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Now Unclear if U.S. will Govern in Venezuela

@#7 ... If we are not going to "run" Venezuela ...

My guess, and it is only that ...

Pres Trump thought this would be an easy thing to accomplish.

(Pres Putin also thought that Kyiv would fall and succumb to his unprovoked invasion withing a week or so. But I digress.)

A simple transaction.

The superior US Military Might (which I agree with, btw) vs. a lame Country.

Pres Trump has his eye on the Venezuelan oil reserves, trying to keep his major campaign donors happy.

Chevron already seems to be a player in Venezuela's oil fields.

But, going forward, the will need to be more involvement by Big Oil if Pres Trump's hopes are realized.

My concern at this point...

Venezuela's oil drilling facilities are quite distant from the Venezuela's oil refining locations. That gives any Venezuelan opposition to what is happening a chance to disrupt what is happening.

Stated differently, who will be securing the transport of the crude from the wells to the refineries?

Will Pres Trump need to deploy US Military for that task?

Pres Trump has said, ~no US Troops on the ground.~

But it has been shown time and time again that Pres Trump lies. Voraciously.

So, what's the future we, i.e., the United States, face in Venezuela?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 01:04 AM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

" I am honest with my hate and can defend it."

Yep, anyone who has the temerity to disagree with is someone you hate. Then you rationalize, assign false positions and hyper-emotionally lash out.

Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-05 01:02 AM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

I don't carry hate. It's emotionally unhealthy.

What I was pointing out was the pure hypocrisy of you acting offended by what you deemed to be an offensive post when you are consumed with hate and bring it to this site almost every time you post.

Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-05 12:59 AM | Reply

Musk's Rogue AI Chatbot Brands Trump

Gone rogue?

I'm not yet convinced of that ...

Michael Wolff Says Epstein Showed Him Photos of Trump With Topless Girls at His House
www.thenorthstar.com

... This week, journalist and bestselling author Michael Wolff told a story in public " on camera to the team at MeidasTouch Network " that left me shaken. He says that years ago, while sitting in Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach home, Epstein excused himself, walked to his safe, and pulled out a small collection of photographs.

According to Wolff, there were around a dozen photos total. All of them, he says, featured Donald Trump. And not Trump at a gala or a golf course. Not Trump giving a thumbs up in a suit.

No -- these were photos taken inside Epstein's house, "where all of the things that he would ultimately be accused of took place."

Wolff says he remembers three images in particular. In two of them, there are young topless girls sitting on Trump's lap. In the third, Trump appears to have a stain on the front of his pants....

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:42 AM | Reply

Musk's Rogue AI Chatbot Brands Trump

... Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has disgraced its billionaire creator by branding President Donald Trump a pedophile ...

Another view ...

Musk's AI bot triggers chaos with Trump, Vance and bikini images
timesofindia.indiatimes.com

... Elon Musk's AI chatbot -- hardwired into X and pitched as a truth-seeking digital brain" -- as instead gone rogue in spectacular fashion: branding Donald Trump a pedophile, ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:38 AM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Are you kidding me right now. An overwhelming majority of your posts are hateful hatefilled. And far worse than what you were responding to.
Here's a dollar - buy some self awareness.

#178 | Posted by BellRinger

I am honest with my hate and can defend it.

You can't. Cause you're a cunt

Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-05 12:32 AM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

*** President Nicolas Maduro's Dance Moves Were Last Straw for Dotard Trumpf ***

"Mr Maduro's regular public dancing and other displays of nonchalance in recent weeks helped persuade some of the Trumpf junta that the Venezuelan president was mocking them and trying to call what he believed to be a bluff. So the White House decided to follow through on its military threats."

Link: x.com

The Trumof junta was going after Nicolas Maduro no matter what. The vast array of military power deployed to the AOR, SOUTHCM CDR Adm Holsey's abrupt retirement, massive CIA/NSA/DIA/NRO surveillance of Maduro, and Delta Team rehearsals in mock ups are evidence of that.

USSOCOM told Dummkopf Trumpf when they were going in, based on weather, much like in 1944 when the field commanders told Ike the best time to land on Normandy (Operation Overlord AKA D-Day).

Maduro's dancing got Trumpf's panty hose in a bundle and hobgoblin Stephen Miller probably shrieked "Der Fuhrer vill not be mocked by this brown skin!"

