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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, January 23, 2026

  • The House of Representatives narrowly rejected a Democratic-backed resolution that would have prevented Donald Trump from sending US military forces to Venezuela.
  • The House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by a narrow margin amid Democratic and popular uproar over Donald Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda.
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    "House Democrats forced the vote on the war powers resolution to direct Dummkopf Trumpf to remove US troops from Venezuela.

    The sinister Trumpf junta told senators last week that there are no US troops on the ground in Venezuela and committed to getting congressional approval before launching major military operations there. But Democrats argued that the resolution is necessary after the unlawful US abduction of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and since Trumpf has stated his greedy plans to personally control the country's oil industry for years to come.

    Good-for-nothing Rep. Brian Mast, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, bleated that Democrats brought the war powers resolution to a vote out of "spite" for Dummkopf Trumpf."

    ~snip~

    "The 220-207 Congressional vote to fund the all-powerful DHS puts Congress on track to clear the last annual spending bills ahead of the 30 Jan, avoiding a partial government shutdown. The DHS measure funds the USCG, the notorious ICE, CBP, FEMA, TSA and other agencies through the end of the current fiscal year on 30 Sep."

    ~snip~

    Links:

    War Powers Act Fails

    Congress Still Funding DHS

    The absolute worst President of all time celebrates a feckless and complicit Congress unable to stop any of his nefarious plans, thus ensuring the American police-state continues and vulnerable nations are ripe for his plunder. BLUF: No change to the status quo.

    #1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 02:25 AM | Reply

    Greenland vs Venezuela

    I just don't understand the reasoning behind this contradictory policy.

    Whatever could it be?

    #2 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-23 05:10 AM | Reply

    Buying or acquiring Greenland was put into Dummkopf Trumpf's head by good-for-nothing oligarch Ronald Lauder in 2018. The Dotard-in-Chief also wanted to invade Venezuela during his first Reign of Terror. He was talked out of it by USSECSTATE Rex Tillerson, the former ExxonMobil CEO, and an expert on the petroleum industry.

    Remember, the nefarious Trumpf junta sent Donnie Junior and VPOTUS JD Vance to Greenland immediately after seizing power on 20 Jan 2025. This was before the Epstein files imbroglio. D/DNI Tulsi Gabbard ordered spying to be conducted in Greenland and two Americans were caught.

    Invading a Latin America country and exploiting its resources is not new to the minds of white Americans, to wit: USMC General Smedley Butler, the Knights of the Golden Circle (K.G.C.), William Walker, US Army John 'Blackjack' Pershing and his missions into Mexico, Sam Houston and the Texans.

    When Argentina invaded the Falklands in 1982 (Los Malvinas), the Galtieri junta expected the US to honor the Organization of American States (OAS) and triangulate a negotiation with the UK, but they badly miscalculated.

    Ronald Reagan immediately and fully supported NATO ally and the Iron Lady PM Margaret "Blech!" Thatcher over Argentina.

    Venezuela is not NATO, but Greenland, as a part of Denmark, is.

    #3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 05:54 AM | Reply

    I'm SURE that's it.

    #4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-01-23 10:07 AM | Reply

    Hi Fresno500:

    The predominant military momentum of the US has been Western and Southern since 1814.

    The War of 1812 was the last time the US attempted northward expansion when the invasion of Canada failed.

    During the Civil War, the Union Army went south to defeat the rebellion, not the other way around. The last threat to the US from a southern direction was CSA General Robert E. Lee's attempt to seize the factories of Pennsylvania in 1863, but he was defeated at Gettysburg.

    The US Army moved Westward to crush the indigenous peoples until circa 1890.

    At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War (1898), some people in NYC, California, and Florida panicked about rumors of the Spanish fleet coming, but there was no threat from their flotilla of antiquated warships.

    The direction of that war? South, where US soldiers embarked on ships from Tampa Florida for Cuba, and West. From California the USN sailed to the Philippines (Admiral Dewey).

    Until 2022, the US military had one unit devoted to "northern" or Arctic warfare: The 10th Mountain Division. Now we have the 11th Airborne Division, which was stood up to help defend the Arctic from the Russians.

    #5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 12:34 PM | Reply

    *** Dummkopf Trumpf: "Armada Heading Towards Iran" ***

    Now that the US Congress won't stop Dummkopf Trumpf, war is coming.

    Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, an MIT graduate, is aware of the locations of all US aircraft carrier groups (ACGs) and strategic bombers. He wants to initiate the multi-front war against the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran when US forces mass in the Middle East, which is what the US is doing now. The IDF High Command issued an alert to the Israeli public about this imminent war on 31 Dec 2025. The IDF might be considering late February or early March 2026 as an appropriate time for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon and the West Bank.

    Netanyahu and Dummkopf Trumpf will spew Islamophobic agit-prop and excuses for attacking Iran, like what Trumpf did for Venezuela with his blather about narcotics trafficking and "drug boats."

    This time will be "we gotta save the protestors in Iran!"

    Like these two ethnic cleansers really care about Muslim demonstrators in Iran.

    Netanyahu wants a) Regime change in Tehran because Iran is the only country in the Middle East that stands up for the Palestinians;
    b) Israel to have the monopoly on nuclear power in the Middle East. Note that Iran signed the NPT, Israel did not.

    Netanyahu and Trumpf can certainly fool a lot of people, but not everyone.


    Source: USN Ready to Help Israel Again

    #6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 01:59 PM | Reply

    #5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 12:34 PM | Reply

    The other threat to the US from the "south" was the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; but this was seen as a counter to the 1961 US Bay of Pigs proxy invasion of Cuba.

    Moreover, the Kremlin wanted US nuclear missiles removed from Turkiye, so they sent nuclear missiles to Havana.

    JFK (and his brother RFK behind the scenes) adroitly defused the situation and nuclear missiles were removed from both Cuba and Turkiye. RFK told his brother that dealing with the Soviets was just like dealing with the American mob or corrupt union officials.

    Incirlik AFB in southern Turkiye contains only US nuclear bombs, not missiles.

    The Oct 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis led to this Christmas carol about the potential apocalypse that terrified people for several weeks: www.youtube.com

    #7 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-01-23 03:01 PM | Reply

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