UNDISGUISED: "There he went again" again!

MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026

"Dangerous," one governor said: Late Saturday afternoon, "there he went again."

In fact, "there he went again" again! There the president went again, for perhaps the ten millionth time. 

Governor Walz noticed what the president had done. He used a key word as he pushed back:

The key word employed by Walz was "dangerous." That key word emerged once again!

Governor Walz said the president's latest bit of conduct was "dangerous!" In fact, the president's conduct has never been disguised, and the possibility that danger lurked has never been hidden.

The danger has never been disappeared or disguisedexcept by the New York Times, along the rest of Blue America's high-end journalistic elites. And no, we aren't referring here to the military action in Venezuela, which had occurred Friday night.

By Saturday afternoon, Venezuela has won the race to serve as our nation's 51st state. Canada, Panama and Greenlandand even newly named Cubawill now have to wait their turn for future annexation.

The high visibility action in Venezuela had been accomplished. Now, the president decided to reveal himself again.

It won't be reported in the New York Times. It won't be discussed on MSNBC II, The Sequel.

You won't see it reported or discussed at those major news sites. But once again, the danger was clearand over at Mediaite, readers were allowed to know what the president had crazily done:

Trump Shares Conspiracy Post Suggesting Tim Walz Ordered Minnesota Lawmaker’s Assassination

President Donald Trump took time out of his very busy day deposing Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro to “re-Truth” a social media post outrageously questioning whether Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) ordered the assassination of Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D).

And so on from there. Incredibly, but predictably, there he had gone again!

For the record, let it be said. The report at Mediaite had managed to bury the lede.

The president had decided to "re-Truth" one of the crackpot social media posts which now litter the "democratized" American discourse. But what exactly did that crackpot post say?

President Trump had decided to re-post a lunatic suggestion. As you can see by clicking here, the president's own Truth Social post was now broadcasting this lunatic suggestionin all caps, of course:

"DID TIM WALZ REALLY HAVE (D) MELISSA HORTMAN ASSASSINATED?"

Did Governor Walz really have Melissa Hortman (and her husband) killed? In the aftermath of Maduro's capture, that was the possibility this manifestly disordered person was pimping out to tens of millions of denizens of MAGA world.

Let the word go forth to the nations! This president's madness has never been hidden or disguised. And as we've noted on the past, the possibility that this behavior reflects a "dangerous" state of affairs had been suggested right in the titles of two major, best-selling books:

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
Bandy Lee, M.D., M.Div. (ed.). MacMillan, 2017.

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. Simon & Schuster, 2020.

The New York Times (and other Blue orgs) completely disappeared the first of those books. The Times then hurried past the provisional medical assessments offered in the second of these best-sellers. 

The medical assessments in those books said that something was seriously wrong with the presidentand they described the situation as "dangerous." But like Camus' insouciant residents of the fictional Oran in his famous novel The Plague, Blue America's major elites agreed to ignore what was said. 

On Saturday night, there he went again! Governor Walz responded to the president's latest crazy behavior by saying this:

Dem Governors Rally Behind Walz and Slam Trump For ‘Hateful Lies’ Suggesting Minnesota Gov Ordered Political Hit

Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY), the chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and vice chair Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) released a statement Sunday condemning the outrageous speculation. It read, in part, “We stand with Governor Walz and we urge our colleagues, regardless of party, to join us in speaking out against this disgusting attack that only makes Americans less safe.” /////

Walz also condemned Trump on X, writing, “Dangerous, depraved behavior from the sitting president of the United States. In covering for an actual serial killer, he is going to get more innocent people killed. America is better than this.”

And so on from there. 

"Dangerous," Governor Walz now said. Full disclosure:

On the clown show known as the Fox News Channel, this governor is known as Tampon Tim, or often simply as Tampon. (The New York Times, and other Blue orgs, refuse to report that ludicrous conduct too.)

Venezuela now sits as our nation's 51st state. There's no way to know how this highly visible action is going to turn out.

A second bit of presidential behavior is easier to assessto see for what it plainly is. But as we'll be discussing again this week, we won't be reading about that conduct at our favorite Blue American orgs.

As the week proceeds, we'll finish our report on Bill Clinton, who was accused, by President Trump, of murdering Jeffrey Epstein. Bowing to an antique stricture, major orgs in Blue America decided to let that one slide. 

Saturday evening, with Maduro in chains, the American president went there again! This time, it was Governor Walz who was being fingered. There the madman had gone again!

