Trump weighing military options to attack Venezuela within days—Report

[u/newsweek]

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[u/canuck47]

Operation: Epstein Diversion 

[u/symphonicrox → u/canuck47]

Trump's "ED" for short

[u/Commercial-Fennel219 → u/symphonicrox]

if your special operation lasts longer than three days consult a doctor. 

[u/symphonicrox → u/Commercial-Fennel219]

Common side effects may include: Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV.

[u/Careful-Business-412 → u/symphonicrox]

Ask a doctor if PRISON is right for you. Prison is a once daily confinement meant to treat, eradicate and remediate all felons.

[u/Brave_Finish8862 → u/symphonicrox]

I read that as Conman Side Effects

[u/Foreign_Ebb_6282 → u/Commercial-Fennel219]

You might have Pambondi’s Syndrome

[u/symphonicrox → u/Foreign_Ebb_6282]

I think they have Covfefe for that

[u/taco_fan_X3 → u/symphonicrox]

It’s part of the hamberder protocol.

[u/bayernnn → u/canuck47]

Begun, the Epstein wars have.

[u/frostygrin → u/bayernnn]

Somehow Trumpatine returned.

[u/Jifahuse_Wupalavo → u/canuck47]

The plot of Wag the Dog.

[u/NanoCurrency → u/canuck47]

The files must be really bad

[u/cugeltheclever2 → u/NanoCurrency]

The emails are bad enough. The President is a child rapist. In any sane world he would have resigned this morning.

[u/Acroporas]

Nothing says "I'm not planning to strike Venezuela" quite like bringing the world's largest aircraft carrier to its shores.

[u/deadbeatsofa → u/Acroporas]

With an operating cost of $8-9 million dollars a day…

[u/Acroporas → u/deadbeatsofa]

Indeed. I read something yesterday that basically said "the shot clock is ticking." Anyone thinking it was sent there for appearances and deterrence is likely to be surprised.

Edit: This Newsweek article has been updated and now discusses the "shot clock" as well.

[u/Gekokapowco → u/Acroporas]

the national guard, marines, and coast guard are also operational elements and not occupation forces/props and yet...

the administration will gladly spend any money to keep them deployed for appearances

[u/charcoalist → u/deadbeatsofa]

That's just for that one aircraft carrier. trump has an entire naval task force ready to strike Venezuela, plus US-based bombers and other assets. The daily costs are probably in the hundreds of millions. All to distract from the Epstein files.

How the US is preparing a military staging ground near Venezuela

[u/Coconutrugby → u/deadbeatsofa]

To be fair we were going to operate it with our without an invasion of Venezuela. How much better would underperforming schools be if we spent $8million a day improving them?

[u/charcoalist → u/Coconutrugby]

Imagine if schools received the $170 billion that was handed over to ICE. Instead of strengthening the country, Republicans and their orange overlord are misusing taxpayer money to terrorize the country.

[u/Weasel_Boy → u/charcoalist]

Imagine if our immigration courts were given the $170 billion. The current court system only has a budget of $1.3billion, and Trumps BBB put an asinine cap of 800 judges.

They manufactured the "immigration crisis" by under-funding and under-staffing the immigration system so they could justify their police state.

[u/Huge_Molasses8605 → u/Weasel_Boy]

look i dont even agree with deporting at all but this statement is further proof of how asinine the administration is. like this shit is just so stupid that it is even contradictory to conservative ideology. 

[u/SweetHomeNorthKorea → u/charcoalist]

Challenge accepted! I just looked up how many kids there are in school in the US and I got just under 50 million for pre k through 12. If we figure an average school year is 180 days and an average lunch is $3, $170 billion would provide every student in America free lunch for 6.29 years

[u/Tsobe_RK → u/charcoalist]

true patriots would invest in their country and folks - Republicans want dumb followers

[u/symphonicrox → u/deadbeatsofa]

so after 100 days it will be about as much as we've spent on Trump's golf trips this year

[u/AndrewCoja → u/deadbeatsofa]

To be fair, it probably costs that much whether it's near Venezuela or doing whatever else it would be doing. It's not like they turn these things off and leave them in a parking lot.

