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“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.
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Slam! Ripped!
People are gonna start falling out of windows in the US real soon.
People joke about this but it already happens via house fires, carbon monoxide, gas accidents, and homeless/poor people being manipulated and given a scapegoat (vic) to murder.
It’s not a prediction it’s happening.
As always, she is absolutely right.
She’s an intelligent, well thought out person but no one deserves that kind of fanaticism.
It’s about the redactions.
Not primarily. I think it’s simultaneously to steal oil, as is tradition with American Republicans, and also to cover any domestic issues. The fact that Trump raped dozens of kids, and he deleted and redacted millions of documents to cover that up, is one of those domestic issues. The others are the economy, ICE being a gestapo that disappears anyone the regime doesn’t like, and the establishment of “quick reaction forces” in the US military to deploy against protesters (look it up, it’s real).
We about to get really hot here in America.
AOC is completely right.
Yes Trump literally said in his speech that’s what it’s about, they’re not even trying to hide it anymore.
Shit, pretty sure he’s on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.
He wants a regime change eventually, and so does the money behind him.
But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.
That’s why he’s doing this, holding onto political power is the golden goose. Not even trump is dumb enough to kill and eat the goose. As we get closer to elections, we’ll see him pass on money if it means holding onto power longer. But if midterms happen and he loses the House, that’s a lot of lost power, which means less money from bribes/grifts.
There’s no provision in US law for suspension of elections. No matter what we hold elections. Now they’ll certainly be ratfucked to hell and back but any suspension of elections will be totally illegal.
Problem is, it wouldn’t be the first thing that it totally and obviously illegal, that still gets done with 0 conequenses for the fascist.
I don’t think even MAGA lets him get away with that. This is America and we have elections! We fuckin don’t vote in them but we have em, god dammit
They’ll let him get away with it, because they’re all going to lose their seats. The US has been taken over by a dictator. Our only hope is invasion.
I know, but they’d literally have to cite a foreign country’s laws as the justification like scrotus did pulling from english common law to nix Dobbs.
Shit, pretty sure he’s on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.
But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.
The craziest and saddiest part of this theory most people were alive when the US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. Those elections were never cancelled.
If the US does proceed with a full on invastion of Venezuela. Trumpie tells everyone that the elections has to be cancelled. There is a going to be sizeable part of the population that is going “Yeah, cancelling the elections during a war makes sense”. Even though most of them were alive during the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions.
And the other half will stand with a placard on the street thinking that will solve it.
Don’t forget changing their socials pfp to the Venezuelan flag.
Eh.
Cancelling elections would be the precipitator to get a 1/6 type of thing, except this time against trump. Not to mention the few high ranking military who didn’t resign, have already shown their not cowards.
trump assumes everyone against him left, but the only people who left were cowards who didn’t deserve to put a uniform on
Anyone that’s not with trump and stayed, will likely see cancelled elections as the last opportunity to act. It won’t be fun, but that’s less a line in sand, and more the foundation this country was built on.
I really don’t see even his biggest supporters defending cancelled elections. Especially with how much worse things are gonna be by even midterms
The mythical good soldier, never seen before but will appear at exactly the right moment.
I mean historically revolutions commonly involve military defectors/coups. No garuntee that will happen though
No guarantee it won’t involve another person stepping up against trump, seizing power and then holding onto it. Usually that’s how that happens
He’s not going to cancel elections. He doesn’t need to do it. He can delay results claiming fraud or not even that, just ignore the Congress.
And maybe he won’t even need to do that. Just purge voters, strict voting laws enforcement, gerrymandering, just plain voter fraud.
And maybe he won’t even need to do that, because republicans may still keep both houses without any fraudulent activity. Yes. There is a good chance that happens. You maybe read of a few disappointed voters, but most people are still 100% maga.
Magats are composed of 2 groups of people. Morons and scumbags. That’s it. Nothing else. And they’re are all over social media praising their orange shitler.
They won’t catch on till they end up like the VnJ in Nazi Germany in the 30s.
You maybe read of a few disappointed voters, but most people are still 100% maga.
Weird to remind people of this, but real life still exists bro…
And wherever you’re reading about what they think, I bet a billionaire owns it.
Why do you only find out about them thru billionaires?
You do realize the billionaires don’t give a fuck about either group, and have been putting us against each other for generations and doing everything possible to segregate us?
Like, these all feel like very basic questions, and I’m probably coming off condescendingly, but there’s some very important things we need to clear up here, and it seems like we need to start at a basic level.
The real world is influenced with what billionaires project. It’s not separated.
He kept saying “we are going to be taking money out”.
Well if you’re a fascist who doesn’t care about blending of the state with capital then it’s a pretty strong argument.
They did sign contracts, let American companies build a bunch of infrastructure, then seized it at gunpoint.
