How many are paying attention to Venezuela?

[paulitician]

Communism/Socialism/Progressivism is Authoritarianism. And that always leads to Totalitarianism. It does not promote Freedom & Liberty. So, good for the People of Venezuela. Now it's time for our own People to wake up. Right now, Americans are only living an illusion of Freedom & Liberty. But this march towards a Police State can be reversed. I'm still an optimist. I'm confident the American People will stand up eventually.

 

[Barb]

Before Hugo Chavez took over there was a large Native (Indian) population living in poverty. They weren't put in poverty by the establishment, they just continued living like they had been for centuries and progress left them behind.
Chavez promised these poor indigenous people 'their fair share' of the Nation's wealth. They voted him in and that was the end of his devotion to the poor. He immediately began punishing his opposition (sound familiar?), shutting down opposition newspapers, radio, and TV stations, and putting his own people in charge of them. He Nationalized the Oil Industry and kicked out all foreign Oil Companies.
As for the wealth he promised to share with the poor indigenous people, they were forgotten. He didn't need them anymore. The wealth went to support his political machine.
That runs parallel with what The Left is doing in the U.S. Not as severe or harsh, but the same strategy. Castro did it in Cuba, the Left does it everywhere. They exploit the poorest for their Party's power gain. The poor are seldom, if ever really helped, other than with crumbs from the Master's table, just enough to keep them dependent.

When you copy and paste text, you need to put that text in quotes and post the link. I read that section above elsewhere- you didn't write that.

 

[Barb]

Communism/Socialism/Progressivism is Authoritarianism. And that always leads to Totalitarianism. It does not promote Freedom & Liberty. So, good for the People of Venezuela. Now it's time for our own People to wake up. Right now, Americans are only living an illusion of Freedom & Liberty. But this march towards a Police State can be reversed. I'm still an optimist. I'm confident the American People will stand up eventually.

Because Obama wrote the US PATRIOT Act, and implemented Homeland [in]Security.

 

[JoeB131]

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the dimocrap party went from 'liberal' to 'radical' a long time ago.

We are the last remnants of classical liberalism in the United States.... Republicans.

dimocrap scum just call us names because we fight their radical ideas.

There's a difference between liberalism and radicalism that dimocraps have blurred.

We know where the line is drawn, dimocrap scum don't.

No, guy, we call you names because you let rich people **** you over because they promise to let you impose your religious stupidity on others, which never happens. That's really radical.

obama is a radical. What he does is present himself as a moderate force in the dimocrap scum party. He is not. He is as radical as the rest of the radicals in the dimocrap party.

But he is also a liar and a deceiver and a corrupt scumbag. He let's the more radical elements of the party advance an idea while he sits back and watches what happens.

If the idea falls on its face, he speaks out against it. If it takes hold, if it gains 'traction' then he's all for it.

Gee, isn't that what's supposed to happen in a representative democracy? And doesn't your side do it also? You guys are the ones who make people like Ted Cruz and Rand Crazy Paul Senators.

The people he brings in... Like at the FCC and the IRS.... He knows who they are and what they are.

They are like-minded people to whom he doesn't have to give orders or directives. They do his bidding because it is THEIR agenda as well as his.

dimocraps are scumbags.

And skipping over a whole bag of crazy, we get to this...

Not since Romney. Which is exactly what Romney was... Just like Bush. A genuinely nice Man, a good, decent , honest, Christian who just wasn't interested in prosecuting the law against law-breaking dimocrap scum.

And that is also why Romney didn't get elected.

dimocraps know this. That's why we're going to see the fight of our lives come 2016. It will be epic.

Guy, Romney lost because he came off as a rich douchebag who didn't care about working people.

You guys aren't going to win by nominating someone even crazier.

You lost because working folks, blacks, hispanics, women and young people didn't vote for your guy. Obama got 3 million less votes than he did in 2008 and he still won handily.

Especially if we nominate a fire-breathing, kick-ass Conservative who wants to prosecute the hundreds (more like thousands, but I'll take what I can get) of criminals in the dimocrap party and put them where they belong.... Behind bars for decades.

dimocrap scum know this. And nothing is more dangerous than a cornered rat. You back a rat into a corner and he'll kill you to try to get out.