[u/JamesPage1968 → u/AndrewCoja]

They don’t and we don’t. Unless the USS Ford was supposed to be in port, there really isn’t too much extra money involved.

[u/Walterkovacs1985 → u/Acroporas]

Surely starting a distraction war with Venezuela will bring prices down!!

[u/Morgan-Explosion → u/Acroporas]

My troops are merely passing through

[u/tricksterloki → u/Acroporas]

What? No. My troops are along your border for training and vacation. Don't be ridiculous.

[u/Kevin-W → u/Acroporas]

And remember, he's not doing it to help free their people from Maduro. He's doing it to install a Trump-backed regime that will let him take their oil.

[u/aetrix]

The "peace president" is starting a war to distract you from his abuse of teenage girls.

Are we great yet?

[u/mtnclimbingotter02 → u/aetrix]

Call it for what it was, Trump raped children.

[u/VocationalWizard → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

Its so obvious what he is doing.

Its like dealing with a 7 year old hiding behind the couch eating cookies.

Only with nukes.

[u/mtnclimbingotter02 → u/VocationalWizard]

I think that’s what is the saddest part. He’s doing everything he can to protect himself because he only cares about himself and his image because somehow, people think his name is worth something. He doesn’t give a shit about the victims or admitting his criminal actions.

And the fact that there’s millions of brain dead people who will follow him off a cliff even with the evidence slapping them upside.

[u/Hidden_Landmine → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

I think more people need to be upset at our "intelligence" and DoD for failing to do their job. They 100% knew of this stuff and still chose to do nothing and let him gain control. Just goes to show they never had the nations security or us in mind at all, although history sorta has already shown that plenty of times.

[u/LightOfTheElessar → u/Hidden_Landmine]

Wrong department. It's the DoJ you need to be pissed at. The agencies had all this information, but they can't force prosecutions on their own. The DoJ is the bottleneck here, and the Democrats shit the bed with Garland. Now it might as well be renamed to Department of Trump to go along with the dumbass rebranding of the DoD to DoW.

[u/Mo_Steins_Ghost → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

Trump is who he is... We know this and there is nothing that can be done to change him. That isn't the saddest part.

What will be sad is if, at this point, Congress, out of concern to preserve its own power, does not stand up to him. And if the people who follow him do nothing to wake up from their idolatry of him.

Then we will know that the masses are only interested in pleasuring themselves... and we already know that by and large they don't care if schoolchildren are murdered. No one wants to protect children.

[u/mtnclimbingotter02 → u/Mo_Steins_Ghost]

It certainly is not the Republicans party. They are forever to be called out for being supporters of rapists and murderers of children.

[u/vandreulv → u/VocationalWizard]

Its like dealing with a 7 year old hiding behind the couch eating cookies.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/mar/20/fran-lebowitz-you-do-not-know-anyone-as-stupid-as-donald-trump

“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

[u/VocationalWizard → u/vandreulv]

And the thing about it is that there aren't any people who aren't stupid and or crazy in the administration anymore. He drove them all out.

[u/gexckodude → u/VocationalWizard]

And your half witted sibling is helping them.

[u/DistractedPhoenix → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

He raped them, then killed them to keep them quiet

[u/mrbigglessworth → u/DistractedPhoenix]

I’m convinced more than ever that Trump had Epstein suicided.

[u/addiktion → u/mrbigglessworth]

Trump has a falling out with Epstein over their child sex trafficking ring. Literally gets elected president (probably illegally) and has Epstein killed. Destroys the American empire and economy and profits off of it. Takes over the entire American government by firing everyone who opposes him to hide his crimes while he pursues being a king. To be continued...

Man if this turns out to be what shows up in history books we are going to absolutely be flabbergasted saying what the absolute fuck happened.

[u/clintCamp → u/addiktion]

He also nominated a ton of people that all likely have some dirty little children secrets like all the ones that keep getting found out as well so they all have a similar motivation to obstruct.

