(01-03-2026 05:09 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:40 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  I can’t wait for Ofer to show up and tell us how wrong this is even though Venezuelans the world over are celebrating. Oh, and Russia of all countries condemned this. You can’t make this up.

Maduro will be the filth's New York father.

You watch the fuckboi protestors with Free Maduro signs outside of the federal courthouse. Will be the same dorks protesting Israel who have ukraine stickers on their cars.

These people are mentally infirm.

(01-03-2026 05:02 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  You can go to any major social media site and see live feeds of Venezuelans celebrating in Caracas and around the country. It’s real alright but some people are so much in denial because they hate everything Trump

They may be, but the videos posted here sure as **** aren’t from today.

Repeat after me:

I am

Sofa King

We Ta Dee

(01-03-2026 05:13 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:57 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Man, the collective meltdown from the left has been glorious! A "dictator" removing an actual dictator has really set them off.

I guess collectivism has merit after all. lol (It doesn't, by the way.)

JR: That's a good point. I just think it's funny that TIGERCITY, a known leftist, tried to use what Putin said as an attack on SK. lol

All their remarks prove is that there is a willing contingent here for a communist 5th Column and that perhaps we indeed have one here. It should ring alarm bells for the right and should be taken seriously by our internal security systems. Sadly, when I related one organizing endeavor as a stated threat to support Cuban drug activity one of our agencies ignored it, the denominational church I attended gave them 7 million dollars of their parishioners' contribution money, and everyone took a blind eye and so was the activity of the Obama administration. Imagine that!

The time for vigilance is perpetually "now". Any deviation from that leaves you subject to sabotage, like not looking into foreign nationals wanting to learn to pilot commercial property jets but not sticking around to learn how to land one. That was reported too, and ignored by W's administration.

To have a secure nation you need secure borders, active intelligence operations inside and outside of the U.S. which we have respective agencies to do, and none of them should be subject to political changes but only the security of the people and the Constitution.

That we have federal funding going to Universities whose professors are openly Marxist, or anti-American is unforgivable because the easiest way to enforce a pro-American, pro Constition view in academia is pull their damn funding when they violate our norms, laws, process, and way of life.

I'd be all for deporting the Marxists and Maoists we have here, but what communist country wants whiny, knownothing, slugs for citizens? Hell, even serious commies have standards!

The best way to protect the 1st amendment-is to destroy the first amendment. Excellent reasoning.

Marxism is antithetical to every tenet of a Capitalistic free market society. People can criticize our policies and propose alternatives, but they have to be held to the standard of constitutionality. There is no right to sow anarchy and tout enslavement. Freedom of speech ends when somebody orders violence against citizens, which is exactly what Biden's administration turned a blind eye to with BLM activities and Antifa's activities in American cities. The right of citizens to protection under the law of their person and property cannot be sacrificed to the ranting of anarchists. They should have called out the guard and shot the looters on sight, if they could not safely arrest them.

What you suggest is a perversion. You must first protect the citizens and their rights to protect freedom of speech. No group or individual has the right to attack his neighbor. That's a crime, not free speech.

(01-03-2026 05:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:57 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Man, the collective meltdown from the left has been glorious! A "dictator" removing an actual dictator has really set them off.

I guess collectivism has merit after all. lol (It doesn't, by the way.)

JR: That's a good point. I just think it's funny that TIGERCITY, a known leftist, tried to use what Putin said as an attack on SK. lol

All their remarks prove is that there is a willing contingent here for a communist 5th Column and that perhaps we indeed have one here. It should ring alarm bells for the right and should be taken seriously by our internal security systems. Sadly, when I related one organizing endeavor as a stated threat to support Cuban drug activity one of our agencies ignored it, the denominational church I attended gave them 7 million dollars of their parishioners' contribution money, and everyone took a blind eye and so was the activity of the Obama administration. Imagine that!

