THE MORNING RANT: Regime Toppling is the Proper Response to Despots Engaged in Terror & Asymmetric Warfare Against the U.S.

The big news this weekend was that the head of the snake was cut off from a communist dictatorship here in the Americas. Of more importance, this serpent, Nicolas Maduro, had been conducting asymmetrical warfare against the U.S. by flooding our borders with deadly drugs and hardened criminals.

Others will be providing exceptional analysis of what lies ahead, but I’ll just briefly mention that while I heartily reject any more “forever wars” like we did in the Bush-era, I absolutely endorse taking out the leadership of hostile regimes which are actively engaged in the killing of American citizens on U.S. soil. Maduro was at war with the United States. His arrest was the polite option.

I have seen Maduro’s war on U.S. civilians up close and personal. A client of mine lost a child to a drug overdose, and my wife has had to comfort two very good friends who lost children due to lethal drug ingestion.

In addition, Tren de Aragua used Biden’s open border to start operating throughout Tennessee. Maduro’s crime cartel has been engaged in sex slavery and other crimes near where I live: “Member of Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, arrested in Chattanooga” [Fox 17 Nashville – 11/25/2024]

Maduro brought death and destruction to American soil. He had to be removed.

I have written before that Colin Powell’s concept of “we broke it, we bought it” is flawed when it comes to international uses of American military power. Instead, if we find ourselves having to “break it,” we have no obligation “to buy it.” But if we can peacefully transition Venezuela away from being a communist adversary to being a friendly neighbor, that is certainly desirable.

More importantly, we don’t necessarily have to “break it” with widespread destruction, as shown in both the Iran strikes and now in Venezuela. Maduro in Venezuela and the mullahs in Iran had been correct in assessing that Americans don’t have the stomach for any more multi-year, nation-building ventures, therefore they felt empowered to support terror and asymmetric war against the United States. Destroying a despot’s ability to govern and inflict terror is much cleaner than killing tens of thousands of conscripts.

Perhaps more importantly, liberating Venezuela from Maduro also takes out an ally of China in our hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine is perhaps more important today than it was two centuries ago. We cannot tolerate China’s or other BRIC navies being in control of the coastal waters off of Latin America.

In fact, this is a very good time to focus our international strategies on the western hemisphere. At this moment, in which the Christian citizenry of Latin America is celebrating the removal of an international communist, the atheist/secular/Islamist power structure in Europe is condemning Maduro’s removal.

Maduro was also a close ally of Russia and Vladimir Putin. All those Democrats and media partisans who spent the past decade pushing Hillary Clinton’s hoax that Trump is a Putin stooge must be having a hard time digesting the news that Trump, looking out for America’s best interests, just poked Putin in the eye.

“Russia harshly criticizes US attack on Venezuela, capture of Maduro” [The Hill – 01/03/2026]

Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.

By taking out the communist leadership in Venezuela, and with the imminent(?) toppling of the Iranian mullocracy, a very powerful message has been sent to any despot who wants to cause harm to the United States. As Zineb Riboua said, “At the end of the day, it is absolutely crucial for any leader around the globe to believe that the United States can get him if it wants to. That belief is deterrence. And that type of willpower is the backbone of national security.”

At the end of the day, it is absolutely crucial for any leader around the globe to believe that the United States can get him if it wants to. That belief is deterrence. And that type of willpower is the backbone of national security.
— Zineb Riboua (@zriboua) January 3, 2026

America’s national security has been strengthened by the removal of Maduro. Any foreign leader who continues to engage in asymmetric warfare against American civilians should strongly reconsider the consequence of what s/he is doing.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hey

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2026 11:00 AM (NuV6c)

2 Sponge!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:00 AM (c115l)

3 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at January 05, 2026 11:00 AM (R6aIA)

4 Knew a gal with Asymmetric tits.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:01 AM (Kt19C)

5 Maduro looks a lot like Saddam Hussein.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

6 >>Maduro brought death and destruction to American soil. He had to be removed.

THIS

Bonus points for abducting Maduro while a Chinese delegation was in town meeting with him!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (NuV6c)

7 Has the regime been toppled? It seems like we just arrested a wanted criminal. Next criminal steps up.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (jc0TO)

8 It was amusing the first time;

I'm smoking a cigar... it's a maduro.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (NwnyJ)

9 The fundamental fact of this story is that this country should always be a shining beacon of freedom to oppressed people everywhere.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (RIvkX)

10 Willowed:

Goldie Ghamari has a running commentary on Iran.

She is Persian, who fled Iran in '79. She was a Canadian politician for ten years.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (c115l)

11 >>Knew a gal with Asymmetric tits.

Was her name Akimbo?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (NuV6c)

12 Pray for President's Trump and VP Vance's safety, if you haven't done so already today.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (Yl2Ob)

13 Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.

“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.

Oh no! Anyway...

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

14 7 Has the regime been toppled? It seems like we just arrested a wanted criminal. Next criminal steps up.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM (jc0TO)

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Next criminal is saying conciliatory things about Trump.

Trump's mission isn't to make Venezuela a highly respected democracy. It's to get the country to step sending us criminal gangs, accept its own criminals back, and stop selling sanctioned oil to Iran and China.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

15 Pleasant morning for Chevron shareholders

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (3y/+G)

16 The fundamental fact of this story is that this country should always be a shining beacon of freedom to oppressed people everywhere.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:02 AM

IIRC, we support liberty everywhere but guarantee only our own.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (jc0TO)

17 Of more importance, this serpent, Nicolas Maduro, had been conducting asymmetrical warfare against the U.S. by flooding our borders with deadly drugs and hardened criminals.
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And operating as a linchpin for a global triangular (quadrangular?) trade between Red China, Iran and Russia. Missile parts from Red China to Iran, via Venezuela. Oil direct to Red China from Venezuela. Unflagged or false-flagged freighters go in and out of Venezuela.

Yes, Venezuela was exporting gangsters and drugs to and importing remittances from the US, but it's a key point in a much bigger game, too. Not the only key point, to be sure, but it's important.

I *strongly* suspect that this stymies a lot of Red China's plans, and probably hurts Iran a lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (avHHk)

18 Yes, if nothing else we’ve scared the shit out of Cuba’s commie leaders and any other tin pot dictators in the western hemisphere…. Maybe even scared the Mullahs a bit. Deterrence!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (xT8gx)

19 Bonus points for abducting Maduro while a Chinese delegation was in town meeting with him!!
Posted by: Lizzy

Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but we are going to have to postpone today's meeting. President Maduro is indisposed currently.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (c115l)

20 I guess now it's time to look for those weapons of mass destruction we were told he has...

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (dGCAG)

21 Any foreign leader who continues to engage in asymmetric warfare against American civilians should strongly reconsider the consequence of what s/he is doing.
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Death! Death to America!
-Every Friday during prayers

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (RIvkX)

22 I like the way foreign Leftists are saying the same thing as Putin and the Russian leadership on this subject. I saw a comment by former NZ PM Helen Clark that had to have been translated from Russian.

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (iDFVA)

23 This is in our sphere of influence, the fact that the US has put up with communist bullshit in our backyard for 100 years is over.

Next up, Cuba, Columbia and the rest of these asshole communist f**knozzles.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (XV/Pl)

24 Bay of Pigs it was not.

My cause celebre for the Kennedy assassination.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM (KDPiq)

25 I have written before that Colin Powell’s concept of “we broke it, we bought it” is flawed when it comes to international uses of American military power.
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Getting away from that might also help prevent strategic bad behavior in the hopes of extracting something out of the USA.

"The Mouse That Roared"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (avHHk)

26 I'm sure Rubio is happy. Cuba deathwatch startred Saturday.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (3y/+G)

27 F*king A

Message sent

Posted by: Zeera. I voted for ALL of this at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (jvxGE)

28 This causes deep concern and condemnation,"

Russian concern:

[ ] oh no!
[X] laughs in American

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (XuXeR)

29 In fact, this is a very good time to focus our international strategies on the western hemisphere. At this moment, in which the Christian citizenry of Latin America is celebrating the removal of an international communist, the atheist/secular/Islamist power structure in Europe is condemning Maduro’s removal.
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Of course. They don't want any communist or Islamist harmed. For any reason. Anywhere on earth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (avHHk)

30 Bonus points for abducting Maduro while a Chinese delegation was in town meeting with him!!
Posted by: Lizzy

Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but we are going to have to postpone today's meeting. President Maduro is indisposed currently.

Gentlemen, how's the tenth of never for you?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:05 AM (Riz8t)

31 The question is not so much when it intersects with us, but when it doesn't.

You'll note that the Z man is all fire sure and ready for us to take care of his problem (although I'd argue he should go first.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

32 Commenter above is right… I didn’t notice until it was mentioned… Maduro does look like Saddam Hussein’s long lost brother!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (xT8gx)

33 Cuba has no fuel and no food. Just let them collapse.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (3y/+G)

34 Don't worry, corrupt leftist judges in the US will save them.

SDNY? Let me tell you how much I love being on Team Stupid.

Posted by: Helloooo, McFly! at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (qUkBO)

35 I have written before that Colin Powell’s concept of “we broke it, we bought it” is flawed when it comes to international uses of American military power.

The funny thing is that's not even true in Pottery Barn. It's just store policy, not a law.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (3nLb4)

36 Pleasant morning for Chevron shareholders
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (3y/+G)
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Willowed from last thread: today is the first day my shares are worth more than I paid.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (RIvkX)

37 Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.
“This morning, the United States carried out an act of armed aggression against Venezuela. This causes deep concern and condemnation,” Russia said in a statement from its Foreign Ministry.
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Yes, of course. To be expected and, bluntly, this is probably a *proper* position for Russia to take.

Russia plays in our backyard, and we don't like it.
We play in Russia's backyard, and they don't like it.

There's a war in Ukraine for a *reason*, after all. Thankfully, Russia is probably too tied up in that to back Venezuelan communists with shiploads of weapons.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (avHHk)

38 Pleasant morning for Chevron shareholders"

Ahem. We can refine heavy sour as well...

/XOM

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (XuXeR)

39 11 >>Knew a gal with Asymmetric tits.

Was her name Akimbo?
Posted by: Lizzy

AC/DC?

Posted by: Cup Sizes? at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (oftw2)

40 35 I have written before that Colin Powell’s concept of “we broke it, we bought it” is flawed when it comes to international uses of American military power.

The funny thing is that's not even true in Pottery Barn. It's just store policy, not a law.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (3nLb4)

This, it was always a bad idea. It worked in Japan. Mixed results in Germany- everywhere else a disaster.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (bss/y)

41 I absolutely endorse taking out the leadership of hostile regimes which are actively engaged in the killing of American citizens on U.S. soil. Maduro was at war with the United States.

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Illegal drugs have killed more Americans than all of the military wars combined post-World War II.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (9UYps)

42 Commie dictators in our hemisphere who actively try to harm the United States should be open game.

And it always seems the Dems and their Lefty followers always side with these immoral thugs.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (KDPiq)

43 Bonus points for abducting Maduro while a Chinese delegation was in town meeting with him!!
Posted by: Lizzy

Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but we are going to have to postpone today's meeting. President Maduro is indisposed currently.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:04 AM

"Where Maduro? He been gone fowa howa!"

- The Chinese Delegation

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (bFu5X)

44 Look for regional aftershocks if this raid worked and Venezuela's communist regime is phased out.

My attention is on Cuba, which I expect to outright collapse if we were successful. Colombia might get sporty.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (avHHk)

45 Yes, Venezuela was exporting gangsters and drugs to and importing remittances from the US, but it's a key point in a much bigger game, too. Not the only key point, to be sure, but it's important.

I *strongly* suspect that this stymies a lot of Red China's plans, and probably hurts Iran a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (avHHk)

There was a DEA report from earlier this year, it summarized the Venezuelan contribution to the drug problem in the country to the low level street gangs (who have mostly been deported already).

It didn't actually attribute any of their activities to the government of Venezuela, who have been actively fighting them on their own shores.

And most of what they imported to the U.S. through gang members, were drugs that were some kind of Venezuelan thing, sold almost entirely among Venezuelans living in this country.

Whatever. Maduro is a bad guy. And the country has lots of oil. So we're gonna take it. Yay us.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (dGCAG)

46 this country should always be a shining beacon of freedom to oppressed people everywhere.
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That was the boilerplate for a long time, particularly during the height of the Cold War.

“Bear any price, bear any burden” and all. Look what happened to that guy.

The domestic record is … not good. Not good at all. Clown world bad, in fact. Can’t even smoke in a fucking bar.

The right of self-defense is a notable exception, although the leftist answer to that is to mainstream mental cases who shoot up schools and churches on the regular.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (kMjfk)

47 > I *strongly* suspect that this stymies a lot of Red China's plans, and probably hurts Iran a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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The Chinese have invested in upgrading Venezuela's airbases and naval facilities for their own use.

Imagine a Chinese Navy fleet sailing around the Gulf of America.

Not any more.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2026 11:08 AM (NwnyJ)

48 I used to think (circa 1991) that Colin Powell was a badass and his “break it, buy it” aphorism was deep wisdom. Then I observed the world for 35 years and now I feel pretty stupid for believing that….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (xT8gx)

49 Thankfully, Russia is probably too tied up in that to back Venezuelan communists with shiploads of weapons."

They evidently had Russian weapons. Worked as well as expected...

