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"Donald Trump has … signed a proclamation withdrawing the United States from 35 non-United Nations organizations and 31 UN entities that 'operate contrary to US national interests', the White House said in a statement."
~ Lucy Campbell
#Trump #StephenMiller #SpheresofInfluence #UN #NATO #Europe #fascism
/1
Marcie Jones quotes an illiterate tweet (redundant to put "illiterate" before "tweet" in his case, I know) in which the man dispensed medical advice about vaccines to parents of small children. Then she responds:
"Do not take medical advice from someone unable to spell 'HEPATITAS,' mkay?"
#Trump #RFKJr #vaccines #hepatitis #illiteracy #CDC #medicine #science #research
https://www.wonkette.com/p/secretary-whale-juice-directing-cdc
"See, that’s all it takes. You pick up the phone, you go on Truth Social, you say some stuff in ALL CAPS, and the world bends to your will. ...
This is how stupid Trump and Miller and Rubio are. They announced what they want to do with Venezuela’s oil. Trump used the word 'oil' twenty times in his press conference about the attack on Venezuela at Mar a Lago on Sunday."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/8
"A huge share of your tax dollar goes to pay for this military. This has become basically a private militia for the oil industry and Wall Street, that's also really bad for you."
~ Sen. Chris Murphy
#Trump #Venezuela #oil #WallStreet #EconomicElites
/7
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/invading-venezuela-to-help-big-oil
"By eschewing any notion of restoring democracy to the Venezuelan people, Trump has revealed his imperialist Big Oil mission as unadorned thuggery."
~ Sabrina Haake
#Trump #Venezuela #oil #thuggery #fascism
/6
https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/p/petroterrorism-the-new-politics-of
“'Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil.'
That’s Trump saying the quiet part out loud (again!) to MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough on the phone."
~ Pete Rothpletz
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/5
“'This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!' Trump said in a post online."
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/4
"Donald Trump has said Venezuela will be 'turning over' $2bn worth of Venezuelan crude to the United States, a flagship negotiation that would divert supplies from China while helping Venezuela avoid deeper oil production cuts."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/3
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/venezuela-oil-trump-us-latest
"During his triumphalist press conference after the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, Trump never used the word 'democracy.' He did, however, say 'oil' 27 times, declaring, 'We’re going to take back the oil that, frankly, we should have taken back a long time ago.'
Even so, whatever it is we’re doing in Venezuela isn’t really a war for oil. It is, instead, a war for oil fantasies."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/2
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-oil-wealth
"Trump and his allies have now apparently decided to drop all pretense and stick to oil. They are publicly messaging and focused on access to Venezuela’s oil reserves as the primary goal of the military campaign."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Venezuela #oil
/1
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-venezuela-maduro-unprepared
"Trump sold himself as the president who would end Forever Wars. I’ve seen this movie before, and I have a pretty good idea of how it ends.
Now he’s launched one of his own, without involving Congress, to reward the billionaires who funded his campaign and line his own pockets. If 'America First' is now 'Oil First,' you’d better believe I’m going to take him at his word when he shows us exactly who comes last."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #oil
/14
"Yet only Donald Trump would so brazenly squander this historic opportunity for true change on the altar of a chimeric windfall—oil, which a 1960s Venezuelan oil minister labeled 'the devil’s excrement.'”
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Machado #NobelPeacePrize #oil #FossilFuels #BigOil #EconomicElites
/13
"Only Trump would have the audacity to launch such a daring, unilateral joint-force strike to capture a sitting president of Venezuela—with its questionable legality under both U.S. and international law, its dangerous precedents that Russia and China might later claim, and its damaging consequences for the liberal international order."
"To understand the depth of Donald Trump’s betrayal of the democratic movement in Venezuela, it is necessary to appreciate the consummate courage, planning, and organization behind the opposition victory on July 28, 2024. For her valiant efforts to organize and lead the campaign for democracy, María Corina Machado was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize."
~ Larry Diamond
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Machado #NobelPeacePrize
/11
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trumps-betrayal-of-venezuelas-democracy
"That is where the United States is right now. ...
I’ll be honest. Watching the Security Council session as an American was painful. The country that once championed a rules-based order is now being cited as the example of what not to do. But the stakes are too high for us to look away."
"I just watched the emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council as Donald Trump spiraled online, posting about the 2020 election while world leaders blasted his administration’s unlawful invasion of Venezuela. As diplomats spoke about sovereignty, international law, and the danger of escalation, Trump was rage-posting conspiracy theories and recycling debunked lies."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Congress #UnitedNations
/9
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-news-updates-as-ab8
"When the news media say the United States’ strongarm approach to Venezuela 'raises legal questions,' that’s code for 'the president is violating the law, but no one is going to stop him.'”
~ Mark Jacob
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism #megalomania #Jan6 #coup #insurrection #Constitution #crime #corruption #media
/8
https://www.stopthepresses.news/p/will-the-press-continue-to-keep-trumps
"Trump’s actions were illegal under international law, unjustified by any cognizable claim of 'self-defense,' comprised an extrajudicial abduction in violation of state sovereignty rules, and violate both the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Act."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism #megalomania #Jan6 #coup #insurrection #Constitution #crime #corruption
/7
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/back-to-legal-basics-on-venezuela
"The straight line between Trump’s Jan. 6 terrorist attack and his attack on Venezuela: Trump is what happens when crimes go unpunished."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism #megalomania #Jan6 #coup #insurrection #Constitution #crime #corruption
/6
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/the-straight-line-between-trumps
"Donald Trump doesn’t do restraint. He doesn’t do 'one and done.' He does Lays Potato Chips; one of his favorite snacks on Air Force One. 'You can’t stop with just one.' Not one wife. Not one golf course. Not one building. Not one award. Not one raid."
~ Michael Cohen
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #domination #NationalSecurityStrategy #Congress #violence #narcissism #megalomania
/5