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Venezuelan baw of the day...

Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 8:44 am
Has to go to the motorcyclist popping a wheely in Caracas as bombs fall in the background.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 8:29 am to
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But I guarantee you if anyone besides Trump did this, the MAGA crowd would be crying as much as the anti-maga crowd is now. I'm just trying to point out the hypocrisy.


Maybe, maybe not. I can tell you that as someone who tries to understand real politik, this was a good move and I would have applauded it if it had been made by Zohran Mamdami.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 8:18 am to
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But I thought this President was different, that what I was told anyway


Regime change for the sake of regime change is one thing; regime change for the sake of preventing our two greatest geopolitical foes from entrenching themselves in the Americas is another issue entirely. But by all means, let's allow the Chinese and the Russians to establish friendly bases in the Caribbean where they are in easy reach of Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. Gulf coast.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 8:10 am to
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seems he's doing the same old things we've always been doing


Protecting American interests in our hemisphere?
Trump is on Fox right now. It sounds like there were a few casualties on our side. No fatalities though.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 8:05 am to
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Venezuela was no threat to the US, or anyone else for that matter.


Definitely not.

However, Maduro was facilitating China and Russia in our hemisphere. That is a threat.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 7:21 am to
The vice-president of Venezuela is reportedly in Moscow.

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If true that should make it easier to install a government friendly to the United States.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 6:31 am to
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I’m aware that war with the Soviets was real. The Soviets have been dead for 35 years and has no bearing on why we are currently going after Venezuela - because Monroe Doctrine and Russia/China according to you - but not Cuba.



Then you should also be aware that Cuba is a non-entity who relied on Maduro to continue propping up their government/economy. Maduro in turn was relying on China and Russia to prop up his government/economy.

Cuba has nothing to offer us. Venezuela has money and they have oil. Those two things make them a valuable commodity that the Chinese and Russians were attempting to exploit at the expense of the United States. The Monroe Doctrine thus applies in this particular situation. Cuba, while a communist government with ties to foreign regimes, has nothing to offer the world but tobacco.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 5:37 am to
You can laugh all you want, but war with the Soviet Union was indeed a genuine fear in 1962. If we had gone back on our word and invaded Cuba after the Missile Crisis, the Soviets had an entire army group ready to attack Berlin and West Germany. In exchange for leaving Cuba and no longer providing military assistance, we told the Soviets that we would never try to topple Castro's government ever again. Both sides (outwardly) kept up their end of the bargain until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 5:28 am to
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So when are we going after Cuba?


Yeah, so...about Cuba. I'm sure you've heard of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the deals we hammered out with Russia to avert nuclear war? While it's true that those deals are (probably) no longer valid as the Soviet government no longer exists, we promised never to invade Cuba if they removed their nuclear missiles.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 5:20 am to
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Was about keeping Europeans out.



Russia and China were heavily involved with Venezuela.

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Posted by RollTide1987 on 1/3/26 at 5:15 am to
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Should this be our foreign policy then?



In the western hemisphere? Most certainly per the Monroe Doctrine that has been our modus operandi since the early-19th century. Maduro was in bed with China and Russia (our two biggest geopolitical foes). That is on top of the obvious drug trafficking he was involved in.
The first manned flight of the Artemis program will launch NET February 6, 2026, and will send four human beings to the moon for the first time since the flight of Apollo 17 in 1972. The crew of Artemis II will launch, circumnavigate the moon, and then return home. The mission should take 10 days from liftoff to splashdown.

Godspeed to the crew of Artemis II!

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Now tell me why the players would ever agree to collectively bargain and agree to such a thing. Why would they? It's the Wild West and the players have all the freedom to do what they want and maximize their rewards. What is in it for them to collectively bargain for restrictions?


You raise good points, hence why it's probably going to take the intervention of Congress to ultimately force the players' hands. Sooner or later some power has to be given to the schools. If collegiate athletes want to be paid like professionals they should be forced to act like professionals. Even the NFL has contracts that bind players to a team for a certain period of time.
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Not Roll Tide anymore. Rolled By Hoosiers...



So isn't it still Roll Tide then? Because we did technically roll.
It's actually to LSU's benefit if they do. Because if Ole Miss upsets Miami that's another 10 days LSU's future coaches are still in Oxford and not being able to devote their full attention to recruiting and getting ready for spring practice.
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Consistency is what makes a program great, and we are seriously lacking it at the moment.



I think we've been very consistent these past two years. We lost four games last year and four games this year.
Even if it's speculation, it's what needs to happen for a majority of their films. Netflix knows that established franchises such as Batman and Harry Potter will do better with an extended run in theaters. However, it's dumb to put the mid-budget films in an extended exhibition in theaters when the majority of us would rather watch it from home.