God Fuck Us, Every One

"Every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two. You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice. You don’t need 37 dolls." - Donald "$300 million dollar ballroom" Trump, December 10, 2025.

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If you recall a western from the 50's called "Shane" then you understand that Trump's confiscation of a Venezuelan oil tanker is the "pick up the gun" moment for Maduro.

If Venezuela is lucky this might just be a simple kidnapping and it will get its boat back if they pay the bribe, uh, I mean, ransom.

In this case, though, the ransom is the entire country of Venezuela.

In either case, this is another step towards Iraq War 2, except the person in charge of the U.S. military this time is perfectly willing to commit war crimes to get the oil companies, and his bank vault, exactly what they want.

I should point out that the tanker was confiscated by the U.S. Coast Guard, which is part of Homeland Security and not the U.S. Navy, but the orders all come down from Pumpkin-Head McGee.

(Mostly as a reminder to myself, this confiscation could be just a ham-handed diversion from the multiple articles of impeachment against Trump's hand-picked cabinet members, possible unsealing of more Epstein documents, and the horrible losses Republicans suffered in two elections overnight.)

- Lefty