That f***ing arch won't pay for itself, know what I mean?

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-04 03:17 AM | Reply | Flag: You've Got a Nice Thinking Cap

UNRWA employs approximately 12,000 staff members in the Gaza Strip, providing education, health, food, and aid to millions of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. UNRWA Gaza operations support UNSC Resolution 2803 and property used by UNRWA is inviolable.

Since Israel's punitive campaign against the Palestinians began on 7 Oct 2023, the UN reports that 70,668 people were killed, mostly women and children; 171,152 were wounded or maimed in Gaza. In the West Bank (including East Jerusalem), 1,043 were killed, one in five being children.

Winter has set in and cruelty is just one of the points the nefarious Benjamin Netanyahu and the Knesset are trying to make.

Three world leaders seem to hate the UN: Dummkopf Trumpf, Vladimir Putin, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gosh, I wonder why?

An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu and the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for him and 32 other Israelis accused of committing war crimes. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law or an international tribunal at the Hague.

The outlook for Venezuela's shattered oil infrastructure is one of the major questions following the unlawful US military abduction of President Nicolas Maduro.

But people in the industry said the Trumpf junta's message has left them still leery about the difficulty of rebuilding decayed oil fields in a country where it's not even clear who will lead the country for the foreseeable future.

"They're saying, you gotta go in if you want to play and get reimbursed,'" said one oil industry official.

The offer has been on the table for the last ten days, the insider reported. "But the infrastructure currently there is so dilapidated that no one at these companies can adequately assess what is needed to make it operable."

Dummkopf Trumpf suggested in a televised address that he fully expects US oil companies to pour big money into Venezuela.

"We're going to have our very large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world, go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure, the oil infrastructure and start making money for the country," Trumpf brayed as he celebrated Maduro's illegal abduction.

Fortune magazine reports that a full reconstruction of Venezuela's oil industry will likely take close to a decade and cost in the range of $50 billion to $100 billion or more. This is due to years of underinvestment, sanctions, and the collapse of critical infrastructure. The process is described as "highly ambitious" and a "distant prospect," with only smaller gains possible in the short term.

Regarding OPEC, Venezuela currently produces about 1.1 million barrels per day, only about 1% of global trade. Even if production recovers, it will take years and massive investment, so the immediate effect on OPEC will be minimal.

Israel won't benefit without Iran being hostile to them. It is a bad look for IDF to conquer the rest of Eretz Yisrael without having Iran as a scapegoat.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-03 11:41 PM | Reply | Flag: Every Nefarious Regime Needs a Bete Noir

ICYMI:

Candace Owens blames the Zionists for ousting Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro:

"Venezuela has been liberated' like Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq were liberated.' The CIA has staged another hostile takeover of a country at the behest of a globalist psychopaths. That's it. That's what is happening, always, everywhere," she continued.

"Zionists cheer every regime change. There has never been a single regime change that Zionists have not applauded because it means they get to steal land, oil and other resources. Hope this helps."

This Yahoo! article intimates that Candace Owens is antisemitic and that she is "Jew scapegoating," but her tweet is anti-Zionist, not antisemitic.

US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Mexico President Claudia are Ashkenazi Jews and have been critical of Israel's pogrom against the Palestinians; these two respected leaders are from being antisemites.

The accusation of "antisemitism" by the Israeli Likud junta against their critics is falling flat.

Watching the US Delta Force raid in real time from Mar-a-Lago Florida, Dummkopf Trumpf bleated: "I watched it literally like you are watching a television show. It was an amazing thing."

On Truth Social, the unindicted war criminal then posted an image of a handcuffed Nicolas Maduro.

President Maduro will be incarcerated at the MDC in Brooklyn and be transported to the US federal courthouse in lower Manhattan for his court appearances. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani was briefed about this matter.

The popular new mayor of NYC also condemned Trumpf's invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of its president, as did Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, the President of Cuba, the EU, the French FM, the President of Brazil, and Russian FM Sergei Lavrov. During a TV interview, UK PM Keir Starmer inexplicably declined to condemn the illegal invasion and abduction.

