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Spandauer · 01/12/2025 15:31

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right.

President Donald Trump will hold a meeting at the White House on Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as the administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country.

Key members of Trump’s Cabinet and national security team, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to attend, as well as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/trump-venezuela-meeting

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DuncinToffee · 01/12/2025 17:29

CNN

Trump appeared open to releasing the results of a recent MRI, although he said he was unaware which part of his body was examined in the scan.

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RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 17:42

How can you not be aware of which part of the body was scanned FFS?

Efacsen · 01/12/2025 17:49

Perhaps he's forgotten

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 17:55

He’s either forgotten or he’s lying. I don’t believe that in a country as litigious as the USA they don’t tell you what they are scanning for and get consent first. Especially if you are Donald Trump. I’d also imagine that most 78 year olds who are with it are able to tell you what they had an MRI for a few weeks ago.

walllaw · 01/12/2025 18:08

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 17:55

He’s either forgotten or he’s lying. I don’t believe that in a country as litigious as the USA they don’t tell you what they are scanning for and get consent first. Especially if you are Donald Trump. I’d also imagine that most 78 year olds who are with it are able to tell you what they had an MRI for a few weeks ago.

They're no doubt busily scanning some professional athlete as we speak so they can release some false results, no doubt with the news that his weight is now 75 kilos, bp 120/70, a resting heart rate of 45 and the news he just completed a 3 minute mile (in his golf shoes).

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:29

Trump's MRI focused on his cardiovascular and abdominal areas, revealing no abnormalities and confirming he is in 'excellent health'.

DuncinToffee · 01/12/2025 19:44

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:29

Trump's MRI focused on his cardiovascular and abdominal areas, revealing no abnormalities and confirming he is in 'excellent health'.

Leavitt also claims that Trump had a "preventative" MRI

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:47

What the hell is a "preventative MRI"?

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/12/2025 19:48

If I'd known that having MRIs prevented heart failure, I'd have been a lot happier about the one I had.

(Spoiler: it didn't.)

placemats · 01/12/2025 19:54

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:29

Trump's MRI focused on his cardiovascular and abdominal areas, revealing no abnormalities and confirming he is in 'excellent health'.

No doctor or consultant is going to say anything otherwise. Ever.

placemats · 01/12/2025 19:59

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:33

It was self-defence, milord!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/01/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-caribbean-boats-venezuela-immigration-us-politics-latest-news-updates

KKK barbie said the second strike on boat survivors was ordered by a navy admiral, not Hegseth

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No one with a rational brain would think that, let alone say it.

boatyardblues · 01/12/2025 20:00

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:29

Trump's MRI focused on his cardiovascular and abdominal areas, revealing no abnormalities and confirming he is in 'excellent health'.

Not the area I would have looked at first to see if he’s in tip top health… Is this the medical version of a 🧠 🐿️?

ETA: note to self, strikethrough is not great on emojis though it does work. 😁

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 01/12/2025 20:09

logicisall · 01/12/2025 19:33

It was self-defence, milord!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/01/donald-trump-pete-hegseth-caribbean-boats-venezuela-immigration-us-politics-latest-news-updates

KKK barbie said the second strike on boat survivors was ordered by a navy admiral, not Hegseth

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It is a well-known fact that people swimming in the sea after the vessel they were in has been sunk pose a serious threat to warships.

Spandauer · 01/12/2025 20:37

Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges.
Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?
https://newrepublic.com/article/203789/trump-boat-bombings-hegseth-legal

...Unnervingly, the Post says Bradley ordered the second strike because the survivors were “legitimate targets,” as they could “theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo.” But Goldsmith notes that this would not be an adequate rationale in the face of the laws of war, which the Defense Department binds itself to, and Bradley’s highest duty, says Goldsmith, would have been to refuse to kill the two men regardless of what Hegseth ordered. So hearing from Bradley is essential.

Hegseth, as noted above, denies giving such a spoken order. Perhaps. But even if so, if this report is correct in its other particulars, the live drone feed does in fact show the survivors clinging to the wrecked boat and then getting “blown apart in the water.” So Bradley can be pressed to explain why this happened and what, precisely, Hegseth’s orders were.

Trump Boat Bombings Suddenly on Shakier Ground as Damning Info Emerges

Will Republicans give us a real investigation into Trump’s bombings, now that we just learned horrific new details about them? Or are they seriously going to fall on their swords for Pete Hegseth?

https://newrepublic.com/article/203789/trump-boat-bombings-hegseth-legal

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MrTiddlesTheCat · 01/12/2025 21:16

I'm slightly alarmed that a fully equiped US naval warship saw two men clinging to debris as a viable threat, even if they were capable of calling for backup. Doesn't instill confidence, they must be made of tinfoil and armed with nerf guns.

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 21:26

Calling for back up? With what? Was Hegseth so drunk that he confused reality with some sort of action movie?

logicisall · 01/12/2025 21:33

Is there ongoing 'armed conflict'? Trump's admin now claiming the killing of the survivors was lawful in 'armed conflict'.
BBC News has very interesting coverage and discussion on the unambigious laws applicable to the situation - shipwrecked survivors.
It was mentioned that lots of lawyers were fired from the Dep't of War so Hegseth probably unaware of legal issues. Anyway, he is guilty of a war crime if US is at war with Venezuela, and it's murder if there is no war.

Spandauer · 01/12/2025 22:38

Well, if Venezuela was supposed to take the heat off the Friend of Epstein files it now looks like they might need the files to take the heat off Venezuela...

The Atlantic article linked to earlier in the thread talks about how cut off from reality Drumpf is now, living in his tightly curated world. Will he continue to back Hegseth who's gone way past just cocking things up to committing actual war crimes/murder?

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RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 23:02

Weren’t they claiming this wasn’t a war at the time? Trump will be fine he always ends up coming up smelling of roses. Hegseth, not so much. He’ll get flung under the bus. Committing a war crime is quite the bus to going yourself under for someone who will never have your back.

AcrossthePond55 · 01/12/2025 23:29

Spandauer · 01/12/2025 15:31

Clowns to the left of me
Jokers to the right.

President Donald Trump will hold a meeting at the White House on Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, as the administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country.

Key members of Trump’s Cabinet and national security team, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to attend, as well as White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.
edition.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/trump-venezuela-meeting

Is this to see if they all will fit in the clown car?

"Here we are, stuck in the middle with that fucking asshole".

AcrossthePond55 · 01/12/2025 23:32

RafaistheKingofClay · 01/12/2025 21:26

Calling for back up? With what? Was Hegseth so drunk that he confused reality with some sort of action movie?

They don't call him 'Kegsbreath' for nothing, ya know!

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