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Casey Sager
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Posted: 04 January 2026 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Dumb take Eric, sorry not sorry.

Edited by Casey Sager on 04 January 2026 at 10:37pm
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Posted: 04 January 2026 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Remember when Venezuelans were stealing zoo animals to eat in 2016-18?

Remember when those poor Afghan women couldn't vote?

Remember those poor oppressed Irakis under Saddam that was hoarding those weapons of mass destruction?

There's a "Fell For It Again" award waiting for you in your mailbox.



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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 12:40am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

"Dumb take Eric..."

**

Alas, I have to agree. No one is saying Maduro is a good
guy. At all. Evil is evil, wrong is wrong - doesn't
matter if it's directed at another evil. Fact of the
matter is this - it's just another stepping stone - if they
get away with it, what's next? Greenland, maybe. Claiming
the entirety of the great lakes, possibly. Who knows?
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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 12:58am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

If Trump cured cancer, the cure would not be covered by insurance and would cost $50,000,000 per treatment. And take multiple ones.

The problem isn't Trump having Maduro captured. The problem is how he did it. He didn't brief Congress and skirted the law.


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Peter Martin
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 1:19am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

 Eric Jansen wrote:
Remember when Biden put a $50 million reward for the arrest of Maduro?

No. Do you? The Trump administration put up a $50m reward for the arrest of Maduro last August. There has been an escalating tier of rewards, starting with Trump administration I, then hiked by Biden, and it finally went to $50m under Trump II.

Although the reward and the direct action against Maduro are both examples of meddling in another country's sovereignty, there is quite a gulf between the order of degrees of the two approaches.

Among the extermely troubling things about this incident are: 

1. No notification of, consultation with, or authorization from Congress
2. Repeated comments from Trump that the US will be running Venezuela
3. Statements that US oil companies will be heading to Venezuela

And that really does not cover all of it at all.


Edited by Peter Martin on 05 January 2026 at 1:19am
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Wilson Mui
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 1:28am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I got a chuckle when I read this on a Substack I follow:

Qasim Rashid wrote:

The FIFA Peace Prize Winner has now bombed:

•Iran

•Iraq

•Nigeria

•Somalia

•Syria

•Venezuela

•Yemen

•Armed Netanyahu to bomb Palestine, Iran, Syria, Lebanon.

This is the “pro peace” President. Alas, I remember when
the FIFA Peace prize meant something.
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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 3:36am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Oops!  You're totally right--Biden "only" put a $25 million reward on Maduro!  Otherwise, Trump did the same thing that other Presidents have done--remove an unelected dictator from power...to the cheers of the people who suffered under and/or fled his cruelty.
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Brian Floyd
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Posted: 05 January 2026 at 3:46am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Wilson, assuming saracasm with that last line, whoever posted that was dead on!

And now he's making veiled threats regarding Greenland (again!) and Cuba.....


Edited by Brian Floyd on 05 January 2026 at 3:49am
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