Exclusive Look at Hegseth and Trump's Venezuela Bombing Run
Trigger Warning: Possible satire; and another researcher flees the United States (not satire)
Ruminato has obtained exclusive images of Hegseth and Trump’s bombing run off Venezuelan shores.
A special thanks to photographer Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco for this shot.1
This photograph, of course, is satire.
Unfortunately, the reality is we have no idea what happened in Venezuela.
The regime proudly claims that 11 drug smugglers were killed without any due process, sort of like how former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, whom Trump admires, did things when he was terrorizing the Philippines.2
If it’s true that eleven people were killed extrajudicially without a trial of any kind, this makes the United States a murdering, psychotic nation.
If you’re up for more of this, keep your focus on whatever entertains you these days.
Otherwise, get ready to gear up for more protests.
Was this just another distraction as Trump tries to hide from Epstein?
Or is it yet another layer of madness?
Meanwhile, more researchers are fleeing the United States.
Epidemiologist Wang Leyao left the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for China last month, thanks to the mega funding cuts by the Trump regime.3 She’s another in a long list of fleeing researchers.
Wang left the U.S. last month for China, joining the Institute of Human Immunology in Shenzhen as a senior research fellow, according to the South China Morning Post:4 Quoting the Post:
The academy stated that Wang “has long been dedicated to the study of the human microbiome” and has made significant contributions to understanding the regulatory role of microbes on immune responses and the impact of climate change on the microbiome.
According to the Institute for Public Health:5
Professor Wang studies asthma origins and etiology. She has been leading a collaborative birth cohort in Puerto Rico after the devastating Hurricane Maria (Sept. 20, 2017). This cohort focuses on infants who were exposed in utero to the hurricane and aim to evaluate impact of specific prenatal exposures on the infant gut microbial community. The hypothesis is that the infant gut microbiome is the major mechanism underlying the association between prenatal adverse exposures and increased disease risks, such as asthma. In addition, the Wang Lab has applied multiple genome and airway microbiome analysis methods into population-based asthma studies to understand the genetic and bacterial architecture of asthma endotypes.
“Deport them all!” say the people who voted for Trump. “Your help is not wanted here! My gut is just fine!”
Notes
Thanks for reading! And keep your eyes on the skies.
Image credits: B-52, public domain; Pete Hegseth by Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America; fishing boat licensed from Adobe Stock; image smashup by author.
You can read more about the regime’s initial specific funding cuts here:
Footnotes
Fun fact: That was Simón Bolívar’s full name, reflecting the family’s heritage, as many Spanish-language full family names tend to do.
“The Longest Spanish Names That You Won’t Believe Exist - SpanishVIP.” 2024. SpanishVIP. December 3, 2024. https://spanishvip.com/culture/longest-spanish-names/.
This assumes the website I’m quoting is accurate. It has a very Taboola-like feel to it, so it might not be. (Taboola is an ad service that serves up those awful little square boxes on websites, saying, “You won’t believe where she is now!” type of crap.)
“Philippines: Hearings Expose Duterte-Era Killings.” 2024. Human Rights Watch. October 3, 2024. https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/03/philippines-hearings-expose-duterte-era-killings.
Bastille, Charles. 2025. “The Full List of Government Agencies and Programs Frozen by Trump.” Ruminato.com. Ruminato. January 29, 2025. https://www.ruminato.com/p/the-full-list-of-government-agencies-0f3.
“South China Morning Post.” 2025. South China Morning Post. August 30, 2025. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3323594/human-microbiome-scientist-wang-leyao-leaves-troubled-us-government-agency-china.
“Leyao Wang, PhD, MPH | Institute for Public Health | Washington University in St. Louis.” 2017. Wustl.edu. 2017. https://publichealth.wustl.edu/people/leyao-wang/.
The passivity of people of stature who could oppose Trump and lead a movement to get rid of him is astonishing to me. It could be something about the universe being the master planner, where it delivered him to make things so intolerable that it activated us ordinary blokes to pay attention to the deadly path we were on before he came along.
you would think Wang Leyao's research is exactly what RFuK would support, based as it is about things that eating healthy might fix. But nope, pretty sure AI rejected keyword Climate along with DEI as worthy of funds.