/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Trump is very horny now

none of you are communists
all of you are democraps

>>2650974
NEETS, labor aristocrats, and lumpen are a drain on the empire. if everyone in the empire were NEET, labor aristocrat, or lumpen, it would collapse immediately. You should thank us for doing our part destroying the empire. Think about it.

If Americans can’t contain ICE who are just some thugs with guns, how they gonna contain the army or special forces when shit hits the fan?

Communists have to win in the political arena. The armed arena is doomed.

Communism status?

>>2650990
you went from
>I actually work 34 different jobs just to make a living (please pity me!)
to
<yeah, I'm a proud NEET, my very existence is anti-imperialist by nature
I agree with the latter, btw. You just don't get to lecture me (an actual productive worker) on 21st century labor relations and MoP.

>>2650994
Labour aristocracy status?

burger thread archives

>>2650986
If I was given a choice between drinking urine and eating shit, I would choose urine.

>>2650991
You didn't give a single shit about ICE under Obama, yet ICE under Obama deported millions.

This has been your friendly PSA

>>2650995
not the same anon dummy

do you see a (you) at the top of this post?

i'm the other anon whose 2 jobs are fuckin ur mom and ur dad

>>2650998
me 2

there's so much COMMON things between you and me – OH WAIT! – NO!!!!

I actually >>>PRODUCE SHIT<<< to earn my living while you live off imperialist gibs!!

my fault

>>2650986
you can't prove things about yourself or other people over imageboards so any attempt to do so should be banned as off topic disruptive trolling

also individualism

>>2651001
it is your fault until you kill us about it

>>2650982
does anyone have the other video where he moans and says "ladies and gentlemen"

>>2651000
such a weird way to come out as a virgin?

how old are you again?

>>2650995
Hi, I’m the guy who works two jobs.

You just perfectly encapsulated why I’m not engaging you on this - you’ll simply move goalposts

>>2651004
i never said woe is me. being a leech on imperiailst society is amazing. even if i were homeless i would do good because i'm not a drug addict. like you can bathe at the beach, then walk to an outdoor sit down restaurant and eat people's leftover food on the tables. then you can go get some water from a water fountain, then sleep on a bench somewhere. it's great if you're not retarded. come to the core and be a NEET with me. accelerate the collapse.

>>2651007
yes anon, i'm a virgin. and i'm also 60 years old. or 40. whatever age is most embarassing. everything you can come up with about me is true. i won't try to prove you wrong because zero reputation is attached to anonymity and i have zero reason to flex anything about myself on here.

>>2651009
For the fifth time, actually write down what those two exact jobs entail?

>>2651010
I honestly don't consider lumpens to be human beings, to be perfectly honest with you, mate.

>>2651016
of course they're human beings. human beings aren't god's special little angels. they're a bunch of apes who destroyed the only planet they have. and the most hilarious part about them is they revoke each other's humanity card rhetorically, as if it meant anything in the first place. nothing is a bigger sign of a stupid human than dehumanizing another human.

wow… you consider me an animal!!! that's great!!! guess what? WE ARE. biology revealed that almost 200 years ago you religious ape.

>>2651014
1. i am a petty bourgeois
2. i am a labor aristocrat
what are you going to do about it. cry?

>>2651014
Whichever job allows you to think you’re the only real prole on earth.

>>2651019
I have a completely different (Marxist) perspective, mate.

There are people who get by from doing work.

There are other people who get by from OTHERS doing work.

That's literally it, dude.

Consult Marx's Theories of Surplus Value.

>>2651006
I gotchu fam.

>>2651020
I will merely call out what you is: a parasite.

>>2651001
You can be a productive worker and a parasite

>>2651023
>Exploiters aren't human!!!! marx said so!!!!
lol humanist retardation

>>2651026
so you won't do anything about it? not very communist.

>>2651020
>>2651022
(notice how burger/pol/ anons are literal parasites)

thank you for your attention to this matter

>>2651027
In the imperial core, yes.