Just like dimocraps.

2016 will be the dirtiest, nastiest, most expensive, bloodiest presidential election in history.

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth.

Guy, honestly, reading your posts, where you use all this violent imagery, it tells me you have serious anger issues.

If your platform is "I'm going to prosecute Democrats", exactly how does that get folks who voted Democrat in 2008 and 2012 to vote for your guy.

Try to be fuckin' logical about this, okay?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

All I know or care about Venezula is it's a major oil exporter and think the world's biggest consumer of ice cream.

 

[JoeB131]

Communism/Socialism/Progressivism is Authoritarianism. And that always leads to Totalitarianism. It does not promote Freedom & Liberty. So, good for the People of Venezuela. Now it's time for our own People to wake up. Right now, Americans are only living an illusion of Freedom & Liberty. But this march towards a Police State can be reversed. I'm still an optimist. I'm confident the American People will stand up eventually.

If Libertarianism is the Bee's Knees, why is there NOT ONE LIBERTARIAN COUNTRY in the whole world.

Why has there never been one libertarian country in the whole of human history.

 

[JoeB131]

All I know or care about Venezula is it's a major oil exporter and think the world's biggest consumer of ice cream.

And it has a lot of beauty queens!

 

[bedowin62]

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the dimocrap party went from 'liberal' to 'radical' a long time ago.

We are the last remnants of classical liberalism in the United States.... Republicans.

dimocrap scum just call us names because we fight their radical ideas.

There's a difference between liberalism and radicalism that dimocraps have blurred.

We know where the line is drawn, dimocrap scum don't.

No, guy, we call you names because you let rich people **** you over because they promise to let you impose your religious stupidity on others, which never happens. That's really radical.

obama is a radical. What he does is present himself as a moderate force in the dimocrap scum party. He is not. He is as radical as the rest of the radicals in the dimocrap party.

But he is also a liar and a deceiver and a corrupt scumbag. He let's the more radical elements of the party advance an idea while he sits back and watches what happens.

If the idea falls on its face, he speaks out against it. If it takes hold, if it gains 'traction' then he's all for it.

Gee, isn't that what's supposed to happen in a representative democracy? And doesn't your side do it also? You guys are the ones who make people like Ted Cruz and Rand Crazy Paul Senators.




And skipping over a whole bag of crazy, we get to this...

Not since Romney. Which is exactly what Romney was... Just like Bush. A genuinely nice Man, a good, decent , honest, Christian who just wasn't interested in prosecuting the law against law-breaking dimocrap scum.

And that is also why Romney didn't get elected.

dimocraps know this. That's why we're going to see the fight of our lives come 2016. It will be epic.

Guy, Romney lost because he came off as a rich douchebag who didn't care about working people.

You guys aren't going to win by nominating someone even crazier.

You lost because working folks, blacks, hispanics, women and young people didn't vote for your guy. Obama got 3 million less votes than he did in 2008 and he still won handily.

Especially if we nominate a fire-breathing, kick-ass Conservative who wants to prosecute the hundreds (more like thousands, but I'll take what I can get) of criminals in the dimocrap party and put them where they belong.... Behind bars for decades.

dimocrap scum know this. And nothing is more dangerous than a cornered rat. You back a rat into a corner and he'll kill you to try to get out.

Just like dimocraps.

2016 will be the dirtiest, nastiest, most expensive, bloodiest presidential election in history.

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth.

Guy, honestly, reading your posts, where you use all this violent imagery, it tells me you have serious anger issues.

If your platform is "I'm going to prosecute Democrats", exactly how does that get folks who voted Democrat in 2008 and 2012 to vote for your guy.

Try to be fuckin' logical about this, okay?

YAWN; what a boring bunch of stupidity

 

[Delta4Embassy]

All I know or care about Venezula is it's a major oil exporter and think the world's biggest consumer of ice cream.

And it has a lot of beauty queens!

One less now I heard. Not to belittle the tragic loss of a human being or anything, just saying.

