VanillaRage
@vanillarage.bsky.social
A dreamer, pragmatist, an optimistic pessimist, with one foot in reality and the other in ... the Twilight Zone
Welcome to Trump’s “cleanup in aisle 4” approach to foreign policy. Take Venezuela for example: today it's about drugs. Tomorrow:democracy. Next Day:It's oil.
No plan, no strategy—just sycophantic yes-men parroting the whims of a demented orange tyrant, calling chaos leadership in the Twilight Zone
No plan, no strategy—just sycophantic yes-men parroting the whims of a demented orange tyrant, calling chaos leadership in the Twilight Zone
January 7, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Welcome to Trump’s “cleanup in aisle 4” approach to foreign policy. Take Venezuela for example: today it's about drugs. Tomorrow:democracy. Next Day:It's oil.
No plan, no strategy—just sycophantic yes-men parroting the whims of a demented orange tyrant, calling chaos leadership in the Twilight Zone
No plan, no strategy—just sycophantic yes-men parroting the whims of a demented orange tyrant, calling chaos leadership in the Twilight Zone
With every idiotic move by the "Mussolini of Mar a Lago", the target on every American's back grows larger...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. Never...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. Never...
January 4, 2026 at 7:25 PM
With every idiotic move by the "Mussolini of Mar a Lago", the target on every American's back grows larger...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. Never...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. Never...
Picture, if you will: Trump’s Venezuelan Adventure—where a foreign despot is airlifted to face a “weaponized” justice system that can’t touch its own Felon-in-Chief.
“We’ll run the country,” he blusters, oil men salivating. The message to Putin, Xi: knock yourselves out.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
“We’ll run the country,” he blusters, oil men salivating. The message to Putin, Xi: knock yourselves out.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
January 4, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Picture, if you will: Trump’s Venezuelan Adventure—where a foreign despot is airlifted to face a “weaponized” justice system that can’t touch its own Felon-in-Chief.
“We’ll run the country,” he blusters, oil men salivating. The message to Putin, Xi: knock yourselves out.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
“We’ll run the country,” he blusters, oil men salivating. The message to Putin, Xi: knock yourselves out.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
Consider a man allergic to empathy, especially the kind grief demands. While a family mourns, he reposts jeers like party favors.
In this Twilight Zone, compassion is cancelled, cruelty gets likes—and Donald J. Trump hits “share.”. Here, Tragedy pauses—so a vile tyrant can post his venom.
In this Twilight Zone, compassion is cancelled, cruelty gets likes—and Donald J. Trump hits “share.”. Here, Tragedy pauses—so a vile tyrant can post his venom.
January 2, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Consider a man allergic to empathy, especially the kind grief demands. While a family mourns, he reposts jeers like party favors.
In this Twilight Zone, compassion is cancelled, cruelty gets likes—and Donald J. Trump hits “share.”. Here, Tragedy pauses—so a vile tyrant can post his venom.
In this Twilight Zone, compassion is cancelled, cruelty gets likes—and Donald J. Trump hits “share.”. Here, Tragedy pauses—so a vile tyrant can post his venom.
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday, Rod. December 25, 1924. A true icon whose prescient insights we are experiencing today...
December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Happy Birthday, Rod. December 25, 1924. A true icon whose prescient insights we are experiencing today...
Will we EVER learn? This 1942 movie is so hauntingly familiar today...chilling.
David Ddraig Goch (@oldreddragon)
Sound familiar? This was from a 1942 movie, Keeper of the Flame. 83 fucking years ago, and we have learned NOTHING!
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December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Will we EVER learn? This 1942 movie is so hauntingly familiar today...chilling.
Twas the Night Before Christmas:Stephen Miller smiles, counting lives like gifts in a queue. “ICE never stops,” he hums as files go—no angels, no sleigh bells,just quotas and glowing screens. Peace on earth? Pending review.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone where goodwill is measured by quotas applied.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone where goodwill is measured by quotas applied.
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Twas the Night Before Christmas:Stephen Miller smiles, counting lives like gifts in a queue. “ICE never stops,” he hums as files go—no angels, no sleigh bells,just quotas and glowing screens. Peace on earth? Pending review.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone where goodwill is measured by quotas applied.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone where goodwill is measured by quotas applied.
Picture, if you will, one Donald J Trump—freshly varnished with a FIFA Peace Prize—declaring war on Venezuela for stolen oil, land, anything to drown out the approaching thunder of the Epstein files.
“We have you surrounded,” he roars, as geography whispers: not an island.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
“We have you surrounded,” he roars, as geography whispers: not an island.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
December 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Picture, if you will, one Donald J Trump—freshly varnished with a FIFA Peace Prize—declaring war on Venezuela for stolen oil, land, anything to drown out the approaching thunder of the Epstein files.
“We have you surrounded,” he roars, as geography whispers: not an island.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
“We have you surrounded,” he roars, as geography whispers: not an island.
Cue the Twilight Zone.
The Romans had a saying for this behavior:
"Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta."
Roughly means - excusing things you weren't asked about is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
"Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta."
Roughly means - excusing things you weren't asked about is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
December 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The Romans had a saying for this behavior:
"Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta."
Roughly means - excusing things you weren't asked about is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
"Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta."
Roughly means - excusing things you weren't asked about is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
“I didn’t vote for this,” they cry—shocked their hate had a return address. Crops rot, their neighbors vanish, rights evaporate like dew at dawn. But the signs were there: gulags in the blueprint, jackboots in the foyer. He said he’d be dictator for a day. They just missed the fine print: every day.
December 12, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“I didn’t vote for this,” they cry—shocked their hate had a return address. Crops rot, their neighbors vanish, rights evaporate like dew at dawn. But the signs were there: gulags in the blueprint, jackboots in the foyer. He said he’d be dictator for a day. They just missed the fine print: every day.
