I wouldn't want to sully a beautiful guillotine with his viscera, just fucking shoot him in the back of the head and toss his corpse into the nearest hole to be devoured by insects.
Actually, on second thought, forget the hole, we don't want to sully our beautiful insects with his viscera, just incinerate the corpse and toss the carbon ash into the nearest toxic waste dump.
It should be stressed how not-normal this is. Don't let the media tell you it's okay just because some people will be very happy. Maduro is a dictator that has murdered entire families. It's understandable. However, you can't kidnap the leader of another state because you don't like them. If so, it would be just as justifiable to kidnap Trump or Putin. This doesn't make the world safe and the best case scenario is that they install a leader that allows the US to rape Venezuela for it's resources while personally enriching Trump. The worse is civil war.
At this point, I wouldn't mind if Mexico disappeared Trump and the chain of command.
Trump is a threat to Americans who oppose him, it is very likely that he will attempt to murder people like AOC, Mamdani, and Mark Kelly in the years to come. Venezuelans, Californians, New Yorkers, there is no difference to him. So long as people defy his will or has something he can steal, he will assault them.
Worse, we kidnapped a head of state and his wife. As to the law enforcement thing, it means the DOJ collaborated on trumping up charges to make it sound legit.
Also, framing it this way makes it sound like US police were involved, which will legitimize this with a great many Americans.
"Must be a bad guy if the cops had him in their sights."
I don't even know how they're still in business. I bought a cheap safety razor and a hundred pack of blades literally a decade ago now, and at the time still had a couple multiblade razor packs around. I haven't bought a razor in a decade. I'm maybe 2/5 of the way through my blade pack, and I think I'm finally on the last heads on the two multi-blade razors (because those only get used for my balls).
the safety razor is just so much better for shaving your face
tbf it does help that I don't shave my face completely and only shave at most twice a week
That makes me remember I think it was an ancient SNL bit about exactly that, a new gillette razor with 5 blades and a sixth phantom blade that comes close to touching the skin but doesn't quite. And then like three years later there were the 5 blade gillettes with the sixth edging blade on the back. The SNL skit called it. I think about that more than I probably ought to.
Interpol serves at the pleasure of the American empire. You can't expect institutions to help you in this fight. You need a grassroots people-powered movement.
Where are those ‘western values’ leaders always eager to chip in with a comment now?
Only works on countries that are weaker. The ICC is for African leaders, not Western ones. The Hague is for a war's losers, not it's winners.
The dirty truth is that Americans will be bombing three continents at once and we'll still be reading Bari Weiss Op-Eds about conservative businessmen being persecuted by Woke. Because that's how the American propaganda machine operates.
You fat fucking tub of shit, and no amount of you saying it is will trick people into thinking so when you keep trying to use them as such inside the country.
That's where the "malice" part of the original kicks in. I failed to note in my post that my own version is an addendum to the rule, not a replacement.
If your choices and actions consistently hurt other people, and you refuse to listen when people point it out and change your ways, then you're evil. No matter how stupid you are.
There are plenty of dumb and/or ignorant people who are kind and generous and who are not fucking bigots who make life hell for everyone around them.
Because the Dems ran a lackluster campaign that promised more of the same, telling everyone that the economy is doing great while everyone is struggling. Orange man at least offered hope that things would change. People NEED hope. And with trust of the government at an all time low, with some serious money in media manipulation, this is what we get
Because people are struggling and don't donate time to stay informed from reliable sources. They see the story that is pushed to them by social media algorithms... which have been bought
Yeah bringing out Cheney was a mistake but her policy platform never pivoted, just the PR stepped away from "identity politics" which all the dumbfuck both sidesers were (and still are) demanding from the Dems. Fuck the both sidesers and all the dipshits that use the term identity politics unironically.
I don't think that's the correct take. Both times it was maintain status quo vs a disruptor. The status quo has been terrible for the majority of Americans so they were willing to take the risk on the disruptor. That's the same reason people split ticket voted for both Trump and AOC, they're both disruptors.
Oh yeah the status quo of green energy, massive infrastructure investments, supporting Ukraine, EVs, PACT act, drug price controls, marijuana pardons, student debt relief, etc. How dare they!!!!!
The pathetic support of Ukraine barely giving them enough to just hang in the fight. Drug prices for 4 drugs. Alleviating the symptom of student debt and ignoring the root problem. Ignoring housing affordability. Ignoring the growing wealth inequality. Add on to of that parading around Bush era conservatives... Yeah, the status quo that needs to be disrupted.
It's not surprising that the DNC picking someone who dropped even before Iowa during the previous primaries was not a good strategy.
Oh yeah supplying Ukraine with weapons and rallying all the allies to do the same is soooo much worse than Trump's "just surrender" policy. B-B-B both sides same!!!
4 drugs? Just going off memory it was in the range of 10 or 12. So this is the point where I stop reading your lies.
I'm not both siding anything. One side is significantly better as you have even shown. Biden only gave barely enough weapons at every stage of the war. He never gave enough for Ukraine to fight back, only enough to hold Russia off. Yes, far better than the just give up strategy, but not exactly something to be proud of. Which kind of sums up all of Biden's tenure.
