Patricia Smith

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@parallellistic @everman78 @shahbazyours If my daughter was stupid enough to assault someone, then she can deal with the consequences of her actions.

[VozMadridista @VozMadridista]

Sin justificar lo que está sucediendo… La gente se olvida que en Noviembre del 92 fueron las tropas leales a Hugo Chávez Frías quienes bombardearon Caracas con su golpe Militar contra el gobierno legítimo de Carlos Andrés Pérez.

Más de 400 muertos dejó aquella asonada

[Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️🇬🇧🇮🇪 @PeterMcCormack]

I'll tell you this as someone who has been to Venezuela and not some UK lefty looking for political capital.

I see the usual band of socialists like you, jumping on this because (1) they are lefty socialists and (2) they hate Trump. I’m don't know the legality of any this, and I’m sure oil will play a role, but most people have no idea of the reality inside Venezuela.

I’ve been to Caracas and the Colombian border near Cucuta and it was like nowhere I had ever been.

Caracas was unique, a middle-class bubble where if you have access to dollars, you can scrape together an okay-ish life. If you don’t, you’re living on close to nothing.

At the border, there were huge numbers of Venezuelans sleeping rough, desperate for work and access to basic goods. I met a young man and his pregnant wife living on the street. Every day he was looking for any work at all, just to send money home to his parents looking after his kids. We gave him $60 and he cried his eyes out because this meant they could eat for a month.

Inside Venezuela, there were long queues for food and we visited charities struggling to feed people who were hungry.

Millions have fled the country, those that remained and supported Maduro were mobilised for pro-government protests in exchange for regular boxes of basic food, a system that keeps people dependent and compliant (no different from what the socialists do with welfare here).

Political repression is real. Protests have been violently suppressed with soldiers opening fire. Journalists and activists have been harassed, jailed and murdered. Elections have stolen and political opposition forced into exile.

I have friends who were intimidated into leaving the country, had businesses stolen and watched their life savings evaporate through hyperinflation.

Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in South America. Chavez began the destruction and Maduro finished the job.

What happens next matters, of course. But if this process leads to a transition toward a genuinely democratically elected government, then while leftist politicians slam Trump, I guarantee the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans, both inside the country and across the diaspora, will be celebrating.

Sure sure, agendas agendas.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@StingyandProud @WhiteHouse

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@CarlosRenatoBo2 @bocajrsconvino @CristianGarciaG

[Jesús D @susejarom]

@CristianGarciaG

[Mark Lichty @MarkLichty4230]

We didn’t declare war against Venezuela 🇻🇪 we took out a drug lord and his top aides. The people of Venezuela voted him out. He did not leave power. He held on to his power to continue to flood the USA and the world with drugs. If you evict a tenant from your house and they don’t leave you call the sheriff to help you get that person out. The real elected representatives of Venezuela asked the sheriff to come to their aid!

[Carcosa @LynchFan1983]

@F1 McLaren fans:

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@marybeth5025 @TribesBritannia I was weightlifting 5x/week and dancing 3x/week up until labor, literally danced 5 hrs before contractions. Blurry pic is from my 7pm class; labor started at midnight. It stalled, and by 6pm next day, I was about to leave for class again when the hospital called.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@CaroleWeingar10 @NaomiSky_15 You can bring your own gown. If you see the back, it has buttons for if you need an epidural. I wore my own gown I brought from home.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@grok @votechella2020 @NaomiSky_15 @patnaturalaging I weightlifted and did high intensity dance classes literally until I 4 hrs before I went into labor. We didn’t even know I had preeclamsia until 18 hours after I was already in labor.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

My husband and I met Jan 2015 and started dating Feb 2015. I started working with him in April 2015 and moved in together in Nov 2015.

9+ years of working and living together, and for the first time, we have separate schedules and locations.

This feels weird but nice.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@guifemex2 @NoVive_Socialis Acaso solo se puede investigar un caso a la vez? 🤔

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@botasfinas @jon_oleaga @aran_tirado @EspejoPublico En EE.UU, los resultados se publican a nivel de precinto, condado o estado, en forma de totales agregados, no como imágenes de las boletas o actas de cada máquina de votación.

En EE.UU., no existe un requisito nacional para mostrar públicamente las actas de escrutinio.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

@pura_edith @trschatz51 Alguien puede estar preocupado por mas de una situación a la vez. Una situación no le quita a la otra.

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

Why is it that thinking about how happy, at peace I've been lately, and how depression has slowly started to dissipate just sent me into a spiral of sadness all of a sudden?

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

🫶🏼🧇 @MarkNarrations

[9GAG ❤️ Memeland @9GAG]

When you have a “they’re gonna love this” moment but they’re not around anymore

[Patricia Smith @P_smith919]

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