That has to be fake doesn't it?

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I am not a military expert, but should China attempt to invade Taiwan, I would not want to live downstream from the 3 Gorges damn.

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No s***! Blow that puppy up, or just damage it enough and the rest will collapse. Anecdotal but there have been many water irregularities happening in different parts of China. Stream beds that have been dry for decades suddenly have water. Other water bodies have pools bubbling up but it is not a hot spring.

The bird thing I'm not sure about as any geomagnetic disturbance can cause that. OTOH, is this water anomaly a sign of deep seismic activity? Dam could get damaged just from that.

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Thanks, that was well worth the time to watch. I am not sure what it all means but very interesting.
A few years ago monsoon rains distorted the 3 Gorges Damn an inch?? or more. Upstream damns were getting near maximum and there was a lot of concern. Land downstream from 3 Gorges was getting flooded.
More recently concerns were reignited.
Three Gorges Dam on alert as heavy rain and floods kill 6 in China

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Room temperature IQ in action…

Communist student activist: “I stand with the people of Venezuela against U.S. imperialism”

*Shown the people of Venezuela are celebrating in the streets*

“I don’t know”

pic.twitter.com/TEG0k7BATE

— AG (@AGHamilton29) January 4, 2026

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We need to bring tar and feathering back.

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Hes spending $100000 for a worthless degree and is probably considered an honor student at his liberal school

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True, but he will end up working for an NGO, traveling the world, and making 250k/year. He will pad his wealth embezzling a few million of NGO funds.

He actually has more of a plan than most know.

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For something new and completely different, if he goes that route there might be a plan for HIM, now. Everything's in flux; isn't it exciting?

Totally. Designers often use nonsensical latin text (Lorem Ipsum) for placement purposes and Kamala's word salads would be a funny alternative!

6 years ago, my daughter brought her best friend and her friend's parents over for Thanksgiving. The friend and parents were from Venezuela. The friend was a naturalized American citizen and her father was still a resident Venezuelan. He told me that where he lived there were no dogs or cats and lizards were eaten whenever somebody caught them. None of the Venezuelans are going to miss Maduro.

I was interested in that too. I am not a hydrologist, seismologist, geologist nor anything like that.

But this type of anomaly, as far spread as it is strongly suggests seismic action of some sort. Plate tectonics? Earthquake, even mild and deep could cause soil liquifies, like quick sand. There goes underground foundations for buildings and dams.

Trade proposal: 100 white liberal women for every 1 Venezuelan woman … pic.twitter.com/9a5K4y01Fx

— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) January 4, 2026

Disney Pixar presents FAFO 🤣 pic.twitter.com/M3iiKuzMoZ

— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) January 4, 2026

🚨 HOLY CRAP. Democrats really are that dumb.

Q: Would you trade Trump for Maduro?

LIBS: "Yeah. Maduro was democratically elected." 🤯

"Maduro could come be our president? Oh, ANY DAY! All the check marks are there. Not white, he's a minority!" 🤡

"Probably, sure."

"More… pic.twitter.com/u7lnO72fiK

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 4, 2026

https://t.co/vxpRdK6Kfu pic.twitter.com/BnPSwoT6WF

— Stocking Mill Coffee (@smcroasters) January 4, 2026

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Trade proposal: 100 white liberal women for every 1 Venezuelan woman … pic.twitter.com/9a5K4y01Fx

— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) January 4, 2026

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no matter what time of day or mood my VZ wife is in, if I put on Tambores, she turns into a dance machine like this X post until the music is turned off

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It's a shame we don't have a national oil company like Aramco where your math makes sense. Instead Chevron, Exxon, and Shell will make those trillions.

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Let me get this straight...do you think there are men named Mr. Exxon and Mr. Chevron walking around with eye pieces and top hats?

We own Exxon. We own Chevron. Your neighbors, Your co workers, your retirement plans, etc.

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Maduro and his cartel buddies owned Aramco...

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This is what real leadership looks like. pic.twitter.com/INtYtuA9Sm

— S Woolley Kimball 🇵🇸🇮🇱🇨🇭 (@NotYourBishop) January 3, 2026

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I think we've stumbled upon a potential mini goldmine here: "Kamala Ipsum"
Writers and designers know what I'm talking about!