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (XuXeR)

50 Mrs. Wrecks likes the Reba sitcom. I told her I didn't much like it because the humor is derived from them being mean to each other. This morning she told me it's ironic I think Reba is too mean while that damn Trump is rude and mean in the way he talks to and about people.

BREAKING: President Trump just EVISCERATED Tim Walz on national TV
“This is a VERY STUPID, LOW IQ governor. A stupid man... he is a CORRUPT politician.
And the Somalians are ripping off our country to the tune of, it looks like, $19 BILLION, but that is only what they can find. It could be $50 [BILLION]”

-
But, you see, now, that's funny!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (L/fGl)

51 We should up the repatriation bonus for Venezuelan refugees on the ICE app. $10K and an AR15.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (jc0TO)

52 Illegal drugs have killed more Americans than all of the military wars combined post-World War II.
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (9UYps)

Most of which come through Mexico. Manufactured in China.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:10 AM (dGCAG)

53 Pleasant morning for Chevron shareholders
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (3y/+G)
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Willowed from last thread: today is the first day my shares are worth more than I paid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Which reminds me. In 2021 some stock huckster was telling everyone to buy Disney. I publicly told him it would tank and to buy CVX instead. I bought at $90 and it is $162 now

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:10 AM (3y/+G)

54 The same democrats who are decrying the "nation-building" in an American enemy like Maduro's Venezuela will -- in the next breath -- ask for another $10B for the failing Ukraine buggery.

Posted by: red speck at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (Ve/HL)

55 Rubio meme continues, lol!

https://tinyurl.com/5n8j5yhd

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (NuV6c)

56 Hegseth is about to courtmartial Senator Kelly
He can't send this bastard to Leavenworth but he can lower his grade and cut his pension

Posted by: gKWVE at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (yYROg)

57 "Where Maduro? He been gone fowa howa!"

- The Chinese Delegation
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

No Maduro for you! Come back. Two years!
Posted by: Soup Nazi

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (c115l)

58 >>Knew a gal with Asymmetric tits.

Was her name Akimbo?
Posted by: Lizzy

AC/DC?
Posted by: Cup Sizes?

Eileen?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (L/fGl)

59 They evidently had Russian weapons. Worked as well as expected...
Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (XuXeR)
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If this raid went down the way it's described, it probably doesn't matter.

Russian weapons, American weapons, slings and arrows, whatever. If we got in and out that quickly with that little damage, it tells me that they didn't fight back, at least not outside of the presidential palace as it was being turned into an LZ.

You can heave the best weapons on earth and it doesn't matter at all if you don't use them - and it looks like Venezuela didn't. Whether that was a choice or not, I don't know.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (avHHk)

60 the Proper Response to Despots Engaged in Terror & Asymmetric Warfare Against the U.S.
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Needs to be done within the US - to 1000s!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (copfg)

61 33 Cuba has no fuel and no food. Just let them collapse.

If they don't have food in Cuba they deserve to starve, its got ideal growing conditions and is surrounded by ocean == surrounded by fish and seafood.

And they aren't going to freeze at that latitude and surrounded by ocean.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (hhkIi)

62 repatriation bonus for Venezuelan refugees on the ICE app. $10K and an AR15."

Not a bad idea!

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (XuXeR)

63 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (avHHk)

Maybe it’s a foolish consistency (I don’t think so) but I look at the Russian /Ukraine conflict just like I look at the US /Venezuela conflict.

Ukraine continually poked the bear
Venezuela continually poked the Eagle

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (KDPiq)

64 I love the overkill in the raid. Grabbing this twat and his cunting wife out of their bedroom (!), bombing that other twat's tomb, and generally whipping out big 12-inch cocks and pissing in everyone's faces.

We didn't need to send in angry Godzilla to fuck you and your wife in the middle of the night. We sent in angry Godzilla so other assholes who might fuck with us know we have angry Godzilla and he's eager to fuck you and your wife. "We have angry Godzilla ... and you don't."

Well done.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (iFTx/)

65 Mrs. Wrecks likes the Reba sitcom. I told her I didn't much like it because the humor is derived from them being mean to each other.

Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (3nLb4)

66 Speaking of Walz, he's no longer running for reelection.
Minnesota about to become North Texas

Posted by: gKWVE at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (yYROg)

67 Fortune cookie say, "You screwed."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

68 Regime toppling, NOT nation building.

NOT to be used on tyrants who "play ball". Not to be used on "tyrants" that are friendly to our interests.

We aren't, and shouldn't be, interested in freeing every people out there. Freeing a people through no effort of their own will cause them not to value that freedom as they should. (Like any other handout.)

As I said over the weekend: "Speak softly and carry a big stick" only works if you are willing to use the stick.

Trump just swung a big stick. It doesn't matter if he speaks softly or harshly now, he's got the tyrants' attention. (But he'll likely have to speak harshly before the US can go back to soft warnings, because the world knows it's not an empty threat- E.G. Biden's "don't".)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (zjgNU)

69 Pleasant morning for Chevron shareholders
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:03 AM (3y/+G)
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Willowed from last thread: today is the first day my shares are worth more than I paid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (RIvkX)

Is Chevron connected to Citgo? I heard Citgo was the Venezuelan company... or it was, before it was bought by a guy who used to be a nevertrumper, who was a DeSantis supporter, before he saw the writing on the wall, and gave money to Trump.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (dGCAG)

70 As a former USAF wife, the thought of us blowing through Russian-built air defenses like they were made of toilet paper makes me laugh.

Posted by: pookysgirl, Made In The USA at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Wt5PA)

71 Illegal drugs have killed more Americans

Why are dealers killing their customers?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Kt19C)

72 I *strongly* suspect that this stymies a lot of Red China's plans, and probably hurts Iran a lot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

This. The CCP is and has been constructing facilities at SoAm ports and floating dual-use 'merchant' ships that can deploy military assets in our bathtub. It needs to come to a sudden end.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 05, 2026 11:13 AM (mlg/3)

73 Minnesota about to become North Texas"

Buc-ee's moving in?

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:13 AM (XuXeR)

74 Did Maduro's Cuban bodyguards get smoked?

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:13 AM (jc0TO)

75 Speaking of commies:

@sahilkapur 2h
News: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announces he won’t run for reelection:

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 05, 2026 11:13 AM (mlg/3)

76 we're reaching levels of "voted for this" I couldn't imagine

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich Boner at January 05, 2026 11:13 AM (yYROg)

77 Hegseth is about to courtmartial Senator Kelly
He can't send this bastard to Leavenworth but he can lower his grade and cut his pension
Posted by: gKWVE at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (yYROg)

For what?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (dGCAG)

78 Cuba has no fuel and no food. Just let them collapse.

If they don't have food in Cuba they deserve to starve, its got ideal growing conditions and is surrounded by ocean == surrounded by fish and seafood.

And they aren't going to freeze at that latitude and surrounded by ocean.
Posted by: PaleRider

It IS their fault.
Communism = no incentive to bust your ass farming.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (c115l)

79 >>. . . while that damn Trump is rude and mean in the way he talks to and about people.

He's being mean to a man who allowed, if not facilitated, the theft of ten's of billions of taxpayer money.

Walz is getting off easy so far. Most people want more direct action taken on those who have been doing this, the kind that includes torches, pitchforks, etc...

Posted by: Lizzy at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (NuV6c)

80 Did Maduro's Cuban bodyguards get smoked?

Cuba says that 32 Cubans were killed in the raid. I don't know if they were bodyguards, advisers, or food truck operators.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (Riz8t)

81 They evidently had Russian weapons. Worked as well as expected...
Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:09 AM (XuXeR)
++++
If this raid went down the way it's described, it probably doesn't matter.

Russian weapons, American weapons, slings and arrows, whatever. If we got in and out that quickly with that little damage, it tells me that they didn't fight back, at least not outside of the presidential palace as it was being turned into an LZ.

You can heave the best weapons on earth and it doesn't matter at all if you don't use them - and it looks like Venezuela didn't. Whether that was a choice or not, I don't know.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM (avHHk)
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As I mentioned before, this strikes me as partly an inside job. I'm sure there were a lot of people, even those in the inner circle, who wanted this prick gone. I'll bet the Chinese did too. Maduro had outlived his usefulness, and was causing more problems than he was worth. He had to go, and likely was pushed out, or at least there was a lot of looking-the-other-way when Delta came for his ass.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)

82 Is Chevron connected to Citgo? I heard Citgo was the Venezuelan company... or it was, before it was bought by a guy who used to be a nevertrumper, who was a DeSantis supporter, before he saw the writing on the wall, and gave money to Trump.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (dGCAG)
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Chevron was the party most harmed by Chavez's expropriation of foreign-developed oil infrastructure and leased reserves. The built up a huge amount of Venezuela's oil infrastructure, then Chavez nationalized it and told them to GTFO.

In his presser, Trump described plans for Venezuela's oil infrastructure as what amounts to a restitution to those American firms expropriated. Chevron will be at the front of the line for that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (avHHk)

83 BurtTC: for twattery unbecoming of a retired officer
x.com/SecWar/status/2008189258528665898#

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich Boner at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (yYROg)

84 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM

Tragedy is when I stub my toe. Comedy is when you fall down a manhole and die. - Mel Brooks

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (jc0TO)

85 Illegal drugs have killed more Americans

Why are dealers killing their customers?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Kt19C)

They don’t care. There will always be more customers than the supply .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (KDPiq)

86 Wish in one hand...

@ChadPergram 2m
Comer still wants Walz to appear st Feb 10 Oversight Cmte hearing on alleged MN fraud despite not seeking re-election

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (mlg/3)

87
I hope President Trump bombed the iranian drone factories in Venezuela, and all other Chinese,Russian assets there as well.

Total destruction from mountain to shore.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (IifOV)

88 Regime toppling, NOT nation building.

"Y'all f*cked up by letting those criminals get in charge in the first place. Now you have a chance to try again. You're welcome. Good luck."

-- Uncle Sam's Big Stick

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (3nLb4)

89 Walz is getting off easy so far.

See, you could have made a joke here with just an ellipsis.

Walz is getting off easy...so far.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

90 Did Maduro's Cuban bodyguards get smoked?
Posted by: toby928(c)

At least two dozen of them.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (3y/+G)

91 >>Knew a gal with Asymmetric tits.

Was her name Akimbo?
Posted by: Lizzy

AC/DC?
Posted by: Cup Sizes?

Eileen?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:11 AM

We need to hear from that asymmetrical bear guy on this.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (bFu5X)

92 “De-Nazification” didn’t work in Germany because the whole damn country was in the Nazi party. If you weren’t, you ended up in a camp. The pool of available replacements were the communists, who were arguably worse. Patton, for all his supposed flaws, had this figured out.

McArthur was made the supreme commander overseeing Japan. Post war planners figured out soon enough the way to keep the peace in the long run was not to grind them into the dirt - but to return their governments to responsibility and accountability and make them trading partners.

They did not want Soviet style partitioning of Japan, the Soviets were not our partners in peace.

The Soviet Union is gone, though not their legacy of communist dunderheads. Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, et al sure fucked everything up but good.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (kMjfk)

93 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob

What's wrong with that, Hockey Puck?

Posted by: Zombie Rickles at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (oftw2)

94 Did Maduro's Cuban bodyguards get smoked?
Posted by: toby928(c)

Sounds like they did. Rest of the Venezuelan military said "F this shit" and didn't show up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (c115l)

95 Big Jim McBob: That old Hugo Chavez blowed up good.

Billy Sol Hurok: Blowed up REAL good!

Posted by: SCTV Farm Film Report at January 05, 2026 11:16 AM (wVcYX)

96 We cannot tolerate China’s or other BRIC navies being in control of the coastal waters off of Latin America.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Unlike "~~GLOBAL WARMING~~CLIMATE CHANGE!!!111!1!", this actually represents an existential threat.

China is depleting fish stocks all across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. (They don't have power in the Atlantic yet.)

They are causing an ecological disaster, but no one has the will to do anything about it. Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 11:16 AM (zjgNU)

97 Chevron will be at the front of the line for that"

Every Texas law firm is warming up for that fight. It'll be epic.

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:16 AM (XuXeR)

98 .
Thank you, Mr. Throckmorton.

Posted by: Marooned at January 05, 2026 11:16 AM (kt8QE)

99 > You can heave the best weapons on earth and it doesn't matter at all if you don't use them - and it looks like Venezuela didn't. Whether that was a choice or not, I don't know.
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Some anti-air assets tried to engage our aircraft and were either unable due to jamming or were attacked and destroyed.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (NwnyJ)

100 Mrs. Wrecks likes the Reba sitcom. I told her I didn't much like it because the humor is derived from them being mean to each other.

Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (3nLb4)
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This comment so dumb it bought tickets to Xbox live.

This comment so dumb it brought a Bible to Church's Chicken.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (RIvkX)

101 Why are dealers killing their customers?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Kt19C)

Fentanyl (which doesn't come from Venezuela) kills mostly because users don't know how much they're getting, or they don't realize they're getting it at all!

They think they're getting something else, and it turns out a lethal dose of fentanyl just somehow got in there.

I would imagine most users who buy from the same dealers have a "trust" issue going on, but it's when you buy from someone you don't know.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (dGCAG)

102 Wish in one hand...

@ChadPergram 2m
Comer still wants Walz to appear st Feb 10 Oversight Cmte hearing on alleged MN fraud despite not seeking re-election
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM

Wonderful things subpoenas.

