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[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

As he clung to power despite US opposition

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

vuvuzela-flag I consent.

not-a-journalist I consent.

amerikkka Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

hexbear.net/@FlakesBongler@hexbear.net help me out here I swear I remember a line that goes something like:

watch as I [do trick] using only this [stage object] and a common [obvious tool for the job].

but I'm drawing a blank on frinkiac.

[cling to power] [paranoia?] [wide support of the electorate]

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, my brain keeps going to Johnny Carson lifting the car over his head while singing the aria from Carmen but I don't think that's quite right

Maybe this?

Shit, I shouldn't have taken those edibles earlier, my brain is failingkitty-birthday-sad

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I must have just hallucinated it. Wait why aren't I flipping over the tortoise yiiking-out

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

It sounds so familiar, it might be from something else

If it's Futurama, I can check Morbotron in the morning when I can focus for more than three seconds

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

That sounds like the loony tunes talent agent gag

[–] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just because we are out to get you, and in fact are very open about this, it doesn't make it ok for you to say it!

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

We're out to get you, constantly broadcasting this fact, putting out bounties for your capture, and literally kidnapping you and you're mad at me?

[–] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

What do you mean there is no evidence of the CIA trying to topple his leadership when the CIA literally toppled his leadership??

WHAT MORE EVIDENCE COULD POSSIBLY EXIST...?????

[–] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)
[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

I was thinking more along the lines of

"Well, Mr Malloy... it seems the cat burglar has been caught . . . by the very person . . . who was trying to catch him!"

"How ironic."

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

I said the law is powerless to HELP you!

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] mrfugu@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago

How convenient for you to paint this picture that is now real berdly-smug

[–] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that’s on purpose - I read this as the writer saying, “for years Maduro sowed (at the time) baseless conspiracy theories about the CIA. Trumps bumbling actually proved him right.”

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

No you see, because we failed all those other times, we weren't actually trying.

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

The convenient boogey man that is real and actually trying to ruin your life

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is the CIA in the room with us, Mr. Maduro?