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Libs are fuming about the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power. They think it was a war for oil, but it was actually a war against a communist dictator who was trying to take control of a country run by a drug-smuggling dictator.
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President Trump took out a drug trafficking communist dictator in Venezuela and so the libs
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are of course furious about it. Oh no. Here we go again. Here we go again. We'll pour one out
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for their main homie Nicolas Maduro. Okay that's enough. They couldn't be more upset even though
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the removal of Maduro has been official U.S. policy for many years now. Well let's hear their
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arguments. Trump said the United States will be running Venezuela. Whoa a colony. Whoa imperialism.
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All for what? So a multinational corporation can get profit. What? Oh yikes. What? You know
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I guess she's trying to be facetious here or something but when people have that degree of
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emotional dysregulation. What? It is a pretty reliable sign that you shouldn't pay attention
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to what they're saying. That's stupid. Use your common sense. So she says it was a war for oil
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for because Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro stole American oil properties from corporations and but
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it's not it is in part about that. That is real. Like they did do that and that's bad. That's illegal.
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You're not allowed to do that and the United States is a global superpower. We can't look weak.
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That's true. But also we need our oil. When people say we shouldn't have a war for oil then what should
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we have a war for? We need the resources that fund our whole country and if a country is going to steal
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them and then ally with our enemies Russia, China, Iran that's a big problem. There's actually a very
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basic national interest in stopping it. But even beyond it Maduro was a communist. He led to immense
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poverty and misery in Venezuela. The Venezuelans are thrilled that the guy's gone. He was effectively
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the head of a drug cartel and it was the official policy of the Biden-Harris administration to remove
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him from power. In fact they offered a 25 million dollar reward for anyone who would lead to his arrest
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for anyone that is who would allow the policy that Trump actually implemented to be implemented by
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them. This is colonialism. To which I say if that's colonialism great. Okay. Yeah. Great. Love
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it. Do you notice something strange about this woman? Wow. And there it is. You know we could
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have avoided playing the whole clip. We could have avoided the whole because if you just have that
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one rule of thumb and it's not look the hair it's the eyes it's the face it's the everything
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but just that one she has the symbol and everything you know is that's going to follow is going to be
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the craziest thing you've ever heard. Next one. Though Maduro is not a good guy what Trump did first and
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foremost is illegal. You cannot just go into a foreign country and start actively bombing them
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without any sort of congressional approval and you also can't be offering people at sea with absolutely
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no proof that they are smuggling drugs. He's just doing whatever he wants and I'm telling you right
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now there's going to be an influx of bot accounts that originated in the United States saying that
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they're from Venezuela and that they are happy about what just happened. Rest assured this has absolutely
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nothing to do with democracy. Venezuela has oil. This has everything to do with money, power, and greed.
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Why else would the United States be sticking its nose in the business of a foreign country?
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Smell like f***s in here, d***. All y'all smell like f***s to me.
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To me it's just insane that people think he cares about Venezuela. He doesn't even care about Americans.
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He doesn't even care about the people living here. What makes you all think he cares about the people in Venezuela?
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Okay so once you get through all of the fluff what she's saying is presidents have no right
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to just go in and blow up foreign countries for whatever the reason. To which I would say okay
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well if that's the case then why did the Biden administration call for basically this precise
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operation? The Biden administration offered 25 million bucks to go in and arrest Maduro and you're
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not gonna arrest Maduro without blowing some stuff up in the country. So Biden wanted to do what Trump
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did. Barack Obama went in and blew up a foreign country in Libya and elsewhere. Was that totally
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unacceptable? George Bush obviously did. I guess you would probably hate that but before Bush Bill Clinton
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set off bombs in Africa and Iraq by the way. And then George H.W. Bush did this in Panama. Then
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Ronald Reagan did this in Grenada. And then and then and then and then and then. Nations don't have any
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right to pursue their interests around around the globe. Furthermore she says this was illegal.
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There is a legal predicate for the arrest of Maduro that both parties agreed to and he's being tried
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in New York. And he wasn't even recognized as the leader of Venezuela by much of the international
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community because he stole an election. I know it's very I'm all for the realist view of the American
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involvement in Venezuela. Like we just sometimes topple Latin American dictators because it's in our
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interest. And it might also advance justice. But she doesn't she doesn't even know. She doesn't
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even know how to make the argument against that. It's pretty sad. It's sad. Next one. Hold on one
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kidnapped its leader illegally. You would think calling this out as bad would be like a cold take,
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you know, like a well water is wet kind of scenario. But no, people have crawled out of the
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woodwork to say that actually, no, this is super cool because Trump is liberating Venezuela. Trump is
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doing it to get rid of the drugs. Actually, you, you pink haired SJW, you are in the wrong for
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deciding what's best for the people of Venezuela. All right, if we're liberating people, let's
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liberate Russia. Okay, like Vladimir Putin, put a potato sack over his head and just yeet him over
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to the United States. That's fine, right? How about the state of Israel? Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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I don't think anyone would mind if we just zipped in and, you know, tied him up and just,
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you know where I'm going with this. When has it ever ended well for a country when the U.S.
