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Ironically, Venezuela stole the assets of American comp., we gonna take their country.

Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:23 am
Posted by trinidadtiger
Member since Jun 2017
18862 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:23 am
You know that karma thing.........
Posted by dstone12
Texan
Member since Jan 2007
38767 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:30 am to
I believe you but what is American comp.,?
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62586 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:33 am to
American oil companies is what I think he’s referring to
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
22459 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:37 am to
I do believe it was Citgo
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
92849 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:42 am to
True story here.

One of my best friends had a business in VNZ. At the time, the previous dictator was in office.

The country decided to nationalise (nationalize?) that particularly industry and literally stole over $2M worth of conveyors from my friends company. What the govt didn't know, however, is that my friend had taken out an insurance policy against his equipment.....thankfully.

In my industry, there are an assortment of hands out looking for kickbacks otherwise you're out of luck. Not to mention FCPA violations so we stopped altogether. Anyone buying or selling anything into/out of VNZ are 100% bribing people.
Posted by trinidadtiger
Member since Jun 2017
18862 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:52 am to
A small sample of what chavez stole.....

quote:

The Owens-Illinois seizure is part of a larger assault on private property at the hands of Chávez. Almost two dozen American companies--including Cargill, Coca-Cola , ConocoPhillips , ExxonMobil , Helmerich & Payne Hilton, McDonald's , PepsiCo and Wendy's --have either had their holdings confiscated or been threatened with government takeover in the past 20 months.
Posted by Rankin_File
Constantinople, GA
Member since Jun 2020
86 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:07 am to
Remember when Marxists steal it's called 'expropriation'. And how else do you expect Marxists to have any industry if not stealing from capitalists? What are they supposed to do, build it themselves?


Posted by shinerfan
Duckworld(Earth-616)
Member since Sep 2009
28177 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:30 am to
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In my industry, there are an assortment of hands out looking for kickbacks otherwise you're out of luck. Not to mention FCPA violations so we stopped altogether. Anyone buying or selling anything into/out of VNZ are 100% bribing people




Did you know that the US State Department and IRS actually have bribery protocols for American companies doing business in 3rd world shitholes? You can't pay for special considerations but if it takes a couple of envelopes to get the water turned on at your location that's fully tax-deductible.
Posted by TulsaSooner78
Member since Aug 2025
1084 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:38 am to
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Did you know that the US State Department and IRS actually have bribery protocols for American companies doing business in 3rd world shitholes?


Even private companies do.

I've worked for a couple of large multi-national companies.

Every year we have to take mandatory "business ethics" training where they warn us not to accept any gifts from suppliers or pay any under-the-table bribes to potential customers.

But there is always a caveat thrown in about how where in "certain countries" bribery is an accepted business practice and exceptions can be made when necessary.
Posted by GeorgePaton
God's Country
Member since May 2017
5103 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:42 am to
Socialist democrats and communist steal.......it's the way there are. Eventually they turn on the people who voted them in. The Cuban People are literally starving to death - while the Cuban communist leaders live in luxury.

As for Venezuela. The stories there are equally heartbreaking. Like the daughter who left her ailing mother in the hallway of an ER with others. The ER didn't have the medication her mother desperately needed. So the daughter left her mother in a wheelchair in the hallway and went looking for a supplier for the medication.

She was able to find the medication, and rushed back to her mother waiting in that ER hallway. Too late, while she was gone her mother died (alone) in that hallway.

You can vote socialist communism in, but you'll have to shoot your way out. Remember this, that's why democrats in this country demonize privately owned weapons. They want that Oval Office and they want those guns.

President Trump was right about..........everything.






This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 8:49 am
Posted by ArcticTiger
North Pole
Member since Nov 2018
2542 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:43 am to
Yep, those F'ers Liquidated Tons of Assets from American Oil and Gas Companies back in the day.
Posted by Decatur
Member since Mar 2007
31800 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:58 am to
“America First”
Posted by RohanGonzales
Member since Apr 2024
8390 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:19 am to
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Decatur


spectacularly stupid comment
Posted by ChineseBandit58
Pearland, TX
Member since Aug 2005
48165 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:45 am to
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You can vote socialist communism in, but you'll have to shoot your way out. Remember this, that's why democrats in this country demonize privately owned weapons.

This is an absolute truism = and if not for Trump's victory in '15 we'd have been on that track by now.

The current leadership of the democrat party must be totally sidelined and their successors need to make a convincing statement to the American people about what the hell their true objective is. At this point - with this leadership - we have no choice but to interpret every statement they make as an absolute propaganda based lie. They have NO trustworthy people as the federal level - and none that I know of at the state level. I trust that some local DEMs are true Americans, but the evidence for their existence is becoming more scarce all the time.

We need a NEW opposition party to rigorously challenge the GOP - I do not trust GOP with absolute control by any means - absolute control always turns into despotism.

This current Democult party has so tarnished its already despicable past that I see no way of maintaining it for any level-headed patriot.
Posted by sabanisarustedspoke
Member since Jan 2007
5673 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:40 am to
I know of a Monsanto/Solutia plant that Chavez took as soon as it was built in the early 2000's or late 90's
Posted by Timeoday
Easter Island
Member since Aug 2020
18080 posts
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:44 am to
Yep, the Arab sheiks were riding on camels in the 1940's, carrying their national treasury in a leather bag soaked in camel urine. Then they nationalized their oil and the NYT convinced Eisenhower to stand down.

Look at us now.

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