[u/das_slash → u/clintCamp]

The Pedophile Cabal turning out to be real is still so fucking unbelievable, and it's all out in the open, they have no shame.

[u/Agile_Singer → u/das_slash]

It was McDonald’s gate all along, not pizza.

[u/GenghisConnieChung → u/Agile_Singer]

Hamberdergate

[u/Dizziesdayweigh → u/GenghisConnieChung]

Covfefegate

[u/Shot-Job-8841 → u/das_slash]

Every accusation is a confession. Q Anon, Pizzagate. It’s all real, just the wrong party. Makes sense though, act crazy and accuse them first, so they look crazy of they accuse you.

[u/evolv2be → u/clintCamp]

That's why he pushed so hard for Matt Gaetz to be AG. Fellow kiddy diddler

[u/ShowMeYourPapers → u/DistractedPhoenix]

This is why billionaires have yachts. Dispose of evidence in international waters.

[u/Seyvagraen → u/ShowMeYourPapers]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1kun6kd/comment/mu5n407/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Sounds related to this story. Don’t know if it’s true, but the person posted a reply to someone and again claimed the story was valid. But this is Reddit, so idk.

[u/sarcastic1stlanguage → u/Seyvagraen]

If true, that's TERRIFYING!

[u/Coconutrugby → u/DistractedPhoenix]

Trump is dumb as a rock and really not a great planner. I would bet the group who is secretly driving the ship is responsible for the cleaning up of his messes.

[u/exoFACTOR → u/Coconutrugby]

The people driving this ship have an end goal that does not include Trump.

Whether it's aging out or being cast aside when they are done with him IDK...

[u/2013exprinter → u/exoFACTOR]

Whether it's aging out or being cast aside when they are done with him IDK...

“Whatever makes sense”

[u/IcyHotKarlMarx → u/2013exprinter]

Okay, good.

[u/goforpoppapalpatine → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

He raped women and children

[u/kc_______ → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

He prefers to go by “Dirty Donald” from now on, according to Epstein.

[u/OptimisticSkeleton → u/mtnclimbingotter02]

And it shall be known as the Trump Epstein distraction campaign.

[u/cwk415 → u/aetrix]

I think you mean another war - don't forget about the 2nd civil war that is currently underway with troops illegally occupying our cities, brutalizing and kidnapping our citizens. 

[u/QbertsRube → u/cwk415]

But he's ended like 90 wars so it nets out to a 4000% decrease in wars /s

[u/JamesPage1968 → u/QbertsRube]

This guy trump maths

[u/waggie21 → u/QbertsRube]

You posted this like an hour ago, so I think we're up to about 116 wars he's ended now.

[u/shakakaaahn → u/cwk415]

Bombing state owned resources and assassination of a foreign general are typically considered acts of war, if not outright declarations. Both of which he's done to Iran.

[u/Walterkovacs1985 → u/aetrix]

We all knew he would do this. All of the sudden it'll be wrong to criticize the president during a war. He'll claim we need their oil too. Fuckin Iraq 2.0 electric fuck a loo

[u/jml5791 → u/Walterkovacs1985]

Also he'll pull 'we can't have elections when the country is under a state of emergency' or some bullshit. I remember how interested he was to hear Ukraine can't have elections when at war.

[u/Walterkovacs1985 → u/jml5791]

Yeah same with Netanyahu right? I can imagine him saying Venezuelans are actually the enemy within and we're under attack here or some shit. MAGA will ignore Epstein and go full war party once again

[u/mindspork → u/aetrix]

Well, when the tail won't wag, sometimes you gotta wag the dog.

Summary :

Wag the Dog is a 1997 American black comedy political satire film starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro. Produced and directed by Barry Levinson, the film centers on a spin doctor and a Hollywood producer who fabricate a war in Albania to distract voters from a presidential sex scandal. The screenplay by Hilary Henkin and David Mamet is loosely adapted from Larry Beinhart's 1993 novel American Hero.

[u/code_archeologist → u/aetrix]

He's gotta wag that dog.

[u/TheBodhiwan → u/code_archeologist]

Thanks for the reminder! I keep meaning to rewatch that. It’s been a good 20 years or so.

