Thank you SJ for that comment.

That's the reason I got all of my money out of the DJIA back in November. Your a good poster.

Also, my family owns a farm on 40 acres in Beersville, NB.  That is my planned fallout shelter should the world end.

Maduro was a dictator but apparently a relatively weak one. His economy was in shambles, military power most likely pitiful compared to the US, popular support poor, and even opposition wasn't doing as badly as in many other countries. Also, not all 'strong' leaders get along, and being supposedly leftist (I think that's what Maduro was - supposedly?) probably doesn't help with Trump.

Trump is definitely letting Putin get away with playing him like the fool that he is. At this rate, Trump will be dead (from old age) before he realizes how Putin is playing him... unless he knows that and simply doesn't dare to play strong against a country like Russia. Trump likes to look strong, but he looks really pathetic in regard to Putin.

I'm sorry, but I don't really agree at all with your view about Trump. I think he's just an old man intoxicated by power, yet he's using all that power to prey on the weak.To anyone strong, it's all TACO. All he cares about is looking strong and productive, but he will probably be looked back to as a fool in the future: in ten years, the US will probably be either a dictatorship and/or worse for the general populace (not that it hasn't gotten worse for a long time anyway, as far as I know).

He can come up with any dumb justification to do whatever he wants, that's not a problem for him. But I don't think Trump would do to Canada the same thing he did to Venezuela. Canada is a *splarkles Western Country *sparkles. I see him invading small "third-world" countries like Colombia. As for Mexico and Brazil, he would probably try to manipulate public opinion (or enough people) to make them overthrow the presidents of these countries the same way he did with Nepal and Madagascar. He already has fixation with Mexico and this is election year in Brazil, so these two countries are already in his future imperialist schemes.

Someone said here that because of Venezuela's invastion Today is better than Yesterday and he is impressied how efficient he operation happened. What an absurd statement

You forgot about Cuba. Just saying.

This is another distraction to take the attention off the tremendous economic and child sexual assault at the hands of MAGA’s elite and other upper class sorts.

I doubt the US is going to do any “puppet state” stuff because of the current financial crisis the US is facing under the sloppy management of the Republicans combined with how perpetually expensive puppeteering is. Trump’s “we’re taking control of Venezuela’s oil” is neither a profitable nor sustainable goal; it’s just an idiotic thing Trump is saying because he knows how profoundly stupid the whole MAGA movement is (the whole thing was forged in profound stupidity). The distraction is to try and make them think “we’re taking control” equals money bags for them; and the goal of the distraction, is that they’ll either forget or tolerate the fact that he’s a massive pedophile and child rapist while believing that he’s going to make their lives better… just after a little while longer of making things worse.

The only realistic outcome of this direction is a big bill for the already suffering American population so that a few billionaire mining company shareholders can get slightly wealthier… most of those aren’t even American.

The problem with Trump is that he’s an idiot. He has no idea how to run a prosperous country, only how to please the people who are exploiting it; again, many of those exploiting the situation are not American. Trump’s not in it for the US, he’s treated the country like shit, harassing people with ICE brigades, threatening the US’s own cities. MAGA is just cult of those stupid enough to believe Trump is their messiah. This is demagoguery 101, and tyrants have been pulling this same game going back all the way to Archaic era Greece. And that’s really the big flaw with democracy, when stupid people gather in large numbers, they generally throw up some sort of cult of personality, and the ones they follow aren’t the intellectuals, they’re the idiots. Demagoguery eroding a country into an impoverished tyranny in a nutshell.

Jumpin, sounds like you have a hidden agenda. Just saying.

He'll do it regardless of whether or not he has jurisdiction, because he thinks just like Hitler.

Gonna blame our Maple Syrup for their obesity problems ;) 

Canada is huge, bigger than the US. The US can't afford to occupy Canada. Heck they can't even afford to occupy Venezuela, it's hit and run tactics and hoping threats will be enough to 'run' Venezuela. 

But we are third on the list for biggest oil reserves, after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia :/
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-reserves-by-country/

Whole list of geopolitical targets.

Venezuela: 'captured' 
Saudi Arabia: Deals made, US bases installed, 'excused' for 9/11 (15 of the hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, trained in Afghanistan and key people in Hamburg, Germany. Iraq was not involved at all...)
Canada: Tarifs and threats for now.
Iran: Trump can't wait to throw the country into civil war and go after its oil.
Iraq: Already handled, US bases installed.
Kuwait: Playing along for now, US bases installed.
UEA: The biggest bastards next to Israel on US' pay list, behind the genocide in Sudan, US bases installed.
Russia: Trump so wants to give them Ukraine to get the oil flowing again.
Libya: Handled, 'pacified' in 2011 with Nato support now ready for US/EU oil companies, US non-permanent "contingency location" in the Sahara at al-Wigh
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/markets/us-and-european-oil-giants-qualify-for-libyas-first-oil-bidding-in-17-years/nncxnnp
Nigeria: Bombing in progress


Greenland: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated that northeastern Greenland's offshore areas could hold about 31.4 billion barrels of oil equivalent (MMBOE).

Greenland has banned exploration which surely is a thorn in Trump's eyes with estimates close to US/Nigeria oil reserves yet far shy of Canada's. However our oil has high initial costs to extract, mostly oil sands (97%). Not as lucrative as other places.


Trump thinks like a businessman, not a very good one but he runs the country like a mafia boss running a business. Extortion is far easier and cheaper than occupation. So he'll continue with that trying to get Canada to capitulate and become a state. Which won't happen, but we better look elsewhere for business while Trump remains in power.

Wow, USA Today just came out with an article showing concerns over Trump's health. It even goes so far to ask whether it is tike for JD Vance to take over.

USA Today tries to be light reading that is middle of the road and appeals to everyone. They aren't the liberal media by any stretch of the imagination.  There is no bias here and so the press in general is starting to turn against Trump. Is Trumps apparent paranoia over dementia a bad sign to America? I think so. It seems like Trump has another exam every week now. He is taking them so frequently that he's learning how to ace them even as the signs of dementia are becoming more and .more obvious.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/01/05/trump-health-age-health-concerns/87997190007/

You mean they weren't before?

He's at least still got enough cognitive function (which for him isn't much) to use invading Venezuela to distract from all the children he and other Epstein associates sexually assaulted. He's just that desperate to avoid being lynched for his pedophilia.