"Did you just see that?"
"See what?"
"Bill over there just did the Maduro Throat slide."
"Wow I feel like I should go over there and tip him. You normally don't see that kind of thing unless you're with a hooker"
"I felt movement"
When everyone at the party wants you to leave, but instead you just steal all the booze and food to give to your family later
Clara: Charles is too drunk. Everyone thinks you should take him home.
José: I know, I convinced him to go but He went to grab some snacks and drinks before we head out.
Clara: Oh! He's Maduro'ing.
Also Assad-Maduro Bias, a form of bias where observers focus exclusively on a single action, goal, or intention—ignoring the actual consequences, outcomes, and means used to achieve them. Named after the international reactions to the falls of Assad and Maduro, where critics fixated on the abstract goal of "removing dictators" while dismissing the catastrophic humanitarian consequences, the rise of even worse actors, and the methods used (sanctions starving populations, support for extremist factions, destruction of infrastructure). The bias allows its holders to feel morally pure by focusing on intentions while remaining willfully blind to results. It's the logic of "the goal was good, so everything done to achieve it is justified"—a blank check for atrocity dressed in noble intentions.
Example: "He celebrated the sanctions against Venezuela as 'standing up to dictatorship,' applying the Assad-Maduro Effect by ignoring that the sanctions had devastated healthcare, caused thousands of deaths, and pushed millions into poverty. The goal (removing Maduro) was all that mattered; the consequences (starving children) were invisible. Means and ends had been separated, and only ends counted—which is how you justify anything."