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America's Biggest Loser

Pete Hegseth 

One of Elon's Baby Mamas

 

The Center Of Attention

Trump is bored of tariffs and has discovered that he can get the same praise and attention by killing people.  The press corps mostly loves exciting military murders, and he will continue to get praise for doing it, and even American military deaths won't stop that.

Here’s another thing you should understand about these guys: The only thing the elite Washington press corps likes more than a bipartisan commission on debt reduction is a stack of flag-draped coffins.

Eschaton Assignment Desk

Isaac Chotiner, interview members of the Nobel Peace Prize committee.

Peace In Our Time

The general European response to Trump's actions in Venezuela has been to front disapproval of Maduro, followed by some mumbled vague concerns.

Soon we will discover that they always thought the president of Colombia was worse than Hitler, and that Danish claim to Greenland was colonial overreach requiring liberation by American forces.

NATO will soon be revealed to be something left-wing critics have always claimed, but they will still somehow have been wrong.

Pure Starmerism:

Sir Keir Starmer has refused to be drawn on whether or not US President Donald Trump's military action against Venezuela may have broken international law.

In an interview with the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme on Saturday morning, the prime minister did not condemn the US strikes.

He said he was waiting to establish all the facts but would not "shy away from this", adding he was a "lifelong advocate of international law".

I will not shy away from the thing I am definitely shying away from.

I am so old I remember when politicians were good at this kind of bullshit. None of them even try anymore. 

Sure Why Not

Gotta laugh when we can.

Two people close to the White House said the president’s lack of interest in boosting Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stemmed from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has openly coveted.

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

This isn't even true. The real reason is Machado couldn't run the country. But it is funny that this is the line they are running with both for the country and for Trump. It is also "funny" that the WaPo put this near the bottom of the article. 

But Were Any Of Them Real People

General pundit consensus is "no."

Afternoon

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What Is It All About Then

Maduro didn't really win the election, but the nice Peace Prize-winning lady who really won doesn't get to be in charge because she doesn't have support. It is about Maduro's tyranny, but we are putting the person who ran the security services in charge.  It is about fentanyl, but somehow that doesn't appear in the charges. It is because I am going to take all the oil, and when I say this all the journalists pretend not to hear it.

The confusion is perfect for our Sensible pundits, as inventing their own reasons for wars is their favorite activity.

The Free Press

If some other outlet had published, these fearless newspapers would've taken the lead in denouncing them.

The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops, two people familiar with the communications between the administration and the news organizations said.

Outlets will happily lie to their readers.

Technically true, I suppose, but we aren’t supposed to be playing by clever lawyering rules.

People were killed, including civilians, in a clearly illegal (domestic, international) attack, but nonetheless.

Morning

Sunday funday

Did Not Disappoint

Jeffries pretty much sold me on what Trump did. Was that not what he was trying to do?

MADURO IS WORSE THAN 27 SADDAMS, however..

Debbie was less nuanced.

Mommy He Shot Me Back

Look forward to Venezuela defense and retaliation being portrayed as criminal aggression.

State Media

 

What Did They Think Would Happen

No I don’t think the Dems have a magic wand, but their response to murdering fishermen was extremely muted.

Jeffries instead leaned on those probes as the alternative to impeachment, telling reporters: "What's on the table is a meaningful investigation which we can hope would be bipartisan."

It is less the action/inaction I am complaining about, and more the fact that they never gamed this one out. Did one person working for Jeffries say, "hey boss, what do we do when he starts bombing Caracas."

They never game anything out.

Sure Why Not

Welp

 

Bombing Caracas

Looking forward to numerous Dem statements about this being a distraction.

Happy to be wrong.

Anyway, cancel the World Cup and the Olympics.