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Is there some kind of implosion going on in Colombia?Hours after President Trump announced sanctions on the onetime ally for refusing to accept two planeloads of repatriated illegals after agreeing to take them, Colombia's far-left president, Gustavo Petro, now has massive street protests from the locals angry over the foolish fight he picked.🚨BREAKING —> Following today’s pathetic decision by socialist President @petrogustavo, the Colombian people are organizing massive protests demanding his ouster! pic.twitter.com/lfodJMicb8 — Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez (@RepCarlos) January 26, 2025The locals have very good reasons for being angry:.The U.S. imports 17% of its coffee from Colombia. But 40%...

Colombia's married president Gustavo Petro has found himself in an outrageous scandal after he was accused of cheating on his wife with a transgender woman. The leftist president's office has refused to comment on a video circulating online that supposedly shows Petro walking with Colombian newscaster Linda Yepes after the inauguration of new Panamanian president José Raúl Mulino on Sunday. The bombshell video, which shows a man and woman walking hand-in-hand before he stops to lovingly take her picture, has scandalized Colombia and the region, as reported by Telemundo. The president, who has been married to Veronica Alcocer since 2000,...

Petro did not deny allegations that he was seeing the trans newscaster, whose name is Linda Yerpes, while cheating on his wife. “I have always considered that intimacy is the 'last level' of freedom, the last trench of being free, and I will preserve this principle until I write about myself or die,” Petro wrote on X.

Former HUD Secretary Julian Castro, now an MSNBC analyst, said Monday on “MSNBC Reports” said that there was a “quiet growing anger and impatience” in Texas over a lack of gun legislation to address mass shootings. Anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said, “What did you learn in Uvalde?”

During an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday, Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) stated that the appropriate model to look at with gun regulations is “how we’ve approached car safety over the years, to progressively find ways to make cars more safe on the road, whether that’s seat belts or speed limits, or moving forward with more safe technology in the vehicles themselves.” And that “Nobody’s talking about taking away your cars. They are saying though, that you can’t drive an F1 around, you can’t go certain speeds, you can’t do certain things because it’s dangerous.”

1 Star "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?" "Whaddya got?" ) --Marlon Brando in "The Wild One" If this dialogue is not inscribed over the doors of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, it should be. Their "Team America: World Police" is an equal opportunity offender, and waves of unease will flow over first one segment of their audience, and then another. Like a cocky teenager who's had a couple of drinks before the party, they don't have a plan for who they want to offend, only an intention to be as offensive as possible. Their strategy extends even to their...