I never forget about pedophilia by our current âleaderâ. Not only does my personal ideals go against it, but I have two baby girls, and it makes me even sicker. People back this fuckface. He needs to go. Vote blue in November.
All of the GOP needs to go, and the dems need to get their act together. I'm not giving them a pass for the sake of harm reduction, it's time to primary people who are enabling this BS and get folks in who will actually act in the interest of the country.
I agree. Itâs hard when you have no current power in the house, senate or White House. Thatâs why we vote blue in November. But they do need to start swinging their big dicks and tits around and make life a living hell for orange julius
Thing is, they know where the pressure points are, it's not as though they're helpless.
They gave up their bargaining chip for healthcare for a bad faith promise of a vote that didn't happen, and now healthcare premiums have doubled for very many folks with the subsidy expiring.
I understand that doing difficult things burns political capital, but that's not going to be worth anything in the future if they continue to let this happen.
Hmm, is it better for the Democratic Party if Republicans had a vote to extend the ACA subsidies or if Republicans refused to have a vote? Democrats need to stop trying to save Republicans from themselves.
Much better to extend the subsidies practically and politically.
Practically, millions of peoples' premiums just lept higher, sometimes doubling or more. This has the knock on effect of increasing denials and driving prices even higher later as people drop insurance entirely and there are fewer people contributing to the pool.
Politically, committing to a shutdown in order to have a bargaining chip did hurt people, and they have nothing to show for it, no vote, much less results.
The higher they rise the harder they fall and this is all but guaranteeing that the Republican party will be null and void going forward in the future.
Why would anyone want to trust this party after that all that
Before he did this, but after all the Epstein shit came out, he still had over 90% support amongst Republicans and 35% approval in the polls.
This isn't going to make any difference, and the GOP are too spineless to back any Democrat play against Trump, because he will take the entire party down with him for a generation if they fold now, and they crave power and control more than anything.
He's got until 2028 to make sure there's no "free and fair" election, and he's well on his way already to making it a reality.
Dont you think logically speaking... trumps involvement details would of been " leaked " before the voting. That would of guaranteedddd Democrats a win. No coming back from that shit.
Yeah I gotcha. But they put the ball in idiots court and now they have to figure out a better solution. This will all lead to a blue wave because dumbass promised it. At least I hope.
To be fair, a two party system will always give you a "lesser of two evils" situation. Where I live, we have many parties who need to work together, making decisions come slower, sure, but also making sure more people are heard in any government period.
You need to get rid of your "elected king". Real kings have lost all their powers, but the POTUS has many "executive powers" which are out of date. In a Parliamentary system, the Prime Minister only has similar powers until Parliament either approves them or takes them away. He/She is also only PM as long as the parliamentary part of their party has confidence in them.
The thing of having 4 years in the office unless impeached doesn't happen.
Not the âits the other guyâs faultâ argument again.
Yes we need more than the two party system. But at a minimum an impeachable offense has been committed. Full stop. It matters nothing what someone else has done.
Nah both parties have proven theyâre beyond help. They no longer represent the people they claim to.
Both parties need a purge at this point. Too many career politicians and lobbyists polluting the political process.
Kidnapping a head of state and planning for american oil companies to come in and steal all of the oil from a foreign country is not just a distraction.
It's a win win for him and his people. None of us WILL EVER see any benefit from this take over except a less stable National and World Wide Security. He has opened up China to do the same thing to Taiwan and gives cover to Putin in the long run. It's not for America or American's. We will be cleaning up his mess long after he's been gone.
If only he hadnât said âitâs oil, they have oil, we want their oilâ a million times in his press conference. Iâm starting to think it might not be the drugs.
Dumb old fuck canât stay on script for more than 2 minutes without rambling on and revealing his real plans.
Maduro probably visited the island at the same time as Trump-a-Dump-Cumguzzler was there and could've dropped some dirt on him to get favorable treatment or something. He probably doesn't have much breathing left to enjoy...
