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snot

(11,528 posts)
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 03:09 PM Jan 4

AND Where Is the $ for Our Venezuelan Take-Over to Come from???

As conservatives like to point out, our current deficit is already astronomical: as of the end of November, 2025, $30,600,000,000,000.00.

The Pentagon just failed its annual audit for the eighth consecutive year; and the stated proportion of our budget that it receives doesn't even include considerable additional expenses for veteran health care, post-war assistance to the countries we've helped destroy, etc. Billions have been lost, completely unaccounted for, in Ukraine and other countries we've meddled in. Meanwhile, DOGE et al. scrape out funding for health care, crumbling infrastructures, etc.

How much has our take-over of Venezuela already cost us? How much more will it cost to maintain our control?

Maybe the oil barons who'll mainly benefit from the take-over will pay for for it (like the Don's cronies paid for his new ballroom, if in fact they have)???



 

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AND Where Is the $ for Our Venezuelan Take-Over to Come from??? (Original Post) snot Jan 4 OP
Donny is great with money. He decides how much he has and it's taken care of underpants Jan 4 #1
From us of course. BlueTsunami2018 Jan 4 #2
Yep. "America First". Diamond_Dog Jan 4 #3
I have been asking similar questions. yellow dahlia Jan 4 #4

underpants

(195,024 posts)
1. Donny is great with money. He decides how much he has and it's taken care of
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 03:18 PM
Jan 4

His own father knew he was a disaster waiting to happen so he made Alan Weismann an employee for life to overlook the money. He lied and then lied about lying and then lied again about lying and did two stints at Ryker’s because that’s how it works with Donny.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,867 posts)
2. From us of course.
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 03:35 PM
Jan 4

We’re going to foot the bill to build up infrastructure for the oil companies and they’ll extract the profits. That’s how this always works.

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