Jeffies: "Donald Trump had the nerve to dismiss the popular opposition leader of Venezuela. He said that she did not have the support of the Venezuelan people. Donald Trump does not have the support of the American people! He's historically unpopular."

INBOX: Statement from Senator Kelly

Help me understand this. If Dems are no different than republicans and yelling at republicans is pointless(according to them) why do they then yell at democrats?

The online left don't have poltics, they have a complex, nested series of grievances and in-group signifiers.

*DENMARK SAYS US ATTACK ON GREENLAND WOULD MEAN END OF NATO

It is sort of hard to believe the folks behaving like this towards strangers are e.g. sincerely interested in expanding the social safety net

I mean obviously this is a posthoc justification for why they didn’t do something they did not have the practical ability to do right? They made a deal with Maduro’s allies to oust him; you obviously cannot make that deal with his enemies and get the same result

if you hadn't already snagged most of them in will's replies good flytrap of antisocial larping marxist lunatics showing up in sky's mentions now

Campist leftist politics is uniquely vile towards exiled communities, from Syrians to Venezuelans. The moment these groups fail to perform “correctly” in unfolding political crises, their identity is stripped away & replaced with smears. Such accusations are so predictable at this point.

i dont know whats gonna happen but here. 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪

It seems like a dodge but it’s actually quite damning that the Secretary of State was not even asked for his input on the pardon of a recent head of state of another country.

trump *explicitly saying* it's About The Oil does not actually signify that it is about the oil, it signifies that Trump's brain is leaking out of his fucking ears and he genuinely believes it's about the oil because someone juiced it to him that way to get him to support a coup they wanted btw

So Trump has: -illegally abducted Maduro, which the neocons love, because they want the opposition to take over -but then left his VP, who fully supports him, in charge -but said she would follow his orders -but then she didn't -and now the Venezuelan opposition is also condemning Trump

anyway Trump has for whatever reason decided not to back the opposition in Venezuela, probably because he doesn't want to back a loser and doesn't want to commit to continued military action, which means that "Maduro sucks but WTF" is a free space for Dems.

I don’t morally object to the US or any other power getting rid of Maduro. I do object to a US president arbitrarily doing it, & I disagree with the action in the first place because there is insufficient evidence that this will achieve a more salutary, just existence for the people of Venezuela.

Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jeffries job is not to be your fuckin social media therapist, it is to keep their caucuses united through every vote and procedure and rule, and right now Schumer has a B- while Jeffries gets an easy A, probably A+ on that. that's really it. y'all need to put down your phones.

like, I have read comments in just the last half hour that show fairly plainly that there are a number of folks On Here who are literally on the brink of a mental health crisis because they've read a somewhat badly written skeet from Chuck Schumer and now srsly believe it's the end of the Republic.

I suspect that Trump’s comments about oil have led some to attribute a false degree of coherence & purpose to whatever the hell this is.

Karl sad trombone is one of the dumbest people on here.

APNewsAlert: CARACAS, #Venezuela (AP) — No visible signs yet that US is running Venezuela after Trump claims, as country's security forces control key sites.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Correct, it's obviously and immediately impeachable

Yeah uhhhhhh I'm not sure there's any precedent at all for a war that literally just didn't have public buy-in, or a material effort at generating same? In like, all of American history??

quick warning at some point tonight youre going to see a video of something crazy happening involving a us aircraft and it will be a fake from the video game ARMA because it happens every time

You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.

Where the Marxists go wrong is not in assuming that technological and economic change will drive new social change, but in assuming that the changes will create coherent classes in society. That part seems to be pretty much incorrect to me. The relationship is simply too complex and unpredictable.

i am losing my mind over this listing that staged a condemned philly trap house with AI

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

Everyone there besides Sean and Dort are nazis Like not "oh ho ho they're MAGA so I'm going to call them nazis," like literal dyed in the wool groyper 20 somethings at a level of nazi that is the median republican staffer now

"We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait share a bond of blood and kinship. The reunification of our motherland, a trend of the times, is unstoppable!" - China's president, Xi Jinping, in New Year's address www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/20251...

His name is Adam D'Ortana btw, he was a twice passed over major (therefore unlikely to be promoted to lieutenant colonel) until somehow, COMPLETELY COINCIDENTALLY I AM SURE AND UNRELATED TO HIS NEW JOB AND FRIEND PETE, he was recently promoted to LTC

For those who prefer video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lR-b...

DC does not have a triumphal arch, despite all its other Roman architecture, because they are an imperial and not a republican symbol. They became reserved for the Caesars, and the Arc de Triomphe is a monument to Napoleon. If this dumb thing gets built, the only acceptable course is to demolish it.

Heartbreaking report on Indians in America feeling less welcome. Has there ever been a more successful story of assimilation? Rarely has something so clearly benefited a nation. Those opposing Indian immigration have disgraced the nation. I’m sorry. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...

Idris Elba, the voice of Knuckles in the Sonic movies, is set to receive a knighthood, meaning Knuckles will officially be portrayed by a real-life Sir. A fun new bit of Sonic movie trivia! Full details in our latest article, linked in the replies! #SonicNews | #SonicMovie

i am genuinely not online enough to get this

why hasn’t Congress passed a law ending scarcity? are they stupid?

My great uncle, Staff Sgt. Herbert Reynerson, is buried at Margraten. KIA on March 9, 1945. Bronze Star & Purple Heart posthumously. The removal of the plaques honoring Black soldiers is an affront to their honor—and to his sacrifice.

The bottom line: arguments against taxing unrealized gains are ideological arguments, like most tax arguments. These are legitimate arguments, of course, as long as you recognize they're ideological. This has nothing to do with "practicality". We have far more complex taxes in place.

I prefer it when law professors do research instead of bong rips before posting.

With respect, and adding I pride myself as the #1 GOAT Trump hater, I disagree: Forcing a full on liquidation and massively impairing depositors would have caused a regional depression and a national recession. Securing a new owner via FDIC standard procedure and covering all deposits 1/

I don’t need people to love elected Democrats but many of you fail the very basic test of hating Republicans more, or even at all

He denied he was the pipe bomber for 2 hours of the interview (which was Mirandized and videotaped).

This isn't a popular idea. This is an *elite* belief. There's no mass of voters who recoil from impeachment like this. Majorities wanted him convicted the last two times, and the same would easily poll >50% today. The handwringing about the sacred presidency is DC-driven, it's not voter-driven.

Repeating my earlier 🚨buzzkill alert🚨 that this is from a BiliBili (Chinese YouTube) that appears to be CGI space.bilibili.com/788372/

It's fine. And I hate even mentioning it to because it feels selfish to center my own feelings or memories to something that affects many more people much more directly. But just that, still, all these places are more than names and map pins too. Every one of them I associate with pre-war memories

Maybe don't make make your case against Bluesky moderation patterns using publications secretly funded by the Qatari* government. *Fine, let's say "highly likely to be funded".