sorry to drop 2,100 words on you on a Sunday morning. what a fucking day yesterday was — and I didn't even get to writing about half the shit I could have.
The irony of Trump planning on running Venezuela when the US is facing a shut down at the end of the month is clearly escaping those working for Trump.
I am sick of corporate welfare being given to the greediest corporations around: American oil and gas. We are now the armed muscle of corporations, folks, who want to plunder the world's resources for obscene profits AT OUR EXPENSE. We, the American taxpayers and citizens, will be paying them in the trillions for this EVIL.
NO BLOOD FOR OIL still applies in a moral world, a world that is slipping away moment to moment because we all feel like we can do nothing about it. That's what these evil rich fuckwads want you and me to believe, anyway. Get your voting registrations done or checked NOW. And keep checking in on them so you're not robbed of your voice. We didn't stop elections during WW II or after 9/11, so assume that you'll have a sacred responsibility to uphold later this year or until proven otherwise. LFG!!!
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I SO HOPE that includes ALL of our Military members stationed Overseas, Linda. Oh, I'm quite sure petey, smackmyselfinthenuts kegstand would prefer they NOT know they get to vote but they do. I send small amounts when I can to VoteVets which is decidedly Democratic - am going to b sure to bring this up. Anyone who has a family member or friend IN the military even stationed Stateside should be sure to inform that person that they too have an obligation to vote (unless they're a magat of course).
Good luck getting your ballots to the election board in time since they are trying to refuse to count ballots that don’t arrive by election day even if they are postmarked well ahead of time.
Elizabeth it would be great if you would bring it up. Several of the members of Democrats Abroad are working for the US military and one of the women in my Political book club is married to a member of the US military. She will be getting the word out too. Please share this message on your social media and with your circle of friends to pass on.
This isn't just about oil. Look up China and Russian interests in Venezuela. Just like China is placing roots in Africa. Notice which country the VP ran away to - Russia.
There is the theory that in 2020 Putin, Xi, and Trump talked about dividing up the world into three overseen regions: Putin gets Europe, Xi gets Africa, and Yamtits gets South America...
Great, the pevious moron in chief, as Jeff pointed out, cost us 3 TRILLION dollars for a failed war of colonialism, and got his name high on the ICC's prosecution list for the 1 MILLION missing Iraqi civilians.
So great, we have Dumbshit copying a previous Dumbshit. Guess Dwumpy just couldn't stand that his administration has only killed a couple hundred thousand foreigners thanks to USAID being disbanded, and is going for the gold. All 28 million Venezuelans.
At least Dems have another cudgel to smack Repubs about the head and shoulders. You're Killing Millions of People you fucking morons. And Dems can say the analogy out loud. If R's don't like foreigners, what's to keep them from doing the same to registered Dems. We need to start removing Rs from office with prejudice, before they start removing registered Dems from the living. They've said as such, Venezuela will start giving them, *ideas.*
Ruth Ben-Ghiat has been saying it, and this is an agreement for the past year. Jacob Kaarsbo, former Danish Intelligence Analyst who was stationed in the US also says this. He has made a map and divided it up, although I don't know why Spain, France and England are in the Trump sphere. Half of Germany too. Putin gets the former east Germany and the Baltics, Scandi, and an expanded version of the former Soviet Union.
And, there are those who are saying people on the inside cooperated with Putin to help get Trump the Intel needed to effectively abduct Maduro and his wife, so what we see on the outside is not necessarily what is going on behind the scenes. We shall have to wait and see. Will there be any leakers? So far, lots of potential leakers have been gotten rid of.
We all saw it coming and the others are coming too. However, getting countries and keeping them are two different things. Look at Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc...
It will behoove countries that are being targeted to make it difficult to get and difficult to keep them. Trump just thinks he can use the mighty US military to take any country they want. However, US military better get used to being hated around the world if they follow through on military operations that are not approved by congress and used against our allies.
South Florida must be like a disturbed anthill this morning. It's not just millions of Cuban immigrants/Cuban Americans, but a huge number of Venezuelans - who were noted as first cheering the news, then, being Trumpy Repubs that turned Florida from D to R years ago, insisting trump had been misquoted when he stated "we" were now going to run Venezuela from here on out.
Jordan Klepper needs to get his microphone-wielding ass down to Miami right the hell now. There are Trumpy Latinos to humiliate. I want clips of those jokesters staring blankly into the camera with "Wait... what?!?! You mean like Iraq?!?!"
Trump's tiny casino-ruining mind can only comprehend a simple equation of "go get stuff". Per the above, he could never calculate cost. That oil will be the most expensive in the world, and, it turns out, is the lowest grade (heavy sour). It will require military-grade security at every step of the way. American 'Green Zone' compounds will have to be built and maintained.
It will be the simplest thing in the world for an enterprising politician-rebel to stir the ghost of Simón Bolívar back to life. Time to invest in body bag futures.
As an insomniac, I heard the Venezuela attack in real time and did not awaken my husband. He was jubilant to win a 2026 bet with his lifelong best friend that Trump would attack the country for its oil by February 15.
I knew it too - but hadn't made a bet with anyone. Rats! Then again, the only one who'd have been dumb enough (or infuriated enough) to take that bet would have been my still all-in magat neighbour and SHE doesn't have a pot to piss in. WE still, in fact, give her our bottles to return so she can have 'some' money and lately I give her our leftover Chinese food (hubby's not up to being creative and I was just too sick, living on the soup which already had too much rice), so she got a ton of the rice plus whatever else he bought too much of - kept telling me I was 'keeping her alive'. One WOULD imagine then that she just might pay attention to what I had to say about her orange hero, no? Nope! She RANTS incessantly about how broke she is (always because of someone else) then if one even hints at a possible reason, she screams: 'I'm not talking politics' and that's the end of THAT. Geesh. I suspect that when it all comes crashing down, this is how magats will react (all of a piece). 'Talk to the hand'. 'It's Democrats fault', blah, blabbity blah. YOU made us elect him.
All that other shit is just a diversion from what we should be harping on incessantly (Epstein Files) until everyone else worried about breaking the Law to get DJ out of office will say, WTF and Just Do It. That is what has to happen first. And Fast. And we have to talk about that until we are literally Blue In The Face.
I read a few days ago that someone asked Prez. Dumbfuck if he would invite the survivors/victims to the White House Gilded Orifice and he said no. They don't deserve to come to the White House. Nice. What a guy.
OMG, I hate that bastard with every fiber of my soul. I pray that he gets his KARMA soon!! Maybe good individuals will come and snatch him and Melanoma from Marlagoshitshit and take them to a swamp camp in Venezuela.
They could point fingers at him and say to his face.."remember what you did to me when I was a child???". Better than a line up.I would pay to see them say it to his face how he abused them sexually and physically.
I still believe deeply that even younger children AND little boys were the victims AND their names were all kept on a list OR on film. I'd bet on it, but with this new fbi's Patel 'in charge' WE will never see it. Fwiw - and for MY money, I've long-since believed that donny-boy prefers males as partners. So sue me. THINK long and hard about his history, and his 'pals', then just how much he HATES women and you might get to where 'I' got to a long time ago. I've always thought he was a sick puppy and believe Epstein AND Putin 'helped their pal out'. By pretending to wanna-be the new Hugh Hefner he'd imagine he'd be 'safe', right?
The Epstein Files are old news. The US has moved on. They already know Trump is a pedo and guess what, the Republicans don't care. He could move ten 14 yr old girls into the White House and 60 Minutes would refuse to write about it. He isn't even bothering to cover it up.
No, I think its about assuming something so bad that the 4 out of 10 die hard supporters will rise up and say "enough all ready." It won't happen. This is not England where the King's brother gets kicked out of the family because he's a pervert. Trump actually said on record that he wished he could have sex with his daughter BEFORE he was elected. So what could they find that would turn them against him?
Who cares if his voters don’t care? You think that should determine whether an international pedophile ring is something that merits a thorough investigation?
Oh I believe the pedo ring should be investigated. I'm just saying no matter what comes out about Trump, I very much doubt it will matter to his voters or the Republican machine. So don't get your hopes up.
WE know, but the magats in the cult do not believe he has ever done anything wrong! I'm not sure even photos of him "doing" little girls would wake them up, but the orange genius does not want to take the chance. Hence war.
the deadline to release the files has long passed, it is obvious we, the people, will never ever get to see the files even though we all know who is in it...They have been so pilfered and redacted the files are nearly all but destroyed. How they got away without releasing the EFs is beyond me. To think that they are still planning to do it at a later time is delusional...these Republicans are so damned crooked and the most horrible people on the planet (90% of them)
How did tRump get away with inciting a coup to overturn an election? How did he get away with possessing classified documents? There have been NO CONSEQUENCES for all of Donny’s many crimes. Instead, he’s reelected!
It's my understanding that France has a full set of unredacted epstein files. I don't know how or why, but that's what I understand.
Let's see of the Orange Canklesaurus tries to snatch Greenland and angers Denmark and the rest of NATO. France may threaten to dump their copies of the Epstein files in retaliation.
I woke up from a dozing-dream the other day and we were all 'blue man group' with literal blue painted faces. It was the ONLY way we could get the attention of those who needed to hear the truth - and in the dream I felt oddly comfortable 'being so blue'.
This morning I heard a sermon (Catholic Mass, the alleged faith of JD Vance and Marco Rubio) based on GK Chesterton’s tale of the modern wise men presenting gifts to St. Joseph at the stable in Bethlehem.
I asked the homilist: “What would St. Joseph say to the three Republican “Christian” presidents who started wars over oil?”
Homilist’s answer: no answer. He turned & walked away.
“All of that fucking slurring,” plus drooling, 🤤, is due to to fact that decaying donny’s “swallowing function is slowing down,” says @epistemiccrisis. This PhD physical therapist, who posts daily assessments on Instagram, currently gives him “two to four months in the land of the living.”
