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00:00:59.980 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

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00:01:05.920 Yes, it is indeed the Anthony Cumia

00:01:07.920 Show. Thanks for tuning

00:01:09.900 in. Man, it's

00:01:12.000 a whole new year

00:01:13.360 and, you know, we've had

00:01:16.000 a little time off.

00:01:17.580 We all understand every year

00:01:19.900 what this is like.

00:01:20.880 picking yourself up by those old bootstraps 0.99

00:01:24.440 and kicking your ass back into work, 1.00

00:01:27.940 back into doing what you do. 1.00

00:01:30.140 I gather a lot of people probably worked

00:01:32.940 in between the Christmas, New Year thing,

00:01:35.140 but some people get off the entire time,

00:01:39.720 and that means tomorrow, mañana, is time for work.

00:01:45.300 And boy, that's something that just bites at you

00:01:49.040 the whole weekend.

00:01:49.880 you had all that time off and by saturday sometimes even friday night you're just thinking

00:01:56.260 oh god it's almost over i gotta go back you gotta go back on monday and it's friday

00:02:03.620 like i'll just enjoy my friday night i got saturday and then sunday and i'll oh yeah but

00:02:10.740 then monday it really is uh psychologically wears on you but uh so it is so it is every year that's

00:02:21.480 what happens i hope everybody had a safe and fun new year's eve um not not too many horror stories

00:02:30.120 which which is good except for uh the uh the kiss on new year's eve that was

00:02:37.880 I watched that for New Year's Eve, you know, the feed from Times Square.

00:02:46.460 And everybody, of course, kisses their significant other or whoever's next to them on New Year's Eve at the stroke of midnight.

00:02:56.940 And there were two gentlemen, some five o'clock shadow, just like dudes.

00:03:04.720 and uh you know i guess they were an item and uh started making out during the montage

00:03:12.740 of people kissing during during uh new year's eve ringing in the new year

00:03:18.700 and uh i guess it might have been espn or one of them it was so friggin funny the the guy hosting

00:03:28.500 that show he's uh he's watching and he sees the two guys kissing and he goes oh what the hey that

00:03:38.040 there you go it's great that people are he almost lost his job he almost lost his job it was so

00:03:48.120 funny to watch because you know he's just what the hell is going on here why are we watching

00:03:56.920 and it hit him in in in a split second his life flashed before his eyes if he said that

00:04:05.240 and uh fired shunned the the apology tour trying to get a gig and it all within a second

00:04:16.060 flashed before his eyes and he went what the hell is this fat look people just having fun and

00:04:24.180 ringing in the new year uh i know things are changing i see a lot of um stand-up comics these 0.97

00:04:32.380 days making jokes about uh gays trans minorities you know whatever it is it's it it it's uh it

00:04:41.820 wasn't happening for a while and people aren't getting as jammed up and in trouble for voicing

00:04:48.460 their opinions on things like sexuality and race and crime and things like that.

00:04:55.400 So it might be safer these days to actually be outspoken about that stuff, but not when

00:05:06.640 you're a TV host like that.

00:05:09.080 So to see him pull back on those reins and make it seem like it was a great thing that

00:05:15.300 was happening when he was utterly disgusted by two men kissing was a great start to the new year

00:05:24.300 that was that was fun uh nice quiet one here i don't mind bottle of champagne the significant

00:05:32.820 other and uh the dog the cat tv that's great i was saying uh last week i'm not a big go out

00:05:41.160 on new year's eve guy uh never have been i usually had parties over my house but the idea of getting

00:05:47.500 out on the roadways and if it's not the drunks it's the cops and you know it's amateur hour

00:05:54.900 out there rookies bunch of rookies they don't know how to drink they don't handle their drink well

00:06:01.580 so uh yeah i just hope you had a great uh safe and fun new year's eve and uh boy we're ringing

00:06:10.480 it in with a bang, if I may have a pun. Venezuela, the Trump military action, is that what we're

00:06:22.280 calling it? A military action, an operation? Allow me to show you my operation. Or war,

00:06:32.360 as the left and the Democrats are hypocritically calling it. 0.70

00:06:41.840 There is a lot going on here, a lot.

00:06:46.120 And there's a few schools of thought on speaking about this.

00:06:53.020 There's, hey, because I've been asked this,

00:06:55.980 hey, Anthony, how do you feel about what Trump did?

00:06:59.040 You seem to be an America first kind of a guy.

00:07:02.360 uh trump promised uh no new wars this that the other thing and i'm like yeah yeah

00:07:08.360 there's there's a lot to digest there then there is regardless or irregardless

00:07:15.900 of uh how you feel about what was actually done there's also a big discussion about

00:07:23.800 how the left is handling it poorly i would say poorly is a good way to describe how they're

00:07:33.960 handling it they uh the hypocrisy is just it's it's so thick with these uh democrats and liberals

00:07:45.980 and politicians and all the talking heads on the mainstream media

00:07:52.940 and social media.

00:07:55.000 So there's two different topics there.

00:07:59.260 And we'll definitely talk about those tonight and your calls.

00:08:05.280 Don't forget, I just cherish, I cherish what you people have to say,

00:08:12.120 what your opinions are regardless of what the audience says in the comments uh 800-848-9222

00:08:22.840 800-848-9222 gets you uh on the phones uh also i i do scroll through my x account and uh read

00:08:32.240 some of the comments there so i'm anthony cumia on x and during the show you can comment on

00:08:39.200 anything i've tweeted or post something new with my name in it and uh i might read it right here

00:08:44.500 on these very airwaves and um so i'm going to start with the actual mission

00:08:52.780 operation whatever you want to call it uh donald trump and company decided it was time to do

00:09:01.040 something about this nicolas maduro who's been the president of venezuela for a while

00:09:09.160 And I think a lot of people have determined his presidency wasn't all that legit.

00:09:16.060 And they've spoken out over the course of the years that he needs to be dealt with.

00:09:22.780 Some of the people have said he needs to be removed.

00:09:25.980 And by people, I mean American politicians on the right and left said, hey, this guy's no good for Venezuela.

00:09:33.200 He's he's destroying the place.

00:09:34.900 um poverty there's natural resources there that he wasn't able to use didn't want to use

00:09:44.260 the country was poor he's rich you know a dictator a dictator dictatorship and um

00:09:52.540 then trump decides to do something about it and there's an argument here as to why

00:10:00.540 Why did Donald Trump decide to do something about it?

00:10:06.100 Humanitarian reasons?

00:10:08.800 Drugs?

00:10:10.020 Is it the drugs coming in?

00:10:11.560 The oil?

00:10:13.140 Is it oil?

00:10:14.240 We'll talk about that, too.

00:10:17.080 We'll talk about that, too.

00:10:18.480 But right now, whatever the reason was, he did.

00:10:23.560 He went in and arrested, arrested Nicolas Maduro and Celia Flores, Maduro's wife.

00:10:36.080 What kind of man could he be if his wife has a different last name?

00:10:39.720 I don't want your last name. 0.50

00:10:42.060 So they arrested them.

00:10:44.960 It supposedly, by any evidence we've seen, went off without a hitch.

00:10:50.880 Guys got in there, they infiltrated, they took Madura and his wife out,

00:11:00.500 and no American casualties there.

00:11:04.420 So that's good. 0.93

00:11:05.960 That is a good thing.

00:11:08.520 And I think that is really pissing off the Democrats.

00:11:13.940 They would have loved to have seen a debacle, a cluster F, something that they really could have turned around and gone, oh, my God, the guy can't handle anything.

00:11:27.060 You know, like Joe Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal, something like that.

00:11:31.640 They would have loved to have seen a scenario like that where it was just a disaster.

00:11:37.580 But it wasn't.

00:11:38.340 pete uh hedgeseff uh the the minister of war minister uh secretary of war uh and and donald

00:11:51.260 trump and and all the military upper echelon that put this together did a great job they

00:11:58.100 seemed to know where the guy was what he was doing how to get to him what was needed to

00:12:02.740 breach his residence

00:12:05.040 and get him out of there

00:12:07.220 quick and easy

00:12:08.140 there were some bombs

00:12:10.580 that were dropped I saw some video

00:12:12.920 of explosions

00:12:14.380 pretty sensational

00:12:16.000 and that was that

00:12:18.920 and

00:12:20.580 you know we'll talk about why

00:12:22.360 Trump may have done this

00:12:24.020 that was how the

00:12:26.880 mission was accomplished

00:12:28.040 it's soaking

00:12:30.860 it in and how

00:12:31.880 So Americans, the Democrats, the Republicans, some other world leaders are reacting to it,

00:12:39.580 what they're saying, and the blatant hypocrisy on the left about what Trump did with this mission.

00:12:49.980 So your calls also, like I said, 800-848-9222, and we'll be back and get this rolling.

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00:13:43.160 Is it war?

00:13:44.560 Is it illegal?

00:13:46.340 Is Trump a war criminal?

00:13:47.840 Did he circumvent the Constitution by not informing Congress of his intentions in Venezuela?

00:13:59.840 Oh, my God.

00:14:02.020 So much going on on social media, which is another part of this story, social media.

00:14:10.880 the the news of of this uh venezuelan operation uh was put out there on x that's really where

00:14:21.660 99 of the people except maybe the venezuelans found out that this was even going on

00:14:28.300 within minutes there was a guy on x in venezuela walking down the street streaming

00:14:35.180 He was just streaming, because that's what he does, maybe a Venezuelan influencer.

00:14:42.260 And you see the lights around him go out.

00:14:46.280 You hear a big explosion and hear air raid sirens going off.

00:14:52.660 And at that point, what's the mainstream media?

00:14:56.780 You're going to switch to Fox News or CNN and get the scoop on what's happening?

00:15:02.620 dinosaurs mainstream media are dinosaurs in this day and age thank god too because not only are 0.99

00:15:11.340 they dinosaurs they're lying pieces of crap you're not getting the story without their 0.98

00:15:18.720 political spin on it and um you know i like social media being there you you absorb what happens 0.99

00:15:26.380 and you use everything, your own resources, your knowledge, your experience,

00:15:33.520 cross-reference some other things that you can find and find out,

00:15:38.260 look up the people involved.

00:15:40.680 Like no one really, I don't think any real laymen who aren't politically active

00:15:46.400 or do any kind of a political show even knew who Maduro was.

00:15:54.400 i thought it was that mexican beer no maduro no one knew venezuela a bunch of people i don't even

00:16:04.120 know where it is on a map that that's that's pretty much what's going on and then uh with x

00:16:10.700 you have the opportunity if you want to educate yourself make your own decisions and the media

00:16:17.400 hates that oh boy do they hate when you make your own decisions and opinions about things that are

00:16:25.000 going on so uh that's a big part of uh this story also but um the uh the hypocrisy the unbelievable 0.96

00:16:36.640 hypocrisy hakeem jeffries they're all spewing how this is illegal it's uh terrible it's it's 0.59

00:16:46.000 trump doing more of his dictator stuff how is removing a dictator being a dictator i guess 0.55

00:16:54.500 you could you could say uh that he wants to be he wants to also run venezuela he did say

00:17:02.660 that the u.s will be running venezuela in the interim while they get a leader in there who's

00:17:08.960 in there now delance uh delcy delcy rodriguez or as they say on the news delcy rodriguez in

00:17:16.940 venezuela yes they they love putting on that accent when they do their uh newscasts so um 0.99

00:17:24.500 uh she's in there and uh trump uh gave her the hey you better you better watch your ass 0.98

00:17:35.300 Trump's just out there telling these leaders now, hey, don't put it past me, man. 0.98

00:17:41.000 Do not put it past me.

00:17:42.660 And I think this works out well for the country.

00:17:47.540 Whether this Venezuelan mission that was done over the weekend,

00:17:55.140 and how it hashes out in the future,

00:17:59.000 because a lot of politicians are saying this is regime change.

00:18:05.040 And any time we've done regime change, it never works out well.

00:18:11.280 We've done it before.

00:18:12.860 Look how Iraq turned out, Afghanistan. 0.97

00:18:15.860 We try these things.

00:18:18.420 And the one thing here that's different is Donald Trump.

00:18:24.940 donald trump isn't like any of these other presidents for good or bad for good or bad

00:18:33.280 he's not like any of these other presidents that have undertaken regime change over the

00:18:39.160 course of the years his motivation is different uh if if this is indeed an opportunity to get

00:18:50.780 american hands on venezuela venezuelan oil because that's always the thing anytime we do anything in

00:18:59.600 a country that has oil under their ground uh it could couldn't possibly be for anything else but

00:19:06.440 that oil and i don't know who am i i'm not privy to uh the deep uh basement levels of the pentagon

00:19:14.880 or the cia or anything like that so i don't know but it's it does seem that when uh these wars are

00:19:23.740 undertaken for oil as they've said in the past that the only people that really win are the

00:19:31.500 politicians and the the higher ups in that mysterious illuminati top of the pyramid

00:19:38.300 because our fuel prices just keep going up during those past instances.

00:19:45.280 You know, the Iraq war.

00:19:47.500 Oh, they got oil.

00:19:48.680 If we go over there and take them over, we'll get oil.

00:19:52.600 And all of a sudden our oil prices go down.

00:19:54.520 And then you realize, oh, no.

00:19:57.600 See, the cronies and the contractors and the politicians,

00:20:01.640 they're not going to pass the savings on to us.

00:20:04.780 they just want to make the money off the oil and keep charging us more per per gallon at the tank

00:20:12.680 and uh for our heating oil and everything else we use fuel for so um those wars for oil

00:20:19.600 uh we never saw any of it i honestly think if we if we were to utilize venezuela's oil

00:20:28.620 and it drove our energy costs down, I'm all for it.

00:20:34.580 I am all for it.

00:20:37.280 Why did we stop doing things like this?

00:20:41.340 Why did we stop things like conquering?

00:20:45.280 You know, maybe come up with a different term, you know,

00:20:49.180 like they do with abortion. 1.00

00:20:50.620 They call it health care, women's health care. 0.87

00:20:56.120 But it's like abortion. 0.78

00:20:57.260 But abortion, even the left knows it's an ugly term. 0.91

00:21:00.140 It's like, oh, women's health care.

00:21:01.380 Why can't conquering be something?

00:21:04.000 And not colonialism, imperialism.

00:21:07.300 That doesn't work either.

00:21:09.500 A good, fun name that everyone could get behind and like

00:21:13.140 that doesn't sound like you're conquering somebody, taking the spoils.

00:21:20.640 Look, we have people coming into this country every day from other nations

00:21:25.440 and reaping the spoils of the United States. 1.00

00:21:30.700 And we just sit around and take it.

00:21:33.620 Taxpayers dole out tax dollars.

00:21:35.600 If I'm paying tax dollars for a military,

00:21:39.380 why shouldn't I want them to be utilized for the benefit of this country?

