@moonbus saidExactly.
Same as how he got his name on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and presidential immunity: by appointing the people who make the decision.
Last time around this Trump carousel, he wanted to put in a new Postmaster General. He was told only the Board of Governors can appoint a new PMG. So he asked the Board members to resign, and they did (they probably got a nice golden parachute), so he appointed his own Board full of Trump toadies. He got his PMG pick.
@Sleepyguy saidThe weirdness continues:
Yeah that's pretty wild. Who knows with Trump indeed. It seems like he wants to rid our hemisphere of the influence of drug cartels and communists, and history shows he'll change his position at any time if needed to move toward a goal. I just hope he can do it without getting us into some protracted bloody quagmire.
"Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said on state TV channel TeleSUR that the objective of what she described as regime change in Venezuela was to capture the country’s oil and natural resources. She later added that Venezuela stands ready to defend those resources.
Rodríguez, whom Trump said was sworn in as president and would be working with the U.S., said that the Venezuelan people would be “nobody’s slave and nobody’s colony.”
Rodríguez repeatedly stated that Maduro is the country’s only president, and called the strikes a violation of Articles 1 and 2 of the U.N. charter.
She called on Venezuelans to “face the situation in national unity,” for the goal of emerging “victorious in this wonderful stage of defending our sovereignty.”
“We demand the immediate liberation of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, the only president of Venezuela," Rodríguez said.
Trump's "response" (unclear if he even saw these remarks):
"President Donald Trump in an interview with The New York Post said U.S. troops would not be on the ground in Venezuela — as long as the country’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, “does what we want.”
The New York Post reported that it asked Trump if U.S. troops would "be on the ground helping run the country."
"No, if Maduro’s vice president — if the vice president does what we want, we won’t have to do that,” Trump said.
Trump also told the Post: “We’ve spoken to her numerous times, and she understands. She understands.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-america/live-blog/venezuela-explosions-trump-maduro-live-updates-rcna251053
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@no1marauder saidCorrect. Maybe now they will have a chance to decide, since Muchacho is gone.
That should be up to the People of Venezuela to decide, not foreign attackers.
@Sleepyguy saidyou really are dumb enough to think it's a good thing to remove heads of state through foreign intervention.
To be clear, you would prefer the illegitimate tyrannical Maduro regime to hang onto power rather than Edmundo Gonzales or Machado who would be friendly to the US?
@Cliff-Mashburn saidHow do you possibly get so much backwards?
If Trump was in office instead of that crunt Kennedy during the Bay of Pigs we'd all be drinking Cuba Libres and gambling in Havana instead of Vegas for pennies on the dollar.
Oh, right... you listen to Trump.
@Cliff-Mashburn saidOh my goodness. You're a groupie.
The new president of Venezuela just asked America to come in and run the country for awile so it looks like the T-man did alright !
@moonbus saidBut Trump knows if he is in that situation all he has to do is dunk the magnet in water and escape because he KNOWS magnets lose their magnetism if the get wet..
No, somebody will wait until he travels abroad and, with an electro-magnet under a helicopter, lift up The Beast and whisk him away.
@moonbus saidYep, And don't forget stick a UV light up your ass, kills Covid in MINUTES.
Did you see his rant on YouTube about batteries and sharks? It’s absolutely hilarious.
And of course there is 'THEY EAT DOGS, THEY EAT CATS:
And about protestors he asked his general 'can't we just shoot them in the leg?"
@Ghost-of-a-Duke saidDamn right it's nothing to do with oil. It's a dress rehearsal for implementing martial law in America if elections don't go his way. Mark my words.
This was absolutely not about oil....
@no1marauder
Maduro is Hispanic and he entered the country illegally (show us his green card!)--that much is indisputable. So, based on past performance, the Trump administration should be deporting him to So. America, without due process, in a couple of days. Maduro could be back in his office by Wednesday.
