Feel-good video of the day:
Meanwhile in Gaza tunnels…
You asked for sea and you got it. pic.twitter.com/9kP9iOXno6
— vlad🩸🇺🇦 (@dovgvlad) December 6, 2023
Venezuela raises stakes in border dispute, creates military zone to be carved out of Guyana
In what is likely to further inflame tensions in the hemisphere, Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro announced Tuesday the creation of a new military zone that would be in charge of defending an oil -and mineral-rich territory of neighboring Guyana that he’s claiming belongs to his nation.
Maduro also designated a general, Alexis Rodríguez Cabello, as the sole authority of the Essequibo, a chunk of land in Guyana slightly smaller than the state of Florida. He also ordered that the more than 125,000 Guyanese living in the area, which is mostly jungle, be granted Venezuelan citizenship.
The announcement comes after Maduro claimed that 98% of Venezuelans overwhelmingly approved on Sunday his annexation of a new state that accounts for three quarters of Guyana’s current land mass. While Guyana objected to the vote and called it illegal, international observers have questioned the election results. The government’s report of voter participation did not square with the empty voting stations seen during the day and was more than twice as high as that of independent exit polls.
Maduro announced the creation of the Guyana Integral Defense Zone, or ZODI, to be called Zodi Guayana Esequiba, with headquarters in Tumeremo, a town in Venezuela near the Essequibo region. The Essequibo is at the center of a centuries-old border dispute between the two countries that is currently before the United Nations International Court of Justice.
It is unclear how large the new military force to be based in Tumeremo would be, but Maduro indicated it’s the first of several steps he plans to take to execute the mandate he says he was given on Sunday to invade Guyana.
I have a solution, but almost no one is going to like it… raise the dead of Jonestown and form a Lazarus Corps to defend Guyana. Commies get the rope, or a helicopter ride, or are torn limb from limb with zombies in a Flavor Aid frenzy.
Look at this pure bullshit right here.
But they loved the Martin Prince dogshit that is My Dinner With Andre.
Do I want to own a disorder?
Typically, the disorder owns you.
Maybe they can combine, Guyana, Israel, & Russia vs. Venezuela, Gaza & Ukraine.
The senator from Lockheed offers an amendment.
It is unclear how large the new military force to be based in Tumeremo would be, but Maduro indicated it’s the first of several steps he plans to take to execute the mandate he says he was given on Sunday to invade Guyana.
Tom Clancy was sometimes laughably naive in his characters’ worldviews, but his take that much of modern warfare is merely “armed robbery writ large” is pretty spot-on.
Modern? War was always that way. It was always about money and is today.
All warfare is ultimately economic warfare.
The Tom Clancy novel I’m reading, written in1991, talks about how the Soviet Union’s leaders would be willing to let Western Ukraine go, but not the Eastern part.
Hoping he’s not as accurate about terrorists nuking the Super Bowl in Denver.
“a chunk of land in Guyana slightly smaller than the state of Florida. He also ordered that the more than 125,000 Guyanese living in the area”
That’s way less populated than I would have thought.
It’s like 2/3 of the territory of Guyana
At least when we go to war with Venezuela it will be some good old fashion commie killing.
War? I’m assuming PPP is going to send “advisors” to help Maduro along…
What Maduro’s doing is nuts and, yes, if he goes through with this he’s going to get himself invaded by us. They’ve been champing at the bit for a decade to do it and this would be the perfect excuse.
While it is tempting to spank some commie butt, and might be an actual win for us, I’m not sure about the wisdom of doing so with the current military and the possibility of other more pressing engagements. The last thing we need is to get tied down with proxie wars with China and Iran, and China has been itching for a toehold in the Americas.
It may not be wise. I’m simply predicting it will happen.
Biden recruiting gives a whole new meaning to “release the hounds of war” (ballgag not included)
Which is why I doubt we go to war with Venezuela.
Maybe we can outsource it to Colombia and Brazil.
As long as the money flows to the MIC with appropriate skimming by government officials.
Yup.
MDWA action figures:
https://66.media.tumblr.com/8a46cdd04b33af61910fd833f57c81e7/tumblr_mpde4ttAKN1rqi2r9o2_500.png
Gee, Gene and Robert… sorry your mom blew up.
Robert… Roger… sorry, haven’t thought about their names in years. Oopsie!
Seriously, though — those two wouldn’t know a good comedy if it came up, bit them on the bottom and said “We’re here!”
