Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[bobme]

I have A Question. Since Trump has stated, he is now Jewish, Does that mean he now considers all non-Jewish people,as goyum?

[Mike Gorman]

I observe as one man standing from a great distance, I have zero illusions as to my true significance to the geopolitical outcomes/current condition, obviously none of us can claim to have any leverage or capacity to influence anything that is currently taking place - regardless of how astute, or well informed we claim to be. However to me this Venezuelan project from the Trump administration looks like a massive, stupid mistake: of all of the options open to this administration they have chosen to pursue this one, the American supporters of Trump are absolutely gobsmacked, they all say 'WTF'? This has alienated Trump from his organic base - even if he has some genius-level long term plan where Venezuelan resources will liberate America from its economic woes, which I very much doubt, Trump it seems has managed to bring about the destruction his presidency IF he cannot turn this one around, this is a stupendous error. I personally hope Trump can fix this, but he really needs some wise council. I find this difficult to comprehend, after all of that struggle & building trust with the American people, to waste this on such a gargantuan catastrophe - I am simply without words.

[Rizotto]

"Miriam Adelson has offered to give Trump hundreds of millions if he runs for a 3rd term"

Zionist Offers Trump Millions To Run For 3rd Term

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yzql7pMGTB0

[Rizotto]

"From boat strikes on “narco terrorists” to open declaration of oil theft, CIA analyst Larry Johnson and former Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson reveal the real reason why Trump’s war on Venezuela has already failed."

GAME OVER, Trump: His Venezuela Oil War Just BACKFIRED | Larry Johnson & Col. Wilkerson

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aFh0hvXUBDI

[Rizotto]

The Epstein file behind the unravelling of the Trump team?

FBI’S Dan Bongino HEROICALLY Quits the FBI

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CbV1y6cIt6I

[Rizotto]

"A billionaire put $75 million into the Trump family crypto company. His SEC probe was dropped.
Binance helped them make a crypto coin and facilitated a $2 billion deal. The founder was pardoned.
The Trumps are using crypto to enable brazen corruption at the highest level."

We Investigated The Criminals Who Bought Trump: What We Found Will Shock You

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=NFhxEEXQaa8

[shaberon]

Posted by Mike Gorman (here)
...the American supporters of Trump are absolutely gobsmacked, they all say 'WTF'? This has alienated Trump from his organic base

I just checked, and everyone where I am from voted to impeach.

Out here, I have slipped across one of those gerrymandering lines, and it is correct that zero Republicans support the motion.

A blockade is a war crime, so are extra-judicial killings.

We may be close to a Resolution that will turn off the military action.

Its opponents are the Republicans and one Democrat, with no Independents voting.

The motion has an unusual sticking power in that it can be brought up at any time and passed in an hour:

Mr. Mast asked unanimous consent that it be in order at any time to consider H. Con. Res. 61 and H. Con. Res. 64 in the House if called up by the Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or his designee; that each such concurrent resolution be considered as read; and that the previous question be considered as ordered on each such concurrent resolution to adoption without intervening motion except for: 1) with respect to H. Con. Res. 61, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the Chair and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs or their respective designees; and 2) with respect to H. Con. Res. 64, one hour of debate equally divided among and controlled by Representative Mast of Florida, Representative Meeks of New York, and Representative McGovern of Massachusetts or their respective designees.

Now, of course, that is basically a set of instructions telling him to do his job, which he is not. If they won't impeach over prior failure to perform, violating a House Resolution would probably tip the scales.

Someone should ask when the budget runs out in January and how he is going to bring another shutdown (after the longest one in history).

[sdv]

A blockade is a war crime, so are extra-judicial killings.

The JFK Cuba Crisis (October 1962): a 13-day naval blockade was imposed. Cuba has just as must sovereign right to have nuclear missiles as the USA did.

Obama was notorious for killing people, including children, in other countries with drones, and illegally doing a commando style raid in a foreign country to kill Bin Laden.

Just two examples ...

What makes Trump different? Personally, I think America has sunk to a new low with Trump, but perhaps he is also an opportunity for self reflection. Can a president be impeached for not living up to his promises in an election campaign, and then lying about breaking all those promises? Unfortunately, in the democratic system, I think you do not have the mechanism to remove a president for lying, or for doing a turnaround on election promises. Maybe there is a group of really well informed people who will find something that they can use to impeach him. Remember Al Capone? Sent to prison for cheating on his taxes, so remember that if Congress and the Senate try to impeach Trump for something that may seem petty!

[JackMcThorn]

Blockades have been used for *centuries* to control sea going movements and apply pressure to adversaries. War crime is thrown around so willy-nilly that everything involving war might be considered criminal and yet, combat still happens and there is little to be done about it in any sort of court resolution process. War means killing and destroying. It means the cyclical advancement of goals through violence. It means 'prepare for peace through excellence on behalf of the war-fighter - in whatever trained form he or she finds themself serving'.

