The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

Don't overthink the Trump admin's reasoning here. They don't have a grand scheme. They are willing to upend the international order because they think everyone else will be too scared to fuck with them. And whatever terrorist attacks this inspires against us will just help them electorally.

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Don't you usually have to traditionally...defeat and occupy a country before you announce that you're occupying that country?

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

If the House Republicans had any guts, they'd hold an emergency impeachment vote on Trump today. If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow. The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.

Impeach, convict, remove.

Some updates: CNN: The Senate Armed Services Committee was not informed in advance of any potential US military action carried out tonight in Venezuela.

Reasons it’s ok to forcibly remove a president, according to the US president: - doing crimes with family - targeting vocal opponents - domestic use of security forces - humanitarian crisis denial - weaponization of Supreme Court - dismantling democratic elections - ruinous economic policies

jeffries needs to be the fuck out of office

Watching Trump speak and justify why the US is entitled to invade another country and kidnap the president makes me think that when we started talking about the “post-truth” era, we had no idea of how deeply post-truth it’d become. Perception of reality is now random and optional.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

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

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Moulton: "When we had briefings on Venezuela, we asked, 'Are you going to invade the country?' We were told no. 'Do you plan to put troops on the ground?' We were told no. 'Do you intend regime change in VZ?' We were told no. So in a sense, we have been briefed, we've just been completely lied to"

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Did Venezuela just become the 51st state?

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Even if Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of Maduro somehow led to a positive impact on Venezuela’s future, it would not make these actions by the United States legal, moral or wise. Normalising and legitimising this behaviour endangers all countries - democracies and dictatorships alike.

Jan 1. Jan 3.

Well,

Simple as Everyone in DoD who participated in planning and executing this needs to face charges Yes I know the scope/scale of what I'm saying; either laws mean things or they don't

I did warn us. www.greatpower.us/p/the-war-on...

I trust the American people will LOUDLY voice their opposition to this idiotic and plainly illegal venture and that we'll be demonstrating against it, and our cowboy president,, beginning today. This stuff cannot go without being widely condemned.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

So it’s abundantly clear he raped a ton of children now, right?

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

This would be so weird of true. Why bomb so extensively? Unless they mean Maduro "negotiated" an exit immediately after the attack started.

Way too angry to sleep.

We have to impeach him.

You're going to be seeing a lot of this deranged Trump clip from 2023: He says we should have toppled Venezuela and taken the oil, which is terrible, terrible oil and will pollute the hell out of us.

This is an illegal act. Conducted by a Madman. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ACT

Russian MFA will say you can't illegally attack a country and capture its leader for a bullshit reason.

*Curb Your Enthusiasm theme plays*

Kidnapping leaders of sovereign countries is so fucking far outside the realm of legal. The people responsible for this need to be tried in military court. Immediately.

This week, Trump quietly released his National Security Strategy. It totally abandons the idea that we should stand up for freedom & human rights around the world. Instead, it lectures our European allies & embraces authoritarian leaders who enrich the Trump family & their billionaire friends.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV has issued another forceful condemnation of the Trump-Vance ICE raids, calling them “violent” and “extremely disrespectful” to the migrants’ “dignity that is theirs.” The White House has declined to comment.

Chat is it good when students protest you with the same symbolic gesture that served as the death-knell of communism in your country.

Embalmed soviet nomenclature nostaligists meet kids born in free europe

Dasha Nekrasova has been fired by Gersh and from an upcoming film project for a recent episode with Christian nationalist Nick Fuentes.

Official U.S. Government account refers to its citizens as "imbecilic morons".

The Trump regime has declared war on the American people.

we've discovered a new kind of guy (guy who's upset he's *not* in the epstein files)

Would you believe me if I told you it got so much worse from there

PRESIDENT ORDERING AG TO INVESTIGATE POLITICAL OPPONENTS FOR CRIME PRESIDENT COMMITTED WOULD LEAD TO IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT & REMOVAL FOR ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT, BUT NYT TREATS AS JUST *NORMAL* NEXT TO FLUFF PIECE ABOUT PREISDENT'S OFFICE. NYT IS ANTI-DEMOCRACY, ANTI-RULE-OF-LAW, PRO-TRUMP.