I think that Trump‘s greed and lost will keep him from pushing the button. And I’m guessing and hoping that he doesn’t have a launch codes. I don’t know if it’s true but supposedly when Richard Nixon was in the White House babbling and coherently to paintings on the wall he was no longer in charge of the nukes.
Sometimes diseases can only be cured with radiation. Perhaps Moscow is one of those diseases.
No shit. What really sucks is that Democrat voters outnumber Republican vote voters but they don’t get off their lazy asses and vote. If Democrats would get out and vote we could never have another republican president unless the Republicans start acting like humans but that’s probably not possible. MAGATS hate decent moral people and that’s why they vote for trash like Mike Johnson.
Don't forget, Trump had Elon's “help” getting elected. He's a criminal in everything he does. Do you really think he won honestly? Hahaha, do you recall Trump at the podium saying that Elon is in Pennsylvania with a big snear like smile, “ and he's so good with computers “ we won PA.
It certainly is a distinct possibility. There was something on the Joe Rogan show where Elon was talking to that scumbag Dana White and assure Dana White that Trump won before the votes were counted.
Trump should never have won the first time and there was nobody out there manipulating the voting machines. Democrats need to step up to the plate.
I campaigned for Hillary in North Carolina. I was doing phone work and it was pretty much a waste of time Because by then most people had cell And if they saw a number they didn’t recognize they wouldn’t answer. We should’ve been on the streets and going door-to-door passing out pamphlets and encouraging Democrats to vote. I don’t know about other states but in North Carolina her campaign was poorly organized. Of course there was Russian involvement because Trump and Putin are boyfriend and girlfriend.
Anyway, The phone bank was a waste of resources.
When she ran against Obama in the primary Obama was way more organized than she was. I campaign for Hillary because if she had gotten her version of healthcare past, Americans would actually have good healthcare. Obama care was a republican plan. It forces people to buy healthcare insurance from private companies. That’s fascism. I never really trust Obama And I was right not to trust him. He accumulated more wealth than any other president after leaving office. I don’t think Michelle is all that fond of him right now.
Hillary would’ve stood up to Putin when he annexed Crimea. Obama was soft on Russia and almost as bad as Trump in that regard.
Electronic voting was a disaster waiting to happen.
I think the way to find out if Elon and Trump were involved in manipulating voting machines would be to put the two of them in a room And introduced them to the business end of a cattle prod.
The MAGATS are beyond idiocy. It’s their natural born depravity that is the problem.
It’s not worth trying to reason with these people because they will lie right to your face and they will pretend to believe the lies of Donald Trump and other Scumbag Republicans.
MAGATS only pretend to believe what comes out of Trump’s mouth. They don’t know the difference between a partisan and a patriot. Patriot defend nations and partisans defend shitheads like Donald Trump.
Get used to human failure. Putin still has a 1/3 approval rating despite Russians living just a step above Venezuelans.
No matter how bad the "leader", there will always be a hopeless group that adore them. Stalin and Mao killed more of their citizens than WWII. Yet many still like them. We have the same problem in the south, rednecks think the Confederacy was a good thing and slavery was just on the job training for the low class.
I lived in the south for about 22 years. There were some really good people there but they were “ Yankee transplants” a lot of the natives were pretty decent too. But a lot of them were still fighting the Civil War and couldn’t get over the fact that they lost. A few years back They all got their panties in a bunch about the removal of confederate statues.
After World War II Germany didn’t erect any statues of their Nazis. The Russians have statues of their terrorists who they honor And so does the south.
They don’t teach the truth about the Civil War In the south. They said it was about state rights And they called it the war of northern aggression. These people are trash.
You probably remember when that charlatan and Nikki Haley When she was running in the primaries against Trump Was too much of a coward and a hypocrite to say that the civil war was about slave slavery.
I can probably make the argument that the Southerners who own slaves were not racist Even though they probably were. Their depravity goes much deeper than someone who doesn’t People of a so-called other race.
The southern plantation owners had slaves because they liked the free labor so that they could live their decadent lifestyles . Those slave owners are pretty much The same as the one percent filthy rich today.
Slavery is alive and well in the world today. One of the most evil people in America is a punk by the name of Tim Cook who is the CEO of Apple. Apple uses slaves in China to make their products. Google it! And if you think Slavery in America was cruel It’s even worse for the Muslims in China Who have no chance of escape.
This filthy country called the United States of America Allows products made in other Countries by slaves to be sold right here in the good old US of A. When corporate media talks about this they don’t use the word slave or the word slave labor. The word they use is forced labor. I guess it kind of takes the sting out of the word slave.
The issue of racism in the US is not just limited to the South. It just appears more obvious there, the rest of the US is more subtle about racism. All those Dems throwing rocks at Repubs for racism go crazy when blacks move next door to them.
I believe reverse racism did more to elect Trump than any other factor. Whites are tired of being tarred for the sin of slavery a century ago. How do you explain to a poor white family that a black family is more deserving for reparations.