One hopes. I'm afraid, however, that all the ambitious sycophants and greedy billionaires will swallow their dislike and hail the new fathead. Think of Cruz and Rubio's turnarounds on the Pumpkinhead for example.
MAGA's implosion won't matter, though. J Divan is bankrolled and controlled by the techbro oligarchs, who are way more powerful---and ruthless---than MAGA.
I hope you're right. At any rate, it's clear that the Hairy Parent and Reichsfuhrer Miller don't get along. It might be fun watching them compete for the title of Most Malignant once donny's doing his rotting underground. On another note, does anyone know why the HP wasn't on camera with the other backup singers when our nation's glorious victory over Maduro was announced? It's not like him to miss an opportunity to appear at least peripherally relevant.
I had just about completed a treatise on how HEI fully believe the orange slug was asleep when they woke him up to tell him THEY had attacked Venezuela and captured Maduro and his wife (probably because they had NO idea what to do WITH his First Lady!) because I heard a recording - can't remember from whom, with him slurring away sounding barely awake OR drugged, having no idea what they were talking about. I'd BET he knows NOTHING about Venezuela OR Maduro - and all they keep feeding him is: 'they gave HER the Nobel Prize that was YOURS'! At that 'Press Conference' he was so clearly TRYING to read what was in front of him - yet had ZERO idea what was on it - no idea at all...learning about it for the first time. One might have thought someone would have whispered the FACTS into his torn apart ear before he began blathering? Jeff, You hit so many truths in this - the black curtains/tablecloths at Motel-a-Lardo NOW make a helluva lot of sense since I knew he wuz in bed! SOMEBODY had to clean him up and dress him, apply the spackle and spray, y'know. I'd told hubby a few days ago that they'll NEED a new BIG distraction from Epstein/the ACA, so here 'tis. Who the fuck knew it'd be Venezuelan oil. All that 'sweet crude' (which still has to be dug out of the ground - but let's not bother the fuckwit preznit with these minor details. He Knows NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING except: gimme, gimme, gimme and MINE, MINE, MINE or Me, Me, Me! Otherwise, they can all do whatever the fuck they want to do, especially miller and his horrid schemes. His wife (my skin still crawls when I imagine that a female woman MARRIED that slime) - but then there ARE female slimes, right? SHE posted a photo of Greenland, with a sign superimposed on it of a USA Flag and 'SOON'. The woman who put it on substack (AnnTelnaes) decided to add her own version: a photo of the Nuremberg Trials with the same cartoonish 'Soon' superimposed. The only thing missing was superimposing faces of goebbels/miller and all the rest onto the origina gestapo thugs. AS Venezuela descends into chaos, donny fuckwit will claim it has nothing to do with HIM, but only their former dictator. Of course the FACT that having a dictator run one's country is never a good idea would never even wisp across donny's stupid what passes for a brain, would it? NOR would it make him imagine that this could be his soon-to-be-future?
Day Two of me willfully not commenting on this insanity, except to say, has anyone here ever said one of Jeff's hilarious nicknames out loud? I said, Sundowning Grandpa Befuddlepants aloud and O the chuckles I had.
Jeff, it's gotten to the point where I upvote you *before* I even read a Jeff Tiedrich post. We're not only on the same page, it's as if you're reading my mind. You're a goddamned hero in my book. I hate everything right now. And I will continue to subscribe to anyone like you who can tell it like it is. Excuse me, I have to write to my Congress Critters in righteous anger about (waves hands about) all of THIS.
A bit of guidance to the Democratic Members of Congress who have issued strong statements against the illegal attack on Venezuela and State Sponsored kidnapping, you know what would represent a really meaningful strong statement?
Along with the Dems in the Senate taking Schumer out of his "leadership" position and replacing him with someone with strength and reserve and a desire to improve the country, not write 'strongly worded letters'. And I don't want to hear about 'rules or precedents' or anything. These times call for action. And we need it now more than ever.
Maybe? We need Democrats who stand up for Democracy. There are leaders in the House who can do the job and there are leaders in the Senate who can do the job the current leaders do not want to do. First and foremost we need leaders who have not graduated from Harvard or Yale. They seem to have failed Ethics and History classes. All have ACED the Obsequious and Sycophant classes.
RBG should have retired during Obama's presidency. She didn't. Obama should have pressured her. He didn't. Now we have 5 SCOTUS delinquents on the court.
I agree that elderly politicians and judges/jurists should retire sooner rather than later. Having said that, President Obama unfortunately didn’t have a crystal ball to foresee a future Trump presidency. Ginsburg wasn’t going to leave the Court with that going on. And she was determined to serve as long as she was able. She died a few weeks before the 2020 election. The appointments of rightwing jurists, and the subsequent further corruption of SCOTUS, lies solely with Trump — not Obama, and not RBG.
Both Obama and Biden blew it their first two years of total majority power when they could have dealt with this crooked SCOTUS but trusted McConnell would not be a total shit by refusing to confirm a Democratic appointed justice. The next Democratic president needs to deal with these SCOTUS crooks Day 1.
OMG! Donald Trump has crossed every red line. If it isn’t obvious enough, along with Epstein, he’s guilty of raping children. And lying about it. He’s a criminal. He’s a felon. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. And he is putting the whole world in danger now. If that is not enough to impeach him, I have no idea what is. Schumer is a piece of lint. He. He is fluff. He is useless. We need a leader in the Senate and we need Jefferies in the House to stand up and get on with governing according to the constitution. Start kicking ass and taking names. Find the power. Find the governors. Find the Attorneys General. Find the strength. We the people outnumber MAGA! Don’t forget this is minority rule.
I can’t help but suspect that not only was trump guilty of raping children, but that he made money on the trafficking of those children. There was (and is) much money in this ‘business’; I can’t believe trump wouldn’t find a way to dip his filthy orange beak.
think about all the illegal shit that orange bozo has gotten away with since 2016 and held grossly unaccountable.
Our worthless Supreme Court Corrupt 6 have a lot to do with that and our useless former AG Merrick Garland takes responsibility as well. I mean all the corruption this dictator has done and gotten away with, there is literally nothing he can do that will cause anyone in Washington take any meaningful disciplinary action towards President Fuckwitz
Wall Street has rushed in overnight to activate "shock and awe" economics in Venezuela, as they did in Iraq. Financial pundits cheering on predatory capitalism will promise a full tank of gas for everyone! And we'll get our ass handed to us with eons of national debt to cope with.
Yeah, and maybe several dozen monkeys will spring-forth merrily from my ass. Those Republican clowns in the House and Senate wouldn't impeach the guy if they found photos of him with a ten year-old girl and random barnyard animal.
Focus on the midterms (if there are midterms) is important. However, I do not accept acquiescence between now and then.
He has attacked Venezuela. (We would have impeached him but didn't have the votes).
Without consequences for Venezuela, when he takes Greenland -well, we would have stopped him but didn't have the votes.
Sorry Canada ... we didn't have the votes.
Iran ... didn't have the votes.
Plus! We were focused on the midterms. We would have impeached him for cancelling the midterms ... but, we didn't have the votes then either.
You understand how that reads from a historical perspective, right?
It has nothing to do with making me feel better. It has to do with pressing on every legal avenue for his removal before his lunacy leads to an unrecoverable global catastrophe.
No, it's opposing him every step of the way and not wasting time with futile efforts that will accomplish nothing.
You do understand that this Senate will NEVER have enough votes to convict as currently constituted, right? So what does starting an impeachment process in the current House -- also unlikely to succeed -- accomplish?
We'd be much better off blocking everything we can until enough Republicans bend, as with the Trump-Epstein files.
We don't have to wait until November. There are other things to be done in the meantime. Government's facing another shutdown the end of the month. Sure would be a shame if Johnson and Thune refused to have a vote limiting Trump's war powers, wouldn't it?
North Carolina has a majority of Republican registered voters for the first time since … I don’t even know. My state is gerrymandered, polls are hard to reach and understaffed in Democratic areas and it’s all done out in the open. With all of that, I’ve yet to encounter a Trump supporter. Fishy much?
I don't think it's an either/or. And whether the articles fail or not -it is an important Constitutional act to hold him accountable. Building the movement and momentum toward midterms (if there are midterms) is vital. Yet -every legal path to removal is important.
Seriously. Mush-mouthed Schumer sees the new budget discussions looming and another opportunity for the Democrats to valiantly cave. Meanwhile, 11 months until the midterms, IF they happen. Plenty of time to invade Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, and Canada.
Yes, the minority party can initiate impeachment efforts, but the majority party controls the process in the House, making it difficult to succeed without some bipartisan support, as a majority vote is needed to pass articles, and removal in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote. While minority members can participate in investigations, the majority sets the agenda, so impeachment typically needs broader consensus or strong public opinion to overcome party lines and actually lead to a Senate trial.
I think there is five star Michelin rated menu to choose from; 14th Amendment, Article 2 - Section 4, the 25th Amendment, State Police arresting him for crimes. Unfortunately he has his toadies in place making his removal that much more difficult.
Dunno. If the backlash to Venezuela becomes strong enough (I know that right at this moment, it isn't), there could be another discharge petition. There have been more recently than just Epstein.
But I was mainly just answering your statement about a minority party and drafting articles.
There's always the Discharge Petition to get it to the floor, which forces the on the record vote, so the world knows who in the US Congress is supporting the felon's actions, and who isn't.
Yes, but only enough of them to get to the 218 signatures necessary to take the bill to the floor and push the speaker's approval out of the way.
It's been used several times with success in the last few years, and if used in this situation to force a vote on the floor to impeach, at least we and the world would know which of our Congressional Reps are still choosing to protect and ignore the unlawful acts being committed.
This process was used for the Epstein Files and I'm hoping it can be used again for the recent Venezuela abuse.
Did anyone ask that fucktard Cotton since when does law enforcement and an arrest require fucking aircraft carriers and the fucking military! He is among the top of the list of the most disingenuous, hypocritical, bastards who sold their souls for a seat at the table. If I could spit in his face when he says this shit i would.
That's the line that needs to be clarified, these fuckers profiting off war always say it's peace keeping or some shit. It has to be clarified that our military is still the department of DEFENSE, not war, not law enforcement.
So the regime is "saying". People in positions of power & influence saying shit doesn't automatically make it true. Never entirely was, sure AF is not now that Felon47 somehow turned the whole "lying is wrong" thing around. We still have ways of establishing truth. We just have to have a greater will to do so than those pushing lies.
‘Greater will’ - not seeing signs of it. Donnie is walking all over everyone including judges who keep telling him he can’t do that. Who’s gonna bell the cat? Routes for voters are being blocked as fast as propaganda is stuffing their critical thinking skills into the shredder.
There's so much about this to be incensed about. They take out at least 5 military bases, nowhere near Maduro, and still insist it was a law enforcement mission not something that would come under military laws. FFS. This heightened blending and combining of DOJ and DOD is terrifying. And I felt like it was a relatively minor complaint that this was not coming from the situation room, but seeing those pics from MAL were crazy!
But my first and biggest question is how long until Venezuela becomes another Haiti?
I don’t get how someone outside the United States can be indicted for doing things in their own country. Was he running drugs in the United States? Shouldn’t his supposed crimes be handled in international courts?
Seems so odd to have a questionably elected indicted president arrest an unelected indicted president and the repubs are ok with that? Please have it make sense.
New buzz words: the president is a man of action! No hearings, meetings, approvals - just take action. Listen for it on state tv and all the talking heads.
Exactly! They've spent the whole last year trying to redefine who is actually "law enforcement" in this country so I can't say I'm surprised to see Cotton try that line because he is despicable.
Hint: it isn't the National Guard or the fucking military, assholes!
Try READING the 25th amendment. It would require action by Vance AND a majority of the bootlickers in the Cabinet. Should THAT miracle take place and Trump challenged it, it would need to be sustained by two-thirds of the House AND the Senate.
In what alternate universe do you imagine any of that occurring?
So discussion of the 25th amendment should be off the table since it's a long shot? His body and mind are decomposing fast. Each day it becomes less improbable.
It's the equivalent of demanding his resignation. Yeah, right, you think he has that kind of self-awareness or shame? Neither do any of his sycophants.
The Grim Reaper has bigger balls and can move more decisively against Trump than Congress, at this point. I was heartened by the speed at which protesters took to the streets in NYC and even Dallas to denounce this invasion. The world is not ready to embrace the "Donroe Doctrine" and it is watching with horror and rage.
MAGA is only a minority cult. Less than 30% of registered voters are MAGA. By contrast, J Divan is backed by techbro oligarchs, including some of the richest people on the planet. They control much more wealth and power than all the MAGAs put together. They're not part of the cult, though; rather, they're nihilists and would-be emperors, ruling over serfs. In their calculations, MAGA is irrelevant. It was a means to an end, and is losing its usefulness.
Vance has more sway than most people think. He doesn't need to concern himself with being liked, when he's in the pocket of all the Project 2025 authors and supporters.
Valid point, yet very concerned about vance's sharper mental state and his subservience to his puppet masters. Not a good choice. His ascension may more easily allow his election in '28.
Too many executions of the 25th would be required to dig out of this hole.
Back in the '70s, when I was working in radio news, people like BOWMAN (that's his name, that's what I call him) were called A MUTT IN AN AIREDALE SUIT.
As long as the mutt has SOMEONE ELSE TO HIDE BEHIND so he could bark his fucking mouth off, he was just *annoying*. But, the second he doesn't have anyone to hide behind, you immediately see how INCOMPETENT the little puppy is.
He's almost IGNORED by his own party NOW. You think they'd put ANY TRUST in the little weed if, by DEFAULT, he moved to the head of the class?
I would expect something analogous to the Night of the Long Knives, when hundreds of Brownshirts were executed. And then a shit-ton of backstabbing in the inner circle of evil.
WHEN #Bumblefuck is gone, BOWMAN will soon prove that he's not WORTH backing....because it'll become apparent that he has no more substance than his tube of mascara.
As long as J Divan is breathing, he's worth backing, as far as Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and the rest of their cabal are concerned. Like Rump, all he'll have to do is sit there, sign papers, and read pre-prepared speeches. That's why he was put in place. The less substance he has, the better.
War makes Oligarchy and the wealthy only wealthier!
Our DNC seems to be unable to do the right thing, when their pocketbooks are bulging!
None of the wealthy will lose sons and daughters in this illegal war…..I guarantee you Barron Trump won’t be leading any charge…..are we reaching a point that we can’t trust the Government not to use our children as fodder in ANOTHER illegal and immoral war?
Either one, honestly. Keep the conversation on getting rid of Trump as president for all the various and sundry reasons; it’s a step in the right direction.
The time for "conversation" has been OVER since he LEFT OFFICE THE *FIRST* TIME!
W/in WKS of leaving office, he INCITED ACTS OF TREASON AGAINST THE US - & he should have been HELD ACCOUNTABLE THE SECOND HE WALKED *OUT* OF THE WH, & BIDEN WALKED *IN*.
If they had done THAT, THEN, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in NOW.
But they didn't, & he had FOUR MORE YRS to keep stirring up his MAGAts. As I keep saying, #Bumblefuck fed them SHIT, told them it was CAVIAR, & being the FUCKING IMBECILES they are, they SLURPED IT UP FOR FOUR MORE YRS.
The entire REASON we're in this spot, is because ALL EVERYONE DID FOR FOUR YRS, WAS HAVE "CONVERSATIONS" ABOUT IT!
It's WAAAAAY past that moment. And here we are....someplace this country should NEVER have gone. All because our REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS DID NOTHING BUT "CONVERSE".
We need to PUT PRESSURE ON THEM TO GET OFF THEIR ASSES & *DO IT*. Phone calls....registered mail....visits to their offices....we should be POUNDING THE HELL out of these people, telling them to START WORKING FOR US *&* THEIR COUNTRY, or else THEIR turn in office will END, & they'll FOREVER be remembered as CONTRIBUTING TO THE DOWNFALL OF THIS COUNTRY.
This is why we can’t have nice things. That three trillion dollars we burned in Iraq would have paid off every bit of US student debt with $1.2 trillion to put towards universal health care. All I get for my federal taxes is a giant military.
Funding for the military isn’t fungible. They would never look at it that way. $3 trillion is just the Defense Department’s cost of doing business in the military-industrial complex. Over eight years, that cost is easily absorbed.
My eldest son, who recently retired from the military, reflects this opinion and his brother has significant student debt, in part because he moved from California to Utah and started at the University of Utah before establishing residency, which requires 3 years there (California is a year.). My complaint is the beyond inflation rise of college costs (and then there’s housing as well). I have other beefs, including the denigration of attending community college first and transferring, which is what I did here in California (parking, health fee, books, and don’t get me started on that—no unit fees). My last year at UCLA (1975-6), cost me $700 in education and registration fees. My wife and I rented an apartment in Palms neighborhood for $165 a month. When my VW bus crapped out, Santa Monica bus line got me to campus for 25 cents and RTD got me to work on the same. This was at the beginning of the oil crisis years and the emerging stagflation period. What happened next was a failure of political will. Maybe you should dismount from your high horse.
Student loans are a scam just like everything the “Government” does for the serfs!
The interest is so high you can never pay them off in your lifetime……jobs where you can make enough money to pay them off…are dwindling and the rich take care of their own first and foremost…people “promoted” not as qualified as you are…..we have all been there!
There is nothing this fucking piece of shit will not grab. Women's genitals, money from a children's cancer charity, trophies meant for display, titles of buildings, and other nation's assets and resources. What a plague on all humanity.
Yeah, having some other country (Canada--you guys interested?) drop into D.C. and grab his shitty diapered arse and haul him out of the country to stand trial at the Hague is a wonderfully warm and fuzzy thought...but what country would want to have to house him until a trial?
this is all beyond disgusting. it's insane. this president has no concept of respect, at all. for law, for humans, for institutions, for governments, for women, for ANYONE or ANYTHING. JUST CLUELESS, NO HUMANITY IN THE MAN.
“So Trump is going to start a war with Venezuela (they have no nukes) so he can boost public favor (think George W. Bush) so that any move made against him (including voting him out of office) will be called unpatriotic and illegal…”
I don't think it's public favor he wants--it's the devoted support of the oil billionaires and the continuing slavish service of the Republican Congress that is eager to rake in that oil money. The greed and corruption of those two blocs will keep him in office--the public does not matter.
“Quite telling to see so many evangelical leaders who support Trump rushing to praise an invasion that clearly doesn’t meet the criteria of Catholic ‘just war’ theory. And they’re doing it at a time when the Catholic Church is moving away from just war theory to become more opposed to the use of force.“
Trump got greedy and jumped the gun. He told oil companies they would get a benefit, then hooked them with impossible odds. And now resorting to threats.
Mea culpa, that's exactly why I voted for Dubya's 2nd term. Don't change horses in midstream, I said. Glad I finally pulled my head out of my ass before indulging in too much Koolaid. "Idiotic Ink" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
The wag the dog has been the Epstein files. While we clutch our pearls because an 80 year old guy slept with underage girls 20 years ago, this 80 year old stole a country and its oil profits for his family. Kirschner is probably all ready staking his claim
RE: Venezuela.....Good God--Tom Cotton's in the Trump-Epstein Files, isn't he? And how utterly, vilely perverted must be the details on Donnie Demento?
