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    I have kidnapped a head of state, join me at my luxury resort for details

    This is the kind of shit my prez in tropico would do

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          The Tropico president is also fuckable. Trump is only guillotinable.

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            I wouldn’t want to sully a beautiful guillotine with his viscera, just fucking shoot him in the back of the head and toss his corpse into the nearest hole to be devoured by insects.

            Actually, on second thought, forget the hole, we don’t want to sully our beautiful insects with his viscera, just incinerate the corpse and toss the carbon ash into the nearest toxic waste dump.

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              I’d be on board with this, if it wasn’t for the fact that someone already tried and failed. Ugh. I hate that this pedo has plot armour.

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    It should be stressed how not-normal this is. Don’t let the media tell you it’s okay just because some people will be very happy. Maduro is a dictator that has murdered entire families. It’s understandable. However, you can’t kidnap the leader of another state because you don’t like them. If so, it would be just as justifiable to kidnap Trump or Putin. This doesn’t make the world safe and the best case scenario is that they install a leader that allows the US to rape Venezuela for it’s resources while personally enriching Trump. The worse is civil war.

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      At this point, I wouldn’t mind if Mexico disappeared Trump and the chain of command.

      Trump is a threat to Americans who oppose him, it is very likely that he will attempt to murder people like AOC, Mamdani, and Mark Kelly in the years to come. Venezuelans, Californians, New Yorkers, there is no difference to him. So long as people defy his will or has something he can steal, he will assault them.

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      Of course Mango Mussolini wants a civil war. Divide and conquer, while the US oil companies pump the oil out.

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      APnews.com, first sub-headline:

      FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claims as he discusses US raid to extract Venezuela’s president

      Calling bullshit up front and center is pretty bold for the AP and that says something.

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      You’re not making a very strong argument…

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    “We captured someone in another country as per conjunction with US law enforcement”

    You just can’t make this shit up- but they did.

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      Worse, we kidnapped a head of state and his wife. As to the law enforcement thing, it means the DOJ collaborated on trumping up charges to make it sound legit.

      Also, framing it this way makes it sound like US police were involved, which will legitimize this with a great many Americans.

      “Must be a bad guy if the cops had him in their sights.”

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    Honestly how the fuck is any satire publication like the onion or similar still in business with the current state of reality???

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        The change occurred about the time they put out the article on Gillette skipping 4 blades and going straight to 5.

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          That makes me remember I think it was an ancient SNL bit about exactly that, a new gillette razor with 5 blades and a sixth phantom blade that comes close to touching the skin but doesn’t quite. And then like three years later there were the 5 blade gillettes with the sixth edging blade on the back. The SNL skit called it. I think about that more than I probably ought to.

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          I don’t even know how they’re still in business. I bought a cheap safety razor and a hundred pack of blades literally a decade ago now, and at the time still had a couple multiblade razor packs around. I haven’t bought a razor in a decade. I’m maybe 2/5 of the way through my blade pack, and I think I’m finally on the last heads on the two multi-blade razors (because those only get used for my balls).

          the safety razor is just so much better for shaving your face

          tbf it does help that I don’t shave my face completely and only shave at most twice a week

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      They should make an article titled “Trump fires everyone at the Onion and takes over the writing ‘I can do this better than you’”

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    Can Interpol please please please put out a warrant for Trumps arrest. That fat orange thug needs some kind of consequences for his crimes.

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    And already my 2026 bingo card is deprecated. Kidnapping a head of state, that one is new.

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    The military is NOT us law enforcement.

    You fat fucking tub of shit, and no amount of you saying it is will trick people into thinking so when you keep trying to use them as such inside the country.

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      As if “US law enforcement” means anything outside of the US. It’s not Venezuelan law enforcement is it?

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      I think he meant the DOJ assisted in trumping up the bullshit charges and will handle prosecution.

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          I have never really seen that postulate as practical in the real world. I prefer my own version (EDIT: addendum; failed to describe properly):

          Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by monetary profit.

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            I always go with if the results of the stupidity are indistinguishable from malice, you can go ahead and attribute it to malice.

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              And racist and hateful, and lastly they’re stupid and lazy. Go back to football you dumb cunts you’re fucking up the entire world

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                They are racist because they are too stupid to understand that immigrants are helping their economy much more than they are hurting it.