As far as buying products made by slaves, point well taken. However, even slaves need to eat and if they are not productive they die. IPhones are made in China because they are cheaper to make there. Not a moral judgement. You make a product too expensive people will not buy it.
Somebody needs to come out and say that there’s only one race and that is the human race. They should add a caveat to that… All humans are Homo sapiens but not all Homo sapiens are human. In order to be a human you have to have humanity. There are a lot of horrid people in this world who are so depraved that there is no way that they can have humanity or be referred to as human. A lot of Russians and MAGATS Fall into that category.
It was not until fairly recent that the welfare of our fellow mankind has been a consideration. History full of kings and other tyrants going to war after war. Makes no sense and accomplishes little except for the ones at the top. Someone always wants to dominate their fellow mankind.
US with all its problems is still the only country standing up to the worlds evil. We are the worlds policeman. Not so sure how long we can continue in that role. We are damned if we do and damned if we do not.
Trump left 3 of the worst of Maduro's sidekicks behind to take over Venesuela. Trump and Segheth really really fuked up this whole plan. Trump's war cabinet should be tried for treason AND terrorism and imprisoned for life.
One good thing when it comes to MAGATS is they have shorter lifespan than humans. The Bible belt needs to feel the wrath and suffer. They need to reap what they’ve sown. And like the Bible says, “They have sown the wind and they will reap the whirlwind”. Cut off all federal aid to the parasite Bible belt states. Those Bible thumping hypocrites only care about themselves so let them suffer and maybe they will stop voting for scum. Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have turned against Trump so at least a percentage of these MAGATS will be discouraged and maybe not vote for other MAGAT Republicans and maybe they won’t vote at all.
Some people are slaves to their politics but the MAGATS her slaves to their depravity and their depraved politics. A lot of of them paid the price through sickness and death. Happy that!
There was a lot of scumbaggery with The Covid thing. I understand people’s apprehension regarding vaccines. I was looking at the criminal history of Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer and I found out that they are the two most criminally fined Companies in the world. I got the Moderna vaccine.
The MAGAT scumbaggery had was about their refusal to wear masks. That showed what they really were deep down. They didn’t give a damn about people around them such as people with compromised immune systems and the frail elderly. This is who these people are and if I was king of the world I put a bounty on them. They’re not human.
Thanks you. Live in WA and did not see this. Deniers will ignore this and say it was just Dems died, caused by taking the vaccine. Those deniers that survived did it on the backs of those of us who got the shot and gave them herd immunity. No changing closed minds.
When dealing with someone like the orange menace one cannot be a Boy Scout. We can like this too the game of hockey where if somebody cheap shots you he eventually go elbows up on that person Gordy Howe style. You drop the gloves and you throw the rules out the window. This is humanity we’re talking about and these procedures under the laws of this country they don’t really work anymore are bullshit. No more legal procedures for this scumbag.
The world has to stop acting like Neville Chamberlain at all proper and British. You don’t negotiate and you never trust people like the orange menace. On a personal level when you’re dealing with people like that you do what you can to destroy those people so they will not damage people who are unable to fight for themselves.
We don’t learn from history and we don’t learn from our mistakes it seems. There was a person in the 1930s who is dangerous and the epitome of evil and the world dealt with him in a civilized manner and we all know how that turned out. How many million of people lost their lives and suffered and suffered and suffered because of a megalomaniac with a silly mustache. Why is the world taking the moral high ground with the orange menace and his KGB boyfriend?
One thing positive that may come out of this is that Putin is really pissed off at Trump right now. Putin had been supporting Maduro. Putin gave Maduro weapons to defend himself from a military operation. Putin saw what he wanted to be a vassal state for Russia taken away by his girlfriend Donald Trump. This could break a lot of ways. Maybe Putin has the unredacted version of the Epstein files? Maybe Putin has other dirt on Trump like his perverted relationship with kids? Now if Putin releases that, Trump can claim that it is AI generated and his MAGATS will pretend to believe him.
The people of Venezuela are glad to see Madero go and they don’t care that Trump‘s actions were illegal. The concern is that Trump has no plan. Trump is a screwup. He’s had casinos go bankrupt you have to be a total screwup to lose money with a casino. Trump is a screwup. Trump is a failure in business in spite of all the Liza come out of his filthy dirty Putin sucking mouth. Of course this could very well become a disaster but Trump is not long for this world as David pointed out.
Getting back to Trump‘s role model, the guy with the silly mustache, it was believed by the allies that by 1944 it would’ve been very easy to take out the guy with a silly mustache. It is theorized that the reason they did not assassinate Hitler and continue to bomb Germany into rubble was to teach the German people a lesson and to teach the world a lesson. The development of the atomic bomb was it developed for Germany and fortunately for the German people Germany had already surrendered. Unfortunately for the world, we didn’t use that weapon on Russia. People need to figure out that the majority of Germans are not evil even though they’re pretty arrogant. The Russians are arrogant and evil and that is why President Reagan referred to Russia as the evil empire.
