Posted on 07/30/2015 1:23:37 PM PDT by C19fan
Venezuelan troops occupied a Caracas warehouse complex used by local food giant Empresas Polar and Nestle to distribute food and beverages, workers and company officials said on Thursday.
The move follows months of accusations by President Nicolas Maduro that Polar, the country's largest private employer, is working to sabotage the economy. The company denies the accusations.
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Jeez, how many more does the world need??
People never learn
Ain't that the truth. Sometimes I think that the only way humanity could ever excise the socialist cancer would be if America *really was* an imperialist power.
I found this gem on FR years ago and occasionally re-post it - now seems like an appropriate time to post it again.
WASHINGTON - After years of world leaders condemning America for overreaching its power, Americans elected their first Imperialist President.
"We do everything we can to help the world, but we're still resented, they call us imperialist pigs," said DC cabbie Albert Shlutnick. "Now they'll see what imperialism is really like."
Americans got a raw taste of its new leadership this morning at the first press briefing with President Hillshire in full form.
The president opened the briefing with shocking news: "Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I would like to announce that Iran and North Korea no longer exist. Are there any questions?"
Most in the press sat stonefaced in disbelief, then erupted in laughter as if it were a joke. But the longer Hillshire remained somber, the more they realized he was serious.
"This is a Holocaust of historic proportions," said a BBC news reporter, continuing: "Sir, you are a war criminal."
Hillshire chuckled, replying: "Will somebody get the English accent out of here, I thought we got rid of that after the Tea Party."
As the Secret Service escorted the BBC reporter from the briefing room, Hillshire continued: " If there are any other Europeans in attendance, just remember you'd be a Nazi or a Soviet without America, so just keep brewin' the good beer and keep quiet, maybe we'll leave you alone for now. Are there any other questions?"
"How did you annihilate those countries?" ABC news asked.
"Ah, let's see, we dropped water balloons on them? Come on, I'm not going to reveal operational details. Let's just say we'll soon have satellite imagery showing the new shape of things over there."
"Mr. president, did you notify any other world leaders of your actions?"
"Actually, we did prank-call the Iranian president, we asked him if his refrigerator was running. When he said it was, we said 'not for long,'" the president said. "What are your future plans?" asked Fox News.
"We're tossing a gigantic tariff on all Chinese imports. We're also diverting all charitable funds that were going overseas to American causes. Many never realized America is the most giving nation in the world, and now we're bringing it back home," Hillshire said.
"Oh, and we've closed the United Nations," Hillshire continued. "After all, it was our idea in the first place. We started it over here, so we can end it."
"Will there be no allies then? No diplomacy?" asked the New York Times.
"Russia and China will remain allies, for now. All the other 'nations' will soon be taxpaying states, or nuked out of existence. To start the process we've retained their ambassadors and delegates as hostages."
The reporters stood in dumbfounded silence.
"Hey don't blame me, the voters put me here. After all, the world dubbed us imperialists the moment we finished pacifying much greater aggressors. Maybe we just needed to remind everyone how restrained we once were," the president said.
"Do you have any words of encouragement for those in the world community?" asked a French journalist.
"Citizens of the world, your first tax bill arrives shortly. Make checks payable to the U.S. Treasury. Oh, and welcome to America," the president said with a wink.
Standard What-If disclaimer: The preceding is pure fiction. ________________________________________
“Actually, we did prank-call the Iranian president, we asked him if his refrigerator was running. When he said it was, we said ‘not for long,’”
LMAO!
There go the cheap canned fruit in the dollar store.
Rewrite;
"The move follows months YEARS of accusations by President Nicolas Maduro [& late presidential predecessor Hugo Chavez] that Polar, the country's largest private employer, is working to sabotage the economy."
Statement fixed, Venezuela still very broken!
Hell, we named our school athletic team at Colegio Internacional de Caracas the Polar Bears, and it wasn’t because the animal was popular! I preferred Zulia, but it’s a little like Bud v. Miller.
Why any American would vote for socialist politicians is beyond my understanding. [well, not really, it is all about getting free sh!t]
Thanks for posting that - I had never seen it. Funny stuff!
Eat Maduro.
Exchanging recipes with Moo.
and next week??? then what...
Nestle is a Swiss company
there was a strategic error
the warehouse was nationalized but the supply was not
They have warehouses all over, trucks ready, and transportation routes set up.
They’ll get to the people long before FEMA does. IF as you said, Big Brother doesn’t take them over first
“Sadly, the world always needs to have before them an example of the destruction of socialism. People never learn”
Just how many examples are needed? LOL!
Liberals are inherently stupid. With facts right in front of them, they will never get it.
“I does seem that every time there is a disaster in the US that the “LDS Helping Hands” are there in their yellow T-Shirts. I have heard that when FEMA got to a couple of places wanting to know where to start they contacted the local Mormon Bishop to ask what they could do.”
I’ve never seen them - I guess I have not been in a disaster area, come to think of it.
Good to know FEMA doesn’t come in and take over like jack booted thugs. At least, not yet...
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