International At least 7 explosions and low-flying aircraft are heard in Venezuela’s Caracas - Maduro captured

[cincymma79]

 

[cincymma79]

 

[cincymma79]

Huge if true

Putin’s secret bargain to trade Ukraine for Venezuela​

Concerns mount that Russia will be given free rein to crush Kyiv as Trump pursues his ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in America’s backyard

Putin’s secret bargain to trade Ukraine for Venezuela

Concerns mount that Russia will be given free rein to crush Kyiv as Trump pursues his ‘Donroe Doctrine’ in America’s backyard

www.telegraph.co.uk

i saw the headline and was going to read this later but i’m predicting that it doesn’t quite any official on record

goddamned paywall

 

[The_Renaissance]

These people are absolutely shamelessly dishonest, always.

 

[Absolut]

We will stop racing to topple foreign — and you understand this, foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with. Djt


Regime change in Iraq, regime change in Libya, regime change in Syria, and every other globalist disaster for half a century. Djt

 

[sickc0d3r]

It will be impeded, however he will become more aggressive and authoritarian. There's a reason the SCOTUS have him the immunity they did. Concentrating even more power to the executive is a core tenet of Federalism. And its something the technocrats like because the Yarvinists think the US should be a monarchy

Things are going as planned, no doubt about that. And if the voters don’t come through in the next 2 election cycles, that is exactly what we’ll become; a monarchy in practice. You can bet this admin will do everything possible to prevent voters from changing the tide. Trump has already tried to rig one election.
But, if democrats win in the mid terms, and especially if they win in 4 years, this shitshow can backfire. It all comes down to voters, and I can’t say I have a ton of faith even if there’s no interference, tbh. It doesn’t help that democrats are incompetent when it comes to elections.

 

[cincymma79]

We will stop racing to topple foreign — and you understand this, foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with. Djt


Regime change in Iraq, regime change in Libya, regime change in Syria, and every other globalist disaster for half a century. Djt

i’m not opposed to libya but the complete lack of a plan for after was terrible. venezuela is the same but a much better culture. if it’s handled the same i’ll put it in the same shit box.

 

[Sinister]

Things are going as planned, no doubt about that. And if the voters don’t come through in the next 2 election cycles, that is exactly what we’ll become; a monarchy in practice. You can bet this admin will do everything possible to prevent voters from changing the tide. Trump has already tried to rig one election.
But, if democrats win in the mid terms, and especially if they win in 4 years, this shitshow can backfire. It all comes down to voters, and I can’t say I have a ton of faith even if there’s no interference, tbh. It doesn’t help that democrats are incompetent when it comes to elections.

Your lack of faith is not unwarranted. However I will say that as I learn about Resistance History, I wouldnt put much stock in electorialism at this stage, or really at any stage in US History.

The truth of the matter is that the modern Conservatives are doing people who believe in democracy a huge favor right now by laying out the structural vulnerabilities of US "democracy." We just need to grapple with the fact that when the Federalist "originalists" do their "constitutional interpretation"... they're pretty accurate with pre-Civil War era perspectives. The US is a white Country, by and for wealthy white capitalists. It was NEVER a democracy, insomuch as it was only democratic for white landowners, and not only did it allow slavery, but it embedded it. Our illustrious fabled Founding Fathers werent victims of circumstance, and neither were any Christians. They MEANT to embed and expand slavery, the building of this white democracy on the backs of unpaid labor. Benjamin Franklin advocated this and wrote about how slave labor is more profitable than paid laboor.

This is why they hate the Reconstruction Amendments, which did the most to establish an actual multi-racial democracy. These dorks act like slavery was some ancient thing that was unfortunate, but it was so embedded in our system that it took armed conflict, and the barring of representation from slavery States to change it. And leading into that conflict, it took the building of parallel institutons (that's how the Republican party was even formed, as a parallel to the Whigs), and things that operated outside the system like the Underground Railroad.

Americans still have the spirit to do these things, like how ICE is encountering a TON of resistance on the ground. However it's not organized enough. The Republicans do have some trepidation about the mid-term results, but they're going to realize they need to subvert the elections, not win them. They're getting hammered in all the special elections, but they're only so worried because even if they lose elections they know the system will remain intact. The same system theyve already exploited. And Democrats are feckless, too concerned with seducing donors. So it's time for a parallel to them, but we can't expect THEM to build it. We have to, in the communities. That's how the Republican party got infiltrated by aggressive radical abolitionists like Thaddeus Stevens and John Bingham.

You want to see a similar infiltration, Mamdani gave the blueprint. He cucked the entirety of both parties in NY. He exploited a thing in NY to even be able to run, partially publicly funded elections. If we had totally publicly funded elections (ghasp, socialism), our politicians wouldn't be so egregiously decided by the donor class. NY has public funding available for candidates who meet certain criteria, he did, and look how bad it damaged the parties.

 

[HockeyBjj]

There’s no more pretending this was about drugs or humanitarian reasons. We just yoinked a countries leader to steal their resources

 

[evansusmc2]

What am I deflecting from? Your awesome internet victory of knowing something happened that youtube commenters didn't think would happen?

I didn't ask for it to happen but hey... since there Venezuelans have been cheering throughout the world. So this is a victory for them also. You got a problem with it let me know and I explain it to them for you when I go to Colombia in March where there's a whoooole bunch of Venezuelans.

Holy shit you must have an empty life if this is the sort of thing you celebrate.

