Truthful Liars

In my desperation to find something positive to say about Trump's invasion of Venezuela, I've come down to this...

He’s telling the truth—sorta.

That is, after he's done lying. So you might say he's the most truthful liar in the history of American politics. I know—the bar is low. 

I mean, yes, Trump made up a bunch of BS in the build up about why he was bombing Venezuelan boats in the ocean.

But when the time came to dispatch troops to snatch President Maduro and his wife out of their presidential palace and haul them off to a jail cell in Brooklyn, he was relatively upfront when asked why he did it.

It was all about the oil. As in--taking control of it.

Once he gets that oil, not sure what he's going to do. Pretty sure he's not sure either. Though it probably has something to do with enriching himself and his family. Even MAGA knows that, whether they can admit it or not.

Forget it, Jake…

Trump doesn’t bother with the strained justifications of past administration to explain away his idiotic invasions. Like Baby Bush trotting out Colin Powell to tell the world that Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction.

And Trump doesn't pretend he's trying to restore democracy in Venezuela, as Bush did in Afghanistan and Iraq.

No, he said he's running the show. The politicians in Venezuela are more or less auditioning to see who he will select as his puppet. Probably a well-paying gig.

Here's a hint, Venezulean politicians—make sure you call Trump "your excellency."

That worked wonders for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

He wrote a kiss-ass letter to Trump, blaming all his troubles on Biden, and Trump sprung him from prison where he was serving time for drug running with the cartels. 

Really, Trump doesn't ask for much. Kiss his bootie and cut him in on the deal, and he's your best friend. Until he's not.

Trump's dishonest honesty was followed by this burst of truthfulness from Stephen Miller--Boss Donnie's in-house Rasputin, who just may be the most diabolically evil character in this crew. Though JD Vance is giving him a run for his money.

We invaded Venezuela, Miller told Jake Tapper, cause we wanted to. Just like we may invade Greenland, if we want to. And it doesn't matter what anyone says--cause might is right and we have the might and you don't. So go fuck yourself with your piety.

Oh, let's immortalize Miller's exact quote. Take it away, Stevie...

"We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time."

Or to paraphrase Chinatown--forget it, Jake, it's MAGAtown

By chance, I happened to recently watch Cover Up, the documentary about Seymour Hersh, an intrepid investigative reporter, who dedicated the best years of his life to unraveling the reasons why and how the U.S. government did so many stupid, evil and violent things over the last 60 or so years. 

Future investigative journalists won't have to do as much sleuthing to uncover Trump's motives. All you need to know is...

They did it because they could. So shut up about it--lest they throw you into a jail cell like Maduro.