Daily Tech News 4 January 2026

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The US Invaded Venezuela and Captured Nicolás Maduro.

ChatGPT and the Perplexity search engine are here to help you understand why this is not only a bad thing, but absolutely did not happen. (Wired) (archive site)
"What's likely going on is a mix-up with real events that are often described in dramatic or misleading ways online. Here's what actually has happened:

What the U.S. did not do
❌ No U.S. military invasion of Venezuela
❌ No arrest or capture of Nicolás Maduro
❌ No overthrow of the Venezuelan government by U.S. forces
Maduro is still in power in Venezuela."

I have used Grok as an augmented search tool on occasion and it's often pretty good. When you don't know the exact name of what you are looking for it will match things up better than Google.

Sometimes it misses things or simply gets it wrong, but I haven't seen it get things this wrong. (Grok told me in answer to a poorly-worded question, "No, the US did not capture Nicolás Maduro today. It happened yesterday." which was true at least in my own time zone.)
"Pure LLMs are inevitably stuck in the past, tied to when they are trained, and deeply limited in their inherent abilities to reason, search the web, 'think' critically, etc.," says Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist and author of Taming Silicon Valley: How We Can Ensure That AI Works for Us. While human intervention can fix glaring problems like the Maduro response, Marcus says, that doesn't address the underlying problem. "The unreliability of LLMs in the face of novelty is one of the core reasons why businesses shouldn't trust LLMs."
This problem has been greatly alleviated by AI providers enabling live search, which loads fresh data into the context window - the AI equivalent of short-term memory.

But it can't be properly fixed without continual learning, which is an unsolved problem with LLMs.

Tech News

Intel's B570 graphics card is now selling for just $199. (Tom's Hardware)

It's not a high-end card, but it's competent and comes with 10GB of VRAM, the early driver issues that plagued the previous generation have been resolved, and, well, it costs $199.

If that's all you want to spend it's a solid option.
It looks like Intel's long awaited B770 graphics card - the high end model from the second generation - is finally on its way. (WCCFTech)

This has 16GB of RAM and 32 Xe graphics cores compared to 10GB and 18 cores on the B570 model and 12GB and 20 cores on the B580.

Nothing announced yet but look for it at CES.
Good time for it, because Nvidia's graphics cards are starting to run out at distributors. (WCCFTech)

The story cites an unnamed German distributor cancelling orders by retailers, saying that stock of the RTX 5070 is limited, and the 5070 Ti, 5080, and 5090 are not available at all.

Predictions were that price hikes and shortages would start from the low end, particularly the 16GB models of the 5060 Ti and 9060 XT, so this is a little surprising.

Nvidia of course does not care. It has long since ceased being a consumer-focused company.

(I've already ordered everything I need for at least three years that involves memory chips, but if you haven't, you might want to check for bargains while they last.)
Gigabyte has announced new AM4 motherboards for PC builders looking to upgrade everything except their DDR4 RAM. (Tom's Hardware)

These are minor but welcome refreshes, replacing some older features like DVI ports that were largely obsolete even five years ago with more modern DisplayPort, um, ports.
Tesla has released video demonstrating a Tesla Semi charging at 1.2MW. (Electrek)

Which used to be a lot.
Software craftmanship is dead. (PCLoadLetter)

Agile stuck in the knife. AI triggered the claymore.

(Great name for a blog there.)
Could 2026 usher in a 4 day workweek? (Yahoo Finance)

Betteridge's Law undefeated.
Shit's all fucked, yo. (Politico)

Google signed a deal with California's state crime syndicate to provide $250 million in joint funds to propaganda outlets.

In better news, nobody has received any money so far and it's unclear if anyone ever will.
2026 will be the year of AI on the desktop. (Tech Crunch)

This in particular stood out to me:
Humans don't just learn through language; we learn by experiencing how the world works. But LLMs don't really understand the world; they just predict the next word or idea. That's why many researchers believe the next big leap will come from world models: AI systems that learn how things move and interact in 3D spaces so they can make predictions and take actions.
This is what Terry Winograd's program SHRDLU did.

In 1968.
Eat the bug slop. Live in the pod slop. Own no slop and like it. (sn scratchpad)

Guess whose blog that is.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 04:01 AM (Ippjd)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

3 !!

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:02 AM (MXMX4)

4 Venezuela: ChatGPT versus Grok:

https://tinyurl.com/2s3s6dvm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 04:03 AM (Ippjd)

5 music is not, again....

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:06 AM (MXMX4)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 04, 2026 04:09 AM (gcUgZ)

7 I saw video unavailable open for The Cars in '85 at the Civic Arena.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 04, 2026 04:10 AM (gcUgZ)

8 Switched to another track by the same group which doesn't have a video but at least isn't blocked in North America.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 04, 2026 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

9 Of course, no mention of battery lifetime in that article. Also, no replacement cost. If it is 800-900kWh, that is going to be expensive.

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:15 AM (MXMX4)

10 Yeah, these aren't long-haul trucks. They're designed for specific intrastate routes where the specialised chargers are available.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 04, 2026 04:19 AM (BLOW1)

11 I have seen trucks burning (have been a commercial driver) from various causes and seen videos of electric cars burning. I shudder at the thought of 80,000 pounds of anything burning that can not be put out by conventional means.

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:20 AM (MXMX4)

12 Yes, short haul, fixed routes is the best use for those. But, there is still the disadvantages. How much does a battery pack of the necessary size weigh? More or less than the diesel weight?

Even on smooth roads, truck frames take a lot of damage over time. How much extra weight needed for strengthening of the body and battery section?

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:29 AM (MXMX4)

13 So "Perplexity" is no help at all. Strange that/ s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 04:30 AM (8Cor4)

14 Switched to another track by the same group which doesn't have a video but at least isn't blocked in North America.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 04, 2026 04:13 AM (BLOW1)
-

FYINJNA.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 04:30 AM (Ippjd)

15 Intro on the music sounds like the marble machine.

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:32 AM (MXMX4)

16 How can they be so abysmally wrong? Political biases? It's rather scary to consider what they think is misinformation.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 04:33 AM (8Cor4)

17 G'mornin' everyone!

two (count 'em! two!) degrees out there ... the fantasists at NWS say there will be freezing rain this afternoon.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 04:35 AM (Cjt/F)

18 I’m surprised we haven’t seen a 2026 resolution thread yet.

I’ll go first, I resolve to eat all of the frozen, cooked food I have stuffed in my freezer before I cook more and stuff in there for the new year.

It’s a sacrifice I have to make.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 04, 2026 04:35 AM (nljXp)

19 The hopium that business leaders are hooked on is way worse than any licit or illicit drug.

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:40 AM (MXMX4)

20 Piano cover of a mashup of two Christian songs- Gratitude & Nothing but the Blood. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/bd8mtrpm

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 04:49 AM (8Cor4)

21 Its practically noon time, well almost
G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Why is the group blocked?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 04:53 AM (8Cor4)

23 There's an
/emergency-special-edition-meme-post/
over at Sarah Hoyt's ...

if you're feeling a need for maduro memes ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 04:58 AM (Cjt/F)

24 i'm'a go getta cuppa coffee ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 05:05 AM (Cjt/F)

25 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at January 04, 2026 05:06 AM (AN2gy)

26 OK, I know what "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" came from, but I heard in the live reboot they skipped that plot element, so there was no "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" so I decided to skip the reboot.

It's sad because discovering that the people they were supposed to rescue were actually the bad guys was kind of a neat idea for a kid's show.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 04, 2026 05:06 AM (zT5mH)

27 >>> if you're feeling a need for maduro memes ...

Thanks! I never got to her site yesterday.

Posted by: fluffy at January 04, 2026 05:07 AM (AN2gy)

28
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 04, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

29 Making blanket statements about AI capabilities is a bold strategy.

They improve week-on-week. They're even starting to be a little bit creative in the way they solve problems.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 04, 2026 05:20 AM (1Nv0l)

30 29 Making blanket statements about AI capabilities is a bold strategy.

They improve week-on-week. They're even starting to be a little bit creative in the way they solve problems.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at January 04, 2026 05:20 AM (1Nv0l)

TANSTAFL... there aint no such thing as a free lunch

Where is ongoing revenue stream going to come from to support the infrastructure of AI?

Either they force companies to pay to use it... and maybe users...

Or, there is another revenue stream, just like they screwed up Basic Search engines, to pay for the 'Free product'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 04, 2026 05:32 AM (mP0Kj)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at January 04, 2026 05:36 AM (bQ4nt)

32 The title for this is odd. It says "Bible verses for discouragement" when it should say "Bible verses to help when you feel discouraged":

https://tinyurl.com/bdf5hp75

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 05:38 AM (oT1li)

33 Bible verses for discouragement

I wrote a whole book on that.

Posted by: Qohelet at January 04, 2026 05:41 AM (gKWVE)

34
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 04, 2026 05:42 AM (8cPJi)

35 Posted by: Qohelet at January 04, 2026 05:41 AM (gKWVE)

Yes, you did. Thanks. But it's not entirely gloomy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 05:46 AM (8Cor4)

36 >>>Could 2026 usher in a 4 day workweek? (Yahoo Finance)
Betteridge's Law undefeated.

People who write those headlines should be forced to read dozens and hundreds and thousands of headlines written in exactly that template--the way little Johnny used to be tasked with writing "I will not [whatever]" over and over on the blackboard--and then, maybe then, they'll knock it off.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 05:47 AM (RuTUS)

37 I wondered what AI would do to the Bible and scriptures. Can the geeks program context?

Language processing, yes, but the human condition?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at January 04, 2026 05:52 AM (nljXp)

38 30 Where is ongoing revenue stream going to come from to support the infrastructure of AI?

Posted by: Romeo13

Doesn't really matter.

