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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm yelling at the television!
Actually - I'm yelling at the grifting maniac in chief and Rubio.
The grifter started his press conference by saying "This is big stuff". Like an excited child.
He continued to describe the events as if he was bragging about winning a sporting event. As if he were describing the sequencing and bells and whistles of a video game.
And I yelled at Rubio - stopped trying to hide that smirk, Marco.
He just announced we are going to run Venezuela for the short term, until.....(I'm not even sure what).
And he is bragging that if "we" have to we have a second wave.
He is a little kid playing a game with peoples' lives. He loves the power and the control over others. He loves describing conquest. Everything is a game to him. Everything is a reality tv show to him.
I am spewing rant and swear words.
marble falls
(71,104 posts)Raven123
(7,556 posts)Was Senator Lee ok with that?
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)I turned to Mr. Dahlia and said - we're gonna run it until what...until when?
MadameButterfly
(3,746 posts)yorkster
(3,676 posts)And more to come no doubt.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Response to Raven123 (Reply #2)
yorkster This message was self-deleted by its author.
dweller
(27,847 posts)(Into the ground )
😑
✌🏻
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Destabilizing an already destabilized country.
How exactly does the America First, MAGA base feel about this?
Anything to distract from the Epstein files...
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)GD Rat Bastard appears to be my favorite right now.
Rubio looks like a man who lost his soul and knows it.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)man who killed that woman on a train.
When they first came out, Rubio looked like he was stifling a smirk.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)The grifter will give Venezuela to Rubio, as his major award.
Now Rubio is implying Cuba might be next? is that what I heard?
dedl67
(172 posts)I am old enough to remember Vice President Nixon's 'good will' visit to Caracas in 1958. He almost didn't make it back alive. So, c'mon Rubio, get your butt down there and start 'running it'.
johnnyfins
(3,445 posts)Little Marco.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)He is being punished every day with that thought.
You can see it on his face.
SC will always protect Trump and his flying monkeys.
bluestarone
(21,193 posts)believe there is a heaven or hell. It's on us to solve this problem.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)And lives this punishment every day.
Americans never punished Bush and Cheney.
And they will never punish Tump.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Rubio likely believes in heaven and hell. He is a Catholic, right?
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)He knows he is screwed.
You can see it on his face.
bluestarone
(21,193 posts)All of them know there is NO GOD. They are using religion to control the religious right until they have 100% control of our country. THEN they will take all guns away from Americans. (that's my thinking)
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)To some extent always some sort of cultural Catholic.
bluestarone
(21,193 posts)It's just gonna get easier for him to continue.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)But our fathers did in WWII.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)Humans are a strange species.
Capable of the most sublime beauty, art, music, literature.
And love, loyalty, sacrifice.
At the same time capable of the most depraved evil
which cannot even be described.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)It would explain how they could be comfortable being hypocrites.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)so they figure what the heck. Might as well go big sin wise.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)I wish there were a heaven and hell.
bluestarone
(21,193 posts)Johonny
(25,475 posts)If we can have trial for foreign leaders, we can give Trump to some to try for all his crimes and pretend we can't get them back.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)So I add the F word several times in some sentences.
What the hell is Rubio saying now. Making excuses?
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)And he does what he says he will do.
Maybe Rubio is warning us.
yorkster
(3,676 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Rubio's prize is getting to take out his disdain for Cuba, and correct those "wrongs"?
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)We need a whole new set.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Fucking rat bastard motherfucker. Something like that?
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)I need a new set of words
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Perhaps new acronyms that string together very crass swear words. But the swear words feel good. Yelling at the television feels like I'm euphemistically punching him in the nose.
I have the idea of buying toy darts and shooting them at the tv. I could attach fishing line to pull them back, so I can sit on the couch and get out my directed anger.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)I like your idea.
Dont bother about new cuss words theyll be obsolete in 48 hours
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)sop
(17,445 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Disruption! Destabilization! Citizens around the world will be less safe.
Irish_Dem
(79,859 posts)Chemical Bill
(3,050 posts)This legitimizes their taking Ukraine and Taiwan, respectively. But Venezuelan oil was going to Russia and China. And was paid for using currency other than US dollars. If US dollars were not used for worldwide oil trading, our economy would be in tatters.
So, a mixed bag....
jfz9580m
(16,576 posts)So you and me yellow_dahlia ;-/..
But one layer down..at these parasites:

No Nadella or Ellison oddly. They are Trump humpers as well.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Now he is saying America is a safer nation, and a proud nation. I want to punch his nose.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)And he is describing the assault and military action on Venezuela like a boy playing with his army men....and getting a boner from it.
Boy - I'm getting crass. I am steaming and ranting and pissed off at the ramifications of their actions. People will get poorer and less safe in Venezuela, and elsewhere. I hate these people.
Vinca
(53,357 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)I'm sick to my stomach. And I want to punch someone in the nose.
Xavier Breath
(6,476 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Do you hit the floor hard? And Orrex finally gets the answer to his question?
