You would think that this country would have learned it's lesson....but no. Every time the corporatists get the upper hand with some leverage with our elected officials (or a dumb Preznit who wants to wag the dog) they urge the government to make war so they can gorge themselves on the spoils. This endless bullshit makes me teeth-grindingly furious.
I was thinking of Kuwait, and that was also to some degree about oil and Saddam Hussein's greedy grabbiness.
The Iraq invasion was also about oil (and a wag the dog operation, plus Dubya's psychological need to outperform his father)...but with Iraq sitting on one of the world's largest proven oil reserve, access to oil was VERY definitely in the mix for sure. Also Cheney made sure Haliburton (Cheney was a CEO for that company before becoming VP and he remained connected, by engineering work-around deals with sanctioned countries during his tenure) was one of the hyaenas looking to feast on whatever they could find.
" hyaenas looking to feast on whatever they could find."
I was going to say "Perfect description - then AND now."
But hyenas serve a useful purpose. The African plains would be knee deep in bones and rotting meat if it were not for the hyenas - and the vultures, and termites etc. Nature designs things for a purpose -even wasps have their uses.
What Republican politicians were designed for, God alone knows. I think maybe that it was as evidence there IS life outside of Earth - and we should stay away from it.
WHERE IS THE DEMOCRAT COORDINATED MESSAGING ON THIS FFS?!?
Why are we so bad at this after all this time?!?
They flood the airwaves, social media, and the internet with these bald BOLD lies about everything and we get our Reps caught flat footed with NO PUSHBACK!!
We need coordinated action and forward action not just responding FFS!!
Of course that is true. Same thing goes for Greenland and Canada. Venezuela also has large natural deposits of BAUXITE - which is what? Aluminum. US is crying for aluminum. I can't believe that the people of the United States are allowing this creature to cause all this damage to a once highly respected, democratic country.
I so agree Mary! After spending way too much time trying to figure his supporters out , my only conclusion is that MAGA thinks that whatever he does is ok! As long as it benefits the US in their minds! I am assuming that if another country tried to do any of this to America they would find it horrifying! This is not the kind of Patriotism I grew up with !
Yes, and you know what? Venezuela was(and still is) an "absolute gem" until the damn US sanctions were placed on it.
Thanks for playing all the crazy a-holes in Congress, so that we know exactly WHO needs to be primaried and then opposed the next time they come up for election!
Trump doesn't even listen to when a judge tell him what to do. What is your suggestion that Dems do? Ok they can talk about it…then what? That crook in the oval office has immunity.
They need to be out in front of the public every single time something or someone does anything to us. Not just showing up to respond to the latest Retrumplican actions.
Anywhere that there are eyeballs is where the Dems belong!! On rooftops and on our streets if need be!
Grassroots door knocking is sorely lacking. It’s what Mamdani did and look what happened there!!
Flood the space EVERYWHERE they can!!!! And frankly, Fb and anything he touches are not working for us. He’s an oligarch who feeds at the trough of the retrumplican regime.
Dems can shout the truth from the rooftops, but it isn’t getting reported and won’t get the attention from the media. The maniacs controlling our country are sucking the oxygen out of the very air we breathe.
LOL ...they are where they always are: doing nothing and wringing their hands saying there's nothing they can do...and that only the people can do something...and then Schumer cuts the legs from under all those people who protested, by giving in and getting nothing in return. And Jeffries votes against "socialism" along with 98 other democrats. (We have a Democratic Socialist Party in this country...and a Senator who is a Democratic Socialist who votes with democrats. What an idiot Jeffries has shown himself to be, and all those other democrats that signed the declaration. LOL)
I'm no longer putting myself in danger to protest for these democrats who have done nothing to help us. In fact so many of the democrats don't even want universal health care for their constituents... I guess they want us all to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills. (Of course, the politicians won't have to worry about this, since we pay over 70% of their premiums. smdh) Financially stressed constituents only have survival on their plate...not improvement.