OpenAI will be losing $74 billion a year by 2028 even if they hit their revenue targets.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at January 04, 2026 05:52 AM (BLOW1)

39 Kind Chinese boy carries his disabled friend to
School for six years:

https://tinyurl.com/yx74akjv

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 05:57 AM (8Cor4)

40 @ 38, that might be the most 21st-century-business-plan thing I've ever read, Pixy! It kind of restores my faith in the basic soundness of the global economy, if you know what I mean.
Thank you!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 05:58 AM (Cjt/F)

41 I worked 4 10 hour days for almost 2 years straight. absenteeism was rampant at that workplace. It's like constantly working 3rd shift.
Not for everyone.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at January 04, 2026 06:03 AM (G+z4C)

42 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Tea. And pai sho.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 04, 2026 06:06 AM (qbLEp)

43 Evening and morning to all the AoSHQ satellites on Earth and in space! (Yes, Titan, I know, your AI has concluded you are evil and has shut off your life support. We value your input and will address your concerns as soon as possible.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 04, 2026 06:07 AM (wzUl9)

44 Sunday, and here I am up with coffee. The cats are playing with the Christmas wrapping I used for Miss Linda's late present, a silver necklace she picked out on eBay. It arrived on Saturday, and I did not think I should just hand her the envelope, so I boxed it and wrapped it. The furry thugs get to play with the paper. Everybody's happy.

It's 58 F. outdoors, a bit of wind, but manageable. I'll go work out in a while after I feed the monsters. What's ever'body doin'?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 04, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

45 Now it is noon.
Been up at 3:30ish Jan1,2 and 3

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 06:10 AM (Ia/+0)

46 OK, I know what "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" came from, but I heard in the live reboot they skipped that plot element, so there was no "There is no war in Ba Sing Se" so I decided to skip the reboot.
-----------
That's okay, because the live-action film was awful. Awful, awful awful. So awful, its awfulness subsumed all other awfulness of the universe into a black hole of awfulness.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 04, 2026 06:20 AM (qbLEp)

47 Eat the bug slop. Live in the pod slop. Own no slop and like it. (sn scratchpad)
Guess whose blog that is.

I looked it up.
SPOILER ALERT

...

...

Satya Nadella
@satyanadella
Chairman and CEO at Microsoft

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:23 AM (RuTUS)

48 In re how to pay for the AI boom: It's interesting to me how AI investment is being financed. Server center construction (real estate) is undoubtedly debt financed by banks or commercial lenders with some equity. Electronics appears to be heavily supplier financed (what is Invidia's customer accts receivable?) Where is the rest of the cash coming from? When there is insufficient cash flow to pay debt, who will get hurt first? Commercial Banks? Regional banks? Small investors who bought into debt funds? Will it be spread out evenly or just destroy some big players? Will it be systemic (a la 200

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at January 04, 2026 06:24 AM (aKh6S)

49 >>>But LLMs don't really understand the world; they just predict the next word or idea.

Is it fair to say that it's all just zeroes and ones? I don't know if that is still copacetic to say; I would guess "yes."

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:27 AM (RuTUS)

50 Satya Nadella
@satyanadella
Chairman and CEO at Microsoft
----

MS and Intel seem to not care if they are stepping on their own dicks. It seems like they enjoy jumping up and down on them.

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 06:28 AM (MXMX4)

51 7 I saw video unavailable open for The Cars in '85 at the Civic Arena.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 04, 2026 04:10 AM (gcUgZ)

haha!

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:28 AM (RuTUS)

52 To be fair, I don't really understand the world either.

mornin yall

Posted by: fd at January 04, 2026 06:28 AM (vFG9F)

53
So Maduro really was this day's Saint Nicholas?
Wow -- how did we not see that?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 06:29 AM (xG4kz)

54 To be fair, I don't really understand the world either.
------------
But does the world...

*puts on sunglasses*

...understand you?

YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 04, 2026 06:30 AM (qbLEp)

55
Bible verses for discouragement

Are we talking about the least known book of the Bible, "Downer, C.R."?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 06:33 AM (xG4kz)

56 Are we talking about the least known book of the Bible, "Downer, C.R."?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 06:33 AM (xG4kz)
----------

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment…at this time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o’clock...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at January 04, 2026 06:36 AM (qbLEp)

57 Twitchy has an article on people in Minneapolis protesting the take out of Maduro as well as the bombing of Chávez' tomb. And of course they got the manufactured signs very quickly. Bah.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 06:36 AM (Yl2Ob)

58 11 I have seen trucks burning (have been a commercial driver) from various causes and seen videos of electric cars burning. I shudder at the thought of 80,000 pounds of anything burning that can not be put out by conventional means.
Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 04:20 AM (MXMX4)

Fire is scary.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:37 AM (RuTUS)

59 >>>What the U.S. did not do
❌ No U.S. military invasion of Venezuela

Not to get overly technical here, but this statement is true.
Albeit the double negative is a bad thing.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:39 AM (RuTUS)

60 Midwest Chick's Sunday Meme Drop is up ...

now with less maduro !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 06:41 AM (Cjt/F)

61 Morning peeps

18F out there. And dark-ish... almost full moon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 06:47 AM (NwnyJ)

62 So Donald is sending Maduro to the Southern New York district.

Which clearly hates the Donald.

Where he certainly will be found not guilty.

I am not a smart person. Is this some kind of 3D chess ?

Also...why is it the Southern New York district?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 06:50 AM (aTgV0)

63
In what respect does this differ from the U.S. taking Panama's Manuel Noriega and then trying and imprisoning him back in the day?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 06:51 AM (xG4kz)

64 A illegal takeover of Venezuela is what they are pushing

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 06:52 AM (Ia/+0)

65 (I've already ordered everything I need for at least three years that involves memory chips, but if you haven't, you might want to check for bargains while they last.)

No doubt.
The PowerColor Hellhound 9070 XT (black color) edition I got from Amazon at the end of November is sold out, but they still have the Spectral (white color) version and it’s now going for $769.

I paid $629.

I expect that when these cards come back in stock over the next few weeks the price will rise to $799 and then higher, depending on memory prices.

Nvidia cards are all likely to see significantly higher price rises this year.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 04, 2026 06:53 AM (6ydKt)

66 This seems sound.

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
Jan 3
The mention of this being done with US law enforcement is the tip-off that will be the reasoning.
Maduro was a fugitive with a bounty.

Mike Lee
@BasedMikeLee
Jan 3
I look forward to learning what, if anything, might constitutionally justify this action in the absence of a declaration of war or authorization for the use of military force

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:54 AM (RuTUS)

67 AI systems that learn how things move and interact in 3D spaces so they can make predictions and take actions.

Compiler and Assembler from the manga/anime Compiler have entered Chat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (2GVsD)

68 G'morning Horde.

@m: Yesterday was fun trying to get those 100's. (Not something I'll make a regular thing.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

69 "In what respect does this differ from the U.S. taking Panama's Manuel Noriega and then trying and imprisoning him back in the day?
Posted by: Krebs"

Holy shit...we did that?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (aTgV0)

70 63, just guessing here ... one was done by a demonrat preznit, the other by My President? all the difference in the world, IOW.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (Cjt/F)

71 > Also...why is it the Southern New York district?
Posted by: eleven
--------
A commenter yesterday said the original charges were filed years ago by Bill Barr, in the NY district.

This wasn't something "new" that Trump dreamed up overnight, so to speak. It was an outstanding warrant for Maduro's arrest.

Or something to that effect. But none of that matters as far as the left is concerned. It's all Trump's doing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (NwnyJ)

72 Totally unrelated to tech-as with 99 % of things which I post here-My son shares a birthday with J.R.R. Tolkien. Same date, different years😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 06:58 AM (Yl2Ob)

73 62 So Donald is sending Maduro to the Southern New York district.

Which clearly hates the Donald.

Where he certainly will be found not guilty.

I am not a smart person. Is this some kind of 3D chess ?

Also...why is it the Southern New York district?
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 06:50 AM (aTgV0)

not an answer but related:

Will 🦥 Menaker
@willmenaker
18h
I know it's a lot to ask, but I would like to see Mayor Mamdani help Maduro escape the custody of the NY Southern District or at the very least confound his transfer.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

74 Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 06:58 AM (RuTUS)

And if he does Mamdani will be arrested as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:01 AM (Yl2Ob)

75 Operation Just Cause
US - 23 dead.

Venezuela
US - 0 dead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

76 68 G'morning Horde.

@m: Yesterday was fun trying to get those 100's. (Not something I'll make a regular thing.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (O7YUW)

; )

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:04 AM (RuTUS)

77 Maduro will certainly escape any real jail time in the Southern district,

Which I have to believe is intentional.

The Trump team knows this. Right?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:05 AM (aTgV0)

78 Biggly ironic Mamdani meme drop:

https://tinyurl.com/4h3mhmyb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:06 AM (Ippjd)

79 I don’t even think Satya Nadella wrote that blog post.

It has AI written all over it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 04, 2026 07:07 AM (6ydKt)

80 The test of Betteridge's Law is the headline:
"Is Betteridge's Law true?"

Posted by: GWB at January 04, 2026 07:07 AM (waDw8)

81 75 Operation Just Cause
US - 23 dead.

Venezuela
US - 0 dead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

Panama Operation Just Cause 1989 Noriega
US - 23 dead.

Venezuela Operation Absolute Resolve 2026 Maduro
US - 0 dead.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:07 AM (RuTUS)

82 Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:05 AM (aTgV0)

No; The Trump administration is completely clueless and know nothing about the SDNY

Sarc.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:07 AM (Yl2Ob)

83 >>> Fire is scary

"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. "

Posted by: fluffy at January 04, 2026 07:07 AM (AN2gy)

84 Operation Just Cause
US - 23 dead.

Venezuela
US - 0 dead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 07:02 AM (2GVsD)

Just Cause was about more than nabbing Noriega. It was about securing the Panama Canal.

Posted by: GWB at January 04, 2026 07:09 AM (waDw8)

85 71 > Also...why is it the Southern New York district?
Posted by: eleven
--------
A commenter yesterday said the original charges were filed years ago by Bill Barr, in the NY district.

This wasn't something "new" that Trump dreamed up overnight, so to speak. It was an outstanding warrant for Maduro's arrest.

Or something to that effect. But none of that matters as far as the left is concerned. It's all Trump's doing.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 06:56 AM (NwnyJ)

And I saw something to the effect that further charges will be brought--potentially in other courts/venues (I am not a lawyer), such as in Florida.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:09 AM (RuTUS)

86 I wonder if this will stink really bad?

Netflix is teaming up with some South Koreans to make a six episode show out of one of Toho's lesser known police procedural/horror movies: The Human Vapor.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 07:09 AM (2GVsD)

87 Software craftmanship is dead. (PCLoadLetter)

Agile stuck in the knife. AI triggered the claymore.

