Monday, January 05, 2026

Signs And Wonders

Recent comments made by President Donald J. Trump dismissing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado as the person to replace Nicolás Maduro, stating that she doesn’t have the “support or respect” needed to become the President of Venezuela, stemmed from her recent decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award that had been publicly craved by President Trump.

Two people close to the White House told the Washington Post that Machado’s acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin” to President Trump, despite her having dedicated the award to Trump and time against having complimented his work towards Venezuela. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”
Yes, this is real:
The New York Times reported Sunday that “Maduro’s regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some on the Trump team that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff.”

The Times cited anonymous sources saying that Maduro’s antics after rejecting an ultimatum from Trump to leave office and go into exile in Turkey, ultimately led the White House to follow through on its military threats.

“This week [Maduro] was back onstage, brushing off the latest U.S. escalation — a strike on a dock that the United States said was used for drug trafficking — by bouncing to an electronic beat on state television while his recorded voice repeated in English, ‘No crazy war,'” The report said.

Some of Maduro’s celebratory dances were posted to social media, which the White House monitors routinely, as evidenced by X appearing on a large screen in the war room used by Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during the removal operation.

Trump posted a video montage on Truth Social Saturday of Maduro shouting, “Come for me! I’m waiting for you here in Miraflores. Don’t take too long to arrive, coward!”

The video, set to the strains of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” was interspersed with shots of bombs lighting up Venezuela’s night sky as U.S. troops descended on Maduro.
Yeah, or:
This is what many don’t realize, even if Maduro had made a deal with the Trump Administration - and I’m not saying he didn’t because there is still a lot of questions that need to be answered - him leaving Venezuela would still have likely required an operation similar to what see saw Saturday with the 160th and Delta Force. These Cubans weren’t just Maduro’s security, but also his handlers, if it looked like he was planning to flee the country or make a deal, he and his wife could have been killed by them under orders from Havana, Beijing and/or Moscow.
Speaking to reporters earlier onboard Air Force One, President Donald J. Trump called Colombian President Gustavo Petro a “sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,” adding that “He’s not going to be doing it very long, let me tell you.” Asked what he meant by that and if there could be a potential military operation against Colombia, President Trump said, “Sounds good to me.”
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  1. The Thought Criminal10:11 AM

    A lot of Americans are gulled by Machado getting the "Peace Prize" but she's announced her political ideology as being in line with those of Reagan, Thatcher and Pinochet. None of whom were good news for the poor, the working class and especially the destitute. From what I understand she was schooled in the discredited Chicago school of neo-liberal economics, considering her background that doesn't surprise me.

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