Jan 5, 2026 ~ 'Maduro’s downfall is good news. Machado taking over would be ideal.' Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
"Millions of people around the world, most of all in Venezuela, are celebrating the downfall of the dictator Nicolás Maduro. President Donald Trump’s decision to capture him on Saturday was one of the boldest moves a president has made in years, and the operation was an unquestionable tactical success. The next step is ensuring that this triumph sets Venezuela up for stability and prosperity rather than more of the same, or worse." [Trump Win, Venezuela]
Jan 5, 2026 ~ 'Why Venezuelans Are Dancing In The Streets'
Written by native Venezuelan Daniel DiMartino. "Venezuelans throughout the world are celebrating after this weekend’s perfectly executed U.S. military operation which captured narco-terrorist tyrant Nicolas Maduro. The morning I woke up to the news of Maduro’s capture was one that I had been dreaming of for my entire life as a Venezuelan who suffered under his regime. This move by President Trump and his team provides justice, advances America’s and Venezuela’s interests, and could unleash prosperity like we have never seen before in the Western Hemisphere."
"Venezuelans throughout the world are celebrating after this weekend’s perfectly executed U.S. military operation which captured narco-terrorist tyrant Nicolas Maduro. The morning I woke up to the news of Maduro’s capture was one that I had been dreaming of for my entire life as a Venezuelan who suffered under his regime. This move by President Trump and his team provides justice, advances America’s and Venezuela’s interests, and could unleash prosperity like we have never seen before in the Western Hemisphere."
"What Venezuelans feel today is not bloodlust or vengeance. It is relief. It is gratitude. And above all, it is hope. Gratitude toward the United States, a country that did not throw in the towel when diplomacy, sanctions, and international pressure all failed. Gratitude toward an America willing to defend its own interests while also standing on the right side of history. Gratitude to President Trump for following through on his promise, to Secretary of State Marco Rubio for standing for his values when it mattered, and to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and all the U.S. servicemen involved who executed an operation perfectly."
"I pray that history will remember this weekend as the moment the world’s longest-running socialist experiment collapsed under the weight of its crimes. For Venezuelans, it is the first real chance to rebuild a country that once welcomed the world, and can do so again. Justice is here. Freedom is within reach. For the first time in my life, Venezuela’s future feels brighter than its past. I wish that so many people, including my immigrant grandparents, were alive to see this. Thank you President Trump." [Socialism, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Jan 5, 2026 ~ 'Trump outdoes himself'
"Compare this to Trump’s light touch, in which the precise amount of force needed to do the job is unleashed at the proper moment with no previous discussion or justification, and certainly with no warning. In Iran, Trump encouraged Israel to degrade Iranian armed forces – in particular its state-of-the-art SAM air defense systems -- then followed up with a single air strike by B-2 stealth bombers armed with the exact munitions (MOP bombs) intended for the job. Problem solved, with no sackcloth and ashes at the UN, no pleading for permission from “allies,” no leftist marches in front of the White House, and no waste of time, resources, or, most important, soldier’s lives."
"But with Venezuela, Trump has outdone himself. Use of force was utterly minimal – a few cigarette boats sunk at sea, a few seizures of illegal tankers, a single airstrike on a narcoterrorist loading site, and finally, the arrest of the goons in charge. The result not only encompasses the ongoing collapse of Venezuela’s narcoterror Marxists (I’m sure old Karl never imagined that), but also a four-ball carom shot dealing body blows to Cuba, Iran, and China. No wonder the Venezuelan people are calling Trump 'Don Maestro.'" [Socialism, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Jan 5, 2026 ~ 'Joe Rogan Says Drug Overdose Deaths Have ‘Dropped off a Cliff‘ Due to Trump Admin‘s Boat Strikes'
“For the time Trump’s been in office, deaths by overdose have dropped off a cliff.”
“Look at that. Look at 2024 and leading into 2025. These are all deaths from overdoses. I mean, that’s kind of crazy — look at that drop.”