                They are hateful because they are too stupid. They hate what they can’t comprehend (which is pretty much everything outside their small bubble).

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                  Stupid doesn’t automatically lead to hateful

                  That has to be taught or trained in, which is the issue I take with these hateful trash “people”

                  They’re monsters who create monsters who vote for monsters

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              That’s where the “malice” part of the original kicks in. I failed to note in my post that my own version is an addendum to the rule, not a replacement.

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          If your choices and actions consistently hurt other people, and you refuse to listen when people point it out and change your ways, then you’re evil. No matter how stupid you are.

          There are plenty of dumb and/or ignorant people who are kind and generous and who are not fucking bigots who make life hell for everyone around them.

          Edit, typo

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      Because the Dems ran a lackluster campaign that promised more of the same, telling everyone that the economy is doing great while everyone is struggling. Orange man at least offered hope that things would change. People NEED hope. And with trust of the government at an all time low, with some serious money in media manipulation, this is what we get

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        … but how it was not obvious to all that orange man was lying, is the bit that gets me.

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          Because people are struggling and don’t donate time to stay informed from reliable sources. They see the story that is pushed to them by social media algorithms… which have been bought

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          That didn’t help but the core issue there was Harris’s sharp pivot to the right.

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            Yeah bringing out Cheney was a mistake but her policy platform never pivoted, just the PR stepped away from “identity politics” which all the dumbfuck both sidesers were (and still are) demanding from the Dems. Fuck the both sidesers and all the dipshits that use the term identity politics unironically.

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      Because American voters preferred to have this than to have a woman president. For the second time.

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        I don’t think that’s the correct take. Both times it was maintain status quo vs a disruptor. The status quo has been terrible for the majority of Americans so they were willing to take the risk on the disruptor. That’s the same reason people split ticket voted for both Trump and AOC, they’re both disruptors.

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          It is absolutely more correct than this disruptor bullshit, that’s an excuse for stupid people to absolve themselves of the responsibility of being informed and engaged.

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              So you’re acknowledging the voting trends are sexist. If anything voting trends overwhelmingly favor the status quo over “disruptors” because we knew better than to tolerate demagogues.

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          Oh yeah the status quo of green energy, massive infrastructure investments, supporting Ukraine, EVs, PACT act, drug price controls, marijuana pardons, student debt relief, etc. How dare they!!!

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            The pathetic support of Ukraine barely giving them enough to just hang in the fight. Drug prices for 4 drugs. Alleviating the symptom of student debt and ignoring the root problem. Ignoring housing affordability. Ignoring the growing wealth inequality. Add on to of that parading around Bush era conservatives… Yeah, the status quo that needs to be disrupted.

            It’s not surprising that the DNC picking someone who dropped even before Iowa during the previous primaries was not a good strategy.

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              Oh yeah supplying Ukraine with weapons and rallying all the allies to do the same is soooo much worse than Trump’s “just surrender” policy. B-B-B both sides same!!!

              4 drugs? Just going off memory it was in the range of 10 or 12. So this is the point where I stop reading your lies.

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                I’m not both siding anything. One side is significantly better as you have even shown. Biden only gave barely enough weapons at every stage of the war. He never gave enough for Ukraine to fight back, only enough to hold Russia off. Yes, far better than the just give up strategy, but not exactly something to be proud of. Which kind of sums up all of Biden’s tenure.

                Lol, you’re right it was 10 drugs. So successful a whole 10 drugs! When they announced that “success” the entire countries response was, “and?”

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          Total coincidence it was a woman versus a wildly unfit man both times that the women lost!

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              That’s not how that works. The voters picked Hillary in 16 to run with the party nomination. The voters stuck with the incumbent, and when they dropped out due to health reasons the secondary stood in as is standard practice. If you’ve got an issue with it you should have fucking registered Dem and voted in the primaries like intelligent responsible civically engaged citizens do. Instead of bitching on the internet about shit you clearly don’t understand.

