Tale as old as epoch

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Tend Farm, Doctor

Bullshit

Earn my own living

Obviously doing something completely useless.

I assumed it was piefed.

Now we’re cooking.

I’m very aware. They keep opening new accounts on new instances which gets annoying to block.

They’re actually cross posting it without attribution: https://suppo.fi/post/9981263

Which is… obsessive.

More of a loser than Guaidó.

Word salad

China would have to occupy the west coast for full suspension of elections. So no, you’re right, its, not absolute 0.

He may have ICE agents at the polling stations but there will be elections. Look at the dictators around the world, they still have elections. Having the ritual preserves the legitimacy.

First, it’s factually wrong. There will be elections in 2026 and 2028 under Trump

This should really be the only point that needs to be made. You can say the elections will be fraudulent or a sham but you can also say they’ve been that way for a long time. Its just a shallow and juvenile understanding of the situation.

indeed

I’d love to have a civilian LRAD system but maybe a junglist sound system would suffice.

Sleep deprivation is serious business. This guy is easily doing more direct action than 99% of the protestors (no hate on them).

What alternative strategies are you suggesting? Picking up a gun and forming a militia? Or waiting for the mid-terms vote ICE agents out of office?

You were overqualified for the position if they’re making you go through that amount of bullshit.

iirc Maduro was already in negotiations to surrender himself to Trump as a part of some deal that would lift the sanctions. But the negotiations took too long for Trump.

Trump threatens Jorge Rodriguez with more blatant terrorism unless he privatizes the world’s largest oil supply. If the new admin capitulates, Trump calls that a win. He gets the oil and the spectacle without losing a single american troop. The US will lose respect from its allies - again - but they never do shit about it. iTs AmErICa FiRsT. america

Rubio and the Cuba lobby are furious though. They are serious about regime change. The option that gets the most people killed.

Colombia is more vulnerable but it hasn’t developed a lobby like Venezuela and Cuba have.

Sheinbaum in Mexico and Lula in Brazil are later in the itinerary but they’re going to be more difficult. Especially Brazil now that Bolsonaro is in jail.

If Trump felt beholden to congress, he would not have gotten approval. He would have had to spend years spreading propaganda and trying to build up a case, like Bush did. All that effort might have prevented him from doing it at all.

Didn’t stop Bush did it?

More importantly, doing this is trying to peel off people who might waver because Maduro is unsympathetic

Saddam was even less sympathetic but the Iraq war was still wrong. Most of the US understands that. It’s bipartisan amongst the populace at this point. Call it Jungle Iraq. Your son is going to die for oil… again. That’ll alarm people way more than the bazillionth instance of presidential over-reach.

Protests are shouting matches. We’re not talking about general discussion. Do you censor yourself in general discussion because conservatives play gotcha games with you? How is that honest communication?