Posted by: Dibeeetes at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (jc0TO)

103 BurtTC: I’ve got to hand it to you. No one consistently rebuts arguments that I haven’t made like you do.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (GQ+qD)

104 34 Don't worry, corrupt leftist judges in the US will save them.

SDNY? Let me tell you how much I love being on Team Stupid.
Posted by: Helloooo, McFly!

Florida federal grand jury is also investigating and the caselaw from teh Noriega era leaves that judge in NY little leeway. Jury is another matter.

Basically, the stupid clerk at the SDNY did their bit of 'rigging' which will ultimately come to naught.

Maduro lived a life of crime and just like the Leftites tried to go after Trump in every jurisdiction, we can go after Maduro. Some states might also want a piece of him (Gov. DeSantis?).

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (WDjG6)

105 Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, et al sure fucked everything up but good.
Posted by: Common Tater

I've been reading up on the Shining Path. If Peru had fallen to Maoists, the whole continent would have been fucked.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at January 05, 2026 11:18 AM (yYROg)

106 Chevron was the party most harmed by Chavez's expropriation of foreign-developed oil infrastructure and leased reserves. The built up a huge amount of Venezuela's oil infrastructure, then Chavez nationalized it and told them to GTFO.

In his presser, Trump described plans for Venezuela's oil infrastructure as what amounts to a restitution to those American firms expropriated. Chevron will be at the front of the line for that.

It will be interesting, because we could overplay our hand and alienate the Venezuelan people by being to heavy handed on reclaiming our assets. Sure, they owe us and like us now, but things can change, especially if we're still there in some sort of occupation role. It might be better to be generous and give them a good chunk of their oil fields back.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)

107
I doubt this will stop the people from driving by Walz house and screaming "retard".

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (IifOV)

108 Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, et al sure fucked everything up but good.

No one remembers us.

Posted by: Asian Dawn at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (jc0TO)

109 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
Posted by: Oddbob

Maybe but Reba's TV family are, in a sense, role models and I don't think families ought to act that way. It's not a huge deal for me but it does prove that even after nearly 40 years of marriage, I still make casual comments without thinking through the consequences.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (L/fGl)

110 I'm sure there were a lot of people, even those in the inner circle, who wanted this prick gone. I'll bet the Chinese did too. Maduro had outlived his usefulness, and was causing more problems than he was worth. He had to go, and likely was pushed out, ...
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (iFTx/)
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Makes sense.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mr. Spock at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM (RIvkX)

111 China is depleting fish stocks all across the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

They're a big problem around the Galapagos Islands.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM (77rzZ)

112 Thx Buck.
America's security is also enhanced by the removal of Biden, Barky, Sullivan, Blinken, Susan Rice, Jarrett, Harris etc

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM (ScJGb)

113 They are causing an ecological disaster, but no one has the will to do anything about it. Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 11:16 AM

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So what if Mrs. Paul has to take it in the fish sticks.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM (JkO4W)

114 Will the US offer Maduro a deal? Information for his wife's freedom?

Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (rJ48h)

115 So what if Mrs. Paul has to take it in the fish sticks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM

They're hard as tits anyway.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (jc0TO)

116 Chevron was the party most harmed by Chavez's expropriation of foreign-developed oil infrastructure and leased reserves. The built up a huge amount of Venezuela's oil infrastructure, then Chavez nationalized it and told them to GTFO.

In his presser, Trump described plans for Venezuela's oil infrastructure as what amounts to a restitution to those American firms expropriated. Chevron will be at the front of the line for that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (avHHk)

I wonder what happens if Citgo and Chevron get into a dispute over who gets to cash in here.

Do they hire armies and fight it out?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (dGCAG)

117 52 Illegal drugs have killed more Americans than all of the military wars combined post-World War II.
Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 11:07 AM (9UYps)

Most of which come through Mexico. Manufactured in China.

Why don't you go fuck yourself?

Posted by: GigantorX at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (dkZr3)

118 whomever leaked the operation to the NYT/WaPo should be thrown in a cell for the rest of their lives

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (V6W16)

119 Trump attacked Venezuela because they screwed up his ownership of the Miss America pageant.
( Venezuela used to be the beauty pageant capital)

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (KDPiq)

120 It will be interesting, because we could overplay our hand and alienate the Venezuelan people by being to heavy handed on reclaiming our assets. Sure, they owe us and like us now, but things can change, especially if we're still there in some sort of occupation role. It might be better to be generous and give them a good chunk of their oil fields back.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (Riz8t)
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Yes, it's something to pay attention to.

I *suspect* it's going to be new leases and development deals with preferential bidding/terms for previously-expropriated American firms, with a rider about US military assets co-located with major US-developed infrastructure. I doubt it will be exclusive for American companies or that these deals will amount to the entirety of the now-former PDVSA, but that the Americans put up the most capital and gets a treaty agreement that it will have military assets to defend the investment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (avHHk)

121 They are causing an ecological disaster, but no one has the will to do anything about it. Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean.

I know! Let's get the UN involved. That'll take care of the problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (Riz8t)

122 Why are dealers killing their customers?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Kt19C)

Fentanyl (which doesn't come from Venezuela) kills mostly because users don't know how much they're getting, or they don't realize they're getting it at all!

They think they're getting something else, and it turns out a lethal dose of fentanyl just somehow got in there.

I would imagine most users who buy from the same dealers have a "trust" issue going on, but it's when you buy from someone you don't know.....
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (dGCAG)
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There are also multiple levels of drug dealers, like a supply chain in any other industry. The local street dealers actually selling to customers buy the stuff pre-packaged from distributors higher up the chain. The street deals have no interest in killing off their business, but they don't blend the drugs and obviously aren't going to say "no" to orders from customers.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

123 ... the atheist/secular/Islamist power structure in Europe is condemning Maduro’s removal.

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As of December 2025, Venezuela's oil shipments to China averaged over 600,000 barrels per day.

Various reports indicate that between 80% and 90% of Venezuela’s exported oil goes to China, with some sources citing figures as high as 85% to 88% of crude exports being directed to Chinese refineries, often via transshipments or through intermediaries to bypass U.S. sanctions.

Small independent Chinese refiners, known as "teapots," are the primary buyers of discounted Venezuelan crude, while a portion of the oil is also used to repay Venezuela’s debt to Beijing, estimated at over $10 billion.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (9UYps)

124 But if we can peacefully transition Venezuela away from being a communist adversary to being a friendly neighbor, that is certainly desirable.
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Bananas!

Posted by: Chiquita at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (Dv3i1)

125 I wonder what happens if Citgo and Chevron get into a dispute over who gets to cash in here.

Do they hire armies and fight it out?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (dGCAG)
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It wasn't over oil contracts, but that kinda just happened.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (avHHk)

126 Lenin, Marx, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, et al sure fucked everything up but good.

No one remembers us.
Posted by: Asian Dawn at January 05, 2026 11:19 AM (jc0TO)

You're immortalized in Time magazine.

Posted by: Zombie Hans Gruber at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (wVcYX)

127 Marco Rubio will be The Grand Wazoo of Greenland by the end of the week.

Posted by: Nostrildamus at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (oftw2)

128 Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean"

Is that what really happened to Arthur Treacher's?

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (XuXeR)

129 I wonder what happens if Citgo and Chevron get into a dispute over who gets to cash in here.

Do they hire armies and fight it out?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (dGCAG)
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Oh, I see what you mean. Never mind 125.

I imagine a lot of law firms in Texas are already popping champagne.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (avHHk)

130 My aunts must be fit to be tied, lol. Chavez & Maduro were their equivalent of G-d and Christ. Now Nick's in custody and Hugo's tomb is shattered. I bet they're climbing the fuckin' walls. We'll, not the superfat aunt. She's probably just laying there screaming about the orangeman.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (BI5O2)

131 BurtTC: for twattery unbecoming of a retired officer
x.com/SecWar/status/2008189258528665898#
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich Boner at January 05, 2026 11:14 AM (yYROg)

Ok then. I always thought the military had courts for that sort of thing, and it wasn't for the Defense Secretary to decide.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (dGCAG)

132 Again unless they open up the capitalism spigots , Venezuela won’t get any better.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:23 AM (KDPiq)

133 asymmetric warfare against American civilians should strongly reconsider the consequence of what s/he is doing.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

All Smolians should take note using Cloward–Piven is "asymmetric warfare against American civilians".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 05, 2026 11:23 AM (Li8uu)

134 12 Pray for President's Trump and VP Vance's safety, if you haven't done so already today.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

VP Vance's Ohio home damaged, man in custody, Secret Service says
Vance and his family were not in Ohio when the incident occurred early Monday morning
By Stephen Sorace, Fox News
Published January 5, 2026

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 05, 2026 11:23 AM (NFX2v)

135 Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean"

Is that what really happened to Arthur Treacher's?
Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM

Captain D is not to be fucked with.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:23 AM (jc0TO)

136 The dead Cubans should be publicly returned to Cuba in coffins draped with pre-revolution Cuban flags. Video on X.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at January 05, 2026 11:23 AM (zqeQL)

137 So what if Mrs. Paul has to take it in the fish sticks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM

They're hard as tits anyway.

For the benefit of our newer commenters, there was a guy who posted under "These fishsticks are hard as tits". I haven't seen it in ages, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (Riz8t)

138 Citgo got in bed with Chavez so they'll get nothing and like it.
Chevron got legit robbed so deserve to be made whole.

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (yYROg)

139 So what if Mrs. Paul has to take it in the fish sticks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM

They're hard as tits anyway.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (jc0TO)

Even asymmetric ones?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (wVcYX)

140
I been thinking a lot about Biden's open door policy for terrorists, criminals, moles, drug scum and Schlichter's book "The Attack", and-

just exactly how we could handle this when/if it's happens or short-circuit the whole thing.

President Trump provided the answer with the arrest of Maduro.

We are no longer going to let antagonistic regimes play their games against the US.

No more fig-leaf cover of "Oh, we don't control them. They're independent!"

Nope, sorry Natalie! You will be held accountable as in arrested or dead. End of story.

Trump chose a great target to convey this message to the Angry Midgets of the World.

Thank you, Mr President.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (iJfKG)

141 Taking out Maduro will also put a great deal of pressure on Cuba ... no more free oil ... Cuba can barely feed its people and maintains only minimal energy infrastructure ... no more free oil will put Cuba in a world of hurt immediately ...

Posted by: The Dark Lord at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (DBAaD)

142 Babylon Bee:

"Tim Walz retiring to spend more time in prison."

Ha

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (IifOV)

143 BurtTC: I’ve got to hand it to you. No one consistently rebuts arguments that I haven’t made like you do.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (GQ+qD)

You said it was about drugs.

It wasn't about drugs. You know that, right?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

144 BurtTC: the military does have courts, and Kelly (the twat) has the option to appeal through them

Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (yYROg)

145 Various reports indicate that between 80% and 90% of Venezuela’s exported oil goes to China, with some sources citing figures as high as 85% to 88%

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85 to 88 falls within 80 to 90 doesn’t it?

Posted by: Pedant at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (pFkal)

146 Do they hire armies and fight it out?"

"I'm Jim Adler, the Texas Hammer"

(Always wanted a Texas Star sledgehammer...)

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (XuXeR)

147 Willowed from last thread: today is the first day my shares are worth more than I paid.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 05, 2026 11:06 AM (RIvkX)

It's also the first day of the rest of your life.

------Hallmark Giftcards, Inc.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (g8Ew8)

148 I wonder what happens if Citgo and Chevron get into a dispute over who gets to cash in here.

(sigh)

Who is Nancy Pelosi investing in?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (pawvM)

149 I wonder what happens if Citgo and Chevron get into a dispute over who gets to cash in here.

Do they hire armies and fight it out?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:21 AM (dGCAG)
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Oh, I see what you mean. Never mind 125.

I imagine a lot of law firms in Texas are already popping champagne.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:22 AM (avHHk)
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The situation is complicated because Citgo is actually a US company that is owned by PDVSA (Vene's state-owned oil company). There's been litigation over ownership and control. IIRC, the latest ruling is that PDVSA has to sell off Citgo. I'm not sure how all this plays out, especially now with Uncle Sam's foot on Vene's balls.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (iFTx/)

150 It wasn't about drugs. You know that, right?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM

Not entirely about drugs.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

151 Citgo got in bed with Chavez so they'll get nothing and like it.
Chevron got legit robbed so deserve to be made whole.
Posted by: Yyrog the Lich King at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (yYROg)

Citgo was bought by a big shot hedge fund guy in November.

He decided fairly late in the game to support Trump's election. In '24. After sitting out 2020.

I think he's going to do just fine.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (dGCAG)

152 Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

You’re the most intentionally obtuse poster at aos.
But you know that right?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

153 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
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No, its not. A portion of humor is derived from that, but not "most".

Posted by: Crusader at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (TN0g+)

154 118 whomever leaked the operation to the NYT/WaPo should be thrown in a cell for the rest of their lives
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Some 'reporter' supposedly leaked the name of the squad mission leader on X, then deleted his post (purported screen shots still available). I'm assuming that when the Dems get the executive branch again, he'll be prosecuted for not disobeying an 'illegal' order. (the squad leader, not the reporter)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (Dv3i1)

155 It wasn't about drugs. You know that, right?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)
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The warrant they were executing was, if I understand it correctly.

Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela, but Venezuela ain't nothing. I think this was about much, much more than drugs - primarily Red China and other LatAm communist regimes, with some Iran as a chaser - but the drugs were the official purpose and a "good get" regardless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (avHHk)

156 152 You’re the most intentionally obtuse poster at aos.
But you know that right?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

157 Ok then. I always thought the military had courts for that sort of thing, and it wasn't for the Defense Secretary to decide.
Posted by: BurtTC

According to the last thread, it's not a court-martial, but a reduction in rank and pension, and a letter of censure in his file. Just administrative actions that the Secretary of War can order.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

158 BurtTC: I’ve got to hand it to you. No one consistently rebuts arguments that I haven’t made like you do.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at January 05, 2026 11:17 AM (GQ+qD)

That is Buck Throckmorotn being polite.

"Shut the fuck up, dunce," is another way of saying it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (n9ltV)

159 Not entirely about drugs.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

It's this war's "weapons of mass destruction."

Eventually people will forget.

We always do.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (dGCAG)

160 153 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
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No, its not. A portion of humor is derived from that, but not "most".
Posted by: Crusader

Vut? Ze pain of uzzers is alvays ze best humor.

Posted by: Germans at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (Dv3i1)

161 The Trump Doctrine:

FUCK AROUND, FIND OUT!

No rebuilding. But we will be back If you fuck around again.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (xvV+O)

162 That is Buck Throckmorotn being polite.

"Shut the fuck up, dunce," is another way of saying it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (n9ltV)

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Boy, that escalated quickly.

Posted by: Ron Burgundy at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (JkO4W)

163 Various reports indicate that between 80% and 90% of Venezuela’s exported oil goes to China, with some sources citing figures as high as 85% to 88%

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85 to 88 falls within 80 to 90 doesn’t it?
Posted by: Pedant at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (pFkal)

*adjusts sliderule* Yes. Yes it does.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (g8Ew8)

164 162 Boy, that escalated quickly.

Posted by: Ron Burgundy at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (JkO4W)

======

Brick killed a guy with a trident.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM (GBKbO)

165 Again unless they open up the capitalism spigots , Venezuela won’t get any better."

There just aren't any good, reliable reports on the actual condition of their petro facilities. Without said assets, there won't be much "better" for some time.

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

166 Posting has since been removed. Hennepin County General Labor - Craigslist.

20 child actors for daycare site "where funding was cruelly ripped away".

"To help hurrying the state vetting process, we are looking yo hire 20 child actors for three days while the state is on site"

$1500/day

https://tinyurl.com/hjrnyhu5

I so wish we could post pictures.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (c115l)

167 85 to 88 falls within 80 to 90 doesn’t it?
Posted by: Pedant at January 05, 2026 11:25 AM (pFkal)
++++
Friggin' math, man.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (avHHk)

168 That is Buck Throckmorotn being polite.

"Shut the fuck up, dunce," is another way of saying it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (n9ltV)

You gonna ban me again? For having a different point of view?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

169 152 Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

You’re the most intentionally obtuse poster at aos.
But you know that right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (KDPiq)

Paid.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (tOcjL)

170 America’s national security has been strengthened by the removal of Maduro. Any foreign leader who continues to engage in asymmetric warfare against American civilians should strongly reconsider the consequence of what s/he is doing.

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How 'bout domestic terrorist leaders?

Soros, Gruesome Newscum, and Tampon Tim (should be) hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (zQlkF)

171 Not entirely about drugs.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (jc0TO)

It's this war's "weapons of mass destruction."

Eventually people will forget.

We always do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:28 AM

You know, realizing that we are doing what we need to do to be the hegemon in our own hemisphere under whatever pretext we need is not some amazing observation that marks you as a deep thinker.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (jc0TO)

172 Perp who attacked Vance' home.

https://is.gd/6e26Pe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

173 The Monroe Doctrine is perhaps more important today that it was two centuries ago.
_________

It meant nothing at all until we had an ocean going navy to enforce it in the late 19th century.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (XvL8K)

174 The only thing making me nervous are all the "dancing in the streets" stories.

Where have we heard that before. It's like the George W. Bush administration is writing this stuff. And I do not like it.

Posted by: Delurker at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (WfVaK)

175 Again unless they open up the capitalism spigots , Venezuela won’t get any better."

There just aren't any good, reliable reports on the actual condition of their petro facilities.

I'm guessing it isn't good.

Posted by: Entropy at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM (Riz8t)

176 It wasn't about drugs. You know that, right?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)
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The warrant they were executing was, if I understand it correctly.

Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela, but Venezuela ain't nothing. I think this was about much, much more than drugs - primarily Red China and other LatAm communist regimes, with some Iran as a chaser - but the drugs were the official purpose and a "good get" regardless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (avHHk)
_________

Drugs, oil, influence, commies, FAFO lessons, etc. It's all interrelated and fucking itself while being fucked by itself. Like slimy tentacle porn between a dozen alien octopi and Pete Bootyjuice.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM (iFTx/)

177 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM (rJ48h)

178 Again unless they open up the capitalism spigots , Venezuela won’t get any better."

There just aren't any good, reliable reports on the actual condition of their petro facilities. Without said assets, there won't be much "better" for some time.
Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (XuXeR)

The government controls everything besides the oil industry. But you are correct that until independent investors are allowed in to make money , nothing will change.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (KDPiq)

179 Yeah, the drugs were part of it - but they're a pretext. To make a meaningful dent in our drug problem, we'd have to topple and then occupy MX - and that's just for starters. There were a large number of other serious problems in VZ that Trump decided needed attention. But that scrap of paper with that drug indictment gives him the permission to do this, so that's the story.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (BI5O2)

180 Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela, but Venezuela ain't nothing. I think this was about much, much more than drugs - primarily Red China and other LatAm communist regimes, with some Iran as a chaser - but the drugs were the official purpose and a "good get" regardless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (avHHk)

The impression I have, from doing a lot of reading this weekend, is that it's all about the petrodollar, and the threat to the U.S. if other nations manage to get free of it.

It could collapse the national economy if they do, which is no small thing.

I just wish they would be honest with us about it.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (dGCAG)

181 I always thought that Doof had the market cornered on obtuseness around here.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (77rzZ)

182 I'm guessing it isn't good.
Posted by: Entropy"

Nah, bro.

/bribery

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (XuXeR)

183 172 Perp who attacked Vance' home.

Is that a man, a woman, or a potato?

Right now I'm going with potato.

Posted by: Delurker at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (WfVaK)

184 Most humor is derived from somebody being mean to somebody.
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No, its not. A portion of humor is derived from that, but not "most".
Posted by: Crusader
____
“The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow." -- Mark Twain

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (XeU6L)

185 You gonna ban me again? For having a different point of view?

No, it's because you're an obnoxious dick.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (Riz8t)

186 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM

I am so unplugged from the NFL now, I didn't know that he wasn't still with Seattle.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

187 186 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM

I am so unplugged from the NFL now, I didn't know that he wasn't still with Seattle.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (jc0TO)

It's why Seattle is good.

Posted by: Nova Local at January 05, 2026 11:33 AM (tOcjL)

188 Fentanyl Test Strip, Narcan are huge sellers in the US and the basis for a lot of non-profit work in the streets & through clinics and also through government programs which also often includes Methadone dosing.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 05, 2026 11:33 AM (NFX2v)

189 Paid.
Posted by: Nova Local

He's not one of ours.

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 05, 2026 11:33 AM (oftw2)

190 ah burttc our very own temu-chemjeff strikes again.

Posted by: alpine_beer at January 05, 2026 11:33 AM (van9r)

191 So what if Mrs. Paul has to take it in the fish sticks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:20 AM

They're hard as tits anyway.
Posted by: toby928(c)

At least they're symmetric!

Posted by: Mrs. Paul, no relation to Rand at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (MDua2)

192 Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela, but Venezuela ain't nothing. I think this was about much, much more than drugs - primarily Red China and other LatAm communist regimes, with some Iran as a chaser - but the drugs were the official purpose and a "good get" regardless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (avHHk)
_________

Those are the real reasons. But I also think the TdA apartment takeovers in Aurora and the Dominion machines personally pissed off the King. Maduro just didn't know when to cut the bullshit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (BI5O2)

193 The big news this weekend was that the head of the snake was cut off from a communist dictatorship here in the Americas.

*tugs nervously on collar*

And brought to NYC.

*wipes forehead*

Posted by: Zohan Mandamus at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (5FKHw)

194 , I didn't know that he wasn't still with Seattle."

Not at USC? Huh.

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (XuXeR)

195 Oooo, y'all don't realize that Burt is now going to give you "the treatment."

lol

Putz

Posted by: one hour sober at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (Y1sOo)

196 You know, realizing that we are doing what we need to do to be the hegemon in our own hemisphere under whatever pretext we need is not some amazing observation that marks you as a deep thinker.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (jc0TO)

I wasn't going for deep thinker. I don't think it requires deep thought.

What happens when we're no longer the hegemon? Or are we to assume we'll always be?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

197 Perp who attacked Vance' home.

https://is.gd/6e26Pe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM (L/fGl)

Gender fluid.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (g8Ew8)

198 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (BI5O2)

Yes Maduro did what Castro did. Empty the prisons and ship them to the USA.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (KDPiq)

199 174 The only thing making me nervous are all the "dancing in the streets" stories.

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No need to worry. Have you seen some of the actual video?

https://tinyurl.com/c97aw2ze

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (JkO4W)

200 I keep reading where "Venezuelan oil is no good." It's got too much sulphur. It's hard to process.

But somehow they were making bank on it before Chavez replaced the guys who knew how to run oilfields with party apparatchiks.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (aNfK/)

201 > Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela,...
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Mexico was getting and redistributing much of "their" drugs FROM Venezuela.

The cartels in MX are the same ones that are in VZ.

"Family"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (NwnyJ)

202 What happens when we're no longer the hegemon? Or are we to assume we'll always be?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM

Then we get fucked. Such is the way of the world.

I say we put it off as long as possible.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (jc0TO)

203 Actually, I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size. One is always a little bigger than another.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

204 Lol, VZ's heavy sour is a nice-to-have, but it's not even close to sufficient to end the petrodollar market.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (BI5O2)

205 Maybe Trump will name Rubio Grand Vizier of Mordor after he conquers Sauron…. Would Rubio wear the ring or throw it into Mount Doom?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (xT8gx)

206 The impression I have, from doing a lot of reading this weekend, is that it's all about the petrodollar, and the threat to the U.S. if other nations manage to get free of it.

It could collapse the national economy if they do, which is no small thing.

I just wish they would be honest with us about it.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:32 AM (dGCAG)
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That's a part of it. The Petrodollar is a subset of the entire Reserve Currency scheme, and we did unthinkable damage to that system in how we sanctioned Russia after the Ukraine invasion.

Venezuela is a major player in trade for American enemies or or rivals, in the middle of the China/Russia/Iran triangle. The petrodollar is a part of it, but Saudi Arabia is more important on that front. Moving large volumes of goods with no dollars at all is a bigger generalized problem, and that was also probably in the list of reasons for this action. I suspect the flow of goods was a bigger factor than the currencies that paid for them, but I doubt that it wasn't on the list at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (avHHk)

207 Just think if the US would have taken out Uncle Ho, Le Duan and the rest in North Vietnam in 1963.

Posted by: Kill The Leaders First at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (GlDYx)

208 Lol, VZ's heavy sour is a nice-to-have, but it's not even close to sufficient to end the petrodollar market.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM

Yeah, I think it is a lot less about us than discomforting our enemies.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (jc0TO)

209 I doubt things are going to get any better in Venezuela just by taking out Maduro. It's not like our adversaries who already have their tentacles deep into that state are just going to sit on their hands.

What's the answer? I don't know. But it seems from my vantage point that nation-building and nation-wrecking are both pretty dismal options.

We used to have a very good relationship with Venezuela. I truly hope we can get back to that some day.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (ERYKL)

210 I keep reading where "Venezuelan oil is no good."

You should read here more, then.
After all, this is a smaht military blog...

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (XuXeR)

211 But somehow they were making bank on it before Chavez replaced the guys who knew how to run oilfields with party apparatchiks.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

Venezuelan beauty pageant contestants were way hotter before the party apparatchiks got their hands on them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (Dv3i1)

212 ‘ Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro.’

Putin is mad at losing a client state. He doesn’t care about the method.

The condemnation is the equivalent of a form letter.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (jbnUc)

213 I so wish we could post pictures.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (c115l)

Don't worry, I got you.

tinyurl.com/2e5nb38h

Posted by: pookysgirl, Made In The USA at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (Wt5PA)

214 Mexico is a bigger drug problem than Venezuela, but Venezuela ain't nothing. I think this was about much, much more than drugs - primarily Red China and other LatAm communist regimes, with some Iran as a chaser - but the drugs were the official purpose and a "good get" regardless.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (avHHk)
_________

Those are the real reasons. But I also think the TdA apartment takeovers in Aurora and the Dominion machines personally pissed off the King. Maduro just didn't know when to cut the bullshit.

