We're under the rule of a deranged madman and the media is desperately trying to spin this as "business as usual".
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2026
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It's not a lone madman. It's just such good propaganda that nobody is asking who the people are who came up with the plan of conquering Venezuela.
The media is captured, it's complicit, it's bought and controlled by people like Murdoch.
I hope all these brave american "heroes" rot in hell. Thank you for your service,nazi scum
He also threatened Cuba, Denmark/greenland, Mexico, Canada and Panama. The turd Reich just had its Austria moment so you can bet on more imperialist expansion.
And Colombia. He thinks the US owns the western hemisphere
Gfdi i didn't put "ww3" on my 2026 bingo card
I hate the idea that nobody actually wants to fight but we might be forced to by some old men and billionaires.
I hope that there will be some kind of uprising before this actually happens.
yeah, thats how ukraine feels -- people like trump and putin bringing their wars to people who have to defend themselves
So, the list for president of peace is;
Venezuela
Mexico
Colombia
Cuba
Greenland/Denmark
Canada
Iran
Panama
Try the whole western hemisphere.
Do it! Do it! Your citizens will sit and watch, like the rest of the world.
Trump has gone made and Republicans sit on their hands. We need to try these people as traitors.
Is he mad?
Or is she showing the world the true state of its affairs?
Trump isn't doing anything the US government hasn't done since WWII. Chile had a democratic government so US brought in a dictator.
Por que no los dos
What can the world do? Not one country is strong enough to enforce demand on the US and a coalition seems unlikely. How can one stop such a dictator?
I hear a lot of "sell us treasury bonds".
What effect does this have?
It would force the US to pay for the value of those bonds and either default on the bonds by not paying (and losing any negotiating power on the world financial stage), Or loose about 31 Trillion paying out bonds to countries.
Why not? Who is going to stop him. Greenland next.
Full speed ahead and ignore the Epstein files.
He heard they have little girls he could rape and traffic.
The demented fuck is just flailing around lashing out at other countries at this point...
I think he just wants to push the Epstein files out of the discussion.
Sure. Which country's leader would not bomb, invade and threaten other countries all around the world to distract from their scandal du jour.
Since nobody is going to mass shoot these motherfuckers, I am actually praying to a god that doesn't exist that like 80% of these pieces of shit drop dead of some kind of causes, natural or otherwise.
Well that's quite likely. The vast majority of people do die as a result of some sort of cause.
I think he meant it as his/her 2026 new years wish.
Probably also dancing around the 'a' word
What's interesting for me is the last 20 or so years of hearing people talk about how Iran or NK or whoever should never have nuclear weapons because, you know, their leaders may just be crazy enough to use them. (When historically nukes have proven to be the best deterrent against the belligerent aggression of major world powers.)
And here in the US, we're on our third admin in a row run by someone with evident, public mental illness and travels with an arsenal of nukes at his fingertips.
The world has a breaking point where they won't put up with the US' shit anymore, and we may find out what that is in 2026.
No one will believe this:
20 years ago, eating lunch behind Taco Bell, George Bush is President, listening to Limbaugh (I know! It was a long time ago.)
Rush is going off about how it's none of America's business to police Iran's nuclear capability and that Iran has the right to develop not only power stations, but weapons, for the same reasons you outline. He argued for some time on the subject.
I'd kill for a recording of that because I'm pretty certain he flipped the script once Obama was in and trying to limit Iran's nuclear ambitions.
The moron in chief