Welcome to the podcast of the Load Cedars for Tuesday, the 6th of January, 2026.
Look at that, I got that right.
Joined by Josh and Harry.
And today we're going to be talking about the new containment method of making sure that nothing is ever about us and it's always about someone else.
The return of the neocons and the death of the socialist dream.
Just because nobody else seems to remember what day it is as well, I'd like to wish everybody a happy fifth anniversary to the attempted overthrow of democracy.
You're right, we're almost there, boys.
Also, happy new year.
I've not said that either.
There's that too.
Right, so without further ado, let's crack on.
So I'm going to be talking about the new containment method.
Well, it's not that new, but it's new-ish for Britain.
And it starts with this tweet from Keir Starmer.
I'm delighted that Allah Abd El-Fattah is back in the UK and has been reunited with his loved ones.
He must be feeling profound relief.
I want to pay tribute to Allah's family and to those who have worked and campaigned for this moment.
Alar's case has been top priority for my government since we came to office.
I'm grateful to President Sisi for his decision to grant the pardon.
His name's literally Allah.
I know.
In light of the revelatory tweets that came out, this is genuinely funny.
I know.
And we will be looking at those.
It's like the sort of thing that David Brent would tweet.
It's something like something from the office.
It's sort of hilarious that he put it in such flowery.
Kind of misfortune by the gog.
It's such an unvarnished good.
And then just scratched beneath the surface.
And it's profound.
And yeah, just profound.
Like, you just couldn't get any more crystal clear.
So this is Essing hate white people.
They don't understand sharing or community.
A blight on the earth they are.
Good thing they stopped breeding.
Tell us how you really feel.
Cheers for that.
I'm glad you're a British citizen now.
That's wonderful.
Top priority for Keir Starmer.
I know.
They have such shared interests.
Yeah, I saw that as well.
It's just sad at this point, then.
Come on.
Didn't that?
That's a pointed title.
I don't look to AIs.
Yeah, good point.
Good point.
If Grock had said, yeah, no, I'm the most based, that would have been fine.
No, I still wouldn't.
I wouldn't accept it.
Grock, you're not a real person.
If you're the most based, you don't flaunt your power level.
You keep it quiet.
Subtle.
So here's another one.
Once again, proves that humanity will not be redeemed until we commit mass death.
I don't know whether YouTube likes that word.
Genocide, I guess.
The biggest big murder, against all white people.
Thanks, YouTube, for making us sound like cavemen.
Some of my best friends are white.
That's kind of...
That's kind of fun.
It's kind of funny.
I can't believe that.
At least he's showing his bona fide credentials as a proper libtard, though, right?
It's like, yeah, I hate all white people.
Some of my best friends are white.
It's like, okay, yeah.
If he was a woman, he'd probably be married to a white man.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And then this.
oh, I only hate whites with a smiley face.
Well, that's not true.
We know you hate loads of other people that you associate with whites.
Don't worry.
We were only discussing how we'll take over your town and sexually assault your women.
us terrorists tend to do that.
That does sound a little bit...
He's obviously joking here, but this... I'm...
I'm feeling like he's Egyptian Vorsch.
It sounds a little bit like a.
You know, he's like an edge lord, but a lefty edge lord online.
But it's not someone who should be a priority.
No kidding.
And here's some more.
Just to well, we've already seen that one.
Just to really hammer it home.
Dear international PhD student, by the way, I'm a racist.
I don't like white people.
So I just looked at Sam Sweet.
Top priority of my government quote.
By the way, I'm a racist.
I'm getting the same energy from this as, and I'm not making any inferences from this, as AA's tweets when he's obviously really grumpy and trying to get everybody at the coffee shop.
He's trying to antagonize, obviously.
But I imagine that the underlying hostility and there's a streak of truth behind this.
Yeah, he's exaggerating it, but still.
And here he's saying random shooting of white males should convince them that racism costs lives.
Which is an interesting thing to say.
And lots of people were saying, oh, we've let this crazy Islamist in.
And I don't think that's the entirety of it.
And I'll show you why I think that in a minute.
He's a leftist.
Yes.
We'll be getting to that.
Sorry.
And then he's saying here he's talking about killing police.
Not the nicest fellow.
And then another narrative was this one where he's talking about Zionists and how he doesn't like them and wants them dead.
And I wonder which one the mainstream media is going to pick up.
I can't help but notice that he seems to be less aggressive against the Zionists.
There was one of his tweets where he's like, I hope Iran makes a nuclear bomb and then bombs all the white people.
You could have said the Zionists.
I mean, he's saying that he's advocating the killing of all Zionists, including civilians.
So F off, I guess.
So it seems even-handed to me.
Okay, fair enough.
At least he's not a hypocrite.
Yeah, he hates everybody equally.
Yeah, he's talking about rejoicing when newest soldiers are killed.
You get the idea.
He's not a nice person.
And I think Cunley Druckburg did the best summary here of his case.
A legitimate mental extremist who hates white people.
He provocatively mouthed off about Egyptian leaders with threats of violence.
And then he was put in prison multiple times because, believe it or not, threats of violence do get you arrested.
Even in Egypt.
Even in Egypt.
He's never been to Britain, but applied for citizenship in prison.
This was in 2021.
And then they give him citizenship and airlift him over and argue for his release.
And I thought this was a little bit strange, even for the Starma government, which I have very low opinions of, obviously.
The man who hates white people the most in all of the world.
British citizenship, get him out of here.
Thanks, Starma.
Normally, he's a little bit more subtle.
I know that the Southport riots was a little bit of a mask-off moment.
And it was the first thing he did.
And the mass.
30 million to the mosques.
It's like, what?
But anyway, I was reading this Guardian article, and then all of a sudden it clicked.
I can't remember where it is in this article.
Go back to Anne.
That's the moat.
So he's a soyjack.
I was about to say he looks so soy.
That's what Starmer saw in him.
But somewhere around here, it goes on writing some sort of...
Aha, found it.
El Fatah is from a family of human rights activists, became a leading voice during the Arab Spring.
He has a direct, perceptive, non-sectarian writing style that has won him awards.
And as a bonus, by the way.
So he's a plant.
Yeah, but I love it.
Non-sectarian.
What?
I want everyone dead.
I also was amused by the fact that it said he has a teenage son, Khaled, who lives in Brighton and attends a special education needs school.
I was like, oh, great.
So we've already got a dependent.
Yeah, we've got a tax sink already attached to him in the country.
But this encouraged me to do a little bit of digging.
And I was able to find that his father was a human rights lawyer.
And he met his mother while leading an underground communist student cell calling for revolution.
Oh, come on.
No wonder the Blairites want him in.
But you couldn't write this, right?
If you wrote that, you'd be like, yeah, that's not really very realistic.
No one has that kind of life.
