When LBJ convinced the US Congress to almost unanimously endorse the Tonkin Gulf Resolution he promised that our objectives were limited and that he did not want a wider war. Ten years and 50,000+ dead American GIs later the last Americans were evacuated by helicopter from Saigon rooftops.
In his book "Just and Unjust Wars" Michael Walzer writes: “Those who begin wars rarely control or even foresee their consequences. The initial injustice of aggression is almost always compounded by the unpredictable cruelties that follow from it… Aggression opens the gates of hell.”
The Trump regime has just opened the gates of hell.
YES YES YES IT'S DEMENTIA! i’ve worked with dementia patients he has all the symptoms he’s had them for awhile. He's getting worse, quickly. There is no way he should be even out of the house or be around People! There's a chance that he *might* not even know that what he’s doing is real life. He doesn't like Maduro's dance so he goes to be mean to him - toddler tantrum, he's cranky!
They should have 25'd him MONTHS ago. NONE of this makes sense. he has phone calls with Putin - specifically in the morning -when he is lucid. he thinks Putin is still his little buddy so he does what he says. then, if he meets with Zelensky in the afternoon, when his symptoms are worse, he's cranky again, and treats him badly because, in his mind, Putin is the best. He wants to be like him and Putin is just GIVING him all the answers. Dementia has him lazy. He's getting his instructions on a golden plate right in his lap.
we need to know WHY has nobody AT ALL said or done anything?!
Keep the Trump-Epstein files front and center. Keep the Jack Smith deposition on the daily news. Damning to Trump on both fronts. But the non-independent media has moved on and are failing us every single day. Trump is showing what an out-of-control executive dictator can do to a democracy; the legislative and judicial branches have proven themselves weak and useless. What happened to checks and balances? What is happening to our democracy? Just like the Jan. 6 debacle... the world is watching with disbelief and dread.
It’s important to keep in mind that Trump at this point is just an annoying barking dog or a rodeo clown. If Trump were to drop dead tomorrow his regime of corporate criminality will still be there. When Trump is gone America is not magically going to become a democracy and a republic again. There are a lot of people that need to be gone and a lot of them are billionaires and heads of corporations and the traitorous Republican members of Congress.
The American government is fundamentally flawed. The American government does not work for the American people and it hasn’t in a very long time and Trump took advantage of that.
We the people, are the rightful masters of Congress the courts and the White House but just because we are the rightful masters doesn’t mean that we are the masters. Congress, the courts in the White House work for corporations and that’s all they work for.
It doesn't matter whether Maduro is a criminal dictator or not! Trump just kicked the Republican Congress in the balls by an action that could lead to war.
It’s good that Maduro is going going gone but Trump believes that the regime in Venezuela is over. It’s not over. At this point Trump and the clowns around him have no idea what the next move should be.
The thing I worry about the most is that Venezuela will not be democratized. Trump hates democracy as much as he hates the constitution and the rule of law.
Some good could come of this but it’s going to take a different American president and since the GOP is so corrupt it will take a Democrat to clean up Trump’s mess.
Democrats are always cleaning up the messes created by Republicans. History has proven that.
I think we could skip the first two steps when it comes to Trump. He’s a convicted felon.
Removing Trump isn’t gonna be a magic bullet that will fix everything. Trump has surrounded himself with criminals that are more dangerous than he is and it’s not just the people in the White House that need to go.
Biggest enemy to humanity is something called corporate. Corporatism is just another word for fascism. Members of Congress do not serve the American people, they serve corporate and unless and until that changes, the United States can never be a Democratic republic with liberty and justice for all.
At this point Trump is a figurehead and pretty much a rodeo clown who runs his mouth and gets people to react to it. He’s a troll who likes to rape girls, and commit other felonies.
From a psychological perspective, Trump is organized around revenge, meaning that getting back at people is a number one driver of his behavior. Many men who were ridiculed and humiliated in earliest childhood form a determination to never feel in a one down position ever again. So when Donald feels insulted, he does what Roy Cohen trained him to do…he hits back 10 times harder. Trump is now surrounded by men who are psychologically organized in the exact same way. They think they are proving their strength, but as David said, they are really proving their emotional instability and immaturity.
