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BadgerMom

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17. Easier still: he's following orders.

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #13)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 12:23 PM

Oct 26

Whose orders, you ask? I can’t be sure but Putin and the Saudi princes jump to mind. Once we had intelligence services that might have known. Now? Not so much.

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Here's a thought and not too far fetched [View all] Aviation Pro Oct 26 OP

I miss the time when we didn't elect terrorists as President. nt RandomNumbers Oct 26 #1

Oil. Oil. Oil. mercuryblues Oct 26 #2

yeppers - something like 3X the Arabian reserves. rurallib Oct 26 #8

Yes!... In that order! Ars Longa Oct 26 #12

Exactly dflprincess Oct 26 #23

Too bad they're too stupid to realize that the majority of Venezuela's oil is Orinoco extra heavy crude hatrack Oct 27 #38

It's oil Fiendish Thingy Oct 26 #3

Venezuela isn't a major producer of illegal drugs; it produces no fentanyl at all and very little cocaine. Ocelot II Oct 26 #4

Why hasn't the used asswipe gone after the users? Aviation Pro Oct 26 #5

GoldSphincter GopherGal Oct 26 #7

Cue Shirley Bassey... "Goldsphincter" ultralite001 Oct 26 #29

And it turns out Koch has the precise refinery in Texas. ananda Oct 26 #22

Just like Bush and Iraq, oil . republianmushroom Oct 26 #6

There is the ongoing court-ordered liquidation of CITGO, Cities Services bucolic_frolic Oct 26 #9

Yeah, just looked lonely bird Oct 26 #33

"the mighty Google" is a great term that could stick bucolic_frolic Oct 26 #35

That's been my suspicion from the start. n/t Mister Ed Oct 26 #10

Trump wants a cut of the drug trade. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #11

There is no drug trade in Venezuela. It's a conduit for cocaine shipments from Colombia. Ocelot II Oct 26 #14

Trump's accusations are usually confessions. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #19

What If The Tr**p Crime Syndicate Is Already Into The Drug Trade The States &..... global1 Oct 26 #16

The drugs carried by those little boats are a tiny fraction of the amount sent to the US Ocelot II Oct 26 #18

Trump is sending a message by blowing up the boats. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #26

He's devolving mercuryblues Oct 26 #36

He is getting crazier and crazier. Irish_Dem Oct 27 #37

Yes I wondered about the same thing. Literally blowing his competition out of the water. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #20

You seem to be assuming he's thought it all through. I wouldn't bet a sack of garbage on it. eppur_se_muova Oct 26 #13

Easier still: he's following orders. BadgerMom Oct 26 #17

Trump has thought about how to be the richest man the world. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #21

Maybe "obsessed with" and "thinking about" are different things. eppur_se_muova Oct 26 #24

Trump has street smarts, and an instinctual animal cunning. Irish_Dem Oct 26 #25

Don't forget, the 2nd largest refinery in the world is sitting there n/t Cheezoholic Oct 26 #15

CONGRATULATIONS!!! AverageOldGuy Oct 26 #27

Is it too soon to consider that the most egomaniacal and dumbest person to ever rise to the... Ol Janx Spirit Oct 26 #28

Don't overthink it. It's EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN, EPSTEIN usonian Oct 26 #30

Promises made Traildogbob Oct 26 #31

He's trying to provoke a war response from Venezuela tinrobot Oct 26 #32

He is a kleptocrat lonely bird Oct 26 #34