Venezuela’s Welfare Has Run Out. Now They Want Ours

The massive news coverage of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ “political stunt” of sending 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard reminds me of the media’s “political stunt” of referring to illegals as “legal asylum-seekers.”
Number one: They broke into our country. They’re illegal aliens. Number two: All asylum claims are frauds. Every single one.
Asylum is nothing but a conveyer belt to bring the worst people on Earth to our shores. You say you turned your own country into a hellhole? Fantastic! Come right in!
No one gets asylum from a well-run country. Why would we want to admit people who have demonstrated the wisdom, foresight and diligence to produce a functioning society? Rewards await only those who’ve participated in the creation of complete disaster zones. (Just think of what these great thinkers could do for our country!)
Take the Venezuelan illegal aliens whom DeSantis sent to Martha’s Vineyard. Biden’s press secretary and human kewpie doll, Karine Jean-Pierre, repeatedly referred to the briefly loved illegals as “people who are fleeing communism, who are fleeing hardship … desperate people — people who are trying to come here because they’re fleeing communism themselves.”
How did Venezuela become communist again?
As The Martha’s Vineyard Times explained (once the illegals were safely expelled and the island fumigated), Venezuela’s “humanitarian crisis” resulted from that country’s “complicated political and socioeconomic history.”
Actually, it’s not that complicated. Poor people in Venezuela voted for it. Oh boy, did they vote for it.
The ridiculous peasant Hugo Chavez promised Venezuela’s poor that he would take vengeance on the rich — “the squalid ones” — and give their stuff to the poor. Millions of poor people responded: YESSSSS!!!
Beginning in 1998, and five times after that, the poor came out in droves to support this clown. Fist pumping! Dancing in the streets! Red shirts as far as the eye could see!
As The New York Times described it, “To the adoring, impoverished masses who catapulted him to power, Hugo Chavez Frias is El Comandante, their protector and benefactor, the bold leader who will wipe out 40 years of inequality and corruption and redirect this country’s enormous oil wealth to better their lives.”
Chavez basically promised to deliver the Ta–Nehisi Coates “equity” agenda that’s so popular with the Democratic Party right now. The poor believed the rich were rich because they had stolen from the poor. Chavez vowed to take it back. It was sort of a 1619 Project for Venezuela.
As promised, Chavez proceeded to seize private businesses, farms (by 2011, he’d expropriated 6 million acres of farmland) and golf resorts, telling poor people to move onto the club greens.
Anybody want asylum yet? Nope!
Between 1998 and Chavez’s death in 2013 — whereupon he was promptly replaced with his handpicked successor, President Nicolas Maduro — Venezuela’s poor voted for him over and over and over again: in 1998 (80% public approval rating his first year in office), in 2000 (winning 60% of the vote), in 2004 (59% against recalling him), in 2006 (winning 63% of the vote), in 2009 (54% voted to make him president for life) and finally in 2012 (winning 55% of the vote).
Never has any public been polled more often and returned the same resounding answer.
Well, they’re not fist-pumping anymore. Instead, Venezuela’s poor are claiming they “deserve” to access America’s generous welfare state.
Twenty years of Chavez’s Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE!) produced this: “a country whose economy has collapsed … malnutrition and disease are soaring [and m]illions have emigrated to escape the grind of finding enough to eat, of living without reliable electricity or tap water,” as Bloomberg News put it in 2019.
Venezuela is sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, and the communists still couldn’t get it to work.
Who could have seen that coming??? Oh, anyone with two functioning brain cells. There were little hints, like Chavez promising his very first year in office “to follow the path of Fidel,” and describing Cuba as “a sea of happiness, social justice and true peace.”
Millions of Venezuela’s poor thought that sounded just peachy, and the rest did nothing. They act as if this 100% predictable catastrophe was a natural disaster for which they bear no responsibility.
Yeah, I definitely want these people as my fellow citizens. They’ve shown solid judgment.
Now that their own choices have wrecked their country, they demand free admission into ours. Unless they’re professional baseball players, I’m not seeing what’s in it for us.
In the kewpie doll’s press conference proclaiming that these innocent little lambs “deserve better” (than being sent to a fabulous beach resort), she cheerfully listed the great heaping portions of welfare being ladled out to Hispanics:
“[O]ur administration has delivered billions of dollars in loans to Hispanic small businesses, expanded the child tax credit to provide help to millions of families and reduce Hispanic child poverty by more than 40%, expanded access to quality healthcare to thousands of Latino families. … And thanks to President Biden’s student loan debt relief program, almost half of Latino students with federal loans will see their debts forgiven.”
The Democratic Party is cribbing Chavez’s lines. And it will work, because the same people who fell for it last time will be voting for it here.
To be sure, the Venezuelan “asylum-seekers” aren’t any worse than other members of that illustrious group. If (when) they are granted asylum, these poor decision-makers will join:
— Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombers (sometimes, they’re persecuted for a reason);
— Ibragim Todashev, who, along with Tamerlan, slit the throats of three Jewish men in Boston;
— Beatrice Munyenyezi, a genocidal Rwandan, who won asylum by lying about being a victim of the genocide, rather than a perpetrator.