At this point we don’t know how this is gonna work out but we do know this was a huge blow to Putin and that’s the kind of blowing that he usually gets from his girlfriend Donald Trump.
If the US annexes or takes over Venezuela, the US will have more than 50% of the world’s oil supplies.
Venezuela used to be a democracy and the people of Venezuela are the kind of people who can handle democracy it’s not like they’re Russians or MAGATS. Add that to the fact that Maduro was hated with a passion. The only way Venezuela will survive would be to democratize it. Trump because he loves dictatorships doesn’t want to see the democratization of Venezuela but even if Venezuela is a vassal state of the US it will be better for everyone than if it was a vassal state of Russia.
Even Trump is smart enough to know that Russia is collapsing. Trump‘s ego has been bruised because he knows that everybody knows that he has been fighting and Putin‘s bitch for a long time. Russia also has huge oil supplies and was pretty much a gas station. Think about it Russians are pretty stupid people and they can’t produce anything that the people of the world want besides petroleum products and now they can’t even do that.
If Democratic voters would get off their lazy asses and vote and we could have a Democrat in the White House anything Trump is doing or has done to the world can be reversed.
Venezuela is capable of being a democracy. The Venezuelan people are not assholes like the Russians are. It’s easier to create a democracy and a country that used to be a democracy. This brings me to Iran. Iran can be democratized. The Iranian people are not assholes. These are smart people and they are moral despite the depravity of Islam. The regime in Iran is about to fall. It is best for Iran and best for Nicaragua to be an ally of the United States. When Russia is demolished and there’s a significant decrease in the number of Russians in the world China will continue to weak and weaker at a faster rate. The Chinese people who are generally not assholes are fed up with their government. The young Chinese are so disgusted that they are saying something called Tang Ping which means let it rot.
It is more than likely that we can bring democracy to Venezuela and Iran. The question that remains is can we bring democracy to the United States of America.
Check out my substack. I don’t hold back and I don’t worry about offending people. MAGATS hate and fear my words.
Well done, read every word. Democracy in South America does not have a good history. Most of the countries from Mexico all the way down had a checked past. That circle of history has now befallen us with the worst excuse of a leader since we became a nation.
Given that we made it okay for 250 years, I guess it is our turn to have our version of Mussolini.
I will admit, our endeavors in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have not resulted in Democracy. I hold little hope Venezuela will be much better. But without Maduro they have a chance they never had with him.
The United States caused a lot of trouble in South America back in the 50s and 60s. They orchestrated coups.
The United States and Britain screwed Iran with something called operation Ajax and operation boot where they started a crew to get rid of Iran’s democratically elected government. The reason was because Iran wanted more money for the oil. They were part of the Anglo Iranian oil company which is now BP or British petroleum.
There is always a petroleum spin to stuff that goes on in the Middle East and now Venezuela which has more oil in the ground thin Saudi Arabia.
If the people in Venezuela get the proceeds of the oil which actually belongs to them that would be a good thing.
The country with the highest per capita GDP is Kuwait. Kuwaiti citizens live like kings because they get huge stipends from the oil. Kuwait is a shit hole country because they entice people to go there to work and these people end up being slaves. They’ve been doing that to African women for a long time.
Kuwait was everybody as bad as Iraq and maybe worse. The Gulf wars were about oil. Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait was part of Persia and therefore part of Iraq. Maybe he was right.
Saddam Hussein was pretty much secular. Iraq had a population of Jews and Coptic Christians and they were tolerated. After the Muslims took over the government in Iraq the persecutions started and those people left.
Yes and Iran has been screwing the US and the entire middle east since 1979 as payback. 240 marines killed In Beirut had Iran's fingerprints all over it. While the Shah was not a nice guy, the standard of living in Iran under him was far better than it has been since 1979.
Given that fact, US intervention was not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. US development of the oil fields elevated the standard of living far above what it had been. Had the US not developed it, it may have fallen to Russia or China. If not Iran would have stayed poor. Given the disaster the IRGC has made of Iran, the US has been far better for Iran. They are now destitute and the US may well be their only salvation.
The world is an evil place. The US is the only power on the planet that gives a damn enough to face it. Those who believe we should just keep to ourselves and solve our own problems are naive. The rest of the world does not just keep to themselves and would do us in if we did not do what we do to contain them.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Pentagon. Soldiers unfortunately have to follow the orders of those above them. The concept they only have to follow "lawful" orders is more conjecture than reality. Any soldier who disobeys orders takes a huge risk to be punished and thrown out of service with a dishonorable discharge. They usually do not have the money or backing to fight it on their own. Even if they do win, they are a marked person will not get promoted and their careers will be cut short.
If you remember LTC Alexander Vindman was the US Army officer that reported Trump trying to extort Zelensky in 2019. Trump asked Zelensky to find dirt on Biden as a condition for US support to Ukraine. Vindman was removed from his job, not promoted and it ended with LTC Vindman kissing his career goodbye despite everyone knowing he was right. He could have just shut his mouth as most Trumpers do and been promoted. Instead he stood for what was right and see what that got him.
