If the goal in Venezuela is to have U.S. control of the oil, then we will not be supporting a democracy there. No oil companies are going to invest in a politically unstable environment. They don’t want their investments dependent on the next election. Dictatorship will remain.

What people fail to grasp is that we are not headed to a dictatorship, we are already living in a dictatorship. Even though Trump swore to uphold the Constitution, no one can enforce it except for him. Courts can file injunctions, Congress can pass laws. But they have no policing force.

Why did Steve Bannon follow me? I just blocked him.

Until I moved to Bluesky, I didn’t know outrage farming and hyperbole was also a thing of the left. Are they Russian bots, or is it that we have lost the ability to reason?

Drones. Flightradar24, Plane Finder and FlightAware are apps you can download to your phone. You simply aim your phone at the aircraft and it identifies it, day or night. Based on the aircraft’s location beacon. It also will identify large commercial drones. It won’t identify small hobby drones.

With people cheering the vicious murder of a CEO, I find myself blocking as many people on Bluesky as I did on X. Do we now cheer, condone, or excuse the murder of every insurance CEO?