As far as I'm concerned the corporate democrats sold out 40 years ago, and have been pushing democrats farther and farther to the right ever since. In fact I believe Jeffries and Schumer would rather work with MAGAs than progressives and democratic socialists...Look what the corporate dems (Jeffries included) tried to do to Mamdani. smdh
I wish the democratic party would be open to progressives and the following issues, but they are not. Issues: universal health care (not insurance- actual health care); universal child care; the best education possible for all; affordable rent/house payments; affordable healthy food for everyone; review, modify and put back our DEI; everyone follows the same laws; no wars; no threatening citizens, no retribution other than the courts; a livable minimum wage ($30.00/hour?); reimplementing our social safety net, and increasing benefits so people can live a decent life; saving our lands/environment/water for the people - not the corporations; delete monopolies; end Citizens United; and no more politicians spending half their day calling the rich for donations. I want them working for us, not making deals with the wealthy. How about you?
Mark wane is a detriment to our country ..Stating that military force is needed against our own citizens with impunity.. waning in his thought process and traitorous mouth. These reactionary right members of congress need to be sanctioned .. good 😔 grief.
Also, it is essential that everyone understand that Hegseth would NEVER have acted without the orange turd's approval & that of Miller-the-Genocidist.
Thus, Rambo Kegsbreath AND EVERYONE up and down the Defense Department Chain-of-Command - from POTUS to whomever ‘pulled the trigger’ ARE MASS MURDERERS.
No Declaration of War exists.
The boat people, if indeed they were transporting illegal drugs, were transporting PRODUCTS THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS PURCHASE, WILLINGLY.
ZERO evidence exists that they were ‘terrorists’ and, even if they were, they were far from US Territorial waters and could just as easily been contained instead of being MURDERED.
Period.
Thank you for all you and your brothers RISK YOUR LIVES & those of YOUR FAMILY do to defend our Democracy.
Yes, exactly! Why is nobody asking why they want/order survivors to be killed? It's so obvious that they are bombing boats that aren't carrying drugs or any kind of gang members!! They're most likely fishermen or men that are transporting mundane, harmless goods that are likely not even heading to the US!!! They're killing everyone to cover their ass!!!!
Maduro and every other left wing leader in Latin America know that. All about the resources. So that we can impose neo-con colonialism on them until they "see things right."
We can't even get a decent conversation going about the ACTUAL illegal drugs when the Administration keeps lying like this.
Why did that reporter thank him at the end of the interview on AF1? WTF did she thank him for, the incessant spewing of venomous lies from his pit viper mouth? PRESS: STOP THANKING FELON TRUMP!!!!!!!
JFC this Orange FIDIOT is tanking our economy and now wants to go to war with Venezuela.. so he can swing his micro mini D*CK and feel like real MAN with tiny orange jazz hands
Bitching about socialism again? Then don’t use public utilities, streets, schools, libraries, beaches, parks, EMS and don’t accept SOCIAL Security fuckhead. Democrats actually care about ALL AMERICANS not just billionaires asshole!
Don’t act like you care about drug runners when that fucking felon is pardoning a huge drug person you fucking hypocrite!!
Again, this country is about to go to war for the oil companies.
That would be stealing, maiming, and killing, putting people and property in harm. We must not do that.
It's immoral.
Exactly! The largest amount of oil in the World!
Kind of like what W. wanted from iraq.
You would think that this country would have learned it's lesson....but no. Every time the corporatists get the upper hand with some leverage with our elected officials (or a dumb Preznit who wants to wag the dog) they urge the government to make war so they can gorge themselves on the spoils. This endless bullshit makes me teeth-grindingly furious.
Remember Kuwait?
I was thinking of Kuwait, and that was also to some degree about oil and Saddam Hussein's greedy grabbiness.
The Iraq invasion was also about oil (and a wag the dog operation, plus Dubya's psychological need to outperform his father)...but with Iraq sitting on one of the world's largest proven oil reserve, access to oil was VERY definitely in the mix for sure. Also Cheney made sure Haliburton (Cheney was a CEO for that company before becoming VP and he remained connected, by engineering work-around deals with sanctioned countries during his tenure) was one of the hyaenas looking to feast on whatever they could find.
" hyaenas looking to feast on whatever they could find."
I was going to say "Perfect description - then AND now."
But hyenas serve a useful purpose. The African plains would be knee deep in bones and rotting meat if it were not for the hyenas - and the vultures, and termites etc. Nature designs things for a purpose -even wasps have their uses.
What Republican politicians were designed for, God alone knows. I think maybe that it was as evidence there IS life outside of Earth - and we should stay away from it.
Yup. Not because of narco- terrorist.