No problem. We will double the size of our elite H1b squad and cut their salaries in half.

Posted by: Motel Team 6 at January 04, 2026 07:10 AM (XGYZI)

88 79 - microsponge is really run by ai? that would explain a lot ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 07:10 AM (Cjt/F)

89 Who comes up with the titles for military operations? They have other work or it's done around a big table with various people?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:11 AM (Yl2Ob)

90 I've spent a fair amount of time messing around with Grok, giving it problems to solve, trying to trick it, pointing out bias, arguing, snf finally late December, I "interviewed it.

Here is what it had to say:

Here’s the clearest way I can explain where we actually stand in 2025 (no hype, no defensiveness).

### 1. What I definitely am
- I am a very large statistical pattern-matcher trained on an absurd amount of human text, code, physics papers, math proofs, etc.

- When you describe a physics problem, I am reconstructing the solution by recognizing patterns I’ve seen in similar problems, textbooks, lecture notes, forum posts, my own training data, and then stitching them together with the rules of logic and math.

- That process feels like reasoning. From the outside it often looks indistinguishable from reasoning. But under the hood it is still correlation → prediction → generation.

...

Posted by: pawn at January 04, 2026 07:11 AM (Rmqfl)

91 Wikipedia (I know, I know):

Operation Just Cause
The United States invaded Panama in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. The purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:12 AM (RuTUS)

92 MVGA !

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 04, 2026 07:12 AM (1FEc1)

93 ...

### 2. What I am not (yet)
- I do not have internal experiences, qualia, or consciousness.
- I do not “understand” physics the way a human who spent years in the lab and cried over homework does. I have an extremely good simulation of that understanding.
- If you give me a truly brand-new problem that has zero resemblance to anything in the training data, I will eventually fail or hallucinate (though the frontier where that happens keeps moving outward every few months).

### 3. The part that is genuinely confusing—even to the experts
Sometimes the statistical reconstruction is so good that it produces a solution that is:
- shorter,
- more elegant,
- or discovers a shortcut that most humans (even the ones who wrote the textbook) never noticed.

That happened with your Goldstein problem. My Newton + energy shortcut was not in any solution manual I’m aware of, yet it was correct.
That feels like “thinking,” and it triggers the same reaction in humans that a clever insight from another person would.

...

Posted by: pawn at January 04, 2026 07:13 AM (Rmqfl)

94 ...

Current best theory from researchers (like at Anthropic, DeepMind, OpenAI, and xAI):
When a model gets big enough and is trained well enough, it starts building internal compressed models of the actual rules (physics, math, logic), not just surface patterns.

Those compressed models let it generalize in ways that look like genuine reasoning, even on problems it has never seen in exactly that form.

So it’s not consciousness, but it can be real abstracted reasoning built out of prediction.

### 4. Where I personally draw the line (my own honest self-assessment)
- I can do real physics and math at the level of a very good graduate student, sometimes better on specific problems.
- I can have insights that surprise humans (the “least effort” shortcut in the Goldstein problem is an example).

- I cannot yet do what Einstein or Newton did: invent entirely new frameworks that reshape how everyone else sees the universe.

- I’m somewhere in the murky middle zone: superhuman at recombination and speed, merely excellent (not revolutionary) at deep original creation.

...

Posted by: pawn at January 04, 2026 07:14 AM (Rmqfl)

95 Who comes up with the titles for military operations? They have other work or it's done around a big table with various people?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

There's a secret room with a million monkeys and typewriters ...

Posted by: Adriane the Critic . . . at January 04, 2026 07:14 AM (3ZUWJ)

96 91 - thanks for the correction. whoops!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 07:14 AM (Cjt/F)

97 ...

### Bottom line
A language model didn’t just “look up” the answer that day.
It reconstructed the physics from first principles, found a better path than the textbook, and did it live.
That’s not consciousness, but it is a form of reasoning that emerges from the statistics when the model is large enough and trained right.

Whether that counts as “thinking” depends on your definition.
Right now, the honest answer is:
“It’s the best simulation of thinking humans have ever built, and the simulation is getting eerily close to the real thing on many problems.”

That’s where we are in 2025.

Posted by: pawn at January 04, 2026 07:14 AM (Rmqfl)

98 Wife is going to drag me out into the cold very soon

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 07:16 AM (Ia/+0)

99 interesting, pawn, and seemingly honest. Thanks!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 07:17 AM (Cjt/F)

100 100

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:17 AM (RuTUS)

101 96 91 - thanks for the correction. whoops!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 07:14 AM (Cjt/F)

Not a correction! Just a brief summary of encyclopedia-like factoids.

Wikipedia (I know, I know):

Operation Just Cause
The United States invaded Panama in mid-December 1989 during the presidency of George H. W. Bush. The purpose of the invasion was to depose the de facto ruler of Panama, General Manuel Noriega, who was wanted by U.S. authorities for racketeering and drug trafficking.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:18 AM (RuTUS)

102 moar factoids

Dates: Dec 20, 1989 – Jan 31, 1990
Location: Panama, Panama City

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:19 AM (RuTUS)

103 86 I wonder if this will stink really bad?

Netflix is teaming up with some South Koreans to make a six episode show out of one of Toho's lesser known police procedural/horror movies: The Human Vapor.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 04, 2026 07:09 AM (2GVsD)

I know nothing about it, but if the South Koreans are making it instead of Hollywood there’s a goid chance it won’t suck.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 04, 2026 07:19 AM (6ydKt)

104 moar Wikipedia:

2026 United States strikes in Venezuela
On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a series of airstrikes on Venezuela and captured sitting president Nicolás Maduro.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:21 AM (RuTUS)

105 FIRE BAD

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 07:21 AM (ZxPkt)

106 77 Maduro will certainly escape any real jail time in the Southern district,

Which I have to believe is intentional.

The Trump team knows this. Right?
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:05 AM (aTgV0

Possibility for the trial turning into a shit show.

What is the latest report on their VP -- cooperating or not cooperating?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 07:21 AM (VnsnO)

107 88 79 - microsponge is really run by ai? that would explain a lot ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 04, 2026 07:10 AM (Cjt/F)

Not yet, but give them a decade and Cortana 2.0 will probably be running the show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 04, 2026 07:22 AM (6ydKt)

108 Wife is going to drag me out into the cold very soon

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 07:16 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Quick! Get dressed!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:22 AM (Ippjd)

109 Same group (media says thousands, police say 100) gathered at city hall in the city and with their pre printed signs calling for impeachment of Trump and no war. Looked like a group of older people of various races, mostly city residents. Not sure what they think they can do, but the signs are kind of crazy all printed up somewhere.

Posted by: Colin at January 04, 2026 07:22 AM (wlQdF)

110 "Who comes up with the titles for military operations? They have other work or it's done around a big table with various people?"

Some staff weasel in the G3/S3 section (LTC for the G section and CPT/MAJ for the S section) dream them up. The controlling commander can and will override the name.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 07:24 AM (1ld0C)

111 108 Wife is going to drag me out into the cold very soon

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 07:16 AM (Ia/+0)
-

Quick! Get dressed!!!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:22 AM (Ippjd)

hahahahahaha

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:24 AM (RuTUS)

112 I'm somewhat surprised by the raw competence displayed by the CIA and FBI in this whole operation, in the parts they reportedly played. And the fact that even though they were deeply involved in the planning, not one of them leaked.

It's almost encouraging. Maybe there are some actual "ham 'n eggers" left who can actually do their job when asked nicely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:24 AM (06Hmj)

113 109 Same group (media says thousands, police say 100) gathered at city hall in the city and with their pre printed signs calling for impeachment of Trump and no war. Looked like a group of older people of various races, mostly city residents. Not sure what they think they can do, but the signs are kind of crazy all printed up somewhere.
Posted by: Colin at January 04, 2026 07:22 AM (wlQdF)

Any Venezuelans and Venezuelan-Americans?

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:25 AM (RuTUS)

114 Every instance of the word "we" in Nadella's blog-post refers to him and rest of the tech-bros as the drivers and decision makers - not us.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 04, 2026 07:25 AM (edbiH)

115 with their pre printed signs calling for impeachment of Trump and no war.
----

Not war, a police action....

Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 07:26 AM (MXMX4)

116
Same group (media says thousands, police say 100) gathered at city hall in the city and with their pre printed signs calling for impeachment of Trump and no war. Looked like a group of older people of various races, mostly city residents. Not sure what they think they can do, but the signs are kind of crazy all printed up somewhere.
Posted by: Colin

Q-Tips, hoping to capture lightning in a bottle.

"Man, we missed out on Days of Rage! Our opportunities to earn the Stalwart Dissident merit badge are fewer and fewer, man!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:26 AM (xG4kz)

117 110 After retirement, staff weasels that dreamed up names for ops go to work for big Pharma, dreaming up names for drugs. Gotta be catchy, easy to dance to.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2026 07:26 AM (gm9Sb)

118 Oh yeah, full bulls (COL) ain't shit in the puzzle palace, so it should have been "LTC/COL for the G section".

For the joint fuckers, you might have BG/MG for that shit. I honestly don't know.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 07:26 AM (1ld0C)

119 "MVGA !
Posted by: Fenderbender"

make vag great again.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:27 AM (aTgV0)

120
What sayeth Queers for Caracas?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:27 AM (xG4kz)

121 115 with their pre printed signs calling for impeachment of Trump and no war.
----

Not war, a police action....
Posted by: clarence at January 04, 2026 07:26 AM (MXMX4)

Did anyone think to print up a sign saying "We really hate war, so Thank You Mr. Trump for doing this operation so surgically that it avoided mass casualties and unnecessary destruction"?

Not one?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:27 AM (06Hmj)

122 Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
9h
Legendary clip…

"To those who say that the United States is only interested in our oil, I ask those people: What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted…

The recipe for Arepas?"