Congress needs to get back to work and jail the entire Trump administration for war crimes, and the many National Security & Constitutional laws they've broken.
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
This is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."
This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.
And Venezuela just threatened to end it.
Here's what really just happened:
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The largest on Earth.
More than Saudi Arabia.
20% of the entire world's oil.
But here's the part that matters:
Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.
In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."
They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.
They were petitioning to join BRICS.
They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.
And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.
Why does this matter?
Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:
The petrodollar.
In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:
All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.
In exchange, America provides military protection.
This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.
Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.
This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.
It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.
The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.
And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.
2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.
The WMDs were never found because they never existed.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.
Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.
Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.
"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.
The gold dinar died with him.
And now Maduro.
With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.
Actively selling in yuan.
Building payment systems outside dollar control.
Petitioning to join BRICS.
Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.
The three countries leading global de-dollarization.
This isn't coincidence.
Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.
Every. Single. Time.
Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:
"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."
He's not hiding it.
They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.
By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."
But here's the DEEPER problem:
The petrodollar is already dying.
Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.
Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.
China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.
BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.
The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.
Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.
That's what this invasion is really about.
Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.
Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."
Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.
This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.
And the consequences are terrifying:
Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."
China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.
BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.
Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:
Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.
But here's the problem...
That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.
Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.
And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.
The timing is insane too:
January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.
January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.
36 years apart. Almost to the day.
Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.
Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.
History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.
What happens next:
Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.
US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."
The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.
Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.
But here's what nobody's asking:
What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?
When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?
When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?
When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?
America just showed its hand.
The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.
Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.
When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.
Of course our govt will subsidize the oil companies if they decide to rebuild which they do not want to do. The oil is low grade can't be refined for gas it will be expensive as f**k with the whole regime really still there and the mess they would find themselves entangled in politically why would they want to do that? This was Trump's impulsive move to payback for getting him elected....but if the costs are going to be subsidized ( probably the taxpayers ) then well maybe they give it a go...after all we do need more asphalt and lubricants (to help the sharp sticks go in a little less painful). This merely Trump trying desperately to fix his miscalculated blunder JC!!!!!
Trump and Hegseth have now committed more war crimes, attacking Venezuela without Congress approval. CONGRESS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ROGUE SO CALLED PRESIDENT, CONGRESS DO YOUR JOB, otherwise you won't have a country left to govern.
Trump has totally destroyed America's reputation in the world.
And is destroying the lifes of Americans. Trump and his administration have gone rogue. CONGRESS SORT THIS OUT.
Dumb Donald, despicable destroyer.
Oh my, an impulsive toddler with the nukes at his disposal. We are on a precipice of world decimation. Thanks to the Orange Douche.
I think that Trump‘s greed and lost will keep him from pushing the button. And I’m guessing and hoping that he doesn’t have a launch codes. I don’t know if it’s true but supposedly when Richard Nixon was in the White House babbling and coherently to paintings on the wall he was no longer in charge of the nukes.
Sometimes diseases can only be cured with radiation. Perhaps Moscow is one of those diseases.
What we need is a taking out of this administration. Is there no hope. No help from shit ass senators? Or boot licking congress?
The ultimate New Years present would be for Seal Team Seis to kidnap DJT and take him back to Venezuela. Wishful thinking, we not not trade him back.
USA is up to it’s eyeballs in trump shit and we the people are drowning in it!
No shit. What really sucks is that Democrat voters outnumber Republican vote voters but they don’t get off their lazy asses and vote. If Democrats would get out and vote we could never have another republican president unless the Republicans start acting like humans but that’s probably not possible. MAGATS hate decent moral people and that’s why they vote for trash like Mike Johnson.
Don't forget, Trump had Elon's “help” getting elected. He's a criminal in everything he does. Do you really think he won honestly? Hahaha, do you recall Trump at the podium saying that Elon is in Pennsylvania with a big snear like smile, “ and he's so good with computers “ we won PA.
It certainly is a distinct possibility. There was something on the Joe Rogan show where Elon was talking to that scumbag Dana White and assure Dana White that Trump won before the votes were counted.
Trump should never have won the first time and there was nobody out there manipulating the voting machines. Democrats need to step up to the plate.
I campaigned for Hillary in North Carolina. I was doing phone work and it was pretty much a waste of time Because by then most people had cell And if they saw a number they didn’t recognize they wouldn’t answer. We should’ve been on the streets and going door-to-door passing out pamphlets and encouraging Democrats to vote. I don’t know about other states but in North Carolina her campaign was poorly organized. Of course there was Russian involvement because Trump and Putin are boyfriend and girlfriend.
Anyway, The phone bank was a waste of resources.
When she ran against Obama in the primary Obama was way more organized than she was. I campaign for Hillary because if she had gotten her version of healthcare past, Americans would actually have good healthcare. Obama care was a republican plan. It forces people to buy healthcare insurance from private companies. That’s fascism. I never really trust Obama And I was right not to trust him. He accumulated more wealth than any other president after leaving office. I don’t think Michelle is all that fond of him right now.