We close with a bit of disclosure:

A situation like this is always a human tragedy. That's especially true when the conduct is there for all to see but it keeps getting ignored.

In this matter, the danger was always right there in plain sight. The sitting president never engaged in any attempt at disguise.

It was right there for all to see. But it kept getting ignored.

Tomorrow: "The wickedness of the times?" (Plato, The Seventh Letter)


91 comments:

  1. Meanwhile, Trump's Venezuela misadventure distracts from further investigation of the Epstein files and Trump's involvement with Epstein.

    In France, the media has produced evidence of a connection between Epstein and Russia that included money laundering, production of kompromat against prominent men using Epstein's girls, demands for money to fix blackmail problems, Russian insertion of spies into the USA and Russian infiltration of high tech ventures in Silicon Valley (to obtain technology). A French associate of Epstein who recruited girls for sex trafficking was also arrested in 2019 and was found hanged in his cell, much like Epstein.

    This stuff has been reported by French media but not in the USA. This accusation that Epstein introduced Melania to Trump has been strongly resisted by Melania and yet it is in keeping with other Epstein activities involving Eastern European women brought to America on special visas and introduced to prominent men. American journalism has yet to follow the Epstein money trail. Why has there been no progress here when this stuff is already reported in France?

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/5/2361462/-French-Media-Expose-Epstein-s-Russia-Connection

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    1. The shuffling around of American media may be to cover up the infiltration of our government by Russia via Donald Trump. There may be a great deal more to this scandal than Epstein's sex trafficking, including Trump's take-over of the government on behalf of Russia. That would explain the systematic destruction of our country in ways that will take years to fix, as well as Trump's support for Putin over Ukraine, and enrichment of Russia-aligned billionaires by looting US resources.

      This all sounds like an incredible conspiracy theory and yet it is consistent with otherwise inexplicable details of right wing behavior and Trump's actions, including this recent invasion of Venezuela, which seems designed to benefit US oil billionaires (and Trump of course).

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    2. Right wingers can revel in the capture of a Venezuelan bad actor, as we all can. What happens from here on out to that country and its resources will tell the world the intentions of this administration. If they are about sucking the precious resources out of that country, it will be met with great resistance.

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    3. This comment treats hypotheses as if they were settled findings. You're not wrong to be suspicious but there is no need to overstate what you can't justify.

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    4. I know 1:40, just because a lifelong convicted crook, adjudicated rapist, grifter, and cheat is being besmirched by the dirty foreign press is not reason to take any of it seriously.

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    5. There hasn't been a Republican voter who isn't a bigot in over a quarter of a century, but nitwits still claim there is one without an iota of proof.

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  2. "Governor Walz said the president's latest bit of conduct was "dangerous!""

    Boo!

    "The president had decided to "re-Truth" one of the crackpot social media posts"

    The President "re-Truthed" something! Stop The Presses! Are you nuts, Bob?

    "Dem Governors Rally Behind Walz and Slam Trump For ‘Hateful Lies’ Suggesting Minnesota Gov Ordered Political Hit"

    Oh, whoa. Dem Governors are getting nervous... Panicking... Well, now it certainly does look like the "re-truthed" post was onto something!

    Developing...



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    1. It is a shame that the right has chased Walz out of reelection like this. He seemed like a good man. The solution to these kinds of manufactured attacks is to impeach Trump ASAP.

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    2. 10:40,

      your tinfoil is showing.

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  3. As Democrats, we have to, as much as possible, eliminate women from politics. Preferably by taking away their right to vote. But most certainly by not letting them run for any type of office.

    Not all women. Just 96 to 97% of them.

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    1. This whole mess started with men's inability to keep it in their pants around female children. The solution is not to eliminate females but to keep men with uncontrollable sex urges in special compounds so that they cannot act upon them, including with bodyguards whose job is to handcuff men if they even leer in the wrong direction. Men are too vulnerable to their lust to be permitted to make any decisions, much less serve in government.

      Women can then step in and clean up the mess men have made of everything. Women get better grades in college, so they are clearly better qualified than men anyway.

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    2. Anyone who isn't a child rapist, or isn't perfectly fine with the raping of children, left the Republican Party over a dozen years ago.

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    3. We tried with Hillary and we tried with Kamala and the whole woman thing just didn't work out. Women are put on Earth to cook and clean and raise children. Asking a woman to be a powerful politician is like asking an armadillo to cook an omelette. It just doesn't work. So let's all agree to phase them completely out of the process and bring things back to a natural balance.

