Venezuela the 51st State - Governor Carney, Call Donald About 52
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I woke up this morning thinking Donald Trump just made Venezuela the 51st state. Too bad, Canada, you had your chance. Happy New Year! - John Rocha Today's Aftershow: - President Trump's decision to remove Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power - What's going to happen with Venezuela now that Donald Trump has control of the largest oil reserves in the world? - Why Canada should call Mar-A-Lago and ask Donald Trump if Canada can be 52. - Canada should be 52 because you might need the United States before too long because, wow, what a weekend it has been.
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You know, I woke up this morning thinking Donald Trump just made Venezuela the 51st state.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 345 AM, Sunday, January the 4th. I hope you're having a
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great start to your Sunday, a great weekend, and a great start to your new year as well. Here with
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the big blue mug of coffee this morning. I appreciate you being here. I really do.
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And I woke up this morning. I'm chuckling a little bit because you almost have to laugh.
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I'm chuckling this morning because at 2, 2.30, I'm looking at the news, which is dominated right now
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by what happened with Donald Trump, the American military, and Venezuela. Just astounding.
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And how things have changed. And I'm laying there around 2.30 thinking, you know what? Donald Trump
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just made Venezuela the 51st state. That's what I was thinking this morning. And I was thinking,
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you know, maybe, maybe Canada, not Alberta. I still want to become independent. Okay. I still
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want an independent country. I think we can do better by ourselves. But maybe Canada should be
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on the phone with Mar-a-Lago today asking Donald Trump if Canada can be 52 because you might need
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the United States before too long because, wow, what a weekend it has been. It's just think of this.
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This article ran just on December the 31st in Al Jazeera. U.S. imposes more sanctions on tankers
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transporting Venezuelan oil. The sanctions come amid President Trump's pressure campaign that
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critics say is aimed at toppling Venezuelan leader, Nicolas Maduro. And now apparently he's in New York
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City in chains with his wife after being hauled out of their bed the other night, pretty much without
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bloodshed and transported to the United States of America. It's astounding. This has happened
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in just a couple of days. Now, for the most part, people are saying this is a good thing.
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There's a communist dictator running Venezuela. The people there are being treated very poorly
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because that's what happens when you get socialist communist country. Other than people like
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Momdani, who's the mayor of New York City, who's a communist himself and wants to turn New York into
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Venezuela. Most people think this is a pretty good thing. He's freed up millions of Venezuelans from
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communist rule. But now Donald Trump has control of the largest oil reserves in the world. What does
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this mean for Canada and my province of Alberta right now? And no doubt he's surely pissed off the
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Russians and the Chinese who have been feeding the economy and Maduro to get access to their oil.
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They no longer have access to that. And here's some questions for you. What happens next? Now,
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Warren Kinsella, great article in the Toronto Sun today. I'll put a link in the description to all
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of these stories. Let me find it here for you. There you go. Trump's decision to capture of Maduro,
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the right move. But now what? Having now efficiently removed the evil despot from power, what is Trump
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going to do with Venezuela? Well, you know what he's going to do with Venezuela? Look at this.
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This is in Politico. And this ran yesterday. Trump admin sends tough private message to oil companies
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on Venezuela. The White House has told companies they must rebuild Venezuela's crude pumping
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infrastructure if they want compensation for assets seized by Caracas. So this oil is going to end up
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on the market. They're only pumping apparently about 30% of what they can right now. And if all that oil
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ends up on the market, Donald Trump's going to ship this stuff around the world and likely take a lot of
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it to the United States, why would he need Alberta anymore?
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Meanwhile, we've got a leader of this country who's concerned about climate change. Do you think
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Donald Trump gives a damn about climate change now that he has control of the largest oil reserves in
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the world? This article right here, Lori Goldstein published yesterday, Canada's climate targets were
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always a fantasy. Prime Minister Mark Carney has correctly admitted that the federal government
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will not achieve its 2030 and 2035 industrial greenhouse gas emission targets under the climate
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strategy of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. We have too much regulation, not enough action.
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Costing federal taxpayers more than $200 billion and funding 149 government programs administered by 13
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federal departments, the plan was expected to achieve at best half of its promised emission cuts.
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And all they care about is cuts to emissions. What is this actually doing for the environment?
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But here's the thing, folks. How much oil is the United States going to need from Alberta when it's
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got its own oil reserves, it looks now, in Venezuela? This is going to have a massive impact on Alberta's
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oil and our oil prices. And the people out east who have been sitting out there collecting money from
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the bank account that is the west might have their bank account cut off. So you might want to call
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Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and ask if you can be 52.
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Meanwhile, my province and my premiers had to sign a memorandum of understanding with Mark Carney
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to try to negotiate perhaps maybe a pipeline to the west coast and pretty soon it might not even matter.
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We've been standing around for decades with our dick in our hands talking about climate change and the
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whole world has been turned upside down. What do you think is going to happen when the largest oil
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reserves end up on the market? Oil prices will drop, probably devastate the economy here in Alberta
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because of the dithering of Mark Carney and the Liberals and all of the eco-wackos who are out east.
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And what else is going to happen? Emissions are going to go up. What do you expect to happen?
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Donald Trump is going to unleash the largest oil reserves in the world. They're going to go up.
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And what have we been preached for years and years here in Canada by people like Mark Carney and the EU
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and the UN? Don't you think talk like that should end now? And don't you think Canada should be
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announcing a pipeline today to the west coast and have it built by spring? Because if we don't act
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fast, the horse is going to be out of the barn. Is the United States going to need Alberta oil when
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it's got all those reserves in Venezuela? They just seized it over the weekend, folks.
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Maybe Alberta should just say, Universal Declaration of Independence and leave now
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and not go down with the sinking ship. And maybe, Mark,
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you should get on the horn with Trump and ask him about 52nd State.
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