Can we please do the right thing here and convict this man of war crimes. Even if he’s already dead when allegedly sane people get back in power, they need to sue the shit out of his remaining trusts and kids for corruption, bribery etc.
A war is a two-way conflict. No way they want that.
He’ll declare war before the midterms and claim that there can’t be elections while the US is at war.
shame we held open and fair elections during every war we’ve had in the past, including civil war
Learning from Russia
Well, from Ukraine, though an actual war is occurring. Russia are more than happy to hold elections since they’re rigged anyway.
Ukraine has a different constitution than us, with provisions for suspending elections during war. We do not have any such provisions in our constitution.
Willie Nelson’s not going to like that. Venezuela is tough to rhyme.
Thanks for the wag the dog reference.
in order to distract from the files, he would have to declare war like Nixon did.
What war did Nixon start
He may not have started it, but he most certainly made sure the Vietnam war continued.
Imagine if Obama said “We’re just going to kill people” in any context. I hate this shit so much.
To be fair…Obama did “just kill people” by the thousands.
Every US president practically has.
I thought Obama had congressional approval for all his military actions.
That’s not just killing people, it’s part of the job of being president: executing the will of the republic. What Trump is doing is very different.
Liberals like Obama because he did it while keeping a low profile so they could keep their conscious clean.
MAGA like Trump cuz he gloats about it so they can revel in it.
Where the fuck did I say I liked Obama.
When you hear people insult liberals do you always take it personally?
Maybe go back to the original comment for this thread and read usernames
I know you were at the top, what I don’t understand is why you thought my comment was directed at you.
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They were clearly responding to the person who instinctively jumped to defend Obama, if you look at the usernames, he was clearly not taking to you…
Wasn’t even directed at anyone in particular, just stating the observation.
That person absolutely wasn’t defending Obama. They were clearly calling him out, likely for his drone strikes.
Do you care to name an incident, so we can compare?
Yes, I see, lots of parallels there.
Apparently Trump is quite a fan of drone strikes too:
There have been 2,243 drone strikes in the first two years of the Trump presidency, compared with 1,878 in Mr Obama’s eight years in office,
That Trump is worse does not trivialize the fact.
No, but it is telling that trump then, according to these number, killed 4x more people in 2x less time
Both numbers suffice that either men should be in an ICC prison
And highlights the reason why the US doesn’t acknowledge the authority of the ICC.
Yeah I’m not arguing with you on this just sharing information I found.
If my math is right, that’s not by the thousands. That’s by the tens.
Roughly %10 casualty rate. That’s dog shit 💩
Dawg is he actively trying to launch into an actual emergency or war to try to hold on to power? Looks like it.
He is trying to create a justification for enacting martial law and increased control over the domestic population. “Venezuelan gangs” are simultaneously the excuse for blowing up civilian boats while also being the excuse for making ICE increasingly militant.
He seemingly wants to recreate the conditions of WWII where the military was used to round up Japanese-American people into concentration camps. Except this time it is to round up Latinos. For now they go after undocumented immigrants. Then start the war. Then round up anybody who is brown by labeling them as gang sympathizers
He’s also wanting Venezuela to declare war first.
Whelp, rip - see y’all in the gulags.
Yeah. He tried to get into a war with Iran in term 1. He “predicted/projected” Obama would start a war to increase his polling to get reelected. So we know he thinks this way
All of the above.
Nobel Peace Prize material right there, folks.
He’s going to build a desolation and call it a peace.
I hear you WTF
Totally sane approach to winning it as well
Dictators don’t even say that shit out loud.
He’s not smart. Even for a dictator. And the bar’s pretty fucking low there.
Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence or the threat of violence against people or property to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government, often to further political or social objectives. It can be categorized as international, involving foreign groups, or domestic, driven by domestic social or political issues.
This guy is so dumb, man.
As if “we’ll just kill people” isn’t just a declaration of war. 🙄
The US hasn’t technically been at war since WW2 by US definition technicalities, a system that many Americans seem to enjoy stating when talking about the millions of people killed by the US military and allies since in various invasions and occupations
it’s like the opposite of “i declare bankruptcy!”
“Just” 🤦🤦🤦
”He loved to watch people burn, the way their skin blackened and blistered and melted off their bones. He burned lords he didn’t like, he burned Hands who disobeyed him. He burned anyone who was against him. Before long, half the country was against him. Aerys saw traitors everywhere.”
Shit is that the Mad King?
That’s Stephen Miller’s inner monologue
Declaring war is a boring, formal process that acknowledges authority other than himself, of course he doesn’t want to do it. Why do all of that when he already has the thrill of ordering the deaths of random civilians and having the footage streamed live to him while he scarfs down a McDouble? If he wants to send in a Marine division he’ll just say go do it, who’s going to stop him?
The only people that could stop him would be the Marines. But they signed up to kill people, so they’re in agreement.
They can kill…not Venezuelan’s…
I’d acquit.
renames Department of Defense back to Department of War
declines to actually declare war
What is even the point, then? Ignoring the whole “only Congress can declare war” part, of course, but it’s not like that’s going to be a particular difficult hurdle for the regime.
The point of pretending to change the name of the department was so Petey could pretend to be a big tough warrior in front of all the army guys.
It’s theatrics and make-believe, because Republicans live in a fantasy of their own imagination
you know, in comparison dubya at least tried to have this kind of diplomatic subtlety that is nowhere to be found in current administration
Cheney/Dubya laid a lot of the groundwork for the fascist wave currently swamping the USA
i mean it would be hard to imagine 20 years ago precise ways things could get worse, and then
Disagree; the Patriot Act had plenty of easily determinable ways things could and did get worse.
Exactly. The people who were warning others about it were also dismissed as ‘overreacting’, just like what’s going on now.
And the war in Ukraine is just a tactical operation to any and all nazis…
