Based Camp - Trump (Villainously) Ends a Dictatorship

00:00:00.000 the even more terrifying thing about this if you're say kim jong-un or something right now 0.98

00:00:05.420 is who trump put in power after this that it was his second in command because if you're kim jong-un 0.87

00:00:13.260 or something like that you're gonna be like america you're not gonna like just take me out

00:00:19.240 like you wouldn't get what you want then you wouldn't get a full regime change you know and

00:00:24.240 then trump needs to be like no no no no is there anyone else in this country with a lot of power

00:00:30.120 that would like to see you gone because we can give them your job what about that guy over there

00:00:35.720 he's wearing a lot of medals and he's like well he's been my most loyal supporter for x many

00:00:41.660 but if you weren't there anymore and he had everything you have now and that's the most

00:00:50.140 terrifying thing to any actual dictator in a negotiation oh yeah trump not saying oh we're

00:00:57.360 going to replace your government with a capitalist government it's who's the next most powerful

00:01:01.920 person in the room would you like to know more hello simone today is a difficult day to be an

00:01:09.340 american oh there is news that trump built a time machine had someone go back in time and kidnap

00:01:16.900 hitler europe is in arms they are furious the left apoplectic how dare he do this to an upstanding

00:01:27.080 german citizen the nerve the geneva conventions exactly

00:01:31.280 i just got three things to say god bless our troops god bless america and gentlemen start your

00:01:50.580 okay absolutely insane follow-up to this so every day before i post my episode i post it into an ai

00:02:16.180 to see what it thinks of the episode and the ai that i put it into is grok which has the ability

00:02:22.340 to search the internet in this time the ai assumed i was discussing a fictional event it says this

00:02:30.980 transcript is reacting in real time to a completely fictional alternate history scenario donald trump in

00:02:38.360 early 2026 authorizes a lightning fast delta force raid that captures nicolas maduro alive with zero u.s

00:02:46.000 casualties then deliberately installs maduro's vice president delcy rodriguez as the leader instead

00:02:52.520 of the opposition maria corona manchada and it's so insane it's so insane it assumes malcolm goes hard

00:03:00.680 on the pope vatican in this fictional world for citing was maduro out of reflective anti-americanism

00:03:07.380 even though the entire premise is fabricated as of january 2026 maduro is still in power no u.s raid

00:03:14.400 has occurred what i love here is couldn't even imagine it didn't even think to look did this

00:03:19.360 happen did this happen and when i called it out on this it goes in my defense events like a u.s

00:03:26.080 president authorizing a zero casualty delta force raid to snatch a foreign leader alive sounds like

00:03:32.320 something out of a tom concy novel or high concept podcast thought experiment especially given the

00:03:38.180 geopolitical sensitivities and historic precedents it's the kind of bold unilateral action that

00:03:44.000 feels too unbelievable without hard confirmation so my initial presumption lead towards it being

00:03:49.660 hypothetical or satirical oh my god oh my god no this has been really interesting and i think that this

00:03:59.700 event is going to push a lot of the larger latin american community which had largely been pushed

00:04:06.440 against trump due to ice raids which you know a lot of them had somebody who they knew who's been

00:04:11.940 affected by them and you know you had more than 50 percent of latin american men vote for trump in the

00:04:15.900 last election cycle unfortunately i think it's just like one fell swoop the left might be handing

00:04:20.880 them latin americans back as a voting block because just as you know you might say well a lot of latin

00:04:27.320 americans know somebody who had their lives upturned by ice raids pretty much every latin american

00:04:34.020 also knows somebody who had their life destroyed by maduro yeah like even if you are not venezuelan

00:04:40.900 for example we lived in peru and then we would get grocery deliveries from venezuelan refugees we

00:04:48.720 would take uber rides from venezuelan refugees and we would hear their stories we had job applicants

00:04:53.980 who are venezuelan refugees like we were surrounded by it well so i think that this is what people miss and

00:05:00.840 i want to i want to talk about this right because this is not a local to venezuela issue no you didn't

00:05:05.920 just piss off venezuelan refugees when you tried to stand maduro the the american left and this shows 0.93

00:05:14.220 like when when zoran mandani is doing this when you know any of these figures are doing this the pope is

00:05:20.060 doing this right um it just shows me that these people like genuinely are completely disconnected from

00:05:26.400 the latin american community or they would know how verboten it is to take this stance and i'll

00:05:32.860 explain to our viewers why because if you're not really in with the latin american community

00:05:36.280 you might not know why every latin america or a huge chunk of the latin american community

00:05:41.560 is extremely anti-maduro so you know how in the united states we've been complaining about that

00:05:47.680 giant immigrant wave that's causing us all of those problems oh so bad so terrible the 1.00

00:05:54.300 the venezuelan refugee wave drugs that are potentially being made in venezuela like no no

00:05:59.620 the drugs are actually made more distributed i don't think that's a good reason for doing this

00:06:02.700 there's a lot of drugs made in colombia and stuff too but of the venezuelan and keep in mind a third

00:06:07.820 of venezuela left their country as refugees of that third only 14 percent went to the united states

00:06:16.140 85 percent went to much smaller surrounding latin american countries latin america has been collectively

00:06:25.380 especially people from south america have been living alongside these venezuelan refugees for a very

00:06:32.440 long time yeah moreover than that the way that they relate to these refugees is not the way america

00:06:42.340 relates to these refugees so latin america more broadly especially south america has been a bit of a game

00:06:49.560 of musical chairs for the past few decades one country's economy would collapse they'd get a dictator 0.95

00:06:55.760 they'd have a huge refugee population that would go live in another country now when peru's economy 1.00

00:07:02.640 crashed and when colombia's economy crashed you know who was doing well during those periods

00:07:09.080 oh venezuela so a lot of them went to live in venezuela and venezuela was very good to them

00:07:16.880 during that period or at least treated them with a degree of hospitality so when venezuela's economy

00:07:23.900 crashed these countries and the huge refugee waves started coming in they were like this causes some 1.00

00:07:29.620 problems for us but they were there when we needed it we have to be there when they need it right this is

00:07:35.260 very different from the situation we're dealing with the united states now they all ended up hating

00:07:39.780 venezuelan refugees eventually uh they overstayed their welcome it was a longer crash than they 1.00

00:07:44.620 expected etc etc etc but it meant that they got to know these people and when i say know these people

00:07:50.600 as simone said we lived in peru we have a also a huge latin american audience our last company was

00:07:57.840 entirely staffed with latin americans other than us our new company our fab reality fabricator the ai chat

00:08:03.240 engine everyone who works on it other than us is latin american was one of them being venezuelan by

00:08:08.440 the way living in venezuela right now right like i'm talking to him about this and he's like oh yeah

00:08:13.020 you know i had family members who were killed by the regime stuff like that i mean most people have

00:08:19.000 but we'll get into like the death numbers but they were killing you know you i think it was well over

00:08:25.460 100 people a day at certain points it was they were graping children like it was terrible they had a

00:08:32.540 systemic like sex violence thing where they would take women and imprison them and then they'd have 0.81

