re: So It Begins. MADURO Turns on BIDEN. Release the Hounds.

quote:

---

False. I am the opposite of that and rag on boomers and neocons all the time. This country is shipping drugs and violent criminals into our country. They are hurting MY neighbors. They should be stopped. I dont care about a regime change. I dont care that they are communists. I fully support though a war against narco-terrorists that make the lives of Americans worse.

---

Whatever happened to the no new wars we were promised?

quote:

---

No one gives a frick about Venezuela except neocons and boomers...

---

Spoken like a true hollow headed, stooge!

Great way to tell us you're a " * Guy for Harris" with out telling us...

Scruffy

quote:

---

If I were Trump, I'd give him a call, spell it out, and get Maduro in a 'witness protection' situation asap awaiting testimony before Congress.

---

Words out the Witness Protection jet just took off from the Gerald R. Ford.

quote:

---

I dont want new wars that have ZERO bearing on the interests of everyday Americans. A war that makes Americans safer and reduces the amount of drugs coming to this country IS acceptable to me

---

Understandable, but as Scruffy eloquently put it, you can make this same argument for numerous countries that are much much closer to us. So again where is the line drawn?

quote:

---

So are a vast number of other countries.

I mean, Mexico is numero uno in that regard, considering they are on our border.

And with their refusal/inability to rein in the cartels, they are a much greater threat.

---

Mexico is the number one source of Fent in the US. They get the raw materials from China, refine it, and smuggle the stuff into the US. But we have done a great job busting fent smugglers along the border. Even sleepy Joe's administration cracked down on Fent toward the end. The battles re being fought, you just dont hear about them in the media.

quote:

---

Venezuela isn’t even close.

---

Venezuela is a huge problem since much of the drugs coming out of Colombia and Peru are being smuggled into Venezuela to avoid cooperating governments. The issue with Venezuela is they government pours gas on the fire rather than helps to put it out. But you are correct that they are far from the "biggest fire".

quote:

---

This isn’t about narco-terrorism. This is a roundabout way to push regime change.

---

Its both. Simply put, if a known drug vessel gets caught in international waters, its getting popped. I dont care who they are. But yes, its clear regime change is top of mind.

quote:

---

Hell, China is probably the primary supplier of fentanyl. We do nothing to counter that.

---

They are.

quote:

---

I give as many shits about Venezuela as I do Ukraine.

Zero

---

Amen. I'm a little more concerned with Venezuela considering the claims being made about TdA and the Biden regime, but overall - I'm pretty apathetic on it.

quote:

---

I could believe Biden was ok with unvetted illegal immigration of of Venezuelans. I don't believe that he wanted illegal immigrants from a particular gang. Thats a bit too on the nose

---

Exactly. Biden, for everything that he is, would not have worked to import violent gang members. That's insane.

“Why”?
Because it’s a handy villain for Trump’s personal agenda…

This is why MAGA can flip on a dime to support issues they once were against.

LINK

quote:

---

Trump has become the Rorschach candidate: nondescript, vague rhetoric and empty platitudes. He speaks in such generalities that his flip-flops can seem almost trivial. He offers grandiose promises boiled down to simple concepts offered up with a hefty portion of adjectives: strong, great, big, huge, amazing.

---

quote:

---

The vagueness and empty rhetoric that troubles many is actually appealing to a wide swath of Americans. Because Trump is a a vague ink blot of a candidate, voters are able to see whatever they want to see in him. He’s just defined enough on a few issues for voters to latch on to and the rest they simply fill in themselves.

This is precisely why he has such an ardent following. Voters are quite literally investing themselves and parts of their psyche into this man and making him into whatever they desire him to be. Once that kind of personal investment has been made, it is quite hard to break. Trump can and has come out with positions or policy suggestions that his supporters would normally not tolerate, and they swallow them whole. Just keep the speeches vague enough and everyone can get behind it. Don’t say “government healthcare,” say, “we’re going to take care of people” — there’s plenty of blank space for the voter to fill out the details however they would like.

---

I posted this article when it came out in 2016, and nothing has changed.

Does that really even matter? It happened. And it can't happen again.