>>2651023
you must be illiterate if you think the post you're replying to denies exploitation or surplus value. it just explains to you in very clear terms that dehumanization is a rhetorical trick that doesn't work on people who already realized a long time ago that humans are just another type of animal. it only works on religious people, racists, and other dumb humans. Exploiters, rapists, murders, torturers, butchers… they're all human! "muh fuggin subhumans GRRRR" just reveals you to be a retard

>>2651030
Grow up.

>>2651030
notice how you won't do anything about it but cry really hard and fill up every thread with your infinite free time. chagos faggot literally was on here for 8 hours today crying after his "real" job. what a sad life. go get drunk and watch soccer like a real exploited third world prole instead of crying on here.

>>2651033
What is your work?

>>2651035
he was on here for 9 hours straight you pathetic simp. even glowies need sleep

>>2651036
oh, wow, mask off, lmao

>>2651037
i told you already i'm a NEET parasite who exploits you from far away. it's funny how you think you're still talking to that other guy. he stopped dignifying you with replies ages ago.

>>2651040
>i'm a NEET parasite
at least we are on the same page, lol

>>2651038
He’s an LLM

>>2651039
mAsK oFf
that's right fucker, i'm an exploiter, a parasite. i steal your surplus value. i'm petty bourgeois, neet, lumpen, labor aristocrat, soldier, and cop, all at the same time. come kill me.

with enemies like this who needs friends?

>>2651043
good now destroy america already instead of crying to the people you know are parasites about how they should betray their own parasitic interests. if you were a real communist you wouldn't beg your class enemies for pity and attention.

I blame everything on Karl Marx for being a messy bitch that loved drama

>if you haven’t had it exactly as bad as I have then you support the system

Why the fuck are you people like this? Are you literal children?

>>2651050
Internet communication is inherently degenerative

>>2651050
how bad did you exactly have it, tho?

>>2651050
stop trying to prove anything sensible to them and just reply the way I do: agree with all their accusations and ask them what they're gonna do about it. tell them you're an exploiter. it doesn't matter if it's true or not, they already made up their minds

>>2651050
>let's make even more class divide
Americans are just like this.

>>2651049
>a messy bitch that loved drama
he jus like me fr fr

>>2651053
NEETs are literal economic parasites, tho. This is not up for debate.

Zionist people are literally just inventing numbers out of nowhere

>>2651057
Agreed.
2+2=4 is a Jewish conspiracy

>>2651054
that's right fucker. it's our nature. and you won't do anything about it.

>>2651056
>parasites of the capitalist economy
based neets

>>2651056
yes. i'm a parasite. i suck your blood. i waste your time. i steal your surplus value. and you will do NOTHING but point out the obvious until you die. you are such an anticommunist that you would rather fraternize with your class enemy on an imageboard like a liberal than come and kill me.

>>2651067
"Industrial reserve army"

>>2651068
you will never have a real job

you will never leave your family home

you will never have a gf

(etc.)

enjoy tendies, I guess?!

>>2651070
Why do you bother posting this garbage

wow agreeing with their accusations and asking them what they're gonna do about it really breaks their script. they rely on taking advantage of empathy and hoping we get defensive and deny the accusations so they can double down.

New solution: just agree with them. Yes. we are all porky ITT. They come here to talk to fascists and porkies. They come to beg their own oppressor for mercy. They're libs.

>>2651072
T E N D I E S

>>2651073
>their
who is them'st?

>>2651070
NTA but do you think it matters when the US finally hits a mass depletion of resources due to climate change, inflation, and retarded cold war tactics? The next 10 years will get exceedingly worse from here on out. Even if you have those things you won't get to enjoy any of them. And you'll have a scared little kid on top of it.

>>2651073
>>2651074
If you are incapable of discussing actual events stop posting

>>2651077
>NTA but do you think it matters when the US finally hits a mass depletion of resources due to climate change, inflation, and retarded cold war tactics?
NTA but I don't think that any of those you've listed actually contributes to the REAL ECONOMIC CRISIS at hand.