Lol, you're right it was 10 drugs. So successful a whole 10 drugs! When they announced that "success" the entire countries response was, "and?"
Biden only won because of how badly Trump fumbled his Covid response. Anyone would have won against Trump in that specific election. In 2016 and 2024 the political climate was very different and the DNC chose basically the only candidates that would lose to Trump. Bernie was/is a disruptor with a big supportive base that could have beat Trump. In 2024 the person who polled the worst against Trump was Biden, the second worst was Harris, yet "unnamed democrat" dominated the polls. Yes, be mad at the voters, but also be mad at the DNC who sacrificed everyone's future to push the status quo instead of embracing real change despite the voters clearly signaling that's what they want.
Bernie couldn't beat Hillary, he didn't stand a chance. The whole idea that Bernie stood a chance against either Hillary or Trump was actual literal Russian propaganda. The only people that like Bernie don't vote, and the ones that do voted for Hillary because she stood a much better chance against Trump. It was never even a little bit close with Bernie, and before you go blah blah DNC collusion (which is also largely ruspublican agitprop) Bernie still would have lost soundly, the Democratic party voters were not going to nominate someone that isn't in the goddamn party. This also ignores the majority of Dem voters are neoliberals and think socialism is a dirty word. Bernie never fucking stood a chance. At all. Whatsoever.
That's not how that works. The voters picked Hillary in 16 to run with the party nomination. The voters stuck with the incumbent, and when they dropped out due to health reasons the secondary stood in as is standard practice. If you've got an issue with it you should have fucking registered Dem and voted in the primaries like intelligent responsible civically engaged citizens do. Instead of bitching on the internet about shit you clearly don't understand.
You're ignoring how the DNC used super delegates to sway the primary votes in 16. They also provided Clinton with the debate questions ahead of time. They did everything in their power to tip the scales toward Clinton. In 2020 they changed the primary order to favor Biden, discouraged people from running against him, and even considered cutting the primaries early. Again they did everything in their power to pick Biden. Then when Biden dropped, they had time to at least hold a vote at the convention, but instead they appointed Harris. Btw, I did vote in those primaries, I donated to the Sanders campaign too.
Because Clinton was a member of the fucking party and Bernie wasn't. Like holy shit, of course they didn't want someone who isn't actually part of the party to be the party nominee. What the fuck are you all smoking that everyone ignores the fact Bernie was never going to win the Democratic nomination because he wasn't in the Democratic party. It's not complicated shit.
To be fair, none of the voters had proof that Trump was retarded when he was first elected... they were warned, and many suspected, but who was to say that monster couldn't successfully run a country. I saw who he really was and voted accordingly, But im just one person. Also, the whole Hillary/Bernie primary shit that I dont remember the details of. Also, Hillary Clinton was a weird robot.
But for his second run, we had his whole first term as evidence of his incompetence. Despite the fact that Harris was a bummer of a candidate and a major misstep by the dems, we still had trumps first term as evidence of his inability to serve as president.
What the fuck.
If it truly is America wont vote for a woman (I honestly dont believe it, but i'm a dude so im probably blind to a lot of it)...and if it truly was the end of democracy for trump to win, why the fuck did they run Harris?
We had decades of proof going back into the 80s that he was a cheap con man and a racist and a rapist. None of that was remotely new information, just a bunch of dumb fucks were like hurdur guy from apprentice.
It is absolutely more correct than this disruptor bullshit, that's an excuse for stupid people to absolve themselves of the responsibility of being informed and engaged.
So you're acknowledging the voting trends are sexist. If anything voting trends overwhelmingly favor the status quo over "disruptors" because we knew better than to tolerate demagogues.
What? Kidnapping doesn’t only happen to kids, adults can be kidnapped as well. Also if you are dead set on calling it something else it would just be abducted, like she’s a whole person not just a wife.
You really think he EVER got on a boat, with a pregnant woman in labor, or a newly delivered mom, and then went and disposed of the baby?
He was there to fuck underage girls, not play with the consequences. I'm not saying Epstein couldn't have ordered such done, but think about this, why would Trump have been there? Taking time off the golf course so he could watch a baby get dumped? Just not very plausible given what we know of him.
Let's pretend for a minute that Maduro's abduction was actually justified by anything that was given as a reason (spoiler: it's not). How would that affect his wife still? Being married to a criminal and benefiting from their crimes without participation isn't illegal.
Its long been illegal to benefit from your spouses crimes.
Calling a dictator’s spouse uninvolved ignores how authoritarian power works. When crimes are public and systemic, knowingly benefiting from the ruler’s wealth and privilege while offering loyalty or silence helps sustain the system, and the law already recognizes this by treating knowing benefit and facilitation as culpable even without direct action.
Ps> re: maduro's capture. in history only three things have hiatorically stopped a dictator:1 self destruction, 2 people rising up or 3 another country.
A rogue state with the most powerful military. The next world war is going to primarily be everyone vs the barbaric Americans. I could see it ending up like The Man in the High Castle. A nation fractured into Christofascist and liberated regions. That's if the rest of the world can even muster and offensive.