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-05 12:28 AM | Reply

'Living a Nightmare': Families Desperate for News

My main question ...

OK, sparklers may have set the ceiling on fire.

Why does it seem that those who may have noticed that fire not have been able to leave the premises.

And as a follow-up question, were there fire-suppression sprinklers? Did they work?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:24 AM | Reply

'Living a Nightmare': Families Desperate for News

@#2

In a minor aspect, I do not disagree.

I mean, sparklers in champagne bottles?

Who could have ever known that might not result in a good ending?

Sparklers on champagne bottles likely cause of deadly Swiss bar fire
www.bbc.com

... A fire at a bar in a Swiss ski resort appears to have been caused by sparklers placed on bottles of champagne that came "too close to the ceiling", authorities said.

Forty people died after the blaze in the early hours of New Year's Day in Crans-Montana, while 119 were injured.

Valais Attorney General Beatrice Pilloud told a news conference on Friday the investigation would focus on the materials used on the site, the bar's fire safety measures, its capacity and the number of people inside at the time of the fire. ...

"Everything leads us to think that the fire started from sparkling candles - or sparklers - which were put on bottles of champagne [that were] moved too close to the ceiling. From that, a blaze began very quickly", Ms Pilloud told the conference.

One of the bar's owners reportedly told local media the establishment had been inspected three times in the past ten years and that everything had been done according to the regulations. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:22 AM | Reply

Israel Cutting Off Power and Water to UNRWA in Gaza

This looks bad for Israel.

So very bad.

But PM Netyanahu seems to need to war to continue in order to avoid his trial.

So, here we are ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:16 AM | Reply

Trump Warns US Oil Company CEOs to Invest in Venezuela Now

Surely Trump had this investment strategy with the U.S. oil companies all settled BEFORE he invaded.

(LOL) Don't count on it.

Posted by Twinpac at 2026-01-05 12:12 AM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

@#1 ... "the Trump Administration has been the most transparent and accessible administration in modern American history ... ensuring the American people are constantly in touch with what their government is doing." ...

OK.

So, be transparent.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:11 AM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

When the UN votes to condem this action how do you expect the US (which has veto power) to vote?

Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-05 12:10 AM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

@#3 ... So what was the deal that Pres Trump and Pres Xi reached? ...

Anyone?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:10 AM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

... FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans ...

Also ...

Cuba is left reeling in the aftermath of the Venezuela strike
www.cnn.com

... For months as the US military prepared to strike Venezuela, many Cubans have asked me a simple, if disconcerting, question: "Are we next?"

Following the devastating attacks on Venezuelan military bases and surgical apprehension of leader Nicols Maduro by US Special Forces, Cuba seems very much in the Trump administration's sights.

Maduro's capture is a seismic reversal of fortune for Cuba's communist-run government, which for decades has relied on massive aid packages from its oil-rich South American ally for the island's very survival.

At a protest Saturday in front of the US Embassy in Havana, a defiant Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel promised not to let the Cuba-Venezuela alliance go down without a fight.

"For Venezuela, of course for Cuba, we are willing to give even our own life, but at a heavy cost," Diaz-Canel proclaimed.

But if anything, the Cubans I have spoken with since the strikes seemed shocked by how easy it seemed for the US military to snatch Maduro without any loss of US personnel. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:07 AM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

It's so confusing, isn't it? So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the magat thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.

Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-05 12:07 AM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Breaking UN and Constitutional norms is irrelevant.
-eberly the drunk dipshit.
#109 | Posted by BellRinger

You're right.
Eberly didn't say that stuff.
You did.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-05 12:00 AM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#175 ... I have been noticing a pattern of trolling aliases in this thread. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-05 12:00 AM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

" omeomne's hungry somewhere, so POTUS lying doesn't matter. Breaking UN and Constitutional norms is irrelevant.

-eberly the drunk dipshit.

#97 | POSTED BY ALEXANDRITE AT 2026-01-04 10:31 PM | FLAG: "

I'll take 2 things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex.

Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-04 11:59 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Here's another dollar. Give it to JeffJ, he needs to buy some more barbecue sauce.

It's astonishingly awful how much you're hurting.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 11:59 PM | Reply

The Don-roe Doctrine

fwiw, the Monroe Doctrine was stated in 1823. It looks like there were 24 states.