Yup…despicable, just like Iraq…self serving oil mongers
I only have one really important question:
WHERE IS THE DEMOCRAT COORDINATED MESSAGING ON THIS FFS?!?
Why are we so bad at this after all this time?!?
They flood the airwaves, social media, and the internet with these bald BOLD lies about everything and we get our Reps caught flat footed with NO PUSHBACK!!
We need coordinated action and forward action not just responding FFS!!
Why are we not in front of each of these issues??
You are right the Democrats are notoriously bad at messaging but there isn’t much independent media left besides Substack and podcasts.
And the Sunday shows don’t always invite our Reps to participate which just adds to the empty space of our messaging.
That's all Trump is doing this for, “THE OIL”!!! He wants the OIL
Of course that is true. Same thing goes for Greenland and Canada. Venezuela also has large natural deposits of BAUXITE - which is what? Aluminum. US is crying for aluminum. I can't believe that the people of the United States are allowing this creature to cause all this damage to a once highly respected, democratic country.
I so agree Mary! After spending way too much time trying to figure his supporters out , my only conclusion is that MAGA thinks that whatever he does is ok! As long as it benefits the US in their minds! I am assuming that if another country tried to do any of this to America they would find it horrifying! This is not the kind of Patriotism I grew up with !
Yes, and you know what? Venezuela was(and still is) an "absolute gem" until the damn US sanctions were placed on it.
Thanks for playing all the crazy a-holes in Congress, so that we know exactly WHO needs to be primaried and then opposed the next time they come up for election!
Agree too. Everyone is saying oil oil oil, but I DO think it's the semi previous metals. to make chips or whatever they need for AI.
Read an article that said the US is WAY behind other countries as far as AI & we need to catch up…
He should be boiled in oil.
Throw the whole regime in! The ice gestapo and satans six scotus can all fry!!
Definitely
Trump doesn't even listen to when a judge tell him what to do. What is your suggestion that Dems do? Ok they can talk about it…then what? That crook in the oval office has immunity.
They need to be out in front of the public every single time something or someone does anything to us. Not just showing up to respond to the latest Retrumplican actions.
So many people get their news from their Facebook feed. Is there some way to amplify more Democratic voices to reach more people?
Algorithms are destroying the country.
I so agree Michele! Every extreme MAGA I know gets their news from Facebook, not Fox !
Anywhere that there are eyeballs is where the Dems belong!! On rooftops and on our streets if need be!
Grassroots door knocking is sorely lacking. It’s what Mamdani did and look what happened there!!
Flood the space EVERYWHERE they can!!!! And frankly, Fb and anything he touches are not working for us. He’s an oligarch who feeds at the trough of the retrumplican regime.
But his subordinates don't necessarily have that immunity.
Dems can shout the truth from the rooftops, but it isn’t getting reported and won’t get the attention from the media. The maniacs controlling our country are sucking the oxygen out of the very air we breathe.
Because Establishment Democrats are spineless
And tied to their corporate masters 💰
Kathryn you are precisely correct.
Good questions that deserve honest answers.
Cause we have people like Chuck leading the party, he can only write strongly worded notes, he probably uses calligraphy to do it as well.
LOL ...they are where they always are: doing nothing and wringing their hands saying there's nothing they can do...and that only the people can do something...and then Schumer cuts the legs from under all those people who protested, by giving in and getting nothing in return. And Jeffries votes against "socialism" along with 98 other democrats. (We have a Democratic Socialist Party in this country...and a Senator who is a Democratic Socialist who votes with democrats. What an idiot Jeffries has shown himself to be, and all those other democrats that signed the declaration. LOL)
I'm no longer putting myself in danger to protest for these democrats who have done nothing to help us. In fact so many of the democrats don't even want universal health care for their constituents... I guess they want us all to declare bankruptcy due to medical bills. (Of course, the politicians won't have to worry about this, since we pay over 70% of their premiums. smdh) Financially stressed constituents only have survival on their plate...not improvement.