The axis (Russia, China, USA) isn't really an axis that it's made out to be. That's mainly US state propaganda that is pushing the whataboutism to diminish the severity of their evilness. Russia is a non-factor now that it's blown its military load on Ukraine. China doesn't actually care about world domination. They care more about economic strength. Maybe they take Taiwan. It's a small island. US state propaganda will make it seem like a whole continent. Whataboutism. There's only one nation on this planet since World War II that was waged continuous conflict throughout the world. Every region. One might even say the world has been under constant American threat since 1945. A slow burning, never-ending war. They feed us their media soft-power to keep us sedated.
Russia alone can't take a village of 500 people without spending tens of thousands of their meat puppets and reducing everything to rubble, and then the lose it anyway. If you think US is a paper tiger (which not entirely not true mind you), Russia is a speck of toilet paper slowly circling down the drain.
We're not even a full year into this lunatic's reign.
And I'm not sure how to feel about it. They stormed in, took the president and fucked off. Presumably they'll install the other candidate, who will let the newly formed Trump Oil have their pick of it.
And still, I'd take that over what they normally do, which is invade, terrorise the whole country for a decade or two, murder and torture a load of civilians, and then do all the other stuff anyway. I'm not sure how many times they can do this to regimes they don't like. I'd assume that all the other tin pot dictators are on the phone right now ordering a lot of very thick underground bunkers, and enough tins of beans to last 20 years.
Yeah, the US invasion of Venezuela is setting precedence and signal to China's annexation of Taiwan and dampens the illegality of Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's a successful move on Trump and creates a "rally around the flag" effect on voters and distract them from Epstein files.
Now the USA has stolen Venezuela's oil, the USA will control a large amount of the world's oil supply. This leaves the US and Israel free to conduct wars in the middle east without fear of oil supplies being restricted. In fact the destabilisation of oil supplies from countries like Iran will force countries to buy the USA's newly "liberated" oil.
I used to want America to burn to ashes. But now, I just really hope she can survive this bullshit leadership and humbly join the rest of the world once it's over
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States carried out a lightning military strike on Venezuela early Saturday, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and spiriting them out of the country. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is “going to run” Venezuela until a transition of power can occur and the U.S. will tap the country’s vast oil reserves as part of a rebuilding effort.
Well, see, that's the thing, he barely knows. Trump is a child who wants all of the cookies. He also wants everyone else to know that he has all the cookies. And even more he wants to be remembered forever as the guy that got all the cookies.
All his life the guy failed straight into success. It's all seemed easy to him, too, because never once has he faced a consequence.
If he's not stopped, he's going to drop The Bomb on somewhere. I don't even expect the target to make sense, but it will be erased from the map as solidly as Trump's infamy is sealed in the collective memory.
Nice! I'd add that this isn't down to Trump. His handlers are whispering in his ear. I was amazed they didn't have a better hold of him first time, they finally learned how to control the toddler.
In other words, this would never have occurred to him. He's be getting fatter, golfing and grifting if an organized (somewhat) platoon of Wormtongues weren't hinting at what he should do.
Yeah, more and more everyday. I'm getting the feeling that Trump is not necessarily the problem, Trump is just the useful idiot that they are able to easily manipulate. That's why Mamdani was able to so easily sway him, because the man is an idiot and as long as you talk to him the right way you can get him to agree and do whatever you want.
Unironically the most patriotic view an American have.
We are a failed state just as Christianity is a failed religion.
Christianity failed when God sent not one angel to defend jews from the Holocaust, not one Cherub to stop the rape of children. It has only served to pretend that wealth is the will of God.
It is no accident that the failed religion acts as the manifesto of America. A state that failed when it did not seize the stolen riches of the billionaire "class"
Saw this elsewhere in broken english and cleaned it up a little:
"The US invasion of Venezuela sets precedent for China's annexation of Taiwan and dampens the illegality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's a (likely successful) move on Trump's part to promote authoritarianism globally and apply a thick oily balm to his problems at home. What Epstein files?"
According to ZDF TV, because they were meeting enemies (Iran, China) and USA considers south america as their "sphere of influence", this as an attack. Same rhetoric as Russia with NATO, honestly.
Now, what does this mean for Europe? Will the US attack any europe state too, if they don't dance like Donnie wants?
I mean, russians have toilets too. Unfortunate that such a large amount of them are outside, that they even stole them from Ukrainians during their invasion!
Maduro also kidnapped Venezuela in a clearly stolen election. Venezuelans are parting in Mimami so it’s not so black and white. I just hope they can get soon an election and people there can really choose… but we know it won’t be like this…
I could say more, but I have a visa and they are sending people to jail or worse if you’d disagree with the American government, so I can’t say anything that can be interpreted wrong.
I cannot vote. Green card doesn’t allow vote, like I said I can’t say anything negative or I will lose my entire life … 1st amendment is not protected anymore for the ones with visa
Saying the Venezuelan people are hopeful is not defending the attack. Being against Maduro is not defending the attack, but Maduro needed to go urgently. Look the histories of torture in Venezuela, there is a reason why Venezuelan people are so happy even with this.
My family in Venezuela is also very happy, I think peak American is how you don’t understand us in South America and why we hate left leaning politics the way they destroyed our countries.
It's not only countries in South America that have experienced US regime change, people also celebrated and collaborated with them here and I am sure our diaspora did in the US.
This is the kind of shit my prez in tropico would do
The only difference right now between tropico and the us is the size of the country.
