The level of corruption to pardon a drug kingpin who was convicted of trafficking 400 tons of cocaine while claiming you’re committing war crimes to fight Venezuelan cartels is worse than anything I ever saw in Nigeria.
This is so gross.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/02/hernandez-trump-pardon-prison-honduras/
@carnage4life it’s not about drugs. It’s about oil fields. Rich Venezuelan oil fields in particular. #uspol
Y'all are giving this administration too much credit.
TOFU: Trump Only Fucks Up, which you can see everywhere from botched prosecutions through botched international negotiations.
Corruption? Oil fields? No, the administration is just continuing to fuck up.
No need to look for anything more complicated than that.
@volkris @carnage4life sure Jan. I’m sure it has nothing to do with oil at all whatsoever. All just kooky grandpa and his thousands of kooky misfits who just happen to be very much giving public land to oil companies, saying how windmills are killing whales, how electricity is somehow worse than sharks… Trump is a simpleton and loves money. Lots of money in oil. Lots of money coming from oil companies and going to his administration.
Yes! It's the simpler explanation, and Occam's Razor would have us assume it.
Yes, Kooky Grandpa is the explanation that simply explains all of that PLUS all of the stuff that Trump has been botching. If there really was this whole conspiracy that you're describing, chances are he wouldn't be messing up so much other stuff.
If Trump wasn't Kooky Grandpa then would would have to start assuming he's just really good at putting on this idiot act even though it makes his own life harder because he really is a super duper genius playing eight-dimensional chess against the rest of the world with some grand goal that we can't even imagine.
Or maybe he really is just an idiot. That's the much simpler explanation.
@volkris @carnage4life so your explanation is that he’s just an idiot and botches things and not that he’s greedy, easily manipulated, corrupt, and an idiot…
"Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred."
Trump's self-defeating incompetency, that we can observe every day, is the controlling element here, and core to the situation.
Sure, he can be both an idiot and corrupt and smelly, but because of the idiocy it doesn't even matter.
But if you go after an assumed conspiracy that doesn't exist, that's going to distract from actually addressing the problem.
@volkris @carnage4life right…. Committing war crimes because he’s an incompetent buffoon and not because of his normal motivations: greed and racism. All I’ve been saying is a “conspiracy theory”.
I feel like you’re the one falling over yourself to give him an out. All you’ve been saying is “awww he’s not a murder, he’s just stupid”. But no, “I’m the distraction”…
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