Iran, Iraq, etc done similar things, but Venezuela is pretty unique in that it lost the international legal cases and still refused to pay retribution.
Turns out Ghina got really good at renewables while we were deliberately looking away. And Ghina is too big to invade. Guess we’ll have to double down on oil. And somehow these guys have more oil than the Saudis. Not for long…
Ghina
Why write it like this?
Because thats how Trump pronounces China.
Phew. I thought they couldn’t spell Guyana.
In my head it was a 50/50 typo between China and Ghana
Ghana also has lots of oil so Trump interest would not be crazy.
Venezuela has the largest heavy crude oil reserves, which is the type that America can refine with its own refineries. Shale crude or light/medium crude are harder for the US to refine and sell.
Not exactly. Yes, US refineries are set up to handle heavy sour crude and would have to be updated to handle light sweet crude US produces.
But the light sweet crude is easier to process and that’s also makes it more expensive. So US was normally exporting it and importing the heavy one from other places like Canada.
sour sweet
Who the fuck named these this and why?
Because prospectors used to taste the oil for quality. High sulfer tasted “sour”.
They used to taste it in the past.
The term sweet originates from the fact that a low level of sulfur provides the oil with a relatively sweet taste and pleasant smell, compared to sulfurous oil. Nineteenth-century prospectors would taste and smell small quantities of oil to determine its quality.[4]
Okay, and what are you going to do about it?
When MAGA Texas gets over it’s warection, they will slowly realize the Permian basin will crash as hard as 2020 from a glut of oil.
So much for Tulsi Gabbard’s weirdly specific position against “regime change wars”.
shes only there to keep the intelligence community in line so they dont hurt russia.
It’s not even regime change, the old Maduro supporting regime is still running the show. The VP was on a visit in Russia when this happened.
Russia
I find it interesting that they are very weak in a traditional military sense, but their intelligence, posturing and political power is stupidly effective.
It’s like they learned that information is the new warfare and trained on that while letting their traditional forces fall apart.
After USSR they realized they have no chance militarily, so all their work is concentrated on disinformation, sabotage and subversion.
Military was only meant to be used specifically to seal the deal once the main work was done.
also the firehouse of falsehood was from them, which the gop adopted, steven bannon.
they are very weak in a traditional military sense
They’re in a multi-year proxy war with NATO and gaining ground. Can’t imagine why anyone would call that “weak” compared to, say, Iraq '03 or Serbia '99, where the countries were overrun in a matter of months.
their intelligence, posturing and political power is stupidly effective.
A lot of it is the USSR’s anti-colonialist legacy. Russia inherited enormous goodwill from it’s historical geopolitical allies. And - as a trillion $/year economy with advanced technology and infrastructure - they have a lot of carrots to throw around, as well as sticks. Idk if that can last, given their increased isolation and economic contracting, but it’s been enough to coast on for decades
And with the US banging on Venezuela’s door, they’re a logical Realpolitik partner. Enemy of my enemy.
I say they’re weak because it is a proxy war. They’re going all out, while NATO powers are tangentially supplying Ukraine. If it was a direct NATO intervention, it would not be going nearly as well for them. They thought they would be in and out in 3 days, we’re approaching 4 years and it has greatly exposed how dilapidated their military infrastructure is.
They’re going all out, while NATO powers are tangentially supplying Ukraine.
The EU is plowing hundreds of billions into the fight while their domestic economies sag. Meanwhile, Russia aligned far right parties - AfD, National Rally, Reform UK - are surging across the continent.
They thought they would be in and out in 3 days, we’re approaching 4 years
The story of every war in history.
But then I’ve heard the NAFO heads that Ukraine would have recaptured Crimea by now. And that Putin would be arrested/killed. And Navalny would be running the country as its rightfully elected president.
All that was supposed to happen before Biden’s midterms.
It’s even better.
Trump already stabbed the Venezuelan people in the back.
They are working with the vice president, meaning this has nothing to do with liberation. Nothing. Simply control of resources, nothing else.
Venezuela VP?
Yes, the same one who was part of all the brutal shit Maduro was part of.
Venezuelans celebrating my ass. Any who are just don’t realize they’ve been had yet.
The only news sources I know of claiming the Venezuelan government was involved in “brutal shit” are the same ones telling us all sorts of other things that tended to be greatly exaggerated, misrepresented, or left out/kept silent on other pertinent details that changed the understanding of the story. The news sources owned by billionaires and corporations with agendas.
So the EU, the UN, the ICC, Amnesty International… they’re all part of this so-called exaggeration and misrepresentation? Just trying to understand.
I’m saying we need to fix our own "brutal shit” before worrying about others. Abu ghirab? Deportation centers. Rough rides. Hands up, don’t shoot! I can’t breathe! Extrajudicial bombings of citizens.
I guess what Trump actually meant by, “Drill, Baby, drill”
You don’t say?
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