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VT Headlines: Gov. Phil Scott says Trump should consult Congress in military buildup near Venezuela
Did JFK, for example, ‘consult’ Congress when he imposed a blockade on Cuba in 1962? No.
Did JFK blockade Cuba by Executive Order? No. The decision was made secretly within the Executive Committee of the National Security Council without congressional involvement.
Technically, JFK authorized the blockade through a Presidential Proclamation 3504, titled “Interdiction of the Delivery of Offensive Weapons to Cuba,” signed on October 23, 1962. This proclamation ordered U.S. forces to interdict the delivery of specified offensive weapons to Cuba, effective October 24, 1962, and explicitly directed the Secretary of Defense to enforce it using naval, air, and land forces.
So today, our esteemed ‘Republican’ (tsk, tsk) Governor Scott, and his political cohorts, Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch and Becca Balint, believe these decisions require their approval.
How many Vermonters have died from fentanyl? And you want do nothing congress’s permission to take down the dealers?
Oh yeah… This is the State where we slap dealers wrists… Catch and release justice system where we don’t want to offend the criminals.
Please sir… Can I please have more of this? Said no one ever.
Milquetoast. Pablum diet.
I don’t know what a woman is…
What a leader.
Disgusted. Yet again.
Not a great man.
Not to mention permitting his Country to be used to train ISIS terrorists plus selling and shipping oil to countries prohibited from buying it using tankers that are violating international law by changing their flags several times during their voyages.
Any public official or Vermont taxpayer who opposes pre-emptive strikes on boats bringing addictive poison to our shores needs to be reminded about the 183 Vermonters who lost their lives to overdose in 2024, and the over 100,000 who died nationally. The high levels of property and violent crime should also be factored in to any discussion about the best ways to PREVENT the availability of addictive opioids and cocaine products, which is INTERDICTION WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE prior to the substances being imported. To put it simply and succinctly, deadly force is justifiably being used against deadly threats. The discussion over regime change in Venezuela may be a more complicated discussion, but first, the flow of deadly drugs must be halted when possible.
The gov is sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. I think we have enough problems here in VT that he should worry about. This is the same gov that claims to be a republican but voted for Biden, Harris and promoted Haley in the primary. He has TDS and will do anything to disagree with the president of his political party. I’m so sick of his so-called leadership and the fake title of the nation’s most popular gov. He’s popular with progressives and that’s who he panders to. Vermont is a mess, the state is broke and broken. These people hate the fact that Trump has shown them what a real leader can do. Yes, Trump is not perfect and neither is our gov. Then take a look at what the democrats did to the country under Biden. The greatest danger to our state and nation is ignorant voters. They have brought us to this point in Vermont history, a failed state.
Yes, I’m sure Trump should consult with congress, so they can leak information to their MSM buddies.
Like Leahy did many years ago.
If our actions in Venezuela are actually about drugs (and not oil, wink wink), why did the president pardon–just two weeks ago–one of the world’s foremost drug traffickers, the former dictator of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the United States? I thought “no more wars” was MAGA bread-and-butter. But, as usual, if our party is waging the war, it’s all good.
John,
Was Hernandez convicted for his brother’s crimes, under the Biden DOJ?
It’s about far more than drugs and oil. It’s about who facilitates the transfer of drug and oil MONEY into assets that support certain regimes, including our “scrappy little dyke” and the VT cadre in the Congress, Senate, and under the Golden Dome of Montpelier. Look up HSBC…
The price of cocaine in Europe has increased; what a shame…
A lot of campaign coffers are going to be lighter in 2026.
Hey Phil, what have you done to solve the “drug problem” in Burlington, Barre, Rutland, Springfield, etc…?
I support our President. Our governor….not so much.
Meanwhile the only business that can boom and prosper in Vermont, because no permits are needed and there are no impediments are drug dealing, also supported by our taxpayers with a free place to stay with the sugar mama on welfare, providing a love nest from which to do the drug dealing.
Of all topics, why would he choose to stand up for this? Perhaps the Chinese have been spending too much time in Vermont. They remember the Opium wars that took them over 100 years to recover from, this is unconventional warfare against the American people and our governor seems to want to support the drug trade rather than legit business in Vermont.
Sad, very sad.