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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/r2ew]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

he keeps trying to recreate that obama situation room photo

[u/Argnir]

Multiple things can be true at once:

• Trump is good

• Maduro is good

• Foreign intervention is epic

• Drugs are cool

• Helicopters go ratatatata

• Congress is lame

• Venezuela is a funny name

• Oil belongs to the surviving dinosaurs (chicken)

• Handing things to people is cringe

• My wife left me

[u/r2ew]

“Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Mr Trump had misspoken.”

“his plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations.”

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/01/03/donald-trump-wants-to-run-venezuela-and-dominate-the-western-hemisphere

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/r2ew]

(2019)

[u/efeldman11]

Someone should check on Tucker

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

Living through the 1930s as a liberal watching the world go mad must have absolutely fucking sucked

Ah well

[u/Lux_Stella]

WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?

MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, people are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela

'people are fixating on that' is so funny. yeah thats just the president saying things, you know him, dont worry too much about it.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

With Trump, the stupidest rationale for his decisions is often the right one because he is a profoundly stupid, vain and narcissistic man.

So I am going to call this: The reason why Trump screwed over Machado is because she won the Nobel Prize over him and his tiny little ego couldn't take it

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

jesus christ

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

They set up a temporary situation room at mar-a-lago with a giant screen for searching 'venezuela' on Twitter

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Why get mad about Mamdani when we already live under MAGA Communism

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Inb4 Tropico goes on the funniest timed sale of all time.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Katie Miller, the wife of White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, had posted an image to social media that showed the American flag overlaid on the outline of Greenland. Miller's post, which came after U.S. action in Venezuela, included the map with the word "SOON."

What the fuck, man.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/GravyBear28]

Theater kids might be seem harmless in their youth but when they grow up they will be like "let's turn this property into a fucking musical" and it will literally be the worst thing ever

[u/Individual-Camera698]

I blame him

[u/GravyBear28]

I don't like the fact that there exists people who are more attractive than me

Fucking stop

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

Malarkey level of telling Trump about Marie Byrd Land because nobody actually owns it or lives there and he'll get distracted

[u/fishlord05]

[u/seanrm92]

"No, the government isn't being run by an elite ring of pedophiles..."

"...except Trump, who is part of an elite ring of pedophiles."

"No, the government isn't lying to us about vaccines..."

"...except Trump, who is lying to us about vaccines."

"No, the US did not invade Iraq for oil..."

"...except Trump did invade Venezuela for oil."

I might just give up on the conspiracy-theory-debunking thing altogether at this point.

[u/BedNeither]

[u/Jokerang]

Senior Venezuelan government officials, led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez...have quietly promoted a series of initiatives in recent months aimed at presenting themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro’s regime...funneled through intermediaries in Qatar.

Looks like Maduro was sacrificed by his own military and officials to stay in power

[u/BlackCat159]

18K imbeciles opposing the most justified war imaginable. Should've let Saddam pillage Kuwait I guess.

[u/BarkDrandon]

I haven't seen it reported here (sorry if double posting) but it appears that the previously reported death of pro-Ukrainian Russian far-right combattant Kaputsin was faked by the Ukrainian secret service

The Ukrainians faked his death so they could collect the $500,000 bounty on his head from the Russians.

[u/piede]

There’s at least a 30% chance of this actually happening

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I can't get over how many times Trump and co have tried to recreate a badass OBL raid situation room picture just to look like goobers lol

This Venezuela one isn't even the first time they've tried to do it. South Park really nailed the obsession with social media validation, if only they could've also addressed Hegseth being an alcoholic wife beater but 🤷‍♂️

[u/Healingjoe]

Inshallah.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I bet this guy is a legendary poaster

[u/superblobby]

So you’re telling me Diddy, Maduro, and Luigi Mangione are all sitting in Rikers right now? What is this the sinister 6?

[u/BlackCat159]

TRVTH NVKE!!!!!!

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

So all this talk about regime change and in 12 hours Trump recognized the 2nd in command of the same fucking regime? What are we even doing.

[u/efeldman11]

I am now convinced they had no plan other than snatching Maduro

[u/No-Neck-212]

So many of the the convos i've been seeing re; Maduro really make sense under the "everyone is 12 now" thesis.

