The "this is a distraction from the Epstein files" stuff needs to stop. Its over. Its clear as day that Trump is a pedophile with the files we have but the media has already moved and what remains of his base has already made peace with it. The Epstein Files are not going to bring down Trump

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

The guardrails are gone. www.axios.com/2026/01/03/t...

What is this sense of deja vu I am feeling. Its like my childhood is back again youtu.be/bE2r7r7VVic?...

We killed and rendered Venezuelan civilians homeless so Donald Trump could post a Fortunate Son-backed fancam and feel happy about it.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

The "this is a distraction from the Epstein files" stuff needs to stop. Its over. Its clear as day that Trump is a pedophile with the files we have but the media has already moved and what remains of his base has already made peace with it. The Epstein Files are not going to bring down Trump

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

What makes Trump's bombing of Venezuela especially cruel is we already know how his administration treats Venezuelans who are displaced. Here in Chicago, masked federal agents have been kidnapping them from the streets, abducting them from barbershops, hiring sites, their homes.

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can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

"this is a distraction from the epstein files" the US just performed an imperialist coup of another nation and declared itself in charge for its resources the people of venezuela just became hostages of the US government and are terrified. it's not a distraction. it's another atrocity.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

I love how congresspeople are like WE ARE FURIOUS I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU DID THIS WITHOUT ASKING US (we would have said yes) THE REAL EGREGIOUS THING IS LACK OF RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION (this is unconstitutional) I MEAN WHAT DO YOU TAKE US FOR, ENABLERS MASQUERADING AS TOKEN RESISTANCE (they are)

Mark Kelly puts out a statement saying "The President of the United States just overthrew a foreign ruler and explained to the American people that this is about taking control of the oil reserves of a foreign nation." This is probably the strongest statement alongside Gallego's I've read.

She sold out her country and people and got nothing in the end. Pathetic

there's just something morbidly funny about how he just throws everyone who sucks up to him under the bus.

Just saying out loud that I remember this morning when they were saying that they weren’t going to do anything besides the Maduro kidnapping Before they announced they were also going to run the entire country I remember a few hours ago

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

oh my god he posted so many action shots from the makeshift mar a lago situation room and they were just looking at tweets together on a gigantic screen

Hard to process this attack on Venezuela. The greatest political lesson of my youth, one that was hammered home to us all over nearly twenty years, was that the U.S. should stop engaging in regime change and oil wars. And yet, here we are again.

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

The crazy thing about that press conference is that for everything that the antiwar left is saying about this war; *Its all about Venezuela's oil *Its going to be a long quagmire as the US occupies Venezuela *The US is asserting an imperial "might = right" doctrine Trump straight out admits it

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Sorry to be all “Dems are bad” but there is a direct line from Obama not prosecuting anyone from the Bush administration over Iraq and this. This is what happens when you do not hold Republican criminals accountable. We will keep having bad things happen until we lock these people up for good.

All pretense of "humanitarian intervention" is gone. Its just straight up Imperialism and "might is right" now

This whole presentation is Imperial in the Roman style. Taking over countries, running them at the diktat of generals, letting the people have a degree of independence. Only it feels more like the last days of Rome.

"We're in the oil business" - Trump

I know theres a lot of leftists who are like "the DSA are just like the German SPD, the Soc Dems are going to support wars and kill Rosa Luxemburg!" But from what I've seen there is conplete automatic unambiguous unanimity from all corners of DSA to oppose this war on Venezuela. So maybe chill out

Empire of Morons

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie. This is a fact. No one will ever be able to refute it." - Lenin

Everyone who is saying "this wont be another Iraq" needs to face up to what Trump is actually saying. We are in for a long quagmire

This is regime change without any pretense.

sorry what does he mean "we are going to run the country." what does he mean the US military is going to operate the venezuelan government

There already had been this line going around that "the war is already over" and "Trump doesnt want a long war, so why worry," and this quote from Trump proves the line is bullshit. Trump wants the oil and will have to set up a long military occupation to get it

It was always only about oil

What are the chances that the Trump admin pressures the new Venezuelan government into building their own Cecot?

Liberals assume that the US military is a force for good in the world that occasionally makes mistakes. Conservatives assume that everything the US military does is good by virtue of it being the US military. Thats the only real difference.

Boston

/ FROM www.instagram.com/p/DTDGiKGEQRI/ / US HANDS OFF VENEZUELA / SATURDAY JAN 3, 3 PM / BOSTON PARK STREET STATION"

Trump just posted this image of Maduro on the USS Iwo Jima. Time to unfurl the "Mission Accomplished" banner one more time.

it's darkly humorous to listen to Trump and his cronies reference the fact that Maduro was indicted in SDNY as evidence he's a dictator and overall bad guy

You know, it’s plausible that this was done without a plan for what comes after because the only real goal was to get video of US troops looking cool arresting Marudo so it can be posted Online. It seems to be the only thing that matters to this administration.

are we going to see a show trial from the same people who couldnt convict a guy of throwing a sandwich.

Trump announcing to the world that the US will only let a puppet take over Venezuela.

it’s interesting to see the start date different people attach to this condition of existential american embarrassment. ten years ago, twenty, sixty. everyone’s sort of right

This is what every craven international leader not immediately condemning the attack on Venezuela is enabling