@grey4626 This is why I think anyone suggesting Massie should run for president is only say that to get him out of Congress. They know he can’t win a presidency.
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.
When was it mandatory that every show must have a gay couple? I have nothing against people making a choice to live their lifestyle but can I watch a show without two men or two women making out? I don’t even care to see a man and woman making out. Can you make content without the making out?
How about they start a gofundme page for reparations and the the people who feel to need for this can donate to the fund and then they can pay out to those that apply. You don’t need to use my tax dollars. I did not own any slaves. I am a descendant of an indentured servant. I don’t owe anyone reparations.
@RGIII@OuttaPocketRG3@Gretegiii Looking at him on the sidelines after a play I felt like his confidence was missing. Not the same look during Ohio State games. He looked sad.
Listen to every word
“To every white liberal out in the streets claiming to fight white supremacy and stand up for black and Hispanic people, go home.
Everything you're doing is making life harder for the people you claim to support. Look around you. How many black and Hispanic people are actually standing beside you right now? Because I promise you this, if black people feel the need to fight for something, we know how to do that.
— We fought not to be oppressed anymore. And what you do, stupefies people into thinking we still are.
And Hispanics, they don't need you either. 50% of Latinos voted for Trump. Why? Because they and their families came here legally, did things the right way, and are tired of watching legal immigrants get rewarded while they follow the rules. A lot of them live on the border and see what happens when there's an unhealthy influx of illegal immigrants in this country. They want deportations, too.
Your white privilege isn't helping anyone because it doesn't even exist. And believing that people of color can't stand up for themselves without your privilege leading the way is one of the most racist ideas there is. Google the white savior complex. White guilt has been imposed on you so deeply to the point that you feel like it's your duty to hold up posters and vandalize things with your delusions, leading people to think I support it because of my skin color.
Get it? Stop. Go home and get a job”
I visited an insane asylum when I was a student. It closed a few years later because this country believed that insane people should not be institutionalized. I don’t know where they got the idea that there would be enough medical staff to take care of these people in homes. I also visited a house that was the home for about 6 people needing some kind of care. They had a cook for 6 people. Do you know how many cooks are needed in an insane asylum? I know it would not be one for every 6 clients.
So in our big bleeding liberals hearts we closed the hospitals. The families of these people could not take care of them in their homes.
These people needed care, supervision and medication they don’t take unless forced to.
People who should be taken care off in asylums are now roaming the streets and committing crime. Some are just on the streets without the care they need. Are we ever going to find a solution?