Emergency, Special Edition Meme Post

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I’m not going to speak cogently about the taking of Venezuela’s dictator. Or rather–

Look, there is vestigial unease about messing with other governments, yes, but think on it, they were messing with us big time. By adding and abetting Jihadis, Chicoms and Putin;s lackeys, by serving as a hiding place for every potential nasty who wanted to take a bite at us. And oh, yeah, by flooding us with the contents of their prisons, except those who ere in for political dissent.

Just because they were fighting an undeclared war, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t fight back.

Someone on Twitter was whining about how the “anti-war” right has disappeared. Meh. I don’t know that I was ever anti-war. I’m anti-endless-war that kills America’s sons and daughters. This raid, which took out a bad actor in the night and killed no Americans? I think the only people against it are self-identifying as villains.

And I’m not going to coherent on it. As many of you know I had family in Venezuela, and I believe I still have some. (Look, with my parents’ generation dying there are fewer and fewer channels of communication.) This one is PERSONAL.

Sic semper tyrannis

I’ve been crying at the videos of the celebrating Venezuelans, and laughing at the memes. There are a lot of memes. And so, without further ado, here is your Emergency, Special Edition Meme Post.
Echo in Venezuela! But with USA know-how and ability!

67 thoughts on “Emergency, Special Edition Meme Post”

    1. Millei has already pledged any support Argentina can give, and he holds a weight that can only be found in a kindred spirit that has been there and come out swinging. I hope he can become a good friend of Venezuela.

      Now, let’s see what Brazil tries to do…

      Liked by 3 people

      Reply

      1. Sarah, I hope your family in Venezuela has held together under the Chavez and Maduro years. I imagine that it must be like having relatives in East Berlin.

        Having strong just-freed free market states near Venezuela almost certainly figures in Trump’s calculus. And while they are probably promising more than they will do, Trump and Rubio will almost certainly find ways to use them to reduce the risk and cost to America.

        How this will affect the thinking of Iran, Russia, and China is more than I can reason about.

        In the years before Chavez, the conductor Ernesto Dudamel arranged a performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Caracas. This symphony is sometimes called the Symphony of a Thousand because of the enormous forces it requires, an absolute minimum of over 300 performers: a huge Mahlerian orchestra, instrumental ensembles offstage, piano, celeste, symphonic organ, harmonium (sometimes given over to the organ), plus eight vocal soloists, a double four-part chorus, and a children’s choir.

        Dudamel collected virtual every chorister in Venezuela of whatever age, and with just two rehearsals staged the largest performance of Mahler’s Eighth ever–over 1700 performers.

        The Eighth has been called Mahler’s answer to Beethoven’s Ninth. It is utterly Mahler, and the complete inversion of everything else Mahler ever wrote.

        It would be entirely fitting, when (and if) things settle down in Venezuela, for this performance to be repeated.

        In the meantime, the original performance may still be available on youtube. If you can flush the kpop and mil-metal out of your veins for a couple of hours, I suggest giving it a listen. The final part is about Faust escaping damnation.

        Like

        Reply

        1. There’s a joke that Sarah’s family is the s people, not the z people.

          There’s a further joke about whether I mean terminal -s Portuguese, and terminal -z Spaniards, or Jews and Nazis. (Some Islamofascists may have gone refugee in Vennyland.)

          Anyway, Maduro is from a Spanish speaking country, and Spanish is not Sarah’s original mother tongue. There’s this one thing that happened hundreds of years ago that people are still holding a grudge over.

          Brazil is the South American country that does not speak Spanish.

          I know it seems like a fairly academic distinction, but some of the people involved consider it to be a real issue.

          Like

          Reply

        2. I found links to Bernstein conducting each with similar orchestras.

          8th is good. But seems a bit … over reached? Overly complex.

          B’s 9th is still -way- my fave of the 2. There is such a subtle genius in the clarity of it.

          And he was deaf as a post when he wrote it!

          Like

          Reply

  2. Thinking about the next steps to get Venezuela back to Venezuelans, how do you get control of the vast oil reserves under the PEOPLE’S control, and not the GOVERNMENT’S control? I think Sarah addressed this kind of idea in one of the Darkship Theives books, although that situation merely rhymes, and doesn’t sing along. Maybe something like all adult Venezuelans get one share of something like a Master Limited Partnership? I dunno, but that is a question that (among zillions of others) that has to be addressed.

