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Venezuela is collapsing.

Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 5 months ago to History
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Statement from President Donald J. Trump Recognizing Venezuelan National Assembly President Juan Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela
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Issued on: January 23, 2019
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Today, I am officially recognizing the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela. In its role as the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, the National Assembly invoked the country’s constitution to declare Nicolas Maduro illegitimate, and the office of the presidency therefore vacant. The people of Venezuela have courageously spoken out against Maduro and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law.

I will continue to use the full weight of United States economic and diplomatic power to press for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy. We encourage other Western Hemisphere governments to recognize National Assembly President Guaido as the Interim President of Venezuela, and we will work constructively with them in support of his efforts to restore constitutional legitimacy. We continue to hold the illegitimate Maduro regime directly responsible for any threats it may pose to the safety of the Venezuelan people. As Interim President Guaido noted yesterday: “Violence is the usurper’s weapon; we only have one clear action: to remain united and firm for a democratic and free Venezuela.”
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I've tried the same thing, blarman, but I often get a blank stare. Apparently a lot of leftists don't even know what Venezuela is. Must be a salad, I guess.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 6 years, 5 months ago
    Do these crazies really think anyone is going to work their 'beautifuls' off and give 70 cents out of every dollar to the Government? Didn't I read somewhere that the Government isn't supposed to rule in America, but rather the citizens? What in the 'you know what' are these people thinking of? Oh I forgot, thinking is the hard part.
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  • Posted by Spiderwilliams 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Only thing is it was tried and openly confronted capitalism as the enemy and named the Jews proxy capitalists. Then they failed and we're stopped short of their genocidal Utopia.
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The country still held immense natural resources for industrialists and probably a few starving people willing to work to survive. All, or most, of the looters would have died off once they bled everything that could be bled. It would have been like discovering the Americas, all over again.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think that small family units are run as socialist regimes. Most young people finally figure out they dont even want the freebies and controls from the family, while the older producers grow tired of the young mooching off them.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would pay to send them there as long as they agreed NOT to come back. Maybe a GoFundMe page should be set up to export Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, Warren, Waters, and a few others.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They will look to the next "leader" to give them stuff. I agree. Its up to the producers just NOT to agree to be looted. I dont know exactly how that will happen openly, but I do think it will happen quietly where the producers just decide one by one to produce LESS.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Very interesting point. I mean WHY would they come back to a country destroyed by the collectivist thinking that had spread to nearly everyone. The alternative would be to just build up Galts Gulch and live out their lives happily.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I would agree that both Russian and Venezuelan people have no idea that capitalism should replace their various collectivist plans. They have no intellectual grounding to permit a switch to capitalism, except perhaps when the collectivist government fails and for awhile nothing replaces it (in which case capitalism is the default system)
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    One of these days we will just see a news article that Maduro has been captured and killed by "insurgents". It will be a day of celebration for sure.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Democracy and fascism are not mutually exclusive either. In fact, we have a combination of capitalism, fascism, AND socialism currently in the USA. Capitalism where people generally trade amonst themselves, fascism where people can own businesses so long as they obey the "rules" set by the government (as with banks for example) , and socialism where the government actually owns and runs commerce (as with medicare, the VA hospitals, the post office, the railroads, and many other things).
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Democratic socialism is just SOCIALISM that is "voted" in by majority mob rule.

    Theres the democratic republic in North Korea. Its not a republic, and not even democratic. Theres the name they give it, and what it actually IS.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    They have made deals with Maduro to secure oil reserves, and dont want to lose the payments they made to Maduro. Russia is NOT a good country under Putin.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The socialists milk the rich countries, and then simply move on to the next rich country to milk it. Californians are leaving the "golden state" and coming to Nevada, Arizone, and Texas for that reason also.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Absolutely!

    The thing I don't think they realize is that they are living a contradiction. On the one hand they claim to be the most intelligent people, yet they openly embrace the worst hypocrisy in existence. True intelligence is recognizing that truth exists independently of people's desires. You have to conform to it - not the other way around.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 5 months ago
    Interesting. Its good that Trump says these things, but it really ISNT any of our business what happens in Venezuela and what the people there choose as their government. I think Trump is trying to protect OUR interests there, and to make sure the oil reserves dont get into bad hands, like Russia and China, which is I suppose a good goa in a way.
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  • Posted by Solver 6 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That’s not real socialism. Real socialism has never been tried. Only if we have real socialism will we bring forward our Utopian dream. Same thing with real fascism.
    /s
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  • Posted by dukem 6 years, 5 months ago
    My roommate in the first year of college way back in 1960 was from Caracas. He spoke fluent Spanish, English, and German, and had come there with his parents at the end of WW2.
    HIs descriptions of the country made me jealous, as it was wealthy, relatively democratic, and was the shining jewel of South American.
    Now it has come to this, courtesy of socialism. Will we never learn?
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