Also Tropico isn't run by pedophiles.
The Tropico president is also fuckable. Trump is only guillotinable.
I wouldn't want to sully a beautiful guillotine with his viscera, just fucking shoot him in the back of the head and toss his corpse into the nearest hole to be devoured by insects.
Actually, on second thought, forget the hole, we don't want to sully our beautiful insects with his viscera, just incinerate the corpse and toss the carbon ash into the nearest toxic waste dump.
I’d be on board with this, if it wasn’t for the fact that someone already tried and failed. Ugh. I hate that this pedo has plot armour.
It should be stressed how not-normal this is. Don't let the media tell you it's okay just because some people will be very happy. Maduro is a dictator that has murdered entire families. It's understandable. However, you can't kidnap the leader of another state because you don't like them. If so, it would be just as justifiable to kidnap Trump or Putin. This doesn't make the world safe and the best case scenario is that they install a leader that allows the US to rape Venezuela for it's resources while personally enriching Trump. The worse is civil war.
At this point, I wouldn't mind if Mexico disappeared Trump and the chain of command.
Trump is a threat to Americans who oppose him, it is very likely that he will attempt to murder people like AOC, Mamdani, and Mark Kelly in the years to come. Venezuelans, Californians, New Yorkers, there is no difference to him. So long as people defy his will or has something he can steal, he will assault them.
They keep begging for a Night of Long Knives
It will be manufactured if one does not come organically.
Of course Mango Mussolini wants a civil war. Divide and conquer, while the US oil companies pump the oil out.
APnews.com, first sub-headline:
FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claims as he discusses US raid to extract Venezuela’s president
Calling bullshit up front and center is pretty bold for the AP and that says something.
And yet they couldn't help themselves from saying "extract" instead of "kidnaps during an invasion"
I've been so disappointed with all the soft language from AP and Reuters.
You're not making a very strong argument...
Yours is weaker
“We captured someone in another country as per conjunction with US law enforcement”
You just can’t make this shit up- but they did.
Worse, we kidnapped a head of state and his wife. As to the law enforcement thing, it means the DOJ collaborated on trumping up charges to make it sound legit.
Also, framing it this way makes it sound like US police were involved, which will legitimize this with a great many Americans.
"Must be a bad guy if the cops had him in their sights."
DOJ spymaster going through the books for that casus belli.
Honestly how the fuck is any satire publication like the onion or similar still in business with the current state of reality???
They changed business. They're not satirical anymore. They are oracles foreseeing the events of the next weeks.
The change occurred about the time they put out the article on Gillette skipping 4 blades and going straight to 5.
I don't even know how they're still in business. I bought a cheap safety razor and a hundred pack of blades literally a decade ago now, and at the time still had a couple multiblade razor packs around. I haven't bought a razor in a decade. I'm maybe 2/5 of the way through my blade pack, and I think I'm finally on the last heads on the two multi-blade razors (because those only get used for my balls).
the safety razor is just so much better for shaving your face
tbf it does help that I don't shave my face completely and only shave at most twice a week
Post your smooth balls
That makes me remember I think it was an ancient SNL bit about exactly that, a new gillette razor with 5 blades and a sixth phantom blade that comes close to touching the skin but doesn't quite. And then like three years later there were the 5 blade gillettes with the sixth edging blade on the back. The SNL skit called it. I think about that more than I probably ought to.
They should make an article titled "Trump fires everyone at the Onion and takes over the writing 'I can do this better than you'"
And already my 2026 bingo card is deprecated. Kidnapping a head of state, that one is new.
Manuel Noriega might disagree...
Yeah, but at least Noriega was a legit narco kingpin.
My friends and I had considered making a bingo card and we are straight up not creative enough to hang more than a few days.
Can Interpol please please please put out a warrant for Trumps arrest. That fat orange thug needs some kind of consequences for his crimes.
Interpol serves at the pleasure of the American empire. You can't expect institutions to help you in this fight. You need a grassroots people-powered movement.
Look up the Hague act.
Only works on countries that are weaker. The ICC is for African leaders, not Western ones. The Hague is for a war's losers, not it's winners.
The dirty truth is that Americans will be bombing three continents at once and we'll still be reading Bari Weiss Op-Eds about conservative businessmen being persecuted by Woke. Because that's how the American propaganda machine operates.
This is a fucking criminal act.
....add it to the pile
The military is NOT us law enforcement.
You fat fucking tub of shit, and no amount of you saying it is will trick people into thinking so when you keep trying to use them as such inside the country.
As if "US law enforcement" means anything outside of the US. It's not Venezuelan law enforcement is it?
I don't know, there are a LOT of gullible fucking idiots who absolutely will be tricked.
I think he meant the DOJ assisted in trumping up the bullshit charges and will handle prosecution.
I still don't understand how DJT was re-elected.
People want evil, simple as that.
No they want bread and circus. But bread costed too much so here come the clowns.
How fucking low do you have to be to be a volunteer clown for the fucking circus?
American level low.
MAGAts are not as evil as they are stupid.
I have never really seen that postulate as practical in the real world. I prefer my own
version(EDIT: addendum; failed to describe properly):That explains the position of the higher-ups in the party, but the voter? The voter is not profit-driven, the voter is just fucking stupid.