The time for vigilance is perpetually "now". Any deviation from that leaves you subject to sabotage, like not looking into foreign nationals wanting to learn to pilot commercial property jets but not sticking around to learn how to land one. That was reported too, and ignored by W's administration.

To have a secure nation you need secure borders, active intelligence operations inside and outside of the U.S. which we have respective agencies to do, and none of them should be subject to political changes but only the security of the people and the Constitution.

That we have federal funding going to Universities whose professors are openly Marxist, or anti-American is unforgivable because the easiest way to enforce a pro-American, pro Constition view in academia is pull their damn funding when they violate our norms, laws, process, and way of life.

I'd be all for deporting the Marxists and Maoists we have here, but what communist country wants whiny, knownothing, slugs for citizens? Hell, even serious commies have standards!

Absofukenlutely

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(01-03-2026 05:21 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:13 PM)ballantyneapp Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:08 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:57 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Man, the collective meltdown from the left has been glorious! A "dictator" removing an actual dictator has really set them off.

I guess collectivism has merit after all. lol (It doesn't, by the way.)

JR: That's a good point. I just think it's funny that TIGERCITY, a known leftist, tried to use what Putin said as an attack on SK. lol

All their remarks prove is that there is a willing contingent here for a communist 5th Column and that perhaps we indeed have one here. It should ring alarm bells for the right and should be taken seriously by our internal security systems. Sadly, when I related one organizing endeavor as a stated threat to support Cuban drug activity one of our agencies ignored it, the denominational church I attended gave them 7 million dollars of their parishioners' contribution money, and everyone took a blind eye and so was the activity of the Obama administration. Imagine that!

The time for vigilance is perpetually "now". Any deviation from that leaves you subject to sabotage, like not looking into foreign nationals wanting to learn to pilot commercial property jets but not sticking around to learn how to land one. That was reported too, and ignored by W's administration.

To have a secure nation you need secure borders, active intelligence operations inside and outside of the U.S. which we have respective agencies to do, and none of them should be subject to political changes but only the security of the people and the Constitution.

That we have federal funding going to Universities whose professors are openly Marxist, or anti-American is unforgivable because the easiest way to enforce a pro-American, pro Constition view in academia is pull their damn funding when they violate our norms, laws, process, and way of life.

I'd be all for deporting the Marxists and Maoists we have here, but what communist country wants whiny, knownothing, slugs for citizens? Hell, even serious commies have standards!

The best way to protect the 1st amendment-is to destroy the first amendment. Excellent reasoning.

Marxism is antithetical to every tenet of a Capitalistic free market society. People can criticize our policies and propose alternatives, but they have to be held to the standard of constitutionality. There is no right to sow anarchy and tout enslavement. Freedom of speech ends when somebody orders violence against citizens, which is exactly what Biden's administration turned a blind eye to with BLM activities and Antifa's activities in American cities. The right of citizens to protection under the law of their person and property cannot be sacrificed to the ranting of anarchists. They should have called out the guard and shot the looters on sight, if they could not safely arrest them.

What you suggest is a perversion. You must first protect the citizens and their rights to protect freedom of speech. No group or individual has the right to attack his neighbor. That's a crime, not free speech.

(01-03-2026 05:19 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:02 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  You can go to any major social media site and see live feeds of Venezuelans celebrating in Caracas and around the country. It’s real alright but some people are so much in denial because they hate everything Trump

They may be, but the videos posted here sure as **** aren’t from today.

Where and when?

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(01-03-2026 04:08 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 03:34 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Everybody has a right to question this military action and US involvement, but to not acknowledge that and be happy for the millions of Venezuelans there and in US and around the world celebrating that this narco-thug who stole an election is no longer in power is quite bizarre

I'm certainly happy Maduro is out of power and Venezuela is better off without him. I'm also impressed with how quickly and efficiently US armed forces were able to get this done.