>>2651078
That’s for news addicts and most of it is fake

>>2651080
Here's your (You)

>>2651079
It's all related. All of these are connected to the coming economic crisis. It's bad now and it will get worse.

>>2651077
Stop responding, you know full well it is bait.

>>2651078
>If you are incapable of discussing actual events stop posting
now you beg for on topic posting after destroying the thread I bake for 3 version in a row

>>2651084
>It's all related.
It's not. Well, not exactly. The AI bubble + the housing bubble (reloaded) have little to do with
>>2651077
>mass depletion of resources
>inflation
>retarded cold war tactics
(etc.)

Everything you have listed is non-Marxist drivel, tbhwy.

>>2651076
the wreckers who glow up every thread

>>2651089
you are just a sad anti-social incel

plz stop posting

thx

>>2651087
>Everything you have listed is non-Marxist drivel, tbhwy.
nobody cares about your opinion of what is and isn't marxist you sniveling snob

>>2651090
new script i see

>>2651091
It's not about what >>I<< personally "care" about. It's all about what is actually happening.

Just as the housing bubble burst in 2008 WITHOUT any relevance to climate change (and so on), so will the current bubble burst without any connection to:
>>2651087
>>mass depletion of resources
>>inflation
>>retarded cold war tactics
(Things you've listed.)

Which is my way of saying that you don't even have any kind of theoretical access to the real economy, mate.

>>2651073
Like I said, these people are narcissists getting off on being able to box others in

>>2651090
I will never have sex. I will respond to all of your posts until one of us dies.

>>2651091
People here are pretty much obsessed about what is and what not is Marxist analysis, and for very good reasons.

You, as an incel would never understand, but for the rest of us who have actual stakes in the game, well, we care a shitton about this crap, lol.

>>2651098
It’s true. Nobody understands Marx but you, therefore you are the only true theorist.

>2651095
k

are you guys ready to embrace the realization that the current right wing's mental model of the world is them vs their white liberal mother

>>2651102
I realized that a long time ago.

Why are you responding to these retards, it is so clearly bait

>>2651100
Nobody has this angle but you. We, actual Marxists, want to contradict eachother and show radically differing analysis of the world at hand. This, for us, feels healthy, but also fucking interesting and exciting.

You, on the other hand, removed as you are from the process of society's economic reproduction, as a NEET, as an INCEL, will be always sour and piss and poop your pants wishing for "something other" that was never even promised to you, lol.

>>2651102
>ready to embrace the realization
Americans.

>>2651106
Yes, it’s true. All of us are actually one single incel using VPNs to torment you for the crime of being the only proletarian on Earth!

>2651108
this person will start "rape" posting in 30 minutes

he will start saying that he is owed the pussy and so on and he will start rape posting

he will find a haute bourgeoise woman and start a thread by saying something like "doesn't she deserve to be raped?"

etc.

this person is seriously sick (AND unfuckable)

please ignore him

>>2651106
i am porky.
i steal your surplus value.
and instead of killing me… you talk to me? you are not a communist! an actual communist would be sneaking up behind me instead of crying in front of me. pathetic.

>>2651114
You caught me. I’m Steve Overfiend from Legend of the Overfiend

>>2651115
i kneel i kneel i kneel

mr. porky you are superior to everything i did and said

please colonize my country

thx

neocon androgynous blob is exudating, oozing, orgasmic warmongering death wishes…

>I just landed in Israel, the one and only Jewish State, and America’s strongest ally and friend since its founding.

>If you think I flew all the way to Israel after having not slept much in days to make sure we do not hold the ayatollah’s murderous regime accountable for the slaughter of its own people, being the largest state sponsor of terrorism with Americans’ blood on its hands, and who has an endless quest to cheat and obtain a nuclear weapon to advance their sick religious Nazi beliefs, then you have missed a lot.

>I look forward to meeting with our Israeli allies to see how we can build upon the momentum created by President Trump’s bold and unprecedented leadership in Iran, where he picked the people over the ayatollah. The people are right to demand an end to this regime.