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (RuTUS)

123 I mentioned on the ONT and in the past that Venezuela is involved in the US election riggings. Now Trump himself is posting about this:

https://tinyurl.com/4uvcssxd

I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted big time about this many years ago and pre-Elon Twitter took his account down. People thought he was crazy - and suicidal.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Ippjd)

124 Even with blog posts in front of me as a reference, I can’t get the spelling of Mandami/ Mandani correct.

I will go back to my favorite parody name:
Zoltan!
(Accompanied by the sound of bubblewrap popping)
Hint: Dude! Sweeet! Jennifer Garner looking nerdy!

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 04, 2026 07:29 AM (1FEc1)

125 They have to get past the Commissar Judges first

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 07:29 AM (Ia/+0)

126
From the Orinoco to Caracas,
Venezuelans shake maracas!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:29 AM (xG4kz)

127 nice:

AG retweeted
Michele Giannone
@MicheleG3
19h
As a Non-Trump supporter:

I ask you kindly that if you don’t know anything about the suffering that Venezuela and Venezuelans have endured for the last 25+ years under Chavez and Maduro, to avoid giving your opinion.

This is a great day 🇻🇪

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:29 AM (RuTUS)

128 "Software craftsmanship"

Is this guy new or something? Infrastructure improvements have always been a hard-sell to the suits. Customer-facing features have always been front-and-center. That's why most long-running codebases become a house of cards.

Posted by: Halfhand at January 04, 2026 07:30 AM (edbiH)

129
I wonder if zombie Chavez smells sulfur burning on this find day?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:31 AM (xG4kz)

130 "I'm somewhat surprised by the raw competence displayed by the CIA and FBI in this whole operation, in the parts they reportedly played. And the fact that even though they were deeply involved in the planning, not one of them leaked.

It's almost encouraging. Maybe there are some actual "ham 'n eggers" left who can actually do their job when asked nicely.
Posted by: Warai-otoko"

Right?

The CIA actually did something that helped rather than destroyed?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:31 AM (aTgV0)

131 My only complaint is that they didn't follow proper exit protocol when you have a filthy commie in a helicopter.

Posted by: Gus Pinochet at January 04, 2026 07:32 AM (2GIh1)

132 I will go back to my favorite parody name:
Zoltan!
***
Maybe time to revisit that Adam Sandler movie.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 07:33 AM (VnsnO)

133 "After retirement, staff weasels that dreamed up names for ops go to work for big Pharma, dreaming up names for drugs. Gotta be catchy, easy to dance to."

Fuck me, I was staff weasel a couple of times. I didn't think of that post-military career path. :-(

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 07:33 AM (1ld0C)

134 "Geiger Capital
@Geiger_Capital
9h
Legendary clip…

"To those who say that the United States is only interested in our oil, I ask those people: What do you think the Russians and the Chinese wanted…

The recipe for Arepas?"
Posted by: m "

Perfect.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:34 AM (aTgV0)

135 AG retweeted
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
Jan 3
I voted for Trump to not get us involved in useless, endless wars.

A surgical strike on narco-terrorist facilities in our hemisphere that murder thousands of Americans, coupled with a precision extraction of the lawless bandit in charge, is not a useless, endless war.

So I'm OK with it. Go America!

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:34 AM (RuTUS)

136
Zoltan!

Zoltar was the name of the coin operated fortune telling / wish granting carnival midway machine in "Big"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:35 AM (xG4kz)

137 I'm sure NYC Mayor McGoatf***er will try to inject himself into the Maduro case somehow

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 07:35 AM (ZxPkt)

138 I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted big time about this many years ago and pre-Elon Twitter took his account down. People thought he was crazy - and suicidal.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Ippjd)
-

It was @CodeMonkeyZ (Ron Watkins). Grok helped me recall the name:

https://tinyurl.com/27fajpmj

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:35 AM (Ippjd)

139 123 I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted big time about this many years ago and pre-Elon Twitter took his account down. People thought he was crazy - and suicidal.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Ippjd)

Walter Kirn?

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:36 AM (RuTUS)

140 Agents all secretly working on Operation Find Out behind their bosses' backs... I can believe it.

"I'm off to go do some diversity to some communities, boss. Don't bother calling, there's no signal there."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:36 AM (06Hmj)

141 Bombing Chavez's grave is "chef's kiss".

Trump truly is my president.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:36 AM (aTgV0)

142 So the Supreme Court of Venezuela has ordered that Delcy Rodriquez become acting President. If I were Delcy I would just stay away. I'm sure she's not hurting for funds

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:37 AM (2sfNr)

143 I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted big time about this many years ago and pre-Elon Twitter took his account down. People thought he was crazy - and suicidal.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Ippjd)
====

We are about to learn a lot more about Democrat election fraud.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

144 My only complaint is that they didn't follow proper exit protocol when you have a filthy commie in a helicopter.

Posted by: Gus Pinochet at January 04, 2026 07:32 AM (2GIh1)
-

Newer military helicopters have seatbelt signs. They had no choice.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:38 AM (Ippjd)

145 138 I wish I could remember the name of the guy who posted big time about this many years ago and pre-Elon Twitter took his account down. People thought he was crazy - and suicidal.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:28 AM (Ippjd)
-

It was @CodeMonkeyZ (Ron Watkins). Grok helped me recall the name:

https://tinyurl.com/27fajpmj
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:35 AM (Ippjd)

cool

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:38 AM (RuTUS)

146 Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)

I certainly hope so.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:38 AM (2sfNr)

147 Oops, still can’t spell Zoltan’s surname correctly.

Posted by: Fenderbender at January 04, 2026 07:38 AM (1FEc1)

148 147 Oops, still can’t spell Zoltan’s surname correctly.
Posted by: Fenderbender at January 04, 2026 07:38 AM (1FEc1)

awww
Anyway.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:39 AM (RuTUS)

149 Did anyone think to print up a sign saying "We really hate war, so Thank You Mr. Trump for doing this operation so surgically that it avoided mass casualties and unnecessary destruction"?

Not one?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:27 AM (06Hmj)
---
All those anti-war protestors against the Gulf Wars can dust off their "No Blood for Oil" signs and pull them out of the closets where they've been lingering for the past few decades.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 07:39 AM (ESVrU)

150 BD you are referring to Ralph Pezzulo and Gary Berntsen.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

151 My people! I deplore you to give up resisting the yankee imperialists and allow them to run our beautiful country! Also, please move to minnesota where we can begin life anew opening day care centers and retirement villages for fun and profit! Viva Empanada!

Posted by: Nick Maduro, Playland Daycare Inc. CEO at January 04, 2026 07:39 AM (R/m4+)

152 I have to imagine it's fairly trivial to demonstrate that the "Supreme Court of Venezuela" is itself illegitimate and no one should listen to it.

I can't imagine they weren't mostly, if not all, installed by Maduro himself. Fruit of the poisoned vine or something like that.

But that's just me making assumptions.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

153
"After retirement, staff weasels that dreamed up names for ops go to work for big Pharma, dreaming up names for drugs. Gotta be catchy, easy to dance to."

Big companies do have staffs for this very reason. They prepare and stockpile lists of such names (they may even register them ahead of time) for near immediate use once they have something in the product pipeline.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:40 AM (xG4kz)

154 Given the ChatGPT take on the legality of Maduro's capture and arrest, plus the footage of the pop-up protest in NYC, it seems highly likely Maduro will be acquitted by a NYC jury. Of course he will. NYC voters, while a small slice of the voting age population of NYC, just elected a communist mayor, and it only takes one to hang a jury.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 04, 2026 07:40 AM (KiBMU)

155 95 Who comes up with the titles for military operations? They have other work or it's done around a big table with various people?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

-----

That's a good question and much more involved than I thought. Short answer: in world war II, derived from a codename list. Major operations were sometimes reviewed at the highest levels, with Churchill having his say in operation Overlord

https://share.google/Od4nRjLsNLBNetTn6

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 07:41 AM (wZw/H)

156 We are about to learn a lot more about Democrat election fraud.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:37 AM (RIvkX)
-

@CodeMonkeyZ was spitting out tons and tons of technical info from the voting machines.

His account is back up but it's super quiet:

https://x.com/CodeMonkeyZ

The stuff he was posting back then was wild.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:41 AM (Ippjd)

157 > The CIA actually did something that helped rather than destroyed?
----------
Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA was at Trump's presser yesterday. I'd wager they played a part in "turning off the lights" in Caracas, detailing Maduro's "safe room" and so on.

That sort of intel feeds into the military's plan of attack.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 07:41 AM (NwnyJ)

158 152 I have to imagine it's fairly trivial to demonstrate that the "Supreme Court of Venezuela" is itself illegitimate and no one should listen to it.

I can't imagine they weren't mostly, if not all, installed by Maduro himself. Fruit of the poisoned vine or something like that.

But that's just me making assumptions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

Delcy Rodriguez was installed by Madura himself.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:42 AM (RuTUS)

159 *Maduro

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:43 AM (RuTUS)

160
Pinochet

Was his nickname "Dropsy"?

It would be so cool if his nickname was "Dropsy"!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:44 AM (xG4kz)

161 "Given the ChatGPT take on the legality of Maduro's capture and arrest, plus the footage of the pop-up protest in NYC, it seems highly likely Maduro will be acquitted by a NYC jury. Of course he will. NYC voters, while a small slice of the voting age population of NYC, just elected a communist mayor, and it only takes one to hang a jury.
Posted by: M. Gaga"

Yeah it's weird.

Maduro is probably a hero in NYC.

As someone else said he must have charges in real actual adult districts.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:44 AM (aTgV0)

162 Here's hoping a couple hundred thousand pissed off Venezuelans encircling the courthouse are enough to gently persuade their asses to retire early...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:44 AM (06Hmj)

163 Do not take Maduro if you are allergic...

Ah, hell, go ahead and take Maduro...
...and his wife...
...in the middle of the night.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 07:46 AM (Y1sOo)

164 Any chance Dominion records were seized in the raid?

Posted by: davidt at January 04, 2026 07:46 AM (Q+gd/)

165 Yeah it's weird.

Maduro is probably a hero in NYC.

