RUMBLE is back and better than ever! The boys are back after a brief hiatus to celebrate the new year. They discuss the latest in Venezuela, the Trump administration, and why Stranger Things is so fucking gay!
00:03:22.000I tell you, it's not everyone who's fortunate enough to work at a job where we enjoyed it.
00:03:26.000You know, it's with my family going, ah, I wish we were doing the show because we could talk about this and probably anger quite a few people, especially as it relates to bring it up, tool man, Venezuela.
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00:13:30.000It's taken us a little while to get into this.
00:13:31.000But we do have, you know, not really New Year's resolutions, but we're going to make sure that with these segments like Venezuela, we give you the need to know right off the bat and then expound upon it.
00:13:41.000Because I will tell you this: I understand that people are really tired of online content, people taking 40 minutes to say what they could say in three.
00:14:57.000But, you know, it's a common theme of mankind is that, you know, nothing that's happening to us is Americans or civilians isn't anything that hasn't happened to humanity.
00:15:07.000I mean, we're surrounded, history's littered with despots and selfish people and greedy people, and they make the rules for the kind people.
00:17:04.000We actually went to high school together.
00:17:06.000But since those days, he has become a very strong and effective opposition leader in Venezuela, which is why the Maduro regime incarcerated him on trumped-up charges in retaliation for him leading nationwide civil protests.
00:17:21.000Leopoldo then spent three years in prison, much of it in solitary confinement where he was tortured.
00:17:30.000If you're a good friend, you just don't, you just don't reach out to him when everything he's fought for, the entire reason for his existence, is coming to fruition.
00:17:39.000You'll see this as a very common through line.
00:17:42.000Like, you will actually see protesters later on in the show saying, free Maduro.
00:17:49.000It's just, if Trump says it, they're against it.
00:17:52.000And you'll see that these same people now who are against it obviously recognize that Maduro was a horrible communist dictator who violated international law.
00:18:18.000You just described your friend being put in solitary confinement for three years and beaten, and you're not celebrating the regime crumbling that did that to him?
00:18:28.000While they are on a red carpet, being served food that is needlessly expensive, needlessly energy wasteful, and sell you fragrances, which are a necessity in no case.
00:18:42.000There's no real world scenario where you can make the case that you need perfume, cologne, a lot of these cosmetic products.
00:19:09.000And they do it when they don't even need more money.
00:19:12.000So they're not going to get any better.
00:19:14.000And Netflix is getting worse, by the way.
00:19:16.000Not only Stranger Things, which we talked about.
00:19:18.000There was some other show where there's some big fat black detective, fat black lesbian lady.
00:19:23.000Some guy dies in the West Wing, and she literally at one point goes like, oh, I can't tell the rest of you apart because you're all white, dudes.
00:19:29.000It's like, yeah, if there's a murder on the loose, everyone's going to say, do we have a fat black dyke who can help us?
00:19:33.000Yes, and not access security camera footage.
00:27:00.000All right, let me go back to the segue.
00:27:01.000Speaking of killing commies, figuratively, politically, Tim Walz, Minnesota, all the Somali pirates who stole the billions of dollars under the guise of helping kids.
00:27:11.000Well, Tim Walz, who said he knew nothing about it, I think he knew something about it because he's not going to seek re-election.
00:27:19.000But as I reflect on this moment with my family and my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion that I can't give a political campaign my all.
00:27:28.000Every minute that I spend defending my inclusion would be a minute I can't spend defending criminals who play and the cynics who want to prey on our differences.
00:27:41.000So I've decided to step out of this race and I'll let others worry about the election while I focus on the work that's in front of me for the next year.
00:28:12.000Keep in mind, this guy was just by the skin of our teeth.
00:28:17.000He didn't end up being vice president of the United States.
00:28:22.000Under his watch, the Somalis and some other scammers, but let's be honest, mostly Somalis, they defrauded Minnesota taxpayers billions of dollars.
00:28:30.000Now, the initial number was like 200, I think I read 250 million just the daycare, but it's going to get worse.
00:28:36.000And there are other places in this country where things like that are happening.
00:34:03.000I'll give them to you and then we'll expound.
00:34:04.000So the winners would be America, the very concept of deterrence, credibility, the people of Venezuela, Marco Rubio, because a hit was put out on him.
00:35:11.000That's enough to me, but there's a whole lot more than that.
00:35:14.000So he appeared in court in New York, which I don't really like.
00:35:19.000I would prefer he'd be dead to face these charges related to narco-terrorism.
