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IN POLITICAL NEWS

1) The big news, which came and went faster than a bean burrito in front of Rosie O'Donnell, is that the Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, whose election was as suspect as that of Rutabaga, was arrested and teleported out of Venezuela in a perfect operation that came through like clockwork prior to digitization. U.S. forces took out anti-air stations, dropped in some special operators, killed a few bodyguards, and heisted the strongman right out of his presidential palace and to a New York court where he and his lovely wife were indicted on more charges than P. Diddy. He ain't getting out of this, though he may rat on a number of U.S. pols to keep him out of gen pop at Soledad. This operation was planned for weeks, just awaiting as Trump said, the right time. It occurred without a single leak. I must now give Susie Wiles the nickname "Silent Susie," as this is the second very big op (remember Iran's nukes?) that came off without a hitch and without a leak. Now, pump this into your brain and marinate on it: the U.S. has now carried out two operations against enemy targets heavily protected by Russian (and, one would assume, some ChiCom defense systems, disabled them like Harry Bosch picking a lock, and didn't suffer a single enemy hit. What do you think is going on within the ChicCom and Russkie militaries right now? "For sale: 200 anti-aircraft systems, never used, badly abused." Moreover, the military accompanied DOJ officials, who did the actual arrest. Remember ol' Pineapple Face, Panama's Manuel Noriega? Yeah, took weeks to get him. And now Venezuela's top intel officer wants asylum here and is willing to "name names." Hmm. Do any of those names have a "D" after them? Oh, there is not "MAGA fracture" over Venezuela. As Jeff Chliders points out, this is 100% in the Trump Strategic Doctrine released late last year. This is yet another attempt by the Hoax News to create some rift in MAGA.

2) Congrats to Pam Bondi and the Punisher, Pete Hegseth. You can see why they really didn't want him as SecWar. Trump's ability to pull off these incredible surgical strikes without long drawn-out wars has the GOP isolationist wing panicking, for what is there to complain about if we get our foreign policy goals met at virtually no cost? Here is Michael Waller's "Nine Reasons Why Trump's Venezuelan operation is Great for America." Meanwhile, opposition candidate Maria Machado is expected to assume control of the government, while the new interim leader promised to work with the USA.

3) Oh, I guess it wasn't about the oil after all. Oil futures barely moved. Chevron shares

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