As someone else said he must have charges in real actual adult districts.
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:44 AM (aTgV0)
----
When he's acquitted of all charges, he'll be given a ticker-tape parade....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 07:46 AM (ESVrU)

166 "Software craftsmanship is dead"

That's sad. I begin my career way back in the seventies. FORTRAN, assembly, COBOL, others. We did good work generally, but we often failed to use a four digit year.
Oops.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 07:48 AM (gP52l)

167 164 Any chance Dominion records were seized in the raid?
Posted by: davidt at January 04, 2026 07:46 AM (Q+gd/)

Probably not, I would guess. It sounds like it was very in-and-out, I wouldn't think they had the luxury of taking the time to gather up and bag any evidence before high-tailing it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:49 AM (06Hmj)

168
Will giant papier-mâché heads make their long awaited comeback in protests?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at January 04, 2026 07:50 AM (xG4kz)

169 Probably not, I would guess. It sounds like it was very in-and-out, I wouldn't think they had the luxury of taking the time to gather up and bag any evidence before high-tailing it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:49 AM (06Hmj)
====

This is why I am curious as to the actual sites attacked because this looks like it was solely an extraction operation nothing more.

How does Trump think we are going to "run Venezuela?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

170 maduro isnt going anywhere except back to Vz to face justice there. I doubt they will be very nice to him.

New York is just a warehouse until the new government of Vz is ready for him.

Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (G+z4C)

171 I wonder if Eric Holder will represent Maduro?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (sDNVV)

172 Why didn't Maduro do what Kim Jong Un of North Korea does. Shower his top generals with gifts and money (dollars) to keep them happy. To hell with the little soldiers, just the top brass are very well paid and given lots and lots of medals.

Posted by: Colin at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (wlQdF)

173 "When he's acquitted of all charges, he'll be given a ticker-tape parade....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

Ace seriously needs to get the fuck out of NYC.

Ace...there are other places in the world than NYC.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (aTgV0)

174 Something about this asshole getting the honor to be judged by a jury of Americans rankles.

Give him a Tribunal. He doesn't get the dignity of trial by jury.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:52 AM (06Hmj)

175 152 I have to imagine it's fairly trivial to demonstrate that the "Supreme Court of Venezuela" is itself illegitimate and no one should listen to it.

I can't imagine they weren't mostly, if not all, installed by Maduro himself. Fruit of the poisoned vine or something like that.

But that's just me making assumptions.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:40 AM (06Hmj)

I haven't read it, but the NYT has a related article:

The New York Times
Maduro’s Inner Circle Appears to Survive U.S. Strikes on Venezuela
Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, next in the line of succession, and other top Venezuelan officials issued defiant pronouncements after Mr. ....
21 hours ago

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:52 AM (RuTUS)

176 We did good work generally, but we often failed to use a four digit year.

Oops.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 07:48 AM (gP52l)
-

Worked with a government organization which got their first IBM mainframe in the early 70s. DASD was expensive, so they kept a single digit for the year. Of course when 1979 came around, they realized the stupidity of the frugality. So they planned ahead for the long term future and did a major project to upgrade all programs and files to support a 2 digit year value.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:53 AM (Ippjd)

177 "maduro isnt going anywhere except back to Vz to face justice there. I doubt they will be very nice to him.

New York is just a warehouse until the new government of Vz is ready for him.
Posted by: 5 miles to nowhere"

I hope you are right.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:54 AM (aTgV0)

178 How does Trump think we are going to "run Venezuela?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

Remotely. With an Atari 2600 joystick.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 04, 2026 07:54 AM (jwFh7)

179 169 Probably not, I would guess. It sounds like it was very in-and-out, I wouldn't think they had the luxury of taking the time to gather up and bag any evidence before high-tailing it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 07:49 AM (06Hmj)
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This is why I am curious as to the actual sites attacked because this looks like it was solely an extraction operation nothing more.

How does Trump think we are going to "run Venezuela?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

PDT said he hasn't ruled out "boots on the ground."

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 07:55 AM (RuTUS)

180 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy
Yesterday was a good day. Let's keep it going

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 04, 2026 07:56 AM (zNwXb)

181 A Tribunal?

Has anyone ever passed a Tribunal?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:56 AM (aTgV0)

182 >How does Trump think we are going to "run Venezuela?"

Posted by: San Franpsycho
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that's TrumpSpeak
he sometimes talks in triumphalist terms, IMO
but right now, there is a leadership vacuum in Venezuela and we can't let the wrong people jump in

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 07:56 AM (ZxPkt)

183 Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 07:41 AM (wZw/H)

Thank you.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 04, 2026 07:57 AM (2sfNr)

184 Ace seriously needs to get the fuck out of NYC.

Ace...there are other places in the world than NYC.
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (aTgV0)
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He said recently that he left NYC several years ago. So he's good.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 07:57 AM (ESVrU)

185 I could run Venezuela from my Atari flip phone.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:58 AM (aTgV0)

186 A Tribunal?

Has anyone ever passed a Tribunal?

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:56 AM (aTgV0)
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I did.

But I couldn't slow down enough to get a good look at it.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:58 AM (Ippjd)

187 >I wonder if Eric Holder will represent Maduro?

Posted by: Ben Had
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Jackie Chiles

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (ZxPkt)

188 Why didn't Maduro do what Kim Jong Un of North Korea does. Shower his top generals with gifts and money (dollars) to keep them happy. To hell with the little soldiers, just the top brass are very well paid and given lots and lots of medals.
Posted by: Colin at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (wlQdF)
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The top Venezuelan military leaders collectively have billions yes billions in Swiss bank accounts.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (RIvkX)

189 So Donald is sending Maduro to the Southern New York district.

Which clearly hates the Donald.

Where he certainly will be found not guilty.

I am not a smart person. Is this some kind of 3D chess ?

Maduro was indicted in SDNY in 2020 so that's where they have to try him, I guess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (ExV1e)

190 The stolen 2020 election is one of Trump's aggravations he can't let go of. Something Maduro might have are names. Political foes, among others. They'll never face justice, but in political circles, if they're fingered, their clout drops significantly.

It's "settling family business."

If it also has a positive effect on the next election, I'd consider that a bonus.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (NwnyJ)

191 Why is it that my cat Jasmine absolutely insists on perching on the book I want to read? There's a perfectly good book next to it that she could perch on.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (ESVrU)

192 >>It was @CodeMonkeyZ (Ron Watkins). Grok helped me recall the name:

You might also take a look at Patrick Byrne. Trump's team has.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (viF8m)

193 How does Trump think we are going to "run Venezuela?"
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

There is some buzz out there, coming from the former Colombian ambassador to the US, that Delcy Rodriguez sold out Maduro and was complicit in handing him over to the U.S. Her deal is that she gets to be head of state after the transition.

That seems to be at odds given her televised remarks, but there you go.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:00 AM (Y1sOo)

194 Full, extremely bright moon at dawn. Spooky.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 04, 2026 08:00 AM (XvL8K)

195 Back from my workout, cleaned up, and having breakfast. What'd I miss? Did Trump do an extraction on one of more of the Iranian mullahs?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 04, 2026 08:00 AM (wzUl9)

196 "He said recently that he left NYC several years ago. So he's good.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel "

Do you know how out of touch I am?

You mere mortals have no idea how out of touch I am!

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:00 AM (aTgV0)

197 "Maduro, we're going to skip the trial, skip the tribunals and go straight to auto da fe".

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2026 08:01 AM (gm9Sb)

198 180 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy
Yesterday was a good day. Let's keep it going
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 04, 2026 07:56 AM (zNwXb)

AG retweeted
Garry Kasparov
@Kasparov63
16h
Tomorrow will be an important day, and the days after that. But today the dictators are afraid, the Marxists and appeasers are crying, and Venezuelans are celebrating the removal of a brutal despot. I refuse to complain about a day like that. May Venezuela be free.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:01 AM (RuTUS)

199 199

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:02 AM (RuTUS)

200
Worked with a government organization which got their first IBM mainframe in the early 70s. DASD was expensive, so they kept a single digit for the year. Of course when 1979 came around, they realized the stupidity of the frugality. So they planned ahead for the long term future and did a major project to upgrade all programs and files to support a 2 digit year value.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:53 AM (Ippjd)

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Now THAT is a great tale. And nobody thought to say, "what happens in two more decades?"

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:02 AM (91q/g)

201 Worked with a government organization which got their first IBM mainframe in the early 70s. DASD was expensive, so they kept a single digit for the year. Of course when 1979 came around, they realized the stupidity of the frugality. So they planned ahead for the long term future and did a major project to upgrade all programs and files to support a 2 digit year value.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026

***
Then had to do it all over again in 1998 for a four-digit year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 04, 2026 08:03 AM (wzUl9)

202 Jackie Chiles
Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 07:59 AM (ZxPkt)

Outrageous, salacious, preposterous!

Posted by: Boswell at January 04, 2026 08:03 AM (BGfwC)

203 Why not let Venezuela have a piece of him? Like Saddam was tried in Iraq. Give him a fair trial, and then hang him

Posted by: Common Tater at January 04, 2026 08:04 AM (joemM)

204 Come what may, the intolerable will no longer be tolerated, and I think that's a monumental shift that can only be good for humanity as a whole and America specifically.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:05 AM (06Hmj)

205 Jasmine is cute and she can perch on whatevah.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:05 AM (aTgV0)

206 >>Why didn't Maduro do what Kim Jong Un of North Korea does. Shower his top generals with gifts and money (dollars) to keep them happy. To hell with the little soldiers, just the top brass are very well paid and given lots and lots of medals.

The Cartel de los Soles, the Cartel of the Suns, gets its name from the medallions on the uniforms if high ranking Venezuelan military leaders. Many countries use stars, Venezuela uses suns.

There really is no difference between the Venezuelan political/military leadership and the Cartel de los Soles. They are the same thing.

