What does President Trump do NOW?

[jusplay4fun]

What does President Trump do NOW, during what is VACATION and HOLIDAYS for most people in the US?

In two days, makes a major effort to resolve two long simmering and dangerous Conflicts/Wars:

1) Ukraine-Russia first, meeting with Zelenskyy (and talked to Putin, on the phone), and

2) Gaza-Israel, meeting with Netanyahu, where BOTH crucial meetings happened at Mar-A-Largo.

also:
3) Trumps threatens Iran.

4) Did I mention that he authorized US actions in Nigeria to punish those killing Christians?

5) In what I think is a bad move, he apparently acts against Venezuela at a port where illegal drugs are loaded onto boats. Such actions is inching closer to an actual WAR.

[Pack Rat]

Wag the Dog.

More distractions as more and more Epstein Files stack up at the DOJ.

[jusplay4fun]

[b[size=150 War the Dog.

More distractions as more and more Epstein Files stack up at the DOJ.[/size][/b]

This is ONLY more LIES, repetition, and obfuscation with regards to President Trump. The new files show how much the Democrats were in bed with Epstein. There is NOT one piece of incriminating evidence to implicate Trump and prove he did anything WRONG or ILLEGAL or even IMMORAL when it comes to Epstein. Trump kicked Epstein OUT of Mar-A-Largo while Trump was still a Democrat.

Oh, I have decided NOT to ignore you, pee rat, at least for now, so that I can promptly fight your LIES.

You are really BAD at this, pack rat, this attempt to debate, analyze, and discussion INTELLIGENTLY. You merely repeat your lies with a few new words or phrases. You are a sad and pathetic LOSER, pee rat.

NOTICE too that pack rat totally ignored what I previously posted to impotently try to advance his LIES:

At the TOP of this page:

Post by jusplay4fun » Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm

What does President Trump do NOW, during what is VACATION and HOLIDAYS for most people in the US?

In two days, makes a major effort to resolve two long simmering and dangerous Conflicts/Wars:

1) Ukraine-Russia first, meeting with Zelenskyy (and talked to Putin, on the phone), and

2) Gaza-Israel, meeting with Netanyahu, where BOTH crucial meetings happened at Mar-A-Largo.

also:
3) Trumps threatens Iran.

4) Did I mention that he authorized US actions in Nigeria to punish those killing Christians?

5) In what I think is a bad move, he apparently acts against Venezuela at a port where illegal drugs are loaded onto boats. Such actions is inching closer to an actual WAR.

[Dukasaur]

1) Ukraine-Russia first, meeting with Zelenskyy (and talked to Putin, on the phone), and

Yes, you are quite right. Trump has expended a truly extraordinary amount of effort strong-arming Zelensky into accepting the "20 point" plan which gives Russia everything it ever asked for, and gives Ukraine nothing but empty promises in return. When the Russian oligarchs started funding Trump in 1996, they could not have hoped for a better return on their investment. If anyone can con the Ukraine into accepting this totally one-sided "peace" plan, it's the Trump mob.

2) Gaza-Israel, meeting with Netanyahu

Yes, you are quite right. Trump continues to legitimize the warmonger Nutty Yahoo. He continues to pretend that there is some kind of a peace accord in Gaza, where Israeli forces have shot 400 innocent civilians since the signing of the bogus "ceasefire" only ten weeks ago. You didn't do the math, but it does mean 40 people per week have been gunned down since the laughably-named "Cease fire" was signed.

where BOTH crucial meetings happened at Mar-A-Largo.

Yes, you are quite right. Trump continues to insult the U.S.A. by transacting official business in his personal whorehouse instead of in official government facilities.

It reminds me very much of Louis XIV, who forced both French nobility and foreign ambassadors to treat with him at his person playground in Versailles instead of in the seat of French government at Paris. We studied this in history, back in the day. The French kings had very broad power to begin with; checks and balances were few. Even the few checks on his power were unacceptable to Louis in his drive towards absolute tyranny. By moving royal business away from the law courts, Louis made it impossible for victims of his policies to sue for redress and avail themselves of what few legal safeguards existed. In the same manner, he moved himself away from the bishops who were the other power that might have resisted royal absolutism.

