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Venezuelans Rebuke Their (Socialist) President by a Staggering (98 percent) Margin
NY Times ^
| July 16, 2017
| Ana Vanessa Herrero and Ernesto Londono
Posted on 07/17/2017 3:35:56 AM PDT by Zakeet
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Socialism is wonderful ... until it isn't!
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posted on
07/17/2017 3:35:57 AM PDT
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
While Mr. Maduro is widely expected to ignore the outcome... And there it is. Once they gain power thru a vote, socialists reveal their dictatorial nature. Then elections and people be damned.
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posted on
07/17/2017 3:54:26 AM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(#CNNblackmail)
To: Zakeet
...he may use it to do away with democratic elections. Unexpected.
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posted on
07/17/2017 3:58:37 AM PDT
by
VRW Conspirator
(Enforce the Law. Build the Wall.)
To: Zakeet
I’m frankly shocked the NY Times reported this. I might have my third heart attack and die if CNNMBNBCCBSABCNBCFOX etc.. report it also.
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posted on
07/17/2017 3:59:10 AM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Zakeet
Nice...I knew Venezuelans would get sick of socialism. Time to get pictures of Venezuela and Photoshop Dems by putting them in the pictures... Capitalism or Socialism, decide in 2018...
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posted on
07/17/2017 4:07:22 AM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: usconservative
Yes, but note the absence of a Comments forum on this one . . .
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posted on
07/17/2017 4:10:31 AM PDT
by
LRoggy
(Peter's Son's Business)
To: Zakeet
A liberal dream, doing away with elections after an Hillary or Obama win
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posted on
07/17/2017 4:25:42 AM PDT
by
lavaroise
To: Zakeet
From what I heard from a dissident, 5 million oon would have been a big success. 7 million means civil war.
To: Zakeet
——No one should doubt that it is binding -—
Absent an army, the vote is meaningless
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posted on
07/17/2017 4:33:09 AM PDT
by
bert
(K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
To: DaxtonBrown
Opportunity for Trump. If the people overthrow this thug Trump can authorize an immediate relief effort to stop the food shortage, then work with the new government to restore business connections with the US. Venezuela should be one of the most prosperous little countries in the world.
To: Zakeet
It was working great until there was nothing left to steal.
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posted on
07/17/2017 4:49:15 AM PDT
by
ArcadeQuarters
("Immigration Reform" is ballot stuffing)
To: Zakeet
Will people learn a lesson from this? I doubt it. The backers of socialism will never give up trying to force the world into seizing all money earned and giving it to the ruling elite and the indolent.
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:05:22 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Acting consistently in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
To: Zakeet
Venezuelans should themselves. They voted for socialism and they got it in spades.
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:09:04 AM PDT
by
VTenigma
(The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
To: Flick Lives
Well darn. I was hoping that by rejecting the assclown things would be back to normal within a few days. A week maybe? /s
Will they ever be “normal”? Saw ‘some man on the street’ interviews last night on Watters World of college numbskulls being asked to describe socialism. FAIL. But they love uncle burnme. Fidiots.
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:35:08 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: bert
The Vens have been disarmed for over a decade.
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:42:39 AM PDT
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
To: Deplorable American1776
Nice...I knew Venezuelans would get sick of socialism. They are not sick of Socialism..., just sick of enduring it with no money/food/goods! If their wishes were fulfilled, they would happily exist in their "Socialist Paradise"!
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:56:51 AM PDT
by
ExSES
(the "bottom-line")
To: Zakeet
When a people is disarmed they have only their meaningless votes and fragile bodies with which to attempt to change their wicked, heavily armed rulers.
Overwhelming numbers might carry the day, but it will be a bloody one.
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posted on
07/17/2017 5:59:36 AM PDT
by
Gritty
(Islam is king on a field of corpses - Mark Steyn)
To: Zakeet
History teaches that once you self-select socialism, as Venezuela clearly did, it is hard to go back without bloodshed.
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posted on
07/17/2017 6:14:46 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
To: I want the USA back
...seizing all money earned and giving it to the ruling elite and the indolent.That is an excellent definition of exactly what Socialism is. It is also happens to be the very foundation and basis of the Democrat Party.
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posted on
07/17/2017 6:23:53 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
To: Flick Lives
And there it is. Once they gain power thru a vote, socialists reveal their dictatorial nature. They believe in one man, one vote.... one time.
And, they choose the one time that counts.
Like they tried in Floriduh in 2000.
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posted on
07/17/2017 6:26:30 AM PDT
by
C210N
(It is easier to fool the people than convince them that they have been fooled)
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