Venezuela thread

[FelixDeCat]

It is kind of amazing that you think US housing problems are due to a lack of open space.

Have you, uhmmm, ever seen the United States?

Isn't Felix from Texas? Imagine thinking Texas is full.

5 letter word you may have forgotten...

W A T E R

We are short already in many places. Just ask Texas. The Western US fighting for every drop of the Colorado.

Damn farmers and data centers.

 

[Fenixgoon]

5 letter word you may have forgotten...

W A T E R

We are short already in many places. Just ask Texas. The Western US fighting for every drop of the Colorado.

Damn farmers and data centers.

It sounds like some organization that has a monopoly on the use of force should make some rules regarding the usage of water in drought-prone areas.

Shame we dont have one of those.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Imagine a southern country not wanting to be colonized by an imperial invader.

That is the problem, how do you approach a country where people live in poverty and the regime is rich ?
You start teaching and stirring up the people with a different view on the world , a different ideology.
If there is democracy and fair elections, you support the politician that wants to do business with you.
That is always how it goes. The whole world does it.
Promises are made, supporting education, schools, university. hospitals arise. Quality of life increases.

But all of a sudden the struggles come , the riots and the violence. And the fragile democracy shatters. Why ? Why is that ?

 

[Muse]

Previous administrations have established the precedent that POTUS can act without congressional authorization for these types of "limited" military actions. Still waiting for Congress to do anything about this.

One thing Trump is good at, is saying the quiet part out loud.

I've heard no such thing. He's good at nothing.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I don't know if guys have looked at Google Maps lately... most freshwater lakes in the US are low. I look at maps all the time considering I have to I work with flood insurance on a daily basis.

This is a world wide problem. Too many people already!

 

[William Gaatjes]

I don't know if guys have looked at Google Maps lately... most freshwater lakes in the US are low. I look at maps all the time considering I have to I work with flood insurance on a daily basis.

This is a world wide problem. Too many people already!

I am trying to find those (exploded) methane craters in siberia on google maps, where the permafrost is serverly melting but the images are low res. Millions of gallons of methane bubble up on the northern arctic every day and it will be billions of gallons of methane released in the air in the near future.

 

[nakedfrog]

I don't know if guys have looked at Google Maps lately... most freshwater lakes in the US are low. I look at maps all the time considering I have to I work with flood insurance on a daily basis.

This is a world wide problem. Too many people already!

Stop being part of the problem and be part of the solution.

 

[uallas5]

What i would like to see is that president Trump orders the soldiers not to destroy the drugs and the boats but instead capture the drugs as proof. A huge pile of cocaine and fentanyl shown to the press, that would help a lot with the image of the Trump administration.

Two problems with that:

1. That would require the administration to act with lawful forethought, something we've seen they're incapable of doing.
2. The authorities would spend large amounts of time and resources to find the leaders of the smugglers, only to have Trump pardon them once they buy up a bunch of Trump coin.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Two problems with that:

1. That would require the administration to act with lawful forethought, something we've seen they're incapable of doing.
2. The authorities would spend large amounts of time and resources to find the leaders of the smugglers, only to have Trump pardon them once they buy up a bunch of Trump coin.

It is hope in vain, i know. But it never hurts to hope for something good.

 

[HomerJS]

One church preaching the truth

https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofReddit/s/7laiZaLHLK

 

[K1052]

Ok let’s get you to bed grandpa

https://bsky.app/profile/meetthepress.com%2Fpost%2F3mbs5xrza652x

 

[K1052]

The gang gets a coast guard cutter torpedoed by the Russians has entered the chat.

https://bsky.app/profile/shipwreck75.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3mbs7zbzlfs2g

 

[fskimospy]

5 letter word you may have forgotten...

W A T E R

We are short already in many places. Just ask Texas. The Western US fighting for every drop of the Colorado.

Damn farmers and data centers.

Are you drunk or high?

 

[Brovane]

The shakedown starts.

Venezuela to Give U.S. Up to 50 Million Barrels of Oil, Trump Says

 

[K1052]

The shakedown starts.

Venezuela to Give U.S. Up to 50 Million Barrels of Oil, Trump Says

As usual best to keep in mind Trump says lots of things.

 

[brycejones]

Are you drunk or high?

Why not both?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Ya got me Felix, I did not have a clue that you can build all you like but without an available water supply, you are building in vain.

Honestly we just need to control the population IMO TBH. That or evolve gills and liver under the sea in oxygenated salt water. Although I heard there is pollution down there too.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Why not both?

Im drinking OJ and tea right now. I had thought about a screwdriver but those are hard to drink.

 

[Amol S.]

Looks like Trumps well studied plan is working swimmingly.

Avenida Boyacá, a highway running alongside El Avila National Park in Venezuela’s capital, has ground to a halt because masked men holding Kalashnikovs are stopping drivers and demanding to search their phones and cars.

The gangs of armed men, part of pro-Maduro militias known as Colectivos, scoured vehicles at hastily erected checkpoints following a government directive to root out Venezuelans in support of the US’s brazen capture of Nicolás Maduro...

Maduro’s motorcycle thugs go door to door in hunt for Trump supporters

Loyalists scour Caracas for signs of dissent and celebration of US raid

www.telegraph.co.uk

Wonder if they'll go into ISIS mode when encountering Americans.

Is it just me, or does this look somewhat familiar as to what I read back in Highschool in Global History textbooks, as to what happened in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1970s.

History repeating itself again?

 

[Amol S.]

It's pretty amazing that Republicans control 3 branches of government, but still insist on doing things the stupid illegal way.

They do not have supermajority in senate.

 

[gothuevos]

We’ve entered the part of the Fallout timeline where we start resource wars to help power….data centers.

 

[Brainonska511]

They do not have supermajority in senate.

Senate rules are set by simple majority. And they aren't even trying to pass stuff.

Stop robbing Republicans of their agency. They aren't a force of nature.

 

[Amol S.]

Senate rules are set by simple majority. And they aren't even trying to pass stuff.

Stop robbing Republicans of their agency. They aren't a force of nature.

Declaration of war would be filibustered in the senate.

 

[brycejones]

Declaration of war would be filibustered in the senate.

Again, they can change the rules with a simple majority vote to eliminate the filibuster. The filibuster only exists because a majority of the senate wants it as an excuse to not act. They can modify the rules anytime with a simple majority.

 

[Muse]

Scholarly and excellent legal and practical analysis of the situation with historical context, current piece at The New York Times:

Link to current article at The New York Times is PAYWALL PENETRATING for 14 days, i.e. until 01/21/2026:

The Great Unraveling Has Begun​

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/opinion/peace-conflict-war.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ClA.eEhA.fHTos6o9axro&smid=url-share