What could be in the Epstein files that’s worse than what we already know? My mind has gone to very dark places. I hate to say it, but I’m thinking there are snuff films they made of their adventures in sexually torturing young girls.
Jeff, “you break it you own it” from Colin Powell prior to the Iraq war.. This smash and grab by Donald and the reactions by the people of Venezuela and their expats eerily reminiscent of what we heard after invading Iraq, and the same USA hoora jingoism from some Americans. We have seen this movie before and we all know how it will turn out… and the American people get to pay for it.. Now.. who will be the new Viceroy? Eric or Jr or Barron or Rubio? Best to All fellow travelers.
U must give⚠️⚠️⚠️.. I’m laughing so hard.. regarding Barron.. he’s just not right in the head and to have his mother protecting him at 19, a public figure and worth several millions, goes to school close mommy and the pool boys.. 😳😳
Oh he'll own it. You can count on Trump's son's and son in laws taking over those oil fields. The US will bear the cost. Socialize the costs and privatize the profits.
The current administration did this, along with every shit Republican in Congress--and every shit Republican voter and every shit non-voter (who couldn't possibly cast a vote for the smart Black lady because she must be a war criminal or something blahblah), who are now enjoying exactly what they voted for.
(And every non-voter actually voted for Demento: they knew what they were doing by not voting.)
Conservatives in America should be banned from any foreign policy decisions and actions forever. All they have done and continue to do is fuck up, cause death and destruction, cost lives and limbs of our own people, not to mention the squandering of our treasure. Think stupidly theoretical earlier interventions and meddling in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East that were illegal, ill-conceived, destructive, and morass-begetting. Those episodes led to the partitioning of Korea and Vietnam, the formation of Al Queda and 9/11, ISIS and the Islamic State, the Castros in Cuba, and probably all the brutal leftist dictators of Central America who seized power as a response to Yanqui capitalist exploitation. Now this. They never learn.
The first thing that came to my mind yesterday with the "invasion" of Venezuela was Nicaragua, the Sandinista's and Contras, Iraq. Once again greedy, corporate American businesses always the opportunists to exploit resources of another country. I had this argument with one of my neighbors yesterday when she proclaimed Venezuela stole our oil, they're supplying all the fentanyl so this is a good thing. Fox brain. BTW- the Taliban is still in control in Afghanistan. Another "win" by Don the Con.
It's another "How did our oil get under their sand?" moment in history. Except that, in this case, Trump isn't even peddling democracy. It's his personal credo, "bullies take all because they can."
God damn, I hate trump and his unholy alliance. Trump says if Venezuela doesn't follow directions, he'll have "boots on the ground". But not HIS BOOTS, the fucking traitor and yellow belly. Are you listening, Russia and China, you can find him most times at MAL.
Yep, just like all the la-di-da idealists that voted for Nader instead of Al Gore in 2000. Imagine where we would be on global warming if Gore had won. Imagine all the dead and maimed who would not be dead and maimed if we had not had the idiotic Bush 43 clusterfuck disaster of TWO wars in the Middle East. Voters owe it to themselves, the nation, and the rest of us to be sane and rational and take their responsibility seriously, FFS.
I write it a lot... how Americans have a civic and patriotic duty to cast an informed ballot. I get told that our voting rights include the right to NOT cast a ballot. 🙄 I have no confidence about Nov 2026 at all, when so many are demanding a superhero Mamdani candidate in every district of the country.
Since I live in California (and my vote could be symbolically given away—yes, cheap idealism), in 2000, I voted for Nader. Had I lived in Florida—heaven forbid—I would have voted for Gore. That campaign was about much more than Nader and hanging chads.
I have to hand it to Pequeno Marco, at least he knows how deep they've stepped into it, unlike Kegsbreath and Dozy Don who are both way out there in the blue. Even if he did that bluff line about Cuba--maybe he can get his family's properties back! They had servants! They were like family--the look on his face as Trump sharted out all those lies made it plain that Rubio is a former altar boy who knows what liars will face in the next world. He can feel the hellfire licking his diminutive bottom already. So I got a little laugh out of the look on his stupid face.
And once sold, it cannot be redeemed. Submitted for your approval: Marquita Rubio, one of the dullards that have made Florida famous in that department, a man with a knave’s temperament and kingly ambitions. He thought he’d hitched his wagon to a star, but now he finds that it’s anvil, carrying him to the depths. With a final stop…at the Twilight Zone.
sorry to drop 2,100 words on you on a Sunday morning. what a fucking day yesterday was — and I didn't even get to writing about half the shit I could have.
You have just summarized daily life in the United States with this comment.
The irony of Trump planning on running Venezuela when the US is facing a shut down at the end of the month is clearly escaping those working for Trump.
I am sick of corporate welfare being given to the greediest corporations around: American oil and gas. We are now the armed muscle of corporations, folks, who want to plunder the world's resources for obscene profits AT OUR EXPENSE. We, the American taxpayers and citizens, will be paying them in the trillions for this EVIL.
NO BLOOD FOR OIL still applies in a moral world, a world that is slipping away moment to moment because we all feel like we can do nothing about it. That's what these evil rich fuckwads want you and me to believe, anyway. Get your voting registrations done or checked NOW. And keep checking in on them so you're not robbed of your voice. We didn't stop elections during WW II or after 9/11, so assume that you'll have a sacred responsibility to uphold later this year or until proven otherwise. LFG!!!
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I SO HOPE that includes ALL of our Military members stationed Overseas, Linda. Oh, I'm quite sure petey, smackmyselfinthenuts kegstand would prefer they NOT know they get to vote but they do. I send small amounts when I can to VoteVets which is decidedly Democratic - am going to b sure to bring this up. Anyone who has a family member or friend IN the military even stationed Stateside should be sure to inform that person that they too have an obligation to vote (unless they're a magat of course).
Good luck getting your ballots to the election board in time since they are trying to refuse to count ballots that don’t arrive by election day even if they are postmarked well ahead of time.
Elizabeth it would be great if you would bring it up. Several of the members of Democrats Abroad are working for the US military and one of the women in my Political book club is married to a member of the US military. She will be getting the word out too. Please share this message on your social media and with your circle of friends to pass on.
Who didn’t see this coming? Anyone?
This isn't just about oil. Look up China and Russian interests in Venezuela. Just like China is placing roots in Africa. Notice which country the VP ran away to - Russia.
There is the theory that in 2020 Putin, Xi, and Trump talked about dividing up the world into three overseen regions: Putin gets Europe, Xi gets Africa, and Yamtits gets South America...
Imperialism: redividing the world.
Great, the pevious moron in chief, as Jeff pointed out, cost us 3 TRILLION dollars for a failed war of colonialism, and got his name high on the ICC's prosecution list for the 1 MILLION missing Iraqi civilians.
So great, we have Dumbshit copying a previous Dumbshit. Guess Dwumpy just couldn't stand that his administration has only killed a couple hundred thousand foreigners thanks to USAID being disbanded, and is going for the gold. All 28 million Venezuelans.
At least Dems have another cudgel to smack Repubs about the head and shoulders. You're Killing Millions of People you fucking morons. And Dems can say the analogy out loud. If R's don't like foreigners, what's to keep them from doing the same to registered Dems. We need to start removing Rs from office with prejudice, before they start removing registered Dems from the living. They've said as such, Venezuela will start giving them, *ideas.*
Love the Yamtits comment!!
Ruth Ben-Ghiat has been saying it, and this is an agreement for the past year. Jacob Kaarsbo, former Danish Intelligence Analyst who was stationed in the US also says this. He has made a map and divided it up, although I don't know why Spain, France and England are in the Trump sphere. Half of Germany too. Putin gets the former east Germany and the Baltics, Scandi, and an expanded version of the former Soviet Union.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jacobkaarsbo/p/intel-brief-venezuela-and-beyond?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
And, there are those who are saying people on the inside cooperated with Putin to help get Trump the Intel needed to effectively abduct Maduro and his wife, so what we see on the outside is not necessarily what is going on behind the scenes. We shall have to wait and see. Will there be any leakers? So far, lots of potential leakers have been gotten rid of.
Bueller? ......Bueller?
We all saw it coming and the others are coming too. However, getting countries and keeping them are two different things. Look at Vietnam, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc...
It will behoove countries that are being targeted to make it difficult to get and difficult to keep them. Trump just thinks he can use the mighty US military to take any country they want. However, US military better get used to being hated around the world if they follow through on military operations that are not approved by congress and used against our allies.
Who's going to keep him awake when he invades Cuba? Huh? Huh? Huh?
South Florida must be like a disturbed anthill this morning. It's not just millions of Cuban immigrants/Cuban Americans, but a huge number of Venezuelans - who were noted as first cheering the news, then, being Trumpy Repubs that turned Florida from D to R years ago, insisting trump had been misquoted when he stated "we" were now going to run Venezuela from here on out.
Jordan Klepper needs to get his microphone-wielding ass down to Miami right the hell now. There are Trumpy Latinos to humiliate. I want clips of those jokesters staring blankly into the camera with "Wait... what?!?! You mean like Iraq?!?!"
Trump's tiny casino-ruining mind can only comprehend a simple equation of "go get stuff". Per the above, he could never calculate cost. That oil will be the most expensive in the world, and, it turns out, is the lowest grade (heavy sour). It will require military-grade security at every step of the way. American 'Green Zone' compounds will have to be built and maintained.
It will be the simplest thing in the world for an enterprising politician-rebel to stir the ghost of Simón Bolívar back to life. Time to invest in body bag futures.
Junior’s coke dealer.
Rubio.
You had to write all that! Reading it is the easy part.
Thank you for your service
SO apropos here..
It was a “fucking day!” But thanks for the update on the fuckery!
I look forward to your take every day.
Yesterday morning, I woke up to husband telling me that we'd taken Maduro and his wife from his home - Happy New Year!
Fuck Trump and the idiots who still support him.