00:21:45.440 I'm not talking about fighting foreign wars for Israel

00:21:49.300 or fighting it for Saudi Arabia, for their oil.

00:21:54.360 We have to do something that they want us to do.

00:21:57.680 I'm talking about our unbelievable, strong military going into a country and going, yeah, we need a little of that.

00:22:08.120 We're going to be skimming that like the old like the mob with the casinos.

00:22:12.940 What's the skim? 0.99

00:22:14.520 What's the skim?

00:22:15.880 Oh, there you go.

00:22:16.920 We're going to we're going to take a little of your oil.

00:22:19.240 Why?

00:22:20.140 Why do we have to be nice?

00:22:21.640 Why do we have to obey these world rules that we didn't make up?

00:22:28.460 We're always the evil one, the United States.

00:22:32.360 Always so evil. 0.62

00:22:35.460 I like this.

00:22:37.380 I got to be honest.

00:22:38.860 And this doesn't seem like a quagmire, or this doesn't seem like a boondoggle,

00:22:45.040 or some kind of a protracted war like Afghanistan, Iraq.

00:22:51.640 Whatever the hell we're doing in Syria, Libya, all those nonsense wars

00:22:59.480 where most Americans don't even know we have troops there.

00:23:03.920 This is one afternoon, one evening, in, out.

00:23:09.040 We get the big guy.

00:23:10.260 We go, yeah, we're going to be the boss for a little while.

00:23:14.720 And then we take some of their natural resources, the spoils.

00:23:18.800 spoils. What happened to getting the spoils? Our matey, where's the treasure chest? The booty.

00:23:27.260 I like that. The idea of that. Sorry, that is America first to me. Why does America first have

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00:24:14.740 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

00:24:16.500 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:24:20.720 The Anthony Cumia Show,

00:24:22.440 and of course we are talking about Venezuela.

00:24:25.960 Venezuela.

00:24:27.820 And what went down over the weekend,

00:24:30.600 what people are saying about it.

00:24:33.460 As a matter of fact, oh, I think you've got to click that little thing on the phones back at home base up there.

00:24:40.700 How is it, New York Colt?

00:24:42.240 Hmm.

00:24:43.380 I was out with a T-shirt today.

00:24:45.380 Marvelous.

00:24:46.840 Marvelous.

00:24:47.580 Ha, ha, ha.

00:24:49.660 Here we go.

00:24:50.520 Where's Steve?

00:24:51.360 Steve Manhattan.

00:24:52.560 Hey, you've got a new mayor, Steve.

00:24:54.380 How are you doing?

00:24:56.120 Anthony, we're doing great, man.

00:24:57.820 It's great to hear you, and happy New Year, everybody.

00:25:01.540 Thank you.

00:25:03.000 I got to just say something to just to make this thing sound good to everybody.

00:25:07.640 Right now in America, there are only two types of people. 0.64

00:25:10.860 There's the type of people who are the patriots who want to get rid of the 65 Immigration Act and the people who are spokesmen for the establishment who keep saying, oh, just just come here legally. 0.51

00:25:22.940 Yeah, come here legally and turn Dearborn, Michigan upside down and Minnesota upside down and New York City upside down.

00:25:29.580 And it's crazy.

00:25:30.760 And you know something? People are wondering, like in Venezuela, let's face the fact they're sending drugs in here.

00:25:37.540 And we know damn well all the countries will pick up the slack with sending the drugs because the market demands it. 0.98

00:25:43.960 But also that psychopath, Mindoro, was sending in his murderers, his rapists, drug dealers, all kinds of freaks and scam artists into America. 0.97

00:25:53.080 One of the freaks from Venezuela murdered Laken Riley from Georgia. 0.97

00:25:57.540 It's two years now that girl was murdered. And some of that, like you call it booty very appropriately, that money, that treasure. 0.97

00:26:04.660 I think a nice five million dollar check from that oil should be sent to that family and everybody who's been a victim of what's going on with these invaders coming into this country.

00:26:14.420 And we built the whole oil structure in Venezuela. He just pulled the Castro. 0.95

00:26:19.240 He threw the American oil companies out of there, you know, i.e. corporations, multinational.

00:26:25.280 And that's why they can't run the joint. 1.00

00:26:27.560 And also the Chinese can't run it. 1.00

00:26:29.300 Their buddies are the Chinese and the Russians. 0.90

00:26:32.520 And we know where their buddies now. 0.99

00:26:34.540 Those were their big, they were always talking big, right?

00:26:36.700 Well, Putin is bogged down in Kiev, right?

00:26:39.420 And he can't get out of there.

00:26:41.220 And China, you know, you know what Trump's going to do.

00:26:44.200 He's going to send a giant, big, humongous tariff.

00:26:47.320 If they try to do anything, he'll hit them with a tariff, like, bigger than the universe and stuff.

00:26:53.760 So that's crazy.

00:26:55.140 But that's the way it goes, folks. 1.00

00:26:57.000 These people are sending their people over here.

00:26:58.900 They're having a field day.

00:27:00.100 They're robbing us blind.

00:27:01.840 And realistically, if we don't address these issues, the country's gone.

00:27:05.780 I'm telling you now because, Ann, I know you're really engaged and stuff, but there are a lot of people who've been engaged for 20, 30, 40 years.

00:27:14.700 I've talked to guys.

00:27:16.020 They said they're going to walk away from it.

00:27:18.000 And these are conservative dudes.

00:27:19.500 They say, I'm not going to bother no more voting or anything.

00:27:21.780 They're so fed up that nothing is done.

00:27:24.320 And then you brought up, like, man, Danny and the buses and stuff.

00:27:26.920 I could tell you, first of all, how many people in this audience have recently been on a New York City bus?

00:27:32.520 Come on now, folks.

00:27:33.220 Yeah, that's true.

00:27:33.600 The last time I was on a city bus, there's no BS, was high school in New York City, all right?

00:27:39.880 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:40.440 And I think you had to flash the pass, and you had to put something, and I forgot how much it was.

00:27:44.680 There was one bus driver.

00:27:46.540 If one kid didn't throw the, I don't know, the quarter in or whatever it is, he would shut the bus down, and everybody would be two hours late for work.

00:27:54.320 I wonder where that dude is now.

00:27:55.980 But listen, the trains and buses are free now.

00:27:58.900 I mean, I'm on the trains.

00:28:00.000 They jump over the style.

00:28:01.360 They open the emergency store right in front of the police offices.

00:28:05.080 That's true.

00:28:05.620 And 10, 20 people come running in.

00:28:07.800 That's why they had to do the congestion pricing.

00:28:10.480 They make the suckers who drive around below 60th Street, they make them pay all that extra money

00:28:15.580 because you're paying for the people who don't pay the fare.

00:28:19.200 Who don't pay.

00:28:19.700 It's welfare.

00:28:20.880 Again, it's a welfare system.

00:28:23.560 The people that work, the hard workers, the people that get paid and earn their money,

00:28:28.680 being forced to give it over to the people that don't, criminals, welfare recipients.

00:28:34.660 and uh it it doesn't have to go through a vote or anything they do it by proxy you will pay these

00:28:42.900 fares for uh transportation they will not and you will absorb the cost of the people that aren't

00:28:49.100 paying thank you steve appreciate your uh your call um yeah the the idea i like this idea uh 0.91

00:28:59.040 Lake and Riley being murdered a couple of years ago by this Venezuelan maniac. 0.96

00:29:06.640 Yeah, they got money. 1.00

00:29:08.480 They got resources down there.

00:29:10.120 We take over with pumping the oil and pulling the gold out of the ground or whatever,

00:29:15.340 and then we can, you know, it's not going to replace a loved one,

00:29:19.200 but make it a little easier for the families by giving them a huge check, 0.96

00:29:23.900 care of venezuela or whatever other one of these crap countries that have resources and don't know 0.69

00:29:31.780 how to get them out of the ground themselves um that'd be nice how about that or how about just 0.95

00:29:37.280 lower fuel prices i'd love to see a a dollar fifty a gallon wouldn't that be great because

00:29:44.580 we're just pumping uh fuel out of the ground how about the fact that our our strategic fuel reserve

00:29:50.700 was decimated under Biden.

00:29:54.640 Just decimated.

00:29:57.060 And what happened there?

00:30:00.500 How about we fill it up?

00:30:02.580 Fill it up, sir.

00:30:04.480 Fill it up.

00:30:05.040 Here's my credit card.

00:30:06.860 We fill it up with Venezuelan oil.

00:30:09.500 We just go right to the tap and take it.

00:30:12.740 I like the idea of conquering again.

00:30:15.920 Going in and doing something.

00:30:17.320 And let me tell you something.

00:30:18.280 uh because if you think china or russia or cuba or anyone else uh that isn't uh pals with us

00:30:29.080 didn't have their eyes all over venezuela aren't in there already china china had a meeting 0.99

00:30:37.220 with maduro had a meeting set up before trump snatched him away those chinamen are still in 0.80

00:30:44.280 hotels down there going what happened uh they have their eyes on that oil and those resources 0.91

00:30:52.720 that they're going to use you know a lot of the uh a lot of the precious minerals

00:30:58.760 that are needed for electronics batteries they got that down there in venezuela you don't think

00:31:07.440 China wanted to do that and wasn't going to use muscle if they had to or or some type of evil

00:31:14.440 alliance so we go down there we snatch up the leader and go yeah we'll make sure someone gets

00:31:21.520 in there that uh is right with us and in the meantime little Marco's gonna be down there with

00:31:28.560 an oil uh rig hat and he's gonna be filling up barrels and sending them back here I like it

00:31:35.460 And for those that say it's not America first, America first and being an isolationist, it's not practical.

00:31:48.160 It doesn't mean you're going overseas and committing American troops to years of warring for something you don't even know what it is.

00:32:00.760 What was Afghanistan about?

00:32:03.040 What was it about?

00:32:05.460 Iraq, after Saddam was gone, and even before, but after, it would be very difficult to make a case that we were there for any reason whatsoever.

00:32:18.720 Democracy building? What? Huh?

00:32:21.600 At least oil made sense.

00:32:24.840 But Venezuela? Yeah, I could see that.

00:32:28.920 Go down there, pop in, pop out, and we get some resources.

00:32:32.200 And Trump said, no never-ending foreign wars.

00:32:42.640 That, to me, means committing troops to a war like Afghanistan

00:32:48.160 or a war that is a proxy war for another country.

00:32:54.260 I am completely against that, and I think that's what the majority,

00:32:58.380 of the vast majority of Trump supporters where they're at.

00:33:03.900 But something like this, so that means that because Trump said

00:33:07.520 no never-ending foreign wars, that any military action is like,

00:33:15.600 oh, see? See what Trump did?

00:33:18.080 That's not true at all.

00:33:20.000 Blowing up a terrorist here and there, going into Venezuela

00:33:23.840 and snatching up a guy that has warrants, wants and warrants in this country?

00:33:34.260 He's indicted.

00:33:36.120 This was under the guise of a law enforcement mission.

00:33:41.460 I get it.

00:33:42.700 Is it for oil?

00:33:43.860 Probably.

00:33:44.420 It's probably they looked at the big picture and said, hey, we could do this,

00:33:49.340 and it'll also mean we get this.

00:33:53.840 Yeah, that doesn't mean he's starting a war, 1.00

00:33:57.580 and that's all we've heard and seen from these idiots and imbeciles 1.00

00:34:02.900 on the left with their protests. 1.00

00:34:06.340 You see these people with their protesting?

00:34:10.980 You see Venezuela, and you see the videos coming from Venezuela,

00:34:14.800 and the people seem pretty psyched that this Maduro guy is gone.

00:34:20.240 And, of course, the American liberal knows more about Venezuela and Maduro in a matter of hours

00:34:34.260 than the actual Venezuelan people that live down there.

00:34:39.440 They know what's best for them, to have this leader, to not have him.

00:34:44.440 They know.

00:34:45.040 And they're putting signs, they're holding up signs saying, free him.

00:34:50.240 Release him.

00:34:50.840 No war with Venezuela.

00:34:53.520 It's not a war. 0.99

00:34:55.540 And these politicians going on these dumb talking head shows 0.98

00:34:59.860 on the usual suspect networks 0.99

00:35:03.780 saying, look, he started a war with Venezuela.

00:35:08.380 Relax.

00:35:10.280 Relax.

00:35:10.840 If that was the case, Obama started wars with

00:35:14.840 every country in the Middle East, pretty much. 0.98

00:35:17.880 but they don't they they're born hypocrites and they forget i think i think they forget 0.63

00:35:28.420 that video and audio is readily available to people and um that's what i kind of want to get 0.91

00:35:38.620 to uh right now uh haven't done it in a week a clown of the week of course and um this week

00:35:46.580 It is a guy who has been Clown of the Week before.

00:35:52.320 He has been.

00:35:53.960 A lot of people have the returning honor of being the Clown of the Week.

00:36:00.920 I might as well play our little sounder, Clown of the Week.

00:36:04.660 The Anthony Cumia Show presents the Clown of the Week.

00:36:10.260 That's right. 0.68

00:36:11.400 And the Clown of the Week this week returning is Chuck Schumer. 0.99

00:36:15.080 Chuck the schmuck Schumer 1.00

00:36:17.960 this is just so hypocritical 1.00

00:36:21.680 and so typical 0.99

00:36:22.660 of what we're seeing from the Democrats

00:36:25.760 and the left

00:36:26.560 after this Venezuelan operation

00:36:31.060 so here's Chuck Schumer

00:36:33.340 in 2020

00:36:34.820 and he's talking about Maduro

00:36:38.020 and Venezuela

00:36:38.780 and criticizing Trump

00:36:41.240 on his policies toward Venezuela

00:36:43.720 in 2020. Chuck, he brags about all these things he wants to do or is doing, but his actions belie

00:36:52.480 his words. Maybe the best metaphor was his claim to bring democracy to Venezuela.

00:37:00.660 There was a big policy there. It flopped. If the policy was working,

00:37:10.100 Juan Guaido wouldn't be in the balcony here.

00:37:12.180 He'd be in Venezuela.

00:37:14.260 He'd be sitting in the president's palace.

00:37:17.620 Or at least waging a fight to win.

00:37:20.540 He's here.

00:37:22.200 And the president brags about his Venezuela policy?

00:37:25.600 Give us a break.

00:37:27.640 He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime.

00:37:30.940 The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.

00:37:37.700 Mmm, wow.

