@natashadeltoro Why didn’t you just tell @RepBrandonGill you worked for Al Jazeera? Are you ashamed to admit you work for the terrorist news network? If not, why not?
@fortmyerspolice Hey, I’m planning on passing through Ft Myers. Just wondering, can you send me the chief’s phone number in case I decide to speed through a school zone and put their lives at risk? Thanks!
@Avik I looked up your background and noticed you didn’t serve.
So, thank you for your opinion, but as someone who deployed 10 times in 15 years and worked at the clown show called HQ ISAF in Kabul, I’ll ask you to sit this one out.
We should have pulled out on May 2, 2011.
Well, it seems like I have to spend my morning correcting these fucking liars...
Thomas, you duplicitous, grandstanding fraud...
First, the oil isn't "stolen."
It's lawfully seized Venezuelan crude from Maduro's criminal regime...tankers and cargoes violating U.S. sanctions that Congress itself authorized through multiple statutes (CAATSA, VERDAD Act, and repeated appropriations for OFAC enforcement).
The executive branch, under IEEPA powers Congress delegated, blocks, seizes, and forfeits sanctioned property.
This isn't theft; it's enforcement of law against a narco-terrorist state that starved its people and funded Hezbollah.
Calling it "stolen" makes you sound like a Maduro apologist or a useful idiot...pick one.
Since you are a fucking libertarian I'll go with both...
Second, the proceeds aren't being funneled into "Trump's personal piggy bank."
That's a venomous, baseless smear worthy of MSNBC, not a sitting Congressman.
The funds from these sales are parked in a protected Qatari account precisely to shield them from predatory creditors (ConocoPhillips, Crystallex, etc.) who hold billions in valid U.S. court judgments against Maduro's regime.
The goal: preserve the money for the Venezuelan people under a future legitimate government, not let it be siphoned off by vulture funds in U.S. courts.
This is textbook sanctions policy...neutral offshore escrow to prevent asset dissipation.
We've done variants for Iran, Russia, Afghanistan. It's strategic, not corrupt.
Third, your hysterical screech about "only Congress can appropriate money" is constitutional illiteracy wrapped in performative outrage.
These aren't U.S. taxpayer dollars drawn from the Treasury requiring annual appropriation.
They are forfeited foreign assets...proceeds of sanctioned property.
The executive has longstanding authority to manage, liquidate, and direct such funds under existing statutory frameworks without new line-item appropriation each time.
If every seized tanker sale needed a separate vote, sanctions would be toothless. Your purported "originalist" reading collapses the moment you touch reality.
You're not defending the Constitution, Thomas.
You're posturing for clicks while undermining a policy that starves a brutal regime of revenue and preserves resources for Venezuela's liberation.
This is the same spineless isolationist reflex that leaves tyrants untouched and Americans exposed.
You lecture about fiscal restraint yet clutch pearls when the executive uses delegated powers to crush a hemisphere-threatening socialist kleptocracy.
Wake up yourself, Congressman.
Your selective outrage isn't principle...it's cowardice dressed as conviction. America First demands strength against dictators, not impotent whining from the cheap seats.
The Republic endures despite quislings like you.
In other words, get your fucking head out of your fucking ass... Thomas.
@AmiriKing@Cobratate STFU. They chose to fight, they lost. End of fucking story.
“Oh, he was older/not as big” nobody gives a shit. They chose to fight those fights. They both deserved their losses.
@SenatorSlotkin “Um it makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniform military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians.” - Sen Elissa Slotkin on ABC’s “This Week” just 3 days ago.
Their blood is on your hands.
@SenatorSlotkin You do know being a member of the IC or military veteran isn’t a shield of infallibility, right?
There are plenty of us who served who remember the deadbeats we served with.
Remember, Jeffrey Dahmer was a veteran…doesn’t mean I wanted to take cooking advice from him.
Today would be a good day to update the JAG Corps thread. Let’s take a look at some of our military’s finest legal aficionados and what they've been up to since Trump was elected and see what kind of sedition, malicious compliance and/or calls for violence they’ve been engaged in…🧵