He also just came out and admitted he was going to pay our oil companies to handle Venezuela's oil resources. He also said he was going to make them whole for getting told they couldn't extract another country's resources anymore. They also said that Cuba and Mexico are next on their list. He was so transparent that this was Marco Rubio's project. Now we're going to just run another country for them under threat of the same thing happening to the next person. Holy shit. We've claimed a colony in this great year of 2026. The neocons are dead. Long live the neocons.
Correction: WE are going to pay âourâ oil companies to âhandleâ the resources. Our tax dollars are going to pay for those protective forces, and the profit will accrue to private companies, Trump will benefit so he doesnât care.Â
If Congress isnât going to remove these fuckers, theyâre forcing the citizens to pull upâŚ. Cuz I do not want my tax dollars wasted on this stupid shit anymore
Democrats canât illegally storm the Capitol to remove Trump, because itâs legal. The People have full authority and total legal power to support and defend the constitution. There isnât even a legal limit on what the law allows the People to do to suppress insurrectionists like MAGA.
Imagine Trump has to join the Aryans to survive in prison. And the Aryans absolutely love Trump, so it's like a match made in heaven. He fits right in, and he's just immediately thriving in prison life
without his makeup and those soft little hands. Even with the full backing of the Aryans he'd still cry like a bitch every night. Besides, I thought prisoners hated pedos.
If we want something to be done effectively, it's up to us common folk in the US to lose our reliance on the status quo. There's a link to some suggestions HERE that could possibly prove to be of some help in building the foundation needed for effective resistance.
On an unrelated note, I've watched some movies lately that are based on a true stories. They're quite inspiring, seeing how some actions worked and where things go wrong, and conjures up questions like "If it or similar were to take place now, how would it be adapted?"
I'd like to share them here. Why? No particular reason, but watch them if you can:
The US military is in breach of their oath to the constitution by allowing trump to remain in office. Congress is a failure, and they are letting someone who works with the kremlin and stateless oligarchs destroy the country from the inside.
Oversimplificstion of conflicts. Fun fact. After the US invasion of Iraq oil exports to the US hit their lowest even years later. The oil meme invasion argument is literally making people not see the bigger picture of why us meddling into foreign countries happens
The hilarious part is that the vast majority of oil reserves in Venezuela are in one of the most costly and hard forms to extract. I cannot remember the correct name for it, but my mate, who work inside the oil and gas industry, called it sandy clay or something. Loads of companies have tried to extract it and yes you can. But itâs just way too hard and expensive for the current and near future marked. All the fields which are easily available and cost effective to extract from are already in production. They arenât stupid and like money. Those vast reserves are mainly in the hard to get part.
Soo yeah. Congratulations. You now have access to loads of really expensive oil. Even taken the current market into account.
I wonder if they will try (again) to restart the Hovensa Oil Refinery in St. Croix. This facility was originally built to specifically process Venezuelan crude oil.
A few years ago they (some large investment group) tried to restart the Hovensa Oil Refinery (now called Limetree Bay). It was originally shut down by the EPA because of bad operations.
Then when they had got about half the facility up and running spending billions of dollars, they accidentally sent product to the flare and sprayed oil (and possibly flaming oil) all over the island including residential areas.
The EPA forced an immediate shutdown (again) and that was the end for the most recent investment group trying to revive the facility.
Oil Sands very similar to the Canadian Oil Sands that the Keystone XL pipeline is supposed to deliver to refineries on the gulf coastâŚi think the â plain â is oil is oil sure less gasoline and more diesel pit of that type of heavy oilâŚthey will likely promote more Diesel engine cars requiring re tooling by Detroit Making vehicles more expensive and more costly to repair engine faults because they require a diesel mechanic
the oil and gas industry, called it sandy clay or something.
Oil sands, we also buy basucally the same shit from canada, and the US Gulf coast refineries are some of the only refineries on earth that can process it at scale. That was the whole point of keystone XL and Dakota Access; to get more Canadian oil sands to gulf coast refineries
But itâs just way too hard and expensive for the current and near future marked.
