Guest Post by Tom Luongo
When the U.S. surprised the world by electing Donald Trump president many of us understood what it truly meant. “MAGA Bitchez!” was all I could say for at least a week. It was such a glorious event.
It was a giant ‘two-fingers up’ to the globalist establishment and endemic corruption of not just our government but of our society. We hoped it would signal a fundamental shift in U.S. foreign and domestic policy.
“No Mas” to more creeping totalitarianism at home.
“No Mas” to the weird intersectionalism and messianic Just War interventionism of the Baby Boomer generation.
Finally a coherent political statement from the latch-key Generation X; ready to assume the mantle of political power and tear down the rotten edifice of the world’s financial and political behemoth sucking the life out of humanity, one rehypothecated dollar at a time.
Sadly many of us, including myself, were wrong. Two and a half years of the most cynical Russophobia supporting an obvious and ham-handed coup operation against Trump has left the country more divided today than it was in 2016 when he won.
And the profound unfairness of it all has polarized the MAGA crowd into frothing-at-the-mouth righteous warriors against the evils of Socialism as a proxy for the Democrats and the Deep State itself.
Two years of believing in 4-d chess, Qanon, and all the other political horoscoping has a large swath of Americans so gaslit they are not only willing to back Trump’s regime change operation in Venezuela, they are defending it as ‘not a coup.’
They believe that because Trump told them to.
The real victims are the Venezuelans, the latest in a long-series of people who lives have been destroyed because of our incessant meddling in foreign affairs for our profit while selling it to Americans as humanitarian aid.
After Trump’s election I thought we had put away such childish things. But as I said this morning over at Strategic Culture Foundation:
Those I have zero sympathy with however, are the conservatives who are so in the thrall of Trump’s cult of personality that they excuse his bloodthirsty policies because it, to them, is a proxy for their own desired war against the Democrats here at home.
It’s a sick and pathetic justification to the inhuman practice of trade restraint and hybrid warfare to combat the evils of ‘socialism.’
The truth is that the American populist right has given fully into their anger and powerlessness to stop the degradation of their own society and have now transferred those feelings onto Venezuela.
There is a dangerous and pernicious undercurrent brewing among American conservatives who truly believe we are gearing up for The Rapture and the ultimate fight of Good vs. Evil.
And, in some weird way, they welcome it. It’s the only explanation I have for backing Trump’s play here, other than the embarrassment of knowing your shit-lib friends and family are right to say, “I told you so” about Trump.
It is difficult to have nuanced opinions in a world where battle lines are cynically drawn to keep people fighting among themselves while the real bad guys get away with the worst kind of crimes.
There’s a childishness to this position that cannot be ignored. If these people so desperately want to overthrow socialism, get on a plane to Colombia, pick up a rifle and go join the cause. Otherwise, what business is it of your to interfere with another country’s internal policies?
Your Orange Jesus told you this was a Just War so onward Christian Soldier and all that nonsense?!
Hey, how about you put down your rented iPhone, stop tweeting about “Freedom!” and back away from the Big Mac, fatty. This isn’t your fight. In fact, the real fight against socialism begins inside you. When you cede power over your life to someone else, anyone else, no matter how well-intentioned, you are allowing for that evil ‘socialism’ to take root.
When you accept the validity of your government having ‘rights’ versus powers delegated by you, a rights-holder, you are on the path to the very socialist models you think your railing against.
Moreover, do you think starving Venezuelans is a just way to fight your ‘Just War’? If you stand with the Venezuelan people why aren’t you telling your government to lift sanctions and allow them to build real wealth. Why aren’t you demanding Trump cut the military budget by 50 or 75% instead of cheering him on and thanking the troops ‘for their service?’
Maduro may be a bad man, I certainly think he’s inept, but he’s their bad man. And he’s not a threat to us in any way that matters to you personally.
Then again, war-mongering from the American right always comes easy as long as it isn’t your ass in the foxhole and the pizza is still delivered in 30 minutes or less.
These are the same people tired of 17 years of war who voted for Trump to end them. And now they cheer on the possibility of one in Caracas.
For a short period of time I was proud to be a part of that group that stood up and said, “No mas.” Now, I just shake my head and remind myself these were the same people who let it get to this point in the first place.
Waiting for the Rapture while watching reruns of NCIS on Netflix.
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What an outstanding article that I expect most readers here will agree. If there are those who still believe the Orange man is still on their side, they really need to put down that bottle of tequila.
It’s the orange koolaid.
“Hey dems, have a drink on me!”
Jim Jones
There’s ample evidence Trump’s controlled by deep state warmongers, but what evidence is there that Trump supporters are in favour of the multiple wars they’re pushing for? Or sanctions against Venezuela? Some are, some aren’t would be my guess. Many of those who voted for Trump aren’t in his thrall; it was a protest against the pervasive rot in Washington. Why, then, would they support Trump’s misadventures overseas?
Exactly–I voted for Trump because #1) He was not Hillary or who the establishment wanted and #2) I really hoped he would get us out of the Middle East and not start any new wars ( which Hillary certainly would have)– I’m 100% certain that when the false flag “chemical attack” in Syria was being orchestrated/produced for cameras, Hillary would have amped up our deployments instead of shooting a few out-of-date tomahawks at an empty airport.
I am truly frustrated if the US does begin active military involvement in Venezuela ( mostly deep state and CIA crap for now)… let the poor brown people in countries around the world suffer the consequences without our involvement…Venezuela is a better example of failed socialism as it is now than if we went in and mucked things up.
