Dead Men Do Tell Tales

 

     Two days ago, as he was taking a brief vacation from the front nine at Mar a Lago, the rotting corpse of Donald Trump was pulled from his casket and propped up to hold a press conference. And when a reporter asked the stubbornly semi-sentient cadaver if he'd notified oil companies about Venezuela's invasion, the waste of trace elements said, 

      "Before and after. They want to go in and they’re going to do a great job."

     Then they installed him back in his coffin in preparation of the next chapter of Weekend at Bernie's.

     So there you have it. Once again, it was never about fentanyl (which is primarily made in Mexico, not Venezuela) and it certainly wasn't about running afoul of the 1934 National Firearms Act pertaining to just two kinds of weapons. It's about the oil. It was always about the oil.

     This was an admission that would be stunning if one refuses to consider Trump's naked corruption. What his admission essentially confirmed was that US Delta Force operators risked their lives and Venezuelans lost their lives so Trump could reward his wealthiest donors after all the bribes they lavished on him for his ballroom.

     Since Trump bypasses Congress any and every time he thinks he doesn't absolutely need it, it shouldn't surprise any one that Trump never gave a heads-up to the Gang of Eight, much less get permission from Congress to engage in what's nothing more or less than an act of war upon a sovereign nation.

     What sets Trump apart from other right wing scumbags that had illegally invaded sovereign nations is that Trump is brazenly telling everyone what the real reasons were. Whereas his predecessors hid behind mealy-mouthed rationales such as democracy and so forth, Trump is coming out and admitting it was done at the behest of oil companies. There doesn't seem to be an exit strategy in place, with little to no heed being paid to the fate of the people of Venezuela.

     And, as geopolitical analysts have already conjectured, Trump's invasion of Venezuela could wind up giving a giant permission structure for other authoritarian nations to invade other countries such as Russia with Ukraine and China with Taiwan. The ripple effect could be catastrophic.

     If it wasn't for the deaths and devastation in Venezuela, it would be comical watching an illegitimate president accusing someone else of being an illegitimate president and that Maduro's prosecution is literally being held right around the corner from where Trump himself was prosecuted, and convicted, of fraud.

     And today, we're hearing that the DOJ is quietly backing off one of its key charges against Maduro, being the head of “Cartel de los Soles”. And the reason why they're backing off those charges is that the government is finally coming to the conclusion that the “Cartel de los Soles” doesn't exist any more than does antifa. It's more like a verbal designation to describe high-ranking Venezuelan officials who'd enriched themselves through drug shipments. The name translates to "cartel of the suns", a mocking reference to the suns that Venezuelan generals wear to denote rank.

      So, just days into Maduro's and his wife's kidnapping, the federal government has to retool its charges, just as it had to with James Comey, because of Trump's "ready fire aim" bullshit.

      We could be hopeful and dream of the day when Trump gets impeached for the third time over this murderous stunt. We can hope that he trades places with Maduro some day at that courthouse in the Southern District of New York.

       But we've been there before, haven't we?