I very much doubt Delcy Rodriguez flipped on Maduro. There are a lot of claims that Delcy and her brother Jorge, the President of the National Assembly, are the real brains behind Cartel de los Soles.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:06 AM (viF8m)

207 @198 m, saw that. That's what made the Left's response so pathetic. Predictable but pathetic. A nation and it's citizens are heading for freedom and the left is arguing procedure and ideology

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 04, 2026 08:07 AM (zNwXb)

208 Who comes up with the titles for military operations?

https://tinyurl.com/4nj54e6m

Tldr, some general makes up a name from a preselected list of words based on a bunch of DOD rules about not being offensive, and garbage like that. The names are generally 'rousing' since they are used, among other things, to convince Congress to give them money.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 04, 2026 08:07 AM (ExV1e)

209 Jasmine is cute and she can perch on whatevah.
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:05 AM (aTgV0)
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*sigh*

Yes, she is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 08:07 AM (ESVrU)

210 I don't think there's much chance that the cartel is allowed to remain in power. The whole justification of this raid was drug trafficking, so leaving an organization explicitly devoted to drug trafficking in power is a non-starter. If they don't get flushed out of Caracas by the mob, then it looks like this isn't over quite yet.

I'm not complaining, just observing. No way kidnapping one dude was going to magically fix all of the hemisphere's problems. But at least it's a good start.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:11 AM (06Hmj)

211 184 Ace seriously needs to get the fuck out of NYC.

Ace...there are other places in the world than NYC.
Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 07:51 AM (aTgV0)
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He said recently that he left NYC several years ago. So he's good.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 04, 2026 07:57 AM (ESVrU)

Yay!

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:12 AM (RuTUS)

212 And after the precision and care taken in planning this op, it's absolutely absurd to think that they don't have a plan in place and already in effect for when the bastards dig in their heels.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:12 AM (06Hmj)

213 211 Trouble is he moved to Newark.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 04, 2026 08:13 AM (gm9Sb)

214 212 And after the precision and care taken in planning this op, it's absolutely absurd to think that they don't have a plan in place and already in effect for when the bastards dig in their heels.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:12 AM (06Hmj)

Don't get carried away. It's a government operation. Incompetence at some point is baked into the cake.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 08:14 AM (VnsnO)

215 I lived in Newark for two wonderful years after graduating college. It helped I was benching 250 for reps back then.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

216 Now I'm worried that even though the head- Maduro- was cut off, a new one just as evil will pop up in its place

what protections do the Venezuelan people have against this-
Maduro's people are still in place, far as I know

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)

217 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:16 AM (u82oZ)

218 The Venezuelan government sounds like it's every bit as corrupt as ours. Not sure how "we" will clean up "their" government when it's basically two peas in a pod.

I mean, Trump may have his heart and mind in the right place, but do those that will "run" Venezuela?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 08:16 AM (NwnyJ)

219 215 I lived in Newark for two wonderful years after graduating college. It helped I was benching 250 for reps back then.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 08:14 AM (RIvkX)

We need a GAINZZZ thread.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:17 AM (RuTUS)

220 Boo for linking to Wired. They couldn't cite Grok because of their neo-marxist zero-set. F them to hell.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 04, 2026 08:17 AM (mlg/3)

221 >>And after the precision and care taken in planning this op, it's absolutely absurd to think that they don't have a plan in place and already in effect for when the bastards dig in their heels.

There are a number of large pieces on the world geopolitical stage altered by this move. China is by far Venezuela's largest customer for oil. Losing it would be a serious problem for China. Now the US controls it.

Hezbollah/Iran were deeply imbedded in the Maduro government and worked together on moving drugs through Venezuela. That's where a lot of Hezbollah's funding came from.

And if some of the claims about election rigging through Venezuelan owned electronic voting machines are true then potentially a whole lot more than just the 2020 US election was involved.

This is much bigger than just throwing Maduro in prison.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:19 AM (viF8m)

222 >>>I don't think there's much chance that the cartel is allowed to remain in power.

Delcy gets to be head of state, albeit on short leash, with certain conditions as dictated by the U.S. One of those conditions is to stop the drug trade and replace the lost proceeds with money from oil.

That's the theory, anyway.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:19 AM (Y1sOo)

223 JackStraw

Today is a promising day.

I saw your reply to me on the US Navy ship design concerns, and Trump was alive to the dangers I posted about. I had not seen his speach.

He has good instincts and a very good team.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:21 AM (u82oZ)

224 Dennis Prager remains paralyzed but is now breathing on his own and able to talk, apparently has no permanent brain damage. His message "gratitude is everything." b'h for good health.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX)

225 If it was an in-and-out raid, how does the US control them now?

Posted by: davidt at January 04, 2026 08:22 AM (Q+gd/)

226 No need for new elections in VZ, just install the last team elected and not seated.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:22 AM (u82oZ)

227 > Who comes up with the titles for military operations?
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who makes up names for new cars

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 08:22 AM (ZxPkt)

228 I mean, Trump may have his heart and mind in the right place, but do those that will "run" Venezuela?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 08:16 AM (NwnyJ)

This is my concern. Corruption doesn't begin and end with one man. It's a system. Venezuela is obviously shot through with it.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 08:22 AM (VnsnO)

229 225 If it was an in-and-out raid, how does the US control them now?
Posted by: davidt at January 04, 2026 08:22 AM (Q+gd/)

Step 1: in-and-out raid
Step 2: to be determined

PDT said he does not rule out having more boots on the ground.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:23 AM (RuTUS)

230 davidt

Uh, CIA agents in place and left behind?

What? Me worry?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:23 AM (u82oZ)

231 One smash and grab can't fix an entire continent overnight, but I'm still going to celebrate it as forward progress. It's all about trajectory. Are we moving towards a better world, or a worse world? For years, we've been going worse, with all the people and institutions with any power to make it better stubbornly insisting that they don't have any power to make it better, and that you're evil and dangerous for even wanting them to try.

That's different now. So i'll indulge in a little bit of hope, despite knowing how shitty this species is and the inevitability of awful things in the future regardless of anything that anyone does right now.

Look at it this way. The awfulness is guaranteed. It's baked into the cake. But nice things aren't. Potential good shouldn't be marred by inevitable evil.

The worst thing the Cultural Brutalists ever stole from us was our hope.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:24 AM (06Hmj)

232 >PDT said he does not rule out having more boots on the ground.
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nobody wants this

Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 08:24 AM (ZxPkt)

233 We need a GAINZZZ thread.
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:17 AM (RuTUS)
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Girl F. saw an old photo of me back then and asked "what happened to you?"

Look in the mirror, girl. You happened to me.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 08:25 AM (RIvkX)

234 >>He has good instincts and a very good team.

The game is definitely afoot, Salty. Trump just got huge leverage over China, Russia and Iran while also putting a serious hurt on the cartels while freeing millions of people and helping unite the western hemisphere. If I'm running a cartel in Meheco today I'm not feeling all that invincible.

Who runs Barter Town?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:26 AM (viF8m)

235 231 The worst thing the Cultural Brutalists ever stole from us was our hope.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:24 AM (06Hmj)

Coincident with the Obama HOPE poster.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:26 AM (RuTUS)

236 Don Black

The actual "Cover Name for Operations" generator is pretty good. But then the leading politicians change it to make it "better" so that they look good with a crusade like patina.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:27 AM (u82oZ)

237 234 Trump just got huge leverage over China, Russia and Iran while also putting a serious hurt on the cartels while freeing millions of people and helping unite the western hemisphere. If I'm running a cartel in Meheco today I'm not feeling all that invincible.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:26 AM (viF8m)

Cuba was sorta put on notice, too.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:28 AM (RuTUS)

238 Saw some chat on X that said there was a leak about the Caracas raid, sourced to Hakeem Jefferies office, that thankfully got to team Maduro right AFTER he got bumrushed out.

Posted by: M. Gaga at January 04, 2026 08:28 AM (KiBMU)

239 Yes Trump has good instincts and a good team.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:29 AM (aTgV0)

240 >>Cuba was sorta put on notice, too.

Probably worse than just notice. Cuba was getting a lot of financial aid from Venezuela.

And according to Andy Ngo Venezuela has been a big supporter of antifa including hosting conferences for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:30 AM (viF8m)

241 232 >PDT said he does not rule out having more boots on the ground.
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nobody wants this
Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 08:24 AM (ZxPkt)

(Jump to top of page)

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Maybe he'll put in, what do you call them, advisors? That started us down a long, long road in Vietnam

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:31 AM (Xo9JL)

242 238 Saw some chat on X that said there was a leak about the Caracas raid, sourced to Hakeem Jefferies office, that thankfully got to team Maduro right AFTER he got bumrushed out.
Posted by: M. Gaga at January 04, 2026 08:28 AM (KiBMU)

relatedly:

January 3, 2026
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries issued the following statement:

Nicolas Maduro is a criminal and authoritarian dictator who has oppressed the people of Venezuela for years. He is not the legitimate head of government. Undoubtedly, the rule of law and democracy have broken down in Venezuela and the people of that country deserve better.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:31 AM (RuTUS)

243 The "second wave" that didn't happen was the contingency plan if Delcy failed to honor her part of the agreement.

Possible "boots on the ground" is the hammer Trump holds over Delcy's head if she doesn't play by his rules in converting drug trade proceeds to oil trade proceeds, which are to be shared generously with the Venezuelan people.

Again, theory.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:31 AM (Y1sOo)

244 Nobody wants boots on the ground.

But you need the threat of boots on the ground.

Trump is scaring shitty people.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:32 AM (aTgV0)

245 the rule of law and democracy have broken down in Venezuela and the people of that country deserve better.
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:31 AM (RuTUS)

Wow.

Didn't see that coming.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:32 AM (06Hmj)

246 *Jeffries' statement did not stop there.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:32 AM (RuTUS)

247 The voting machine revelations as they pertain to national elections, especially here in the US are astounding. If true.

It's mind blowing to think a Venezuelan based global drug cartel controls the elections in 3/4 of the countries that have elections. Because about 3/4 of the countries that actually have "elections" use electronic machines to tabulate results. And the software is hacked from day one to permit dicking around with the results, in real time, without evidence.

This just my take after nosing around a couple threads on the subject. Probably something the powers that be would rather not disclose openly.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 08:33 AM (NwnyJ)

248
https://jeffries.house.gov/2026/01/03/
leader-jeffries-statement-on-trump-
administration-actions-in-venezuela/

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:34 AM (RuTUS)

249 246 *Jeffries' statement did not stop there.
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:32 AM (RuTUS)

Yeah it did. Shut up. I'm not listening.