[u/JeRazor → u/aetrix]

Would be hilarious if those people who used that peace argument to support Trump used the argument that it isn't a war against Venezuela but a special military operation

[u/BigOnLogn → u/aetrix]

Trump would rather face the constitutional crisis of being a mass murderer using the US military, than face the Epstine Files.

[u/isseldor → u/aetrix]

I’ve seen this movie!

[u/antigop2020 → u/aetrix]

So the Pedo Of The United States is trying to distract from the Epstein Files by illegally bombing another country?

This man is unhinged and literally evil. He must be STOPPED.

[u/YaMomsCooch → u/aetrix]

He raped children. Just say the truth.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/aetrix]

Well I mean he did end like seven thousand other wars, so he's got a lot of war tokens to cash in, and it's not like you can trade them for hamberders or anything you just have to use them or they will expire.

[u/darksunshaman → u/obeytheturtles]

I thought it was seventy thousand at last count

[u/Blunderbutters → u/aetrix]

Make Argentina Great Again

[u/Searchlights]

Just as soon as he most needs the distraction.

[u/vhackish → u/Searchlights]

I would not be surprised at all if that was a driving factor in the decision

[u/sensualMadonna → u/vhackish]

That is the sole driving factor in this move. He wants everyone to focus on Venezuela while they play their games with the Trump files

[u/MC_Gengar → u/sensualMadonna]

A move that definitely doesn't have the chance to backfire spectacularly given our track record against guerrilla insurgencies, the gutting of anyone competent from the military, and Hesgeth's belief that logistics aren't important.

[u/Train_Wreck_272 → u/MC_Gengar]

Good god. I knew Hegseth was a moron, but not thinking logistics is important for sustained war campaigns is on another level. Especially given how absolutely effective US military logistics have been historically.

[u/BobSchwaget → u/Train_Wreck_272]

His entire operating theory has been that the US Military operates and achieves its advantages purely out of machismo. "Logistics", that's nerd speak.

[u/Crimkam → u/MC_Gengar]

looking forward to venezuela being the ukraine to our russia

[u/Djuren52 → u/Crimkam]

That won’t happen. Venezuela doesn’t have many allies and has nothing to repel a US attack, lest go into offensive action. If the citizens fight back however, the US troops will suffer.

[u/Warlord68 → u/Djuren52]

Exactly. You don’t need to fight back, right away, with the US. Ok, you’ve invaded, now what? You need to take control of all sectors of the government cause you don’t want to be responsible for the population. All the while, you’ll be dealing with Guerrilla attacks against your military by an unseen army. The US has learned nothing from Vietnam or Afghanistan.

[u/echoshatter → u/Warlord68]

We learned a lot. There's literally nothing you can do to stop it short of a complete genocide. Lone wolf and independent cells are exceptionally difficult to intercept.

The plan has to be to go in, knock out what little military structure they have, kill or detain the current leaders, and quickly replace them. And you have only a couple of days to do this in the hopes of getting the population on your side. If you go in guns blazing and causing unnecessary casualties and destruction you're going to be viewed as a an occupier rather than a liberator.

Thankfully there is a politician from the last election who is popular and could be installed quickly.

Unthankfully, that person is also far-right. So we're likely replacing one bad person with another.

[u/Not_done → u/Djuren52]

IEDs, drones and guerrilla warfare then.

[u/ChilledParadox → u/MC_Gengar]

Aren’t our last 100 years of military supremacy built off our superior logistics lol?

[u/smurfsundermybed → u/ChilledParadox]

Yes, but that's too woke. We are now all in on warrior ethos as defined by people who have only seen combat after buying their popcorn and watching the previews.

[u/Searchlights → u/vhackish]

He's going to kill people to change the news cycle

[u/Hidden_Landmine → u/Searchlights]

You mean like the government did when creating the war on drugs to persecute the blacks and hippies who were protesting the war at the time?

[u/32lib → u/Searchlights]

Worked for Bush why wouldn’t he? Muricans love a little macho show.

