U.S. & Venezuela Thread - Trump: "We're going to run the place"

[Ron_Artest 2,609]

Just now, Maximum Overkill said:

Trump liberated the people. They finally have hope 

They're all gonna have free phones and EBT cards.

[MDC 8,173]

7 minutes ago, dogcows said:

It’s different this time I swear

Trump’s competence will make the difference.  

[Hardcore troubadour 16,138]

 Venezuelans happy. Shitlibs miserable. 

[seafoam1 3,556]

Liberals are so stupid. It's mind-boggling. 

[dogcows 1,356]

Hey remember that dictator from Honduras who was convicted  and sentenced to 45 years for narco terrorism? What happened to him?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/02/trump-juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-honduras-drugs/87564181007/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=692effaec4b603000124f902&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Oh right…

How much money do you think it will cost Maduro to get his pardon?

[HellToupee 2,329]

18 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

51st state.  Don't fock with Trump!

Canada you're next!

Don’t forget about Greenland

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

27 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

51st state.  Don't fock with Trump!

Canada you're next!

Exactly. Don't fock with the US. It's simple.

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

27 minutes ago, Ron_Artest said:

They're all gonna have free phones and EBT cards.

Obama, who likes peen in his mouth, isn't the one running the show.

[WhiteWonder 3,031]

I have friends in Barcelona. One is coming to visit in a few weeks. She told me the people of Venezuela living in BCN are celebrating. Imagine being a liberal American thinking you know better than Venezuelan expats 

[squistion 2,689]

9 minutes ago, HellToupee said:

Don’t forget about Greenland

We can since it would involve NATO.

Question: "Is Greenland protected by NATO?"

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Yes, Greenland is protected by NATO because it is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, a founding NATO member, meaning an attack on Greenland would trigger the alliance's collective defense clause (Article 5).

 

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

Liberals are seriously still whining about something so obviously positive?

Ungrateful

[squistion 2,689]

From NYT live chat:

12 minutes ago

Maria Abi-Habib

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, put on a display of force and unity in a live address to the nation, sitting with powerful military officials and other key government leaders as she denounced the United States. As she introduced each figure on live television, they nodded toward her in a show of deference as she demanded that Maduro was the rightful president of Venezuela. The display of force and unity undermined President Trump’s earlier comments that Washington would work with Rodríguez to run Venezuela.

Jan. 3, 2026, 2:24 p.m. ET7 minutes ago

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

“There is only one president in this country, and his name is Nicolás Maduro Moros,” Rodríguez said to thundering applause.

She added that Venezuela was open to having a respectful relationship with the Trump administration, but only within the framework of international and Venezuelan law. “That is the only type of relationship I will accept, after they have attacked and militarily assaulted our beloved nation,” she said.

[TimHauck 3,503]

9 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Liberals are seriously still whining about something so obviously positive?

Ungrateful

I don’t think most people are against taking out a dictator, but the main issues IMO are:

1) Didn’t get approval from Congress

2) So much for “no new wars” and not interfering in foreign conflicts

3) They lied and said it was about drugs, clearly it’s not

[Ron_Artest 2,609]

21 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Exactly. Don't fock with the US. It's simple.

FOCK YEAH!!!

ALPHA!!!

BOSS!!

TRUCK NUTZ!!!

[WhiteWonder 3,031]

13 minutes ago, WhiteWonder said:

I have friends in Barcelona. One is coming to visit in a few weeks. She told me the people of Venezuela living in BCN are celebrating. Imagine being a liberal American thinking you know better than Venezuelan expats 

To expand, I bring up Barcelona because it is a big mixing/melting pot and very liberal city.  My friend is Polish. Her girlfriend is engaged to a Venezuelan man. His mom still lives in Venezuela. She says "the people are thanking god for this and happy to be free again. It's a place with no infrastructure, not safe to go outside in the evenings."  I am paraphrasing from her messages that I saw.   

[WhiteWonder 3,031]

1 minute ago, Ron_Artest said:

FOCK YEAH!!!

ALPHA!!!

BOSS!!

TRUCK NUTZ!!!

^ flailing

[squistion 2,689]

From NYT live chat update:

11m ago

Eric Schmitt

Pentagon reporter

The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee lambasted President Trump’s plan to run Venezuela. “This is ludicrous,” said Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island. “No serious plan has been presented for how such an extraordinary undertaking would work or what it will cost the American people. History offers no shortage of warnings about the costs – human, strategic, and moral – of assuming we can govern another nation by force.”

[Maximum Overkill 2,676]

The United States of Venezuela 

I hope Trump changes the Venezuelan flag and puts his face on it. 