Hillary would’ve stood up to Putin when he annexed Crimea. Obama was soft on Russia and almost as bad as Trump in that regard.
Electronic voting was a disaster waiting to happen.
I think the way to find out if Elon and Trump were involved in manipulating voting machines would be to put the two of them in a room And introduced them to the business end of a cattle prod.
I am so sick of tRump and his lies.
Apparently, there is still a lot of MAGATS who love his lies and depravity. They need to be punished and canceled.
I'm constantly amazed at how Idiotic the whole bunch is. I have cut off all ties with anybody who admits to being a MAGA.
The MAGATS are beyond idiocy. It’s their natural born depravity that is the problem.
It’s not worth trying to reason with these people because they will lie right to your face and they will pretend to believe the lies of Donald Trump and other Scumbag Republicans.
MAGATS only pretend to believe what comes out of Trump’s mouth. They don’t know the difference between a partisan and a patriot. Patriot defend nations and partisans defend shitheads like Donald Trump.
They have been punished for living in the south. Weather is hot and horrible to pre-condition them for their lives down under in the hearafter.
Get used to human failure. Putin still has a 1/3 approval rating despite Russians living just a step above Venezuelans.
No matter how bad the "leader", there will always be a hopeless group that adore them. Stalin and Mao killed more of their citizens than WWII. Yet many still like them. We have the same problem in the south, rednecks think the Confederacy was a good thing and slavery was just on the job training for the low class.
I lived in the south for about 22 years. There were some really good people there but they were “ Yankee transplants” a lot of the natives were pretty decent too. But a lot of them were still fighting the Civil War and couldn’t get over the fact that they lost. A few years back They all got their panties in a bunch about the removal of confederate statues.
After World War II Germany didn’t erect any statues of their Nazis. The Russians have statues of their terrorists who they honor And so does the south.
They don’t teach the truth about the Civil War In the south. They said it was about state rights And they called it the war of northern aggression. These people are trash.
You probably remember when that charlatan and Nikki Haley When she was running in the primaries against Trump Was too much of a coward and a hypocrite to say that the civil war was about slave slavery.
I can probably make the argument that the Southerners who own slaves were not racist Even though they probably were. Their depravity goes much deeper than someone who doesn’t People of a so-called other race.
The southern plantation owners had slaves because they liked the free labor so that they could live their decadent lifestyles . Those slave owners are pretty much The same as the one percent filthy rich today.
Slavery is alive and well in the world today. One of the most evil people in America is a punk by the name of Tim Cook who is the CEO of Apple. Apple uses slaves in China to make their products. Google it! And if you think Slavery in America was cruel It’s even worse for the Muslims in China Who have no chance of escape.
This filthy country called the United States of America Allows products made in other Countries by slaves to be sold right here in the good old US of A. When corporate media talks about this they don’t use the word slave or the word slave labor. The word they use is forced labor. I guess it kind of takes the sting out of the word slave.
The issue of racism in the US is not just limited to the South. It just appears more obvious there, the rest of the US is more subtle about racism. All those Dems throwing rocks at Repubs for racism go crazy when blacks move next door to them.
I believe reverse racism did more to elect Trump than any other factor. Whites are tired of being tarred for the sin of slavery a century ago. How do you explain to a poor white family that a black family is more deserving for reparations.
As far as buying products made by slaves, point well taken. However, even slaves need to eat and if they are not productive they die. IPhones are made in China because they are cheaper to make there. Not a moral judgement. You make a product too expensive people will not buy it.
Somebody needs to come out and say that there’s only one race and that is the human race. They should add a caveat to that… All humans are Homo sapiens but not all Homo sapiens are human. In order to be a human you have to have humanity. There are a lot of horrid people in this world who are so depraved that there is no way that they can have humanity or be referred to as human. A lot of Russians and MAGATS Fall into that category.
It was not until fairly recent that the welfare of our fellow mankind has been a consideration. History full of kings and other tyrants going to war after war. Makes no sense and accomplishes little except for the ones at the top. Someone always wants to dominate their fellow mankind.
US with all its problems is still the only country standing up to the worlds evil. We are the worlds policeman. Not so sure how long we can continue in that role. We are damned if we do and damned if we do not.
Maybe Trump wants chaos and a state of emergency with these actions so he can cancel the 2026 midterm elections, which scare him.
Trump left 3 of the worst of Maduro's sidekicks behind to take over Venesuela. Trump and Segheth really really fuked up this whole plan. Trump's war cabinet should be tried for treason AND terrorism and imprisoned for life.
maga dumbasses, like what y'all got?
One good thing when it comes to MAGATS is they have shorter lifespan than humans. The Bible belt needs to feel the wrath and suffer. They need to reap what they’ve sown. And like the Bible says, “They have sown the wind and they will reap the whirlwind”. Cut off all federal aid to the parasite Bible belt states. Those Bible thumping hypocrites only care about themselves so let them suffer and maybe they will stop voting for scum. Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Greene have turned against Trump so at least a percentage of these MAGATS will be discouraged and maybe not vote for other MAGAT Republicans and maybe they won’t vote at all.
That's actually true about their lifespan. I did a study of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths for all 39 counties in the State of Washington. See https://jeffsilverm.ddns.net/COVID-19/Donald_Trump_and_COVID-19_statistics_WA.html to see the data, the software, and the results.
Some people are slaves to their politics but the MAGATS her slaves to their depravity and their depraved politics. A lot of of them paid the price through sickness and death. Happy that!
There was a lot of scumbaggery with The Covid thing. I understand people’s apprehension regarding vaccines. I was looking at the criminal history of Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer and I found out that they are the two most criminally fined Companies in the world. I got the Moderna vaccine.
The MAGAT scumbaggery had was about their refusal to wear masks. That showed what they really were deep down. They didn’t give a damn about people around them such as people with compromised immune systems and the frail elderly. This is who these people are and if I was king of the world I put a bounty on them. They’re not human.
Thanks you. Live in WA and did not see this. Deniers will ignore this and say it was just Dems died, caused by taking the vaccine. Those deniers that survived did it on the backs of those of us who got the shot and gave them herd immunity. No changing closed minds.
When dealing with someone like the orange menace one cannot be a Boy Scout. We can like this too the game of hockey where if somebody cheap shots you he eventually go elbows up on that person Gordy Howe style. You drop the gloves and you throw the rules out the window. This is humanity we’re talking about and these procedures under the laws of this country they don’t really work anymore are bullshit. No more legal procedures for this scumbag.
The world has to stop acting like Neville Chamberlain at all proper and British. You don’t negotiate and you never trust people like the orange menace. On a personal level when you’re dealing with people like that you do what you can to destroy those people so they will not damage people who are unable to fight for themselves.
We don’t learn from history and we don’t learn from our mistakes it seems. There was a person in the 1930s who is dangerous and the epitome of evil and the world dealt with him in a civilized manner and we all know how that turned out. How many million of people lost their lives and suffered and suffered and suffered because of a megalomaniac with a silly mustache. Why is the world taking the moral high ground with the orange menace and his KGB boyfriend?
One thing positive that may come out of this is that Putin is really pissed off at Trump right now. Putin had been supporting Maduro. Putin gave Maduro weapons to defend himself from a military operation. Putin saw what he wanted to be a vassal state for Russia taken away by his girlfriend Donald Trump. This could break a lot of ways. Maybe Putin has the unredacted version of the Epstein files? Maybe Putin has other dirt on Trump like his perverted relationship with kids? Now if Putin releases that, Trump can claim that it is AI generated and his MAGATS will pretend to believe him.
The people of Venezuela are glad to see Madero go and they don’t care that Trump‘s actions were illegal. The concern is that Trump has no plan. Trump is a screwup. He’s had casinos go bankrupt you have to be a total screwup to lose money with a casino. Trump is a screwup. Trump is a failure in business in spite of all the Liza come out of his filthy dirty Putin sucking mouth. Of course this could very well become a disaster but Trump is not long for this world as David pointed out.
Getting back to Trump‘s role model, the guy with the silly mustache, it was believed by the allies that by 1944 it would’ve been very easy to take out the guy with a silly mustache. It is theorized that the reason they did not assassinate Hitler and continue to bomb Germany into rubble was to teach the German people a lesson and to teach the world a lesson. The development of the atomic bomb was it developed for Germany and fortunately for the German people Germany had already surrendered. Unfortunately for the world, we didn’t use that weapon on Russia. People need to figure out that the majority of Germans are not evil even though they’re pretty arrogant. The Russians are arrogant and evil and that is why President Reagan referred to Russia as the evil empire.
At this point we don’t know how this is gonna work out but we do know this was a huge blow to Putin and that’s the kind of blowing that he usually gets from his girlfriend Donald Trump.
If the US annexes or takes over Venezuela, the US will have more than 50% of the world’s oil supplies.
Venezuela used to be a democracy and the people of Venezuela are the kind of people who can handle democracy it’s not like they’re Russians or MAGATS. Add that to the fact that Maduro was hated with a passion. The only way Venezuela will survive would be to democratize it. Trump because he loves dictatorships doesn’t want to see the democratization of Venezuela but even if Venezuela is a vassal state of the US it will be better for everyone than if it was a vassal state of Russia.
Even Trump is smart enough to know that Russia is collapsing. Trump‘s ego has been bruised because he knows that everybody knows that he has been fighting and Putin‘s bitch for a long time. Russia also has huge oil supplies and was pretty much a gas station. Think about it Russians are pretty stupid people and they can’t produce anything that the people of the world want besides petroleum products and now they can’t even do that.
If Democratic voters would get off their lazy asses and vote and we could have a Democrat in the White House anything Trump is doing or has done to the world can be reversed.
