President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all “sanctioned oil tankers” into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country’s authoritarian leader Nicolás Maduro in a move that seemed designed to put a tighter chokehold on the South American country’s economy.
Trump’s escalation comes after U.S. forces last week seized an oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast, an unusual move that followed a buildup of military forces in the region. In a post on social media Tuesday night announcing the blockade, Trump alleged Venezuela was using oil to fund drug trafficking and other crimes and vowed to continue the military buildup until the country gave the U.S. oil, land and assets, though it was not clear why he felt the U.S. had a claim.
“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump said in a post on his social media platform. “It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the United States of America all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us.”
Anybody want to tell the world what land and oil Venezuela has stolen? Does Grandpa Sundowner now think that he's a memver of some native South American tribe?
Meanwhile, the Ancient Racist is adding more countries to his Operation Ban Brown People From Coming Here.
He's been very specific as to what countries he wants immigration from: Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Nobody has managed to point out to Our Demented Nazi-in-Chief that, to the residents of those countries, the U.S. is a shithole country with bad health care, a failing public education system, an emerging autocratic government and rampant crime committed by gunmen.
In a move that should surprise nobody, our Drunken War Criminal isn't going to release the video that proves that he's a war criminal. To cover up his crime, he's classifying it "top secret".
Finally, Lord Bezos is in the news for giving a neurdivergent school charity $5 million. To which I say: Big Fucking Deal. If a millionaire gave a local animal shelter fifty bucks, neither the shelter or the donor would be putting out press releases. Because, on a percentage basis, that's the same level of giving. Bezos isn't the only rich fuck to make a mockery of charitable giving, both Grandpa Sundown and the Ketamine Rocketman are masters of that.
