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Maduro "Effed Around & Found Out"; Trump Says 'We Will Run Venezuela' Until Safe Transition After Operation 'Absolute Resolve'

Source:	Zerohedge
Published:	2026-01-03
Author:	Tyler Durden
Post Date:	2026-01-03 13:02:03 by Esso
Views:	306

President Trump discussed the military action in Venezuela with perhaps the most notable aspect of his address being the confirmation that the US will run Venezuela until a safe transition can be undertaken:

*TRUMP: AT MY DIRECTION, US CONDUCTED OPERATION IN VENEZUELA

*TRUMP: AIR, LAND, SEA USED TO LAUNCH ASSAULT ON CARACAS

*TRUMP: ASSAULT WAS TO BRING MADURO TO JUSTICE

*TRUMP: US SUCCESSFULLY CAPTURED MADURO 'IN DEAD OF NIGHT'

*TRUMP: CALLS MADURO A DRUG 'KINGPIN'

*TRUMP: MADURO WILL STAND TRIAL ON AMERICAN SOIL

*TRUMP: NO AMERICAN SERVICEMEMBER WAS KILLED

*TRUMP: NOT A PIECE OF AMERICAN EQUIPMENT WAS LOST

*TRUMP: WILL STAGE SECOND, LARGER ATTACK IF NEEDED, BUT PROBABLY NOT NECESSARY NOW

*TRUMP: WE WILL RUN VENEZUELA UNTIL WE CAN DO SAFE, PROPER, JUDICIOUS TRANSITION

*TRUMP: CAN'T TAKE A CHANCE THAT SOMEONE TAKES OVER VENEZUELA

*TRUMP SAYS MACHADO DOESN'T HAVE RESPECT TO LEAD VENEZUELA

*TRUMP: NO CONTACT WITH MACHADO

*TRUMP: REPEATS CLAIM THAT VENEZUELA SEIZED, SOLD AMERICAN OIL

*TRUMP: US OIL COMPANIES WILL SPEND BILLIONS ON INFRASTRUCTURE

*TRUMP: PARTNERSHIP WITH US WILL MAKE VENEZUELANS RICH, SAFE

*TRUMP: VENEZUELANS WILL BE HAPPY

*TRUMP: REASSERTING AMERICAN POWER IN 'OUR HOME REGION'

*TRUMP: US RETAINS ALL MILITARY OPTIONS UNTIL DEMANDS MET

*TRUMP: WE HAVE SUPERCEDED MONROE DOCTRINE

*TRUMP: WHAT HAPPENED TO MADURO CAN HAPPEN TO OTHERS IN VENZ.

*TRUMP SAYS 'NOT AFRAID' TO DEPLOY TROOPS TO VENEZUELA IF NEEDED

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#9: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#4)

I have a cousin that lived in NYC. He moved to San Francisco. He said he likes the weather out west better. ;)

BTP Holdings posted on 2026-01-03 18:05:34 Reply Private Reply

#10: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#0)

Ys think this might have something to do with a Venezuelan ship firing on the U.S. destroyer in international waters off the coast of Venezuela?

BTP Holdings posted on 2026-01-03 18:08:26 Reply Private Reply

#11: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#9)

[final dialogue of series finale] Sonny Crockett: What you doing here? Figured you'd be halfway to New York by now.
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Everything always takes longer than you think.
Sonny Crockett: Well we had one hell of a run, didn't we partner?
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Yeah, we sure did Sonny.
Sonny Crockett: So, you really gonna go back up to the big bad Bronx?
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Yeah it looks that way. How about you?
Sonny Crockett: I don't know. Somewhere further south, somewhere where the water is warm, the drinks are cold, and I don't know the names of the players.
Sonny Crockett: I'm gonna miss you man.
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: I'm gonna miss you too Sonny.
Sonny Crockett: I'll give you a ride to the airport...
Det. Ricardo Tubbs: Why not.
Sonny Crockett: ...with my stolen car.

I'd move out of the snowbelt if I wasn't such a cheap-ass.

Me and Winter don't get along anymore, but anything I do for myself is like putting new wheels and tires on a car that's on its way to the junkyard.

A waste of spirit.

I do a pretty good Evel Knievel Caesar's Palace Fountain jump impersonation just by walking.

I missed the ice under the snow and had a little spill and needed some first aid. The fire dept. took care of me.

I wonder if they're gonna bill my O'bamaCare?

Kimmy's gonna think I've been rough-housing with another gal.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 18:52:20 Reply Private Reply

#12: Esso To: BTP Holdings, Dakmar, ghostrider (#11)

Jesus, they had to blur out tats in the front row.