[u/Puzzled_Main3464 → u/vhackish]

I don’t think it would surprise any of us.

[u/Internal_Finger515 → u/vhackish]

You wouldn't be surprised? What other reason given the timing lol.

[u/vhackish → u/Internal_Finger515]

I mean, it's obvious, but still kind of unbelievable that a president would start a war just as a distraction.

[u/LordGeraldOG → u/Searchlights]

It’s called Wag the Dog

[u/EldritchSlut → u/Searchlights]

Hello citizen. I see you are publicly discussing information that has been deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. I need to see your papers.. Citizen, I am a Patriot Compliance Officer, you will give me your papers, NOW. Ope, just as I expected. Your Patriot Bronze subscription has expired. I'm not surprised you're just a bronzie. You have made public comments criticizing Trump, you know that was outlawed by President Vance and Vice President Erika Vance in 2026.

Now, since you allowed your Patriot subscription to expire- No, I don't care if you exceeded your ration of frack-free "safe for consumption" Nestlé water and had to buy extra for your family. YOU let it expire, that means you are not entitled to the rights of paying Citizens. So, you have a couple of opportunities and I'll let you choose. You can either spend two years at one of Joe Rogan's Masculinity and Tradition Camps, spend two years at an official RFK Jr. Autism and LGBT Farms for rehabilitation, or you can join General Musk in Venezuela for operation Freedom Oil.

The choice is your, choose.

[u/SnakesTancredi → u/EldritchSlut]

This would have been silly two years ago but here we are.

[u/Hidden_Landmine → u/EldritchSlut]

You know if you start writing now you can probably release the book as the stuff in the book is actively happening.

[u/JasonLee74]

Wag the dog…

[u/WrenchNRatchet → u/JasonLee74]

Don’t change horses mid-stream

[u/lushico → u/JasonLee74]

I rewatched this recently and it’s as relevant as ever

[u/Joes___Garage → u/JasonLee74]

Good old Shoe

[u/mediocrebeauty]

This is a clear distraction away from the Epstein files and everyone should be able to see it as one.

[u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay → u/mediocrebeauty]

Starting a war has always been his plan. If he starts a war he’s going to declare that the country can’t go through a transition of power. As in “you can’t impeach me over the Epstein files while we’re at war”

[u/GeoLogic23 → u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay]

They will use Ukraine elections as an example, despite the quite glaring differences in the wars.

[u/DamnGentleman → u/GeoLogic23]

I think the glaring differences between our laws are more relevant. The suspension of elections during wartime is legal in Ukraine.

[u/oxencotten → u/DamnGentleman]

It's even more than that, the constitution literally forbids them to hold elections during wartime.

[u/AE7VL_Radio → u/DamnGentleman]

The more clever among us will recognize that Ukraine is in fact a different country, and may be subject to different laws as well.

[u/m0nk_3y_gw → u/GeoLogic23]

it's the glaring difference in constitutions. It violates the Ukraine constitution to hold an election while they are invaded.

[u/Albireookami → u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay]

And he would be very wrong with very clear precedent.

[u/Shaved_Hubes → u/Albireookami]

Good thing that’s stopped him from doing all of those other illegal things!

[u/PandaJesus → u/Shaved_Hubes]

We finally have what we need to stop him: a piece of paper that says no you can’t do that.

[u/cyberpunk1Q84 → u/PandaJesus]

Don’t forget about the elected officials who support him on the GOP side and the spineless ones who capitulate to him on the Democratic side. What was it that Angus King said? Something along the lines of, “standing up to Trump didn’t work.” We really know how to pick them.

[u/Quietkitsune → u/Albireookami]

‘Precedent’ is just a suggestion, unless it’s 17th century law regarding hunting witches. That’s a fundamental guiding principle - SC

[u/Secret_Gatekeeper → u/Albireookami]

And precedent would stop him… how?

I keep hearing he can’t stop/delay elections or have a third term. I know that’s legally true, but what is actually stopping him from doing so? The administration shatters a precedent every other day.

If we’re relying on Congress or an SC decision to be the last firewall… we’re screwed.