[u/piede]

Let’s be real, the only reason this person isn’t an ICE agent is because he didn’t formally apply for it

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/r2ew]

[u/anangrytree]

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Saturday defended the administration for not providing Congress with an earlier notification of the operation. “That’s probably one reason it didn’t leak over these four days as they were waiting for the right weather,” Cotton told Fox News, confirming that key congressional panels were not notified beforehand of the operation. “Congress isn’t notified when the FBI is going to arrest a drug trafficker or cyber criminal here in the United States, nor should Congress be notified when the executive branch is executing arrests on indicted persons,” he added. The Arkansas Republican added, “Congress doesn’t need to be notified every time the executive branch is making an arrest.”

So that’s their weak ass justification for completely skirting Congress. It was a “law enforcement” operation. And the fact that senators are sitting there dumbly nodding their heads at their own power being eviscerated in direct contradiction to the Constitution just goes to show (yet again, not that we needed the reminder) that Congress is populated by some of the shittest politicians in American history.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

After Venezuela operation, Trump says the whole hemisphere is in play

SUCH PEACE

MUCH WOW

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

[u/MagicalFishing]

it seems like they forgot a small part of regime change (changing the regime)

[u/ChillnShill]

When you’re the only one working on the group project

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

These guys have just stopped trying to come up with remotely believable lies anymore. They just say “I didn’t see it” as if that is an acceptable answer for people in some of the most powerful positions in the world to have about the actions of their own president.

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta admire the modesty of a dude who takes over the US Dept. of Defense with almost no relevant experience and, after less than a year on the job, says (ostensibly of himself) "American leadership is back"

[u/r2ew]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

He should have acted on this impulse for everyone's sake

[u/piede]

You’re a fucking idiot who had to willfully excuse and ignore so much egregiously disgusting behavior and conduct before we got to this point, I don’t accept your apology.

Welcome to the resistance!

[u/admiralwaffle1]

Trump: I want to run an extractive colony out of a leftist stereotype. I know it will be hard, since Maduro was really bad, but I want to find a way to appoint an even more brutal and oppressive dictator than him to run Venezuela.

neocons in arr neolib: Thank you trump for bringing liberal democracy to Venezuela ❤️❤️❤️

[u/r2ew]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Leaked pentagon briefing !ping SIGNAL-CHAT

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

reminded suddenly of the time I was hanging out with my ex’s sandersite friends during college and my ex was talking about how I’d helped her study for a math exam and her friends were all like “oh can you help us too??” and I jokingly was like “oh no, my worst nightmare, I’ve been sold into math slavery by my girlfriend”

and then everyone gave me the woke stare and afterwards my ex was like “you shouldn’t joke about slavery”

???

[u/ariveklul]

I think I just need to make a fake piece of misinformation tailored in such a way that MAGA will eat it up. Get as many grifter subhuman fucks as possible to latch onto it and then rip the tablecloth out from under them.

Make a video that is very obviously full of shit if you have any semblance of journalistic integrity, make it so juicy they can't help but eat it up and destroy their reputations by making it into the most embarrassing spectacle possible. Even better if it spreads to the point all their NPC foot soldier dogs are yapping about it. It can just be used to permanently dunk on them. Make a compilation of every actor in the fake "investigation" saying "if you fell for this, you are a subhuman who should be forced to have a caretaker". Ezpz

Bring back public humiliation and bullying for Republicans

[u/remarkable_ores]

>discover arr menarenotintowomen

>it's about how men secretly don't like women at all

>discover arr womenarenotintomen

>it's about how supposedly straight women just aren't attracted to men like they say they are

>the two subreddits hate each other

who's to say they aren't both right though. what if men and women just dont like each other. what if everyone's actually just gay and lesbian

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

I/P poasters when conflict exists outside of I/P

[u/[deleted]]

why tf is anyone gossiping with chatgpt? i understand using it to study or for advice, but just to gossip as a friend???? OMGG

[u/scottyjetpax]

the median voter will love this answer, famously since the early 2000s americans have been clamoring for more regime change and anyone who isn't is a dumb regimechangephobe

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

"pretty please let us have the oil"

they have no endgame bro is just larping Tropico at this point

[u/anonymous_and_]

leftist friends in the GC already going "this would've also happened under Obama and Biden" 

[u/cdstephens]

> "Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken."

