Before this deal, Venezuela was only making about 10 billion a year off their oil. Now with this deal, they will be making 200 billion.

That's money that can go into their nation and their poor.

What's wrong with you progressives?

#29 | Posted by subliberal

What's wrong with us is we care about facts, whereas you morons just swallow propaganda:

The Baseline ($10 Billion): This part is roughly accurate for Venezuela's recent annual oil revenues. Due to years of sanctions, mismanagement, and deteriorating infrastructure, Venezuela's oil export revenues hovered around $10B"$15B annually over recent years.

The $200 Billion Figure: Venezuela will not be making $200 billion a year. According to statements from the Venezuelan government, the agreement"which spans a 25-year bilateral project (or up to a 100-year concession for specific fields)"is projected to generate roughly $209 billion in total cumulative tax and revenue for Caracas over the multi-decade life of the deal, not per year.

You compared 10 billion a year due to our crippling sanctions, vs 200 billion over decades if they let us rip them off.

Steering kids into trades helps republicans reduce the number of voters who know things like history, civics, economics, and critical thinking.

SpeaksLikeAnIdiot, just type "F10" .. we'll know what you mean, and it will save you a lot of time, and misspellings.

#19 | Posted by oneironaut

Cult member holds internet commentators to higher grammatical standards than he holds statements from the president of the united states.

Here's a hint: nothing has changed; it's just been exposed.

#21 | Posted by oneironaut

That's a change numbnuts.

Kind of like how russia's military incompetence got exposed when they invaded ukraine.

Trump did the same favor for the USA.

It's a loss of power and influence. AKA - a change. Idiot.

by uberwoke do you mean saying that a trans person is a human and deserves the same rights and protections as any American?
or do you mean that the cops shouldn't be able to stop any non-white person and ask them for their papers whenever they want?

#9 | Posted by MBlue

No i mean dumb ---- like "defund the police" "abolish the senate" "create a new constitution", or acting like unlimited immigration is economically or electorally viable.

If dems embraced economic populism and harnessed hatred for billionaires, while also saying we need strong borders that must be defended and we're not going to take anyone's guns, they'd win.

And Hillary claimed she won, so what's your point.

#12 | Posted by fishpaw

No she claimed russia helped trump. WHich was true. Then she conceded and went home.

Trump claimed he won, attacked democracy, conspired to overturn the election, fomented a coup, and still hasn't conceded, permanently damaging the country and faith in democracy.

You know all this and are pretending not to.

Unless you're stupider than we thought.

#8 That's the left, politics over country. They moaned and groaned about not getting intel ahead of time because they couldn't leak it to Iran leadership so we would get soldier's killed just so they could blame it on Trump.

#9 | Posted by fishpaw

Your cult decided to attack democracy and the consitution (and the capitol) rather than admitting they lost an election.

That's great. Now they just need to do away with their idiotic positions that will drive everyone away.

Bernie showed the way. Leave all the uberwoke -------- behind and focus on economic justice.

This right here is the essence of why conservatives love football:

Tim Walz literally released a pedophile weeks ago because he was in the country illegally, and not a peep out of you or ClownHack.

You sick ----- have no moral compass.

#58 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You don't actually care about pedophiles being released. If you did then youd be mad at trump who released more pedophiles than walz ever did.

Its just obvious, but it won't stop the accusers of the innocent, because they don't really care, the just love the accusation truthful or not..

#56 | Posted by oneironaut

What's obvious is why trump is still hiding the files AFTER CONGRESS PASSED A LAW SAYING THEY MUST ALL BE RELEASED.

What's even more obvious is that his followers are a cult.

Not one of you morons gave 2 schitts about Epstein and his ring of pedos until Donald Trump was elected. How many pedos did the Biden DOJ prosecute while he was in charge????

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You morons were obsessed with exposing the elite ring of pedophiles until you found out your cult leader was a member.

How many pedos did the Biden DOJ prosecute while he was in charge????

#47 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Including the Jan 6 terrorists that trump pardoned?

Just like a liberal.

Ban something that everyone else except you likes.

#4 | Posted by subliberal

Did someone mention mail-in voting?

Yet trans porn is most popular in deep red states...interesting.

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Not in my world.

