Things are moving right along in Venezuela as the U.S. takes over.
In case you missed it, we bombed Caracas overnight and captured Maduro and his wife. As usual, X had the news before the legacy media but even when they did report on it, they sang from the same songbook.
Both The New York Times and The Washington Post couldn’t help but take a little dig at Trump in their homepage banner headlines in the wee hours this morning. The apparatchiks at both papers ran the exact same pre-dawn headline: U.S. CAPTURES MADURO, TRUMP SAYS.
“Trump says.” Had The One said it, or any president with a (D) after their name, the addendum would not be there.
Forbes was pretty close to the same headline, too:
Happily, we do have X for analysis worth reading. For instance:
From what we understand, the bombs were dropped on military installations. Given the company he kept, Maduro no doubt had targets — aimed at us? — worth vaporizing, and vaporize them we did, along with a few other things, evidently.
So while we left scorched earth in our wake, I fear we may not do the same in the courtroom where Maduro will be tried. I regret to inform you that this lefty hero will be tried in the Southern District of New York, which, with the possible exception of D.C., is surely the most progressive jurisdiction on the eastern seaboard.
Speaking of D.C., the Boasberg jokes have already started.
X even turned up a bit of terrorist trivia. It seems Trump likes January 3rd as a date on the calendar to get bad guys, one way or another. He smoked Qasem Soleimani on this date six years ago.
And can’t forget this one: