The Michael Knowles Show - January 07, 2026


Best of TikTok： Knowles REACTS To Libs RAGING Over Venezuela and Maduro


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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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00:00:00.000 President Trump took out a drug trafficking communist dictator in Venezuela and so the libs 1.00
00:00:06.740 are of course furious about it. Oh no. Here we go again. Here we go again. We'll pour one out
00:00:13.420 for their main homie Nicolas Maduro. Okay that's enough. They couldn't be more upset even though
00:00:21.680 the removal of Maduro has been official U.S. policy for many years now. Well let's hear their
00:00:28.140 arguments. Trump said the United States will be running Venezuela. Whoa a colony. Whoa imperialism.
00:00:35.400 All for what? So a multinational corporation can get profit. What? Oh yikes. What? You know
00:00:45.320 I guess she's trying to be facetious here or something but when people have that degree of
00:00:51.340 emotional dysregulation. What? It is a pretty reliable sign that you shouldn't pay attention
00:00:57.860 to what they're saying. That's stupid. Use your common sense. So she says it was a war for oil
00:01:04.480 for because Hugo Chavez and Nicolas Maduro stole American oil properties from corporations and but
00:01:13.320 it's not it is in part about that. That is real. Like they did do that and that's bad. That's illegal.
00:01:18.020 You're not allowed to do that and the United States is a global superpower. We can't look weak.
00:01:21.740 That's true. But also we need our oil. When people say we shouldn't have a war for oil then what should
00:01:27.480 we have a war for? We need the resources that fund our whole country and if a country is going to steal
00:01:32.960 them and then ally with our enemies Russia, China, Iran that's a big problem. There's actually a very
00:01:39.940 basic national interest in stopping it. But even beyond it Maduro was a communist. He led to immense
00:01:48.440 poverty and misery in Venezuela. The Venezuelans are thrilled that the guy's gone. He was effectively
00:01:54.100 the head of a drug cartel and it was the official policy of the Biden-Harris administration to remove
00:02:00.920 him from power. In fact they offered a 25 million dollar reward for anyone who would lead to his arrest
00:02:05.440 for anyone that is who would allow the policy that Trump actually implemented to be implemented by
00:02:13.240 them. This is colonialism. To which I say if that's colonialism great. Okay. Yeah. Great. Love
00:02:20.040 it. Do you notice something strange about this woman? Wow. And there it is. You know we could 0.91
00:02:26.020 have avoided playing the whole clip. We could have avoided the whole because if you just have that
00:02:29.840 one rule of thumb and it's not look the hair it's the eyes it's the face it's the everything
00:02:36.120 but just that one she has the symbol and everything you know is that's going to follow is going to be
00:02:45.600 the craziest thing you've ever heard. Next one. Though Maduro is not a good guy what Trump did first and
00:02:51.880 foremost is illegal. You cannot just go into a foreign country and start actively bombing them
00:02:59.900 without any sort of congressional approval and you also can't be offering people at sea with absolutely
00:03:07.740 no proof that they are smuggling drugs. He's just doing whatever he wants and I'm telling you right
00:03:15.920 now there's going to be an influx of bot accounts that originated in the United States saying that
00:03:22.020 they're from Venezuela and that they are happy about what just happened. Rest assured this has absolutely
00:03:29.100 nothing to do with democracy. Venezuela has oil. This has everything to do with money, power, and greed.
00:03:36.800 Why else would the United States be sticking its nose in the business of a foreign country? 1.00
00:03:43.000 Smell like f***s in here, d***. All y'all smell like f***s to me. 0.87
00:03:47.160 To me it's just insane that people think he cares about Venezuela. He doesn't even care about Americans.
00:03:53.720 He doesn't even care about the people living here. What makes you all think he cares about the people in Venezuela?
