Former Rep Greene (R-GA) impertinently asks some pertinent questions:
Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs.
If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?
And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America? Ironically cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S.
The next obvious observation is that by removing Maduro this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies that will ensure stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran.
And of course why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it? (I’m not endorsing Russia or China) [X]
There’s more, but it’s enough to to remove most doubts that Greene is behind this push. It also explains Erick Erickson’s post earlier today in which he excoriates certain members of the far right for not getting behind the President:
Tucker Carlson is opposed to what Donald Trump just did.
Steve Bannon, who worked to rehabilitate Jeffrey Epstein’s image, is opposed to what Donald Trump just did.
Candace Owens is opposed to what Donald Trump just did.
Marjorie Taylor Green is opposed to what Donald Trump just did.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping — they are all on the side of the Woke Reich in opposition to what Donald Trump did.
If we could ignore all of them, we should. But they do have large followings and shape a lot of online conversations. I say that because I know few people offline who really pay attention to them. But a lot of online conversations drift offline.
The problem for the right these days is that the fringe of the right online is loud and assertive and risks placing much of the right in a bubble in the way the loud online left got Democrats in a bubble, such that they still believe boys can magically become girls.
I think some of these right-wingers are earnest in their reactions, such as Greene, while others, like Bannon, are trying to take influence away from the President and his minions through strategic positions that they believe will appeal to the MAGA base. In this case, the Trump campaign promise not to get involved in foreign wars.
Meanwhile, Erickson carefully lumps Greene, et al, with the progressives he repeatedly claims are nuts.
This’ll be interesting. I wouldn’t put money on anything, but some members of Congress may be in more trouble than they know if they back the President – and if they don’t.