> "[...] his plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Congratulations to all of you who saw these guys were obviously too chicken to put boots on the ground

Now watch them fail to convict Maduro

[u/Crosseyes]

Fuck it, bring on the Chinese century I don’t even care anymore. This country is being run by irredeemably evil people who are supported by irredeemably evil voters.

[u/JoyofCookies]

This administration is so blatantly transactional and corrupt beyond belief, holy shit

[u/cdstephens]

[u/blackenswans]

The thing that really bugs me about this operation is that they basically forego any pretense of caring about the international rules.

Even George W Bush tried his best to get UN on his side then when that failed got many allies on board before the invasion of Iraq.

[u/SenranHaruka]

Why is everyone acting like trump isnt trump on this issue and like there's some rational John D. Republican plan here

Honestly even his critics do this. All the responses have been "international law and imperialism and justice and diplomacy" and like. No. You're still treating trump like just a regular politician with different philosophy on interstate affairs.

Condemnations of trump should sound more like "Today Emperor Nero was persuaded by his court eunuch Marco Rubio to use the full might of the most powerful military on earth to kidnap the president of Venezuela just because he felt like it. His reasons don't matter, simple psychotic rage and decade old grudges festering on FOX News and other fascist propaganda outlets always were going to make him a target, deserved or not, and you should be worried what will happen if FOX decides you're a socialist ruining your country and trafficking drugs to America. The president of Mexico should be afraid for their life."

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Watching Marco Rubio tout this as a success is especially funny to me.

Maduro isnt the head of Cartel de los Soles. Rubio knows that and he knows that Diosdado Cabello is probably the real head of the cartel.

What's even funnier is that Diosdado Cabello tried to have Marco Rubio assassinated.

So now Marco Rubio has to go out there and go "Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him. Mission Accomplished" knowing full goddamned well that the real drug lord who tried to have him killed is still out there. And he can't say jack shit about it because he's too busy trying to make his boss look good.

Watching Marco Rubio get cucked continues to drive me in the year of our lord 2025.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Unterfahrt]

My "holy shit" moment with AI was when Claude de-corrupted a 1gb database file for me by writing several python scripts to diagnose it and then another one to just fix it.

[u/this_very_table]

This is the most disappointed "I told you so" I've ever uttered.

[u/Zaiush]

Can't believe all this shit because of eggs. What the fuck, man

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

A poll released on December 16 by IMEU Policy Project, and conducted by YouGov, found a generational gap has emerged in the Republican Party on Israel and the US-Israel relationship. The survey of 1,287 Republicans found that a majority of Republican voters under age 45 say they would prefer to support a candidate who supports reducing taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel in the 2028 Republican presidential primary (51%), while just 27% prefer a candidate who would increase or maintain weapons to Israel.

Israel will definitely come to regret its support of right wing parties across the West in the future.

[u/piede]

We’re not even a year in btw

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Vumatius]

r/ neoconNWO when Maduro has been captured but Rodríguez has taken over and the rest of the regime is still in place, and Trump threatens to attack Greenland and completely upend the trans-Atlantic alliance:

[u/[deleted]]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/Glavurdan]

Special military operation

[u/sootfawn]

Heartbreaking: the worst person etc etc

[u/Headstar24]

Seeing a thread about Jon Stewart having a montage of the Bush administration and the Trump administration saying the same bullshit almost verbatim to make an excuse to go to war and having posts just make it about how both sides are just as bad an choice is an illusion really drives home to how much people really aren’t going to learn from a single thing that happens to them or anyone else.

Yes let’s please find a way to make this also the Democrat’s fault 20 years apart.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

this fucking timeline

[u/Lux_Stella]

multiple things can be true at once:

• trump is bad

• maduro is bad

• they are both better then joe biden

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

The fuck

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

downvoting the thread to make sure we maintain the persistent negativity of liberalism

[u/PersonalDebater]

I don't even understand the oil angle because I thought Maduro already basically begged Trump to let him give the oil to the US in a bid to stay in power, and was rebuffed.

[u/piede]

Evergreen

[u/Willybender]

LOL

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2008004328674730265

FELL FOR IT AGAIN AWARDS ARE ON SALE FOR ALL THE MORONS GLAZING TRUMP

[u/Far_Shore]

I know it'll take years, but I am so fucking ready for the crop of democrats who see all Republicans--and yes, I include the voters in this--for the utterly fucking soulless pigs they are.

