Great conversation guys, however couple of observations, Francis the dispute with Guyana for the Esequibo is more than a century old, did not start with Maduro or Chavez, the Venezuelan Map has always shown that area as “Zona en Reclamacion”. Maduro and Chavez did screwed up critical legal milestones to continue Venezuelan claim on that area, which led to the last ruling in favor of Guyana, which led to that fake referendum you mentioned. The other important point to highlight is the extent of damage by Chavez/Maduro did to the oil industry, PDVSA was the 2nd best Oil company in the world by several metrics before them, only behind Saudi Aramco. Differently than most nationalized oil companies (like Pemex in Mexico), PDVSA was very efficient, run by technical people and not politicians. When Oil prices came down significantly in late 90s, the reopening of Oil industry began (Apertura Petrolera) and invited foregin companies to participate in several projects in Oil and Petrochemicals that led to several investments by US and European copmanies in projects with more than $20 billion in investments. Chavez expropriated those projects more than 20 years ago and even though Venezuela has lost most of the law suits for compensation they still have not paid. Venezuela produced more than 3 millions bpd before them, barely gets to 700k bpd now….Politically now, if the US forces Delcy to follow their farse (that Maduro was President and she is VP), Congress has to declared the “Permanent Absense” of the President (in their farse Maduro), and given than this happens less than half the period, she has to call for elections within 30 days of that Permanent Absense. New congress was swore-in yesterday. At that point, I would assume elections would happen in 3-6 months, and would be supervised and without “made-up” injuctions to prevent candidates to participate, which will allow Maria Corina to run and most likely win and then start the proper transition.
@ScottAdamsSays Not only that Scott, the main figure of the opposition Maria Corina Machado, was not on the ballot because Maduro used his equivalent DoJ to prohibit her from participating in any public office.
The American College of Pediatricians just put out a 🔥🔥🔥 statement calling out all the major medical associations by name for pushing the gender transition craze on kids.
They ask for these groups to "IMMEDIATELY stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex."
The full @ACPeds statement ⬇️
"Therefore, given the recent research and the revelations of the harmful approach advocated by WPATH and its followers in the United States, we, the undersigned, call upon the medical professional organizations of the United States, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society, the Pediatric Endocrine Society, American Medical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to follow the science and their European professional colleagues and immediately stop the promotion of social affirmation, puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for children and adolescents who experience distress over their biological sex. Instead, these organizations should recommend comprehensive evaluations and therapies aimed at identifying and addressing underlying psychological co-morbidities and neurodiversity that often predispose to and accompany gender dysphoria. We also encourage the physicians who are members of these professional organizations to contact their leadership and urge them to adhere to the evidence-based research now available.”
They link to MANY studies on their site: https://t.co/Rjw4geZVvI
BREAKING: A Manhattan jury has found Trump guilty on all counts.
We knew from the start this was the most likely outcome. This case was engineered for years, from the very top of the Democrat apparatus, to bring down Trump, using a rigged law in a rigged courtroom with a rigged jury.
Trump will appeal and this will, eventually, be overturned, but this is a scar on our nation. For today, at least, this country looks more like Venezuela or China or Russia than the United States of America.
Now, we must be ready to maintain our resolve. There will be an unprecedented push to say that Trump CANNOT be allowed to win, that we CANNOT elect a convicted felon.
Don’t give in. They did this because they are desperate. They will lose, and they will pay.
The correlation between the cost of going to college and the intensity of the protests is an important reflection on entitlement.
I have experienced this empirically. I spoke at @PaceUniversity and @Columbia within 10 days of each other. Pace students were focused on learning and job attainment and @Columbia students were building encampments.
Unscientific American | Another noble American institution run into the ground when clueless trustees handed over the keys to a woke fanatic. https://t.co/XKyx0ISOyD
About one in five mail-in ballots in the last election was fraudulent, handing Biden the presidency. We know this because the people who committed the fraud have admitted it in a new poll.
Let’s stop referring the insurrection underway on our university campuses as Pro Palestinian protests. They are not pro Palestinian. They are anti-Jewish and anti-American.
What you see are Pro Hamas operatives exploiting gullible students. They are flexing their Islamist muscles. Incompetent and weak university presidents who allowed this problem to get out of hand will not stop them.
The Feds need to take control before they shed blood.
This graph illustrates the woke mind virus taking over legacy media.
Same happened with online media and the education system. Then it spread to other countries.
Infection rate almost 100%.
But now it will die.
From Henry Hazlitt’s article “Marxism in One Minute“:
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.
Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community.
Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others.
Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects — his laziness, incompetence, improvidence or stupidity.
Never believe in the honesty or disinterestedness of anyone who disagrees with you.
This basic hatred is the heart of Marxism.
This is its animating force.
You can throw away the dialectical materialism, the Hegelian framework, the technical jargon, the “scientific” analysis, and millions of pretentious words, and you still have the core:
The implacable hatred and envy that are the raison d’etre for all the rest.