“That’s the peak where people are dying. Then from the time Trump’s in office, it’s taking a fucking sharp downturn. And why is that? Well, part of it is they’re blowing up these fucking boats that are bringing in all the drugs,” [Crime, Drugs, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Jan 3, 2026 ~ 'BREAKING: Trump Captures Maduro, Wife; Both Face Trial in New York'
The Delta Force strikes to extract Maduro were constitutional as this was a law enforcement operation. Maduro lost his election but seized power anyway. He and his predecessor nationalized American oil companies and have been stealing the oil ever since. They run narcotics into the US. The Biden/Harris administration called for Maduro's arrest and put a $25 million bounty on his arrest. Trump should collect it.
Venezuelans in Venezuela and all over the world are celebrating and dancing in the streets. The socialists like Maduro have turned Venezuela from a very prosperous country to an impoverished, starving and oppressed nation. People sit in prison for criticizing Maduro. Those who could get out (millions) fled. Those who could not, exist in poverty and hunger. The only people unhappy are American Democrats and other leftists who always side with criminals, dictators, despots and terrorists. Kamala Harris looks especially foolish for criticizing this arrest after her administration offered a $25M bounty for it.
Monica Showalter of American Thinker described the raid: "The raid was pitch perfect, an 88-minute operation to extract Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro from his highly fortified military bunker against a barrage of defenses. Massive resources were employed, and the coordination between the Army, Marines, Space Force, Air Force, Navy, and DEA was absolutely flawless. Even the filming of the invasion was flawless." [Crime, Drugs, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Dec 24, 2025 ~ "Bari Weiss Had 5 Reasons For Yanking ’60 Minutes’ Report On El Salvador Prison"
One of the latest #FakeNews stories Democrats are pushing (there are many as they are busy faking Trump/Epstein pictures and letters) is that Bari Weiss spiked a 60 Minutes report on the Trump Administration deporting illegals to an El Salvador prison because she is kissing up to the Trump Administration. But she only delayed it because she recognized how imbalanced it was (which was par for the course before she showed up).
She recognized that the 'journalists' never bothered to get the Trump Administration's side of the story (kind of basic). She insists that that do that. Also, "Weiss criticized one of the angles of the '60 Minutes' segment, arguing that it focuses too much on the illegal immigrants sent to CECOT who do not have criminal histories and not enough on the violent criminals who have been removed from America." She pointed out that they were misleading people by reporting how many were 'sentenced' for crimes but not revealing how many were 'charged.'
Finally, she noted that CBS did not acknowledge both sides of a debate on the legality, but rather presented the anti-Trump side as fact. Weiss concluded by telling the staff that CBS News should better explain “the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.”
“It’s not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due ‘judicial review’—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority,” Weiss argued. “There’s a genuine debate here.”
So Weiss is not censoring or spiking a story. She is requesting changes to bring the piece up to better journalistic standards and will run the story when it meets those standards instead of being the kind of one sided hit jobs that the #FakeNews was used to running before she showed up. [Fake News, Free Speech, Illegal Immigration, Silencing, Venezuela]
Oct 13, 2025 ~ 'Nobel Peace Prize Winner Maria Corina Machado Dedicates Award To Donald Trump'
"Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado dedicated her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday to President Donald Trump for his 'decisive support' of their cause."
“We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy. I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support for our cause!” [Socialism, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Sep 21, 2025 ~ "Trump Blows Up Another Boatful Of ‘Narcoterrorists’: ‘WE ARE HUNTING YOU’"
In case any international drug traffickers thought Trump was bluffing, he blew up another drug boat running between Venezuela and the US.
“This morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a SECOND Kinetic Strike against positively identified, extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Strike occurred while these confirmed narcoterrorists from Venezuela were in International Waters transporting illegal narcotics (A DEADLY WEAPON POISONING AMERICANS!) headed to the U.S.” [Crime, Drugs, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Aug 9, 2025 ~ John Stossel, 'My Socialist Mayor'
"Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state 'provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.' Sounds nice. But socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. It never has. It's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried."