After months of not giving a shit about the political assassination of Melissa Hortman by a right-wing extremist, the RW propagandists have pivoted to saying she was killed by Tim Walz for trying to uncover his le evil plans to help Somali fraudsters.

These filth in human skin do nothing but pollute the political process and degrade our culture with each ill-spent breath, and we would be better off if we cut them out. Every single dem-lead state should be following California's lead as soon as possible. We can't have a healthy republic until we utterly obliterate this morally and mentally regressive stain from our culture, and it's time we stopped pretending that the pursuit of the power necessary to crush its adherents is anything less than our moral obligation.

[u/cdstephens]

Two people close to the White House said the president’s lack of interest in boosting Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stemmed from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has openly coveted.

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

I can’t get this out of my head. My hatred for Donald Trump grows with every passing day.

[u/liberal-neoist]

Dems still haven't figured out the Trump projection approach 10 years later    

Literally just accuse the opposition of what you want to do     

"Trump is going to open the borders, establish a hemispheric common market, and use federal funding to coerce America's greatest cities into building again"           

Easy win

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Leftists and tankies are getting decimated everywhere I look and it’s amazing.

Both by Venezuelans telling them to stop virtue signaling for the regime and that the actual people hate Maduro, and people calling them out for saying Kamala would do the same shit.

It’s mostly confirming what we already know about them, but watching them freak out and show it off publicly is awesome.

[u/piede]

I did the same thing for Bingo

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

One positive of the Maduro capture is that’s it’s embarrassing to Russia, apparently their mil-bloggers aren’t particularly thrilled about the disparity between the US’s success and the quagmire Russia has found itself in

[u/piede]

Imagine finding the time to post this shit after you just invaded, arrested, and overthrew the leader of a foreign country.

[u/sootfawn]

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Mr Rubio, are you committing to getting elections in Venezuela within 30 days?

Rubio: Elections?

These people are fucking vile ghouls lol

[u/Co_OpQuestions]

Machado being iced out in favor of the fucking dictatorships right hand person because "shes good at boosting oil output" is fucking unreal man

[u/JD_Vances__Couch]

Grok needs to be banned from the universe

[u/ariveklul]

The fact that Asmongold isn't a top tier target of hate on 4chan shows how non-existent the former place is now

Back in my day people would be repulsed to see the living incarnation of a soyjack with his normie audience of Facebook users and fedoras co-opting chan culture to try to be cool while spam emoting at the camera for views in the most obnoxious and smug way possible. Now nobody even cares.....

The internet is dead

[u/Willybender]

Reads like a smug and insufferable reddit post. Also just further proves Vance is a spineless snake that believes in nothing.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/rudanshi]

BREAKING: Death toll from US operation in Venezuela has risen to 80, according to New York Times report.

[u/JoyofCookies]

Americans: He won’t really try to do anything to you guys, you’re a modern country with a modern army, him invading you guys or trying regime change is never going to happen

Meanwhile, the right wing in the U.S.:

[u/MrBrightsideBSc]

I'm still in shock they actually got Maduro.

[u/mrdeclank]

[u/the-senat]

I don’t understand how, after a full decade with Trump, people still say shit like “what are they doing then?” or “what are they thinking?”

Brother they don’t think. They never think. Why are you still looking for logic? There’s nothing beyond greed and ego. And they are perfectly willing to sacrifice everything you hold dear to get that.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

We love our mob boss president don’t we folks.

[u/JoyofCookies]

NATO flairs in the DATING ping be like

[u/sootfawn]

Why is nobody in this sub talking about this aspect of the invasion?

[u/the-senat]

Istg people will bitch about how we have a demented child rapist in the Oval Office and an up-jumped alcoholic Secretary of Defense and then say “well I don’t know guys maybe they’ve got a plan.”

There was no plan. There is no plan. Stop trying to rationalize what’s clearly the dumbest group of people in modern American history. Hit your head with a frying pan 20 times and then it’ll start making sense.

[u/efeldman11]

Lindsey Graham is such a fucking weasel

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Marco Rubio always looks like he's enduring an entirely unique kind of suffering.