00:08:38.140 to trade sex for food in the prison system oh uh regime was genuinely horrifying okay i didn't know

00:08:45.900 about that i i mean i just i mean because i just worked with like the the travel agencies and the

00:08:52.100 airlines and the payment processors that we worked with in venezuela and they were just like

00:08:55.840 and the power is out again like i just thought it was just terrible infrastructure the government

00:09:00.380 didn't work anymore but you're like videos of the giant armored vans running over people on the

00:09:06.280 street no what i was looking for videos of this to post and then i realized they were all going to

00:09:11.920 get this video flagged and taken down so you don't want to see it anyway yeah so they did a protest and

00:09:17.920 they just had these giant armored tank things run through giant crowds of protesters fast like driving

00:09:24.100 through them over and over again oh just kind of mowing them down just yeah that was uh they they 0.97

00:09:31.200 they yeah no that was really really horrifying and if you spoke against them you'd be arrested

00:09:36.400 your family yeah and kids were arrested too a lot of children were arrested venezuela of venezuela

00:09:42.640 people are criticizing trump for what he did in venezuela minos were tortured girls were forced to

00:09:48.100 prostitute themselves in prisons just to get food where were all of you then where were all of you

00:09:53.480 liberals where were all of you where were all of you you said nothing you did nothing but now you

00:09:58.140 suddenly care about international law i mean now you all talk about human rights maduro didn't lead

00:10:04.800 venezuela he kidnapped an entire country we're thankful you can divide politics all you want but don't

00:10:11.700 tell venezuelans do not tell venezuelans how to feel about being free from a dictatorship

00:10:17.320 so really horrifying really horrifying we're gonna get to all of that we're gonna get to all that but

00:10:21.800 what i wanted to point out here is we're not speaking of this as people who like don't know

00:10:26.220 what we're talking about we used to split our time between miami and peru right so we've lived in

00:10:32.120 the environments where these communities are well and specifically we didn't even live in miami we

00:10:36.980 lived in doral also known as doralsuela it was like the venezuelan contingent of the miami area

00:10:42.780 our previous company's dominant market we were actually like the dominant travel provider in

00:10:49.020 venezuela we would regularly have employees do trips to venezuela and meet with all the people

00:10:53.900 that we had in venezuela like it was like we were really connected with venezuela like venezuela was

00:10:59.660 our in the venezuelan community was like our uh bread and butter for years right if you look at the the

00:11:06.140 the images that you're seeing now of these giant crowds cheering if you you see this in venezuela

00:11:13.420 you see this in time square you see this in miami you see this in new york you see this in argentina

00:11:16.700 you see this in spain and madrid this makes sense for these communities but what i want to talk about

00:11:20.300 before i go into all the memes before i go into all the the hilariousness about this because there is a

00:11:25.340 lot of hilariousness about this is i want to talk about the thing that you're probably not getting

00:11:29.020 as much which is what's happening now what's going to happen next for the country what trump seems to be

00:11:34.020 signaling so what trump has signaled is that he wants maduro's former second in command i don't

00:11:41.700 know if you're staying on top of this simone trusted advice the female vice president yeah 1.00

00:11:46.420 hardcore socialist to take over and run things not nobel prize lady and nobel prize lady is shocked about 1.00

00:11:54.100 this marco rubio's answer to that was like well i don't know she's out of the country like these the

00:11:59.380 people that we really like just aren't in venezuela right now was his answer if memory serves well so

00:12:05.460 i think that i mean i don't think that's like a feasible answer they can just fly her in but

00:12:13.380 so i want to talk about why he made this decision from my perspective and the intelligence of this

00:12:18.660 decision i think it was an incredibly mature is i guess the word that the best fits this decision

00:12:25.380 is mature and pragmatic so right now uh head of venezuela is taken out right you have the rest of

00:12:35.940 the government continuing to operate right so suppose trump comes in and he says we are going to replace

00:12:42.820 the candidate the top person with somebody who has dedicated their entire life to rooting all of you out

00:12:48.580 of power right making sure all of you lose your jobs lose your positions of power lose your military

00:12:53.860 commands you put it that way free all of the dissidents who have been against you from the

00:12:59.060 prison camps and everything like that um how are people going to react to this no seriously what's

00:13:04.340 going to happen what's going to happen i'll tell you what happens the existing military says oh well

00:13:09.300 we need to resist this we maybe even need to counter strike the united states you know ship fleet we

00:13:14.820 need to abduct american civilians potentially to teach america a lesson we need to you know all of that

00:13:20.820 right like it's it's it's a bad situation right well and even even independent of the military the

00:13:27.140 trump administration knows all too well how hard it is to govern with an antagonistic deep state

00:13:33.780 so well and and you what if you try to put up a you know so you you have that whole situation worse

00:13:42.180 what you could have is suppose he just takes out maduro and he doesn't say who he wants to run the

00:13:47.620 country and he sort of leaves it up for grads maybe you people have a revolution maybe you don't have

00:13:52.100 a revolution right or or worse he's like we would like this other lady nobel prize lady but we're not

00:13:57.940 going to put her in a position of power ourselves we're not going to do a military occupation of 0.99

00:14:01.940 venezuela which i don't think anyone in america wants right so then what do you have you have a

00:14:06.180 revolution in the country right i and and and revolutions nobody wants a revolution right i don't

00:14:11.700 care how bad an existing regime is the revolution is almost always worse for the everyday person

00:14:19.140 yeah people are going to die in mass in a revolution it's going to be horrible right

00:14:25.940 now suppose this other thing happens now this lady has already gone on being like oh it was a horrible 1.00

00:14:30.660 american aggression she said a lot of bad things about trump after this but trump said when he made

00:14:36.100 this that he's had decisions with both her and the you know democracy lady nobel prize lady and he

00:14:42.500 said that this lady has more friends in positions of power which is true and she has more supporters in 0.99

00:14:49.380 the country right now which may not be true but i really think this is what he meant if you if you peel

00:14:56.660 back the reality of it yeah this lady is a cold political operator who's been doing this for a 1.00

00:15:03.540 long time other lady is a sky-high idealist right who wants a a beautiful wealthy you know free 1.00

00:15:13.540 everything future for her country and those people don't generally make the best decisions in positions 0.73

00:15:20.980 of power whereas the ruthless pragmatists do now the second thing i'm going to note here is a lot

00:15:25.700 of people have noted it seemed oddly easy for trump to capture maduro right like we didn't lose

00:15:32.820 any military equipment we didn't lose any troopers russian bots are seizing over this because this is

00:15:38.340 what they wanted to do in ukraine one was saying like oh you know it's clearly they had help from the

00:15:44.100 inside you know that this isn't a big thing to be proud of and then everyone underneath him was like

00:15:49.220 that's what you tried to do you just failed at it yeah right like that's how you do this

00:15:55.300 when you're doing this right but i think that we have some idea of who that help may have been this

00:15:59.780 whole trump saying oh this lady is lovely i've talked a lot with her why has trump talked so

00:16:06.020 and then this lady immediately being like this was horrible how could the united states do this