And racist and hateful, and lastly they’re stupid and lazy. Go back to football you dumb cunts you’re fucking up the entire world
They are racist because they are too stupid to understand that immigrants are helping their economy much more than they are hurting it.
They are hateful because they are too stupid. They hate what they can't comprehend (which is pretty much everything outside their small bubble).
Stupid doesn’t automatically lead to hateful
That has to be taught or trained in, which is the issue I take with these hateful trash “people”
They’re monsters who create monsters who vote for monsters
also very sexist.
That's where the "malice" part of the original kicks in. I failed to note in my post that my own version is an addendum to the rule, not a replacement.
I always go with if the results of the stupidity are indistinguishable from malice, you can go ahead and attribute it to malice.
If your choices and actions consistently hurt other people, and you refuse to listen when people point it out and change your ways, then you're evil. No matter how stupid you are.
There are plenty of dumb and/or ignorant people who are kind and generous and who are not fucking bigots who make life hell for everyone around them.
Edit, typo
Malicious people must just adore that fucking phrase.
That's the problem they're evil because theyre too dumb to know what they're doing
It's both.
Racism. Trump promised a lot of it, and he is delivering onthat promise.
Because the Dems ran a lackluster campaign that promised more of the same, telling everyone that the economy is doing great while everyone is struggling. Orange man at least offered hope that things would change. People NEED hope. And with trust of the government at an all time low, with some serious money in media manipulation, this is what we get
... but how it was not obvious to all that orange man was lying, is the bit that gets me.
Because people are struggling and don't donate time to stay informed from reliable sources. They see the story that is pushed to them by social media algorithms... which have been bought
Americans are really goddamn stupid and selfish.
Easier and more accurate answer - The Democrats ran a woman in a deeply misogynistic country
That didn’t help but the core issue there was Harris’s sharp pivot to the right.
Yeah bringing out Cheney was a mistake but her policy platform never pivoted, just the PR stepped away from "identity politics" which all the dumbfuck both sidesers were (and still are) demanding from the Dems. Fuck the both sidesers and all the dipshits that use the term identity politics unironically.
That's when a real leader claps back with "Thye aren't identity politics. They're civil fucking rights."
Because American voters preferred to have this than to have a woman president. For the second time.
I don't think that's the correct take. Both times it was maintain status quo vs a disruptor. The status quo has been terrible for the majority of Americans so they were willing to take the risk on the disruptor. That's the same reason people split ticket voted for both Trump and AOC, they're both disruptors.
Oh yeah the status quo of green energy, massive infrastructure investments, supporting Ukraine, EVs, PACT act, drug price controls, marijuana pardons, student debt relief, etc. How dare they!!!!!
The pathetic support of Ukraine barely giving them enough to just hang in the fight. Drug prices for 4 drugs. Alleviating the symptom of student debt and ignoring the root problem. Ignoring housing affordability. Ignoring the growing wealth inequality. Add on to of that parading around Bush era conservatives... Yeah, the status quo that needs to be disrupted.
It's not surprising that the DNC picking someone who dropped even before Iowa during the previous primaries was not a good strategy.
Oh yeah supplying Ukraine with weapons and rallying all the allies to do the same is soooo much worse than Trump's "just surrender" policy. B-B-B both sides same!!!
4 drugs? Just going off memory it was in the range of 10 or 12. So this is the point where I stop reading your lies.
I'm not both siding anything. One side is significantly better as you have even shown. Biden only gave barely enough weapons at every stage of the war. He never gave enough for Ukraine to fight back, only enough to hold Russia off. Yes, far better than the just give up strategy, but not exactly something to be proud of. Which kind of sums up all of Biden's tenure.
Lol, you're right it was 10 drugs. So successful a whole 10 drugs! When they announced that "success" the entire countries response was, "and?"
Total coincidence it was a woman versus a wildly unfit man both times that the women lost!
Well, no. Both women were picked by the DNC and not by the voters.
A fucking ham sandwich should've won against Trump. A man did.
Biden only won because of how badly Trump fumbled his Covid response. Anyone would have won against Trump in that specific election. In 2016 and 2024 the political climate was very different and the DNC chose basically the only candidates that would lose to Trump. Bernie was/is a disruptor with a big supportive base that could have beat Trump. In 2024 the person who polled the worst against Trump was Biden, the second worst was Harris, yet "unnamed democrat" dominated the polls. Yes, be mad at the voters, but also be mad at the DNC who sacrificed everyone's future to push the status quo instead of embracing real change despite the voters clearly signaling that's what they want.
Bernie couldn't beat Hillary, he didn't stand a chance. The whole idea that Bernie stood a chance against either Hillary or Trump was actual literal Russian propaganda. The only people that like Bernie don't vote, and the ones that do voted for Hillary because she stood a much better chance against Trump. It was never even a little bit close with Bernie, and before you go blah blah DNC collusion (which is also largely ruspublican agitprop) Bernie still would have lost soundly, the Democratic party voters were not going to nominate someone that isn't in the goddamn party. This also ignores the majority of Dem voters are neoliberals and think socialism is a dirty word. Bernie never fucking stood a chance. At all. Whatsoever.
