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Trump is supposed to share details with Congress but Republican politicians are too busy sucking his dick for money to have the time to do their jobs.
"Trump and Vance don’t really care if they kill drug smugglers. In fact, Trump’s justifications for the strikes are inconsistent, to say the least. The murders of Venezuelans are as chaotic as they are vicious — and it’s not an accident that Vance is as enthusiastic about the chaos as about the violence.
The goal seems to be to use the military almost at random — not to advance a goal or deter a threat, but simply to exercise power and terror.
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The attacks are so poorly justified, and so unprecedented, that even some Republicans have suggested they may not be legal. John Yoo, a former Bush administration official notorious for providing legal justifications for torture, told Politico that Trump was crossing the line between military and criminal matters.
“Traditionally, we’ve treated drug crimes as a criminal justice problem,” he said. “And the administration needs to make a stronger case than it’s been making so far...
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Sen. Rand Paul, a conservative libertarian from Kentucky, also rebuked Vance for celebrating the strikes.
“What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” he tweeted.
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Vance and his fans are cheering not despite the fact that their president is terrorizing innocents, but because he is. Or, to put it another way, MAGA believes that all Venezuelans, foreigners, and/or all non-white people, are by definition second class humans at best and guilty of being outsiders and traitors to MAGA at worst.
This is the logic of fascism. And while that logic is often deployed abroad, it’s also inevitably rolled out at home. Trump and Vance are making it clear that they consider it their right, and their pleasure, to murder anyone, anywhere, for any reason or for no beyond a passing whim. That’s an ugly message to Venezuelans. It’s an ugly message to the UN and to America as well."
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"Trump and Vance don’t really care if they kill drug smugglers. In fact, Trump’s justifications for the strikes are inconsistent, to say the least. The murders of Venezuelans are as chaotic as they are vicious — and it’s not an accident that Vance is as enthusiastic about the chaos as about the violence.
The goal seems to be to use the military almost at random — not to advance a goal or deter a threat, but simply to exercise power and terror.
...
The attacks are so poorly justified, and so unprecedented, that even some Republicans have suggested they may not be legal. John Yoo, a former Bush administration official notorious for providing legal justifications for torture, told Politico that Trump was crossing the line between military and criminal matters.
“Traditionally, we’ve treated drug crimes as a criminal justice problem,” he said. “And the administration needs to make a stronger case than it’s been making so far...
...
Sen. Rand Paul, a conservative libertarian from Kentucky, also rebuked Vance for celebrating the strikes.
“What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,” he tweeted.
...
Vance and his fans are cheering not despite the fact that their president is terrorizing innocents, but because he is. Or, to put it another way, MAGA believes that all Venezuelans, foreigners, and/or all non-white people, are by definition second class humans at best and guilty of being outsiders and traitors to MAGA at worst.
This is the logic of fascism. And while that logic is often deployed abroad, it’s also inevitably rolled out at home. Trump and Vance are making it clear that they consider it their right, and their pleasure, to murder anyone, anywhere, for any reason or for no beyond a passing whim. That’s an ugly message to Venezuelans. It’s an ugly message to the UN and to America as well."
The Trump Murder Policy
Let's call his strikes on Venezuelan boats for what they are.
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