Mistaking a WHOLE beach!
Pete Hegseth – conquistadork
Is it? Feels more like weaponized incompetence?
If you think it was a ‘mistake’ I have a bridge I’d like to sell you.
Seriously UNQUALIFIED ON EVERY LEVEL
The US military have never been any good at navigating. They rely on British maritime charts. Back when GPS was a military tool the USA used to put in offsets and couldn’t understand how the UK could use GPS accuracy, the UK explained they know where things are and calculated the offset…
“Heavily armed Mexican Navy personnel came to investigate the scene and discovered that the men had landed in Mexico by mistake and intended to plant the signs in South Texas” - sigh
If you're caught off San Diego fishing in Mexican waters without a Mexican fishing license your boat will be seized right now... no ifs, ands, or buts.
Just think: they had that sign printed. Someone wrote up a purchase order, ordered the signed to be printed, paid for the sign, put it on a plane, with some troops, who flew to Mexico, landed, and put it in the sand.
This wasn’t some random “hey grab that sign over there and put it here.”thing.
it wasnt an accident
He doesn't even know how to perform a proper hand salute.
This wasn't an accident.
Its like your neighbor "accidentally" stealing a foot of your land when they build a fence.
How can you be absolutely sure it was a mistake and you're not missing the point?
🤦♂️
Where did they THINK they were?
Holy fuck, more of the usual top on down incompetence by the Nazi pedo party
"Contracrors" = mercenaries. "Mistake" = shot over the bow.
MAGA geography.
Couldn't he just go back to lie for a living in between hang overs.
Fuck off Murica. Sick of your shit.
This could have started WWIII
I thought he would have crashed and burned by now. Wait, I meant I hoped he would have crashed and burned by now.
Pete thought he could get free tequila.
Snack Team Three strikes out again
Guess someone will have to take the fall for another Hegseth F—-up…nothing but the best…🤷💩
That kind of incompetence could escalate into a full-blown war... if it was really just incompetence and not a deliberate act of provocation.
Just pathetic...
That should not be happening. What a mistake.
Hmmm, smells like Hogshit wants his very own Area 47!
“Only the best people” DJT
“Mistakenly”
Can you imagine if that had happened the other way? If Mexico had “accidentally” planted their flag on American soil? Ay yi yi.
When you hire the Keystone Cops and drunken FOX rejects expect more of this.
This was not an accident. Awfully convenient it happened right after the pig-in-chief said we would invade Mexico for cartels.
ARTICLE II SECTION 4
The ineptness is shocking!
Mistake? Or provocation?
Chinga tu MAGA!
Drunk of War on target!
Next time they will be accidentally shot. FDT
The American “Empire”…
So they don’t know where Mexico is? It’s like, right there.
Not an accident. They're testing the waters.
But also, this means the Department of Defense is annexing and restricting parts of US territory.
They didn't seek out the property owners, they just eminent-domained the land. I doubt Texan citizens would be happy to discover their beach is suddenly a DOD restricted area...
Lincoln’s spot resolution and speech condemns the pretexts for starting the war with Mexico. He requests proof from President Polk that American blood was shed on American soil and that the enemy provoked the Americans, and he asks if those Americans present were ordered there by the US Army.
VERY thoughtful of the absolutely competent and totally not woke Defense Dept to include a translation in Spanish.
(SMFH)
I would not treat this as accidental. We know they’re testing the waters with a bunch of fascistic things. Invading other countries to hide from internal issues is the fascist playbook.
That was no accident.
This is how the Mexican American War started. It wasn’t an accident then either.
🤦♀️
Yet another illegal military action. Invading a sovereign nation.
When you dedicate your time to become "lethargic barfighter" you also become "illiterate mapreader", it seems.
Who is “the commander” and I thought it was department of “war” now? What a clown show.
Are these contractors drinking buddies with Hegseth? How many beers deep were they when they forgot how to read a map?
Accidentally? I don't think so!
impeach the alcoholic white xtian nationalist loser
This whole thing is suspect! They landed on a beach thinking it was where? America? In which case that beach is private property. Or they damn well knew it was mexico, and it was a statement of some kind, but surely not the one intended, they were run off, tail tucked, by locals!
Classic provocation.
That area is a public beach in Texas and Mexico and not DOD property as claimed by the government.
I don’t think that was an accident.
You know Whiskeyleaks Pete will put on his future resume that he successfully invaded Mexico, with no casualties!
Alcoholic IMBECILE…unqualified to be a street sweeper on a cities payroll…WANNABE warrior who’s afraid of women, do he’ demoting them, or removing them and telling all of my sex to stay in the kitchen!!! FCK THAT NOISE BUSTER!
12 MILES south of the actual border. You'd think GPS on their cell phones would have clued them in that they were TWELVE FRICKING MILES from where they were supposed to be.
It's not an accident.
Bay of Piggies
Secretary of Whoops
Actually, that's sort of incompetence, gives me hope. Why? Because when the time comes, I'm going to be up against idiots.
Is that how he salutes???
Didn’t L Ton Hubbard do this and the military tossed him into a psych facility?
Mistakenly? Uuummmmm...
🤦🏼
The 2025 version of the Bay of Pigs disaster
Glad you out mistakenly in quotes 😂😂
It’s a typical move by this administration. Let’s do this to see if they will react. If they don’t do more
That’s what Trump said. We thought we would receive resistance with the military in our streets but no one fought back so we kept doing it
What an idiot. God help us!