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    4. 1:07 - Fucking cunt.

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    5. I know armadillos who are fine cooks.

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    6. Men like this call women incompetent, then give them their kids to raise. Go figure!

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  4. Who else has Trump been meeting with clandestinely on his very frequent golf outings at which no press are allowed?

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  5. It is time for Congress to impeach and remove Trump.

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    1. We are now a wholly owned subsidiary of Russia. The idea of Trump running Venezuela when he cannot even run the USA is a farce. The rape and pillaging of the USA on behalf of billionaires must stop.

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  6. Instead of continuing his impotent claims that Trump is mentally ill, Somerby needs to focus on the many illegal and corrupt actions of Trump both in and out of office. Calling for Trump's removal from office and prosecution is how we curb his misbehavior and protect our nation.

    Instead, Somerby pretends the blue media is not reporting on Trump's cognitive issues, when there are articles nearly every day on that topic. Further, there are articles outside the legacy media (aka mainstream media) in actual blue sources that go into great detail about Trump's malfeasance. Somerby ignores those sources and also ignores the Epstein investigation, thereby protecting Trump from losing his base. Those on the right who understand the Epstein involvement have been dropping Trump like a hot potato. The more people know about Trump's links to Putin and his pandering to bilionaires the less power Trump can command at the polls. But Somerby ignores the info that can wound Trump in favor of telling lies about what blue America is doing. That hurts the left, Trump's opposition, while protecting Trump.

    Somerby is part of the problem, not part of the solution. He is not blue and not part of the resistance. He is a useless waste of space with not excuse for dragging his heels on calls for Trump's removal.

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    1. Instead of repeating Right-wing grievances, Somerby could turn TDH into a blog where he muses about the mainstream press corps.
      If he wanted to.

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    2. Corby, what is your cup size?

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    3. It's 14.
      ...wait, sorry, never mind, that's my IQ.

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  7. President Bankruptcy fails again, as his attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of their President has done nothing to deter the people's demands that he release all of the Epstein files.

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  8. Somerby says: "Venezuela now sits as our nation's 51st state. There's no way to know how this highly visible action is going to turn out."

    Actually, Venezuela is not anywhere close to being a state because, aside from arresting Maduro, nothing has changed about the political infrastructure there. As Robert Reich notes:

    "U.S. troops are not prepared to occupy Venezuela. Trying to do so would be a disaster.

    Maduro’s system of oppression is still entrenched there. It includes the national guard, the army, the national police, the intelligence service, and the Colombian guerrilla group ELN. All remain intact.

    Maduro’s top lieutenants also remain, including several who were involved in his alleged crimes. Not to mention his thugs and narco-traffickers who have been controlling Venezuela through violent repression and stolen elections."

    Meanwhile, Trump is off the the next conquest. Quoting Aaron Rupar:

    "Trump in a single gaggle on Air Force One just threatened:
    — a second strike against Venezuela
    — Cuba
    — Mexico
    — Colombia
    — Iran
    — Greenland (which in turn would be an attack on the EU and Denmark)"

    Surprised Nigeria wasn't back on that list. And how did his military actions in Los Angeles, Oregon and Chicago go?

    But I don't understand why Somerby would give Trump credit for subduing Venezuela when it is too strong to be incorporated as the 51st state and its people do not want to become a colony of the US?

    Is Somerby such a surrender-monkey that he assumes Venezuela is a done deal? That's ridiculous, but it sure shows where Somerby's mind is.

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    1. You have a tin ear for Bob's irony.

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    2. Thing that pisses me off is the same group of America First Isolationists as we had in 2000, who immediately said Bush had to do it this one time because terror!!!, are the same group of America First Isolationist jagoffs that are now cheering on Venezuela. After a couple of days. We have no idea where this leads, but historically we know it will lead to nothing but a shit sandwich. Also too, fuck you flip flopping fascist David in Cal you spineless shithead.

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    3. The real risk to the supremacy of the US dollar is not Venezuela or BRICS, it is the chaos and instability of an incompetent and corrupt administration - ie the Trump admin.

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    4. Somrrby cannot escape accountability for his statements by claiming irony.

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    5. Somerby's silence in the face of demands to identify the Republican voter who isn't a bigot, speaks volumes.

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  9. Bob disparages our country’s great achievement in Venezuela by commenting that there’s no way to know how it will turn out. Dumb comment. There’s no way to know how any action will turn out.

