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GOP eviscerates Office

NCD — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 04:25:42 +0000

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GOP eviscerates Office Congressional Ethics legislated into existence by the Democratically controlled 110th Congress in 2008.

Don't need no ethics when you are Makin America Great Again!

Ethics and despotism don't mix!!

The Chavistas have the curse

NCD — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 21:26:37 +0000

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The Chavistas have the curse of a reality denying rigid warped ideology, the same malady of Hillary hating Trump believers.

Relying so heavily on our

Peter — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 18:34:07 +0000

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Relying so heavily on our 'Fake News' MSM propagandists for your rants is not as convincing as it once was. Trump has shown they can be confronted or ignored and all thay can do is spew more fake news propaganda because they have few if any facts.

Accusing Nicholas Maduro of being 'hand picked' seems to ignore that he was already Venezuela's VP and had worked his way to leadership positions before being appointed VP on his way to being elected president. On the other hand the leaked DNC emails and other reports showed clearly how hand picking is done by the Clintonite party over the wishes of the rubes who thought they had a choice.

Chavistas belong to the PSUV which Maduro now leads in opposition to the MUD which now controls congress through democratic elections. The MUD is where you find crazy, greedy, racist, neo-fascist capitalists who still control three quarters of the Venezuelan economy. This is where Chavez may have made his greatest failure by not nationalizing most of this sector especially the critical food and distribution sectors.

The Chavistas made incredible progress in reducing poverty, hunger, poor housing and lack of democracy in Venezuela but they have failed to address the curse of oil wealth, Dutch Disease a very nasty malady resistant to treatment.

Maduro is the head of the

NCD — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 16:43:21 +0000

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Maduro is the head of the Chavez Party, was picked by Chavez....however......I agree and sincerely doubt the country would be anywhere near as bad as it is if Chavez had lived, as Maduro seems to be the biggest idiot in the country. Chavez was no idiot.

I read this in the NYT from Germany, on Putin, but easy to see the similarities between KGB tactics of 'Zersetzung' and GOP/Trump/Fox News:

The methods of Zersetzung are to cast doubt on the basic norms of the Western liberal order and its institutions; to distort and thereby discredit the purposes of the European Union, NATO and the free-market economy; to erode the credibility of the free press and free elections. The means of Zersetzung include character assassination and, through the spreading of lies and fake news, the creation of a gray zone of doubt in which facts struggle to survive.

We have seen all of this before, employed by the K.G.B. and the East German Stasi: psychological warfare, rumor-mongering, schemes to bribe politicians and then expose them as criminals. They used it both internally, against dissidents, and externally, against Western enemies. Mr. Putin and his former K.G.B. colleagues should know that, this time, we have a better sense of their dirty tricks, and how they have updated Zersetzung for the internet.

Doesn't really discredit

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 07:21:41 +0000

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Doesn't really discredit Chavez's own work - people often choose poor successors. Hey, Lenin got Stalin, a distinct step down, and Yeltsin the complacent buffoon chose Putin the scheming FSB guy who likely participated in blowing up a building with 300 civilians dead to rise to the top in a security fear takeover.

Maduro was the 'hand picked

NCD — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 01:38:27 +0000

In reply to From what I know, Chavez was

Maduro was the 'hand picked successor' of Chavez.

From what I know, Chavez was

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 01 Jan 2017 22:48:58 +0000

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From what I know, Chavez was actually pretty good, but Maduro has made everything Chavez's opponents said about him come true.