From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 3, 2026 at 11:19:50 PM PST, "Ubiquitous"  wrote:   
      
   > BTR1701  wrote:   
   >   
   >> I'm ambivalent about all this. Maduro is a monster who was legitimately   
   >> indicted for actual crimes and he deserved to go down. His flirting with   
   >> Iran and China just sealed that deal. But I really wish Trump didn't   
   >> spend his entire press conference basically saying, "Now we've got all   
   >> that oil and now we're going to make so much money." I mean, even if   
   >> that's why you did all this, show a little PR sense and focus on stuff   
   >> like "Now the people of the Venezuela are free and we'll be working on   
   >> rebuilding the democracy that existed before Maduro and Chavez and making   
   >> sure those who are starving get fed", etc. etc. 'Cause right now it just   
   >> looks like you took over a sovereign nation to steal their resources.   
   >   
   > Correct me if I am wrong, but weren't Dems for the last four years or so   
   > wringing their hands about "doing something" about Maduro and didn't Biden   
   > put a $25M bounty on him?   
      
   It is true that a lot of the Democrats who are now screeching about "violating   
   international law by kidnapping a head of state" are having to explain a lot   
   of inconvenient tweets and statements that are barely a year old where they   
   literally said things like, "Maduro is an illegitimate and brutal dictator   
   whole stole an election and should be removed". Now that Trump has done   
   exactly what they called for, he's suddenly a war criminal or something.   
      
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