Politics tHE eNTIRELY fAKE dEMOCRATIC sOCIALIST aLEXANDRIA oCASIO-cORTEZ

SlyPokerDog · Dec 13, 2018

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Hey, guy, why do you post entire articles?

Summarize or quote! FFS
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I post entire articles.

Fez Hammersticks · Dec 13, 2018

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I post entire articles.
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3RA1N1AC · Dec 13, 2018

MARIS61 said: ↑

News flash, she was already elected.

Here's the poison she's pushing:

In Venezuelan crisis, families can't even afford to properly bury the dead

By Hollie McKay | Fox News

CUCUTA, Colombia – As the crisis in Venezuela's socialist dictatorship deepens – gripped by mass hunger, starvation and a lack of medical supplies - there is no comfort even for the dead.

“What is happening is medieval. People are ‘renting’ caskets for a service, but giving them back. The same casket is being used over and over again because people cannot afford to buy one,” Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges, who has been living in exile in the Colombian capital of Bogota for the past nine months, told Fox News. “And then they have to wrap the body in plastic bags for the burial. Others don’t have money for a land plot, so they are burying loved ones in their back garden.”

Borges said the “really creepy” problem of how to properly bury the dead has become the norm rather than the exception. Other Venezuelans concurred, indicating the use of “common graves,” along with backyard burials, was becoming standard.

One Venezuelan, who asked his name not be published, described the sudden death of his father in the capital Caracas last week, which left the family without a vehicle to take the body to the morgue. It took more than a day for the body to be collected.

And even then, the family had to say their goodbyes – they had no money for a funeral, or burial – praying the body would be disposed of in some kind of mass cremation.

For every day a body remains in the morgue, the cost rises, leaving families without the means for collection. In such cases, loved ones are simply left stranded – their relatives in mourning, not knowing what to do, and without closure.

“Funeral services are too expensive. Coffins are expensive, as well as paying for a place in the cemetery and everything that comes with it: the chapel for the service, the plate,” Julett Pineda, a health journalist for Efecto Cocuyo in Caracas, told Fox News. “People cannot have a decent funeral.”

Pineda recounted stories of parents who have tried to collect and earn money for the funerals of their own children. But as the economy of the cash-strapped nation continues to deteriorate, all they can afford is the cremation, which costs roughly a third of burial costs.

Pineda’s latest estimate is that funerals in Venezuela cost more than 132 times the average minimum wage earned per month. That's around six dollars per person – making a final farewell far out of reach for most who would need years of savings to cover costs.

“In poorer areas, plywood coffins are sometimes being used,” explained Guillermo Aveledo, a 40-year-old political science professor at the University of Caracas. “Former middle classes can rent a proper coffin for the wake, but prefer cremation, which is cheaper.”

But even the process of cremation has become problematic. Locals described to Fox News the acute lack of natural gas needed to properly incinerate the bodies, despite the fact Venezuela has some of the largest energy reserves in the world. “In some very isolated places, people get used lots for burial, which creates sanitary problems,” Aveledo said.

The shortage of hearses is also an issue. There are fewer and fewer of them available, and the acute fuel shortage - wait times at some gas stations can be as long as 24 hours - makes it harder to keep them running.

In some extreme cases, impoverished Venezuelans are dragging their dead for days in the sweltering sun to reach the Colombian border, where locals are assisting them with some kind of burial.

Alexander Lopez, a disabled Venezuelan from Maracaibo who has resorted to selling keychains, incense, and trash bags for a few cents each in the Ecuadorian town of Cuenca, fled Venezuela six months ago. He left to find work to pay for his 19-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, saying he could no longer sit by as his family was forced to scour through the trash for food.

Tragically, his son Alexander was killed in a motorcycle accident on the small Venezuelan island state of Nueva Esparta two months ago. For weeks, the body languished at the morgue as family members were unable to afford the bus fare and boat to collect the remains. Lopez’s former wife, Alexander’s mother, was eventually able to use some law enforcement connections to help cobble together the money needed.

But when she got to the morgue, the owners would not release the body - demanding a bribe on top of the standard costs. “Everyone in Venezuela is so desperate for money, even the morgue will manipulate the people,” Lopez wept, holding up his son’s photograph.

