"For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, masked and out-of-control armed thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions. In effect, Trump would rather savage his own people than be held accountable for his actions."

~ Paul Krugman

#ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #MaskedThugs #JonathanRoss #lawlessness
/28

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-mad-kings-madness-deepens

"President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his 'own morality,' brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world."

~ New York Times

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath
/1

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA._XKS.dOchYRG7jsYi&smid=url-share

"Venezuela was a test case in seeing how far he could go. And as far as the media response, he's getting really good feedback."

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath #media
/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NyBC0hruQ

"Venezuela was a test case in seeing how far he could go. And as far as the media response, he's getting really good feedback."

~ Marisa Kabas

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath #media
/4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0NyBC0hruQ

"Never mind the bogus notion that Trump has any sense of morality. We’re dealing with a narcissistic sociopath who’s driven by vengeance and whim—an insecure man who’s fueled by racism and hate, a desperate need to appear strong, and an insatiable desire for money and power."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath
/3

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/the-plunderer-in-chief

"Asked in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times if there were any limits on his global powers, Mr. Trump said: 'Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.'”

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath
/2

"President Trump declared on Wednesday evening that his power as commander in chief is constrained only by his 'own morality,' brushing aside international law and other checks on his ability to use military might to strike, invade or coerce nations around the world."

~ New York Times

#Trump #lawlessness #fascism #violence #ICE #Venezuela #MadKing #sociopath
/1

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/us/politics/trump-interview-power-morality.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DFA._XKS.dOchYRG7jsYi&smid=url-share

"For Trump, ICE’s violent lawlessness is a feature, not a bug. Sending armed, masked, poorly trained, masked and out-of-control armed thugs into blue cities is, in effect, a war on Americans, just as January 6th was a war on American institutions. In effect, Trump would rather savage his own people than be held accountable for his actions."

~ Paul Krugman

#ReneeGood #Trump #ICE #murder #MaskedThugs #JonathanRoss #lawlessness
/28

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-mad-kings-madness-deepens

"This is what happens when over 77 million Americans vote for such a lawless, reckless man, some 89 million choose to stay home, and John Roberts’ Supreme Court supermajority hands him near-total immunity."

~ Steven Beschloss

#Trump #Maduro #Venezuela #oil #FossilFuels #RogueNation #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #corruption #immunity #lawlessness
/7

https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-a-deeply-appalling-press

"This lawlessness does not remain abroad. The lawlessness of the United States, when it goes to war and opposes other governments, also threatens the rights of Americans. And this is going to happen in a very, I think, direct way here, because the Trump administration is so clearly looking for pretext to violate the rule of law even more in the United States."

~ Peter Beinart

#Trump #Venezuela #lawlessness #Congress
/1

https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/maduro-abducted

"The lawless attack sends a message to Russia and China that they can engage in similar lawless activity. It also sends a message to our allies that the US cannot be trusted and is an aggressor nation.

Finally, the lesson that we should take from the above is that we must continue to resist Trump’s lawlessness at every turn."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Venezuela #lawlessness #Congress #Russia #China
/3

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/trumps-illegal-petro-war-on-venezuela

"It is long past time that Congress gave real teeth to its constitutional power to declare war. As with so many things, Trump didn’t invent a bloated, power-grabbing presidency, but he has brought it to its inevitable conclusion, the very thing most feared by the Founders: A madman able to plunge the country into war on a whim."

~ Andy Craig

#Trump #Venezuela #lawlessness #Congress
/4

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-bogus-rationale-for-invading

"We suspect Mr. Trump has refused to seek congressional approval for his actions partly because he knows that even some Republicans in Congress are deeply skeptical of the direction in which he is leading this country."

~ New York Times

#Trump #Venezuela #lawlessness #Congress
/5

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html

"This act of war is more about regime change in the United States than it was about anything in Venezuela. It only succeeds as fascism if Americans allow it to do so."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #lawlessness #Maduro #fascism
/10

https://snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-the-precedents

"For a president who ran on an (absurd) anti-war platform—and who just last month reveled in receiving a fake peace prize from a soccer organization—inva ding another country to kidnap its leader without congressional approval or even consultation is quite the move."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #lawlessness #Maduro #fascism
/11

https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-politics-of-trumps-idiotic-and

"What stops Vladimir Putin from asserting similar justification to abduct Ukraine’s president? Once this line is crossed, the rules that restrain global chaos begin to collapse, and authoritarian regimes will be the first to exploit it.”

~ Mark Warner quoted by Whitney Neulich, Sophie Hills, and Caitlin Babcock

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #lawlessness #Putin
/12

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0103/maduro-strikes-capture-venezuela-trump

"What stops Vladimir Putin from asserting similar justification to abduct Ukraine’s president? Once this line is crossed, the rules that restrain global chaos begin to collapse, and authoritarian regimes will be the first to exploit it.”

~ Mark Warner quoted by Whitney Neulich, Sophie Hills, and Caitlin Babcock

#Trump #Venezuela #Congress #lawlessness #Putin
/12

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2026/0103/maduro-strikes-capture-venezuela-trump