00:37:39.180 compelling argument from 2020 chuck schumer interesting what would 2026 chuck schumer have

00:37:49.780 to say about that and what happened over the course of the weekend 2026 chuck so what can

00:37:57.540 the congress do about it is the next question well the next question is very simple and that is

00:38:02.680 that we have the

00:38:04.620 War Powers Act. That's a

00:38:06.760 privileged resolution, which means the Republicans

00:38:08.880 can't block it. Tim Kaine

00:38:10.740 and I and Rand Paul are

00:38:12.620 sponsors of it. It's going to come to the floor this

00:38:14.700 week, and

00:38:16.600 if it is voted for, if it's

00:38:18.580 voted positively in both houses,

00:38:21.260 then the president can't do

00:38:22.560 another thing in Venezuela without the

00:38:24.500 okay of Congress. We have to pass

00:38:26.720 it.

00:38:29.260 Yeah,

00:38:30.720 there's already the War Powers Act.

00:38:32.680 What are they going to pass?

00:38:33.840 Something that makes it necessary for the president to work with Congress during the time he is allowed in the War Powers Act?

00:38:44.540 I just happen to have a little explanation.

00:38:49.060 People don't know what the War Powers Act is.

00:38:52.040 1973, the U.S. federal law designed to limit the president's power to commit troops to armed conflict without Congress's consent.

00:39:02.680 Now, that sounds like, oh, well, it sounds like Chuck Schumer was absolutely right.

00:39:08.000 I read on.

00:39:09.820 Passed over President Nixon's veto, Nixon vetoed it, I don't want, I don't like the idea that I can't go into Cambodia.

00:39:19.360 After the Vietnam War, to restore legislative authority over war making, it requires the president, here it is, kids,

00:39:26.540 to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying forces into hostilities

00:39:33.240 and mandates withdrawal within 60 to 90 days

00:39:37.600 unless Congress authorizes the action or declares war,

00:39:42.120 though its constitutionality and effectiveness remain debated.

00:39:47.920 Well, it sure looks like Trump, if this even was,

00:39:53.680 constituted any type of war-making or military action.

00:40:01.200 This seems to me, with the DEA being involved

00:40:04.640 and other law enforcement forces,

00:40:08.360 to be a law enforcement action that was taken.

00:40:13.340 But, all right, the military was involved,

00:40:15.540 so we'll give you that.

00:40:17.400 We'll give you that.

00:40:19.260 But Congress was notified within 48 hours

00:40:22.800 we were all notified within minutes how about that and the withdrawal of troops happened

00:40:29.980 in hours a couple hours not 60 to 90 days and now schumer wants to pass something

00:40:38.840 so that trump's hands are tied in venezuela too like they are here in the united states

00:40:46.240 at least maybe he could get something done in venezuela there's a lot of politicians saying

00:40:53.380 oh trump wants to uh wants to take over venezuela he can't even run this country yeah he has a hard

00:41:02.400 time running this country because there's roadblocks in his way at every turn at every 0.87

00:41:08.860 turn democrats liberals activists judges all the crap that he has to put up with to get his

00:41:18.400 policies put in place they they put up walls at every turn now they want the ability that 0.64

00:41:28.180 so trump can't do anything in venezuela without congressional approval nothing gets done

00:41:35.360 with congressional approval.

00:41:37.900 And thank God he didn't say anything to them.

00:41:41.820 You know damn well Hakeem Jeffries and company

00:41:46.160 would have leaked it all over, tried to undermine it, 0.94

00:41:50.000 trying to get Americans killed while they were doing their job down there

00:41:55.920 so they could just for the sheer purpose of saying,

00:41:59.220 look, Trump can't even pull off a military operation. 0.98

00:42:03.480 He's incompetent. 0.82

00:42:04.380 The military is this, that, Pete Hedgeseth is this and that, and the other thing. 0.76

00:42:09.880 They would have leaked it.

00:42:12.220 They would have told Maduro, so he wouldn't even have been there.

00:42:17.600 This is what happens when you notify Congress.

00:42:20.800 Look, I know it's a weird congressional sticky wicket, 0.92

00:42:25.520 but until they all get their asses in order, something's got to be done.

00:42:31.240 and and nothing gets done you listen to uh biden and even before that obama all of them 0.96

00:42:40.760 what did they do oh we have some harsh words for this guy oh hey we're gonna sanction you

00:42:48.520 oh you best not talk like that or we'll get a u.n uh resolution against you trump goes oh what's 0.99

00:42:57.440 this guy doing yeah let's go go in there and fly his ass into prison all right and it gets done 0.97

00:43:04.800 goes off without a hitch and i i swear i guarantee you that's that's what they're so mad at 0.94

00:43:12.560 is that it just went off so smoothly they had a mission and they they executed it with perfection

00:43:20.140 and it made Trump look strong and good, made the military look competent again.

00:43:28.060 I didn't see one picture of some transgender soldier, a man in a little army wax dress.

00:43:36.440 Those were men.

00:43:39.600 And that's what did it.

00:43:42.160 That's who was able to pull this off.

00:43:45.660 And that's what pisses off the left and the Democrats.

00:43:48.040 All right, back in a moment.

00:43:50.120 Stick around.

00:43:51.480 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:43:57.640 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:44:04.060 The Anthony Cumia Show.

00:44:06.440 Let's talk to, oh, let me get that there.

00:44:12.580 Mr. Matt.

00:44:13.540 Matt in the Bronx.

00:44:14.400 What's up, Matt?

00:44:16.680 Hey, Anthony.

00:44:18.040 I'd like to talk briefly about Venezuela.

00:44:22.820 Yes, sir.

00:44:23.900 Insofar as that, I really do believe that...

00:44:27.500 Well, first of all, I want to ask you, are you familiar with Paul Craig Roberts?

00:44:31.620 Yes.

00:44:33.260 Yes.

00:44:33.780 He wrote an excellent column on how President Trump is deviating massively from his non-interventionist,

00:44:42.700 non-regime change national security statement and his platform is his presidential platform

00:44:49.160 and i would agree with that but you know the intervention in venezuela is on totally uh

00:44:54.300 fabricated trumped up uh charges of uh narcotics trafficking i mean most of the narcotics coming

00:45:01.200 out of south america comes from uh colombia ecuador to a lesser extent bolivia and peru

00:45:06.840 Venezuela, you know, the reason, the main reason why the neocons around Donald Trump want Maduro gone in Venezuela is his support for the Palestinians in the Middle East.

00:45:23.420 Does this all come down to the Jews again?

00:45:26.500 It comes down to the neoconservatives. 0.97

00:45:31.360 Everything has to go back to Israel.

00:45:35.000 I wish we could talk about one thing without having every time to go back to Israel. 0.80

00:45:45.260 Sometimes things just happen between nations.

00:45:50.100 Sometimes it's politically advantageous or not for the United States to do something or not do something.

00:45:56.520 And believe it or not, it might not involve Israel at all.

00:46:00.400 Maybe.

00:46:01.460 Just maybe.

00:46:03.060 I don't know, Matt, but thank you.

00:46:05.000 I just want to get through a topic without having to be like, oh, it's it.

00:46:11.320 Look, and I understand. 0.68

00:46:13.320 I'm not a big fan of everything Israel does as far as our relationship goes with the United States of America over the course of the years. 0.51

00:46:23.260 There's plenty that I look at and go, yeah, how is that helping us as a nation?

00:46:28.060 But when you talk about Venezuela, and look, I'll read something here that Kamala Harris came out and said about Donald's actions.

00:46:41.000 Donald Trump's actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable.

00:46:46.340 That's just how she started. 0.87

00:46:48.600 What did being in Syria do? 0.95

00:46:53.680 Huh, Kamala?

00:46:55.000 What did that do?

00:46:56.560 How did that make America safer, stronger, or more affordable? 1.00

00:47:01.920 Pick any one of these crap holes that we have troops in in Africa 1.00

00:47:06.940 and tell me how it makes us safer, stronger, or more affordable 1.00

00:47:13.620 if those are the three criteria you're putting out there

00:47:17.040 as far as a military action goes.

00:47:20.120 I assume from her writing that she means that a military action,

00:47:24.820 some type of action, has to make America safer, stronger, or more affordable.

00:47:30.480 What does that do?

00:47:33.760 How? 1.00

00:47:35.220 How does any of those Middle Eastern kerfuffles we've been involved in 0.96

00:47:41.540 for decade upon decade, under Obama, who had your boy Biden as vice president,

00:47:49.280 under Biden's presidency, who you were the vice president under,

00:47:53.180 How did any of those things, those actions that we were involved in make America safer, stronger, or more affordable?

00:48:01.800 This happened like yesterday.

00:48:05.320 How in the hell can you tell if anything that Trump does in Venezuela will make it safer, stronger, or more affordable here in America?

00:48:16.980 I think if we pump a few million barrels of oil out of there, that might make it more affordable. 0.81

00:48:26.560 I think if the idea that Venezuela isn't putting drugs into this country is insane.

00:48:35.980 Of course they are.

00:48:37.440 Is it fentanyl?

00:48:38.520 I don't know. 0.98

00:48:39.860 But you know damn well Venezuela is sending dope up here to America.

00:48:46.500 Stopping that pipeline, wouldn't that make it safer?

00:48:50.060 I don't know.

00:48:51.880 I think so.

00:48:53.880 So her criteria doesn't quite add up.

00:48:57.680 She says that Maduro was brutal, illegitimate dictator.

00:49:01.520 Doesn't change the fact that this action was both unlawful and unwise.

00:49:05.880 She's trying to tell anyone what's wise or unwise.

00:49:10.760 That's amazing.

00:49:12.200 Wars for regime change or oil are sold on strength but turned into chaos,

00:49:17.040 and American families pay the price.

00:49:18.940 What war is this?

00:49:21.140 Where we're at right now?

00:49:22.740 Now, I don't know where this might go,

00:49:25.400 but right now an indicted illegitimate leader was arrested.

00:49:33.420 Oh, Anthony, you sound naive.

00:49:35.220 I understand.

00:49:36.100 I know there's more to it.

00:49:37.380 but right now using the word war is a little hyperbole wouldn't you say wouldn't you say

00:49:44.360 this isn't a war at all wouldn't you say that biden and obama perpetrated things that resemble

00:49:50.240 wars a lot more than what we saw in venezuela i think so i think so but you know there's plenty

00:50:00.820 I got the rest of Kamala, Bernie.

00:50:03.400 We'll hear from Bernie.

00:50:06.180 There's plenty of hypocrisy to go around with this Trump Venezuela operation.

00:50:13.260 And, of course, more of your calls.

00:50:15.920 So don't go anywhere.

00:50:17.840 I have my opinion.

00:50:19.400 I know you have yours.

00:50:20.820 And opinions are like, well, we'll be right back.

00:50:24.940 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:50:30.820 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:50:37.160 The Anthony Cumia Show and talk of Venezuela.

00:50:41.540 The actual mission, whether people agree with it or not,

00:50:46.600 whether they think this makes Trump a liar because his platform during the campaign was America first and foremost.

00:50:57.000 and none of these foreign wars, but does this constitute a war?

00:51:04.020 This is a military action.

00:51:05.600 Every president has had military actions under their presidency,

00:51:15.320 and these things don't necessarily mean it's a war.

00:51:18.760 And even if a president says no protracted, never-ending foreign wars as a campaign promise, does that mean any military action is lying, that you have lied during your campaign?

00:51:38.180 I don't think so.

00:51:39.900 I don't think so.

00:51:41.400 And I'm willing to call Trump out when he deserves it.

00:51:45.400 But I don't think this is off base of what he campaigned on, a strong military taking care of America.

00:51:57.300 And again, sometimes, sometimes, especially in the climate we have now politically, the left, the Democrats, will not let this president do a single thing.

00:52:11.940 Even if it's good for the country, they throw up roadblocks.

00:52:18.560 Their mission is to not let him accomplish a single thing,

00:52:24.000 regardless of how good it would be for the country.

00:52:27.040 They do not care about you.

00:52:30.480 And having them in the loop for a lot of stuff, it's just not practical.

00:52:38.760 It's not a good thing.

00:52:40.520 And until that changes, what are you going to do?

00:52:44.080 Trump was supposed to inform Congress, have a meeting with everyone.

00:52:48.100 We're planning this.

00:52:49.420 We're doing this.

00:52:51.020 And then one guy goes, excuse me, I'm going to go order some pizza, hang out.

00:52:54.720 And he's on the phone with the press or Maduro or who the hell else leaking the plans.

00:53:03.900 This went off without a hitch because there wasn't a leak to anybody.

00:53:08.780 so when when they start crying that they're not being informed and that trump uh that this has

00:53:18.900 nothing to do with drugs this is about oil i don't know maybe it is maybe it is probably it is

00:53:26.040 probably i'll even go that far but what's he supposed to do i i want to invite congress here

00:53:35.540 because in three days I'm going to go down to Venezuela with some military

00:53:41.020 because we're going to grab up some of their oil.

00:53:45.980 But if you're bombing some drug boats and then a few months later

00:53:52.100 you go and get the president out of Venezuela because he's in with the cartels

00:53:58.320 and you say this is because he's hurting Americans with his drugs,

00:54:02.460 there you go you got a little something to go on and oh by the way we'll be taking the oil too

00:54:10.700 you know like remember reagan with iran contra yeah sometimes rules must be bended a little bit

00:54:20.680 anthony i can't believe you're saying this you you're you're just throwing away the constitution

00:54:28.380 Eh, am I?

00:54:30.500 Like, this hasn't been done forever.

00:54:33.500 And if it's done for people's personal gain, yeah, I'm not for that.

00:54:39.340 If it's done for the better of the country, yeah, screw it.

00:54:43.980 Go ahead, take some of their stuff.

00:54:46.200 We've gotten way too civilized as a nation.

00:54:49.600 We should be able to go in.

00:54:51.400 We have some might.

00:54:53.280 Let's twist some arms and get some stuff that this country could use.

00:54:58.100 like oil and some resources for some of these electronic vehicles and computers, AI computers.

00:55:07.240 Then the other thing that a lot of people are a little peeved with is Trump pardoning former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez.

00:55:23.700 He was pardoned by Trump back in December, about a year ago.

00:55:28.100 releasing him from a 45-year U.S. federal prison sentence.

00:55:33.160 That was for drug trafficking and weapons offenses.

00:55:37.660 And, of course, that was widely criticized for contradicting the anti-drug efforts,

00:55:43.060 but defended by Trump as righting a political injustice.