As an insomniac, I heard the Venezuela attack in real time and did not awaken my husband. He was jubilant to win a 2026 bet with his lifelong best friend that Trump would attack the country for its oil by February 15.
That was a very safe bet. Smart guy, your husband.
I knew it too - but hadn't made a bet with anyone. Rats! Then again, the only one who'd have been dumb enough (or infuriated enough) to take that bet would have been my still all-in magat neighbour and SHE doesn't have a pot to piss in. WE still, in fact, give her our bottles to return so she can have 'some' money and lately I give her our leftover Chinese food (hubby's not up to being creative and I was just too sick, living on the soup which already had too much rice), so she got a ton of the rice plus whatever else he bought too much of - kept telling me I was 'keeping her alive'. One WOULD imagine then that she just might pay attention to what I had to say about her orange hero, no? Nope! She RANTS incessantly about how broke she is (always because of someone else) then if one even hints at a possible reason, she screams: 'I'm not talking politics' and that's the end of THAT. Geesh. I suspect that when it all comes crashing down, this is how magats will react (all of a piece). 'Talk to the hand'. 'It's Democrats fault', blah, blabbity blah. YOU made us elect him.
All that other shit is just a diversion from what we should be harping on incessantly (Epstein Files) until everyone else worried about breaking the Law to get DJ out of office will say, WTF and Just Do It. That is what has to happen first. And Fast. And we have to talk about that until we are literally Blue In The Face.
One can imagine what real horrors exist in those Epstein files. Criminal that the women and GIRLS were not believed to begin with.
I read a few days ago that someone asked Prez. Dumbfuck if he would invite the survivors/victims to the White House Gilded Orifice and he said no. They don't deserve to come to the White House. Nice. What a guy.
OMG, I hate that bastard with every fiber of my soul. I pray that he gets his KARMA soon!! Maybe good individuals will come and snatch him and Melanoma from Marlagoshitshit and take them to a swamp camp in Venezuela.
Now, THAT is an entertaining thought, Cathy!
Maybe Siberia - or Antarctica! He HATES the cold - and his loving missus will just have to be there right by his side, right?
They could point fingers at him and say to his face.."remember what you did to me when I was a child???". Better than a line up.I would pay to see them say it to his face how he abused them sexually and physically.
I still believe deeply that even younger children AND little boys were the victims AND their names were all kept on a list OR on film. I'd bet on it, but with this new fbi's Patel 'in charge' WE will never see it. Fwiw - and for MY money, I've long-since believed that donny-boy prefers males as partners. So sue me. THINK long and hard about his history, and his 'pals', then just how much he HATES women and you might get to where 'I' got to a long time ago. I've always thought he was a sick puppy and believe Epstein AND Putin 'helped their pal out'. By pretending to wanna-be the new Hugh Hefner he'd imagine he'd be 'safe', right?
That's why we should start referring to them as the Trump-Epstein files.
Agreed. He wants his name on everything, after all.
perfect!!
Daniel, I will start calling the files the Trump-Epstein files, also. Thanks for the tip!!!
Let's start a trend. :)
The Epstein Files are old news. The US has moved on. They already know Trump is a pedo and guess what, the Republicans don't care. He could move ten 14 yr old girls into the White House and 60 Minutes would refuse to write about it. He isn't even bothering to cover it up.
The Epstein files will never be “old news.” We won’t let it. It doesn’t matter if Repubs/MAGAts don’t care; decent people do.
But we already know he's a pedo. Has anything happened to him? No, nothing. His voters don't care.
Do you really think the only thing in the Epstein files is about DJ's pedophilia?
No, I think its about assuming something so bad that the 4 out of 10 die hard supporters will rise up and say "enough all ready." It won't happen. This is not England where the King's brother gets kicked out of the family because he's a pervert. Trump actually said on record that he wished he could have sex with his daughter BEFORE he was elected. So what could they find that would turn them against him?
Who cares if his voters don’t care? You think that should determine whether an international pedophile ring is something that merits a thorough investigation?
Oh I believe the pedo ring should be investigated. I'm just saying no matter what comes out about Trump, I very much doubt it will matter to his voters or the Republican machine. So don't get your hopes up.
No it "shouldn't" determine whether an international pedo ring "merits" investigation.
But it does, unfortunately, determine whether the pedo ring actually will get an investigation.
WE know, but the magats in the cult do not believe he has ever done anything wrong! I'm not sure even photos of him "doing" little girls would wake them up, but the orange genius does not want to take the chance. Hence war.
Yes--they do care; that's why they are all redacted and slow to be released.
Sing it !!!!!!!
the deadline to release the files has long passed, it is obvious we, the people, will never ever get to see the files even though we all know who is in it...They have been so pilfered and redacted the files are nearly all but destroyed. How they got away without releasing the EFs is beyond me. To think that they are still planning to do it at a later time is delusional...these Republicans are so damned crooked and the most horrible people on the planet (90% of them)
Death to John Roberts.
History will not be kind to what will forever be referred to as The Roberts Court.
How did tRump get away with inciting a coup to overturn an election? How did he get away with possessing classified documents? There have been NO CONSEQUENCES for all of Donny’s many crimes. Instead, he’s reelected!
James, the files might be destroyed, but I think there are people who made COPIES!!! Release them!!!
It's my understanding that France has a full set of unredacted epstein files. I don't know how or why, but that's what I understand.
Let's see of the Orange Canklesaurus tries to snatch Greenland and angers Denmark and the rest of NATO. France may threaten to dump their copies of the Epstein files in retaliation.
Could be fun.
We could pop popcorn and have a blast!🎊
I disagree. The problem is the Department of Injustice keeps refusing to release the files. Lots of work to protect the predators
The most transparent Preznut ever!
I woke up from a dozing-dream the other day and we were all 'blue man group' with literal blue painted faces. It was the ONLY way we could get the attention of those who needed to hear the truth - and in the dream I felt oddly comfortable 'being so blue'.
This morning I heard a sermon (Catholic Mass, the alleged faith of JD Vance and Marco Rubio) based on GK Chesterton’s tale of the modern wise men presenting gifts to St. Joseph at the stable in Bethlehem.
I asked the homilist: “What would St. Joseph say to the three Republican “Christian” presidents who started wars over oil?”
Homilist’s answer: no answer. He turned & walked away.
Pure gold. No apology necessary!
The fifth anniversary of Ossoff-Warnock Day falls in two days!
You did better than I did Jeff.
I got to 2914 and then I had to stop.
Too much.. .
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/this-week-is-really-starting-to-suck
https://substack.com/@anchorlightpublications/note/c-195075157?r=53um1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Ya done good anyway Jeff and I read every word 👍🏻.
Yes, and I’m sorry to get my emotions showing. It must be the full moon.
“All of that fucking slurring,” plus drooling, 🤤, is due to to fact that decaying donny’s “swallowing function is slowing down,” says @epistemiccrisis. This PhD physical therapist, who posts daily assessments on Instagram, currently gives him “two to four months in the land of the living.”
Then we'll have President CouchFucker. Yippeee.
Except for the Incel crowd and some of the Nazis, no one likes Couchfuck, especially not his former Senate colleagues. MAGA will implode.
One hopes. I'm afraid, however, that all the ambitious sycophants and greedy billionaires will swallow their dislike and hail the new fathead. Think of Cruz and Rubio's turnarounds on the Pumpkinhead for example.
Maybe Couchfuck will die of aids passed on to him by his mentor and conscience, Peter Thiel.
MAGA's implosion won't matter, though. J Divan is bankrolled and controlled by the techbro oligarchs, who are way more powerful---and ruthless---than MAGA.
Still preferable to having the Antichrist in the White House.
I guess. Still, it's a "would you rather be eaten by a shark or electrocuted on a boat" kind of thing.
47 is a generational reality-show talent. Rizz-free JD cannot run a bath, or lead a cult. MAGA dies with donny.
Praying that this is true
I hope you're right. At any rate, it's clear that the Hairy Parent and Reichsfuhrer Miller don't get along. It might be fun watching them compete for the title of Most Malignant once donny's doing his rotting underground. On another note, does anyone know why the HP wasn't on camera with the other backup singers when our nation's glorious victory over Maduro was announced? It's not like him to miss an opportunity to appear at least peripherally relevant.
i see him as worse than
Too long.
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼
Sometimes the word count has to be the word count — especially with the times we are living in. No apologies necessary my friend.
I had just about completed a treatise on how HEI fully believe the orange slug was asleep when they woke him up to tell him THEY had attacked Venezuela and captured Maduro and his wife (probably because they had NO idea what to do WITH his First Lady!) because I heard a recording - can't remember from whom, with him slurring away sounding barely awake OR drugged, having no idea what they were talking about. I'd BET he knows NOTHING about Venezuela OR Maduro - and all they keep feeding him is: 'they gave HER the Nobel Prize that was YOURS'! At that 'Press Conference' he was so clearly TRYING to read what was in front of him - yet had ZERO idea what was on it - no idea at all...learning about it for the first time. One might have thought someone would have whispered the FACTS into his torn apart ear before he began blathering? Jeff, You hit so many truths in this - the black curtains/tablecloths at Motel-a-Lardo NOW make a helluva lot of sense since I knew he wuz in bed! SOMEBODY had to clean him up and dress him, apply the spackle and spray, y'know. I'd told hubby a few days ago that they'll NEED a new BIG distraction from Epstein/the ACA, so here 'tis. Who the fuck knew it'd be Venezuelan oil. All that 'sweet crude' (which still has to be dug out of the ground - but let's not bother the fuckwit preznit with these minor details. He Knows NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING except: gimme, gimme, gimme and MINE, MINE, MINE or Me, Me, Me! Otherwise, they can all do whatever the fuck they want to do, especially miller and his horrid schemes. His wife (my skin still crawls when I imagine that a female woman MARRIED that slime) - but then there ARE female slimes, right? SHE posted a photo of Greenland, with a sign superimposed on it of a USA Flag and 'SOON'. The woman who put it on substack (AnnTelnaes) decided to add her own version: a photo of the Nuremberg Trials with the same cartoonish 'Soon' superimposed. The only thing missing was superimposing faces of goebbels/miller and all the rest onto the origina gestapo thugs. AS Venezuela descends into chaos, donny fuckwit will claim it has nothing to do with HIM, but only their former dictator. Of course the FACT that having a dictator run one's country is never a good idea would never even wisp across donny's stupid what passes for a brain, would it? NOR would it make him imagine that this could be his soon-to-be-future?
