Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Venezuela proved Trump thinks like Putin — and Europe needs new allies
Trump called Putin “genius.” Then he followed the playbook.
By Hans Petter Midttun | Jan 5, 2026
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/05/venezuela-proved-trump-thinks-l
ike-putin-and-europe-needs-new-allies/
On 3 January 2026, President Trump ordered a large-scale military strike against Venezuela — a sovereign nation that posed no threat to the United States.
Like President Putin on 24 February 2022, Trump launched an armed aggression against an independent country in gross violation of the UN Charter. Not because of an imminent danger, but because Venezuela has resources crucial for great power competition. And because the United States — like Russia — seeks to restore its pre-eminence in what it considers its sphere of influence.
"With President Trump, the US are abandoning the rules-based order that has shaped us since 1945," said Roderich Kiesewetter, a prominent German conservative MP. "The coup in Venezuela marks a return to the old US doctrine from before 1940: a mindset of thinking in terms of spheres of influence, where the law of force rules, not international law."
He added: "Trump is destroying what was left of any trust in the US"
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It's not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts aren't publicly known, though it's believed to be in storage.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump administration's Department of Justice is seeking to dismiss a police officers' lawsuit asking that it be displayed as intended. The Architect of the Capitol, which was responsible for obtaining and displaying the plaque, said in light of the federal litigation, it cannot comment.
Determined to preserve the nation's history, some 100 members of Congress, mostly Democrats, have taken it upon themselves to memorialize the moment. For months, they've mounted poster board-style replicas of the Jan. 6 plaque outside their office doors, resulting in a Capitol complex awash with makeshift remembrances.
"On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on Jan. 6, 2021," reads the faux bronze stand-in for the real thing. "Their heroism will never be forgotten."
Jan. 6 void in the Capitol
In Washington, a capital city lined with monuments to the nation's history, the plaque was intended to become a simple but permanent marker, situated near the Capitol's west front, where some of the most violent fighting took place as rioters breached the building.
But in its absence, the missing plaque makes way for something else entirely — a culture of forgetting.
Visitors can pass through the Capitol without any formal reminder of what happened that day, when a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the building trying to overturn the Republican's 2020 reelection defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. With memory left unchecked, it allows new narratives to swirl and revised histories to take hold.
More at https://www.npr.org/2026/01/06/nx-s1-5668076/january-6-plaque-law-enfo
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I have to acknowledge this horrible anniversary.
Five years ago Donald Trump tried to overthrow an election he lost. He failed, and I assumed that the threat was over. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine that he would make a comeback and return to the White House. But there he is. And he’s every bit as bad as his opponents and critics warned he would be.
I’m not going to talk today about how we got here and strategies for getting out. All I want to do right now is to say that we should be clear about what is happening. American fascism is on the march, and anyone who balks at saying that clearly, who makes excuses and pretends that Trump and the people he brought in aren’t monsters, is deeply unpatriotic. If we are to have a chance at saving democracy, our first duty must be clarity. No sanewashing, no bothsidesing. Only facing the horrible truth can set us free.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-of-infamy
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting formally dissolves after federal funding cuts
Board of directors vote to dissolve organization after nearly 60 years in operation after funding cuts under Trump
By Lauren Aratani in New York | Mon 5 Jan 2026 15.42 EST
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/05/corporation-for-public
-broadcasting-board-dissolves
The nonprofit charged by Congress with allocating funds to NPR, PBS and other US public radio and television stations announced is dissolving after massive federal funding cuts under Donald Trump.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced on Monday that its board of directors had voted to dissolve the organization after nearly 60 years in operation.
Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB, said in a statement Monday that the organization’s board of directors voted to dissolve the organization as it “faced a profound responsibility”.
She added: “CPB’s final act would be to protect the integrity of the public media system and the democratic values by dissolving, rather than allowing the organization to remain defunded and vulnerable to additional attack.”
The organization was created by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which built the organization to support NPR and PBS, along with 1,500 locally owned and operated public media stations. The organization was tasked with distributing $500m worth of funding annually to NPR, PBS and its network of local broadcast stations.
Trump and his conservative allies have long criticized PBS and NPR. Plans to cut funding for public broadcasters were outlined in Project 2025, the rightwing manifesto for a second Trump administration, and by May of last year, Trump had sent a memo to Congress demanding it take action to cut the CPB’s funding.
“For years taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing [NPR and PBS], which spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news’,” the memo said. In July, Trump wrote on social media that any Republican who voted against funding cuts “to allow this monstrosity to continue broadcasting will not have my support or endorsement”.
The Republican-controlled Congress would go on to cut $1.1bn in funding from CPB, forcing the organization to shut down operations in August.
Local public broadcasting stations have been essential for news deserts in parts of the country where traditional media, especially newspapers, have shut down in recent decades. Over half of the 544 public radio and TV stations that received CPB funding were considered rural, giving 99% of Americans access to public media.
The cuts to federal funding have inspired donors from across the country to go on a “rage-giving” spree, sending $70m in donations to public broadcasters over the last year. But it’s unclear how long the broadcasters can survive on donations alone: one analysis estimates that 15% of local stations are at risk of closing in three years because of the cuts.