NOPE... coaching wrestling for two different teams currently and got some killer vacations planned after the season.

"They" didn't think the US would attack "Venezuala" and you did.
You are happy they were proven wrong. Ergo you are happy "Venezuala" was attacked. That or you just don't know how to use words to communicate your thoughts.

Nah, I meant they thought if there was a conflict between US and Venezuala they'd defeat the US. Glad they were proven wrong. I'll be cheering with Venezuelan people in March and you'll be stuck in a life of sadness and baseless opinions/insults.

At this point I'd be surprised if you can tie your own shoes.

Take a good look at that sentence... you and your forced opinions and ideology are the reason why you and these other girls were so "surprised" when you and kamalala lost.

 

[evansusmc2]

Isn't that clip very old

Nope. Take a look past 5 seconds of the video.

and not related to the 2024 Election?

Pretty sure this thread is about maduro's capture.

 

[evansusmc2]

There are still a percentage of the population that’s loyal, while Maduro despise him. I assume their political landscape is as divided as ours in the US.

Divided like.... 4% in favor of maduro with 96% partying in the streets.

 

[Intermission]

There’s no more pretending this was about drugs or humanitarian reasons. We just yoinked a countries leader to steal their resources

they claim its not working anyway withot their architecture

 

[GhostZ06]

interesting, looks like US jamming equipment fucked up an igla shot

 

[Phisher]

Amazing

 

[WT3]

some of the passport bros from the office have been trying to get me to go to Columbia....Hard pass at this point.

Two things what is your definition of passport bro and is the trip for hookers. Serious questions please respond.

 

[curryjunkie]

Amazing

of course they do..

 

[Deorum]

Things are going as planned, no doubt about that. And if the voters don’t come through in the next 2 election cycles, that is exactly what we’ll become; a monarchy in practice. You can bet this admin will do everything possible to prevent voters from changing the tide. Trump has already tried to rig one election.
But, if democrats win in the mid terms, and especially if they win in 4 years, this shitshow can backfire. It all comes down to voters, and I can’t say I have a ton of faith even if there’s no interference, tbh. It doesn’t help that democrats are incompetent when it comes to elections.

House should be secured later this year, although I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to the gerrymandering wars. The Senate will be quite an uphill battle, and always is. That's probably more realistic for '28.

The truth of the matter is that the modern Conservatives are doing people who believe in democracy a huge favor right now by laying out the structural vulnerabilities of US "democracy." We just need to grapple with the fact that when the Federalist "originalists" do their "constitutional interpretation"... they're pretty accurate with pre-Civil War era perspectives. The US is a white Country, by and for wealthy white capitalists. It was NEVER a democracy, insomuch as it was only democratic for white landowners, and not only did it allow slavery, but it embedded it. Our illustrious fabled Founding Fathers werent victims of circumstance, and neither were any Christians. They MEANT to embed and expand slavery, the building of this white democracy on the backs of unpaid labor. Benjamin Franklin advocated this and wrote about how slave labor is more profitable than paid laboor.

This is why they hate the Reconstruction Amendments, which did the most to establish an actual multi-racial democracy. These dorks act like slavery was some ancient thing that was unfortunate, but it was so embedded in our system that it took armed conflict, and the barring of representation from slavery States to change it. And leading into that conflict, it took the building of parallel institutons (that's how the Republican party was even formed, as a parallel to the Whigs), and things that operated outside the system like the Underground Railroad.

Americans still have the spirit to do these things, like how ICE is encountering a TON of resistance on the ground. However it's not organized enough. The Republicans do have some trepidation about the mid-term results, but they're going to realize they need to subvert the elections, not win them. They're getting hammered in all the special elections, but they're only so worried because even if they lose elections they know the system will remain intact. The same system theyve already exploited. And Democrats are feckless, too concerned with seducing donors. So it's time for a parallel to them, but we can't expect THEM to build it. We have to, in the communities. That's how the Republican party got infiltrated by aggressive radical abolitionists like Thaddeus Stevens and John Bingham.

With the fabled founding fathers, I think it's necessary to make a distinction between great men and good people. Washington is great because he was the Commander of the Revolutionary Army, Chairman of the Constitutional Convention, and first President of the United States; Jefferson is great principally because he wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison is great because he was foremost responsible for the drafting of the Constitution and separately authored the Bill of Rights. All of them were big-time wealthy slaveowners, and that's fucking dire. Only in Washington's case was there some sort of rectifying action, after his death.

It's also worth pointing out who wasn't: Alexander Hamilton -- whose vision of the United States as an industrial powerhouse with a strong central government ultimately won out with TR & FDR -- never owned slaves (though members of his family did) and co-founded a New York abolitionist organization years before the Constitution was even drafted; John Adams was vehemently opposed to slavery on both moral and political grounds, never owned slaves; Samuel Adams much of the same, he was actually gifted one named Surry for his wedding and refused ("A slave can not live in my house; if she comes she must be free"). She did live there, with legal emancipation paperwork formalized. And Benjamin Franklin, albeit towards the end of his life, turned abolitionist and petitioned for it to be banned on a federal level.

 

[Absolut]

“Republicans should be ashamed of the Senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our Powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Todd Young should never be elected to office again,” Trump raged (https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-explodes-5-gop-senators-183226678.html),




How dare they pick the constitution over the crown

 

[Absolut]

These people are absolutely shamelessly dishonest, always.

Right??

We will stop racing to topple foreign — and you understand this, foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with. Djt