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Cheeto And Control Of The Military

Last night Rachel Maddow made the case for Emperor Cheeto’s foreign policy She went through all the excuses that have been raised Cheeto wants to put up the middle finger to a Nobel laureate; it’s the cocaine/fentanyl; it’s broadening campaign support from his wealthy cronies in the oil industry or at Koch Industries; it’s to support Big Oil in order to diminish green initiatives and oppose the ideas of global warming; it’s the poor quality Venezuelan oil or tar/asphalt; it’s to underscore his own “rigged” 2020 election claims by pointing to Maduro’s Venezuelan rigged elections to support election denialism; it’s to serve as a distraction to domestic inadequacies of inflation, ACA subsidies, ICE raids, losses in court, the Epstein files

All of these are plausible but with Paul Ryckoff as her guest (https://bit.ly/4971Mcw at 32minutes) Maddow makes the point that Cheeto wants to dominate the Western Hemisphere and use the powerful US military to achieve his goal But more than that Cheeto wants to show that he alone is in control of the military and get them used to following his unconstitutional use of the them Sure they won’t be asked to shoot peaceful demonstrators But what about just deploying them for the 2026 midterm elections to intimidate voters What would be so wrong with that?

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Frau Katze's avatar

This article suggests that Putin has been egging Trump on, to dominate “his” hemisphere, the better to detract from Ukraine.

https://america2.news/the-russian-roots-of-trumps-venezuela-and-greenland-operations/

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Thanks this is a great article to expose the Venezuela Ukraine relationship and the actors involved Layer on this Cheeto's use of the military it parallels what Putin is doing in Ukraine Yalta 2.0 2 dictators dividing up the world's sovereign nations Putin takes Europe and Cheeto the Western hemisphere In the end Putin is playing Cheeto like a fiddle because he knows that if Cheeto plays his NATO fracture game in West it gives him the opportunity to invade Europe

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Frau Katze's avatar

It’s totally awful!

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RICHARD WALKER's avatar

trump is a lifetime con man grifter who doesn't understand the meaning of the word give.

the only thought in his head is take.

he should be impeached just for being mentally incompetent and unable to perform the duties of his office.

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Ronald Wieck's avatar

Putin joined his fellow Marxist dictator Xi to subvert America in our backyard. Trump stopped the commies in their tracks. Putin armed Iran with air defenses that Trump brushed aside as a horse's tail brushes away a fly. The evil Ayatollah has now announced his plans to flee to Moscow if Trump prevents him from slaughtering protesters.

So much inconvenient reality and pathetic hate-filled idiots still try to pretend that Trump and Putin are somehow on the same side.

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Adam Martin's avatar

Derp. Putin helped Trump steal the election in 2016. This is a well-documented fact. Putin wants America and Europe to fail and thinks Trump is just the man to make it happen. Trump is a malignant narcissist, just like Putin, only stupider. He has no idea what he's doing. "Stopped the commies in their tracks?" WTF are you talking about?

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Frau Katze's avatar

Trump is celebrating Jan 6 by having a White House website created that continues the lie and blames Democrats.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

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Trudy Lea Timber's avatar

If Congress does not take control without elections, which they can based on his high crimes - this may be real. Get real, his still lying. Do some digging instead of waiting for someone to spell it all out for you

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Black Pearl (Slava Ukraini)'s avatar

Liked, restacked & shared to Bluesky (as always).

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Kumara Republic's avatar

The Trump Regime is effectively revenge for both 1865 (for the Lost Cause of the Confederacy) & 1991 (for Putin & the KGB) from the grave.

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Michael Geline's avatar

Strong post. No platitudes except possibly for the 1776 reference at the end.

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Adam Martin's avatar

Several commenters here seem to think Trumpist propaganda is worth spewing. Too bad. Makes the board completely useless. Wish Garry and his team could fix the problem.

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Michael's avatar

History shows that if someone attempts a coup and is not punished, they will try again. That is why people who try to overthrow a government are normally treated very harshly.

