Hugo Chavez, president of the socialist utopia Venezuela, has announced that a team of 200 workers would help him manage his new Twitter account. Chavez said of the new hire: “I’m creating a team due to the avalanche of requests, and some grievances”.
Socialism: worse products and services, 200 times more expensive. And I bet he’s telling his subjects “in America, they don’t even hire hundreds of people to manage social media”.
Not sure Liberty is right about the last part: I bet Obama and top U.S. companies have 200+ people on social media… not that it’s doing them any good.
Is he purposely trying to look like il duce?
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Douche is more like it. He’s a mosquito that needs to be swatted.
Cherman—-did you start reading Jackoff Lieberty because of BeMoreBadBoy’s use of it trying to defend his moronic absolutist libertarian position?
Stupidity will grow like a cancer in a sterile field.
OTOH–you did catch the inane reference to socialism. Holding on by your fingernails?
If you’d like to start your own Cult of Personality, you will need the following skills:
Dresses well
Good at public speaking
Makes trains run
Makes trains run on time
Gives away “free” stuff to “the people”
Good at finding scapegoats and organizing show trials
Stickin it to the man (ie money lenders, bankers, corporations)
Has own social networking engineering team
Is that a “manly” boy scout uniform.
Venezuelan battle camouflage. For hiding inside Carmen Miranda.
Wow.
Nothing sets off “Bobbo” like the word Liberty.
He hates that shit.
Does anybody even notice the cuban flag behind? And that pic is quite a few years old.
A full-fledged cuban invasion on venezuela and the responsible for it is the pirate clown traitor in that pic.
The original story link should have been posted. I don’t believe it was necessary to direct traffic to the blog of a 16-year-old whose opinion I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about.
As for Chavez, at least he is creating jobs.
Saying that Venezuela is a Socialist country it’s a gross overstatement.
Sure, Americans don’t know Socialism, and the image they picture of it is the Chinese and Soviet regimes, and all of it’s satellites, of the Cold War. Some Dictatorships still exist, and are characterized by themselves as Socialist, but are nothing more than force preserved monarchies. Chavez is building one.
Just don’t call it Socialism.
#6 Sargasso
FYI Carmen Miranda was a Portuguese lady, that went to Brazil very young. Not Venezuelan at all. And by the way South America has Two distinct Influences: Brazil which is Portuguese speaking and the rest which are Spanish speaking. The culture is also very different.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Miranda
He’s a sexy Latino
He has a parrot on his shoulder
He speaks like a pirate
He dresses like Carmen Miranda
He’s got my vote
Oliver Stone will soon release a movie on his social virtues and on his 1077 narrow escapes from assassination plotted by the “yanqui” Imperialists.
Sean Penn will star as Hugo Chavez.
Sounds like a Fidel Castro remake.
#9 Bruno It’s a regular feature now, the Liberty rebroadcast.
#10 I always find it extremely funny when people try to defend latin america and how it is divided, yet fail to remember that those aren’t the only influences in the region. Everyone forgets about the English-speaking latin america, comprised of Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Barbados, the British & US Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, etc.; the French-speaking French Guiana, St. Martin, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Haiti, etc.; or the Dutch-speaking latin america with Suriname, Curacao (or Curazao, I don’t have the Portuguese c-like character here in my keyboard and I’m not going to character map to look for it), Aruba…
Nobody remember those when speaking about the region, yet get their panties in a bunch when others make unimportant mistakes about the region.
Pedro is correct, most of us needs a lesson in modern geography. One of the most common complaints I would hear about Americans wasn’t about politics, but how ignorant the average American was, and what type of crappy schools we ran. Perhaps if more of America were educated in history, sociology, and regional culture, we might not get in some of the messes we do. You have to have respect for another culture. Showing respect and understanding is all most people want. People can deal with a bit of ignorance, but not disdain.
Some factoids about this story:
- People hired for chavez to help with his twitter: 200
- People working at the anti-kidnapping division of the scientific police: less than 200
- Number of kidnappings so far in 2010: 405
Forgot to add that it has been demonstrated that police officers are known to be involved in those kidnappings. Some have been detained while looking after the kidnappee or picking up ransoms.
Pedro, you’re right!
Also I failed to state that Brazil by itself has a lot of different European and African influences as well. By the way we Portuguese colonized Brazil, it was not a undivisible entity. There were several different colonies all reported back to the kingdom by them selves. Also we were in dispute with the Dutch for the control of went to become Rio de Janeiro. Also a lot of German influence in the southern States near Argentina.
It was only when the Peninsula came under the French Napoleonic Invasions, and the King fled to Brazil, that, by His influence, Brazil came to be. Not only because of his unifying influence, but also because after the British defeated the French the King went back, but left His son, that had great interest for the colonies, as the regent, and with prospects to become King of Brazil.
I know it’s wikipedia, but it’s fairly accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War
Thanks for the Link Joao. It is quite fascinating to see all that went on in Europe & the Americas during that period of History.
It was no coincidence that the French were behind the intellectual indoctrination of many a Latin American to get them to rebel against Spain. Bolivar (who led the Venezuelan independence, as well as Colombia & Ecuador) went to France and got into the spirit of the age. There was even a Venezuelan that was deeply involved in the French Revolution: Francisco de Miranda.
This guy has an interesting life. He also fought the Spanish American wars. It was said that he had an affair with Catherine of Russia.
It was from this influence that the Venezuelan flag was created… or rather copied from the Russian flag; the only difference is that we have an intense yellow first banner.
He was betrayed and handed over to the Spanish. He died in prison there.
I know it’s also from wikipedia but is a good read for everyone here in the blog as this guy’s influence went as far as the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Miranda
What a sad pit venezuela has fallen into.
It should also be interesting to study the role the Masons had in the wars in both Europe & the Americas.
So far, I think one of the factors that ignited these wars was a dispute between Masons.