"Whether you call it the abolition of private property," said Mamdani, "or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now."
"No! It's not! This idea has failed, again and again! Socialism, in various degrees, was tried and abandoned in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Myanmar, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Guyana, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and India. Countries that didn't abandon socialism, like Cuba, Bolivia, and North Korea, stay poor. Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Now it's the poorest."
"Socialism destroyed Venezuela," says Venezuelan-born economist Daniel Di Martino. "No government has the capacity to run thousands of businesses."
"People need capitalism -- a profit motive -- to do that." [Economics, Economy, John Stossel, Poverty, Socialism, Venezuela]
Mar 23, 2025 ~ 'Trump Forces Democrats To Make Fatal Mistake' "El Salvador President Nayib Bukele confirmed that over 250 Venezuelan gang members had been received by his government and sent to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center." Trump deports illegal gangm members and Democrats are not happy about it. A judge ordered the plane return but Trump ignored since the plane was already over international waters when the ruling was made. [Crime, Illegal Immigration, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Mar 15, 2025 ~ Victor Davis Hanson explaining how Trump uses tariffs effectively: Donald Trump’s Tariff Diplomacy Is Working President Donald Trump is not using tariffs for their historical purpose, which is to protect and promote domestic industry. Instead, Trump, as Victor Davis Hanson argues, is using tariffs to hold countries, like Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, and China, accountable. And it’s working. On this edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson dispels the Left’s hysteria over President Trump’s tariff policies: “So, if you take Venezuela and Colombia, he's saying that ‘you people deliberately emptied your jails and you sent them to the United States—sent them being felons—violent felons. And you're not going to do that anymore’. And they said, ‘we're not taking them back’. He said, ‘you're going to take them back, or I'm going to put a tariff’. So, it was a lever of diplomacy, and it worked. They backed down completely.” [Economics, Economy, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Mar 8, 2025 ~ 'ActBlue, the Democrat party’s fundraising engine, is in deep trouble' "The Republican-led House Administration Committee has found evidence that illegal donations from China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela may have been laundered to Democratic campaigns through the party’s online fundraising juggernaut ActBlue." The rats are already jumping ship "with at least seven senior officials resigning late last month." Ouch. [Politics, Venezuela]
Feb 8, 2025 ~ 'Venezuela, Panama, Mexico, Canada: Tired of all the winning?' Trump is racking up win after win. The above list does not even mention the EOs protecting children from gender treatments they can't consent to, protecting women's sports, brokering the Gaza ceasefire, the Laken Riley Act, shutting down USAID, pulling the US out of Paris Agreement and other climate related extortions, dealing a blow to ISIS, Colombia caving to deportations, reinstating troops discharged over Covid vaccine, and more! [Illegal Immigration, Islam, Israel, Terrorism, Trans, Trans Athletes, Trump Win, Venezuela]
Aug 10, 2024 ~ 'Team Biden is shocked, shocked at massive migrant fraud — but still wants to wave them in'
"Team Biden has halted a program that flies migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela into the United States after the Department of Homeland Security uncovered massive fraud by the program’s applicants."
This is fraud on top of the fact that none of the applications for asylum are valid asylum claims.
