As of Tues, Jan 6th 2026, we're still here.

So, the Maduro thing. The… Venezuela thing. The “Taylor Sheridan is already on the phone pitching the spinoff series about it” thing.

Let’s free ourselves here and empty the clip of things people are saying about this:

• This was a kidnapping.

• This was a law enforcement operation.

• Trump did this while also pardoning the President of Honduras of a drug trafficking conviction.

• Trump is doing this to distract from Epstein and/or healthcare premiums.

• They want to also take out Colombia, Panama, and Greenland.

• Marco Rubio is foaming at the mouth to overthrow and free Cuba, a goal that clearly would be the largest and most foundational victory of his life (like when John Boehner got the Pope to talk to Congress).

So here’s the thing: does the why matter more than the HOW with Maduro? Are those details really worth the endless columns of debate and rationalization? The question, to me, seems simple: are you okay with Donald Trump using executive power and elite military units to abduct foreign heads of state? Is that a thing he should be able to do?

We are in PEAK “Palpatine talking to the Neimodians” timeline. Oh, you don’t get that reference? What are you, cool and hot and reading this in between bench-press max-outs? Some of us dedicated our lives to truly important things, like every line of dialogue from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace written and directed by George Lucas.