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SaidNoOneEver said:
If nobody wants their oil then why they fuck did we sanction them into the stone age when they nationalized it and kicked Exxon out? Why the fuck would we care about Venezuela at all? And before you say "the wonderful people and muh democracy" remember that we're the ones who installed Maduro in the first place when we thought he would play ball and are currently the ones starving those wonderful people with sanctions. Wake the fuck up man.
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This reminds me of boomercons 20 years ago saying Iraq had nothing to do with oil because gas didn’t get any cheaper for us at the pump.
 
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Listen I'm glad Rittenhouse killed that commie and pedo but the last 24 hours of his attention is 100% this meme.

Breadbassket said:
The dot-com bubble was significant but considering how large e-commerce was then its economic impact was minimal compared to what would happen today if something similar occurred. The Internet is everywhere now.
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It helps that we had an incident right after it happened that got the population on board with two wars and wars are, often, good for the economy.
 
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Michele said:
Anyways, which candidate do you think Kamala will pick? So many rumors swirling around... it has to be a decent pick at least. Can't be Shapiro due to scandals swirling around him, but it's a tight race, so it's hard to tell
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Taylor swift, Meghan Markle, Oprah, Whoopie, Gaga or Big Mike are on my wheel of nominees.
 
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Michael Wade said:
You tell the truth without nuance or context warped to fit your perspective of reality.

It's worthless without honest engagement of opposing views.


Look I hate all this Jewish illuminati shit too but I have to be realistic. Trump is literally the best option because he treats them as equals as opposed to being their servants. That's the best you're going to get.
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Exactly, I remember some comment here or elsewhere that Netanyahu dislikes Trump’s position on Israel because Trump had the gall to treat Israel like an ally of the US rather than as a master, and would rather see actual geopolitical wins rather than the aimless bloodfest going on now.

SaidNoOneEver said:
Venezuela also has the largest gold reserves/deposits in latin America. Oil is only a fraction of what's in the ground there that we want a cut from.
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I guess the US’s hopes of collapsing Russia through sanctions in order to crack open its bounty of natural resources is on ice for now, so plan B is on the table.
 
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Biden administration halts highly-controversial migrant flight program via Daily Mail https://archive.is/wip/xhTlR https://archive.is/tUIbC
The Biden administration has paused a controversial plan that was flying hundreds of thousands of immigrants to the U.S. per year after massive fraud was discovered.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed Friday that it temporarily paused its program that allows up to 30,000 nationals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) to enter the country each month.

The sudden freeze of the contentious program comes after an internal DHS report revealed rampant fraud among the sponsors paying for the migrants to come to the country, a source familiar with the report told Fox News.

The freeze will give the agency time to investigate if fraud has occurred in their supporter applications - which are forms filled by individuals who 'agree to provide financial support to a beneficiary and undergo background checks.'

Just 3,200 individual sponsors signed up to support roughly 101,000 migrants according to the report, prompting concerns at DHS that the system is being abused.

The report indicating fraud also shockingly found that some of the names used to fill out sponsor forms belonged to dead people.

Additionally, storage units were found to be the home address for some sponsor applications, while certain phone numbers were used on thousands of applications.

Almost 3,000 sponsors applications were filled out using fake zip codes, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) a conservative immigration nonprofit which first obtained the report, found.

According to a DHS spokesperson the agency now has 'review mechanisms in place to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in our immigration processes. DHS takes any abuse of its processes very seriously,' a DHS spokesperson said.

'Where fraud is identified, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will investigate and litigate applicable cases in immigration court and make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.'

The spokesperson continued: 'Out of an abundance of caution, DHS has temporarily paused the issuance of advanced travel authorizations for new beneficiaries while it undertakes a review of supporter applications. DHS will restart application processing as quickly as possible, with appropriate safeguards.'

'Shut it down permanently,' Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said of the Biden plan. 'This program should have never existed in the first place.'

'It's just another way the Biden-Harris Administration has welcomed hundreds of thousands of aliens into our country, unchecked.'

House Homeland Security Chair Mark Green, R-Tenn., told DailyMail.com, 'This admission by the Biden-Harris administration vindicates every warning we have ever issued about the unlawful CHNV mass-parole program.'

'It also exposes the lie by administration officials, like now-impeached DHS Secretary Mayorkas, about the quality and extent of the vetting process—not just for the inadmissible aliens seeking entry, but those attempting to sponsor them.'

'We issued a subpoena last year to compel documents regarding this program, and while DHS partially complied, the department remains delinquent in producing certain documents and communications relating to the program.'

Green added: 'This is exactly what happens when you create an unlawful mass-parole program in order to spare your administration the political embarrassment and bad optics of overrun borders. The Biden-Harris administration should terminate the CHNV program immediately.'

The flight program was started in October 2022 and was initially meant for Venezuelans who met certain conditions like they had not previously tried to enter the U.S. illegally, had a U.S.-based sponsor and passed biographical vetting.

Notably, the migrants are responsible for their own travel, but the program allows them to fly to the U.S.

The sponsors for the migrants also must undergo background checks, which makes the reported fraud among them even more concerning.

Still, DHS emphasized that CHNV beneficiaries are 'thoroughly screened' prior to their arrival.

'The multi-layered screening and vetting for advanced travel authorizations is separate from the screening of U.S.-based supporters,' the spokesperson told Fox News. 'DHS has not identified issues of concern relating to the screening and vetting of beneficiaries.'

As of October 2023, there were around 1.6 million applicants waiting for DHS approval to fly to the U.S. using Biden's parole program, the agency said this year.
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I wonder if this will lead to another PR disaster for the biden admin and the border czar? Maybe it will at least lead to mass deportations.
 
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Sanctions are just one piece of the puzzle for Venezuela. It doesn't help that the country is corrupt and that the people were the ones who elected Chavez in the first place, this is the same man who went on to to nationalize the oil industry, leave the IMF, leave the World Bank, abolished presidential term limits and pursued closer relations with Cuba. Then when he died, there was an election and his successor Maduro won who in the past ten years has gradually made the nation more and more into a one-party state.
 
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TheDarknessGrows said:
Venezuela has dirty crude, just like portions of the United States. Only those two nations used the tech to refine it in meaningful quantities.

USA was a dick to Venezuela; however, Venezuela did not take care of its specialized equipment or retain the workers with specialized knowledge of that equipment's operation after it was nationalized. The USA had the means and knowledge to fix their tech, but the USA was a dick. Venezuela was proud.

And here we are. Dicks fuck pride, but not as hard as pride fucks itself.
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There was a whole South Park episode with a similar premise. Something about Dicks, pussies and assholes.
 
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The CIA put Chavez in power, then the CIA tried to coup him, then the CIA gave Chavez cancer, then the CIA, Chavez, and Exxon all got together to choose Maduro, then the CIA and Trump betrayed Maduro because reasons. All to control Venezuela's oil

Wouldn't it have been just a bit simpler and easier at some point to, you know, go ahead and plain old buy Venezuela's oil from it with our money printer go brrrrr? Being an imperialist Yanqui dog has got be fucking exhausting, all the hoops you gotta jump through
 
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