00:35:24.000It's a long walk to face the wrath of American justice for Nicholas Maduro and his wife Celia, dressed in matching tan prison uniforms, fit in handcuffs from a chopper, headed to their fire insurance, heavily armed federal.
00:35:41.000Seems pretty seen people in the gallery, a happy new year.
00:35:45.000But then he turned defiant, telling the judge that he has been kidnapped.
00:35:48.000He has been captured in his home in Caracas, Venezuela, and that he is the elected leader of Venezuela and has the right to run his country as he sees fit.
00:35:59.000We're using that term a little loosely these days, elected leaders.
00:36:03.000Turns out it's pretty easy to be elected if you just lock people out from voting.
00:36:06.000And by the way, he had the right to run his country however he chose to, right up until we came and took him.
00:36:33.000But when people just throw out military-industrial complex, there's a lot of red tape.
00:36:36.000I understand that bureaucracy needs to be cleaned up.
00:36:39.000There's also something to be said where the number one superpower of the world, the United States, the gap between us and number two is so wide that the ground can't be made up.
00:36:48.000That's what gives us the ability to negotiate from a place of strength.
00:36:52.000Yeah, and I think the world forgot what the U.S. is capable of because of certain rules of engagement, ROE, that we are using in other conflicts and certain political carefulness and what we are doing.
00:37:04.000But they're just reminded the boogeyman exists and he wears an American flag on his shoulder.
00:37:30.000This is a major step towards reestablishing that.
00:37:33.000And that basically means that the Western hemisphere is our top priority.
00:37:37.000We're geographically protected by oceans, but we don't let anyone in our own backyard start screwing around.
00:37:43.000So this was noted in the 2026 national security strategy where they said we will enlist established friends in the hemisphere to control migration, stop drug flows, and strengthen stability and security on land and sea.
00:37:54.000And here's something else, too, because now you see people, I've seen an argument against this.
00:37:58.000I've seen some fake news circulating too, that, oh, now what's going to happen is Donald Trump's going to give citizenship to all these Venezuelans.
00:43:15.000This is big because President Trump proved once again that he will make good on his threats.
00:43:20.000Whether you agree with it or not, you need to understand that it's an important facet taken into consideration from our enemies when making decisions.
00:43:55.000And to be clear, like, I don't know if you know this, but the empire, you know, the Mongols, and Regengis Khan, it's the, I think, the term that uses the single largest contiguous land empire ever.
00:44:05.000I don't know how you gauge as far as population, things like that, but it was huge.
00:44:10.000Something like one sixteenth of people on earth have some kind of Mongol DNA in them, likely from Genghis Khan himself, because he did not prefer the faith.
00:45:04.000And they would divert a river and flood your entire village.
00:45:08.000And sometimes, even if you surrendered, they still took you out because they wanted to keep you guessing.
00:45:12.000Now, I'm not saying that this is right, but what I'm saying is they got to a certain point where for every five cities they would conquer, they really only needed to militarily take one.
00:46:32.000A Biden administration official says a phone call between President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the situation in Ukraine was quote professional and substantive, but there was quote no fundamental change in the dynamic.
00:46:47.000The president warning a Russian attack would cause widespread human being telling Putin the U.S. and its allies would quote respond decisively with swift and severe costs.
00:46:58.000Literally 12 days later, major breaking news this now as Ukrainian government leaders has begun.
00:48:08.000There is something wrong with lacking any self-awareness whatsoever, where you are actually doing the bidding of totalitarian dictators and communists.
00:48:16.000Again, I'm actually happy that we're back to killing communists.
00:48:18.000So let's compare the Venezuelan reaction, the people who've lived under this kind of rule, or similar countries, places like Cuba, versus the American leftists.
00:48:29.000And ask yourself, how are they so out of touch?
00:49:15.000Definitely, I think it's something we not only have to celebrate, but thank our President Trump because if it wasn't for him, nothing would be possible.
00:51:41.000We were willing to take our chances with anyone else.
00:51:44.000And there need to be consequences if you violate your contracts and screw the United States, especially if you're setting up a landing pad for China and Russia.
00:51:54.000One theory I will say that is unsubstantiated, but going around, and I think is reasonable, that Maduro was looking for an exit strategy, and this capture may have been some sort of a plea deal arranged behind the scenes with Donald Trump.
00:52:08.000The good news is we have exclusive audio.
00:55:30.000A lot of people are forgetting why we're concerned about that region and the investments that China's making worldwide and the things they're trying to do with rare earths.
00:56:01.000I don't think it does anything for Taiwan.
00:56:03.000Also, keep in mind, a lot of these people, a lot of these sort of libertarians, these black pillars, and I'm really generally non-interventionist.
