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paleotn

(21,522 posts)
1. Like I mentioned earlier, these morons never think ahead.
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:22 PM
Yesterday

Good luck trying to prosecute Maduro in SDNY. That's going to be a complete shit show and a complete fail. Did we think this would be anything BUT a shit show?

Quixote1818

(31,119 posts)
5. He needed Epstein off the front pages
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:37 PM
Yesterday

It's clear there was no plan here. Aa Powell said, "You break it You own it". Unless they are ready for a war, there is no regime change. Everything Trump said, she contradicted and Rubio is going to have to answer for the shit Trump said she said. Rubio had his head down the entire news conference. He knows this is a shit show even though it's his baby. He knows it wasn't thought through.

paleotn

(21,522 posts)
7. So in addition to Epstein, who isn't going anywhere, he adds this total pile of steaming excrament!
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:45 PM
Yesterday

Old Napoleon adage...."When your opponent is making a mistake, don't interrupt. That's bad manners." Keep fucking it up, Donnie! You're doing grrrrrreat!

paleotn

(21,522 posts)
8. That is the only way to "run Venezuela."
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:47 PM
Yesterday

Perhaps it takes body bags flown into Dover AFB to break this wanker once and for all.

Picaro

(2,333 posts)
4. The charges against Maduro are beyond ridiculous
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:34 PM
Yesterday

The charges include drug trafficking—which will only be provable if SDNY starts allowing fabricated evidence.

But the one that totally takes the absurdity cake is that he was in possession of machine guns. The leader of another Souvereign country is going to be prosecuted for possessing weapons that are only illegal for individuals in the United States.

We are now going to prosecute leaders of sovereign nations for possessing weapons that they have every right to possess if they have a functioning military.

This is beyond what we did to Noriega. If our legal system proceeds to prosecute Maduro for violating domestic US law then that will be proof positive that we are in Soviet show trial mode.


hlthe2b

(112,782 posts)
6. "shit show" does not begin to cover this...
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 05:42 PM
Yesterday

He's damned insane and disgusting incompetents surround him motivated solely on greed, exploitation, lust for power, racism and hatred. (Speaking of you, Stephen Miller, among others).

Escurumbele

(4,015 posts)
9. For those of you who may not know who Delci Rodriguez is, besides the fact she is Venezuela's Vice-President.
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 06:02 PM
Yesterday

Delci Rodriguez has a a brother who is a big crook, just like her. Their father, Jorge Antonio Rodriguez, kidnapped a USA businessman in 1976, William Niehous, I believe William Niehous worked for CocaCola, he was released in 1979. The father was paid millions of dollars for the release of Niehous, and that is how that family made their first millions.

The rest of their fortune has been robbed from Venezuela. If I am not mistaken, she is in Russia at this time, and I hear she is there with all her millions, maybe billions.

For trump to leave that woman as Vice-President and ignore the legitimate winners, Edmundo Gonzalez and Maria Corina Machado, by a huge margin, the last election, is a sign that he is not serious about "regime change", he just needed Maduro removed to keep the show going and make people think that he is a liberator.

trump and minions just want to pilferage Venezuela's oil and natural resources. That is all there is about this action the USA did today.

BidenRocks

(2,753 posts)
10. Imagine
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 06:27 PM
Yesterday

Hegsbreath leading a squad into a photo op invasion.
Warfighters!

We all knew this was coming with a Dept. of War.

I'm waiting for Kosplay Kristi to show up.

yliza

(198 posts)
12. They always underestimate the women
Sat Jan 3, 2026, 08:14 PM
Yesterday

I started to type something very salty but now I’m just going to say that these morons in positions of power are so deeply embedded in their racist sexist bubble that they think everyone will just roll over for them. Yeah, and how did that work out in Iraq and Afghanistan? Anyone? Bueller? They are all really delusional and not nearly as smart as they think they are.

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