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Ronald Wieck's avatar

There was no insurrection. There was a riot, fomented by agents provocateur, to damage Donald Trump.

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Kumara Republic's avatar

If Jan 6 was an "antifa false flag" as conspiracy theorists think, why are the MAGAlomaniacs commemorating it?

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Adam Martin's avatar

Derp. You're lying, and it's pathetic that you keep lying about what happened on J6.

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Ronald Wieck's avatar

No, YOU are the liar. Despite a blizzard of lies and an alternate reality created by the Demon Party's media lickspittles, it is IMPOSSIBLE to show Trump advocating violence. He said that he wanted his supporters to express their outrage in a PEACEFUL manner. He offered National Guard troops, an offer that the Hell Bitch rejected (for obvious reasons).

https://www.citizensunited.org/american-military-news-trump-did-request-natl-guard-troops-on-jan-6th-asks-congress-to-release-his-testimony/

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Trump Dick Sucker's avatar

You're a putin-fellating magatard. Or a maga-fellating putiniod. Blow my pygmy.

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Ronald Wieck's avatar

Your dick is not the only thing that is tiny, moron. Gary Kasparov was once a champion of freedom. Now he is merely the stooge of the evil lunatic Bill Kristol. Many of us, conservative patriots, bought the neocon line regarding Iraq. The success of the attempt to oust the monster Saddam Hussein was undermined by the Demon pols Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Those two scumbags ALWAYS put the partisan needs of their mad party ahead of the interests of America. Kristol saw his vision destroyed by the same people whose nether regions he now licks. The loathsome trash Liz Cheney grovels before the monsters who wanted to execute her father as a war criminal. I despise Bill Kristol and hold him in utter contempt, yet I can make a better case for the Iraq war than that freedom-hating fool has ever attempted to make.

The commie filth who peddle toxic lies about Trump are the same bastards who worked tirelessly to destroy Reagan when he was bringing down the Evil Empire.

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Ronald Wieck's avatar

Cretin, there is no prize for being the last hate-filled imbecile to swallow the Russia hoax. If you want to try conning your superiors into believing that Putin rejoiced when Trump destroyed the air defenses Russia provided to its ally Iran, that Putin is delighted to see his and China's imperial ambitions in Venezuela thwarted,, you are welcome to parade your stupidity.

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Frank Dudley Berry, Jr.'s avatar

The Biden Administration never tried to hold him to account. Instead, it attempted to exploit the matter politically.

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Frau Katze's avatar

They assumed he was finished. Big mistake.

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Frank Dudley Berry, Jr.'s avatar

Nope. Biden didn't want to finish him. The Democrats plan on running against Trump for the next 50 years, if you haven't figured that out. Diminishing him with a mundane criminal prosecution was not in the playbook.

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Adam Martin's avatar

Derp. The Trump era will end, and all the crimes will be documented. You can lie to yourself over and over about running against Trump blah blah blah, as if it's just a political game. The well-documented facts show that Trump is clearly guilty of numerous political, financial, and sexual crimes. This is a stain on America that will never go away.

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Frank Dudley Berry, Jr.'s avatar

The Democratic Party doesn't want the era to end. The ONLY asset it has is the personality of Trump. As for crimes, Trump is an obnoxious, narcissistic personality. But EVERYTHING he does is statutorily based. There are no crimes, political, financial, or sexual, any more than George W, Bush committed war crimes. (Remember that?

The Democratic Party is the party of Trump. It needs him desperately.

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Adam Martin's avatar

Asserting that there are no crimes by Trump just makes you look like a blind man. Try harder. Your statement is just wrong on its face.

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Frank Dudley Berry, Jr.'s avatar

You are expressing a religious opinion, not a legal one. Go in peace.

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Adam Martin's avatar

Derp. The Biden Administration dragged its feet, but Jack Smith would have won a conviction with all of the incontrovertible evidence. "Exploit politically"? WTF are you talking about? Try harder.

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