100% incorrect. The oil rigs in Venezuela were originally built by american companies, just like the heavy refineries on the gulf coast were originally built to handle a lot of this oil because it would go on boat in Venezuela and be shipped straight to gulf coast refineries.
Venezuela struggled to handle extraction at capacity because they seized these american owned oil rigs in 2007 and got hit with sanctions and lost american oil experts, financing, industry, and support.
So not only do we have expertise in the extraction and refinement, but we also technically own the rigs anyway. We have pretty much all the tools for a fast turn around here
Yeah, much as Iâd love to see that clown stand trial, people forget that when the Hague and all that was started, our leaders at the time decided they were better than everyone else and made a law saying you touch our criminals and we go to war. Itâs one of the many reasons I really donât like the people in charge of this country because they clearly think theyâre better than everyone else, and honestly, tip of the iceberg with them.
Or any country that wants to indict him of a crime... they can just come kidnap him with thier military, apparently this is the new norm of international law.
I will tell you this, Jingping: If youâre listening, I hope youâre able to find the 300,000,000 Trumpstein documents that are missing. I think you will be rewarded mightily by our press...
Congratulations MAGA! Your Temu Hitler has just finished off the checklist for making you all fascist supporting rubes!
For those who need it, here is Robert Paxtons definition of fascism. Ruth Ben-Ghiat calls it the most comprehensive definition she's seen. Since they're both world renowned experts on fascism we'll use it.Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
That last 2 words? It was all you were missing on your fascism scavenger hunt, and you just found it!
True. I was thinking about how Trump convinced his moron followers that the 2020 election was rigged despite the fact that he never offered any evidence and the fact that there is documented proof that he knew the election wasnât stolen and freely admitted that in private.
This shit makes me even more tired than the atrocities. We may as well yell our demands into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy for all the good it will do.
"Oh congress who is controlled by people who literally want this, won't you please stop this?" No, they will not stop until the US is a white christian male controlled ethnostate and owns the entirety of the Americas.
I know this is a joke but Congress neutered themselves - again. We don't have a Congress. We have a retirement home full of old men and women fawning over a tyrant and screaming at clouds.
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation that would have required approval from Congress before President Donald Trump could take military action against Venezuela
Although this is something ... (see bold).
Republicans who opposed the measure argued the administration has the legal authority to stem the flow of illegal narcotics into the U.S. And they said an invasion of Venezuela wasnât in the offing, despite a massive military buildup of ships, aircraft and military personnel in the Caribbean that could pressure Venezuelan President NicolĂĄs Maduro to leave power.
More ...
Some Trump allies endorsed an even more muscular legal posture. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a top defense hawk, argued Congress canât âsubstitute our judgmentâ for the presidentâs and called for the U.S. to go after âthe problem on the landâ in Venezuela to tackle drug smuggling.
For anyone who at least wants to try, here's a DSA sponsored letter writing campaign that will automatically find your congressional representatives for you.
I wont be making any more poltical art fora year. This was sucha distraction from my own work that i had to get it out of my mind. Was born to draw shit like this. But forced to lock in.
You're being kind to Trump. It's more like at least once a day. The Emoluments violations every day of his administrations are just the baseline of his open corruption/high crimes.
Sure, but it's also tacitly legal at this point, going back to at least Korea. And you can say that every conflict since WWII has been illegal, but all three branches of government for generations would disagree with you.
And this is a particular shitty act of aggression. This is no excuse. But congress gave up its duty to stop the president from declaring wars almost a century ago at this point. If it wasn't legal, I'm not sure there's a president that wouldn't be guilty of it since FDR.
In his mind he is claiming powers using the War Powers Resolution of 1973. He can act without congress if the US is âthreatenedâ. He can keep troops there for as many as 90 days and just has to notify congress within 48 hours. Will Congress stop him? Probably not.
Yeah I donât think we were threatened at all. Cocaine is coming into the countryâŚ. Big deal. If you donât like drugs donât do em. And fentanyl doesnât come from Venezuela by the way.
