Comment by SilverElfin
3 days ago
Forget Venezuela, this is a major problem for America. Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth lied to Congress a couple weeks ago when they explicitly said that this is not about regime change. Entering an illegal war, committing acts of international piracy, and pledging to take over another country’s resources is completely illegal and a violation of American laws as well as international laws.
And right now, the entire right wing is cheering on this situation. These are people who wanted an isolationist America that does not start new conflicts. Spineless Republican senators and legislators are staying quiet as they allow this horrific dictatorial action to go on without any criticism. And meanwhile, tech billionaires like Elon Musk are continuously tweeting sycophantic support for this illegal act of state terrorism.
How will America recover? Its political system is broken. And its international reputation is shattered.
You should read how the international press received this. They're openly wondering if Trump has gone insane.
I’m wondering if the entire right wing has gone insane. Watching Elon Musk tweet a bunch of racist stuff for several days, followed by weird pro white ethnicity posts, followed by several fawning posts about how this attack was a good thing, is pretty shocking. But also the open hypocrisy of all of these everyday people in social media who have been saying they have not voted for more wars, now turn around completely and say that this war is OK is pretty shocking. And all of the other Republican politicians are either silent or basically claiming that the president has the full authority to do whatever he wants, is also pretty shocking.
I’m sure it is easy to say that this is what everyone should have expected, but I feel like the conduct has gone well past what people expected. The scary thing is I don’t think it will be easy to do something about this. Half the country thinks everything that is happening is completely justified and completely legal. And in practice that means it is effectively legal. So are there any remaining checks and balances that are functioning?
There is still tomorrow. What Trump has shown me is that the crap just never ends, one thing after another. Some guy in this thread is happy about 'vigorous foreign policy'. You really can't make it up.
I don't think there are any checks and balances that are still functioning other than the ones that have served us well to get rid of evil people since thousands of years ago and sooner or later these assholes will be gone. But they will always be replaced by new assholes with the same ambition: to own and rule over a disproportional share of the world.
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Welcome to the exact same feeling we had of Biden and his entire admin. Pop your bubble I voted for Biden.
[unrelated to this thread] You and I had a different discussion in an earlier thread -> here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46393900#46428166
I posted something there about good faith journalism, if you're still interested.
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> And right now, the entire right wing is cheering on this situation. These are people who wanted an isolationist America that does not start new conflicts.
Well, they said they wanted that. But maybe Trump wasn’t lying to them as much as lying alongside them.