It’s hard to believe one can be such a cynical, dishonest person:

The United States has now given Russia, China, and anyone else who wants to give it a try an even clearer road map for invading countries that displease them.https://t.co/OPSNTsLyBf

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 3, 2026

Russia has been conducting an invasion of Ukraine for eleven years. In Mariupol alone, a hundred thousand civilians were murdered during a two-month siege. And this little bitch completely denies that this happened to make some utterly stupid, partisan point.

I’ve seen this point made about a trillion times since yesterday. “So if Putin tries to kidnap Zelensky, that would be fine?” He did, you stupid bastards. He did many times. He failed. It’s OK not to know but then maybe use the material you are familiar with to make your points. Putin has believed that it’s very much OK to do it long before Trump sent troops into Caracas. It ain’t Trump who opened that can of worms. All Trump did is avoid killing civilians in the process. Which, to me, is a massive improvement but maybe I’m just being sentimental.

The reason why the US has been funding Ukraine’s war efforts isn’t because Russia is vaguely bad and Ukraine is vaguely good. And it isn’t because of some utterly invented international law. But simply because the US signed an agreement to do so in case of Russia’s aggression and in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes. If that agreement hadn’t been signed, there would be neither a war in Ukraine nor a country called Lithuania right now. But that’s a different issue.

Say what you may, the Tucker Carlson Show is the best entertainment out there. I watched Tucker’s interview with Ian Carroll who is a great friend of Candace Owens. Carroll spoke about the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017 and explained his theory that the shooting was conducted by Saudi helicopters in an attempt to assassinate the Saudi crown prince.

Carroll went on for over an hour, explaining how it made sense for the opponents of the crown prince to assassinate him. Long story short, an AI robot named Sophia and Jamal Khashoggi are a big part of it.

Finally, Tucker asks the question anybody could have predicted he’d ask.

“Is there evidence that the crown prince was in Las Vegas on that day?”

“No, we have no specific evidence that he was there,” Carroll explains brightly. “But we can assume…”

This is pure comedic gold.

What’s particularly curious is that Carroll’s Saudi helicopters mirror Candace’s Egyptian airplanes. You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to figure out why Muslim-piloted aircrafts are so present in these people’s minds. But they are conspiracy theorists precisely because they have no insight into themselves. They seek out convoluted complots because this mass of confusion is the content of their own mind which they project onto external events and contemplate endlessly.

The way we will know whether the administration is serious about Venezuela is based on whether they involve María Corina Machado in the proposed regime change.

Every country with an authoritarian regime has a real opposition and a fake opposition. The fake opposition has no interest in coming to power. It wants to collect grants, prizes and awards for bravely standing against the regime in words but not in deeds.

Machado is fake opposition. Trying to whip her up into anything workable will be a complete waste of time. If the administration doesn’t know that, then they are not serious.

People should stop using the expression “international law.” There is no law without institutions that can enforce it. Can anybody name the institution that can enforce international law? Obviously not.

A lot of time and energy are wasted on demonstrations of outrage over meaningless expressions. On par with “human rights”, this is one of them.

The prosecution is seeking 4 years prison time for a single 43-year-old man from Amsterdam who sexually abused a 3-year-old girl whom he had purchased for $100,000 via a US surrogacy agency.

Anyone with money can buy infants via #surrogacy, no one scans the buyers' background. https://t.co/UaD4aBSRkd

— Elly Arrow (@EllyArrow) January 1, 2026

I can’t get over the 4 years. The bastard raped a 3-year-old girl. Four years? There are no words. He’ll come out of jail soon and be free to buy more babies to rape.

The mother of the child is the best friend of the rapist’s husband. She thought she was doing a good thing by gifting him her baby.

What is wrong with all of these people, including the prosecutor, is not explained.

Let’s look at the positives and the negatives of the administration striking Venezuela and removing Maduro:

Positives:

1. Maduro is legitimately terrible and turned Venezuela into a cesspool from which many of our problems here in America stem.
2. Once Venezuela is free, Venezuelan refugees can go home.
3. This is very upsetting to Putin and hits the Russian oil trade more than any of the pretense at sanctions done by the EU.
4. Forgot to add: Sheinbaum is pissing herself with fear. Because this can happen to her narcoregime, too.

Negatives:

1. Latin America will hate us even more and ally with Russia/China even harder.
2. This will intensify the split among Republicans.
3. Since nobody on here is helping, I found a negative myself: this will hit the already ailing Canadian economy since the US will no longer need Canada’s crude oil. I love Canada, and for me this is in the negative column.

What would you add to these lists?

Anyone who says slavic women are like latinas either doesn't know latinas or doesn't know slavic women. Because I could not think of two types of women who are more polar opposites.

— Paisios (@AngloVarangian) January 1, 2026

Totally. This is why I adore Hispanic women. They are like my Jungian shadow, both in a good way and a bad one. Contemplating their radical differences is extremely enjoyable because it’s like being reunited with an amputated part of your self.

By the way, the owner of one of the pairs of UGGs is a kid whose family has lived in the radius of 5 miles around here for a crazy number of generations, running a family business that is a local landmark. Imagine how extraordinarily stupid I’d have to be to claim that I’m as American as they are.

At a local trampoline park filled with people of all ages, I left all our coats and shoes, including two pairs of UGGs, a pair of Michael Kors sneakers, and a leather jacket, unattended in complete certainty that nobody would take them. A young dad left his laptop and walked over to the basketball hoops from where the laptop isn’t visible. There are two unattended Stanley cups whose owners are certain they’ll be there when they come back.

It’s not abnormal or immoral to want to live like this.

Here’s a question to ponder. We’ve been hearing a lot from the leaders of both political parties that America is based on a set of beliefs, and anybody who shares them is automatically American.

But how do we know anybody’s beliefs? Because they say so? Words are cheap.

Also, what do we do in cases like Zohran Mamdani who gets elected to a position of great power and immediately declares that he’s against American principles and wants the opposite ones?

When words become more important than reality, the results are always bad. Propositional or credal mean “based on words.” A propositional nation means no nation.