List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union
en.wikipedia.org

...
24 Missouri August 10, 1821[27]
25 Arkansas June 15, 1836[28] ...

...

And the US was an agricultural country. Not in need of world trade.

So, maybe, not a good comparison?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:57 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

" Wow what a hatefull hatefilled post

Get help, you're a sick human being.

#130 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2026-01-04 09:04 PM | FLAG: |"

Are you kidding me right now. An overwhelming majority of your posts are hateful hatefilled. And far worse than what you were responding to.

Here's a dollar - buy some self awareness.

Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-04 11:57 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

and I'm going to read. bye old fuck.
#172 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Whatcha reading?

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 11:53 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

So we just leveled the barracks with airstrikes, to secure the site for extraction of the high value targets.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 11:52 PM | Reply

No, Grok Can't Really Apologize

@#1 ... Who are you really talking to? ...

Did Mr Musk's post an apology for, or even a comment upon, what his Grok xAI stated?

Or maybe, this result may be his end goal?

No accountability for his xAI?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:49 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

57 as of last fall, dumbass
#170 | Posted by lfthndthrds

I stand corrected.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 11:47 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

@#6,7

So it is OK, in your trolling aliases' view, that the United States can randomly kill citizens of other countries?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:44 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

Beverly loves him some dead brown people

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 11:40 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

and, fwiw,

I have been noticing a pattern of trolling aliases in this thread.

But I'll leave it at that for the nonce.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:40 PM | Reply

Tulsi Garbage Said US ‘Cycle Of Regime Change’ Was Over

Fuck that Russian stooge

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 11:39 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#173 ... Okay. That's all you got. ...

Nah.

That is what your current trolling has dragged this thread to.

Don't put it on me that its trolling may have been a success in destroying a discussion.

I'm just shining a spotlight on it.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:38 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

Did you ask that when Marines blew up in Lebanon?
#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

idk where they supporting a prison for political opponents, with UN-documented crimes against humanity like beatings, electric shocks, and isolation.

If you know what this building is, you'd have no issue with what needed to be done, if you don't, you should shut the fuck up.

Posted by oneironaut at 2026-01-04 11:35 PM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

@#5 ... The boats that Pres Trump has been destroying and the people he has been killing ...

Let's play with some numbers ...

Timeline of Boat Strikes and Related Actions
www.justsecurity.org

... On October 5, Trump spoke at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Navy aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush. He implied there was an additional strike the prior evening, October 4, stating: "Every one of those boats is responsible for the death of 25,000 American people and the destruction of families. So when you think of it that way, what we're doing is actually an act of kindness. ...

OK, so, Pres Trump has said that each boat strike saves 25,000 American lives.

To wit ...

Trump: Each U.S. boat strike off the coast of Venezuela saves 25,000 people.
www.pbs.org

... The Trump administration has struck at least 32 vessels killing about 115 people in the Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean since September. Trump said previously that the boats were carrying drugs en route to the U.S. and during the press conference he said the drugs on each boat would kill "on average, 25,000 people."

However, experts on drugs and Venezuela told PolitiFact the country plays a minor role in trafficking drugs that reach the U.S. And the administration has provided no evidence about the type or quantity of drugs it says were on the boats. This lack of information makes it impossible to know how many lethal doses of the drugs could have been destroyed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 73,000 U.S. drug overdose deaths from May 2024 to April 2025.

That means the drugs on 32 boats would have been responsible for 800,000 deaths, nearly 11 times the number of U.S. overdose deaths in one year. ...

Wait, what?

Pres Trump lied?

Again?!?!?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:34 PM | Reply

U.S. will Govern Venezuela

I'm sure Rubio can make doo.

#7 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-03 01:57 PM | Reply

FTFY

Posted by e1g1 at 2026-01-04 11:33 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"your current trolling alias"

Okay. That's all you got. You're crying uncle, obviously. That crap plus do try harder plus songs. You're unbelievable whipped.

Nobody is keeping score of this ... ... .so good for you.

And nobody here gives a shit if I use you as toilet paper.

"YCTAlighter"

LOL

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 11:33 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

and I'm going to read. bye old fuck.

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-04 11:16 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#169 ... Get embarrassed ... ... so post a song. ...

Embarrassed?