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    1. That's a splendid argument for committing crimes and taking illegal actions. After all, everything is for the best in the world's most perfect administration -- paraphrase the esteemed Dr. Pangloss.

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    2. A Venezuelan posted, “If international law cannot prevent me from being tortured in a cell at the Helecoide, but it does protect Maduro so that he can continue torturing me at the Helicoide, international law not only does nothing for me, but it’s fucking me over.”

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    4. We should, perhaps, pay attention to neglect and torture in US immigrant detention centers.

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    5. It can seem like Trump used Biden's military to pull off a successful kidnapping of an elected foreign leader, but what actually happened was a prearranged hand off of Maduro to the US, permitted and facilitated by Putin.

      Republican voters are the ultimate mark for grifters, they always fall for the con.

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  10. My money is on Greenland. Soon our anthem will be some version of the Soviet anthem -- an unbreakable union of 67 states forever was created by the dear leader Trump...

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  11. Ten Reasons To Cheer the Arrest of Maduro
    Excellent article, summarized below
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/01/05/ten_reasons_to_cheer_the_arrest_of_maduro_153677.html

    1) The raid opens the door to a restoration of constitutional order, democracy, freedom, and prosperity to Venezuelans repressed by the vicious, kleptocratic, technically incompetent, socialist regime launched by Hugo Chavez in a coup and continued by Maduro.

    2) . This operation goes to the source of the drug problem;

    3). The presidents of Mexico and Colombia are likely in meetings as you read these words discussing the risks of their current arrangements and perhaps recalibrating their strategy in a way more helpful to the U.S. in the fight against drug cartels.

    4) The tide may have also turned more broadly against the left in Latin America,

    5) The raid bolsters the Trump administration’s aggressive assault on Iran’s nuclear program. Intelligence sources have long maintained that Venezuela was an important source of uranium for Iran.

    6) Maduro’s ouster also reduces the risk of terrorist attacks to our homeland. In addition to Iran’s infiltration, Venezuela has become a hub for Hezbollah operations in the Western Hemisphere

    7) The raid extends the Trump administration’s aggressive moves to limit China’s involvement in our hemisphere,

    8) The raid likely eliminates an ally of Russia – and an important prop for the Communist regime in Cuba.

    9) The audacious raid makes Americans proud of our military’s prowess.

    10) Whether one loves Donald Trump or hates him, this daring operation shows what leadership in the executive branch looks like. Trump 47 is the rare politician who does what he says he will do.

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    1. 11) Cheap oil, new producers, and deep discounts are crushing Russia’s budget as Moscow is forced to sell crude at $15–$30 below market prices to find buyers, knocking the bottom out of Putin's war effort.

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    2. "this daring operation shows what leadership in the executive branch looks like."

      Whether such 'leadership' is a good thing depends on the results such leadership brings about. On day two of the Venezuelan special operation, it is far too soon to be counting up the pluses and minuses.

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    3. One reason not to invade Venezuela, the Trump admin is filled with fucking idiots who think their gut has all the answers. Trust me, we are fucked, again, by asshole "we make reality" Repukes.

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    4. 12. You are a fucking idiot David.

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    5. Gabbard said 2 months ago that Trump would absolutely not get involved in the politics of other countries or engage in regime change. It’s a good thing this admin never lies.

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    6. David in Cal,
      The arrest of Maduro isn't bigotry, so you have no idea how long it will be before the Right is blaming it on Biden and Obama.

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  12. Maduro's arrest has no basis in the US or international law. An honorable US judge would refuse to hold an arraignment.

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    1. Ilya - you know that a US judge had issued a warrant for the arrest of Maduro. So, his arrest clearly followed US law.

      Is there such a thing as international law? Where is written? Where does it apply? Who enforces it?

      In the real world, countries do what they can get away with. E.g., Chavez stealing the oil refineries. Maduro torturing opponents. Putin invading Ukraine. Etc.

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    2. Thanks for pointing out that Trump is acting like Chavez, Maduro and Putin. You made the point better than I could ever have done.

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    4. How does a jagoff like Dickhead not get whiplash with his never ending flip flops. Whatever dear leader says is the new gospel, part infinity. Fascist goon.

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    5. Hector - I think you are implicitly alluding to some sort of unwritten, worldwide moral law. In my version of this moral law, the results of a country's aggression matter. Hitler taking over France and murdering the Jews there is not the same as the US taking over Venezuela and ending widespread governmental torture.