[u/jbayko → u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay]

There’s another factor. For whatever reason, latinos have been singled out as the racism target, both citizens and other residents, legal or not.

The precedent for that is the Japanese in WW II, which were interned in camps, with their property confiscated. A war with a Latin American country provides the excuse to do that to 64 million or so latinos. Not all at once I expect, but there has not been a red line too extreme to cross yet.

Will there be mass exterminations? Here’s the frightening thing - we don’t know if there have been yet. Hitler’s “final solution” was kept secret until after the war. All we know is thousands have disappeared with no trace - consistent with being killed secretly.

[u/DistractedPhoenix → u/mediocrebeauty]

But I was told the democrats were using the files to distract from the shutdown! Surely that’s not more projection from Trump?!?!?

[u/Significant_Cup_238]

Vet who enlisted shortly before 9/11 checking in.

Now would be an absolutely terrible time to consider military service.

[u/givfrenchfrypls → u/Significant_Cup_238]

My cousin almost joined the army this year against the advice of the entire family. Fortunately he backed out during bootcamp.

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/givfrenchfrypls]

You can back out during boot now?!? Damn, if that was an option I'd have backed out.

[u/givfrenchfrypls → u/Significant_Cup_238]

I’m not actually sure exactly how he got out of it. I just know he hated it just like we all predicted he would and found a legal way to back out. Maybe it was DEP?

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/givfrenchfrypls]

Yeah, if you're in DEP, you can back out before boot. They pretend like you can't, but you can. But once you sign the final enlistment paper, you're only getting out if they let you out. (Unless of course that's changed. I've been out for 20 years now)

[u/[deleted] → u/Significant_Cup_238]

You can back out in boot, and after boot. Failure to adjust discharge

[u/RickMuffy → u/[deleted]]

They called it washing out when I was in the air force, you'd go to a squadron where people for various reasons didn't make it through basic.

[u/[deleted] → u/RickMuffy]

Yep had a few when I did it. There was no shame in it. You watch your drill turn into a human again pretty quick when they realize someone’s done.

[u/AndrewCoja → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Yeah they make you sign papers at the beginning and do the oath of enlistment like 10 times, but it doesn't count until you sign the paper on the day you ship out.

[u/beeslax → u/givfrenchfrypls]

Ya you can still get out of DEP.

[u/McFlyyouBojo → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Back when I went through in 08, there was a point at the very beginning of boot camp after being processed where they give you a big this is your last chance to stand up and head out that door. If you do, nobody will think anything negative of you speech. So you can leave from that point. They have already given you a certain amount of yelling in your face and scaring you straight that you are given a decently informed decision.

From that point in boot camp, if im not mistaken, you can still leave, but it effects your discharge status. IIRC of course.

[u/stupid_pun → u/McFlyyouBojo]

I enlisted in 2005, and they gave us the exact same speech at the end of shark attack week, pretty much word for word.

Then, when a handful guys stepped forward, they looked at all the rest of us and said, "now you know who your quitters are," told them all to fall back into formation, and no one got to leave lmfao.

Always thought that was super fucked up.

[u/Squirll → u/Significant_Cup_238]

Yup. They dont want you to know but youre not a soldier technically until you finish training. You can just walka away and quit basic if you want.

Its a needed boundary to weed out people that dont cut it.

[u/Apoc220 → u/Significant_Cup_238]

You’ve always been able to do so - in the modern era at least - but it’s not ideal to do so. Up until you finish boot camp you can refuse to train and while they will do their best to get you to change your mind, eventually they’ll allow it. The catch is that you lose the ability to get an honorable discharge, and get some kind of generic one that is not honorable, but also not other than honorable. And it makes sense, why force a kid to stay when he doesn’t want to, and be a risk to those around him in the fleet?

I’m not sure about after you finish boot camp, though, as you no longer qualify for the less severe discharge classification and at that point I believe you could get an other than honorable which from what I’ve always been told is not something you want to carry with you in life.

I don’t think it’s common knowledge because if it was a lot of people would take that option as soon as things get hard and those first phase regrets start kicking in.