And how do you know that ?

You must do a lot of research into trans porn.... Any particular reason ?
... Chuckle.

#44 | Posted by shrimptacodan

How do you know what the guy is watching in the trailer next to yours?

....but there's still confusion amongst leftist woke zombies about what a woman is...soooooooooo

#41 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Yet trans porn is most popular in deep red states...interesting.

Not the wimps who pretend to be the victims of this whole thing. Wimps who pretend to give a ---- about blackmail or whatever leverage has been applied to politicians or other powerful people.

#38 | Posted by eberly

You think we have to PRETEND to care if our president is being blackmailed to do things like...i dunno...start wars that no one in the country wants?

Anyone with a brain would care about things like that. Do you?

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crazy that the Left still brings up the Epstein files, if it were true the left would have buried Trump years ago when Obama was in office, or when Biden was in office, why didn't they?

#37 | Posted by Maverick

As has undoubtedly been explained to you a million times, maxwell's case was still under appeal during biden's term and he didn't want to give her a way to get out of jail.

The epstein transparency act was passed in 2025, making it THE LAW that all the files MUST BE RELEASED with only victim's names redacted. Trump and his DOJ are BREAKING THE LAW to keep the files hidden.

Lastly, if biden's goal was to lock up trump, he could have done it for the 11 counts of obstruction of justice left over from the mueller investigation, or a dozen other things. Biden's approach to trump was to ignore him and let him fade away. He thought trump's failed coup attempt would finally break the spell over his cult and they'd rejoin the real world. How wrong he was.

No one cares about the victims of the whole epstein rape island.
Just the politics....
#27 | Posted by eberly

Well yeah, the POLITICS are the way that the most powerful people on earth blackmail others or are blackmailed by others to do their bidding.

You realize that's what the whole epstein saga is really about right?

That's what makes it different than a house full of human trafficking victims from guatemala.

It exposes the way that power really works in this world. And trump breaking the law to keep it hidden exposes who he really is.

The power of -----.

Her career would just have been one of many country singers if she hadn't gotten those gorgeous globes installed.

#10. It's the topic of this thread. You do realize a lot of things are happening at the same time. And it's small store owners who are upset not necessarily Republicans. I don't live in NY so this doesn't affect me at all. And taking this thread and bringing up AIPAC? That makes no sense.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger

Yeah and it's the only thread with any republicans on it. Because you cowards hide from the threads about real issues.

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#6+ WTF does Trump or the Epstein files have do do with privately run grocery stores suing Mamdani?

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

It has to do with the things republicans choose to get outraged about.

Not starting a war like republican presidents always do. Not hiding the epstein files. Not raising inflation or gas prices. Not record breaking corruption and profiteering. Not exploding the debt to give tax cuts to the rich. Not crippling public health and increasing foodborne illness and measles. Nope. Nonexistent trans athletes and public grocery stores are the REAL issues facing america in 2026.

I love how to make sure only the qualified people can shop at the store you need to show an id.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

I love how trump is still hiding the epstein files and you're totally cool with it.

Its also why communism and socialism fail, systems reach a certain level of hierarchy and it loses its ability to change, or meet the needs of its customers.

Also why China opened up and adopted more capitalistic policies, it realized a monolithic hierarchy fails, unlike Lumpers here who seem to think the only way to do something is through the government.

You can't argue there's a "new power", and then want more monolithic social/government systems. You'd be a moron.

Liberals in the 70s80s used to want decentralization, grow your own food, buy locally. All that is out the window with you Lumpers, you prove it every day.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut

You're here arguing against authoritarian control and then citing the most authoritarian economy as an example of success and you're too dumb to even see it.

If our government could order our industries to do their bidding like china does we'd be a lot more competitive.

Also, Maybe you have enough time to grow your own food because you're a loser, but most of us have other jobs.

Of FFS You mean vaccine epidemiology, not vaccines. Who cares if an individual chooses not to get vaccinated, its the herd immunity that is the issue; and that is called vaccine epidemiology.

#22 | Posted by oneironaut

A herd is made of individuals stupid. When the individuals are morons who get their info from liars, then the herd loses immunity, and things like measles come back, which is exactly what's happening now.

Moron.