--------------

This is diplomacy 101. There are the public reasons and there are the real reasons. Which is not to say that the public reasons are valid as well. Both can be true. But let's not dismiss the motivation of someone just pissing you off.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (sX1BW)

215 So ... when do the refugee Venezuelan weather girls arrive? I can take a few in, you know. Just saying.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (iFTx/)

216 181 I always thought that Doof had the market cornered on obtuseness around here.
Posted by: Bulg

The man has grown in office and last night posted the finest Sunday ONT in his checkered past. Having now forced out scampydog, the Coup continues apace.

Posted by: Have To Admire Such Cruelty at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (oftw2)

217 You gonna ban me again? For having a different point of view?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:29 AM (dGCAG)

No, dunce. But you might get banned for being reflexively contrarian simply to be a douchebag. You add nothing to the conversation, unlike some other commenters who disagree with Trump's actions.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (n9ltV)

218 Actually, I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size. One is always a little bigger than another.
Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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Almost always some amount of asymmetry. It's there as an incentive, to make us want to specifically identify and quantify it wherever possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (avHHk)

219 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 05, 2026 11:35 AM (JkO4W)

Shame on you !!

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (KDPiq)

220 The only thing making me nervous are all the "dancing in the streets" stories.
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The Mick/Bowie version was particularly pointless, and to this day I don't understand why Van Halen thought they needed to cover that one.

Posted by: Crusader at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

221 I keep reading where "Venezuelan oil is no good." It's got too much sulphur. It's hard to process.

But somehow they were making bank on it before Chavez replaced the guys who knew how to run oilfields with party apparatchiks.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

US Gulf Coast refineries from Galveston to Louisiana can handle it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (c115l)

222 I keep reading where "Venezuelan oil is no good." It's got too much sulphur. It's hard to process.

But somehow they were making bank on it before Chavez replaced the guys who knew how to run oilfields with party apparatchiks.

It's definitely harder to process than, say, the SA oil, but not impossible. IIRC, most of the large facilities that could do the processing are here in the US.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (Riz8t)

223 , I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size"

See, that's why we need to see 'em all

(Per Ron White)

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (XuXeR)

224 Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (gbOdA)

225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)

226 In his later years my father in law enjoyed hosting lunches with his many friends and associates from the oil and financial world he revolved in. There were a few of them that spent their childhoods in Venezuela as their fathers developed the oil industry down there. These folks in their 80s in 2022 had their careers in the Venezuela their fathers built 100 years ago.

Their descriptions of the country and living in it was very positive. Houston was huge commercial benefactor of the oil coming from there. The Lyondell Refinery that is being taken down now is the oldest and was the largest in Houston. It was built by Citgo to process the heavy crude exclusively. There are now several smaller facilities local to Houston that can perform that work.

Posted by: DanMan at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (8uzBS)

227 "The wait time for our cancellation department is the longest of all the customer service teams. Can I have them forget to contact you rather than you remaining on hold?"

Sigh. America in 2026.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (ExV1e)

228 I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size"

See, that's why we need to see 'em all

(Per Ron White)
Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM

I am going to need a hands-on investigation to weigh the evidence.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (jc0TO)

229 VZ's heavy sour is a nice-to-have, but it's not even close to sufficient to end the petrodollar market.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM

There are refineries on our Gulf coast that would love to process that crude.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (n9ltV)

230 Don't worry, I got you.

tinyurl.com/2e5nb38h
Posted by: pookysgirl

THAT'S the one! You nailed it.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (c115l)

231 192
‘ But I also think the TdA apartment takeovers in Aurora and the Dominion machines personally pissed off the King.’

As well it should. I’m pissed at anyone who wasn’t pissed off.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (jbnUc)

232 >The Mick/Bowie version was particularly pointless, and to this day I don't understand why Van Halen thought they needed to cover that one.
Posted by: Crusader at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (TN0g+)

ikr

Posted by: grateful dead at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (rJ48h)

233 US Gulf Coast refineries from Galveston to Louisiana can handle it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:38 AM (c115l)

Is not that why were were shipping oil sands from Canada via the new pipe Biden canceled is because they can process?

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (gbOdA)

234 A cultural parallel to Riboua's X statement:

"Tom, you know you surprise me. If anything in this life is certain - if history has taught us anything - it's that you can kill anybody.". (Michael Corleone character, Godfather Part 2)

Posted by: Despise Marxist Rat Bastards & MSM InfoHarlots at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (5DfsO)

235 Actually, I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size. One is always a little bigger than another.

Posted by: Bulg

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I'm going to need some grant money to make a proper study.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (sX1BW)

236 225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
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Hmm, I can't tell if they are asymmetrical.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (Dv3i1)

237 China is depleting fish stocks all across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. (They don't have power in the Atlantic yet.)

They are causing an ecological disaster, but no one has the will to do anything about it. Their fishing fleets need to be on the bottom of the ocean.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian

I'm no genius geo-political savant but, isn't there (at least one) world power in the Western Hemisphere whose submarine fleet could use some exercises with live ordinance?

You know, sink the Chinese mother/factory ships and the other hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels die on the vine.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (cYBz/)

238 So ... when do the refugee Venezuelan weather girls arrive? I can take a few in, you know. Just saying."

Wow. The charity expressed here is simply...

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (XuXeR)

239 I doubt things are going to get any better in Venezuela just by taking out Maduro. It's not like our adversaries who already have their tentacles deep into that state are just going to sit on their hands.

What's the answer? I don't know. But it seems from my vantage point that nation-building and nation-wrecking are both pretty dismal options.

Ask a simple question: Would China prefer the Venezuela of today or of 4 days ago?

It's always possible (and a good idea) to ask how things could go wrong. But that is not the same thing as analysis paralysis, wherein nothing ever gets done because there's a chance it won't work out perfectly. Trump clearly understands this.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (Riz8t)

240 I actually appreciated Trump’s refreshing honesty even though it startled me in the moment: we’re gonna run it for awhile and we’re not afraid of boots on the ground…. Me, I would be afraid of boots on the ground if it means more than a few hours and a few troops. No battalions or divisions please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (xT8gx)

241 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)

Getting ready for her night on the pole. NTTIAWWT.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (KDPiq)

242 That's a part of it. The Petrodollar is a subset of the entire Reserve Currency scheme, and we did unthinkable damage to that system in how we sanctioned Russia after the Ukraine invasion.

Venezuela is a major player in trade for American enemies or or rivals, in the middle of the China/Russia/Iran triangle. The petrodollar is a part of it, but Saudi Arabia is more important on that front. Moving large volumes of goods with no dollars at all is a bigger generalized problem, and that was also probably in the list of reasons for this action. I suspect the flow of goods was a bigger factor than the currencies that paid for them, but I doubt that it wasn't on the list at all.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (avHHk)

It just seems to me we keep acting like we can print money forever, because we still have control over much of the world's oil trade, and we still have the military might to take out anyone who gets too uppity.

It just doesn't seem like it can go on like this forever.

Another few years? Decades? Centuries? Hell if I know, I just know the rest of the world is going to get revenge when the collapse happens.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (dGCAG)

243 Don't worry, I got you.

tinyurl.com/2e5nb38h
Posted by: pookysgirl

THAT'S the one! You nailed it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (c115l)
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I could be wrong, but that seems like a yuge troll

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (iFTx/)

244 225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)

How do we rate her “ symmetry”?

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (pDt9x)

245 Damn robots!

https://is.gd/m3XX6a

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (L/fGl)

246 There are refineries on our Gulf coast that would love to process that crude.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (

Sure. But even if China built its own and got 100% of that oil, it wouldn't end the petrodollar or anything.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (BI5O2)

247 I'm going to need some grant money to make a proper study.
Posted by: SH (no more socks)

Too bad USAID isn't still around.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (77rzZ)

248 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)
_______

Odd pose, like she's trying to hide flaws, but sometimes you just gotta say "what the fuck." TBWB.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

249 America: Try and Stop Us, Pissants.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (wBaIH)

250 Off topic, but I just discovered something very interesting.

Does anyone know whom Tony Dukopil is married to?

I do now, and it turns out that he's married to...

Katy Tur.

Let that sit with you for a moment. I don't expect See Bee Ess to change at all. At. All.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (0CU3H)

251 Actually, I have read that most women have breasts that are not exactly the same size. One is always a little bigger than another.
Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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Kinda like how we all have one 'nad that hangs lower than the other one.

Posted by: ballistic at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (3BwY8)

252 Is not that why were were shipping oil sands from Canada via the new pipe Biden canceled is because they can process?
Posted by: r hennigantx

Yep. Venezuelan & Canadian oil sands are the heavy crude. Venezuela is why the refineries are on the gulf coast. They were set up long before Canada's oil sands became a thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (c115l)

253 152 Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:24 AM (dGCAG)

You’re the most intentionally obtuse poster at aos.
But you know that right?
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:26 AM (KDPiq)
________
If that were true, he'd have been promoted to COB.

Posted by: Eeyore at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (s0JqF)

254 For the benefit of our newer commenters, there was a guy who posted under "These fishsticks are hard as tits". I haven't seen it in ages, though.
Posted by: Archimedes

Also, commenter mpfs, that I believe was in refence to mrs.paul's fish sticks.

Posted by: old chick at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (F3Dlr)

255 There are an estimated 90+ billion barrels of oil untapped in VZ. Hard to get to, hard to refine and hard to transport.

But China and Russia were willing to court Maduro to get at it.

With some of our equipment. I imagine that did not sit well with Trump either.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (NwnyJ)

256 Another few years? Decades? Centuries? Hell if I know, I just know the rest of the world is going to get revenge when the collapse happens.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM

If you are worrying about the fate of our empire two hundred years out, well, I don't know what to tell you to ease your mind.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (jc0TO)

257 248 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)
_______

Odd pose, like she's trying to hide flaws, but sometimes you just gotta say "what the fuck." TBWB.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

Kinda looks like Kaley Cuoco. Wonder whatever happened to her?

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (pDt9x)

258 Venezuelan beauty pageant contestants were way hotter before the party apparatchiks got their hands on them.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Svim Vear!

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (cYBz/)

259 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

260 I could be wrong, but that seems like a yuge troll
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

If it was a troll, why remove it?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (c115l)

261 221 I keep reading where "Venezuelan oil is no good." It's got too much sulphur. It's hard to process.

But somehow they were making bank on it before Chavez replaced the guys who knew how to run oilfields with party apparatchiks.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
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Two different issues. The Oil Sands which do require expensive processing like Canadian ones do and the coastal oil belt with the heavy crude. In some ways, and this is strictly from memory, heavy crude is better for making jet fuels and diesel and IRRC, refineries can sometimes mix heavy and light crude to get optimal blend of distillates.

US refineries are already set up to remove sulfur from diesel I think as current emissions stds. on diesel require it. Sulfur maims catalytic converters.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (WDjG6)

262 Sunoco which became Energy Transfer had amazingly clean home heating oil for decades.

Historically, Sunoco (and its predecessor, Sun Oil) sourced oil from the North Sea, South America (Venezuela), and the Middle East, though current emphasis is on North American supply. (Permian Basin, Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta)

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (NFX2v)

263 Damn, now I want fish sticks.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

264 Wonder whatever happened to her?"

Time

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (XuXeR)

265 >Does anyone know whom Tony Dukopil is married to?

I do now, and it turns out that he's married to...

Katy Tur.

Let that sit with you for a moment. I don't expect See Bee Ess to change at all. At. All.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 11:43 AM (0CU3H)

Tony Dukopil know his mother-in-law can beat the shit out of him.

Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (rJ48h)

266 259 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

They’re just everywhere, YD.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (pDt9x)

267 259 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Like Nancy Mace, surely that will come.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (WDjG6)

268 Also, commenter mpfs, that I believe was in refence to mrs.paul's fish sticks.
Posted by: old chick

😳😳😳

Son of a ...

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:46 AM (c115l)

269 Like Nancy Mace, surely that will come.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM

Nice.

Posted by: Steiner at January 05, 2026 11:46 AM (jc0TO)

270 Damn robots!

https://is.gd/m3XX6a

Bike was asshoe!

Posted by: The robot at January 05, 2026 11:46 AM (Riz8t)

271 I always thought that Doof had the market cornered on obtuseness around here.
Posted by: Bulg

The man has grown in office and last night posted the finest Sunday ONT in his checkered past. Having now forced out scampydog, the Coup continues apace.
Posted by: Have To Admire Such Cruelty at January 05, 2026 11:37 AM (oftw2)

Haha! Don't reveal my sinister plans!

Posted by: Doof at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (dP47V)

272 Damn, now I want fish sticks.
Posted by: Bulg

Used to make fish stick tacos.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (c115l)

273 224
‘ department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.’

That’s it? For sedition?
Goddamn it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

274 I prefer the Don Ho Doctrine:

Everyone gets Lei'd!

Posted by: garrett at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (ddphe)

275 If you are worrying about the fate of our empire two hundred years out, well, I don't know what to tell you to ease your mind.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:44 AM (jc0TO)

Things can change fast. In 1900 the sun didn’t set on the British empire. 50 years later they were a backwater.

Posted by: Really?? at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (pFkal)

276 Don't reveal my sinister plans"

I knew it! Dude is left handed!