00:55:49.760 Hernandez, convicted for helping smuggling cocaine into the U.S.,

00:55:53.460 thank trump for the pardon calling it a correction of a weaponized system um all right now i look at

00:56:03.040 this and go wow that seems weird trump's got all this anti-drug reasoning for going into

00:56:11.760 venezuela and scooping up maduro and and you know he'll probably be indicted and maybe

00:56:20.180 be convicted and sentenced to prison and it seems like well why wouldn't trump just pardon him

00:56:26.200 why'd you arrest him in the first place uh we don't know things

00:56:32.040 that's just the way it is the american people sometimes are kept out of the loop

00:56:40.440 of the powers that run this country is it a good thing or a bad thing i don't know

00:56:47.820 i don't know yeah i'd like to be privy i'd like to be told everything that's going on

00:56:53.940 not everyone else just me just me i can handle it i could keep a secret uh that's not going to

00:57:03.120 happen i would like for it to happen but it's not and as a country uh we're just not going to be

00:57:10.040 told everything by the leaders and it sounds a little weird saying it's for our own good

00:57:16.200 but do you honestly think we should be the and i mean the collective we the american people like

00:57:23.600 i said tell me i'm fine i'm not going to say anything but do you think we the collective we

00:57:29.640 that are the american people are are would be good with knowing every single thing every military

00:57:37.880 operation, every covert mission, and every reason why a former Honduran president convicted

00:57:48.720 of drug sales and drug smuggling into this country would be pardoned, do we need to know

00:57:57.300 the reason?

00:57:57.800 Let's just say, what if that reason is that that guy said, you pardon me and I will tell you everything going on with Central American and South American cartels.

00:58:17.760 You got to assume the Honduran president that was smuggling dope knows a few people.

00:58:27.800 uh knows a few people do you think trump pardoned him and he's just gonna be able i guess he was in

00:58:36.540 a west virginia prison or something and he's just gonna be like all right have fun go travel where

00:58:43.320 you want to or is there a chance that a deal was made and they said you gotta know a lot of things

00:58:53.580 about that area and its drug cartels, who's doing the business.

00:58:59.680 You want a pardon, a full pardon.

00:59:04.320 You got to tell us everything.

00:59:07.220 Is that even possible?

00:59:09.940 If it was a movie, you'd watch it and go, this is awesome. 0.95

00:59:15.160 Or do you think Trump, just out of pure hypocrisy and reckless abandon,

00:59:23.580 just let this guy out of prison as he goes into arrest another president of 0.54

00:59:32.060 another country down there for drugs. 0.73

00:59:39.320 Doesn't it seem silly? 0.66

00:59:41.620 And doesn't it seem like maybe we don't have the whole story?

00:59:45.940 Maybe that wasn't something he posted on Truth Social or Twitter.

00:59:51.680 and maybe that's a good thing

00:59:55.420 that some deals are kept behind closed doors

00:59:58.340 when it comes to situations like this

01:00:00.900 I think so

01:00:04.120 I think that's a good thing

01:00:07.960 but that's my opinion

01:00:10.500 and I'm allowed

01:00:12.440 I'm allowed my opinion

01:00:14.620 Robert Bob there in Rockland County

01:00:20.440 what's up

01:00:21.680 hey how are you good man you know you gotta understand people have to put things in perspective

01:00:28.220 why did he get in it's very rare when a president comes back like this you know americans could

01:00:34.500 relate to him you see trump he in pictures he's uh went to studio 54 the discos you know we all

01:00:42.380 did this he's a true american right when you when he mentions and he had the briefs briefing and

01:00:49.240 interviewed and interrogated, but when he knows that they emptied out people from prisons,

01:00:55.100 mental institutions, and he says it all the time.

01:00:58.160 Yeah.

01:00:58.700 One of the reasons why he's angry, what they did to our country, and he says our country.

01:01:04.620 Yeah.

01:01:04.980 This is one of the main reasons he's angry, and he keeps on saying it, and the Democrats,

01:01:12.620 and a lot of them, and I hope you don't cut me off, a lot of Democrats, a lot of them

01:01:16.420 are liberal Jews. 0.99

01:01:17.640 They hate them. 0.99

01:01:19.020 They hate him.

01:01:20.880 Now, they hate him because they don't want to understand.

01:01:24.960 A lot of them are not patriotic.

01:01:27.600 They never happen to have a flag out there, you know.

01:01:30.660 And you see who they are.

01:01:32.280 Schumer, Don Abash, Adam Schist.

01:01:36.060 Yeah.

01:01:37.100 And yet they support a guy like Mandami.

01:01:41.400 It makes no sense.

01:01:42.740 Yeah, I'll never understand that.

01:01:44.320 I can't even figure out a motive why you would be so self-hating to push a guy like Zorim 1.00

01:01:54.240 Namdani from New York and just kiss Muslim ass constantly. 1.00

01:02:00.660 I don't get that whole thing. 1.00

01:02:03.260 The same people that I met many, many times being half Jewish myself at dinner time and

01:02:09.220 they run out because then I say, oh, it's an inside job.

01:02:12.420 And I said, it wasn't an inside job.

01:02:14.320 When they realize, don't realize that those who are terrorists, you know what?

01:02:17.480 If they can't conceive the communists and the liberals, they can't conceive that other country hate us.

01:02:26.340 They can't conceive it.

01:02:27.680 They can't think about it.

01:02:28.840 So they have to come up with something.

01:02:31.780 An inside job, we took the buildings down.

01:02:34.560 There were no explosives like M-80s, sounds like M-80s.

01:02:38.220 That's what you would have to, that's the kind of sounds you would hear.

01:02:40.940 Well, Robert, we could totally get into that whole thing if we had another 18 hours just to begin.

01:02:48.200 But I've got to take a quick break.

01:02:49.720 Thank you, Bob, for popping on.

01:02:52.200 And we'll be back in moments.

01:02:54.640 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:03:00.820 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:03:07.320 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:03:08.800 just scrolling through x and uh actor ethan hawk on donald trump i've done enough shakespeare plays

01:03:19.160 to know power corrupts it's a common theme of mankind

01:03:23.680 they're so freaking full of themselves have you ethan hawk have you done a lot of shakespeare

01:03:35.820 and that's made you more cognizant of the corruption? 1.00

01:03:42.520 Oh, gee, did they realize what pompous asses they sound like 1.00

01:03:49.540 every time they open their stupid mouths? 1.00

01:03:53.940 Ugh, shut up. 1.00

01:03:58.060 Marco Rubio, of course, little Marco, as Trump called him back in 2016, 0.99

01:04:04.660 Lil Marco has the weight of the world on his shoulders.

01:04:08.400 He's holding down a few jobs in the Trump administration,

01:04:13.180 and the next one might be temporary president of Venezuela,

01:04:19.280 but he's been facing the media, taking a lot of the heat from mainstream media

01:04:25.400 and talking about this Venezuelan mission and talking about Donald Trump

01:04:32.520 and the differences.

01:04:34.280 See, that's one of the big parts of this whole thing

01:04:38.100 that's been going on.

01:04:39.800 People are talking about it in historical context.

01:04:45.640 Well, we've done this before.

01:04:47.300 We've done the regime change.

01:04:49.800 We've done the war for oil.

01:04:51.940 We've done this.

01:04:52.800 We've done that.

01:04:54.520 There's a different personality in this.

01:05:00.640 This isn't the same guy, the same politicians every time, war hawks that would have just

01:05:11.520 stayed in Venezuela.

01:05:14.680 This is Trump.

01:05:16.720 The reason they hate him is he's not one of them.

01:05:20.020 There's a difference there.

01:05:22.160 And Rubio points it out here.

01:05:23.780 Here's Marco talking about the Venezuelan operation.

01:05:30.640 this is a president of action like i don't understand yet how they haven't figured this out

01:05:36.640 and now if you don't know now you know because this is the way it's going to play out and i

01:05:41.260 think people need to understand that this is not a president that just talks and does letters and

01:05:44.900 press conferences and you know if he says he's serious about something he means it and and this

01:05:50.340 is something that was a direct threat to the national interest of the united states and the

01:05:53.460 president addressed it there you go isn't that refreshing president that does something

01:06:01.420 whether you like it or not i mean we we do tend to get into these ruts with presidents and even

01:06:09.180 senators congresspeople uh they speak they say things they seem very passionate and then they

01:06:17.600 do nothing look at these congressional hearings and senate hearings that we see all the time

01:06:26.480 we get so excited to pop up a clip on uh on our phones and send it to a friend look at this 0.53

01:06:34.740 oh they're screwed now oh boy boy he got him good with this one won't be long now the orange

01:06:43.240 jumpsuit and they'll be perp walking it and what happens nothing nothing gets done how many times 0.94

01:06:53.100 do we have to hear about sanctions and strongly worded uh statements and an alliance that we

01:07:02.740 forged against this and the other and what happens nothing trump said something he said ah 0.61

01:07:11.860 this uh this uh maduro guy he's he's a a bad uh a bad guy he shouldn't be he shouldn't be president 0.75

01:07:24.080 he's harming the united states we're gonna get rid of him and he got rid of him 0.63

01:07:31.320 you got to at least give him that he followed through whether you agree or not

01:07:36.800 a lot of people very angry i kind of like the idea of leadership where they do stuff

01:07:45.080 and not just talk about things biden was disastrous i think we all know that

01:07:53.560 and one of the the the most cringe inducing inducing that's the brand new word cringe inducing

01:08:03.040 it induces douche chills uh cringe inducing things he used to do

01:08:10.060 was uh get up to his podium and make statements that meant nothing and i don't just mean his

01:08:18.500 psychobabble alzheimer rhetoric when he would get up to the podium and and say we're america

01:08:27.440 America didn't do anything

01:08:29.720 but we put our minds to

01:08:31.120 work together as a peer would do any

01:08:33.620 that's nonsense

01:08:35.460 it would make me

01:08:37.940 grit my teeth and just

01:08:39.340 what are you talking about

01:08:41.880 that old America

01:08:44.160 it's our spirit

01:08:45.260 you know these are conversations

01:08:47.680 families have at the dinner table

01:08:49.780 you need a good job

01:08:51.460 what is a wage and a good

01:08:53.160 nothing nothing blah blah blah

01:08:55.640 nothing

01:08:57.440 I like a president that goes, yeah, we're going to tariff the crap out of this or that.

01:09:02.320 Well, what does that mean? 0.86

01:09:03.860 What the hell's a tariff?

01:09:05.580 Is it good?

01:09:06.520 Is it bad?

01:09:07.040 I'm reading both, and I don't know.

01:09:09.240 And then the next day, there's a tariff on something.

01:09:12.520 Well, he did it.

01:09:14.080 At least he did it.

01:09:16.500 How many times do you see these guys? 1.00

01:09:18.100 They're just liars. 0.99

01:09:19.340 They lie for the sake of votes. 1.00

01:09:23.960 No other reason.

01:09:25.900 Lying for the sake of votes.

01:09:28.800 Biden with that whole,

01:09:30.540 we're going to pay your student debt.

01:09:32.720 Remember that one?

01:09:35.420 They're going to pay a lot of work and money

01:09:38.080 that shouldn't be in debt when they get out of...

01:09:41.540 That never happened.

01:09:43.520 All of it.

01:09:45.000 They don't do anything.

01:09:47.840 They're mad because Trump does something.

01:09:51.120 They could hate what he's doing.

01:09:52.760 I think they're more angry

01:09:54.920 like what is he doing

01:09:56.260 you're not supposed to do things

01:09:59.060 I think it makes them look bad

01:10:01.620 and then when he does something

01:10:03.480 that seems to work

01:10:04.820 or at least it wasn't a cluster

01:10:07.400 F

01:10:08.340 that really gets them

01:10:11.020 oh my god now they're beside themselves

01:10:13.200 what do we do

01:10:14.400 because we don't do anything

01:10:17.500 that's what we're dealing with

01:10:22.760 I think that's where the majority of the anger is coming from.

01:10:26.440 So, you know, when Rubio says, yeah, this is a president of action.

01:10:29.900 Good.

01:10:30.940 I want to see that.

01:10:31.960 We haven't seen a president of action in quite some time.

01:10:36.120 Quite some time.

01:10:39.480 We got Bernie.

01:10:41.500 Bernie Sanders talks about Venezuela. 0.99

01:10:45.240 And again, it's just another hypocritical, nonsensical statement. 0.98

01:10:53.160 Let's listen to Bernie. 0.97

01:10:58.440 Donald Trump has once again shown his contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

01:11:05.060 Let's be clear.

01:11:06.380 The president of the United States does not have the right to unilaterally take this country into war,

01:11:13.080 even against a corrupt and brutal dictator like Maduro.

01:11:17.700 The United States does not have the right, as Trump stated this morning, to run Venezuela.

01:11:24.980 Congress must immediately pass a war powers resolution to end this illegal military operation

01:11:31.480 and reassert its constitutional responsibilities.

01:11:36.120 Trump's attack on Venezuela will not make the United States and the world safer.

01:11:42.700 Quite the contrary.

01:11:44.520 This brazen violation of international law gives a green light to any country on Earth

01:11:50.600 that may wish to attack another nation to seize their resources or change their governments.

01:11:57.700 Well, I'll comment on that.

01:12:01.940 Hold that.

01:12:03.160 Put a pin in that, as they say, because I want to comment on why other nations can't just do that.

01:12:10.000 why the United States and Trump unilaterally went in,

01:12:16.100 grabbed this guy up, and took him out,

01:12:18.660 and why this won't make other countries do this.

01:12:23.160 There is a difference, and I will tell you about it next.

01:12:40.000 The Anthony Comia Show and, yeah, this whole why, what happens if other countries are now inspired or empowered by Trump taking this Venezuelan president back to the United States for a prison term?

01:13:00.540 What if, a trial maybe, and then prison, what if other countries want to do the same thing?

01:13:10.000 there's a rule of law well it's a little different with the u.s

01:13:16.360 who's arguing who's complaining who wants to step in and defend this guy 0.78

01:13:27.900 who come on in step up cuba really ah that's terrible washington state that foreign

01:13:39.720 country who's stepping up as another nation saying this will not stand we we are the strongest of

01:13:50.260 allies with venezuela nicolas maduro is the president and because this is the rule of law

01:14:00.860 on this earth and we are allies with venezuela we are now declaring war on the united states of

01:14:08.540 america all right go ahead go ahead who's who no one no one really cares no other foreign nations

01:14:18.880 care so they're going oh what if putin just wanted to go in and kidnap or take or arrest

01:14:26.980 uh zelinski that'd be a little more of an issue i think i think ukraine and zelinski

01:14:35.220 has the support of a lot of nations i don't get it he's kind of a jack off but uh you know it would

01:14:49.820 i think putin realizes that he couldn't just do that with impunity i think he realizes that's

01:14:58.640 over the line china with taiwan just go into taiwan hey get the leader there there and

01:15:06.620 oust him and now taiwan is just china and well again there are taiwan is important to a lot of

01:15:17.740 nations around the world and uh i can't see that happening without world intervention no one's 0.99

01:15:28.260 coming to this guy's aid they all know he was just this piece of garbage destroying venezuela 0.99

01:15:35.540 oppressing the people that when he's not running them over with armored personnel carriers 0.97

01:15:40.400 so it wasn't a big deal so i don't really see that happening um this whole you know it's going

01:15:49.140 to get crazy and now leaders are just going to start kidnapping other leaders yeah we'll see

01:15:56.360 uh scrolling during the break and uh jimmy kimmel i guess it's the

01:16:02.340 critics choice awards who cares award shows are just struggling in the tar pit of entertainment

01:16:15.240 award shows i often equate them with the variety show of the 70s we used to watch those yeah

01:16:26.360 Hey, this is Bob Hope.

