Thread:SomeoneYouUsedToKnow/@comment-25936766-20161216002229

I'm so fucking done I want to go kill everyone I can right now. So fucking done I want to throw a grenade somewhere. So fucking done I'm not even in the mood to pretend anything.

So, I waited, in line, since 6am all the way until 6pm, about 2 hours ago. I endured an outrageous sun that I'm pretty sure left marks. In a place that was full of hobo and dog urine. Standing, with only sitting on the (urined) floor ocasionally. Carrying 2 freaking heavy bags. All full of bills of 100bsf, which EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY needed to deposit TODAY because starting tomorrow, said bills are going to be officially WORTHLESS, forbidden, not allowed in any way.

Did I mention said bills of 100 are THE most common, and most used bill IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY? Of the total money of each person, in physical bills, about 90+% is 100bsf.

The bank opened at 9:30am, and it took like 40 minutes for small groups of 2-4 people to enter. Not counting the assholes who just entered outright with huge bags to bribe the police officers guarding the entrance to the shopping center the bank was in.

The bank closed at 3:30pm. There were about 30+ people before me, and twice as much behind me. No one was allowed to enter after that, to neither exchange the bills for ones still accepted, nor to deposit the money so it's not lost. We all literally lost all that money.

Thousands, millions...both of my sisters lost literally 100% of their money, and while one had a low amount collected (3000bsf), she isn't even in college yet, so just getting a job was difficult, let alone earning that money. And I heard stories of people who almost killed themselves getting hundreds of thousands just so they could buy clothes for their kids. And then this happens.

And the kicker? This was just in 1 bank, in 1 city of all of Venezuela. Just 1, of the small ones. This happened just as much in literally every other bank in every other city all over the country. Of the near-10 millions of habitants, only less than 8% managed to deposit at least some money.

All this because our dear president is a fucking donkey with no balls, who thinks 72 hours is enough for THE WHOLE COUNTRY to do this. Even if the banks had worked from 8am to 10pm (like they should have), this was far from enough. Even a full week would not have been enough.

So basically,''' literally 90+% of the total population of Venezuela just lost 90+% of their money. Just in time for Christmas'''. And this is a country that already had mass poverty, where hundreds of people every day made similarly-long lines just to get flour, milk, and bread at acceptable prices. My family narrowly avoided bankruptcy thanks to my father managing to deposit some of the money in my mother's bank account while on a job trip, but we still lost hundreds of thousands.

Oh, but it is going to be prolonged for 10 days! ...In a single bank, at the fucking capital, when just traveling to a nearby city within the same state is worth an horrendous amount per person. And even if you go, so will ALL OF THE COUNTRY, which means "the same shit but worse". There's talks of an official, general prorrogation by El Presidente, but it's all a blind guess.

The most interesting thing I saw was at 4-5pm when the people rightfully started rioting and almost knocked down the cage that locks the entrance to the bank. But after rioting for like 5 seconds, it all went back to cheap yelling even before the National Guard arrived. Yet so are Venezuelans, everytime someone yells "Let's wreak havoc!", they always think "but I'll let this guy do it first".

Nicolas Maduro has always been a horrible president even by this country's standards, but this is a Class SS fuck up. He pretty much beheaded the entire general economy in just 3 days. If there's no coup by the end of the year, I'm done with this country. Then again, not hoping much, read above. 