Hunter
@hunterub.bsky.social
Humorist, satirist, and political commentator, www.unchartedblue.com
From last October. Sure won't tamp down suspicions that Maduro's underlings—possibly his own VP—traded him to U.S. in exchange for Trump promising to look the other way on their own crimes and cartel connections.
"Senior Venezuelan government officials, led by Vice President Delcy Rodríguez...have quietly promoted a series of initiatives in recent months aimed at presenting themselves to Washington as a “more acceptable” alternative to Nicolás Maduro’s regime...funneled through intermediaries in Qatar."
Exclusive: Venezuelan leaders offered U.S. a path to stay in power without Maduro
Delcy and Jorge Rodríguez used Doha backchannels to offer Washington a 'Cartel Light' plan for a managed Venezuela transition that keeps chavismo in power.
www.miamiherald.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
From last October. Sure won't tamp down suspicions that Maduro's underlings—possibly his own VP—traded him to U.S. in exchange for Trump promising to look the other way on their own crimes and cartel connections.
I think if a world leader does something in gross violation of international law and the nation's alleged legislators make no move to stop it or impose consequences then they are likely to also be considered responsible for those crimes? Theoretically speaking, anyway.
January 4, 2026 at 3:40 AM
I think if a world leader does something in gross violation of international law and the nation's alleged legislators make no move to stop it or impose consequences then they are likely to also be considered responsible for those crimes? Theoretically speaking, anyway.
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Is this another manifestation of Trump's struggles with object permanence? He watched Maduro get taken away on his TV and so now he thinks we now run the country?
January 4, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Is this another manifestation of Trump's struggles with object permanence? He watched Maduro get taken away on his TV and so now he thinks we now run the country?
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I think I forgot to post my obligatory (but sincere) Heated Rivalry piece.
How Heated Rivalry helped me understand social media-driven radicalization
Click one thing and algorithm-based social media feeds suck you into a brand new wormhole.
www.unchartedblue.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:26 AM
I think I forgot to post my obligatory (but sincere) Heated Rivalry piece.
This thread lays it out quite well and is consistent with everything else the Trumpers do. Trump doesn't want to end the corrupt regime: he just wants a piece of the action.
16 hours in, my guess this was all intended basically as a coup to put VP Delcy Rodriguez in power (likely without her knowledge but 🤷).
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
At least for democracy & human rights, that might be even worse than the "opening shots in a war" scenario.
All speculation, but let me explain:
January 4, 2026 at 1:56 AM
This thread lays it out quite well and is consistent with everything else the Trumpers do. Trump doesn't want to end the corrupt regime: he just wants a piece of the action.
It's wild that our clearly addled and hallucination-spouting POTUS appears to have little to no input in his own supposed policies and few in the upper echelons of journalism seem to either question that or care.
Here's the key passage from NYT.
Miller: I'm looking for ways to use WOT precedents to attack Latinos. Can we bomb Mexico?
Adults: Well, that would undermine efforts against drug trafficking.
CIA: How about fake boat bombings?
Miller: Death! I must have death!!!
Miller: I'm looking for ways to use WOT precedents to attack Latinos. Can we bomb Mexico?
Adults: Well, that would undermine efforts against drug trafficking.
CIA: How about fake boat bombings?
Miller: Death! I must have death!!!
January 4, 2026 at 1:42 AM
It's wild that our clearly addled and hallucination-spouting POTUS appears to have little to no input in his own supposed policies and few in the upper echelons of journalism seem to either question that or care.
Another possibility is that the U.S. won't be "running" squat, Trump invented it in a dementia-laced hallucination, and now aides are scrambling to figure out how to walk that back. Because he regularly hallucinates things that aren't true!
President Trump’s declaration that the U.S. planned to “run” Venezuela for an unspecified period, issuing orders to its government and exploiting its oil reserves, plunged the U.S. into a risky new era in which it will seek economic and political dominance over a nation of roughly 30 million people.
Trump Plunges the U.S. Into a New Era of Risk in Venezuela
President Trump opened a new chapter in American nation building as he declared that the United States had toppled Venezuela’s leader and would “run” the country for an indefinite period.
nyti.ms
January 4, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Another possibility is that the U.S. won't be "running" squat, Trump invented it in a dementia-laced hallucination, and now aides are scrambling to figure out how to walk that back. Because he regularly hallucinates things that aren't true!
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MSNBC has a new name but don’t worry, it has the same great taste of 20 years ago
January 4, 2026 at 12:57 AM
MSNBC has a new name but don’t worry, it has the same great taste of 20 years ago
The reason these people think some ppl put America second is because they themselves do. They are Trumpers first, Americans second. There was even a coup!
It's natural to assume other groups put factionalism over patriotism when that's how you approach every day of your own whining racist life.
It's natural to assume other groups put factionalism over patriotism when that's how you approach every day of your own whining racist life.
GOP Rep. Pat Harrigan: "There are members of Congress that they just cannot trust. And I understand that. We have folks that are Somali first and not America first."
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The reason these people think some ppl put America second is because they themselves do. They are Trumpers first, Americans second. There was even a coup!
It's natural to assume other groups put factionalism over patriotism when that's how you approach every day of your own whining racist life.
It's natural to assume other groups put factionalism over patriotism when that's how you approach every day of your own whining racist life.
Other nations need to bar these freaks from entering. Shun them. Revoke their diplomatic papers. There's no reasoning with them, you don't have to pretend there is.
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
January 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Other nations need to bar these freaks from entering. Shun them. Revoke their diplomatic papers. There's no reasoning with them, you don't have to pretend there is.