Enter a realm where a vacation to Miami now requires your genome,your retina history, Aunt Linda’s address, and every meme you’ve ever liked.Where freedom now travels with a filing cabinet welded to your back. The only thing moving faster than the line is the erosion of whatever freedom used to mean
December 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Enter a realm where a vacation to Miami now requires your genome,your retina history, Aunt Linda’s address, and every meme you’ve ever liked.Where freedom now travels with a filing cabinet welded to your back. The only thing moving faster than the line is the erosion of whatever freedom used to mean
Does anyone know what's become of Tulsi Gabbard lately?
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Does anyone know what's become of Tulsi Gabbard lately?
He does realize that the world's BIGGEST producer of fertilizer is CANADA, doesn't he?? I'm sure farmers will love this.
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
He does realize that the world's BIGGEST producer of fertilizer is CANADA, doesn't he?? I'm sure farmers will love this.
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
Meet Gianni Infantino, globe-trotting valet to petro-princes,who winked Saudi into the 2034 World Cup, treating human-rights abuses like smudges on his designer glasses. His masterstroke? Awarding Trump a fake peace prize —a glittering trinket of sycophancy fit for the gift shop of the Twilight Zone
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Meet Gianni Infantino, globe-trotting valet to petro-princes,who winked Saudi into the 2034 World Cup, treating human-rights abuses like smudges on his designer glasses. His masterstroke? Awarding Trump a fake peace prize —a glittering trinket of sycophancy fit for the gift shop of the Twilight Zone
In tonight’s episode of the Twilight Zone, Steven Cheung marvels at Trump “working” at 7pm — the same man whose mornings start after noon and nights end in rage-tweets.
Prisoner escapee Frank Morris fooled Alcatraz guards with a dummy in bed; Trump fools his loyalists with a dummy at a desk.
Prisoner escapee Frank Morris fooled Alcatraz guards with a dummy in bed; Trump fools his loyalists with a dummy at a desk.
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
In tonight’s episode of the Twilight Zone, Steven Cheung marvels at Trump “working” at 7pm — the same man whose mornings start after noon and nights end in rage-tweets.
Prisoner escapee Frank Morris fooled Alcatraz guards with a dummy in bed; Trump fools his loyalists with a dummy at a desk.
Prisoner escapee Frank Morris fooled Alcatraz guards with a dummy in bed; Trump fools his loyalists with a dummy at a desk.
Welcome to Geopolitics for the Bewildered: our orange felon brands Canada a “vassal state,” missing the memo that Ottawa ghosted him ages ago. He cosplays Cold War strongman as Canada’s off trading with grown-ups, forging new defense alliances. Not rage—just the exquisite sting of not caring anymore
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Welcome to Geopolitics for the Bewildered: our orange felon brands Canada a “vassal state,” missing the memo that Ottawa ghosted him ages ago. He cosplays Cold War strongman as Canada’s off trading with grown-ups, forging new defense alliances. Not rage—just the exquisite sting of not caring anymore
In the dystopian world of Trump 2.0, where violent insurrectionists are freed, and innocent people can be detained and disappear on a mere accusation, I am increasingly reminded of a quote by Peru's General Óscar Benavides:
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law!"
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law!"
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
In the dystopian world of Trump 2.0, where violent insurrectionists are freed, and innocent people can be detained and disappear on a mere accusation, I am increasingly reminded of a quote by Peru's General Óscar Benavides:
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law!"
“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law!"
Republicans let simple messaging drive poll numbers, while Dem leadership let's data and poll numbers drive messaging...by the time all the analysis and navel gazing is done, the urgency of the moment - the urgency to call them out on their lies, is over.
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Republicans let simple messaging drive poll numbers, while Dem leadership let's data and poll numbers drive messaging...by the time all the analysis and navel gazing is done, the urgency of the moment - the urgency to call them out on their lies, is over.
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
December 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
We must never lose our capacity to be shocked by the sheer stupidity and rank ignorance of one Donald J. Trump and his obsequious sycophants. They give us examples every day...
Trump Math: Let's see now, that's eight wars ended...minus a raft of trade wars started ... minus Venezuela imminent...minus Gaza resurging...minus Albania vs Azerbaijan never happened...minus... hmmm.🤔
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Trump Math: Let's see now, that's eight wars ended...minus a raft of trade wars started ... minus Venezuela imminent...minus Gaza resurging...minus Albania vs Azerbaijan never happened...minus... hmmm.🤔
A "stable genius" who thought slapping tariffs like stickers on a garage sale would make the world rush to invest in America-trade wars were "easy to win". But alas, investors prefer stability over a tantrum-prone despot who rewrites rules on a whim. Who could’ve seen that coming? Oh right—everyone.
November 29, 2025 at 4:30 PM
A "stable genius" who thought slapping tariffs like stickers on a garage sale would make the world rush to invest in America-trade wars were "easy to win". But alas, investors prefer stability over a tantrum-prone despot who rewrites rules on a whim. Who could’ve seen that coming? Oh right—everyone.
Through the gloom cast by a tangerine tyrant—truth throttled, prices climbing like panic, grifters grazing freely, allies ditched, neighbors erased—comes the growing clatter of defiance. In those cracks, a pulse of hope: "we the people", not tyrants, will shape our fate. - Happy Thanksgiving to all!
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Through the gloom cast by a tangerine tyrant—truth throttled, prices climbing like panic, grifters grazing freely, allies ditched, neighbors erased—comes the growing clatter of defiance. In those cracks, a pulse of hope: "we the people", not tyrants, will shape our fate. - Happy Thanksgiving to all!