Hardly.

Post a song?

Yeah.

I think the lyrics are interesting.

Instead of your current trolling alias posting a comment about what I posted, it seems to go directly to knowing how I feel. As if it has a clue about that aspect.

Perhaps I posted that song to see the reaction it would get?

And perhaps, the clueless reply your current trolling alias posted confirmed an opinion I have?

Perhaps.

Or not.

Do try harder in your current alias' trolling..

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 11:15 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Doubt.
Also doubt you are 54.

#167 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

57 as of last fall, dumbass

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-04 11:13 PM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

Does Pres Trump even have any manner of a anti-drug policy?

If he did, Uday and Qusay would be in rehab.

Posted by REDIAL at 2026-01-04 11:12 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

164

Get embarrassed ... ... so post a song.

Poor fella.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 11:02 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#166 ... No, just healthier. ...

... and your current trolling alias knows that, how?

Or it that assertion just yet another example of the phlegm your current trolling alias posts here?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:53 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

No, just healthier.
#166 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Doubt.
Also doubt you are 54.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:52 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Try not to melt down quite so easily.
#104 | Posted by eberly

The president told The Atlantic that Delcy Rodrguez needs to comply with U.S. wishes -- or else.
#105 | Posted by Alexandrite

Hahaha!!

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:51 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Aren't you like twenty years younger than me?

#148 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:18 PM | Reply | Flag

No, just healthier.

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-04 10:50 PM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

@#4

Pres Trump's issue with Venezuela has morphed from one of fentanyl to one of cocaine.

OK, questions ...

The boats that Pres Trump has been destroying and the people he has been killing, seem to have little to do with drugs coming into the US. Those boats and their alleged cargo seem to be destined for West Africa and Europe.

That aside, why is Pres Trump now focused upon cocaine shipments into the US?

I mean, didn't he recently pardon a person who was tried and convicted for bringing over 400 tons of cocaine into the US?

Does Pres Trump even have any manner of a anti-drug policy? If so, what is it?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:50 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Life is pointless, no one cares, and nothing matters.

I want to suck your dick like I'm mad at it

-Alexandrite

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:48 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

-I can't see what eberly posted but I'm 99% sure it's that.

Plonk me so you can directly address me? Even when I haven't said anything to you????

What a dope.

Everyone here is cringing for you right now.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:46 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

www.theatlantic.com

Trump Threatens Venezuela's New Leader With a Fate Worse Than Maduro's
The president told The Atlantic that Delcy Rodrguez needs to comply with U.S. wishes"or else.

By Michael Scherer

The 25th amendment needs to happen ASAP.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-04 10:46 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

103

Try not to melt down quite so easily.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:43 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Life is pointless, no one cares, and nothing matters.

Buy my insurance.

-eberly

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-04 10:42 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

-Now the US seems to have a say of how Cubans behave when they visit other countries?

Of course not.

But Cuban military personnel? Something tells me we're gonna find out if we don't know already why they were there.

Oh, and find out if it's true

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:42 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

"Your current trolling alias?"

Why announce yourself as the actual trolling alias with that tripe?

Grow up, bulletin board boy.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:40 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"My point is that you childishly believe the world cares about what you care about."

If you don't think the world cares about Trump violating the UN Charter, you just might be a Republican!

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:39 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"No one cares"

I can't see what eberly posted but I'm 99% sure it's that.

Nothing matters! Have a nice day!

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-04 10:39 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

@#2 ... Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way. ...

Why is the fact that Cubans are in Venezuela seem to be an problem for your current trolling alias?

... in our way ...

Now the US seems to have a say of how Cubans behave when they visit other countries?

Wow.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:38 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

"Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way."

Did you ask that when Marines blew up in Lebanon?

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:37 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"so POTUS lying doesn't matter."

No, it doesn't. You really can't understand that, can you?

Fine ... ..so the world is very very upset over Trump's infidelity.

What happens next?

This Venezuela thing has gotten some attention.

My point is that you childishly believe the world cares about what you care about.

You're insanely wrong.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:37 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"the UN is both toothless and irrelevant in this circumstance."

If the UN is toothless here, it is only because the United States wishes it to be so.

It's not irrelevant that the post war hegemony ushered in, while the United States adhered to the UN charter, is drawing to a close under Republican leadership.