01:16:27.940 We got Charo coming up next.

01:16:30.360 I can't believe it.

01:16:33.080 And people watched.

01:16:35.860 It was all we had, really.

01:16:38.980 There were but a few channels and variety shows were a staple of the 70s.

01:16:44.760 You just couldn't understand why they were putting a singer, a sports figure, an actor together

01:16:53.760 together to do a comedy musical comedy number right and then they just went away you will never

01:17:01.420 see another variety show again and i honestly think this is the direction the award shows are

01:17:09.040 going in no one cares hollywood is so toxic the the the hollywood celebrity is looked at with such

01:17:22.500 disdain these days like screw you and we used to watch them pat each other on the back and hand

01:17:31.820 themselves gold statues because we enjoyed them they were celebrities celebrated we watched the 0.84

01:17:40.440 shows went oh i like that guy oh i like that movie oh that show is good or oh that is such

01:17:48.580 a great broadway musical you know and now they they've opened their yap too many times they've

01:17:59.460 exposed themselves their their their glitter shine has come off and they're looked at as the 0.99

01:18:06.120 hypocritical dumb uh people that that put themselves up higher than you point down at 1.00

01:18:15.760 you and tell you how to live your life this is what they are now and the idea of sitting there 1.00

01:18:21.180 and watching them celebrate each other hand each other statues for their amazing work it's

01:18:28.680 nauseating and the ratings are in the crapper and they will stay there the struggling dinosaur in

01:18:36.720 the tar pit so um this stegosaurus jimmy kimmel he uh got up to accept the critics choice award

01:18:46.560 for best talk show what a surprise do you think the people that picked the critics choice awards

01:18:53.080 and they saw that jimmy kimmel is one of the nominees because they nominated him

01:18:59.380 and they went what's a great way to stick it to donald trump let's give him an award telling

01:19:06.440 him how great he is like we would look at that and go wow god but i like trump and i hate jimmy

01:19:15.120 kimmel but if the critics choice awards are going to give him an award this totally throws my whole

01:19:21.300 my my whole idea of who i should support up in the air i i just don't know this is what they do

01:19:30.900 is jimmy kimmel's show so good it deserves a golden statue critics choice award not even a

01:19:40.420 good one so he said let's get this uh he he did his thank yous and then at the end of his thank

01:19:49.860 yous he said and most of all i want to thank our president donald jennifer trump donald j trump

01:19:56.540 What does Donald Jennifer Trump mean?

01:19:59.480 Is that funny?

01:20:01.840 Without whom we would be going home empty-handed tonight.

01:20:05.720 You're right.

01:20:07.300 The Critics' Choice Awards board wouldn't have given you this

01:20:12.620 if they didn't think they were doing some disservice

01:20:19.760 or insulting Donald Trump in some way.

01:20:23.160 So you're right there.

01:20:24.300 it's not the brilliant comedy and commentary you've done on donald trump which is what he's 0.98

01:20:32.300 trying to put across here um so thank you mr president for all the many ridiculous things you

01:20:40.660 do each and every day it's been a banner a couple of weeks and we can't wait to get back on the air

01:20:46.900 tomorrow night and talk about them is anyone watching the critics choice award given award

01:20:56.040 to a show that no one is watching they had that big thing uh where they got uh some ratings

01:21:04.300 for not even a week when he was uh fired and then brought back suspended

01:21:11.600 over

01:21:13.640 what was it?

01:21:15.980 The statements?

01:21:17.840 Whatever the hell it was.

01:21:20.000 But they threw him off.

01:21:21.780 They bring him back.

01:21:23.540 And what?

01:21:25.700 He's the greatest thing.

01:21:26.680 He deserves awards.

01:21:28.900 It's so obvious.

01:21:31.360 It's so shallow.

01:21:35.700 Congrats.

01:21:36.220 Congrats.

01:21:37.940 Here he goes.

01:21:39.120 all right let's see what we got here uh on the phones

01:21:44.620 yeah we could go to well julius maybe julius hoboken new jersey what's up 0.85

01:21:54.700 what's up anthony i'm still a fan of yours despite my being a leftist and all that shit oh boy okay 0.62

01:22:01.320 hey i'm still a fan of yours all right okay okay but let's get this out of the way 0.99

01:22:08.380 maduro i don't know how much more of a son of a bitch he is except for the fact that he did not 0.99

01:22:16.400 get busted for drugs because uh this uh fat windbag rehab for a president pardoned another 1.00

01:22:23.000 drug dealing son of a you know yeah from honduras the only difference of course is the guy from 0.92

01:22:29.220 honduras was willing was so corrupt in favor of u.s corporations the problem with maduro 0.68

01:22:35.260 is that he wasn't willing to share money with Exxon and U.S. oil companies.

01:22:41.460 And this goes back to 20 years ago because Venezuelans dared vote in a guy who said,

01:22:48.060 hey, wait a minute, the profits from our oil should be going to us,

01:22:53.200 not to these oil companies who have been extracting the profits and our resources

01:22:59.380 for decades since the 1900s and have paid off corrupted dictatorships

01:23:06.420 to make sure that business keeps on going the same way.

01:23:10.960 And it's the CIA and the U.S. government that's been responsible for life

01:23:15.720 that as well has been screwed up the same way they did it to every other country

01:23:19.720 who doesn't play ball to U.S. business.

01:23:22.600 Yeah, if we're going to invest money in a country and build an entire oil drilling.

01:23:28.520 Why won't you let me talk now?

01:23:32.520 Why won't you let me talk? 0.99

01:23:34.460 That's what liberals do.

01:23:36.440 Now let me talk.

01:23:37.680 If we're going to be investing money, and I say investing,

01:23:40.840 even as corporations going down there building the entire infrastructure

01:23:45.440 to pump that oil out,

01:23:48.180 why the hell wouldn't they want to get profits from it? 1.00

01:23:52.100 It should just go to the Venezuelan peasants and people

01:23:56.500 because they're standing on that oil?

01:24:00.760 What logic is that?

01:24:03.680 They could have just had that oil under their feet forever,

01:24:07.260 never bringing it out of the ground.

01:24:09.660 That's how investing in stuff works.

01:24:13.320 You put up money, you put up labor, and then you reap the rewards.

01:24:17.780 What's wrong with that, Julius?

01:24:19.440 Why are the oil companies so bad?

01:24:22.240 First, let me answer that.

01:24:23.780 All right. They were they were being paid by the Venezuelan, a corrupt Venezuelan government.

01:24:30.640 They created a system where they were stealing more from Venezuela.

01:24:37.120 OK, it was basically they were ripping it off, you know, like in that movie, there will be blood.

01:24:43.000 It was basically a siphoning a scheme.

01:24:46.960 Your milkshake were ripping.

01:24:49.980 I drink your milkshake.

01:24:52.600 I drink your milkshake.

01:24:54.980 I love that.

01:24:56.760 Dude, that is a dude.

01:24:58.740 He should get twice an Academy Award for that role. 0.96

01:25:03.160 Yeah, but doesn't that sound like a Venezuelan problem if they're so corrupt? 1.00

01:25:08.960 So, yeah, it's a Venezuelan problem.

01:25:10.560 So why should the U.S. people care for Exxon?

01:25:15.060 Well, I mean, why would Exxon go?

01:25:17.660 Well, let me tell you, that government's so corrupt.

01:25:20.880 I certainly, even though we built the infrastructure down there back, like you said, in the early 1900s to pump oil out, this new government in here is so corrupt.

01:25:32.640 I'm just going to leave everything and walk away.

01:25:34.740 No, no, no, no, no, no.

01:25:35.480 They were not any more corrupt than anyone.

01:25:38.600 In fact, I would say, compared to the guy before Chavez, who stole about 50% of the Venezuelan treasury and pocketed and left to who knows where, who was working in cahoots with the oil company, this government, you know, since Chavez, has been way cleaner compared to a lot of these other dictatorships.

01:26:01.300 Compared to, yeah, Chavez.

01:26:03.100 Yeah, I'm being serious.

01:26:04.840 It's a big drop-off.

01:26:07.080 Yeah.

01:26:07.560 No, I get what you're saying, Julius.

01:26:10.520 I get what you're saying, and I appreciate it, and I appreciate your call. 0.98

01:26:14.860 I'm going to move on, though, because I want to get my words in because it's my damn show. 0.96

01:26:23.220 What is an oil company? 0.98

01:26:25.520 And I understand.

01:26:26.200 Look, I have no love for Exxon.

01:26:28.680 I have no love for big oil, man.

01:26:31.800 But they're a business.

01:26:33.620 We have to be real. 0.97

01:26:34.460 Not every business is the original Ben and Jerry's, which is also a piece of crap now because Ben and Jerry doesn't own it.

01:26:43.040 Ben and Jerry gets all mad when Ben and Jerry's does something that isn't, man, what do you mean?

01:26:49.140 That's going to, you know, that new ice cream factory is going to stomp out a caterpillar nest.

01:26:57.500 Companies aren't like that.

01:26:59.360 The main objective of a company is to make money.

01:27:04.460 And oil companies really like making a lot of money.

01:27:09.020 It's not an easy thing.

01:27:11.660 You don't see Bob's Oil or Bill's Oil Company.

01:27:17.400 That's why they are unbelievable mega corporations.

01:27:21.220 Because it is very, very hard to pull the magical black liquid that runs the earth out of the ground.

01:27:32.420 it's very very difficult to do it becomes more difficult every year and they've done amazing

01:27:41.200 things squeezing oil out of this planet from every corner under the water in the sides of

01:27:49.580 under mountains and and they're just supposed to go oh here's venezuela a country that has

01:27:59.360 what i heard more oil than saudi more oil than the middle east

01:28:05.020 and that entire oil sucking industry in venezuela was built by oil companies

01:28:14.680 and and advanced western nations like the united states

01:28:20.440 and then because a corrupt government gets put in place the oil companies

01:28:29.160 is supposed to have some kind of a moral compass

01:28:31.700 and go, well, I'm certainly not dealing with this guy.

01:28:35.280 Shut it down, gentlemen. Shut it down.

01:28:38.960 No, you have to deal with who you have to deal with.

01:28:44.240 Donald Trump was in construction in the 80s in New York City.

01:28:51.840 You didn't move a teaspoon of concrete in New York City

01:28:56.980 without the mafia doing it, not a teaspoon.

01:29:04.060 Did Donald Trump go, well, I guess we can't build,

01:29:07.460 or did his company work with the mafia?

01:29:11.460 And I'm not saying that is a bad thing.

01:29:13.560 Oh, Donald Trump.

01:29:14.280 See, anyone on the left would look at that and go,

01:29:16.620 Donald Trump worked with the mafia.

01:29:18.540 Yeah, everyone did.

01:29:22.080 Everyone worked with the mafia in construction in New York City, 0.94

01:29:26.260 in the 80s and into the 90s and now i'm not that stupid it's just not as uh widespread as it was

01:29:35.100 then every single concrete truck so was he's just supposed to go oh well can't build a building

01:29:45.000 or do you figure out a way to work with the evils you have to work with to progress

01:29:52.620 That's what happens.

01:29:54.420 So you could say the oil companies are evil.

01:29:57.680 They worked with this guy, Chavez, and this guy.

01:30:03.000 That's how it works.

01:30:04.340 That's how the world works.

01:30:05.740 Everyone isn't an angel.

01:30:07.180 And the only way you could pull oil out of the ground is if the government of the country is a nice guy?

01:30:14.980 Come on.

01:30:16.860 You're living in fantasy land.

01:30:19.000 a little fantasy world

01:30:21.880 get with it

01:30:24.600 open your eyes

01:30:26.820 I don't like some of the things that go on

01:30:29.980 but it doesn't mean you shut your eyes to it

01:30:34.060 and don't know that they're happening

01:30:36.980 make the best of it

01:30:39.760 and I think that's what Trump's doing in Venezuela

01:30:42.660 make the best of it

01:30:44.400 drag that guy out of there

01:30:46.960 Try to get somebody in there that's not going to be as evil as this guy.

01:30:52.160 And let's start pulling some oil out.

01:30:55.740 $1.50 gas.

01:30:57.540 Would that be a hoot?

01:30:59.200 The price of everything comes down when the price of energy comes down.

01:31:02.780 So if you think for a second I've got a problem with that, I don't, my friends.

01:31:09.000 I do not.

01:31:11.300 Let's do it. 0.90

01:31:12.180 Let's use American might, ingenuity, and balls and get some oil. 0.71

01:31:18.900 Back in a moment.

01:31:20.540 Stick around.

01:31:21.760 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:31:27.720 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:31:34.460 Yes, it is the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:31:37.520 and

01:31:39.320 a lot more of course

01:31:42.340 on the

01:31:44.580 Venezuelan situation

01:31:46.580 it's a very difficult situation

01:31:48.840 but

01:31:49.880 man

01:31:51.940 Chris Murphy

01:31:53.020 he was making the rounds

01:31:56.980 he's of course

01:31:58.980 a representative

01:31:59.780 congressman

01:32:01.280 where is he senator

01:32:02.280 Chris Murphy

01:32:03.680 Chris Murphy, Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut, Connecticut.

01:32:14.820 He was talking about this Venezuelan thing and Donald Trump.

01:32:23.660 And another thing that time, time sure makes a big difference on what these people think.

01:32:32.780 because he said something in 2019,

01:32:37.600 and it was a little different than what he's saying now.

01:32:42.560 Let's listen to what he said now.

01:32:47.180 Well, I mean, clearly this is wildly illegal.

01:32:50.480 This is a president who has been operating illegally

01:32:53.440 since he was sworn into office,

01:32:55.400 stealing from the American people,

01:32:56.940 seizing spending power.

01:32:57.960 What's illegal?

01:32:58.660 Now dragging America into a war overseas.

01:33:00.880 He's the president cannot run a military operation of this size, cannot invade a foreign country without coming to Congress first, without allowing the American public to weigh in.

01:33:10.680 America doesn't want this war.

01:33:12.220 Nobody asked for this because it has nothing to do with American national security.

01:33:17.100 And I think that's the most important conversation to have.

01:33:20.760 Listen, Venezuela is not a security threat to the United States.

01:33:24.740 They're not threatening to invade us.

