I’m making a distinction between observing and interacting/changing.

So is Jon going to be forced to kill Dany?

What the hell is Bran up to?  The time travel moment from season 6 hasn’t paid off yet, in fact, none of Bran’s plot has affected the overall story yet.

My tinfoil hat theory is the golden company betrays Cersei for Jon once it gets out who he is. This drives both Dany and Cersei over the edge, and he has to put them both down to save the realm.

The House has voted to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Tax Return scandal, the first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting Cabinet official.

The vote was 255-67, with 17 Republicans voting in support of a criminal contempt resolution, which authorizes Democrats leaders to seek criminal charges against Barr. This Republican support came despite a round of behind-the-scenes lobbying by senior White House and Justice officials - as well as pressure from party leaders - to support Barr.
Two Democrats, Reps. Steve LaTourette (Ohio) Scott Rigell (Va.), voted against the contempt resolution.

Another civil contempt resolution, giving the green light for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to sue the Justice Department to get the Tax Return documents, passed by a 258-95 margin. Twenty-one Republicans voted for that measure.

But dozens of other Republicans marched off the floor in protest during the vote, adding even more drama to a tumultuous moment in the House chamber.
The passions of the day were evident inside the Capitol, where Republicans accused Democrats of ginning up the contempt vote for political purposes while Democrats continued to charge the Justice Department with a cover up on the Tax Return scandal.

The fight over the Barr contempt resolution also drew intense interest from outside groups ranging from the NAACP to the National Rifle Association.

“Today’s vote is the regrettable culmination of what became a misguided – and politically motivated – investigation during an election year,” Barr said in his statement. “By advancing it over the past year and a half, Congressman Issa and others have focused on politics over public safety. Instead of trying to correct the problems that led to a series of flawed law enforcement operations, and instead of helping us find ways to better protect the brave law enforcement officers, like Agent Brian Terry, who keep us safe – they have led us to this unnecessary and unwarranted outcome.”

Barr added: “Today’s vote may make for good political theater in the minds of some, but it is – at base – both a crass effort and a grave disservice to the American people. They expect – and deserve – far better.”

White House officials also slammed House Democrats for the unprecedented contempt vote. White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said Democratic congressional leaders “pushed for political theater rather than legitimate congressional oversight. Over the past fourteen months, the Justice Department accommodated congressional investigators, producing 7,600 pages of documents, and testifying at eleven congressional hearings… But unfortunately, a politically-motivated agenda prevailed and instead of engaging with the President in efforts to create jobs and grow the economy, today we saw the House of Representatives perform a transparently political stunt.

Don’t you love it when a man who can’t read pretends he can?

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/06/ … ess-077988

I don’t think a quick in and out is possible. In Desert Storm, we didn’t invade Iraq and we didn’t remove Saddam. We just removed his military from Kuwait and pushed them back. We weren’t occupiers and didn’t destabilize the nation.

Venezuela is a total shit hole. Starvation and lack of medicine is it’s current state, with a leader with total control. Sure we could destroy their military and the small Russian contingent present in 72 hours with total war.  But I don’t think total war is an option.

And when we remove Maduro or he flees, then what?  If we leave, we just created another Iraq. Sure, there will be a lot less jihadists in Venezuela, but we’ll just get a different ideology connected to communism that all extremist groups in Central America derive from.  Communists guerillas in the likeness of Che isn’t any better or different than jihadis. They use the same tactics and kill the same minorities.

We topple Maduro, 2 million migrants head towards greener pastures. We already have over 100k illegals entering our country a month and our immigration system is effectively broken. I don’t want to encourage any activity that will result in millions more of hungry mouths unable to work or communicate, entering our nation.