Here’s the problem as I see it. Trump, Hegseth, and Rubio are deeply overconfident. Trump’s former ambassador was telling BBC that Venezuela is much easier than Iraq. Trump fell into the same mistake as Bush did of thinking the president is unpopular and that the outside opposition is all set to swoop in and replace the government and give Trump everything he wants in oil. This is too tantalizing. The problem is that the new government is not stable, patriots and nationalists and pro-Maduro pro-army forces will resist and fight a foreign occupation. Trump thought he could skirt the problems of Iraq by doing only airstrikes and wrapping up the whole conflict in less than 60 days (so that Congress can be cut out of the whole thing).

Rebels can sabotage the oil lines, that means the need for troops to protect the oil. That will go longer than the 60 day limit; so either Trump will have to find another military or ask Congress for authorization. Trump will likely force Congress to go along; Republicans are too scared to cross Trump and Democrats are afraid of being labeled unpatriotic for not going along with it. The fact is that Dem leaders are being silent on this. The only good take I’ve seen is Graham Platner issuing a statement about how illegal this whole thing is, not defending Maduro or sounding unpatriotic.

Long story short, Congress will meekly go along with Trump’s war as a fait accompli. Nobody wants to be painted as anti-troops or pro-drugs or whatever Republicans will smear them as.

The Centrist Democrat is saying we should support centrist Democrats?

Well yeah he does support it unironically.

There’s a lot of illuminating info here, this small interview is actually a big deal.

They’ll block his policies and allow special interests to run attack ads, then will savage him in the next primary that he was ineffective at carrying out his policies.

“I’ll be honest, David. I want all of the credit and none of the blame.” —Michael Scott

That’s a literal war crime.

Time Variance Authority, from Marvel universe.

Agreed. They voted to censure Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (both Muslim Democrats) but not Randy Fine (Republican Islamophobe).

Democrats hate Muslims more than they hate Republicans. First Mamdani now this.

Cuomo is such an embarrassment and a liar to boot. He lied and said he didn’t remember talking to Trump, then tells donors he and Trump have a plan. He tells the public he is Trump’s worst nightmare and then tells donors he has a plan to appease Trump.

All year long Mike Johnson has been a hypocrite. On like every issue out there. He got angry about Hunter Biden but claims the Trump family shouldn’t be investigated. He championed states rights but the opposite when Trump infringes on them. He fights California but defends Texas.

The man has no conscience.

The hospital had no problems with pro-Israel and other political messages. They’re clearly selectively enforcing this rule and then lying about it. Even “Jews for Palestine” not allowed in a Jewish hospital shows their hypocrisy.

It’s not even a leak if Netanyahu is tweeting in Hebrew that he’s blocking all aid from entering Gaza.

That’s just for a single military program. We also give $18 Billion a year to Israel and have given something like $200 Billion over the last 70 years to Israel.

“They’re someone else’s problem.”

The more he rambles the more he sounds like a demented old man.

Send messages to your member of Congress on this list. They need to hear that you’re unhappy. They were hoping this vote would go unnoticed and you need to force them to be accountable.

WHY did he get this job?

If the roles were reversed, Republicans would be cynically asking who he slept with to get this job. He’s clearly not a wealthy donor.

Some racists don’t want the holiday, simply because of what it’s celebrating.