Venezuela's Triumphant Socialist Paradise

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luthervol said:
You missed a lot.
The son represents present/future, the mom represents present/past, the kitchen represents health care, Obama represents the temporarily thwarted solution.
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no you are missing that I am part of that present/future (one of the brothers) and I got screwed over. am still getting screwed over. harder than I was before. and apparently the only fix is to continue to screw me over even harder.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Hmm, I wonder why the Trump administration was so quick to back him?
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I don’t know but weren’t we one of the last ones to back him of the countries that do ? I thought the others already had decided to and then we also did .
 
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0nelilreb said:
I don’t know but weren’t we one of the last ones to back him of the countries that do ? I thought the others already had decided to and then we also did .
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Looks like the rest of the Western Hemisphere and the UK followed our lead, per the BBC . We've been putting the squeeze on Maduro for a bit now apparently.
 
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zeppelin128 said:
Looks like the rest of the Western Hemisphere and the UK followed our lead, per the BBC . We've been putting the squeeze on Maduro for a bit now apparently.
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Didn’t Russia and China both tell us to stay out of it and they both are backing the current government ? China has big loans to them and Russia has their oil . So I don’t get how that makes Trump beholding to Russian to go the opposite of the way they go .
 
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0nelilreb said:
Didn’t Russia and China both tell us to stay out of it and they both are backing the current government ? China has big loans to them and Russia has their oil . So I don’t get how that makes Trump beholding to Russian to go the opposite of the way they go .
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Well, I'm going to fess up. As you guys say, I had a bought of TDS. I should have done some reading before commenting. I'll slink to another thread now.
 
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U.S. sanctions on Venezuela would reroute crude, leave refiners short | Reuters

Venezuela, on average, exported about 500,000 barrels of crude a day to the United States in 2018, according to U.S. Energy Department data. Those shipments fell in November to an estimated 358,000 barrels per day, however, according to a report by Caracas-based consultancy Gas Energy Latin America seen by Reuters.

Those deliveries are being made largely through oil-for-debt repayment structures as output from state-run oil company Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A., known as PDVSA, has slumped to near 70-year lows in a nationwide economic crisis. Venezuela’s output has been cut in half since 2016 to less than 1.2 million bpd, according to figures from OPEC secondary sources.
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Pompeo taps Elliott Abrams as State Department Venezuela point person

“Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that a seasoned, principled and tough-minded foreign policy veteran is joining our State Department team,” Pompeo said at a press conference. “Elliott’s passion for the rights and liberties for all peoples makes him a perfect fit and a valuable and timely addition.”

Abrams was convicted of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra affair.
 
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Mick said:
Pompeo taps Elliott Abrams as State Department Venezuela point person

“Today, I am incredibly excited to announce that a seasoned, principled and tough-minded foreign policy veteran is joining our State Department team,” Pompeo said at a press conference. “Elliott’s passion for the rights and liberties for all peoples makes him a perfect fit and a valuable and timely addition.”

Abrams was convicted of withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra affair.
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What could possibly go wrong?
 
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Mick said:
You did great with the first one. Society began in 1861. Did not know that. What was that boston tea party all about.
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Zing! Another “wtf?!” retort from the grassy knoll!

And on the edit, explain to me how that relates to federal taxes in this country? Zing again!
 
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