 

[1776]

Venezuela is country full of idiots that had some strongman goons fool them that Cuba was the economic example for Latin America so they went down the path of socialism.

The idiots living in the country have finally figured out socialism doesn't work, yet we have our idiots here defending the bullshit there...

 

[percysunshine]

The defenders of Socialism have yet to be under Socialisms thumb. Usually they flee before the thumb is pressed down.

 

[natstew]

Before Hugo Chavez took over there was a large Native (Indian) population living in poverty. They weren't put in poverty by the establishment, they just continued living like they had been for centuries and progress left them behind.
Chavez promised these poor indigenous people 'their fair share' of the Nation's wealth. They voted him in and that was the end of his devotion to the poor. He immediately began punishing his opposition (sound familiar?), shutting down opposition newspapers, radio, and TV stations, and putting his own people in charge of them. He Nationalized the Oil Industry and kicked out all foreign Oil Companies.
As for the wealth he promised to share with the poor indigenous people, they were forgotten. He didn't need them anymore. The wealth went to support his political machine.
That runs parallel with what The Left is doing in the U.S. Not as severe or harsh, but the same strategy. Castro did it in Cuba, the Left does it everywhere. They exploit the poorest for their Party's power gain. The poor are seldom, if ever really helped, other than with crumbs from the Master's table, just enough to keep them dependent.

When you copy and paste text, you need to put that text in quotes and post the link. I read that section above elsewhere- you didn't write that.

I did not copy and paste this. This came from my memory of information I've garnered since Chavez first took power. This is information from many sources, not, "copy and paste".

But feel free to 'copy and paste' it if you desire, I don't mind.

 

[natstew]

Barb, shame on you. You accuse me without even a link!

 

[Len]

Isn't this the regime in Venezuela that people like Sean Penn and Oliver Stone supported and as far as I know still do so passionately?

Yup thats them ,Kinda shows ya how bright they are.

 

[1776]

Yeah....where are the TV interviews of Sean Penn and Oliver Stone????

Surely they can tell the world what they think of the mess they helped support there....I think there should be some movie starring them as goons.

 

[boedicca]

Venezuela is quickly approaching the reductio ad absurdum of Collectivism-Totalitarianism.

They've diverted capital from production (oil) to prop up a declining society. Price controls have led to severe shortages, and the system is now in the later stages of collapse.

All.Very.Predictable.

 

[thereisnospoon]

I wasn't talkig about me! I'm part Capitalist and part Socialist if anything. My post was merely a reflection of what I see going on around me. In answering the quote "very simply put....socialism leads to no toilet paper" I was being a bit sarcastic. In a broad sense, though, the rich capitalists have "shit" on the rest of us by off shoring jobs, engineering the housing crisis, and storing assets off shore to circumvent paying taxes.

Maybe if you showered occasionally you wouldn't have the illusion people were shitting on you.
Everyone, capitalists included, work the laws to their advantage. There is nothing illegal or immoral about that. Would employees at Apple be better off if Apple paid billions of dollars in taxes to the Treasury or not?

Don't give up your day job, NEGGER!
It depends on what country the Apple employees are citizens of. Those tax dollars could be used in the USA to buy more plane/drones, encourage more research in solving medical or societal ills, or to repair our crumbling bridges. But even apple employees should be concerned about our national debt; something those billions would help to reduce!

Why is it you libs believe everything should begin and end with government?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Before Hugo Chavez took over there was a large Native (Indian) population living in poverty. They weren't put in poverty by the establishment, they just continued living like they had been for centuries and progress left them behind.
Chavez promised these poor indigenous people 'their fair share' of the Nation's wealth. They voted him in and that was the end of his devotion to the poor. He immediately began punishing his opposition (sound familiar?), shutting down opposition newspapers, radio, and TV stations, and putting his own people in charge of them. He Nationalized the Oil Industry and kicked out all foreign Oil Companies.
As for the wealth he promised to share with the poor indigenous people, they were forgotten. He didn't need them anymore. The wealth went to support his political machine.
That runs parallel with what The Left is doing in the U.S. Not as severe or harsh, but the same strategy. Castro did it in Cuba, the Left does it everywhere. They exploit the poorest for their Party's power gain. The poor are seldom, if ever really helped, other than with crumbs from the Master's table, just enough to keep them dependent.

