First as farce, then as dumber farce:
In The NY Times:
Some Republicans are asking how Mr. Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela squares with his past pledges to avoid foreign entanglements and nation building.
Candace Owens, the right-wing commentator and conspiracy theorist, wrote to her 7.5 million followers on X that the C.I.A. had “staged another hostile takeover of a country” at the behest of “globalist psychopaths.” She compared the incursion to U.S. actions in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“VENEZUELA is not about drugs; it’s about OIL and REGIME CHANGE,” Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a longtime thorn in Mr. Trump’s side, wrote on social media. “This is not what we voted for.”
Even a broken clock, blah blah blah…
Except it absolutely is “what [they] voted for.”
In the sense that he lies about everything, sure. But I think a lot of his asskissers (Tulsi Gabbard in particular) hooked their support for him onto his frequent claims that there would be no new wars. Idiots, yes. But consistent idiots.
The claim was “no new wars.” But also lots of bullying other countries using the military as well as economic force. Oddly enough, doing military bullying often results in a shooting conflict.
It almost doesn’t matter what topic we choose to talk about. Idjit trump has at one time or another said he intended to do one thing, and also do it’s opposite, about that topic.
Inconsistency is perfectly fine with them. They’ll change their tune in a heartbeat. “We have always been at war with Oceania.”
My point is, some of them don’t on specific topics. The Epstein files, for example.
It’s not a war. It’s a Police Action.
And don’t forget making their infrastructure great again or something. You know, for the oil companies.
Not a “special military operation”?
That, too.
As inept and Russian-controlled as our current criminal regime is, I’m actually surprised some spokesperson or pol didn’t use that exact phrase.
Yes. It’s faith based politics; logic and a concern for facts are disdained or actively condemned, what batters is showing that you believe. Publicly, obviously contradicting yourself isn’t a flaw, it’s a public display of virtue; you are showing that you are a believer, that you have Faith. The more obvious it is you are lying, the more you are demonstrating your virtue.
People pointed out for decades that this is what the American admiration of faith as a virtue was heading towards, and here we are. A society devoted to the denial of reality, even to the point of self destruction.
It certainly has that effect on me!