President Donald Trump's United States of America

[Westey]

Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case

OTTAWA - This morning, in an unscheduled press statement, the Prime Minister's Office has said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned off geolocation services for all his electronic devices "for no particular reason whatsoever".

www.thebeaverton.com

(Satire)

Hahaha - it seems Chinese controlled narco states are getting nervous.

 

[kEiThZ]

Hahaha - it seems Chinese controlled narco states are getting nervous.

Can't wait to hear about how Canada is a "Chinese controlled narco state". Go on.

 

[kEiThZ]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2007526069709222230

People really need to watch the whole presser. I never, ever watch Trump pressers. I watched this one. It's not just that he said he won't work with Machado. Him and Rubio said they are talking to Maduro's VP. If that's true then it looks like they just wanted to replace the China/Russia/Iran friendly Maduro with a more America friendly Rodriguez. Though this now appears to be in dispute by Rodriguez herself. We'll see.

 

[kEiThZ]

Tonight, we did not see any response from Venezuelan air defenses. NOTHING. Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters as well as Apache flew over Caracas unmolested despite Venezuela having S-300 air defenses and MANPADS.

It's interesting to me how you literally saw these systems fail to even disable a single American aircraft and then advocate that Canada should buy those. Because "not American". It's also interesting how you never land on non-American Western systems that work (that the CAF has actually purchased).

Setting aside the geopolitics here. For everybody else, what you're seeing is a competent military using stealth aircraft in a combined arms manoeuvre to bring everybody home. Not one American life lost in a country that had literally handed out a million AKs. This is actually what Putin thought his boys would pull of in Kyiv in 2022.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2007523195318853854

 

[afransen]

No way he wants Venezuela as a state. That would give them voting rights and representation and those are not people he wants to have that.
At most they could become a new Puerto Rico, but I suspect he simply loses interest at some point and finds something new to invade.
Likely they will simply take a snip of the land for a new, permanent US joint military base, like how they have Guantanamo in Cuba, but in this case it will be to control all air and sea (oil export) access to the country.
He probably wants to control land access too, but that's functionally impossible without tens of thousands of soldiers patrolling those borders.

I don't think Trump would really want Canada as a state either, with full voting rights and representation in Congress.

I don't see how Trump plans to 'run' Venezuela. There is still a state apparatus below Maduro that will function in the mean time. Do they mean to bomb Venezuela into submission as a way of Trump 'running' it?

 

[PinkLucy]

I don't think Trump would really want Canada as a state either, with full voting rights and representation in Congress.

I don't see how Trump plans to 'run' Venezuela. There is still a state apparatus below Maduro that will function in the mean time. Do they mean to bomb Venezuela into submission as a way of Trump 'running' it?

Whenever he has talked about taking over Canada, it was as a territory with no voting rights.

 

[kEiThZ]

I don't see how Trump plans to 'run' Venezuela. There is still a state apparatus below Maduro that will function in the mean time. Do they mean to bomb Venezuela into submission as a way of Trump 'running' it?

I think the new person on the job (VP Rodriguez) gets her turn at "Deal or No Deal". If she makes one, she lives. If she doesn't, the exploding steel rain will come again.

Way to people are acting like regime is over in Venezuela. I think only the Chavism is over. They now get to be America's b***h instead of hanging out with the CRINK buddies.

 

[kEiThZ]

Whenever he has talked about taking over Canada, it was as a territory with no voting rights.

He actually said 51st state. That would imply the same rights as other American states.

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

He actually said 51st state. That would imply the same rights as other American states.

...no, that's not what he meant, which is oft different to what he's actually saying.

 

[PinkLucy]

But when questioned on how it would work , he clarified in his own Trumpian way. Because he knows he couldn’t give us the vote

 

[UtakataNoAnnex]

Meanwhile, a word from their brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Schumer...

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"

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[kEiThZ]

Meanwhile, a word from their brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Schumer...

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"

bsky.app

I'm not sure that impeaching Trump for what will have been a popular military intervention will work. Again. No loss of American lives. And they'll have Maduro in court shortly explaining all the bad things he did. Then Dems will try to impeach?

 

[lenaitch]

Another angle, in addition to drugs and oil, might be a remigration destination that he has some control over. He mentioned in his presser about the thousands of Venezuelan people who are dying to return (he said the same about Cuba). While there might be some who would be wanting to return if it became more stable and democratic, part of me thinks he is looking for an offshore country he controls that he can ship undesirables to. Quite frankly, I'm not sure he differentiates between Venezuelans, Cubans or any other Latino nationalities; to him they're all swarthy people who talk funny (and clean his toilets).