01:33:26.200 There is no terrorist group like Al-Qaeda operating there that has plans to attack the United States to the extent that you care about the drug trade.

01:33:34.280 Yes, they produce drugs, but those drugs go to Europe.

01:33:37.100 Fentanyl is the drug that's killing Americans.

01:33:38.720 That's not coming from Venezuela.

01:33:40.220 Venezuela produces cocaine.

01:33:41.760 Ninety percent of it is not coming to the United States.

01:33:48.300 First of all, how does he know where Venezuela is sending their coke?

01:33:54.020 All the drugs just go to Europe?

01:33:56.200 would it be easier to just bring it here to the u.s we don't get venezuelan coke what happened

01:34:03.920 how many times did he use the word war war war war we americans should know if their country

01:34:12.120 is being taken into war war invade trump can't just invade a country without congress and the

01:34:19.620 american people voting invade war what what are you talking about this was a quick in and out

01:34:28.520 mission to get an indicted uh drug kingpin and bring him to this country for justice meanwhile

01:34:38.740 old it they cannot overblow everything for their own little propaganda uh sideshow

01:34:52.780 oh my god this guy it's going to europe oh they don't have terrorist organizations like al-qaeda

01:35:02.220 The cartels, the gangs in Venezuela, we had them in Boulder, in Denver, Colorado.

01:35:12.300 Remember, they were taking over apartment buildings.

01:35:16.020 We don't have, because they're not Muslim terrorist groups with bomb vests and 767s. 0.98

01:35:27.540 cartels don't amount to being a danger to this country if we don't keep them in check 0.90

01:35:35.020 what is this guy thinking oh they don't have fentanyl they just have cocaine oh yeah so safe

01:35:43.420 coke hasn't killed anyone in this country coke hasn't destroyed anyone's lives here in the united

01:35:51.540 states it's just they hate trump so much that anything he does is the worst thing that's ever

01:36:02.400 happened uh let's play this other uh or let me read this to you actually it's a um it's a tweet

01:36:10.380 that he posted back in 2019 uh chris murphy your connecticut senator if trump cared about

01:36:20.540 consistency he would make the realist case for intervention in venezuela uh and then in

01:36:28.560 parentheses getting rid of maduro is good for the united states rather than trying to pretend

01:36:35.020 his administration all of a sudden cares about toppling anti-democratic regimes he he's pushing

01:36:43.460 for exactly, exactly, precisely what Donald Trump did

01:36:51.180 just days ago, pushing for in 2019.

01:36:57.740 And these dummies, I guess, don't know how the Internet works.

01:37:06.120 Forever.

01:37:08.560 It's forever.

01:37:11.440 It's right there.

01:37:12.960 Chris Murphy at Chris Murphy CT CT could be something else.

01:37:20.900 If you put a few letters, a couple of letters in between, but, uh, it is also the abbreviation

01:37:27.400 for Connecticut, but, oh my God, you gotta be kidding me.

01:37:33.620 You gotta be kidding me.

01:37:36.160 He just doesn't get it.

01:37:38.800 His post is precisely what Donald Trump did.

01:37:44.760 And then he's talking about illegal, this, that, and the other thing. 1.00

01:37:51.140 Of course, stupid Connecticut. 0.99

01:37:52.900 Does anyone really, does anyone really look at Connecticut and think, 1.00

01:37:58.900 whoa, there's your powerhouse state.

01:38:02.280 There's your powerhouse state in this country.

01:38:05.780 i'm sure connecticut was something you know in the 1700s even even by the 1800s i think 1.00

01:38:15.820 a lot of other states were surpassing connecticut get rid of that t and your stupid name too 0.98

01:38:22.960 don't make any sense connecticut all right we'll be back in a matter of moments um a lot more to 0.99

01:38:31.520 I see Sandra's on the phone if you want to stick around for that. 0.93

01:38:37.160 Oh, she's a dear.

01:38:38.500 Your calls and a lot more coming up.

01:38:41.360 Stick around.

01:38:42.720 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:38:48.960 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:38:55.220 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:38:56.740 Thank you so much for your continued support as we thrust into 2026.

01:39:06.200 Can't believe it.

01:39:08.680 Just saw this really quickly.

01:39:11.440 I guess Mayor Memdani, that's who he is, Mayor Memdani in New York City.

01:39:17.980 He has appointed another cabinet member or someone, an advocate.

01:39:22.920 This is Sia Weaver.

01:39:24.920 see you see you later or something see you weaver um this has been danny's tenant advocate director

01:39:34.040 this is going to be somebody that's going to look into uh the the cost of rent if tenants have heat

01:39:44.140 electricity if their apartments are getting the maintenance that they need things like that

01:39:53.040 and um see a weaver first of all see a looks boy if you you get a you get a lot of see a weaver

01:40:03.360 it it's lenny dykstra transitioning into a woman if lenny dykstra nails dykstra decided to become a

01:40:12.600 woman that is cia weaver and uh cia has a 2020 uh 2019 tweet and let's see what cia was thinking

01:40:24.500 way back in 2019 can't possibly be what cia weaver thinks now but in 2019 way back cia weaver

01:40:33.800 tweeted, private property, including and kind of especially home ownership, is a weapon

01:40:43.660 of white supremacy masquerading as wealth building public policy.

01:40:53.580 Owning a house is white supremacy, to see a weaver.

01:40:59.300 it it they just don't stop this is now 0.56

01:41:08.340 zora memdani's tenant advocate director so good luck good luck with that one

01:41:16.940 and then i also saw i didn't get the clip but um it's it's making it the rounds it's

01:41:23.520 Donald Trump on Air Force One talking about Tim Walz.

01:41:27.100 I guess he was asked about Tim Walz. 1.00

01:41:30.600 And he said, I quote, he's a stupid, low IQ governor. 1.00

01:41:38.220 And then he said he's not doing anything about the Somalis. 1.00

01:41:41.260 And then he went on a tear about Somalia and that they're pirates.

01:41:45.800 And the fact that they don't try to take ships anymore is because Trump blows them up with the same missiles he blows up.

01:41:53.220 the drug boats with that's just a little bit of what donald's talking about to the press on air

01:41:59.620 force one you got yeah what a hoot what a hoot but like i said thank you so much for supporting

01:42:08.420 the show uh it's been great a lot of people coming aboard they're also going to the 77

01:42:16.080 w abc radio's uh youtube page and we got a lot of videos being put up there and i'm really

01:42:26.600 really happy with the amount of people that are uh watching and downloading those videos sharing

01:42:31.700 them with friends so um if you want to send someone clips of the show or watch clips for

01:42:37.160 yourself uh there it is 77 w abc radio on youtube all right let's see what else is uh going on um

01:42:48.060 i do want to get to a couple other things at the top of the nine o'clock hour we did talk

01:42:56.160 a little bit about or was it the first hour talked about the fairs the fair hikes and

01:43:02.320 some of the things going on in New York.

01:43:07.140 Because, you know, I'm from New York.

01:43:10.000 Our base of operations here with this show is New York City.

01:43:14.680 And, yeah, I kind of got an interest in what's going on.

01:43:17.520 And I think anybody in any large city can kind of commiserate with New York

01:43:24.160 because it's either showing you what your city already went through

01:43:29.980 or the horror of things to come in your city.

01:43:36.820 So good luck.

01:43:39.380 But this is, here it is.

01:43:42.360 We talked about the fair hikes and things going on,

01:43:46.000 and I guess the buses are increasing to $3.

01:43:52.260 The Long Island Railroad is going up.

01:43:54.620 The tunnels are going up.

01:43:56.480 And, again, I'm not blaming Mamdani for this.

01:43:58.640 This was the MTA and the state increased these well before Mamdani came in or even was elected.

01:44:08.100 This this was already in place, taking effect today, effective January 4th.

01:44:14.600 So I'm not blaming him, but it's just kind of funny that he ran on this policy of free buses and lower prices.

01:44:21.940 And within days, they raise the prices of public transportation.

01:44:26.520 uh but that's not the only thing there is a new law being put in place in new york this is the

01:44:36.900 paid sick leave laws now for companies sick leave is something that's just terrible it's it your

01:44:48.820 your employee can leave they get paid and you get nothing out of them for that time i guess it's

01:44:58.480 considered a perk you know you want to you want a few perks uh when you get a job but man that's

01:45:06.820 got to be terrible for an employee uh employer um so let's see oh here it is so uh what purpose

01:45:17.980 can an employee use sick leave for?

01:45:21.540 If you have a mental or physical illness, injury, or health condition,

01:45:26.020 need to get a medical diagnosis, care, or treatment of a mental or physical illness,

01:45:32.080 injury, or health condition, or need to get preventive medical care.

01:45:39.140 So I guess you could call your boss up and go, 0.87

01:45:42.760 I just feel bat crap crazy today.

01:45:48.660 I'm going to need the week off.

01:45:51.620 And by the way, you will be paying me.

01:45:56.600 I don't know about that.

01:45:59.640 I don't know how many companies are going to be pleased as punch for that.

01:46:03.840 Can an employee use sick leave for doctor, dentist, or eye doctor appointments?

01:46:10.040 This used to be something you hoped you could tell your boss and not get fired for.

01:46:16.760 Hey, I've got to go to the dentist.

01:46:18.220 Why don't you make it on a Saturday?

01:46:20.420 Why don't you make it before work?

01:46:22.080 Why don't you make it after work?

01:46:24.240 There were always things like that.

01:46:25.900 But now, yes, this new ruling here,

01:46:30.480 employees may use sick leave for appointments for preventative medical care

01:46:34.820 and treatment for health conditions.

01:46:37.540 It includes screenings, checkups, patient counseling,

01:46:41.740 and dentist and eye doctor appointments.

01:46:45.760 for what purpose can an employee use safe leave oh yeah I never heard of this one but

01:46:57.900 of course New York would have something called safe leave employees can use safe leave if they

01:47:07.500 or a family member were victim of any act or threat of domestic violence, unwanted sexual

01:47:17.400 contact, stalking, or human trafficking, and they need to obtain services from a domestic

01:47:26.540 violence shelter, rape crisis center, or other program, participate in safety planning, relocate,

01:47:35.220 or take other actions to protect the employee's safety

01:47:38.740 or that of the employee's family members.

01:47:43.260 Meet with an attorney or social service provider

01:47:47.340 to obtain information and advice related to a criminal or civil case.

01:47:54.780 File a domestic incident report.

01:47:58.020 Attend civil or criminal court dates.

01:48:01.000 Take other actions necessary for the health or safety of themselves

01:48:04.780 or a family member, or to protect those who associate or work with the employee.

01:48:14.760 Imagine you're just trying to run a business.

01:48:19.360 I'm just trying to sell widgets.

01:48:23.060 You're my receptionist in the front office of Widget Inc.

01:48:29.940 and now I have to pay you 0.96

01:48:33.800 while you consult with a counselor 1.00

01:48:39.080 because your husband is nuts 1.00

01:48:42.140 and now it's my problem 1.00

01:48:45.240 this is New York

01:48:47.700 this is why the price of everything is so high

01:48:52.120 because let me let you in on a little secret folks

01:48:55.080 the employer, the business

01:48:58.520 isn't going to absorb that out of his boat money.

01:49:04.060 It's not coming out of his pocket.

01:49:07.460 He's taken his kids to Disney World.

01:49:10.840 Whatever, however many people take time off

01:49:15.820 because their girlfriend boiled their rabbit in a pot in his kitchen,

01:49:24.180 they're still going to Disney World.

01:49:26.400 that cost of paying that employee is being tacked right on to the price of doing business

01:49:34.820 passed on to you the new york consumer and that's why new york prices are so high

01:49:43.020 well that is when i read that one safety leave safety leave safety leave you can leave if you

01:49:53.640 want to you could leave your job behind safety leave holy jesus palomino when when are we going

01:50:06.220 to get back to basics and i understand there was a time employees were treated very very poorly

01:50:13.500 in the workplace and that was why unions happened and people got together and said

01:50:19.680 you know you're killing us you're working us for 18 hours if we want time off you fire us

01:50:25.380 i get it but it's the give them an inch take a mile syndrome and that's what's happened over

01:50:32.840 the course of the years with the employment these employees now feel like they are entitled to

01:50:39.640 everything at the expense of the employer you see it now happening at starbucks where these

01:50:46.820 low-level, entry-level job positions, a barista,

01:50:52.080 a fancy name for pour my coffee dummy. 0.99

01:50:55.340 And they want a living wage.

01:50:58.760 I want to be able to buy a house, have a family, maybe a Porsche.

01:51:03.540 And they're actually protesting this.

01:51:07.680 That's how insane it's all gotten.

01:51:10.940 And now Safety Leaf.

01:51:12.180 Enjoy.

01:51:13.220 Back in a moment.

01:51:13.880 Don't go anywhere, I warn you.

01:51:16.820 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:51:23.000 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:51:29.120 It certainly is the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:51:32.860 Oh, there it is.

01:51:35.520 My phone's went.

01:51:36.640 There they go.

01:51:38.400 Let's go.

01:51:39.300 Oh, my good friend, Mr. Poink. 0.98

01:51:42.760 Poink, where are we?

01:51:43.640 There it is.

01:51:44.260 Chris Lindenhouse.

01:51:45.680 Hey, man.

01:51:46.100 How are you doing? And the number one rated talk show on this time slot.

01:51:51.040 I'd love to be a part of it. How are you doing tonight?

01:51:53.320 Very good, Chris. How are you, my friend?

01:51:55.880 I hope you had a great Christmas, New Year with the family. Give them my love.

01:52:01.000 I did. Thank you very much.

01:52:02.480 You know, I love listening to your show because it shows that the world we live in is not exactly a world of crapping unicorns.

01:52:10.240 There are no rainbows in this world.

01:52:12.740 And I try to come with good news, but I have none.

01:52:16.100 You know, every story that you've hit on tonight has been right on point.

01:52:21.020 I did see a tweet from Senator Tim Kaine of Maine, who was spewing the same wrongness about Trump is not allowed to do this or that.

01:52:33.900 You know what's scary about this?

01:52:36.980 Tim Kaine, I'm sure, has a team of people around him.

