@CedricH

It's difficult enough for Trump to do one thing right, let alone two.

@beckyromero 😂 He wouldn’t be doing much in the case of Ukraine except stepping out of the way so that Congress can appropriate more funds and impose crippling secondary sanctions.

There‘s no reason why the US can’t do both even under Trump. What’s more, Trump doesn’t really present us with a binary choice. If he put it to a vote and asked the American people if his government should rather support Ukraine - indirectly - or directly intervene in Venezuela, then I‘d advise anyone to vote for the first option. But that’s not how the world works. He will do what he wants to do and as long as deposing the Maduro regime is even remotely in the cards I‘m going to cheer him on until it’s finally done.

@meJess Just a quick pint, Hawaii is an actual state, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc., are US territories, VERY big differences.

@samueltyler2 and who in Hawaii voted for that? The indigenous people?

@meJess Not all of them, only some of them but mainly the Euro-American settlers, who also happen to be people with liberal rights and who fortunately freed Hawaii from feudalism, absolutist monarchy and an erratic queen with the subtle aid of the United States.

@samueltyler2 That’s what I just said. They used to be extremely anti-catholic but moved on from that even as they became more skeptical of affirmative action in favor of African Americans.

@CedricH fine, but your statement made it sound simultaneously, it was not. I love your term skeptical of affirmative action, call it what it is, they are bigoted.

@CedricH

How? By using the rethoric, where black people kept being held down? You do understand that there can be a form of segregation without laws right? Ever been to the South Cedric. There are still entire communities out there that live seperate from eachother. You might not be able to undo the civil rights acts, but peer pressure in communities can be a terrible thing. And when the civil rights act passed, redistribution (aka social security) became a target by the republican party. Because hey... you can't have those black people getting white peoples money and start creating a life for eachother. Even though it's not legal, you can still disqualify people on other grounds then just their skin color. So if you need to hire a worker, you'll figure out how to make sure not to take the black person.

Yeah, it was so natural, that the change of rhetoric inside the republican party seems to have tainted for ever. That sin, 40 years later is comming home to roost. I don't use the word "organic" or "natural" for people that make changes in their party to actively catch more voters. That's not "natural", that's designed.

Well, no. Southern democrats didn't stop voting, that's why they pushed Wallace to the front... but these people didn't have the numbers. So if no one pampered to them, they would have stayed what they were forever. A marginal group that lost. Either they changed their perspectives or kept being that way. Sadly, the republican party wasn't doing so great in the elections and they needed more voters. So they sold their soul to a cause that should have been lost. And for the 2nd time in America history, these people were giving a new home WITHOUT having to reflect on their values and the culture that marginalised them in the first place. But the republican party took in these illiberal elements, and look where we are now. It just consumed the republican party and now this generation has to deal with this garbage again.

@sunsporter1649 Try actually reading the post. You aren't even on topic.

@ViciDraco he/she is rarely. wait, you will get a cartoon post from them soon.

@samueltyler2 That's what I'm expecting the reply to be. Usually the cartoon isn't related to the topic either.

@CedricH did you read what you sent? How is that proof? It is an announcement related to a pronouncement by the discredited Attorney General, William Barr, acting on behalf of his master, Donald Trump. You never chose to answer, what is your definition of a narcotic?

@samueltyler2 The evidence you were asking for are part included in the charges.

@CedricH BS, the charge lists generalities, and show no evidence of any direct connection between Venezuela and the US drug abuse problem.

@sunsporter1649 are you sure? Do you want to go and check?

@SpudMuffin Already did, how 'bout you?

@sunsporter1649 who's that?

@CedricH ingivebup with you, you cannot answer the question. You are the one saying they are on the same category. When i asked you to show that, you listed a bunch of political descriptors but not how both trump and Chavez share the same positions.

@samueltyler2 For God‘s sake. The descriptors are the parallels.

@CedricH no, if you think the descriptors got them, you need to show they fit the descriptors.

This isn't the first time you have shown your lack of sensitivity to the issues. I wish you luck on your future.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Well, that’s about the only thing you truly understand. Youth slang. Congratulations. Very fitting.

@CedricH You all are salivating over Venezuela's oil, nothing more.

@NativePortlander1970 That's what Trump wants, I think.

@NativePortlander1970 I couldn’t care less. I‘ve advocated for an oil embargo on Russia since 2022 despite the costs. If I cared about a larger global oil supply I‘d let Chevron drill in Venezuela. The Maduro government wants them to but if you want to remove a regime you don’t provide them with a cash cow which they can milk at their pleasure.

@CedricH Nope I think it is 100% counterproductive. Maduro is already using this crisis to assume dictatorial “special powers” and rally public opinion behind patriotic calls for national solidarity. Also, Trump’s bullying of other left-leaning Latin American countries such as Colombia, and his presumptuous cheerleading for rightwing populists in Argentina and El Salvador, is spurring a regional backlash.

@wildland Again, one has nothing to do with the other. Trump‘s bullying of Colombia is indeed counterproductive but it‘s also not a precondition for military action in Venezuela. A close relationship with Argentina, meanwhile, is bolstering the US footprint in the region even if you might not like Argentina’s democratically elected President.

If Trump doesn’t follow through on his threats then this whole exercise will obviously prove highly counterproductive because it would present Maduro with a raison d‘être for his illegal Presidency and the US would lose credibility.
Still, that‘s not the case if the administration should follow through with its threats which is the premise and subtle assumption of this post.

@CedricH It's just horrendous. There’s no plan. Trump throws his weight about, makes impetuous misjudgments, stokes fear of foreigners and bases policy on whether he “likes” other leaders.