Venezuela is capable of being a democracy. The Venezuelan people are not assholes like the Russians are. It’s easier to create a democracy and a country that used to be a democracy. This brings me to Iran. Iran can be democratized. The Iranian people are not assholes. These are smart people and they are moral despite the depravity of Islam. The regime in Iran is about to fall. It is best for Iran and best for Nicaragua to be an ally of the United States. When Russia is demolished and there’s a significant decrease in the number of Russians in the world China will continue to weak and weaker at a faster rate. The Chinese people who are generally not assholes are fed up with their government. The young Chinese are so disgusted that they are saying something called Tang Ping which means let it rot.
It is more than likely that we can bring democracy to Venezuela and Iran. The question that remains is can we bring democracy to the United States of America.
Check out my substack. I don’t hold back and I don’t worry about offending people. MAGATS hate and fear my words.
Well done, read every word. Democracy in South America does not have a good history. Most of the countries from Mexico all the way down had a checked past. That circle of history has now befallen us with the worst excuse of a leader since we became a nation.
Given that we made it okay for 250 years, I guess it is our turn to have our version of Mussolini.
I will admit, our endeavors in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq have not resulted in Democracy. I hold little hope Venezuela will be much better. But without Maduro they have a chance they never had with him.
The United States caused a lot of trouble in South America back in the 50s and 60s. They orchestrated coups.
The United States and Britain screwed Iran with something called operation Ajax and operation boot where they started a crew to get rid of Iran’s democratically elected government. The reason was because Iran wanted more money for the oil. They were part of the Anglo Iranian oil company which is now BP or British petroleum.
There is always a petroleum spin to stuff that goes on in the Middle East and now Venezuela which has more oil in the ground thin Saudi Arabia.
If the people in Venezuela get the proceeds of the oil which actually belongs to them that would be a good thing.
The country with the highest per capita GDP is Kuwait. Kuwaiti citizens live like kings because they get huge stipends from the oil. Kuwait is a shit hole country because they entice people to go there to work and these people end up being slaves. They’ve been doing that to African women for a long time.
Kuwait was everybody as bad as Iraq and maybe worse. The Gulf wars were about oil. Saddam Hussein claimed that Kuwait was part of Persia and therefore part of Iraq. Maybe he was right.
Saddam Hussein was pretty much secular. Iraq had a population of Jews and Coptic Christians and they were tolerated. After the Muslims took over the government in Iraq the persecutions started and those people left.
The United States and Britain screwed Iran
Yes and Iran has been screwing the US and the entire middle east since 1979 as payback. 240 marines killed In Beirut had Iran's fingerprints all over it. While the Shah was not a nice guy, the standard of living in Iran under him was far better than it has been since 1979.
Given that fact, US intervention was not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. US development of the oil fields elevated the standard of living far above what it had been. Had the US not developed it, it may have fallen to Russia or China. If not Iran would have stayed poor. Given the disaster the IRGC has made of Iran, the US has been far better for Iran. They are now destitute and the US may well be their only salvation.
The world is an evil place. The US is the only power on the planet that gives a damn enough to face it. Those who believe we should just keep to ourselves and solve our own problems are naive. The rest of the world does not just keep to themselves and would do us in if we did not do what we do to contain them.
I’ve been eagerly awaiting today’s episode since the news broke Saturday morning.
He actually has no idea what he's doing. No one to tell him NO. What is our military thinking to follow such unlawful orders?
Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Pentagon. Soldiers unfortunately have to follow the orders of those above them. The concept they only have to follow "lawful" orders is more conjecture than reality. Any soldier who disobeys orders takes a huge risk to be punished and thrown out of service with a dishonorable discharge. They usually do not have the money or backing to fight it on their own. Even if they do win, they are a marked person will not get promoted and their careers will be cut short.
If you remember LTC Alexander Vindman was the US Army officer that reported Trump trying to extort Zelensky in 2019. Trump asked Zelensky to find dirt on Biden as a condition for US support to Ukraine. Vindman was removed from his job, not promoted and it ended with LTC Vindman kissing his career goodbye despite everyone knowing he was right. He could have just shut his mouth as most Trumpers do and been promoted. Instead he stood for what was right and see what that got him.
Congress needs to get back to work and jail the entire Trump administration for war crimes, and the many National Security & Constitutional laws they've broken.
The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974.
This is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself.
Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy."
This is about the petrodollar system that has kept America the dominant economic power for 50 years.
And Venezuela just threatened to end it.
Here's what really just happened:
Venezuela has 303 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.
The largest on Earth.
More than Saudi Arabia.
20% of the entire world's oil.
But here's the part that matters:
Venezuela was actively selling that oil in Chinese yuan. Not dollars.
In 2018, Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar."
They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil.
They were petitioning to join BRICS.
They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely.
And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.
Why does this matter?
Because the entire American financial system is built on one thing:
The petrodollar.
In 1974, Henry Kissinger made a deal with Saudi Arabia:
All oil sold globally must be priced in US dollars.
In exchange, America provides military protection.
This single agreement created artificial demand for dollars worldwide.