[kilroy69 1,274]

This is pretty focking crazy and certainly is destabilizing to the region. If the idea is that Maduro was the head of a drug cartel why just take him? Any one of his generals that are apparently in on this with him is going to step in. 

[Gepetto 1,491]

4 hours ago, Ron_Artest said:

I thought this was about drugs?

It is. Read the indictment.. https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/read-the-indictment-against-nicolas-maduro-wife-cilia-flores-after-us-forces-captured-the-couple/

[MDC 8,173]

Maybe that Honduran drug lord Trump pardoned can take Maduro’s place?  

[squistion 2,689]

Uh, oh and we were told by the MAGA crowd that millions are lining the streets of Caracas, cheering Maduro's ouster.

From NYT live chat update:

8 minutes ago

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Reporting from Mexico City

Venezuela broadcasts messages of resistance from Maduro loyalists after the U.S. attack. 

 

Hours after resident Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces, Venezuela’s state-run television was broadcasting rallies and protests taking place across several cities, including the capital, Caracas. Mr. Maduro’s supporters vowed to defend their country from what they described as an illegal attack and the kidnapping of their “legitimate” leader.

In interviews, residents and people close to Mr. Maduro’s government demanded the Trump administration to return him and the country’s first lady, Cilia Flores, safely to Venezuela.

The messages were broadcast entirely on state-run media programs. A free press does not exist in Venezuela because of years of government suppression and censorship.

Some people condemned the U.S. airstrikes that accompanied the capture of Mr. Maduro as a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. Others were taking more direct action. In neighborhoods across Caracas and other cities, Venezuelans were seen in bulletproof vests activating local defense committees — groups essentially designed to turn every citizen into a soldier and every city block into a fortress.

“Everybody knows what they have to do,” said Pedro Infante, a high-ranking Venezuelan politician, as he was surrounded by supporters in a district of Miranda, one of the states hit overnight. “Prepare ourselves to defend our homeland and our sovereignty.”

Mr. Infante, who has been a central figure in both the legislative and executive branches under the governments of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, accused the United States of wanting to steal Venezuela’s resources — specifically the country’s oil.

“Their fundamental interest is to gain control over our energy and resources” and “to have all the puppet governments on their knees,” he added. 

[squistion 2,689]

From NYT live chat update:

Jan. 3, 2026, 3:07 p.m. ETJust now

Eric Schmitt

Pentagon reporter

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee expressed shock and anger at President Trump’s decision to capture Nicolás Maduro and have the U.S. run Venezuela for the foreseeable future. “Trump clearly has no idea what comes next,” Representative Adam Smith, Democrat of Washington, said in a telephone interview. “How are we going to run Venezuela when we have no presence in the country. Where does this go?”

 

 

[TimHauck 3,503]

On 12/31/2025 at 11:28 AM, TimHauck said:

@Horseman why is Polymarket scamming people?  Lots of people mad they didn’t win their bets about striking Venezuela

Hmmm

 

 

[Ron_Artest 2,609]

32 minutes ago, Gepetto said:

It is. Read the indictment.. https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/read-the-indictment-against-nicolas-maduro-wife-cilia-flores-after-us-forces-captured-the-couple/

Bless your heart

[Reality 3,150]

27 minutes ago, squistion said:

Uh, oh and we were told by the MAGA crowd that millions are lining the streets of Caracas, cheering Maduro's ouster.

From NYT live chat update:

8 minutes ago

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Reporting from Mexico City

Venezuela broadcasts messages of resistance from Maduro loyalists after the U.S. attack. 

 

Hours after resident Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces, Venezuela’s state-run television was broadcasting rallies and protests taking place across several cities, including the capital, Caracas. Mr. Maduro’s supporters vowed to defend their country from what they described as an illegal attack and the kidnapping of their “legitimate” leader.

In interviews, residents and people close to Mr. Maduro’s government demanded the Trump administration to return him and the country’s first lady, Cilia Flores, safely to Venezuela.

The messages were broadcast entirely on state-run media programs. A free press does not exist in Venezuela because of years of government suppression and censorship.

Some people condemned the U.S. airstrikes that accompanied the capture of Mr. Maduro as a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. Others were taking more direct action. In neighborhoods across Caracas and other cities, Venezuelans were seen in bulletproof vests activating local defense committees — groups essentially designed to turn every citizen into a soldier and every city block into a fortress.

“Everybody knows what they have to do,” said Pedro Infante, a high-ranking Venezuelan politician, as he was surrounded by supporters in a district of Miranda, one of the states hit overnight. “Prepare ourselves to defend our homeland and our sovereignty.”

