Yes Trump literally said in his speech that's what it's about, they're not even trying to hide it anymore.
this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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Shit, pretty sure he's on tape telling Netentyahu, that starting a war to cancel elections is a great idea that he wants to do.
He wants a regime change eventually, and so does the money behind him.
But what trump wants more, is anything that will cancel midterms and last long enough to cancel the next presidential too.
That's why he's doing this, holding onto political power is the golden goose. Not even trump is dumb enough to kill and eat the goose. As we get closer to elections, we'll see him pass on money if it means holding onto power longer. But if midterms happen and he loses the House, that's a lot of lost power, which means less money from bribes/grifts.
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He kept saying "we are going to be taking money out".
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“Slams” omg this needs to stop. “AOC says the Truth Out loud.”
Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud
We're going to have our very large United States oil companies (...) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (...) Let's start making money
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Funniest part was Russia denouncing unprovoked US actions.
A special military operation to overthrow a government that takes less than 3 days, only a few hours to be precise..... Must be hard to see others achieve that when you are not even close to that at day nr. 1,409.
So, I in no way support what the USA has just done (essentially forced vassilisation of another nation to appease oil magnates), but god damn that comment was funny.
This reminds me of Bush standing on an aircraft carrier with a "Mission Accomplished" banner behind him. Trump says he's gonna run Venezuela and seize their oil. The violence is only just beginning.
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At no point in Russia's modern history have they had any problem whatsoever with being hypocrites.
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It's not just about oil, its about sour crude oil.
USA is an oil exporter. Why does it need more oil? The answer is, it doesn't. But US oil companies need sour crude oil for their refineries, built during the 70's and 80's to refine exactly the kind of oil produced in Venezuela. Not designed to refine the shale oil produced in the fracking boom.
It's all about the oil companies margins, and it will be paid for in American and Venezuelan blood. Because why pay to refit your refineries when human lives and presidencies are so cheap?
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this would have been quite the bold claim if the used sponge of a president that you have didn't literally say the same thing to reporters himself.
Do people criticizing AOC have any idea how limited a house members direct power is. The most impactful thing she can do from her seat on a regular basis is normalize the contempt. She’s not even a senator ffs. I really hope we’re able to rally against the hateful bigots. This country is a mess and full of dumbass tools blissfully ignorant to reality in every corner.
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Anyone else getting sick of the word "slams" in headlines? She posted online on social media. Yes she's right but this "slams" thing is really getting old.
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Thank god they put "slams" in the headline, otherwise lemmy's anti-progressive contributors might not have an easy excuse to ignore AOC.
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AOC is completely right.
yoo its only a few days after New Year wtf man.
Also this gives me 2019 vibes: January 2019 right after New Year Trump ordered missile strike that hit a top Iranian general's vehicle.
Well, as long as she SLAMMED it. Guess thats it people. Good job everyone.
You hear that everybody? She slammed it. It's been slammed. It's ok, no need to panic, everybody knows everything's fine as long as it gets slammed. No need for any further action here; it's been slammed.
Slam.
You Should Know: The "Cartel de las Soles" isn't actually a real cartel.
See, the Venezuelan military uses a sun insignia for generals, where the US military uses a star. A journalist invented the term in 1993 to talk about corruption in the Venezuelan military. Get it? All the members of this "cartel" wear suns. But, it's not a real cartel. Not everybody who wears a sun (i.e. is a general) is necessarily involved in crimes, and those that are aren't necessarily working together.
Then do something about it. Have the congressional police arrest Trump, Vance, and Secretary of Defense Hegseth.
So do you really think that one Congresswoman has the power to arrest a sitting president? Hell even if you took all the progressives and what remains of the squad, do you really think those numbers are enough to pull what could only be a coup?
Truly though, I think the reason Trump is going to get away with this and the reason Bush got away with his bullshit before is because of nonsense statements like this.
Also there's no such thing as Congressional police. You may be trying to refer to the Capitol Police, but they can't even successfully arrest insurrectionists.
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I mean, you don’t actually expect that to be possible right? Think of the implication that would have, where republicans would just arrest the president for wearing a tan suit.
I get that these are more obvious crimes, but the idea that a single member of the house could mobilize any kind of force to arrest the sitting president is insanity.
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All fair and good to "SLAM" him, but also fucking do something about it.
All the fucking Dems do is complaining, never any fucking actions. They have the power to
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When will the USA get billions from corporations to fix our crumbling infrastructure?
Just wondering
no actually its to distract from the epstein files, first and foremost, oil is a side benefit. the amount of info coming about trump being a depraved pervert is really getting to him.
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Turns out Ghina got really good at renewables while we were deliberately looking away. And Ghina is too big to invade. Guess we'll have to double down on oil. And somehow these guys have more oil than the Saudis. Not for long...
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Even Trump is a shitty copy of 2003's Iraq. The man has no originality. First he poorly copies Mussolini and now Dubya.
Have you ever seen someone pull a trailer using bungee cords, or use a bare wire in an electrical socket, or use a power tool without any safety gear? It's frustrating if they get away with it, and as a result learn that what they did was a good idea.
What's really awful about this Venezuela operation is that the initial phase of it actually went just fine. No American soldiers were killed, Maduro was captured alive and uninjured, and so on. It was an incredibly stupid and reckless thing to do. But, for the moment, everything went as well as the Department of War could hope. It will probably have bad long-term diplomatic consequences, but those aren't visible yet. If there's a phase 2 of this "war", it's probably going to have unseen issues. For the moment though, they got away with it.
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Of course it is. Iraq was exactly the same operation, oil and regime change. And what AOC will do about that? She will say "Thank you for your service". Nothing more, nothing less. USA is pirate state, if they want something, they will get it, no matter who is the President. The difference is how is done.
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AOC is spot on! The USA is on the same shitty level as the Russians and they have given a free pass for China to attack Taiwan.
I'm not some tankie or anything, but with Russia being allowed to take Crimea in 2014, and give it a few weeks, but I suspect the world will do fuck all about the US invading and annexing Venezuela. What is stopping China from taking Taiwan? The biggest players on the world stage has shown time and time again, that you can just take land because you want it, so why shouldn't China just take Taiwan? What would make an invasion of Taiwan worse than an invasion of Venezuela, Ukraine or Afghanistan?
Just to make sure everyone understands, I don't think any of them should be allowed to take any other country's land, but the world has shown it's completely acceptable for any reason, including wanting more oil, wanting natural ressources and farmable land, or wanting to blow up brown people.
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It's not even regime change, the old Maduro supporting regime is still running the show. The VP was on a visit in Russia when this happened.
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And yet Americans will do nothing except demonstrate how servile they are to the state.
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