I just think the whole thing reeks of the nation building BS we went through in the 2000s. We're occupying a nation now and plan on extracting their natural resources and profit off them.

Drugs are the new "weapons of mass destruction".

Drugs aside, I'm against nation building, regardless of who is President.

Should we align more with our Central and South American brethren over Europe? Yes

Should we turn them into future wannabe Americans? No

(01-03-2026 05:04 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:48 PM)maximus Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:46 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:10 PM)maximus Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 03:59 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  The irony of calling my posts, which prove CPs posts are lies, BS is probably lost on you but I think it’s funny as ****.

So if my posts are BS prove I’m wrong and those videos happened today in Venezuela. I provided links showing that they existed before today. Or that they weren’t even in Venezuela, but if it’s BS then I’m sure you can prove it wrong.

Stay on topic, purposefully trying to derail the thread to discuss videos posted.

Mmmmk

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That’s rich. I’m responding to videos posted in this thread, that people are lying and saying they are in reaction to the US invasion today. That is the topic.

Invasion...bwahahahahahahahahaha

Good god

You commies going full retard is always glorious

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At least they don't always overreact and all use the same silly astroturfed outrage talking points every time.

/s

Of course. That's all they've got.

(01-03-2026 05:26 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:08 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 03:34 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Everybody has a right to question this military action and US involvement, but to not acknowledge that and be happy for the millions of Venezuelans there and in US and around the world celebrating that this narco-thug who stole an election is no longer in power is quite bizarre

I'm certainly happy Maduro is out of power and Venezuela is better off without him. I'm also impressed with how quickly and efficiently US armed forces were able to get this done.

I just think the whole thing reeks of the nation building BS we went through in the 2000s. We're occupying a nation now and plan on extracting their natural resources and profit off them.

Drugs are the new "weapons of mass destruction".

Drugs aside, I'm against nation building, regardless of who is President.

Should we align more with our Central and South American brethren over Europe? Yes

Should we turn them into future Americans? Absolutely not.

None of it is nation building. All of it in the South China Sea and Southern Pacific, in the Ukraine and potentially Europe, and in the Caribbean, Central and South America is the establishment of an active sphere of influence for the use of raw materials, defense of all peoples in those regions, and what is going to be 3 spheres of control by the Super-Powers.

Reject it or oppose it and we are in for WWIII. Utilize it and WWIII may be avoided for a few more decades. The United States is not going to tolerate Chinese or Russian influences in our sphere of control, and they will not tolerate ours.

Think of the U.N. being the NCAA, and all FCS and lower tier FBS countries will do their own thing but within the sphere of the Upper tier. And this will happen for defense (protection of markets and resources) and to help the most powerful protect their resources. Responsibility through it will be upon the Superpower to enhance the standard of living throughout their sphere of influence and that is in their self-interest because doing so will eliminate much of any potential threat if the vast majority of people lead improved lives.

Do that in all 3 spheres of influence and the chance for peace exists, at least until one feels they have taken the technological advantage.

You can call me a pessimist or simply a realist but avoiding WWIII right now should be the globes priority. We all lose if it breaks out and the extant forces are there for it to ignite.

Can someone explain what is going on, Trump and Rubio are saying the Vice President of Venezuela is cooperating with the US and was sworn in as the official leader. The Vice President of Venezuela just gave a speech saying Venezuela is ready to mobilize the entire country to defend itself against the US and that Maduro is the only President of Venezuela.

(01-03-2026 02:48 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  Looks like they're happy to me, 3A. Leftists just can't help being on the wrong side of an issue, can they? (Case in point: CLT still doubling down on posting potentially old videos.)

I'm old enough to remember people in Iraq initially being very happy when Saddam fell. What happened today is far less important than what happens now that we've created a power vacuum there. Did we actually learn a single lesson from the failures every other time we've attempted this? Hope so. I don't actually want this to become the next decades long boondoggle, so for once I hope Neocons actually turn out to be right about the aftermath of what happens when you do this.