Day Two of me willfully not commenting on this insanity, except to say, has anyone here ever said one of Jeff's hilarious nicknames out loud? I said, Sundowning Grandpa Befuddlepants aloud and O the chuckles I had.
Ahahahaa. Ha
Jeff, it's gotten to the point where I upvote you *before* I even read a Jeff Tiedrich post. We're not only on the same page, it's as if you're reading my mind. You're a goddamned hero in my book. I hate everything right now. And I will continue to subscribe to anyone like you who can tell it like it is. Excuse me, I have to write to my Congress Critters in righteous anger about (waves hands about) all of THIS.
Thank you Jeff.
A bit of guidance to the Democratic Members of Congress who have issued strong statements against the illegal attack on Venezuela and State Sponsored kidnapping, you know what would represent a really meaningful strong statement?
Articles of Impeachment.
Along with the Dems in the Senate taking Schumer out of his "leadership" position and replacing him with someone with strength and reserve and a desire to improve the country, not write 'strongly worded letters'. And I don't want to hear about 'rules or precedents' or anything. These times call for action. And we need it now more than ever.
Maybe that's what the House needs, too.
Maybe? We need Democrats who stand up for Democracy. There are leaders in the House who can do the job and there are leaders in the Senate who can do the job the current leaders do not want to do. First and foremost we need leaders who have not graduated from Harvard or Yale. They seem to have failed Ethics and History classes. All have ACED the Obsequious and Sycophant classes.
Well, let’s not paint with such a broad brush. Barack and Michelle Obama, John F. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Al Gore, etc. are Harvard alumni.
RBG should have retired during Obama's presidency. She didn't. Obama should have pressured her. He didn't. Now we have 5 SCOTUS delinquents on the court.
I agree that elderly politicians and judges/jurists should retire sooner rather than later. Having said that, President Obama unfortunately didn’t have a crystal ball to foresee a future Trump presidency. Ginsburg wasn’t going to leave the Court with that going on. And she was determined to serve as long as she was able. She died a few weeks before the 2020 election. The appointments of rightwing jurists, and the subsequent further corruption of SCOTUS, lies solely with Trump — not Obama, and not RBG.
Both Obama and Biden blew it their first two years of total majority power when they could have dealt with this crooked SCOTUS but trusted McConnell would not be a total shit by refusing to confirm a Democratic appointed justice. The next Democratic president needs to deal with these SCOTUS crooks Day 1.
You're right...no 'maybe' about it.
OMG! Donald Trump has crossed every red line. If it isn’t obvious enough, along with Epstein, he’s guilty of raping children. And lying about it. He’s a criminal. He’s a felon. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. And he is putting the whole world in danger now. If that is not enough to impeach him, I have no idea what is. Schumer is a piece of lint. He. He is fluff. He is useless. We need a leader in the Senate and we need Jefferies in the House to stand up and get on with governing according to the constitution. Start kicking ass and taking names. Find the power. Find the governors. Find the Attorneys General. Find the strength. We the people outnumber MAGA! Don’t forget this is minority rule.
I can’t help but suspect that not only was trump guilty of raping children, but that he made money on the trafficking of those children. There was (and is) much money in this ‘business’; I can’t believe trump wouldn’t find a way to dip his filthy orange beak.
think about all the illegal shit that orange bozo has gotten away with since 2016 and held grossly unaccountable.
Our worthless Supreme Court Corrupt 6 have a lot to do with that and our useless former AG Merrick Garland takes responsibility as well. I mean all the corruption this dictator has done and gotten away with, there is literally nothing he can do that will cause anyone in Washington take any meaningful disciplinary action towards President Fuckwitz
Wall Street has rushed in overnight to activate "shock and awe" economics in Venezuela, as they did in Iraq. Financial pundits cheering on predatory capitalism will promise a full tank of gas for everyone! And we'll get our ass handed to us with eons of national debt to cope with.
Eileen -indeed -in fact -I just published "The Disappearing Thin Red Line" a few days ago ... https://open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p/the-disappearing-thin-red-line
Yeah, and maybe several dozen monkeys will spring-forth merrily from my ass. Those Republican clowns in the House and Senate wouldn't impeach the guy if they found photos of him with a ten year-old girl and random barnyard animal.
Maybe they already have. Hence, "Thank you for your attention to this Non-Epstein related matter!"
T H I S
Vietnam... Afghanistan... Iraq... Venezuela.
The only advantage is that so many of us speak Spanish that the fuck up will be TOTALLY obvious this time.
Under A2-S4. Let's get rid of all of them in one shot!
And you know what would be an utter waste of time, a distraction, and actually enable Trump? Articles of Impeachment.
If you can't guarantee 67 votes in the Senate, it won't accomplish anything. We've already seen this twice before.
Right. So a steady stream of harsh statements are cool then. Hurt his feelings?
No, we do what we can in the meantime and focus on the midterms.
Impeachment might make YOU feel good, but it won't lead to his removal from office.
Focus on the midterms (if there are midterms) is important. However, I do not accept acquiescence between now and then.
He has attacked Venezuela. (We would have impeached him but didn't have the votes).
Without consequences for Venezuela, when he takes Greenland -well, we would have stopped him but didn't have the votes.
Sorry Canada ... we didn't have the votes.
Iran ... didn't have the votes.
Plus! We were focused on the midterms. We would have impeached him for cancelling the midterms ... but, we didn't have the votes then either.
You understand how that reads from a historical perspective, right?
It has nothing to do with making me feel better. It has to do with pressing on every legal avenue for his removal before his lunacy leads to an unrecoverable global catastrophe.
No, it's opposing him every step of the way and not wasting time with futile efforts that will accomplish nothing.
You do understand that this Senate will NEVER have enough votes to convict as currently constituted, right? So what does starting an impeachment process in the current House -- also unlikely to succeed -- accomplish?
We'd be much better off blocking everything we can until enough Republicans bend, as with the Trump-Epstein files.
THIS!!! And thank you for saying it!
What midterms?
I'm not quite that cynical... yet.
He's started the war. Now all that's left is invoking the Insurrection Act.
I completely agree. Impeachment won’t happen. At this stage, it is pointless and a waste of time.
if only we had the votes.
And everyone is willing/able to wait until November?
We don't have to wait until November. There are other things to be done in the meantime. Government's facing another shutdown the end of the month. Sure would be a shame if Johnson and Thune refused to have a vote limiting Trump's war powers, wouldn't it?
Exactly. THAT'S what we should be concentrating on.
They don't have the majority in the House or Senate. If you want the Democrats to do something get out the vote.
North Carolina has a majority of Republican registered voters for the first time since … I don’t even know. My state is gerrymandered, polls are hard to reach and understaffed in Democratic areas and it’s all done out in the open. With all of that, I’ve yet to encounter a Trump supporter. Fishy much?
I don't think it's an either/or. And whether the articles fail or not -it is an important Constitutional act to hold him accountable. Building the movement and momentum toward midterms (if there are midterms) is vital. Yet -every legal path to removal is important.
Seriously. Mush-mouthed Schumer sees the new budget discussions looming and another opportunity for the Democrats to valiantly cave. Meanwhile, 11 months until the midterms, IF they happen. Plenty of time to invade Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, and Canada.
I reiterate: And everyone is willing/able to wait until November?
Kim. I don’t think that we can wait. There is just too much at stake!
Yes, the minority party can initiate impeachment efforts, but the majority party controls the process in the House, making it difficult to succeed without some bipartisan support, as a majority vote is needed to pass articles, and removal in the Senate requires a two-thirds vote. While minority members can participate in investigations, the majority sets the agenda, so impeachment typically needs broader consensus or strong public opinion to overcome party lines and actually lead to a Senate trial.
I think there is five star Michelin rated menu to choose from; 14th Amendment, Article 2 - Section 4, the 25th Amendment, State Police arresting him for crimes. Unfortunately he has his toadies in place making his removal that much more difficult.
Yes! Impeach the motherfucker! - and remove him!
I don’t think the minority Party gets to draft articles of impeachment
They've already drafted articles of impeachment.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/537/text
Yes, but it doesn’t matter if the Speaker, won’t bring it to the floor
Dunno. If the backlash to Venezuela becomes strong enough (I know that right at this moment, it isn't), there could be another discharge petition. There have been more recently than just Epstein.
But I was mainly just answering your statement about a minority party and drafting articles.
There's always the Discharge Petition to get it to the floor, which forces the on the record vote, so the world knows who in the US Congress is supporting the felon's actions, and who isn't.
That requires Republicans to sign on.
Yes, but only enough of them to get to the 218 signatures necessary to take the bill to the floor and push the speaker's approval out of the way.
It's been used several times with success in the last few years, and if used in this situation to force a vote on the floor to impeach, at least we and the world would know which of our Congressional Reps are still choosing to protect and ignore the unlawful acts being committed.
This process was used for the Epstein Files and I'm hoping it can be used again for the recent Venezuela abuse.
