Venezuela exploits Biden's weakness
Posted By: Moritz55, 12/6/2023 9:35:50 AM
Not content to subjugate and impoverish his own people, Venezuela's dictator, President Nicolas Maduro, is casting his malevolent eyes on a new prize. Guyana or, more particularly, its oil reserves. Venezuela is home to the world's largest proven oil reserves. The South American nation of 28 million people should be an economic powerhouse. Instead, after decades of socialist kleptocracy under Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, Venezuela is an economic basket case. There was a temporary respite in 2022, but Venezuela's economy is once again in crisis. Oil exports remain critical to propping up Maduro's dictatorship with a flow of foreign capital. But excessive government spending, inflation, corruption, and
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Biden’s Venezuela Failure
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On Sunday, Venezuelans voted on a referendum asking whether the Guyanese-administered territory of Esequibo, which borders Venezuela, should be governed from Caracas. The region comprises approximately 60 percent of Guyana’s de jure territory, as well as the bulk of the country’s newfound oil reserves, including most of the prized Stabroek oil field. As with the disputed Falklands Islands, the quarrel goes back to the colonial era. Like Argentina, Venezuela argues that the territory was wrongfully acquired by imperial Britain during the early 19th century; hence, the territory rightfully belongs to the Bolivarian Republic. In a further escalation of tensions, on Tuesday, President Nicolás Maduro announced the creation of a
Less than one year away from the 2024 presidential election, poll after poll shows President Joe Biden's chances of reelection diminishing. The panicked response of Democrats has ranged from anonymously leaking statements imploring President Biden not to run again to head-in-the-sand denials about his chances of winning. But by far the most dangerous and un-American tool in the Left's political arsenal is their unprecedented lawfare targeting Joe Biden's leading political opponent: President Donald J. Trump. The Left has chosen lawfare because winning in the marketplace of ideas at the ballot box clearly isn't suitable for today's Democratic Party, which seems to support limitless illegal immigration, inflationary
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A civil rights official at the Department of Justice, Kristen Clarke, was sharply criticized by congressional lawmakers after claiming she was not familiar with a landmark case about freedom of speech. The Supreme Court agreed in October to review a court-ordered ban on certain communications between the Biden administration and Big Tech platforms after state attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana accused high-ranking government officials of working with social media companies "under the guise of combating misinformation." They argued this ultimately led to censoring speech on topics that included Hunter Biden’s laptop, COVID-19 origins and the efficacy of face masks.
Venezuela exploits Biden's weakness
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Not content to subjugate and impoverish his own people, Venezuela's dictator, President Nicolas Maduro, is casting his malevolent eyes on a new prize.
Guyana or, more particularly, its oil reserves. Venezuela is home to the world's largest proven oil reserves. The South American nation of 28 million people should be an economic powerhouse. Instead, after decades of socialist kleptocracy under Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez, Venezuela is an economic basket case. There was a temporary respite in 2022, but Venezuela's economy is once again in crisis. Oil exports remain critical to propping up Maduro's dictatorship with a flow of foreign capital. But excessive government spending, inflation, corruption, and
All the News Fit for You To Hear
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Mayor Adams’ hotel-for-migrants money pit
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) responded to former Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyo.) dire warnings about a potential second term for former President Trump by claiming President Biden’s reelection would be much worse for the country.
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Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, is demanding action from President Biden regarding border security after military families who booked rooms in Foxboro, Massachusetts, which is the site of the 124th installment of the Army-Navy Game, received cancellation notices from hotels that are being used by the state to house migrants. "It’s clear: these cancellations are due to your administration’s decision to ship illegal immigrants across the country to sanctuary cities at taxpayers’ expense," Ernst wrote in the letter.
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Career Democrat and ABC host George Stephanopoulos completely emasculated Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma this weekend on his Sunday show. Right at the beginning of the interview, Stephanopoulos advanced a flurry of disinformation and lies, to which Lankford, who purports to be a conservative senator of the burgundy-red state of Oklahoma, bowed down in complete supplication:
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Apparently, I Am A Sexist Bigot
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The director of Disney’s latest flop, The Marvels, Nia DaCosta, is blaming hateful sexist, misogynists for the massive box office failure.
What is probably really upsetting Ms. DaCosta is that more men than women bought tickets to the film. Women, like me, are not at all interested in paying for a film starring macho women.
No thanks, Disney. Real women like strong men, even fake ones portraying superheroes.
The more I read about the antics of the hysterical Karens or view the sickening videos of moronic exhibitionists on TikTok, the more convinced that I am a female chauvinist.
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Frankly, I think it’s stunning that we’ve gotten to this point in the first place.
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Elon Musk wants Bob Iger fired.
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