Sudan I.

Houstonian by location, American by choice, Venezuelan by birth, over analytical by personality. Probably overthinking this bio right now.

[Sudan I. @smaccio]

Dedicada a los que hoy pelean en Vzla contra la miseria comunista @inesitaterrible @MariaCorinaYA @liliantintori https://t.co/FHdbU282qM

[Roberto Smith Perera @RobertoSmithP]

La lección de Alemania para Venezuela es clara: la democracia no arrancó con una elección. Comenzó con la derrota del régimen, el control del territorio, el desmantelamiento de sus bases, la depuración de las instituciones, la reconstrucción económica y nuevas reglas de juego, nueva constitución.

Berlín cayó en mayo de 1945. La primera elección federal democrática fue en agosto de 1949. Pasaron más de cuatro años. Durante ese tiempo no gobernó un alemán: la autoridad la ejercían las potencias aliadas mientras reconstruían el país.

El proceso estuvo lleno de idas y venidas: ocupación, desnazificación, 900.000 juicios, reintegración de funcionarios claves, moneda nueva, reconstrucción industrial, nuevos partidos, bloqueo soviético de Berlín y una nueva Constitución.

Primero se reconstruyó el Estado. Después se eligió quién lo gobernaría.
Muchos se quejaban de la poca velocidad del cambio.

Venezuela enfrenta el mismo problema de fondo. Un país con instituciones capturadas, FFAA politizadas, justicia sometida, economía destruida y redes criminales incrustadas en el Estado no se convierte en democracia porque se convoque una elección.

La secuencia es: seguridad, desmantelar el aparato criminal, reconstrucción, estabilización económica, reforma institucional y luego … elecciones libres.

Alemania no se democratizó porque votó. Pudo votar porque antes fue reconstruida.

La elección no inició el proceso. Fue una consecuencia de haberlo completado.

A los que vayan a decir “no son comparables@, ahórrense la obviedad. Saquen sus propias conclusiones.

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 Marco Rubio Predicted the Rise of ‘Democratic Socialism’ Back in 2020

“At the core of democratic socialism is Marxism. And at the core of Marxism is this fake offer that if you turn over more of your individual freedom, we're going to provide you security … and you don't get it back just because the security they promised you didn't happen. That's what we're on the verge of having to decide here in this country.”

[Tamara Suju @TAMARA_SUJU]

#Venezuela.🆘️ Casi 5 minutos donde una Arquitecta que estuvo de la Gran Mision Vivienda le dice a @carlaangola el HORROR, Corrupción y Crimen contra la Vida de los Venezolanos. Se robaron las cabillas, construian sin ningun permiso....ESCUCHENLA. 📢

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Orwell was a genius

[Starlink @Starlink]

For those impacted by the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela, Starlink is providing free service through July 25 to new and existing customers. We’re also working to rapidly deploy Starlink terminals and restore connectivity to the hardest-hit areas → https://t.co/QDjq988jt0

[Apple Lamps @lamps_apple]

Look at the spectacular, intergalactic cope from Comrade Petro...

The Colombian middle class voted for Abelardo because human beings are an incentivized, status-seeking, and hierarchical species. E. O. Wilson famously said of socialism... "Great idea. Wrong species." Once people escape poverty, their evolved survival mechanisms kick in. They reject the parasitic taxation of collectivist warmth. They want private property, economic freedom, cars, and concrete avenues.

To a parasitized leftist intellectual, this basic human drive is a confusing paradox. Petro laments that the middle class is "pulling up the ladder," explicitly comparing them to established residents in the United States who oppose illegal immigration. Wanting secure borders, rule of law, and a protected hierarchy is an adaptive survival mechanism. It is a sign of civilizational health, not a moral failure.

Progressivism can try to engineer a "more seductive discourse" to fight human nature... reality will always slap you back to earth. You can only sell the mythical unicorn of collectivism for so long before the voters invoke their cognitive systems and auto-correct your progressive delusions.

Bingo.

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

EL LEÓN Y EL TIGRE RUGEN EN LATINOAMÉRICA...!!!

Felicito enormemente a @ABDELAESPRIELLA por su histórica victoria en Colombia.

Hoy la mayoría de los colombianos eligieron el camino de la libertad económica, la prosperidad, la seguridad implacable y decirle BASTA al crimen organizado transnacional y al narcotráfico.

La libertad avanza en toda América Latina y ya no hay vuelta atrás.

VIVA LA LIBERTAD CARAJO...!!!

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.

And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.

Here is what they are discovering:

Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.

Then they found the grocery stores.

Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.

The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.

They finally understand why we do not have trains.

We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.

Why would we need trains.

The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.

Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.

Write that down. 🦋

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

Earlier this week, the @DeptofWar — in full collaboration with Venezuelan security forces — conducted a kinetic strike on a Tren de Aragua (TdA) compound in Venezuela. TdA founder & leader Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka “Niño Guerrero,” was confirmed killed during the strike.