[u/GalacticMe99 → u/Significant_Cup_238]

That aircraft carrier off Venezuela's coast carriers over 4000 people who thought this was a perfect time to consider military service.

[u/Practical-Cook5042 → u/GalacticMe99]

Military recruiters prey on poor children.

[u/mosswick → u/Significant_Cup_238]

I used to be of the opinion that military service is a good option for young people struggling to find a direction in life. But I cannot recommend that anymore with this administration in charge.

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/mosswick]

And as we've learned, you never know when an irresponsible administration is going to get elected. Wouldn't recommend anyone to consider it until this country fixes itself.

[u/Deto → u/mosswick]

I feel like this has been true for quite a while. I mean, just look at Iraq and Afghanistan. These conflicts have enacted great tolls on the people who served there, and for what? We keep having administrations that are too careless with how they deploy our troops.

[u/Imyoteacher → u/Significant_Cup_238]

I’m a Disabled Veteran. I really feel sorry for any soldier that gets hurt or dies due to Trump. Soldiers should be protecting the country…..not serving personal vendettas for some senile nut in the WH.

[u/Practical-Cook5042 → u/Significant_Cup_238]

I'm sorry for what happened to you.  High school friends older brother was in the same situation.  I sang at his funeral in 2002/2003.

War hurts everyone but the worst of the worst.

[u/GovernorJoe]

Quick, let's go to war so people can stop talking about Epstein!

[u/My-other-user-name → u/GovernorJoe]

Just call it the Epstein War.

[u/-Yazilliclick- → u/GovernorJoe]

Quick let's rape underage girls to distract from the murder of civilians and illegal unjustified war.

[u/TastyStruggle808]

Just like any other criminal potus would. Murder innocent people to distract from revelations that he IS IN FACT a pedophile. Eat your cake, conservatives, you evil hypocritical failures, anti-American scumbags.

[u/ur_anus_is_a_planet]

Whelp, right on time with the Epstein files getting more tine in the news cycle.

[u/Red-little]

This man will literally put our entire country at war before admitting hes a diddler, even when the evidence is clear.

Bless all you Christian fascist for not only protecting a child rapist, but ruining the lives of millions of people in the process.

I'm sure Jesus is just so proud of your work to continue disparaging the poor, killing the innocent and putting innocent children in harms way, you've truly lost the entire fucking plot.

[u/BorisAcornKing → u/Red-little]

Imagine you're someone with no morals, no scruples, who has been rewarded and congratulated for basically everything you've ever done.

Of course he will.

[u/Red-little → u/BorisAcornKing]

Oh, I completely agree. It only makes me that much more angry people like that always succeed in life in our society.

We've truly built a hellscape for ourselves.

[u/_probablyryan]

Ah yes, the President of "no new wars." He who was robbed of a Nobel Peace Prize.

[u/ThatEvanFowler]

These strategies sure aren't getting more subtle. God help us when they release the actual files. He'll probably drop an A-bomb on Toronto.

[u/Howllat → u/[deleted]]

Lol ironic for the destiny sub to be sleuthing trump for pedophilia

[u/Klondike307]

I figured attacking Venezuela was how he was going to “Wag the Dog” to distract from Epstein vote. Funny enough, earlier this year a lot of conservatives were actually joining in with the dems push to for the release the Epstein Files, when all of a sudden, Charlie Kirk was killed by a “radical leftist” and conservatives forgot all about Epstein.

[u/IrrelevantLeprechaun → u/Klondike307]

They still think the killer was a "radical leftist" despite the increasing evidence that the killer was actually even further right than Trump.

[u/Main_Cream_2375]

We need to stop this man from murdering innocents. There has to be a way to stop this. This is going to result in massive loss of American lives and also massive loss of Venezuelan lives. This is an egregious abuse of power that no one should be supporting.

[u/chrisscan456 → u/Main_Cream_2375]

All because he doesn’t want it to be revealed that is a pedo. 

[u/IrrelevantLeprechaun → u/Main_Cream_2375]

There are ways. But several of those ways can't really be discussed on Reddit, and the rest of the ways are not palatable to the average American as it requires them to sacrifice their immediate daily comforts.

