Monday, January 12, 2026

Acting President Of Venezuela

Trump’s interview with the NYT:
… Trump was asked why he needed the US to own Greenland instead of just entering into a security arrangement with the territory: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do, whether you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.”

 Does he think he’s quibbling over the deed to Greenland?

Trump talking to Hannity:

… Trump on Venezuela: “We have taken over a whole country. We have taken $4 billion worth of oil in one day and that will increase. All the big oil companies are coming in. They are going to make a lot of money. We brought stability to the region.”
I’m going to estimate, arguendo, that VZ crude is selling at $40 bbl. The VLCC tankers hold around 2 million barrels. $4 billion of oil, at $40 a barrel, is 100 million barrels. So Trump is saying 50 VLCC’s left Venezuela headed for America, in one day. I don’t know who “we” is, but who’s paying the port fees and the shipping fees and the transport to refinery costs, and the refining and marketing costs? And giving “us” the $4 billion supposedly left over?

Not to mention most of those 50 hypothetical ships are going to be waiting to dock for a long, long time.

Donald Trump is possibly the stupidest man alive.
*Buzzer* Sorry! We were looking for “national security” or “interference with foreign policy.” (He’s talking about a social media post he wrote. Now, the law about releasing the Epstein files, that real law, he can ignore with impunity. There is no law, and no penalties for violating a non-law.) A)  Because he doesn’t want to?
B)  Because “affordability” is a hoax?
C). Because he doesn’t want to? His proposal is to lower it for only a year, after all. After November, fuck the non-rich.
And one old guy with a very cross look, and…what’s that other thing? Oh, yeah! NATO. (Now somebody ask him how far Alaska and Hawaii are from the continental states.) Looney as a clockwork orange. (My concern is, Congress will back him. And again: ask him about Alaska and Hawaii.) An NYT reporter reviewed that video with him:
As a slow-motion surveillance video of the shooting played on the laptop, we told him that this angle did not appear to show an ICE officer had been run over.

“Well,” Mr. Trump said. “I — the way I look at it … ”

“It’s a terrible scene,” Mr. Trump said at the end of the video. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.” But did this fatal shooting mean his ICE operation had gone too far? Mr. Trump sidestepped the question, instead blaming his predecessor's immigration policies.
It seems Trump doesn’t remember that. Then again, Trump has always been in favor of the death penalty; whoever administers it. Exxon said “No.” People don’t say “No,” to Trump. Or if they do, he doesn’t listen. (This settles an issue the Lovely Wife raised. She wished someone would tell Trump the truth, to his face. The CEO of Exxon did. Trump was incapable of hearing it.) "TOP O’ THE WORLD, MA!” (This also explains why the State Department told Americans to leave Venezuela. Trump can’t protect them from gangs there, either. (They are foreigners, after all.)) Government money is for the rich, after all. He is the acting President of Venezuela. One certainly can’t distinguish it from America anymore.
“This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings," Powell added. [Powell has been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury for Congressional testimony he made that month.] "It is not about Congress's oversight role; the Fed, through testimony and other public disclosures, made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President."

"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation," he continued.
Wasn’t it Chavez who took over Venezuela’s central bank, and drove the country’s economy into the ground?

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