Temp Venezuelan President Guaido and Senator  Marco Rubio are making the appropriate hawkish noises and waving the spect0er of the US Military to dislodge Maduro from power.

No. Simply and resolutely a big fat no to sending one US soldier to Venezuela.

Here is the thing: We would be removing Maduro, his minions and probably get some people killed which more likely include Cubans and some  Russians if the latest strategic gossip is right.   We would not be removing the basic issue: Socialism.

Most people in Venezuela hate Maduro, of that we are certain. But I have been perusing internet location where Venezuelans from inside the country and even here in the US gather and once again the majority only want Maduro removed and go back to the goodness of a Chavez-like government.  They want Socialism or better yet, the impossible promises that Socialism made and were never fulfilled: Free food, free healthcare, free housing, free everything. And they have no problem mocking the gringos and how stupid they are because they elected Donald Trump who is even more stupid. I am not surprised, I know of Venezuelans here favoring Bernie, Beto and Occasional-Cortex.

Of course that will not happen as Chavez rode a top of high oil prices which helped him bullshit his way to the top of the hearts of people.  And he still was running an infrastructure built before he took over and was halfway decent and in operation with an oil industry that was one of the best in the world. But he managed to screw up PDVSA (The country’s oil company) and never bothered to use the oil monies to do basic maintenance to anything. Billions of dollars ended up in the hands of his people in accounts all over the world when they were not buying real state and business in then hated Empire of the US. The collapse is so great that we can say Socialism is a time machine because Venezuela is now almost at the same level it was in 1945 in healthcare, roads and electrical systems and doing worse in food supplies.

And why should we send US troops to Venezuela when even Venezuelans do not have the balls to fight their government? I am sure that you have heard about the atrocities of the government goons but, how many cops and troops have died? Wounded? Had their feelings hurt by harsh language? ZERO. The default position of the Venezuelans regarding their freedom is “Let somebody else take the risks, call me when it is done. I expect cold beer.”

And after Maduro is removed, then what? There will be the voices out there demanding reparations and the ones that say we need to help them rebuild. Let me make it as simple as possible: US taxpayers’ money will be directed to maintain Socialism in Venezuela. And worse, they will not even bother to thank you, only make fun of you.

Venezuela does have a use: To show our fellow Americans enamored with Socialism, how does it really work. Let’s the collapse of Venezuela as a useful example of what happened when the pied piper of Red Hamlin wins and then reality strikes. Show them what will they get with “free healthcare” and how much food they can get when the means of production and distribution are tightly in the hands of  Socialists.  Venezuela’s contribution to the 21st Century has to be an object lesson on the reality of Socialism and that elections have consequences. Let us not forget that both Chavez and Maduro arrived to power via democratic elections and without the “pest” of the Electoral College.

Not
One
American
Soldier.

Open Borders and tight Gun Control are having the results we all figured it would have.

And let’s not forget to add to that recipe that Self Defense is not seen with good eyes in the British Isles lest you hurt the poor minority or socially underprivileged person who was just looking for some redeeming action to make his life worthwhile.

They are so screwed.

A Democratic lawmaker in the Virginia House of Delegates proposed a bill Tuesday that would allow abortions through the end of the third trimester of pregnancy. The video of Delegate Kathy Tran presenting her bill led to an exchange where she admitted that her bill would allow for a mother to abort her child minutes before giving birth.

Northam on Abortion Bill: Infant Could Be Delivered and Then ‘Physicians and the Mother’ Could Decide If It Lives

In the 10 plus years of this blog, I never touched abortion that I recall. I am a Catholic so you can figure out where I stand on it. But this level of madness is just beyond the pale and I have to speak up. From the same article:

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D.) commented Wednesday about a controversial 40-week abortion bill and in so doing said the law allows an abortion to take place after the infant’s birth.

“If a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen. The infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother,” Northam said, alluding to the physician and mother discussing whether the born infant should live or die.

What passes for Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia states that a living/breathing baby outside the womb can be legally  executed if the mother wishes.

I am sick to my stomach.

This is from Tom Clancy’s book “The Bear and the Dragon.” One of the best writing he did was in this book and describes two men of the cloth trying to stop the abortion of an “unauthorized fetus” while the mother is in labor. The whole Chines policy of One Baby and they would go ahead and kill a baby about to come out was incomprehensible to me and made me angry.

” That he’d (the doctor) been willing to kill it sixty seconds before was another issue entirely. Then, it had been unauthorized tissue. Now, it was a breathing citizen of the People’s Republic, and his duty as a physician was to protect it. The dichotomy did not trouble him because it never even occurred to him.”

I am sure no matter how Libertarian you are that this postpartum extermination is not something that you would understand and accept. And I am sure that some (hopefully a lot of them) Democrat voters are also trying not to throw up at this barbarism that even the cold-blooded Spartans would not do to their newborns. Now I want you to think about this: If the Liberals/Progressives are proud to push the murder of innocent fully born  babies, How much do you think your life is worth for them?

It is time to buy another gun and much more ammo.

And I think it is time to start drawing an accountability list.

We may be spitting on our hands sooner than expected.

Time to start working again.  The links will take you to the subcommittees’ pages and the list of members where you can click and contact them.

HB 455 (2019) — Assault Weapons and Large-Capacity Magazines:

Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
Judiciary Committee

HB 553 (2019) — Pub. Rec./Personal Identifying Information of Assault Weapon or Large-Capacity Magazine Possession Certificateholder

Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Oversight, Transparency & Public Management Subcommittee
Judiciary Committee
Criminal Justice Subcommittee

All the bravado energy I have seen, can very well be spent starting here and contacting everybody in the subcommittees’ plus your local politicos if they are not in it.

And no, saying that you have a rep or senator who is virulent anti-gun and won’t change his/her mind so you won’t bother is a cheap excuse. Bother them, make them see that there is in fact an opposition and it is faithful to the Constitution. Shake their beliefs.

We need to go Herod on these bills and have them killed in their infancy.

PS: Include Senate President Bill (Bloomberg’s Bitch) Galvano in all your emails and calls. So far he is the confirmed RINO of this session.

If your butt is not clenching hard 2 seconds into the video…