That's not how that works. The voters picked Hillary in 16 to run with the party nomination. The voters stuck with the incumbent, and when they dropped out due to health reasons the secondary stood in as is standard practice. If you've got an issue with it you should have fucking registered Dem and voted in the primaries like intelligent responsible civically engaged citizens do. Instead of bitching on the internet about shit you clearly don't understand.
You're ignoring how the DNC used super delegates to sway the primary votes in 16. They also provided Clinton with the debate questions ahead of time. They did everything in their power to tip the scales toward Clinton. In 2020 they changed the primary order to favor Biden, discouraged people from running against him, and even considered cutting the primaries early. Again they did everything in their power to pick Biden. Then when Biden dropped, they had time to at least hold a vote at the convention, but instead they appointed Harris. Btw, I did vote in those primaries, I donated to the Sanders campaign too.
Because Clinton was a member of the fucking party and Bernie wasn't. Like holy shit, of course they didn't want someone who isn't actually part of the party to be the party nominee. What the fuck are you all smoking that everyone ignores the fact Bernie was never going to win the Democratic nomination because he wasn't in the Democratic party. It's not complicated shit.
To be fair, none of the voters had proof that Trump was retarded when he was first elected... they were warned, and many suspected, but who was to say that monster couldn't successfully run a country. I saw who he really was and voted accordingly, But im just one person. Also, the whole Hillary/Bernie primary shit that I dont remember the details of. Also, Hillary Clinton was a weird robot.
But for his second run, we had his whole first term as evidence of his incompetence. Despite the fact that Harris was a bummer of a candidate and a major misstep by the dems, we still had trumps first term as evidence of his inability to serve as president.
What the fuck.
If it truly is America wont vote for a woman (I honestly dont believe it, but i'm a dude so im probably blind to a lot of it)...and if it truly was the end of democracy for trump to win, why the fuck did they run Harris?
What the fuck.
I dont get it.
We had decades of proof going back into the 80s that he was a cheap con man and a racist and a rapist. None of that was remotely new information, just a bunch of dumb fucks were like hurdur guy from apprentice.
It is absolutely more correct than this disruptor bullshit, that's an excuse for stupid people to absolve themselves of the responsibility of being informed and engaged.
Only if you completely ignore the voting trends of modern history.
So you're acknowledging the voting trends are sexist. If anything voting trends overwhelmingly favor the status quo over "disruptors" because we knew better than to tolerate demagogues.
He cheated.
American voters had a choice between utterly corrupt oligarchy enablers and entertaining utterly corrupt oligarchy enablers. Are you not entertained?
No, they had a choice between a worthless piece of shit and a passingly decent woman.
At least Kamala would have cared about the optics of her presidency.
Well they kinda cheated but mostly Americans fuckin suck.
He wasn't.
Thus begins the first of Trump's fascist wars of conquest. This is how world war 2 started.
The president of peace, everyone
Pedophile President of Peace is in the Epstein files.
distraction from the files, he was clearly desperate the more and more files were released how depraved he was.
I want off this fucking ride.
End stage capitalism is just getting started! Enjoy!
No you can't make me
If we could escape this planet, they could to. I would prefer the universe not be infected like our planet is.
I'm holding out hope that Elon will be on a one way trip to Mars some day. Perhaps he can take all his "friends" with him.
why did they "kidnap" his wife too?
Why put "kidnap" in quotes, it's not as if it's a wild claim?
It certainly wasn't lawful in Venezuela, where I believe the kidnapping occurred.
because it actually is a "wifenab" or wifenap but the word doesn't exist.
it was not a political choice but a linguistic (non)sensibility
What? Kidnapping doesn’t only happen to kids, adults can be kidnapped as well. Also if you are dead set on calling it something else it would just be abducted, like she’s a whole person not just a wife.
yes, "abducted" is surely a better word choice but my comment was a reply to the title. so i used the same word and put it in quotation marks.
Now… why did they abduct a "whole other person" who is Nicolás Maduro's wife?
Kidnapped had been the appropriate word choice since the mid-1800’s at least.
not sure why we are arguing about word choice? if you understand the intent, just move on.. why be critical?
Who happens to be 13?
And pregnant?
And they murdered her baby?
Seriously, this could get real worse real quick.
?
In relation to Trump raping that 13 yo and killing their baby
i feel like i will regret my question but, can you post some links so i can understand what you're writing about?
(https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00025010.pdf)
Trump raped a 13 year old possibly impregnating her and her uncle drowned the baby in lake Michigan while Trump was present.
Someone called the FBI a few years ago and claimed that Trump raped her and killed her kid. Take it as seriously as you would any spurious accusation
No one seriously thinks Trump murdered a baby and dumped it in Lake Michigan or was there when it happened. He's not got the attention span for that.
Not any more, no.
You really think he EVER got on a boat, with a pregnant woman in labor, or a newly delivered mom, and then went and disposed of the baby?
He was there to fuck underage girls, not play with the consequences. I'm not saying Epstein couldn't have ordered such done, but think about this, why would Trump have been there? Taking time off the golf course so he could watch a baby get dumped? Just not very plausible given what we know of him.
No, it was a thirteen year old girl. Are you even paying attention?
Because she's just as guilty if not more for living off blood money. Or did you give her a pass?