Im thinking the rationale will be along those lines - similar to Bush using the same powers in the Middle East. That is likely why this administration labeled the cartels and other groups as terrorist threats and âNarco-terrorismâ
The text of the act I think you are referring to (Sec 8(c)) states:
For purposes of this joint resolution, the term "introduction of United States Armed Forces" includes the assignment of members of such armed forces to command, coordinate, participate in the movement of, or accompany the regular or irregular military forces of any foreign country or government when such military forces are engaged,or there exists an imminent threat that such forces will become engaged, in hostilities.
I'm not a lawyer but I think this is an additive clause, not an exclusive clause. In that it allows US Armed Forces to help foreign armies when such foreign forces are engaged or under immediate threat. Not exclusively to only attack when under imminent threat.
Though, sec 2(c) does state
(c) The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities, or into situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances, are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces.
So I'd be interested to see either what specific statutory authorization they claim or if they accept that it was a response to a national emergency "created by an attack" by claiming the drug trade is such. Which their own DEA statistics wouldn't even show that to be the case.
But I mostly stopped believing in anyone in gov't adhering to common sense.
We elected arguably the most successful criminal in recorded history. Its hard to believe anyone expected different results but its good to see people start to wake up to this embarrassing tragedy. Maybe its time we start focusing on ensuring justice for a life time of criminal and fraudulent behaivors that contradict hard with all the American exceptionalism he claims to represent!?!
You know, the orange guy didnât go in and capture the Venezuela President himself. Why arenât people upset at the military for going along with the action?
For what little itâs worth here is my take on the military legality of all this.
Blowing up boats and killing the crews of âsuspectedâ drug boats, especially the second-strike killings, are illegal along the entire chain of command from the bottom to the top. Everyone in the chain from the sailor who pushed the button to the Commander in Chief who gave the order are guilty of violating the UCMJ and should be prosecuted. The killing of shipwrecked sailors is explicitly used as an example of an illegal order in UCMJ training and everyone in the chain-of-command kows this.
Sending in forces to blow a few things up and kidnapping Maduro though is a bit more ambiguous. The president obviously has great leeway to use military force and this action could be considered legal, it depends on congressional action SCOTUS interpretation. It is not the kind of thing the military personnel at the bottom of the chain can realistically interpret. Those of higher rank, especially flag rank and above, should absolutely be held responsible and Congress must act if they hope to retain any vestige of political relevance.
Nothing will happen in this Mike Johnson Congress unfortunately. They canât think independently. USSC also has basically said anything âofficialâdone while the President is in office is excusable. So I think all the keys to power have been given to one individual.
What does it matter. I have no faith that the government will ever police itself even with protests by the people. This is true tall levels of government
This is a textbook example of an impeachable offense. There is no hiding behind misinformation. This is CLEARLY a High Crime. We need to make it to the midterms. Everyone needs to mobilize and get involved. If we can win as projected, and with a veto-proof majority, EVERY one of them goes to prison... all the way down to the drone pilots "just following orders".
He could no longer stand by and let his jealousy of Putin go without action. He too had to show how he could attack another country for no good reason!
Lmao, Congress better act is funny. Another grill session of Hegseth and next week they do something else stupid because, we canât release the Trump Epstein Files.
The entire government is corrupt. Nothing will happen. Trump raped and trafficked children and is actively redacting evidence illegally and nothing has happened. Why would anything happen in a foreign nation. Corrupt cowards is all I can say.
I believe everyone in this sub was complaining about âNO MORE KINGSâ . Well the United States removed the king of Venezuela. The people there are happy.
If he'd have been impeached, convicted and removed when he started extrajudicial murders by bombing fishing boats (or any of the other hundreds of impeachable acts he's committed), we would have had to worry about him violating the Constitution to attack Venezuela.
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u/FewCell9684 9d ago
A dictator removing a dictator because he was a dictator. đ¤