Inconvenient Truth?

"This isn’t the same as calling this a “war for oil.” It’s more an invitation to oligarchs to join in his conception, such as it is, of the future world order" ^^ a very important distinction

Hitler,Stalin, Ghengis Khan: Bedfellows to Trump and the USA. Ughh.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

👍 on the use of “This generation of Heritage (Foundation) interns…” 😚

STEWART: “Trump removed a dangerous foreign dictator from power — not THAT one, they’re actually friends (and quite frankly I think business partners)… not that one either…” 😬

Five years ago today, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, assaulting police officers, calling for Mike Pence to be hanged and hunting for Nancy Pelosi as they tried to reverse a presidential election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Jack Smith had enough evidence to convict Trump for inciting an insurrection and instead Trump was allowed to run out the clock, get a Supreme Court to grant him immunity, and was then inaugurated at the Capitol where he incited an insurrection on January 6, pardoning all who participated.

Tonight is the fifth anniversary of the Freedom Plaza rally that preceded the attack on Congress the next day. Here’s a story I wrote on Roger Stone’s role in that event and prior Stop the Steal stuff. (He missed January 6 because he got mad he wasn’t speaking.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Venezuela isn't about fentanyl or national security. It's about oil and Epstein.

The Truth about Venezuela.

We are a country whose Constitution, according to the Supreme Court, gives our own presidents immunity for crimes committed while in office, but we will prosecute presidents of other countries for alleged crimes and invade them to execute arrest warrants.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

“The democratic will of the Venezuelan people” is not even remotely a consideration of the Trump Admin. It is completely irrelevant to Trump.

Many Venezuelan-Americans were initially euphoric thinking Trump was liberating Venezuela from Maduro. Now, especially with Trump unceremoniously kicking Machado to the curb, they realize he only intended to liberate them from their assets and resources.

Nicolas Maduro is a monster. Among other things, he overthrew a presidential election that, deep down, he knew he lost. by Donald J. Trump

For those keeping track at home, so far in 2026—in just 85 hours—members of the Trump administration have threatened to invade or annex or otherwise attack the following countries: 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇮🇷 Iran 🇨🇦 Canada This derangement puts Kim Jong-un to shame.

The quid pro quo takeover for oil.

They will not go that route because they’d have to justify it as beneficial to the majority of Americans. Their resource theft is not meant to benefit the majority of Americans. It’s meant for the oligarchs.

America is a rogue and malevolent state and global bad actor

During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.

www.jefftiedrich.com/p/do-try-to-... “hey, remember that deal Donny made with oil executives back during his campaign? the one where he said ‘give me a billion dollars and I’ll take care of you’? well, here’s your quid for that bit of pro quo. it’s all so fucking corrupt...”

As the newsletter notes, Trump has been at Mar-a-Lago for two weeks and played golf on 10 of the last 14 days.

It’s darkly humorous he can’t even muster the ability to give some lip service to democracy or allowing the Venezuelan people to choose their leader.

An undeclared, unprovoked, and illegal war designed to, well, we can only guess—though Donald Trump and JD Vance have seemed to concede this was a war for oil—puts the United States on the same moral and legal footing as Russia, which invaded its neighbor in a war of pure aggression.

“It is a sickening irony that Pam Bondi—who has helped lead the Epstein files coverup to protect Trump and various other lawless actions—announced that Maduro and his wife ‘will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.’" open.substack.com/pub/america/...

So for months they have tried to blame the entire fentanyl crisis on Venezuela and the indictment only mentions cocaine, which they pardoned a different guy for weeks ago

And there it is:

Eager to see all the VenezEpstein files.

Look for the news media to speculate on how Trump will establish democracy in Venezuela without pointing out that he’s dismantling democracy in his own country.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

The thing about Venezuela is that we need to see the Epstein Files.

try to make sense of it

Under international law, this is unambiguously a war of aggression. There is no plausible pretext of self-defense. The objective is transparently to topple the government, install a surrogate of US liking, and to seize Venezuela's natural resource reserves. It exudes contempt for law in all forms.

The old man's health problems are going to catch up to him.

For most of our history, if you called the president a felon and a sex predator, you’d be making wild, unfair accusations. Now, you’re just repeating facts that were confirmed in court.

Never forget that Trump said his daughter Ivanka made him promise not to date girls younger than her. She was 17 at the time. He was in his 50s. Release the Epstein files – all of them.

Republicans did this. We must keep reminding people of that.

So roofers and landscapers and cooks are getting harassed and worse, while Russian-propaganda launderers are getting special visa treatment

JACK SMITH: “The attack that happened at the Capitol does not happen without Trump. The other co-conspirators were doing this for his benefit.”

Keep up the Tesla Takedown. Musk is a drain on society.

Some Trump supporters are willing to overlook him raising consumer prices as long as he keeps the personal cost of their racism low.

It is kind of wild that no big media outlet has busted open the story of who is making DHS' posts on X. Whoever that may be is certainly plugged into hardcore white supremacist internet propaganda with a harder edge. "Groyper" would be underselling it. This is Daily Stormer-tier sludge.

As Americans' thoughts turned to friendships, family, and the year ahead on New Year's Eve, President Trump raged online against Colorado, telling the Governor to "rot in hell."

Clarification hardly needed.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

"Please be kind enough to explain when and where and under what authority you gained access to this material.” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse & Sen. Dick Durbin write letter to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, asking how she's "read the Epstein files"

He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j