So lots of people online, lots of right-wingers were saying, we can't have this guy.
He's a dangerous Islamist.
Actually, no, that's not the vector of extremism.
He is a libtard.
Yes, that's what he is.
Communist.
Yeah.
And that's why they want him because he's part of the liberal international order.
He lives in Egypt where it's not that popular.
He's an insider.
He's from a family of human rights activists, was a leading voice during the Arab Spring.
So he was probably getting, he was probably attached to intelligence services.
Well, I don't think he was because you'd think someone who's sort of trained or attached to the intelligence services would be more circumspect and show a bit more intelligence, perhaps, as well.
They possibly wouldn't be quite so brazen about the hatred of the country that they're getting aid from, right?
Wouldn't necessarily say that.
Maybe not necessarily, but I would thought that probably is the case.
But I actually think he falls into the category of foreign liberal that the regime in the early 2000s loved picking their foreign liberals who'd be like, no, the West is correct because it's universal human rights and liberalism.
And therefore, my evil benighted country is awful and I need to go and seek sanctuary there.
You've got like the I unhurse stuff like that.
That category, they love them.
I imagine there was something like that, but whether he knew it or not, I wouldn't be surprised if there were back channels being used to get money to him.
That's how a lot of these services work.
Maybe.
I'm certainly not saying that they wouldn't have done.
But the reason all the politicians came out and universally were like, oh, this guy's such a hero.
It's just because he was a libtard from a foreign country.
And they were like, oh, brilliant.
He demonstrates that libtardism is good.
And then they look at him and they go, he even looks like one of us.
No, no, that's literally it.
I hate to say it.
And it's worth mentioning, we have been sort of raking Kier Starmer over the coals.
However, as reform rightfully point out here, this man was granted British citizenship in 2021 by Boris Johnson's government.
And also Liz Truss and James Clevely both personally intervened on his case.
I love the Never Trust the Tory, except for the defectors that we've taken in $70.
Given that she has a new show and has been associated with our website, I'm going to be fair.
Has Liz Truss said anything about this since this came out?
I don't know, actually.
I don't know either.
I didn't look it up.
I still condemn her for it entirely.
But I want to know if she's said anything to walk it back a little bit.
She may well have done.
She could sort of do the Nuremberg defense of she was just following orders from Loris.
And how did that work out in Nuremberg?
I know, but I'm more forgiving.
Anyway, here is Max Tempest saying.
Oh, Liz Truss has said that he shouldn't be allowed here.
Well, so she has walked that back.
That's good to know.
Remember, like, Liz Truss used to be a Libtard as well.
A lot of us did.
To be honest, I wasn't a Libtard.
I was going to say, you'd have never lost him in the country.
But, like, a lot of us were liberals.
There are degrees of libtardation.
There are.
But Liz Truss used to be in the Lib Dems.
But she's come a long way, I think.
There is a cure.
Yeah.
So there is.
Max Tempest here rightfully points out that he'd had the case.
Sorry, before we go on, I've actually got a quote from Liz here.
She says, The El Fato case shows the way the human rights NGO industrial complex has completely captured the British state.
The failure of Conservative government was to not repeal the laws or replace the bureaucrats on day one.
Sorry, has Curtis Yarvin on her show one time.
She's already talking like that.
Hey, it is.
We applaud it.
Fair point.
In this house, we applaud people advocating for the destruction of the NGO complex.
Carry on.
So, an amusing thing is that he retweeted someone who was having a go at Starma for thanking the Egyptian president after Starmer had intervened for his release from prison.
That's gratifying.
So Even though he's had all of this effort made for him, he's still ungrateful and happy to criticise him.
I'd like to invoke intersectionality here, right?
Starmer is at once a white person and a Zionist.
So he is doubly hated by this chap.
True.
So let's pivot to the mainstream media headlines because we saw this guy's tweets.
They're all pretty anti-white, weren't they?
I think that that would be the headline in a free press, wouldn't it?
That hang on a minute, we've taken a person who hates British people into Britain.
That's the last thing we wanted.
Oh, wait, no, it's not.
But here are the headlines.
They're either just talking about him being criticised in a very vague way.
The Telegraph says extremist.
The Times here saying killing Zionists, that's not them saying it.
It's the headline about what he's saying.
Killing Zionists is okay.
Surely because it's mask off for the Times.
I wanted to be clear.
Please don't sue me.
That's what he is accused of.
But this is what they're going with.
They didn't talk about the fact that he clearly has some animosity towards white people who flew in and saved him from his own government.
Although he probably wouldn't claim that it was his government.
But still, his own country.
And there is much more of this.
BBC talked about it.
Only talks about him hating Zionists.
All the stuff about killing white people.
Not mentioned.
It's funny that, isn't it?
And then here's Jenric writing about it.
What a sawy jack.
But I retweeted Jenric.
I was like, this isn't acceptable.
He hates white people.
You didn't mention it.
It's not acceptable.
And then he started changing his tune to be like, oh, he hates Jews and white people.
Yeah, he then followed up with this.
He talks about his anti-white racism and hatred of British people.
But this did come after that article was written.
After my tweet, casting him.
I hope that it was because of you, Carl, that he changed his tune.
But it's interesting.
And of course, Richard Tice as well.
Truly appalling.
We've brought into the UK a racist anti-Semite.
What are those non-racist anti-Semites?
What are we saying?
And he doesn't mention the anti-British.
Presumably he did, yeah.
Yeah, he actually did mention that, which was surprising.
Secondarily to the anti-Semitic bit, but I think Farage tends to be a little bit more tepid on calling out anti-Semitism, especially considering his recent revelations with his school days going with one Jewish kid in his year.
I feel like it's a little bit of a perhaps not an optical good idea.
Reform plus three in the polls.
Seriously, Carnival, with a humour.
So Farage did write a letter urging to the Home Secretary, urging to rescind his citizenship, which I think is a good idea.
Now I'll just do it to many, many other people.
It is setting a precedent that you can rescind people citizenship when it's legally granted to them.
This is good.
Although, obviously, it needs to go much further than that.
And he also referred him to counter-terrorism police.
Although I feel like, given that he is a libtard, I don't think he's actually that much of a terror threat.
It's just annoying that he's here.
Yeah.
I mean, to be honest with you, can any of us say that in like five years' time after having lived in this country, he won't do something crazy?
Living in Britain is the real radicalization.
It happens to a lot of them.
That's a point, though, because a lot of these people are on a short fuse.
Yeah.
Something can set these people off.
Yep.
And then we've got a Conservative MP here who campaigned for his release and then didn't realize that he was a terrible anti-Semite.
I didn't realize.
I'm trying not to laugh, but it really is that meme, isn't it?
Oh, we accidentally campaigned for a racist anti-Semite to come into the country by mistake.