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https://www.justsecurity.org/128047/epstein-files-seven-member-rule/
Any member of Congress can draft impeachment or any other kind of bill. Whether they can get a floor vote is a different question.
they dont have the votes... it's like starting to build a house with no money. It doesn't make sense to do it (at this point in time)
Did anyone ask that fucktard Cotton since when does law enforcement and an arrest require fucking aircraft carriers and the fucking military! He is among the top of the list of the most disingenuous, hypocritical, bastards who sold their souls for a seat at the table. If I could spit in his face when he says this shit i would.
Cotton's biggest regret in life is that he was born too late to join Hitler Youth.
Cotton has been a slimy little traitor since his first term.
That's the line that needs to be clarified, these fuckers profiting off war always say it's peace keeping or some shit. It has to be clarified that our military is still the department of DEFENSE, not war, not law enforcement.
Well, it was. That’s all changed now.
So the regime is "saying". People in positions of power & influence saying shit doesn't automatically make it true. Never entirely was, sure AF is not now that Felon47 somehow turned the whole "lying is wrong" thing around. We still have ways of establishing truth. We just have to have a greater will to do so than those pushing lies.
‘Greater will’ - not seeing signs of it. Donnie is walking all over everyone including judges who keep telling him he can’t do that. Who’s gonna bell the cat? Routes for voters are being blocked as fast as propaganda is stuffing their critical thinking skills into the shredder.
You sure aren't wrong. Being clear about the reality isn't giving up. Giving up isn't an option, IMO.
There's so much about this to be incensed about. They take out at least 5 military bases, nowhere near Maduro, and still insist it was a law enforcement mission not something that would come under military laws. FFS. This heightened blending and combining of DOJ and DOD is terrifying. And I felt like it was a relatively minor complaint that this was not coming from the situation room, but seeing those pics from MAL were crazy!
But my first and biggest question is how long until Venezuela becomes another Haiti?
I don’t get how someone outside the United States can be indicted for doing things in their own country. Was he running drugs in the United States? Shouldn’t his supposed crimes be handled in international courts?
And handling machine guns?
Seems so odd to have a questionably elected indicted president arrest an unelected indicted president and the repubs are ok with that? Please have it make sense.
New buzz words: the president is a man of action! No hearings, meetings, approvals - just take action. Listen for it on state tv and all the talking heads.
Exactly! They've spent the whole last year trying to redefine who is actually "law enforcement" in this country so I can't say I'm surprised to see Cotton try that line because he is despicable.
Hint: it isn't the National Guard or the fucking military, assholes!
Dargonth, I like the way you think!!
Impeachment is not enough. Every democrat and any non-cult republicans should be calling for the enactment of the 25th amendment.
Try READING the 25th amendment. It would require action by Vance AND a majority of the bootlickers in the Cabinet. Should THAT miracle take place and Trump challenged it, it would need to be sustained by two-thirds of the House AND the Senate.
In what alternate universe do you imagine any of that occurring?
So discussion of the 25th amendment should be off the table since it's a long shot? His body and mind are decomposing fast. Each day it becomes less improbable.
It's BEYOND a long shot. Vance and this Cabinet will never do it. You're fooling yourself if you think otherwise.
It's the equivalent of demanding his resignation. Yeah, right, you think he has that kind of self-awareness or shame? Neither do any of his sycophants.
Don’t think no. Think pressure. Scream! Threaten! EXPOSE!!
The Grim Reaper has bigger balls and can move more decisively against Trump than Congress, at this point. I was heartened by the speed at which protesters took to the streets in NYC and even Dallas to denounce this invasion. The world is not ready to embrace the "Donroe Doctrine" and it is watching with horror and rage.
To end up with vance in the Oval Office? WTF!
True, but he doesn't have the slavish cult following that the narcoleptic fart factory does (thank you Jeff for that phrase).
MAGA is only a minority cult. Less than 30% of registered voters are MAGA. By contrast, J Divan is backed by techbro oligarchs, including some of the richest people on the planet. They control much more wealth and power than all the MAGAs put together. They're not part of the cult, though; rather, they're nihilists and would-be emperors, ruling over serfs. In their calculations, MAGA is irrelevant. It was a means to an end, and is losing its usefulness.
You'd choose three more years of trump rather than replace him with a scumbag with far less sway? WTF?
Vance has more sway than most people think. He doesn't need to concern himself with being liked, when he's in the pocket of all the Project 2025 authors and supporters.
EXACTLY.
Valid point, yet very concerned about vance's sharper mental state and his subservience to his puppet masters. Not a good choice. His ascension may more easily allow his election in '28.
Too many executions of the 25th would be required to dig out of this hole.
Perhaps worst Hobson's choice ever.
No one on either side likes Vance
Back in the '70s, when I was working in radio news, people like BOWMAN (that's his name, that's what I call him) were called A MUTT IN AN AIREDALE SUIT.
As long as the mutt has SOMEONE ELSE TO HIDE BEHIND so he could bark his fucking mouth off, he was just *annoying*. But, the second he doesn't have anyone to hide behind, you immediately see how INCOMPETENT the little puppy is.
He's almost IGNORED by his own party NOW. You think they'd put ANY TRUST in the little weed if, by DEFAULT, he moved to the head of the class?
Pssssh....
I would expect something analogous to the Night of the Long Knives, when hundreds of Brownshirts were executed. And then a shit-ton of backstabbing in the inner circle of evil.
Michael, huh, I like that!!
His party isn't important. His backers are.
WHEN #Bumblefuck is gone, BOWMAN will soon prove that he's not WORTH backing....because it'll become apparent that he has no more substance than his tube of mascara.
As long as J Divan is breathing, he's worth backing, as far as Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and the rest of their cabal are concerned. Like Rump, all he'll have to do is sit there, sign papers, and read pre-prepared speeches. That's why he was put in place. The less substance he has, the better.
THINK BIGGER. IF VANCE HAS DIRT HE GOES TOO. AND ALL OTHERS WHO HAVE SHIT ON OUR CONSTITUTION.
They both have to go!
This will probably ruffle a lot of feathers…….
War makes Oligarchy and the wealthy only wealthier!
Our DNC seems to be unable to do the right thing, when their pocketbooks are bulging!
None of the wealthy will lose sons and daughters in this illegal war…..I guarantee you Barron Trump won’t be leading any charge…..are we reaching a point that we can’t trust the Government not to use our children as fodder in ANOTHER illegal and immoral war?
WHERE ARE THE CONGRESS ?????
Vance will not end up in the oval. Expose all his weakness capitulations AND IGNORANCE. DUNCE ON A SOFA.
100%
Either one, honestly. Keep the conversation on getting rid of Trump as president for all the various and sundry reasons; it’s a step in the right direction.
The time for "conversation" has been OVER since he LEFT OFFICE THE *FIRST* TIME!
W/in WKS of leaving office, he INCITED ACTS OF TREASON AGAINST THE US - & he should have been HELD ACCOUNTABLE THE SECOND HE WALKED *OUT* OF THE WH, & BIDEN WALKED *IN*.
If they had done THAT, THEN, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in NOW.
But they didn't, & he had FOUR MORE YRS to keep stirring up his MAGAts. As I keep saying, #Bumblefuck fed them SHIT, told them it was CAVIAR, & being the FUCKING IMBECILES they are, they SLURPED IT UP FOR FOUR MORE YRS.
The entire REASON we're in this spot, is because ALL EVERYONE DID FOR FOUR YRS, WAS HAVE "CONVERSATIONS" ABOUT IT!
It's WAAAAAY past that moment. And here we are....someplace this country should NEVER have gone. All because our REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS DID NOTHING BUT "CONVERSE".
We need to PUT PRESSURE ON THEM TO GET OFF THEIR ASSES & *DO IT*. Phone calls....registered mail....visits to their offices....we should be POUNDING THE HELL out of these people, telling them to START WORKING FOR US *&* THEIR COUNTRY, or else THEIR turn in office will END, & they'll FOREVER be remembered as CONTRIBUTING TO THE DOWNFALL OF THIS COUNTRY.
The time for talk is OVER. It HASN'T WORKED.
This is why we can’t have nice things. That three trillion dollars we burned in Iraq would have paid off every bit of US student debt with $1.2 trillion to put towards universal health care. All I get for my federal taxes is a giant military.
I read yesterday that what has been spent already on the military strikes against VZ could pay for all ACA subsidies for 2026. Priorities!
We the people don't give money to Donnie so we can't get anything
Well...our individual names aren't on the money, so....how much to refit that Qatari jet??
Jesus. Poignant stats. 💔🇺🇸
Funding for the military isn’t fungible. They would never look at it that way. $3 trillion is just the Defense Department’s cost of doing business in the military-industrial complex. Over eight years, that cost is easily absorbed.
Fuck a bunch of student debt. NoBody put a gun to their heads and made them take the money.
Now be responsible for what you signed for and pay it yourself!
A little reprieve in the atrocious interest would be in order, though.
My eldest son, who recently retired from the military, reflects this opinion and his brother has significant student debt, in part because he moved from California to Utah and started at the University of Utah before establishing residency, which requires 3 years there (California is a year.). My complaint is the beyond inflation rise of college costs (and then there’s housing as well). I have other beefs, including the denigration of attending community college first and transferring, which is what I did here in California (parking, health fee, books, and don’t get me started on that—no unit fees). My last year at UCLA (1975-6), cost me $700 in education and registration fees. My wife and I rented an apartment in Palms neighborhood for $165 a month. When my VW bus crapped out, Santa Monica bus line got me to campus for 25 cents and RTD got me to work on the same. This was at the beginning of the oil crisis years and the emerging stagflation period. What happened next was a failure of political will. Maybe you should dismount from your high horse.
Student loans are a scam just like everything the “Government” does for the serfs!
The interest is so high you can never pay them off in your lifetime……jobs where you can make enough money to pay them off…are dwindling and the rich take care of their own first and foremost…people “promoted” not as qualified as you are…..we have all been there!