Colombia President Gustavo Petro: "Public security forces are being deployed along the [Venezuelan] border, and all available humanitarian assistance is being mobilized in the event of a mass influx of refugees."

Below, Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro being humiliated by an alleged pedophile and convicted criminal.

Maybe the Venezuelan government will hire arch human rights defender Alan Dershowitz to serve as defense counsel for Nicolas Maduro.

"Vladimir Netanyahu Trumpf"

"Vladimir Netanyahu Putin"

Warmonger US Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) is another member of the Republican Party Lite cabal.

"John Fetterman Voted With GOP to Make Sure Trumpf Can Attack Iran Again"

Some members of the Democratic Party encouraged Trumpf to attack other countries like Iran or Yemen, so these same Democrats shouldn't be opposed to the junta attacking Venezuela, right?

Bombs away!

Is this what it's come to? For shame. For shame!!

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-03 03:53 PM | Reply | Flag: Just for LYD

At bottom is the SDNY indictment against Nicolas Maduro et al.

From the beginning, the bellicose Trumpf junta intention was to overthrow Nicolas Maduro and take over Venezuela, as evidenced by the previous DOJ and DoS moves against the Maduro regime (see links at bottom).

The 2025 DoD and DoS purges were to ensure loyalty and commitment to the neo-imperialism policy of the US, as written in the National Security Strategy released in November 2025.

Now we know why there was so much celebration and hubris at the Trumpf New Year's Eve gala: "War is coming! Yippee!"

In 2025, some House Democrats attempted to impeach Dummkopf Trumpf for attacking Iran and abuse of POTUS power, but were stymied by fellow Democrats: "Now is not the time," "the measure won't pass," Yada-yada-yada.

Democrats also caved in on the government closure and got nothing out of it for the American people.

So now 20 million Americans will be impacted by the loss of Obamacare (ACA) subsidies; premiums have risen by an average of 114%, and estimates suggest that between 4.8 million and 7.3 million people could lose their coverage in 2026.

And now we have an illegal war with Venezuela.

These corporate status quo Democratic Party dinosaurs simply have to go. They are Republican Party Lite, like House Minority Leader Hakeem "I Got Mine" Jeffries (D-NY).

Another example is warhawk US Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who ensures wealthy, nuclear-armed Israel, a country that offers world class universal healthcare for its residents, receives American taxpayer dollars every year. This same brontosaurus doesn't object to US or Israeli military operations against Iranians or Houthis-- like Republicans-- and he didn't endorse fellow Democrat Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor. Republican Party Lite.

Fox News TV tumor Jonathan Alpert: "Yeah, Tommy, it's interesting that there was once a time where people admired the rich and we aspired to be rich, but some people on the far left don't seem to be doing that.

And I'd like to get back to a time where we do that. There's always a villain, and that's the problem with the far left. It seems like they always need an object to hate, a villain, and it's not really helping them.

I would say it's making, creating mental health issues, whether it's high anxiety or depression or just hatred towards people around them.

And they really need to try to move away from that and try to be inspired by people that are wealthy and learn how to be self-sufficient.

And sure, of course, there are times when people do need government help, but there should be a striving to get better and be self-sufficient."

Yeah, he showed her by screwing over her district that went for him.
A master politician at work.

#7 | Posted by morris at 2026-01-02 06:14 PM | Reply | Flag: Dummkopf Trumpf is as Smart as Saw Dust

All of the election results by CDs and wards are fully known to both parties, down to the last vote.

And economic data is available to the White House too (federal taxes paid, federal employees, etc).

Before punishing Colorado, Dummkopf Trumpf and/or his Chief of Staff should have checked for who specifically his vengeance would hurt. Or maybe Trumpf did check but simply didn't care that his own supporters would be harmed.

Collective punishment for Lauren Boebert's vote to release the Epstein files.

@6 This is why the Epstein files made some Republicans vote for their release: They are a pedophilic Peyton Place.

