From: NoBody@nowhere.com   
      
   On Sun, 4 Jan 2026 19:34:21 -0000 (UTC), 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.   
   >   
      
   I truly can't stand this level of hypocrisy.  Their history is for all   
   to see but they just sit there and blatantly lie.   
      
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