Those are just a few of our standout asylum grantees. To be fair, the illegal Venezuelans haven’t killed anybody yet, as far as we know. They’re more like a homeless guy who shows up on your doorstep after a lifetime of bad choices and demands that you give him your house.
Perhaps, just this once, we should defer to the wisdom of our moral betters on Martha’s Vineyard and tell the Venezuelans: We love you! Now get the hell out.
COPYRIGHT 2022 ANN COULTER
Not to defend Venezuela or Cuba’s economic policies but, beside their being none of our business, vicious and self-destructive U.S. sanctions and intervention–including violent coup attempts in both countries–play a *major* role in the misery of both countries and the migration from them.
I don’t disagree with Ann on immigration but she seems to have a bit of a blind spot on foreign policy (maybe related to her support for the Iraq war).
Came here to say this. To be fair most Americans are so insanely propagandized about foreign policy especially that they have no idea what’s really going on.
Ann seems clueless about the attempted 2018 coup and the resulting genocidal sanctions imposed by the US. Venezuelas economy is finally recovering and Maduro still has overwhelming support.
Jewglified “reality” https://i.imgur.com/XzFwIJ1.png
Venezuela’s economy would be in excellent condition if it wasn’t under sanctions siege by her jew bosses.
Who has placed a devastating sanctions on Venezuela once again?
We should not expect too much insight in the Venezuelan situation from a woman capable of following quote:
“… We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war…”
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/ann-coulter-quotes
I had forgotten the half of that quote about carpet bombing German cities and the Nuremberg Show Trials. What a vicious ditz!
Do you think it’s possible she isn’t aware of the truth? I get the whole needing a paycheck thing, but to say THAT…well, makes me think it’s a possibility she does not.
I didn’t care much for her other quotes, however, I do agree with her about women voting, in general. I have never been hung up on it, as a woman myself. If that should embarrass me to say, well, I’m just not.
P.S. It’s driving me crazy trying to remember where I’ve seen your name before. Lasha Darkmoon?
Well, I wish she wouldn’t get part of that paycheck from TOO!
(No relation to Darkmoon.)
Our beloved Anglo-American “allies” are well expe-
rienced in cutting connections (or lifelines). I would
not be surprised if they were behind it this time, too.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42367551
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p01wsdlh
Who knows all amazing “ideas”
they still have “in the pipeline”?
Allegedly Depress Mud stole their noise orgies
from even shittier “Einstürzende Neubauten”.
How to debate for an hour about the worst song
ever to leave a recording studio (in Berlin) is
proven by this homosexual South African fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9EJndkLR0A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArCLLPlxF_M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnq1lyzrw5A
A question that moves me more is
how this Balte got his English name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Fletcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freikorps_in_the_Baltic
I see OO is being assaulted by leftists, who would like us to believe that “sanctions” are the reason Venezuela is performing so poorly. These are the same people who have excused Cuba for sixty years by citing “the embargo.”
As we all know (except the same leftists) the New York Times wildly promoted Fidel Castro before he came to power, and before his “revolution” triumphed; that is, before he destroyed a prosperous country and Cuban civil society.
We should have done after Castroism razed that island no less than we would have done had it been razed by a hurricane. We could have helped. Meaning gotten rid of him.
Indeed, Cuba was the first victim of the American Left.
I, for one, never said sanctions were “the” reason for Venezuela’s poor “performance” nor did I suggest the embargo “excused Cuba.” My point was that the internal affairs of other countries are none of our business and that economic sanctions are mutually destructive even if they were our business. Getting “rid of” Castro didn’t turn out to be as easy as you seem to suggest (even after God, in His own sweet time, did the physical part for us). As for other, more “successful” regime-change operations before and since, one would think their advocates would learn to be more careful what they wish for!
In any event, tin-pot socialist regimes, whatever their economic disasters, do not threaten humanity nearly as much as the Jew-ridden anal empire of U.S. imperialism dragging us headlong to Armageddon as we speak.
If you find something “leftist” about these points, I can only shake my head. Some points are just to stupid to waste time debating.
Who are these OO readers who apparently believe that Venezuela is a disaster because of “sanctions,” or that Cuba is what it has become because of “the embargo”?
Such nonsense. Cuba and Cuban civil society was destroyed by Castro, who, prior to the triumph of his “revolution,” was fervently promoted by the New York Times, as well as by the State Department and every leftist in the U.S.
Cuba was the first victim of the American Left.
I was under the impression their troubles started long before the past few years…speaking of Cuba, just caught something from Reuters on their having requested “emergency assistance from Biden Admin.” since Ian has knocked out power on entire island of 11 million…no doubt they’ll be happy to oblige…maybe they can take it out of the reparations $?
Well, they just voted to legalize gay marriage, so that should be worth some $$.