[thechao]

This is like buying tickets to watch your favorite sports team win first place. It's good to support the boys, but you'd didn't do anything. The rest of Trump's thinly veiled autocratic tendencies — whether they're rhetoric aimed to rile up opponents or real goals — have done little to promote fraternity amongst nations & people.

[day_visit]

"I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!"

-María Corina Machado 9:34 AM · Oct 10, 2025

[ineedasername]

This is, as yet, being reported in contradictory ways when I went looking to see if it was correct so here’s the link to where she appears to do this, assuming the post is authentic (no reason to believe otherwise but these days…)

https://x.com/MariaCorinaYA/status/1976642376119549990

[thechao]

"Political expediency makes for strange bedfellows, news at 11!"

I'm not even sure I'm against everything Trump is up to (it's unclear to me); I just don't like the autocratic moves: it's unamerican, and bad for democracy. It's setting a standard & an allowable behavior that could be exploited by bad people.