Oh, and this might also be interesting:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/01/23/lol-blue-check-journo-pleads-for-help-from-aoc-over-trump-effectively-declaring-a-coup-in-venezuela/
Let's see how the socialist responds.
I'm sure there are plenty of people here willing to pitch in to buy her a one way ticket to Venezuela to get a front row seat to see for herself how well socialism works.
I am for $20. Who's starting the GoFundMe?
A go fund me to send her to Venezuela?What is your point? =D
Wouldn't that be a go *expletive deleted*ck you account?
I fear Maduro and his supporters aren't going anywhere peacefully, they know many of them will probably wind up with their backs up against a wall if Maduro steps down or is otherwise forced from power. This could get bloody, very quickly, both in the removal and the retribution that will likely follow.
I hope I'm wrong in that and I'm hoping that Maduro and his supporters leave power peacefully and that Venezuela enjoys a peaceful and fruitful renaissance
Maybe they can escape to Germany.Maduro does look like he could fit right in in the Middle East
Maybe they can escape to Germany.
A go fund me to send her to Venezuela?
Wouldn't that be a go *expletive deleted*ck you account?
London (CNN)The Bank of England has blocked Nicolas Maduro's officials from withdrawing $1.2 billion worth of gold, Bloomberg reported, dealing a further blow to the embattled Venezuelan President as he tries to salvage his authority.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/uk/venezuela-maduro-bank-of-england-gold-withdrawal-gbr-intl/index.html
Sounds like Maduro tried to open a GoFundMyself.
Saw that, usually a sign the **** is hitting the fan
While having $840M in gold stolen would suck for the people of Venezuela, it would be worth every penny to get rid of Maduro and his allies, should this be the prelude to their departure.
I don't think it is Maduro fleeing with his retirement account. My bet is that Russia said, "You owe us billions and we are coming to collect. Have the gold ready to load on Wednesday, comrade."
I don't think it is Maduro fleeing with his retirement account. My bet is that Russia said, "You owe us billions and we are coming to collect. Have the gold ready to load on Wednesday, comrade."
True, but some of that crew should really be put against a wall, vs having a bank account and hammock in the Caymans, where they'll be drinking rum and figuring out how to get it right "next time".
It will take a while (possibly years) to get VZ oil production back up to pre-Chavez levels. Pretty much everything needs to be replaced due to lack or maintenance and vandalism over the past few years.
I think Bolton’s legal pad misstep was intentional.
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I would be very curious to see, if ever an accurate report came out, just how much damage was caused by the turnover from competent foreigners to "the people". I suspect it is very Ayn Rand-ish.
Man, people are so off the rails with TDS it's just mind-blowing. Pretty much every free country in the world has backed regime change, but somehow this has all become a "Trump Coup" against poor Dear Leader.
Shut up and sing/act.
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/02/04/people-are-dying-roger-waters-shredded-for-this-take-on-the-trump-coup-in-venezuela/
Sometimes I'd like to pound my head against a wall. I have friends and acquaintances who are fairly smart and educated people. The are so deep into TDS that it boggles the mind. Virtually every derogatory remark about Trump is either flat out false or partially false leaning to the hateful comment category without any basis in truth. Yes, Trump has philandered. Yes, he is not a very good speaker. Yes, he is blunt. Yes, he appears to talk about a thing today that varies from what he said about the subject yesterday. (I sometimes wonder if he has ADHD) Yes, he doesn't have a network of Deep State people who can help him correctly judge who should be appointed to various and sundry positions. By correct definition, though, he is not a bigot. He is not a misogynist, he is not racist. He is a savvy billionaire businessbeing who is used to having his minions do as he says. I do suspect he accepts counsel, though perhaps what he decides is a blend of what his gut tells him and the advice he gets.I have heard people comment on podcasts that a few years ago if someone talked about the Deep State, they would have thought they were crazy or a bit off the wall at the least. Now, they see it as absolutely true. I am sure not everyone thinks that, but I think there has been a big shift.