    Like

    Reply

  4. The more I think about that John Lennon song the more I dislike it. It is an extra scoop of vanilla on hot apple pie that Maduro was singing it just the other day. Maybe he could “Revolution” by the Beatles.

    Like

    Reply

  7. I feel I could write cogently about this.

    Probably won’t.

    Fun to joke that the Norse dude Harald is afraid he is next on the list, but is untrue. Elements of this were not a surprise, and basically there is a clear pattern that allows Harald, Anthony Albanese, or Lai Ching-te to understand that they are not on such a list, and would have remedies if they did decide to become a serious problem for US interests.

    So, decomposing the elements that could surprise: Is it a shock that drug policy is important to this adminstration? No, but more I may circle back to. Is this event entirely unannounced in diplomatic speech or military movements? No, we have been in the area, and talking for a bit. Is it a surprise that we can do it? Maybe, but especially for layman like myself, and for people associated with foreign governments, what the US military can really do is uncertain. I had concerns about various quality factors, but we shall see about more broadly and the long run. That Trump would go ahead maybe should not be a surprise, his intents are fairly clear on this, if we do not deceive ourselves first.

    I think world leaders genuinely surprised may have deceived themselves.

    The timing and the success was a surprise to me, but the rest was not.

    Trump was trying to negotiate the guy out, and I think will not be moving to execute him immediately either. Future plans and choices on the punishment end, or on the foreign policy end are not clear to me.

    Taking fentanyl seriously as a major driver of US policy basically winds up being a counter to the Democrat simps and symps of the world.

    75k dead per year, is more than the 10k dead of shootings. Some of those latter very legitimate self defense.

    There are like four goals of how certain people proceeded in 2020. 1. ‘too many blacks shot’ 2. george floyd/blm 3. covid 4. getting Biden in and Trump out. There are arguments for simply dismissing and ignoring the fentanyl deaths, but those do not hold if we cannot ignore and dismiss George Floyd’s death. First two were rated important enough to trade against crippling the economy (3), and for the sake of crippling the economy. (4)

    The fentanyl is a goal for the PRC.

    Any additional screwing of Russia and or Iran by changing the oil market is a good.

    Trump told people that he had some specific problems with the guy he just removed, and if the world did not believe Trump that is maybe on them.

    Trump was willing to negotiate the guy out, and the other party would have perhaps preferred the terms of a negotiated exit.

    I dunno. We shall see.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

      2. Didnt help Maduro to bed hop. We spotted his pattern and bagged him anyway.

        Sleep tight, folks. We own the night.

        Like

        Reply

    1. Also….

      Start your planning at

      Victory!

      Define it -clearly-.And from there, work backwards to “you are here”.

      Then, do only those things that lead to Victory!

      Liked by 1 person

      Reply

  11. Doofus is over here purring up a storm in my lap. He doesn’t jumpscare when I laugh, he just snuggles. There is no way good nooz, bad nooz, or even no nooz affects the wee orangeness fuzzmonster. Happycat is nappycat.

    Othercat is singing the song of his people by the window. He cares not for dictators, Commiescum or otherwise. Only pets, his lady love, being picked up, and murderizing the invaders.

    Neighborcat agrees with him in this. All invasions must be met with immediate lethal violence. No birbs, squirrely commies, or verminous creeps shall he suffer to live. He takes his border security very seriously.

    Nastycat slept through the whole thing. Well, almost the whole thing. There was the zoomies at 4, the hiding in the clock, the playtime with his orangeness, and then another nap that turned into a twofer. He’s not so much antisocial as just crazy, and we’re the only ones that tolerate his strangeness. He and the pink dino are up on the library shelf, occasionally waking up to peer at me and Doofus, then going back to more important business.

    By and all, the globe spins, babies and kittens are getting born, and an overinflated ego or two got popped today. It was a good one, today. May we receive another, someday soonish, in this life.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

  14. re: air superiority

    I’m still agnostic on quite a lot of modern US doctrine.

    I basically do not think that I know anything. I need my hand held to understand how it was implemented and successful in the past.

    Thus I am not entirely confident that it will always work well in the future.

    I would say that I do not know how planes work, and even more so I do not know how conventional wars work.

    I probably am jealous of LM, NG, Bell Helicopter, and the like. They seem to know how to design and build stuff.

