Normal people are breathing a sigh of relief that narco-terrorist leader Nicolás Maduro is finally getting his just desserts for getting fat off of the torture of his citizens and funneling drugs into the U.S. for years. For MRC Business, it’s a moment worth recalling when the idiotas at The New York Times made their readers dumber by blaming anything but communism and socialism for Venezuela’s destruction. The July 28, 2024, story that Times Venezuela reporter Anatoly Kurmanaev, international correspondent Frances Robles and Andes Bureau Chief Julie Turkewitz ran was so bad it was enough to make people lose IQ points: [I]n recent years, the socialist model has given way to brutal capitalism, economists say, with a small state-connected minority controlling much of the nation’s wealth. Yes, the journos actually attempted to make Maduro and Venezuela’s bread lines synonymous with — *checks notes* — “capitalism.” How the heck three Times authors, including a bureau chief, didn’t sense the irony in blaming “capitalism” while kvetching about a “state-connected minority” as if the two terms are anything other than mutually exclusive boggles the mind. The MRC pointed out then that the authors should have taken the time to read one of their paper’s own prominent columnists, Bret Stephens, and his 2019 piece headlined, “Yes, Venezuela Is a Socialist Catastrophe.” For Pete’s sake! It’s not even as if the authors needed to read any text outside their own paper to realize that their hot take was dumber than a bag of hammers.  Even the radical Communist Party of Great Britain praised Maduro in a 2016 piece headlined, “ Maduro ‘ready to radicalise the revolution.’” The piece ended with the chant: Viva Chávez! Viva Maduro! Viva Venezuela! Viva la revolución Bolivariana! Earth to the Old Gray Lady! Independent Institute Senior Fellow Phillip Magness blasted The Times at the time for continuing “a long line of left-wing apologia around the repressive Chavez and Maduro regimes that have ruled Venezuela for a quarter century.” There’s even a 2021 video of Maduro extolling Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s infamous Communist Manifesto as “the most important political declaration in 200 years.” The Times authors pretended like this didn’t exist in their agitprop. “Brutal capitalism?” Ha! Don’t make us laugh. But what more can be expected from The Times, which has a long, sad history of covering up for oppressive communist regimes, such as the Stalinist kleptocracy under notorious Moscow Bureau Chief Walter Duranty’s insidious propaganda.  Apparently the ghost of Duranty still haunts the editorial rooms at The Times. After nearly 100 years since Duranty’s butchering of truth to gaslight the world over the harrowing realities of the Holodomor genocide inflicted by Stalin on the Ukrainian people, The Times’s most recent behavior in covering up Venzuela’s oppression by communism is further proof why no one should ever take the paper’s coverage seriously ever again.

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Finally ready to move on, eh? Brianna Chickenfry (whose real name is Brianna LaPaglia) is ready to jump back into dating (and into the bedroom) this year after her breakup with Zach Bryan back in 2024. Of course Zach has clearly already moved on: The country superstar married his girlfriend Samantha Leonard in Spain over New Years, after months of speculation that they were engaged or even already married. Bryan and Leonard’s relationship went public around August of 2025, and Zach actually fueled those marriage rumors himself when he posted a video of he, Leonard and some friends paragliding in Europe. Fans quickly spotted a gold band on the singer’s ring finger, and interestingly enough, Bryan deleted the video shortly after it was posted. He then replaced the video with another, only this time, a bald eagle emoji was covering up his left hand. For her part though, Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry still hasn’t been able to move on, after speaking out on what she says was a pattern of emotional abuse from the country singer during their yearlong-plus relationship. On the most recent episode of her Plan Bri podcast though, Brianna spoke about her goals for 2026 – which apparently include having more sex: “I would like to have sex this year. I would like to not be traumatized by it anymore. I have a lot of sexual trauma from my last relationship.” Brianna says that because of her relationship with Bryan, she’s been afraid to open herself up to climbing into bed with other guys: “There are so many things that I haven’t opened up or talked about yet because I’m not ready, but I feel like, like I said, like I’m shedding that skin and kind of stepping out of it. It has defined me this past year where I am so terrified of having sex. I am so terrified of giving someone the rights to my body because I feel like then they will have control over me.” But apparently, she’s finally ready to move on in 2026: “This year want to be able to have sex without looking at it as a negative thing or something that will be used against me. And it’s just an intention. That doesn’t mean I’m going to go out and bust the p—y wide open on Broadway, but it does mean that when I am attracted to someone and they are attracted to me…” And she says that her celibacy over the past year hasn’t been because of a lack of opportunity: “There have been so many guys – not so many. I’m acting like, ‘Oh my God, I’m Kim K, everyone wants to f— me,’ but there have been a handful of guys that I wanted to have sex with and they wanted to have sex with me. And I couldn’t get myself to do it because I viewed sex as this like horrible thing, something that would have control over me, something that isn’t normal, something that isn’t what I should be doing. I looked at it as a negative thing. I do not want to view it as a negative thing. I want to get f—ing cracked this year.” Alrighty then. @planbriuncut2026 is the year of having s*x ♬ original sound – PlanBri Best of luck to Ms. Chickenfry on her future endeavors, I guess?The post “I Would Like To Have Sex This Year” – Brianna Chickenfry Says She Has “Sexual Trauma” From Her Relationship With Zach Bryan first appeared on Whiskey Riff.