"I'll take 'How you know you live in a dying country' for $800, Alex."

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 19:19:39 Reply Private Reply

#13: Esso To: All (#12)

I'm quite sure he's regretting calling the U.S. cowards. Plus whoever runs the White House account needs a raise. ASAP!! [Funny video]

https://x.com/RagingKuJo1222/status/2007571618894119343

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 19:33:32 Reply Private Reply

#14: ghostrider To: BTP Holdings (#9)

I was at Treasure Island June '82 and again in July '85 never got over 55 degrees, the souvenir shops sold tee shirts "The coldest winter I've ever seen, was a summer in San Fransico"

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 19:52:36 Reply Private Reply

#15: Esso To: All (#13)

Tim Walz goes Hollywood, starring in his first film: White Tard Down.

https://x.com/FredJellyBeans/status/2007610342797680805 [Video]

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 19:55:38 Reply Private Reply

#16: Esso To: ghostrider (#14)

"The coldest winter I've ever seen, was a summer in San Fransico"

It was a line in the movie "Escape from Alcatraz" (1979)

My wife was on a business trip to SF a long time ago.

She brought me a T-shirt, something about the Alcatraz Triathlon, "Dig, Dash, Dive" or something along those lines.

It's probably still around somewhere.

I never throw anything away.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:04:38 Reply Private Reply

#17: Esso To: ghostrider (#16)

Alcatraz San Francisco Triathlon Vintage T-shirt Size XL ...

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:06:39 Reply Private Reply

#18: Esso To: Esso (#17)

Alcatraz Triathlon - Crater Dyed® Short Sleeve Crewneck T-Shirt

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:07:53 Reply Private Reply

#19: ghostrider To: Esso (#11)

used travel trailers and motorhomes are easy to find here (81 degrees today) people snowbird a few years and then they say screw it and buy a house and never leave. pretty common for houses to have cement pads and sewer and power hookups for the relatives from up north to park until hurricane season rolls back in. others call one of the numerous cactus patch rv parks home, only moving their trailer when there are major renovations going on. the fancy rv parks have del sol in their names.

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 20:11:01 Reply Private Reply

#20: Esso To: ghostrider (#18)

Nevermind, I give up.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:11:01 Reply Private Reply

#21: ghostrider To: Esso (#20)

I think I know that one it was next to the shirt that said "once a king always a king but once a knight is enough"

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 20:23:13 Reply Private Reply

#22: ghostrider To: Esso (#16)

I didn't see that movie until the late '90s on tv and then I never saw it in its entirety, I have a pet termite I call it Clint, Clint Eatswood.

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 20:29:27 Reply Private Reply

#23: Esso To: All (#20)

Mexican President Sheinbaum says she CONDEMS the US capturing President Maduro.. [Video]

https://x.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2007552882770637013

Sheinbaum, typical Mexican name. I think she ran unopposed after the cartels killed something like 19 of her opponents.

Her TDS won't let her shut up, though. (See the Maduro video taunting Trump at: https://x.com/RagingKuJo1222/status/2007571618894119343 [too funny])

We used to have a saying in The Company, "Silence makes no mistakes." Words to live by.

We were always getting in trouble about something-or-other, and you want to explain yourself, but the more you talk, the deeper the hole you dig.

There's probably some fancy psychological name for not having the ability to STFU, but it escapes me right this second.

I think Tim Burchett (R- Rep TN 2nd district) said it best, "God gave me the right to remain silent, but not the ability."

Pretty smart for a guy almost a year younger than Kimmy.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:39:40 Reply Private Reply

#24: Esso To: ghostrider (#22)

I quit pay Teevee years ago, but my mother wanted it for my younger sister before they died, Mom, 2014, Carol in 2018.

I got a TiVo box, DVR and DVD burner. I have 400 discs, 1,200 movies, lot of old stuff mostly TCM depression-era, in a Sony 400 disc changer next to me.

Lightning took it out in 2017 or so. The strike was on the house, not the powerline, you could see the tracks on my living room wall.

It's about 24x24x6", the discs are on a turntable standing upright in a torus shape. The sumbitch probably weighs 200 lbs loaded.

I had an IR to RF remote deal set up you could control it from the living room or bedroom.

It's just kind of abandoned-in-place.

The TiVo was pre-digital, analog TeeVee, so it's worthless.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 20:56:26 Reply Private Reply

#25: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#0)

I heard Venezuelans are SO happy they won't commit any more crime!

