Sunday, 4 January 2026

Trump Manacles Maduro. Yay!

Maduro in manacles. Yukking it up, with his captors
Amazing News! 

Nicholas Maduro and his Missus are captured, in the middle of the night, by US forces. Spirited away to New York, where they await trial for being major drug and human traffickers. 

Quick initial reactions:

  • Venezuelans are cheering and weeping with happiness. 
  • Republicans are a bit bamboozled and not sure if they like it or not, based on their "America First" philosophy. Should we really be going into another country? [See below links to some of this].
  • Democrats hate it because it's Trump. [See CNN and MSNBC]
  • I love it. Because it's forceful and has more upsides than downsides. 

The upsides: 

Venezuelans love it

America reclaims the oil leases that were stolen ("expropriated without compensation" by Hugo Chavez). 

Some hope that the Venezuelan economy can be reignited. Venezuelans in the US go back to Venezuela. Venezuelans prosper. 

Stopping -- or at least dramatically reducing -- drug shipments to the US and human trafficking. 

The downsides: 

Just go to CNN and MSNBC to see the freak out. Which mostly seems to be: it was done by Trump, therefore we hate it. 

Recalling that the Dems hated Maduro when he came to power. They criticised him because he was, they said, "illegitimate". They claimed that Trump adored Maduro, a "fellow dictator", a person he wanted to emulate, said the Dems. Now here is Trump putting Maduro in manacles, to prep him for a serious court case. 

Go figure that one. The hypocrisy is rank.

The Dems are constantly being outed for their hypocrisy. But they seem no longer to even care. Their hypocrisy is out and about, in the open and they don't care. 

In short: this is a major power play. I'm betting that Trump & Co will win the day. 

We'll see. 

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