The operation underscores the shared U.S. and Venezuelan commitment to take the fight to narco-terrorists and deny them any safe haven in our hemisphere. We will continue to work closely with security partners, like Venezuela — and counties in the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition (A3C) partners — to take the fight to our enemies.

[Pete Hegseth @PeteHegseth]

June 6, 1944

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just defended America better than every politician in Washington combined.

Musk: “After World War 2, the US could have basically taken over the world and any country. Like we got nukes, nobody else got nukes. We don’t even have to lose soldiers. Which country do you want?”

One nation on earth held a weapon nobody else had.

Total dominance. Zero competition. No risk of retaliation.

Every empire in history that held that kind of advantage used it.

Rome. The Mongols. The British. The Ottomans.

They conquered until they collapsed.

America had a bigger advantage than all of them combined.

And it rebuilt the countries it just defeated.

Musk: “The United States actually helped rebuild countries. So it helped rebuild Europe, it helped rebuild Japan. This is very unusual behavior, almost unprecedented.”

Almost unprecedented?

It had never happened before. Not once in 5,000 years of recorded history.

The Marshall Plan wasn’t foreign aid.

It was the most radical act of restraint any superpower ever committed.

America turned its enemies into allies. Turned rubble into economies. Turned surrender into partnership.

Germany went from ashes to the economic engine of Europe in a generation.

Japan went from unconditional surrender to the third largest economy on earth.

Three years after the war, America was flying food into Berlin.

A city in the heart of the nation that just tried to destroy it.

That’s not policy.

That’s a civilization deciding what it is at the exact moment it has the power to be anything.

You’re being told a story right now.

That America is the villain of history.

You hear it everywhere. Media. Universities. Social platforms.

Musk: “There’s always like, well America’s done bad things. Well of course America’s done bad things, but one needs to look at the whole track record.”

Every nation on earth has dark chapters. Every single one.

The difference is what a country does when nobody can stop it.

And when nobody could stop America, it fed its enemies and rebuilt their cities.

Musk: “The history of China suggests that China is not acquisitive. Meaning they’re not going to go out and invade a whole bunch of countries.”

Probably right.

China has historically built walls, not fleets.

But the real question isn’t about borders anymore.

We’re approaching a moment that mirrors 1945 in ways nobody has fully processed yet.

AI is going to give a handful of people a power advantage that makes nuclear monopoly look quaint.

If someone is going to hold that kind of power, who do you want it to be?

The country that conquered when it could? Or the one that rebuilt when it didn’t have to?

Every alliance. Every trade route. Every economy.

Billions lifted out of poverty.

All of it traces back to one act of restraint that had never been done before.

And carries no guarantee of being repeated.

The most powerful thing America ever did wasn’t building the bomb.

It was what it didn’t do after.

[Sudan I. @smaccio]

@katiuska484 @AlexaGomezDos Gracias!! Bajo esta imagen 🙏

[Marshall S. Billingslea @M_S_Billingslea]

It’s obvious that the US will need to suspend/remove sanctions on the Venezuelan Central Bank in order to facilitate all of the various deals the Trump administration has in mind with Delcy & Co.

There is a prudent way to do it, & an imprudent way.

Let’s start with the facts:🧵

[VVperiodistas @VVperiodistas_]

Con Maduro no ganábamos ni el Mundial de desayunos.

[Zack Shapiro @zackbshapiro]

https://t.co/DYXjYgZrLs

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

If President Trump succeeds in turning Iran and Venezuela from implacably hostile to at least neutral or even friendly regimes, the geopolitical benefit is enormous, writes Greg Ip https://t.co/vFRzYnCXoc

[AXEL KAISER @AXELKAISER]

Friedrich Hayek filósofo y Nobel de economía explicando porqué fascismo y socialismo son esencialmente lo mismo.

[Grover Dill 🏴‍☠️ @grover_lou]

@MarioNawfal @grok is this kid really being charged as an adult?

[Orlando Avendaño @OrlvndoA]

Hace un par de meses conocí, en una experiencia verdaderamente inquietante, la Casa del Terror de Budapest, un museo a las víctimas del comunismo y el nazismo en Hungría.

Se alzó sobre el antiguo cuartel general de la policía comunista, cuyos sótanos eran cuartos de tortura.

Aún vive el moho de las celdas, están los instrumentos de tortura y la horca donde fueron asesinados miles de presos políticos.

Hoy la húngara es una sociedad curada de comunismo y Hungría es uno de los países más seguros de Europa. Ellos no olvidan. La memoria los acompaña en el día a día.

Debemos emularlos. Debemos recordar y que el horror lo conozcan nuestros hijos y sus hijos y los hijos de sus hijos.

[Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺 @cristiancrespoj]

Se tenía que decir y se dijo. Se puede decir más alto pero no más claro. La administración de Trump está logrando para la humanidad, cosas que los de izquierda dicen defender, pero nada de lo que hacen va en pro de ello, y les duele, y les pica. Bueno… ¡Rásquense!

#legionindependencia #GeneraciónIndependencia