Let's pretend for a minute that Maduro's abduction was actually justified by anything that was given as a reason (spoiler: it's not). How would that affect his wife still? Being married to a criminal and benefiting from their crimes without participation isn't illegal.
Its long been illegal to benefit from your spouses crimes.
Calling a dictator’s spouse uninvolved ignores how authoritarian power works. When crimes are public and systemic, knowingly benefiting from the ruler’s wealth and privilege while offering loyalty or silence helps sustain the system, and the law already recognizes this by treating knowing benefit and facilitation as culpable even without direct action.
Ps> re: maduro's capture. in history only three things have hiatorically stopped a dictator:1 self destruction, 2 people rising up or 3 another country.
A rogue state with the most powerful military. The next world war is going to primarily be everyone vs the barbaric Americans. I could see it ending up like The Man in the High Castle. A nation fractured into Christofascist and liberated regions. That's if the rest of the world can even muster and offensive.
The axis (Russia, China, USA) isn't really an axis that it's made out to be. That's mainly US state propaganda that is pushing the whataboutism to diminish the severity of their evilness. Russia is a non-factor now that it's blown its military load on Ukraine. China doesn't actually care about world domination. They care more about economic strength. Maybe they take Taiwan. It's a small island. US state propaganda will make it seem like a whole continent. Whataboutism. There's only one nation on this planet since World War II that was waged continuous conflict throughout the world. Every region. One might even say the world has been under constant American threat since 1945. A slow burning, never-ending war. They feed us their media soft-power to keep us sedated.
They're literally using that economic strength to conquer developing countries through neocolonial exploitation of corruption.
Russia is going into their 4th year of their 3 day operation and you're talking about delusional
Russia alone can't take a village of 500 people without spending tens of thousands of their meat puppets and reducing everything to rubble, and then the lose it anyway. If you think US is a paper tiger (which not entirely not true mind you), Russia is a speck of toilet paper slowly circling down the drain.
We're not even a full year into this lunatic's reign.
And I'm not sure how to feel about it. They stormed in, took the president and fucked off. Presumably they'll install the other candidate, who will let the newly formed Trump Oil have their pick of it.
And still, I'd take that over what they normally do, which is invade, terrorise the whole country for a decade or two, murder and torture a load of civilians, and then do all the other stuff anyway. I'm not sure how many times they can do this to regimes they don't like. I'd assume that all the other tin pot dictators are on the phone right now ordering a lot of very thick underground bunkers, and enough tins of beans to last 20 years.
We live in interesting times...
Trump is actually now saying that the US will install a puppet state and have the American military take over their oil industry.
Yeah, the US invasion of Venezuela is setting precedence and signal to China's annexation of Taiwan and dampens the illegality of Russian invasion of Ukraine. It's a successful move on Trump and creates a "rally around the flag" effect on voters and distract them from Epstein files.
Except there's no "rally around the flag" going on? No one has Venezuela on their bingo cards.
I expected worse.
Like a tactical nuke in a major city type worse.
So the fact he hasn't nuked anyone is better than my expectations.
3 years left...
We might lose a city or two from nukes... 👀
I really wonder what step two in this ingenious plan is.
Oil.
It's always fucking oil.
On a high level, sure, but how about the details?
Now the USA has stolen Venezuela's oil, the USA will control a large amount of the world's oil supply. This leaves the US and Israel free to conduct wars in the middle east without fear of oil supplies being restricted. In fact the destabilisation of oil supplies from countries like Iran will force countries to buy the USA's newly "liberated" oil.
Bold of you to assume their wars will be limited to the Middle East.
That's somebody else's job
Friendship ended with Saudi Arabia. Now Venezuela is my new best friend!
aslo US has the refineries to work on venezuelas HEAVY sour oil, that is the reason.
Get more praise and attention!
/Not even S
I wish someone would kidnap this kiddie rapist and throw him into Lake Michigan
That's rough on the lake
What the ever-loving fuck is this timeline
It's nothing compared to what's coming.
Now I know what it feels like to be in France under Napoleon III.
Would be a real shame if something similar were to happen to mar-a-lago...
I used to want America to burn to ashes. But now, I just really hope she can survive this bullshit leadership and humbly join the rest of the world once it's over
Zero percent chance he actually wrote this one.
Also, he’s a fucking madman and has to be stopped!
I've come to non credible comments for a sanity check. I think it's a sign I should start stockpiling food or something.
It’s literally never a bad time to make sure you have a shelf stable food stockpile. If you wait until you need it, it’s too late.
Don’t forget water too! I like to keep sealed 5 gallon jugs and also some water treatment kit if things go on longer.
I have enough life straws for my family. Check those out. They even integrate them into water bottles for you now.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States carried out a lightning military strike on Venezuela early Saturday, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and spiriting them out of the country. President Donald Trump said the U.S. is “going to run” Venezuela until a transition of power can occur and the U.S. will tap the country’s vast oil reserves as part of a rebuilding effort.
“Lightning military strike”, what an interesting turn of phrase.
How would one say that in German? Just wondering.
Blitzkrieg, if my
historyGerman serves meTechnically no, the Blitzkrieg would apply in a full blown war. Krasnov ordered a commando mission.
So a blitz special operation?
