Couple days after saying he can prevent elections by going to war
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US Deploys Warships to Venezuelan Coast, Raising Fears of Another 'Regime Change' War
(www.commondreams.org)
It's really too bad most US citizens are genuinely too dense to put this together.
What are you talking about? This is literally being talked about all the time.
Get off your high horse, ya dunce
It's being talked about in places like this where a tiny fraction of the people are aware of what's going on but not between normal everyday people. I can tell you with no uncertainty that only two or three people in my entire workplace of a few hundred people are even remotely plugged in. Hell even the union reps are asleep at the wheel. They're too busy trying to take care of their kids or pay their rent.
Thank you, it's not like a third of the country voted for all this shit and another third apathetically didn't care what the fuck happened.
Curious how you know exactly what hundreds of people do or don't know. Did you go and ask each one?
Yes. I actively engage the people I work with to figure out who is and isn't safe to talk to about this sort of thing and to try to get more of them involved in the community.
Good man/woman. Love to hear it.
A few days after enquiring about his Nobel Peace Price nomination.
Too early.
Trump is just trying to find the right war…you know not hard … not to fast… like a dumb ass version of Goldie locks.
I hate this timeline -_-
Exactly, trump only cares about himself, so either this move will generate him money directly or it is to make media stop talking about Epstein.
the US will never stop meddling internationally as long as they can keep the majority of us focused on homegrown stressors directly impacting our daily lives. they have wrapped themselves up in too many interests. Venezuela now, Laos then. who knows where next?
He's not merely looking to meddle. He's looking to make money for the oligarch class. There's a ton of natural resources and labour for them to exploit there. If you're organized you may get some of it.
"meddle" is a placeholder for whatever evil you want to take its place.
But ma When are we getting the Epstein Files
We got the Epstein files at home.
It looks like a Bill Clinton flew on his private jet 37 times and complained that Epstein stole his child prostitutes while also being best friends with Epstein. Case closed! Thank you for your attention in this matter.
Hehehe
Nobel Peace Prize in sight
As soon as he gets the Peace Prize he's demanding, he's going to start wars all over the world.
Then he's going to have draft.
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dont you mean trump deploys, EPSTEIN-Distracting warships to venuezeula.
There's also oil in Guyana that America wants and Venezuela wants from Guyana, so Venezuela is bringing up an old claim to the Essiquibo region of Guyana to have access to the coast for oil. It's always about oil. America already owned the politicians in Guyana and it's a little harder to control Venezuela.
I already knew this because Pete Kegseth included me in his Signal chat.
Getting added is easy with signal's new userbame featuresJust change yours to Jack Daniels or Presidente and you'll get added eventually by Pete Opsec
Just a reminder the Trump tried to organize a coup against Venezuela the last time he was in office (John Bolton, the national security advisor, said so in an interview)
It was a soft coup in the guise of that guy: Juan Guido.
He popped out of nowhere, months (maybe even a year) after Venezuela's elections, with the US supporting him as the legitimate winner. And because the US does it, so do all the puppet European states.
It was really confusing episode to me at the time. Only when Bolton's interview came out did it make sense to me.
Maduro was impeached and refused to step down. They didn’t need a coup, just to support the constitutional government.
EPSTEIN
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If he declares war, he can cancel the next election. Is that how that works?
He can't declare war OR cancel elections.
Won't stop him from doing both, though.
I thought there was something in the constitution that let the president suspend elections if the US is at war? If not, my bad, I must have misunderstood.
We've had lots of elections in time of war. The major conflicts of the 20th century that resulted in a military draft century (WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) all had Presidential election. Hell, there was an election during the US Civil War.
No such thing.
You may be thinking of Lincoln suspending the writ of habeas corpus during the Civil War?
Constitution, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2:
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
Lincoln signed off on a law saying that the President could suspend the right under the same conditions.
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The lesson we learned from the korean war and the vietnam war was that sticking our nose too far into other peoples business is always a great decision. Civilian casualties and traumatized youth give the military industrial conplex a chubby, and the federal government loves its war buddy.
I am afraid such a war unfortunately can't change Trump's regime.
Goddamnit... Fuck Donald Trump
It’s frankly shocking to learn how many weak, servile cowards there are among the US’s top generals.
Them or Cuba are the easy, ideologically popular pickings, right? Instead, he's been looking north, but that's typical of his level of competence, I guess.
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2026 is getting closer, so he's got to start a war to delay the Senate midterms.
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TBH I think he's just sending ships all over the world so nobody forgets that they're his, like big toys. I wonder what it costs to run all of these fleets like this?
I need to buy some more Diplomatico
What is this dude's hardon for Venezuela?
Is it like some retribution for their oil?
Oil price needs a boost again?
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