You'll notice that most of the pics are in color except for the ones with Stephen Miller in them. Yeah, he just does that. Nobody knows why.
the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams
January 3, 2026 at 9:20 PM
You'll notice that most of the pics are in color except for the ones with Stephen Miller in them. Yeah, he just does that. Nobody knows why.
This has long been speculated (by me) to be a useful trick allowing partisan figures to ratfuck elections simply by making sure some communities have quick service and others have slow service. (Guess which ones will have slow service.)
The Postal Service is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day.
Read more: https://wapo.st/4qDyVm1
Read more: https://wapo.st/4qDyVm1
January 3, 2026 at 9:17 PM
This has long been speculated (by me) to be a useful trick allowing partisan figures to ratfuck elections simply by making sure some communities have quick service and others have slow service. (Guess which ones will have slow service.)
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Really stark to see such division and incredibly disappointing to see The Washington Post go down the path of lawless authoritarianism. Jeff Bezos will go down as a villain of this era, and that is as it should be.
January 3, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Really stark to see such division and incredibly disappointing to see The Washington Post go down the path of lawless authoritarianism. Jeff Bezos will go down as a villain of this era, and that is as it should be.
I tried writing it up but the Trump-Rubio-Hegseth theory of what happens next is so incoherent and bizarre that it's impossible to make sense of.
www.unchartedblue.com/trump-kidnap...
www.unchartedblue.com/trump-kidnap...
Trump kidnaps Venezuelan president—and seems to have no plan at all for what comes next
Trump's claims that the U.S. now "run[s] the country" were incoherent, inconsistent, and seemingly delusional.
www.unchartedblue.com
January 3, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I tried writing it up but the Trump-Rubio-Hegseth theory of what happens next is so incoherent and bizarre that it's impossible to make sense of.
www.unchartedblue.com/trump-kidnap...
www.unchartedblue.com/trump-kidnap...
The fascist aesthetic is amazing b/c it's a movement of idiots who shun expertise so when they try to mimic expertise they can only do it from the perspective of idiots.
Several of the photos have Twitter up on a screen in the background but I can’t make out what search term appears
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
The fascist aesthetic is amazing b/c it's a movement of idiots who shun expertise so when they try to mimic expertise they can only do it from the perspective of idiots.
So I guess what's going on is that a subset of Maduro's underlings sold him out in exchange for a Trump assurance that _they_ can keep doing criminal stuff as long as they sign contracts giving control of the oil fields to U.S. companies. (?)
This uhh lady down there who Marco had a really nice phone chat with is gonna do it for us. Won’t cost a thing.
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
So I guess what's going on is that a subset of Maduro's underlings sold him out in exchange for a Trump assurance that _they_ can keep doing criminal stuff as long as they sign contracts giving control of the oil fields to U.S. companies. (?)
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The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab
If foreign nations are allowed to kidnap lawbreaking presidents now I can't help but note that the Canadian Army could probably spirit a certain someone away with nothing more than a moving van and a filet-o-fish on a string.
January 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
If foreign nations are allowed to kidnap lawbreaking presidents now I can't help but note that the Canadian Army could probably spirit a certain someone away with nothing more than a moving van and a filet-o-fish on a string.
So Pete and Rubio are now in charge of Venezuela, oil companies are going to flock there to start stealing the oil, but there's no troops on the ground and no real plans for it, and ... huh? Can anyone fill me in on the missing steps here?
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
So Pete and Rubio are now in charge of Venezuela, oil companies are going to flock there to start stealing the oil, but there's no troops on the ground and no real plans for it, and ... huh? Can anyone fill me in on the missing steps here?
Seems like a news organization that loved America would wanna expose crimes done by powerful people rather than covering that stuff up while waving flags around but what do I know, I'm not a jingoistic hamster-brained cokehead.
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Seems like a news organization that loved America would wanna expose crimes done by powerful people rather than covering that stuff up while waving flags around but what do I know, I'm not a jingoistic hamster-brained cokehead.
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You know the fact that ai can replicate and create csam means it was trained on csam right?
The builders of the ai had to train their systems to create those images.
Hard truth of this is they know what they are building.
The builders of the ai had to train their systems to create those images.
Hard truth of this is they know what they are building.
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
You know the fact that ai can replicate and create csam means it was trained on csam right?
The builders of the ai had to train their systems to create those images.
Hard truth of this is they know what they are building.
The builders of the ai had to train their systems to create those images.
Hard truth of this is they know what they are building.
The official DoJ/pundit line is that while all the wealthiest ppl in America hung out with Epstein, none of them knew of or participated in the sex trafficking, and at this point "actually they're all extraterrestrial lizard people" would be the more plausible lie.
Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.
January 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
The official DoJ/pundit line is that while all the wealthiest ppl in America hung out with Epstein, none of them knew of or participated in the sex trafficking, and at this point "actually they're all extraterrestrial lizard people" would be the more plausible lie.
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Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.
January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Dunno what else there is to say about pedocon theory when X, the global far right's most important social media megaphone, is on track to rapidly become the world's largest CSAM manufacturer and distributor.
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You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 4:55 PM
You can make LLMs say almost anything. A news organization reporting "what grok said" is engaging in journalistic malpractice. It doesn't know. It just creates plausible sounding words in response to a prompt.
Okay if this dude is now getting quarterly or monthly dementia tests (while still not understanding what they are) then the state of the trumpennoggin is pretty dire indeed.
Yes, let’s have Trump and Gavin Newsom each take a cognitive test in real time and broadcast this.
January 2, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Okay if this dude is now getting quarterly or monthly dementia tests (while still not understanding what they are) then the state of the trumpennoggin is pretty dire indeed.