Part of the entertainment of watching them was disagreeing with pompous twits.
Those damned cute and fuzzy bunnies!
Hate to tell you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDB4I6S63gU
You are preachin’ to the choir.
The Zombies are on Maduro’s side
I’m wondering just how they would have got ahold of that video at this point.
I’m guessing it was an actual video with added doctored footage.
Or, as another poster said, perhaps it was footage from when Egypt flooded some tunnels years back?
If I were more of a video prankster I’d mash together today’s links with a “Nooo…. I can’t swim!” audio ending to that.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen either of those movies.
I really enjoyed Savage Steve Holland’s work. Is it historical film? Probably not. But I find them entertaining.
I’ve never seen Dinner with Andre — I will wholeheartedly endorse Better Off Dead. Cult classic for a reason, but don’t expect Shakespeare.
If you’re lucky, you can rent it from a streaming service for two dollars.
I’ve seen them both. By far, the more memorable one, and the one I have watched more times, is Better off Dead.
“I’ve been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I’m no dummy.”
Holland’s stuff went to the House of Pain for a while. You could only get it on old DVD’s. Finally it came back out streaming just in the last five years.
Don’t miss One Crazy Summer either!
Indeed.
+2
Decent soundtrack too.
I like both of them.
Evidently Maduro did the same thing about three years ago, leading the US and Guyana to sign a defense pact.
It might behoove Nicolás to consider what happened the last time a money-strapped country invaded its oil-rich neighbor who happened to have a defense treaty with the US. It was around 1990, and it didn’t end well for the invaders.
Pretty sure Brazil has an agreement too, and trains their forces. Laugh at Brazil if you want, they are not a pushover.
Yeah, we should all pay more attention to dystopian comedies, as they speak to the universal fate of mankind.
No easy way to get forces from Brazil to where they would be needed. Tough logistics.
Brazil and Guyana share a border.
Yeah, a line on a map. You ever looked at the terrain, the roads? I mean, it’s a libertarian paradise there brother.
Heh. You have never been there? Guyana might as well be on the dark side of the moon.
Boat is the only way to access the place the way it would need to be done. The question is how is the Brazilian navy?
Someone mentioned recently that Google Maps already shows a partition of Guyana of some sorts. I don’t think Venezuela is actually in control of that territory now. What kind of weird policy does Google Maps have? They surely don’t show which areas are controlled by Russia in Donbas.
Looks like dotted lines for “disputed borders”. But the only dotted one in Ukraine is between main part and Crimean peninsula.
Can we get Mexico to annex California by popular acclaim?
NO
“Giant 8in spiders from China are set to invade the US: Black and yellow critters seen parachuting through the air on the east coast – and will soon hit New York and New Jersey”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12833265/Giant-8in-spiders-China-set-invade-Black-yellow-critters-seen-parachuting-air-east-coast-soon-hit-New-York-New-Jersey.html
No.
Giant zipper/garden spiders. Ok.
Looks like stuff I see in the South already.
Wait until you encounter this
Freakin’ adorable. Will adopt.
Let them come.
They eat Stink bugs, Asian Lady Beetles, and Lantern flies, so Im all for them. Seriously, those are the 3 biggest pests here at my house, all of which came from China, so Im ok with one more if it kills the other 3.
So you are saying they like Chinese food?
So, Venezuelans are chafing under the commie yoke enough that Maduro has to invent a distraction.
Take Guyana? That is laughable. There is nothing to take. If they actually do try to take it and make it part of Venezuela it won’t be any time at all before they drop that turd.
I keep hearing ‘but minerals!’. Guyana doesnt have anything Venezuela already has in abundance. They cant do anything with it in their own country, why would they think they could make anything of it in someone else’s country?
The whole thing is theater to circumvent an uprising in Venezuela. Relax, pop some corn and sit back and watch the circus.
“They cant do anything with it in their own country, why would they think they could make anything of it in someone else’s country?”
Commies live to steal. Doesn’t matter if it gets used right.
Exxon was trying to do an oil deal with Guyana. I guess Moderno thinks he’ll get that revenue for himself – ignoring what he and Chavez did to their own oil business.
Moderno
Please tell me that was intentional.
Heh. I knew it and couldn’t be bothered to look it up at quitting time.
Straight out of the dictator’s playbook.
