President Donald Trump just made it clear that he already has his eyes set on a new target following the US’s capture of the president of Venezuela. During a press conference on Saturday, he urged Colombian President Gustavo Petro to ‘watch his ass.’ The threat marks a dramatic escalation in tensions across Latin America, with Trump openly invoking the Monroe Doctrine to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere.
I personally find making cocaine to be a more useful talent than fucking kids and protecting child sex traffickers.
I would very much like it if they would make cocaine and ship it here.
Trump knows cocaine. he did so much it rotted his asshole.
he became fecally incontinent, hence the diapers. his sone, DON jr is close behind.
Those files sure have something
Making cocaine? Watch out?
Why? Is Trump wanting to buy a bunch of cocaine from him to throw a coke and pedophilia party at Mara-lago or something?
It’s a euphemism for “I heard you have oil, want!”
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Sure, but where are the unredacted Epstein files?
The US were imperialistic before the Epstein files, in case you didn’t notice
For fucks sake not everything is a damn distraction from the files.
I am so tired of every little thing being a “distraction”, as if it is not entirely possible multiple awful things can happen at the same time.
I can totally understand this.
Now, where are the unredacted Epstein files?
The press and public have the ability to focus only on one bad thing at a time
It’s the Gish gallop and Donald and his crew are reaaaaally good at it.
The fucker needs to be out of office asap and “we” need to focus on something that will stick. Being a fucking pedo is something even hardcore MAGA can’t rationalise
Good on you, don’t let bombing and invasion of sovereign countries distract you
Venezuela is not a sovereign country. It was a country taken hostage by a dictator. Source: am Venezuelan.
Edit: lol at the downvotes without explanation.
If your country didn’t float on oil the US wouldn’t have given half a shit. I’m glad there are Venezuelans who enjoy being a colony (again) and seeing their country plundered and pillaged while having the exact same small amount of personal liberty they had before.
My friend don’t take this as benevolent by the US. If they get it their way nothing good is coming for Venezuela
I’m not talking about the U.S. I’m simply clarifying that Venezuela is not a sovereign country. It hasn’t been since 2013 when its elections were rigged after Chavez died.
EXACTLY. We need to ask this question
Not why the fuck trump thinks he has the authority to bomb innocent people without the authorization of Congress?
Its legal as long as its only 60 days and theres an additional 30 days to withdraw.
48 hours after it began to notify congress, not even needing consent.
War Powers Resolution
It’s why some call it the “imperial presidency”
Worlds largest
militaryterrorist organization.I will compliment the article’s author for using direct quotes from Trump.
Too often, the press tend to clean up his grammar so it makes sense and doesn’t seem so offensive to the literate.
Direct quotes like “watch his ass” and “got bum-rushed right so fast that he didn’t get into that” help convey not only Trump’s sentiment, but how god-awful ignorant the fuckwit is.
I live in Europe, so I often read coverage in my own language, which means Trump’s quotes are translated. Translators could easily smooth out the grammar and make him sound coherent, but they don’t. They clearly put effort into preserving not just the meaning, but also the tone and sheer incoherence. You end up with these translations that capture the rambling, the aggression, and the stupidity, just in another language.
Indeed!
Time to 25th Amendment this fucking lunatic.
His whole cabinet are with him
All of maga/gop are with him
They control both congressional houses + the Supreme Court
Half the dems are ok with half of what he does
None of which alters the fact that he’s patently insane.
Though it does certainly call their mental health into question too.
Did Watdabney stutter??? All I’m hearing is that “all of maga and half the dems” need to be taken out like the trash that they are.
You first.
Seriously, all this stupid talk of guillotines and everything else. You do realize a full third voted for this, a full third DID NOT CARE to vote at all. And honestly, until economic issues affect them those same 2/3 won’t care to do jack shit. And let me tell you, the 1/3 that hates this aren’t despaired enough to foment a revolution.
God these pithy sentiments are useless. Familiarize yourself with reality and understand that we are so, so far away from any real change.
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Show me where in the 25th amendment they mention anything about guillitines.
Why are you going on about legalism, as if the US has a functioning legislative and judicial system? It is obviously broken to the core and the constitution or voting doesn’t matter in the slightest.
