Things keep heating up in Venezuela, with possible "military options" now being seriously discussed at the Pentagon. And of course you know what that means! That's right, it means we can expect to see even more lies and manipulations from the political/media class as the narrative managers try to get their rapey little fingers into our minds to manufacture support for unconscionable acts.
This can create a very confusing environment for everyone, where up means down and black means white and "humanitarian intervention" means "murdering thousands and thousands of innocent human beings". With that in mind, here's a handy translation key to help you understand what the establishment mouthpieces are really saying:
~
"I stand with the people of Venezuela" = I stand with some of the people in Venezuela, specifically the ones who support US government interests.
"Interim President" = Some guy most Venezuelans had never heard of until January of this year.
"Brutal dictator" = Elected leader who opposes US dictates.
"Usurper" = The guy calling the shots and leading the country.
"Opposition-led, military-backed challenge" = Coup.
"The people of Venezuela are starving" = Oil! Oil! Oil!
"All options are on the table" = One option is on the table.
"Popular uprising" = Unpopular uprising.
"Grassroots activists" = Let's pretend the CIA's not a thing.
"Freedom and democracy" = US control of Venezuela's petroleum resources.
"Humanitarian aid" = Pretext for further escalations.
"Failed socialist policies" = Inability to overcome US economic warfare.
"Foreign interference" = An ally of Venezuela supporting its ally.
"We support the National Assembly" = Foreign interference.
"The Venezuelan Constitution" = Our convenient interpretation of the Venezuelan Constitution.
"We can't just sit around and do nothing" = I have learned nothing since the Iraq War.
"54 countries recognize Guaido as president" = 141 countries don't recognize Guaido as president.
"Troika of tyranny" = John Bolton's second-favorite masturbatory fantasy.
"Special Envoy to Venezuela" = Convicted war criminal.
"The Monroe Doctrine" = I think all the countries on this side of the planet are my personal property.
"Operación Libertad" = Operación Libertad para el Petróleo de Venezuela.
"Shut the fuck up, bitch." = Standard talking point from Venezuela coup narrative managers on social media.
"Talk to Venezuelans" = Talk to the wealthier, English-speaking Venezuelans with abundant free time and internet access who support a coup.
"You love Maduro" = I don't have an argument for your opposition to US interventionism.
"You're just a socialist who loves socialism" = I don't have an argument.
"Go live in Venezuela if you love socialism so much" = I don't have an argument.
"Maduro is killing his own people" = Yeah I'm just making shit up now.
"Maduro refuses to let in aid" = I just believe whatever the TV says.
"Trump is liberating the people of Venezuela" = I just believe whatever QAnon says.
"This US regime change intervention will be different" = I have replaced my brain with shaving cream.
Everyone has my unconditional permission to republish or use any part of this work (or anything else I've written) in any way they like free of charge. My work is entirely reader-supported, so if you enjoyed this piece please consider sharing it around, liking me on Facebook, following my antics on Twitter, throwing some money into my hat on Patreon or Paypal, purchasing some of my sweet merchandise, buying my new book Rogue Nation: Psychonautical Adventures With Caitlin Johnstone, or my previous book Woke: A Field Guide for Utopia Preppers. The best way to get around the internet censors and make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list for my website, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. For more info on who I am, where I stand, and what I'm trying to do with this platform, click here.
Bitcoin donations:1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2
What I wonder is: does Guiado feel any concern about the possibility of the US deciding he would be more useful as a dead martyr than a live "interim president" in the goal of manufacturing public support?
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
He just want power. And yes, I think he might know that. That's why he has so many bodyguards, he knows that Maduro is not going to do anything threatening his life.
Over the last century of history if you were a left-wing leader, you will almost for sure end dead (Allende in Chile, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán in Colombia, for mentioning two) or in exile (like Peron in Argentina).
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Translation: I'm Venezuelan that means I can say any kind of nonsense like calling a president elected by an overwhelming majority a dictator because I'm Venezuelan and that makes me right.
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You didn't even were here May, 2018 were nobody like nobody went to those false elections where most democratic parties were banned. You a fucking savage! Thanks god you are not here if you were here you were in Colectivos killing innocent people in Protests or maybe producing marijuana for making money to maintain Maduro
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good theories in lieu of facts..
what's next..
declare I'm a nazi?
#noargument
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Oh, you must hate neoliberalism too! And you might be using an Iphone even that!
It's funny if you said something anti-globalism or pro-maduro it makes you pro-nazi pro-northkorea pro-communism pro-dictatorship and you are not that, you are just pointing something with common sense.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
BTW say GoodBye to the Embassy! and all your incomes injected from Maduro. You are getting alone, The world just see how freak people adore a Dictatorship who kills its people in many ways... I hope you are there in the Embassy! you should go to jail!
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Lol, yes, daring to point out that you're absolutely nonsense and you don't have any argument or fact means I should go to jail.
Keep calling the President a dictator, I don't think you understand what a dictator is, but that's OK, you can after all simply acuse him of murdering "it's" people in many ways, because that is an argument or facts.
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Your hate for Maduro is not letting you think like a normal human being. You are the same or worst than your enemy, Maduro, or at least, how you think he is.
You ask for democracy, but you want jail for anybody that doesn't think as you do. Don't be hypocrite.
I'm not pro or anti Maduro, but if I can't say my opinion because is not exaclty as you wish I have to go to jail? Come on mate, you might have the same problem as Maduro.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You are worst than hypocrites You think you talk in the name of Venezuelans when you do not even care about us, the lack of food, blackouts, shortages, you do not even have been here! You are fake af you only care about checks sign by corrupted chavism leaders
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
No argument once more, more vague nonsense accusing the other person of being paid by "corrupted chavism leaders". You don't care for a discussion period, you have your theories without facts as to where the blame is and you support the criminal acts of entering the embassies and jailing people for daring to voice different views and question the nonsense.
The hypocrite is telling us that we are worse than him because "we don't care", as if he has any clue to that.
You're right you hypocrite, we are much worse than you, you who cares about Venezuela by calling the elected president a dictator.
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Because Maduro writes me a check to my home address every month, of course he does, champion.
Also, nobody says that food shortage caused by a mixed of factors one of them US sanctions, blackouts caused by sabotages aren't real. I don't think Maduro is good neither. Guaido is going to bring a civil war, is not my opinion is what reallity delivers in Libya, Syria, and so on.
Being realistic should be the first step to improve the situation in your country.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
#whawha-maduro-nobody-wants-to-be-friend
#facts
Posted using Partiko Android
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit