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U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, posted his potential concerns, reflecting a view from the right flank in the Congress. “I look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force,” Lee said on X.
YEA ME TOO! For fucking Christ’s sake. Wouldn’t that have been nice to have for the past 20 fucking years too. Maybe then we could avoid invading poorer countries to prop up “defense” stocks. There no money for schools, healthcare, housing, medicine, or food for children, but there’s a trillion fucking dollars for the military… to INVADE VENEZUELA???
Everything Trump touches, misery follows. And now, death follows him too.
Mike Lee is full of shit. He was not being facetious there, he’s literally looking forward to receiving his talking points on how to defend this shit.
Psst, “nothing ever happens” people… This is where nothing cannot happen. I already can’t believe all the times he got away with ignoring the constitution, but no matter what your political alignment is, this cannot stand. He fucking can’t just bomb a country and kidnap its head of state, so that “the biggest oil companies in the world can make money” – that’s an (almost) direct quote from Trump.
Mike Lee is one of the fuckers responsible for this. He has let Trump do crime and bypass congress since Trump’s first term and suddenly, this is what makes him ask questions? He’s just trying to cover his own ass.
Mike Lee throws bricks then pockets his hands.
Maduro and Trump are friends
Maduro gets to escape his country and save face instead of being assassinated or executed.
Trump gets to manufacture a conflict so he can start martial law and become a dictator, and to distract from us learning he came inside little girls.
Well that escalated quickly
gotta keep the deflect up from the epstein files
If bombing civilians and kidnapping heads of state is the level of deflection we’re at, then “Trump is a pedophile” could not even be the worst thing to come out of the Epstein files.
The Epstein files already have revealed allegations of infanticide against Trump.
But realistically, Trump’s personality doesn’t require him to compare the two things. He has one thing that he doesn’t want to do and it makes him look weak. And then he thinks people might be distracted if he does this other thing that he really really wants to do, anyways.
We’re lucky somebody must have kept Trump from dropping nuclear bombs on Venezuela.
Yeah, but third time is a charm, as they say. He surrounded himself with lunatics that may be worse than him.
Fuck off with your epstein files. It is terrible what happened to the epstein files and should be released but there are still ton of terrible things happening even worst thsn Epstein
The thing is, these files have the power to stop this evil man, and bring down the GOP’s reign of power.
These are reputable accounts of Trump’s pedophilia, child abuse, child rape, and even an account of being party to infanticide.
So we already know that about Trump and now he is doing another terrible thing like mudering civilians and kidnapping people and this suppose tocmake Trump look any better?
Idk, Epstein being Mossad pretty much ensures every document leading to heinous stuff.
How doing another very hineous thing like this is a good deflection from the files and other hineous things?
Like how many illegal regime changes have been effected so a particular state can retain a currency hegemony, including via proxy wars and proxy terrorism.
How the hell can they just waltz into a country and just kidnap their leader without committing diplomatic suicide with the rest of the world?
The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime. Neatly sidesteps any pardon shenanigans they’re going to attempt, given a US presidential pardon has no legal standing outside its borders.
Diplomatic suicide with the world happened many months ago, were you sleeping? Threatening Canada, Greenland, who else?
The thing is those are all threats people involved in diplomacy can rationalise away as public image stuff and not take seriously. Like don’t get me wrong, it’s going to have them on alert, but it’s not a bridge burning yet.
This is a physical act with no other interpretation. The US invaded a country and kidnapped its leader. This is a burnt bridge.
But not OUR bridge, can any other diplomat rationalize?
Some will, but most will see this as confirmation he will act illegally rather than just threaten to. i.e. an escalation of threat from before this happened.
The US invaded a country that floats on oil and with a socialist government, most Western countries would be more than happy to feast on the crumbs of the pillage of Venezuela.
Yea, Maduro is the successor dictator of a notorious dictator. They’re getting no sympathies from western govts, maybe some chiding the US at best.
The removal of Maduro is a silver lining at best. I wanted the Venezuelan people to toss him out, but now they’ll just have to toss out my govt’s new colonial dictator instead :))))
The most frustrating part of it all is I can’t just drive 30 hours to the white house and start throwing firebombs. I’ve very much come to hate how VAST a country the US is as of late.
Both colonialism and neocolonialism need to be part of Western education.
They’re still kissing the ring.
And figuratively grasping their knife behind their back …
figuring out how to cut any relience they have with the US. As soon as they can they will abandon us and the working class will suffer.
It’s what the psychopaths want. They want a poor, uneducated subservient proletariat to serve their wants
And you think the US invading another country will make them stop? If anything they’ll kiss harder to try to placate the monster.
I neither said nor implied that.
It’d be nice, but I can’t see a country that has a Hague Invasion Plan to prevent any American from ever being tried by the ICC just, you know, giving that up.
Manuel Noriega would have a thing to say. At least Noriega was a legit narco boss.
Because Maduro was a pariah, same as Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein. Obviously, it’s not about liberating the Venezuelan people. The US isn’t even pretending this time. It’s about oil and getting rich.
If you shoot a rat with a shotgun, yeah, maybe don’t do that, but thanks for killing the rat. If you shoot a dog with a shotgun, that’s pretty monstrous. As long as Trump takes out the worst folks, he’ll get away with it.
Is it now a free for all for dictators? Trump, Netanyahu, Putin next in line?
As an American I love this idea.
Trump and the rest of the GOP at this point are traitors to both their own people, and to the world.
Let’s throw a good number of the democrats in there, too. Not all of them like the GOP, but many of those assholes are also traitors.
Sure, they should but I can’t see any US president giving up their war crimes pass.
The next US president should finally join the ICC and give retroactive authority to prosecute anyone associated with the current US regime.
Not gonna happen. Trump is especially blatant, but imperialism is bipartisan.
Every single goddamn american president after the us became imperialist should go to jail
So since founding.
Not to mention that SCOTUS would never allow it.
Trump always said the quiet part loud.
laddies and gents we’re going back to afghanistan
the peripheral war is over, long live the peripheral war
Oh. My. God. It is starting.
you’re mixing this up with Jan 7th
Anyone who continues to support this inhuman parasite deserves nothing less than Nuremberg 2.0
I think we all had ‘Unjustified War with Venezuela’ on our bingo cards.
Kidnapped, not captured.
Wtf
Locked the Nobel Peace Prize prize for this year in after outclassing the current winner’s work.
It will be renamed the Trump-Nobel prize for peace.
Terrorist state. Next time anyone tells you they can’t act against a head of state you can tell them to fuck off.
Yep. And he’s not going to be released. Guarantee ther will be an “accident”. He’ll fall out of an open window- in a basement.
Learning from Putin?
clinton too
Putin eyeing zelensky reeeeallll close now…
Nah. He’ll “escape”, then found with two shots to the back and flayed skin. Then it’ll be considered suicide.
Oh my god he actually did the thing. What the hell! Holy shit I did not keep up with the news
Not saying it’s not a hamfisted unjustified action buuuuuut if someone had to be the target of one, Maduro isn’t that bad of a choice 🤷♂️
Why would anyone have to be a target‽
Not saying anyone has to be a target. But if it happened to the likes of Putin or Assad, my outrage would be pretty muted :o
And here we see a useful idiot in its natural habitat manufacturing consent for free 🤦
