I concur.

Thread on X has a lot of people supposedly Venezuelans saying "Hey, he's not our president! He stole the election!"

No lie detected here!

https://x.com/TheCryptoCPA/status/2007498727406338068

Those in the "International Community" who are crying outrage, will certainly reconsider any actions they are contemplating against US interests. I think this is a good thing, even better than seeing the end of Nicky Maduro's political career.

Once again our courageous President has proven that actions speak louder than words.

51st State anyone?

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Originally posted by architect:
51st State anyone?

Nope. Not Canada, not Mexico, and certainly not Venezuala.

The President warned him in plenty of time to get out of the country.

How about a territory like Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands?

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Originally posted by Rawny:
How about a territory like Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands?

Neither of those. As the 51st state.

What was the OPNAME?

I hope it was Pink Flamingo.

Operation Just (Be)cause.

Operation Absolute Resolve

Maybe operation FAFO

So many people are lost in their analysis of the situation, because they are unwilling to consider the reality that Trump is actually a great President that knows what he is doing.

Americans are so used to having corrupt leaders, they don’t know what good leadership looks like.

The reason all the clickbait influencers continue to be wrong about Trump, is because they are missing one MASSIVE piece of the puzzle. Trump is the real deal, he is not owned by anybody, and he is actually on a mission to destroy the Deep State.

Once you realize this, everything starts to click and all the moves and countermoves make sense. Trump is the greatest threat to the corrupt establishment, which is why they fear him so much and have been throwing everything they have at him ever since he came down the escalator.

If you fail to recognize this reality, you will continue to be confused.

https://x.com/WarClandestine/s.../2007946490095026487

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Americans are so used to having corrupt leaders, they don’t know what good leadership looks like.
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You are so, so right. Since Ronald Reagan it's been at worst, an unhidden attempt to change the entire structure of the country in values, belief, tolerance, fairness, good sense, to embarrassments we didn't want our children to hear about.

Corruption, lies, more lies, and I gotta say more lies, that tried men's souls.
Charitably, Trump broke even on his first tour around the casino/clown show/conspiracy center and the 4 year funny nose and glasses night that FJB delivered unto us.

They couldn't stop him, jail him, bankrupt him, intimidate him and trying to kill him hasn't worked and now, wooo babies! They, we and I have never seen anything like this and plopping him into the old leftover circus tents flapping around doesn't work.

They challenge him and he explains in three word sentences that they are very stupid. They try to talk over him and he shuts them up.

I live about 16 miles west of Seattle in an enclave of lefties. (I'll spare you my proof statements) They are going bat-shit, speaking in tongues, wondering how people can be so stupid and when they get hoarse they bitch about property taxes.

There is no reasoning, no persuading, no cajoling that's going to move my home grown commies or apparently those worshipping Gia and Greta in the rest of the country.

The best response is laugh out loud and never give up.

Trumps joke in his first term about shillery: "She bumped into me and said: "Pardon me!" is right up there with the best jokes. Making comedy great again!

Schumer Says Senate Will Vote on War Authorization in Venezuela
The Democratic leader says that a resolution brought by Sens. Rand Paul, Tim Kaine, and himself will be considered ’this week.’

Schumer Says Senate Will Vote on War Authorization in Venezuela
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speak during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 3, 2025. Madalina Kilroy/The
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Jan. 4 said he expects the Senate to vote on whether to formally authorize the U.S. military’s actions in Venezuela that led to the capture of the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro.

When asked about what Congress can do, Schumer told ABC News’s “This Week” that “we have the War Powers Act,” adding that Republicans cannot block the resolution from being submitted on the Senate floor.
Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and the Democratic leader are sponsoring a measure that will “come to the floor this week,” Schumer said. “And if it is voted for, if it’s voted positively in both houses, then the president can’t do another thing in Venezuela without the OK of Congress. We have to pass it.”

Democrats would need at least three additional Republican votes in order for the measure to pass.

“Maduro is a horrible, horrible person, but you don’t treat lawlessness with other lawlessness, and that’s what’s happened here,” Schumer said, adding that the U.S. government lacks the authority to conduct such an operation inside Venezuela—which he described as a “violation of the law”—without getting congressional authorization first.

Also on Jan. 4, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) supported a resolution on the use of the military in Venezuela, although he provided few details.

Hundreds of Flights in the Caribbean Canceled After US Strike on Venezuela
“We have to make sure when we return to Washington, D.C., that legislative action is taken to ensure that no further military steps occur absent explicit congressional approval,” Jeffries said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Jan. 4.
Maduro and his wife were captured overnight and taken from their residence on a military base to the United States, where they will face charges brought under a Justice Department indictment for participating in a narco-terrorism conspiracy.

Several Republicans supported the military action taken in Venezuela as lawful.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) wrote in a post on X that it may fall under “the president’s inherent authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, indicated in a CBS News interview on Jan. 4 that he backed the operation. Venezuela must now stop drugs and weapons trafficking, and needs to remove “the Iranians, the Cubans, the Islamic radicals like Hezbollah and just return to being a normal nation,” he stated.
A plane carrying the deposed leader landed on Jan. 3 at an airport just north of New York City. Maduro was escorted off the jet and led across the tarmac surrounded by federal agents. Several agents filmed him on their phones as he walked.

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition,” President Donald Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago news conference on Jan. 3. Trump said that this “extremely successful operation should serve as warning to anyone who would threaten American sovereignty or endanger American lives.”

In late 2025, the State Department listed the Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization and accused Maduro of running it. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later said that Maduro was using Venezuela as a “transshipment organization” for drug trafficking into the United States.
In 2020, during the first Trump administration, Maduro was indicted in a U.S. federal court for conspiring with Colombian terrorist groups to traffic cocaine into the United States.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...age&ea_med=section-2

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

Americans are so used to having corrupt leaders, they don’t know what good leadership looks like.

I think it is worse than that. Half of the country wants corrupt government as long as it is a leftist government. They believe the ends do justify the means because we're too stupid to see how wonderful the world will be under their control.

Modern leftism is, by its very nature, corrupt.

Don-roe Doctrine, awesome!

https://x.com/JavierBlas/status/2008081856768663682

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Originally posted by downtownv:
Schumer Says Senate Will Vote on War Authorization in Venezuela

What these corrupt assholes refuse to acknowledge, it wasn't war, it was a covert operation. Imagine even just telling any Democrat member of Congress- they would blab all of the intel, the plans on CNN.