His leadership position was voted on before the DNC chair.

So his threats to cut off funding to the state of any Dems that wouldn’t back him still had some teeth.

It doesn’t now, mainly because the DNC immediately jumped into the largest twin esture into state parties, ever.

He’s been a lame duck all but maybe a month of this senate leadership term, and will almost certainly lose it next year.

If he doesn’t, it’s a bad sign.

You need an LHD to do that, and the Iwo is already on its way back.

What are you talking about?

There’s no American troops there now.

If you’re arguing there’s going to be a response or separate action in the future, yes…

That’s how time works, there’s always something happen, obviously something will happen next

When you get the time it’s worth reading up on, super interesting and I’m surprised there hasn’t been a big movie about it despite America being the bad guys.

That was an invasion, not a kidnapping.

The first hint is the situation was called “invasion of Panama”

Nah, Hawaii was an invasion, I believe the Queen was travelling to DC.

She left Hawaii as a queen and when she got to Hawaii to negotiate a treaty, she was told Hawaii was already an American territory

Approximately 24,000 troops descended upon Panama in December 1989, beginning a weekslong siege of the country that scattered the government and military officials.

That’s an invasion, not a kidnapping…

No, this is different and completely unprecedented.

We went into a foreign country, abducted their leader, and brought him back to America to be tried under our justice system for laws he was never subject to for crimes he almost had nothing to do with.

I’d love to see a source for America abducting the leader of a country we’re not at war with, and bringing them to America for trial.

It might have already happened…

Capturing a foreign leader you’re not at war with like this is a huge fucking deal, but it hasn’t even been 24 hrs yet, we can’t act like there won’t be a response.

Not anything overt, but our election system is sloppy as fuck.

Why wouldn’t foreign governments start using all the loopholes to pay (relatively) nothing to limit his powers in midterms and get rid of him in the presidential? A couple million thru a PAC isn’t even really breaking any laws, and compared to the cost of the chaos from trump, it’s a no brainer decision.

It’s why turnout for primaries is so important. We have to ensure that the people who make it to the general are going to be good in office.

You maybe read of a few disappointed voters, but most people are still 100% maga.

Weird to remind people of this, but real life still exists bro…

And wherever you’re reading about what they think, I bet a billionaire owns it.

Why do you only find out about them thru billionaires?

You do realize the billionaires don’t give a fuck about either group, and have been putting us against each other for generations and doing everything possible to segregate us?

Like, these all feel like very basic questions, and I’m probably coming off condescendingly, but there’s some very important things we need to clear up here, and it seems like we need to start at a basic level.

Someone should explain to Schumer how linear time works…

Hopefully the empire falls before that happens.

If you knew what that meant and the damage (long and short term) it would cause for the entire planet you wouldn’t be saying that.

The Balkinazition of America would lead to WW3, except people probably wouldn’t live that long to call it that.

Just look at the shit show govenors we have in the states with our ICBM sites.

You think the dude that body slammed a reporter during his campaign is above pointing the nukes in his state at his neighbor and demanding they surrender terrorist?

You think Texas won’t try to take over Mexico with what they have of the remaining US military?

You think Russia wouldn’t immediately invade Alaska?

You think we’ll be able to keep food in stores and Americans will be able to afford enough to live?

America collapsing wouldn’t be good for anyone.

If half your cabin burns down during winter 100s of miles from the nearest human, you don’t burn the rest down. You patch it up as best you can until you either rebuild it or have a new one to move into. That’s what we need to do when it’s beyond saving, try to make it last long enough that we have something to pivot to besides “Mad Max 15: this time with more guns!”

No, he said US based oil companies will…

From one of the many other posts about this:

In his remarks, Trump did not clarify what it would mean for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela but said that U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country.

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said.

Patriotism is fine, like it’s even a good thing.

Because it’s about being proud of your country, for the good shit it’s doing.

Nationalism is bad, because it ignores reality and is just belligerent yelling that their country is the best while disregarding facts and repeating propaganda.

Like, Norewegians are proud to be from Norway, because they have a great society that looks after the weakest, that’s patriotic and something we should strive towards.

That’s different than a trump supporter flying flags and laughing at how much people with empathy are upset, that’s nationalism.

There’s a reason we have two separate words for it, but the fascists keep wanting to erase the differences in usage.

Eh.

Cancelling elections would be the precipitator to get a 1/6 type of thing, except this time against trump. Not to mention the few high ranking military who didn’t resign, have already shown their not cowards.

trump assumes everyone against him left, but the only people who left were cowards who didn’t deserve to put a uniform on

Anyone that’s not with trump and stayed, will likely see cancelled elections as the last opportunity to act. It won’t be fun, but that’s less a line in sand, and more the foundation this country was built on.

I really don’t see even his biggest supporters defending cancelled elections. Especially with how much worse things are gonna be by even midterms

In his remarks, Trump did not clarify what it would mean for the U.S. to “run” Venezuela but said that U.S. oil companies were prepared to make major investments in the country.

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure, and start making money for the country,” he said.

Well…

That’s something that everyone saw coming.

He abducted a sovereign ruler of another country, so that oil corporations can rape their natural resources.

They’ll give a small cut to the new government to keep it under control, but private corporations basically just overthrew Venezuela while wielding the US military as a club.

Not just oil, pretty sure I heard the other day Canada just found the largest lithium reserve on the planet…

Nothing has happened to make me believe that any of these fuckers will be held accountable for their bullshit.

Because we had no option than Biden, one of the most popular Dem Senators of all time (among Republican senators…)

Dem politicians didnt like Biden, Dem voters didn’t like Biden…

But the donors Hillary handed the DNC too really liked Biden, so he was the only other option we got.

A shit ton of people knew Biden would never do what was needed, and he didn’t.

That doesn’t mean the next Dem president won’t, just that we need to understand that not everyone with a D next to their name is the same. We have to pick a good one, not just to win, but to actually fix shit so we can hold onto our gains.

We vote for an empty suit the donors want, that’s all we’re gonna get.

So no matter what happens between now and then, nothing is more important than voting in Dem primaries

Shit, pretty sure he’s on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.

He wants a regime change eventually, and so does the money behind him.

But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.

That’s why he’s doing this, holding onto political power is the golden goose. Not even trump is dumb enough to kill and eat the goose. As we get closer to elections, we’ll see him pass on money if it means holding onto power longer. But if midterms happen and he loses the House, that’s a lot of lost power, which means less money from bribes/grifts.

He’s been saying that stuff for well over a decade when he was Minnesota’s state chair…

The voting meme era of the DNC learned their lesson, probably back in 2020 even tho Biden squeaked by. They just didn’t have a chance between 2017 and 2025 to vote for a chair, 2021 Biden got to pick like every incoming Dem president.

Which makes it a much better thing, we’re not fighting the party anymore.

They won’t put a finger on the scale for or against the oligarchs, and that’s all the people ever need, a fair fight. We just can’t fuck up the primary and let a neoliberal win, because if they go on to win the general then they get to name party chair.

There’s a lot at stake next primary, that’s why so many people are pushing for people to not vote in it.