George W Bush says that "this is how elections are disputed in banana republics."
He would know, he engineered a coup in Haiti in 2004, and attempted them in Venezuela in 2002 and plotted one in Palestine in 2006.
The man who lied us into the Iraq War with talk of non-existent weapons of mass destruction is apparently denouncing "falsehoods" spread by elected officials.
After Bush left office, the US was the most hated and feared country in the entire world, and considered the greatest threat to world peace.
The man who was only elected thanks to an election steal in Florida has the audacity to criticize Trump's tactics and talk about the audacity of the sanctity of elections and elected officials.
And amazingly, CNN reads out Bush's statement and describes him as "someone who lived through the Iraq War."
Bush "lived through" the Iraq War in the same way OJ Simpson "lived through" his wife's death.
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"Worries" - from whom? The totally discredited far-right opposition?
"divisive"- Morales won landslide after landslide and is the most popular politician in Bolivia's history.
Yet he is "divisive" because he is disliked by the rich white elite that NYT journalists consort with
"Failed attempt to keep power" is a weird way of saying "won a landslide re-election in the first round then was kicked out in a US-backed fascist military coup," but ok, strong start.
As Minnesota's Chief Prosecutor, Amy Klobuchar pushed a "tough on crime" message. But she didn't prosecute George Floyd's killer Derek Chauvin when he shot someone.
I'm reading the insane contract Silvercorp and @jguaido signed for the #Venezuela coup. 🇻🇪
The operation was to capture, detain or 'remove' @maduro_en. This sounds awfully like a hit contract.
lol, Silvercorp charged Guaidó a quarter-billion dollars for potentially only one day's work yet they're still putting in traps trying to fleece the sucker even harder. How greedy can you get?
This seems pretty big: The contract seems to suggest Silvercorp was going to become a private death squad training up Venezuelan paramilitaries, a la Colombia, after the coup.
@MintPressNews "Hey remember that socialist dictator we helped overthrow, installing a white nationalist dictatorship?"
"Turns out he was democratically elected all along. Who would have thought? Anyway, keep buying our newspaper."
@MintPressNews The new US-backed government has massacred civillians, killed journalists, shut down media, given the police and army immunity from prosecution and privatized the economy in a matter of weeks.