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Before the weekend ends and America moves on to the next headline, we need to pause and look at a story that matters more than almost any other—the collapse of Venezuela, and what it warns us about if the last democratic superpower ever falls the same way. This didn’t happen overnight. It happened step by step, over one generation. VENEZUELA: HOW A PROSPEROUS NATION COLLAPSED 1992 Venezuela is the 3rd richest country in the Western Hemisphere, powered by oil and a growing middle class. 1997 Venezuelans become the 2nd largest buyers of Ford F-150s—a sign of widespread prosperity. 1998 Hugo Chávez is elected, promising to “redistribute wealth” and fix inequality. 2001 The country votes again for socialism, framed as compassion and fairness. 2003 The government imposes price controls and currency controls. Black markets appear. Shortages begin. 2004 Private healthcare is fully socialized. 2006 Inflation rises sharply as massive welfare programs expand without real economic backing. 2007 All higher education becomes “free.” 2008 Key industries—oil services, steel, cement, telecom—are nationalized. Production drops almost immediately. 2009 Private gun ownership is banned. 2010 The currency is devalued by 50%, crushing savings and accelerating inflation. 2011 Oil production begins a steady decline due to mismanagement and lack of investment. 2012 American politicians, like Bernie Sanders, publicly praise Venezuela’s model. 2013 Chávez dies. Nicolás Maduro takes power and tightens state control. 2014 Opposition leaders are arrested or silenced. 2015 GDP collapses. Hyperinflation begins. 2016 Severe food and medical shortages spread nationwide. 2017 The constitution is suspended. Elections are no longer meaningful. 2018 Inflation exceeds 1,000,000%. Maduro “wins” a widely fraudulent election. 2019 Unarmed civilians are killed by their own government. 2020 More than 8 million people flee the country to escape hunger and repression. 2023 Minor economic improvements fail to relieve mass poverty. 2024 Disputed elections trigger protests and global isolation. 2026 Maduro is removed by force. Venezuela is liberated after decades of ruin. THE HARD TRUTH It took one generation of “progressive” leadership to turn one of the richest countries on Earth into a nation defined by hunger, fear, mass graves, and mass migration. This is the lesson history keeps teaching: You can vote your way into socialism. But history shows people only escape it through collapse, violence, or foreign intervention. And here is the part Americans must understand clearly: If this happens in the United States, there will be nobody coming to save us. No outside superpower. No rescue force. No second chance. Freedom is fragile. Prosperity is not guaranteed. And once lost, they are brutally hard to recover. Venezuela’s people paid the price. America cannot afford to learn this lesson the same way.

Communism through (my) ages: 1) When I was 15, a teacher told me "It isn't as bad as they say, and makes a lot of sense." 2) At about 19, college friends, "Socialism isn't communism." 3) At 20, on meeting my grandfather-in-law, "They are evil. We escaped in 1949." 4) At 30, "China is a wonderful developing Democracy" 5) At 35, I was sent to communist China on business. It was a crowded, smelly, dirty, factory of despair and hopelessness. This I saw with my own eyes. 6) At 36, "China doesn't count. Successful socialism is in northern Europe." 7) I moved to northern Europe when I was 40. It was much nicer than China, but also felt like I was living in the past. I had to wait 6 months for a hernia operation. 8) When I was about 45, the migrant crisis began. The socialist/globalist/pacifist allowed them entry into every country, regardless how many crimes they committed along the way. Just 20 minutes from my house, in Calais, I was shocked to see migrants jumping onto trucks, breaking open the doors, scattering the contents across the highway, then climbing in. They went through the Chunnel and got out in England. 9) At 52, the soft socialism around me had transformed into globalism. I was told I had to call people by their preferred pronouns, though it was a lie, and even if I didn't know what the preferences were. I quit. 10) I returned to the US, and am now 60. "Socialism" is no longer a dirty word here. People openly espouse the virtues of it. Politicians run as socialists and win. Socialism has taken many forms, from the Bolshevism of Russia, to the CCP in China, the Nazis in Germany, Fascists in Italy, and the many forms of it found in Latin America. It is one of the two most destructive ideologies on earth. It is designed to deprive, despirit, and murder everything that comes in contact with it. Socialism is a great lie at every level. It helps no one, not even those who benefit the most. This is because the cost is the imposition of one's will on everyone else, and that destroys the soul of the usurper and the life of the oppressed. Socialism always fails on its own, but only after destroying almost everything in its train. It can also be conquered. Those are the options.

Most people are taught a very simple story about American slavery. But history is messier. Anthony Johnson, a Black man from Angola, arrived in Virginia in 1621 as an indentured servant. He gained his freedom, became a landowner — and in 1655 won a court case to keep his Black servant John Casor as his slave for life. This helped set an early legal precedent for chattel slavery. In 1830 there were 3,775 free Black slave owners holding ~12,760 enslaved people. Did you know this part of the story? Does it change how you see the “simple” version we’re usually taught? Share it if you’re tired of slogans and want facts instead. Tag someone who needs to see this. Facts > slogans. #Virginia #slavery #HistoryMatters #enslavedpeople #AnthonyJohnson

@subjectiveviews @elonmusk @TruthNoticing Surely you know this is AI generated. Gaslighting.

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago. The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold. 6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2. Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates. Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

@DemocraticAGs @RobBonta Maybe look at the evidence? That could help you understand the truth.

🇺🇸JUST IN: The US Senate rejected the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation, 48-50. It would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide to stop non-citizen voting. Republican NAYs: Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins. UNBELIEVABLE.