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I laughed. Unfortunately that would turn off some clients that receive a preview. Lorem is safer!

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Trade proposal: 100 white liberal women for every 1 Venezuelan woman … pic.twitter.com/9a5K4y01Fx

— 𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) January 4, 2026

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no matter what time of day or mood my VZ wife is in, if I put on Tambores, she turns into a dance machine like this X post until the music is turned off

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So tell me, do you consider yourself the type to follow rules?

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Looks like Nicolás Maduro will be released from prison any second now

pic.twitter.com/jZLWxKGgTJ

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 4, 2026

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Muerte it is then...

Oh hell, that's rich!!!

This times 1000. I've kept up with how bad Maduro has been, just wanting to be informed. Glad for the people that he's gone, and I agree that Trump needs to tone down the "running the country" rhetoric. I think sometimes he forgets to engage the brain before he puts his mouth in gear. Everything is put in the context of making lots of money, so who could disagree with that? Quit spouting off about who has support, and who's "very nice", let them decide who they want, and give calm considered support.

One of the main CNBC hosts just now covering the VZ situation after showing their global leading oil reserves and discussing how they are a country rich with resources that have been squandered:

Her: "So, what happened? Communism happened....or Democratic Socialism, basically."

Hell yes! Call it out for what it is!

Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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True.

I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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True.

I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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They don't seem to care. Freedom doesn't care.

I posted something about dead Communists and the reactions I got were quite surprising turns out I am a murderer. Lol. Nope. I just hate communists and socialists. They don't belong in society
My old Gen X man mind is showing.

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Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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True.

I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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They don't seem to care. Freedom doesn't care.

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And all that have to do is vote for what they want. Freedom ain't free, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't decide what it looks like for them.

I mean, otherwise all we did was remove one person who ran everything the way they wanted for someone else to do the same.

I mean that's pretty much what's happening, for oil companies, they're execs, the stock market and shareholders and all, but we can at least try abs make it seem it's about "spreading democracy" like we did for ME oil, ahem, "interests."

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I posted something about dead Communists and the reactions I got were quite surprising turns out I am a murderer. Lol. Nope. I just hate communists and socialists. They don't belong in society
My old Gen X man mind is showing.

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Communists aren't people so it can't be murder.

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Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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True.

I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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They don't seem to care. Freedom doesn't care.

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And all that have to do is vote for what they want. Freedom ain't free, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't decide what it looks like for them.

I mean, otherwise all we did was remove one person who ran everything the way they wanted for someone else to do the same.

I mean that's pretty much what's happening, for oil companies, they're execs, the stock market and shareholders and all, but we can at least try abs make it seem it's about "spreading democracy" like we did for ME oil, ahem, "interests."

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If oil helps grease the skids for freedom I'm all for it. Worked for Texas.

The interelation of gettiing Venezuela functioning again for most of the population is tied directly to getting oil revenue out of the hands of the ruling class and into the economy. What do you think they are going to do...start IT ventures overnight? Well sure there's coffee and some other closer to the equator Ag commodities but think folks....where is the path of least resistance to getting some semblance of en economy up and running....OIL. That's why the path forward is all about oil there.

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I posted something about dead Communists and the reactions I got were quite surprising turns out I am a murderer. Lol. Nope. I just hate communists and socialists. They don't belong in society
My old Gen X man mind is showing.

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Communists aren't people so it can't be murder.

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Exactly

haven't been on the boards much last few days, but checking in to confirm my Venezuelan immigrant (now a US citizen) brother-in-law is thrilled about the Nico Maduro news.

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I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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VZ is sitting on enough natural resources to be a very wealthy, and healthy, country. Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips invested billions in production infrastructure that was stolen from them and has fallen into disrepair over the last quarter of a century. At the same time, the revenue from those resources has been stolen from the people of VZ.

