The designations "terrorist" and "national security" have been heavily abused and distorted by this administration to further their ends.

I've scrolled back as far as Dec 21 on his TS account (gag) and it's not there. I'm suspecting this is not real.

Not only that, the staccato pulse of rotary dial still echoes in there too...

Your initial assertion was this was merely a DEA operation, so didn't need Congress to approve. But the *DEA* does not have the unilateral authority to enter another country & arrest someone, be they leader or street vendor. The bounty does not change that. Does the US believe in rule of law or not?

Ad hominem... refuge of those who can't defend their position.

I'm still unclear what your point is. Whether he's the legitimate leader or not is irrelevant. He could be a random. This bounty does not give the DEA (of all agencies) the right to infiltrate a sovereign nation and take the guy, or the US to have a say in how Venezuela is run in his absence.

What's your point? Trump's bounty (which Biden later increased, yes) is still not authority to take control of a sovereign nation. What happened now would be no more acceptable if Biden did it. Do you have some delusion the left treats Biden like an infallible cult leader the way MAGA does Trump?

What does the DEA have to do with the democratic legitimacy of foreign leaders, corrupt dictator or otherwise? What authority does the US President, let alone the DEA, have in non-war time to determine another country's leadership in the vacuum it created?

Can't wait for 2028, when the Dem candidate starts with "to avoid any questions of my cognitive ability" and then starts calling off the sketches that flash, one by one, on a nearby jumbotron: "elephant, giraffe, lion..."

They forgot to mention the indelible ketchup stains.

This conspiracy used to come up more often. Still boggles my mind...

1. Kill all the compliant people, leave only those who distrust authority alive
2. ???
3. Profit!

So much more convenient for when a real chimney isn't handy.

lf only Trump understood Occam's Razor: i.e. if the entire world has a problem with you, then just maybe it's actually you that's the problem?

(This reply further diminishing the odds I'd ever be admitted to the US again if I tried.)

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he said his mini-fridge running out of Diet Coke was a threat to national security.

A. I used to deliberately order patty melts at a restaurant near my office years ago. The bread itself can acquire exterior flavour (being buttered, marinated, etc.) unlike the typical buns of a burger. So it's unique.

It does not yet look like it has achieved its final form.

...to be fair, she was handed a dumpster fire. Mulroney didn't resign mid-term because the party was in a good place.

I wish we could say Canada elected a woman Prime Minister but sadly we haven't yet. Kim Campbell was not elected. She became interim PM when Brian Mulroney resigned, and held the position for only a few months until an election could be set. She failed to win in that election.

...I see this can be read completely opposite to what I intend.

Obviously the answer to my rhetorical "how many?" was clearly "none." Trump is singularly uncouth.

Point: even if some random said something just as ludicrously bad about Kirk, it wouldn't justify a president talking in the same way.