I accidentally ran to win this.
I accidentally let this maniac in.
But my point here is that by making it all about anti-Semitism and that sort of thing, they're overlooking the thing that is of more concern to a larger portion of the population, which, believe it or not, the white British are still the majority of the population in this country.
And I think it's of concern to us that both the Conservatives and Labour have campaigned to let in someone who has tweeted, however serious or not, that he wants us dead.
I feel like that's not the kind of person we should let in, joking or not, because it does seem like there's some sort of hostility there.
And he's sort of tweeting it.
It sort of reminded me of like an American Democrat or something like that, where there's obviously resentment there.
But also, he's just not our business.
The Conservative Party gave him citizenship in like 2021.
And it's like, what are you doing?
And also, if there is to be a precedent set here, as you're suggesting, I would much rather the precedent be set specifically for anti-white values.
That's exactly right.
Rather than anything else, simply because it, frankly, it applies to a much larger population of the people who shouldn't be here.
And it's our country.
And it is our country.
It's not to say that Jewish people shouldn't be upset at this or anything like that.
I could understand why they would be.
But pandering to a small minority of people in Britain when he's got the most examples of hating white people in a white British country is really weird.
Well, it's not that weird.
I understand why they're doing it.
They don't want to lend credence to the notion that there are people out there that hate white people and we're allowing them in the country because it undermines immigration, right?
Oh, completely.
But I have to say, it is very funny just how hateful this guy is.
Like, normally when you find someone who's like, I'm racist against X, they're not like, every single one of them, everywhere needs to be killed, repeatedly posting that.
That's actually, I mean, especially in like 2007, 2012 Twitter.
This is Wild West Twitter.
Well, yeah, but still, it was still like not that extreme, right?
That's a really, really hardline stance.
So it's like the most extreme left-wing extremist you can find.
Literally, I want a white genocide.
No, I don't mean the destruction of whiteness as a concept.
I mean the death of every white person.
Like, that's way out on the edge.
I'm not even going to BS about this.
Yeah, not even many Democrats will say that.
You know what I mean?
They'll equivocate it.
Not many, but some.
And say, well, whiteness is a concept and a system of privileges and rules and things like that.
And, you know, they won't, they'll try and divorce it from the people themselves.
But he's just like, no, every single one of them in the grave.
And it's like, yeah, Kier Simon.
It is funny that they've all got such egg on their face from this because it's just embarrassing for them.
You know, they look totally out of touch with what these people are actually like.
I very much agree.
And I think that's probably the least controversial thing that you've ever said is that perhaps calling for the death to all white people makes someone extreme just a little bit.
The death of anything.
So there are some interesting perspectives on this other than the ones that we've been talking about as well.
Oh yeah, the Tories said he should be deported.
Blah.
Maybe you shouldn't have imported him.
I campaigned for him to come here.
I just threw that in there.
So three hours, a few Twitter accounts did more due diligence on an enemy of the British people than the civil service intelligence services, Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, and Deputy Prime Minister did over the course of years.
Well, that kind of assumes they don't all agree with him.
Exactly what I wanted to say is that, well, actually, they're not that fussed.
They're embarrassed that it came out.
But were it to go under the radar, I don't think they would have done anything about it.
Well, again, it's like you've mentioned Robert Jenrick.
It's like Robert Jenrick campaigning to get these Afghanis into the country.
Sneaking them in.
Sneaking them in, and then once they're in the country, then complaining about it.
Oh, no!
There are so many Afghanis here who let all of these people in.
And then you have Ren here talking about the fact that in a country that criminalizes tweets, the things that he tweeted, had we done it to a different group, we would almost certainly be arrested.
And then he's welcomed with a message from the Prime Minister.
I can hear the judge now, like, you know, ponderously moralizing.
This is not acceptable in a civilized society, Josh.
How could you have tweeted this?
This endangers everything about British values.
Like, you could see this long-winded, therefore I give you the maximum sentence of death.
Yeah, probably.
Mercy in this country at this rate.
And here's another one as well.
Boris was forced to resign over slea scandals, and this government is hitting serious national security incidents on a monthly basis and just keeps chugging along.
And this is an important point, actually, because these sorts of things are like water off a duck's back.
Everyone hates labor.
It's not actually affecting anything.
And this notion of like there'll be one more scandal and labor will be finished.
No, actually, they can carry on until they're voted out.
No problem.
They don't have to do anything if they cling on to power.
He is right, though.
The Tories are always ousted over some sleaze scandal.
Starmer is too boring to be directly connected.
We don't know what the Ukrainian Rent Boy situation is, right?
That's true.
Zero investigative journalism about that.
That's good.
Minimal reporting.
That slipped my mind.
Thank you.
They just loved.
Exactly, right?
And that's the point.
That's why it's done the way that they've done it.
But there's doubtless, they're doubtless it's sleaze.
It's just that the headlines are all, well, I'm bringing in anti-white extremists into the country.
This is a priority for my government.
Do you care about the Ukrainian rent boys?
They probably don't hate white people.
They're probably not going to overthrow the country.
They're probably paying their taxes.
They're just attacking Kirstalma's personal properties, which apparently is not really very newsworthy.
I put it in my notes as Starmer being rake-proof.
Like, he keeps on stepping on them, but they just do nothing to him.
Yeah, you've got to have feeling in your face, right?
It's got to actually hurt, but if someone's just like, okay, terminated.
And like I said, he's like a bureaucratic robot.
He really is.
And then I found this one amusing.
Why does the UK love recycling Middle Eastern rubbish as activists?
We throw them away, you collect them to the point you become a global hub for extremists.
This is true.
This is how the Islamic world views us: they get rid of the people they don't want, and we just lap them up, apparently.
They keep telling us this, though.
They're pretty transparent.
He's listing it out.
Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, jihadist, glorify, hates white people, hates Jews, incites violence against the police.
Egypt arrested him.
And our government says, great guy.
Well, he says either you are dangerously naive or you openly despise your own people.
Can it not be both?
Anyway.
So the final thing I wanted to sort of ponder upon was that if you explain this, I was explaining this to my parents at Christmas.
And they're like, what on earth are you on about, Josh?
And then I saw this and I was like, oh, so it's so true.
This is the problem with most actual news stories these days.
Most people don't pay attention to them outside of a headline here or there that's filtered through left-wing talking points.
Then you actually explain just like the step-by-step here's what happened.
And they go, that can't be true.
I wish it wasn't.
It would be on the news if it were true.
Like I was explaining to my parents over Christmas, you know, bloated after many a meal, that, yeah, Keir Starmer personally intervened and thanked someone that they brought in from Egypt who said he wanted to genocide all white people.
It's like, of course, dear.
Okay.
Have another mince pie.
It just sounds so ridiculous.
You can't help but laugh.
