Guy getting paid cash money to do progressive political commentary: “Who can explain why Trump does anything? He’s just crazy. He’s an adorable senile old codger! What a wacky and unprecedented thing that’s happening! He’s just a bad apple!” OK BRO.

final stage of US empire sees us capturing several presidents, putting them in a house, and making a show. we will watch the presidents fall in love. we will watch them hate and despise and reconcile with each other. a thrilling conclusion to the american project. well then there's All Stars

palestinians protested for george floyd while being genocided. koreans protested for gaza under the threat of martial law. i promise you we can go harder.

I can’t believe how much of my mental health is riding on the fact that I just ordered some black paper and watercolour pencils. I just don’t want to be on earth, I only want to draw skeletons.

This is cope. The American empire did a coup for oil. This is what you do. I’m so tired of the “orange man bad” cop out. “For no reason”—gtfoh.

So they unilaterally decided to collaborate with a fascist invasion and allowed Venezuelans to be murdered. They directly participated in the unraveling of American democracy, and extrajudicial war crimes. The wall.

40 people (at least) died. It's the official policy of these newsrooms that Latin American lives aren't worth anything. Again, if you still pay for an NYT subscription I think you're trash.

This is what happens when resistance liberalism opens its arms to the guy who literally invented the “axis of evil.”

They are absolutely going to start rounding up Venezuelans to use as slave labour for American oil companies, and I just hope you know that.

This is a war of climate change accelerationism.

Dems can’t criticize Trump for the same reason they couldn’t release the Epstein files. They just want it to be their turn.

I completely believe in my bones, that if Trump rolls tanks over the border into Alberta tomorrow, Democrats will take Trump’s side. I believe that totally. You are a fascist country to the core, both sides of the aisle are fascists, the military is full of ideologically hardened fascists.

I’m remembering the Dems who said “well, if we annex Canada, we might get more progressive votes”—as if we’d retain any civil rights. They would absolutely manufacture consent for the violent overthrow of my government, they’ve already been doing it.

“Why won’t the Democrats say anything about—?” Because they’re also doing that. “But what about—?” Also that! “Surely not?” Yes, beloved, that too. You can’t hold an accomplice accountable. That is not how accountability works. Are you starting to understand?

The CIA used to keep this kind of operation a closely-guarded secret, for fear the American people might object and revolt. But the people wholly believe they’re exceptional. Americans enjoy and get off on imperialist violence. They don’t believe in consequences for crimes from which they benefit.

If only Dems hated Republicans as much as their own voter base

There will never be a peaceful, sustainable future on this Earth. American capitalism is to blame. We’re just free-wheeling toward oblivion and the American people write sonnets and cantos and elegies to their greatness, and erect ballrooms to dance while the world burns. Nero is here.

The US “openly flaunting international law sends a signal to all of us that every president and every prime minister is potentially a target of US military action. There doesn’t seem to be any constraints on what the Trump administration would consider.” — former Canadian ambassador to Venezuela

Now, every day is another lesson in how powerless we are. There is no popular sovereignty. We are represented by no one. It’s not just that the invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping and rendition of its head of state is illegal; it’s that it doesn’t matter how illegal it is.

I was wondering how this might all turn out to have been my fault

someone at work said "aren't they out of session" and I said "I have to come in on my day off when there's an emergency, congress can clock the fuck back in"

We randomly put on Robin Hood Men in Tights, and I was NOT prepared for baby Matthew Porretta to make an appearance…

Bone chilling. Oona Hathaway, Yale Law School professor and director of its Center for Global Legal Challenges.

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

The sins of the United States are so, so evident to everyone except those who are invested in not seeing them

we are living through a real reminder of why Harris embracing the Cheneys was a bridge too far for a lot of Democrats who got very yelled at for looking a gift horse in the mouth

The last Prime Minister to stand up to an American president was fucking Jean Chretien. Our leaders are fucking puppets.

Mark Carney is a feckless coward. Pierre Poilievre is an obsequious worm. If the NDP can’t field a leader with the moral clarity to oppose this, then there is no hope for Canada.

Man, fuck Mark Carney. Fuck him. He’s a fucking wolf in sheep’s clothing. We may as well have gotten Poilievre, it makes no difference. The Liberals are fucking liars and scammers, enabling other liars and scammers to lie to us, and scam us out of the clean energy future we deserve!

What’d I say? Of course he’s supporting Trump’s position.

This Neville Chamberlain-ass motherfucker is a snivelling coward. “Elbows Up” was a scam perpetrated on the Canadian public. He’s just bootlicker-in-chief.

We’ve been afflicted by a generation of American journalists who are simply baffled in the face of dialectical materialism. They live in a bubble so airtight, that reality must be immediately dismissed as an inconvenient contaminant.

Corruption does not work when only one person is willing to participate, one man would be stopped instantly in his tracks. Corruption is a team sport.

Make no mistake: America is invading Venezuela because without that oil, the rising cost of electricity would ensure that no American citizen will support the existence of AI data centres on domestic soil. This theft is an AI infrastructure investment for the billionaire class.

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

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Trump turned himself into a billionaire this year and y’all let him. It’s insane the open corruption that’s just accepted, and you think someone’s going to hold him accountable for war crimes? An American president? God I wish I still had that kind of naive optimism in my heart.

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.

Sorry, but this is delusional. He’s probably on a yacht with Katy Perry right now, counting the dollars he made siccing the RCMP on water protectors. Trudeau worked for big oil, and he did very little to hide the fact.

It's wild seeing how many people are apparently completely unaware that narco-terrorism is a direct *product* of American right wing foreign policy, from the very start. Who trained, funded and armed them? America. Because the narco-terrorists were overthrowing legitimately elected socialists.

Reagan knew the Contras were trafficking drugs into the US and was still providing them with aid, because that was Freedom Cocaine, to fight the evils of governments helping the poor instead of corporations. And the drugs were chiefly hurting Black communities, who Reagan deeply hated anyway.

i feel like i see a lot of "mysterious new account makes big bet on insider information" news stories and not enough people-being-arrested-for-that news stories

This administration is 100% best understood as a Mafia being run by Venture Capitalists utilizing Nazi shock troops to impose a controlled downsizing of American Empire to a more efficient, localized, and brutally suppressed society and market.

I’m profoundly afraid of what happens on January 6th.

We actually glossed over this too quickly. Someone made half a million dollars insider trading on a coup. This is a fucking problem, folks.

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after

In fact, the argument can be made that America is rejecting sustainable energy precisely because doing so would diminish the profits of American oil and arms manufacturing.

The CIA doesn’t want you to know about this:

It doesn't surprise me that a lot of people in the US don't remember the illegal 1989 US invasion of Panama to capture Noriega and create regime change, but I do kinda raise an eyebrow at how many overlook the illegal 2003 US invasion of Iraq to capture Hussein and create regime change.

Every time Trump concocts a new monstrosity, the response is even more monstrous. The media, the opposition, the nations of the world fail us. Even Mark Carney, elected on a platform of standing up to Trump, is nowhere to be found.