Mr. Infante, who has been a central figure in both the legislative and executive branches under the governments of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, accused the United States of wanting to steal Venezuela’s resources — specifically the country’s oil.

“Their fundamental interest is to gain control over our energy and resources” and “to have all the puppet governments on their knees,” he added. 

This piece of shlt is scouring the Internet looking for responses from Maduro loyalists...

You don't hate these people enough.

[squistion 2,689]

From NYT live chat update:

Jan. 3, 2026, 3:21 p.m. ET6 minutes ago

Jack Nicas

Mexico City bureau chief

Venezuela’s interim leader defies Trump and calls Maduro the ‘only president.’

 

President Trump said Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as Venezuela’s interim president and would act as a partner in letting the United States run the country.

“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” he said.

Less than two hours later, Ms. Rodríguez — who was Nicolás Maduro’s vice president — delivered a televised address to Venezuela that made clear she viewed the United States as an illegal invader that must be rejected.

“We are determined to be free,” she said. “What is being done to Venezuela is a barbarity.”

Her swift defiance of Mr. Trump made clear that his plans to swoop into the South American nation and run it as his own faced many more hurdles than he suggested in his Saturday news conference declaring victory in Venezuela.

“We had already warned that an aggression was underway under false excuses and false pretenses, and that the masks had fallen off, revealing only one objective: regime change in Venezuela,” she said. “This regime change would also allow for the seizure of our energy, mineral and natural resources. This is the true objective, and the world and the international community must know it.”

Significantly, Ms. Rodríguez delivered her address alongside what she called Venezuela’s National Defense Council, which included the nation’s defense minister, attorney general and the heads of the country’s legislature and judiciary. That unified front directly contradicted Mr. Trump’s claim that the United States would run Venezuela, especially given that White House and Pentagon officials had said that U.S. forces had already withdrawn from the nation.

[TimHauck 3,503]

14 minutes ago, Reality said:

This piece of shlt is scouring the Internet looking for responses from Maduro loyalists...

You don't hate these people enough.

I guess you didn’t make a New Year’s resolution of not being miserable 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

What liberals say is happening in Venesuela vs what is actually happening

https://x.com/i/status/2007544996753273017

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

A common sense no nonsense opinion on Trump

https://x.com/i/status/2007327390058590409

[Maximum Overkill 2,676]

58 minutes ago, MDC said:

Maybe that Honduran drug lord Trump pardoned can take Maduro’s place?  

Panama, Grenada??? 

[dogcows 1,356]

Just now, Maximum Overkill said:

Panama, Grenada??? 

Ooh I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama

[Maximum Overkill 2,676]

5 minutes ago, dogcows said:

Ooh I wanna take you to Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama

That was a actually a good one 

[squistion 2,689]

From NYT live chat update:

Jan. 3, 2026, 3:50 p.m. ET8 minutes ago

Julie Turkewitz and Genevieve Glatsky

Trump administration declines to back Venezuela’s opposition leader.

 

President Trump said on Saturday that it would be “very tough” for Venezuela’s leading opposition figure, María Corina Machado, to take control of her country, claiming in his televised speech that she was a “very nice woman” but “doesn’t have the support” in Venezuela to lead.

It was a dramatic shift from the Trump administration’s assessment of Ms. Machado’s movement in recent months, in which Washington officials have asserted that her surrogate, Edmundo González, is the country’s rightful president, after his election victory in 2024. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had called Ms. Machado “the personification of resilience, tenacity and patriotism.”

Ms. Machado has spent the last year courting Mr. Trump’s support and trying to enlist his help in ousting Mr. Maduro. She has openly supported his military operation in the Caribbean and refrained from criticizing his policies toward Venezuelan migrants. In October, she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to him, in honor of what she called his “decisive support.”

On Saturday, after Mr. Trump announced that the U.S. military had captured Mr. Maduro, she released a statement celebrating the move and asserting that she was ready to lead.

“Today we are prepared to assert our mandate and seize power,” she wrote in a message she posted on X.

But roughly two hours later, when asked by a reporter about Ms. Machado after addressing the nation, Mr. Trump said they had not spoken. He never mentioned Mr. González.

Instead, he said that his government was in conversation with Mr. Maduro’s No. 2, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

“Are you going to work with the vice president of Venezuela?” a reporter asked.

“Marco is working on that directly,” Mr. Trump responded, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “He just had a conversation with her, and she’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”

[...]