In a statement, Ruby Calvert, chair of the CPB’s board of directors, said that she is “convinced that public media will survive, and that a new Congress will address public media’s role in our country because it is critical to our children’s education, our history, culture and democracy to do so.”
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Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts”
By Nick Turse | January 5 2026, 3:30 p.m.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/05/trump-venezuela-war/
Early Saturday morning, after cloud cover lifted, elite Army Delta Force commandos moved in. With support from CIA covert operators and other military, intelligence, and law enforcement personnel, they carried out the Trump administration’s audacious regime-change project in Venezuela, upending global order and shattering what remains of geopolitical norms.
As the day wore on, the full scope of the operation became clear: The U.S. had attacked a sovereign nation with which it was not at war and did so without congressional authorization; kidnapped its leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and rendered them to the United States; announced plans to “run” that country as a de facto colony; and threatened further attacks and military occupation unless the acting president does America’s bidding.
“We’re in charge,” Trump said of Venezuela on Sunday night, speaking to reporters on Air Force One. “We’re going to run everything.”
Reflecting on the operation, dubbed Absolute Resolve, a senior defense official called America a “rogue state” and pronounced dead the liberal rules-based geopolitical order which U.S. administrations, of both parties, have championed since World War II.
“His powers are rooted in the fearmongering post-9/11 decisions creating emergency powers that were never reined back in.”
“It’s crazy how we are following the old, failed scripts: Topple government. Make no plans for the aftermath,” the senior defense official said. “We must face the reality Trump has no limits. His powers are rooted in the fearmongering post-9/11 decisions creating emergency powers that were never reined back in.”
The administration has justified Absolute Resolve by citing the president’s authority under Article II of the Constitution to protect U.S. personnel from an actual or imminent attack.
Sarah Harrison, who previously advised Pentagon policymakers on issues related to human rights and the law of war, said that the attack was a clear violation of international law and the administration’s justifications are baseless.
“Countries cannot go around the world using force against other states merely due to criminal activity. On this point the administration has put forward one of the most groundless legal arguments,” Harrison told The Intercept. “What happened on January 3 was clearly an offensive, not a defensive, mission, and an act of aggression in violation of the U.N. charter and customary international law.”
“There’s a pervasive corrosive fear in the Pentagon among those of us opposed to Trump and his policies,” the senior defense official told The Intercept. “We have supported the country and the institutions for decades and now watch as they are being dismantled.”
Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson did not reply to repeated requests for comment concerning the statements by the senior defense official.
Forever Wars
Over the weekend, Trump repeatedly threatened continued war in Venezuela, as the U.S. maintains a massive military presence in the Caribbean, including the largest naval flotilla in the region since the Cold War. “We’re prepared,” Trump said of possible follow-up strikes on Venezuela. “You know, we have a second wave that’s much bigger than the first wave.”
He also threatened that the “American armada remains poised in position, and the United States retains all military options until United States demands have been fully met and fully satisfied.”
Trump also left the door open to a full-scale military occupation. “We’re not afraid of boots on the ground,” he said.
Trump said that the U.S. intends to employ Delcy Rodríguez, Maduro’s vice president, as a puppet under threat of further U.S. attacks.
“If Maduro’s vice president — if the vice president does what we want, we won’t have to do that,” he said of a military occupation. Trump told The Atlantic on Sunday th
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Originally posted by second:Quote:If the Nazis had YouTube, they would have videos of every crime by a Jew to justify the Holocaust.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Uh huh.
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Be Evil. Be a dick.
The Nazis would have videos justifying invading Poland. Or Venezuela.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Approximately 3.6 million people ride the NY subway every day.
The New York City subway system has a daily ridership of approximately 3.6 million people, which reflects a significant increase in ridership since the pandemic. In 2025, the subway experienced a record-breaking year with nearly1.9 billion trips.
To prove your point SECOND.
That said, Jack has no idea nor the cognitive ability to understand even the simplest of concepts. That's ok though, so long as he doesn't kill himself. That would be tragic. I can handle him being stupid. I'm still not responding to his posts though. I don't want to send him over the edge.
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Sure thing buddy.
You just keep posting clickbait and trash that never happens and wonder why nothing ever goes the way you think it will.
Meanwhile, I batted 1.000 in my prediction for the 2024 election, the entirety of 2025, and I don't see that slowing down in 2026 either.
Loser.
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Isn’t it funny how comrade signym and others here complained for years, decades even, about America and how poorly it is run? Only to back for president the most corrupt individual they could find. A convicted felon and sexual abuser, who then filled the white house with other criminals bent on destroying all our democratic institutions. And all of them being about self-enrichment.
A white house that runs the country the way comrade signym and others here, created thread after thread over decades, to cry foul about. They are backing a war monger who steals other countries treasure while also looting our own.
And isn’t it funny how now, they argue with anyone who exposes their hypocrisy. Anyone who reveals their lack of morals laid bare, by their principles blending seamlessly with a corrupt president.
Another problem they have, is that all their rants over the years, decades, have been exposed to be complete bullshit. Rants against happenings, gauged by what we see is acceptable to them today, that they apparently never did care about themselves.
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Shut up, kidfucker.
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