00:58:35.000They tried to act like they didn't too.
00:58:37.000Somebody from the Kremlin was like, no, we could do that easily.
00:58:40.000With the United States and Venezuela, we could do that easily, probably even easier, but we haven't done it because we respect international law.
00:59:00.000One analyst wrote, the speed with which these systems were neutralized signals a catastrophic failure again of Russian export air defense technology against fifth generation Western air power.
00:59:13.000So now Russia has abandoned their buddies in Syria, Iran, Venezuela, and now their oil is less relevant than ever.
00:59:21.000Well, certainly for the United States.
00:59:45.000If you increase production in Venezuela, because they had gone to like very low levels relative to how much oil they have of production, it's ridiculously low.
00:59:53.000If you start ramping that up, it does put more pressure on Russia.
01:00:43.000If you were to put them in charge of a company, those are the people who would take all the money for themselves as a salary, be broken five years, and the company goes under.
01:00:51.000They have no idea how to build a business, how to build anything.
01:00:54.000Communists, socialists, they only destroy.
01:00:56.000And then it turns out we're better than them at that too.
01:01:00.000Well, not Cuba, the Cuban government, to be clear.
01:01:03.000So both Chavez and Maduro, they really, I mean, so many people hated Maduro in Venezuela that he needed to find Cubans to actually help protect him.
01:01:15.00032 Cuban officers were killed in that raid.
01:01:19.000And now, when asked, the United States warned that, you know what?
01:02:41.000Oh, the United States gets blamed for violating international law, not China and Russia who assisted these evil dictators in violating international law.
01:02:49.000You would see Cuba, I mean, just imagine the tobacco, the tobacco industry, the people who are there, who own the tobacco fields, they'd get it back from the Cuban government and they'd be able to host a bidding war.
01:02:59.000Hey, which one of these companies who've moved to Nicaragua, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, who wants to start running this ship?
01:03:58.000The Trump administration, they reportedly gave an ultimatum to Venezuela to sever ties with China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, or, well, you know how it ends.
01:04:08.000Second loser is this concept of, I know I'm going a little long today, international law.
01:04:21.000And the libertarians and leftists, by the way, who are far closer together.
01:04:25.000It used to be libertarians were kind of more in the conservative wing, only they wanted a bunch of weed and Bitcoin or whatever it was.
01:04:31.000But now they're basically liberals who claim that they're not woke.
01:04:36.000I'm sorry, it's really hard for me to delineate.
01:04:39.000When you welcome Islamists with open arms and condemn an action that killed a communist dictator with no loss of life to us, I just think you're a liberal who wants to pretend that you're a part of intelligentsia because these people are all now whining.
01:04:55.000This actually, President Trump violated international law.
01:05:04.000Well, it's not legal because it violates international law.
01:05:07.000If you have suggested for somebody in a third country to say members of the Trump administration have violated international law or violated the law of their country, and they're going to storm into our country and abduct these people and take them away.
01:05:20.000If a foreign power accused the British prime minister of breaking its domestic law, bombed targets in the UK, killed dozens of British citizens, and abducted the prime minister and his wife in the middle of the night, would the government be able to say that was legal?
01:05:34.000Or is international law only something that applies when Donald Trump says it can?
01:05:39.000People in news and stuff like that saying that, like, well, hey, there's no such thing as international law anyway.
01:05:44.000It's all bullshit because there's no enforcement mechanism, which is like, that is true to agree.
01:05:55.000A better world is that if nation states agree that we won't invade each other and we won't topple each other's governments, you could just break that whenever you want to.
01:06:03.000That is the way the United States of America operates.
01:06:06.000So unless the Nazis or unless Stalin, unless they invaded other countries, so if they just did all that, we shouldn't do anything.
01:07:27.000So you would think that if they were going to use their military might to protect anything, it would be their leader, their glorified narco-terrorist, in the biggest military compound.
01:07:36.000Same thing you would think with Iran, right?
01:07:38.000If they were going to use their military might to protect anything, it would be the enrichment facility that would be required for them to build a nuke, which I wish I loved anything as much as Iran wants to build a nuke.
01:08:42.000So if we could do this to Maduro, we're just allowing Canada to play country.
01:08:48.000That's a lot of these countries, to be clear.
01:08:49.000Do you have any idea how easy it would be?
01:08:51.000That would be an imperialist nation, which, by the way, I'm okay with a little bit of conquest at this point because I think it does benefit the United States.
01:09:17.000Power does matter because you see these pundits and people online, they're talking about, well, how about somebody comes and takes our president?