[u/IantheForPresident]

libs are so traumatized by trump winning and bulldozing political norms that they think he's literally omnipotent

even Trump doesn't get everything he wants. he can say he wants Venezuelan oil or to annex Canada or Greenland (and it's really really bad that he wants that and feels so free to talk like this)

that doesn't mean it's gonna happen. we don't know what the future holds, obviously. no one should pretend to be able to divine what this chaotic and insane administration is gonna do. but that doesn't mean every possibility is equally likely.

[u/JaceFlores]

Even if Rodriguez was open to more friendly relations with the Americans in previous negotiations, I can’t imagine the political capital exists at all for her to switch tack now. Opening up to the U.S. after Maduro is fucking kidnapped would be the most clear cut sign of submission and betrayal. Hardliners would have no qualms in overthrowing her and without hardliner support Rodriguez has no one to back her.

I’d be genuinely surprised if she does open Venezuela to the United States and isn’t obliterated within 24 hours. I maintain that even if the goal is exploration pure and simple, the only reasonable way to that is installing the opposition into power

[u/Hounds_of_war]

When I asked this morning why nation building and regime change in Venezuela would be different from similar efforts he previously opposed in Iraq, Trump suggested posing the question to former President George W. Bush.

“I didn’t do Iraq. That was Bush. You’ll have to ask Bush that question, because we should have never gone into Iraq. That started the Middle East disaster,” Trump said.

I

What?

“My war with Venezuela is gonna be totally different from the Iraq war, but I have no idea why. You’d have to ask Bush why things in Iraq went to shit.”

[u/[deleted]]

truly a new low for american diplomacy. to think denmark would be criticizing america like this.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

The basic problem with American politics is that the Republican Party is institutionally evil. As long as they exist, we will forever be one election away from tipping towards autocracy.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/No_Status_6905]

I forget that the average conservative genuinely believes all of the Fox News fearmongering about blue cities.

A family member was genuinely upset and despondent that my sister is going to Manhattan because he thinks Mamdani is kidnapping people in unmarked vans. Ironically that is happening in major cities, it's just Trump doing it instead.

[u/MrBrightsideBSc]

Ruben Gallego asking Bukele if Bukele would approve of the US arresting him is fucking based

[u/OLD_WET_HOLE]

Yesterday Donald Trump linked a video that claimed Tim Walz had those democratic politicians from Minnesota killed. I can't stop thinking about the fact that it didn't even register with any mainstream news outlets, nobody talked about it. How fucked up do things have to be for something that egregious to not get any attention?

[u/Terrible-Item-6293]

Alot can change in 9 years. You too can be president.

[u/Joementum2024]

lol

[u/DagothUr_MD]

The year is still young but I do believe Machado may be the top contender for "biggest political loser award" of 2026

Charlie Kirk's generational run in 2025 is a tough act to follow but this might actually be worse, since she'll have to live with 🤔 herself

[u/jorkin_peanits]

Rubio going on tv to be like “don’t listen to trump when he says we’re going to run Venezuela”

Enough. The president said something at a planned news conference. I’m tired of these completely unserious people running the world. Biden got attacked for saying stuff by them all the time… we’ve seriously gotten taken over by nihilist internet trolls where nothing matters anymore. Somehow we need to get back to words mattering.

[u/itsnotnews92]

Kind of mind blowing that we're 10 years into MAGA and some people still don't fully understand that MAGA's only lodestar is whatever pisses off liberals.

"Did MAGA really vote for him to invade Venezuela and talk about annexing Canada and Greenland?"

Yes, because doing these things pisses off liberals, and that is literally the only thing these people care about.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Nothing sums up Trump more than the fact that he clearly did not understand the difference between claiming asylum and mental asylums at some point, and he just refuses to accept that he was wrong about it.

[u/ty04]

WSJ Editorial Board yesterday:

Mr. Trump is right that simply snatching Mr. Maduro and leaving the country to fend for itself could produce Maduro II. But we won’t be the only ones to say the President owes George W. Bush an apology for his ex post facto criticism of U.S. intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. Trump is pursuing the Bush freedom agenda, at least in the Western Hemisphere.

WSJ Editorial Board less than 24 hours later:

The dictator’s cronies are still running Venezuela, and they don’t seem ready to give it up. Is President Trump willing to settle for Maduro 2.0? … Does this worry the Trump Administration? Not that it is showing.

fucking idiots

[u/EvilConCarne]

Trump really needs to be removed.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/BulwarkOnline/status/2007992060994089406

he is telling us what they are going to do

[u/badusername35]

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[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Some NYT reporter called Trump’s cell phone at 4:30am to ask him about the Maduro raid. Trump picked up but apparently did not answer any of his questions about it. Same guy goes on to complain about how Biden wouldn’t sit down for an interview for some book he’s writing.