Nor is this turn of events toothless.

If is the end of the era of mutual cooperation, which has spread democracy and brought billions out of poverty in the past eighty years.

That is the real issue in play here. Unless "you're inside a very narrow minded bubble."

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:36 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

You think the world cares that the United States broke the promises it made in the United Nations Charter?
I do.

#95 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:24 PM | Reply

Everyone normal does.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-04 10:34 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#164

Oops.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:34 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

"The Cuban government statement gave few details, but said all the dead were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies."

I'll bet. Such as why were they in Venezuela in our way.

Now, maybe there is a good reason for it. I'm not accusing Cuba of anything shady.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:33 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Someomne's hungry somewhere, so POTUS lying doesn't matter. Breaking UN and Constitutional norms is irrelevant.

-eberly the drunk dipshit.

Posted by Alexandrite at 2026-01-04 10:31 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#163 ... You mean ...

Based upon what I have read in your current trolling alias' posts, I would proffer that it has not a clue of what I mean in the comments I post.

Do try harder.

Call - I Don't Wanna (1987)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I ain't here to hold you when you cry
I ain't here to hold your shaky hand
I ain't here to look you in the eye
Or beg for you to understand

I ain't gonna walk you thru your dreams
Walk you thru this life that we all know
I ain't here to listen while you speak
I ain't here to heal your broken soul

Am I here at all?

I ain't here to tell you what you need
I ain't gonna take a noble stand
I ain't here to look you in the eye
Or beg for you to understand

I can only tell you what I've seen
I can only tell you how it felt
When my heart was crushed so bad inside
Till I felt the hatred slowly melt
I don't wanna
...

I ain't gonna watch your every move
I ain't gonna dog your every step
I ain't here to sh

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:31 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"the UN is both toothless and irrelevant in this circumstance."

The reality is yes. When you rely on 1 country for so much in terms of dollars and power you're gonna give that same country some latitude of fear we'll remember when you want our support in the future.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:29 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

"You think the world cares about Stormy Daniels?"

You think the world cares that the United States broke the promises it made in the United Nations Charter?

I do.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:24 PM | Reply

FIFA Peace Prize Winner Murders 32 Cubans

... The Cuban government said on Sunday that 32 of its citizens were killed during the U.S. raid on Venezuela ...

Pres Trump seems to think such causalities are OK because Cuba may be the next military target.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:23 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Translation: the UN is both toothless and irrelevant in this circumstance.
#87 | Posted by BellRinger

Our promise to behave in accord with the treaty we wrote and signed is irrelevant?

Only if you believe our word means nothing.

Which, obviously, you do.

Congratulations, Republicans.
You Built That.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:22 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

-This evening it seems to be intent upon trying to disparage other posters and elicit replies.

You mean disparage their alias, right?

LOL

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:21 PM | Reply

Denmark Rankles at MAGA Post on Greenland

Pres Trump's imperialistic aims now seem to be coming to the fore, as a feckless GOP Congress just seems to bow to his perceived awesomeness, or maybe afraid of his personal militia and the threats that seem to occur if they disagree.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:21 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

Eberly doesn't say anything beyond "I don't care and no one else cares"

Nope

However you're admitting you can't say anything beyond "I care therefore EVERYONE else cares as well"

Now, which one of us is right?

You think the world cares about Stormy Daniels?

You do, don't you?

You're inside a very narrow minded bubble.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:19 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"It's a gay disease"

I wouldn't say that. HIV not really a significant concern for lesbians.

The biggest risk group is "men who have sex with men."

While there is some overlap, it is not the same group of people as "men who identify as gay," as you exemplify here daily.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:19 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

-For JPW it's just plain ignorance, and I'm being generous.

More like rage.

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 10:15 PM | Reply

Tulsi Garbage Said US ‘Cycle Of Regime Change’ Was Over

Here's an interesting view ...

U.S. regime change under Trump 2.0: Empire at a crossroads (March 2025)
www.bjreview.com

... Donald Trump was elected U.S. president in 2016 with a platform opposing regime change. After four years, his administration attempted to overthrow the Venezuelan regime by violently appointing an unelected puppet Juan Guaido as the "interim president," covertly continuing President Barack Obama's efforts to overthrow the Syrian Government, and nearly taking the U.S. to war with Iran through the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani. In 2024, Trump was elected again by an even stronger margin on the platform of being a "peacemaker." The question is: Will this be the moment when a U.S. president truly changes the course of American foreign policy away from regime change wars and toward peace?