Because it's just so preposterous.
I know.
But he responded to all of this saying his words were twisted out of meaning.
All right, soy Jack.
Yeah, I don't know how else they could mean anything.
But he did apologise, but only to the Zionist things, because I imagine he's probably a little bit worried about his safety.
But he didn't apologise for any of the anti-white stuff.
But he made an unequivocal apology for his historic tweets.
And yeah, The Guardian picked up, and he described his tweets as hurtful.
But we all know that that's what you actually think.
And that's why you posted them.
Your mind's not changed.
You're still a libtard.
If this was something that was weighing on your conscience, you would have apologised for them before they came out and it became an international scandal.
I'm waiting for him to start writing for The Guardian now.
They probably would love that, to be honest.
Yeah.
He probably has previously.
He looks like he'd fit in.
He certainly would.
But the story here isn't that the government would let in someone like him.
They've let in hundreds of them, if not thousands, if not hundreds of thousands.
It's not that he was an anti-Semite.
It's that when all of this comes out, everyone's talking about him being anti-Semitic when actually the majority of the population is concerned about him being anti-white.
And no one really talked about it.
No one really said very much about it.
And I think that that's a problem.
And I think that's a way of containing the fact that there are people out there that hate white people because it influences people's attitudes towards immigration.
They can't stop that flow.
They want those cheap immigrants in.
They want the cheap labor.
And that's why they're overlooking it.
Hi, guys.
Look at the most westernized Egyptian we've found.
Oh, yeah, brilliant.
Too westernised.
Yeah, I think you're exactly right.
141 Paladin says, as an American, I know you guys get a lot of Second Amendment comments.
However, now I understand modern civil wars like Spain and Lebanon, I think it's critical that you guys prepare for the worst.
Well, I mean, I think a lot of people are still optimistically hoping that the worst won't happen.
And somehow the political environment will shift to people being slightly more reasonable.
I'm not saying that's not too optimistic, but I think people still have this fancy in their head that maybe something can be done.
And things just aren't bad enough yet, frankly.
Also, that's a random name keeps calling Josh Timu Andrew Gold, which I think is the exact opposite way around.
I think Andrew Gold is the Timu Josh firm.
Thank you very much.
Oh, that's a random name.
You are woke right.
I went on Andrew Gold's podcast yesterday.
I'm glad to know that you're shaking your leg.
That'll be out in a minute, in a day or two.
It's pretty clear that way too many Muslims, there's a thin line between social justice and violence against the innocent.
Well, yeah.
Explain to your stuff.
Stuff to your parents over Christmas.
Nice try, Timu, Andrew.
Everyone here knows you celebrate Hanukkah.
Where does this come from?
I think he's just this posting.
I see that.
I appreciate it.
Let's carry on.
Don't worry, Josh.
I don't think you look too much like Andrew Gold.
I mean, there are worse people to be complaining.
When I met him, I said that people thought we looked alike.
There are some similarities.
I would trust you more to have my back in a fight.
I have punched you before.
Box saying it's true, even though you hurt yourself.
My glove cut my hand.
He keeps saying this.
Look at it.
No, something comes.
All right, Andrew.
Calm down.
Let's carry on.
All right, then.
So good news, everybody.
The neocons are back in action.
The swamp is back and better than ever.
And that is one of the things that has been made very, very clear over the past day following the aftermath of Venezuela.
And I say aftermath, the Venezuela situation is still very much ongoing, very much like what happened with Iran in the middle of last year.
It's not the sort of thing where you just go in, you do a strike, you go in, you kidnap the president of a country, and then it's just done.
It's just over, and that's the last you'll ever hear of it.
These are ongoing long-term geopolitical situations that we'll also have to see how they develop.
But it has revealed some other things that some people have said have already been clear, but I think it's been made explicit now where the Trump administration has gone, which is it has completely aligned itself with a neoconservative global foreign policy agenda.
But first, just to update people on what's going on with Maduro.
So Maduro is in New York City right now, and he has pled not guilty after capturing shock USA attack on Venezuela.
I don't think that's going to work out great for you, frankly.
I imagine there are going to be many lefty lawyers that want to represent him there.
It's weird that it's in New York, isn't it?
It is strange.
It's also funny that the judge presiding over the whole thing is 92 years old.
Jesus.
Hang it up at this point, buddy.
Come on.
The script keeper has come out of retirement.
Yeah, you're older than a boomer at 92 years old, man.
Maybe, like, this is the one time I'm going to say step down and let it go to a boomer, a younger generation.
Is that an ironically silent generation?
I think it might be.
I think it might be, because that would be pre-45, obviously.
Either way, I don't think it really matters what Maduro pleads.
It all depends on what kind of backroom dealings are going on if he's able to negotiate something outside of court.
And speaking of which, regarding the actual Venezuelan incident in the first place, I mentioned something that a lot of people have been thinking over the past few days yesterday, which is going in with that kind of precision strike, having no casualties on your own side, only casualties on the opposing side, and having it be so quick and perfectly pulled off, especially with no military intervention from the opposition, seems like something that could only really be achieved if you had inside help.
And while it's not been explicitly said, there was this New York Times article from a couple of days ago titled How Trump Fixed on a Majuro Loyalist as Venezuela's New Leader, pointing out that the vice president Delcie Rodriguez had already essentially been tapped by US intelligence services as the new leader if the situation of a Maduro deposition came to be.
And it says here, weeks earlier than the event, US officials had already settled on an acceptable candidate to replace Mr. Maduro, at least for the time being, the vice president who had impressed Trump officials with her management of Venezuela's crucial oil industry.
She'd also made it clear that she was more willing to work alongside the Americans than Maduro was, and Maduro had been going up and dancing in the past week or so before he got deposed, making it clear he wasn't taking American threats seriously.
So it seems that they say here, a US official, not named in the article, said, I've been watching her career for a long time, so I have some sense of who she is and what she's about.
I'm not claiming that she's the permanent solution to the country's problems, but she's certainly someone we think we can work with at a much more professional level than we were able to do with him.
So it does seem that at the very least, this might have been an internal coup backed by the US government so that this woman can get in charge.
And as we've said, we were saying before we came on stream, as was mentioned yesterday, the likelihood is removing sanctions, working with the US for the oil industry in Venezuela is probably going to massively alleviate a lot of Venezuela's internal economic problems.
I'll talk about that in my segment if that's all right.
Yeah, of course.
I'm not a betting man, but I would not be surprised one bit.
I'd put everything I own on the fact that it was so easy because there was no resistance in the regime.
And they're just like, here you go.
Because obviously things haven't worked out in Venezuela and it's not that hard.
What are you talking about?
They have socialism.
Sorry.
But it's not that hard to imagine the fact that, well, maybe if we could sell our oil, we could be better off.
And that's not a hard thing to comprehend.