If Trump would go down in history for only one thing it would be how he exposed the corruption in the media, the D party and portions of the R party as well as the deep state bureaucracy.
Venezuela has and is crumbling into anarchy and despotism and those who should know and understand that, don't or won't.
There have been speculative reports based on known maintenance requirements, statements from people who used to work at the plants, etc.I thought I had seen something in the past about warehouses of spare parts being sold off by managers to pocket the money. I was thinking that everyone with access would be selling whatever they could take for scrap, but I have no idea if there is a place to sell the scrap. If it was open season on scrap being pulled out, all the small motor all the copper cable would be gone. I imagine there are lots of valves and piping made from expensive alloys. That doesn't even get to the stuff that is corroded and falling apart from misuse. Cooling water circulation systems probably weren't shut down properly and all the heat exchangers and piping are rusted to hell. I am sure an oil refinery has a lot of more corrosive chemicals I have no experience with. Even if someone tried to stuff from being taken, it could still cost a huge amount to put it back into 100% shape.
Essentially, it boils down to "if they don't start putting money into the infrastructure NOW the Venezuelan oil industry will pretty much cease to exist and have to be rebuilt from the ground up."
Chavez's approach to management of the oil industry was nothing short of disastrous.
His first step was to finalize nationalization of the industry (nationalization started in the 1970s), both in ownership and management, which often involved putting his buds in charge of stuff that they knew nothing about, and those people then put THEIR buds in charge of the next level down... And each level is rife with not only incompetence but also graft and corruption.
We keep hearing about how bad Crony Capitalism is, but it's nothing compared to Crony Socialism.
His next step was to look at all the money that the government was spending on required maintenance and say "Why waste that money when I can use it to give the people the free *expletive deleted*it they need to keep me in power?"
This article is a year old at this point, and the situation has not improved...
https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-low-can-venezuelan-oil-production-go
This article is even more damning, and it's more recent.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2019/01/29/charting-the-decline-of-venezuelas-oil-industry/#2f6146f64ecd
A little local news
Activists demonstrate against U.S. intervention in Venezuela at Big Four Bridge
http://www.wave3.com/2019/02/24/activists-demonstrate-against-us-intervention-venezuela-big-four-bridge/
Yeah, I don't understand it either.
Only think I can think of is TDS. If Orange man does it it is automatically bad.
Conspiracy Coworker says he's keeping out the globalists. Maduro's not going to let his country be vassal state of the Internationalist Joo-ish Bankers, by gum.
Major power outage. Caused by us, as per El Presidente.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/venezuela-in-chaos-after-massive-power-outage-maduros-regime-blames-marco-rubio
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Tonight the “Baghdad Bob” of #Caracas @jorgerpsuv revealed I caused the nationwide & ongoing electric power outage in #Venezuela.
My apologies to people of Venezuela. I must have pressed the wrong thing on the “electronic attack” app I downloaded from Apple. My bad.
Caracas (AFP) – Venezuela’s opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for a nationwide march on Caracas to crank up the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro, as the country endured its third night largely without power.
Atlas Shrugged decay and misery, without a John Galt.Maybe closer than you realize. I saw an article claiming that a LOT of electrical engineers and other tech workers have fled Venezuela - presumably this includes people who work for the nation's electrical utility.
Maduro needs to brush up on his history. Romanian, specifically, with a focus on 25 Dec, 1989.
Brad
The power outage began last Friday, with around 70 percent of the country receiving little or no electricity at all, making it the longest and most severe blackout in the country’s history. The situation that has already sparked considerable civil unrest, with incidents of mass lootings and the closure of nearly all public services.https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/03/11/venezuelan-power-blackout-continues-humanitarian-crisis-rages-on/
Maduro needs to brush up on his history. Romanian, specifically, with a focus on 25 Dec, 1989.
Brad
Supermarket in Venezuela: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b07mg5/supermarkets_in_venezuela_these_days/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b07mg5/supermarkets_in_venezuela_these_days/)
They have an abundance of an item.
Supermarket in Venezuela: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b07mg5/supermarkets_in_venezuela_these_days/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/b07mg5/supermarkets_in_venezuela_these_days/)
They have an abundance of an item.
The ketchup must flow.
That works out to $637.00 per bottle. No wonder they have so much...
Life imitates Art. It's been Lights Out in VZ for going on 7 days, with no sign of them coming back on.
Think we found the problem
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Something going on, is or was not sure yet
Guaido Leads Military Uprising in Venezuela
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2019/04/30/guaido-leads-military-uprising-in-venezuela-n2545591
Venezuela's Guaidó accused of coup attempt by government
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-48103858
Seems like the military is 50/50 split on who to back. That's making things more interesting.
https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2019/04/30/escalation-a-national-guard-apv-just-mowed-down-pro-guaido-protesters-in-caracas-warning-graphic-video/
Caroline Orr
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19m19 minutes ago
Maduro is a dictator. If Trump could effectively consolidate power, he'd follow in Maduro's brutal footsteps.
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Ryan
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17m17 minutes ago
Dude he’s gone against socialism every chance he gets. This just doesn’t make sense lol
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Scott
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15m15 minutes ago
It's not the economic system, it's the political system. This is what anti-intellectualism gets you.
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Ryan
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14m14 minutes ago
Ok then give me one example of something trump has done that’s dictatorish.
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Refusing oversight from from a coequal branch of government
And of course the conversion goes straight to how dictatorial Trump is
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1123256050843516929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"Refusing oversight from a co-equal branch of government."
Sir, there's an Eric Holder on line one for you.
I've got another call from Hillary Clinton on line two.
"Refusing oversight from a co-equal branch of government."
Can we drop AOC and Bernie into the middle of this mess, so they can get a taste of what they are advocating for.
Add 90% of congress and California's government to that air drop
Well, who am I to question an autistic transgender revolutionary who insists on being referenced with plural pronouns?
Maybe Mr. Nationals Fan is part of this:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-erikprince-exclusi/exclusive-blackwater-founders-latest-sales-pitch-mercenaries-for-venezuela-idUSKCN1S608F
"Refusing oversight from a co-equal branch of government."
Sir, there's an Eric Holder on line one for you.
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With a bit of luck, we might actually see a livestream of Maduro being put up against a wall and shot. What a time to be alive.
With a bit of luck, we might actually see a livestream of Maduro being put up against a wall and shot. What a time to be alive.
The New York Times recently compiled the list of issues facing the nation. For starters, hyperinflation is about to hit…10 million percent.
In one of the comments, someone asked if Hillary was elected, how long before the US looked like Venezuela?
IMO, quite a while. Even Venezuela took a while fall apart under Chavez and his predecessor. The pro-Communists had plenty of time to crow about what a great job they were doing even while oil production tanked. I think it could take a good while for the US to fall that far.
How did we segue from Venezuela to Argentina?
Freudian slip?
Trump is doing the absolute correct thing in VZ.
Nothing.
It will collapse (or implode) of it's own accord, no point in us being accused of installing another Pinochet. They can install their own this time...
One of the prime drivers of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland islands in 1982 was to focus patriotic feelings towards reclaiming the Falklands as a means of diverting public attention from an absolutely catastrophic economic situation and increasing unrest and violence against the ruling military government.
There's been some speculation that Maduro might try the same thing given the tenuous relations its had with Colombia, but I think that ship has really sailed for their being any support of such an action.
Maduro and the rest of his and Hugo's cronies have already bled Venezuela dry.
I'm sure Maduro and gang have nest eggs hidden in various places.
I'm sure Maduro and gang have nest eggs hidden invarious placesHavana.
Most socialist despots know, for good reason, that it's usually not a good idea to put their money in the hands of another socialist despot
To bolster Maduro, Cuba has reportedly deployed some 20,000 troops to the nation, with aid packages. These aid packages have forced Cuba to start rationing their own goods, as it’s started to drain their resources. Cuba says there are no troops in the country, which is just as credible as North Korean state television. Cuban security forces have been seen protecting Maduro reportedly no longer trusts his own military.