Posted by: man at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (XuXeR)

277 Kinda like how we all have one 'nad that hangs lower than the other one.
Posted by: ballistic
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But, like the old saying, beware of a man with one ball, he knows how to use it. And he is symmetric as well.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:48 AM (WDjG6)

278 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)

I thought they would have already pointed out that Hamas and Iran had a big presence and up to no good in Venezuela and that Netanyahu requested Trump do something about that .

It’s coming.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:48 AM (KDPiq)

279 259 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet?

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Easy.
Maduro was anti-Israel. So he had to be taken out.

Posted by: Really?? at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (pFkal)

280 Things can change fast. In 1900 the sun didn’t set on the British empire. 50 years later they were a backwater.
Posted by: Really??
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World wars will do that to you. Made the UK broke and indebted along with killing/maiming its finest males.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

281 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

At this point "Its the Jews" is an expression of Tourette Syndrome

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (nAS9C)

282 Don't reveal my sinister plans"

I knew it! Dude is left handed!
Posted by: man

"Simon Says!"
-- Simon Bar Sinister

Posted by: Tonypete at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (cYBz/)

283 186 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM

Now he can back to USC where he was banging the cheerleaders 2 at a time.

Nasty old prick.

Posted by: Charlie Weis, Fat Ass at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (GlDYx)

284 So the CPA doing the audits for Minnesota and Ohio based Somali businesses is also a Somali who's lost his license multiple times.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (2ocoG)

285 Damn robots!

FAFO.

https://is.gd/Cry3qz

Posted by: The robots at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (Riz8t)

286 Me, I would be afraid of boots on the ground if it means more than a few hours and a few troops. No battalions or divisions please

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 11:41 AM (xT8gx)

I agree.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (n9ltV)

287 Whenever we crash I’m going out fighting if I’m still around.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (KDPiq)

288 I could be wrong, but that seems like a yuge troll
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

If it was a troll, why remove it?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (c115l)
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Might have been removed by CL for being fake. If you need child actors, you just ask for child actors. Or you get them straight from the Somali community. You don't post to CL with deliberately incendiary language in a way that's almost sure to attract undue attention and further expose the Somali scam as a Somali scam.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

289 Son of a ...
Posted by: rickb223

I recall she mentioned it when folks were explaining their nics.

Posted by: old chick at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (F3Dlr)

290 It just doesn't seem like it can go on like this forever.

Another few years? Decades? Centuries? Hell if I know, I just know the rest of the world is going to get revenge when the collapse happens.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:42 AM (dGCAG)
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There will be no capacity for meaningful revenge, so that's one upshot.

But the short version of "how long" can be answered easily. "Does the growth in dollar-denominated external trade match or exceed the growth in dollars?" If the answer is 'yes,' our excess dollar emissions are exported and sequestered abroad, and we see low inflation. If the answer is 'no,' then it doesn't and we see high inflation.

If the dollar stops being used (more trade is non-dollar-denominated), more dollars have to go home. More inflation.

Global trade is not growing fast enough *and* more of it is non-dollar-denominated, which makes our debt-fueled spending (excess dollar emissions) more troublesome at home.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (avHHk)

291 US refineries are already set up to remove sulfur from diesel I think as current emissions stds. on diesel require it. Sulfur maims catalytic converters.
Posted by: whig

Mommy Doktor Jill won't let me eat deviled eggs anymore.

Posted by: Scranton Joe at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (oftw2)

292 That’s it? For sedition?
Goddamn it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:47 AM (jbnUc)

I was hoping for a cig and a blindfold

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (gbOdA)

293 "You can heave the best weapons on earth and it doesn't matter at all if you don't use them - and it looks like Venezuela didn't. Whether that was a choice or not, I don't know." Posted by: Joe Mannix

Mixed reports on how many inside the VZ military were somewhat "cooperative" with US during the attack. It does seem we took out their (limited) radars early on ... but hard to imagine they took out every rocket launcher or manpad.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (vbXSk)

294 Whenever we crash I’m going out fighting if I’m still around.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM

I'm optimistic enough to think that I won't be.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (jc0TO)

295 Perp who attacked Vance' home.

https://is.gd/6e26Pe
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:30 AM

*clicks on link*

Bets on pronouns? I'm guessing "they/theirs."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (bFu5X)

296 I imagine Bukele is pretty happy about now. BTW, ever see a picture of his wife?. He’s got a lot to be happy over.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

297 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet?
--------------------------

Candace Owens has insider information that Marco Rubio is actually Marco Rubinstein and also was born a woman.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (aNfK/)

298 You don't post to CL with deliberately incendiary language in a way that's almost sure to attract undue attention and further expose the Somali scam as a Somali scam.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

stupid is as stupid does

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (gbOdA)

299 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet?

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It's always the Joos.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (krQz2)

300 Things can change fast. In 1900 the sun didn’t set on the British empire. 50 years later they were a backwater.
Posted by: Really??
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World wars will do that to you. Made the UK broke and indebted along with killing/maiming its finest males.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (WDjG6)

Yeah that’s my point. I was reply ting to 200 years. It might be 10 years for al we know. Events have a bad habit of happening that cause sudden turmoil nobody predicted.

Posted by: Really?? at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (pFkal)

301 Picture of Maduro.
Caption:

Finally an illegal alien Democrats DON'T want you to bring to the US.

😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (c115l)

302 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Like Nancy Mace, surely that will come.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (WDjG6)
______

Candace Owens already has, IIRC

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (iFTx/)

303 ‘ Kinda looks like Kaley Cuoco. Wonder whatever happened to her?’

She’s getting her boobs evened out. Then she’ll come roaring back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (jbnUc)

304 It does seem we took out their (limited) radars early on ... but hard to imagine they took out every rocket launcher or manpad.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (vbXSk)

The radar was less than 3 year old Russia and China.

neither worked

Posted by: r hennigantx at January 05, 2026 11:52 AM (gbOdA)

305 According the video I linked in the Morning Doomscroll, Maduro recently ran out of money to pay off his generals.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 05, 2026 11:52 AM (aNfK/)

306 >>‘ Kinda looks like Kaley Cuoco. Wonder whatever happened to her?’

I don't.

Posted by: The Wall at January 05, 2026 11:52 AM (ddphe)

307 297 I imagine Bukele is pretty happy about now. BTW, ever see a picture of his wife?. He’s got a lot to be happy over.

It turns out that he also has a sense of humor.

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/2007595363503579408

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:52 AM (Riz8t)

308 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

@SecWar
Six weeks ago, Senator Mark Kelly — and five other members of Congress — released a reckless and seditious video that was clearly intended to undermine good order and military discipline. As a retired Navy Captain who is still receiving a military pension, Captain Kelly knows he is still accountable to military justice. And the Department of War — and the American people — expect justice.

Therefore, in response to Senator Mark Kelly’s seditious statements — and his pattern of reckless misconduct — the Department of War is taking administrative action against Captain Mark E. Kelly, USN (Ret). The department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay. [ . . . ]

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (rbvCR)

309 224
‘ department has initiated retirement grade determination proceedings under 10 U.S.C. § 1370(f), with reduction in his retired grade resulting in a corresponding reduction in retired pay.’

That’s it? For sedition?
Goddamn it.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
======
Administrative punishment is harder to overturn than risking a courtmartial. Now Kelly has to either accept the punishment or ask for a general courtmartial at a heightened risk. The more that Kelly drags it out, the more people hear about what the Dems did and what they said. He would be wise to shut up and take his bitter medicine.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

310
303 ‘ Kinda looks like Kaley Cuoco. Wonder whatever happened to her?’

She’s getting her boobs evened out. Then she’ll come roaring back.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (jbnUc)

=======

She made a million dollars per episode for the final season of The Big Bang Theory. She had an HBO show for a little while about an air stewardess.

She makes Priceline commercials with Bill Shatner sometimes.

I think he's mostly resting on piles of money, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

311 Wait! I've got it!

See, Trump threatened Iran last week, and then Rubio said this raid shows our enemies that Trump makes good on his threats. It's plain as day that Netanyahu told his puppet Trump to arrest Maduro to further intimidate Iran - the true conservatives in the Middle East.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (BI5O2)

312 Damn robots!
https://is.gd/m3XX6a
------
Bike was asshoe!

There's a reason it's called a sidewalk and not a sidepark.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (3nLb4)

313 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Well, Abby Shapiro does have huge caracas.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (77rzZ)

314 She’s getting her boobs evened out. Then she’ll come roaring back.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (jbnUc)
++++
LOL. This place, man/

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (avHHk)

315 Yeah that’s my point. I was reply ting to 200 years. It might be 10 years for al we know. Events have a bad habit of happening that cause sudden turmoil nobody predicted.
Posted by: Really?? at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM

We can but do what we can with our time to root out the evil in our fields. What weather our children will have is not ours to say. - Gandalf, poorly paraphrase

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:54 AM (jc0TO)

316 Candace Owens already has, IIRC
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Ole Bug Eyes does not miss a chance to spew does she. While married to a Limey poofter.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:54 AM (WDjG6)

317 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
...

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (rbvCR)
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Summary: Don't fuck around with Pete.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 11:54 AM (krQz2)

318 311 Wait! I've got it!

See, Trump threatened Iran last week, and then Rubio said this raid shows our enemies that Trump makes good on his threats. It's plain as day that Netanyahu told his puppet Trump to arrest Maduro to further intimidate Iran - the true conservatives in the Middle East.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (BI5O2)

=======

"Maduro is a true conservative" is such a weird thing, but it's been said by prominent voices, it seems.

I assume he said pro-family things, or something, at one point. Like, "We need Venezuelans to have lots of babies to make up for the fact that 40% of the country has emptied since I took power."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

319 The only good commie is a dead commie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (abIsI)

320 Kinda looks like Kaley Cuoco. Wonder whatever happened to her?’

At a million dollars an episode for the last couple of years, if she's smart, she'd retire.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (c115l)

321 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

322 259 Have we heard the explanation of how the Jews were behind this yet? I'm sure people are working hard to square that circle over the last couple days.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:45 AM (BI5O2)
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1) Something something central banking and therefore Teh Jooz

2) Whats-her-name opposition leader that won the Nobel Peace Prize and is currently holed up in Norway is a supporter of Israel and would move the VZ embassy to Jerusalem, therefore Teh Jooz.

Posted by: ballistic at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (3BwY8)

323 Might have been removed by CL for being fake. If you need child actors, you just ask for child actors. Or you get them straight from the Somali community. You don't post to CL with deliberately incendiary language in a way that's almost sure to attract undue attention and further expose the Somali scam as a Somali scam.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:50 AM (iFTx/)

I'm wondering if it was posted by the "day care" in the middle of Shirley's video. The one where he was confronted, told he made people uncomfortable because of his skin color, and screamed at in Somali.

Posted by: pookysgirl wants this week to be over at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (Wt5PA)

324 319 The only good commie is a dead commie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (abIsI)

========

"Out the helicopters! All commies!"
-Libertarians

"I can't believe Trump used helicopters to kidnap a commie!"
-Also libertarians

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

325 I imagine Bukele is pretty happy about now. BTW, ever see a picture of his wife?. He’s got a lot to be happy over.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:51 AM (pDt9x)

Per El Pais (Madrid paper) President Bukele has a private group of advisors who are ex-pats from Venezuela, who were advising him on dealing with TdA and the Salvadoran power structure.
I expect he and they are ecstatic today

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (rbvCR)

326 Administrative punishment is harder to overturn than risking a courtmartial. Now Kelly has to either accept the punishment or ask for a general courtmartial at a heightened risk. The more that Kelly drags it out, the more people hear about what the Dems did and what they said. He would be wise to shut up and take his bitter medicine.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (WDjG6)

Kelly looks like an even bigger idiot than ever today - he made that big push against targeting the drug couriers, and now it's revealed that was all part of the buildup to overthrowing Maduro's government. (which all of us with sense always said that it was)

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (uWKK8)

327 321 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)
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Did someone say snatch?

Posted by: Sweetdick Honeycum, Esq. at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (3BwY8)

328 "Maduro is a true conservative" is such a weird thing, but it's been said by prominent voices, it seems.
____

He's no Zohan Mamdami, that's for sure!

Posted by: Z. Mamdami at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (Dv3i1)

329 284
‘Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.

Now he can back to USC where he was banging the cheerleaders 2 at a time.’

I’ll grudgingly accept this consolation prize.

Posted by: Pete Carroll at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

330 328 "Maduro is a true conservative" is such a weird thing, but it's been said by prominent voices, it seems.
____

He's no Zohan Mamdami, that's for sure!

Posted by: Z. Mamdami at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (Dv3i1)

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Found Bill Kristol's sock.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:56 AM (GBKbO)

331 It's almost a straight shot from Caracas to the Gulf Coast refineries. Not sure where their oil fields are.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (c115l)

332 What happens when we're no longer the hegemon? Or are we to assume we'll always be?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

Then we are screwed, no matter what happens.

What happened when the greeks were no longer the hegemon of the Mediterranean?

Would it have mattered to the Romans if they had acted differently? Because Rome treated EVERYONE the same: surrender and play ball and it's not too bad. Cross us and... umm... we'll cross you- every single adult male.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (zjgNU)

333
"Maduro is a true conservative" is such a weird thing, but it's been said by prominent voices, it seems.

----

I think it was Carlson who said he's the true conservative because, like most Latins, he hates the fags. So, hes a conservative Marxist, QED.

