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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Trumpedo: I'm Killing People for You
Date: 12/26/25 7:01 PM
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You can't miss the parallels between the regime talking points about Venezuela, and the NeoCon talking points about Iraq: Islamic boogyman and WMDs.

Steve


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"Remind me again why you liberals are so hands off Venezula/Maduro/cartels in your condemnation of Trumps efforts to clean up the neighborhood?

Maduro is a bad guy, an unelected bad guy who supports our international adversaries and suppresses the Venezuelan people who would otherwise be our ally. Why do you resist every effort to curtail his capacity to make trouble?"
- BHM

Mike, you are demonstrating his point. You are using words that were used by the NeoCons back then. Saddam was also a bad guy with a capacity to make trouble.

Well at least we know your America First talk was bullshit. America First means you will support whatever Trump says is America First because that is a requirement of being in the Cult.

What is truly weird though is that there are other people who are bad guys. Some of these bad guys, like Putin, even have even a greater capacity to cause trouble than Maduro, yet you are not clamoring to have Trump curtail his capacity to make trouble. In fact, you regularly support having the U.S. give in to Putin. There is a clear lack of consistency to your views other than you will support whatever Trump wants no matter how illogically inconsistent. That is very cultish.

My question to you is other than blindly supporting whatever Trump wants internationally. How do you pick and choose whatever bad guys you think the U.S. should help clean up?
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