Saturday, January 03, 2026

This Is Going Well

I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years. I’m 100% for strong safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America.

Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug overdose deaths and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made with chemical precursors from China and trafficked across the U.S. Mexico border.

Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs.

If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?

And if prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America? Ironically cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S.

The next obvious observation is that by removing Maduro this is a clear move for control over Venezuelan oil supplies that will ensure stability for the next obvious regime change war in Iran.

And of course why is it ok for America to militarily invade, bomb, and arrest a foreign leader but Russia is evil for invading Ukraine and China is bad for aggression against Taiwan? Is it only ok if we do it? (I’m not endorsing Russia or China)

Regime change, funding foreign wars, and American’s tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes, foreigners both home and abroad, and foreign governments while Americans are consistently facing increasing cost of living, housing, healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud of their tax dollars is what has most Americans enraged. Especially the younger generations. Boomers and half of Gen X will cheer on neocon wars and talking points, but the other half of Gen X and majority on down see through it and hate it.

Americans disgust with our own government’s never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going.

This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end.

Boy were we wrong.

As the baby boomers slip away both in votes and power, the electoral future will be decided for candidates that focus on American economic populism and promising prosperity for Americans only.

As of right now, neither party is offering the solution.
Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth looked every Senator in the eye a few weeks ago and said this wasn’t about regime change. I didn’t trust them then and we see now that they blatantly lied to Congress. Trump rejected our Constitutionally required approval process for armed conflict because the Administration knows the American people overwhelmingly reject risks pulling our nation into another war.

This strike doesn't represent strength. It's not sound foreign policy. It puts Americans at risk in Venezuela and the region, and it sends a horrible and disturbing signal to other powerful leaders across the globe that targeting a head of state is an acceptable policy for the U.S. government. This will further damage our reputation – already hurt by Trump’s policies around the world – and only isolate us in a time when we need our friends and allies more than ever.
Speaking of Americans at risk, Citgo just got people out of Venezuela. This is not the 1950’s. Oil is not sending people into chaos. They don’t need chaos. They need stability.

The likeliest outcome is a hike in the global price of oil.
Call the names:
5. I have no respect for Donald Trump. He diminishes everything he touches. But focusing on him right now is like being bitten by your neighbor’s unleashed, unfenced rabid dog and focusing on the dog. If we don’t hold his enablers to account we’re going to keep getting bit.

6. This doesn’t happen if McConnell didn’t press the Republican Senators to ignore January 6 and vote not to remove Trump from office in spite of House impeachment. If they had any shred of patriotism, Trump wouldn’t have been able to run again.

7. This doesn’t happen if SCOTUS doesn’t expressly grant a convicted felon and proven malignant narcissist with near complete immunity for any crimes he commits while President. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

8. This doesn’t happen if Republican Senators don’t confirm every grossly unqualified nominee - RFK Jr., Hegseth, Gabbard, etc. Those Senators knew their spines were being tested in those early days, because if they folded for them, they could be relied on to fold for anything.

9. This doesn’t happen if SCOTUS doesn’t decide that they have the unilateral power to amend the Constitution by gutting Section 3 of the 14th Amendment and allow someone who had engaged in insurrection against the United States to hold federal office. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf

10. And of course, this doesn’t happen if the House GOP took their oversight responsibilities seriously. From recissions to tariffs to Epstein, a House majority that allowed oversight would have checked an out of control executive long ago.
Sean Casten, IL-06.
No. The U..S. won’t sell squat. It’s a global market. Oil is a fungible good. The U.S. won’t sell to China. China will buy on the market. And Trump hasn’t nationalized Venezuelan oil production. He’s lost in a world 50 years gone. But he thinks saying it makes it so. So...that plan didn’t survive its first contact with reality. 

I told you the President has no idea how government works. But he’s focused like a laser beam.
New: Sources in the #Venezuela opposition tell me the opposition has been in touch with “governments across the world” following the arrest of #NicolasMaduro Those countries include France, Argentina, Ecuador, Panama and Paraguay who the opposition says expressed their support for “restoring the will of the people” in Venezuela.

Note the country not on that list.
Sadly, yes….
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2 comments:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa8:10 PM

    Took W Bush what, 24 months of Iraqi adventure to get to where Trump got in less than 24 hours of his Venezuelan extravaganza. Truly, time moves faster these days.

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  2. Rmj9:37 PM

    Bush had people who thought they knew what they were doing. Trump just thinks that when he says it, it’s so. That’s the “dementia” we really need to worry about.

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