But it may have been somebody else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (BI5O2)

334 Man, I am down to +.32% on the day.

You guys need to get on the irrational exuberance express or I will have to bail.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (jc0TO)

335 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

336 Has Boasberg pissed in the cheerios yet?

Posted by: torabora at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (wMAvO)

337 The claims about "Da Joos" and Venezuela actually puts a spotlight on how close Venezuela had gotten with Hezbollah, including giving them an island for a western hemisphere operating base in Caribbean. (Margarita Island, a former resort) That was just one more big reason for getting rid of Maduro.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (uWKK8)

338 333
"Maduro is a true conservative" is such a weird thing, but it's been said by prominent voices, it seems.

----

I think it was Carlson who said he's the true conservative because, like most Latins, he hates the fags. So, hes a conservative Marxist, QED.

But it may have been somebody else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (BI5O2)

What a stupid take. Carlson has had a cerebral event, yes?

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

339 Enjoy it, suckers.

Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver, says NYC will transition private property to being a “collective good.”

She says, “It will mean that especially white families…are gonna have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.”

https://is.gd/V01pSu

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

340 Margarita Island, a former resort

Seriously? That is so funny to me.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (jc0TO)

341 I think it was Carlson who said he's the true conservative because, like most Latins, he hates the fags. So, hes a conservative Marxist, QED.

But it may have been somebody else.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (BI5O2)

Yeah Qatarlson did an entire podcast on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (uWKK8)

342 Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (uWKK

We should empty that island out .

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (KDPiq)

343 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM

Now he can back to USC where he was banging the cheerleaders 2 at a time.

Nasty old prick.
Posted by: Charlie Weis, Fat Ass at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (GlDYx)
____

There's something wrong with banging cheerleaders? Female ones, I mean.

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

344 339 Enjoy it, suckers.

Mamdani’s Tenant Director, Cea Weaver, says NYC will transition private property to being a “collective good.”

She says, “It will mean that especially white families…are gonna have a different relationship to property than the one we currently have.”

https://is.gd/V01pSu

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (Riz8t)

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I can't wait until everyone on the city council ends up 300% richer because of the studies necessary to investigate the issue.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (GBKbO)

345 Trump threatened Iran last week

-
https://is.gd/tvBOnh

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (L/fGl)

346 Kelly looks like an even bigger idiot than ever today - he made that big push against targeting the drug couriers, and now it's revealed that was all part of the buildup to overthrowing Maduro's government. (which all of us with sense always said that it was)
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Lower profile but we are also taking out drug couriers in the Pacific which do not come from Venezuela. Essentially we are no longer going after the demand side but aiming at the suppliers using military action.

As it should be just as with pirates stealing ships--there is no international right to smuggle in lethal potions from other places to kill and stupefy a native population.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

347 317 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
...

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (rbvCR)
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Summary: Don't fuck around with Pete.
Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 11:54 AM (krQz2)

That attempted Signal defenestration was a huge mistake, on several levels.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (0CU3H)

348 I think it was Carlson who said he's the true conservative because, like most Latins, he hates the fags. So, hes a conservative Marxist, QED.

Who knew muslims were conservative?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)

349 335 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Nearly impossible to litter train, always trashing the furniture.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

350 Anyone know what Miami's starting price is for Cuber?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pLaQB)

351 319 The only good commie is a dead commie.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (abIsI)

Even then it's iffy

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pIfcn)

352 348 I think it was Carlson who said he's the true conservative because, like most Latins, he hates the fags. So, hes a conservative Marxist, QED.

Who knew muslims were conservative?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)

=======

"All that matters is cultural conservatism, so Muslims are great."
-the end state of neoconservative backlash, it seems

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

353 She made a million dollars per episode for the final season of The Big Bang Theory. She had an HBO show for a little while about an air stewardess.

She makes Priceline commercials with Bill Shatner sometimes.

I think he's mostly resting on piles of money, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 11:53 AM (GBKbO)
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She also had a Prime (I think) series about true-crime podcast called "Based on a True Story".

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (krQz2)

354 332 What happens when we're no longer the hegemon? Or are we to assume we'll always be?
Posted by: BurtTC at January 05, 2026 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

Nothing lasts forever, but that will be for my great great grandchildren to worry about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (uWKK8)

355 As it should be just as with pirates stealing ships--there is no international right to smuggle in lethal potions from other places to kill and stupefy a native population.
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Now you tells us.

Posted by: The British at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (pLaQB)

356 Kelly looks like an even bigger idiot than ever today - he made that big push against targeting the drug couriers, and now it's revealed that was all part of the buildup to overthrowing Maduro's government. (which all of us with sense always said that it was)
Posted by: Tom Servo
=======
Lower profile but we are also taking out drug couriers in the Pacific which do not come from Venezuela. Essentially we are no longer going after the demand side but aiming at the suppliers using military action.

As it should be just as with pirates stealing ships--there is no international right to smuggle in lethal potions from other places to kill and stupefy a native population.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (WDjG6)
____

Wait until we find out how much Vene money was funding leftwing groups (and politicians) here in USA

Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (iFTx/)

357 Yeah Qatarlson did an entire podcast on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (

Yeah, I thought it was him. His followers must be some of the stupidest people in America. Of course they followed him from Fox News, which is like a lamp for retarded moths.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (BI5O2)

358 I always enjoyed the US Military being used as a force for good in the world. This was a neat, tight operation. It ought to make a lot of people nervous. Hopefully just bad guys.

I mean, if Russia and China start thinking they can do the same thing, things might get sporty.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (xcxpd)

359 Hey why did my sarcastic comment about international law get scrubbed?

What's goin on here?

Posted by: fuxupwichyou at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (XLfSN)

360 Yeah Qatarlson did an entire podcast on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Cucker is really a buttplug in human form. Learned it I guess from his long stint in corporate media.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (WDjG6)

361 225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 05, 2026 11:39 AM (avHHk)

Verah Nahce ...

#perky

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (3sXRv)

362 We love this shit. Next, we bomb Iran and Mexico.

Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

363 Muslims aren’t against dudes banging each other. They are against dudes banging in the open.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (KDPiq)

364 Who knew muslims were conservative?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)
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Do you think of them as "progressive"?

I mean, besides progressive pains in the ass.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (krQz2)

365 349 335 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Nearly impossible to litter train, always trashing the furniture.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

They'll also eat people, if given half a chance.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (0CU3H)

366 355 As it should be just as with pirates stealing ships--there is no international right to smuggle in lethal potions from other places to kill and stupefy a native population.
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Now you tells us.
Posted by: The British at January 05, 2026 12:01 PM (pLaQB)

Perfidious Albion...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

367 362 We love this shit. Next, we bomb Iran and Mexico.
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

Keep up. We already bombed Iran.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (KDPiq)

368 365 349 335 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Nearly impossible to litter train, always trashing the furniture.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

They'll also eat people, if given half a chance.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (0CU3H)

So, cats.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (pDt9x)

369 which is like a lamp for retarded moths.

Heh.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (Riz8t)

370 CBD, I forgot to ask in yesterday's Food post -

Did you break out your Sodastream machine during the holiday season?

Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (rj6Yv)

371 Sunoco which became Energy Transfer had amazingly clean home heating oil for decades.
-----

Not to mention Sunoco 260 gasoline. Important to amateur racers.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (XeU6L)

372 225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001

Nipples

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (xcxpd)

373 225 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I'm here to provide comfort and warmth if needed.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (abIsI)

374 Yeah Qatarlson did an entire podcast on it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (uWKK

That's OK, he is now lying about how the Las Vegas shooting wasn't merely a single man shooting from the window of his hotel room with multiple rifles because he lost at video poker while suffering from cancer.
What a loon.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (rbvCR)

375 Anyone know what Miami's starting price is for Cuber?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pLaQB)

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Greenland will outbid Miami.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (IPn+f)

376 Wait until we find out how much Vene money was funding leftwing groups (and politicians) here in USA
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade
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Yep. Just found out that Bezos's ex wife is shelling out big bucks to the protest crowd with no strings attached so she can avoid being charged I guess as a co conspirator when they do illegal shit.

Foreign money and rotten oligarchs here are a nasty combination.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (WDjG6)

377 Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Nearly impossible to litter train, always trashing the furniture.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

They'll also eat people, if given half a chance.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM

Shiny things distract them.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM (jc0TO)

378 367 362 We love this shit. Next, we bomb Iran and Mexico.
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

Keep up. We already bombed Iran.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (KDPiq)

=======

The payout to the MIC for a few bunker busters and a single air raid is much lower than 300,000 troops occupying Iran for 20 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM (GBKbO)

379 What a stupid take. Carlson has had a cerebral event, yes?
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (pDt9x)

Scratched by a demon while he slept… he seriously said that

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM (OW907)

380 J Paul Getty opened the middle east to oil importation.

Posted by: DanMan at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM (8uzBS)

381 Hey why did my sarcastic comment about international law get scrubbed?

International law is sacred. We don't joke about that around here.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM (3nLb4)

382 I also knew Joe Rogan wouldn’t last long either. Anyone who supported Bernie like Rogan did ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (KDPiq)

383 So, can Ace be snatched? I know CBD has desires in that direction.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 11:55 AM (pLaQB)

Not a chance. Ewoks are notoriously messy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 11:58 AM (n9ltV)

Nearly impossible to litter train, always trashing the furniture.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:00 PM (pDt9x)

They'll also eat people, if given half a chance.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
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And, they shed like crazy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (XeU6L)

384 Don't worry, I got you.

tinyurl.com/2e5nb38h
Posted by: pookysgirl

THAT'S the one! You nailed it.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:40 AM (c115l)

Two thoughts:

1. Holy shit, Craigslist is still around?!?

ii. Gotta be fake. It's in perfect English.

Posted by: Robert at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (R6aIA)

385 382 I also knew Joe Rogan wouldn’t last long either. Anyone who supported Bernie like Rogan did ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (KDPiq)

And yet, he endeavors to persevere.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (pDt9x)

386 We love this shit. Next, we bomb Iran and Mexico.
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

Keep up. We already bombed Iran.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (KDPiq)

=======

The payout to the MIC for a few bunker busters and a single air raid is much lower than 300,000 troops occupying Iran for 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM

Yeah but, his novel and striking observation has given me pause.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

387 There is something edifying about videos of Venezuelans telling white leftists in NYC to fuck off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

388 This chilly blonde in her underwear understands that there are many reasons for such an action:
http://tiny.cc/o98x001

Nipples
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (xcxpd)

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I often wondered if that was the origin of Nipsey Russell's first name?

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (IPn+f)

389 362 We love this shit. Next, we bomb Iran and Mexico.
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 05, 2026 12:02 PM (abIsI)

Next you build shit for the Euroweenies for ten years. 'Bout damn time they started covering some overhead.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (pIfcn)

390 Hey why did my sarcastic comment about international law get scrubbed?

---
First rule of International Law Club is: Don't Talk about International Law Club.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (krQz2)

391 It's almost a straight shot from Caracas to the Gulf Coast refineries. Not sure where their oil fields are.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:57 AM (c115l)

Look up "Orinoco Field"

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (rbvCR)

392 303
‘ I think he's mostly resting on piles of money, though.’

If there’s anyone that can coast the rest of his life, it’s Shatner. He’s been coasting since the 1980s.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (jbnUc)

393 Tucker isn't crazy or stupid. He's just a snake who molts every few years to appeal to a new audience.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (BI5O2)

394 343 Raiders fired Pete Carroll after one season.
Posted by: mr tmz at January 05, 2026 11:31 AM

Now he can back to USC where he was banging the cheerleaders 2 at a time.

Nasty old prick.
Posted by: Charlie Weis, Fat Ass at January 05, 2026 11:49 AM (GlDYx)
____

There's something wrong with banging cheerleaders? Female ones, I mean.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

That's just picking up cash money laying on the ground. If you can, do.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (xcxpd)

395 No need to worry. Have you seen some of the actual video?

We saw video of Kuwaitis/Afghanis/Iraquis dancing in the streets. Fool me thrice...

Posted by: Delurker at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (WfVaK)

396 Hey why did my sarcastic comment about international law get scrubbed?

International law is sacred. We don't joke about that around here.
Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 12:04 PM

Yang holy words.

Posted by: Cloud William at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (jc0TO)

397 386”

Yeah but, his novel and striking observation has given me pause.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (jc0TO)

Nice!!!

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (pDt9x)

398 Yeah Qatarlson did an entire podcast on it.

You know when I knew he was around the bend? When he did an hour long video about how a Tesla Cybertruck made perfect sense on a working farm.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 05, 2026 12:07 PM (3nLb4)

399 So, this means gas will be .95 per gallon soon. Right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 12:07 PM (abIsI)

400 Hey why did my sarcastic comment about international law get scrubbed?

They thought you were Malor?

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:07 PM (KDPiq)

401 Orinoco Flow >>> Orinoco Field

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:07 PM (pDt9x)

402 There is something edifying about videos of Venezuelans telling white leftists in NYC to fuck off.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:06 PM (GBKbO)

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Trump should appoint Muslim Commie Mondami as his "Special Envoy" to Venezuela.

/And then revoke his passport once he's there.

Posted by: ShainS -- Struggling With A Learing Disability at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (IPn+f)

403 ii. Gotta be fake. It's in perfect English.
Posted by: Robert at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (R6aIA)

Whoops. I take it back. Not perfect English. Finding misspellings.