I heard a similar story about the late night "knock on the door" years ago at these missions or convents, but I don't recall it being Jesuit-specific.

I'm glad some people found the thrust of my epistle penetrating.

@21 You said it, Scotty.

Sidenote: Wealthy Iranian emigres fled to the US after the Shah fell and his son bought a home not far from CIA HQ.

In the 1990s, one of my colleagues busted a ring of these wealthy Iranian emigres conducting auction property fraud in NYC, specifically cheating People of Color in poor areas of Brooklyn and Queens. Many years later, another friend of mine asked me to find a witness for his civil lawsuit case where the plaintiff was cheated at an auction for her grandmother's home.

Reading his case file, I was astonished to find these same wealthy Iranian emigres back to the same auction fraud business after serving their short federal prison sentences. These sharks lived in what we called the "Gold Coast" in northern Nassau County, where filthy rich Bernie Madoff victims lived.

I eventually found my witness and convinced her to testify against these crooks with the promise of no civil action against her, but could not promise that the Kings County DA wouldn't prosecute her. I think she survived her ordeal as a "straw purchaser" for these schwendlers and my friend won his lawsuit.

These Iranian emigres have lots of money, no scruples, vote Republican, and dream of a return of the Peacock Throne.

And this Red sponge state-- run by the Christian Taliban-- absorbed billions of dollars of American taxpayer dollars for energy infrastructure upgrades doled out to them by the Joe Biden administration. Felon Musk then moved his companies to Texas to take advantage of that, blatantly lying that he left California because of an LGBTQ law that Sacramento passed.

AND the Lone Star State, the locus mortis of JFK, gave America 12 years of the Bush dynasty (two Connecticut Yankee transplants) and all the wars they started, gets to inflict TWO Republican Senators on the rest of America every six years, like good-for-nothing Canadian-Cuban migrant Ted Cruz who will enjoy a robust federal pension at the end of his useless career.

Maximum hypocrisy and sheer madness from Dummkopf Trumpf and his junta of dangerous Keystone Kops.

The number 100 million is a pipe-dream, like a "Jew-free Europe" aspiration for the "Thousand Year Third Reich."

This DHS message indicates the sense of permanency that members of the Trumpf junta are feeling about white supremacy and privilege.

"We're never going back."

This year Democrats have to field the most progressive candidates possible for the mid-term elections and then again in 2028.

Progressive Zohran Mamdani had the highest turnout in NYC elections since 1969, a record-breaking +2 million New Yorkers cast their ballots for him.

Any hint of the candidate being associated with the status quo will depress the already low turn out in mid-term elections:

2018 Midterms Turnout: 50%, the highest in over a century.
2022 Midterms Turnout: 46.8% of the voting-eligible population.
2014 Midterms Turnout: 36.7%, one of the lowest in recent history.

For us progressives, we must kick the dinosaurs out. Look where these corporate Democrats got us today. ACA (Obamacare) subsidies are over. These dinosaurs capitulated to the Republicans during the budget impasses this year but continue sending our taxpayer dollars to ethnic cleansing Pariah state Israel.

Funny, AIPAC Democrats find themselves on the same side as Laura Loomer, Dummkopf Trumpf, Randy 'the Hebrew Ham Sandwich' Fine, John "Bomb Iran" Bolton, Lindsey "Bomb Iran" Graham (R-SC), Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka, and White House hobgoblin Stephen Miller.

Here are some progressive Democrats starting the counter offensive against the dinosaurs tomorrow:

Zero class from these empty heads, poltroons, vulgarians, and pedophile protectors.

Morning, Doc Sarvis!

Praise from the master, thank you.

BTW: I'm enjoying a Charlie Chan mystery now, next is The Day Lincoln Was Shot (Jim Bishop, 1955), and the intimidating Umberto Eco still beckons me through a melancholy patina of dust on the book cover of Foucault's Pendulum (1988).

We are witnessing verbicide by trolls in threads like this.

What price ignominy? $50,000 is peanuts in the world of oligarchs and the internet is forever.