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…Blueheart22's avatar

Please get on your phone and start calling Congress at the capital at 202-224-3121. It is your right to call any member of the Senate or the House of Representatives! It’s time to blow up their phone! America does not want this war and we know it’s a huge distraction from the Epstein files! He even made it clear and was caught actually saying that he would start a war to distract long ago! My first call was to Senator John Thune. Our voices matter! I have an active duty marine so I will not be silent!

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Debbie Morse's avatar

I’ve called Sen. Cornyn and Rep. Crenshaw. Calling idiot Cruz won’t help so I didn’t bother. I urge everyone to phone their representatives.

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…Blueheart22's avatar

I call them all. We don’t have to only call our own senators and representatives!

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Carie's avatar

called Patty Murray. Haven't seen nor heard from the other one, Maria Cantwell. I know she voted with republicans somewhere along the way in 2025.

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Kathryn's avatar

Fellow Washingtonian here 👊🏼

I agree with this sentiment.

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ajay ess's avatar

i have kept up the pressure on patty murray and maria cantwell as well as rick larson...and followed up my calls and emails with hard copy letter i snail mailed to them yesterday. they are all 'play-nice-bipartisan' democrats who don't want to stand with the people on the streets...they sit in their ivory towers and have useless photo opportunities in bland soundbites on tv and online. murray even calls them 'charlatans' - how pathetic is that word to describe fascists?

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Wildflower's avatar

Calling Thune. From IL , thank God for JB , I will keep calling .

There has got to be a way to remove him from office immediately.

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ajay ess's avatar

yep, i've been on thune and johnson voicemail, difficult to sent them email messages coz you have to fake a local constituent address before they will allow it. also sent them hard copy letters via snail mail.

at least schumer and jeffries (as useless as they are) allow anyone to contact them via their websites....

like all politicians - save a few like aoc, jasmine, gavin, bernie and a few others - they don't respond and don't care....they are in congress for the wealth they can make on the congressional gravy train....

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Makeitblue's avatar

Sent emails already

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…Blueheart22's avatar

Thank you!

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Kathryn's avatar

They do not care about us.

They are afraid of him.

Ain’t nothing gonna change about that.

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Doug Miles's avatar

How soon and how many millions will Maduro cough up to the Orange MAGAt King to buy his pardon?

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Betsy Ann's avatar

oil

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Elaine Lueras's avatar

Yes..oil...oil...oil

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Lovey (Lyuba) Scully's avatar

I wish some country would capture Trump.

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Doug Hiller's avatar

We can expect that a sequence of significant unanticipated shifts will take place as this new ingredient in the global stew of disruption and world order displacement evolve from now.

Putin is dead set to change national borders by force. China has expressed its desire to do the same with Taiwan. trump is for breaking things and despicably pro Putin, and more freely using the U.S. military to inflict regime change. It all adds up to a tectonic shift of rule of law that should have held back the 3 world powers.

Brace. Not just for the next week, month or year, but for a decade of non-peace.

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ajay ess's avatar

trump and his putin-style-billionaire-oligarchs have their minds set on venezuelas wealth - that they will control and profit from....well done dumb magats - your tax payer $ being spent to enrich the wealthy.....

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Win's avatar

Latin America and anywhere else in the sights of this Cyclops will need to be very concerned. Very concerned. That that was what all the recent US naval exercises were about, may well now make sense. Absolutely shocking and shameful.

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ajay ess's avatar

the military build up was just like russia before it invaded ukraine. trump and his boyfriend putin are planning more of this. trump wants to be a war criminal like putin, nyetanyahoo and soooo many others in the world today. well done magat morons -your tax payer $ are being spent ensuring that all the putin-style-billionair-oligarchs can rape and pillage more wealth from more countries....that is the true plan....not the lies and fantasy claims of the dictator....

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Stix76's avatar

OIL….🤷🏻‍♂️

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Elaine Lueras's avatar

OIL...OIL...OIL

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randy Foster's avatar

The orange conjob has just opened a can of worms.

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Mitch Earlwood's avatar

RIP to the America of the past 200+ years. This is no longer America. Might as well rename it because it no longer stands for what it has.

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Harriet Pashman's avatar

We, the American PEOPLE , think that politically motivated, armed conflict within our borders is illegal. So, does that make Trump’s attacking our Constitution okay?????