    (I’ve gone about learning to do stuff in ways that seem remarkably stupid, in hindsight.)

    Anyway, the kids are all right, and I should not be such a worrywort.

    re: undocumented

    “No war should be illegal.”

    Re: in this house

    “right on, brother wojack!”

    re: philosophy, and endless war

    I’m basically for war.

    Or, rather, my desire for peace leads me to understanding a necessity for some wars, and also I can be fanboyishly enthusiastic for the trappings of warfare.

    fundamentally, human populations will continue to birth dissenters from peace. Civil police, and or capital punishment, are some elements of answering these dissenters. Warfare is another tool in that necessary toolbox, and sometimes the dissenters are well enough organized that no less intense a tool suffices.

    Peace exists because of people who kill, intimidate, or imprison the dissenters from peace. Peace between nations somewhat involves nations that have internally suppressed their share of the peace dissenters, and additionally see grounds for peace as well between the nations.

    There are two houses in the world. There is the house of peace, which is the house of submission to the US constitution. There is the house of war.

    Maduro, the Mullahs, Putin, Xi, etc. are of the house of war, adn bring chaos into the world.

    Like

    Reply

    1. I’m with you on that. The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law. If, for example, Muslims in the U.S. will not subordinate sharia to the U.S. Constitution, then they are at war with us and can legitimately be compelled to submit.

      Like

      Reply

  15. “anti-endless-war that kills America’s sons and daughters. This raid, which took out a bad actor in the night and killed no Americans? I think the only people against it are self-identifying as villains.“

    –

    Yes. Both a thousand times.

    What are the odds that the now freed people of Venezuela elect to become America’s 51st state? After all, they are the ones who get to decide first. Take that liberals.

    Like

    Reply

  16. Re the “Air Superiority Apology Form”: I’m pretty sure the zillionaire Anduril guy with the mullet, aloha shirts, and beardlet is the one pitching drones for everything. (search…search…search) There he is, Palmer Lucky. Notably his solutions are way cheaper than LockMartBoeGenDynCorp’s stuff, so quantity as a quality all its own is much more within reach. But even from him I have not heard “quadcopters from Aliexpress will kill all the F-22s”.

    And it would be tough to do a snatch and grab with drones.

    Elon is the guy who’s all in on spaceships and electric cars. And flamethowers sold at retail. I have not heard him opine on drones much.

    Oh, and Nightstalkers for the win.

    And I guess all the A-10s were busy over in Syria, so the F-16s had to try and fill their shoes as substitutes from the bench.

    Like

    Reply

      2. Long answer stuck in mod: short(er) answer is helo escort was a baseline mission profile the A-10 inherited from the A-1 SPAD/Sandy escorting Jolly Green Giants for downed pilot extractions during the Southeast Asian Late Unpleasantness, so it is nominally right up the warthogs alley.

        Like

        Reply

      1. And the CAS mission will be filled by drones, according to The Experts Who Will Not Be The Guys On The Radio Asking For CAS. And the helicopter escort mission won’t matter anymore, because helos are obsolete in the modern battlefield, because little quadcopter electric drones from aliexpress.

        We shall see.

        Like

        Reply

  19. I am tickled to have El Presidente brought here to NYC. It’s a not-terribly-subtle message to our new commie Mayor, and from his tweets it seems he’s gotten the message and is unhappy about it.

    Like

    Reply

  20. Just to show you how Evil Trump really if he brought Maduro’s wife with him, I can hear it now.

    “So Mister big Dictator tell me again how Trump is just a clown who won’t do anything?” Mrs. Maduro asked.
    “Oh the Chinese and the Russians will save us, right Mister Bigshot?” Mrs. Maduro asked.
    “You made me trade all my beautiful dresses for an Orange Jumpsuit, do you know what Orange does to my complexion, and Oh my shoes” Mrs. Maduro complained.

    Bwahahahahahahaha

    Liked by 2 people

    Reply

      1. The Feds are alleging that they can prove that Mrs. Maduro/Flores was involved in a criminal conspiracy to traffic cocaine within Vennyland. Including directing the usual murders and beatings etc.

        (I got modded, but some legal documentation has been released. Very wild; if true, the Trump admin seems to have actually been honest about this being law enforcement motivated. )

        We shall see.

        And we are early enough in January that this might still not be the wildest and most insane thing to be done.