Obviously Trump is as dangerous as a toddler with a loaded gun due to his narcissistic fragility, his narcissistic rages, his toddler-like impulsivity, and his delusions of omnipotence. We have to pressure our representatives to impeach him and his collaborators, and we need to be out in the streets calling for him to resign.
There hasn’t been a regime change in Venezuela. Just because Trump head maduro kidnapped does not mean there has been any changes in the government of Venezuela. Everybody within the government there is still in power. He is not running Venezuela and besides he wouldn’t know how to run a country couldn’t even run a casino without making it go bankrupt.
Trump is so senile and delusional that he probably actually believes there has been regime change in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government is still intact. The MAGATS probably believe the same thing but they probably don’t even know the meaning of the word regime because they’re clueless as how government works and that’s because they are too lazy to understand how government works and many of them are too stupid to understand even if you explained it to them.
As Trump taking too much aspirin. Any NSAID can cause internal bleeding. It happened to a friend of mine and he had a massive brain bleed. This could happen to Trump if he continues on his aspirin regime. He’s probably taking too much too often. It sort of reminds me of Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough. I’m not sure what the lethal dose of aspirin is.
Another distinct possibility of him pounding aspirin is if he gets caught or he needs surgery the surgeons are going to have to give him something to make his blood clot. That could cause an ischemic stroke.
Trump could also have an embolism or an aneurysm which could burst. At that point it would be time to sing Turn Out The Lights the Party’s Over.
Let’s see if we can get Dr. Oz and RFK Junior to encourage him to take double the dose taking now.
If Trump has a hemorrhagic stroke, it will probably big one but don’t go dancing in the streets thinking that there’s going to be regime change in the United States simply because Trump is dead or incapacitated. The only way we can have something resembling regime change is to get rid of the Republicans by voting them out. The most efficient way we can have a regime change would be to have a military coup and capture all the criminals from people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to their minions such as Mike Johnson. Every member of the Trump family should be rounded up and interrogated Guantánamo Bay style in order to get the truth.
"sets a dangerous precedent for how countries treat sovereignty and heads of state"
Since none of our enemies, IRAN, RUSSIA and CHINA respect sovereignty not sure why we should be held to it. China trampled over Tibet and now intimidating Taiwan. Iran had its henchmen all over the middle east. Russia invaded Ukraine and has its mercenaries all over Africa. Chinese silk road developments are just legal ways to conquer countries from within. No telling how much China owns of our real estate and corporations.
If we stand by playing by the rules when others do not, they will be on our doorsteps.
Not a Trump supporter, however this was one gutsy move that shows the power of the US military. King Trump will take full credit. All those crying the blues, can send Maduro a best wishes card at Rikers Island where he can enjoy the same treatment he gave his citizens. No tears lost.
I am shocked they brought him back alive as he will surely be made some kind of hero. This will play out in court for years and Trump may pardon him for real estate in Venezuela.
I’m not surprised they kept him alive because he’s a dictator and Trump loves dictators. I think he gave himself up and if Trump is Trump he will have him put in Club Fed for a while and he will probably take a few bribes and pardon him just like he did with the president of Honduras.
Trump never met a dictator he didn’t love and worship.
You are reading my mind exactly. Squeeze him for all he is worth, where's the gold? You know a deal is in the works. Does Maduro have a hidden photo album?
If you are following Canada, they have cut oil shipments to the US which depends on their type of oil. So that hurts our refineries. Well just so happens Venezuela oil is the same type as Canadian. So in Trumps quest for the 51st state, this is to get Canada to capitulate. Meanwhile oil barrel prices are in a slump, so there is not much incentive for US companies to invest in shaky Venezuela. On the positive side, US needs to restock the Strategic Oil Reserves so unrefined V/z oil on the cheap would be a good thing.