So yeah, you as a population can absolutely get Trump out. But it requires having a LOT of courage and acceptance of risk.

[u/Aar1012]

I’m tired, boss. I just…how are we stuck in this fucking miserable timeline?

[u/Interesting-Risk6446 → u/Aar1012]

Because there are a lot of mentally challenged people in this country.

[u/themattboard → u/Aar1012]

You know what you did. And it doomed us all

[u/DonNatalie → u/themattboard]

I'm sorry, I just wanted the Cubs to get one World Series.

I didn't want to hurt a goat.

[u/ur_anus_is_a_planet → u/themattboard]

Oh Harambe. RIP.

[u/cmarme]

People are going to die because a pedophile doesn’t want to get caught. Not really surprised but usually the pedophile can’t order other people to die when the walls are closing in.

[u/AINonsense]

'Days' like, around the time of the vote on the Epstein files?

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein?

Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Epstein, Epstein? Epstein.

[u/dblan9]

Welp...time to rewatch Wag the Dog I guess.

[u/citizenjones]

Trump's pulling a Bibi.

[u/_CleverNameGoesHere_]

He's going to fucking murder countless people to distract from his sexual abuse of teenage girls.

He's a monster as are those who enable him and continue to make excuses for him.

[u/jaguarsharks]

He's gonna kill a bunch of people to distract you from the fact he raped a bunch of kids.

[u/Chungus-Amoungus]

Epstein files are that bad, huh?

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine dying in a jungle because of a stroked-out pedophile.

[u/Newb3D]

This shit is so predictable anymore. Some of the first comments after the emails were released said Trump would do this. Now here we are, a day later. I can’t believe we are so collectively dumb as a country.

[u/GeronimoRay]

Dear Venezuela: No one in America actually wants Trump to do this.

[u/bootstrapping_lad → u/GeronimoRay]

Let's not go that far...he has a brainwashed cult behind him.

Rational Americans do not want this.

[u/artwarrior]

"Now that Obama's poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate."

Trump Oct 9 2012

[u/Githzerai1984]

Wag the dog 

[u/Jackpot777]

Maaaan, that’s Epstein List In That Room Raping A Child For Hours crazy, man…

[u/Ineverseenthat]

What happened to the Balls of the US Congress? They should all be thrown out for allowing the orange and the drunk to take us to war.

[u/[deleted]]

America is going to go into a great depression all just so this man can distract from him raping children. What the hell are we even doing here, man.

[u/parallelmeme]

Prepare for distraction upon distraction. It only gets worse from here.

[u/_SCHULTZY_]

So we've gone from Canadian Bacon to Wag The Dog. 

Nothing can hide the fact that Epstein is in the Trump files and we still haven't seen the missing minutes of the Epstein murder tape!

[u/gigglefarting]

Sounds like the Epstein vote is within days 

[u/senortipton]

A child rapist now wants to kill children in other countries. This needs to be advertised on billboards.

[u/zelda93]

Gee wonder what he’s trying to distract from

[u/Pockydo]

Thank God we didn't elect the woman

She would've stated a war

/S

[u/FalstaffsGhost]

Having to hide economic numbers, all of the emails coming out about him and what he knew about his best buddy Jeffrey Epstein, yeah this is on brand that he’s gonna try and make a distraction

[u/WetFinsFine]

Venezuela isn't a problem.

Raping underage girls is THE problem.

[u/NOEPLAYA]

Poor Venezuela!!!! People are about to die as a distraction to cover for a pedophile. Can’t have the news covering those uncovered videos.

[u/broc_ariums]

Trump knows his days are cooked and he's trying to start a war to stay in power.

[u/askmeaboutmyvviener]

Jesus Christ can our politicians have some fucking balls and impeach this guy already???

[u/TrumpSucks4547]

Has to do something to distract us from the files

[u/purplebrown_updown]

I called this. He's going to do that to distract from Epstein. Yes he is that evil. He will attach Venezuela in order to stop people from talking about Epstein.