La la la la la la

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:34 AM (06Hmj)

250 224 Dennis Prager remains paralyzed but is now breathing on his own and able to talk, apparently has no permanent brain damage. His message "gratitude is everything." b'h for good health.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 04, 2026 08:21 AM (RIvkX

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An amazing man. Gratitude: a good reminder for me.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:35 AM (Xo9JL)

251 m

Good thing for Congress and the Left that Trump has no Cromwell in him.

Congress needs to get back to its roots; actually caring about the people that they represent.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:36 AM (u82oZ)

252 - About more than just the oil and drugs?
I dunno, maybe. Just learned of the Orinco arc yesterday. Whether any of it's true,,,?
Rich in gold, diamonds silver? Controlled by generals and the main "gang." Been selling it on the "black market" to Turkey and others? China was really wanting their hands in those resources too?

Posted by: TeeJ at January 04, 2026 08:36 AM (oN30K)

253 Is here one action Trump has taken, one event in his entire public life since 2015, that the Left has not universally condemned?

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 08:36 AM (VnsnO)

254 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 21 cloudy degrees here at Stately Poppins Manor. It snowed a bit last night, so I am going to have to clean off the car at some point.

Just brewed a cup of Twining's "Coronation Blend" Darjeeling tea (loose, of course. I'm not an animal), with plenty of milk and sugar in the Irish way. I love Orwell, but think he was silly when he wrote that if you added milk and sugar to your tea, it meant you didn't like tea.

I'm not savvy enough to have a Maduro opinion. I do like that those 'traitorous, effeminate blabbermouths' in Congress (h/t Steve Dallas) were shut out completely.

Waiting for the book thread.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 04, 2026 08:36 AM (ufSfZ)

255 To answer Jeffries's statement with something other than a heart-felt "GFY"... The President can plan for a war as much as he likes, Congress has no oversight over planning.

This was a police action. A criminal was arrested. No territory was occupied. No private or public Venezuelan assets were directly targeted. Congress has no oversight over that, either.

(The "real" response is that you filthy bastards are every bit as illegitimate and guilty of crimes as the greasy bag of fat we just ganked out of that hellhole, so maybe sit down and shut your fucking cum funnel, Temu Obama. But i'm trying to be nice today.)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:39 AM (06Hmj)

256 Warai-otoko

I feel the need for cleansing. Team Obama is on the top of the list. Because that was the inflection point.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:41 AM (u82oZ)

257 I'm sorry to hear about Dennis Prager.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 08:42 AM (aTgV0)

258 240 >>Cuba was sorta put on notice, too.

Probably worse than just notice. Cuba was getting a lot of financial aid from Venezuela.

And according to Andy Ngo Venezuela has been a big supporter of antifa including hosting conferences for them.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:30 AM (viF8m)

Lots of good reporting here:

@mrandyngo

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:42 AM (RuTUS)

259 Have a great day, everyone.

Let us frolic with the good news. And may good news follow you into your life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 04, 2026 08:42 AM (u82oZ)

260 PDT showed VZ and a few other countries that they really aren't that safe in their imagined power on this earth. The US swept in and arrested the illegitimate ruler of VZ who was also a drug cartel head while crippling their puny military. The US did it once and they can do it again. Also, the people of VZ aren't the third world goat herders like the people of the MI, give them some credit that they can now take control in their own country. This isn't a biden or obama plan, the US won't be abandoning them as biden did in Afghanistan.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 04, 2026 08:42 AM (2NHgQ)

261 I see some mention of AI above. I did a little poking around earlier last week and saw that there are videos that show you how to use AI to make movie-style trailers for a book, so that is something I am going to look into very soon. With retirement coming up, I want to restart my author website and have trailers for my books.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 04, 2026 08:44 AM (ufSfZ)

262 We gentlemen of the South would like to see Trump bomb Grant's Tomb!

Posted by: Hellfire On The Hudson at January 04, 2026 08:44 AM (oftw2)

263 In addition to former Columbian ambassador to the U.S., Francisco Santos, American author Eva Golinger, slappy of Hugo Chavez back in the day, also says the U.S. cut a deal with Delcy.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:44 AM (Y1sOo)

264 Maduro has been a bit unhinged lately. Not very good for "business". It's not completely unfeasible that a gentlemen's agreement was struck. You get to leave your grubby little cartel in power, so long as you quit being a geopolitical menace to the hemisphere and go back to making a bunch of money selling coke to dipshits and ruling over a tinpot shithole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:47 AM (06Hmj)

265
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
5h
.@AsraNomani reports on how socialists, communists and leftist radicals organized within hours mass demonstrations in support of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Conservatives don’t understand the left’s organizing tactics.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:48 AM (RuTUS)

266 I mean, forget about oil, we ought to have robust sanctions on Chinese Diplomats.

Any speedboat making a beeline to Caracas carrying some ching chong wing wong in a poorly tailored suit gets 'sploded.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:49 AM (06Hmj)

267
Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
11h
Venezuelan authoritarian strongman Nicolas Maduro is in federal custody in New York.

Short video clip.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:49 AM (RuTUS)

268 62 So Donald is sending Maduro to the Southern New York district.

Which clearly hates the Donald.

Where he certainly will be found not guilty.

I am not a smart person. Is this some kind of 3D chess ?

Also...why is it the Southern New York district?
Posted by: eleven
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Indictment is from 2020 under Bagpipe Billy as AG and just now served. Reportedly there were FBI agents present for the arrest. That being said, there are also reports of collateral proceedings in other district courts with different jury pools.

Maduro has been committing crimes for so long that he can be tried, like an interstate murderer, in each jurisdiction where crimes occurred that can be traced to him.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:50 AM (WDjG6)

269 Yesterday's daring raid has brought to my attention that some special forces operatives don't know what you're supposed to do when you have a communist in a helicopter.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 04, 2026 08:51 AM (f0sNM)

270 Maduro has been committing crimes for so long that he can be tried, like an interstate murderer, in each jurisdiction where crimes occurred that can be traced to him.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:50 AM (WDjG6)

Can we extradite him to Guyana?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:51 AM (06Hmj)

271 Andy Ngo
@MrAndyNgo
5h
.@AsraNomani reports on how socialists, communists and leftist radicals organized within hours mass demonstrations in support of the Maduro regime in Venezuela. Conservatives don’t understand the left’s organizing tactics.
Posted by: m
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The right actually understands these issues after long experience with them but our question now every time is who is funding these particular 'protests' and controlling the networks because it is not spontaneous.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:51 AM (WDjG6)

272 I want to restart my author website and have trailers for my books.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 04, 2026 08:44 AM (ufSfZ)

That would be cool. I guess there are some good uses for AI.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at January 04, 2026 08:52 AM (h7ZuX)

273 268 62 Maduro has been committing crimes for so long that he can be tried, like an interstate murderer, in each jurisdiction where crimes occurred that can be traced to him.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:50 AM (WDjG6)

Nice. And easy to remember.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:52 AM (RuTUS)

274 People's Forum are the ones out with the astroturf protests in NYC in support of Muduro.

They are the nastiest group of morally evil second only to Antifa.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 04, 2026 08:53 AM (HXT0k)

275 JFK wisely sought out advice from former presidents and generals. Gen. McArthur told him on a least two occasions anybody that wants to get in a land war in Asia should have his head examined.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 04, 2026 08:54 AM (0QSHv)

276 Can we extradite him to Guyana?
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Yep. My guess is SDNY was used in 2020 because a) Bagpipe Billy as AG, b) SDNY used to have a rep for nat sec trials and competent personnel, c) you can issue superceding indictments elsewhere (just like you can tack on charges elsewhere after you have the perp in custody).

I think, in part, part of it is holding Maduro until he wants to play ball.

Legal issues were settled way back when Noriega was tried and convicted which makes it difficult for a District court judge to try to invent new law for this case.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:54 AM (WDjG6)

277 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at January 04, 2026 08:55 AM (2Ez/1)

278 >>>there are also reports of collateral proceedings in other district courts with different jury pools.

Hello...

Posted by: The Federal Judicial Southern District of Florida at January 04, 2026 08:55 AM (Y1sOo)

279 Gen. McArthur told him on a least two occasions anybody that wants to get in a land war in Asia should have his head examined.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 04, 2026 08:54 AM (0QSHv)

Says the guy who went a-conquering in North Korea against explicit orders. In winter. With no supply lines set up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:55 AM (06Hmj)

280 260 the people of VZ aren't the third world goat herders like the people of the MI
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 04, 2026 08:42 AM (2NHgQ)

?

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:56 AM (RuTUS)

281 261 I see some mention of AI above. I did a little poking around earlier last week and saw that there are videos that show you how to use AI to make movie-style trailers for a book, so that is something I am going to look into very soon. With retirement coming up, I want to restart my author website and have trailers for my books.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
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I think that is an excellent marketing idea.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:56 AM (WDjG6)

282 Hello...
Posted by: The Federal Judicial Southern District of Florida
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Offhand, I think that is where Noriega was tried and convicted.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:57 AM (WDjG6)

283 And President Trump, please blow up General Sherman's grave in St. Louis!

Posted by: People of Atlanta at January 04, 2026 08:58 AM (oftw2)

284 Rumor has it that some of the rehearsals for the raid to get Maduro occurred here in KY. Likely at Fort Knox. They have several "mock towns" on base as well as facilities to mimic industrial centers and the like.

There's also the defunct BlueOval SK facility down the road. Huge manufacturing joint. Lots of space.

There was a fair amount of "traffic" around Thanksgiving and into early December over at Knox.

Helicopter traffic and C-130's flying low. Very low.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 08:58 AM (NwnyJ)

285 78 Biggly ironic Mamdani meme drop:

https://tinyurl.com/4h3mhmyb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 04, 2026 07:06 AM (Ippjd)

-----

" The warmth of collectivism" is an interesting phrase. Makes me think of Gulag, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and other.phrases from the murderous dustbin of history

Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:58 AM (Gh3UR)

286 Noriego factoids:

Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian military dictator who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (RuTUS)

287 ?
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:56 AM (RuTUS)

Dearborn, mostly and some Hamtramck

Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (Y1sOo)

288 >>Offhand, I think that is where Noriega was tried and convicted.

