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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, 01:03 PM
Jan 2026

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 Jan 2026 #1
Good morning PA neighbor BumRushDaShow Jan 2026 #2
IGGLES today friend. Duncanpup Jan 2026 #3
Dunc knows the deal BumRushDaShow Jan 2026 #4
Have a beer with my Packers. BidenRocks Jan 2026 #33
... BumRushDaShow Jan 2026 #34
The "dangerous security environment" is created livetohike Jan 2026 #5
Just wanted to add Farmer-Rick Jan 2026 #16
".... and removed their elected president" Still sticking with that are we? EX500rider Jan 2026 #18
He is as much their elected president as Farmer-Rick Jan 2026 #19
There aren't dancing in the streets because the State security apparatus still exists EX500rider Jan 2026 #23
Musk rigged the elections for Pedo Trump Farmer-Rick Jan 2026 #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 Jan 2026 #31
They are going at one another, mano a pedo. ananda Jan 2026 #27
Or ALL my Venezuelan contacts? GreenWave Jan 2026 #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 Jan 2026 #32
Bucks County PA here; And I tell you that I am shocked! DemMedic Jan 2026 #6
... BumRushDaShow Jan 2026 #10
But, it was only a police action ... with a warrant. sinkingfeeling Jan 2026 #7
Yet the orange one expects oil companies to go there Sanity Claws Jan 2026 #8
they wont go in unless he does. mopinko Jan 2026 #17
How ironic. ShazzieB Jan 2026 #9
Flee the Epstein Distraction War, and stop asking for release of the Epstein Files! Timeflyer Jan 2026 #11
FUCK. Silly me thought there was gonna be dancin' in the streets and 'mericans being cheered on the streets of Caracas. 3Hotdogs Jan 2026 #12
Gee! Didn't it play out like that in Baghdad? Oh wait. paleotn Jan 2026 #13
Big problem here is we cannot trust virtually anything coming from this regime. paleotn Jan 2026 #14
What Fun! Another Trump day that has people scrambling for some pleasant sweet day. chouchou Jan 2026 #15
Is this horrendous crazed evil man of terror going to nuke Venezuela ? kimbutgar Jan 2026 #20
Mission Accomplished? Americans Fleeing for Their Lives While Trump Brags About Oil AcanthaV Jan 2026 #21
. dalton99a Jan 2026 #22
welcome to, "We are in control .. " stopdiggin Jan 2026 #24
A strange way to run a country. Sneederbunk Jan 2026 #25
It sounds just like home. Armed militias targeting US Citizens. CentralMass Jan 2026 #26
Who could have seen that coming? PuraVidaDreamin Jan 2026 #30
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