I think much the same is the case with Trump's shifting of the fulcrum of power from Washington to Palm Beach. He gets farther from the Congress and reduces its influence over him. He's able to see disreputable visitors like Roger Stone without any official record of the visits which would happen if he held his meetings at the White House or Camp David. He's able to sidestep a lot of public oversight of the things he does, which would happen if his meetings were being held in official government facilities. It's definitely in perfect keeping with the standard tyrant's playbook.

3) Trumps threatens Iran.

Yes, you are quite right. The guy who tore up the Iran peace plan in 2016 and raised the extremists in Teheran back to power, is still at it. Still working with Israel to prevent any lasting peace. His big question now is, does he let Nutty Yahoo bomb Iran and have all the fun, or does he use American forces as well like last time? And this is the shit-disturber who thought he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.

4) Did I mention that he authorized US actions in Nigeria to punish those killing Christians?

Well, you spoiled your perfect record. You're only half-right on this one. While it is true that Trump has bombed seccessionst forces in Nigeria, most experts say they are not religious in nature. There are mainly tribal and regional conflicts at play here. The claim that seperatist militias in Nigeria are Muslims killing Christians is a bogus propaganda claim made to gain support from gullible American bible-thumpers. The seccessionists fight both Muslim and Christian forces with equal vigour. Link to educate yourself: https://theconversation.com/is-there-a- ... sts-268929. Whether Trump actually believes "war on Christians" propaganda, or whether he is just pretending to believe it for his own nefarious purposes, I cannot say for sure.

5) In what I think is a bad move, he apparently acts against Venezuela at a port where illegal drugs are loaded onto boats. Such actions is inching closer to an actual WAR.

Yes, you are quite right. Trump is doing everything he can to push Venezuela into war. A lot of the presidents in American history are associated in the public mind with some kind of war -- Bush with Iraq, Nixon with Cambodia, Johnson with Vietnam, Roosevelt with WWII, etc., etc., and Trump's ego demands that he have a war of his own that will forever be associated with his name. He has one problem -- he needs a casus belli. He needs some way to attack while making it look like they started it. So far, the Venezuelans have fervently avoided fighting back despite innumerable attacts on them. How far will he have to go to provoke them to war? Time will tell!

[Dukasaur]

The "peace president" starts yet another war.

2025
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-bom ... -9.7028340

Trump claims he's the 'president of peace' — so why is he bombing so many overseas hotspots?
U.S. has carried out well over 500 bombings across the globe this year, conflict monitors say

Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and Venezuela bombed. Some military targets, but mostly civilian casualties.

2026
Starts off with a bang. Invasion of Venezuela. And a promise that U.S. forces will be there for a long time to come.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5670738-us ... e-updates/

“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition,” he said at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday. “We don’t want to be involved with having somebody get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years. So we are going to.”

In other words, install a puppet regime, which will have no legitimacy and will require constant U.S. military intervention to stay on top.

Good going, Mr. "the era of forever wars has ended".

[HitRed]

I expect a flood of Venezuelans to return home in the next few years. Under Maduro the black market was the only way to get things. Everyone’s side hustle was importing the basics.

[jusplay4fun]

I tried to post this earlier today, but was unable to do so:

Nicolás Maduro, leader of Venezuela, and his wife, have been captured by US Forces.

There are at least two main questions:

1) What NEXT?

2) What does the military of Venezuela do NOW? Do they go along and do they fight to get him back?

Since the military, at least SOME military Leaders, benefitted from Maduro and the illegal Drug trade, how does the Military react?

AND was there an attempt by the US (CIA?) to placate some of the key military people before Maduro was taken captive? We will likely NOT learn these details for many years. Either the Venezuelan military was incredibly naive, or someone at or near the Top was informed and did NOT interfere. Either way, our military forces executed what seems to have been a very precise operation to get him and his wife, with apparent NO loss of life.