When you copy and paste text, you need to put that text in quotes and post the link. I read that section above elsewhere- you didn't write that.

That in and of itself does not make the OP's post any less true and accurate.

 

[thereisnospoon]

Communism/Socialism/Progressivism is Authoritarianism. And that always leads to Totalitarianism. It does not promote Freedom & Liberty. So, good for the People of Venezuela. Now it's time for our own People to wake up. Right now, Americans are only living an illusion of Freedom & Liberty. But this march towards a Police State can be reversed. I'm still an optimist. I'm confident the American People will stand up eventually.

Because Obama wrote the US PATRIOT Act, and implemented Homeland [in]Security.

So it's "non sequitur Saturday"?

 

[thereisnospoon]

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the dimocrap party went from 'liberal' to 'radical' a long time ago.

We are the last remnants of classical liberalism in the United States.... Republicans.

dimocrap scum just call us names because we fight their radical ideas.

There's a difference between liberalism and radicalism that dimocraps have blurred.

We know where the line is drawn, dimocrap scum don't.

No, guy, we call you names because you let rich people **** you over because they promise to let you impose your religious stupidity on others, which never happens. That's really radical.

obama is a radical. What he does is present himself as a moderate force in the dimocrap scum party. He is not. He is as radical as the rest of the radicals in the dimocrap party.

But he is also a liar and a deceiver and a corrupt scumbag. He let's the more radical elements of the party advance an idea while he sits back and watches what happens.

If the idea falls on its face, he speaks out against it. If it takes hold, if it gains 'traction' then he's all for it.

Gee, isn't that what's supposed to happen in a representative democracy? And doesn't your side do it also? You guys are the ones who make people like Ted Cruz and Rand Crazy Paul Senators.




And skipping over a whole bag of crazy, we get to this...

Not since Romney. Which is exactly what Romney was... Just like Bush. A genuinely nice Man, a good, decent , honest, Christian who just wasn't interested in prosecuting the law against law-breaking dimocrap scum.

And that is also why Romney didn't get elected.

dimocraps know this. That's why we're going to see the fight of our lives come 2016. It will be epic.

Guy, Romney lost because he came off as a rich douchebag who didn't care about working people.

You guys aren't going to win by nominating someone even crazier.

You lost because working folks, blacks, hispanics, women and young people didn't vote for your guy. Obama got 3 million less votes than he did in 2008 and he still won handily.

Especially if we nominate a fire-breathing, kick-ass Conservative who wants to prosecute the hundreds (more like thousands, but I'll take what I can get) of criminals in the dimocrap party and put them where they belong.... Behind bars for decades.

dimocrap scum know this. And nothing is more dangerous than a cornered rat. You back a rat into a corner and he'll kill you to try to get out.

Just like dimocraps.

2016 will be the dirtiest, nastiest, most expensive, bloodiest presidential election in history.

dimocraps are the scum of the Earth.

Guy, honestly, reading your posts, where you use all this violent imagery, it tells me you have serious anger issues.

If your platform is "I'm going to prosecute Democrats", exactly how does that get folks who voted Democrat in 2008 and 2012 to vote for your guy.

Try to be fuckin' logical about this, okay?

"No, guy, we call you names because you let rich people **** you over because they promise to let you impose your religious stupidity on others, which never happens. That's really radical."...
Name one rich guy who's fucked you over".
Dude, that hatred you have for the wealthy is all in your head.
Romney lost for two reasons. One, Obama got the white suburban moderate vote. These are low information people whose live revolve around their kid's sporting activities and being "in touch" with their cul de sac dwelling neighbors.
The other was three million GOP voters stayed home that voted in 2008. The reason is they could not bring themselves to vote for a Mormon.
Oh....A lot of rich people voted for Obama. Especially those living in those wealthy northeastern blue states.
Looks like you benefitted from those rich people you believe are bending you over a table.