War (crimes) and Peace (prizes) - Trump Thread #151

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Don Snoreleone trying to stay awake long enough to bring all his racist dreams to fruition. So when can we bring about his personal "civilisational erasure”?

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5436537-cobwebs-in-congress-bigly-ballrooms-tariff-tantrums-dementia-denials-trump-thread-150

Hey. It's a Saturday, and there's a bank holiday this month.
We should be glad they've managed it before February.

It's Saturday. Surely you don't expect them to be up early assessing things before they've even had a cuppa?

Hah. Same thought

LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE

What is DJT worried about?

Midterms - maybe - if he's trying to overturn the two term limit - not sure he is now, unless he can get one of the other Trump boys in the Oval.

Epstein - very much so - Church attending members of the 🐘 Republican Party will be concerned - and so should JDV as he is tainted by association, a friend of...

He's been pissing in someone else's pool for a while with Ukraine and Gaza...Venezuela has a LAND BRIDGE. It's physically attached.

I did hear mention of "regime change" in Cuba, as Venezuela supplies their oil, but also the oil is of poor - thick/heavy - quality...which is only suitable for shipping...ooh HELLO CHINA

Thoughts, anyone? 🤔
He can't just be bored, surely...
Oh, and his presser is presumably from the Bunker...just off the 14th green at Mar A Lago⛳

I was.
But then I've f*d my neck/shoulder and am in quite a bit of pain at the mo...

I hear you. I slipped on a patch of ice while on a run yesterday - feet straight out in the air in front, landed on my arse, both wrists behind me. I limped home and felt not too bad last night, but everything, including one shoulder, hurts this morning.

Hope you're on your way to a quick recovery

Yup.
If your surname is Zelenskyy and you live in a bunker in Kiev or if you're a member of the Taiwanese opposition party that wants independence from China, be afraid.
Very afraid.

Ouch.
Stay warm and use plenty of Arnica cream

Russia couldn’t dream of carrying out such a successful operation. If they could they would have captured Zelenskyy years ago.

The difference is that Trump has legitimised it.

Thanks, you too.

I advise a hot water bottle or heat pad and ibuprofen 🍫🍨

Not that it's worked for me over the last 4 days since I reached into the depths of the car boot - I'm a short arse - to lift heavy bags of cat litter out...and whiskas, beer, cool bags... and something in my RH neck/shoulder went "twang".

DH had "tweaked" his back apparently, so it was all on me - not so much now though.

This morning he kindly lifted the "used" litter trays up so I didn't have to bend/crouch and be in more pain so I could "empty" them.

Ah-ah, I saw him first girls!

The California 47th, S4 EP16

this

Russia did attempt to capture Zelenskyy in the first couple of days of the invasion - but he escaped

He does travel internationally a lot.

I really detest Trump but no one can deny that US special forces are the best in the World at what they do. I don’t condone this action in Venezuela but it seems to have been quite the operation.

Sadly, if he dies before the end of his term, we’ll have Vance as President and he’s if anything even worse than Trump. And he won't even need to change the constitution to run again as President.

Well yes, if you look at absolutely nothing else - “was it an excellent job by the military?” - absolutely! You have to hand that bit to them, they’re excellent at what they do!

Just a shame they’re led by the orange moron 😭

Ok, so I just woke up to this shit. In my half asleep muzzy-minded state my first thought was Iraq and the fake WMD excuse. That invasion was to 'effect regime change for the safety of the world' after 9/11 but was actually...oil. And what does Venezuela have...oil.

Also vague thoughts of Hitler marching into Poland, but that was a bit extreme, even for me. Now, if Scrotus decides to name himself president of Venezuela, I'll revisit that particular thought.

Oil? Deflection of attention from Epstein? Wanting to be both a War and a Peace POTUS? Some other spurious reason we don't even know yet? Who the fuck knows. All I know is that his 'remarks' due at 11am EST will end up explaining nothing because all it will be is a litany of complaints about how unfair he's being portrayed in the media and more aggrandizement of his many 'accomplishments'.

He's opened a real Pandora's Box with taking Maduro out of Venezuela in the way he has. As a pretty universally detested head of state he better start looking over his shoulder. I know. Wishful thinking.

He’s just said the US will be ‘strongly involved’ in Venezuela’s oil industry going forwards.
We all knew this but seriously how is it ok to oil grab in a different country by removing its leader? Trump must think it is as once again he said what we all thought was the quiet bit out loud.
Dangerous precedent for the world - another one I mean.

And that they’re incapable of questioning orders. There will be consequences, and possibly jail, for a lot of people. Trump is the only one immune.

What are the criminal charges that the US has brought against Maduro?
Given the way courts have been throwing out cases brought by the Trump government, how likely are they to stand up to scrutiny as Maduro was in another country?
What happens if/when they fail and Maduro goes back to Venezuela?
Surely, at the moment he his still President, all be it kidnapped and unable to carry out his office? What is to stop his party from remaining in charge?

I have so many questions that don't seem to be being answered. The media is reporting as though there has been a coup overnight, but this isn't true.

Mexico next?

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbjn2cm7ll2w

Trump on Sheinbaum: "The cartels are running Mexico. She's not running Mexico. We could be politically correct & nice and say, 'Oh, yes, she is.' No no. And I've asked her number times, 'Would you like us to take out the cartels?' ... something is gonna have to be done with Mexico."

lol
https://bsky.app/profile/jamesrball.com/post/3mbjajb7jss2b

And double lol (and that's without getting into the fact that the attorney general of the United States doesn't know that machine guns is two words).
https://bsky.app/profile/nycsouthpaw.bsky.social/post/3mbjiq7qq5c2x

Totally this. It’s like Iraq invading Kuwait. What are the UN going to do? Trump needs declaring a war criminal. Sounds like he didn’t consult Congress, surely that’s needed? What does the constitution say about this?