NOT Dead Dinos

I didn’t know this until this morning but oil comes from dearly departed algae NOT dead dinos. Oil (and gas and coal) deposits are the leftovers from wicked old muddy swamps. Pressure turns the mud and algae to rock. Earth’s heat cooks the rock – et voilà – we have oil.

FYI: In January 1976, under President Carlos Andrés Pérez, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry – for those of you playing the home game, that’s 50 years ago. This means that Venezuela owns their own damn resources – not Chevron, not ConocoPhillips, not Exxon and certainly not the US.

Prez Pedo, as uszh, was lying his motherfucking ass off when he said, ”They took all of our oil and we want it back. They illegally took it.”

His puppet master, Stephen Miller, framed it in more grownup fascist terms but he’s saying the same thing here:

“American sweat, ingenuity and toil created the oil industry in Venezuela,” Miller, who serves as White House deputy chief of staff, wrote in a social media post.

“Its tyrannical expropriation was the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property. These pillaged assets were then used to fund terrorism and flood our streets with killers, mercenaries and drugs.” (source) 

Mike Luckovich

Bottom line – Venezuela didn’t steal from American oil companies. Using our military to work an oil grift is insane but par for the course with Trump, the world’s sloppiest Griftasaurus. The orange asshole fabricated a story about drug trafficking, blew up fishing boats – murdering more than 110 fishermen, and claimed, without evidence, that Maduro is the head of a drug cartel and “foreign terrorist organisation.”

At the same time, Bozo the Pedophile’s totally down with pardoning former Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernández who was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. 

Yeah, OBVIOUSLY Venezuela is NOT about drugs. This is about oil and always was.

But wait, there’s more – Coke Jr.’s making out like a bandit on all this too.

For the second time this year, a little-known company backed by Donald Trump Jr. has scored a major contract with the US Department of Defense.

The Financial Times reported on Wednesday that Vulcan Elements — a tiny startup of 30 employees that specializes in producing rare-earth magnets used in drones, radars, and other pieces of military equipment — has scored a $620 million loan from the Pentagon as part of “a $1.4 billion deal to increase the supply of magnets for industries alongside partner ReElement Technologies.”

Vulcan has received funding from 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm founded by pro-Trump donors in 2023 that brought Trump Jr. in as a partner last year. According to the Financial Times’ analysis, “at least four of 1789’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump administration this year, amounting to more than $735 million.”

Revelations about the Vulcan Elements contract come just weeks after the Florida-based drone startup Unusual Machines, in which Trump Jr. has held a $4 million stake, received a contract from the US Army to manufacture 3,500 drone motors. Additionally, reported the Financial Times, the Army indicated that it planned “to order an additional 20,000 components” from the Trump Jr.-backed firm next year.

As Popular Information reported earlier this year, Unusual Machines first brought Trump Jr. on as an adviser just weeks after his father won the 2024 presidential election, even though he had “no notable experience with drones or military contracting.”
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Kedric Payne, general counsel at the Campaign Legal Center, told the Financial Times that that the government deals scored by Trump Jr.-backed companies look ethically dubious even if the president’s son didn’t directly use his influence to procure them. (source) 

Gee, “ethically dubious?” Ya think?!!!! I believe we can call this a Godzilla sized fucking understatement, don’t you?! (not to dis my buddy Godzilla, mind you) It's all about money. By the by, Stephen Miller's wife is drunk with it and flashing the crowds like it's Mardi Gras.