If you liked our war in Iraq, you will love what is coming in Venezuela.
Jon Stewart looks at what we are getting ourselves into.
Jon Stewart is funny. He is disturbing. He is presenting high-quality political commentary inside an amusing package exposing folly, hypocrisy, dishonesty, and over-confidence.
But we have aircraft carriers and tanks and soldiers. We are big and they are small. We are right and they are wrong. We can do what we want. Besides, Venezuela is in the Americas, adjacent to the “Gulf of America.” What could be easier?
And there is oil. We aren’t doing this for the oil. Of course not. The fact that Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves, and that they are selling oil to China, is irrelevant. We are doing it for humanity. The oil is just a bonus reward for doing a good deed.
Stewart compares the lead-up to our war with Iraq and our present actions against Venezuela. Same language. Same conviction that the foreign leaders, Saddam Hussein and Nicolas Maduro, are uniquely bad people and that they have weapons of mass destruction to use against us.
The same American political leaders are saying the same things about Venezuela that they said about Iraq.
The war has already begun. Congress is sitting back; the president is acting. This is an Easy Sunday post. Watch. Laugh. This is the easy part of the war, the start.
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For someone who weaseled out of Vietnam, he's really into war. That's what cowards do. No personal danger. Send someone else in.
Watch and learn!
Netanyahu convincingly remained in office despite the corruption charges against him as long as the war in Gaza continued.
Trump has learned that war changes the focus away from the leader to the suffering and risk war places on the soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Into a situation that might solve the third term question for Trump if he uses civil protests against the war with Venezuela to declare martial law.
Watch and learn. Dictator Trump is not leaving office any other way than by his natural death. Remember that all of Trump's actions are self-serving.
What war did Clinton, Obama, and Biden serve in?
Lots of chickens on the left, too.
Eleven Jews were killed in Australia yesterday, and another 29 were wounded by gunmen. Yet, not much is said in the American press about it. If this were Blacks or gays being killed, then there would be an uproar. Jews are disposable in today's racist bigoted world, and that's a sad fucking commentary on humanity.
Apparently the man who charged the shooter, himself took two bullets, wrestled the rifle away from the shooter, and then held him at gunpoint, is a Muslim. I notice that you did not mention this. Why not? Is it important when addressing prejudice against Jews simultaneously to deny Good Samaritan acts by Muslims? Why leave that out? So sad.
Everyone should see this. Thanks!
On another note...Eight years ago there was an uproar when Trump allegedly used the disparaging term "s***hole" in the Oval Office. Let's just take a moment and contemplate how disgusting that term is, and then fast forward to last week, where he said it again, multiple times and with great pride, like some toddler with a new word, in front of thousands of supporters.
We are numbing out.
If we're going there, then let's talk about the $1 billion that the Somali Muslims just stole in Minnesota. That's the tip of the Somali criminal iceberg. The shooters of the Australian Jews were Muslims, and the press, which I'm not a part of, didn't originally disclose that the guy who wrestled the rifle was a Muslim. I can only comment on what is disclosed by the press at that time.
Quoting Peter: "We aren’t doing this for the oil. Of course not." Follow the money. It's what fuels Trump. Well, that and his pathological need for evermore attention. I understand that Venezuelan oil is needed by the refineries built by the Koch family in the south. Apparently they (so far have been thwarted in their Canadian Tar Sands oil pipeline play. I wonder how much the Donald will reap from this.
I agree that the Medicaid corruption in Minnesota looks bad. But it is dangerous to call the perpetrators "Somali Muslims." Associating financial criminality with a minority religion has a bad history in the USA and Europe. It backfires, especially on Jews. Alas, many people are quick to draw a connection between Bernie Maddoff, Jeffrey Epstein, Meyer Lansky, the worst actors in the mortgage crisis, etc. I oppose that kind on antisemitism, and don't think it helps the comment discussion if people start a shooting war of words over which religious group is the worst at doing financial crimes. I am shutting down any further comments that make a claim that one Middle Eastern group or another is criminal
We are not “doing it for the oil” in the usual sense of the phrase. Thanks to fracking, this country produces more oil than it can use.
It may be “about the oil” in a more strategic sense, as in cutting off a supply of oil to China.
It’s a mistake to take what Jon Stewart says seriously. Stewart is a comedian/propagandist, preaching to his particular choir. It may feel good in the moment to have him massage your political erogenous zones, but you’ll hate yourself in the morning.
Extremist religious violence, motivated and perpetrated as such, arguably should not be minimized or sanitized. Do Christian abortionist assassins implicate all Christians, or warrant causal reference to Christianity itself?
Upon reflection, for some it does. Never mind.
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