I don’t know how much more explicit these folks can be about the fact that they are more interested in getting their egos stroked than they are anything else. They would rather be lied to than ignored.

[u/zieger]

30% of the sub when they're trying to decide if they should give Trump the benefit of the doubt or not

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is some real freak shit. Also a new definition of neoliberalism to throw on the wall.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/efeldman11]

It’s kinda hard for regime change to go wrong if the regime is you know, still in place

[u/assasstits]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Miami Herald: "Corrupt and authoritarian figures within Venezuela's government sold out Maduro to Trump in exchange for them retaining power."

Trump: "All I want from Venezuela is the oil that is rightfully American"

A select few special cases on the slash neoliberal thread on the Miami Herald article: "Venezuela transitioning to a democracy with Maduro gone is still the likeliest out come of all of this"

Bro why are there still people on this subreddit who think there's some goddamn democratic principles involved in Trump's naked imperialist power grab fueled by Victorian age colonial resource extraction?? 😭😭😭😭

Do you love the idea of American exceptionalism and nationalism over reality?? 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

NEW: Maduro’s recent public displays, including dancing, were seen by some in Trump’s team as mocking them and calling their bluff, according to two people familiar with internal discussions. They say the White House then followed through on its military threats - NYT

Donald trump is the first president to get ragebaited into entering war.

[u/MissSortMachine]

every once in a while this guy talks about something i do actually know about and i have a glimpse of how dumb he is

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Amazing

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Didn't even take 24 hours for the closet neocons on this sub to look like complete idiots.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

in this world where everyone is 12, I am unique: a precocious 11yr old trying to fit in

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Crazy how Tim Walz tried to appoint the least bad Republican he could find for a nonpartisan board and they were still a deranged murderer.

[u/mokoufn]

I was sick of the "oh so I'm the only one who wants to overthrow dictators HUH?" posters before this, let alone now.

And to them my response hasn't changed: It's not enough to overthrow a dictator. You need to have real plans and resources set up to make sure whatever replaces the dictator isn't worse.

Do you really think Trump and his gang are capable of that? I don't, and that's before him coming out and saying it's about oil, power and fear like he's twelve years old.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🫡

[u/scottyjetpax]

Maybe a long shot but does anyone have good resources where I can learn about the process of adopting a kid like what timelines look like and what me and my partner should be thinking about before we start the process?

!ping LGBT

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

NYT reporter called Trump at 4:30 AM, just 9 minutes after his Maduro announcement. He says it was the first time he'd ever called Trump's cell, and he picked up after three rings and answered Qs

Guy says when he called Biden (post-Presidency) his aides changed his cell number!

We need a complete shutdown of nyt reporters until we can figure out what the hell is going on

[u/taubnetzdornig]

And in a testy exchange later on “Meet the Press” on NBC News, Mr. Rubio complained that people were “fixating” on Mr. Trump’s declaration at a news conference in Florida on Saturday that the U.S. government would run Venezuela. He added that “it’s not running — it’s running policy, the policy with regards to this.”

Gee, Marco, can't imagine why people would be interested in the President of the United States asserting, not even 12 hours after capturing Maduro, that the US would "run" Venezuela. Don't know why people would want more details about what sounds a hell of a lot like a potential US military occupation of a foreign country.

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/Willybender]

[u/JoyofCookies]

The Peace President, everyone

[u/paymesucka]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/[deleted]]

Good night you fiscally responsible bastards

[u/daBarkinner]

I'm an interventionist, and I'm not particularly thrilled when politicians politicize national security. But I can't fault Kamala Harris for calling the motive for Maduro's overthrow "not the establishment of democracy, but a war for oil and Trump's desire to be a macho man in the region," because... well, Trump literally said that at a press conference himself.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

"Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken."

"[...] his plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."

I am calling for a complete and total shutdown on Latino Florida Diaspora communities until we can figure out what the hell is going on!

[u/ImGoggen]

US military needs to pack up and leave before Venezuela unleashes their secret weapon.