NOT in my opinion!

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Callura Michael's avatar

TRUMPS FASCIST,ROUGE, TERRORIST STATE must be CONDEMNED BY ALL NATIONS , and listed as a TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.

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Rock Wilcox's avatar

This action, in my opinion, is an exercise in futility. I do not know much about Maduro, nor do I care; yet I fail to see any reasons for engaging in conflict with a nation or its people, especially considering the fact that they have never attacked us in the first place.

trump can get on his 'untruth social', and claim that the Venezuelans were causing the deaths of Americans via drugs all he wants, but the fact is that Venezuela, or any other nation, for that matter, cannot force anyone to take drugs.

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CK's avatar

The US oil magnates want Venezuela’s oil but don’t want to pay market rates for it.

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Barbara Dillard's avatar

And Venezuela didn’t do anything. Trumps plan he’s a destroyer

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Wayne's avatar
4dEdited

First Trump will lecture him about not having any cards. Then , for a prescribed amount, he’ll grant a pardon.

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John Powell's avatar

Grok:”Venezuela’s 2024 presidential election (held July 28, 2024), the opposition candidate Edmundo González Urrutia was widely believed to have won but was unable to take power.

The National Electoral Council (CNE), controlled by allies of incumbent President Nicolás Maduro, declared Maduro the winner with around 52% of the vote (vs. ~43% for González). However, the opposition published voting tally sheets (actas) from over 80% of polling stations, showing González winning decisively — often cited as around 67% to Maduro’s 30%.

Independent observers (including the Carter Center) and many international governments described the process as neither free nor fair, citing:

• Pre-election repression: Leading opposition figure María Corina Machado was banned from running, and other candidates faced obstacles.

• Lack of transparency: The CNE refused to release detailed, disaggregated results or allow full independent audits.

• Post-election crackdowns: Protests were met with arrests, violence, and threats against opposition leaders.

Edmundo González faced an arrest warrant, went into hiding, sought asylum in the Spanish Embassy, and eventually fled to Spain in September 2024. He was never able to assume the presidency.

Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for a third term on January 10, 2025, despite widespread international non-recognition (e.g., the U.S., Canada, and several others recognized González as the legitimate winner or president-elect). The inauguration proceeded amid heavy security and condemnation from much of the democratic world.

This mirrored previous disputed elections (e.g., 2018), deepening Venezuela’s political crisis, with ongoing authoritarian control, economic hardship, and mass emigration.”

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Heinrich Dahms's avatar

Grok belongs to Elon Musk. Only fools believe what says.

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John Powell's avatar

Sad statement. Ignoring reality is a left wing characteristic

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ajay ess's avatar

smells like toxic orange bullshit

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ajay ess's avatar

soooooo? putin's election is the same. trump wants to rig our elections. what's the point in your comment? if venezuela hasn't invaded or attacked america, we have no right to invade. even bush had the 'brains' to form a coalition for regime change in afghanistan and iraq (and how's that worked out for us eh????), so now usa has set a precedent to enable any country to effect regime change if the ruler/dictator of that country was not elected legally and the election was rigged. making dumb statements about facts does not prove the right for anyone to invade another country. draft dodger with an obese ego playing war games is the only fact you need to state.

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Robert Lindsay's avatar

This is all just nothing but lies. Maduro won fair and square, shitlib.

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John Powell's avatar

Viva la libertad, carajo!

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KittyKat Lo's avatar

Distraction from Epstein and Jack Smith while he makes more money on the side.

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Ross McQueen's avatar

Will Trump now order the kidnapping of Canada’s PM?

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ajay ess's avatar

any scary option is on the table in the new fascist world order. trump and vance want regime change in the EU too... magat morons drinking their lobotomizing trump propaganda koolaid are oblivious as to what they have fdone.

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Robert A Mosher (he/him)'s avatar

Still waiting for a report on any US casualties

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Heinrich Dahms's avatar

Who gives a fuck after this?

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Robert A Mosher (he/him)'s avatar

I do. I only wore a uniform for a brief and unwilling time, but I spent my career serving alongside those who did wear it. My heart is always with the “mud, wind, rain, and snow boys”.

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Michelle McElhaney's avatar

Maduro and his wife were not “maduro and his wife were not “captured.” They were kidnapped

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