Posted on 12/24/2016 7:45:36 PM PST by Nextrush
This is the saddest Christmas I have ever seen in Venezuela. Admittedly Christmas may be sad for some according to family or health issues, but the country as a while still somehow manages to get into the spirit. But this year the people gave up. They just gave up.
How could it be otherwise? People do not even have enough cash, literally for shopping the Christmas essentials. In Venezuela that would be to build up an Hallaca, the Christmas dish. And even if you had enough banknotes, or a well furbished checking account, there are so many staples that cannot be found or are so far out of reach that many this year will have no hallaca on their plates. And many will simply have little on their plate. Period.
Last week was a frantic obstacle course for yours truly, combining a chimo session for S.O. to buy enough food basics to hold out until January 15 at the very least. Thus I saw Caracas first hand.
Christmas decorations, to begin with, are limited to perfunctory ones in banks and private homes or apartments with any light hanging in front. In fact, in my street only one house has the full gaudy display. NO OTHER neighbor put even a light on the window.
But if you think that my choice of starting with decorations is frivolous, let me tell you that is on purpose, to delay my writing on the other nasty stuff. The lines have been humongous all week. For food, for a few banknotes at the banks. What was worse is that the regime after stealing all the toys from the main Caracas importer has decided to also steal the clothes from EPK, a business on children clothes etc......
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I remember election night 2012.
I went to the Facebook Free Republic board and found it COMPLETELY OVERRUN with laughing liberal trolls.
I demanded the posts be taken down and the mods gave me condescending lecture about free speech.
So I went and told said trolls off in the nasty terms I could come up with.
My posts were pulled and I was given a condescending lecture about civility.
I quit the Facebook Free Republic board that night.
I know why liberals are protesting.
I know why liberals are targeting cops.
I know why liberals are threatening to kill Trump supporters.
I know why liberals are blackballing Trump supporters.
It’s easy to win when you have no opposition anywhere.
And for the most part, the American Left has almost no opposition anywhere.
They might have lost the election, but it’s a great day to be a liberal.
They stand at the threshold of getting absolutely everything they want.
It already sounds like Trump will have major opposition from the same Republican assholes who gave Obama everything he wanted with no fight at all.
Feel the Bern...
I find it interesting (sadly) that our gubermint is adamant about regime change in Syria to the extent of arming the “rebels” yet seems to care less about this horror occurring in our own back yard (Monroe Doctrine).
Its too bad that there is no margin for voter error in Venezuela, as there is in this country (to some extent). One strike and you are out. Too bad.
“We in the USA are rich beyond belief. Supermarkets, thrifty stores, and so many others full of stuff. Just imagine all those shelves empty.”
The shooting would start the next day, if not sooner.
Obama sent a diplomat from the State Department to Venezuela to promote a ‘dialogue’ that is meaningless when Marxist-Leninists (COMMUNISTS) sit on one side of the table.
The opposition controlled National Assembly was pushing to promote resistance to the regime when Obama and Pope Francis stepped in to promote ‘dialogue’ a few months back.
Venezuela is not first on Donald Trump’s list, but I hope he can find the time to deal with it as soon as he can.
The regime helped with the anti-Israel resolution the other day.
They deserve payback.
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