00:16:13.060 are you guys going to do anything in retaliation no actually we're signing a bunch of oil deals with

00:16:17.380 them now i i think i know i think everyone knows nice may have been our mole operating this i think

00:16:25.300 we may have had many a mole in this operation but i think we know who one of them was and that's how

00:16:31.220 you do this that's how you do a correct regime change yeah go to someone like her and you go look

00:16:36.100 and i was i was talking with the you know vip is going to do our meet and greet and everything about

00:16:39.700 this and i go look and i basically predicted where this was going to go right i i thought they tried to

00:16:43.860 at least for optics get the nobel prize lady more involved but i said really most of what they're 0.98

00:16:47.700 going to do is try to keep the existing government structure in place as much as possible um and the

00:16:51.860 reason they're going to do that is because then people don't have a reason to fight back but even

00:16:55.860 more these existing government people can be like yeah i mean it's bad that you took maduro and you

00:17:02.260 violated our sovereignty and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah but you know it is true that he made a 0.66

00:17:10.100 number of miscalculations and i think i can probably do things a bit better and it's going to be much

00:17:16.660 much easier with all that american oil money coming in because if you don't know why venezuela was so

00:17:21.460 poor it was two reasons the biggest reason was not the sanctions it was that their oil plants didn't

00:17:28.580 function there's tons of places in the world that we sanctioned but still managed to sell their oil

00:17:32.500 like russia the reason why venezuela couldn't do it is because they instead of investing in repairing

00:17:38.420 the oil facilities that they privatized which they needed to do repair upgrade repair upgrade

00:17:43.060 they just always steal and grift that money that was what the government did and the repairs never 0.67

00:17:48.900 happened and now it's at like 2.1 capacity you mean nationalized right not privatized i'm sorry

00:17:54.820 nationalized it's at like 1.5 percent of capacity or something like that i think it might even be like

00:17:59.380 0.5 percent like basically none of the rigs even work anymore oh my gosh and so we're sending in our

00:18:04.980 oil companies now which trump has already talked about to invest billions into the country right

00:18:09.540 like american companies now this isn't going to cost america anything because now these companies

00:18:12.500 are worth more right like they're investing because it increases their valuation in their american

00:18:17.060 companies which is fantastic it's a virtuous cycle right and then all of these existing political

00:18:21.620 operators get to say hey look at how much better i've made your life since madura left like look at how

00:18:26.500 much better things are right well we'll maintain some semblance of the socialized system it just won't be as

00:18:32.100 extreme as it was before and that's easy to do now that we have all this money now this doesn't get

00:18:38.500 trump looking like a big coming in hero like i think many people would like i think many people

00:18:43.540 think he snubbed nobel prize lady because she got the nobel prize and he didn't i don't believe

00:18:47.940 that at all she don't dedicated her nobel prize to him she spoke very highly of him she spoke against

00:18:53.540 the community i think he's talked to her he talked to the other lady and he just went with the

00:18:58.340 lady who he thought would lead to less likelihood of revolt and bloodshed and i think that that was

00:19:03.220 ultimately if your concern is for the people of venezuela he made the right choice yeah it'll take

00:19:10.340 longer to heal a lot of bad people who did bad things will stay in position of power but if your

00:19:17.140 pure calculation is i want as few venezuelans to die as possible and i want the highest probability 0.98

00:19:25.780 of a stable increase in the in the in the region as possible this was the pragmatic call and it was

00:19:32.660 a call that required a sacrifice on behalf of trump now the next thing because after this is really

00:19:37.620 interesting to me is now that we know that we can do this like trump war bop style strategy we talked

00:19:44.020 about this in our foreign policy video now that we know that we can do this well why don't we just do

00:19:51.540 this to everyone we hate right like they're already cuba was like well should cuba be worried when cuba

00:19:57.380 is like a big problem in venezuela because cuba basically took over venezuela like cuban operatives

00:20:01.700 took over all the venezuelan and like intelligence positions and a lot of high-level positions so

00:20:06.420 venezuela was actually sort of a vassal state of cuba at this point right really i'd read like i'd read

00:20:13.620 about that a little bit but honestly i i purposefully have not read up much about venezuela because just it makes

00:20:20.100 me so depressed after so many years with our business just trying to make things work and

00:20:26.180 dealing with people there and i'm like i just don't want to i don't want to know anymore it's so bad

00:20:30.900 it's so what was going on what why well like was maduro actively in some kind of collaborative

00:20:38.980 project with cuba it's more that cuba is just slightly more intelligent and had better systems

00:20:45.940 and venezuela did and used it to put people in positions of power and milk venezuela of all this

00:20:50.020 money okay so you're basically saying that cuban operatives were embedded within the venezuelan

00:20:56.180 government and and making deals that favored cuba and and allying with yes in ways that were

00:21:03.940 perhaps more advantageous to cuba than they were to venezuela yeah venezuela was a milking farm for

00:21:08.900 cuba i mean keep in mind who you're talking with maduro who can't say the word milking farm anymore in

00:21:13.780 our modern society right and after the morning story after the incident simone i mean just keep

00:21:19.140 in mind the two heads of these two countries right you've got maduro who's a buffoonish bus driver

00:21:25.460 before he comes into power or without the one before him yeah and then on the other side you've

00:21:29.780 got fidel castro who grew up a an ultra rich kid went to all of the best education opportunities you

00:21:38.180 know blastest much malcolm i'm just saying you know one's run by a capitalist who just happened to

00:21:44.820 be in a communistic position country for all its words i mean but anyway i want to continue with

00:21:50.980 what happens next so greenland you're next by the way i love it that trump was like well we really need

00:21:55.460 to focus on greenland now and europe is freaking out but could we do this in colombia could we there's

00:22:01.060 there's because they've even talked about doing it in colombia so if i was going to be like where would

00:22:04.580 i do this where would i not do this do this in cuba if we need to but there's just not a lot of

00:22:09.700 the reason to do it in cuba it's not really in our financial best interest to do it in cuba

00:22:13.940 we can't really milk cuba for anything in the way we can milk venezuela which has both gold and oil by

00:22:19.140 the way and cuba's not an active threat to us anymore so i just don't even know if it's worth it

00:22:24.260 the main reason to do it to cuba is for votes to further solidify the cuban american voting block

00:22:30.820 which is a large and already right-leaning voting block and it's been a wet dream for

00:22:34.900 many of them for many years i mean rubio is salivating at the chance to do this but again

00:22:39.780 that's not really pro america right like getting venezuelan oil was no casualties that's pro america

00:22:45.300 right but cuba whatever the other thing that's interesting about this one you're looking for too

00:22:49.540 is america first which was a core element of the trump administration's strategic initiatives

00:22:56.180 or a strategic direction when it comes to global policy going forward you have to ask and of course

00:23:02.420 trump is being asked about this as well is well how is this american first why is america first

00:23:07.780 but i do think that a big part of the national security strategy that many people weren't really

00:23:13.700 paying attention to was that the america first strategy also involved a shift toward interest in

00:23:20.580 the american continent away from the middle east away venezuela is an active threat to the united 0.99

