"Our Oil"

 

Trump would never lie his way into a war for oil, like Dick Cheney and his Minion President did, would he?

Unless..."Terrorism", "our oil", and "regime change”, oh, my!

It seems like just yesterday, literally yesterday, when Trump’s ridiculous, unhinged, childish, and outrageously lie-filled “Presidential Walk of Fame” was revealed. (I won't elaborate on his evil smears of cancer victim Joe Biden, but they rank down there with his despicable hate and cruelty towards Rob Reiner.)

The plaque for Bush Jr. reads, "largely defined by the events of Sept. 11, 2001." It also says Bush, "started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, both of which should not have happened."

On this, I agree. Remember when MAGA enthusiastically embraced Trump as their “man of peace” who wouldn’t start any such war?

Until now. That didn’t age well. As expected, Gabbard will politicize our intelligence assessments and bend them towards one of Trump’s excuses to wage war on Venezuela.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fired two top officials on the National Intelligence Council in a move aimed at ending the “weaponization and politicization” of the intelligence community, a spokesperson for her office confirmed Wednesday.

Gabbard terminated NIC acting director Mike Collins and his deputy, Maria Langan-Riekhof, weeks after the intelligence body authored an assessment that contradicted President Donald Trump’s claims about Venezuelan gang members.

They’re already feeling a rush of power as Trump murders people and captures an oil tanker on the open seas. It's not murder because Trump says it isn't. It's not theft because Trump says it isn't. Trump’s actions and blockade of Venezuela are acts of war.

Those human beings and boats he’s destroying off Venezuela were never a threat to America and were likely carrying cocaine intended for Europe. 

Obviously, “America first” does not apply here. His war on Venezuela has nothing to do with fentanyl, even though Trump wants to call it a “Weapon of Mass Destruction”. 

Oh, but this is a new kind of “terrorism”, one that Trump invented himself. "Drug Terrorism":

“I hereby designate illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).”

Authoritarians are notorious for rejecting accepted definitions of words and redefining them in order to fear-monger.

For the record:

Merriam-Webster’s definition of “weapon”:

1 something (such as a club, knife, or gun) used to injure, defeat, or destroy

2 a means of contending against another

"Terrorism", "our oil", and "regime change”.

Ding, ding, ding! That rings a bell. 

It was never about drugs. It’s all a cover for his ambition to steal oil for his fellow oligarchs and force regime change. My prediction is Putin will talk Trump out of it, but only after the ensuing chaos has done its work for the Kremlin.

We know for certain that the Criminal President doesn’t give a damn about public health and the lives of Americans. 

Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

More than 26,000 Americans die each year due to the lack of health insurance. 

While overdoses are still tragically too frequent, they are on the decline.

For the first time since 2018, the United States has seen a decrease in drug overdose deaths and poisonings, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting a 14.5 percent decrease in deaths between June 2023 and June 2024. More than 107,000 people lost their lives to a drug overdose in 2023, with nearly 70 percent of those deaths attributed to opioids such as fentanyl.

70,000 opioid overdose deaths are terrible, but opioids are still not the deadliest substance for Americans

If fentanyl is an “WMD”, how about the far more lethal substances?

 About 178,000 people die from excessive drinking each year.

Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the United States each year. More than 480,000 deaths annually (including deaths from secondhand smoke).

No worries. When it comes to corporate profits, American lives are expendable. "No blood for oil" is just lame, and so woke.