Fuck this big orange lying-ass boomer.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 20:58:34 Reply Private Reply

#26: Esso To: Prefrontal Vortex (#25)

My Venezuelan pets disappeared a couple weeks ago.

See post #7.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 21:02:53 Reply Private Reply

#27: Prefrontal Vortex To: BTP Holdings (#10)

Money to Hezbollah.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 21:05:54 Reply Private Reply

#28: Dakmar To: ghostrider (#22)

Who hasn't ever daydreamed about...termites? Neither Misters Eastwood or Norris are in on my plan, which is to ignore them. Cost to public: $0

Care to work that up into a woeful lament about how oppressed you are?

Bugs yet

Dakmar posted on 2026-01-03 21:06:19 Reply Private Reply

#29: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#13)

Aren't all bullies at bottom cowards?

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 21:07:34 Reply Private Reply

#30: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#8)

The US military is just another football team for boomers. Rah-Rah-Rah while the country crumbles around them.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 21:08:57 Reply Private Reply

#31: ghostrider To: Esso (#23)

Sheinbaum, typical Mexican name.

from one of the germans that liberated mexico from the french, during both world wars mexico sided with germany. when Patton was in the border area as a young officer mexicans crossing the border were often greeted with machine gun fire. did I ever tell you the tale of the bacon tree?

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 21:10:48 Reply Private Reply

#32: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#6)

I will laugh when Dems charge Trump with war crimes.

Maybe he'll flee to Israel, I dunno.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 21:11:56 Reply Private Reply

#33: Dakmar To: ghostrider (#22)

LOL, I remember seeing Mike Douglas Show on TV,

Dakmar posted on 2026-01-03 21:12:31 Reply Private Reply

#34: Dakmar To: ghostrider (#31)

That has a good beat and I can dance to it, but frankly I would feel awkward being surrounded by that many agents.

Dakmar posted on 2026-01-03 21:21:01 Reply Private Reply

#35: Esso To: Prefrontal Vortex (#25)

What did "Orange-Man-Bad" lie about to you, PFV?

What didn't Prez Pedo/Sniffer not lie about?

So much winning. One year of President Trump, and more to come in 2026! [Video]

https://x.com/CoVet_81/status/2007558869464297787

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 21:23:15 Reply Private Reply

#36: ghostrider To: Dakmar (#28)

chuck norris can tie his shoes while he is wearing them with his toe, the day after chuck was born germany surrendered. I'm so incognito that they've never noticed me ignoring them.

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-03 21:25:00 Reply Private Reply

#37: Dakmar To: ghostrider (#36)

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Dakmar posted on 2026-01-03 21:29:48 Reply Private Reply

#38: Esso To: Prefrontal Vortex (#32)

2026 is gonna be hard on you, my friend.

I'd have more respect for you if rather blaming 'generic boomers' on your unhappiness if you put the blame where it lies, with niggers, muzz, joos, homos and pedos.

Making up non-existent things in your head is very unbecoming for someone as smart as you are.

There's going to be a huge push to clear the deck before the next major distraction, 4July2026, the 250th 'birthday' of the country.

By then, most Dims might be in custody and not be able to run in the midterms.

All this larping is all good & fun for the leftists/new commies right now, but people are tired of the chaos. At least the ones who matter, the homo/tranny/pedos/purple hairs don't count.

I spent 15 years in countries watching what happens to countries in trouble, the USSR, Northern Africa, India, Somalia, the Middle East, "Palestine," Europe before the GloboHomos invented the EU, etc.

They may very well make a martyr of "Orange-Man-Bad', which will be the sorriest day of their lives.

Check the search frequency of queries inside the Beltway of people wanting to get out of the country, because they're having a 'fit of the imaginaries' or just plain criminals, it's enlightening.

Second-guessing "Orange-Man-Bad" is a dangerous game, ask Maduro.

A 60-minute op, and he's gone. Reagan was good, but Jeeze, in the end, he was still just a low-IQ actor that fell in with the wrong crowd.

Buckle up, Buttercup, the ride is just starting.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 22:10:20 Reply Private Reply

#39: Esso To: Dakmar (#37)

I've had a thing for gals named Teri since Jr. HS when I met my future ex-wife.

Things pretty much went tango-uniform when she became a big-shot, or so she thought, with the logistics company she worked for and cut her hair off to be more something.

Me and Pam were somewhere between Lake Geneva and the Finland Station when we started doing the Cold War horizontal bop.