00:23:28.260 states to have a country that hostile to us that close to us and and be that big is is not nice like

00:23:34.900 it's and and russia and china there's the famous video of the guy online who's just like i love what

00:23:40.420 he's saying he's he's a venezuelan who's like he was talking to a reporter and the reporter is like well

00:23:45.780 you know america is just here to take all your your oil and he goes what do you think china and

00:23:51.380 russia were here for alapos or some like classic venezuelan dish or alapos or something okay 0.95

00:23:58.100 you know they put a murderous psychopath in power right you know and and what i also love is trump

00:24:19.220 didn't even put like a capitalist in power he's like yeah just another just keep the vp yeah yeah

00:24:24.340 that's that's how you that's how you do south american cues you don't need to put the the

00:24:29.140 fascist in power every time you know we didn't we didn't understand this in the 60s so like colombia

00:24:33.860 don't do it in colombia colombia is a yeah what's wrong with colombia since when was colombia and

00:24:39.700 cuba no reason to do it uh greenland would be hilarious yes it'd just be funny and greenland for the lulz

00:24:48.260 yes greenland for the lulz just take the president of greenland arrest him everyone would be

00:24:54.180 confused like what do we even do now right no but i would do it to greenland literally for the

00:24:59.620 mean potential but outside of that for the trolls you know denmark who who they're all about trolls

00:25:06.180 you got to do it for the trolls right iran do not do this in iran that's a bad idea they're doing it

00:25:12.580 to themselves it's fine well iran's trying to do it themselves they won't just let iran die on its own

00:25:17.460 it's it's irrelevant but i want to go over some of the memes some of the reactions to this because i

00:25:21.940 think they've been really edifying right one of the the funniest scenes that came out of this i

00:25:28.580 don't know if you saw this simone but a new york times reporter called trump at 4 30 a.m just nine

00:25:34.900 minutes after the maduro thing was announced and he picked up her answer was in three rings oh i'm

00:25:40.980 i'm sure he's just you know i mean he this was certainly an all-nighter for him it could not have

00:25:45.860 not been you know but i thought it was it just shows how accessible trump is to people right like

00:25:54.180 and he's like his white house has even been accessible to us like we've done you know going

00:25:58.500 over there doing consulting for them and stuff like that like they're fantastic when they have people

00:26:02.580 with ideas they want to talk to them and i really appreciate that about them next one here somebody's

00:26:07.700 saying i haven't seen a single of venezuelan angry and it's a lot of venezuelans partying

00:26:18.980 which of course of course that's true actually i i would expect given because i've been trying to

00:26:24.820 watch leftist coverage of this i would expect them to have surfaced a an agreed aggrieved venezuelan at

00:26:33.220 this point you know because they i would want to find one if i were covering this from that angle

00:26:38.180 i've not yet seen one which is actually quite interesting well i mean i there's all these

00:26:43.140 memes of like leftists putting their hands over like white women was like blue hair putting their 1.00

00:26:47.620 hands over like brown women's mouths and being like let me explain i know i think i know a little 1.00

00:26:53.860 but let me tell you why trump freeing you from a dictatorship was bad and i came in mind when

00:26:59.940 people were like oh this was a the president of another country no he wasn't a president of

00:27:04.100 another country he didn't win the election right he's a a guy who stole like stole a country and its 0.97

00:27:11.380 resources and kept its people as sex slaves right like that's basically what he did like that's that's 0.96

00:27:17.780 the reality of on the ground venezuela yo creo que nadie que entiende la emoción pero desde mis siete

00:27:25.940 años me tocó vivir en un país donde me arrebataron mi infancia me arrebataron todo y lo que está sucediendo el día

00:27:38.100 de hoy es increíble es increíble es increíble tengo un sentimiento demasiado grande

00:27:49.140 and if you look at the left-wing protests one thing that's been pointed out is there are ties

00:27:55.540 to what is it china it appears that they found like smoking guns and a lot of the left-wing anti-protests

00:28:01.300 of this like in new york and stuff like that were funded by china and if you look at their signs all over

00:28:06.100 the us they're all using the same type font which they're just going to the same printer and you know

00:28:12.660 mass centrally distributed completely astroturfed i mean that's what the leftists are and this is the

00:28:16.900 thing if you look at the people protesting this because there were major protests in france there were

00:28:20.900 major protests in the uk what you'll notice is all of the protesters are either white or middle eastern

00:28:27.380 and i think that this really goes to show when we're talking about who are the real allies if you

00:28:32.260 look at the video we did yesterday where we point out that both america and latin america are frontier

00:28:37.220 cultures made up of european colonists and we are our cultures are incredibly similar to each other

00:28:45.940 and that at the end of the day like we may like riff on each other occasionally but we have a collective

00:28:53.540 enemy right and that collective enemy are the karens and and it is this new islamist regime that is 0.93

00:29:02.020 rising throughout western countries interesting thing that a lot of people pointed out in regard

00:29:06.820 to this is not not forgetting that delta forces tried the same tactics in a much weaker somalia in

00:29:12.420 1993 and got blown out of the sky by rpgs 18 killed 73 wounded what happened in venezuela was nothing

00:29:19.220 special rather an internal agreement of maduro's surrender and stand down of the military so this is

00:29:24.660 spesnes 007 you know obviously a russian guy and all the comments are hilarious on this people were

00:29:31.140 like the americans completed all their objectives for this mission how many russians died in the ukraine

00:29:36.020 without completing any missions oh god no i mean seeing people i don't know and then a bunch of

00:29:44.500 people are also like like this just isn't true but i i love how right but hurt all the russian like

00:29:50.020 trolls and bots are about this because it just there was a bunch of russians recently who were

00:29:55.460 saying like there's been some like russian propaganda saying like oh trump is backing down

00:30:00.180 from venezuela because now he knows he can't mess with real countries like us right right the the 0.56

00:30:06.500 basically implying that like we control venezuela america's afraid of us or venezuela and trump is

00:30:12.580 scared of us right but of course they've got a lot of egg on their face right now knowing the other

00:30:17.300 thing that's been people on reddit know one of our one of the our favorite like sources of ideas

00:30:22.100 a listener to the podcast i don't know if i'm allowed to name you if you're listening but he

00:30:26.820 sent me a reddit post from 34 days ago where someone wrote people treat special forces like

00:30:32.980 they're space marines no a dozen guys are not going to infiltrate a hostile country and take out the

00:30:38.580 leadership unless the state and defense department is going to be okay with a dozen seals getting their

00:30:43.860 heads chopped off on cnn later i mean they made an edit they wrote edit they are in fact space marines

00:30:50.500 and they are they shall know no fear like a lot of people are just no it's a great a lot of people too

00:30:56.260 are discussing the prediction markets because i've been i check to see if there's anything interesting

00:31:01.860 for the podcast polymarket like every other day or so and it had been a big thing on polymarket for a

00:31:10.420 while like will will there be some kind of military conflict in venezuela will maduro be out and there's

00:31:17.460 been a lot of discussion on how some someone a couple people made a lot of money on this bet

