It's only a regime change if it comes from the regime region of Iraq. Otherwise, it's just sparkling oil heist. #Venezuela

It's only led-based serial killing if it comes from the led-based region of the Puget Sound, otherwise its just microplastic-based mass shootings.

"we did insider trading folks, they're calling it insider trading. So beautiful. Some say it's a crime, the radical left says it's a crime, folks. I don't say it's a crime. Crime is relative. Crime is beautiful. If she weren't my life's work, perhaps I'd be dating crime"

James Baldwin's work reads like a lifelong confession. He was telling us that he, too, was born into this technicolored night terror called "the world that the West had won." And for that reason alone, he could not be our savior, but he could stand beside us and bear witness to the absurdity.

Morally, there is but a short distance between this nation's unwillingness to hold Jefferson Davis to account after the Civil War and the country's continued refusal to hold Trump accountable after #January6th. The weight of the past bears heavily on a mind fearfully glancing toward a free future.

To understand the mindset of someone like #StephenMiller or #ElonMusk, you must understand Fredrick Jackson Turner and his frontier thesis. They all view expansion and conquest as the lifeblood of national character. If the U.S is not expanding to Mars or conquering Greenland, it is dying.

Regime change in Venezuela, writes M. Gessen, “is a victory for Putin, because it is a blow — quite likely fatal — to the new world order of law, justice and human rights that was heralded in the wake of World War II.”

*Marco Rubio sits in front of his computer, he's sweating, trembling, nauseous. He has his big boy suit on. He pulls up his CV and begins to add his new job title on top of the Rest*

-President of Venezuela, 2025-Present

#U.S.Politics #TrumpAdministration

The Iraq, er, Venezuela war distraction, misled by President Bush, sorry, Trump, wrapped up in a nice nutshell by @thedailyshow.com.

Seems Grok failed to switch out names on their recycled notes.
Hi 👋🏽 Tom Cotton. Precious.

MAGA word of the day: "hemisphere"
(Word only, not definition)

Exactly, what changes? I am baffled at how we can live through the Iraq war and still believe in American statecraft. America has never been interested in developing Latin America, only plundering.

“In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state,” Colette Capriles writes. “Our society has been orphaned, ground down to its most basic capacities.”

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

The bitterly ironic U.S. tradition of "fixing" the nations we have so clearly had a hand in destabilizing only persists because the nation refuses to hold a mirror to itself and to ask, "do I like what I see?" #VenezuelaInvasion

There has been an ideological tension at the heart of the Trump administration from day one—U.S. Imperialism v. Manifest Destiny; Globalism v. Nativism; America in the World v. America First. Weltpolitik v. Lebensraum; Musk v. Navarro. A crack in the already weak armor that widens every misstep.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela.

Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law.

Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

It's the infinite regime change glitch. It was first theorized by Dick Cheney in 1985, but until now the neocon community believed it to be out of the realm of physical possibility....

Maybe the real Venezuela was the oil reserve seizures we made along the way. #Oil #Venezuela #USA