Not content with destroying their own oil production and driving their citizens into abject poverty, Maduro wants to do the same to Guyana.
“Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is sued by a FOURTH woman who claims she was violently gang raped by the rap star and two friends at his New York studio after he plied her with ‘copious amounts of drugs and alcohol’ when she was 17”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12833127/Sean-Diddy-Combs-sued-FOURTH-woman-violently-gang-raped.html
2003? Enough already with this nonsense.
Really. What kind of evidence exists from 20 years ago?
Her word for it. Believe all women. Except women in Israel, in which case you have to put it into context.
Bingo
Hold on, there are a few more women than that that we don’t also believe. But other than them, yeah, we believe all women.
I think that’s the point. There is no evidence.
One of the accusations against Danny Masterson was that he raped his girlfriend 3 years into a 10-year relationship.
She was too scared to break it off!!
Look what they did to Cavenaugh. The accusations were beyond absurd.
What was the chic that rolling stone wrote about? “They stabbed me, gang raped me and cut my head off! ”
*shows scars eerily reminiscent of a cutter*
We are drowning in an ocean of lunacy.
I should specify – cutter = mostly emotionally disturbed young girls that cut themselves.
Probably a way to turn the demons ini their heads into physical pain that can be more easily managed than emotional pain, i.e. crazy.
Interestingly, that form of cutting has a very similar demographic profile to eating disorders… Mostly affecting highly affluent girls with very few hurdles and obstacles in their lives aside from the social issues that come with being a high school girl in an affluent area and usually some distance to her parents due to dual-income absenteeism.
ABC: Anorexia, Bulemia, Cutting.
Combs and the other fucktards are getting hoisted on the petard constructed for Trump- by Democrat politicians supported by Combs and the fucktards.
FIRSTUS FIRSTAXIMUS THE I.
Be vewwy vewwy quiet- we’we hunting witches
As far as hindering the investigations directly, blurring the tapes made publicly available does little to impede prosecutors. The Justice Department has had access to this video for years now. What it does do, though, is hinder the dedicated amateur sleuths who have scoured videos and pictures taken that day to identify faces in the crowd that might otherwise have eluded the feds. NBC News’ Ryan J. Reilly has written extensively about these “sedition hunters,” whose efforts have led to tips that resulted in rioters’ arrests and eventual prosecutions.
Just don’t call it a lynch mob. We prefer to think of them as a self-deputized posse making citizens’ arrests. You know, to defend democracy.
Wow that’s actually a thing? We’ve gone from “I would never rat out Ann Frank” to “I heard noises in my neighbor’s attic.”
We have an abundance of stupidity but at least we aren’t running out of cowards.
Face in the crowd convictions. Nice.
As far as I can tell the only real crime committed that day was the murder of Ashley Babbitt.
I wonder if they’re going to doctor the videos to remove those that they have disappeared into the DC gulag
I did not read the article but there is mention of blurred videos. Whatcha wanna bet the blurs are for the Feds in the crowd?
I bet you are right. There’s zero institutional interest in protecting the privacy of January 6 protesters. They blurred them to protect the feds and informants in the crowd.
Like how the Gestapo was effective because hundreds of thousands of Germans ratted on their neighbors.
Or the Stasi.
To be fair, if you didn’t rat out Jews you knew about to the Nazis, you got sent to the concentration camps or executed on the spot – if you got caught.
The current assholes are ratting out people voluntarily, and for no reward.
My Dinner with Andre is light years ahead of most of the Fredi being released today.
Are those films that are smart and deserve respect or something?
Crap? Dreck? Can’t remember what I typed but autocorrect borked whatever it was. Wtf is Fredi?
Oh good. Another media flamed shooting.
Which one? It seems Austin and UNLV both had them. No details – so for the moment I’m assuming the crazy is just bubbling to the surface….
Unlv. Local Sinclair affiliates have it blanketed on the top of an every page.
Yep. I said to wife yesterday “Ever notice there seems to be a shooting per week when a Gun grabber is in power?”
No matter how many children they murder I am not giving up my guns.
I dont know if it is something the usual suspects are directly causing or if it is the general atmosphere caused by leftists in power but it sure aint coincidence.
The timing of this one is particularly interesting given the bill recently introduced that, if passed, would ban all semi-auto weapons.
I’ll not go so far as to say that these shootings are being prompted or orchestrated for political purposes, but I wouldn’t be all that shocked if it comes out 15 or 20 years from now that multiple alphabet agencies were balls deep in making this trend happen.