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    6. In the real world, countries do what they can get away with.
      The might does right! What a brilliant novel idea. How come no one had thought of it.
      The US has no legal claim to Maduro, unless he committed crimes on the US soil. And I don't want to hear the nonsense about cocaine making to the US shores. That's been the case forever.

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    7. How does a jagoff like Dickhead not get whiplash with his never ending flip flops. Whatever dear leader says is the new gospel, part infinity.
      Good question. It underscores the intellectual, moral, and emotional dead zone of the Trump cult. There's no reference point; two -- or more -- mutually exclusive positions can be maintained simultaneously without any questions. Life is good when you don't have to think or question anything. I should say: it's good until it isn't; until the arbitrary authority comes knocking on your door.

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    8. "the US taking over Venezuela and ending widespread governmental torture."

      Has widespread governmental torture been ended in Venezuela? How do we know that to be the case?

      It may well have increased as the Maduro government (and it is still a Maduro government at this point) seeks to find the traitors in its midst.

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    9. Hector, we don't know how removing Maduro will work out. But, at least it gives the Venezuelan people a possibility of governmental torture ending. As long as Maduro was in power, there was no hope at all.

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    10. I thought Trump's whole thing was taking care of American people first.

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    11. Adolf Hitler justified his actions by allegations of untermensch plotting extermination of wholesome Aryans.

      David @2:26 justifies aggression by allegations of "widespread governmental torture". (In this case. In other cases David occasionally goes full Hitler.)

      I find Adolf's excuse far more interesting and creative. David's excuse is dumber, more boring, and far less convincing.

      Why should I care about one group of foreigners accusing another of torturing the third? That kind of stuff happens a thousand times every day.

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    12. Why does Trump care about Venezuelan people when the people of his own country are suffering and marginalized?

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    13. Quaker in a BasementJanuary 5, 2026 at 3:10 PM

      David, according to the latest news reports, more than 80 Venezuelans died during the weekend attack. If a Venezuelan court issues an arrest warrant for Trump or Hegseth, would that justify a military smash-and-grab kidnapping from Washington?

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    14. International laws, treaties, and norms are what drives our economies; when a leader breaks those, that country loses trust, throwing our economies into chaos.

      David is a troll stuck in a bunker in some far off land, nothing he says is genuine or accurate; best to ignore him.

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    15. Trump could literally give reparations to black people for slavery, and lose every single one of his voters.

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  13. Quaker in a BasementJanuary 5, 2026 at 2:20 PM

    "When you're a superpower, they let you. You can do anything."

    Hell of a basis for a stable international order.

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    2. Yes, Quaker, reality is a hell of a basis for stable international order. But, our policies have to be based on the real world nevertheless.

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    3. "When you're a superpower, they let you. You can do anything."

      Isn't that what Trump said to Billy Bush?

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    4. Assaulting women, assaulting countries, it's all good with Dickhead.

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    5. Quaker in a BasementJanuary 5, 2026 at 3:05 PM

      David, for more than 80 years, the US has advanced an international order based on national sovereignty, respect for borders, and diplomacy. Our current president is treating that hard-earned stability like an unwanted wing of the White House.

      But whatever! It "works" for him, right?

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    6. For more than 80 years, the US has advanced an international order based on national sovereignty, respect for borders, and diplomacy?

      Are you fucking out of your mind?

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    7. Then you are, quite naively, mistaking rhetoric for reality. For 80 years the U.S. has praised sovereignty while routinely violating it through coups, invasions, sanctions, and proxy wars. The ‘rules-based order’ has applied mainly to others, not to U.S. power itself.

      How old are you?

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    8. 7:19,
      Maybe they were educated in a Red State. They probably still bristle when told the U.S. was built on slave labor.

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    9. Quaker in a BasementJanuary 6, 2026 at 2:52 AM

      Not out of my mind and old enough to have accumulated a lifetime of learning, children,

      I am perfectly aware of the U.S.'s several transgressions against the sovereignty of foreign governments. Long before Donald Trump came along, we executed or supported regime changes in Iran, South Vietnam, Panama, Guatemala, and Chile, among others.

      However, since the end of WW2, the American government has been the primary driving force behind an international order that promotes stability.

