Trump Just Inspired the Dumbest Damn Coup Plot in LatAm History, Complete with a QAnon Crazy

[Judi Lynn]

BOUNTY HUNTERS?
Gringo adventurers have been trying to pull off South American coups for about 200 years—and failing miserably. But the survivors of this op are in their own class of stupid.


Jeremy Kryt
Updated May. 06, 2020 2:26PM ET / Published May. 06, 2020 2:08PM ET

CALI, Colombia—A small mercenary force led by former U.S. military personnel attempted to invade and conquer Venezuela over the weekend.

Headlines about the op have embarrassed Donald Trump’s U.S. administration even more than earlier failed efforts to oust the putrid dictatorship of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, and Trump is saying he had no hand in this thing, which might just be true.

But there’s no question the conspirators thought he’d be pleased, and pay cash, if they succeeded.

Just a few weeks ago, on March 26, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised very big rewards for "information leading to the arrest and/or conviction" of the top people in a Venezuelan regime that the United States no longer recognizes: $15 million for Maduro himself, and $10 million each for four of his top officials, all charged by Washington with drug trafficking.

So, yeah, $55 million in rewards, that's a bit of an incentive for would-be Rambos.

More:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/in-venezuela-trump-just-inspired-the-dumbest-coup-plot-in-latin-american-history-complete-with-a-qanon-crazy

[The Magistrate]

1. Comedy Of Fools And Errors It May Be, Ma'am

But people face firing squads for this sort of thing, or languish in jails in perpetuity. The Maduro regime has every right to take these people seriously, and treat the matter according to the pretensions of the persons involved.

[Nay]

6. Agreed. A firing squad doing its duty may be the only thing that penetrates the thick

skulls of future wannabe Rambos.

[3Hotdogs]

14. Only if they're entitled to a last cigarette.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Absolutely right. I don't like the article's tone as it's not as serious as the situation is.

In time, the people of the Americas will become strong enough to protect themselves and their own national resources, and their own labor forces.

[The Magistrate]

10. I Share That Hope, Ma'am

I thought well of Col. Chavez, as you may recall, and now hold little brief for his successor. But I am adamant that it is none of our business how Venezuela or any other country in Latin America handles its own affairs, at least short of active genocide by armed organs of a government.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Is it just me or do conservatives seem to think the real world...

works like 50s Westerns and action flicks.

[The Magistrate]

3. It Does Seem They Do, Sir

It is quite instructive to examine the popular entertainments current when persons now older adults were young. A great deal is absorbed, and conditions future outlook and belief, without it quite being noticed, from the teevee shows and movies people watch as children.

[Peregrine Took]

11. Didn't ole "Shrub" think we really had a covert group of "Jason Bourne's?"

After having seen the movie he thought we had them and they could be deployed anywhere in the world at a moment's notice?

[moonseller66]

4. 2020s "Pay" of Pigs

Just about as successful.

[lagomorph777]

13. Bay Of MAGAts

[Chainfire]

5. And the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of you actions

[randr]

8. One way to get rid of the fleas

[dugog55]

9. What are all those armed reopen protesters

waiting for? They do not have to cosplay being mercs, they can get together and invade Venezuela. With $55 million on the line, you would think they would be all gung-ho to get some real action. It has to be more fun than just walking around town dressed like idiots trying to scare grandma.

[lagomorph777]

12. Bay Of MAGAts Invasion?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

15. But you just KNOW that if they had pulled this off,

trumpie would be all OVER the airwaves right now, chest puffed up, chin jutting out, proclaiming victory.