And people were just like, well, if we get rid of Maduro, then we can do that.
So seems like a very strong incentive to me to turn him over.
I also like food.
But on that note, again, it's probably going to massively improve the lives of a lot of Venezuelans.
I don't think anybody is going to contradict that.
Again, it's important to note that when we see the actions of a large American empire on the foreign stage, as much as it's easy to get caught up in the hoorah USA hype of the whole thing, that the action that's being taken for the most part is not for you.
It is for the sake of privileged oligarchs with their own political and economic agendas.
Typically, my rule that I like to keep in mind at all times is that if something is not done specifically for you, any benefits that you get from it will be temporary and purely incidental.
And in fact, given what we know about the corrupt oligarchy that runs the Western world right now, I mean, just go back and look at Epstein and everybody associated with him.
Typically, if you do incrue any benefits from it, you will be punished for them later.
Brexit.
Brexit, what did we get for Brexit?
We got the Boris Wave.
And it's going to be the same pattern everywhere.
And so it's important to see whose agenda this is fueling, because America will not have deposed Maduro for the sake of the Venezuelan people.
As Donald Trump has made very clear, this is very much related to oil and hemisphere security, which could for the short term, maybe even for the long term, result in better oil prices and gas prices for Americans, which I'm not going to say is a bad thing for the time being.
But this was something that came out yesterday.
A picture of Donald Trump with the swamp himself, Lindsey Graham, one of the most notorious war hawks in all of Washington, posing together with a make Iran Great Again hat, which had been signed by Trump.
Very clearly, Trump, through this and through many of his actions over the past year, has decided to shake off those people who are part of a non-interventionist MAGA side.
People like Marjorie Taylor Greene, people like Thomas Massey, who I'll speak about in a moment, and people like Matt Gates, for instance, all people who were not fans of the same backers that somebody like Lindsey Graham is.
He's shaken them off and he has fully aligned himself with the Lindsey Graham types.
And he's also shaken off people like Elon Musk.
The past year has been him kind of getting rid of anybody who wouldn't be in favor of these kinds of actions.
I thought Trump was meant to get rid of the swamp creatures, not summon up its most powerful representative.
Like, it's a very strange thing.
I couldn't believe when I saw this.
I think both you and I picked up on it and were talking about that.
A lot of people were sharing videos of Donald Trump's circa around 2015 and the lead up to his initial campaign when he was heavily critical of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama's involvement in foreign intervention, pointing out the trillions of dollars that had been wasted on it and all of the human rights abuses, the loss of American life that came with it.
And I think what's become clear typically now is that it was just a cudgel to beat Hillary Clinton with at the time.
And it was beneficial for him to say at the time.
And now that he is in charge and thinks that he is able to work with these same swamp creatures for successful foreign intervention, military action, that he's more than happy to align himself with them, especially because they are all taking money from similar backers as he is.
It's funny that his objection is it's costing too much and getting too many people killed.
I'm going to do it cheaper and get zero people killed.
Well, for the time being, for the time being, we'll see how it runs in the long term.
I think there's an important difference here because the Venezuela thing, they did do it on the cheap.
There's no loss of American life.
And so I've seen lots of people say, well, okay, in this instance, the benefits to America in getting rid of a hostile nation close to us was worth it.
I've got rid of the nation.
You know what I mean?
That's the thing, is the vice president who it seems that they tapped to take over has been wishy-washy now that she has been put into power on how much she will cooperate with America.
She initially came out with anti-American statements that might have been to placate elements of the government that were still pro-Maduro that remain.
But ultimately, other than Maduro, the infrastructure of the Venezuelan government is still there.
And whether or not there are people who are compliant with him in power, they can still cause, if there is an occupation, as Trump has said, a lot of headaches.
It's not as foreign intervention, even if it's in a weak country in South America, is not as simple as you kidnap the leader, put somebody you like in charge, and then everybody does everything that you say no questions ask and everything goes off without a hitch.
I'll tell you what, if Trump somehow flukes into that being the case, though.
If it did, if it did, I'll eat my words.
I know, right?
Because I'm not saying that's what's going to happen, but I don't know why, but I can kind of see it going that way.
Well, you know what I mean?
If they were to purely focus their attention on this, but already they are making gestures and outright statements that they're going to start targeting other countries.
It's not going to be as easy, like Iran and Cuba.
There's going to be a lot more defense.
Although, so there's a thing about this, which is a lot of these sort of legacy 20th century regimes are kind of ripe to fall, right?
Is Iran ripe to fall?
Yeah, the IRGC is still very entrenched.
Yeah, I'm not saying they're not entrenched, but they don't have the support of their own population.
And the IRGC and Iran still has, I mean, that was probably part of the Venezuela action, access to shipping routes and resources that are still important.
I'm not saying they're not anything.
But there's a kind of ripening of the circumstance, which is, you know, everyone in Venezuela hate Maduro.
The Iranian mullahs are not popular.
The Castro regime in Cuba is not popular.
Like, it's becoming apparent that actually this was just the wrong side of history.
Right.
I mean, frankly, I don't care about the world.
I'm not overrated.
No, no, I'm not saying we should.
I know, I'm not saying we should.
I'm not saying I'm of the mind that this kind of direct American force, I mean, people were saying in the wake of this that it turns out you can just do things.
Great.
Well, if you can just do things, if that's the lesson to take from this, if you're not doing certain other things, like rounding up all of the illegals in America and shipping them off, I have to make the I have to take the conclusion that's a purposeful decision not to do that thing.
But the thing is, what I'm trying to say, though, is that a lot, and we'll talk about this in my segment.
It's clear that the capitalist world order has won, right?
And so these kind of anachronistic legacy 20th century institutions and organizations that are against the capitalist order, they just look like they're out of time.
Like, what the hell is an Iranian mullah?
What are you doing here?
No, your own people don't want you there.
Nobody else wants you there.
Nobody thinks about you.
You seem archaic and ridiculous, just like Maduro socialism.
So this is for a century, mate.
I mean, I don't think it's quite that simple.
I wouldn't say the capitalist world order as it exists right now is necessarily because what you're essentially saying there is end of history.
No, I'm not saying that.
Because it makes it very, very easy to say that the political system capitalist order behind America during the 1980s and the fall of the Soviet Union was the right side and it would never face any challenges again.
And clearly that has not changed.
I'm not saying that capitalism is or liberalism is the eternal model of governance and economics.
What I'm saying is in the late 19th century and early 20th century, there was a competition between capitalism and socialism and fascism, which one would be the thing that goes into the new era.
And we had that play out all through the 20th century.
And those ones lost.
They lost that competition.
Now, I'm not saying that capitalism is the last economic system or political system.
It's not.
It's just it is what is here now.
I see it very much like the death of the Greek city-state, right?