Every country on Earth needs dollars to buy oil.
This lets America print unlimited money while other countries work for it.
It funds the military. The welfare state. The deficit spending.
The petrodollar is more important to US hegemony than aircraft carriers.
And there's a pattern of what happens to leaders who challenge it:
2000: Saddam Hussein announces Iraq will sell oil in euros instead of dollars.
2003: Invaded. Regime change. Iraq's oil immediately switched back to dollars. Saddam lynched.
The WMDs were never found because they never existed.
2009: Gaddafi proposes a gold-backed African currency called the "gold dinar" for oil trade.
Hillary Clinton's own leaked emails confirm this was the PRIMARY reason for intervention.
Email quote: "This gold was intended to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar."
2011: NATO bombs Libya. Gaddafi sodomized and murdered. Libya now has open slave markets.
"We came, we saw, he died!" Clinton laughed on camera.
The gold dinar died with him.
And now Maduro.
With FIVE TIMES more oil than Saddam and Gaddafi combined.
Actively selling in yuan.
Building payment systems outside dollar control.
Petitioning to join BRICS.
Partnered with China, Russia, and Iran.
The three countries leading global de-dollarization.
This isn't coincidence.
Challenge the petrodollar. Get regime changed.
Every. Single. Time.
Stephen Miller (US homeland security advisor) literally said it out loud two weeks ago:
"American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela. Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."
He's not hiding it.
They're claiming Venezuelan oil BELONGS to America because US companies developed it 100 years ago.
By this logic, every nationalized resource in history was "theft."
But here's the DEEPER problem:
The petrodollar is already dying.
Russia sells oil in rubles and yuan since Ukraine.
Saudi Arabia is openly discussing yuan settlements.
Iran has been trading in non-dollar currencies for years.
China built CIPS, their own alternative to SWIFT with 4,800 banks in 185 countries.
BRICS is actively building payment systems that bypass the dollar entirely.
The mBridge project lets central banks settle trades instantly in local currencies.
Venezuela joining BRICS with 303 billion barrels of oil would accelerate this exponentially.
That's what this invasion is really about.
Not stopping drugs. Venezuela accounts for less than 1% of US cocaine.
Not terrorism. There's zero evidence Maduro runs a "terror organization."
Not democracy. The US supports Saudi Arabia, which has zero elections.
This is about maintaining a 50-year-old agreement that lets America print money while the world works for it.
And the consequences are terrifying:
Russia, China, and Iran are already denouncing this as "armed aggression."
China is Venezuela's biggest oil customer. They're losing billions.
BRICS nations are watching a country get invaded for trading outside the dollar.
Every nation considering de-dollarization just got the message:
Challenge the dollar and we will bomb you.
But here's the problem...
That message might accelerate de-dollarization, not stop it.
Because now every country in the Global South knows what happens if you threaten dollar hegemony.
And they're realizing the only protection is to move FASTER.
The timing is insane too:
January 3rd, 2026. Venezuela invaded. Maduro captured.
January 3rd, 1990. Panama invaded. Noriega captured.
36 years apart. Almost to the day.
Same playbook. Same "drug trafficking" excuse.
Same real reason: control of strategic resources and trade routes.
History doesn't repeat. But it rhymes.
What happens next:
Trump's press conference at Mar-a-Lago sets the narrative.
US oil companies are already lined up. Politico reported they've been approached about "returning to Venezuela."
The opposition will be installed. Oil will flow in dollars again.
Venezuela becomes another Iraq. Another Libya.
But here's what nobody's asking:
What happens when you can no longer bomb your way to dollar dominance?
When China has enough economic leverage to retaliate?
When BRICS controls 40% of global GDP and says "no more dollars"?
When the world realizes the petrodollar is maintained by violence?
America just showed its hand.
The question is whether the rest of the world folds or calls the bluff.
Because this invasion is an admission that the dollar can no longer compete on its own merits.
When you have to bomb countries to keep them using your currency, the currency is already dying.
Venezuela isn't the beginning.
It's the desperate end.
Of course our govt will subsidize the oil companies if they decide to rebuild which they do not want to do. The oil is low grade can't be refined for gas it will be expensive as f**k with the whole regime really still there and the mess they would find themselves entangled in politically why would they want to do that? This was Trump's impulsive move to payback for getting him elected....but if the costs are going to be subsidized ( probably the taxpayers ) then well maybe they give it a go...after all we do need more asphalt and lubricants (to help the sharp sticks go in a little less painful). This merely Trump trying desperately to fix his miscalculated blunder JC!!!!!
Trump and Hegseth have now committed more war crimes, attacking Venezuela without Congress approval. CONGRESS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ROGUE SO CALLED PRESIDENT, CONGRESS DO YOUR JOB, otherwise you won't have a country left to govern.
Trump has totally destroyed America's reputation in the world.
And is destroying the lifes of Americans. Trump and his administration have gone rogue. CONGRESS SORT THIS OUT.
He has us talking about a war rather than the Epstein files.
Release all the files now.