The difference between this place and Threads is that too many people here are acting like we are at a beer drinking party. When people are getting dragged off the street and beaten and shot, the whole "happy mimosa drinking resister" thing is getting old.

Horrifying...the evil in people in coming out in full strength. I am saddened to read this - we live in a world of extreme cruelty and ignorance. #ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks #DemVoice1

Told you there wasn't going to be free and fair elections this year.

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota. They break this news on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I will never forgive 77 million Americans that voted for this. This is so beyond the pale as propaganda it would make Goebbels retch.

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

Taking the meta view of what is happening in Venezuela, it is the ramping up of what will soon be global resource wars. Oil, lithium, water, etc.

Jeffries issues a very strongly worded press release We are so fucked.

Spoken like a true Mafia Don.

Resolution against the Venezuelan military action to hit the Senate floor next week. Requires only a majority vote. It's something. The measure is sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

He's right though, when you talk about "hard power" levers. But the Dems have plenty of soft power - they have their voices. I just heard Rep. Jayapal very eloquently speak out on this outrage. They have wrenches they can throw in the works. They can rally the American people.

I wonder how many young people joining the US military this week understand that they will soon be pulling guard duty, guarding "our oil" in Venezuela. And I doubt there won't be an armed Venezuelan resistance.

My guess? Trump will install a sham government made up of Venezuelan oligarchs, many of whom will probably return from exile to do it. They will, of course, enrich themselves in the process. Just like South Vietnam in the 60s.

Agreed - @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov are fucking useless and everyone knows it. The effects of Trumps actions could get us all killed. That is not hyperbole. We are one against the world because of Trump. And congress should not be allowed another chance to fail us.

'twas ever thus with the US and Latin America. I wonder if Trump promised Americans $1.99 a gallon gas, how many would support this?

Truth

If people didn't understand the amount of danger we're in before. . . They should understand now. We're no longer the world's policeman. We're the world's Mafia Don.

Trump looks like he's going to fall asleep standing up.

Kind of a full-circle moment for me. In Jan 1991, I was ~6 mo pregnant with my first child. I remember watching the first volleys of the first Persian Gulf War while weeping and apologizing to my son for bringing him into a world where we trade blood for oil. He's 34 now and expecting his 2nd.

Now Hegseth is speaking madness. This is a horror show.

"They now call it the DONRoe Doctrine." (Trump: we own the Western Hemisphere) Just kill me now.

Biden had a bad debate performance and it cost him the Presidency. What I'm seeing from Trump on my TV screen, this slurring madman, is far worse.

Just when I think a Trump address can't exhibit more sheer madness, I see something like this. This is madness. Now he's talking about Los Angeles. 77 million of you heartless, brainless assholes, I will never forgive you for this.

Trump admits he's turning Venezuela over to US and international oil barons. Also Trump says we'll attack Venezuela again if they dare resist.

"We're going to run the country until we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition." -- Trump Little shocks me nowadays but this did. This is a recipe for a disastrous quagmire.

Trump is HEAVILY slurring his words during this address. It was probably written by Miller.

Netanyahu said a few days ago that he supported a regime change in Venezuela AND so many Democrats are feckless worshippers of the military, so this statement from Wasserman Shultz is not surprising. Damnable, but not surprising.

So OK, we'll wait for Indivisible to schedule another street "demonstration" when winter is over, for some Saturday in May after we get permission from the government and in cooperation with the police and. . .geez, didn't we do this already? And what did it accomplish?

That's about the size of it.

I had to turn off MSNOW. Velshi and Maddow were pulling their punches to a nauseating degree. I don't need to hear thinly veiled rationales for this attack, nor do I need to wait with baited breath to see what Trump will say at 11 a.m. He's already said what he's going to say on FOX.

It always seemed to me that in America, as long as people could ensure the security and safety of themselves and their own families, they would give up whatever liberty they formerly enjoyed. People have a natural reluctance to be a dead hero. And so they bent the knee.

Greg, why don't you ring up Bari Weiss? I'm sure she'll get right on it.

Anyone heard anything from Schumer or Jeffries? Of course, I'm being sarcastic.

Exactly Folks, I hate to tell you, and I'll gladly wear the "Doomer" hat, but how the hell do you think this country will get out of this with three long years left to go? My advice: find a way to live with it so you do not drive yourselves mad. Survival is the watchword.

Invent bogus charges, ignore real convictions, Invade whoever you like. The new American foreign policy.

The retribution tour takes a weird turn. Trump is the world's most dangerous man at this point.

According to the report by Oklahoman, the woman later told the caller that she had been raped by both Trump and Epstein. When urged to call the police, she allegedly responded: 'I can't, they will kill me'.

WHAT ABOUT: Trump says that the US is going to be "strongly involved" in Venezuela's oil industry moving forward. - BBC News share.google/FFnS3sNdryd9...

FOX & FRIENDS: What do you say to the people waking up to this news this morning who are concerned that these actions may result in prolonged involvement of US military in Venezuela? TRUMP: I say that what we're doing is saving lives because the drug trafficking is so bad

Surrounded, for some reason, by heavily armed goons, CBS News Generalissimo Bari Weiss will drag CBS News staff on a 10 city US tour. Staff morale is in the toilet but she doesn't care. “This really feels like the end of CBS Evening News,” one network staffer said. ”Honestly, it’s so depressing.”

I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. --Walter Cronkite

"Death theater." Although we don't know if any of this is true, it is very possible.

#handsoff #nokings #ReleaseALLthefiles #EpsteinFiles #lovemyGov #itsthefuckingguns #midterms26 #getridofElectoralCollege #TheEpsteinBallroom Release ALL the files NOW 25th Ammendment NOW

If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

I doubt that Trump, even if Congress would do something to try to stop this invasion, would bother to give them the time of day. The military is following orders. That's all that matters here.

There are people who still think "legality" is an issue here. This is, as I have said repeatedly, all about power projection. Congressional sources are now reporting there were not briefed on the Venezuelan action. They can be frustrated but they'll do nothing about it.

Supine

Remember that Trump is also directly threatening Iran as well. Also give a think that if the US military is on board with this as they apparently are, that there is no real power that is willing to remove Trump, not the military, not the Republicans in Congress. This is our reality.