Like when Philip of Macedon defeats Thebes and Athens, it signals very much that city-states are just over, right?
It's not the end of history.
History is obviously still going to carry on.
The great powers are going to fight, blah, blah, blah.
But the Greek idea of, oh, we can just have our independent city-states and have an alliance.
No, that's over.
It's empires now, right?
And that's what I'm talking about.
It's not socialism and capitalism or, you know, Islamism and whatever the malice is.
Well, I definitely agree.
I definitely agree that the old binaries are not, they're anachronistic.
You are right that they are.
And we're moving into something else.
And there will be things after this.
It's just right now, this is what it is.
And this has won, and they just have to come to terms with it.
Either way, so he is making statements saying things like Cuba is ready to fall.
And here you can see Lindsey Graham at his side, salivating, probably masturbating out of camera.
It's the first direction Lindsey Graham's had in like 30 years.
Look at him.
We can't really hear that, Samsung.
But Cuba now has no income.
They got all of their income from Venezuela.
From the Venezuelan oil.
They're not getting any of it.
And Cuba literally is ready to fall.
And you have a lot of great Cuban Americans that are going to be very happy about this.
Or Karubio.
Again, it's this like Cuba's ready to fall like they could just go into a decapitation strike or some kind of on-the-ground invasion.
And then it's just as simple as we've won now, like a video game or something.
The thing is, like I said, I got this feeling that this is kind of going to work out for Trump.
Because I mean, maybe.
Maybe.
Let me put my case forward.
And don't get me wrong, I'm happy if this goes completely the other way.
I'm happy to say, well, I'm just some guy who doesn't know, right?
But there's something about the overstaying their welcome.
The socialists have clearly overstayed their welcome, right?
Everyone hates them in Cuba, everyone hates them in Venezuela.
And actually, you know, everyone in the West is just fat and happy, which is why we're not having revolutions, you know.
Like the people in those countries and the people of Rome, like there are a lot, there are constant protests.
And there's currently one going on now.
Like, not an uprising, I think is appropriate to call it, but like huge amounts of civil unrest because people are just really sick of this way of governance, these kind of authoritarian, autocratic methods of governance.
And so it does kind of feel like the moment is ripening where, yeah, they'll probably fall.
And as Trump pointed out, there are millions of them in the West who actually would like to go home.
There's something like 8 million Venezuelans currently in exile.
If 8 million Venezuelans go home.
Like I've said, for the average Venezuelan on the ground, it will be interesting to see that they will probably have their lives improved.
But we'll see whether these people end up going back.
Will, but I suspect that millions of Venezuelans probably will actually leave America.
And so, actually, that is Trump accomplishing something incidentally for us.
Don't get me wrong, he's not doing it for us, but at least incidentally, we'll have some benefit out of it.
Either way, carrying on again.
So, Lindsey Graham posted about this.
Another great day with the President of the United States, who's brought America back stronger than ever at home and abroad.
God bless our commander-in-chief and all the men and women who serve under him.
There's the picture.
I posted about this saying it's this is just open neo-con agenda with Iran particularly.
And people were trying to tell me this isn't 2003 anymore.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
These aren't the same people.
This isn't the same thing.
That's the same person.
And I had to point out that this is literally the same people with the same agenda.
And if you go all the way back to 1996, plenty of people have written about this.
I read about it in Pat Buchanan, but there are a number of different sources you can read about.
In 1996, there was an Israeli think tank that produced the Clean Break document, which laid out a number of regional rivals in the Middle East to Israel, with Iran being considered the crown jewel.
And it was after that that all of a sudden the American government began to slowly topple each of these countries.
Most recently, we had Syria, which was included in that.
This is part of the same agenda being pushed by many of the same people.
Like, for instance, obviously, Netanyahu, who was actually involved in the production of that document, but also Richard Pearl was one of the main writers of that, who had a lot of say in George W. Bush's administration in 2001.
There are reports of generals who came in following the events of 9-11.
And he came into a meeting at the Oval Office, and Richard Pearl and a number of other people were sat there talking about right time to invade Afghanistan.
And he was like, What did Afghanistan have to do with any of this?
Like, where did that come from?
But they'd already had all of this planned out.
So, this is simply the next step in that this is the crown jewel of this.
And if you look at what's been going on in Syria since Assad fell, I believe they're already starting to make some gestures towards Russia and China because the internal administration of that regime after they put literal ISIS al-Qaeda in charge has not been going great.
Really?
It has not been going great.
I know I am shocked.
I am absolutely shocked.
And there's other footage as well.
You can see just Lindsey Graham absolutely foaming at the mouth after all of this.
He really is completing his transformation into an actual pig, though, isn't he?
I think that's the case with many of these kind of like bloodthirsty rhinos, as they do.
But one of the things that one of the other things that's come out about it, obviously, there is still a strain of MAGA.
There is still a strain in the Republican Party that campaigned on anti-interventionism, that got alongside Trump because of the sorts of discussions that he was having about interventionism.
People within the Libertarian Party of America sided with Trump because he was making himself out to be an anti-interventionist and somebody who could pull back on Ukrainian action in the lead up to the 2024 election.
And Trump is actively beginning to target those people now.
We already saw him target Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has now announced her decision that she's going to be leaving Congress.
And now he is actively attacking Thomas Massey, who has been, frankly, a thorn in Trump's side for the past year, especially with going so hard on not supporting the big beautiful bill, not giving up on the Epstein files and other things.
And Trump is now directly attacking him, most notably of all, making a statement at the bottom here.
He is going to be supporting instead Ed Galrain, he makes a statement here, unlike lightweight Congressman Massey, a true hater of Israel and a totally ineffective loser who has failed us so badly, Captain Ed Galrain is a winner who will not let Kentucky down.
And people have been pointing out that amongst this bigger, this larger statement, just highlighting down there that Massey, who very notably has not accepted money from AIPAC, unlike somebody like Lindsey Graham, who, by the way, for everybody to know, has accepted over $1 million from APAC and in 2022, during his campaign, took almost $200,000 combined from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gunham, and Raytheon.
Thomas Massey...
Just a thing, he'd probably have done it for free.
Oh, no, absolutely.
Like Ted Cruz.
Like Ted Cruz, these people would all do it for free.
The money on the side is just that cherry on top.
But I decided to look a bit more into this Galrain man, and it had some very, very interesting connections that were able to be sussed quite easily through looking into it.
So there's this article from the Kentucky News that states here, Ed Galrain, a Trump-endorsed candidate from Shelby County, officially launched his campaign against Massey Tuesday morning, stating, I've dedicated my life to serving my country and I'm ready to answer the call again.
This district is Trump country.
The president didn't, I assume he said this after having beaten up that guy in Chicago.
Yeah, Justice Smollett.