(01-03-2026 05:38 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:26 PM)andybible1995 Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:08 PM)BobcatEngineer Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 03:34 PM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Everybody has a right to question this military action and US involvement, but to not acknowledge that and be happy for the millions of Venezuelans there and in US and around the world celebrating that this narco-thug who stole an election is no longer in power is quite bizarre

I'm certainly happy Maduro is out of power and Venezuela is better off without him. I'm also impressed with how quickly and efficiently US armed forces were able to get this done.

I just think the whole thing reeks of the nation building BS we went through in the 2000s. We're occupying a nation now and plan on extracting their natural resources and profit off them.

Drugs are the new "weapons of mass destruction".

Drugs aside, I'm against nation building, regardless of who is President.

Should we align more with our Central and South American brethren over Europe? Yes

Should we turn them into future Americans? Absolutely not.

None of it is nation building. All of it in the South China Sea and Southern Pacific, in the Ukraine and potentially Europe, and in the Caribbean, Central and South America is the establishment of an active sphere of influence for the use of raw materials, defense of all peoples in those regions, and what is going to be 3 spheres of control by the Super-Powers.

Reject it or oppose it and we are in for WWIII. Utilize it and WWIII may be avoided for a few more decades. The United States is not going to tolerate Chinese or Russian influences in our sphere of control, and they will not tolerate ours.

Think of the U.N. being the NCAA, and all FCS and lower tier FBS countries will do their own thing but within the sphere of the Upper tier. And this will happen for defense (protection of markets and resources) and to help the most powerful protect their resources. Responsibility through it will be upon the Superpower to enhance the standard of living throughout their sphere of influence and that is in their self-interest because doing so will eliminate much of any potential threat if the vast majority of people lead improved lives.

Do that in all 3 spheres of influence and the chance for peace exists, at least until one feels they have taken the technological advantage.

You can call me a pessimist or simply a realist but avoiding WWIII right now should be the globes priority. We all lose if it breaks out and the extant forces are there for it to ignite.

You post fully states what is going on in this world today. The problem with that one of the three countries are free people with the ability to voice disagreement without fear of government making them disappear. That's why I believe Trump is the 100% correct person at this time in history to be the American President.

Trump seems to see the overall big picture of China and Russia and understands China is the biggest threat to America. Most politicians would not do what Trump just did in fear of blowback. This is not about country building or even drug flow (for the most part)....

its about stabilizing a country in our sphere and stopping China from gaining a influence. A lot of people, on both sides , that could have been president, even if they understood the big picture. Would not have made this move....because of politics optics

(01-03-2026 05:46 PM)CLTPirate Wrote:  Can someone explain what is going on, Trump and Rubio are saying the Vice President of Venezuela is cooperating with the US and was sworn in as the official leader. The Vice President of Venezuela just gave a speech saying Venezuela is ready to mobilize the entire country to defend itself against the US and that Maduro is the only President of Venezuela.

I just heard an explanation on Fox. Yes indeed, the US is, for now, allowing the remaining members of the Venezuelan Government to remain in place to prevent creating a giant void in leadership, as the transition begins.

If they act up, they will get the Maduro treatment. If not, and they keep things in place until we get a new government in there, then fine.

Under any circumstances they aren't going to like us, but they have no choice.

Their first task is to cut ties with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

I think the VP is playing both sides of the fence. I think it's a risky choice. We'll see.

LOL! Homeland Security SLAMS Soros Funded Democrat Senator with Perfect Irony Over Venezuela Outrage – Other Users DESTROY Him in Comments

Quote:Venezuelans worldwide celebrate as exiles react to Maduro’s capture
Joyful crowds gathered in Miami, Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Madrid after Maduro capture
By Michael Dorgan Fox News
Published January 3, 2026 3:07pm EST

Venezuelans across the globe took to the streets after the capture of Nicolás Maduro, whose rule was marked by economic collapse and mass migration out of the oil-rich nation.