These same companies that lost billions are being asked to go back, spend billions more to repair the infrastructure in a country that is far from stable. As an investor, that risk should be rewarded and the companies made whole. What some will paint as "at the expense of the VZ people" needs to be understood as what it really is, cleaning up the mess made by 25+ years of socialism/despotism/nationalization. The same holds true for excavation, mining, and mineral processors who had their businesses/investments nationalized/stolen.

There is no path to prosperity that does not rely on the experts to come in and rebuild.

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Discussed the very same last night ... I get that DJT and team want to take a victory lap and well they should, but this works best when the VZ people are major owners of the solution.

Granted, we have to have guard rails to prevent replacing one asshat with another, but the VZ people need to rebuild their society.

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True.

I mean, Trump is making it painfully obvious that this is about their oil, but he can at least make it seem like the VZ people will be the ones to fully benefit from Maduro being gone, even if we all know that if they do benefit it'll be long after the oil companies do.

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They don't seem to care. Freedom doesn't care.

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And all that have to do is vote for what they want. Freedom ain't free, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't decide what it looks like for them.

I mean, otherwise all we did was remove one person who ran everything the way they wanted for someone else to do the same.

I mean that's pretty much what's happening, for oil companies, they're execs, the stock market and shareholders and all, but we can at least try abs make it seem it's about "spreading democracy" like we did for ME oil, ahem, "interests."

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If oil helps grease the skids for freedom I'm all for it. Worked for Texas.

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That it did, so long as they end up with the same freedoms Texans wanted.

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The interelation of gettiing Venezuela functioning again for most of the population is tied directly to getting oil revenue out of the hands of the ruling class and into the economy. What do you think they are going to do...start IT ventures overnight? Well sure there's coffee and some other closer to the equator Ag commodities but think folks....where is the path of least resistance to getting some semblance of en economy up and running....OIL. That's why the path forward is all about oil there.

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VZ also has gold and silver if memory serves. Bringing farms back with food supply would take some fertilizer some equipment and one growing season. Like the stuff the old Peace Corps used to do.

Then the street markets come back to sell it. BUT have to get those roving gangs that Maduro used for intimidation. They steal with impunity. Take them off of the streets and a semblance of normalcy can be restored.

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The interelation of gettiing Venezuela functioning again for most of the population is tied directly to getting oil revenue out of the hands of the ruling class and into the economy. What do you think they are going to do...start IT ventures overnight? Well sure there's coffee and some other closer to the equator Ag commodities but think folks....where is the path of least resistance to getting some semblance of en economy up and running....OIL. That's why the path forward is all about oil there.

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Of course, just like in the ME.

All I'm saying is, let's not lie to the people over there or here that oil isn't the main reason we did what we did and that if he U.S. and the oil companies weren't going to benefit from removing Maduro, we would've done absolutely nothing and let then continue living under his rule.

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The interelation of gettiing Venezuela functioning again for most of the population is tied directly to getting oil revenue out of the hands of the ruling class and into the economy. What do you think they are going to do...start IT ventures overnight? Well sure there's coffee and some other closer to the equator Ag commodities but think folks....where is the path of least resistance to getting some semblance of en economy up and running....OIL. That's why the path forward is all about oil there.

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Of course, just like in the ME.

All I'm saying is, let's not lie to the people over there or here that oil isn't the main reason we did what we did and that if he U.S. and the oil companies weren't going to benefit from removing Maduro, we would've done absolutely nothing and let then continue living under his rule.

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Soo should we just seize Citgo in the US and call it done? That's a joke, BTW.

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The interelation of gettiing Venezuela functioning again for most of the population is tied directly to getting oil revenue out of the hands of the ruling class and into the economy. What do you think they are going to do...start IT ventures overnight? Well sure there's coffee and some other closer to the equator Ag commodities but think folks....where is the path of least resistance to getting some semblance of en economy up and running....OIL. That's why the path forward is all about oil there.

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Of course, just like in the ME.

All I'm saying is, let's not lie to the people over there or here that oil isn't the main reason we did what we did and that if he U.S. and the oil companies weren't going to benefit from removing Maduro, we would've done absolutely nothing and let then continue living under his rule.

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Soo should we just seize Citgo in the US and call it done? That's a joke, BTW.

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Lol! And a good one at that.