00:31:23.940 because most yeah the odds were not in favor of maduro being right before it's very interesting well

00:31:29.140 if you've been involved in that military operation that's it oh my gosh yeah there's no laws against

00:31:35.780 that i want to play this call of duty campaign right like this sounds this sounds like a cool

00:31:40.100 like the old rainbow six strike game like i love that game i can't believe they don't make games like

00:31:43.940 the old rainbow sixes anymore that whole like genre went extinct but to to continue with something here

00:31:50.420 that i thought was really interesting so this is a post by as a normie and it's who organized and

00:31:56.100 funded the pro maduro demonstrations i was up when news broke that u.s forces had possibly had a military

00:32:01.780 strike on caracas immediately i knew where to look next not for confirmation from the pentagon but for

00:32:06.900 signals so she talks about her first story about fox news in my new role as senior editor of

00:32:13.380 investigation oh she works for fox news now anyway what they discovered as u.s forces captured maduro

00:32:20.020 a paralleled operation began almost instantly in the united states rapid coordinated information

00:32:24.980 and street mobilized campaign by a network of self-described socialist marxist and communist

00:32:29.460 organizations most of which operate as non-profits that do not have to pay taxes

00:32:34.740 for three years since october 7th i'd been seeing the same thing at protest after protest venezuelan

00:32:40.740 flags showing up at anti-israeli rallies not randomly not organically always alongside the same slogans

00:32:47.460 the same organizers the same faces that's when i knew it wasn't about gaza or venezuela or peace

00:32:53.060 when activists protested so blah blah blah i don't want to go into all this because it's like

00:32:57.460 four pages here but she goes into arguing that this is just completely astroturfed that's wild

00:33:05.620 but anyway for other ones here there was of course the fantastic and and the places where you're seeing

00:33:12.660 really large anti-american protests are places like france which i think shows how sort of invaded their

00:33:19.300 country already is because if if you look at the the nature of these protests i mean you you can tell

00:33:26.740 who's doing the protesting and who wants venezuela to continue to be under the the boot of people like

00:33:32.900 maduro and and note hamas here issues a statement to the us about kidnapping maduro they're like don't run

00:33:39.460 into another country and illegally kidnap people which is obviously very rich a lot of people have been

00:33:45.860 saying it's very rich that dorhan mondami one pretended that he was like informed by by someone

00:33:51.700 about this like he's like i received a oh his deputy mayor told him about it and it was like you didn't

00:33:56.820 receive a breeding you you read about it while you're on the toilet and trump would have had the honesty to

00:34:01.460 tell us that i don't know enough or was like i don't know the deputy mayor was just on x like the rest

00:34:06.500 of us and i guess mom donny just can't even bother to do that of course people love the richness of

00:34:11.540 him saying you know you can't go in and arrest foreign leaders when he's saying he would do the

00:34:15.380 exact same thing to netanyahu previously not really this is in netanyahu if he went to manhattan but

00:34:20.980 still you know also elon i don't know if you've seen elon's reaction to this giving starlink for free

00:34:26.260 to across venezuela which is which is very fun wow oh this is one of the most interesting things that i

00:34:33.940 learned and it hasn't been circulated that much but apparently trump gave maduro a final chance to step

00:34:39.860 down he refused cia had assets inside venezuela since august including a source in maduro's inner

00:34:45.700 circle oh i wonder who that was trump why do you think maduro didn't take the 50 million and run

00:34:52.180 nobody took the money but i think she got something more than 50 million no no i'm saying maduro they

00:34:58.580 they offered him they were also just like we'll give you the money like you can i thought they i don't

00:35:04.020 know maybe look i know there's a 50 million reward but they were also like maduro we're going to give

00:35:09.060 you many like we will set you up no they didn't pay out the money because trump said and i don't

00:35:13.220 think trump has to self-control to keep it quiet if we did pay out the money said wow we saved a lot of

00:35:19.060 money yeah no i i'm mixing it up there was a 50 million reward and trump was like yeah well we don't

00:35:23.780 have to pay that out like save that much money but they he had also mentioned in the press conference

00:35:28.740 how maduro had repeatedly been offered like they would they would if you would just leave the

00:35:33.940 country we'll set you up you'll be all like you'll live very comfortably just go why do you think he

00:35:39.700 did it like i don't understand that because if i were maduro i would be like oh yeah my days are

00:35:44.500 numbered especially if the united states is like you know we're so i think you gotta remember maduro

00:35:51.860 thinks that china and russia have his back and he doesn't realize just how weak china and russia are 1.00

00:35:56.900 these days well maybe not weak but like i think they just didn't care that much yeah and i think

00:36:03.460 that that was a huge miscalculation on his part yeah i think a theme i've seen come up in random

00:36:09.860 places recently is that a lot of people in in various scandals and things that have played out

00:36:18.260 over the past 10 years who thought that they were they were doing something with with coverage from

00:36:25.220 another party that was like more powerful than them just got utterly left in the dust by that party

00:36:32.420 when like sort of the bill was up for payment and i think that's something that people should keep in

00:36:37.540 mind in their lives and also point out like if someone richer and more powerful than he was like

00:36:41.620 no no do this thing for me i've got your back don't worry whatever it takes to do this thing

00:36:45.620 they're not gonna if they're more powerful than you they owe you nothing and they have no need

00:36:52.980 aside from honor and please people aren't honorable anymore well also keep in mind even if maduro took

00:36:58.740 the deal there's a lot of venezuelans who want this guy tortured and dead right no but i'm sure the deal

00:37:03.460 would have like it would have been some kind of witness protection like you will live in luxury but

00:37:07.860 somewhere else and under a totally different name and maybe with like plastic surgery well whatever anyway so

00:37:13.780 the point here being cia had assets since august trump delayed action to exhaust diplomacy despite

00:37:19.620 pressure to strike earlier final coordination included rubio hegsdes ratcliffe and steven miller

00:37:25.140 a rare weather window of an open friday night which is why it launched then congress kept in the dark

00:37:29.940 until the last moment and delta force reached the presidential palace at at 2 a.m the u.s forces took in return

00:37:36.820 fire when maduro was running for a hardened safe room which he failed to reach and apparently trump was

00:37:43.460 watching this all maybe on an ipad like it was a tv show he was like he was describing it it's like

00:37:48.740 just like tv it's great i love the way trump talks about that he makes things so accessible like you

00:37:53.860 understand the lack of of actual romance of these things we're like they're sitting in a room in mar-a-lago

00:38:00.020 like i don't know watching a tv or something watching people's body cams it's delightful

00:38:05.860 so the the protests are being organized by a group called the people's forum which has received 20

00:38:09.460 million from neville signum a financier with well-documented ccp ties 0.98

00:38:16.020 so that's who's organizing this stuff i just i just cannot get over this hands-off venezuela stuff i

00:38:21.380 keep seeing

00:38:41.140 the next time you as a latin american see a trans flag or a palestinian flag i want you to remember

00:38:49.620 what you're seeing at these protests when people tell you that these are harmless ideologies these