The program is halted as a result but Biden and Harris are doing everything they can to restart the program. [Biden, Harris, Illegal Immigration, Venezuela]
Oct 1, 2023 ~ Byron York explains how Biden (who caused the current illegal immigration crisis) is accelerating it through a program called the CBP One parole which permits inadmissible aliens to fly directly to airports in the interior of the United States, bypassing the border altogether. "The program applies to migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti. The migrants, according to the Center, request 'advance travel authorizations' through the CBP One mobile app." This program is bringing in between 200-300 thousand per year more migrants above the millions being allowed to come in through the border. [Biden, Illegal Immigration, Venezuela]
Mar 19, 2022 ~ Biden and Europe made themselves dependent on foreign oil to uselessly climate change posture. Europe can't quit Russian energy because they foolishly cut their own supplies. Biden said no more Russian oil but then buys more from Venezuela and Iran. Maduro will buy from Russia. [Climate Change, Economics, Energy, Russia, Venezuela]
Oct 27, 2021 ~ John Stossel, 'Lessons from Venezuela' Everything the Democrats want to bring to the US has failed hugely in Venezuela. Hate speech laws, packing the Supreme Court, gun control, printing money leading to inflation and hyperinflation. [Economics, Guns-Mass Shootings, John Stossel, SCOTUS, Socialism, Venezuela]
Oct 10, 2021 ~ Socialist Venezuela slides deeper into its predictable poverty. Now 76.6% of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty, rising nearly 10% in a single year. Long list of Democrats who had praised Venezuela's move toward socialism. They want to bring that kind of poverty to the USA. [Economics, Poverty, Socialism, Venezuela]
May 1, 2019 ~ Omar's comments on Venezuela got widespread condemnation from Nikki Haley, Pompeo, Pence, Rubio and others. Much of what we are doing is humanitarian. She immediately plays the race card. 'Women of color have heard this before.' even though many of her critics are women of color. [Fake Racism, Omar, Socialism, Venezuela]
May 1, 2019 ~ Venezuela is collapsing under socialism and Illhan Omar finds a way blame the United States 'bullying'! 'A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead to the devastation in Venezuela. And we've sort of set the stage for where we're arriving today.' [Omar, Socialism, Venezuela]
Apr 10, 2019 ~ Economist Walter Williams lists many socialism vs. capitalism experiments that have run side by side. East vs. West Germany, North vs. South Korea, Venezuela and Argentina before and after socialism. 'Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.' [Economics, Socialism, Venezuela, Walter Williams]
Mar 27, 2019 ~ Stossel lists many liberals that praised Hugo Chavez in 'The Socialist Fantasy'. They claim Venezuela not a socialism failure. It was 'mismanagement'. 'But mismanagement is what happens under socialist governments... always'. Fall back to Denmark & Sweden which are not socialist. [Economics, John Stossel, Socialism, Venezuela]
Feb 27, 2019 ~ Bernie Sanders refuses to call Maduro a dictator - reluctant because he knows Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and the USSR, all nations he's praised, are textbook cases of socialism. Now he cites countries that reject the socialist label like Denmark as socialism success stories. [Economics, Sanders, Socialism, Venezuela]
Feb 1, 2019 ~ Former Socialist finally admits it doesn't work 'The Bolivarian God That Failed', 'By 2004, I was already well aware of what Marxist-Leninist socialism had done to the twentieth century. So why did I fall for the socialism of Venezuela?' At least he learned. Modern dems have not. [Economics, Socialism, Venezuela]
Oct 16, 2018 ~ Stossel, 'Socialism Destroys'. Gloria Alvarez from Guatemala said 'I watched democratic socialism fail in Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Chile, Nicaragua and Uruguay'. Applauded every time, fails every time. Countries dems say are socialist are not. [John Stossel, Socialism, Venezuela]
Jun 25, 2018 ~ Venezuela is 'a textbook example of the evolution of socialism' - nationalize companies, try to run them while seizing their profits to try to fund massive welfare states - always fails descending into mass poverty - the left never learns [Socialism, Venezuela]
May 27, 2018 ~ Trump Has Secured the Release of Another American Prisoner Overseas, Joshua Holt being held for bogus reasons in Venezuela for 2 years [Trump Win, Venezuela]
Feb 19, 2018 ~ John Sexton, 'Where are the liberals on Venezuela?' - after so many prominent liberals glorified Venezuela, socialism and Chavez, all we hear is crickets after its collapse into chaos and poverty. [Socialism, Venezuela]