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REPORT: The United States murdered two men from Trinidad and Tobago in yesterday's U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, during the fake anti-drug military operations against Venezuela. https://x.com/camilapress/status/1978634199729852724

The childhood trauma is not because of children (although many are because of other children) rather because of adults. Hating other people's children is because of adults, not children themselves. I personally dislike children because I didn't grow up around younger children and was never indoctrinated into the framework of growing up, getting married and having children nor was I ever told/asked to watch over other people's children when I was younger. I had positive connotations from not being around children and negative experiences when I was around them.

My shitty childhood has everything to do with capitalism and less with whatever the fuck this false tautology was meant to represent as an argument.

"A 2021 review of the existing literature found that [US] foreign interventions since World War II tend overwhelmingly to fail to achieve their purported objectives." (Malis, Matt; Querubin, Pablo; Satyanath, Shanker (January 1, 2021). "Persistent failure? International interventions since World War II". The Handbook of Historical Economics: 641–673. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-815874-6.00038-1. ISBN 9780128158746. S2CID 236697008.)

Not military interventions in Korea, Vietnam, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Bosnia/Yugoslavia, Laos, Cambodia, Panama, Kuwait...

Not the many coup d'état-s and assasinations in Indonesia, Iran, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Congo, Chile...

None of these made you think to revolt against your govt in the past 70 years and finally your foreign policy has come home to roost.

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Credit to: Tony Pentimalli

This Is Not a Drill: Trump’s Day-One Order Sets the Stage for Martial Law

By Tony Pentimalli

On January 20, 2025, while the press focused on the optics of Donald Trump’s indoor inauguration, something far more dangerous was set in motion—off-camera, away from ceremony, and beneath the radar of a public lulled by spectacle.

Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency at the southern border. But the most alarming part? It gave the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security just 90 days to deliver a joint report on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act.

That deadline is April 20.

This wasn’t about immigration. It was about power.

The Insurrection Act, passed in 1807, gives the president the authority to deploy the U.S. military on American soil. That means troops in our cities. That means bypassing governors. That means suspending protest rights. That means the death of democratic dissent—under the false pretense of restoring “order.”

And Trump’s not hiding it. He’s preparing it.

We’ve seen this before. In June 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, millions of Americans rose up in protest. Trump didn’t respond with compassion—he called for “domination.” When the military hesitated to invoke the Insurrection Act, Trump sent federal forces to violently clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so he could wave a Bible in front of a church. Not an ounce of remorse followed. He was angry the generals didn’t go far enough.

This time, he’s made sure they won’t hesitate.

Since returning to power, Trump has purged the Pentagon of independent thinkers. In their place? Loyalists. Pete Hegseth is now Secretary of Defense. Tulsi Gabbard runs intelligence. And J.D. Vance—Vice President—is openly on board with using military force against Americans on American soil.

Then, on March 19, those three—Vance, Gabbard, and Hegseth—staged a photo op at the southern border. Not a routine visit. Not a strategy session. A performance.

Think about it. Why would the Vice President, the head of military intelligence, and the Defense Secretary all need to go to the border together? Why make a media spectacle of it?

Because it wasn’t about the border. It was about the optics. It was about laying the emotional groundwork for invoking the Insurrection Act. They were building the narrative. “We had to act.” “We had no choice.” “The crisis was too big.”

And what comes next?

It’s June 2025. Trump goes on national TV and declares that Democratic cities are under siege by “radicals” and “illegals.” He signs the Insurrection Act order. Troops hit the streets of Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia. Protesters are arrested under “emergency provisions.” Journalists are detained. Social media accounts vanish. Immigrants are swept into detention centers. The press is told to stand down. The public is told to shut up.

And it’s all legal.

Some of you might think, “He’s bluffing. The military won’t go along. The courts will stop him.”

Really?

Were they bluffing when federal agents brutalized peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square?

Did the military refuse? No. The National Guard was deployed. Many in uniform carried out the order. It was only later that a few expressed regret—after the damage was done.

Did the courts stop January 6? No. They prosecuted rioters after the fact, but the attack happened. Congress fled. Democracy was nearly strangled live on TV.

Did they stop the family separation policy? No. Thousands of children were taken from their parents before courts intervened—long after the trauma was inflicted.

Did they stop the Muslim ban? No. The Supreme Court upheld it. Entire families were stranded or banned simply because of where they came from.

Did they stop ICE raids or CBP abuses? Rarely. A handful of rulings. A few headlines. But the system kept grinding, unchecked and cruel.

So if you’re waiting for “the system” to save us, you’re waiting for something that has already failed.

The April 20 report is coming. If it recommends using the Insurrection Act—and let’s be honest, it will—Trump will frame it as a reluctant but necessary move. He’ll say he tried everything else. He’ll claim it’s about protecting America.

But what he’s really protecting is his own authority.

This is how authoritarianism arrives: not with tanks, but with legal memos, press events, and a scared public hoping someone else will stop it.

So what do we do?

We speak now. Loudly. Forcefully.

Call your representatives and demand they investigate Trump’s January 20 order.

Push the media to report on the Insurrection Act report before it’s too late.

Demand public statements from military and intelligence leaders—now, not after.

Organize. Educate. Resist.

If you’ve never joined a protest before, this is the moment.

If you’ve never spoken up politically, this is the time.

If you’ve never thought it could happen here—it already is.

The threat isn’t coming.

It’s here.

And silence is exactly what Trump is counting on.

Y'all didn't realize just how bad the rest of us have had it because of the politics you voted into office, until the shit hit the fan at home, and it was a long time coming and there were signs! People burned your flag in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Serbia... that wasn't a clue? Your politicians blew so much smoke up y'all's asses that you started doing it yourselves to yourselves, uncritically.

I don't like this feeling, I don't like that I'm glad to watch y'all now go through what your politicians created in other countries just so the imperialist US can prosper off the backs and suffering of people like me. You've been lied to as well but my sympathy runs dry when I look at only the number of innocent victims of US foreign policy in Palestine, let alone the victims of your other lesser known proxy wars in various African countries, in the middle east, in my own country, in south American countries. I've had it with y'all, collectively. You all prospered from these actions of the politicians you or your parents voted into office. Your disregard for anything outside your country is now coming home to roost.