00:38:55.700 are ideologies that are willing to sacrifice an entire country of people just so that they don't

00:39:02.420 have to introspect that is what they fundamentally represent if you notice these protests you know

00:39:08.740 what you don't see you don't see a single american flag i mean their parents even 75 years ago were only

00:39:16.260 going once a year so the church isn't meaningfully seeing that much of a difference and there are

00:39:21.460 these very strong catholic communities that are growing in the united states and elsewhere that

00:39:27.860 are very high fertility that are having a lot of kids and that even though they they may not be

00:39:33.780 like fully aligned with the vatican they kind of are their own thing they they nevertheless represent

00:39:39.060 the future of catholicism and work in parallel with the vatican kind of using it when it when

00:39:46.020 or using elements of the church the the larger church bureaucracy when convenient for them and

00:39:51.220 then doing their own thing when not and building strong communities and i think there's really something

00:39:55.780 to be said for them i think it's quite interesting and i'm excited to see

00:39:59.540 i guess through the eyes of our children and great-grandchildren because i mean it's going to take a long

00:40:03.460 time for all this to play out but what happens to catholicism over time but it is definitely a

00:40:09.700 religion to watch i mean it has been for you know 2 000 years the reason i bring this up is i was

00:40:16.980 surprised at this i i thought that the vatican would not go that far i thought that they would like

00:40:22.340 sometimes think i'm straw manning them or something like they're not actually that anti-america that they

00:40:27.140 would literally stand maduro and i mean but that's i feel like that's that is the out of touch vatican

00:40:33.860 that's just doing its thing it's kind of like that you know that uncle at dinner who says something

00:40:40.420 off color at the thanksgiving day table and you're like that's just that's just uncle james you know

00:40:45.700 like it's just uncle james being uncle james yeah like he does that sometimes you know like we're we're

00:40:52.500 fine over here okay we're good people all right just don't worry about it he's he just you know

00:40:57.380 he's off doing his thing he's got a lot of money all right you know he posts good parties

00:41:03.220 it it looks so bad it looks so absolutely horrible too and i'm and again i'm talking here

00:41:13.060 about the wider latin american community i just have to guess that these people have no latin american

00:41:17.940 friends or like i i don't understand like what is your take on this it's so hard to say i really

00:41:28.420 i mean of course i i'm not surprised by the left condemning him and by the eu condemning him

00:41:34.820 this is a a presidential administration acting unilaterally without acts of congress without all

00:41:40.820 this approval that this idea that one country can just go in and take out someone claiming to be

00:41:49.220 president of another country it disrupts a lot of what people thought you know they they expected to

00:41:55.780 be consulted on this you know people are very insulted by that yeah but you didn't ask how to ask congress

00:42:01.460 about something this you don't like that's the thing and and i i really appreciate the trump

00:42:06.340 administration has just stopped like i think during the first administration they attempted

00:42:12.900 to do things the correct way like okay we're going to work through the departments we're going to try

00:42:17.380 to pass the legislation we're going to do the things and now they realize it's just never going

00:42:22.020 to happen if you do it that way and so they're they're doing it their own way and you know well

00:42:27.460 you want to stop me all right well try to stop me and then oh okay you you know you use the judicial

00:42:33.460 branch to to block me all right well i kind of like how andrew jackson with the various actions

00:42:38.900 was just like okay well you and what army you know we've come back to that but i'm also trying to

00:42:44.500 point out that there is historical precedent the trump administration is not the first to act

00:42:50.260 unilaterally and even disregard other other branches of government yeah but the left is always going to

00:42:56.660 have the orange man bad reaction if suddenly trump decried like actions against gaza as as genocide

00:43:05.380 i feel like the left would suddenly have to be like well well actually gaza is no like they would

00:43:12.020 have to they would have to well the left after he ended the gaza war the left had to be like we

00:43:15.940 didn't care about that to begin with that that wasn't a big deal that was not a big deal that does not

00:43:21.540 deserve a no but i mean i feel like if trump suddenly started standing gaza then they would be

00:43:25.540 like well i don't know about that or like i know they have to there's they cannot agree with with orange

00:43:33.620 man so well what i found really interesting is that the colombian president and the mexican president

00:43:40.420 both decried this you know i that that is not i obviously they're both very unpopular right now and

00:43:46.820 the leftists and so i can understand how is this a surprise to you well even with their own people

00:43:52.900 again in unless you are just fantastically wealthy which it might be the case maybe the wealthy people

00:43:58.980 in these countries are shielded from having to interact with venezuelans but normal people in 0.99

00:44:03.860 these countries interact with venezuelans all the time right but i mean well i also like basically if

00:44:10.900 you're not very very comfortable in your alliance with the trump administration at this time and you are in

00:44:16.580 the americas i think you are now aware of the fact that if the trump administration really

00:44:23.780 thinks they can win points you know if it's a 90 10 issue among normal people

00:44:28.580 that you know you would get switched out before i go further on other things is

00:44:34.500 this operation has a huge side benefit for trump and america more broadly which is that it vastly

00:44:41.620 increases our hand in all forward looking international negotiations oh why just because

00:44:48.500 people are like well they they know that if we don't get a deal that we like we're just going to

00:44:52.420 take something anyway yeah people didn't know that just being kidnapped in the middle of the night was

00:44:58.260 an option before this is so bob based diplomacy though like the the they're following the strategy

00:45:04.580 jock come in which is hey we're going to warn you just like with our kids we warn them we say hey

00:45:10.420 don't do that you know you could really get hurt doing that don't do that don't do that and like

00:45:13.940 if they if they do not respond and continue to do the thing and you saw trump try to give him out

00:45:19.780 like they had so many warnings which shows that he was being incredibly pragmatic and incredibly thought

00:45:27.300 out and incredibly of safe in the way he did this but i think the even more terrifying thing about this

00:45:33.140 if you're say kim jong-un or something right now is who trump put in power after this that it was

00:45:40.260 his second in command because if you're kim jong-un or something like that you're going to be like 1.00

00:45:46.260 america you're not gonna like just take me out like you wouldn't get what you want then you wouldn't

00:45:52.020 get a full regime change you know and then trump needs to be like no no no no is there anyone else in

00:45:58.980 this country with a lot of power that would like to see you gone because we can give them your job

00:46:04.580 what about that guy over there he's wearing a lot of medals and he's like well he's been my most loyal

00:46:10.500 supporter for x many but if you weren't there anymore and he had everything you have now do you

00:46:19.300 really think he'd come to save you and that's the most terrifying thing to any actual dictator in a

00:46:25.540 dictator in a negotiation oh yeah trump not saying oh we're going to replace your government with a

00:46:31.460 capitalist government it's who's the next most powerful person in the room why don't i have my

00:46:37.540 staff have a private meeting with them like you do the negotiations with one guy then you do the

00:46:43.380 negotiations with the next most powerful person in the country then you're like let's see who breaks

00:46:48.260 first which is no i guess that that really was a smart move to to promote from within and also to

00:46:54.100 not go in and try to state build because i think we've all seen how that goes don't don't put your own