The U.S. has conducted hundreds of regime change operations since World War II and has been successful in dozens. However, regime change comes with costs. America's shrinking share of global economic influence and its overextended military power has led to a reliance on proxy wars, covert operations, and shock and awe wars of aggression. The result: chronic instability, chaos and economic impoverishment, to which Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and several other nations can attest. ...

Trump's early foreign policy record indicates a dire need for Americans to understand "regime change" in a deeper way. Yes, regime change means the overthrow of governments, but the overthrow of governments is never without purpose. The purpose is the maintenance and expansion of U.S. imperial domination, and therefore all forms of U.S. interventionism are in a way linked to regime change. While Trump claims not to pursue direct regime change of any particular country, his administration's foreign policy remains committed to upholding U.S. dominance and the political manipulation required to achieve this. ...

Prescient?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:15 PM | Reply

Tulsi Garbage Said US ‘Cycle Of Regime Change’ Was Over

... the "counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation-building" was over" a little over a month before President Donald Trump's military actions in Venezuela. ...

Quelle surprise.

The Trump admin lied on a quite significant issue, yet again.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:09 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Shriekback - This Big Hush (1985)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse]
Is there a fire in the sky?
Is there a moon up there?
Is there anything alive now?
This darkness is what I hear
This is a breathless silence
A moment out of time
I see your face in the shadows
The telltale signs are in your eyes

[Chorus]
More than I can hold in my hands
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you

[Verse]
Is there a flame in the dark?
Is there a bright hard star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep wherever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all
...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 10:04 PM | Reply

The 'Putinization' of US Foreign Policy

it didn't come close to refuting what I posted.
#90 | Posted by eberly

Sure it did.

Whose invocation of the military has cost more in your lifetime, in either blood or treasure?

Military action undertaken by a Republican President, or military action undertaken by a Democrat President.

You know it's Republicans, by a country mile.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 10:00 PM | Reply

Herridge: My time at CBS news

"We believe that you were tired of talking points TV, you were tired of the stale predictable formats on Sunday, and that you were open to something new."

I don't want something new.

I want what we had forty years ago.

I want newscasters to present racism and fascism as bad, not simply a different point of view.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:54 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"If you can say I'm a contributor to global warming because i drive a 1/2 ton pickup truck"

You got your license back, or do you mean just driving around the farm?

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:48 PM | Reply

NYC Wegmans is Storing Biometric Data on Shoppers

"The chain had initially said that the scanning system was only for a small group of employees and promised to delete any biometric data it collected from shoppers during the pilot rollout.

The new notice makes no such assurances."

"Will Owen, a privacy advocate with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, said that storing customer's biometric data can open them up to risks from hackers or immigration enforcement.

"It's really chilling that immigrant New Yorkers going into Wegmans and other grocery stores have to worry about their highly sensitive biometric data potentially getting into the hands of ICE," he said."

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Chinese Gov Security has Surveillance Tech everywhere in cities, plus Forced DNA Testing... and you know how Donnie so admires people like Xi and Putin.

Here's a short vid on Wegmans surveillance, and efforts in NYC (also in the article) to protect citizen's privacy and data rights.... that have stalled recently, but maybe will resume as NYC has New Management, eh?

www.youtube.com

Posted by Corky at 2026-01-04 09:46 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"learning curve"

Learning didn't make HIV deaths go down. It helps a little, but it didn't bend the curve.

AIDS deaths consistently rose, for almost two decades, until ARV drugs were developed.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:46 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Can we let COVID morons have a 24 year learning curve?
#151 | Posted by eberly

We already do. Always have.

But the really intense learning usually only lasts about two weeks, before the learning opportunity comes to a close.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:41 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#1555 ... That's why Republicans are so engaged on making it harder for the victims of their cruelty, and people who have sympathy for the innocent victims, to vote.

Political Reality. ...

Yup.

Republicans seems to be on a crusade to deny, or make difficult, the abilty to vote of those who tend not to vote for Republicans.

But, I have to ask, how might their apparent denial of health care for workers align with their goal of denying those very voters the ability to vote?