Derp!

Posted by: Robert at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (R6aIA)

404 399 So, this means gas will be .95 per gallon soon. Right?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 12:07 PM (abIsI)

======

Fingers crossed!

Me saving $5 on a fill up > the lives of commies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

405 Summary: Don't fuck around with Pete.
Posted by: Axeman

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit into the heat
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger
And you don't mess around with Pete

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (L/fGl)

406 The payout to the MIC for a few bunker busters and a single air raid is much lower than 300,000 troops occupying Iran for 20 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Here you go using facts when the argument is about true conservative principles and rhetorical preening.

"Both Maduro and Khameini are severely conservative critiques of the rotten Murican society and as such are brave freedom fighters when they throw homos off roofs and kill/jail opposition leaders. "

Something Cap'n Billy Kristol or Cucker might say.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (WDjG6)

407 Me saving $5 on a fill up > the lives of commies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

PREACH!

Posted by: Robert at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (R6aIA)

408 "That's OK, he is now lying about how the Las Vegas shooting wasn't merely a single man..."
Broken clocks

Posted by: Tucker is a tard tho at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (SJk3h)

409 There's something wrong with banging cheerleaders? Female ones, I mean.
Posted by: Judge Elric The Blade

*fist bump*

Posted by: Jerry Sandusky at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (abIsI)

410 Did you break out your Sodastream machine during the holiday season?

Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:03 PM (rj6Yv)

Not for anything other than plain seltzer.

And...it works okay, but the best canned seltzer is definitely better. I just ordered a couple more gas canisters, so maybe I will try to make some interesting carbonated stuff.

Like carbonated bourbon!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (n9ltV)

411 Hmm maybe switching handles was not a great idea

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (XLfSN)

412 Ok then. I always thought the military had courts for that sort of thing, and it wasn't for the Defense Secretary to decide.
Posted by: BurtTC

According to the last thread, it's not a court-martial, but a reduction in rank and pension, and a letter of censure in his file. Just administrative actions that the Secretary of War can order.
Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

Further... from Hegseth's xeet... "The retirement grade determination process directed by Secretary Hegseth will be completed within forty five days."

So he directed a panel to consider the matter (wrt the demotion) and Kelly has the opportunity to respond.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (ExV1e)

413 Trump should appoint Muslim Commie Mondami as his "Special Envoy" to Venezuela.

/And then revoke his passport once he's there.
Posted by: ShainS
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Somalia is nice this time of year I hear. Nice sea breezes and the clans there are wonderful welcoming folks.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (WDjG6)

414 Thankfully, Russia is probably too tied up in that to back Venezuelan communists with shiploads of weapons."

They evidently had Russian weapons. Worked as well as expected...
Posted by: man

Yeah, the Russian S300 missile system was defeated in various ways, from EF-18 Growlers to F-35 onboard systems, to selective strikes on radars, etc.
One US helicopter slightly damaged.
For whatever your political views on this (and there is a spectrum of how right this was, and what will be the ultimate result), the US military end of this was executed very well.
Supposedly 30-40 Cuban military types were killed in the operation.
I just hope the country gets turned over to a legitimate national government, and Venezuela gets run by Venezuelans.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (vcOmj)

415 Me saving $5 on a fill up > the lives of commies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:08 PM (GBKbO)

That $5 adds up fast, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (zjgNU)

416 I think the Craigslist ad is a fake. I'm sure the Somalis can get enough of their own children to fake as day care kids without having to post an ad for them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (0qFQy)

417 Lower profile but we are also taking out drug couriers in the Pacific which do not come from Venezuela. Essentially we are no longer going after the demand side but aiming at the suppliers using military action.

As it should be just as with pirates stealing ships--there is no international right to smuggle in lethal potions from other places to kill and stupefy a native population.
Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (WDjG6)

The interesting thing is that on the Pacific route the Navy and Coast Guard are shooting the engines, and then blowing the boats after they pull the crews off instead of just popping them with missiles under weigh. I am not sure what they do with the crews when they pull them off, though I suspect the idea is that we are not at war with Colombia and Peru just yet. I am going to guess the Navy precision shooters are all begging to go out and get some live fire exercise.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (rbvCR)

418 Do Ewoks look anything like Alf? Do they eat cats?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 12:11 PM (WnEm5)

419 Sam's Club Durham, NC Regular is $2.47. Premium is $3.29.

Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)

420 Gas as low as 2.09 around here.

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (pDt9x)

421 Yeah, the Russian S300 missile system was defeated in various ways, from EF-18 Growlers to F-35 onboard systems, to selective strikes on radars, etc.
One US helicopter slightly damaged.

Supposedly 30-40 Cuban military types were killed in the operation.

Posted by: A face in the crowd.... at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (vcOmj)

160th SOAR gonna do 160th SOAR things. Don't shoot at the Night Stalkers lmao

Posted by: Sweetdick Honeycum, Esq. at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (3BwY8)

422 Sock fail

Posted by: ballistic at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (3BwY8)

423 417 The interesting thing is that on the Pacific route the Navy and Coast Guard are shooting the engines, and then blowing the boats after they pull the crews off instead of just popping them with missiles under weigh. I am not sure what they do with the crews when they pull them off, though I suspect the idea is that we are not at war with Colombia and Peru just yet. I am going to guess the Navy precision shooters are all begging to go out and get some live fire exercise.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (rbvCR)

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Are they flying flags? Are they registered in ports? Those are key questions which I don't think anyone outside the military can answer, though. It could be a deciding factor.

It may also just be that America doesn't recognize the ruling government of Venezuela as legitimate, so it feels free to treat obvious drug boats coming from their ports as pirates without compulsion. I mean, the state was technically run by the head of a drug cartel until a few days ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, barreling through the action thrills with Wolfgang Petersen at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

424 Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:10 PM (rbvCR)

They don’t always find all the crew.

Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (KDPiq)

425 Sam's Club Durham, NC Regular is $2.47. Premium is $3.29.
Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:11 PM (rj6Yv)

Drove through 3 states over the holidays.

Lowest I saw was $2.18 in the middle of Ohio. Paid $2.43 in Virginia, visiting relatives.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 12:12 PM (zjgNU)

426 Somalia is nice this time of year I hear. Nice sea breezes and the clans there are wonderful welcoming folks.
Posted by: whig

Somalia is now wealthy enough to be considered as hosts for the 2032 Olympic Games.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at January 05, 2026 12:13 PM (Dv3i1)

427 I don't know about Tucker these days, but I watched a recent interview over the break and from his guest Ian Carroll, I feel that I have a much clearer picture of how the Las Vegas massacre went down.

Unescapable conclusion from that scenario, though: Trump knew what went down and was part of hushing it up.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:13 PM (krQz2)

428 393 Tucker isn't crazy or stupid. He's just a snake who molts every few years to appeal to a new audience.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Eh, no one would ever consider Tucker a deep thinker so he dances for whoever pays him.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

429 Somalia should be the next home for the UN.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 12:14 PM (pLaQB)

430 Somalia is now wealthy enough to be considered as hosts for the 2032 Olympic Games.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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Heh.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:14 PM (WDjG6)

431 Sam's Club Durham, NC Regular is $2.47. Premium is $3.29.
Posted by: mrp
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Had no idea that you are in the research triad area.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2026 12:14 PM (XeU6L)

432 Illegal drugs have killed more Americans

Why are dealers killing their customers?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 05, 2026 11:12 AM (Kt19C)

They don’t care. There will always be more customers than the supply .
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 05, 2026 11:15 AM (KDPiq)
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The drugs are addicting and they have to keep using more and more to keep getting high. Eventually everyone OD's. George Floyd was dying of an overdose when Officer Chauvin arrested him. Floyd indeed couldn't breathe...not because of Chauvin holding him with a knee on his shoulder, but because Floyd was in respiratory distress. He needed Narcan. He FAFO.

Posted by: torabora at January 05, 2026 12:14 PM (wMAvO)

433 Do Ewoks look anything like Alf? Do they eat cats?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at January 05, 2026 12:11 PM (WnEm5)
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Most people forget what we learned in Return of the Jedi.

Humans, unaccompanied by golden droid avatars of their god, look pretty tasty to Ewoks.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:15 PM (krQz2)

434 And yet, he endeavors to persevere.
Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:05 PM (pDt9x)

And Rogan is another one, he just wants to do shows and run his comedy club and do his hobbies like hunting and pool and martial arts, when he could be using his personal influence to change the very shape of MAGA to something more ideologically acceptable.
What a loser.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:15 PM (rbvCR)

435 And...it works okay, but the best canned seltzer is definitely better. I just ordered a couple more gas canisters, so maybe I will try to make some interesting carbonated stuff.

Like carbonated bourbon!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (n9ltV)
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I run my tap water through a Zerowater filter before using the Sodastream. Canned Seltzer water?

And please don't oppress me with the thought of cabonated bourbon LOL. I can barely tolerate the thought of adding a dash of branch water.

Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:15 PM (rj6Yv)

436 Were the Ewok actors, dwarves, kids, or animatronics?

Posted by: tubal at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (pDt9x)

437 419 Sam's Club Durham, NC Regular is $2.47. Premium is $3.29.
Posted by: mrp

Indian rez in Tulalip, WA $3.79 for diesel. $140 to fill up my tank. Pisses me off.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (abIsI)

438 The George Floyd riots were 100% caused by illegal drugs.
I don't know why the leftists insist it was caused by racism.

Posted by: torabora at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (wMAvO)

439 Humans, unaccompanied by golden droid avatars of their god, look pretty tasty to Ewoks.
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Are the Ewok Zippers in the back utilized to permit Ewoks to take a shit?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (pLaQB)

440 Who knew muslims were conservative?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 11:59 AM (c115l)
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Do you think of them as "progressive"?

I mean, besides progressive pains in the ass.
Posted by: Axeman

If all it takes you be a conservative like Maduro is to hate fags, muslims and their flying schools are a shoe in.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (c115l)

441 Doof, since you're here, and this is utterly off-topic, w/r/t the weekly commenter stats, would you consider displaying the sockpuppeteers' hashes with the nic you picked? Sometimes it's obvious (Quarter Twenty, Duncanthrax, most Miklos - currently Imklos) but usually it's not. Thanks!

Posted by: Nazdar at January 05, 2026 12:17 PM (NcvvS)

442 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at January 05, 2026 12:17 PM (77rzZ)

443 Nood Tim Walz.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at January 05, 2026 12:17 PM (zjgNU)

444 Had no idea that you are in the research triad area.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 05, 2026 12:14 PM (XeU6L)

(Looks out window). Yep, still here!

Posted by: mrp at January 05, 2026 12:17 PM (rj6Yv)

445 Floyd indeed couldn't breathe...not because of Chauvin holding him with a knee on his shoulder, but because Floyd was in respiratory distress. He needed Narcan. He FAFO.
Posted by: torabora
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Truedat. Opioids do depress respiratory function to the point of death if dosage is large enough. And once you start combining cocktails of drugs, you are a beta tester for some shitty drug dealer conducting experiments as to what is a cheap filler.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:17 PM (WDjG6)

446 and we did unthinkable damage to that system in how we sanctioned Russia after the Ukraine invasion.
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Who is this fucking “we” Kemosabe? We did no such thing. Get it in your head, this is enemy action.

They are not even really Americans, they just live here.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 05, 2026 12:18 PM (Sx7X9)

447 Eh, no one would ever consider Tucker a deep thinker so he dances for whoever pays him.

Posted by: whig at January 05, 2026 12:13 PM (WDjG6)

I'm sure he's not above having his palm crossed with silver, but unlike most media people, he doesn't really need the $$$, being a wealthy heir and all.

Like all media people, though, he's completely consumed by his ego and wants to feel like a VIP. So he panders to 'tards.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 05, 2026 12:18 PM (BI5O2)

448 Ethanol free 90 was $3.03/gal last night.

The Venezuelan chica here is ecstatic over the Maduro thing and gave the rezident liberal AWFL serious grief this morning.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at January 05, 2026 12:19 PM (luW68)

449 If all it takes you be a conservative like Maduro is to hate fags, muslims and their flying schools are a shoe in.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 05, 2026 12:16 PM (c115l)
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"To conserve" is a transitive verb. American conservatives conserve the American way of life, including religious traditions and, especially, the Constitution.

Posted by: Axeman at January 05, 2026 12:20 PM (krQz2)

450 "That's OK, he is now lying about how the Las Vegas shooting wasn't merely a single man..."
Broken clocks
Posted by: Tucker is a tard tho at January 05, 2026 12:09 PM (SJk3h)

He is a terrible man and he platforms the worst people in the world. His willingness to act like a "journalist" in asking questions are having detrimental effects on civic discourse and public security.

Posted by: Kindltot - Ea-Nasir, Say His Name at January 05, 2026 12:21 PM (rbvCR)

451 Coldly, the best way to end the fentanyl epidemic is probably to outlaw Narcan.

Posted by: toby928(c) at January 05, 2026 12:29 PM (jc0TO)

452 "Russia is offering stark criticism of the U.S. military attack on Venezuela, which resulted in the capture of President Nicolas Maduro."

How dare the U.S. accomplish in 3 hours what we could not.

Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at January 05, 2026 12:33 PM (xqcFU)

453 Bravo. Thank you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 05, 2026 02:59 PM (WONhk)

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