00:47:00.500 people in just let them handle it yourselves don't don't encourage revolution just yeah just basically show

00:47:09.140 what happens when you don't comply with us and align their incentives more with reform from from within

00:47:17.940 yeah and i think that was really smart now the one that really got me on this

00:47:23.060 almost because i would love because i feel like the the next in line with the the kim dynasties 0.85

00:47:28.020 is his sister or his daughter either which would be great yeah always somebody willing to collaborate

00:47:36.180 on this stuff would be delighted would be delighted be like and and and and the thing is they get such

00:47:41.140 an easy win you're like not only will i take you out not only will i put your your daughter in command

00:47:48.580 but i will release all sanctions and start investing billions in your country immediately after that

00:47:54.260 making them look really good yeah like but i feel like already like they have such a different look

00:47:59.140 like i think she the daughter that is like recently went on an ozempic like she's not a whole new look

00:48:05.220 she's i mean she's been high fashion like all all the all the like high female figures in north korea 0.93

00:48:12.660 have are like very subtle high fashion like very expensive designer shoes and bags but i mean they're

00:48:18.820 they're very clearly pretty westernized i don't know i just feel like it would be a really interesting

00:48:23.140 directional change okay well hmm so the thing that really got me on this because often i am i feel like

00:48:32.820 i straw man the vatican right like i'm like oh the vatican is like anti-us on every policy measure

00:48:40.580 and and and generally aligned with the forces of global evil like they they they to me i joked in

00:48:46.340 the last episode and i think that i added it's always weird to be talking to like one of our

00:48:49.700 like really nice like catholic friends because i really like catholics as people i like catholics

00:48:52.980 as people even more than like catholics are so awesome but the the vatican is just always evil like

00:48:59.060 like it it's like an evil maxing organization and i don't always expect them to like it's like

00:49:05.300 sir we have a problem with pedophiles throughout our organization well let's cover it up and restation

00:49:12.260 them you know or you know i talk about them being involved in like socialist coups and stuff like that

00:49:17.380 and constantly saying we need to let in infinite immigrants to our country and even saying that to 0.95

00:49:22.020 italians nobody's perfect come on malcolm but but the pope who by the way popes have been many many

00:49:30.020 pictures was maduro popes love maduro pope's all about maduro right yeah but the most recent pope he

00:49:36.660 said in response to this the current pope said in response to this okay it is with deep concern that

00:49:42.580 i am following the events in venezuela the good of my beloved venezuelan people prevail over every other

00:49:48.820 consideration this must lead to the overcoming of violence and the pursuit of pathways of justice

00:49:54.260 and peace i pray for all of this and i invite you to entrusting our prayer for the intercession of our

00:49:59.860 lady coromoto and the saint jose gregorio hernandez and carmen rendeles hashtag pray together and he's

00:50:08.180 giving this basically of corrupt socialist dictators or what clearly he's on the maduro side he's like the

00:50:15.700 u.s should not be doing that that's what i read from this this vague posting is is this is a

00:50:20.180 condemnation of the united states and our actions and it should make sense the pope was a staunch ally

00:50:25.540 of maduro and his regime and and the vatican was and i i love some of the comments on this the vatican

00:50:31.860 offers platitudes while america delivers liberation your call for peace functions as a shield for a

00:50:38.580 socialist tyrant starving his own flock the church once understood that evil must be destroyed now it

00:50:45.460 offers cover to butchers under the guides of diplomacy and then another post here pope leo leo

00:50:53.380 the 14th woke up and decided to do a little bit of vague posting please let us know when you're ready

00:50:58.740 to stop divining through the clouds and they go to quotes from the bible basically saying you're not

00:51:04.100 supposed to do this like john 16 29 in one currencies 14 9 and it's it he wasn't posting complaints when you

00:51:11.540 know maduro is running people over with cars or treating his population as rape slaves he's offering

00:51:18.260 this when we go in and clean up the mess right and and keep in mind that if the vatican wanted to be a

00:51:24.260 force for good in the world they could be like the vatican in a deeply catholic country like venezuela

00:51:29.860 could have gone into the country and said hey like we need to work this out you weren't actually elected

00:51:35.940 can we do so like let's let's try to work this out with this person let's come up with a peaceful

00:51:41.300 resolution here's how we can help you the vatican could have played the negotiator in this they could

00:51:46.420 have fought for the forces of good they could have fought against the mass torturers and the mass

00:51:51.460 rapists and the mass everything but no it is the removing that situation which is the threat to the

00:51:57.460 world order that they have established and i just and i joked in the other episode is you know we like

00:52:02.820 our our catholic fans but it's a bit like knowing that one of our fans like works for hydra or

00:52:08.180 something and you're talking to them and they're like oh yeah the red skull well you know the top

00:52:14.260 of hydra is really corrupt these days and they're always getting into crazy stuff i don't really listen

00:52:19.620 to them anymore and you know most most hydra henchmen aren't really that into the the red skulls

00:52:26.580 ideology anyway we would just really believe in the organization it's roots it's history and you're

00:52:32.580 like you point to the history you know it's like what what what but i and i joked with that episode

00:52:40.820 i love that this is what we think that are like catholic followers look like going to roman mass

00:52:56.980 by the way i feel at this point i'm almost trying to dare press to say something about this

00:53:14.660 because i cannot believe that i can say this many things antagonistic about a religion and culture

00:53:22.020 on our show and yet the news media won't touch it yet a person can say islam can be questioned

00:53:28.900 on their door and they get arrested or if i said one one billionth of this against jewish people i would

00:53:36.020 be literally dragged out of my house like this is crazy how much no one cares what you say about catholics 1.00

00:53:45.220 but the point being is that i don't get it like i i do not get how even in latin america and we are

00:53:50.500 seeing mass latin american deconversion from catholicism right now for people who don't know

00:53:55.700 while it may look like you have a big conversion wave because for whatever reason i want to do a

00:53:59.380 separate episode on this a lot of intellectual influencers are converting to catholicism if you

00:54:03.540 look at the actual masses they're losing eight converts for every one person who converts in

00:54:08.660 which is dramatically higher than any other person sorry that number was an underestimation it's 8.4

00:54:13.380 lee for everyone who converts in when you contrast that with protestants where it's 1.8 levers per

00:54:18.660 convert no but the i think the argument that you'll hear from a lot of catholics including many of our

00:54:24.500 fans is those people who are allegedly deconverting are also like they were functionally never catholic

00:54:30.900 to begin with maybe they were born catholic and their parents took them to church once a year and they

00:54:36.980 went to church once a year and then eventually on surveys they just started saying yeah i'm not really

00:54:41.860 really catholic and because catholic started off with so many people who were just culturally

00:54:46.500 catholic for a long time that makes a lot of sense now that it's no longer cool and also no longer

00:54:50.660 normative people are just no longer reporting on surveys in larger and larger numbers but functionally

00:54:56.820 the church isn't really seeing any loss these weren't people who were actively contributing

00:55:03.140 to or involved in the community to begin with by the chicago's teacher union if you're worried about

00:55:08.180 your kids and you should be if they're in school are they coming out about venezuela because oh yeah