[Maximum Overkill 2,676]

Just now, squistion said:

From NYT live chat update:

Jan. 3, 2026, 3:50 p.m. ET8 minutes ago

Julie Turkewitz and Genevieve Glatsky

Trump administration declines to back Venezuela’s opposition leader.

 

President Trump said on Saturday that it would be “very tough” for Venezuela’s leading opposition figure, María Corina Machado, to take control of her country, claiming in his televised speech that she was a “very nice woman” but “doesn’t have the support” in Venezuela to lead.

It was a dramatic shift from the Trump administration’s assessment of Ms. Machado’s movement in recent months, in which Washington officials have asserted that her surrogate, Edmundo González, is the country’s rightful president, after his election victory in 2024. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had called Ms. Machado “the personification of resilience, tenacity and patriotism.”

Ms. Machado has spent the last year courting Mr. Trump’s support and trying to enlist his help in ousting Mr. Maduro. She has openly supported his military operation in the Caribbean and refrained from criticizing his policies toward Venezuelan migrants. In October, she dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize to him, in honor of what she called his “decisive support.”

On Saturday, after Mr. Trump announced that the U.S. military had captured Mr. Maduro, she released a statement celebrating the move and asserting that she was ready to lead.

“Today we are prepared to assert our mandate and seize power,” she wrote in a message she posted on X.

But roughly two hours later, when asked by a reporter about Ms. Machado after addressing the nation, Mr. Trump said they had not spoken. He never mentioned Mr. González.

Instead, he said that his government was in conversation with Mr. Maduro’s No. 2, Vice President Delcy Rodríguez.

“Are you going to work with the vice president of Venezuela?” a reporter asked.

“Marco is working on that directly,” Mr. Trump responded, referring to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “He just had a conversation with her, and she’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again.”

[...]

You're always late to the party, we all seen this 10 times by now 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

1 hour ago, squistion said:

Uh, oh and we were told by the MAGA crowd that millions are lining the streets of Caracas, cheering Maduro's ouster.

From NYT live chat update:

8 minutes ago

Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

Reporting from Mexico City

Venezuela broadcasts messages of resistance from Maduro loyalists after the U.S. attack. 

 

Hours after resident Nicolás Maduro and his wife were captured by U.S. forces, Venezuela’s state-run television was broadcasting rallies and protests taking place across several cities, including the capital, Caracas. Mr. Maduro’s supporters vowed to defend their country from what they described as an illegal attack and the kidnapping of their “legitimate” leader.

In interviews, residents and people close to Mr. Maduro’s government demanded the Trump administration to return him and the country’s first lady, Cilia Flores, safely to Venezuela.

The messages were broadcast entirely on state-run media programs. A free press does not exist in Venezuela because of years of government suppression and censorship.

Some people condemned the U.S. airstrikes that accompanied the capture of Mr. Maduro as a violation of international law and the United Nations Charter. Others were taking more direct action. In neighborhoods across Caracas and other cities, Venezuelans were seen in bulletproof vests activating local defense committees — groups essentially designed to turn every citizen into a soldier and every city block into a fortress.

“Everybody knows what they have to do,” said Pedro Infante, a high-ranking Venezuelan politician, as he was surrounded by supporters in a district of Miranda, one of the states hit overnight. “Prepare ourselves to defend our homeland and our sovereignty.”

Mr. Infante, who has been a central figure in both the legislative and executive branches under the governments of Mr. Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez, accused the United States of wanting to steal Venezuela’s resources — specifically the country’s oil.

“Their fundamental interest is to gain control over our energy and resources” and “to have all the puppet governments on their knees,” he added. 

Well liberals live there too so I'm not surprised they want to keep communist rule in play. We see American liberals expressing their own form of Stockholm Syndrome.

[Maximum Overkill 2,676]

Mission to Capture Maduro Detailed by General Dan Caine https://search.app/4UJJa

 

[Frozenbeernuts 2,492]

Liberals can't even grasp the most fundamental truth that there is something tying us all together. Something that resembles God. Since they can't even piece together the most obvious facts about that, it means they cannot piece together the most common sense factors related to anything.

It is impossible for them to be right about literally anything.

[thegeneral 3,761]

4 minutes ago, Frozenbeernuts said:

Liberals can't even grasp the most fundamental truth that there is something tying us all together. Something that resembles God. Since they can't even piece together the most obvious facts about that, it means they cannot piece together the most common sense factors related to anything.

It is impossible for them to be right about literally anything.

tinhat rambling 

[TimHauck 3,503]

1 hour ago, TimHauck said:

Hmmm

 

 

Hmm

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/26/polymarket-secures-investment-from-trump-jr-backed-1789-capital.html