Citizens of Alaska receive a stipend based on their rights to minerals mined in Alaska. The thinking is, everything that’s in the ground in Alaska belongs to the Alaskan people.
The energy industry globally Is run by crooks. These electric vehicle That were supposed to make driving less expensive failed. The EV industry Like the rest of the car industry is about selling energy. Vehicle vehicles get terrible gas mileage because they’re so big and powerful And the same holds true for Electric vehicles with their super high-powered motors and their great big heavy batteries. The bonus to the oil companies With electric vehicles is that they go through tires twice as fast as a gasoline vehicle because they’re so heavy. All of this is by design. In the meantime, the planet is becoming uninhabitable For the insatiable greed of the obscenely wealthy ruling class. And BTW, Trump isn’t completely the cause he’s just their flunky.
I usually listen to your podcast, and this was great. I had no idea about some of these things.. I do not see a light at the end of this nightmare. Plus, do any of these people sleep!
When treason is criminal pedophile liar convicted felon rapist pathological liar Donald Trump sees Greenland he sees minerals. When Trump sees Canada he sees oil. When he sees Iran he sees oil. When he sees Venezuela he sees oil.
When Trump sees Gaza he sees real estate.
When Trump sees females he sees people he could easily rape.
When Trump looks for women and his administration he’s looking for whores kinda like his wife.
Its all bullshit lies by the orange pedophile and filling false charges . I hope another country does this to the orange lying murdering raping pedophile ourangoutang lowlife pos
Brillaint breakdown. The part about making strategic decisions based on percieved slights rather than actual threats is wild but totally tracks with how things have been escalating lately. Reminds me of how quickly we've normalized stuff that would've been unthinkable even a few years back. When policy becomes reactive to personal grievances instead of broader strategic interests, you're basicaly guaranteeing unpredictable outcomes.
When LBJ convinced the US Congress to almost unanimously endorse the Tonkin Gulf Resolution he promised that our objectives were limited and that he did not want a wider war. Ten years and 50,000+ dead American GIs later the last Americans were evacuated by helicopter from Saigon rooftops.
In his book "Just and Unjust Wars" Michael Walzer writes: “Those who begin wars rarely control or even foresee their consequences. The initial injustice of aggression is almost always compounded by the unpredictable cruelties that follow from it… Aggression opens the gates of hell.”
The Trump regime has just opened the gates of hell.
YES YES YES IT'S DEMENTIA! i’ve worked with dementia patients he has all the symptoms he’s had them for awhile. He's getting worse, quickly. There is no way he should be even out of the house or be around People! There's a chance that he *might* not even know that what he’s doing is real life. He doesn't like Maduro's dance so he goes to be mean to him - toddler tantrum, he's cranky!
They should have 25'd him MONTHS ago. NONE of this makes sense. he has phone calls with Putin - specifically in the morning -when he is lucid. he thinks Putin is still his little buddy so he does what he says. then, if he meets with Zelensky in the afternoon, when his symptoms are worse, he's cranky again, and treats him badly because, in his mind, Putin is the best. He wants to be like him and Putin is just GIVING him all the answers. Dementia has him lazy. He's getting his instructions on a golden plate right in his lap.
we need to know WHY has nobody AT ALL said or done anything?!
Keep the Trump-Epstein files front and center. Keep the Jack Smith deposition on the daily news. Damning to Trump on both fronts. But the non-independent media has moved on and are failing us every single day. Trump is showing what an out-of-control executive dictator can do to a democracy; the legislative and judicial branches have proven themselves weak and useless. What happened to checks and balances? What is happening to our democracy? Just like the Jan. 6 debacle... the world is watching with disbelief and dread.
It’s important to keep in mind that Trump at this point is just an annoying barking dog or a rodeo clown. If Trump were to drop dead tomorrow his regime of corporate criminality will still be there. When Trump is gone America is not magically going to become a democracy and a republic again. There are a lot of people that need to be gone and a lot of them are billionaires and heads of corporations and the traitorous Republican members of Congress.
