From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 1/4/2026 4:46 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Jan 4, 2026 at 12:10:50 PM PST, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/4/2026 2:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   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.   
   >>   
   >> Bernie Sanders maintains both assertions.  They're not inconsistent.   
   >   
   > Then who's going to remove Maduro if not someone like Trump? It's not like   
   his   
   > own people can just do it themselves.   
      
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