{"id":43567,"date":"2026-01-12T14:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43567"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:49:03","slug":"the-drifting-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/12\/the-drifting-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drifting Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose his ego requires it, regardless of what he thinks the VP of Venezuela is doing:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mc6vzhk2dk2o\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihi2d2ngw6qpjqxtecrj5x57jbuvgfkreifos3n4w3lpnw6gjl4ee\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump has just declared himself the &#34;acting president of Venezuela&#34; over on Truth Social in case you&#39;re wondering about his mental health.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g?ref_src=embed\">Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:x4g4laxkmsrczwvnvbbgsm7g\/post\/3mc6vzhk2dk2o?ref_src=embed\">2026-01-12T01:43:01.790Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I could have sworn he said the VP of Venezuela would work with the Americans, which I took to mean she would be President of Venezuela now.<\/p>\n<p>As whoever wrote that <em><strong>BlueSky<\/strong><\/em> post says, this has serious implications about the American President&#8217;s mental health. If he had a credible sense of humor, I&#8217;d add it to the list, but Trump&#8217;s sense of humor, like everything else, is deployed strictly to enhance his social standing.<\/p>\n<p>Although he doesn&#8217;t seem to be much skilled at it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see if he tries to actually fulfill the role in some way, or if it&#8217;s more a ceremonial claim. After all, the old Roman emperors usually meant it when they conquered a country, assigning someone the task of managing the new holding and to put down the usual uprisings.<\/p>\n<p>And the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Criminal_Court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>International Criminal Court<\/strong><\/a> in The Hague may find the original post to be very interesting, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/04\/starting-a-war-to-avoid-domestic-issues-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro<\/a> by American forces, himself arguably a dictator, may be considered a war of aggression. This bit of evidence might be taken to contradict American government claims that the kidnapping was strictly a <em>law enforcement<\/em> action, and, since it comes from the <del>lips<\/del> fingertips of the ringleader of the alleged crime, that being Mr Trump, it might be taken as authoritative.<\/p>\n<p>Says the obsolete software engineer.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the horde of armed <strong>ICE<\/strong> agents, and the tragic collection of dead folks of various nationalities down in Venezuela and at least one here in Minnesota I&#8217;d almost have to say this is degenerating into a comedic play, but I shan&#8217;t because my heart is breaking for all these folks who&#8217;ve died to sooth Trump&#8217;s ego and, if you&#8217;re of a conspiratorial bent, whoever has busily been perverting both the right and left in this country, infusing them with unwarranted arrogance and trace elements of anger and hatred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose his ego requires it, regardless of what he thinks the VP of Venezuela is doing: Trump has just declared himself the &#34;acting president of Venezuela&#34; over on Truth Social in case you&#39;re wondering about his mental health. &mdash; Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2026-01-12T01:43:01.790Z I could have sworn he \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/01\/12\/the-drifting-delusion\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43568,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43567\/revisions\/43568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}