Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 3)

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Venezuela stole US oil which is in Venezuela and US land which is in Venezuela?

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He refers to some US companies and licences or something, but the biggest ā€œWTFā€ is stolen land and foreign terrorist organisation" imo

The mans fucking demented!

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Fucking dangerous!
How do the people who voted for him justify this?

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At this point does anyone seriously think he is willingly going to leave office at the end of this term?

There is only one way he’s leaving the White House.

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The sooner, the better.

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Trump is a lunatic however those around him are extremely dangerous thinking of that really evil Stephen what’s it, Vance and others. They have real political ideologies compared to Trump’s self centered moronic mumblings these are real nasty calculated cunts. If MAGA continues the world is in extreme danger.

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I’m almost dead certain the majority of them don’t give a flying fuck about Venezuela

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Yes, but then we would get Vance and he could be worse.

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Early in this second term they designated Tren De Aragua a terrorist organization and to do that had to claim it had a direct association to Maduro. They used this to leverage existing anti-terrorism laws to would allow them to remove from the US any Venezuelan they claimed was TdA and do so without the normal due process. You know, like demonstrating they are are actually gang members. This is largely the group that got sent to CECOT in El Salvador…a country where the president is actually in cahoots with the gangs

They are leveraging that earlier designation, but also recently changed focus to Cartel de los Soles to justify these operations on the fishing boats. It turns our Cartel de los Soles is just a term Venezuelans have used for a few decades to describe the corruption in their previous pre-Chavez government and no such organization exists.

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He would be a nightmare, but I don’t think he has the pull that Trump does.

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The Venezuelans, a group who almost uniformly voted for him (US Venezuelans have almost identical politics to the Cubans) do. They are not yet a large voting block because the overwhelming majority of the arrivals have come relatively recently and using a path that doesn’t offer a quick path to citizenship/voting eligibility, but they as a group are very politically active. Especially in South Florida where they piggy backed on the infrastructure set up by the Cubans.

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Sure however I was mumbling in general.
Trump scares me however those other fucks terrify me :fearful:.
Venezuela is in real deep shit. The populations of many countries on the South American continent are ā€˜fed up to the back teeth’ with Venezuelans. Just look at Chile. It’s already ugly and this can only make it worst. :frowning:

When this was originally reported there were vigorous rejections, attacks on the press for making it up, and even a congressional hearing where promises were made that no such policy changes was going to be enacted

https://x.com/TaraCopp/status/2001016939447976199?s=20

It’s now been enacted

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The press at large have really failed to grapple with the reality that when these people speak they are lying and the coverage of it should be presented through that lens. But to Leavitt’s minimal credit, she is at least only presenting the angle Fox are presenting here

https://x.com/PressSec/status/2000971255982248347?s=20

What triggered the raid was the video evidence the FBI received of them moving documents out of the room where they had claimed the documents in question were being stored. That video was received after the communications this story cites were sent, but their story ignores that the additional evidence these FBI sources were saying they needed was actually delivered to them justifying the raid.

This is not bad reporting. This is a piece designed to actively misinform its readers

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Biden spent political capital saving pensions of the Teamsters and demonstrated additional solidarity with Unions by joining the UAW on the picket line. The response was still outright antagonism from the Teamsters leadership

Now here is the Trump administration actively intimidating a Teamsters strike action
https://x.com/sarahlazare/status/2001018315142258930?s=20

Those leopards must be REALLY full by now

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This really is the epitome of US politics in 2025

Trump accusing the left of anti semitism with a textbook demonstration of antisemitism by calling AIPAC the Jewish lobby
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2001109927318712817?s=20