there's not a god damn thing wrong with socialism
any government of the people, by the people, and for the people is going to involve socialism

11/30/2025 11:00:12 AM

there are many different ways to construct a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" not all of which involve socialism, whatever your definition of socialism may be

i think we should all be able to agree though that if venezuela is a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" then it hasn't worked out too well.

11/30/2025 11:47:09 AM

Agreed. And we alone can fix it!

11/30/2025 12:00:56 PM

i think china should fix it

11/30/2025 12:11:42 PM

Thank you, no. I do not support the work of imperialist stooges.

11/30/2025 1:30:45 PM

They definitely are going to do war before 2028

12/10/2025 3:14:55 PM

(US Navy seizes oil tanker off Venezeula coast. Probably lots of drugs in it. Definitely not oil)

12/10/2025 3:29:45 PM

The terrorists are putting drugs in the oil! 'Cause that's just how your hardcore commie works!

12/10/2025 3:58:46 PM

Bombing them now

1/3/2026 2:57:17 AM

Maduro abducted and flown out of the country.

1/3/2026 6:23:01 AM

What the fuck

1/3/2026 7:16:56 AM

Maybe this will end up being a good result, but I'm sure it won't give cover / justification for other powerful regimes to do whatever they want just because they can.

Nobel Prize coming up!

1/3/2026 7:24:45 AM

Random tweet from 3 months ago.

https://x.com/TMTLongShort/status/1982190436677792021

Quote :

" You fly into Caracas abduct Maduro and bring him back to Washington for a show trial for drug trafficking and killings Americans with fentanyl. On the way out you kill every high-ranking member of the existing VZ admin clearing the way for an over-night regime change. Now Canada exports to the U.S. roughly 3.5m barrels of oil per day much of which is heavy crude. Meanwhile VZ only exports a little under 1m bpd due to severe under investment post sanctions all of which goes to China. So overnight you have gained four levers. 1. You have now scared the shit out of Petro in Colombia and Mulino in Panama and to a lesser degree Lula in Brazil. That has benefits as we approach decoupling. 2. You have now scared the shit out of the narcos. This has obvious benefits regarding forcing a mix shift away from fent. 3. You now have a lever against China by controlling an important client state and source of commodities. 4. You now have a lever against Canada by threatening to invest in and divert heavy crude from Venezuela if Trump decides to crush the Canadian economy to push out China. "

Russian media saying US agreed not to intervene in Taiwan.

1/3/2026 7:26:25 AM

Cool

1/3/2026 9:07:14 AM

China could take Taiwan if they really wanted to

Now we need Greenland

Got his wife too. Someones 50 million dollars richer i think, someone on the inside gave him up

[Edited on January 3, 2026 at 9:15 AM. Reason : Add another speculation]

1/3/2026 9:07:59 AM

Per nyt

Quote :

"A C.I.A. source within the Venezuelan government monitored the location of Nicolás Maduro in both the days and moments before his capture by American special operation forces, according to people briefed on the operation. The American spy agency, the people said, produced the intelligence that led to the capture of Mr. Maduro, monitoring his position and movements with a fleet of stealth drones that provided near constant monitoring over Venezuela, in addition to the information provided by its Venezuelan sources. It is not clear how the C.I.A. recruited the Venezuelan source who informed the Americans of Mr. Maduro’s location. But former officials said the agency was clearly aided by the $50 million reward the U.S. government offered for information leading to Mr. Maduro’s capture. In his confirmation hearing last year, John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director, promised he would lead a more aggressive agency, one willing to conduct covert operations to both collect information and advance American policy. President Trump authorized the C.I.A. to take more aggressive action last fall, and then in November approved planning and preparation for a series of operations in Venezuela. In late December, the C.I.A. used an armed drone to conduct a strike on a dock that U.S. officials believed was being used by a Venezuelan gang to load drugs on to boats. One of the people briefed on Mr. Maduro’s capture said it was the product of a deep partnership between the agency and the military and involved “months of meticulous planning.” While the C.I.A. played a critical role in planning and carrying it out, the mission was a law enforcement operation by the U.S. military’s special operation forces, rather than operation carried out under the agency’s authority."

1/3/2026 9:27:44 AM

Isn't most of the fent that comes into the US from Chinese precursors that's made in Mexico? How will this have any impact on that?

