I also get the impulse to push back on Trump's BS that Portland is a war zone that needs to be controlled by the NG, but the "Portland is calm and peaceful" flippancy erases the fact that ICE has been battering and using chemical agents on protestors for months and they're being stalked 24/7 by DHS.

It's not peaceful if you're a trans woman outside the ICE facility who's inhaled gallons of chemical weapons and has been thrown around like a ragdoll and bruised up by ICE. It's not peaceful if you're an Indigenous woman arrested for being on a sidewalk. It IS a war. They're the ones waging it.

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this actually does satisfy me because now you fucking understand that all these latin american neonazis who gringos have a huge boner for, who openly call for the extermination of their fellow citizens, are actually bad fucking people. give the peace prize to bolsonaro at this pont.

I have known so many people from those countries use Third World so maybe we shut our American asses the fuck up about the terms people use for themselves and their own situations.

They've been marching for over a month.

Yes, the Lend-Lease Program which famously didn't make US industrial concerns shitloads of money when they were already selling to the Germans.

Who among the sitting Congress or judiciary is gonna want to take the heat of shutting down payment to the troops? There's a clear legal challenge to be made here. They could get an injunction on this well before Wednesday. But will they?

Less jokey: this is what the Pope and his gang working to end this looks like. They are a massive focal point across many local communities and has meaningful mobilization power at a time when not many groups can do that.

To be fair, the Pope famously does not have that many divisions.

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Clay Higgins is a nobody ex-pig from Lousiana, a state specialized in mass producing corrupt politician nobodies who go to prison for accepting comically small bribes. Man has absolutely no political power whatsoever.

He's Catholic, they'll just make a joke about pedophilia and keep on pretending like they aren't two degrees or less from an Evangelical pastor that's actually guilty of it.

Every English-language article about the Nobel: "Well-deserved win by brave freedom fighter!"
Every Spanish-language article about the Nobel: "Lmao remember the time she asked Netanyahu to invade Venezuela"

It's wild that an entire generation has passed since the NYC housing crisis really spiked. The cultural consequences of that must run deep, and (if it's even possible) what changes in a more positive direction would produce?

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It's funny how these same Nixon or Reagan men, still somehow clinging to life, will shake Venezuela every few years and see which new comprador puppet comes rattling out. Machado, Guaido, Capriles, Lopez. Just a parade of fucking losers that everyone hates trying to sell their people to the US.

I know Machado's MAGA bona fides are rock solid, but i found this Biden era piece written by the Vandenberg Coalition. That's a neocon think tank run by the Lich King Elliott Abrams, Stupidest Man Alive Douglas Feith, and here's a real throwback: Scooter Libby.

nationalinterest.org/feature/joe-...

Almost immediately lmao, and it even predates the second Trump admin. nationalinterest.org/feature/joe-...

This article was sponsored by the Vandenburg Coalition, a think tank of neocon ghouls lead and funded by Elliott Abrams, Scooter Libby, and Stupidest Man Alive Doug Feith.

I wonder how far back I'd have to look to tie Elliott Abrams to Machado. That guy loves Nazis.

Don't worry, it still is. Venezuela is like Chile in that it has a more specialized concentration of Nazis and there aren't as many Italian descendents to take some of the extra heat.

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Nobody has willingly thought about this man in 15 years.