If they can arrest a grandma who was 15 rows back, 47th on the left in one picture from January 6th, they can surely keep tabs on the dark corners of the internet where these sickos live and find some ticky tack crime to use to get them off the street and on meds. Or at least dox the fuckers when they start talking about killing innocents.
“I wouldn’t be all that shocked if it comes out 15 or 20 years from now that multiple alphabet agencies were balls deep in making this trend happen.”
I would be surprised if it doesnt come out.
I mean, the NSA has had their dirty laundry aired more often than this “community” of fucksticks that cheerlead these atrocities. You’re telling me that there isn’t a single person or group who has taken it upon themselves to infiltrate a group of unstable antisocial teenagers and open up their records to the public?
they can surely keep tabs on the dark corners of the internet where these sickos live
New marketing campaign for Glibs?
One of my favorite Kevin D. Williamson quotes: “Here’s something I am not willing to do: I am not willing to renegotiate the Bill of Rights every time some sexually frustrated loser with a 5.56mm death-boner has a homicidal temper tantrum.”
Drives lefties nuts.
I was just there 20 years ago! Just got away in time! I’m going to need to take some emotional health days off from work.
+1 Hogg.
Dumb Americans, brought up to think their preferences matter
Americans have specific expectations for their cars. Do EVs need to evolve to meet their demands – or are consumers’ perceptions miscalibrated?
While electric vehicle sales in the United States are rising, demand has slowed. According to a July 2023 Pew Research Center survey, half of Americans say they’re unlikely to consider an EV, and 13% are sure they don’t want one. In fact, according to the report, the share of the public interested in purchasing an EV is down 4% from May 2022.
Analysts point to affordability issues and lack of confidence in charging infrastructure as the main drivers, but car manufacturers also face another challenge to convince consumers to ditch the combustion engine: US drivers don’t believe a new electric auto could be a wholesale replacement for their current car.
It’s not that Americans are opposed to EVs, per se – it’s rather that an overwhelming swath of consumers want EVs that can take them as far on a single charge as they can get on a tank of gas. And in a country where the top-selling vehicles are pickup trucks and large SUVs, buyers are less likely to downsize to go electric.
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A recent S&P analysis showed that among people who do make the switch to an EV, some feel considerable disappointment. The survey – which did not include the drivers of Telsas, which dominate the market – showed nearly half of households who own a non-Tesla EV decide to buy a gas-powered car next.
Needs more coercion.
among people who do make the switch to an EV, some feel considerable disappointment
For example, last weekend my MIL came to visit. It’s a 400 mile trip and she has a 250 mile range EV. She had to stop 4 times to recharge, turning what would be a 6-hour trip in a gas car into an 11-hour marathon drive.
My van’s range may fluctuate by 30 or 40 miles depending on load and environment, but the variation is just a rounding error on a 500 mile gas tank. An EV getting half of its stated mileage is fraudulent.
Ahhhhhh….so the truth is beginning to peek out. It isn’t and never was about cars. Nothing gives more freedom than the automobile and that is something the leftists cannot stomach. This is about getting rid of cars altogether. Replacing a system that works well with one that doesnt work at all is how they plan to destroy the autonomy we enjoy now.
First – Your gasoline car is destroying the planet!
Second – Here, have a shiny new electric car!
Third – Electric doesnt work? Tough shit. You will go where I say, when I say.
Sick, evil fuckers.
Replacing a system that works well with one that doesnt work at all
That’s pretty much everything.
Yeah — it is almost like EVs work fine for your commute car if you live in or near a city — but most Americans want/need a vehicle suitable for the non-daily long trips we can do and will do because we live in a country bigger than New Jersey (ya Limey basterds!)
The fact that they went all in on EVs, completely ignoring hybrids, shows their intentions. Hybrids are no panacea, but they’re much more fit for purpose than EVs at this stage.
Love to see that stat broken out by region.
I think a lot of us prairie dwellers would be outliers for that. 3.7 miles to our supermarket and that is about as short a trip as I ever take.
That’s our trip to the corner farm stand (open seasonally). 30 miles to the grocery, 40+ to walmart or similar big box
Good luck finding a non subcompact sedan or coupe these days.