01:09:29.000If they did do it, if they were able to do it, and then they did do it, we would immediately declare war and then destroy everything that they own.
01:10:07.000The EU recalls that under all circumstances, the principles of international law and the UN Charter must be upheld.
01:10:13.000Members of the United States Security Council have a particular responsibility to uphold those principles as a pillar of the international security architecture.
01:10:23.000Let's go back to then, August 2024, the EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrel discussing Maduro and the election.
01:10:30.000He said, as there are no tallies and there is no verification and we fear that there will never be any, we cannot accept Maduro's legitimacy as Venezuela's president-elect.
01:11:05.000Once again, you're seeing that this president's foreign policy, the invasion of Venezuela, the ouster of Maduro, is about making his crowd filthy rich.
01:11:15.000It has nothing to do with American national security.
01:11:18.000This brings us back to then, January 2019.
01:13:30.000In May, Duckworth described not as a foreign leader, but Venezuela as living under a dictatorship when Trump wanted to send Venezuelans who were here illegally back home.
01:14:19.000The Democrats and libertarians are so far gone that the voice of reason in their party is the guy with stroke face.
01:14:27.000I respect my friend in Connecticut, but we have different views on this and perhaps other views as well.
01:14:35.000Again, I just said this on my social media that, you know, remind everybody that America is a force of good, order, and democracy, and we are promoting these kinds of values.
01:14:47.000We are the good guys, you know, that pretend that we are acting in a way.
01:14:52.000Now, remember, we all Democrats years ago wanted to eliminate him.
01:14:57.000And they, why, why have a bounty of $25 million if we didn't want him gone?
01:15:02.000Why would you do these things if you weren't willing to actually do something other than harsh language?
01:16:38.000Is anyone actually still trying to make the case that the Iranian strike, whether you agree with it or not, in principle, that it escalated things?
01:16:47.000International law doesn't exist, but winning does, and turns out it's popular with Americans, according to my favorite person at CNN.
01:19:05.000Maybe they want to be a part of the free market economy and do better and improve the quality of life for their citizens, or maybe they don't.
01:19:35.000They produce a lot of it, but it's crude.
01:19:36.000This could be a huge problem for Canada.
01:19:40.000Guess they should have built those pipelines.
01:19:42.000For decades now, Canada's oil patch has prospered from the decline of Venezuela's industry.
01:19:47.000Now, that same industry could pose a new competitive threat.
01:19:50.000We went to Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Canada.
01:19:54.000Lino Carrillo was one of hundreds of highly trained workers who ended up in Alberta and there the pitcher from Alberta is identical to the pitcher in the Orinoco target.
01:20:07.000If Venezuela's oil were to start flowing again at the level it once did, it could pose a problem for Canada, especially given its ease of access to Gulf Coast refineries.
01:20:16.000You'll just pull a tanker up, unload, and then you're kind of competing directly with Canadian barrels.
01:20:21.000Yeah, 90% of Canada's crude oil was exported to the United States.
01:20:25.000Well, so now they're definitely going to be looking at cheaper costs.
01:20:28.000They're going to have to compete, and it could drive them out of the market.
01:20:31.000Also, Chinese refiners, the refineries that are going to be hurt as well.
01:20:35.000So, this is really a net, as far as oil, only a net benefit really to the United States, the people of Venezuela, not so much to Canada, who screwed around and found out, not so much to China, and not so much to Russia because there's more global access to oil.
01:20:49.000There are a lot of wins going on right now as far as immigration, as far as oil, as far as our standing in the world.
01:20:56.000That was something where people said, You have any idea we're going to be a laughingstock.
01:21:02.000And I kept telling you guys this: you're going to have eight years of Obama, four years of Donald Trump, three really, COVID's a lost year, four years of Biden, and now we're having Donald Trump again.
01:21:12.000I don't know that we've ever in history had a more clear example of contrast in American approaches.
01:21:21.000I'm talking about getting things done.
01:21:24.000What do you think history is going to say about Donald Trump versus Joe Biden and our approach?
01:21:30.000What do you think history will say about Maduro, about Chavez?
01:21:34.000What do you think the history books will say about the Bernie Sanders, the Sean Pennsylvania, the Oliver Stones of the world who praised Chavez, who praised, by the way, the Castros and did nothing while those people starved, while those people lost weight, while they were driven into abject poverty?
01:21:49.000The only questions that remain is: hey, what kind of a government are they going to have?
01:21:58.000We don't know those things yet, but we do know that the calculus from the people who've been screaming the sky is falling, whether it's Iran, whether it's Venezuela, I mean Canada as well, they've been wrong about pretty much all of their predictions thus far.