Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) slammed the U.S. operation that captured Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, saying it is not aimed at countering drug-trafficking.

“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
      14·
      4 days ago

      Even trump, for once, said the truth out loud

      We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies (…) go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure (…) Let’s start making money

    • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      At least they’ve stopped writing “mic drop” for this shit. Politician says thing about other politician; no action taken

    • EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world
      43·
      3 days ago

      No, you see, SLAM is actually an acronym.

      Speaks Loudly About Matters.

      Suddenly Lambasts Apparent Misconduct.