Who are the people who are going to invoke that 25th amendment on Trump?
A full third didn’t care to vote because a majority of Democrats said genocide is okay. Maybe instead of criticizing them, criticize the politicians that got us here.
Man its weird how defensive the purity voters got. Palestine is being wiped from the map and we’re attacking other countries unprovoked but both sides amirite?
Every single one of these deaths could have been avoided if you didn’t fall for the obvious divide and conquer strategy being peddled out by bad faith actors.
The entire reason the Overton window keeps shifting right is because the right wing assholes will vote lockstep for whoever the right candidate is. He may not be right enough for them, or he may be too far right for some, but they all fucking show up and vote.
Meanwhile, we can’t get leftists to figure that simple fact out and then people directly helping these assholes wine about how the candidate wasn’t perfect.
if you didn’t fall for the obvious divide and conquer strategy being peddled out by bad faith actors.
uh dude
Is there something I need to clarify?
Democrats like Kamala Cheney keeps shifting right because that is the type of neocon Democrats you keep telling everyone they must support. Then when they engage in war without congressional approval & commit war crimes like Obama did, you stick your head in the sand.
I think most every president since FDR was ass. I also know letting the window shift further right isnt going to help. We should be making the furthest right candidate lose by tons each and every election just like the right shows out and keeps making that Overton window shift right.
And at least one of you still doesn’t understand:
Not voting is voting.Democrats: Here’s your corporate Dick Cheney loving wouldn’t do anything differently than genocide Joe the Zionist puppet.
Progressives: Yeah, we’re not going to vote for that.
Democrats: Can’t believe we lost to Trump, it’s the Progressives fault. Guess we need to go further neocon the next election.
Not voting has never changed anything for the benefit of the non-voter. Never.
If you want any sort of change - vote.
A fraction of the Dems, let’s be real here.
half is still a fraction
1/1 is also a fraction, but in English dialect the term ‘a fraction’ is synonymous with ‘a small part of’ rather than denoting any possible fraction.
This shit isn’t his original idea. Without the Project 2025 gang whispering in his ear, none of this would have occurred to him.
And they can whisper in his ear successfully because he’s insane.
Why would they? Trump is everything the GOP’s been asking for since Bush 43.
should ≠ would
People on X are celebrating as usual. They sure are owning the libs, with their leaders warmongering.
Middle America, Flyover America loves this stuff. Blue bubbles like Lemmy give the impression everyone is seething, but in reality average Joes (even those who don’t vote) find this kind of authoritarianism warm and fuzzy, they equate their respect for the military with Trump by association. It’d be good if we all remembered that.
Oh absolutely, they get off on it!
Here in Denmark, a climate activist was pushed down by a guard during our kings new years speech a few days ago. Most rational people agree that force was necessary (He didn’t move after being called out), and I agree. But the man was violently pushed to the ground. When he returned to the crowd, someone punched him in the face.
This was not a climate activist blocking public infrastructure, or sabotaging a grid. He pretty much just stood there for a moment with a sign, telling the public “Pull the emergency brake, climate collapse” before he was violently pushed to the ground and punched.
I’m not going to argue whether these things are appropriate, right, wrong, or what amount of force was necessary. But I do want to point out the glee, the frothing of the mouth, the absolute intense schadenfreude of every right-of-center person sharing his picture on social media. Everyone was roaring in approval, not just celebrating violence, but in many cases encouraging more of it.
People absolutely love this stuff. It’s intense tribalism, and it’s getting worse. I don’t remember it being like this 20 years ago.
Great idea to start riling up lots of countries that don’t have to cross an ocean to fuck with you.
/s
Crossing the Darien Gap is substantially harder, though.
Alright relax pluribus
Lmao that’s what I was thinking of as well.
This is what Donny wants, to cause chaos in central and South America. In time most if not all countries south of our border will unite against him and that will be all he needs to declare war. He will then try to suspend the midterms and the 2028 election in an attempt to stay in power.
There’s guiding foreign politics with an invisible hand behind closed doors and there is this… openly threatening and attacking anything that moves.