Does it rhyme with shitskrieg?
Ja
He doesn't even know how to run one country, let alone two.
What the actual fuck is he doing???
Well, see, that's the thing, he barely knows. Trump is a child who wants all of the cookies. He also wants everyone else to know that he has all the cookies. And even more he wants to be remembered forever as the guy that got all the cookies.
All his life the guy failed straight into success. It's all seemed easy to him, too, because never once has he faced a consequence.
If he's not stopped, he's going to drop The Bomb on somewhere. I don't even expect the target to make sense, but it will be erased from the map as solidly as Trump's infamy is sealed in the collective memory.
Nice! I'd add that this isn't down to Trump. His handlers are whispering in his ear. I was amazed they didn't have a better hold of him first time, they finally learned how to control the toddler.
In other words, this would never have occurred to him. He's be getting fatter, golfing and grifting if an organized (somewhat) platoon of Wormtongues weren't hinting at what he should do.
Yeah, more and more everyday. I'm getting the feeling that Trump is not necessarily the problem, Trump is just the useful idiot that they are able to easily manipulate. That's why Mamdani was able to so easily sway him, because the man is an idiot and as long as you talk to him the right way you can get him to agree and do whatever you want.
Hoping that people realize that it's the US that is causing the wars.
If the US don't receive sanctions for this, people could also realize that it never is the war that is bad but the loss of western influence.
Pinch me so I'll wake up please.
What? Business as usual.
Unironically the most patriotic view an American have.
We are a failed state just as Christianity is a failed religion.
Christianity failed when God sent not one angel to defend jews from the Holocaust, not one Cherub to stop the rape of children. It has only served to pretend that wealth is the will of God.
It is no accident that the failed religion acts as the manifesto of America. A state that failed when it did not seize the stolen riches of the billionaire "class"
you see there is this thing called epstein files, and some of it being released has made him very desperate to distract the news from it.
Saw this elsewhere in broken english and cleaned it up a little:
"The US invasion of Venezuela sets precedent for China's annexation of Taiwan and dampens the illegality of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's a (likely successful) move on Trump's part to promote authoritarianism globally and apply a thick oily balm to his problems at home. What Epstein files?"
According to ZDF TV, because they were meeting enemies (Iran, China) and USA considers south america as their "sphere of influence", this as an attack. Same rhetoric as Russia with NATO, honestly.
Now, what does this mean for Europe? Will the US attack any europe state too, if they don't dance like Donnie wants?
They're capitulating with a modern day Hitler as far as I'm concerned.
Christ, what an asshole.
Now do Putin.
And Netanyahu
And Trump.
Well get trump after his term in office.
No, let’s get him now please
Getting him now is all but impossible and if you did hed become a martyr.
Remember what dish is best served cold.
Yogurt and granola
Fuck yes
Salad.
Its never best. But ok.
Can't after so many assassination attempts his security is too tight...he's untouchable militarily and because he won the election.
After tho, he's more vulnerable.
The libs are singing Kumbaya as hard as they can!
What more do you want?
Keep your disgusting violent fantasy shit in your own banana republic americunt and stop terrorizing the rest of the world
Orc big mad?
Is your toilet outside?
I mean, russians have toilets too. Unfortunate that such a large amount of them are outside, that they even stole them from Ukrainians during their invasion!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looting_by_Russian_forces_during_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
I can't relate, because I'm not from america. But seeing your metal aptitude it's no wonder you can't deduce that from "I lived in the ussr".
America, you have a pirate as your warlord!
We need socialism
Maduro also kidnapped Venezuela in a clearly stolen election. Venezuelans are parting in Mimami so it’s not so black and white. I just hope they can get soon an election and people there can really choose… but we know it won’t be like this…
I could say more, but I have a visa and they are sending people to jail or worse if you’d disagree with the American government, so I can’t say anything that can be interpreted wrong.
We shouldn’t invade countries for oil, regardless of who runs the country. Stop defending imperialism.
Like, Bush 2000 stolen or Nayib Bukele 2024 stolen?
Have you tried voting your way to freedom?
I cannot vote. Green card doesn’t allow vote, like I said I can’t say anything negative or I will lose my entire life … 1st amendment is not protected anymore for the ones with visa
So your PR for the trump administration here is because you think it will keep you out of the camps?
Not defending them, but so far people form Venezuela are hopeful, and this says more on how bad things were with Maduro.
Saying the Venezuelan people are hopeful is not defending the attack. Being against Maduro is not defending the attack, but Maduro needed to go urgently. Look the histories of torture in Venezuela, there is a reason why Venezuelan people are so happy even with this.
So now that trump is in charge like you want, will you be returning to your "liberated" homeland?
According to the country that invaded Venezuela?
Peak murica, what about actual Venezuelans in Venezuela?
My family in Venezuela is also very happy, I think peak American is how you don’t understand us in South America and why we hate left leaning politics the way they destroyed our countries.
Sure, they do.
It's not only countries in South America that have experienced US regime change, people also celebrated and collaborated with them here and I am sure our diaspora did in the US.
There cannot be a fair election in Venezuela until the US sanctions are completely eliminated.
US: threatens to murder every tenth voter if they don't vote for the far right
US: "OmG sO aNtIdEmOcRaTiC"