>We cannot allow this historic moment to pass – and I agree with President Trump. The downfall of the ayatollah and his regime would be on par with the fall of the Berlin Wall. Remember President Trump is not Obama. I believe he is Reagan Plus.

>>2651118
wow… a beggar. i will promote my nephew over you so you work even harder in false hopes of a promotion!

>A federal judge in Minnesota imposed restrictions on the actions of immigration agents toward protesters in the state on Friday, a decision that comes after weeks of mounting tension between demonstrators and federal officers.

>Judge Kate M. Menendez ordered agents not to retaliate against people “engaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity,” or to use pepper spray or other “crowd dispersal tools” in retaliation for protected speech. The judge also said agents could not stop or detain protesters in vehicles who are not “forcibly obstructing or interfering with” agents.
https://archive.ph/4M3TU

How long until they call this judge a domestic terrorist and the DOJ investigates her?

>>2651119
Why is he there

>>2651119
>I believe he is Reagan Plus.
Is that why he's speedrunning Alzheimer's?

>>2651102
Fixed

>>2651102
fix'd, adjusted to realities.

>>2651128
>>2651126
>>2651102
This is absolute brain rot

>>2651126
no but were is the frightening castrating subject, how will american patriots understand geopolitics without introducing the sexual object being verbotten by their own fat mother

YOU do not understand the treatlerite of the word of Christ

>>2651130
>>2651130
The meme is the fat friend stopping you from talking to the cute one, (in reality if her friends stop you from talking shes not interested)

>>2651131
Who were the treatlerites of christs story?
Pharisee

This guy made a video about Hasidic Jews and welfare lol. I guarantee trump won't mention these guys or anyone in his admin

>>2651135
Why are you posting clickbait

Hey is this thread thread where you're supposed to talk about Bringing about Communist revolution in America? some guy in a suit with an ear piece who was glowing green paid me good money to come here and post so I wanna make sure I'm in the right place. He told me to say this:

I'm the only real Marxist and that every one here is a subhuman cockroach.

Uhh… so yeah. Hope he pays me! Hope I posted this in the right place! Thanks for your time!

>>2651134
Hello. It is me. Jeep master Yogurt. Did you know that you can force fem your dog?

>>2651132
>The meme is the fat friend stopping you from talking to the cute one
yes literally an emasculatory figure repressing the id: the castrating supereogistical mother forbidding from indulging with the sexual object of desire, it's a fantasy that hides the obvious truth of being fundamentally undesirable, very oddly transparent that the castrating mother is presented as an actual subject because it's usually inserted as feminism or liberalism or whatever.

>>2651142
and now the repressing mother has been elevated to literal political opposition, burger reactoids are unable to understand politics unless it is presented under this lens of liberal women emasculating men

>>2651142
>sexual object of desire
This entire relation being one of a sexual pathologisation in which women are deprived of subjectivities and hence deprived personhood

>>2651024
thank you anon

>>2651135
Yeah they were chosen by the rightoids to suck off

>>2651140
Liminous beings are we

Imagine the erotic possibilities if splicing the human genome with du receive see getbillll

This is how shah shills talk to Iranians who are not monarchist. The Israelis get mad too

>>2651153
Big fish mean big balls

>>2651146
i think the figure that represents women is the cute wojak (she refuses the man but not out of her own volition) the fat friend is something else entirely (maybe the name of the father?) but you're right

>>2651142
True i used to cope like that but then istopped the lie and just realized that im nothing special have nothing to offer , and it make sense that no one wants me

I wanna be able to snort a cat into my brain like coke so I can spaghettify a cat and then have a tiny cat in my brain.

>>2651157
On some level it makes me really sad that the world is in chaos due to such transparently low effort psyops. Zionism is a helluva drug.

>>2651163
>>2651164
LOL at the soyjak.

Has anyone been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>>2651167
it's our resident spammer

>>2651122
>>2651122
damn, he's like super kiss-the-wall fan. he travels a lot there.