Me and Teri kept tolerating each other until Texting Woman about killed me. She couldn't take anymore. She ran off with a gay male pediatric nurse because she thought it would be chic.

Didn't work out so good for her. Pedos gonna pedo. I kind of regret not taking her up on her indecent proposal after Angie's funeral, but I didn't want to get HIV/AIDS or something. I didn't want to cheat on Kimmy, but that may be academic at this point.

We're too much alike, I know too much about geopolitics, Kim knows too much about post-Covid healthcare. Killing is killing.

What the 'doctors' are doing to my sister is proof of that. Waterboarding? Shit, hold my beer, my girlyfriend is an MD!

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 22:53:06 Reply Private Reply

#40: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#38)

>By then, most Dims might be in custody and not be able to run in the midterms

Very sad old man. Very sad.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 22:54:09 Reply Private Reply

#41: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#38)

> Reagan was good, but Jeeze, in the end, he was still just a low-IQ actor that fell in with the wrong crowd.

Reagan was not low IQ, but was wrong about a lot. Loved him at the time, which was before I could vote or knew about the red sea pedestrians.

Not all boomers BTW. Most boomers couldn't even vote in 1964 and 1965, when the death blows to America were struck.

Although my boomer dad started a hippy-yippy, he wized up to the Dems. Took him longer to wise up on the rest. You still haven't, and I don't see any excuse for it. I've met several GWOT vets who certainly have.

I blame boomers, and the so-called greatest gen before them, in the same sense as Kipling's end to The Hive.

The stock grew weak.

Doesn't matter how many people you've offed. Either something 's off with you or you just too old and I should leave you to your hopium.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-03 23:11:59 Reply Private Reply

#42: Dakmar To: Esso (#39)

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Dakmar posted on 2026-01-03 23:45:09 Reply Private Reply

#43: Esso To: Prefrontal Vortex (#40)

Lighten up, we'll know by next summer. There's nothing worth getting spun-up about now, we're both speculating at this point.

I'm not that old, I still have my hair and it's not grey or white but my beard has some white starting, but I'm usually clean-shaven.

Tampon Timmy, the pedo, who is three years younger than me, Kim's age, looks old enough to be our grandfather.

Truce, please. We're just talkin', exchanging ideas, ya know?

I respect you too much to get into a firefight.

There's not many of us left at 4um.

I will give you major credit for one thing, PFV. I don't know your age, but you seem to be handling the US's slide into communism/socialism/new communism much better than I am.

Maybe I've been too close to the fire in the past, actually by operating in communist countries.

Maybe you can help explain the "New and Better" way to me. Mao's "Great Leap Forward"? FDR's "New Deal"? LBJ's "Great Society"? ObamaCare? Pol Pot's "killing fields"?

I can't think of anything that Clinton did that was horrible right now, I'm getting tired.

The exchanges should be interesting, to say the least, my friend.

I AM a nice guy, just opinionated.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 23:50:54 Reply Private Reply

#44: Esso To: Dakmar (#42)

I get bored when Kim's not here.

Not that bored.

Paul Harvey's better.

Esso posted on 2026-01-03 23:59:05 Reply Private Reply

#45: Dakmar To: Esso (#44)

"Truth" is subjective.

Facts are not.

Dakmar posted on 2026-01-04 00:06:40 Reply Private Reply

#46: Esso To: Prefrontal Vortex (#41)

"Reagan was not low IQ, but was wrong about a lot."

He was an actor, nothing more, nothing less. He wasn't calling the shots.

"Although my boomer dad started a hippy-yippy, he wized up to the Dems."

You're mad at your Dad, copy that. Mine died when I was 14, I never knew him.

"...or knew about the red sea pedestrians."

Unfortunately they're not going anywhere.

"You still haven't [wised up], and I don't see any excuse for it."

I have. You just want to be mad.

"I've met several GWOT vets who certainly have."

GWOT was bullshit. What good came out of it, TSA? Talk to a Vietnam vet. Better hurry, they're going fast.

"I blame boomers, and the so-called greatest gen before them, in the same sense as Kipling's end to The Hive."

Congrats, you're better read than me. I'm going on lived experience. Not make-believe.

"Doesn't matter how many people you've offed."

100% correct. You should worry about "healthcare" providers that were just following Fauchi's and Biden's BS mandates under threat of imprisonment directed at US citizens, not crying over Maduro.

"Either something 's off with you or you just too old and I should leave you to your hopium."

I'm OK, You seem to be pretty upset for no reason though. (See post #43) Free country.

