All the people defending Trump's actions here know all this. They will look at the illegal thing that was done, and cling to the one good thing that came out of it and raise it up to be the prime issue for them.
Trump talking constantly about oil being the reason will be ignored.
Trump lying about the fentanyl coming from Venezuela will be ignored.
Trump illegally bombing boats will be ignored.
Trump illegally killing civilians during the strike to get Maduro will be ignored.
Trump threatening to invade other resource rich countries will be ignored.
Their cow blinders are on, and they will willfully allow immorality and illegality for the sake of tribalism. We've seen it for every other illegal/unconstitutional thing that Trump has done so far, so why would this be any different. Trump could invade Greenland or Canada, and they would capitulate like spineless little bitches.
Normally I don't talk politics or recent events with coworkers. They are tired and they are stressed, and at the end of the day we just want to do our jobs and go home.
That's understandable, however on the occasion I will sometimes mention recent events as gently and calmly as I can.
I mostly focused on, just, my overall shock. Like we cannot be invading other countries without approval from Congress. What we did violated national law.
And she turns around, telling me about how the United States has been fucked over by other countries. Tells me that we had to bomb them because they were going to put drugs in our country.
I was horrifyingly bewildered that this is what some people really think.
We were the place other countries invested into, because of our economy being stable. We were not getting fucked over.
I tried telling her we could of just tracked down the supposed drug boat, after all we already had drone footage of it. You knew where they must of been going. You could of contacted a nearby country, ask for permission to stop the "drug boat" at their harbor. bombing was not the most reasonable choice here. Nor invasion
She then told me that other countries don't care. My head just. I could not fathom the utter stupidity, lack of any empathy or reasoning behind that statement.
I made a response back about regarding invasion. And she said somebody had to do it to "get them to stop"
we didn't talk much further. She tried asking what my news sources was as if it was a gotcha. I told her various.
She then later on said that she doesn't really want to talk politics because she hasn't been in the loop for the last 5 days.
When all I can think is clearly she is in some branch of the right wing grifting sphere. Because I later informed her that Trump did pardon a drug trafficker. She was completely clueless.
Other countries DO care about actual real dangerous substances. If it's an actual real problem, they care a lot since that's a problem for their own citizens. It's not like profits and drugs are going to just be-line straight to the United States and only them.