And America is slowing adjusting from a red-tape, hands-bound set of rules of engagement to more of a warrior mentality. A mentality much needed since the more liberal hand-cuffing of decades past. Most of the time, the officers and enlisted were / are following the law; many times at their own detriment.

The thing about Cuba is, they were hosting Russian missiles. They were basically a tool for Russia. These tiny countries with dictator style totalitarian governments are not ideal to wield the power of nuclear weapons, so I think any sovereign right is at least debatable and at most regrettable. JFK was handling the threat from the Russian - not Cuban. So I think it is a moot point. Cuba is not really seen as the tip of that spear - they were just an agreeable entity in proximity. The Russian threat was deadly and very serious and even JFK remarked on his own that he could and should have handled the Russian better than he did, as he felt quite unprepared.

The thing about Bin Laden is indeed debatable regarding legality. The reason is there really isn't and should not be a powerful world court. This would include the absence of laws and process - due process. A process that could have handled Bin Laden without violent conflict. But nary, the world is not ready for unity. It is clear in the haphazard world organizations that exist but sort of aren't really doing anything. If at most times you cannot get 2 people to agree; what makes you think you can get 2oo countries to agree? What is the UN actually good at?

The impeach Trump ship has sailed, btw. His actions are indeed having an influence. Now I don't always agree with him and I think he should be much better at communications but the duality of the country is probably the key to its failure - not Trump. Generally, good leadership is seen more keenly after the fact than during. That also accounts for bad leadership. Hindsight is usually 2o/2o.

I hope you see the intent of my missive rather than the posture. I respectfully disagree.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by sdv (here)
I think you do not have the mechanism to remove a president for lying

Impeachment is a political event, not a legal event.

Convince enough people that a President is "bad", or convince (bribe, blackmail, extort, ...) enough politicians and news media to carry that pretense, and impeachment can succeed.

[shaberon]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)
Impeachment is a political event, not a legal event.

Convince enough people that a President is "bad", or convince (bribe, blackmail, extort, ...) enough politicians and news media to carry that pretense, and impeachment can succeed.

That's correct; and it has never succeeded. Trump has been impeached twice. It has successfully prosecuted a couple of judges.

It is more of a wear-down tactic against the momentum of whatever is perceived as objectionable.

You technically could impeach him for sneezing into a microphone, if enough people agreed to it.

No form of violence as a matter of force projection will ever be agreed with by this person.

A lot is done about violence in courts, particularly Americanized ones against African fighters. This is fairly consistent. Otherwise, it is mostly a marker of hypocrisy that you can just know the same standards do not apply to everyone.

At least Pearl Harbor Venezuela is in abeyance. Resolution 64 has about 49% of the Congress effectively rebuking it. The only reason I don't want to see that line drawn and crossed is because Venezuela would take the hit for it.

[Rizotto]

"Dr. Glenn Diesen is a Scholarly Teaching Fellow at the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University. He studied international relations, Russian foreign policy, and security institutions in the European post-Cold War security architecture. His PhD thesis was on ‘Inter-democratic security institutions and the security dilemma: EU and NATO relations with Russia after the Cold War’, which addressed the ideational and institutional influence on the rationality of EU and NATO decision-makers from a neoclassical realist perspective. Glenn Diesen joins the show to discuss Ukraine, China and South America"

Why Venezuela Is Ground Zero in America’s Global Panic?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=uJnNYgsDI-Y

[sdv]

Posted by ThePythonicCow (here)

Posted by sdv (here)
I think you do not have the mechanism to remove a president for lying

Impeachment is a political event, not a legal event.

Convince enough people that a President is "bad", or convince (bribe, blackmail, extort, ...) enough politicians and news media to carry that pretense, and impeachment can succeed.

Oh, so it is all about politics! Politics really is destructive. Has Trump done anything that another president has not done? It does not mean he is not a self-aggrandizing bully that is a danger to most of the world and has not committed appalling war crimes (many 'world' leaders have and are committing war crimes and getting away with it). This is an eternal political squabble ... perhaps apt in the time of social media dumbing down when a person can be cancelled by a baying mob, despite laws protecting free speech.

If, using the Al Capone strategy, politicians do manage to impeach the president, who would replace Trump, and what would Trump do (start a civil war?)? Trump is commander in chief. Would military and law enforcement be loyal to him?

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by sdv (here)
Oh, so it is all about politics!

Only partly.

Posted by sdv (here)
Has Trump done anything that another president has not done?

Yes.

Posted by sdv (here)
Would military and law enforcement be loyal to him?

For the most part, yes.

[norman]

And how much is American politics, as Paul mentioned a couple of days ago somewhere here, about herding cats.

If I was bidding for a multibillion dollar contract to herd all the cats in America I think I'd go for a strategy of getting them to go around in circles. That's about as herd-like as I think I could ever expect.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/629816-trump...on-settlement/

December 20, 2025

Trump says he could pay himself $1 billion in damages from federal funds
If this happens, the money would go to charity, the US president has promised

Donald Trump has claimed that he could pay himself $1 billion in US government money as damages for a raid carried out at his Mar-a-Lago estate by the FBI.