The president doesn't need obstacles in Congress.
He needs backup.
I'll defeat Thomas Massey, stand shoulder to shoulder with President Trump and deliver the American first results Kentuckians voted for, Galrain wrote in a press release.
Massey said in response, the Unit Party in DC finally found someone willing to be a rubber stamp for globalist billionaires, endless debt and foreign aid, and forever wars in failed candidate and Lindsey Graham donor Ed Galrain.
Because it turns out, yeah, he's a Lindsey Graham donor.
Fourth district voters appreciate having an independent conservative voice who works for them and I look forward to continuing my fight for transparency, constitutional rights, secure borders, a true America first foreign policy and fiscal responsibility.
Now the funding for this Galrain man is coming from a political action committee affiliated with Trump's team called MAGA KY Kentucky.
It unloaded $1.8 million in ads against Massey so far according to the Federal Electoral Commission and they had an article following up on that telling you who is behind this pack.
And the three main donors behind it who have spent over $1 million running ads are three GOP aligned billionaire donors, head fund managers Paul Singer and John Paulson, as well as a PAC with ties to Miriam Adelson, the widow of late Trump mega donor Sheldon Adelson.
She I think recently said that she would donate $250 million to Trump if he ran for a third term.
They've contributed a total of $2 million to the pack.
Paulson gave the pack $250,000.
Adelson's Preserve America PAC offered $750,000 and Singer gave MAGA KY $1 million.
And I thought this name Paul Singer sounded familiar to me.
So I decided to look him up as well regarding some of the stuff that's been going on in Venezuela.
And what it turns out is that he is going to be making a lot of money in Venezuelan oil through the events that have taken place over the past few days.
It says here, one of President Donald Trump's top billionaire donors who has spent the past several months backing a push for regime change in Venezuela is about to cash in after the president's kidnapping of the nation's president.
While he declined to tell members of Congress, Trump has said he tipped off oil executives before the illegal attack.
So there was evidence of insider trading and a decent amount of it on things like Polymarket.
Yeah.
It's a question of how long ago he had tipped them off because clearly with the strikes on Venezuelan boats as well back in September, this had been running up for a long time.
And they had the fleet outside of that.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, they've been sanctioning them for years.
So it's no wonder that people were aware of it.
At a large preference press conference following the attack, he said the U.S. would have our very large United States oil companies go into Venezuela, which he said the U.S. will run indefinitely and start making money for the United States.
And again, given the fact that Venezuelan infrastructure with the government other than Maduro and his wife are still in place, even if they've got someone more friendly to the United States right now, it still remains to be seen.
I know you say it could be a miracle, and it could just go across.
I'm not saying I think it will be.
I just have this feeling I think somehow Trump's going to luck his way through it that it just happens to kind of fall in place.
I'd be very impressed if he did.
I would like that to be the case because, frankly, I don't want to see more bloodshed.
I don't want to see America get mired down, especially in somewhere like South America that's so close to their borders.
Because that would just mean if they do get mired down, a huge caravan of migrants going straight through Central America and Mexico up to the southern border again.
And I'm sure they would camp out till 2028 to see if they can get in through a Democrat president.
As Judd Legum reported on Monday for popular information, among the biggest beneficiaries will be the billionaire investor Paul Singer.
In 2024, Singer, an 81-year-old with a net worth of $6.7 billion, donated $5 million to Make America Great Again, Incorporated, Trump's Super PAC.
Singer donated tens of millions more in the 2024 cycle to support Trump's allies, including $37 million to support the election of Republicans to Congress.
He also donated an undisclosed amount to fund Trump's second transition.
Singer is also a major pro-Israel donor, with his foundation having donated more than $3.3 million to groups like Birthright Israel Foundation, the Israel-America Academic Exchange, Boundless Israel, and others in 2021, according to tax filings.
In November 2025, less than two months before Trump's operation to take over Venezuela, Singer's investment firm, Elliott Investment Management, inked a highly fortuitous deal.
It purchased Citco, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company, for $5.9 billion, a sale that was forced by a Delaware court after Venezuela defaulted on its bond payments.
Here's an interesting fact about that.
The court-appointed special master who forced the sale, Robert Pincus, is a member of the board of directors for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, APAC.
Literally, one of the directors of APAC pushed this sale through.
And again, with this, what you've got to keep in mind is this will have been, these investment companies will have been handpicked.
They will have been hand-picked to hand out rewards to massive donors for the party.
We heard how much money he had donated in support of MAGA, and therefore this is his reward for doing so.
Elliott management hailed the court order requiring the sale in a press release saying it was backed by a group of strategic US energy investors.
Singer acquired Sitco's three massive coastal refineries, 43 oil terminals, and more than 4,000 gas stations at a major discount because of its distressed status.
Advisors to the court overseeing the sale estimated its value at $11 to $13 billion, while the Venezuelan government themselves estimated at $18 billion.
After the US abducted Maduro this week, Trump named Rodriguez as Venezuela's interim president, and she was formally sworn in on Monday, but he warned that she'll pay a very big price if she refuses to do what we want.
This is good news for Singer, who is expected to be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the oil industry controlled by US corporations, which he will likely not be subject to crippling sanctions.
So, obviously, America has its own huge geopolitical reasons for wanting energy security in the Western Hemisphere.
But as well, a lot of this seems to be done in service of rewarding huge donors that have been backing the MAGA movement since in the case of somebody like Miriam Adelson back in 2015-2016.
But with this guy, this seems to be a huge reward for him.
He puts in a few tens of million dollars here and there in support of the cause, and then he gets a huge payoff.
So, while again, energy security, geopolitical concerns are a huge part of it, there is also a hefty deal of behind-the-scenes corruption with our corrupt oligarchy that goes with it.
And that's why I always say with these things that they are not necessarily done to benefit you, the American people.
They'll put on all of the big hype edits and get a load of accounts who may or may not be shills to support it for you.
But ultimately, the people who will benefit most from this, even more so than the Venezuelan people, seem to be these huge money investors who get to make an absolute killing by buying up all of these resources at a huge discount, as reported here.
So, that's I had some more information off of the back of this, but I think I'll end it there.
Okay, look.
Ahidenism says there was actually an amount of non-insignificant military resistance.
There's a YouTube channel called Cappy Army, which goes through a breakdown of the operation.
Oh, thank you for that.
I'd not seen any reports on military resistance.
Most of the reports that I'd seen said that there hadn't been any.
But yeah, and Luke says, don't forget what Trump was able to pull off, blug up the Iranian plant and arrest of and arrest the thinking of fear of some of these people.
They have could be waking up the Deal Force.
Well, actually, reports after that showed that, again, there had been a lot of behind-the-scenes discussions going on, and the Iranians had probably already pulled all of the actual most important resources out of Fordow, which was one of the main places that they used the bunker bombs on.