There’s ample evidence that he’s surrounded himself with neocon warmongers. Whether he’s controlled by them is highly debatable. He may tolerate their presence just to placate the Never Trumpers. Assad is still in power. We haven’t attacked Iran. Maduro is still in charge in Venezuela and we’re not massing to do anything there.
Look at this recent article on a very pro-Trump site https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/01/president-trump-interview-on-venezuela-crisis/ And look at the comments. I see little evidence that Trump’s supporters would even tolerate US military action in Venezuela.
They don’t, and there is no reason to believe that this Venezuelan episode is not concocted deep within the deep state, delivered by Pompeo and Bolton, to hang around Trumps neck.
If Trump was on board, shit would be getting done, but it’s not, Guido is done. If Trump was behind him bombs would be dropping and the CNN crews would be blowing loads all over the place.
But something is missing….no CNN crews.
Fantastic article ! As if on cue, I just finished watching a 15 min. video posted by ‘Plato’:
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum- the real threat to the American population is headquartered in DC.
From the video: “we didn’t want a woman for president, so we voted for the other side of the taint”
Thanks, Plato…..
That was totally awesome omg
Almost as funny as watching Hillary fall down some stairs.
It figures you assholes would race to the gutter. It’s where you spend all of your time.
The U.S. wants to replace one socialist president (Maduro) with another socialist president (Guaido). That is of course if America’s favorite chosen Venezuelan socialist president wants to sell us some oil, then socialism is good to Trump.
But here’s the thing. Chavez, Sadaam, Gaddafi,etc. were more than thrilled to SELL us the oil, and fer cheap! Biggest refinery in the World was the Hess refinery (maybe still is??) in St. Croix , USVI (that’s U.S. as in USA USA). And where did all that crude come from? Yep, Venez Fuckin Uela.
So, it’s not like the oil wasn’t AVAILABLE…
Here’s the poop on Hess, from wikipedia:
In 2014, Hess completed a multi-year transformation to an exploration and production company by exiting all downstream operations, generating approximately $13 billion from assets sales beginning in 2013.[4] Hess sold its gas station network to Marathon Petroleum (which operates under the retail brand Speedway); sold its wholesale and retail oil, natural gas and electricity marketing business to Direct Energy; closed its refineries in Port Reading NJ and St. Croix USVI
Further:
On January 18, 2012 the company announced that it would close the Hovensa refinery in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands by mid-February 2012. The refinery will then serve as a storage terminal.
Could not find anything about the size of the St. Croix refinery.
The US likes a stable supply of cheap, dependable oil. Just ask us in Alberta about it!
I think they are more interested in what currency that oil is sold in.
When you’ve embraced the notion that the world is run by powerful people conspiring out of view to shape events its easy to surmise a plausible explanation for supposed anomalies. So trump gets elected on a a more peaceful foreign policy. Once in office he turns tail and falls in the long disgusting line of demagogues. What happened? Well, say the gate keepers he had to face the hard realities once in office. Tune into hannity any night to get the official, codified bullshit story. The conspiracy nuts-like me-say it’s bare ass obvious that the owners gave trump the word to fall into line on slaughter or mueller is going to run your ass out of town on a fake Ruskie wrap. Or you put jared in charge and cut out all the peace shit then mueller makes nice-nice. Heads they win, tails we lose. It’s why they adore democracy. You can turn it on and off to suit your aims.
Vote, my ass
Nice sentiment, void of facts to substantiate your delusional theory. Name one thing Trump has done to back up your bullshit.
His greatest achievement is proving just how sneaky these biatches have been at selling our country right out from under us and he exposed the players we all “assumed” but had no real proof were doing the selling. Between him and obummer the gun owners have doubled and increased gun ownership by hundreds of millions for when the time comes to repatriate this nation with patriots. There is a lot of indication and probability it will come to that based on what we all have seen the last 10-15 years. Much clearer today than ever before.
It seems I clicked on a liberal circle jerk.
Carry on
Notice the sickening resemblance? Guaido looks like a Venezuelan Obama.
Who knows what/who is motivating/scripting Trump’s Agenda in Venezuela, but I’d bet it galls him to back Obama’s doppelgänger .
Oil, for sure. He probably gets a gleam in his eye considering a puppet country’s vast resources. He had a plausible “reparations” claim on Iraq’s oil, but the world would see it a naked resource grab in Venezuela. Venezuelan’s would rally plenty of S.A’s to participate in a revolution against all Yankee interests, economic, political and military.
Putting a military and economic hammer-lock the contiguous and geopolitically critical nexus of Panama, Columbia and Venezuela has to be some General’s wet dream – but it would create a pan Columbia-Venezuela Civil War and refugee crisis. The same situation we see in every country we’ve bomb into democracy.
Reagan didn’t excite much uproar boot-stomping Central American countries into mass graves.
But that was then. It’s different now.
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Trump didn’t initiate regime change, nation building in VE, Reagan started it, it continued under Obama/Clinton along with a host of other crimes against humanity, Trump ended it. End of story. Never Trumpers will be swept into the dust bin of history. Who else would you rather preside over the bankruptcy of the FUSA?
The IG report is coming, and Nellie Orr has been referred for criminal prosecution. No collusion, no obstruction, you’re drinking from the wrong punch bowl, idiots.