As far as I'm concerned the corporate democrats sold out 40 years ago, and have been pushing democrats farther and farther to the right ever since. In fact I believe Jeffries and Schumer would rather work with MAGAs than progressives and democratic socialists...Look what the corporate dems (Jeffries included) tried to do to Mamdani. smdh
I wish the democratic party would be open to progressives and the following issues, but they are not. Issues: universal health care (not insurance- actual health care); universal child care; the best education possible for all; affordable rent/house payments; affordable healthy food for everyone; review, modify and put back our DEI; everyone follows the same laws; no wars; no threatening citizens, no retribution other than the courts; a livable minimum wage ($30.00/hour?); reimplementing our social safety net, and increasing benefits so people can live a decent life; saving our lands/environment/water for the people - not the corporations; delete monopolies; end Citizens United; and no more politicians spending half their day calling the rich for donations. I want them working for us, not making deals with the wealthy. How about you?
You are correct! We have to concentrate on getting the regime OUT & then we DEAL WITH THE REST!
I’m so disgusted with the Dems, I'm switching to Independent. Agree with you 💯!
Mark wane is a detriment to our country ..Stating that military force is needed against our own citizens with impunity.. waning in his thought process and traitorous mouth. These reactionary right members of congress need to be sanctioned .. good 😔 grief.
Exactly.
They need to STOP using the word terrorist to sanitize their war crimes.
International Radical Domestic Terrorism through human and sex trafficking: Guardians Of Pedophiles = GOP 🆘 USA 🇺🇸 🗺️
Stealing oil. That’s the plan.
Agreed. That's all this is about. Seizing more power.
Dear Ben,
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Also, it is essential that everyone understand that Hegseth would NEVER have acted without the orange turd's approval & that of Miller-the-Genocidist.
Thus, Rambo Kegsbreath AND EVERYONE up and down the Defense Department Chain-of-Command - from POTUS to whomever ‘pulled the trigger’ ARE MASS MURDERERS.
No Declaration of War exists.
The boat people, if indeed they were transporting illegal drugs, were transporting PRODUCTS THAT MILLIONS OF AMERICANS PURCHASE, WILLINGLY.
ZERO evidence exists that they were ‘terrorists’ and, even if they were, they were far from US Territorial waters and could just as easily been contained instead of being MURDERED.
Period.
Thank you for all you and your brothers RISK YOUR LIVES & those of YOUR FAMILY do to defend our Democracy.
Yes, exactly! Why is nobody asking why they want/order survivors to be killed? It's so obvious that they are bombing boats that aren't carrying drugs or any kind of gang members!! They're most likely fishermen or men that are transporting mundane, harmless goods that are likely not even heading to the US!!! They're killing everyone to cover their ass!!!!
Correct, most likely.
It is not about drugs it is about oil. For the last 50 years it has always been about oil.
Maduro and every other left wing leader in Latin America know that. All about the resources. So that we can impose neo-con colonialism on them until they "see things right."
We can't even get a decent conversation going about the ACTUAL illegal drugs when the Administration keeps lying like this.
The US needs to remove their own deadly dictator of the western hemisphere before they start invading other countries.
Right?! I was just thinking the same thing, Lisa!
Impeach and remove the shit out of this guy NOW!!!
Why did that reporter thank him at the end of the interview on AF1? WTF did she thank him for, the incessant spewing of venomous lies from his pit viper mouth? PRESS: STOP THANKING FELON TRUMP!!!!!!!
Thanks for lying and insulting us, my king.
JFC this Orange FIDIOT is tanking our economy and now wants to go to war with Venezuela.. so he can swing his micro mini D*CK and feel like real MAN with tiny orange jazz hands
Don’t you think DJT will preemptively pardon his ‘secretary of war”?
Why is he pardoning all these major drug dealers ?
$$$, that would be the only reason.
Because the drug dealing president was/is a dictator. Trump has a "hard-on" for DICKTATORS!
If America’s goal is to root out dictators than let’s start with the one in the White House!
As a rule of politics goes, "when you can't fix things at home, start a war" is certainly in this administration's 'How to...' guide.
Bitching about socialism again? Then don’t use public utilities, streets, schools, libraries, beaches, parks, EMS and don’t accept SOCIAL Security fuckhead. Democrats actually care about ALL AMERICANS not just billionaires asshole!
Don’t act like you care about drug runners when that fucking felon is pardoning a huge drug person you fucking hypocrite!!
Trump wants drugs he can control. Then apparently, they're "legal." 🙄
I don’t think he even cares about drugs, he cares about Venezuelan oil. Drugs are just an excuse to invade, force a regime change and steal their oil.
Yet he pardons a huge drug guy……. doesn’t add up-