The American government is fundamentally flawed. The American government does not work for the American people and it hasn’t in a very long time and Trump took advantage of that.
We the people, are the rightful masters of Congress the courts and the White House but just because we are the rightful masters doesn’t mean that we are the masters. Congress, the courts in the White House work for corporations and that’s all they work for.
It doesn't matter whether Maduro is a criminal dictator or not! Trump just kicked the Republican Congress in the balls by an action that could lead to war.
It’s good that Maduro is going going gone but Trump believes that the regime in Venezuela is over. It’s not over. At this point Trump and the clowns around him have no idea what the next move should be.
The thing I worry about the most is that Venezuela will not be democratized. Trump hates democracy as much as he hates the constitution and the rule of law.
Some good could come of this but it’s going to take a different American president and since the GOP is so corrupt it will take a Democrat to clean up Trump’s mess.
Democrats are always cleaning up the messes created by Republicans. History has proven that.
📣 IMPEACH, CONVICT & REMOVE
Then INDICT, IMPRISON & IGNORE
🍊👑, 🍊🤴 & THE ENTIRE 🍊🎪‼️
PS: Jr. as next prez is The Most Hysterical Idea in a year 🤣
I think we could skip the first two steps when it comes to Trump. He’s a convicted felon.
Removing Trump isn’t gonna be a magic bullet that will fix everything. Trump has surrounded himself with criminals that are more dangerous than he is and it’s not just the people in the White House that need to go.
Biggest enemy to humanity is something called corporate. Corporatism is just another word for fascism. Members of Congress do not serve the American people, they serve corporate and unless and until that changes, the United States can never be a Democratic republic with liberty and justice for all.
At this point Trump is a figurehead and pretty much a rodeo clown who runs his mouth and gets people to react to it. He’s a troll who likes to rape girls, and commit other felonies.
I feel little to no hope this ship is going to turn around until total decimation is achieved by this maniac and his crew.
From a psychological perspective, Trump is organized around revenge, meaning that getting back at people is a number one driver of his behavior. Many men who were ridiculed and humiliated in earliest childhood form a determination to never feel in a one down position ever again. So when Donald feels insulted, he does what Roy Cohen trained him to do…he hits back 10 times harder. Trump is now surrounded by men who are psychologically organized in the exact same way. They think they are proving their strength, but as David said, they are really proving their emotional instability and immaturity.
Obviously Trump is as dangerous as a toddler with a loaded gun due to his narcissistic fragility, his narcissistic rages, his toddler-like impulsivity, and his delusions of omnipotence. We have to pressure our representatives to impeach him and his collaborators, and we need to be out in the streets calling for him to resign.
A couple of things:
There hasn’t been a regime change in Venezuela. Just because Trump head maduro kidnapped does not mean there has been any changes in the government of Venezuela. Everybody within the government there is still in power. He is not running Venezuela and besides he wouldn’t know how to run a country couldn’t even run a casino without making it go bankrupt.
Trump is so senile and delusional that he probably actually believes there has been regime change in Venezuela. The Venezuelan government is still intact. The MAGATS probably believe the same thing but they probably don’t even know the meaning of the word regime because they’re clueless as how government works and that’s because they are too lazy to understand how government works and many of them are too stupid to understand even if you explained it to them.
As Trump taking too much aspirin. Any NSAID can cause internal bleeding. It happened to a friend of mine and he had a massive brain bleed. This could happen to Trump if he continues on his aspirin regime. He’s probably taking too much too often. It sort of reminds me of Mary Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough. I’m not sure what the lethal dose of aspirin is.
Another distinct possibility of him pounding aspirin is if he gets caught or he needs surgery the surgeons are going to have to give him something to make his blood clot. That could cause an ischemic stroke.
Trump could also have an embolism or an aneurysm which could burst. At that point it would be time to sing Turn Out The Lights the Party’s Over.
Let’s see if we can get Dr. Oz and RFK Junior to encourage him to take double the dose taking now.
