‘Peace President’ Felon Bombs Venezuela, Kidnaps President

By Michael Woyton

What’s the difference between a foreign head of state convicted and sentenced of drug trafficking and a foreign head of state accused of drug trafficking?

Well, the answer is, one gets a pardon and the other gets kidnapped.

The FIFA peace-prize-winning president, who couldn’t even manage to find his way back to the White House from golf resort paid vacation, told the world today that the United States made one of the greatest raids/invasions since World War II.

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He haltingly read a speech that appeared to be filled with many riffs, including his armed invasion of American cities, the implication that “wars” closer to U.S. territory are better than wars further away and stating that other presidents didn’t have the courage to defend America.

The bottom line seems to be that this military action was a war in another country and that we are now going to be running Venezuela until there is a “proper and judicious transition” while rebuilding its oil industry. In other words, who knows how long U.S. troops will be there.

By the way, Venezuela is about 1.5 times the size of Texas.

Well, well, well. Was there any doubt that the “peace president,” who is also someone who made the Department of Defense into the Department of War would bring us to this day?

Where are our congressional representatives now and where will Congress be when — or if — they reconvene?

By the way, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Congress was not notified in advance of the military action, so there’s that.

Sadly, I fear Congress will for the most part remain toothless and spineless, continuing to allow a demented tyrant to further bring this country shame.

Trump, who is unpopular at best, is facing a lousy economy and fallout from the Epstein files and the Jack Smith investigations and decided a war on foreign soil was the best antidote.

He needs to be proven wrong — soon.

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Trump is asked who is running Venezuela nowHe refuses to answer the questionTrump is asked whether we will put boots on the groundHe refuses to answer the questionThis is all insane and no one in American media should normalize even a single word of this

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T17:18:59.943Z

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president – failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home – decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

— Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T17:08:38.724Z

one thing about congress that's become very blatant in my life is that they actually kinda enjoy the executive bypassing them all the time to do military shit. this way, their fingerprints don't have to be on any of it. preferring a lack of responsibilities and accountability to their own power.

— Colin Spacetwinks (@spacetwinks.bsky.social) 2026-01-03T13:00:42.405Z

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Lead art: Screen grab from the Associated Press via YouTube.