Federal agents searched Trump’s property in Palm Beach, Florida in August 2022 as part of an investigation into his alleged mishandling of classified documents during his first term in office. Last year, the case was dismissed by a judge, who ruled that Special Counsel Jack Smith did not have the authority to prosecute the president.

Trump addressed the issue during his rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Friday, calling the search “illegal” and claiming that the FBI had been “forced” to conduct the operarion by the then President Joe Biden's Department of Justice (DOJ).

“These thugs are disgusting and we cannot let them get away with this stuff,” he insisted.

The president told the crowd that he had filed a lawsuit over the raid and assured that he will be “winning” it.

“There is only one problem… I am suing and I am the one that is supposed to settle. So maybe I will give myself $1 billion and give it all to charity. Does that make sense?” he asked.

Trump claimed that “there has never been a case like this. Donald Trump sues the US. Donald Trump becomes president. And now Donald Trump has to settle the suit… Isn’t that a strange position to be in? I have got to make a deal – I negotiate with myself.”

“’I hereby give myself $1 billion.’ Actually, maybe I shouldn't give it to charity. Maybe I should keep the money... No, I don’t want to do it. But whatever happens, it is all going to good charities,” he promised.

Trump’s lawyers filed two separate administrative claims in 2023 and 2024 over DOJ’s investigations into him. The claims are technically not lawsuits and are first reviewed by the US Department of Justice to determine if they can be resolved out of court.

The New York Times reported in October that the president has been pushing for the DOJ to pay him a $230 million settlement.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/629828-us-se...la-oil-tanker/

December 20, 2025

US seizes another oil tanker off Venezuela (VIDEO)
President Donald Trump has previously accused Caracas of “stealing” Washington’s energy assets

The United States has seized another oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, escalating pressure on Caracas just days after President Donald Trump announced a “total and complete” blockade of unilaterally sanctioned oil shipments.

US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem confirmed the raid on Saturday, saying the US Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, apprehended a tanker that had recently docked in Venezuela.

Noem also published a video of the operation in a post on X, claiming that the pre-dawn action targeted the “illicit movement of sanctioned oil” allegedly used to fund “narco-terrorism” in the region.

The move comes amid a US military buildup near Venezuela and follows Trump’s order earlier this week to block all “sanctioned” oil tankers entering or leaving the country. However, unlike a tanker seized earlier this month, the vessel intercepted this weekend was not itself under US sanctions and was carrying Venezuelan crude bound for Asia, according to CNN.

The seizure took place in international waters and marks the second such interdiction in recent weeks. Since the first interdiction, several vessels have reportedly remained in Venezuelan waters rather than risk seizure, sharply reducing the country’s crude exports.

Earlier this week, Trump accused Venezuela of “stealing” US oil assets and investments, saying Washington “wants it back” and warning that otherwise Caracas would feel the wrath of the “largest armada ever assembled in the history of South America.”

The growing US pressure campaign since September has included naval deployments, vessel seizures, and dozens of US strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats near Venezuela, which US officials say have killed more than 100 suspected cartel members.

Caracas has denied any involvement in drug smuggling and condemned the seizures and blockade as illegal acts of piracy, warning that it will defend its sovereignty. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused Washington of pursuing regime change to gain control of the country’s vast oil reserves.

Russia and China have also weighed in, urging restraint. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that escalating tensions could lead to “unforeseen developments,” while China’s Foreign Ministry said Beijing opposes “unilateralism and bullying” and supports Venezuela’s sovereign right to trade freely.

The US has not ruled out further action, with Trump recently saying that even land strikes on Venezuela remain on the table.

[Rizotto]

Trump's 'Take Iraqi oil' quote video compilation by Abizaid N. Alqassier

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=saqkQU5anI0

We're in 2025 and nothing has changed.

[Rizotto]

Very interesting. And very chilling. Who wants to live in a future like that?

"Prof. Jiang Xueqin reveals what no one is talking about: Israel's hidden hand in Trump's war on Venezuela and predicts the demise of US empire. In this video, he sits down with Danny Haiphong to comment on the significance of this, and the underlying competition for an Israeli empire that's being kept secret by the elites."

WW3 Bombshell: Israel’s HIDDEN Hand in Venezuela | Prof Jiang Xueqin

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8GZuCC2V6sA

[Johnnycomelately]

Sounds fine to me. I wonder what Trump-haters like bojancan have to say about this.

Judge Convicted After SECRETLY Helping Abuser Escape Deportation.

Nate The Lawyer

709K subscribers

Dec 20, 2025

A sitting judge is now a convicted felon — after helping a domestic violence abuser evade ICE inside her own courtroom. Surveillance footage shows how federal agents were deliberately sent away while the defendant was escorted out a private exit. The jury rejected the judge’s immunity claim and returned a felony verdict that effectively ended her career. In this video, Nate breaks down the courtroom video, the failed legal defenses, and why protecting a violent abuser crossed a criminal line. This wasn’t compassion — it was obstruction.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yqOrjogtnOc