For days, Lopez said, his wife trolled the streets and he and others sent whatever funds they could to pay the $150 morgue fee - an amount that far surpasses an average month’s earnings.

After the entire family hustled for further $88 to pay a local gravedigger, Alexander was finally laid to rest in a cemetery. There were no funds for a service, no memorial plaque or tombstone.

“Even with all that,” Lopez said softly, “the dead in Venezuela are still worth more than the living. I am worth nothing to that government.”

Lopez’s story is woven with even more tragedy. Three years ago, as the crisis accelerate, he was injured in a motorcycle accident. His wounded leg became infected a year later, but the lack of affordable medicines and medical professionals led to the loss of his leg, which was amputated.

“All they could do was cut it,” he said, motioning to where his right leg used to be.

Families in Venezuela have been forced to resort to backyard burials (Fox News (provided))

That lack of medical attention and resources has fueled a spiking death rate in Venezuela. People are dying today from the most common and treatable infections and diseases - like the common flu.

Violent crime is also on the rise. Last week, two ex-major league baseball players - free agent Luis Valbuena and former player Jose Castillo - were killed in a crash after their car collided with a rock. Authorities believe the rock may have been deliberately placed in the road, as part of a robbery scheme.

“People throw rocks in the hope of stopping the car so they can steal it,” one Venezuelan humanitarian worker explained. “In this case, it ended horribly... Even if these men had survived, there are not adequate means in the hospital to save them.”

According to Aveledo, even the dead aren't immune to the rise in crime.

“Most cemeteries are public municipal lots. But the dearth of public safety exposes the tombs to looting, mourners, and visitors exposed to muggings, and wakes are restricted for a couple of hours during the day,” he said. “The wakes held for criminals are also very disruptive, public displays of their power and control of territories.”

As the country crumbles, so to have the resources to monitor how many have died. One local journalist said a handful of people try to keep tabs. A group of journalists visit the morgues at the end of each week to count the dead, trying to determine how many died from organized crime, and how many perished from “other” causes, like disease or malnutrition.

And that is just in Caracas. For the rest of the country that once had a population of 32 million, it’s anybody’s guess.

There's no indication the situation will improve any time soon. Despite once-brimming oil wealth that had Venezuela as the richest country in Latin America, the Nicolás Maduro-led government - which has continued the socialist policies of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez - has pushed the nation’s economy into dire freefall, upended by massive hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages. More than three million have fled in desperation since for crisis began spiraling out of control three years ago.

The government has denied that Venezuela is in crisis, and instead blames its economic woes on disgruntled opposition members, and the United States.

As for the death industry, like most things in Venezuela, a black market in coffins has emerged. This despite the scarcity of wood and other materials needed to make a casket.

“The price range of a coffin on the black market is about 50 to 100 dollars,” Aveledo said. “Sold on the web, or via messaging.”

Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma and investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world.
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burying dead people is a waste of time anyways. a good old fashioned bonfire always does the trick.

Lanny · Dec 14, 2018

MARIS61 said: ↑

News flash, she was already elected.

Here's the poison she's pushing:

In Venezuelan crisis, families can't even afford to properly bury the dead

By Hollie McKay | Fox News

CUCUTA, Colombia – As the crisis in Venezuela's socialist dictatorship deepens – gripped by mass hunger, starvation and a lack of medical supplies - there is no comfort even for the dead.

“What is happening is medieval. People are ‘renting’ caskets for a service, but giving them back. The same casket is being used over and over again because people cannot afford to buy one,” Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges, who has been living in exile in the Colombian capital of Bogota for the past nine months, told Fox News. “And then they have to wrap the body in plastic bags for the burial. Others don’t have money for a land plot, so they are burying loved ones in their back garden.”

Borges said the “really creepy” problem of how to properly bury the dead has become the norm rather than the exception. Other Venezuelans concurred, indicating the use of “common graves,” along with backyard burials, was becoming standard.

One Venezuelan, who asked his name not be published, described the sudden death of his father in the capital Caracas last week, which left the family without a vehicle to take the body to the morgue. It took more than a day for the body to be collected.

And even then, the family had to say their goodbyes – they had no money for a funeral, or burial – praying the body would be disposed of in some kind of mass cremation.