This reminds me in some ways of the operation to get Osama bin Laden (but that should have been done years earlier). That was a precise and surgical strike to get bin Laden and then take care of his body properly (as per Muslim custom, as I and we were told).

With that said, I question the LEGALITY of such actions regarding Maduro. I saw where ConfedSS posted about Noriega (of Panama), and this is similar, getting rid of a military strong man who is LIKELY an illegitimate leader and definitely a drug war lord, based on what I KNEW before of the taking of Maduro and his wife within the past day or so. This matter is similar to the actions against Panama and Noriega, but it was a much larger military action and involved more time and more troops.

Venezuelan leader's capture comes exactly 36 years after U.S. arrested Panamanian dictator Noriega
By Joe Walsh, Kerry Breen
Updated on: January 3, 2026 / 10:02 AM EST / CBS News

President Trump announced the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife early Saturday morning, 36 years to the day after U.S. forces arrested another indicted Latin American leader. (...)

Noriega fell out of favor with Washington due to his demands for independence and allegations that he was accepting bribes to allow drugs into the U.S. in the late 1980s. Former President George H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. military to invade Panama in late 1989, sending 24,000 troops to topple Noriega's government. The operation left 23 American soldiers dead and hundreds more injured.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venzeula-l ... l-noriega/

[jusplay4fun]

My LONG post on the matter of Nigeria has been lost (due to this site getting hacked and interrupted) and I am not sure I will find time to re-trace and re-post.

Suffice it to say, for now, that Duk is essentially correct, that NOT only Christians are being killed, but so are Muslims. And the fighting in the North of Nigeria is driven by religious AS WELL AS ethnic, economic, and territories issues. I read several sources to confirm that and (previously) quoted from at least 3 sources.

And there have been some highly publicized events that have gotten the attention of Trump. The government of Nigeria APPARENTLY supported Trump's actions, at least tacitly, but denies that there is a campaign to kill ONLY Christians in there nation. I think there is an admission by the Nigerian Government that there are problems in the North and in the border regions. I cannot recall the bordering nations, but that is not the main point here. It is, as often is, a more complex matter than what Trump presented, and not JUST some Muslim extremists killing and kidnapping some Christians in Nigeria very recently.

[jusplay4fun]

I am not comfortable taking a Leader from his nation by military force. The fact that this was also done to Noreiga makes this not a "Trump only" action of this type.

Live updates: Trump says US will ‘run’ Venezuela with Maduro in custody; reaction sharply divided

https://thehill.com/homenews/5670738-us ... e-updates/

Lots of angles on this matter covered at the link above.

One big difference between "Nation Building" ATTEMPTED in Iraq and Afghanistan is that we did not leave US Troops "on the ground" in Venezuela. I am sure we have CIA and possibly other undercover resources in place. This operation to "snatch" Maduro and his wife required really good Intelligence and that requires "human resources" on the Ground there. There were no US military deaths during this "quick and surgical" strike, from what I read during this operation. Details were limited, from what I have heard and read.

and

CNN
What the Noriega case can tell us about Maduro’s upcoming legal battle

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/nor ... p_catchall

[jusplay4fun]

[b [size=150 Wag the Dog.

More distractions as more and more Epstein Files stack up at the DOJ.[/size][/b]

No refutation by pack rat here. NO Surprise. Don't worry, he will try and post another ineffective rebuttal.

[karel]

nuke the twin cities

[mookiemcgee]

nuke the twin cities

Is Karel a traitor or just a little too excited about season two of fallout, the world may never know

[jusplay4fun]

House passes 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies

The House passed legislation Thursday to revive and extend expired ObamaCare tax credits in a bipartisan vote that is boosting hopes of centrist Republicans for a bipartisan deal to revive the tax credits.

The tally, 230 to 196, highlighted the tenuous grip Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has over his restive GOP conference. Seventeen centrist Republicans crossed the aisle to join every voting Democrat in support of the measure.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5680 ... ses-house/