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                You’re ignoring how the DNC used super delegates to sway the primary votes in 16. They also provided Clinton with the debate questions ahead of time. They did everything in their power to tip the scales toward Clinton. In 2020 they changed the primary order to favor Biden, discouraged people from running against him, and even considered cutting the primaries early. Again they did everything in their power to pick Biden. Then when Biden dropped, they had time to at least hold a vote at the convention, but instead they appointed Harris. Btw, I did vote in those primaries, I donated to the Sanders campaign too.

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                  Because Clinton was a member of the fucking party and Bernie wasn’t. Like holy shit, of course they didn’t want someone who isn’t actually part of the party to be the party nominee. What the fuck are you all smoking that everyone ignores the fact Bernie was never going to win the Democratic nomination because he wasn’t in the Democratic party. It’s not complicated shit.

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                Biden only won because of how badly Trump fumbled his Covid response. Anyone would have won against Trump in that specific election. In 2016 and 2024 the political climate was very different and the DNC chose basically the only candidates that would lose to Trump. Bernie was/is a disruptor with a big supportive base that could have beat Trump. In 2024 the person who polled the worst against Trump was Biden, the second worst was Harris, yet “unnamed democrat” dominated the polls. Yes, be mad at the voters, but also be mad at the DNC who sacrificed everyone’s future to push the status quo instead of embracing real change despite the voters clearly signaling that’s what they want.

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                  Bernie couldn’t beat Hillary, he didn’t stand a chance. The whole idea that Bernie stood a chance against either Hillary or Trump was actual literal Russian propaganda. The only people that like Bernie don’t vote, and the ones that do voted for Hillary because she stood a much better chance against Trump. It was never even a little bit close with Bernie, and before you go blah blah DNC collusion (which is also largely ruspublican agitprop) Bernie still would have lost soundly, the Democratic party voters were not going to nominate someone that isn’t in the goddamn party. This also ignores the majority of Dem voters are neoliberals and think socialism is a dirty word. Bernie never fucking stood a chance. At all. Whatsoever.

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            To be fair, none of the voters had proof that Trump was retarded when he was first elected… they were warned, and many suspected, but who was to say that monster couldn’t successfully run a country. I saw who he really was and voted accordingly, But im just one person. Also, the whole Hillary/Bernie primary shit that I dont remember the details of. Also, Hillary Clinton was a weird robot.

            But for his second run, we had his whole first term as evidence of his incompetence. Despite the fact that Harris was a bummer of a candidate and a major misstep by the dems, we still had trumps first term as evidence of his inability to serve as president.

            What the fuck.

            If it truly is America wont vote for a woman (I honestly dont believe it, but i’m a dude so im probably blind to a lot of it)…and if it truly was the end of democracy for trump to win, why the fuck did they run Harris?

            What the fuck.

            I dont get it.

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              We had decades of proof going back into the 80s that he was a cheap con man and a racist and a rapist. None of that was remotely new information, just a bunch of dumb fucks were like hurdur guy from apprentice.

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      American voters had a choice between utterly corrupt oligarchy enablers and entertaining utterly corrupt oligarchy enablers. Are you not entertained?

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        No, they had a choice between a worthless piece of shit and a passingly decent woman.

        At least Kamala would have cared about the optics of her presidency.

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      distraction from the files, he was clearly desperate the more and more files were released how depraved he was.

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    A rogue state with the most powerful military. The next world war is going to primarily be everyone vs the barbaric Americans. I could see it ending up like The Man in the High Castle. A nation fractured into Christofascist and liberated regions. That’s if the rest of the world can even muster and offensive.

    The axis (Russia, China, USA) isn’t really an axis that it’s made out to be. That’s mainly US state propaganda that is pushing the whataboutism to diminish the severity of their evilness. Russia is a non-factor now that it’s blown its military load on Ukraine. China doesn’t actually care about world domination. They care more about economic strength. Maybe they take Taiwan. It’s a small island. US state propaganda will make it seem like a whole continent. Whataboutism. There’s only one nation on this planet since World War II that was waged continuous conflict throughout the world. Every region. One might even say the world has been under constant American threat since 1945. A slow burning, never-ending war. They feed us their media soft-power to keep us sedated.

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      China doesn’t actually care about world domination. They care more about economic strength.

      They’re literally using that economic strength to conquer developing countries through neocolonial exploitation of corruption.