Every day, a new distraction. Unless you live under a rock, by now you know about Mr. Trump's special military operation: U.S. forces bombarded and invaded the capital of Venezuela early this morning, taking Nicolás Maduro and his wife into custody, They're facing criminal charges in a U. S. court over narcoterrorism and unlawful possession of firearms.
It's a hard effort to find anyone who thinks the South American autocrat is a good guy -- but neither are many of the world's leaders. It's still not generally the done thing to go roust them, like a county sheriff cleaning out a meth lab. The last one I remember was Panama's Manuel Noriega, under somewhat different circumstances -- and even that was pretty questionable.
Whatever: a new day, a new sideshow, a few more corpses on Donald Trump's mountain of dead and, oh, boy, the headlines and airtime!
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, after all, and surely any mere domestic issues must pale to irrelevance next to these events of vast moment: arresting tinpot dictators and encouraging chaos among impoverished brown people in the Third World.
I've been wrong -- it's as much a firehose of blood as it is a firehose of bullshit. How long are we going to pretend it's normal?
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1 year ago
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Invading foreign countries is considered a sure path to the Nobel Peace Prize, unless you're Uncle Vlad. He won't get one, so he'll have to share Donnie's.
About 10 minutes ago, I emailed both of my (red) state's senators - one more time. I lamented that we seem not to have learned from Iraq that it's a bad thing to depose a regime without thought for continuity of government, asked if the whole executive branch was napping with the president, and lambasted the use of military force as a deflection from the lack of transparency of the Epstein files. A voice in the wilderness.
Indeed, how large will the body count be before the spineless Congress retakes control of the country?
Doesn't any one of Trump's minions see the potential ramifications of this action? Do they think Putin or Xi are going to ignore this?
Do you think they are likely to? Ah, what's the old question, "How many divisions to they have?"
I suggested to Tam this morning, as satire, that he's gonna show up on TV with a split screen: On one side Maduro, handcuffed and tied to a chair, with a stick of dynamite in his mouth; on the other side, our President, holding a detonator, warning the Nobel committee they'd better hand him the Peace prize, pronto, or Nicky gets it.
Russia is a bit preoccupied at the moment. China, not so much. Taiwan should be nervous.
I would be ROFLOL except that I am afraid it might happen. I see the current president as a small fairy (a la Tinkerbell) sprinkling quanta of chaos.
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