@THETECHBOYorg What a psycho!

At last the IPCC admits it has lied to you about climate change for decades. A generation of children have been indoctrinated with false climate propaganda and puppet Governments have enacted destructive and useless Net Zero policies. But will they now stop ? I doubt it because the truth does not matter anymore, real science does not matter anymore, the truth is the approved narrative and the narrative is whatever the ‘useless eliters’ decide it will be. Full on 1984. IPCC Admits Apocalyptic Climate Scenarios Are “Implausible” – Meaning Most Media Scare Stories Over Last 15 Years Are Officially Junk dailysceptic.org/2026/05/05/ipc…

@BasedMikeLee In 1964, the Senate Majority Leader didn’t have the votes for the Civil Rights Act. He brought it to the floor anyway. 60 days later, it passed 71-29. If he’d waited for 60 guaranteed votes, it never would have happened. The Save America Act deserves the same courage.

To honor Bill Clinton’s testimony under oath today, let me recount some of Bill’s sexual predation. He’s guilty AF. When I was the Air Force Military Aide to President Clinton, I traveled with him everywhere. One night, we were returning to D.C. late after a long trip to Europe on AF-1. We landed at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, like we always do. We helicoptered on Marine One to the White House. We were all tired. It was around midnight when we landed on the South Lawn.  After deplaning with the “Nuclear Football” and a few of the president’s bags, I followed him to the residence elevator and ensured he was good before sending him up to bed. The presidential valets were ready to receive him. I headed to my bedroom in the East Wing. I was bushed. I showered and crawled into my bed to fall asleep to the TV. Shortly thereafter, my phone rang, and it was the AF-1 presidential pilot. “Buzz, we have a problem,” he said. "Oh s**t,” I thought.  Apparently, Clinton had cornered a female AF-1 steward in the galley and molested her. She was young, a staff sergeant, and married with children. I knew her, liked her, and she was super sweet. Now, she was in tears and sitting in front of the AF-1 pilot and commander. I asked the pilot, a really good guy, what she wanted. He told me that she didn’t want to be another “bimbo”; she wanted to remain in the Air Force and be promotable.  All she wanted was an apology. She just wanted it to go away. In the time of Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, and Kathleen Willey, this wasn’t surprising to me. It was, however, terribly disappointing and sad. I knew inherently that if I, or anybody else in the military, had done something similar, we’d be at Fort Leavenworth breaking big rocks into little rocks. Yet here was the “commander in chief,” and all he was facing was the prospect of an apology. I was appalled.  So, that morning, a few hours later, and as a young major, I had to walk to the Oval Office and tell the President of the United States that he needed to apologize to the young lady for his assault. Over my years as a combat pilot, I’ve been shot at with hot metal by men who really wanted to kill me, but this was the toughest day in my life. I remember on my way to talk with him thinking, “I didn’t sign up for this sh*t.” I approached Clinton in the Oval Office. I’d arranged for his personal aide to be there too. He was nonplussed. Quiet. But he didn’t seem ashamed or embarrassed.  Two weeks later, on our next trip, we got the two together on board AF-1 in the president’s office, and he offered a very uncontrite “half apology.” He didn’t care. He was filling a square and covering his tracks. It was stunningly disappointing.  If anybody in the military had done that, it would’ve been jail, expulsion, or both. It would’ve been Fort Leavenworth. But not for this president, not for this man. It was just another day. Yet another in my experiences working for a man with absolutely no integrity and no moral fiber. Character matters in people, especially our leaders, and in Bill Clinton, there was none.

🚨 ICYMI: Unmasked – The Truth About the 2020 Election Right after the 2020 race, citizen sleuths from around the world worked nonstop to piece together the most explosive evidence of election fraud ever compiled. This 16‑minute video was one of the best—and it nearly vanished. I saved a copy before it was wiped during the wave of censorship that followed. The evidence inside? Never refuted. Only buried. Watch with open eyes. Decide for yourself. 👀 #ElectionIntegrity #Unmasked2020 #TruthMatters @realMikeLindell @RealLindellTV @realLizUSA @EmeraldRobinson @VanessaBNews @FSociety_1942 @GenFlynn @PatrickByrne @PressSec @AGPamBondi @EdMartinDOJ @TheSCIF @AttyStefLambert @SidneyPowell1 @wmahoney5 @VoterGa @DeluxePsypher @timlovesann @MIGOP @rooprajfox2 @MrJustinBarclay @realDonaldTrump

Senator John Thune stands at a crossroads right now. If he green-lights the SAVE Act, he will go down as the single most consequential Senator in United States history. However, if he refuses to rise to the occasion, history will remember him as the Senator that willingly turned a blind eye to rampant voter fraud; forsaking the Republic altogether. Destiny is calling, Senator Thune - will you answer?

@timburchett Who controls and can improve the Republican messaging? Who’s in charge and, if they’re not doing their job, change the messenger.

@bodenkelly @BarackObama You must know that former president Obama deported 5.3 million people (range: 450954 - 973937 per year)?

@LoveRunandPray Did Alex Pretti protest when former President Obama deported 5.3 million (range: 450954 - 973937 per year)?

@EricLDaugh Is that a confession by a white man?

@LLBROWN7047 What’s hysterical is that Jimmy thinks someone wants his participation awards.

@mitrajoon246071 Jasmine gets an A+ for projection, an F for honesty, integrity and self-awareness.