1/3/2026 9:28:58 AM

FAFO

1/3/2026 11:37:15 AM

Trump says Rubio talked to Venezuela VP, indicates they think they are going to go along with what we envision. VP is who gave up Maduro i bet

1/3/2026 12:23:30 PM

This seems like a complete disaster in the making

1/3/2026 12:24:55 PM

"We're in the oil business"

- Trump

1/3/2026 12:26:42 PM

Quote :

"“I voted for him to get rid of all the woke stuff,” one man says, “but now that retarded faggot is just putting money in his own pockets."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/south-park-skewers-a-satire-proof-president

1/3/2026 12:43:35 PM

A lot of his supporters got conned by a con man. SAD!

1/3/2026 12:45:12 PM

Quote :

"Isn't most of the fent that comes into the US from Chinese precursors that's made in Mexico? How will this have any impact on that?"

Yeah. This will have no impact on fentanyl coming into the US.

1/3/2026 12:55:30 PM

this has absolutely nothing to do with drugs

1/3/2026 12:57:18 PM

It was almost comical how this was always framed around drugs and in that hour long press conference the focus was strictly on oil

1/3/2026 12:58:29 PM

“All of these actions were in gross violation of the core principles of American foreign policy, dating back more than two centuries,” Trump said. “Not anymore.”

Cool [\s]

1/3/2026 1:06:37 PM

IBTBlowback

1/3/2026 1:14:37 PM

https://x.com/michaelmalice/status/2007505315936522322

HEY DONALD TRUMP

????????????
Maybe focus on deporting Venezuelans from America instead of importing Venezuelans to America!
????????????

1/3/2026 1:59:37 PM

https://x.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1090079510291197952

Quote :

"It’s about the oil … again. Bolton just exposed real motive for intervention in Venezuela: "We're in conversation with major American companies now...It would make a difference if we could have American companies produce the oil in Venezuela. We both have a lot at stake here.""

1/3/2026 2:08:58 PM

Quote :

"if you are talking today about how bad maduro was and were alive, at all, during the run-up to the iraq war you are potentially the dumbest person to ever live"

1/3/2026 2:55:46 PM

Quote :

"Sidestepping criticism of the raid and whether there was any legal justification for his administration’s actions, Mr. Trump said that Democrats who criticize him should commend the effort. “They should say, ‘Great job,’” he said. “They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh, gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’”"

Great job

1/3/2026 3:17:34 PM

Quote :

"HEY DONALD TRUMP ???????????? Maybe focus on deporting Venezuelans from America instead of importing Venezuelans to America! ???????????? "

I've always wondered if that's part of what this is all about: Nation-building Venezuela so that Venezuelans will stop coming here and/or go back home.

[Edited on January 3, 2026 at 4:16 PM. Reason : ]

1/3/2026 4:16:28 PM

imo that's certainly a big part of where this all started

[Edited on January 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM. Reason : saddam was bad for Iraq and maduro was bad for Venezuela. It's ok to say it]

1/3/2026 4:21:36 PM

Ignoring the legality of this, the prudence of this, and how likely we are to supremely fuck up the day-after and day-after-tomorrow of this...

I am impressed that we were able to pull off what we did, militarily. I didn't realize this, but they had a number of SA-23 SAMs. That is an extremely bad-ass, no-joke air defense system. I've been out of the counter-IADS and SEAD game for 15 years now, although still tangentially informed about it. I've studied stuff at the SECRET/NOFORN level as recently as a couple of years ago, but I haven't been read-in at the TS/SCI level in a long time.

I would have assumed that we could roll back a modern IADS like that, for sure. I am impressed that we were able to either destroy or suppress it thoroughly and immediately enough to insert and exfil a ground force (who are much more vulnerable--they can't get tier-1 units in and out of there with F-35s and B-2s and standoff weapons), with the whole thing taking only a couple of hours.

Quote :

"saddam was bad for Iraq and maduro was bad for Venezuela. It's ok to say it"

I don't think anyone has ever really argued otherwise.

[Edited on January 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM. Reason : ]

1/3/2026 4:25:27 PM

We had to have bought someone on the inside and had help. It went off too flawlessly

1/3/2026 4:29:18 PM

^ Art of the Deal?!