      "The international order is the body of rules, norms, and institutions that govern relations among the key players in the international environment. Since World War II, the dominant international order has been the liberal
      order anchored by the United States. That order has been broadly characterized by an emphasis on liberal norms and values—including economic liberalism in the form of relatively free trade and open markets; political liberalism in the form of representative government and human rights; and other liberal concepts, such as nonaggression, self-determination, and the peaceful settlement of disputes. These norms and values have been
      manifested through such international institutions as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank, World Trade Organization, United Nations, and European Union (EU)."

      https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE200/PE209/RAND_PE209.pdf

      Our government did not adopt this strategy out of a sense of charitable duty, but rather to secure our own interests:

      "The liberal international order that emerged triumphant over fascism and communism during the twentieth century is a testament to the institutions, alliances, and norms US statesmen established to avoid the revival of great power conflict. Though these structures have
      granted the United States and its allies several decades of unparalleled security and prosperity, it is unclear as to what is invoked by the term liberal international order. The modern world is characterized by what is referred to as the international system or the global assemblage of sovereign nation-states that is the primary structuring mechanism for interstate relations. Order, however, requires that this international system operates within two basic conditions: 'a set of commonly accepted rules that define the limits of permissible action and a balance of power that enforces restraint where rules break down.'”

      https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-14_Issue-2/Lawless.pdf

      Now you may choose to dismiss the destruction of the international order that has kept the world free of global conflict for the past 80 years as just a continuation of the US's longstanding imperialist global strategy. But you would be in a very small, poorly reasoning minority.

      Now go peddle your papers.

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    10. "However, since the end of WW2, the American government has been the primary driving force behind an international order that promotes stability."

      Exsqueeze me? You know this is not true, because a millisecond before saying it, you said "...we executed or supported regime changes in Iran, South Vietnam, Panama, Guatemala, and Chile, among others". In fact, you know that the opposite is true, unless by "international order" you mean disorder, and by "stability" chaos.

      Right? What am I missing? It's difficult to understand your Orwellian doublethinkers.

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    11. "What am I missing?"

      The ability to identify a Republican voter who isn't a bigot.
      Congratulations!
      It's what makes you human.

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    12. After a bout with AI, Quaker sheepishly accepts the evidence that directly contradicts his original claim, then quietly moves to a different, easier claim and acts as if it proved the first one.

      Stop embarrassing yourself. You're an idiot. Running to AI in the middle of a night will not compensate for your obvious ignorance.

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    13. "an international order that promotes stability."

      Stability for who, pinhead?

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    14. The RAND corporation! LOL! Does this idiot not realize they work for the Defense Department?

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    15. Erroneous accusations. Name-calling. Ideological propaganda. Yes, apparently your reasoning is far too powerful for me.

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  14. Paul Krugman:

    "Two days after the abduction, it’s clear Trump wasn’t seeking regime change, at least not in any fundamental way. He’s more like a mob boss trying to expand his territory, believing that if he knocks off a rival boss he can bully the guy’s former capos into giving him a cut of their take."

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    1. Yes, something like that. But not to him, Paul. To you, Paul, among 330 million of others. And that's a lot more than your Democrat bosses are giving. So, why don't you bitch and moan about them, for a change.

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    2. The felons' admin has made it perfectly clear they help red states and punish blue, to the point where Rethugs in blue states get fucked over by these pigs.

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  15. "Two people close to the White House said the president’s lack of interest in boosting (opposition leader) Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter Trump, stemmed from her decision to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, an award the president has openly coveted.

    Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

    “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,” this person said."

    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/youre-so-vain-you-probably-think-this-country-is-about-you

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    1. Two people close to the White House told me those other two imaginary people close to the White House are full of shit.

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    2. Yes but ya gotta admit with the demented orange moran, all the pieces fit.

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    3. It has the ring of truth.

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    4. It's so petty and juvenile -- must be true.

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    5. Trump thinks Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez is a better choice (meaning that Trump is more likely to run the joint with Rodriguez as the figure head.)

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    6. I have complete faith in Trump's ability to run Venezuela into the ground, like it was one of the many, many businesses he bankrupted.

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    7. I voted for Trump because he's a smart businessman, but I'm willing to pretend I love that he ran his companies into bankruptcy, if it will help keep minorities down.

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    8. Anonymices, in that case, then it will be the continuation of the same problems in Venezuela and you’ll continue to have nothing to worry about other than gossip about Trump sticking it to Machado over a peace prize. Which is all you want anyway.

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  16. Of course, Trump sent a bunch of Venezuelans to be tortured in CECOT in El Salvador. The irony is so thick, you can't cut it with a chainsaw.

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  17. President Donald Trump shared a video purporting to show throngs of Venezuelans “celebrating” the U.S. military’s recent capture of President Nicolas Maduro — but the footage actually dates from a year and a half ago.

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