Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

So when can you start

End of Week 84. New Year's Eve-related backtracking for the week 🤪 But still down for the rolling 30-day window

I agree trump does not want to get drawn into a theater deployment and occupation that leads to a drawn out big boy war-war, I just think he has a stronger chance than most of accidentally or incompetently stumbling into one, which is one of many reasons to oppose his Venezuela shitshow

“Lazy warmonger” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The significant part of it for Americans is going to be recognizing the role the republican party as currently constituted plays in the alliance of global antidemocratic forces

T.'s ASK ME ANYTHING MEGATHREAD January 2026 *** Just realized I never did a December AMA, so firing up the January one 🤪 Only at-most-37 months left in Donald Trump's presidency. AMA! Q&A will be added to the thread as quote-skeets

Man eats a flight of McDonald's sandwiches for every meal and is very proud that he can remember what a horse is called, we're not looking at a thousand-year reign of the God-Emperor of Dune here

Total regular Army, Marine and NG forces in US are maybe enough to hold down three major metro areas at once. And only if they're willing to go full Budapest 1956 in those cities -- which would result in some combo of Euromaidan and Romania 1989 in the rest of the country.

Once again begging people to volunteer for 1 (ONE) election cycle to understand how this works. Civics illiteracy continues to destroy this country

Insane flex apnews.com/article/zohr...

The “it’s too inconvenient to follow the Constitution” clause to the Constitution.

This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

I swear to god, a kid I went to high school with who was posting the “Harris will send me to war” memes reposted this with “we’re so back”

there are only three things that stop people this entranced with their own unearned perception of their own genius: removal from all power, the grave, or public embarrassment. and to be quite frank i have yet to see any americans good at satire

Trump's done some horrifyingly authoritarian shit, but he's done so as ineptly as humanly possible and lacks the resources to apply it evenly or follow up in a competent manner. This kind of doomerism is just stupid.

This is Rubio’s entire thing. He hopes this somehow scares the Cuban government into collapse.

Republicans will fall back to "Why are you defending drug lord Maduro?" And that will be the end of it.

we are all living out one old man's dementia dreams

they've declared victory even though they have achieved what is literally just a tiny tiny element of the purported aims. it's hard to even predict what happens next because this is so bizarre, it's like a kayfabe of a war

this is all so very dumb

Btw Making Things Great expressly just Whatever Trump Wants. It's amazing that the voters never understood this.

Okey dokey

The entire US military apparatus has operator brain syndrome and this is what happens when that happens.

Yes, I'm sure thr heavy handedness will end now that the intact regime is run by Diosdado Cabello and Vladimir Padrino.

Let me remind everyone that this Maduro indictment was cooked up by the people who had spent a year claiming Juan Guaidó was the real president of Venezuela in a desperate attempt to force Maduro out. It was a show indictment never intended to be tested in court. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

Congratulations to the latest presidential pardon recipient, Nicolás Maduro Maro.

Not that crazy IMO ➡️ The Republican-run Supreme Court has ruled the President can't be prosecuted for doing crimes in office ➡️ The Republican-run Congress has decided Trump's the boss and they are mere spectators Historically, tell a guy he's a god-king with no consequences and this is the result

WEEEEEEEE I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE I LOVE POWER VACCUMS I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N

Rod Blagojevich is really the skeleton key for how these bastards and everyone in their orbit views government. “I got this thing and it’s fucking golden” is the ethos at the top and it’s almost certainly percolating a permission structure downward.

honestly the only heuristic i use is that trump’s adhd is a strong determinant of what is going on. if he focuses attention on something the chances of it happening go up

as a final note this is part of why i have such a burning hatred for gamblers right now. you have to assume from here on out that everything admin does will be subject to insider trading of some sort

you think you’re being more informed or bearing witness, but what you’re doing is just satiating a need to feel information flow

its also why, imho, you should modulate your news consumption. there is a point past which more information won’t give you more than a weak “it depends” answer

but this is why stuff like him rattling sabers about greenland is not a joke

i know this is really hard to hear because it makes point to point predictions a mug’s game. you should treat trump like stock market. clear trends over time, but you won’t beat market day by day

i think that people really underestimate reality that 1) administration has no doctrine, it is really about a single, mercurial, and half-awake man 2) the administration is a constantly churning system with factions that rise and fall contextually 3) might not have happened if trump tower caracas

I feel like this gives too much ground. This wasn’t authorized by Congress and violated a whole host of policies and international law. The first question: is the Constitution the governing framework of this country or not?

Agreed. Should the United States be the Unilateral World Police? If the answer is "no," this needs a better justification than "he's bad" or "his election was tainted." (If the answer is "yes," then there's a huge list of far more dangerous leaders we are inexcusably leaving in power.)

Legendary graft, orders of magnitude beyond anything seen in this country before

This is just Florida

Barring that, he would appreciate being the Pigeon Czar.

I'm honestly shocked it took this long to happen. They have elevated "parental rights" above science & given them the ability to veto your child being alive. Get an abortion, they will chase you to the ends of the earth. Infect a preschool & put them in the ICU... gods will.

Grim www.themirror.com/news/us-news...

even just a return to the marginal tax rates of dwight d. eisenhower—who judging by this chart must have been a hero of global communism—would be an enormous improvement over the status quo

Letting billionaires buy whole elections is a threat to the security of any nation where it might happen. It’s bad! It’s like hackers and cholera!

This kinda reminds me of the time somebody yelled at me that I shouldn’t call everyone I disliked a Nazi. And I pointed out that I was literally talking about someone with SS tattoos, and dude said “Okay, but the Nazi label still gets tossed around too much.”