01:52:41.480 uh he probably has staff like every other person in government and not one of them could go up to

01:52:48.620 this guy and say hey listen uh you realize that he can do this you may not want to say anything

01:52:54.680 like that to get the old foot in mouth syndrome could you imagine though chris could you imagine

01:53:00.520 doing that and the look you'd get they feel like they're royalty you're a lowly peasant if you're

01:53:07.780 an aide or an intern the people that do most of their work if you walked up to him and said hey

01:53:13.880 um you know technically not even technically completely realistically uh he can do this and

01:53:19.860 it isn't breaking law you're you're out of work and you're probably banned and blacklisted from

01:53:25.340 ever working for another politician so they just sit there as you know these these politicians need

01:53:31.080 yes men they surround themselves with yes men this this is this is the problem and the the this is

01:53:38.000 never going to be solved just like another gigantic problem we have in this country and i was

01:53:44.380 you know looking uh about this whole minnesota fraud deal the word fraud that should be written

01:53:51.600 into the star-spangled banner it should end with the land of the free and the home of the fraud

01:53:58.180 because that's what this country is now built on everything in this country is fraudulent

01:54:04.060 everything from the people everywhere everything's a scam everyone's on the take it's it's try to

01:54:11.000 find what to pilfer from whose pocket you could get your hand into exactly everything that's going

01:54:18.440 on and the extent is if you think it's a hundred times what we're seeing you're still underestimating

01:54:27.420 it it is so rampant just what we're seeing in places like minneapolis it it's so much bigger

01:54:34.980 than that and we just keep pouring money into the till out of our tax money that we work we work and

01:54:44.360 we pay our taxes like good citizens and they're robbing us blind and the politicians do not care

01:54:51.780 you know what it's become it's become now a point of okay we understand that the fraud is never

01:54:57.340 going to go away so maybe we have to do some kind of fraud to take advantage of the situation

01:55:03.060 because it's never going to stop yeah you almost you literally have got to become part of the

01:55:07.440 problem yeah yeah i i agree with you there you get so uh pissed off about it and you go well you

01:55:15.520 know you get the can't beat him join him syndrome yeah look for anybody that's listening right now

01:55:20.820 and you are in the tri-state area just look for one small example of what you currently pay in

01:55:28.040 car insurance oh yeah in in the tri-state area and and a big chunk of that is because of the

01:55:34.480 sheer amount of fraud that goes on in the insurance industry in this area and who's 1.00

01:55:40.200 perpetrating a lot of the fraud illegals and you know the nefarious minority people in the 0.91

01:55:49.140 yes the theft that goes on the fraud of of you know the when when i've seen so many videos 0.92

01:55:55.460 the people pull up in front of you they jam on the brakes and then they blame you

01:55:59.380 and it goes into a claim um and and then there's the carjackings and the the smash and grabs

01:56:06.200 all that goes through your car insurance and you wind up paying more a lot of it is

01:56:11.540 fraud a lot of it's actual theft it's just you're trying to go through life lead an honest life have

01:56:18.860 a little fun and be able to tuck a few bucks away at the end of the week and everything is working

01:56:25.120 against you and it's not even those perpetrators like you said it's also the companies themselves

01:56:31.920 again it's a fraud is everywhere do you know that you can install a camera system in your car

01:56:38.860 to catch these potential people and they to no benefit of you they don't give you any discounts

01:56:44.920 or money off of your insurance premiums if you're recording the crime that happened to prove that it was fraudulent.

01:56:52.420 Yeah, you're more apt to get yourself in trouble recording than you are having it solve some kind of a crime like it's a movie.

01:57:03.740 The world's insane, man.

01:57:05.460 Chris, I've got to move on.

01:57:07.560 Bye, bro.

01:57:08.060 Thank you so much, and I'll see you online later.

01:57:11.820 There we go.

01:57:12.840 Play video games with Chris.

01:57:14.480 Yeah, I know.

01:57:14.920 I'm a little out of the demo for video games, but it's my life.

01:57:19.940 Video games have been my life since I was a wee lad,

01:57:24.300 and I haven't been able to stop.

01:57:27.620 This is an interesting take.

01:57:31.600 A liberal girl, her name is Kaylee, young Kaylee, wonderful little Kaylee,

01:57:39.180 and um she's got a list of common terms that are used i love these videos first of all

01:57:48.720 they're all horse crap there is not one thing that's actually a word origin or a phrase origin

01:57:56.660 because it's like i had talked about it a couple of weeks ago jingle bells uh people were saying 0.98

01:58:03.280 Jingle Bells is a racist song that came from bells they put on slaves to prevent them from being able to escape unheard.

01:58:13.760 And that's just such nonsense.

01:58:16.720 It's another thing of trying to just demean, degrade, and chisel away with institutions, songs, things that we hold dear, or just the way we go through life.

01:58:30.260 Let's cut down on what they can say.

01:58:33.280 Let's stop people from speaking their mind.

01:58:36.860 Let's call words or phrases racist. 0.98

01:58:40.360 And it's ridiculous. 0.91

01:58:41.200 But young Kaylee here, a young liberal girl, she's going to tell you about a few terms. 0.90

01:58:48.660 And I just found them a little funny.

01:58:51.040 Let's listen.

01:58:52.500 My name is Kylene here.

01:58:53.280 Five words you use every day that have racist origins.

01:58:55.420 Number one, hip hip hooray.

01:58:56.940 Although it might sound joyful, hip hip was an anti-Semitic chant used by mobs in Europe in the 1900s.

01:59:02.560 Especially during the hip-hip riots.

01:59:04.660 Is there a way to pause? 0.94

01:59:05.960 Yeah, thank you.

01:59:07.260 Because hip-hip-hurrah, she's talking about the 1900s?

01:59:14.220 Hip-hip-hurray is anti-Semitic?

01:59:18.680 Hip-hip-hurrah, this goes back to ancient England. 0.95

01:59:24.820 That's hurrah-huzzah!

01:59:27.200 Hip-hip-huzzah!

01:59:30.600 She doesn't know what she's talking about.

01:59:32.560 So let's continue with young Kylie, I guess.

01:59:36.820 It has a much darker past than people realize. 1.00

01:59:38.880 Number two, moron. 1.00

01:59:40.020 Moron was a term used to describe people with intellectual disabilities that was often used to justify forced sterilizations. 1.00

01:59:45.620 It was very common among eugenicists.

01:59:47.320 Could you pause that one? 1.00

01:59:48.700 Because I agree with that. 1.00

01:59:50.920 Moron. 1.00

01:59:51.440 Anyone I call a moron, I would hope they would sterilize them. 1.00

01:59:56.840 I'm not sure that's exactly what it was. 1.00

01:59:59.400 I don't think they sterilized every moron. 1.00

02:00:02.000 But when I call someone a moron, yeah, I'm pretty much saying, oh, my goodness, please sterilize this person. 1.00

02:00:11.220 Oh, God, we have a hard out here in a minute. 1.00

02:00:15.720 Maybe one more.

02:00:17.840 Okay, roll them. 0.91

02:00:19.060 Meany, meany, moe.

02:00:19.840 I am shocked by how many people do not know that the word tiger was originally this word.

02:00:23.400 It was common in both the U.S. and the U.K., and it took decades for people to change it, even in schools.

02:00:27.480 Number four, powwow.

02:00:28.600 It's not just a meeting.

02:00:29.620 It's a sacred indigenous ceremony where people gather.

02:00:32.080 Using the term to describe a business meeting can come across as disrespectful,

02:00:34.540 even if you don't mean it to be.

02:00:35.580 And number five, Eskimo.

02:00:36.820 This was a term given by outsiders who label indigenous people,

02:00:39.760 and the term means eater of raw meat.

02:00:41.540 Many indigenous Arctic people find it offensive and outdated.

02:00:44.560 Words matter, and knowing the roots of these words help us to be more respectful

02:00:47.500 and conscientious people.

02:00:48.560 If you use any of these things, I'd encourage you not to,

02:00:50.040 but obviously I'm not the language police.

02:00:51.200 Okay, peace and love.

02:00:53.240 So you can't even use the catch a tiger by the toe?

02:00:56.840 She's saying even that can't be used because it used to be something else?

02:01:01.800 Hmm.

02:01:02.540 Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, indeed. 0.96

02:01:05.260 We'll be right back.

02:01:07.200 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:01:13.060 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:01:19.620 Yes, the Anthony Cumia Show.

02:01:21.820 And that Kylie was interesting, right?

02:01:27.900 All those, oh boy. 1.00

02:01:29.840 They're just insane. 1.00

02:01:31.860 Liberal women are really insane. 1.00

02:01:35.640 You ever notice conservative women, and they don't even have to be insanely conservative, 1.00

02:01:41.280 just a little common sense. 1.00

02:01:43.620 They're so much easier to deal with and discuss things with. 1.00

02:01:48.220 Liberal women are just, whoa, out there. 1.00

02:01:50.500 here's another one this is a woman's uh liberal woman's take on trump and the venezuelan operation 1.00

02:01:58.220 and uh let's see what their thing let's say what an american liberal woman what her take is her 1.00

02:02:04.920 educated i'm sure educated take on what we saw transpire in venezuela over the past couple of 0.95

02:02:11.600 days good morning my friends happy saturday you're not my friend where's the rest of the world

02:02:19.500 where is the rest of the world this morning

02:02:23.160 you can't tell me the world is going to stand by

02:02:30.400 and watch an illegal takeover of another country 0.64

02:02:34.960 because you didn't want the Epstein files released

02:02:37.620 you didn't want people

02:02:39.080 you wanted to start a war

02:02:40.440 to take the eyes off of the Epstein files

02:02:42.760 where's MAGA

02:02:47.680 Now, where are the Trump supporters in this?

02:02:50.640 Right here.

02:02:50.980 Thank you. 1.00

02:02:51.660 Who thinks this shit is okay? 1.00

02:02:53.840 It wasn't okay when George Bush did it with Iraq? 1.00

02:02:57.600 Yes, it was.

02:02:58.220 It's not okay now.

02:03:03.020 But it was. 1.00

02:03:05.240 It was okay when George Bush did it with Iraq. 1.00

02:03:08.660 In hindsight, there have been a lot of people that have said, oh, boy, that war was really stupid. 0.99

02:03:15.000 There was no reason to go into Iraq. 0.99

02:03:19.820 Even myself, I got caught up in the hoopla.

02:03:23.480 I went hip, hip, hooray.

02:03:25.340 Let's go in.

02:03:27.400 But, you know, in hindsight, we have realized that there was nothing. 0.99

02:03:35.280 Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11, and it was kind of stupid to go in there. 0.92

02:03:40.520 uh but at the time where were you lady at the time everyone was psyched about that 0.75

02:03:48.200 and where's the world this goes with what i said earlier when people uh want to bring up

02:03:55.660 well if trump can do this what why can't putin go in and just take zelinski

02:04:01.120 or why can't any war or nation that wants to go in and and take a leader uh why can't they just

02:04:09.380 do that to a sovereign nation well first of all they're not the united states sorry being the big

02:04:16.860 big kid on the block has its advantages and another thing is no one cares where's the rest 1.00

02:04:23.740 of the world the rest of the world is watching going wow that guy was a real piece of garbage 0.98

02:04:30.140 and you know while i don't like trump or don't like his policies or this i'm kind of glad that 0.98

02:04:38.200 he went in there and got that guy out of there and now maybe we could all do business with

02:04:42.980 venezuela again oil resources all the stuff that people looked at venezuela and went oh my god this

02:04:51.920 is terrible why can't we do business so that's where the rest of the world is honey they're not

02:04:58.900 thinking uh oh boy well donald trump is mean and this was an illegal war another one that brought

02:05:08.460 up the word war shut your yap get back to the coffee maker but what she's talking about

02:05:16.460 then there's this pramila j pal whatever her what whatever her name j pal paypal what pramila 0.99

02:05:26.340 Pramila Jayapal, is that how you pronounce her dumb name? 0.93

02:05:32.240 She's commenting on Venezuela and another one that brings up the need to inform Congress 0.96

02:05:42.540 like Trump broke the War Powers Act or broke some rule or law that doesn't exist.

02:05:50.900 So let's listen to Pramila talk about this.

02:05:55.220 Listen, there is a briefing process, an authorization process for a reason. The founders knew that going to war in any country was something that had tremendous consequence to the American people.

02:06:10.440 And it had to rest with Congress. And we're not talking about a full briefing of Congress, by the way.

02:06:16.380 The traditional procedure is the gang of eight would be would be brief.

02:06:21.420 There would be conversations. There would be, you know, discussion about what the plan is for the day after.

02:06:27.720 I mean, you can see there's no discussion about what the plan is for the day after.

02:06:31.560 Donald Trump can't run America. Now he wants to go run Venezuela while the American people can't afford health care, can't afford groceries.

02:06:38.980 This is not what the American people want.

02:06:41.820 This is not what is constitutional.

02:06:43.940 This is not what is legal.

02:06:45.940 The gang of eight.

02:06:48.940 Has Pramila, can Pramila tell me or anyone what the Democrats have done with Donald Trump, involving Donald Trump, that would lead him to think he can trust them?

02:07:05.800 you're literally talking to spies that would would be what talking to congress

02:07:16.620 would be you want to pull off a military operation you want it kept secret it needs

02:07:26.400 to be kept secret you're trying to get somebody where they're supposed to be at a certain time

02:07:32.580 in place. And all they have shown

02:07:36.680 is their disdain for Donald Trump

02:07:40.060 and their urge to do anything

02:07:43.680 to make him fail at whatever

02:07:48.520 he's trying to do. And he's now

02:07:52.420 supposed to turn around with something as important. These are American

02:07:56.220 soldiers' lives in the balance, not some ridiculous bill

02:08:00.440 to give Somalis more money.

02:08:03.240 This is literally American military lives are at stake. 1.00

02:08:09.260 And he's supposed to give you idiots the benefit of the doubt 1.00

02:08:13.000 based on what? 1.00

02:08:14.380 How you've treated him over his two terms?

02:08:17.820 You try to put him in prison. 1.00

02:08:20.380 You try to kill him. 0.99

02:08:23.360 But he's supposed to go, well, let's talk to the Democrats. 1.00

02:08:28.480 Gang of eight.

02:08:29.160 He's supposed to believe that you will have the best interest of his plan

02:08:37.260 and the lives of American military men in your hearts and your heads

02:08:44.600 when he tells you these things instead of what we know would be,

02:08:52.020 oh, boy, let's screw this up.

02:08:56.200 Screw off.

02:08:57.480 God, they feel like they're so entitled and all they do is prove that they don't deserve an ounce, an ounce of consideration from this president. 0.98

02:09:15.680 And if he doesn't have to consult Congress for something, he absolutely shouldn't.

02:09:22.020 And in this case, he did not have to consult Congress.

