So, Truth Social is now the newest branch of our military and, at the same time, a replacement for the entire U.S. Congress.

President Trump has now used the social media platform to declare a “total blockade” of Venezuela. That is an act of war. It is also illegal under international law, absent an “armed attack” on the United States.

Never mind that only Congress has the power to declare war. Never mind that there has been no attack on the U.S. Truth Social has decreed it! It has also been decreed that we have Venezuela surrounded. This must be news to Brazil, Colombia and Guyana, which all have land borders with Venezuela—and which, as far as we know, they still control.

Truth Social (no peeking behind the curtain, lest it turn out to be Stephen Miller at the levers inside that giant, hollowed-out Trumpbot) has declared Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government is a “FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.” It has been posted. It must be so. It has also declared that the reason we are embarking on this war is to

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