Alex Witt just reported on MSNOW that Stephan Miller was key to the planning of this

[senseandsensibility]

What is his military experience again?

[kimbutgar]

1. Maybe he didn't like we were mocking his New Year's Eve appearance!

[senseandsensibility]

2. I thought his dancing was a little less disgusting than trump's

but that's not saying much.

[misanthrope]

3. Stephen Miller? Directing violence against brown people?

No way. :eyeroll:

[YorkRd]

4. Miller wants to send all the brown people there

Only 100 Million People: Stephen Miller’s White-Knuckled Fantasy for a Purified America

Let’s get one thing out of the way.

When Donald Trump — the Cheeto-in-Chief, the tantrum tycoon of American decline — says that Stephen Miller wants there to be only 100 million people in the United States, and that they should all “look like Miller,” that’s not a joke. That’s not locker-room talk. That’s a regime flashing its ID badge at the door of white nationalism and daring you to call it fascism to its face.

That’s not hyperbole. That’s arithmetic. That’s genocide-adjacent. That’s the quiet part not just spoken aloud — that’s the quiet part being shouted through a megaphone while the press corps reaches for their pens and America checks the score of the Knicks game.

https://www.misinformationsucks.com/blog/only-100-million-people-stephen-millers-white-knuckled-fantasy-for-a-purified-america

[IA8IT]

5. Men in Black scene guys head opens and alien inside in control happening now at White House

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. That midwit couldn't plan a two car motorcade.

[underpants]

7. He was but probably just to up the level of evil.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/mock-house-cia-source-special-forces-us-operation-capture-maduro-2026-01-03/

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It's not that he worked out "how" to do it; he had the "why" - to allow more deportations

Why: The why is a bit more complicated. Lil Narco (my brother in law is a convicted coke trafficker) Rubio has had a theory for the better part of a decade that if you can topple the Venezuelan government, then the Cuban government will quickly fall. There’s no actual logic, rhyme, nor reason behind this, but Lil Narco believes it and he was never the sharpest knife in the wooden chopstick drawer.

The better explanation is that Stephen Miller needs an actual war with Venezuela so that he can order the DOJ and DHS to make another run at using the Alien Enemies Act to justify his anti-immigrant and anti-anyone who looks like an immigrant pogroms. From The New York Times reporting on 27 DEC 2025:

Mr. Miller told officials that if the United States and Venezuela were at war, the Trump administration could again invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century law, to expedite deportations of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans the administration stripped of temporary protected status. He and Mr. Rubio had used it earlier in the year to summarily deport hundreds of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, only to be stopped by court rulings.

Mr. Miller told White House officials in the spring to explore ways to attack drug cartels around their home countries in Latin America. Mr. Miller wanted attacks that could draw widespread attention to create a deterrent.

This is why of the five people behind Trump at his press conference this morning, only one was not a constitutional officer – nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate – and that person was Stephen Miller. He’s not supposed to have this kind of power as a Deputy White House Chief of Staff, but as long as Trump backs him up, Miller’s running the show.

https://balloon-juice.com/2026/01/03/trumps-gives-away-the-venezuelan-game-on-fox-news-nobody-can-stop-us/

(The author is a national security specialist: https://balloon-juice.com/adam-silverman-bio/ )

Silverman thinks that Miller persuaded Trump that there was money (including for Trump himself, of course) to be made from Venezuelan oil (whether or not there actually is), and that's why Trump liked it enough to OK it.