For every day a body remains in the morgue, the cost rises, leaving families without the means for collection. In such cases, loved ones are simply left stranded – their relatives in mourning, not knowing what to do, and without closure.

“Funeral services are too expensive. Coffins are expensive, as well as paying for a place in the cemetery and everything that comes with it: the chapel for the service, the plate,” Julett Pineda, a health journalist for Efecto Cocuyo in Caracas, told Fox News. “People cannot have a decent funeral.”

Pineda recounted stories of parents who have tried to collect and earn money for the funerals of their own children. But as the economy of the cash-strapped nation continues to deteriorate, all they can afford is the cremation, which costs roughly a third of burial costs.

Pineda’s latest estimate is that funerals in Venezuela cost more than 132 times the average minimum wage earned per month. That's around six dollars per person – making a final farewell far out of reach for most who would need years of savings to cover costs.

“In poorer areas, plywood coffins are sometimes being used,” explained Guillermo Aveledo, a 40-year-old political science professor at the University of Caracas. “Former middle classes can rent a proper coffin for the wake, but prefer cremation, which is cheaper.”

But even the process of cremation has become problematic. Locals described to Fox News the acute lack of natural gas needed to properly incinerate the bodies, despite the fact Venezuela has some of the largest energy reserves in the world. “In some very isolated places, people get used lots for burial, which creates sanitary problems,” Aveledo said.

The shortage of hearses is also an issue. There are fewer and fewer of them available, and the acute fuel shortage - wait times at some gas stations can be as long as 24 hours - makes it harder to keep them running.

In some extreme cases, impoverished Venezuelans are dragging their dead for days in the sweltering sun to reach the Colombian border, where locals are assisting them with some kind of burial.

Alexander Lopez, a disabled Venezuelan from Maracaibo who has resorted to selling keychains, incense, and trash bags for a few cents each in the Ecuadorian town of Cuenca, fled Venezuela six months ago. He left to find work to pay for his 19-year-old son and 11-year-old daughter, saying he could no longer sit by as his family was forced to scour through the trash for food.

Tragically, his son Alexander was killed in a motorcycle accident on the small Venezuelan island state of Nueva Esparta two months ago. For weeks, the body languished at the morgue as family members were unable to afford the bus fare and boat to collect the remains. Lopez’s former wife, Alexander’s mother, was eventually able to use some law enforcement connections to help cobble together the money needed.

But when she got to the morgue, the owners would not release the body - demanding a bribe on top of the standard costs. “Everyone in Venezuela is so desperate for money, even the morgue will manipulate the people,” Lopez wept, holding up his son’s photograph.

For days, Lopez said, his wife trolled the streets and he and others sent whatever funds they could to pay the $150 morgue fee - an amount that far surpasses an average month’s earnings.

After the entire family hustled for further $88 to pay a local gravedigger, Alexander was finally laid to rest in a cemetery. There were no funds for a service, no memorial plaque or tombstone.

“Even with all that,” Lopez said softly, “the dead in Venezuela are still worth more than the living. I am worth nothing to that government.”

Lopez’s story is woven with even more tragedy. Three years ago, as the crisis accelerate, he was injured in a motorcycle accident. His wounded leg became infected a year later, but the lack of affordable medicines and medical professionals led to the loss of his leg, which was amputated.

“All they could do was cut it,” he said, motioning to where his right leg used to be.

Families in Venezuela have been forced to resort to backyard burials (Fox News (provided))

That lack of medical attention and resources has fueled a spiking death rate in Venezuela. People are dying today from the most common and treatable infections and diseases - like the common flu.

Violent crime is also on the rise. Last week, two ex-major league baseball players - free agent Luis Valbuena and former player Jose Castillo - were killed in a crash after their car collided with a rock. Authorities believe the rock may have been deliberately placed in the road, as part of a robbery scheme.

“People throw rocks in the hope of stopping the car so they can steal it,” one Venezuelan humanitarian worker explained. “In this case, it ended horribly... Even if these men had survived, there are not adequate means in the hospital to save them.”

According to Aveledo, even the dead aren't immune to the rise in crime.

