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Comment by ch4s3

5 days ago

This is pure conspiracy, and doesn’t belong in this forum.

Trump agents out in full force, I see.

Counter any of them with real evidence, I dare you.

1. Trump is a pedophile. This is confirmed by the fact that he's been sued for his pedaristic actions, and "wished well" his former Mossad-backed recruiter.

2. Weapons makers and oil companies have quite literally had their executives and shareholders go from the board room to cabinet or VP level positions in the US government. this isn't a conspiracy.

3. Venezuela produces very little of the drugs the US consumer consumes. Mexico, Colombia, etc.. produce far more, like double-digit multiples more. Context: I live in SoFLA and interact with Venezuelans daily, and I lived in Mexico for several years and am pretty familiar with how their cartels operate.

Conspiracy? This is all out in the open.

  • The previous poster totally misunderstands how the War Power Act works, and many of those statements are at best supposition and at worst demonstrably false. The war powers act does not allow any domestic action at all.

    > 2. it satisfies the biggest donors to the republican party - weapons manufacturers and oil companies.

    This is nonsense the defense industry contributes pretty much evenly to each party. And the oil industry bit is just like the nonsense take on the Iraq war which saw virtually no contracts going to US companies.

    Additionally:

    >truth is there are effectively no drugs coming in from venezuela.

    While Venezuela does not supply drugs bound for the US the regime there has long partnered with FARC to smuggle cocaine and weapons[1].

    > Bonus: honors the practice of a republican president invading a country under bullshit premises to capture oil. Bush I and II both did so.

    The first Gulf War was about kicking Saddam out of Kuwait, not capturing oil, so yeah conspiracy and false statements.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela_and_state-sponsored_...

    • >This is nonsense the defense industry contributes pretty much evenly to each party.

      Wow, that's the most cringe thing I've seen in this thread. The defense industry owns both parties but contributes significantly more to Repbublican efforts than DEM efforts.

      https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?Ind=D

      You'll notice that while the defense industry contributes to DEM candidates, they far outspend on "conservative" politicians.

      >And the oil industry bit is just like the nonsense take on the Iraq war which saw virtually no contracts going to US companies.

      The US oil industry didn't get any contracts during the Iraq takeover? The oil industry literally had a Haliburton CEO, Dick Cheney, go from the C-Suite to the Vice Presidency.

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    • > This is nonsense the defense industry contributes pretty much evenly to each party.

      Horseshit:

      > Across 2017–2022, analyses based on OpenSecrets data find the defense industry’s contributions split at ~57% to Republicans vs ~43% to Democrats (a “kitchen-sink” strategy of giving to both parties).

      Giving 1/3 (32.6%) more is not "pretty much even".

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