[voidnap]

Not even remotely.

There is no Obama or Biden counterpart to Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Venezuelan coast. Nor Trump's coercion over private industry through his tariffs and lawsuits. Even the far-right's fictions about foreign leaders buying access to Biden through Hunter is so incredibly tame to how Trump does this stuff in public with his crypto or like when talking to that Indonesian leader the other day -- that whole weird "I am a good boy" thing from Eric Trump.

Equivocating these things is a derangement syndrome entirely of its own design.

[hermitcrab]

I agree, but I wasn't referring to a previous US President.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III

[fweimer]

> There is no Obama or Biden counterpart to Trump's extrajudicial killings in the Venezuelan coast.

Sadly, this isn't really true. The Obama administration had their Terror Tuesdays:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120530104348/https://www.nytim...

The program was only mildly controversial at thetime. The killing not so much—it was more about the alleged presence of a Democratic campaign strategist in those coordination meetings.

[amalcon]

That was very bad, but it was plausibly authorized by Congress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit...).

There is no comparable authorization here. There is, to my knowledge, no allegation that these Venezuelans had anything to do with Al Qaida or the Sept. 11 attacks.