How does this thread just consistently get worse

>>2651159
As an object of desire the symbolic representation of the female is just as an extension of the man's pleasure. The entire image is a fantasy designed to frame the neurotic's negation of jouissance for the pleasure of the viewer's consumption in order to implicitly portray Trump's actions as permissive of the subject's frustrated enjoyment.

In a deeper complex it just screams to the level of political and social repression in capitalist society due to the atomisation and alienation endured in the consumption of this garbage. It is effectively bourgeois propaganda that is the product of commidifcation.

>>2651192
context*

>>2651157
>This is how shah shills talk to Iranians who are not monarchist. The Israelis get mad too
The monarchists are awful and the CIA hates them. Reza Pahlavi is shilled by Israel.

This is what right wing tv looks like now

>>2651201
THANKS BUSH FOR DESTROYING THE FIRNESS DOCTERINE!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

Stephen Miller: Denmark is a tiny country with a tiny economy and a tiny military. They cannot defend Greenland… Under every understanding of law that has existed about territorial control for 500 years, to control a territory you have to be able to defend a territory…

Miller: President Trump has been clear…he wants the United States to control Greenland. That is the American position. And you would think that our allies in NATO we keep safe… you would think that they would want to support America in this matter.

>>2649516
>denying the agency of house slaves as we speak
Slave rebellions throughout history were all destroyed. Only exception was Haiti and that's because they were on an island an ocean away from a dysfunctional French Empire. Even then they just reenslaved their own population at one point.

People don't have some magic agency that lets them do anything they want. The fact you think people in the material world, and especially slaves, can just magically change the system they were born into just because they might have agency is peak liberal delusion.

>>2651211
I want to pour a Sprite bottle of LSD into Stephen Miller’s eyes like in ‘Good Time’ and make him listen to AI generated clips of his parents fucking

huh, the spam bot only spams the first thread. 🤔🤔🤔

>Venezuela’s Delcy Rodriguez consolidates power after Maduro ouster - Bloomberg

In Venezuela, much of the choreography of power looks just as it did before Nicolas Maduro’s capture by U.S. Special Forces.
Delcy Rodriguez, his longtime deputy, has seamlessly moved into the role of acting president. She has chaired meetings with senior officials, greeted international envoys, welcomed the press at Miraflores Palace and met privately with diplomats.

But beneath the continuity, the bedrock of Chavismo — Venezuela’s brand of socialism — is beginning to shift as Rodriguez quickly moves to consolidate authority and unite the fractured ruling coalition.

There are some subtle changes. Rodriguez’s days start earlier, her public remarks are far more concise and the marathon speeches that defined Maduro’s rule are gone. Public officials are now allowed back on X.

Other moves are far more consequential, including a reshaping of the Cabinet and security apparatus and the release of dozens of political prisoners. Decisions on senior personnel are being received positively by the Trump administration, according to one person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named discussing sensitive deliberations.

Venezuela’s information ministry and the U.S. State Department didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

"She’s walking a tightrope, trying to please the U.S. at the same time as trying to keep Chavismo together,” said David Smilde, a professor and Venezuela expert at Tulane University. "So far she’s succeeded” and President Donald Trump "seems quite happy.”

Public signals of support have followed. On Tuesday, Nicolas Maduro Guerra, the ousted president’s son and a sitting lawmaker, told government supporters in Caracas he had received messages from his father and stepmother, Cilia Flores, expressing confidence in Rodriguez and the team now leading the country.

Supporters at another demonstration Wednesday chanted: "Delcy, go ahead, you have our confidence.” The slogan has been repeated in a state television advertisement showing an animated image of Rodriguez.

Just three days after Maduro was captured, Rodriguez elevated central bank chief Calixto Ortega Sánchez to vice president of the economy ministry, a more powerful position coordinating the government’s broader economic strategy across multiple ministries. She also named Gustavo Gonzalez Lopez, a former interior minister, to lead the Presidential Honor Guard, replacing Javier Marcano Tabata, after internal criticism that the unit failed to prevent Maduro’s arrest.