00:55:12.660 the chicago's teacher union had an emergency chicago protest no war on venezuela

00:55:19.220 because student outcomes really have to do with what is happening in venezuela and there is no war

00:55:24.740 in venezuela they should be the whole point what what's really disgusted me is they're all like we're 0.96

00:55:30.340 doing this to protect the venezuelans and it's like you are venezuelan students and stuff like that

00:55:35.300 right like meanwhile the kids the kids sitting in the classrooms i don't yeah yeah oh there's a

00:55:44.580 really heartbreaking one of the the mom who went to one of these protests he's like a venezuelan mom

00:55:49.060 and freaking out on them and you can really see the pain in her face that they are protesting this

00:56:07.300 oh she's just like do you not understand what you're saying yikes what what is she 0.86

00:56:13.620 oh she's just going over like what her and her family have been through you know oh like she's

00:56:20.180 trying to explain to them why they should be stoked about well yeah because they're like how dare you do

00:56:26.340 this for release medora like obviously these people are terrified of medora being released i'm just

00:56:30.900 really impressed with the trump administration i i think the next person we really need to do this to

00:56:35.380 do with tim waltz so we can save save what is he governor of from the somalian scammers 0.63

00:56:45.780 what tim waltz governor tim waltz oh that he's not going to run again no that we need to extradite

00:56:51.860 him oh to a place where we can charge him from his compound you know that needs to be that i i i

00:57:00.100 love i i it's just so cool that this is on the table now that the trump administration was able

00:57:05.780 to carry this out that they have handled this so pragmatically and i think a lot of people's lives

00:57:11.780 are going to slowly but but hopefully get a lot better as a result of this yeah and it will

00:57:17.940 fundamentally both change latin america but i also think change the latin american and if if you're

00:57:24.500 wondering if you're like come on guys you can't have an entire latin american community feel a

00:57:31.060 forever debt to a political party and lose them forever right it's like i'd like to introduce you

00:57:37.300 to the cuban american population you may not realize just how long this betrayal is going to sit with the

00:57:45.300 the venezuelan american population anyway i can't believe that happened again the timeline this

00:57:58.420 timeline this timeline it's a good timeline crazy i like this timeline anyway love you simone and i'm

00:58:06.740 glad that we live in this world and somebody tried to assassinate jd vance with a hammer i don't even

00:58:12.500 i'm not even going to do like a thing like i don't even think that i don't care what his ideology 0.99

00:58:15.780 was he's clearly too stupid if you try to assassinate the president the vice president 0.98

00:58:19.940 of the united states with a hammer the one and only murder scene i've ever seen in my life though is 1.00

00:58:26.900 with a hammer i will never see a hammer and not see the murdered body that i saw i told you about this

00:58:32.180 before that like we had this career day in like middle school where we got to go to an oakland

00:58:39.380 courthouse and like talk with lawyers and judges and learn about the justice system they took a

00:58:45.700 bunch of kids to see we had a pizza party in one of the courtrooms and there was a there was a board and

00:58:51.140 i i can't remember if it was like a clerk or someone else who was you know giving us a little talk over

00:58:56.740 our pizza lunch but they were like oh yeah we just had a murder trial in here do you want to see the

00:59:02.340 evidence poster and of course we're all like yeah and he flips it over and it was it was the the

00:59:08.340 the murder victim who had been taken out by a hammer so yeah baby simone traumatized i'm not

00:59:16.420 traumatized i i wasn't disturbing to me in the moment i i don't know if it's like an autism thing i didn't

00:59:22.020 know it was a statistic at the time but like part of me is just like i mean it was dead like i just i

00:59:28.500 mean you're you're gonna evaluate hammers differently after you see what a hammer can do to the human head

00:59:33.300 all right all right well it's been good talking to you this is a spectacular day this is i i'd say

00:59:42.100 a better day for for the world than the end of the gaza war you know at the end of the day the gaza war

00:59:48.340 was about freeing a tiny handful of hostages from a country that most of the rest of the world didn't

00:59:54.820 really care about that much in a conflict venezuela is a country that tons of the world especially if you're

01:00:02.420 in america or an american and i mean north south to latin you know central has connections to it

01:00:08.180 was about freeing an entire country of hostages honestly like the eu and all these countries that

01:00:13.460 are having a conniption it's great for them too because now they get to go to their constituencies

01:00:19.540 and pontificate about how absolutely horrible the trump administration is so everyone gets everyone

01:00:26.980 gets grist for the mill everyone gets you know and in the end venezuelan is citizens within the

01:00:33.700 country and it strengthens latin america it strengthens america because we can lower the

01:00:37.860 amount of refugees drugs and stuff like that coming into our country it it strengthens the republican 1.00

01:00:43.220 party it strengthens right-wing causes yeah it's the only loser is our poor travel business everyone

01:00:50.580 getting so mad about their canceled flights the refunds and the logistics around that i'm sorry

01:00:58.660 simone i know you're doing a lot but all for a greater cause not that our customers would recognize

01:01:05.860 that in some cases some most people are very understanding some people are not i mean you know god

01:01:12.580 forbid but they cancel your flight when the country is in disarray but whatever whatever love you oh

01:01:21.940 yeah there was they made a big blackout didn't they or did it something yeah they did practically trump

01:01:25.860 bragged about it he's like you don't want to be flying when that's happening no i just i just i mean i

01:01:33.540 feel like trump feels like he got a new toy and his administration is thinking how to play with it

01:01:37.700 right like it's delightful yeah we could do this we could just take people gotta take yeah like

01:01:44.980 yeah who else can who let's do it again do me do me do me i know everyone in the administration

01:01:51.060 that's got a guy you know as i said like rubio desperately wants to free cuba he's like me my turn

01:01:56.820 my turn can we do a cuba can we do a cuba

01:01:58.980 yes anyways okay all right i love you bye bye bye bye

01:02:09.140 which one would you like to do next we can do terran nationalism or we'll do your one 0.86

01:02:12.820 okay i'll see you in there hey purple assassinate him looks like a dweeb he looks like a dweeb your 0.74

01:02:19.380 version of jd vance oh no it's like a version of jd vance meme actually oh maybe that's why he 0.67

01:02:26.900 wanted to to end him is because it was insulting to him that someone stole his look you know who

01:02:32.900 wore it better that kind of situation i could totally see it you know sometimes it just someone

01:02:43.780 takes your look and you're mad about it totally understandable it's rough when someone takes your

01:02:52.100 look i love your future day sweater it's delightful

01:02:58.340 it's for future dates see it's not a christmas sweater it's a future day sweater

01:03:01.700 yeah our kids saw the future police for the first time last night

01:03:05.220 and i am livid at my wife because she had the camera the entire time 0.98

01:03:09.780 and took still pictures instead of a single video i did i sent you a video

01:03:14.580 oh you did with it on what's that what's that oh i was looking on the photo app

01:03:28.180 so

01:03:48.420 Thank you.

01:04:06.020 Thank you.

Based Camp - January 06, 2026

Trump (Villainously) Ends a Dictatorship

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