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has invaded and taken over? Like when? Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua again.
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The Philippines, Germany. Remember? I don't know. It usually works out pretty well,
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actually. I get that Iraq was pretty bungled and then Obama bungled Libya and which we didn't
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really take over. But it usually works out pretty well when we intervene in these foreign countries
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countries for any number of reasons. In the case of Venezuela, because he was the illegitimate leader
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of a narco state that was allying with our enemies. He was an illegitimate so-called president. He was
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not a head of state. He goes in, he says, well, if we're just going to liberate people. Trump is
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liberating Venezuela. By the way, the Venezuelans are thrilled that he's gone.
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He was devastating, as was Chavez. We're devastating to the country. But even beyond the, you know,
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Venezuelans greet us as liberators. He says, why don't we do that to Putin? Oh, because Putin is
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much further away and his country has nuclear weapons pointed at us. And Venezuela is very close
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to home and therefore a more imminent threat to the United States when things go wrong, which is why
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we've had the Monroe Doctrine on the books for over 200 years. It's not as big a threat. You would not be
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able to invade the Kremlin and extract President Putin within 88 minutes, as you could do with
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Venezuela. So that's one realistic reason why. Why don't we do this to Bibi Netanyahu? Oh, because
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Israel is an ally of the United States. That's why. Putin's not an ally of the United States.
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Venezuela is not an ally of the United States. Bibi Netanyahu, love him or hate him, his country is an
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ally of the United States. And so, yeah, we don't, we wouldn't do that. Also because he's further away.
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Also because it wouldn't really advance our interests. And so that's why. Okay, keep going.
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Are justified by we're helping the people and it never helps.
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That's not the justification for the war. I grant you that that was one of the justifications of
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the Iraq war or the Afghanistan war. It was one of them. But Trump is explicitly not doing that.
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Trump is going out and he's saying, yeah, they stole our oil properties and we're going to take
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them back. And they're sending drugs into America. They're sending people into America.
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The Venezuelans have been flooding into the country because of the turmoil caused by Maduro.
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And so we're going to go boot this guy out because it's in our interest and it'll help the
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Venezuelan people too, but it's in our interest. So Trump is explicitly making a self-interested
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America first argument for this war, war, quote unquote. So I don't know. I guess this guy just
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didn't, didn't hear it. The pink hair got in the way.
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For that matter, the government of the United States of America does not care about the welfare
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Put a pause here. It's not true. We do care. Obviously you care about the welfare of people
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in other countries. One is a matter of justice because we are human beings, but two, because
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the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. So we care about the welfare of people
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in other countries in as much as geopolitical turmoil is a problem for us. If there's a civil
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war in a country, if there's economic carnage even, that's bad for business because we maintain
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So we do care. Even if, even if you say it's not at a perfect charity, it's a little bit
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We do care about power. We're a superpower. We care about power. That's true. That's true.
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You're right. One really weird thing about that guy's reaction. He said, he said, you know,
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Do people still say that? That's so dated. That's 2016 lingo. I mean, who still says that?
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That is, that's very, that's cringe. Oh my God.
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Even the word cringe is kind of dated. We're in a whole new world. And the new world actually
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looks a lot like the old world, which is where we have great power of politics. Okay. Keep going.
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Y'all pay attention to what they will spend money on and what they won't spend money on.
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They will spend money invading another country to kidnap their president and steal their oil.
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They won't spend money on you when you need healthcare and when you need housing.
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I suspect what he's insinuating here is because we don't have more socialistic or
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communistic healthcare and housing policies, that that's evidence that we don't care. But of course,
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the president of Venezuela that we just went in and abducted was a communist. And the reason
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he caused so much turmoil in his country and problems for our country is in no small part
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because his communist policies were very bad for the country and for the world. So no,
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we don't want to, we don't want to become communists. When it comes to healthcare though,
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and housing, taking out Maduro actually could have downstream effects to help that because
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one of, one of the chief reasons that healthcare is so expensive and opaque and the chief reason
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that housing is so expensive is mass migration. A lot of which comes from Venezuela. So actually
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by stemming all of the mass migration from Venezuela, you actually could help on those two
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fronts. But yeah, it's true. It's true. We do. We sometimes have to kick our geopolitical adversaries
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out of the Western hemisphere. We've had to do it since the early 19th century. We still have to do
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it today. Okay. Are there any more libs who are very upset? No, we're out of them for now. Maybe
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more will show up. I'm Michael Knowles. See you next time.