Venezuela is shutting down (Pay close attention, Bernie)

Fellowship Of The Minds ^ | 5/27/2016 | Dr. Eowyn

[trebb]

Yepper - the only reason Bernie hasn’t gone down the tubes yet is because Hillary has serious problems and Trump hasn’t deigned to set his sights on him——yet.

[Shanghai Dan]

Venezuela’s socialist government blames the problems on an “economic war” being waged by elites who are hoarding supplies, as well as the U.S. government’s efforts to destabilize the country.

Maduro is doing a fine job all by himself destabilizing the country without the help of the CIA...

No, we WANT to encourage this speech! It's clear that Obama - the Savior of the Democrats, the Ideal of the Left - is destabilizing the socialist haven Venezuela. And it MUST have been done with Hillary!s full approval and awareness. Burnin' Bernie's as well since he's refused to condemn Obama for the destruction he's causing in Socialist Haven Venezuela!

[Shanghai Dan]

We should take the relief pitchers and the shortstops. The rest of them can stay home.

We want the beauty queens, too. After all, who's gonna make you us a sammich and bring us a beer whilst watching the aforementioned pitchers and shortstops?

[SaxxonWoods]

LATAM airline announces it is suspending flights to crisis-hit Venezuela - AFP

We should be bombing Venezuela...

...with food and water.

It should be brightly marked: Courtesy of the USA.

[chopperman]

So, according to your graph, only 90 percent of Clinton supporters would support Clinton.

[MinorityRepublican]

I wonder if there is any way to turn this around. The corruption seems to run so deep that even a Trump sort of candidate would have no chance there.

A civil war would be good for Venezuela. I'm surprised that it haven't happened already.

[MinorityRepublican]

Exactly right. America is a richer country so it would take longer to milk it dry. Maybe add another 10-20 years before the inevitable collapse.

Eh. Not that immediate. Possibly slow decay like Ancient Rome. But it took hundreds of years for the Empire to collapse once the rot started to take place. I suspect the same for the Americans.

[Robert DeLong]

Obama, Hillary, Bernie are definitely Stan’s disciples, as for the others, some are and some are just useful idiots.

[Robert DeLong]

Stan’s, of course, should be Satan’s

[factoryrat]

One thing that I notice most people don’t consider is that people like clinton, sanders, and their associated ilk actually WANT this type of scenario to play out in the US.

This is a time worn recurring theme in world history. A few ruthless people ruling over the slaves and peasants , by making and keeping them poor, illiterate, and defenseless.

Notice this theme rearing its ugly head in the US? It makes sense when you stand back and look.

[arthurus]

Bernie and Mrs. Bill are not stupid. They know what socialism does to a country but they intend to sit at the top where all the wealth in a society is raked in to. The leaders in a socialist country are the wealthiest people on the planet because they get the top third or so of the society's assets and cash flow to themselves. As the society declines socialists either engage in wars of conquest or they begin to eliminate each other to keep control of the remaining assets. Socialists, who claim to dream of Utopia forever are in it for the short haul, the lenghs of their lives- Aprés moi, who the hell cares? Socialists are atheists in their actual outlook and actions. To an atheist there is no building anything for progeny because the universe begins and ends with ME. Stalin was the archetype.

[arthurus]

The eventual solution, or maybe not even a solution, just a change in the Who that rules, will involve bloodshed.

[CincyRichieRich]

What about the Venezuelan beauty pageant contestants? Will they cope? Wonder how Sofia Vergera feels about her country? If it is so great why isn’t Sean Penn heading down there to help...he could take her to cheer up the masses.

[HomerBohn]

The beauty queens are now street walkers.

Sean Penn? Lying in a gutter somewhere.

[Cvengr]

It will make an interesting study.

The electric blackouts manifest volumes regarding government corruption.

Venezuela not only sits atop much of the largest oil reserves available in the hemisphere, they also run hydroelectric dams for a significant percentage of their power.

Over the past decade, Venezuela has been well known for selling power at $.02/kWh or about 1/5 to 1/10 the cost of electricity in the US.

Of all the utilities which might keep the government intact, electric power is one of the few which would most likely be kept online, without interruption.

The least expensive method to reduce power costs would be by load shedding or de-energizing some circuits fed by the distribution systems. Substantially higher risks occur on the electrical protection systems when re-energizing these circuits. In some situations, HVAC systems consume far greater power when trying to catch up to lost cooling/heating after power is restored.

Policy-wise, electrical blackouts are far more expensive and damaging to electrical distribution systems then leaving them stable and energized.

FWIW, it would be interesting to observe how much of this is contrived by parties who might benefit from the demise of Venezuela.

[Lurker]

Brilliant.

L

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I wonder if there is any way to turn this around.

It is turning around, they are transitioning from a civilized country into a warlord society. From order comes chaos.

[dfwgator]

From order comes chaos.

"Y'know, Nietzsche says, 'Out of chaos comes order.'"

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Yeah, just like Kristol and Rove...he got a lot of things wrong.

[Rome2000]

This will all be over once Trump gets control of the CIA

Maduro won’t last 30 days.