Thanks for the thread aggiesal

He assumed everyone would do his bidding.

The country is being run by a complete moron and minions who repeat everything the moron utters like it's fucking gospel.

See Rex Tillerson on Big Oil's take on Trump. A useful idiot on some occasions. A complete moron few want to associate with if they can help it.

I completely agree with your response. They probably did tell him, but Trump likely thought that by going ahead with "breaking Venezuela" he could force their hand into "fixing it."

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"Sorry. Ain't touching it. You should have asked us BEFORE you broke it. We would have told you...ain't touching it."

Now, Donnie is stuck with a humanitarian disaster of monumental proportions, an incarcerated dictator who will probably walk, and no artificial decline in US gas prices before the 2026 elections. The price of lack of forethought.

and know more about everything than anyone else.

There actually were some brains in his family, but he seemed to be the family misfit and he knows it, which is probably why he overcompensates all the time.

if those oil companies weren't loading ships with equipment by new years this is all bullshit.

but the joke is on us. we get to pay for this infrastructure and security in venezuela and trump profits.

It’s gratifying to see others catching up.

... in fact, she said he was an idiot, and that she hoped he never got into politics because he'd be a disaster. Truer words have never been said, before or since.

Soon may it all come to a screeching halt. They say that dictatorships always end suddenly.

Except for North Korea, they always collapse and the leader ends up dead or in exile. Look at history.

The guy's been an idiot for several decades. Believe me, I know. I live about 60 miles north of NYC, and have seen this guy in action since the 1980's.
Nothing has changed since then. He was an idiot back then, and still is now, except over the years he's perfected idiocy.

Get a map people and quit wasting our money. This episode of your TV show is a dud!!!

That's his internal moral compass.

He IS an idiot.

not smart, except for grifting, he's good at that...

All that can done is distraction (Ballroom Kennedy Center) or manipulate him into firing the gun in your preferred direction.

Someone sold him on this operation and used oil as the reason to get him on board. Who knows the real reason?

We are a politically bifurcated society. You cannot get a supermajority in the Senate to do anything of consequence.

I said it would work. I’m not unaware of the current situation in Congress. However, in these times I decline to predict what is or isn’t possible.

And I know that Daddy would never lie to us.

OTOH - I wanted to see these greedy fucks go all in and Trump would provide them with all the military protection he can send. Then we get a new Democratic President and Congress who immediately withdraw all our troops, leaving them to use their obscene profits to protect themselves. Aaaah, a girl can dream....

and they know that getting involved in oil extraction and refining in Venezuela right now is a fool's errand - and they told him so.

However, he’s turned being an idiot into an art form

Seems to have turned horribly jaundiced color.

Has he graduated from idiot to imbecile yet?

... so he's got that going for him.

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Link to tweet

Oil companies will get U.S. taxpayers to subsidize the full cost of modernization. Then they'll demand all revenues from Venezuela's oil sales, in perpetuity, along with a zero tax rate on all future profits. The imbecile will cave, he can't afford to lose face now.

Now, the country has no ruling government, no income, and cannot support themselves with basic food needs. It will descend into utter chaos, making Haiti’s anarchy look civil and orderly. Expect mass migration as people flee to neighboring countries. If the U.S. tries to send in forces to “run” the country, they’ll be bogged down for many years and welcomed by hostile well-armed gangs.

It’s gonna make Shrub’s Iraq fiasco look quaint, any everyone in northern South America will end up despising the U.S.

But hey, this administration will get to fuck over Cuba, so it’s a win, yes?

Iraq 2.0 with far better cover for the insurgents.

Sometimes all you can do is just let lunatics do their thing. They won't listen to you anyway.

Speaking of oil execs...what did Rex Tillerson call him? A fucking moron? Yes, that about sums him up.

The US is going to extreme lengths to control oil that Trump used to regularly disparage.

"Their oil is garbage. It’s horrible. The worst you can get. Tar. It’s like tar."

Read how Trump used to talk about Venezuelan oil.

— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) 2026-01-09T16:31:41.946Z

I keep thinking about the aviation term “no longer a factor”. And boy do I look forward to the day that phrase starts applying to the donald, because he, too, is no longer a factor.

ONLY NOW?

You broke it, you bought it.

Trumps throwing ketchup tonight. Watch out!

Maniac inside the WH.