1/3/2026 4:34:51 PM

Quote :

" Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, put on a display of force and unity in a live address to the nation, sitting with powerful military officials and other key government leaders as she denounced the United States. As she introduced each figure on live television, they nodded toward her in a show of deference as she demanded that Maduro was the rightful president of Venezuela. The display of force and unity undermined President Trump's earlier comments that Washington would work with Rodríguez to run Venezuela. "

Nytimes reporting

^^^^^
That was the Harris Biden policy. Help our neighbors be stable so we don’t have refugee crises. Historically deposing a leader dramatically worsens refugee crisis and likely will happen here. That’s what I was suspecting as the weird Argentina policy— they’re paying them preemptively to absorb refugees.

1/3/2026 4:40:41 PM

While UN security council meeting was never officially on for tomorrow, thats what I kept hear as when it would happen. Now they say Monday. Seems like everyone wants to see how this shakes out.

1/3/2026 5:13:46 PM

at least 40 people killed during the attack, including civilians

1/3/2026 6:37:03 PM

The neighboring country of Venezuela

Quote :

" The Government of Guyana continues to monitor the developments in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro by the United States of America in Venezuela. Stability, respect for law, and democratic transition are critical to the future of Venezuela and the broader Americas. In this regard, Guyana supports efforts that uphold democratic norms and ensure that the region remains a Zone of Peace. The Government of Guyana welcomes the leadership of the President of the United States in reaffirming shared commitments to freedom, democracy, and regional security. We look forward to constructive engagement in Venezuela’s next chapter in the interest of all Venezuelans. "

1/3/2026 8:33:15 PM

^Seems like Guyana, and a lot of our key European allies are basically going along with us and phrasing it in a way that the idea of regime change is settled...what is important is that the transition is orderly.

1/3/2026 8:41:38 PM

^ I read it as more of a “wtf is this shit” type of response. As in “if you keep effing this up, the regional instability is going to be bad for everyone including you ”

1/3/2026 9:07:55 PM

Quote :

"We had to have bought someone on the inside and had help. It went off too flawlessly"

I mean, we basically always have that. If you had to name one main, most core mission of the CIA, that's probably it.

Also the Department of State touches that, and even a few pieces of JSOC do, too.

1/3/2026 9:30:18 PM

Happy New Year

1/3/2026 10:13:50 PM

Saw a post suggesting based on past Trump charge attempts, they could botch something and Maduro gets acquitted

1/3/2026 11:09:04 PM

probably

Quote :

"I read it as more of a “wtf is this shit” type of response."

what??

Quote :

"The Government of Guyana welcomes the leadership of the President of the United States"

it is in no way surprising to me (and i would think should especially be to you moron) that guyana is glad that the guy who threatened to invade and annex them not too long ago is no longer around. your post just seems like another example of "everything trump does must be evil so we will warp our interpretation of every current event to confirm that mindset"

[Edited on January 4, 2026 at 1:03 PM. Reason : it's really, actually ok to say it's good that maduro is gone]

1/4/2026 12:35:17 PM

^ Guyanese are not happy about this. It was actually Maduros opposition (the Nobel peace prize winner) that was pushing for invading Guyana even more than Maduro. And the statements of this being about oil after Guyana just started drilling is making people nervous. That statement is diplomatic, they can’t say trump is a moron because they need American oil companies, who currently run the oil drilling operations, to keep doing that, as well as America to keep selling them weapons. But the emphasis in rule of law and democracy clearly have a subtext that they don’t like the actions. Stability is better than chaos. Guyana has also been dealing with a migrant crisis and this is expected to make this worse.

1/4/2026 1:37:40 PM

Quote :

"But the emphasis in rule of law and democracy clearly have a subtext that they don’t like the actions"

This just seems so delusional to me

Quote :

"your post just seems like another example of "everything trump does must be evil so we will warp our interpretation of every current event to confirm that mindset""

1/4/2026 1:44:15 PM

If they agreed with the action they would have said so. It would have been more direct praise than aspirational. This makes everything worse for Guyana from what it looks like now— why would they like it? For some additional context I was born in Guyana and keep up with their politics and social media.

1/4/2026 2:01:38 PM