Again, we’re not stopping there. She’s a Chavez/Maduro-ite from way back. No way they tolerate her unless they can convince her to abandon every principle she’s had going back decades.
It won’t. Contrary to typical US propaganda horseshit, sovereign nations always end up worse off when we pull off coups like this. You have to remember, this is only half of the process. The other half is the successful installment of a puppet dictator whose sole concern is the pleasure of US investors, which by definition means the population is always worse off. Edit: and that second act is coming. Do not for a moment assume the Trump regime has finished its work in Venezuela
Oh I’m counting on it. I have a relative with whom I had regular political spats during the Bush years. Keep in mind nearly all of them were about his foreign policy. Cut to 9/11/2021 and this fucking guy has the nerve to say on the 20th anniversary of 9-11 that “I've disavowed the Bush foreign policy doctrine.” So when I asked him “does that mean you’re conceding defeat in all those email spats we had when I was in college,” he said “no.” This is the mind of a jingoistic Trumper. This is how they operate. Dishonesty is their fucking trade.
To quote Christopher Hitchens regarding Jerry Falwell when Anderson Cooper asked if he believed Falwell was in Hell:
”No and it’s a great pity that there isn’t a Hell for him to go to”
They’ve broken practically every single ceasefire they’ve ever signed with Hamas. And they’ve admitted to that in their own internal documents. What would be shocking, at this point, is if they did not do such a thing.
It really does suck.
Last year I went to JerryWorld to watch my alma mater compete in the state title game. Saw a pack of old geezers a few rows in front all donning the red MAGA hats. Sickening. Like…I’d never been to a football game at any level and saw more than one person (if any at all) wearing a political shirt/hat, and yet in total I saw a dozen of those stupid trucker hats at just that one fucking high school game. Seriously there was more political bullshit at that one game than in all 36 years I’d been attending sporting events combined.
Have to say that’s where I was on the RC. Always pulled for the home team especially when it was here but that was just such a bad touch in so many ways. I saw that the Euro players trolled Trump during their locker room celebration and I absolutely loved it.
And I know full well some MAGA morons are reading this and they’re contemplating saying to you/me/us that we’re “traitors.” Let me just save time for anyone who is contemplating that:
if you really think that exchange will have a happy ending for you, you’re either a bucktoothed fool or you really haven’t been paying attention.
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It’s one of our proudest traditions: veto shit that would at least make major steps towards ending the conflict. Next year will be the 50th anniversary of when we started doing that shit at the UN