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Tom Morganti's avatar

I'll bet Vlad is pissed off, now for sure . I'd love to be behind the scenes at the desecrated White House

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Russ's avatar

To be more exact the dissected 2/3 WH.

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Tom Morganti's avatar

but it will be do much bigger and better

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Russ's avatar

It may not be as big as it appears. They will have to install a lot of pig troughs for the billionaires to eat out of. Takes a lot of room.

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Tom Morganti's avatar

Swill, their kind, tho? Cheap. Lettem eat Musk's laminated face.

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Daniel H Laemmerhirt's avatar

Hell no! Daddy Pootin told baby to capture an empty ship to prove It isn't a Russian pawn. Remember: Pootin may be pure evil too, but It's not STUPID like Bunkerboy.

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Tom Morganti's avatar

more like a Russian prawn

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Nancy Adams's avatar

Impeachment? He needs prosecution, incarceration or worse.

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A Pat's avatar
2dEdited

Trump is f*cking nuts. Congress must say NO to him!

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Sheila Joyce's avatar

I can't begin to guess if there's any strategy play in power here, but regardless, it's too insane and fucking scary. This guy needs to be relieved of his duties before he causes WW3!

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James Lukeman's avatar

I think it is theatre. According to Lev Parnas (who knows Trump and his “inner circle” well) and his sources, what Trump and Putin have done is “swap” Venezuela/North and South America for Ukraine/Central, Eastern and Baltic Europe. I’d be careful about mixing up Trump’s crazy megalomania and probably declining mental capacities with his native cunning, ability to create propaganda displays and the influence of real smart fascists in his inner circle like Steven Miller. Plus the influence and power of VV Putin and the Russian state’s spy and propaganda machinery.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

I really have to wonder how upset the Republicans in congress are about impeachment of Trump.

While they have certainly shown themselves to be oathbreakers, cowards, shills, greedy... Trump is just making their lives harder, including in their 2026 elections.

It would not surprise me if they were 'spitballing' the idea of impeaching Trump themselves, just to improve their odds of surviving the 2026 election. Not that they have the balls to do it.

Republican's already had two chances to rid their party of Trump. The real question is, when Democrats DO take (at least) the House, how will they present the articles of impeachment.

Will they do the 'standard' practice of taking a single case, one 'bad deed' with rock solid evidence of guilt and prosecute it? Or will the finally recognize they need to break through the wall of lies, the barrier of excuses, they need to reach the people who VOTE in order to persuade these politicians how to vote? Trump has flooded the zone with all his crimes and abuses and dementia and too dang many constitutional violations. So bring them all. Charge them all. A Senate trial is not a courtroom, it is a political event. It is a show for the public and if you put them to sleep with the minutia of the law, it gives Republicans permission to ignore all those arguments. Instead, show graphics, roll the video time and again. Show how time after time Trump broke the law, and then time after time broke another law, and repeat, repeat... BURY him and any who try to defend him with ALL of his s***. Do not bother with proving anything beyond a shadow of a doubt. Instead show the clear evidence that is open and obvious. Such crimes as his selling of pardons.. properly presented it becomes obvious to everyone. Then hit him with another and another. never spending more than five minutes, if that long, on each individual crime. Spend no more than ten minutes explaining (with pictures or video) the consequences of breaking a given law on our government and the people. Do not let it get bogged down in details. Lawyers should not organize it all, though they can help, but most important is the show, the theater of it, to persuade the voters.

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Gregg Rowe's avatar

IF only that will happen ...me? I have my doubts.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Of course, but by spreading the expectation we can only improve the odds, right?

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Elizabeth Romedy's avatar

Putin pissed? Trump and Putin planned this! Disgusting!

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Hound's avatar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'%C3%A9tat

The United States was involved with coups for oil for many decades. The above link explains how the filthy oil in industry started a coup in 1953 in Iran which was a democracy at the time.

The Persian Gulf war was another way to steal oil. The United States installed Saddam Hussein and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, perhaps rightfully the oil barons got really upset. Bush one and Bush two we’re in the oil business.

Trump is now making up a phony reason to attack Venezuela. He doesn’t care that Maduro is a cruel dictator and he doesn’t care if Maduro is a drug dealer. Treason is criminal Trump pardoned the president of Honduras who really was a massive drug dealer. Trump is doing what a lot of Republicans do, he’s stealing oil.

Chances are both Trump and his other boyfriend were in on this so-called capture. Maduro has a huge army and they didn’t put up a fight. Maduro had Soviet weapons and only one missile was fired from the Venezuela military. This was planned all along and Maduro is still in power because he’s calling the shots and his vice president she is also a criminal Dictator type and a drug.

The rightful democratically elected president of Venezuela is not Delcy Rodriguez. The rightful president of Venezuela is Maria Machado.

In 2016 the rightful president of the United States was Hillary Clinton because she won the popular vote.

There is ample evidence that Trump and his weasel ketamine addict and pothead Elon Musk rigged the election by tampering with folding machines.

The United States is doomed because this started long before the orange menace came along.

The people who currently pretend to serve the American people such as Congress, the White House and the courts are held to absolutely zero standards by the law or by affirmation or contract because they don’t sign a contract. Do you know who is held to a higher standard than Congress, the courts the White House, corporations and the billionaires? The answer is… Drum roll please… EVERYBODY ELSE!

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Val Soper's avatar

It’s obvious that Trump and Putin orchestrated this maritime theatre to effect the following: Trump disrupts the whole world order by taking Greenland; NATO collapses; Western Europe, depending on American military might that is not now forthcoming, falls into Russian hands. Ergo, Putin’s thumb prints are all over it. And he makes Donny-boy happy.

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David's avatar

There has to be a universal feeling amongst all of us, where does this go and how and when does this catastrophe end?

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Deborah solleveld's avatar

Is this what it felt like to average Germans in 1935?

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Mark Scheithe's avatar

Grabbing a shadow fleet may be the first smart move by Trump.

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Gregg Rowe's avatar

EXACTLY... Trump did this for show a staged event between two dicktaters to try and help one gain more support. If this BS sways your future votes...SHAME THE FUCK ON YOU MORONS.

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Robert Crone's avatar

Lose the house. Go to jail. Exactly what is needed for Trump and his enablers.

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Franklin Quon's avatar

The President of his fake "Dept. of War" will never receive a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Julie A Thompson's avatar

Here's something creepy. The American Heritage Dictionary defines Armaggedon as: "The scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied in the Bible to occur at the end of the world." See Revelation 16:16.

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