I don't want the US going the way of the UK, EU, Australia.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 00:29:53 Reply Private Reply

#47: Esso To: Dakmar (#45)

The EW1 tech guys from Magnavox, now Raytheon, used to call this 'Binary Bop'. You should understand, digit bender.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 00:41:36 Reply Private Reply

#48: Esso To: All (#47)

You know who she is? I do.

JUST NOW: El Salvador President Nayib Bukele calls out Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen for saying the arrest of Maduro is “illegal.” “So you just want to defend thugs.” Bukele is right, Van Hollen is embarrassing our country.

Pedo.

Blast from the past: Colon Pollip, with Anthrax.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 06:08:45 Reply Private Reply

#49: Esso To: All (#48)

Hey everybody, first-shift Esso is calling it a night. I filled in for second-shift Esso since Kimmy was indisposed.

Treat him nice, he's new here at the secret airbase, and shy. He's learning the BS, albeit slowly.

Here's another blast from the past, only boomers and GenX remember...

Esso Sunday morning is up next... It's 27 degrees at Langley, VA, The snow is light and moving out.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 06:21:11 Reply Private Reply

#50: Esso To: All (#49)

Esso 4 from the back shore of Lake Logan on this gloomy day in the Beltway.

I hope Esso 1's GF doesn't get sick anytime soon, it really stinks in here. He needs a bath, LOL!

No new news to report, how about an old GenX favorite?

So much for the pizza traffic indicator in DC, "Orange Man Bad" moved the whole DC works to Mar-A-Lago. Black tie only.

The FBI HQ is closed for the duration according to Cash Patel, too many leaks to an adversarial MSM.

It's moving north and west to NY, OH, IL, MI, WI, MN and CA. That's a secret, don't tell anybody.

Word is, Caracas, Venezuela was just a test for Little Mogadishu in Tampon's hood. Might take more than an hour to clear that and mop-up due to so many lefties rolling on the ground pissing themselves.

Cali's another story, LA may need napalm strikes to clear out the druggies, not like it's not burned anyway. Whitey is moving in!

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 07:06:15 Reply Private Reply

#51: Esso To: All (#50)

“Nicolas Maduro has been charged with Narco-Terrorism Conspiracy, Cocaine Importation Conspiracy, Possession of Machineguns and Destructive Devices, and Conspiracy to Possess Machineguns and Destructive Devices against the United States,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

Machado? That's not jooish!

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 07:08:31 Reply Private Reply

#52: Esso To: All (#51)

IT WAS TRUMP, I SWEAR!

TRUMP, TRUMP, TRUMP!

27 in the Beltway, cloudy, winds are light. Humidity 75%.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 07:18:46 Reply Private Reply

#53: Esso To: All (#52)

Esso1 really pissed off someone on X.

Esso1 said a pic was probably AI.

The poster said he doesn't 'get it' with no explanation.

All of us Essos work off the same script, but when somebody goes "KA-BOING" out of left field, left usually being the operative, it's hard to keep up.

The pic in question:

First caller with the correct answer will win a hearty shout-out on Air America.com!

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 07:35:52 Reply Private Reply

#54: Esso To: All (#53)

"First caller with the correct answer will win a hearty shout-out on Air America.com!"

The photo is real. The OP that was questioning Esso1 thought he didn't understand why tats might be blurred out.

He's crazy, but not stupid. The guy was just being an elusive dickhead.

The all-encompassing point might be that .mil guys shouldn't have to be secret agents except for an out-of-control leftist faction in the US.

How about a dose of hot, barefoot Swedish chicks?

She's dead, but aren't we all? Still 27 degrees at 1300 Zulu time!

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 08:59:11 Reply Private Reply

#55: Esso To: All (#54)

After several back-and-forths with Mr. MI on X, I've determined he isn't from MI, or a unit of measure of volume, ml, but an ex-military intelligence officer.

That would certainly explain the evasiveness.

I dubbed him, Lord Commander Milliliter.

He has to change his X handle now.

Esso posted on 2026-01-04 09:30:49 Reply Private Reply

#56: ghostrider To: Dakmar (#37)

ghostrider posted on 2026-01-05 23:04:04 Reply Private Reply

#57: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#0)

Utter clown.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-08 23:43:59 Reply Private Reply

#58: Prefrontal Vortex To: Esso (#46)

"You're mad at your Dad, copy that"

No you're just a boomer retard. Never was mad at him. Ever, ever, ever.

Prefrontal Vortex posted on 2026-01-09 10:17:12 Reply Private Reply

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