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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
22 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 Yesterday #1
Good morning PA neighbor BumRushDaShow Yesterday #2
IGGLES today friend. Duncanpup Yesterday #3
Dunc knows the deal BumRushDaShow Yesterday #4
Have a beer with my Packers. BidenRocks 9 hrs ago #33
... BumRushDaShow 4 hrs ago #34
The "dangerous security environment" is created livetohike Yesterday #5
Just wanted to add Farmer-Rick Yesterday #16
".... and removed their elected president" Still sticking with that are we? EX500rider 23 hrs ago #18
He is as much their elected president as Farmer-Rick 22 hrs ago #19
There aren't dancing in the streets because the State security apparatus still exists EX500rider 21 hrs ago #23
Musk rigged the elections for Pedo Trump Farmer-Rick 13 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 12 hrs ago #31
They are going at one another, mano a pedo. ananda 17 hrs ago #27
Or ALL my Venezuelan contacts? GreenWave 17 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 12 hrs ago #32
Bucks County PA here; And I tell you that I am shocked! DemMedic Yesterday #6
... BumRushDaShow Yesterday #10
But, it was only a police action ... with a warrant. sinkingfeeling Yesterday #7
Yet the orange one expects oil companies to go there Sanity Claws Yesterday #8
they wont go in unless he does. mopinko Yesterday #17
How ironic. ShazzieB Yesterday #9
Flee the Epstein Distraction War, and stop asking for release of the Epstein Files! Timeflyer Yesterday #11
FUCK. Silly me thought there was gonna be dancin' in the streets and 'mericans being cheered on the streets of Caracas. 3Hotdogs Yesterday #12
Gee! Didn't it play out like that in Baghdad? Oh wait. paleotn Yesterday #13
Big problem here is we cannot trust virtually anything coming from this regime. paleotn Yesterday #14
What Fun! Another Trump day that has people scrambling for some pleasant sweet day. chouchou Yesterday #15
Is this horrendous crazed evil man of terror going to nuke Venezuela ? kimbutgar 22 hrs ago #20
Mission Accomplished? Americans Fleeing for Their Lives While Trump Brags About Oil AcanthaV 22 hrs ago #21
. dalton99a 21 hrs ago #22
welcome to, "We are in control .. " stopdiggin 19 hrs ago #24
A strange way to run a country. Sneederbunk 18 hrs ago #25
It sounds just like home. Armed militias targeting US Citizens. CentralMass 18 hrs ago #26
Who could have seen that coming? PuraVidaDreamin 13 hrs ago #30
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