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   From: bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com   
      
   Great news! Yesterday President Trump spoke to the current unelected   
   dictator in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez.¹   
      
   You may recall that Rodríguez is a socialist revolutionary who was   
   Nicolás Maduro’s partner in crime. Having just installed her as Madam   
   Presidenté, Trump called her “a terrific person” and said that his   
   partnership with Venezuela “will be a spectacular one.”   
      
   I know what you’re thinking: How is this possible? What about freedom for   
   the Venezuelan people? What about the evils of socialism? What is Trump’s   
   angle?   
      
   Well, there are two answers to that.   
      
   The first is Trump’s personal angle. This week the U.S. government made   
   its first sale of Venezuelan oil and pocketed $500 million. Would you   
   like to know where that money is being held?   
      
   In accounts in Qatar.   
      
   Why Qatar?   
      
   For starters, because government accounts in Qatar are controlled by the   
   executive branch and not Congress. Trump is continuing to create his own   
   funding stream for the government² that can operate independently of   
   congressional approval or oversight. He is severing the linkage between   
   the legislature and the purse and attempting to concentrate access to   
   capital in the hands of the executive.   
      
   You know, like a king.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)