Xavier Breath
(6,476 posts)Totally Tunsie
(11,576 posts)the loony is "slow blinking" in the background because he was probably awake all night. Any bets on whether he can sleep in a standing position? I'm betting he can, and is well on his way.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)and hit hard. And then - quick, call Orrex.
greatauntoftriplets
(178,635 posts)Surreal.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)He just said we are going to run the country with a group. What does that mean?
He said we are designating people. He said it will largely be the people behind him. Kegsbreath involved with running a foreign country? Stephen Miller involved with running a foreign country.
He said we will have boots on the ground. Did I her that?
crimycarny
(2,010 posts)Bragging about how powerful they all are, get their *ss on the front line if they believe in what they are doing. Can you imagine Stephen Miller being told he has to fight alongside the troops they plan to illegally deploy? He'd run and hide wherever he could. What a bunch of cowards who want to use our troops as if they are chattel.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Totally Tunsie
(11,576 posts)Then
is he doing now by his takeover of Venezuela?
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)the grifter is the corrupt dealmaker of the world.
joanbarnes
(2,076 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)John1956PA
(4,826 posts). . . and the 2003 Iraq invasion began with another.
Baitball Blogger
(51,738 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)And now he is admitting - it is about taking their oil.
Katinfl
(641 posts)But i did hear him say the people behind him will run Venezuela ..Rubio, whiskey Pete, etc. WTAF? I dont think I have ever been so disappointed , disillusioned, disgusted with this country in my life. 2025 was bad and 2026 looks like it will be even worse. God help us all.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)What a way to start 2026. Aaargh!
crimycarny
(2,010 posts)I so hate it when these idiots put our troops' lives in danger and then use the words "we". None of these MFs would ever fight themselves or allow any of their own children to fight.
These *ssholes are wantonly putting our troops' lives at risk (and Americans' living in Venezuela) to fight their illegal wars. Furious, just furious.
And WHERE.THE.F*CK is Congress? What is going on?
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)People in Venezuela will be LESS safe.
People all over the world will be less safe.
zanana1
(6,467 posts)Hand pick the new leadership.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Conquering a country to take its oil. He is normalizing that.
Evolve Dammit
(21,501 posts)Justice matters.
(9,402 posts)Defined in the United States initiated and established after WWII in International Law.
Wars of Aggression based on Lies.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)It's justification.
kimbutgar
(26,812 posts)If he thinks this is going to raise his poll numbers he is seriously mistaken. Switched over to faux for a minute they were gushing over his leadership. 🤮🤮🤮And saying hes going to run Venezuela is insane and there will be a pushback from other Latin American countries. And I fear we will be experiencing more terrorists attack in this country. And I would ask any magas if they are ready to fight in his war.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Upthevibe
(10,031 posts)I'm just sick...
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)oldinmtdem92
(104 posts)short of throwing up
Wounded Bear
(63,851 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)sinkingfeeling
(57,234 posts)Figarosmom
(9,755 posts)I hope they are watching how easily trump took over that country and will try with theirs.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,885 posts)His empire fantasies are as clear as his stupid Arch dTrump.
Whos next? Cuba? Greenland? Mexico? Columbia? Canada?
He is just warming up, picking off the easier ones.
Thats the way this coward rolls.
haryn
(31 posts)Because I love most things Italian, I learned how to say the two Anglo Saxon words I've been shouting since the 'person' rode down the escalator - it's 'fanculo' - somehow it helps me to feel a bit classier and less like I'm flying apart.
Joinfortmill
(20,089 posts)He just too arrogant to realize it yet.
Beck23
(409 posts)It seems Trump has given up on taking Canada and Greenland, and is now focused on South America.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)just came through my FB feed.
She recorded it before the news conference.
Brilliant HCR, as usual. I shared it is an OP, but thought it appropriate to link here, as well.
https://democraticunderground.com/100220906690
utherpendragon
(15 posts)I rue the day that this poem actually makes sense:
An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King;
Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow
Through public scorn,mud from a muddy spring;
Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling
Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.
A people starved and stabbed in th' untilled field;
An army, whom liberticide and prey
Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;
Golden and sanguine laws which tempt and slay;
Religion Christless, Godlessa book sealed;
A senate, Times worst statute, unrepealed
Are graves from which a glorious Phantom may
Burst, to illumine our tempestuous day.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)History doesn't always repeat itself - but it does rhyme. Literally.
calimary
(89,041 posts)"...Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know,
But leechlike to their fainting country cling..."
Sound like anybody we know?
MustLoveBeagles
(14,799 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,799 posts)Jack Valentino
(4,375 posts)yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)I have not verified. That's some serious collateral damage, if true.
Jack Valentino
(4,375 posts)(seems unfair to me, but that's just my personal opinion!)
Thanks for the info!
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)As I understand it, they were civilians. And others who were in the way of the execution of the mission. ?
I think I heard that two Americans were "hit" in the process. But no reports of any killed.
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)usonian
(23,577 posts)
yellow dahlia
(4,577 posts)Silly me.