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I have to hand it to his handlers, this is a very lateral thinking move for dealing with the perceived problem of immigration. 800k fewer immigrants in the USA with the stroke of a pen. Genius.
You know they do them in pairs, Venezuela might vote Democrat. DC and Puerto Rico would vote Democrat.
Will ICE be use to deport people of Venezula out of the US?
Epstein files
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To be fair, "he fucked...", but probably isnt doing it now. Probably?
Vance thinks he's a couch
Just bombing them instead. Much better.
Sounds like he wants to sell his oil stocks
So he's cheating on Canada?
I swear that his time with Venezuela didn't mean anything. It was just real quick, in and out. It was just his first land grab. Ya know to get it out of the way.
The next one will be better. He'll take his time, light candles, and make it nice.
DC entered the chat
Honestly, unless we change our electoral college and the way that Senators represent people, which are things that we should totally do, we should break up our most populous states into smaller states. I would say that should be our first goal for new states.
States with large populations ironically have less proportional representation in the Senate, and they have fewer electors, per capita, in the presidential elections. In other words, in populous states like California, Texas, and Florida, the voters have less representation than if they lived in Wyoming.
Plus, the Senators and electors are generally winner-take-all, which means that, if you compare to a multiple state solution, the minorities in those states are essentially disenfranchised completely.
So, with such a large discrepancy in population between the most and least populous states, countless voters are getting screwed under our current system.
The only people who benefit from large, populous states are people who are leaders of some sort in those states. The governors of Texas and California have power over many more people than the governor of Alaska. Wealthy people get more if they buy a state politician in Texas than in Vermont.
It would make more sense to split some states up and maybe merge other states together until there is at least some pretense that each state has a similar population.
States can determine how they apportion electors so that can be cured with ranked choice voting, something being passed and proposed by referendums in multiple states, including michigan soon. I know Alaska already has it.
As to breaking up the big states, it's neither here nor there. There is not a chance of that happening in a way that makes things better any time soon.
Oh yeah, also a number of shitholy states in 2021 took the apportionment of electors from the popular vote, and gave it to their legislatures. So they don't have to honor the popular vote anymore. GA is one.
That is a wildly unreasonable backup plan. Texas isn't gonna agree to split. California isn't gonna agree to split. Like the only state that might consider it is...Alaska? I don't know. I don't think yoconsidering what a massive undertaking that is.
It'd be easier to replace FPTP with something else. But if even that is too hard, the simplest solution is to just get rid of the electoral college. The popular vote is unaffected by state size and without the electoral college, "swing states" don't exist so campaigns would become more distributed across the country
Also the constitution explicitly says you can't split off a state from a state without the parent state's consent.
How many 51st states does the US need?
We are getting ChatGPT to count.
There are 5 Rs in strawberry.
As many as they need to get a 51st 51st state.
Poor trump, I feel for the guy.
Born too late to play Napoleon, born too early to play a Mad Max warlord.
It's a tragedy really.
...fucking clown.
...born just in time to be on television.
Come on, now, if you really think his ideal is "warlord", you've been paying more attention to what conservatives fantasize than who he actually is. Trump is a theater kid. An Andrew Lloyd Webber stan. He has the soundtrack to Cats on hand at all times. His favorite part of the presidency is that he gets to be on TV whenever he so chooses.
In the medieval or classical age he would have been served a poison chalice long ago
Wait. So now Venezuelans are now citizens and cannot be deported?
And also get to vote and have representation in the house and senate?
Well, they are already arresting and deporting US citizens, so...
Well no. I mean can you imagine how much the republicans would hate that as a state? They would never get a vote there. It would also embarrass the fuck out of the Texas secessionist movement
Making Venezuela a state means they could travel freely throughout the US, without restrictions. Tens of millions of them. It's the dumbest thing this guy has said in a while really (maybe,) because as you say, his base would reject that strongly based on the mass migration.
I mean it could be argued venezuela is a US colony right now. I know the current court would not see it that way but realistically if the US says Venezuela and its president is subject to US laws that puts them in same position as guam or puerto rico.
I think there's a good argument that since the beginning of this year Venezuelans are constitutionally US citizens.
So US minimum wage for Venezuela?
Venezuelan minimum wage for the US.
Trump says
why do they keep posting shit like that
I dunno, maybe because he's the chief executive of the US federal government?
They need this carefully crafted image in the media of a stupid and crazy maniac.
His adversaries can underestimate him and he can get out of difficult questions simply by talking gibberish.
More importantly:
In the short term he's president he can act like a loose cannon, make wild moves that wouldn't be possible under a rational president.
Even against ~~partner~~ vassal countries.
And in 2 years they can blame it all on him, of course they will not (be able to) change the beneficial things for the powers behind the curtain.
The next face will definitely apologize for stealing oil from Venezuela, etc but explain the situation is changed now, contracts with oil companies signed and more excuses to keep this situation in place.
Every 3rd rate celebrity has people to manage their many social media accounts.
Do people actually believe he's coming up with all the crazy tweets or messages?
The 'I have all the cards' one is obvious.
They chose this game specifically.
As if there's nobody in his media team that knows how to play UNO and would let it pass.
I am not buying the act.
Orange turd.
Yawn.. Here we go again.
What's grampa dementia tryin' to deflect our attention from now?
The same thing he distracts from every night, Pinky. The fact that he's in the Epstein files.
Can someone take this fucker out of office already?
I'm so tired of this shit.
He just posted this..
What a moron. He really is the worst president in American history
..so far.
The way he's going he will also be the last president in American history. Since he's obviously trying for a civil war.
https://www.inedjobs.com/2026/01/salaries-in-venezuela-2026.html
Salaries in Venezuela 2026
Estimated averages for 2026:
- Average monthly salary (USD): USD 180 – 350
- Average annual salary: USD 2,200 – 4,200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela
Population: 31,800,000
the incumbent leftist bloc United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), its major allies Fatherland for All (PPT) and the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV)
nobody believes this orange moron anymore