00:03:58.180 Okay so once you get through all of the fluff what she's saying is presidents have no right
00:04:04.660 to just go in and blow up foreign countries for whatever the reason. To which I would say okay 1.00
00:04:11.420 well if that's the case then why did the Biden administration call for basically this precise
00:04:18.180 operation? The Biden administration offered 25 million bucks to go in and arrest Maduro and you're
00:04:24.480 not gonna arrest Maduro without blowing some stuff up in the country. So Biden wanted to do what Trump
00:04:28.800 did. Barack Obama went in and blew up a foreign country in Libya and elsewhere. Was that totally
00:04:37.120 unacceptable? George Bush obviously did. I guess you would probably hate that but before Bush Bill Clinton
00:04:42.160 set off bombs in Africa and Iraq by the way. And then George H.W. Bush did this in Panama. Then
00:04:51.440 Ronald Reagan did this in Grenada. And then and then and then and then and then. Nations don't have any 0.94
00:04:59.780 right to pursue their interests around around the globe. Furthermore she says this was illegal.
00:05:06.720 There is a legal predicate for the arrest of Maduro that both parties agreed to and he's being tried
00:05:15.520 in New York. And he wasn't even recognized as the leader of Venezuela by much of the international
00:05:22.460 community because he stole an election. I know it's very I'm all for the realist view of the American
00:05:29.100 involvement in Venezuela. Like we just sometimes topple Latin American dictators because it's in our
00:05:34.040 interest. And it might also advance justice. But she doesn't she doesn't even know. She doesn't 0.97
00:05:40.140 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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00:07:01.200 kidnapped its leader illegally. You would think calling this out as bad would be like a cold take,
00:07:09.660 you know, like a well water is wet kind of scenario. But no, people have crawled out of the
00:07:14.340 woodwork to say that actually, no, this is super cool because Trump is liberating Venezuela. Trump is
00:07:20.000 doing it to get rid of the drugs. Actually, you, you pink haired SJW, you are in the wrong for
00:07:26.300 deciding what's best for the people of Venezuela. All right, if we're liberating people, let's
00:07:30.460 liberate Russia. Okay, like Vladimir Putin, put a potato sack over his head and just yeet him over
00:07:36.560 to the United States. That's fine, right? How about the state of Israel? Netanyahu is a war criminal.
00:07:42.520 I don't think anyone would mind if we just zipped in and, you know, tied him up and just,
00:07:46.840 you know where I'm going with this. When has it ever ended well for a country when the U.S.
00:07:51.200 has invaded and taken over? Like when? Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua again.
00:08:00.340 The Philippines, Germany. Remember? I don't know. It usually works out pretty well, 1.00
00:08:05.140 actually. I get that Iraq was pretty bungled and then Obama bungled Libya and which we didn't
00:08:10.780 really take over. But it usually works out pretty well when we intervene in these foreign countries
00:08:15.820 countries for any number of reasons. In the case of Venezuela, because he was the illegitimate leader
00:08:22.000 of a narco state that was allying with our enemies. He was an illegitimate so-called president. He was 1.00
00:08:29.560 not a head of state. He goes in, he says, well, if we're just going to liberate people. Trump is
00:08:34.060 liberating Venezuela. By the way, the Venezuelans are thrilled that he's gone.
00:08:37.260 He was devastating, as was Chavez. We're devastating to the country. But even beyond the, you know,
00:08:46.940 Venezuelans greet us as liberators. He says, why don't we do that to Putin? Oh, because Putin is
00:08:51.040 much further away and his country has nuclear weapons pointed at us. And Venezuela is very close 0.85
00:08:56.120 to home and therefore a more imminent threat to the United States when things go wrong, which is why
00:08:59.800 we've had the Monroe Doctrine on the books for over 200 years. It's not as big a threat. You would not be
00:09:03.940 able to invade the Kremlin and extract President Putin within 88 minutes, as you could do with
00:09:10.120 Venezuela. So that's one realistic reason why. Why don't we do this to Bibi Netanyahu? Oh, because
00:09:14.500 Israel is an ally of the United States. That's why. Putin's not an ally of the United States.
00:09:19.020 Venezuela is not an ally of the United States. Bibi Netanyahu, love him or hate him, his country is an
00:09:23.720 ally of the United States. And so, yeah, we don't, we wouldn't do that. Also because he's further away.