Rodriguez appointed lawmaker Juan Escalona, a close Maduro ally, as minister of the presidency and government management oversight. It’s a crucial role that acts as the president’s principal link across the executive branch and helps drive policy implementation. Escalona replaces Anibal Coronado, who was first shifted to the environment portfolio and then reassigned on Friday to the transportation ministry.

Also on Friday, Rodriguez appointed former Information Minister Freddy Nanez to the environment ministry, with journalist Miguel Perez Pirela taking over his previous role.

Further changes are expected, people familiar with her plans said. Posts at state energy company Petroleos de Venezuela SA and the oil ministry are under review, the people said. Rodriguez continues to simultaneously serve as oil minister.

She’s also expected to bring back longtime allies to key roles. Felix Plasencia, who attended a Friday meeting with Trump officials in Washington, is being considered for foreign minister or Venezuela’s ambassador to the U.S. as the relationship between both countries improves, according to people with knowledge of the plans.

Two influential but low-profile economists from Ecuador, Patricio Rivera and Fausto Herrera, who have been advising Rodriguez since at least 2019, are also playing key roles in the interim government, the people said. The men, who are key liasons for creditors and investors, both previously worked for their country’s former president, Maduro’s fellow socialist Rafael Correa.

Rodriguez is also expected to sideline figures with whom she has long clashed, the people said. On Friday evening, she announced Luis Antonio Villegas would take over the newly merged production and commerce ministries, replacing Colombian businessman and Maduro confidant Alex Saab.

Once the situation stabilizes, changes to the armed forces could follow. Speculation over Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino’s possible retirement has resurfaced since Maduro’s removal, raising the prospect of further shakeups among the highest ranks of the military. The U.S. has posted a $15 million reward for information leading to Padrino’s arrest or capture.

For now, Rodriguez publicizes her meetings with Padrino, saying they’re discussing plans "to continue preserving peace” and thanking the armed forces for their "commitment to defending Venezuela’s calm and stability.”

The political shifts are unfolding as the government continues to free prisoners in a process celebrated by Trump. Both Rodriguez and her brother, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez, said earlier this week that the releases will continue, led by Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello.

By Wednesday, 406 people had been released, including 194 freed in December under Maduro, Delcy Rodriguez said. Of the nearly 200 expected to be released this month, independent organizations have so far confirmed only about half, including U.S. citizens and other foreigners. Cabello has personally handed over several high-profile international prisoners, according to one of the people.

Rodriguez and Cabello have long had a tense relationship, but the two have appeared aligned in private meetings, the people said. Cabello publicly pledged loyalty to Rodriguez early on, and has often appeared together with the acting president and her brother in a show of unity.

Cabello, a hard-line Chavista power broker, appears to have tightened his personal security. His two television programs since the U.S. raid were recorded outside their usual studio, and state television has delayed broadcasts of some of his news conferences, steps the ousted president himself took in the months before his capture. The U.S. has put a $25 million bounty on Cabello.

Behind the scenes, party leaders were given clear instructions.

"Unity is the first thing that must be preserved,” some officials were told during a private meeting held days after Maduro’s capture, according to a leaked memo seen by Bloomberg News.

So far, that message has shaped the image Rodriguez’s government is projecting.

She’s "trying to prioritize unity over change,” Smilde, the Tulane professor, said.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/17/world/politics/venezuela-rodriguez-consolidates-power/

>>2651196
> the CIA hates them
how do you know that?!

>>2651196
>the CIA hates them
remind me what they did in 1953 in Iran again

>>2651225
Lmao

Delcy Rodríguez removes Colombian businessman Alex Saab, Maduro's ally, from the cabinet

https://deultimominuto.net/en/international/delcy-rodriguez-removes-colombian-businessman-alex-saab-maduros-ally-from-the-cabinet/

Update

>>2651232
>concise and the marathon speeches that defined Maduro’s rule are gone
She's never been the long-speech speaker. the fuck are they talking about?
>Public officials are now allowed back on X.
they were never disallowed, huh?
>Other moves are far more consequential, including a reshaping of the Cabinet
more like a shuffle, really.
>the release of dozens of political prisoners
something that Maduro himself has started.


what's with these people trying to portray things differently. what they cooking.

