When the cops in Grand Rapids, Michigan, tell you and your bullhorn to get the hell out of the street, you'd better do it, because there's a law for that

  

 Preschool Teacher, 22, Arrested on TV After Condemning Trump...

The dopes around Trump thought the Cartel de los Soles was a real entity, including Marco Rubio to this day

 Pam Bondi forced to admit Trump's Maduro claim is a complete fiction

... Cartel de los Soles is actually a slang term invented by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe officials who take drug money as bribes.

The revised indictment against Maduro now concedes that point against the now deposed dictator.

The old indictment refers to the Cartel de los Soles 32 times and claims Maduro is the leader of the organization. The revised document now only claims Maduro upheld the patronage system along with his predecessor and mentor, President Hugo Chávez. ...

Marco Rubio continued referring to Cartel de los Soles as an actual organization during a Sunday interview on NBC's show Meet the Press.

'We will continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs toward the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles,' Rubio claimed.

'Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel, is now in U.S. custody and facing US justice in the Southern District of New York. And that's Nicolas Maduro.' ...

 

The GOP grip on the U.S. House remains tenuous with the sudden death of Doug LaMalfa, CA-1, at 65

 

The Erinyes keep pursuing the Republicans for their crimes.

 

 Sudden death of Republican lawmaker shaves GOP House margin to three votes

... [Doug] LaMalfa's death imperils the Republican House majority, leaving Speaker Mike Johnson with just a three-vote margin after the formal resignation of Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene on Monday. 

House makeup is presently 218 Republicans to 213 Democrats, leaving Republicans able to lose no more than two votes on any party-line measure, assuming full attendance and participation.

It was also revealed Tuesday that Indiana Republican Congressman Jim Baird, aged 80, has been hospitalized after a car accident.

Democrats are set to gain one additional vote in their caucus after a runoff election in Texas later this month to replace Congressman Sylvester Turner, who passed away last March, taking the Republican margin down to two votes.

Another special election will take place to replace former New Jersey Democratic Congresswoman Mikie Sherill in April after she was elected the state's governor in November. ...

 

Texas' Tyrant Governor, Republican Greg Abbott, has deliberately denied representation in the US House to the residents of TX-18 since March 2025. 

 

The holiday help at Drudge didn't disappoint, producing a nice bunch of typos

 

This was a much bigger whopper in 2024 than Politifact's "they're eating the dogs"

 

Everybody, loves Dino Paul Crocetti, sometime

 

They must read me lol

 

Third paragraph in, husband's gone from 560 square foot apartment with wife and two kids lol

 Why smaller houses can lead to happier lives

. . . Jaye, who still lives there . . ..

The Department of One Law For Me, Another For Thee checking-in

 

Donald J. Trump, dictator of Venezuela

 

Trump on Venezuela: "We Are Going To Run The Country"

George W. Bush crossed the Rubicon of American Imperial pre-emptive first strikes in 2003 in Iraq but it was hotly debated in 2002, now we hardly bat an eye when Trump does it

Government of the Uniparty, by the Uniparty, and for the Uniparty.

Trump fancies that he's different from George W. Bush, but he's the same guy. 

Flashback: July 1, 2002 

Striking First: President Bush's Preemptive Strike Policy

... We can't have one kind of law for the rest of the world that we impose on the rest of the world and an imperial law, if you will, a law of empire, that applies only to the United States. ... We were seeing the possibility of a new kind of law of empire where we would stand above the rest of the world, and the bottom line when we look at the question of attacking civilians, what happens when we're wrong? Like we were today in Afghanistan, where civilians died because of bad intelligence? ...

 

China may have been buying up to 80% of Venezuelan oil exports, but that amounts to just 4% of China's imported supply

 Ample oil supply shields China from impact of Venezuela disruption, for now

 

They're licking their chops over Venezuela's $17 trillion worth of crude oil

 

U.S. in Prime Position To Unlock Venezuela's Vast Oil Reserves

Eaton, et al., WSJ

Venezuela's new dictator

Hegseth: When Trump Says U.S. Will "Run" Venezuela, He Means "He Will Be Able To Dictate"

Long yields have defied Fed interest rate cuts since September 2024, signaling persistent higher inflation

 

For Donald Trump there's REGIME CHANGE, and then there's R E G I M E C H A N G E

 

Some people think this might have been, you know, theatre, where if everyone plays their part then everyone wins

Except for the casualties in Venezuela, of course, who presently number about 40. 

 

Trump was against regime change before he was for it

 

In August 2016 in Youngstown, Ohio Trump specifically disavowed regime change wars, but now we're going to be running Venezuela for a while after removing Maduro

 

 ... Our current strategy of nation-building and regime-change is a proven, absolute failure. ...

Here. 

 

Trump captures Maduro on the sixth anniversary of his Soleimani assassination lol

 

... Explosions were reported in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, at about 2 a.m. local time (0600 GMT), according to images circulating on social media that could not be independently verified. ...

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... Soleimani was assassinated on 3 January 2020 around 1:00 a.m. local time (22:00 UTC 2 January),^[158] by a U.S. drone strike near Baghdad International Airport.^[159] 

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