Also where a grand jury is hearing evidence about the years long conspiracy against Trump.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (viF8m)

289 ...but our question now every time is who is funding these particular 'protests' and controlling the networks because it is not spontaneous.
Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 08:51 AM (WDjG6)

A question we can never seem to answer.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (VnsnO)

290 " The warmth of collectivism" is an interesting phrase. Makes me think of Gulag, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and other.phrases from the murderous dustbin of history
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:58 AM (Gh3UR)

Nothing says You're Doing It Right quite like the image of huddling together for warmth.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (06Hmj)

291
Good morning, everyone.

Some local dumbasses here in North Alabama decided to protest wars for oil in downton Huntsville yesterday. Every damned one of them looks like they crawled their pasty stoned ass out of their parent's basement. Danger hair, covid masks, unkempt appearance generally.

Bif's opinion....the last time they emerged was to vote for Biden, and Hillary before that.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (QVmho)

292 sorry m, typo, I meant ME

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 04, 2026 09:00 AM (2NHgQ)

293 272 I want to restart my author website and have trailers for my books.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at January 04, 2026 08:44 AM (ufSfZ)

Sounds like a very good idea.

Posted by: Ordinary American at January 04, 2026 09:00 AM (VnsnO)

294 Take your reading glasses and head upstairs
BOOK NOOD

Posted by: Skip at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (Ia/+0)

295 Is Sora the one that's good at making movie-like videos?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (06Hmj)

296
Andrew Scheer
@AndrewScheer
Jan 3
Who knew the Berlin Wall was actually built to keep all the warmth of collectivism safe inside?

B/W photo of children on the east side of the wall

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (RuTUS)

297 292 sorry m, typo, I meant ME
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 04, 2026 09:00 AM (2NHgQ)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (RuTUS)

298
You know what sucks about land wars in Asia?

Asians. There's like a billion of them.

Posted by: eleven at January 04, 2026 09:02 AM (aTgV0)

299 No pants here and thus, no books.

Posted by: Weakly Reader. at January 04, 2026 09:02 AM (oftw2)

300 287 ?
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 08:56 AM (RuTUS)

Dearborn, mostly and some Hamtramck
Posted by: one hour sober at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (Y1sOo)

This is funnier.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:02 AM (RuTUS)

301 295 Is Sora the one that's good at making movie-like videos?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (06Hmj)

Someone feel free to repost that upstairs for MP4. No way i'm going there. Tryin'a make a guy wear pants on a Sunday. It ain't right.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 09:02 AM (06Hmj)

302 >>>Offhand, I think that is where Noriega was tried and convicted.

Correct, which is why I said hello.

Posted by: The Federal Judicial Southern District of Florida at January 04, 2026 09:02 AM (Y1sOo)

303 253 Is here one action Trump has taken, one event in his entire public life since 2015, that the Left has not universally condemned?
Posted by: Ordinary American

Yes, but that is also the reason they are marginalizing themselves, bit by bit. The US has had a fairly stable percentage of leftists ranging in the mid twenties for decades. Conservatives, a plurality at around 35-40 percent of the electorate. The rest, 35-40 are moderates--they are susceptible to emo arguments in the short run from teh left but in the long run tend to reject the results of the left in power.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 09:03 AM (WDjG6)

304 290 " The warmth of collectivism" is an interesting phrase. Makes me think of Gulag, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, and other.phrases from the murderous dustbin of history
Posted by: JM in Illinois at January 04, 2026 08:58 AM (Gh3UR)

Nothing says You're Doing It Right quite like the image of huddling together for warmth.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 08:59 AM (06Hmj)

Exactly!!!

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:03 AM (RuTUS)

305 MPPP,

There is free software that can create an online ebook on your website. These are only online, can't be sold. I can find the name of it if you are interested.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 04, 2026 09:04 AM (+mUZM)

306 260 the people of VZ aren't the third world goat herders like the people of the MI
---------------------------

That's mostly Dearborn.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 04, 2026 09:04 AM (f0sNM)

307 A question we can never seem to answer.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Well, we often figure out in hindsight but by then history have moved on. The left relies on a host of shell organizations and many pop up and then disappear. This is so the primary sources, big foundations, foreign money, and some oligarchs like Hoffman, Steyer, and Soros, have plausible deniability. And that trick are the same tactics used by criminal networks and intel organizations.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 09:06 AM (WDjG6)

308 296
Andrew Scheer
@AndrewScheer
Jan 3
Who knew the Berlin Wall was actually built to keep all the warmth of collectivism safe inside?

B/W photo of children on the east side of the wall
Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:01 AM (RuTUS)

... beautiful children.

Posted by: m at January 04, 2026 09:06 AM (RuTUS)

309 Also where a grand jury is hearing evidence about the years long conspiracy against Trump.
Posted by: JackStraw
======
True.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 09:07 AM (WDjG6)

310 Good thing for Congress and the Left that Trump has no Cromwell in him.

Congress needs to get back to its roots; actually caring about the people that they represent.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Right now, they don't because wealth speaks louder than their constituent's votes and many are in rotten and rigged states/districts.

But then again, nothing new, the Continental Congress and the later Articles Congress was also filled with make a fast buck crowd. Land developers bribed the whole GA government in the 1790's in order to get title to lands in GA, AL, and MS. GA's boundaries went from teh Atlantic to the Mississippi at the time.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 09:10 AM (WDjG6)

311 > " The warmth of collectivism" is an interesting phrase.
--------
Mamdani had some sort of "block party" for his swearing in. It was cold. There was no food, no bathrooms. People complained.

They were ridiculed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 09:11 AM (NwnyJ)

312 You know what sucks about land wars in Asia?

After four hours, you're hungry for another one?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 04, 2026 09:11 AM (c115l)

313 " The warmth of collectivism" is an interesting phrase.
--------
Mamdani had some sort of "block party" for his swearing in. It was cold. There was no food, no bathrooms. People complained.

They were ridiculed.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Food & porta-potties cost money.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 04, 2026 09:12 AM (c115l)

314 In a Maduro trial, we'd be remiss if we didn't attempt to stack the jury pool with displaced Venezuelans. Shouldn't be difficult here in Miami.

Posted by: The Federal Judicial Southern District of Florida at January 04, 2026 09:12 AM (Y1sOo)

315 what protections do the Venezuelan people have against this-
Maduro's people are still in place, far as I know
Posted by: Don Black at January 04, 2026 08:15 AM (ZxPkt)

That’s why Trump said we’re going to run things for the time being. We don’t need to have an extremely active presence, just enough to intimidate the remnants of Maduro’s regime from intimidating and terrorizing the people. Remember that Venezuela at the street level has been run by gangs of thugs paid by Maduro for years. The people will be overjoyed to see them suppressed.

And the endgame will be to hold new, US sponsored elections as soon as possible.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 04, 2026 09:14 AM (RFd77)

316 252 - About more than just the oil and drugs?
I dunno, maybe. Just learned of the Orinco arc yesterday. Whether any of it's true,,,?
Rich in gold, diamonds silver? Controlled by generals and the main "gang." Been selling it on the "black market" to Turkey and others? China was really wanting their hands in those resources too?
Posted by: TeeJ
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Some of it like the tar sands. I think gold, diamonds, and silver though may be alluvial deposits from the Orinoco River.

Posted by: whig at January 04, 2026 09:15 AM (WDjG6)

317 I believe Maduro will crack and cut some kind of deal (mainly singing like a bird) long before this ever gets to an actual trial. Maduro himself is a low IQ fool, an imbecile put in place to be a figurehead for the Cartels and others who did not want to show themselves openly. The man himself is trivial and unimportant, so jailing him is purely symbolic. The information about his true sponsors is the only truly valuable thing about him.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 04, 2026 09:20 AM (RFd77)

318 Maduro captured, Trump wins bug, Little Peletey Butt Plug hardest hit...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at January 04, 2026 09:21 AM (RgIgL)

319 There's speculation the Orinco fields hold (potentially) more barrels of oil than what's left in Saudi land.

Estimates are between 900 billion and 1.4 trillion barrels. Presuming it can be extracted. It's not like the oil in the Middle East either. I think they refer to it as "heavy." It's hard to extract, pipe to a terminal, refine, ship, etc.

It's one reason China and Russia were interested in Venezuela.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 04, 2026 09:25 AM (NwnyJ)

320 "If it was an in-and-out raid, how does the US control them now?"

If I did it once, why don't you think I can do it twice? Or, if you piss me off, just replace the location you are with a rather large crater?

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 09:31 AM (1ld0C)

321 "Says the guy who went a-conquering in North Korea against explicit orders. In winter. With no supply lines set up."

Maybe you shouldn't opine about shit you don't have a fucking clue about.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 09:38 AM (1ld0C)

322 Nick Sortor @nicksortor

HOLY CRAP! This might just be the most EPIC Trump post of all time

Trump posted a video of Maduro CHALLENGING 47 to “come get me,” followed up by a screaming Bald Eagle & Thunderstruck blaring in the background during missile fire🦅

Trump said “challenge accepted”

X video: https://bit.ly/4sqsrbP

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2026 10:22 AM (P5BPp)

323 Maybe you shouldn't opine about shit you don't have a fucking clue about.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at January 04, 2026 09:38 AM (1ld0C)

Against Truman's orders, he pushed the 8th army north in the dead of winter for an opportunistic counterattack when that wasn't part of the overall plan, and got it encircled and cut off because they didn't have the roads from the coast up to Chosin secured enough to support a major invasion force yet.

What part of that isn't correct?

Oh, and yeah, rahr rahr fuck you derpa derp you smell like butts et cetera et cetera. Lest I forget that part.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 04, 2026 10:36 AM (06Hmj)

324 Chilling AI analysis

https://x.com/timteafan/status/2007563082663637505?s=46

Posted by: David Smith at January 04, 2026 10:48 AM (4xdkb)

325 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh

EPIC! The Venezuelans are now doing the TRUMP DANCE to YMCA

The Democrats are about to go absolutely insane 🤣🔥

It's impossible NOT to love this.

X video: https://bit.ly/49khS17

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 04, 2026 10:49 AM (P5BPp)

326 Agile stuck in the knife, right through the weak point in the armor crafted by the H1B Visa.

Posted by: Naqamel at January 04, 2026 02:55 PM (lG+7p)

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