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The difference between this place and Threads is that too many people here are acting like we are at a beer drinking party.

When people are getting dragged off the street and beaten and shot, the whole "happy mimosa drinking resister" thing is getting old.

Horrifying...the evil in people in coming out in full strength. I am saddened to read this - we live in a world of extreme cruelty and ignorance.

#ProudBlue #DV1 #Pinks #DemVoice1

Told you there wasn't going to be free and fair elections this year.

Trump Shooting Fiasco Worsens as Dems Find Fresh Line of Attack on ICE As the Minneapolis killing gets darker for Trump, Representatives Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman talk to us about their plan to rein in ICE—and about Trumpworld’s broader plunge into violence and lawl...

NEWS --> Reps Eric Swalwell and Dan Goldman are introducing a new bill to strip ICE officers of qualified immunity, making lawsuits and prosecutions easier. They also say agent who killed Renee Good should be prosecuted in Minnesota.

They break this news on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I will never forgive 77 million Americans that voted for this.
This is so beyond the pale as propaganda it would make Goebbels retch.

Tell me about it. Our choices in Pittsburgh are Giants-Cowboys or Colts-Texans. We couldn't even get the Browns-Bengals game.

Watching the Giants game only so I can root against Dallas.

Agree. There's a lot of grasping at straws here. The midterms are 10 months away and I think most people here can't grasp how much time that gives Trump to continue to fundamentally transform us into a dictatorship. We're practically there.

Could this be any more insane?

Nailed it

The “Venezuela distracts from Epstein” line is ridiculous because 1) many awful things happen at once 2) Same Iran-Contra crowd pushing Venezuela invasion are or were involved with Epstein/Maxwell 3) Epstein associates (for ex, Dershowitz) want Iran invasion and see Venezuela as a test run for Iran

Taking the meta view of what is happening in Venezuela, it is the ramping up of what will soon be global resource wars.

Oil, lithium, water, etc.

Right, this is the ramping up of resource wars

Jeffries issues a very strongly worded press release

We are so fucked.

At this point I would say all of those countries will be attacked in due time. I put nothing past these people.

or South Vietnam in the 60s

Spoken like a true Mafia Don.

Resolution against the Venezuelan military action to hit the Senate floor next week. Requires only a majority vote.

It's something.

The measure is sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.), Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).

He's right though, when you talk about "hard power" levers.

But the Dems have plenty of soft power - they have their voices. I just heard Rep. Jayapal very eloquently speak out on this outrage. They have wrenches they can throw in the works. They can rally the American people.

I wonder how many young people joining the US military this week understand that they will soon be pulling guard duty, guarding "our oil" in Venezuela.

And I doubt there won't be an armed Venezuelan resistance.

My guess?

Trump will install a sham government made up of Venezuelan oligarchs, many of whom will probably return from exile to do it. They will, of course, enrich themselves in the process.

Just like South Vietnam in the 60s.

Agreed - @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and @schumer.senate.gov are fucking useless and everyone knows it.

The effects of Trumps actions could get us all killed. That is not hyperbole.

We are one against the world because of Trump. And congress should not be allowed another chance to fail us.

'twas ever thus with the US and Latin America.

I wonder if Trump promised Americans $1.99 a gallon gas, how many would support this?

The craziest shit I have EVER seen.

Truth

If people didn't understand the amount of danger we're in before. . .

They should understand now.

We're no longer the world's policeman.

We're the world's Mafia Don.

Trump looks like he's going to fall asleep standing up.

Kind of a full-circle moment for me. In Jan 1991, I was ~6 mo pregnant with my first child. I remember watching the first volleys of the first Persian Gulf War while weeping and apologizing to my son for bringing him into a world where we trade blood for oil. He's 34 now and expecting his 2nd.

Now Hegseth is speaking madness.

This is a horror show.

"They now call it the DONRoe Doctrine."

(Trump: we own the Western Hemisphere)

Just kill me now.

Biden had a bad debate performance and it cost him the Presidency.

What I'm seeing from Trump on my TV screen, this slurring madman, is far worse.