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AcanthaV

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21. Mission Accomplished? Americans Fleeing for Their Lives While Trump Brags About Oil
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 12:03 PM
10 hrs ago

Trump says he’s making Venezuela “rich and safe,” but the State Department is telling Americans to leave “immediately.” Armed militias are literally hunting people for evidence of U.S. citizenship. Is this what “liberation” looks like? It’s a total breakdown of order.

The administration decapitated a government without a single plan for what comes next, and now our own citizens are paying the price. House Democrats are right to demand answers: Was putting a target on every American’s back worth a few extra barrels for Exxon and Chevron? We’ve seen this movie before in 2003, and we know how it ends. When will we stop using our military as a concierge service for Big Oil?

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You break it you buy it, the pottery barn rule. Duncanpup 17 hrs ago #1
Good morning PA neighbor BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago #2
IGGLES today friend. Duncanpup 16 hrs ago #3
Dunc knows the deal BumRushDaShow 16 hrs ago #4
The "dangerous security environment" is created livetohike 16 hrs ago #5
Just wanted to add Farmer-Rick 13 hrs ago #16
".... and removed their elected president" Still sticking with that are we? EX500rider 11 hrs ago #18
He is as much their elected president as Farmer-Rick 11 hrs ago #19
There aren't dancing in the streets because the State security apparatus still exists EX500rider 9 hrs ago #23
Musk rigged the elections for Pedo Trump Farmer-Rick 2 hrs ago #29
Aways change the subject from Maduro to the US I see, don't blame you as him stealing the election is well known EX500rider 56 min ago #31
They are going at one another, mano a pedo. ananda 6 hrs ago #27
Or ALL my Venezuelan contacts? GreenWave 5 hrs ago #28
Sure, sure, when 8 million Venezuelans flee the country just to eat/work, who wouldn't vote for the guy in charge..lol EX500rider 48 min ago #32
Bucks County PA here; And I tell you that I am shocked! DemMedic 16 hrs ago #6
... BumRushDaShow 15 hrs ago #10
But, it was only a police action ... with a warrant. sinkingfeeling 15 hrs ago #7
Yet the orange one expects oil companies to go there Sanity Claws 15 hrs ago #8
they wont go in unless he does. mopinko 13 hrs ago #17
How ironic. ShazzieB 15 hrs ago #9
Flee the Epstein Distraction War, and stop asking for release of the Epstein Files! Timeflyer 14 hrs ago #11
FUCK. Silly me thought there was gonna be dancin' in the streets and 'mericans being cheered on the streets of Caracas. 3Hotdogs 14 hrs ago #12
Gee! Didn't it play out like that in Baghdad? Oh wait. paleotn 13 hrs ago #13
Big problem here is we cannot trust virtually anything coming from this regime. paleotn 13 hrs ago #14
What Fun! Another Trump day that has people scrambling for some pleasant sweet day. chouchou 13 hrs ago #15
Is this horrendous crazed evil man of terror going to nuke Venezuela ? kimbutgar 11 hrs ago #20
Mission Accomplished? Americans Fleeing for Their Lives While Trump Brags About Oil AcanthaV 10 hrs ago #21
. dalton99a 9 hrs ago #22
welcome to, "We are in control .. " stopdiggin 7 hrs ago #24
A strange way to run a country. Sneederbunk 6 hrs ago #25
It sounds just like home. Armed militias targeting US Citizens. CentralMass 6 hrs ago #26
Who could have seen that coming? PuraVidaDreamin 1 hr ago #30
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