Accident ????? Is the department of “war” this incompetent ? And he want them to invade another country when they can’t even figure out where theirs is on a map ya war dept alright … what a joke
... Standard American military practice. After WW2 they did that all over the world ...
MORON
The Mexican president is a Jewish woman. Two things a Nazi misogynist like Trump hates!
But I thought Trump said Mexico would pay for the wall… 🙄
So is Mexico detaining these illegal immigrants?
SOOOO! The DOD is using contractors to mark territory, who apparently can't even use a map, compass or GPS correctly. It must be because of all the skilled qualified people they laid-off and fired. Oh wait, Here comes Donald and his magical marker. 😒
If it wasn't a mistake, where the hell were they supposed to put it?
Jesus.
For a moment I thought I was reading The Onion.
The cosplay will have its day in court in the coming years.
They're nothing if not inept.
✌Accidentally✌
Next time, Mexico should take them back to camp and trade them for something more useful... or just lock them up
Accidentally? Yeah, sure 🙄
Sign says Department of Defense but they renamed it Dept of War
Can't even get that bit right
Did debris from the big show marine landing explosions that blocked I-5 happen to knock down the border signage and thereby confuse the US military?
Admit it: You hate America and want Communism.
Leave.
Incompetence or the beginnings of an act of war? I think the latter
minus 4 points from thedailybeast for including the word "accedentally" in their headline. they are accepting for a fact that it was not done intentionally or knowingly
UN FF BELIEVABLE
What a couple of dumb shits.
This would be funny except it isn’t
I’m sure glad progressives NEVER make mistakes! Except in matters of math, that is…..their logic just doesn’t add up.
Is that a weird salute or is he just directing traffic?
They must be confused. Hegseth says it's the Department of War. Couldn't even get that right.
There are really only two options: A. The American army has no competent navigation and the troops have no sense of direction. B. They know exactly what they are doing.
if it was "accidental", the sign wouldn't also be in Spanish....
Idiots of tRumps
THIS IS THE MOST INCOMPETENT EXCUSE for an Administration
THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!
Honestly, it would have been fitting if Mexico had blown up their boats.
Broadcasting the explosions and adding a self-congratulatory justification being optional, of course.
Kegsbreath is gonna stupid us into an illegal war!
They want to take over South America and Mexico. It’s obvious. Trump wants this side of the world. And Putin can half the other side.
That’s the plan.
Trial balloon
The cognitive dissonance of these idiots is remarkable and frightening. Hegseth sees himself as a brave strong warrior. He thinks history will admire him. He must surround himself with spineless sycophants.
I'd call them all clowns, except that actual clowns can coordinate better than these fools.
You think the Daily Beast is creditable?
Better check Google maps again
So how drunk was Hegseth when he ordered this? Drunk and incompetent...and he is in charge of our military.
Was not there an episode of Arrested Development in which the Bluthe family does this? Life imitates art...
That's more mal7ce than incompetence.
Cretin
I’m not going crazy…that salute looks a bit off…
Department of War? Don’t make laugh. You have to be able to read a map. Is this what it looks like when you EARN your position.
Stupid people
Mexico should demand that these contractors be extradited for immigration violations.
The regime is always testing to see what they can get away with. Pushing back constantly is exhausting
It’s a power move. The Trump administration does not respect Latin American sovereignty
Stupid is as stupid does.
O MG
What an embarassment.
Hegseth is a fuckin idiot
Incompetence. Totally incompetent.
As my daddy would say. "Boy you sharp as a rubber ball."
Mars can wait then ( with these Dodgy sat navs )
Idiocracy
Vodka Pete caught on camera leaving Mexico Beach!!!! This should explain a lot!!!
Was it an "accident "??
Yeah, you can't just get away anymore with reading alound in Spanish the Pope's Doctrine of DIscovery.
Perhaps following orders from a drunk is not the best way forward. /s
DoD contractors? Perhaps DoD mercenaries?
Almost funny, except that not much is funny anymore.
Your "contractors" illegally crossed an international border.
Every possible explanation means that you automatically must be at least one of the following:
Negligent Incompetent Malicious.
That wasn't an accident. It was a probe to see what the response looks like.
Project 2025 hired Hesgeth They hired Bondi and Leavitt and ....
maybe Pete wanted to do some shots of tequila
ProTip: don’t assume incompetence when malfeasance is the more likely explanation
The US Clown Show with Pete Kegseth....
W E I
DOD? Not DOW?
Mexico, Venezuela - what’s the difference? They both speak Spanish.
Fucking morons
Sounds like something I may have done if I was really drunk.
The Secretary of DUI is running a tight ship.
Their sloppiness is going to do them in.
See that suit Hegseth's wearing? Saw one just like it at the church thrift shop, been there for months no no one wants it.
what An incompetent DEI hire.
Were they going to build a Casino or something?
sickening what is happening to our country!
The Netanyahu school of map reading
Accidentally????
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t an accident.
Something like a global positioning system is definitely needed don't you think? Along with elementary map reading skills.
Not if you’re the DOW now. Shades of James K Polk. Hegseth’s close aides Basil Hayden and Elijah Craig must be busy.
To be referred to in history books as The Bay Of Quiet Piggies.
"Accidentally." Sure. Anyone who believes that is an idiot.
How arrogant, Hegseth is a cancer on the world
Afraid of losing his job to Sean Duffy.
And his lighted makeup table
None of this is gay at all
He is a total embarrassment. What a waste of flesh. Stupid piggy.
Whiskey Pete strikes again
We can not be this stupid,somebody will get hurt