“Most cemeteries are public municipal lots. But the dearth of public safety exposes the tombs to looting, mourners, and visitors exposed to muggings, and wakes are restricted for a couple of hours during the day,” he said. “The wakes held for criminals are also very disruptive, public displays of their power and control of territories.”

As the country crumbles, so to have the resources to monitor how many have died. One local journalist said a handful of people try to keep tabs. A group of journalists visit the morgues at the end of each week to count the dead, trying to determine how many died from organized crime, and how many perished from “other” causes, like disease or malnutrition.

And that is just in Caracas. For the rest of the country that once had a population of 32 million, it’s anybody’s guess.

There's no indication the situation will improve any time soon. Despite once-brimming oil wealth that had Venezuela as the richest country in Latin America, the Nicolás Maduro-led government - which has continued the socialist policies of his predecessor, Hugo Chavez - has pushed the nation’s economy into dire freefall, upended by massive hyperinflation, food and medicine shortages. More than three million have fled in desperation since for crisis began spiraling out of control three years ago.

The government has denied that Venezuela is in crisis, and instead blames its economic woes on disgruntled opposition members, and the United States.

As for the death industry, like most things in Venezuela, a black market in coffins has emerged. This despite the scarcity of wood and other materials needed to make a casket.

“The price range of a coffin on the black market is about 50 to 100 dollars,” Aveledo said. “Sold on the web, or via messaging.”

Hollie McKay has a been a Fox News Digital staff reporter since 2007. She has extensively reported from war zones including Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma and investigates global conflicts, war crimes and terrorism around the world.
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Is there a title to your novel?

The Professional Fan · Dec 28, 2018

The future

bodyman5000 and 1 · Dec 28, 2018

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The future

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I'll have a ton of respect for her if she isn't filthy rich in a few years.

I don't think I could ever vote for her for anything but that doesn't mean I couldn't respect her.

MARIS61 · Jan 21, 2019

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/oc...d-war-ii-warns-the-world-will-end-in-12-years

Ocasio-Cortez calls climate change ‘our World War II,’ warns the world will end in 12 years

MarAzul · Jan 22, 2019

Wow, Cortez cuts to the chase in a flash. I one sentence she hits you with the world is going to end. Doesn't waste of word on the details, just hits you with the
point all in the same sentence. I need your money.
Hot Damn! Now that is a Democrat!

But watch out, she is a socialist, she will look next to take it. In 12 years, you will owe more, big time.

"The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?"

It sure would be fun to discuss the this with her. Oceanography, meridional heat transport an all.

Orion Bailey · Jan 22, 2019

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What fun, another conversation derailed by 3 pages on what the definition of an insult is.
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Maybe if some people didnt get hard ons by trying to poke/provoke others, a clear definition wouldnt be needed.....

Hoopguru · Jan 22, 2019

My thoughts are that the USA is not ready for a Democratic Socialist Government and if they try really hard to push down the American peoples throat at this point in time, (maybe in 6 years?) Trump will win in 2020 hands down. If they go a more moderate/centrist route and there is a really good chance Trump will be beat. Just my old guy opinion.

Oh, And I don't thinks immoral to have billionaires in our country unless they are crooked.
But not for the sake of just having money.

UncleCliffy'sDaddy · Jan 22, 2019

I find it highly amusing that the folks around here who took great delight in the “hair on fire” anxiety of those who loathe Trump and hated the fact that he was elected are now losing their minds....and their shit.......over a freshman representative who has yet to learn that all the out of the box proposals in the world (no matter how well wrapped in cuteness and feistiness) aren’t going anywhere unless and until she gains experience and learns to work with her colleagues on both sides of the aisle. She is nothing more than a fresh face (and an attractive one at that) with ideas straight out of the ‘60’s. And we’ve seen how far those ideas have progressed in the past 50 years. Those who run scared of (or even take seriously) Ocasio-Cortez are far more ridiculous than those of us who run scared of Trump. Trump has actual power and has acted in ways that have genuinely damaged this country. Ocasio-Cortez is nothing but an enthusiastic newbie who runs her mouth because she can and it gains her attention......that said, if she ever learns to harness her mouth and her energy she might actually be dangerous.........until then, no harm done.

MarAzul · Jan 22, 2019

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Trump has actual power and has acted in ways that have genuinely damaged this country.
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I can agree with almost all of your post, but for the one line quoted. Good post but for the stinker.

