#misuseofourmilitary — Public Fediverse posts

"Trump sounded more like a gangster than like a American president when he said: 'he planned to fix Venezuela’s oil industry, a proposition he said could yield a lot of money.' The job of a president of the United States is not to fix Venezuela’s oil industry":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/trump-venezuela-bay-area-reaction-21274386.php
#TheTrumpDoctrine = #MightMakesRight. #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics #WorstPresidentEver

“'No more undefined missions; no more open-ended conflicts,' Vice President JD Vance told a graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy earlier this year" but Trump's aggression against #Venezuela is an undefined mission which begins an open-ended conflict:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/us/politics/maduro-trump-base-america-first.html
#WorstPresidentEver #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

When he was campaigning in 2024 for the Trump/Vance ticket, JD Vance wrote an article in the Wall Street Journal titled:
"Trump's Best Foreign Policy? Not Starting Any Wars".

Trump ordered our military to commit acts of war against Venezuela, and Vance expressed support for this aggression.
#WorstPresidentEver #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Here is the truth about Trump's aggression against Venezuela:

"Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who in recent months has tried to establish a rapport with Trump, said in a post on X that Maduro’s ouster crossed an unacceptable line and recalls the worst moments of interference in the politics of Latin America and the Caribbean”:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/03/trump-venezela-mexico-00710063
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #WorstPresidentEver

Rep. Nancy Pelosi truthfully said: "Venezuela is ruled by an illegitimate regime, but the Trump Administration has not made the case that an urgent threat to America’s national security existed to justify the use of U.S. military force”:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/trump-venezuela-bay-area-reaction-21274386.php
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance #WorstPresidentEver

"Democratic senators will seek to block Trump from using US forces to attack Venezuela":
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251202-pentagon-chief-says-us-has-only-just-begun-striking-alleged-drug-boats
Trump would like to start an unnecessary war to distract Americans from his problems that range from his war crimes to what the #EpsteinFiles will reveal, but Democrats are opposing the needless bloodshed #Trump seeks.
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Sen. Mark Kelly and five other Democratic Party Senators reminded America troops of their responsibility to refuse to follow unlawful orders. This greatly angered Trump, who in response made wild threats. Now we learn that some America troops did follow unlawful orders by murdering survivors of an attack in the Caribbean. The survivors should have been rescued and possibly taken into custody.
https://www.execfunctions.org/p/a-dishonorable-strike?triedRedirect=true
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

"A shooting that seriously injured two National Guard members in Washington D.C. on Wednesday thrust Pres. Donald Trump’s use of the military to police U.S. cities back into the spotlight. Democrats for months have predicted that people would get hurt as part of Trump’s federalization of the National Guard":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/national-guard-shooting-democrats-warnings-21210182.php
“'That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions,' Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote on social media in June."
#Trump #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Rep. Pat Ryan wrote: "Trump campaigned on lowering costs and ending forever wars. He’s doing the exact opposite. How about focusing on the economy, not sending our men and women in uniform into harm’s way to stroke your own ego?"
#Venezuela #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization."

Justin Amash: "Thank you for documenting your crimes."
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

"Sen. Ruben Gallego said on #MeetThePress that Pres. Donald Trump’s decisions to strike alleged drug boats in the Caribbean were murder. Asked whether he believed that the strikes were consistent with international law, Gallego said: 'No, it’s murder'.”:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/ruben-gallego-trump-administration-strikes-caribbean-murder-drugs-rcna239826
#MisuseOfOurMilitary #crime #TheFelonStrikesAgain #politics copy: @renewedresistance

Dean Baker's comment in response to Donald Trump ordering our military to destroy other nation's boats near Venezuela:

"In his demented state, Trump can't remember whether he is supposed to be starting or ending wars to get a #NobelPeacePrize."
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

"The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are publicly pressuring the Pentagon to provide its legal rationale for the military strikes against alleged drug trafficking boats":
https://rollcall.com/2025/10/31/sasc-leaders-press-dod-for-legal-justification-of-boat-strikes/
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics #CongressionalOversight.

"The United Nations human rights chief has condemned the Trump administration’s military strikes on boats that it says are being used to smuggle drugs from South America, saying that they violate international law and should be investigated":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/world/americas/un-us-military-boat-strikes.html
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance

David Chiu: "Needlessly deploying the military to American cities makes us all less safe. These deployments inflame tensions, undermine local law enforcement, and harm local economies. Our local law enforcement are more than capable of keeping our city* safe while upholding First Amendment rights."
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #HumanRights #politics *SanFrancisco

"A broad range of specialists in laws governing the use of lethal force have called Mr. Trump’s orders to the military patently illegal. They say the premeditated extrajudicial killings have been murders":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/us/politics/white-house-boats-law.html
"Since September 2, the military, on Mr. Trump’s orders, has carried out nine strikes on small vessels in the Caribbean Sea and in the Pacific Ocean."
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance

"National Guard troops won’t be deploying in the Chicago area anytime soon unless the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes, because a judge on Wednesday extended her temporary restraining order indefinitely":
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-national-guard-chicago-portland-california-62cbf8f7424ec5f585f1d9177757f654
#CourtRestrainsMentallyIllPresident #ImNotADoctorButIKnowItWhenISeeIt
#politics #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary

Donald Trump said in his inaugural address: "We will measure our success by the wars we end and the wars we don't get into."

Now Trump is acting, without the approval of Congress, to get into wars in the Caribbean and in Venezuela.

Maybe Secretary of State Marco Rubio said starting new wars is how to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
#Trump #military #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Trump "seems to want the military to spend a lot more of its time pointing its weapons at Americans rather than defending Americans. This case is going to answer the question of when, where and why can the president of the United States use the military at home against Americans”:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/trump-national-guard-21094597.php
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary copy: @renewedresistance

"Trump’s War on Crime Is a War on Democracy":
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/trump-crime-democracy-military-national-guard-police-ice-washington-dc/?tpcc=flash_points&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Reading%20List%20-%2010122025&utm_term=flash_points
#Trump #WorstPresidentEver. #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance

JD Vance said this nonsense in an attempt to justify National Guard soldiers being sent to American cities: "In Chicago and Portland, people are afraid of going out of their houses because they're afraid of getting shot."

Trump and Vance want to create a climate of fear in the United States. It is one reason why Trump is the #WorstPresidentEver.
#politics #MisuseOfOurMilitary

"Deployment of National Guard troops within Illinois remained blocked Saturday after the federal appeals court in Chicago met the Trump administration halfway":
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/10/10/trump-asks-appeals-court-to-intervene-after-judge-blocks-national-guard-deployment-to-illinois
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Gov. "Newsom urged governors to speak out against interstate troop deployments. A key Republican just did":
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/kevin-stitt-national-guard-21093379.php
#Trump #AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics

Oregon's Attorney General, Dan Rayfield, explaining his opposition to Trump’s proposed military deployment:
"I would invite anybody to come to Oregon and I think it’s pretty clear that there isn’t an invasion going on in Oregon. Sometimes I’ll joke the only rebellion going on right now is when I tried to feed my son a vegetable”: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/10/oregon-attorney-general-trump-portland-00601158
#AbuseOfAuthority #MisuseOfOurMilitary #politics copy: @renewedresistance