Venezuelans in Miami, Fla., Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Madrid, Spain, donned Venezuela’s national colors and waved flags hours after President Donald Trump announced that Maduro and his wife had been flown out of the country following an overnight U.S. military operation.

In Miami, Venezuelans danced and cheered, with celebrations also taking place outside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Fla. In Doral, Fla., revelers chanted "Liberty!" and draped Venezuelan flags over their shoulders.


Venezuelans celebrate the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro outside Mar-a-Lago, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

Outside the El Arepazo restaurant, a hub of the Venezuelan culture of Doral, one man held a piece of cardboard with "Libertad" scrawled with a black marker. It was a sentiment expressed by other native Venezuelans hoping for a new beginning for their home country as they chanted, "Liberty! Liberty! Liberty!"

"We’re like everybody — it’s a combination of feelings, of course," Alejandra Arrieta, who came to the U.S. in 1997, told The Associated Press.

"There’s fears. There’s excitement," he said. "There’s so many years that we’ve been waiting for this. Something had to happen in Venezuela. We all need the freedom."


A child holds a sign reading, "Somos Libres" ("We Are Free") during a rally in Santiago, Chile, on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump said U.S. forces had captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following a military operation. (Sebastián Vivallo Oñate/Agencia Makro/Getty Images)

Ecstatic crowds also gathered in Santiago, Chile, where one child held a sign reading "Somos Libres," meaning, "We Are Free."

The demonstrations reflected the scale of Venezuela’s diaspora, which has grown dramatically during Maduro’s years in power, as millions fled what critics describe as a period of economic collapse marked by hyperinflation and widespread food shortages.

Since 2017, roughly 8 million people have fled Venezuela, making it one of the world’s largest displacement crises, according to the U.N. Refugee Agency.


Venezuelans in Peru celebrate at Miguel de Cervantes Park near the Venezuelan Embassy in Lima on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump said U.S. forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro following strikes on Venezuela. (Connie France / AFP via Getty Images)

More than 6.9 million Venezuelans are currently hosted in Latin American and Caribbean countries, while hundreds of thousands more live in the United States and Europe, where diaspora communities have remained politically active and closely engaged with events back home.


People celebrate in Madrid, Spain, on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump said the United States had struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (Reuters/Violeta Santos Moura)


People hold Venezuelan and U.S. flags as they react in the streets of Miami, Fla., on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump said the United States struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (Reuters/Marco Bello)

Maduro has been in power since 2013, when he succeeded longtime Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez following Chávez’s death, presiding over a period marked by economic decline, political unrest and mass migration.

Not all reactions to the U.S. action were celebratory.


People react in the streets of Miami, Florida, on Jan. 3, 2026, after President Donald Trump said the U.S. had struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro. (Reuters/Marco Bello)

Protests both in favor of and against the strikes have been scheduled in Buenos Aires and other cities across the region, underscoring deep divisions over Venezuela’s future and Washington’s role in the crisis.

In Greece, members of the Greek Communist Party demonstrated against Maduro’s capture.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/see-pics-v...os-capture

(01-03-2026 05:19 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 05:09 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(01-03-2026 04:40 PM)GeminiCoog Wrote:  I can’t wait for Ofer to show up and tell us how wrong this is even though Venezuelans the world over are celebrating. Oh, and Russia of all countries condemned this. You can’t make this up.

Maduro will be the filth's New York father.

You watch the fuckboi protestors with Free Maduro signs outside of the federal courthouse. Will be the same dorks protesting Israel who have ukraine stickers on their cars.

These people are mentally infirm.

You absolutely must have a few screws loose if you support the Dems. No other explanation

How much money do Democrat politicians in California and across the country receive from the cartels? How many NGO’s in the US are funded by the cartels? These are questions that need to be answered. Unfortunately we have a spineless useless unt as Attorney General.