By Donald A. Collins | 8 January 2026
Church and State

Trump has been exclaiming that all the oil companies will be running down to Venezuela to take advantage of the wonderful opportunity to restore the dilapidated oil, production facilities there, and spend the billions of dollars that will be required to do so. Now he is saying that the American taxpayers will pay for that so that they can help Chevron and all these other oil companies make huge amount of money at no oil company expense!
🚨 BREAKING: The Senate has advanced a War Powers resolution aimed at stopping President Trump from launching any further military action in Venezuela without explicit approval from Congress.
Five Republicans crossed party lines to support it:
Susan Collins
Josh Hawley
Lisa… pic.twitter.com/ljAdRI1h53— Digital Gal (@DigitalGalX) January 8, 2026
There will be some opportunity in this mix for Trump and his family or his allies to make some profit.
I have been really astonished and dismayed at the unwillingness of the rich elites in this country to step up and say that this president should be impeached, indicted impatient, and exited immediately.
However, many people of courage like Senator Kelly and others have been willing to say bring on your worst attacks and I am waiting for you.
Now we have a situation where the oil comes with the price of oil now below $60 a barrel have a chance to do something which will be cheap for them and give them enormous PR victory.
Instead of subjecting their stockholders to a serious loss as this fossil fuel is not needed, and it’s not even good fossil fuel, they can simply say well we we will think about going in there, Mr. President, but if he economically a disaster area and we will have to assure our stockholders that we are making a wise investment, which, of course they won’t be able to say or do.
At that point, we have made this whole on authorize on constitutional adventure into real chaos for Trump. His other plans to and Greenland, etc., are beginning to look like the madness it is. There’s a particularly interesting piece which I have attached here which says that because Maduro didn’t dance, Trump felt it necessary to go in there and bring them out for a prosecution.
Trump extorted Venezuela for up to 50 million barrels of oil, worth ~$3 billion, that will be sold with Trump controlling the money.
If you think the people of Venezuela will see any of that money, then you’re probably still anxiously awaiting your $5000 DOGE refund check. pic.twitter.com/7Zm63Epxi3
— Melanie D'Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) January 6, 2026
On the day today, January 6, which was five years from the time Trump instigated a cool attempt on our capital and then pardon all those that went there to do this illegal act we should be concentrating that memory and taking this treasonous act to indict this man and I’ll see him before the end of this term.
I think it will find out the midterm elections in November of this year will definitely be a democratic landslide. Period. But that will not be enough to make sure Trump is out ASAP.
Former US Navy officer, banker and venture capitalist, Donald A. Collins, a free lance writer living in Los Angeles, CA, has spent over 60 years working for women’s reproductive health as a board member and/or officer of numerous family planning organizations including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Guttmacher Institute, Family Health International and Ipas. Yale under graduate, NYU MBA. He is the author of 15 books: “From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”, “Trump Becoming Macbeth: Will our democracy survive?”, “We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”, “What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”, “Vote”, “Can Homo Sapiens Survive?”, “Will Choice and Democracy Win?”, “Can Our U.S. Survive 8 Plus Billion of Us”, “Economic Growth: A Cancer on all Earthly Life”, “On the Precipice of Political Disaster in 2024”, “Democracy at Red State Risk”, “Does Trump Go to Jail or to The Oval Office?”, “Trump: Pardon or Punish?: The Nixon Precedence Was Not A Trump Coup Denied!”, “Common Sense: When will Trump be Impeached, Indicted, and Exited?”, “Trump–unrestrained dangerous liar!” and “Our Ethnic Mix May Save Us!”.“What Can Be Done Now to Save Habitable Life on Planet Earth?”: https://t.co/fHuh0CG6JD
“We Humans Overwhelm Our Earth: 11 or 2 Billion by 2100?”: https://t.co/TA4j7cp1tE
“From the Dissident Left: A Collection of Essays 2004-2013”: https://t.co/lkC2t3E1A9 pic.twitter.com/bQsL2mLBcO— Church and State (@ChurchAndStateN) November 1, 2021
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