Delcy Rodríguez Goes From Pariah to the U.S. Pick to Lead Venezuela
Still sanctioned by Washington, she is outmaneuvering opposition rivals and playing for time to consolidate power - WSJ

Update.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Caracas on Thursday and met with the regime's interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, and with the head of the Presidential Honor Guard and director of the DGCIM (Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence), Gustavo González López. The CIA itself released images of the visit.

Delcy Rodríguez: “The revenue already being generated from oil sales will go to private banks for the foreign exchange market mechanism.” “Our concern is that foreign currency be a driver of the national economy.”

Update

>>2651280
Comprador

>>2651109
I didn't even know Greenland had a flag.

>Venezuela Moves to Resume Dollar Sales, Halting Bolivar Rout
Venezuela is preparing to resume sales of dollars, bringing relief to its battered currency after a US oil blockade riled the local foreign-exchange market.

Venezuela is preparing to resume sales of dollars, bringing relief to its battered currency after a US oil blockade riled the local foreign-exchange market.

Banks in Caracas contacted corporate clients this week to offer the first significant supply of dollars from the government since mid-December, according to people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly

The banks are collecting bids, though no funds had been disbursed as of Thursday, one of the people said.

The move follows the Trump administration’s authorization of two of the world’s largest commodities traders to sell Venezuelan oil. That revived hopes that some proceeds could reach the parched foreign-exchange market, helping stabilize the bolivar after weeks of gyrations.

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Speaking to a group of business representatives later on Friday, Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez said that the proceeds from oil sales will be sent through the central bank to private financial institutions to supply the foreign exchange market.

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“Our concern is that foreign currency should drive the national economy to guarantee Venezuela’s full productive capacity. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of the past,” she said.

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Alejandro Grisanti, a director at local consultancy Ecoanalitica, said the funds are coming from a trust set up in Qatar to receive oil-sale proceeds. The move helps stave off a potential extreme depreciation in the exchange rate, which “would have left us on the verge of a new hyperinflation,” he said.

The bolivar stabilized in parallel trading on Friday at below 500 per dollar, according to prices posted on crypto trading platforms.

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It had swung wildly since the US military began blocking oil exports, which dried up dollar supply and sapped the government of its principal source of foreign earnings.

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The situation worsened after the US captured Nicolas Maduro, with the bolivar weakening more than 20% to around 800 per dollar at one point, stoking fears of another currency crisis.

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In addition to authorizing some trading of Venezuelan oil, Trump met with oil companies to discuss potential investment in the nation’s energy industry. On Thursday, acting President Delcy Rodriguez presented a reform to the nation’s energy laws and announced the creation of two funds into which dollars from oil sales will be funneled

-BLOOMBERG

Venezuela has signed its first contract to export liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Friday.

“Today, for the first time in our history, a contract for the marketing of LPG, of gas, has been signed,” Rodríguez said from an event aired on State TV. “We are delivering on our promise to President Maduro and to our people.”

Venezuela produces LPG at its José refining complex in eastern Venezuela. Output has fallen in recent years because of disinvestment and frequent accidents, contributing to shortages that have hit households across the country.

Much of Venezuela's gas supply is associated gas, produced alongside oil. Some companies already operate projects to use that fuel, but most of it is currently flared.

Expanding gas exports would require political coordination with the US following the capture of Nicolas Maduro by President Donald Trump's administration.

The move comes as Rodríguez seeks to recast Venezuela as open for foreign investment, loosening long-held restrictions on the energy sector as her government adapts to a new political reality after Nicolas Maduro's ouster

-bloomberg


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>>2651102
>walk up to a woman
>can i buy you?
>sure!
how cons think dating works

>>2651109
Why is the Kingdom of Denmark even a country? It's just Norway.
>>2651295
Actually saying it is a faux pas and autistic. You are only supposed to talk about your career, vacations and hobbies at most, just so she gets an idea of your worth. She will see your car and apartment before deciding to sell or not.