The US will have a fantastic time occupying numerous hostile countries at once, dealing with nonstop 24/7 guerilla attacks. US empire collapse speedrun.
If only it could commit suicide instead of killing even more innocents before its eventual demise sometime in the future…
it’s win win for these fascists. this action either gets them profit or fails. but the seeds for another “9/11” are planted during these ops. fast forward 20 years and something pops off and we have another cycle of “manufactured consent.”
the us is disgusting.
As long as nobody brings up Epstein, i’m willing to bet they don’t care. They’ll just keep shoveling money and dead GenZ kids into the pile to keep people from talking about Jeffrey Epstein.
Really trying not to sound pro-Trump or whatever this move is, but the US military certainly does not need to be boots on the ground and deal with “guerilla attacks”.
We’ve seen with Ukraine that drone warfare is highly effective and if the US wants to clear a supposed guerilla location they’ll just carpet bomb it all.
And if they establish FOBs then a few drone operators(based in the US still btw) with infrared and some dudes in outposts with thermals will do just fine against any guerilla tactics.
We can compare this to Vietnam or whatever, but a lot has changed in 50 years and with Venezuela it’s clear that South America is not ready for this type of aggression.
Again, not advocating for this and certainly this move against Venezuela is clearly illegal and warmongering, but saying this will collapse the “US empire” is beyond ignorant.
We’ve seen with Ukraine that drone warfare is highly effective and if the US wants to clear a supposed guerilla location they’ll just carpet bomb it all.
That’s what you get from Ukraine? Cuz what I got is that a dime a dozen drone can take down millions of dollars of military equipment. Our shit is bloated, expensive, and built by organizations that rival the largest governments on the planet in terms of bureaucracy. Do you remember any of that recent shit with Boeing?
In this scenario, we’re Russia.
It’s easy to move in and destabilize a government. It’s another entirely to control a whole region that doesn’t want you there.
We can compare this to Vietnam or whatever, but a lot has changed in 50 years and with Venezuela it’s clear that South America is not ready for this type of aggression.
Why Vietnam? Try Iraq or Afghanistan except the destabilized nations we’re “building” are in our backyard. Great. 👍
Unlike Vietnam, there are millions of people in the US that are either from or that have close family in Latin America. That’s why they spent the last year trying to deport and terrorize migrants, why they want to go after naturalized citizens, why they talk about going after “home growns” after they’ve finished rounding up the migrants, etc etc. It’s all laying the groundwork for this next stage.
We’ll see how well it works. I think they’re moving too fast and it’s going to blow up in their faces.
Who said the guerilla will be in the southern hemisphere? It will at some point come back to USA itself, there is already large diaspora in USA from almost every Latin American country. All that’s needed is a foreign agency providing a bit of guidance and encouragement.
Ojalá
If ever many more countries needed encouragement to start a nuclear arms program…
I literally said this as soon as I heard about Venezuela. He’s gonna go after Columbia, and then he’s going for the Panama Canal. If anyone is surprised by this, they haven’t been paying attention.
And Cuba. And Canada. And Greenland.
The western hemisphere is ours. Asia is China’s, Europe is Russia’s. No room for minor powers or old alliances in the end game. Just raw power.
I like how people seem to have thought you were supportive of this and not just explaining the situation as they see it.
Lack of reading comprehension and critical thinking is part of the reason we’re here, huh.
This would assume absolutely no one resists any of these powers. Russia couldn’t take Europe if its existence depended on it.
Depends how many European politicans are willing to deliberately sabotage their own countries defence in exchange for personal wealth. And I know I’ve made several comments like this which could be interpreted as trying to sow disent but having seen what my own government gets up to I’m genuinely worried those assholes will sell us all into gulags for pennies a head.
The politicians can do whatever they want. Asymmetric warfare doesn’t care. I can tell you right now if the US invades Canada we will absolutely be able to easily sabotage the heavy crude export pipelines and upstream collection capabilities to cripple US refineries…
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Venezuelans doing the same to keep the oil out of American hands.
What a childish take. Life isnt one of your video games lol
Yep because they’re doing such a great job running the states that we need a massive imperial empire run under the same governmental structure. /s 🖕
All thats going to do is bolster the traffickers to redouble their production
