This thread should gag you, please be warned.

Every member of Congress not calling for impeachment and removal is failing their own oaths of office.

I’m exhausted having so much hate in my heart every day I listen and watch this authoritarian regime.

the fact that musk is still hung up on grimes should not be a geopolitical problem

Are we sure that threads isn't just cooking the books with insta numbers

(1) Trump wants the Venezuelan oil (2) it will require lots of capex and may not be financially or logistically feasible to restart oil production (3) Rubio likely sold this to Trump on the basis of oil royalty/revenue while he wanted to contain Havana and enforce LatAm order

Those of you not seeing the direct parallels to the invasion of Venezuela to the invasion of Iraq perhaps need a history lesson. youtu.be/NWICnxeVLp4?...

A "law enforcement operation" involving kidnapping.

I think one of the most telling documents about our era would be if you could see the New York Times Trump obituary pre-writes for each of the last ten years to see how the ugly truths have ebbed and flowed.

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There are just SO many other options besides NYT. Like genuinely good ones.

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

tomorrow's not real it can't hurt us

yeah they’re going to take the operational success here (that they got in and out with Maduro and no US personnel died) and it’s going to embolden them to do whatever the fuck they want to anyone else in the western hemisphere this is a disaster with several more disasters waiting to happen

Remember. Leaving Afghanistan was the greatest foreign policy disaster the US has ever known. And the 6 hour Venezuela mission to something something is the most successful operation the high-flying US military has ever done.

Every day that Trump is president is worse than the day before it. So every day that you see me, that's the worst day of my life.

These are the words of a rapist.

I don't think the founding fathers ever considered what would happen to the system of checks and balances if one of the branches completely abdicated its constitutional responsibilities.

He really did “war is peace.”

The foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship. There are no constraints.

I never much cared for the U.S. Congress when it existed, but now I miss it.

My position on impeachment is the same as it was six months ago: Impeachment is first about driving public attention to Trump’s crimes and corruption. Democrats should introduce impeachment articles and force votes to boost their parallel media effort. Performative public investigations matter.

it’s going to be weird going back to work and people talking like everything is normal. like in a final fantasy game when someone’s summoned a meteor from hell to destroy the planet and the villagers still only talk about the big chocobo pageant coming up

"Donald Trump" was a folklore character of the late years of the Atomic Age, intended to teach Northamericans the dangers of hucksters.

JFC. NO. Call your congressperson NOW. Right now! WTF.

one specific interaction or argument: the entire website of bluesky

Rockets exploding like a year-round Fourth of July above polluted Texas wastelands

have been on the “trump in a second term is very likely to invade Mexico” beat since at least early 2023: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Subscribe to @zeteo.com to keep reading/supporting our coverage of trump expanding his wars at home and abroad:

Quite simply, any mail-in voter must now place their ballot in the mail at least ONE WEEK sooner than they might have in previous years...or be encouraged to return them in person, if possible. We need to message around this consistently from this point forward. www.masslive.com/news/2026/01...

The juxtaposition of the words and the images here is *chefs kiss*

Typically when the US embarks on an illegal or dubiously legal regime change we use noble words about democracy, rule of law, spreading freedom, etc. to justify our actions. Trump has not done that. He offers few noble words as eulogistic covering. It's a crass power & oil grab, according to Trump.

This is hardcore neocon stuff. Thought MAGA hated this. Huh.

I'm sorry I thought the justification here was that it was a law enforcement operation

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That's not how you run a country. So it's going to be colonialism but really REALLY lazy. And they'll randomly blow up bits of them if they don't... what? Give Trump free oil?

I tell you these Yankees are confused. Nobody knows what’s happening. Folks are discombobulated.

America's new role in the world: telling random other countries how to run their affairs, on pain of bombing

Rubio wants region-wide right wing regimes, Trump wants oil and a distraction, Hegseth wants to make tiktoks, it's all so pathetic.

I think everyone near Trump told him the whole thing was about Oil and thats the reason he is psyched on it because he’s a deals guy but the main motivating factor is an insane Cuba-level right wing grievance to do violence and imperialism more than a practical motivation.

I am so tired of 2026

STEPHANOPOULOS: Is the United States running Venezuela right now? RUBIO: What we are running is the direction this is going to move moving forward. Absolute soup

A History Teacher Made A Millennial Museum For Her Students And It’s So Much Fun. – ‘I secretly collaborated with Gen X/millennial parents.’ twistedsifter.com/2026/01/a-hi...

Do you think they'll be harsher with Cuba?

At this point, I just kinda assume the status quo will hold, and that this entire episode will ultimately amount to little more than content production and performative posting

okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong

Very hard to determine why this happened when the principals just ad lib a new reasoning for it every time they're asked

I don't see what's hard about telling Americans the truth: The aged lying self-obsessed president who tariffed your stuff while blocking the Epstein Files & taking multiple cognitive tests just started a war you didn't ask for, for no coherent reason other than he thinks it makes him look good on TV

Plunder doesn't have to be efficient to be the motive; it's about taking more than having