I wouldn't mind the cat sitting on me as I write this so much if he at least helped fix the typos.

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□ [“92-Year-Old Clinton Judge Who Blocked Venezuelan Gang Deportations to Preside Over Maduro Case"]

I think a number of lines are being put together here, this judge has ruled against Trump several times.  I had to look up where Maduro was being stored - Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn - and if that was where Jeffrey Epstein died.  No, he died in Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, a whole five miles away.  Guess there's no connection there.

 But the SDNY is clearly biased against Trump and has been linked to a lot of the problems we've seen in the last several years.  There's an obvious question, why did they send Maduro here?  I think (hope) that he's connected to these people and that will be exposed.  New York City and state must have a lot of people worried about this now.

Of course the left is trying to insist it was evil to get rid of a tyrant and free Venezuelans from tyranny.  Apparently Maduro was totally safe, wouldn't hurt a fly.  They don't explain why the Biden administration issued a $25 million bounty for Maduro’s arrest, was this just a fake stunt to hide what they were really doing?  Of course not, it's Democrats, so it gets forgotten immediately.

□ [“Reports Suggest New Venezuela’s Interim President Negotiated Maduro's Removal With the US"]

Someone definitely turned on him, I'm sure the Special Forces didn't sneak/fight every step of the way to find him.  My guess it was either his guards - who came from Cuba - or some of his underlings, which might include this new chick-in-charge.  But the negotiations were supposedly in the United Arab Emirates.  Hunh?  That's one of those things that seems so unrealistic that it might well have happened that way just because we'd never suspect it.  But the UAE's connection shows even more lines that are being tied together here.

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□ [“Cuban Dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel Vows Cubans Will 'Give Our Blood' and Make the U.S. 'Pay a Very Heavy Price'"]

I've never known what Cuba and Venezuela's actual relationship was although obviously Cuba has been pumping out communist propaganda for decades.  I think it's that they're the ones supported by Venezuela, which they needed after the Soviet Union fell but I might be wrong about that.  Anyway, they are connected and Cuba must be very worried that they're next.  SoS Marco Rubio has said as much although he specifically stayed out of details precisely to avoid leaking anything.

Democrats in Congress are complaining that they weren't informed about this strike and it's clear why, they'd have leaked it if they could.  So would the 'deep state.'  I've been going through my coverage over the last year and noticing that Trump seemed to fire a lot of people he had just hired, so I keep wondering how many of those were also leakers.  However it worked, people with any common sense are impressed by how this mission was pulled off with nobody knowing until after it was over.

Democrats are yammering about the 'war powers act' all to avoid having to think about what connections might be revealed to them.  Cartels bringing in money and transferring it, Somalis also transferring money, a lot of Democrat politicians getting campaign donations.  Even a lot of judges are connected to this, such as those in SDNY which is where Maduro will be tried.  I'm probably just being overly-hopeful but it would be awesome if all of these lines were connected here to be exposed to the world.

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□ [“‘Tyrannical War Criminal’ Bluesky Leftists Go Ballistic Over Trump and Maduro"]

If you've been paying any attention - and I can't blame you if you haven't - the left just keeps getting more and more batsh*t over everything.  A war has to last longer than a movie for there to be any crimes committed.  Obama put out a bounty for Maduro's arrest, Biden increased the bounty, Trump 2.0 carried it out, that's not a war.  But these people refuse to see that.

Of course they're posting vids of protests, reportedly around the world although most of them are officially in the US.  Lots of pre-printed signs that must have been ready to go.  Almost nobody wearing coats or jackets in early-January protests.  At least some A.I. is easy to spot the lack of reality.  Without that, we're left wondering why these people have nothing else to do in their lives.  It's like with Iran just a few months ago, there was no war so what are you protesting?

The leaders of Russia, China, Iran and more are also protesting the US raid on Venezuela.  It's one thing if you really are on the same side as Putin, Zi and the mullahs, but if you've spent last few years insisting you oppose them, you should be asking why you suddenly agree with them when it comes to [checks notes] getting rid of a dictator and giving a nation a chance for freedom.  Even Hamas has spoken out, they're opposed to just grabbing someone from another country and taking them prisoner.  Um...

No idea if it'll work out, I'll assume without bothering to check the US record in Central or South America isn't great, but at least it's yet-another chance.

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□ [“Minnesota AG Keith Ellison's Son Collects Six-Figure City Salary Despite Being In Massachusetts"]

He's at Harvard on a fellowship but gets paid lots of taxpayer money by Minneapolis for some reason.  Just because there's a lot of attention suddenly given to Venezuela doesn't mean we've forgotten about all the taxpayer money being funneled out by leftists and their family members.  You can make the point that this is a distraction but which is the distraction, Venezuela or the money laundering, and which is really important?  And we still haven't gotten to the Epstein files yet, jus' saying is all.

I suspect that each of these things functions as a distraction from the other.  The money laundering might be the single biggest piece of the puzzle - the biggest piece of the puzzle so far! - and I would think that the Trump administration is trying to get through everything they can with the time they have.  The left can't protect Somalis if they're focused on restoring the Venezuelan dictator, priorities!  As we see with Ellison's son, they can't protect their own family members either.

That's why I think this will have the biggest effect because it will expose so many of our self-appointed leftist masters.  Every city and state can have people whose job is to launder taxpayer money and pass it along to their children.  Because what is leftism about if not making your blood relations rich from money they did nothing to earn?

But I still don't get what can be done about them.  This just includes tens of millions of people, it's not like we can jail or execute them all.  Then there's all the ways they can add even more people, my military paycheck bounced around for countless reasons, adding this money for this reason, subtracting that money for that reason, none of which I remotely understood and very quickly gave up on trying to follow.  Wouldn't be hard to include me or many others in moving the money around even though it has nothing to do with us?  That's why it's so hard to comprehend how deeply this goes and it's everywhere!

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