There is nothing this fucking piece of shit will not grab. Women's genitals, money from a children's cancer charity, trophies meant for display, titles of buildings, and other nation's assets and resources. What a plague on all humanity.
you just summarized the entire 2.0 reign of terror. Well done
Shitty parenting creates narcissists, although, I suspect T💩p is literally the Anti-Christ and was born that way.
Amen, Doc
But now that other countries can just come in and steal another nation’s dictator…hope springs eternal.
Time for a few more new signs at the White House--with big arrows pointing THIS WAY TO THE FELON.
Yeah, having some other country (Canada--you guys interested?) drop into D.C. and grab his shitty diapered arse and haul him out of the country to stand trial at the Hague is a wonderfully warm and fuzzy thought...but what country would want to have to house him until a trial?
Canada and other sane countries operate under the rule of law, so, that won’t happen.
I’m thinking Greenland! LMAO
I am all for "giving them ideas" Stephanie..
Brava!!!
Maybe if Canada invaded us?
Thanks for the comic relief. I can’t stop laughing!
this is all beyond disgusting. it's insane. this president has no concept of respect, at all. for law, for humans, for institutions, for governments, for women, for ANYONE or ANYTHING. JUST CLUELESS, NO HUMANITY IN THE MAN.
AOC is old enough to run for senate now. But Schumer isn’t up for election until 28 or 30.
& when he’s no longer there, Kristen Gillibrand becomes the senior senator from NY. Barf!
Ah...aka "Ambition Barbie"? Or would she be better referred to as "Stab-Rivals-in-the-Back Barbie"???
“So Trump is going to start a war with Venezuela (they have no nukes) so he can boost public favor (think George W. Bush) so that any move made against him (including voting him out of office) will be called unpatriotic and illegal…”
- Amy Vanderpool
I don't think it's public favor he wants--it's the devoted support of the oil billionaires and the continuing slavish service of the Republican Congress that is eager to rake in that oil money. The greed and corruption of those two blocs will keep him in office--the public does not matter.
Polls ARE tanking but point taken.
IOW: “What’re we gonna do about it?” Especially when the media doesn’t RELENTLESSLY call for him to STEP DOWN (due to health) - like they did w/Joe.
Funny / sad the general public doesn’t take note of that…’imbalance’ in coverage :/
We’re OK with things being unfair now. So how do the evangelicals feel abt that? 🦗 thought so.
(This just in);
“Quite telling to see so many evangelical leaders who support Trump rushing to praise an invasion that clearly doesn’t meet the criteria of Catholic ‘just war’ theory. And they’re doing it at a time when the Catholic Church is moving away from just war theory to become more opposed to the use of force.“
- @daviddarmofal.bsky.social
We don't see Catholic priests or any Christians for that matter walking 1,500 miles in sandals for peace. Tells us everything.
Agreed!
I think Trump this is his strategy in the leadup to the mid-terms.
He wants to look like a tough guy war-time president
and he'll be more than happy to unleash the US military on any resistance
because it gives him a stiffy
he thinks that'll also impress his base to vote in 2026 so he keeps control of Congress
can't wait to see the spin that the compliant, boot-licking media will roll out about what a masterful decision this was . . . (vomit!)
I think it will be more of a stubby
But ewwwwww
Mps, lol!!!
Trump got greedy and jumped the gun. He told oil companies they would get a benefit, then hooked them with impossible odds. And now resorting to threats.
- @chrisjustice01.bsky.social
His ppl LOVE that stance… too bad Dems underestimate the performance part… and rw radio (Rush)… and the power of 🦊‼️
Mea culpa, that's exactly why I voted for Dubya's 2nd term. Don't change horses in midstream, I said. Glad I finally pulled my head out of my ass before indulging in too much Koolaid. "Idiotic Ink" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I always said, W was lucky the election wasn’t 6 months later. Because people were tired of it by then.
The most important thing about this illegal kidnapping is, RELEASE THE FUCKING TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES!
This is classic Wag The Dog with a side order of stealing Venezuelan oil thrown in for dessert.
The wag the dog has been the Epstein files. While we clutch our pearls because an 80 year old guy slept with underage girls 20 years ago, this 80 year old stole a country and its oil profits for his family. Kirschner is probably all ready staking his claim
claim.
RE: Venezuela.....Good God--Tom Cotton's in the Trump-Epstein Files, isn't he? And how utterly, vilely perverted must be the details on Donnie Demento?
What could be in the Epstein files that’s worse than what we already know? My mind has gone to very dark places. I hate to say it, but I’m thinking there are snuff films they made of their adventures in sexually torturing young girls.
It's bad for sure.💔
Follow Zev Shalev, Greatest Heist and Ellie Leonard for the latest.
That's my thought, too, Nicky.
Jeff, “you break it you own it” from Colin Powell prior to the Iraq war.. This smash and grab by Donald and the reactions by the people of Venezuela and their expats eerily reminiscent of what we heard after invading Iraq, and the same USA hoora jingoism from some Americans. We have seen this movie before and we all know how it will turn out… and the American people get to pay for it.. Now.. who will be the new Viceroy? Eric or Jr or Barron or Rubio? Best to All fellow travelers.
Barron? THERE'S something wrong with that boy.
Yup. His brains went into his legs.
U must give⚠️⚠️⚠️.. I’m laughing so hard.. regarding Barron.. he’s just not right in the head and to have his mother protecting him at 19, a public figure and worth several millions, goes to school close mommy and the pool boys.. 😳😳
He's tethered to Mommy Dearest.
😂😂😂
lol
How could there not be, given his parentage?
Oh he'll own it. You can count on Trump's son's and son in laws taking over those oil fields. The US will bear the cost. Socialize the costs and privatize the profits.
Jared of course. Who else?
I still can’t believe we did this
The current administration did this, along with every shit Republican in Congress--and every shit Republican voter and every shit non-voter (who couldn't possibly cast a vote for the smart Black lady because she must be a war criminal or something blahblah), who are now enjoying exactly what they voted for.
(And every non-voter actually voted for Demento: they knew what they were doing by not voting.)
Conservatives in America should be banned from any foreign policy decisions and actions forever. All they have done and continue to do is fuck up, cause death and destruction, cost lives and limbs of our own people, not to mention the squandering of our treasure. Think stupidly theoretical earlier interventions and meddling in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East that were illegal, ill-conceived, destructive, and morass-begetting. Those episodes led to the partitioning of Korea and Vietnam, the formation of Al Queda and 9/11, ISIS and the Islamic State, the Castros in Cuba, and probably all the brutal leftist dictators of Central America who seized power as a response to Yanqui capitalist exploitation. Now this. They never learn.
The first thing that came to my mind yesterday with the "invasion" of Venezuela was Nicaragua, the Sandinista's and Contras, Iraq. Once again greedy, corporate American businesses always the opportunists to exploit resources of another country. I had this argument with one of my neighbors yesterday when she proclaimed Venezuela stole our oil, they're supplying all the fentanyl so this is a good thing. Fox brain. BTW- the Taliban is still in control in Afghanistan. Another "win" by Don the Con.
It's another "How did our oil get under their sand?" moment in history. Except that, in this case, Trump isn't even peddling democracy. It's his personal credo, "bullies take all because they can."
God damn, I hate trump and his unholy alliance. Trump says if Venezuela doesn't follow directions, he'll have "boots on the ground". But not HIS BOOTS, the fucking traitor and yellow belly. Are you listening, Russia and China, you can find him most times at MAL.
“Conservatives in America should be banned from any foreign policy decisions and actions forever”
How’s that going to happen?
Dems grow spines and voters grow brains
This all day
"But Biden was a war-monger! That's why I voted for Dr. Jill Stein!"--an idiot
Yep, just like all the la-di-da idealists that voted for Nader instead of Al Gore in 2000. Imagine where we would be on global warming if Gore had won. Imagine all the dead and maimed who would not be dead and maimed if we had not had the idiotic Bush 43 clusterfuck disaster of TWO wars in the Middle East. Voters owe it to themselves, the nation, and the rest of us to be sane and rational and take their responsibility seriously, FFS.
I write it a lot... how Americans have a civic and patriotic duty to cast an informed ballot. I get told that our voting rights include the right to NOT cast a ballot. 🙄 I have no confidence about Nov 2026 at all, when so many are demanding a superhero Mamdani candidate in every district of the country.
When I knew Nader was a fraud: when he made an unannounced stop at the Cotati Accordion Festival and didn’t say a word about accordions.
Since I live in California (and my vote could be symbolically given away—yes, cheap idealism), in 2000, I voted for Nader. Had I lived in Florida—heaven forbid—I would have voted for Gore. That campaign was about much more than Nader and hanging chads.
I forgive you
I know, voting for a loser to make yourself feel better, shouldn't be a good excuse when the choice is between a normal democracy and a fascist state.
😞
I have to hand it to Pequeno Marco, at least he knows how deep they've stepped into it, unlike Kegsbreath and Dozy Don who are both way out there in the blue. Even if he did that bluff line about Cuba--maybe he can get his family's properties back! They had servants! They were like family--the look on his face as Trump sharted out all those lies made it plain that Rubio is a former altar boy who knows what liars will face in the next world. He can feel the hellfire licking his diminutive bottom already. So I got a little laugh out of the look on his stupid face.
I’d amend that to Pendejo Marco
Marquito. Always liddle Marco
He's known now on the internet as Narco Rubio.
I still call him Sippy Cup
He's dead inside. He sold his soul and he knows it.
And once sold, it cannot be redeemed. Submitted for your approval: Marquita Rubio, one of the dullards that have made Florida famous in that department, a man with a knave’s temperament and kingly ambitions. He thought he’d hitched his wagon to a star, but now he finds that it’s anvil, carrying him to the depths. With a final stop…at the Twilight Zone.
‘…smash and grab’. Indeed.
“Finally we’re living in precedented times.”
- Derek Guy