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"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐘 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐍𝐘 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬: 𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇!!!!

He must think we’re like him and all soft in the head. As an aside, the Roman Empire used to kidnap or capture leaders of foreign states too. Way back a tad in the early 2nd century AD, and again a little later in the 4th-5th centuries, but still it happens all the time. 😬

Certainly a baller move to do it on the 250th anniversary of your nation being created by people who felt so strongly on the point they prosecuted (and won) an honest to Betsy shooting revolutionary war over it.

this would be an astute observation if we still had a traditional political apparatus, or if a bipartisan refusal to allow double standards had ever once prevented Trump from doing whatever he wanted.

And also the claim that they couldn’t inform Congress because they were afraid of leaks, when blackout-drunk Pete Hegseth was probably calling up his buddies on unsecured lines to brag in advance.

There was another post showing SOMEONE made some well-time financial bets on this move. So Hegseth leaked it to SOMEONE.

Gotta say, the number of people who went from clown emojis and facepalms to eagleposting and LFG memes when the Maduro news got out doesn't give me confidence