02:09:26.120 War Powers Act

02:09:28.440 within 48 hours

02:09:30.920 he had to let Congress know

02:09:32.420 what was going on

02:09:34.080 and that's

02:09:36.900 what he did, he let them know

02:09:38.580 well in advance of 48 hours

02:09:41.220 but what have you

02:09:43.340 done, what have you done

02:09:45.040 Democrats

02:09:46.300 to let Donald Trump

02:09:49.420 believe that it's in the

02:09:51.320 best interest of America

02:09:53.000 and these

02:09:55.300 soldiers that are ready to go into battle, maybe, going on a mission, what good would

02:10:03.440 it do telling you people when all you've done is prove over and over again how you're

02:10:09.740 trying to undermine, getting activist judges to shut down whatever he's trying to do to

02:10:17.720 make this country a little bit of a better place, to where it has to go to the Supreme

02:10:22.180 court that thank god in many instances but not all uh judges uh in in favor of the president

02:10:32.220 and what he's trying to do so no he shouldn't have gotten in touch with you and let the gang

02:10:41.740 of eight know what's going on here's uh thomas massey thomas massey uh i didn't play this already

02:10:53.580 tonight no thomas massey is not from connecticut that was the other guy right did i play this

02:11:00.240 i'm not even sure thomas massey oh no this is the one where he's talking about oil

02:11:05.980 And he wants. Well, he wants Trump to stop because this is all for oil.

02:11:13.540 And I say, bravo, I say hip, hip, hurrah for the oil war.

02:11:19.140 Let's hear Thomas. If it were about drugs, we'd bomb Mexico or China or Colombia.

02:11:26.100 All right. And the president would not have pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez.

02:11:31.300 This is about oil and regime change.

02:11:35.980 All right, that sounds good. 0.90

02:11:38.540 Is he saying we should bomb Mexico? 0.75

02:11:40.460 No, this is the perfect situation for going in and taking a leader

02:11:49.160 that no one thinks is a leader, that nobody globally really likes 1.00

02:11:55.920 unless they're pieces of crap, too. 0.99

02:11:58.860 I'm sure Cuba is all for returning this guy to Venezuela. 1.00

02:12:04.360 but the rest of the world doesn't care they're they're looking at the venezuelan people celebrating

02:12:12.060 um and saying all right i guess that worked we'll see what he does next we'll see if trump

02:12:21.780 continues is there going to be another night of missiles or bombing helicopters is he going to

02:12:28.940 Put troops there.

02:12:31.420 We'll see what he does.

02:12:32.760 But if this is it, if he snatched up an indicted drug kingpin,

02:12:39.020 cosplaying that he's the president of Venezuela,

02:12:42.280 eh, we don't really have much of a problem with it.

02:12:45.520 And you haven't seen a lot of world leaders with those statements that they make on,

02:12:49.740 we strongly condemn what Donald Trump has done.

02:12:53.800 You're just not seeing it.

02:12:54.980 You're seeing it from the liberal Democrats here in this country.

02:12:59.680 That's it.

02:13:00.940 That's about it.

02:13:03.720 So it's not going to happen in Mexico.

02:13:09.500 Should it? 1.00

02:13:10.520 Maybe.

02:13:11.000 I don't know.

02:13:12.040 But we're not going in and snatching that woman president of Mexico or Colombia.

02:13:19.300 I think the president of Colombia just put out a statement.

02:13:23.240 And he was doing the same thing that the president of Venezuela was doing.

02:13:28.020 He's like, come and get me, Trump.

02:13:29.700 Come and get me.

02:13:31.920 So I don't know if that'll happen, but Colombia is not a saint in this either.

02:13:37.740 Colombia is kind of the known coke producer in this hemisphere, at least.

02:13:46.780 So I don't know.

02:13:47.760 But no, they always go to the umpteenth level of trying to exaggerate and blow things up. 0.97

02:13:56.480 Should we go into Mexico now? 0.89

02:13:58.560 No.

02:14:00.080 Trump's not going into Mexico.

02:14:01.620 It's okay.

02:14:02.280 Settle down.

02:14:03.640 But he took out this guy.

02:14:05.880 Is that okay?

02:14:06.580 Is that okay with you?

02:14:10.160 They just cannot react in a sensible way.

02:14:17.760 They go off the rails, these Democrats.

02:14:24.700 I guess Mamdani had a comment.

02:14:28.840 It's a tweet, so it's not audio.

02:14:31.640 But let me get my hands on that one.

02:14:35.120 Boink.

02:14:36.420 There it is.

02:14:37.860 Because Mamdani, the all-powerful mayor of New York City,

02:14:42.700 when you're the mayor of New York City, you have global clout.

02:14:46.620 oh yeah oh yeah people want to hear what your take is on world affairs get back to gracie 1.00

02:14:55.660 mansion appoint another transgender uh a cabinet member and uh and eat with your fingers on a 0.98

02:15:05.300 disgusting new york subway train that's what we voted for uh mam danny uh here's uh zorhan he says 0.98

02:15:13.240 I was briefed this morning on the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife,

02:15:20.580 as well as their planned imprisonment in federal custody here in New York City.

02:15:26.400 That's where he localizes it.

02:15:28.680 That's what they told me in radio at the beginning.

02:15:30.480 Make sure you make it local.

02:15:32.500 If there's a big story, try to get a local angle on it.

02:15:35.960 That's what Zoran Mandani is doing.

02:15:38.780 Hey, he's here in New York, people.

02:15:40.700 The weather is 72 degrees.

02:15:43.240 uh unilaterally attacking a sovereign nation is an act of war and a violation of federal and

02:15:50.160 international law well then bring it this blatant pursuit of regime change doesn't just affect those

02:15:58.160 abroad it directly impacts new yorkers the time is 20 after the hour he's doing a radio show here

02:16:06.860 Keep it local.

02:16:09.680 New York includes tens of thousands of Venezuelans who call the city home.

02:16:14.420 My focus is their safety.

02:16:17.080 And the safety of every New Yorker in my administration

02:16:20.460 will continue to monitor the situation and issue relevant guidance. 1.00

02:16:26.460 What the hell do Venezuelans in New York have to do

02:16:34.580 with anything going on in Venezuela?

02:16:36.860 and anything Trump did with grabbing the president, Maduro.

02:16:46.240 How does he have to go, uh-oh, I've got to keep my Venezuelans safe?

02:16:51.140 What is Trump going to fly in and grab some of them?

02:16:54.640 If they're illegal, I think he should fly in, grab them up, and put them back.

02:16:59.300 If they came here for refuge from a tyrannical dictator president,

02:17:05.800 then they can go back if you're here illegally from venezuela spin it around go back enjoy your

02:17:15.360 life in your home country because the the big bad dictator's gone trump helped you out

02:17:20.120 but he's got to make it a new york thing and again just to reiterate the guy has no power to do

02:17:29.500 anything

02:17:30.600 as far as this

02:17:33.720 situation goes

02:17:34.580 so good luck there

02:17:37.360 I also wanted to

02:17:41.480 get to

02:17:42.820 Brandon Johnson

02:17:45.380 in Chicago

02:17:47.440 but let me check the time

02:17:49.600 yeah play Brandon Johnson

02:17:51.880 or I got oh that's right I'm sorry

02:17:53.780 I keep forgetting if it's a

02:17:55.740 clip or

02:17:57.600 a tweet here it is

02:17:59.180 The Trump administration, this is Brandon Johnson from Chicago, the mayor.

02:18:03.320 The Trump administration's military action in Venezuela violates international law

02:18:06.980 and dangerously escalates the possibility of full-scale war.

02:18:11.960 Does it? But does it?

02:18:14.580 The illegal actions by the Trump administration have nothing to do with defending the Venezuelan people.

02:18:21.000 They are solely about oil and power.

02:18:22.900 Well, yeah, it doesn't have anything to do with defending the Venezuelan people.

02:18:27.960 The actual thing supposedly was defending American people from Venezuelan drugs.

02:18:36.200 But if it is for oil, you've heard my take during this program. 0.93

02:18:39.340 I'm all for it.

02:18:41.480 But the safety of people shouldn't be anything that concerns Brandon Johnson.

02:18:47.320 His city of Chicago is rife with gunfire and deaths every weekend.

02:18:57.960 They're crowing this week about the all-time, or since the 60s, the lowest homicide rate since the 60s.

02:19:08.540 And the reason is that medical technology and doctors, they've just become better at traumatic gunshot wounds now than they were back in the 60s.

02:19:21.300 I think the same amount of people are being shot.

02:19:24.600 But I just don't think they're dying, which means the murder rate goes down.

02:19:29.800 Show me the assaults with guns rate.

02:19:34.160 I want to see if that went down with the murder rate.

02:19:38.480 Because if you ask me, the amazing doctors at the amazing Chicago trauma centers are patching these thugs up at record numbers.

02:19:48.560 That's why I think the murder rate is down.

02:19:50.980 But I certainly don't think the rate at which they're shooting each other is down. 0.97

02:19:57.100 So, Brandon Johnson, maybe you ought to stay out of the whole Venezuela and protecting people thing.

02:20:03.000 All right, back in a moment.

02:20:04.340 Stick around.

02:20:05.460 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:20:11.420 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

02:20:17.860 The Anthony Cumia Show.

02:20:20.980 And let's go to Mark here.

02:20:24.020 Mark in New York.

02:20:25.320 What's up, man?

02:20:26.820 Hi.

02:20:28.100 Turnaround is always fair play.

02:20:30.040 And the Democrats wanted to turn Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico into states to get two times two more senators of four.

02:20:38.120 Now that the Venezuelans are jubilant that Maduro is out, we could say you're not required.

02:20:45.040 But how would you like we invite you to be the citizens of our 51st state?

02:20:49.660 Now, think about that.

02:20:50.640 It would be two more Republican senators because it's the Republicans that rescued them from Maduro.

02:20:57.000 Right.

02:20:57.300 The oil would be Citgo, which is the original company that took care of oil drilling in Venezuela before the revolutions took it away from them.

02:21:08.140 If it were a 51st state, then the commerce of the oil back and forth to the U.S. would not be subject to tariffs.

02:21:15.900 It would be simply interstate commerce.

02:21:18.720 Ah, true. Yes.

02:21:20.640 And so there would be no taxes. It would be very, very cheap oil coming to particularly the East Coast by way of the Gulf.

02:21:29.380 Now, also think of the larger scale things it's accomplished.

02:21:33.300 China was reliant not entirely on Venezuelan oil.

02:21:37.120 They got some from the Middle East and so on, but it was a good chunk.

02:21:40.420 I believe that Venezuelan oil was something between 20 and 25 percent of what China needed on a daily basis.

02:21:48.260 So this loss of the fuel may slow down their naval escapades toward Taiwan.

02:21:56.520 Of course, they may say, oh, well, this is reciprocal.

02:21:58.640 It's the same thing for us.

02:21:59.980 But they haven't done anything.

02:22:02.000 They have not intervened in the two words. 0.78

02:22:04.280 In fact, China hasn't really made a peep worth listening to. 1.00

02:22:07.400 Yeah, that is true. 1.00

02:22:08.340 I haven't heard anything from China. 0.99

02:22:09.960 And they were there.

02:22:11.380 They were there.

02:22:12.040 We talked about delegates originally talked about Greenland becoming a 51st.

02:22:17.740 Yeah, that should be looked at also for its mineral resources.

02:22:21.180 And the population of 53000 endorsed it when they came to the airport to greet Eric Trump or Donald Trump, Jr.

02:22:29.900 But now I suspect that the jubilant Venezuelans who are liberated and emancipated from decades of left wing horror would vote.

02:22:42.040 would vote right of center with the Republicans.

02:22:45.180 Well, we can only...

02:22:46.740 Tell me where I'm wrong.

02:22:47.860 Where am I wrong?

02:22:49.240 Where am I wrong?

02:22:50.820 Thank you, Mark.

02:22:52.820 I don't know.

02:22:54.300 51st state, Venezuela.

02:22:58.140 I don't think I agree with that.

02:23:02.840 Let's just take their oil.

02:23:04.400 Why should we have to take care of them, finance them? 1.00

02:23:08.700 Let's just take their oil.

02:23:10.440 That's all I say.

02:23:11.440 Max, how's your new mayor treating you there, Max, in Manhattan?

02:23:15.460 Anthony, Anthony, thank you for taking my call.

02:23:18.460 Let's not forget that the Venezuelans were involved with the Dominion voting machines,

02:23:22.680 and then it changed over to Smartmatic voting machines.

02:23:25.700 Yes.

02:23:26.060 Which eventually took away the vote during Trump's second term.

02:23:32.480 So these guys were fooling around with the voting machines.

02:23:34.840 In fact, Giuliani was talking about this, but he was thrown off the air.

02:23:38.680 Oh, I know.

02:23:39.200 Yeah, Giuliani, he had to pay through the nose, lost everything pretty much because of his talking about the Dominion machines and the election.

02:23:51.700 And now it seems like he's being vindicated, but a day late and a dollar short, as my old man used to say.

02:23:59.800 Yeah.

02:24:01.700 And by the way, the name Dominion changed over to Smartmatic.

02:24:04.900 hmm same uh same crap though different name thank you uh max i know you wanted to talk

02:24:12.660 about iran russia and china they were yeah they were all in uh venezuela they i think it's great 0.95

02:24:20.840 that trump showed some force went in there and said na na na na na na this ain't gonna happen

02:24:26.860 in this hemisphere so exactly in the backyard now yeah i love it thanks max um here's a an interesting

02:24:35.940 little take um i guess the biden harris administration had put up a 25 million dollar

02:24:46.780 reward for information leading to the arrest of nicolas maduro the statement was in solidarity

02:24:57.720 with the venezuelan people the u.s government and our partners around the world are acting today

02:25:03.240 the department of state is increasing the reward offers up to 25 million dollars each for information

02:25:10.680 leading to the arrest and or convictions of Nicolas Maduro

02:25:15.080 and Maduro's Minister of Interior, Dizdado Cabello.

02:25:22.720 The Department of State also added a new reward of up to $15 million

02:25:26.300 for the defense minister, Vladimir Pedrino Lopez,

02:25:31.480 and three reward offers stemming from criminal narcotics indictments

02:25:36.940 announced in March of 2020.

02:25:39.520 so uh biden harris put a reward on this guy like arrest him we want him arrested taken out of

02:25:51.800 office we want it so much that we're going to give you 25 million dollars if you secure his arrest

02:26:00.620 Now, my take on this is, Trump should get that.

02:26:09.360 Shouldn't Donald Trump put in his claim for Biden-Harris' $25 million reward?

02:26:19.780 I think so.

02:26:22.600 Why wouldn't you?

02:26:24.560 He's the one that did it.

02:26:26.120 a lot better than just information leading to the arrest.

02:26:32.080 That's for sure.

02:26:34.380 So, I don't know.

02:26:37.240 I think he should get that money.

02:26:40.020 What a kick that would be.

02:26:42.120 His lawyers go to work and legally they have to give him $25 million.

02:26:48.420 Put it toward the ballroom.

02:26:51.020 Yeah.

02:26:52.100 All right, people.

02:26:53.900 Love it.

02:26:54.680 I love that you tune in.

02:26:56.680 Love doing the show.

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The Anthony Cumia Show - January 05, 2026

The Anthony Cumia Show ｜ 01-04-26

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