00:09:28.320 Also because it wouldn't really advance our interests. And so that's why. Okay, keep going.
00:09:31.660 Are justified by we're helping the people and it never helps.
00:09:36.160 That's not the justification for the war. I grant you that that was one of the justifications of 0.74
00:09:41.740 the Iraq war or the Afghanistan war. It was one of them. But Trump is explicitly not doing that.
00:09:47.920 Trump is going out and he's saying, yeah, they stole our oil properties and we're going to take
00:09:52.540 them back. And they're sending drugs into America. They're sending people into America. 0.95
00:09:57.720 The Venezuelans have been flooding into the country because of the turmoil caused by Maduro.
00:10:01.660 And so we're going to go boot this guy out because it's in our interest and it'll help the
00:10:07.180 Venezuelan people too, but it's in our interest. So Trump is explicitly making a self-interested
00:10:12.760 America first argument for this war, war, quote unquote. So I don't know. I guess this guy just
00:10:17.360 didn't, didn't hear it. The pink hair got in the way. 0.95
00:10:20.200 For that matter, the government of the United States of America does not care about the welfare
00:10:25.640 of people from other countries.
00:10:27.560 Put a pause here. It's not true. We do care. Obviously you care about the welfare of people
00:10:31.900 in other countries. One is a matter of justice because we are human beings, but two, because
00:10:36.440 the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. So we care about the welfare of people
00:10:40.400 in other countries in as much as geopolitical turmoil is a problem for us. If there's a civil
00:10:46.640 war in a country, if there's economic carnage even, that's bad for business because we maintain
00:10:52.120 the global order.
00:10:52.840 So we do care. Even if, even if you say it's not at a perfect charity, it's a little bit
00:10:56.340 self-interested. We do care.
00:10:57.940 They only care about power.
00:11:00.400 We do care about power. We're a superpower. We care about power. That's true. That's true.
00:11:04.420 You're right. One really weird thing about that guy's reaction. He said, he said, you know,
00:11:08.000 and maybe it takes a pink hair. 1.00
00:11:10.720 Do people still say that? That's so dated. That's 2016 lingo. I mean, who still says that?
00:11:16.920 That is, that's very, that's cringe. Oh my God.
00:11:23.360 Oh, you're killing me.
00:11:25.840 Even the word cringe is kind of dated. We're in a whole new world. And the new world actually
00:11:30.180 looks a lot like the old world, which is where we have great power of politics. Okay. Keep going. 0.92
00:11:33.440 Y'all pay attention to what they will spend money on and what they won't spend money on.
00:11:37.680 They will spend money invading another country to kidnap their president and steal their oil. 0.83
00:11:42.060 They won't spend money on you when you need healthcare and when you need housing.
00:11:45.880 I suspect what he's insinuating here is because we don't have more socialistic or
00:11:49.640 communistic healthcare and housing policies, that that's evidence that we don't care. But of course,
00:11:55.520 the president of Venezuela that we just went in and abducted was a communist. And the reason 0.94
00:11:59.960 he caused so much turmoil in his country and problems for our country is in no small part
00:12:04.420 because his communist policies were very bad for the country and for the world. So no,
00:12:08.440 we don't want to, we don't want to become communists. When it comes to healthcare though,
00:12:12.160 and housing, taking out Maduro actually could have downstream effects to help that because
00:12:17.760 one of, one of the chief reasons that healthcare is so expensive and opaque and the chief reason
00:12:23.940 that housing is so expensive is mass migration. A lot of which comes from Venezuela. So actually 0.97
00:12:28.500 by stemming all of the mass migration from Venezuela, you actually could help on those two
00:12:32.860 fronts. But yeah, it's true. It's true. We do. We sometimes have to kick our geopolitical adversaries
00:12:37.440 out of the Western hemisphere. We've had to do it since the early 19th century. We still have to do
00:12:40.940 it today. Okay. Are there any more libs who are very upset? No, we're out of them for now. Maybe
00:12:45.440 more will show up. I'm Michael Knowles. See you next time.