News Brief: Botched Venezuela Coup Attempt Permits Snarky US Pundits Endless 'Bumbling CIA' Jokes
Added 2020-05-07 18:27:12 +0000 UTCIn this Patron News Brief, we revisit the 'Stumbling Empire' trope and how mockery of a recent amateurish mercenary coup attempt glosses over the dozens of not "incompetent" crimes being leveled against Venezuela by the Trump administration.
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Man, I'm so glad Norway is full of white people, so we got to keep our oil monies from the yankees.
Anne Martine Engebakken Grymyr
2020-05-12 12:46:01 +0000 UTCI would like to share this one. Would people be cool with this one being released to everyone, like the normal episodes?
greg
2020-05-08 02:25:10 +0000 UTCWell we assume it was freelanded, it could have not been freelanded at all. Obviously we can’t know for sure and probably never will
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2020-05-07 20:53:51 +0000 UTCFantastic episode. Personally, I'm not laughing because of the 'bumbling empire' stuff. What gets me about this is that it's a group of mercs who bought so fully into their white saviour narrative that they *freelanced* this. I laugh not out of ignorance of the 'bumbling empire' narrative, but at the sense that this is the closest we usually get to see to justice coming to the people behind these atrocities. Even if we agree that it's not justice enough.
Ross James
2020-05-07 20:52:31 +0000 UTC