Lanny · Jan 22, 2019

Hoopguru said: ↑

My thoughts are that the USA is not ready for a Democratic Socialist Government and if they try really hard to push down the American peoples throat at this point in time, (maybe in 6 years?) Trump will win in 2020 hands down. If they go a more moderate/centrist route and there is a really good chance Trump will be beat. Just my old guy opinion.

Oh, And I don't thinks immoral to have billionaires in our country unless they are crooked.
But not for the sake of just having money.
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I don't see that anywhere in our foreseeable future. Doesn't mean it's not there, it means I don't see it.

UncleCliffy'sDaddy · Jan 23, 2019

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MarAzul said: ↑

I can agree with almost all of your post, but for the one line quoted. Good post but for the stinker.
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The truth doesn’t always smell like a rose. But it’s still the truth........

MarAzul · Jan 23, 2019

UncleCliffy'sDaddy said: ↑

But it’s still the truth
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Naw. It it maybe your opinion, yours to say. But not mine.

MARIS61 · Jan 24, 2019

CupWizier · Jan 24, 2019

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rotflmao!!!

You clowns fear the freshman rep and allow an idiot to lie all day and every day in the oval office.

MARIS61 · Jan 24, 2019

Graham zings Ocasio-Cortez, says she's 'hell-bent' on making Americans live as ‘Venezuelan socialists'

By Adam Shaw | Fox News
Sen. Graham slams Nancy Pelosi for being 'absurd, petty, and shameful'

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., zinged Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Thursday for claiming climate change will end the world in 12 years -- and accused her of wanting to make Americans live as “Venezuelan socialists.”

“Let’s bury the hatchet and enjoy the next 12 years because they are going to be our last, right?” he tweeted.

OCASIO-CORTEZ CALLS CLIMATE CHANGE 'OUR WORLD WAR II,' WARNS THE WORLD WILL END IN 12 YEARS

Graham was responding to a tweet Ocasio-Cortez sent that hit Graham for ignoring President Trump’s various controversies and statements, while criticizing Democrats for refusing to allow Trump to make his State of the Union address in the House until the partial government shutdown ends.

But Graham instead took issue with comments she made about climate change on Monday.

“Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it?'" Ocasio-Cortez said at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Graham picked up support from parts of the Trump-supporting right for his passionate defense of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearing against accusations of sexual assault, pushing back against those opposing Kavanaugh’s nomination in the hallways of Congress.

“You’ve humiliated this guy enough and there seems to be no bottom for some of you,” he said to one anti-Kavanaugh protester. “Why don’t we dunk him in water and see if he floats.”

On Thursday, Graham wasn’t done, and accused Ocasio-Cortez -- who has embraced the label of “democratic socialist” -- of wanting to make Americans spend their remaining years living as Venezuelan socialists. The Trump administration on Wednesday officially recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the Venezuela's interim president to replace socialist President Nicolas Maduro.

“Even worse news, @AOC and her new socialist colleagues seem hell-bent on making sure that our last 12 years will be spent as Venezuelan socialists, not Americans,” he said.

Graham also suggested that it was the agenda of Ocasio-Cortez that would be on the ballot in the 2020 elections, and asked whether it would be rejected by Americans.

“Question: Is it possible Rep. Ocasio-Cortez could be wrong about the demise of the planet in 12 years and the American people reject her socialist agenda in 2020?” he asked

“Stay tuned!” he added.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gr...aking-americans-live-as-venezuelan-socialists

barfo · Jan 24, 2019

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I don't know who that whiny person is that is narrating, but I couldn't imagine listening to 9 minutes of that.

It's been said before, but it's hilarious how afraid you are of a first-term member of the House.

But keep promoting her, I'm sure she appreciates it, it's giving her far more name recognition than she'd have had otherwise.

barfo

MARIS61 · Jan 24, 2019

barfo said: ↑

But keep promoting her, I'm sure she appreciates it, it's giving her far more name recognition than she'd have had otherwise.

barfo
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Aha!

You concede the HUGE audience who are enthralled by my insightful posts.

Other names with a high degree of recognition include Stalin, Mao, Lenin, Hitler, Castro...

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