        Like

        Reply

    2. Mrs. Maduro (I like the misspelled “Muduro”) is lucky neither endured the Romanian Necktie Christmas Day treatment by the Venezuelan citizenship.

      Like

      Reply

  23. How about we start by telling the Venezuelans, ‘Look we’ll help you out, but we’re not paying for shit, you’re smart enough to figure it out on your own, time to get busy’.

    Like

    Reply

    1. My gut reaction is that taking action against the opposition party (as a group) falls under the rule of “Don’t give the government the power to act against the people you dislike, because a future government might use that power against the people you like”. ☹️

      Like

      Reply

      1. “Do not take counsel of your fears.” attributed to Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, or Gen Patton.

        Not because that won’t happen, but because any analysis of our current enemies says it’s going to happen anyway.

        Like

        Reply

        1. IMO we currently have Laws that can be used on an individual basis to take down those assholes.

          I call it “fighting the war intelligently”.

          Like

          Reply

  25. The bit about Russian SAMs reminds me of an old joke, from the Six Day War:

    Message from Cairo to Moscow: “Please stop sending surface to air missiles. Send surface to aircraft missiles instead.”

    Like

    Reply

  27. My concern is whether the regime change will be handled better than that of Afghanistan and Iraq. I do not know how much socialist support exists in Venezuela; hopefully, not much. However, even a small group can cause chaos.

    On a less serious note, I do hope that the White House security is capable of dealing with a Spetsnaz drop (more likely to be a flash mob of European Union bureaucrats or the UK Prime Minister with an international arrest warrant).

    Like

    Reply

    1. In recent years Spetsnaz troops from the Formerly Red Army have proven to be less of an invisible ninja elite commando force than was once the perception. By all evidence from Ukraine they are now more along the lines of mob enforcer goons.

      Like

      Reply

      1. So White House staff just need to be on the lookout for hordes of EU bureaucrats, extensively trained on expense-account lunches.

        Easy to spot, they are the one’s removing the “dead names” from the portraits and forming a quorum to debate the proper size of cheese.

        Liked by 1 person

        Reply

  28. Redstate has a link to the indictment, and this seems to explain much.

    Indictment covers a conspiracy between Maduro, his son, his current wife, two of his minions, and a TdA leader. Two cocaine crimes, and two machine gun crimes are invoked with evidence and claims.

    (I’m no doubt using ‘evidence’ incorrectly, I am not a lawyer, and this is not financial advice.)

    Cocaine crimes include transporting within Vennyland for the cartels, and also selling Vennyland diplomatic credentials to traffickers.

    There are also allegations of this involving I think around six major TCOs that transport Cocaine, but they clearly tried to organize this document for being coherent and targeted.

    This has been filed a very long time in the SDNY, which is why they were transported there.

    One sentence seems to imply that they wanted to have two or more of the defendants in custody, and available to the courts of the SDNY, before proceeding.

    So the press release about this being a law enforcement mission supported by the military seems to be entirely correct.

    They have two of the defendants, and can try them fairly in the SDNY. There they can be most easily prosecuted for conspiracy, and if convicted cases can be brought forward against other co-conspirators in a wider range of jurisdictions.

    Five of the six defendants might have been available in Vennyland, and the two picked may have just been the two where the first opportunity was best for.

    Without being able to convict for conspiracy, there might be a less clear of a line where other leaders of neighboring criminal regimes like Carney, Macron, and Starmer are concerned. We can answer that Macron has little to fear from this, if he has not been transporting Heroin across France for transport to the US, and if he has not been selling diplomatic passports to traffickers. (Terms of these Yahoos in office may be short enough to have limited time to get implicated in criminal conspiracies that do not involve rape.)

    This is also not mentioning Fentanyl, so no mention of Jinpeng Xi. This is not covering so much conspiracies to manufacture cocaine, so the purchase of precursors does not lead directly back to Jinpeng Xi.

    Cocaine is a long standing trade, and the networks have been in place for a while, and studied by US parties for a while. This is the point where where we may be most likely to have enough reasonably reliable information.

    The criminal regime of Putin in the so called nation of Russia is almost certainly involved in US crimes, but this filing give the US government an out for not pursuing that option. Likewise, this is not very necessarily tied to politicians in the USA or the United Mexican States.

    Like

    Reply

Leave a comment