Posted on 09/04/2024 6:59:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The world’s attention on Venezuela has been focused in the last weeks on the fallout from a highly contested presidential election that both the ruling party and its opponents claim to have won, the ensuing persecution of critics and the arrest warrant against the former opposition presidential candidate.
But as political tensions escalate, President Nicolás Maduro decided there was a more important matter to discuss: Christmas and the need to kick off the jolly season a tad early this year. In October, to be precise.
“It’s September, and it already smells like Christmas,” Maduro said Monday night during his weekly television show.
“That’s why this year, as a way of paying tribute to you all, and in gratitude to you all, I’m going to decree an early Christmas for October 1.”
But not everyone seems eager to start singing Christmas carols.
“Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, family reunions, parties, presents,” José Ernesto Ruiz, a 57-year-old office worker, said Tuesday in Caracas, the capital.
“(But) without money and with this political crisis, who can believe that there will be an early Christmas?”
This is not the first time that Maduro, in power since 2013, has declared the early arrival of Christmas. He did so during the COVID-19 pandemic, but never this early.
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Daniel 7:25
He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.
I thought this was the ‘Babylon Bee’... heh.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time, times and half a time.
How can Manuro smell anything over all the shit he’s spreading?
Forget the cow bell.... more circus! More circus is what we need!
Me too!
Hopefully this is a sign the wheels are falling off this world communist assault.
Maybe there is some kind of relationship. Do you think?
BAT CRAP CRAZY
October? Amateurs. Years ago, “Crazy Eddie” Antar started his Christmas sales in August.
Look at the bright side...
The more things change, the more they stay the same:
He might want his people to forget that Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed on December 25, 1989, after a popular uprising overthrew the Communist dictatorship.
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