Donald Trump’s assassinations of alleged drug traffickers in Venezuela with zero due process represent some of the greatest dangers of his second term. They can’t be understood apart from the bipartisan history of national security state overreach.
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When you let people get away with metaphorical murder again and again, they tend to move to literal one - why wouldn’t they, if there are no consequences?
I doubt this is his first time
Working his way up to realizing that Fifth Avenue comment.
I watched on the news how they showed a boat, and then a massive fireball and everybody obviously dead. Is that supposed to even be shown on the news, people being murdered by the US government?
Because how can it not be murder? Even if these guys are shipping drugs, where in the law does it say that instant death by drone is the penalty?
Honestly i was kind of shocked. This is not a movie.
This is what the culture wars are really about. The right acts like they’re ready to go to war with the left and trans people over charlie kirk, drowning out all discussion of the actual fascism trump is perpetrating