“They’ve created [some] electric vehicles and said, ‘you can do 350 miles in this, you can go off-roading, it’s as big a vehicle as you want and you can fit this many people in it’,” says Hopson. “The technology is a wonderment, but the engineering means the battery has to be this big, it has to weigh this much and the cost is this much. The reality is they’re just guzzling in a different way, from an energy perspective.”
The most noable example of this may be GM’s reissue of the Hummer, a large SUV that was discontinued in its combustion-engine iteration, in 2010. The new EV version, which claims a range up to 381 miles (613km), weighs nearly 10,000lbs (4,539kg). The battery alone weighs as much as an entire Toyota Corolla.
Between the lithium needed to power the battery and the energy grid use to charge it, non-profit research group American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy found that the Hummer EV emits as much or more greenhouse gas as a standard-sized sedan.
While other larger EVs, like Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck, showed early promise and popularity, sales have slowed to a crawl as consumers find that using an EV truck the way they use a gas or diesel-powered one – towing, for instance – can cut the truck’s range by a third or more.
Why aren’t these things flying off the lot?
If they could fly, I’d buy one.
The reality is they’re just guzzling in a different way, from an energy perspective.
You should only need to walk 15 minutes to get anything you need. Why do you think you need to travel such distances? Off road? Doesn’t that mean you should NOT be driving there? So many things wrong with so many Americans.
Over/Under on when this bar closes?
Another person who wants to invite kids in to watch men pretending to be women?
AFAIK, the trannies still haven’t invaded the one women’s sport worth watching- beach volleyball.
Now there’s a gut wrenching SugarFree story in the making…
Not Hercock?
Wasn’t there a bar in Portland that did the same thing? I wonder if it’s still open.
The Sports Bra, and it is still going. There is also the White Horse on Telegraph in Oakland. Wait, that is a lesbian bar, so, same thing?
It depends on whether the NBA subsides them.
Half the kids in Minnesoda can’t add or read, but that is OK! We got a cure for what ails ya!
Sure you will still be dumb as a rock, but now you’ll have an excuse. The Man is holding you down.
Why do I think that some (((students))) still will be blamed crap going on across the world and end up targeted for it.
Why dont they just make it illegal for darkies to learn to read?
These fuckers would turn the clock back to 1800 in a second if they could.
women in the kitchen, darkies in the field. Everyone knows their place.
Stated or not it is their revealed preference.
As long as some member of the teachers union isn’t put out of work by your law forbidding minority kids to learn how to read, I think it will be OK.
https://babylonbee.com/news/public-educators-warn-high-illiteracy-rates-may-prevent-kids-from-reading-about-gay-sex
Envy.
Despite my declaration that envy is one of the worst human impulses I am envious of people that can hit it out of the park Every. Single. Time.
How do they do that? For me it is a crapshoot. For them, they connect solid every damned time.
Also
https://youtu.be/pozRCoaPwhc
Hard to believe that 1/2 the kids here in RangerLand are classified as poverty stricken.
So will people be adding the Guyanese flag next to the Ukrainian flag in their Twitter handles? Or will they add the Venezuelan flag instead?
They can dust off those No Blood For Oil signs.
[In my best Curly Bill voice] Well… bye.
Three days after I die, I will First again, and my Firstolytes shall spread the word. “He has Firsted.”
Anyway we can speed this up? I have some lumber, and a hammer.
Gonna need a proof of concept on that one
https://babylonbee.com/news/bill-cosby-joins-hamas-so-feminists-will-stop-condemning-him-for-rape
I might be going to hell for laughing at this, but I’ll see you there!
In search of the MODERN AUDIENCE 2.
“‘Oracle of Wall Street’: Men aren’t having sex because of sports betting”
https://nypost.com/2023/12/06/sports/men-arent-having-sex-because-of-sports-betting-meredith-whitney/
doubt
Men aren’t having sex because the chance of dating a psycho who tries to rob him or put him in jail, even decades later, is too high. Ol’ righty never did a man wrong.
This sounds as dumb as the “men are constantly thinking about ancient Rome” thing from a month or two ago.
What the hell was that? Where did it come from?
It sounds like ravings of lunatics.
From what I see it appears to have originated in the psychology department….so yeah, ravings of lunatics.
Improves the odds for those who are looking.
Of going to jail? Yes, it sure does.
Don’t forget Wednesday Zoom! It’s my day off and I’m drinkin’.
Sadly, it’s not mine.
Good morning!
Guten Morgen