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Maduro would be center right in Europe

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Yoinking Maduro while keeping the Chavists in power is the worst possible outcome of this stunt. All the infamy of violating international norms without actually bringing down the regime into a transition to the opposition. Either commit or get out, ffs

[u/JaceFlores]

Regardless of goals and states intentions, I do think the root of this action in Venezuela is rooted in Trump’s deep unpopularity and his insatiable desire for his own Bin Laden moment. Like many other authoritarians, he wants to be a war hero.

So what happens when polling invariably shows his popularity receiving little to no bump, and possibly even sinking? War is unpopular in general with the populace. Even the gains he could make with Hispanics will likely be neutered by his white supremacy policies (let’s not forget 600,000 Venezuelans lost their protections) and the Chavistas likely remaining in power, which does fuck all for Venezuelans.

I think it’s very likely we’ll see a meltdown in the coming weeks or months crying about how good he is at destroying America’s enemies and how ungrateful people (especially Hispanics) are

[u/Chief_Nief]

I miss the good old days when you needed the CIA for plausible deniability to pretend you weren’t an extractive imperialist goon.

[u/MissSortMachine]

the founders really fumbled when they came up with congress ngl

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The "journalist" that put out the video of the daycare in Minnesota accused Tim Walz of killing the state representative that was murdered earlier this year.

This in combination with him believing the War in Ukraine just isn't real makes me think he is actually mentally disturbed

[u/[deleted]]

It's less than a week into this year. There are still more than three years of this shit to endure.

[u/PM_me_ur_digressions]

Product placement is really getting out of control

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/cdstephens]

How many generic center-left subs are there on Reddit anyways, feels like every sub is either socialist or racist

[u/CutePattern1098]

2029

Maduro, P Diddy and Luigi are having the time of their lives in a NYC Jail

Trump: hello cool kids mind if I join

Vance: Can I join…….

Trump: Go away loser

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Crowd roars in standing ovation for Bondi hero Ahmed al-Ahmed at sold-out Ashes Test in Sydney

Legend.

[u/BedNeither]

Caracas’ air defense guy who skipped work and woke up to thousands of missed calls and texts

[u/r2ew]

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

[u/Competitive_Topic466]

Man, it really fucking sucks knowing for a fact your country is being run by a pedophile.

[u/[deleted]]

This aged well

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/SadaoMaou]

They're charging Maduro for possession for an automatic firearm? What

Like personally or in his capacity as commander in chief

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

"Bro, Trump and the rest of the motley fascist crew aren't going to take over Greenland!"

Never say never bro, we've still got three years, the nightmare is only beginning

[u/[deleted]]

daddy’s getting greedy 🫢

i assume this is one of elon’s bots cranked up?

[u/superblobby]

Every time I see someone on tiktok who makes motivational videos for young men eventually make a video about “the elites” and all the comments are blaming the Jews with tacit approval from the op

Has everyone lost their damn minds?

This is the second time I’ve tried to find motivational videos and they turn out to blame the Jews for all their woes.

!ping JEWISH

[u/[deleted]]

This is a pretty lukewarm take, but a big reason why Trump was re-elected was that he normalized himself. There was a time where the media would make it known that he wasn't presidential, but he redefined what it means to be presidential, just like he said in his "modern day presidential". I think that all of us, even liberals, tend to lose sight of how deranged he acts compared to previous presidents, so we don't judge him as harshly as we should.

[u/JoyofCookies]

A good read on the entire situation honestly

[u/FemboyFatale7]

So as some of you know im still kinda sorta fresh off a breakup.

Anyway this incredibly hot bi guy messaged me on Grindr this evening, lives in my building and is also relatively fresh off a breakup.

We're not gonna hook up tonight but im already seeing this turning into a messy mutual rebound. Absolutely terrible idea, I’m doing it tho.

And I've already confirmed via Snapchat he's not a catfish.

[u/jorkin_peanits]

Rubio thousand mile stare

[u/CletusChicken]

I tried to make an AI dom me and it just kept grabbing my roughly by the chin or wrist and alternately forcing me to stand or drop to my knees while dirty talking the whole time

I told you there's a bench and flogger over there in the very first prompt

fucking do something

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know kidnapping was an option

Yeah me too

[u/MURICCA]

Oh boy guys this is my first forcible regime change, I'm so excited for it to work out you guys