Month: January 2026
Venezuela a year from now
Overnight it seems, we’re returned to 2004, with echoes of Bush-era fanfare over a “mission accomplished”, as born-again neoconservatives going full Pentacostal over Maduro being perp-walked to a jail cell. “We own the oil now”, and “we liberated the Venezuelans”, are identical talking points from the Iraq War era. How’d it all turn out for Iraq? It’s a failed state, a dumpster fire, a hell on earth. Regime change has a terrible track record, and nations that are force-fed them always turn into lands ruled by the most barbaric. If Venezuela doesn’t descend into a cartel slaughterhouse, I’ll eat my hat. Trump doesn’t have the stomach to secure the oil, nor the manpower to prevent someone far worse than Maduro taking power.
Regime change supporters thumb their noses at the warnings of a new Vietnam: “It didnt’ happen!” Yeah, the quagmire comes later. We’re about to get a front-row seat to the sunk cost fallacy on a geopolitical scale.
BBC: Yes, the IDF actually does intentionally murder Palestinian children
I can't stop thinking about how bleak the situation in Gaza has to be for the BBC to report on this https://t.co/Liu4Gouqzv
— الكسندرا ميراي (@Lexi3Alexander) January 2, 2026
The dark year
There’s something strange and hallucinatory about the memory of 2025.
2025 – The Year In Videos
Presented in chronological order. pic.twitter.com/uVubWmWyJT
— Harrison H. Smith ✞ (@HarrisonHSmith) January 2, 2026
Did the US just confiscate all Venezuelan oil?
The fanfare from conservative influencers has now turned to “woohoo we took their oil without losing a single US soldier!” This is an ominous development. Venezuelans are not going to peacefully accept the rape of their natural resources by American oil companies.
Trump now claims that the US will run Venezuela for the time being, without informing anyone what that might entail. How many US troops would that take? What happens when Venezuelan soldiers resist?
This will turn into a disaster that the US will own. Whatever the outcome, the blame and responsibility will rest with Trump.
After toppling the Venezuelan government by military force, Trump declares "we are going to run the country." The next time anyone tries to claim the Trump Doctrine (whatever that means) is somehow opposed to "regime change," please laugh in their faces pic.twitter.com/Lu2sFlSoL2
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) January 3, 2026
Suddenly everyone’s a neocon again
Kind of amazing to see so many “America First” grifters praising the Venezuela invasion and capture of Maduro. Now Venezuela will become a failed state, similar to Libya, as rival factions go to war for control of the country. The chosen US puppet will probably be assassinated within a month. The drug trade is going to flourish like never before, and Venezuelan refugees will flock to the US like never before. The country will become a human trafficking hub.
We think we’re far removed from the chaos, safe and secure within our borders. But this level of chaos always has a way of reaching us. We’ll be dealing with the blowback from this war for years, if not decades.
We can kidnap Maduro but not take out the Mexican cartels?
I knew 2026 was going to be crazy, but I wasn’t expecting to wake up to something as batshit insane as “Trump captures Maduro and wife overnight, flies them to New York for arraignment“. Constitutional crimes notwithstanding, there is something very ominous about this. It was too easy, and the pundit/influencer class is celebrating too early. Does anyone really believe that the Venezuelans feel “liberated”? They’re not going to support a US puppet. The leader that follows Maduro will be worse than him. And there will be consequences for this. What will the global reaction be? Actions like this isolate us from the world. We’re hated because of these brute force bully tactics.
It’s fairly easy to see that this was never about drugs. If it were, why bomb Venezuela and not Mexico? Fentanyl, meth, heroin, all of it is coming from Mexico.
Trump is bombing Venezuela
This is incredibly sad. We have our own problems, which is an understatement. We have immense problems at home that require our undivided attention. Trump has instigated a war with a nation, and he hasn’t even bothered selling it to the American people. Don’t we deserve at least a quantum of propaganda? Some very terrible people have the ear of the President at the moment. Situations like this spiral too easily.
BREAKING🚨 Trump is bombing Caracas Venezuela! The mad man. pic.twitter.com/YIw8SQm7kS
— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) January 3, 2026
This is us.
A bunched of drugged out morons doing nothing while the fire is manageable, giggling at the flames that will soon consume them while a deafening soundtrack of incomprehensible ghetto gibberish drowns out the warnings. https://t.co/cViVgpQbiZ
— Harrison H. Smith ✞ (@HarrisonHSmith) January 2, 2026
Feds on parade
Whatever happened to Patriot Front? Remember these guys? I’ve never seen a more transparent undercover operation designed to discredit and entrap MAGA conservatives. Their leader looks like he was cast professionally for this role, a true method actor who has completely taken on the persona. It’s weird.
The Patriot Front is going viral today. What do you notice about this video of them? pic.twitter.com/qJOKP8BgsT
— Bruce Porter Jr. (@NetworksManager) April 29, 2024
I’ll go out on a limb and say that the X influencers pushing Patriot Front are probably getting paid to do so.
I’m guessing exactly zero people organically showed up to listen to these feds at their “first ever national conference”. It would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous. Undercover fed ops usually seek to entrap some gullible patsy into agreeing to commit violence. How many instances of political violence in the US has been the result of an entrapment operation that got out of hand? The Feds play with fire with this tactic. Thankfully I don’t think Patriot Front will be getting anyone killed any time soon. PATCON 2.0 has failed. Retards.
The organization Patriot Front says they held their first ever national conference at an undisclosed venue in Texas.
Speakers included people from across the USA and Britain. pic.twitter.com/OUeHdAVQ0j
— National Conservative (@NatCon2022) September 28, 2025