If Trump has a hemorrhagic stroke, it will probably big one but don’t go dancing in the streets thinking that there’s going to be regime change in the United States simply because Trump is dead or incapacitated. The only way we can have something resembling regime change is to get rid of the Republicans by voting them out. The most efficient way we can have a regime change would be to have a military coup and capture all the criminals from people like Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk to their minions such as Mike Johnson. Every member of the Trump family should be rounded up and interrogated Guantánamo Bay style in order to get the truth.
"sets a dangerous precedent for how countries treat sovereignty and heads of state"
Since none of our enemies, IRAN, RUSSIA and CHINA respect sovereignty not sure why we should be held to it. China trampled over Tibet and now intimidating Taiwan. Iran had its henchmen all over the middle east. Russia invaded Ukraine and has its mercenaries all over Africa. Chinese silk road developments are just legal ways to conquer countries from within. No telling how much China owns of our real estate and corporations.
If we stand by playing by the rules when others do not, they will be on our doorsteps.
Not a Trump supporter, however this was one gutsy move that shows the power of the US military. King Trump will take full credit. All those crying the blues, can send Maduro a best wishes card at Rikers Island where he can enjoy the same treatment he gave his citizens. No tears lost.
I am shocked they brought him back alive as he will surely be made some kind of hero. This will play out in court for years and Trump may pardon him for real estate in Venezuela.
I’m not surprised they kept him alive because he’s a dictator and Trump loves dictators. I think he gave himself up and if Trump is Trump he will have him put in Club Fed for a while and he will probably take a few bribes and pardon him just like he did with the president of Honduras.
Trump never met a dictator he didn’t love and worship.
You are reading my mind exactly. Squeeze him for all he is worth, where's the gold? You know a deal is in the works. Does Maduro have a hidden photo album?
If you are following Canada, they have cut oil shipments to the US which depends on their type of oil. So that hurts our refineries. Well just so happens Venezuela oil is the same type as Canadian. So in Trumps quest for the 51st state, this is to get Canada to capitulate. Meanwhile oil barrel prices are in a slump, so there is not much incentive for US companies to invest in shaky Venezuela. On the positive side, US needs to restock the Strategic Oil Reserves so unrefined V/z oil on the cheap would be a good thing.
Citizens of Alaska receive a stipend based on their rights to minerals mined in Alaska. The thinking is, everything that’s in the ground in Alaska belongs to the Alaskan people.
The energy industry globally Is run by crooks. These electric vehicle That were supposed to make driving less expensive failed. The EV industry Like the rest of the car industry is about selling energy. Vehicle vehicles get terrible gas mileage because they’re so big and powerful And the same holds true for Electric vehicles with their super high-powered motors and their great big heavy batteries. The bonus to the oil companies With electric vehicles is that they go through tires twice as fast as a gasoline vehicle because they’re so heavy. All of this is by design. In the meantime, the planet is becoming uninhabitable For the insatiable greed of the obscenely wealthy ruling class. And BTW, Trump isn’t completely the cause he’s just their flunky.
I usually listen to your podcast, and this was great. I had no idea about some of these things.. I do not see a light at the end of this nightmare. Plus, do any of these people sleep!
When treason is criminal pedophile liar convicted felon rapist pathological liar Donald Trump sees Greenland he sees minerals. When Trump sees Canada he sees oil. When he sees Iran he sees oil. When he sees Venezuela he sees oil.
When Trump sees Gaza he sees real estate.
When Trump sees females he sees people he could easily rape.
When Trump looks for women and his administration he’s looking for whores kinda like his wife.
Its all bullshit lies by the orange pedophile and filling false charges . I hope another country does this to the orange lying murdering raping pedophile ourangoutang lowlife pos
Brillaint breakdown. The part about making strategic decisions based on percieved slights rather than actual threats is wild but totally tracks with how things have been escalating lately. Reminds me of how quickly we've normalized stuff that would've been unthinkable even a few years back. When policy becomes reactive to personal grievances instead of broader strategic interests, you're basicaly guaranteeing unpredictable outcomes.