New: The Trump administration is preparing to use private military contractors to protect oil & energy assets in Venezuela rather than deploying US troops, sources tell us, setting up a potential boon for security firms w/ experience in region & ties to POTUS.

Some familiar names already being floated … including former Blackwater founder Erik Prince

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/trump-private-contractors-venezuela-oil

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>>2651302
Venezuelans should unironically pull a leaf out of the kulak book and just burn the oil rather than let burger requisition it.

This is Laura loomer big story on tucker Carlson. That his brother got a DUI in 1991 when he was 19 years old lol

>>2651309
only when the first US American army boot decides to set up a base.

>>2651311
that wouldn't have even been much of a scandal back then. george w bush also got a DUI.

>>2651318
True

Canada secured deals with China:
>Tariffs on canola seed drop to 15% from 76% on Mar. 1.
>Tariffs on canola meal and peas reduce to 0% from 100%
>Chinese tariffs on lobster and crab reduced to 0% from 25%.
>China drops visa requirement for Canadians.
China simply gets:
>Canada allows up to 49k Chinese-made electric vehicles to enter at 6.1% tariff rate.
ok, USAnians, how many of you are to travel to Canada to buy the best, cheapest, and high-performance electric cars there are on earth?
I know a couple of communists comrades leaving in electric cars in Canada that will be happy. very unhappy if USAnians hoard those 49k cars.

United states deputy attorney general who was also previously trumps personal attorney

Blanche: When mayor frey suggests that he is encouraging citizens to call 911 when they see ICE officers—that is very close to a federal crime.

Phillip: So, first of all, I should say what he just said is not actually what Frey said.

The Trump administration has opened a criminal investigation into elected Democrats in Minnesota, according to a senior law enforcement official familiar with the matter, a major escalation in the fight between the federal government and local officials over the aggressive immigration crackdown underway in the city.

The investigation would focus on allegations that Gov. Tim Walz and Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, had conspired to impede thousands of federal agents who have been sent to the city since last month. Last week, one of those agents killed a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/tim-walz-jacob-frey-investigation-trump.html

>>2651329
this is against the Minnesota governor and Minneapolis Mayor.
hey, the imperialist boomerang with lawfare hitting back the democrats, lawl.

>>2651333
You are completely taking away any responsibility from the trump saying this is just him getting back at Democrats like trump did zero crimes. Neither frey or walz have done anything

>>2651316
The plan is to have local collaborators do most the leg work while having American "advisors" with their own private security to supervise it all. American military force will be mostly held back and only used if they step out of line and take out the advisors. This way most locals will only see and work with other locals.

>>2650982
absolute fucking degeneracy

>>2651334
>Neither frey or walz have done anything
They are middle managers of a state that uses violence to enforce the rule of capitalists. They prey on those below and are at the mercy of those above. Liberals might be willfully blind to the risks of such a position but leftists shouldn't be.

>>2651334
oh, of fucking course trumpedo is a sharty, and his flammable ass shouldn't be nearby this hot potato. yet, it occurs to me to revisit some things, let's see. since 2001 the term lawfare was coined by a US major general to describe
>the use of law as a weapon of war.
and in Latin America, most of left wing leaders and politicians have been targeted: Lula, Dilma Rousseff, Cristina Fernandez, Rafael Correa, Pedro Castillo, Evo Morales, lower level politicians like Jadue, Jorge Glass, etc. mostly with charges dropped because they had nothing to hide…
and the common thing they had: looking to form a stronger Latin America coalition. something that terrifies the US, on both side of the aisle. weird, huh?
in 40 years we will see that democrat CIA backed policies sowed division among these leaders through lawfare. and now it's biting back their arses.
good job, I'd say!

>>2651099
you are my hero

>>2651348
Okay, in this current situation they have not done a crime of any sort. Trump is simply angry at them for them. Impeding ice that's it. He would try this regardless of whatever Democrats did. Trump's administration is attempting to punish literally anyone who gets in their way