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Tuesday’s Final Word – HotAir

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Tuesday's Final Word – HotAir

Tab closin’, now I’m tab closin’ … 





Ed: The media doesn’t want to talk about this, because it will shine a strong light on the Biden Regency’s actions that enabled Maduro’s strategy. 

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CBS News: María Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition party, said interim president Delcy Rodríguez is “perhaps even more ruthless” than her predecessor Nicholas Maduro. 

“Everybody in Venezuela and abroad knows perfectly who she is and the role she has played,” in the country’s oppressive regime, Machado said in an interview with Tony Dokoupil airing Tuesday night on “CBS Evening News.”

Ed: Rodriguez is just another face within the Maduro narco-trafficking and terror regime. As long as Maduro’s officials remain in power, the security concerns that prompted Trump’s actions will go unaddressed. Machado is right about that, but she needs to organize the opposition well enough to make them a viable alternative. 

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Ed: The least favorable result is in Mexico, with a virtual tie. In every other Latin American country, a majority of respondents are happy to see the US remove Maduro. Note in particular the result in Colombia, where the government has allegedly partnered with the cartels, or at least won’t do much to challenge them. The people may be looking for a change there soon, at least at the next election. 





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Mediaite: The mayor lamented ICE’s “kidnappings” were wrecking her city and had turned several neighborhoods into “ghost towns.” Bass also said it was disgusting that many Latino high schoolers ditched their June graduation ceremonies — which coincided with ICE raids — because they were afraid of getting deported.

“That’s such a significant milestone,” Harrison added dejectedly.

A moment later, Harrison asked, “What can average people do to pushback on this authoritarianism?”

“I always look at history, and I think this is a moral assault on our democracy,” Bass said. “And we need to look back at history when things like this have happened before — the internment of the Japanese, the fugitive slave patrols, which is what this has felt like.”

Ed: Karen Bass is an idiot, but this is outrageous even for her. The internment of the Japanese involved US citizens and legal residents, which is why it was a violation. The fugitive slave patrols were conducted to keep slaves in the South, not to deport people there illegally. Maybe Bass should do more than “take a look at history,” but instead take the time to read it for comprehension. Or maybe she should pay attention to issues under her control, such as the permitting process for people who lost their homes in the Palisades and Alta Dena due to Bass’ utter incompetence and dereliction of duty. 





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Ed: Good luck with that. There’s a far greater chance that more of the regime will join Maduro in federal custody than they will spring him from it. Also, Chavez died of cancer. “They” didn’t kill him. 

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Associated Press: White House officials have noted that Biden’s administration in his final days in office last year raised the award for information leading to Maduro’s arrest after he assumed a third term in office despite evidence suggesting that he lost Venezuela’s most recent election. The Trump administration doubled the award to $50 million in August.

“You know, at some point, they should say, ‘You know, you did a great job. Thank you. Congratulations.’ Wouldn’t it be good?” Trump said. “I would say that if they did a good job, their philosophies are so different. But if they did a good job, I’d be happy for the country. They’ve been after this guy for years and years and years.”

Ed: That’s not how this worked in the Biden Regency. They spoke loudly and pretended to carry a stick. Trump actually follows through … and Democrats will never acknowledge it nor forgive him for it. 

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Ed: FACT CHECK: Democratic Socialists are indeed out of their f***ing minds. 

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NY Post: Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood by his new top tenant advocate Tuesday after her past inflammatory social media posts sparked a firestorm — and a warning shot from the Trump administration.

Longtime housing activist Cea Weaver, the new director of the Office to Protect Tenants, received a boost from Mamdani even as controversy engulfed his administration over her recently unearthed posts branding homeownership “a weapon of white supremacy” and declaring, “Seize private property.”

“We made the decision to have Cea Weaver serve as our executive director for the mayor’s office to protect tenants, to build on the work that she has done to protect tenants across the city, and we were already seeing the results of that work,” Mamdani told reporters following an unrelated news conference.

Ed: See above. 

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Ed: People like home ownership because it means they can choose how live as they wish. The people with control issues are the radicals who oppose private property. They want to force you into their choices rather than allow you the liberty of your own. 

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Jonathan Turley: While the Administration just brought Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro to New York, Mamdani appears intent on bringing some of his policies to the Big Apple. The fact that he reduced a prosperous nation to an economic basket case seems to be little deterrent.





Weaver, 37, is an example of the shallow sloganeering that masquerades as policies in these circles. Notably, her commitment to communist doctrine does not appear to extend to defending them. She deleted many of her most extreme calls for the seizure of property and racist statements directed against white people.

Weaver has called for Americans to ‘impoverish the white middle-class’ and called homeownership “racist” while demanding the seizure of private property. The videos sound like a college coffee klatch of junior communists, part of what I have called the “radical chic” of higher education.

Ed: Maybe Mamdani will spring Maduro? I’d bet he’d love to try. Turley’s right about the “radical chic” that has just taken over New York City, though, especially Weaver, who sounds almost like a parody of it.

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Ed: The radicals want to force people to rent so that they don’t have real power, and instead must rely on government apparatchiks. 

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Ed: This isn’t in Tehran, but it might indicate a tipping point elsewhere – if true. Let’s hope we are close to a peaceful transition to a rational republic in Iran. 





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Ed: Soon, we pray. Soon. 

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