US STRIKES VENEZUELA / CAPTURES MADURO

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While this isn't the most important issue, I think the USMNT has had its fate sealed. We are not advancing out of the group stage. Red cards will be flowing. It's going to be 2006 but worse.
 
Duke Mu said:
Jurisdiction if serving a warrant?
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Amazingly, Mike Lee got a law degree from Yale. Yale really should reconsider who it lets in. Its reputation is being smeared across the world by Vance, Thomas and this clown (and several others).

If the next president does not extradite Trump and all these cabinet members for prosecution abroad, I will be disappointed as hell. And Trump's family needs to go too. If you act like the king, if you try to be the king, you're inviting treatment as a king. And kings lose their families when deposed. I see no reason to depart from that practice.
 
superrific said:
Amazingly, Mike Lee got a law degree from Yale. Yale really should reconsider who it lets in. Its reputation is being smeared across the world by Vance, Thomas and this clown (and several others).

If the next president does not extradite Trump and all these cabinet members for prosecution abroad, I will be disappointed as hell. And Trump's family needs to go too. If you act like the king, if you try to be the king, you're inviting treatment as a king. And kings lose their families when deposed. I see no reason to depart from that practice.
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I will be more disappointed that Trump is still alive
 
Paine said:
Additional note: saying regime change is “theoretically defensible”
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Regime change is theoretically defensible. 100%. For instance, Vietnam invading Cambodia to oust the Khmer Rouge.

The problem is that the practice of regime change almost never lives up to the theoretical defenses. Not just Trump. Most regime change.

Mobutu was regime changed out of Zaire and that was a good thing (it was partly internal but Kabila and pretty everyone in Congo East is supported by external interests). Imagine if Mugabe had been regime changed out of power before he completely trashed his country. And of course regime change in WWII worked marvelously.

But usually "regime change" in practice is closer to imperialism than protection of human rights.
 
superrific said:
While this isn't the most important issue, I think the USMNT has had its fate sealed. We are not advancing out of the group stage. Red cards will be flowing. It's going to be 2006 but worse.
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lol not in 2026 man. Trump just got the "FIFA Peace Prize" and there are major TV dollars riding on us progressing. Far more likely that our opponents are the ones victimized by suspicious refereeing decisions.
 
rodoheel said:
lol not in 2026 man. Trump just got the "FIFA Peace Prize" and there are major TV dollars riding on us progressing. Far more likely that our opponents are the ones victimized by suspicious refereeing decisions.
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I had “fun” reading about the World Cup that was played in Argentina and clearly rigged. I suspect the USA will try something similar but the men’s team will be so inferior as to not matter the advantages the refs give them.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
I hate to tell pandemic this, but the "new" Democratic party has been around a long time - at least since Bill Clinton, if not George McGovern, so he likely hasn't been voting Democratic for decades, if ever. Oh, and anybody who calls the Democratic Party "Democrat Party" is a long-time Republican, as that is what Republicans have called the Democratic Party for decades, and it's meant as a insult. Just saying.
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They were voting Democrat until the civil rights movement.
 
superrific said:
Regime change is theoretically defensible. 100%. For instance, Vietnam invading Cambodia to oust the Khmer Rouge.

The problem is that the practice of regime change almost never lives up to the theoretical defenses. Not just Trump. Most regime change.

Mobutu was regime changed out of Zaire and that was a good thing (it was partly internal but Kabila and pretty everyone in Congo East is supported by external interests). Imagine if Mugabe had been regime changed out of power before he completely trashed his country. And of course regime change in WWII worked marvelously.

But usually "regime change" in practice is closer to imperialism than protection of human rights.
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The most analogous to this situation would be Noriega. Lots of problems in Panama before and after Noriega, but in general, that regime change was not disastrous.
 
SnoopRob said:
We have a president who acts more like a professional wrestler than someone in one of the most important positions in the world.

He is so fucking embarrassing.
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And that is why his MAGA base loves him.

I spent Christmas with my MAGA sister and BIL in Oklahoma. We mostly steered clear of politics, but got into it a couple times.

My BIL has been a huge wrestling fan since he was a pre-teen. He LOVES the showmanship, the ridiculousness of it all, the gaudiness, the strange pseudo/hyper-masculinity of everything Trump does and says.
 
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