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 09:35 PM | Reply

DHS Posts Intention to Deport 100 Million People from US

This explains why we need to seize Venezuela.

Gonna be sending all the mud races to Venezuela.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:34 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#149 ... Did you miss that? ...

My guess is that this evening's possible troll farm assignment of the lfthndthrds alias is ... trolling.

Nothing more.

This evening it seems to be intent upon trying to disparage other posters and elicit replies.

I tried, but was not able to have any manner of a rational conversation with it.

But why, the apparent execution of that assigned task?

YMMV.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 09:30 PM | Reply

DHS Posts Intention to Deport 100 Million People from US

"6 million Jews? Hold my Diet Coke"

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 09:29 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

I thought it was simply about cruelty
Not political reality.
You're letting the GOP off the hook a little ... .
#150 | Posted by eberly

In democracy, cruelty that gets you un-elected is disfavored. Political Reality.

That's why Republicans are so engaged on making it harder for the victims of their cruelty, and people who have sympathy for the innocent victims, to vote. Political Reality.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:28 PM | Reply

Trump Says He's in 'perfect Health,' 'aced' Cognitive Exam

"I want my name on all the buildings, ok? All the fucking buildings! I won in 2020, and I'll continue to win, who knows, maybe forever. Many people are saying"Sir, please live forever " It's not me saying this. You're obnoxious. Shut the fuck up you cow"

Posted by Legallyyourdead at 2026-01-04 09:28 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"AI says 44.1 million have died from aids. Did you miss that?"

It would be a whole lot higher if President George W. Bush hasn't started PEPFAR.

Thanks, President George W. Bush!

Though I'm pretty sure LftHndThrds would rather have us NOT spend millions to fight HIV in Africa.

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:25 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

-It's safer than bath house and massage parlor gay sex.

A person can make all kinds of better choices that are safer

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 09:24 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Did I lie? Prove me wrong, moron.

#133 | Posted by lfthndthrds a

Answer my questions first smelly cunt

Posted by truthhurts at 2026-01-04 09:23 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"two dozen years,"

Can we let COVID morons have a 24 year learning curve?

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 09:22 PM | Reply

Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle, the Talk of Athens

@#1 ... How awful a human being do you have to be to get exiled ...

Yeah.

And the cited article seems to indicate just how much she knows and understands about Greece.

... Weeks after taking on her post, Ms. Guilfoyle, 56, has become the talk of Athens, followed by paparazzi, featured with smoky eyes on the cover of Vogue Greece and much discussed, at least initially, as the woman jilted by the president's son.

Greece was more used to U.S. ambassadors who were traditional foreign service officers, and some Greeks wondered if the Trump administration was disrespecting them with her appointment. ...

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 09:21 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"Republicans have NEVER fixed the ACA, for fear of being primaried."

I thought it was simply about cruelty

Not political reality.

You're letting the GOP off the hook a little ... .

Posted by eberly at 2026-01-04 09:21 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

" AI says 44.1 million have died from aids. Did you miss that?"

AI also says deaths have been steadily dropping every year for two dozen years, down roughly 70% from the peak.

Did you miss that?

Posted by Danforth at 2026-01-04 09:19 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

And I'll out live you - guaranteed
#146 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Aren't you like twenty years younger than me?

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:18 PM | Reply

Text of Trump's October Deal with Xi Jinping is Still MIA

When is the daughter-boning orange child rapist going to abduct Xi for pumping fentanyl into the U.S.?

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-04 09:18 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

"Republicans have NEVER fixed the ACA, for fear of being primaried."

Republicans can't have a serious discussion about the ACA.

This one's talking about bath houses. That's one of the rare ones who will even say anything!

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:18 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

And I'll out live you - guaranteed

Posted by lfthndthrds at 2026-01-04 09:16 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

@#136 ... -What is the solution the Republicans are proposing to end the healthcare cost crisis?

Nothing. ...

I agree.

Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-04 09:16 PM | Reply

Farmers are About to Pay a Lot More for Health Insurance

Waffle House and the Church Luncheon?
#134 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:08 PM | Reply | Flag:
It's safer than bath house and massage parlor gay sex.
#142 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Yes, you can go back to your beloved bath houses now.
Just take your PrEP first, okay?

Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-04 09:16 PM | Reply

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