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Aussie105

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2. Rules and laws don't matter nohow.

Reply to AStern (Original post)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:18 PM

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If there is no one to enforce them and there are no consequences.

You don't even have to come up with plausible or intelligent reasons for doing what you did.

And since when is going sneakily into another country and taking its leader captive by force called an 'arrest'?

Waiting for a global reaction of indignation and WTF-ism.

Here is mine: WTF, Donald?

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The New Yorker: The Brazen Illegality of Trump's Venezuela Operation [View all] AStern Saturday OP

Add to that, a lot of people are dying from gun violence, LisaL Saturday #1

Rules and laws don't matter nohow. Aussie105 Saturday #2

trump keeps testing the water to see what he can get away with ecstatic Saturday #3

If he does this again and again with other countries mysteryowl Saturday #4

I HOPE there's a limit to what the world will put up with. calimary Saturday #11

He already talking about Mexico mysteryowl Saturday #13

Who's going to hold him accountable? IronLionZion Saturday #5

If I was on Maduros jury... RainCaster Saturday #6

Even their official rational doesn't hold up, because fentanyl isn't coming from Venezuela Martin Eden Saturday #7

tRump is not the legitimate leader of the US AKwannabe Saturday #8

He's resisting! BidenRocks Saturday #9

Yep, and he has thirty-four felonies Grim Chieftain Saturday #10

It's utterly galling. calimary Saturday #12