And so, it's still up in the air and pretty unlikely at this point that they actually did any major significant lasting damage to whatever nuclear facilities or research Iran had been doing.
A lot of this tends to be hugely exaggerated and emphasized for the sake of good media marketing.
So, let's move on.
Because I want to talk about the death of the socialist dream, which follows on from what Harry's just been talking about.
Which I think what we're witnessing is the victory of the global capitalist system over the rivals that it had during the 20th century.
And I think Venezuela is actually a really good example of this.
Now, I just want to be clear: I'm not saying this is a good or a bad thing, right?
There are obviously going to be lots of opinions on various sides.
I'm going to try and speak fairly neutrally about this, but I think this is just something we can confirm has happened.
Obviously, China and Russia are essentially setting up their own kind of counter-global capitalist system.
The Americans obviously control the current one that dominates the world at the moment, but the alternatives seem to have just died off, right?
And honestly, I think it's just about productive capacity.
It's just too productive not to be a polarized system.
I was only going to ever so quickly say that the sort of background of all of this going on is that there's a sort of cold war going on between the US and Russia and China, but at the minute is being fought in the economy rather than elsewhere.
And so these are sort of shifting countries into their spheres of influence so that they can reap the economic benefits to outcompete their rivals.
Exactly.
And that's, I think, a large part of why this has happened.
Also, at the current time, America still has the greatest amount of power projection on the world stage.
China, it's still uncertain whether China could even do anything with a neighbor like Taiwan without incurring massive penalties.
And Russia is bogged down in Ukraine.
America still has a lot more of a free hand to act than those countries do.
And I think that this is what the Venezuelan operation was about, right?
So as you can see, and I think not only that, it's about ideas whose times have come and passed, as I was speaking to you earlier.
I think that these legacy ideals and regimes from the 20th century, same with Iran.
I think that they've just failed on their own terms.
And that's the real problem with them.
So whether you like it or not, the global capitalist system has as much corruption and extraneous interest as you have covered.
Well, I mean, even global capitalism has completely morphed from what it would have been at the beginning of the 20th century.
But the promise was abundance, and it has delivered where everything else has failed, right?
And so it makes it really the only viable competitor in town.
But I'll show you what I mean.
So as you can see from oil reserves per country, Venezuela should be one of the richest countries in the world.
It's got nearly a fifth of the world's oil.
It's got more than Saudi.
It's got more than Saudi Arabia.
It's got more than Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, everywhere else, right?
So by a long way as well, after Saudi Arabia, right?
It's got a huge amount of oil.
And yet it's despite being a fifth of the global resources of oil, it is less than 1% of production.
I'm just going to draw this from an article from Investopedia afterwards.
But they're less than 1% of global production.
So the world is producing around 100 million barrels of oil a day, and Venezuela is producing about 950,000.
That's crazy.
That is insane.
The production used to be a lot higher, and it actually...
We'll come to it.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah, we'll come to it then.
In fact, in 1997, it was 3.5 million barrels a day.
Now it's 900,000.
For reference, America produces 13 million barrels of oil a day.
So much, much higher.
So you can, by comparison to what they potentially have, to what they're actually producing, compared to what everyone else has, compared to what everyone else is actually producing, you see that actually Venezuela is artificially crippling itself.
It shouldn't be like this.
And if it hadn't been doing that in the first place, it might have been able to put itself in a situation like Saudi Arabia has, where it has more of an ability to pick and choose who it wants to sign.
Exactly.
The Saudis are a lot more pragmatic.
They're like, well, look, the Americans might well be the great Satan, but they're the great Satan with a lot of money, and they want something that we've got.
The Saudis are also a lot wiser with their money.
The Saudis have reinvested it in their country, whereas Venezuela spent it on welfare, which has a lot of welfare too.
They do, but not to the same degree.
Yeah.
And what that effectively meant is they started the ball rolling.
And once you get some welfare, you get more and more and more to the point where it's devouring all of the oil wealth and also crippling the industry that it relies on.
Correct.
And it didn't reinvest it.
So the Trump administration has said that Venezuela appropriated, they stole the oil from America, which is kind of true, to be honest.
It was back in, what, 2008, 2009?
2007.
Yeah, they stole a load of American and our resources.
They annexed oil companies that were partially owned by us and various other investors.
But basically, yeah, that's correct.
Under Chavez, they did appropriate a bunch of oil companies and the infrastructure they were using to pump oil based on socialist ideology.
That these things ought to be nationalized.
They didn't purchase them or anything like that.
And this drove out expertise.
These companies were then staffed with the Venezuelan national oil companies called the PDVSA, which stands for something expanded in Spanish, which I can't remember.
But they staffed them with Apparachiks, who, of course, are not experts in drilling oil.
And this seems to be a very key contributing factor to why the Venezuelan economy has completely collapsed.
There's actually an amusing anecdote of because they were so concerned, the regime in Venezuela, about the oil industry turning against them because they're so dependent on it, they hadn't diversified their industries, that they were putting in loyalists just to ensure that they had political control over it.
And there were people who had absolutely no knowledge of the oil industry whatsoever, but they were loyal to Chavez or Maduro or whoever it was, the continuity of that.
And it's that same thing that happened to a degree with the Soviet Union of putting in people who weren't necessarily appointed because of their expertise.
Whereas I was a librarian or something.
So I'm over and seeing the nuclear power plant.
Why?
What are you doing here?
I'm loyal to the party.
Exactly.
There we go.
And that's exactly the issue that has really crippled Venezuela.
So according to Folks Economics, Venezuela, between 2014, so Maduro came in in 2013, between 2014 and 2021 saw a contraction of their economy of 75%.
75%.
It's insane.
It's sort of unprecedented in recent times, isn't it?
I mean, obviously hyperinflation, and this is why you had mass starvation, right?
75% in seven years.
You would have to be willfully destroying your own economy to get to that point, right?
It has to be a deliberate choice.
Well, they went from the richest country in Latin America in the 1980s to a barter economy.
Yeah.
Where they were hunting down rogue cows in the fields.
They were.
Do you not remember that video of them?
Oh, no.
A couple of years ago, there's a video of Venezuelans with rocks who found a cow and they just bludging this cow to death to carve up and eat it.
It got to the point where people were using eggs as currency because they lasted longer than their actual paper money.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So they had hyperinflation, widespread poverty, and an exodus of 7 million Venezuelans.
And that was a couple of years ago.
It's increased since then.
And so the communist argument would be, ah, but American sanctions have hurt Venezuela.
And that is true.
American sanctions have in part hurt Venezuela.
However, that's not the whole story.
And also, my thesis being this system has failed its own merits.
If access to capitalist markets is a prerequisite of the socialist dream, then you can't complain when it doesn't work, right?
Because your goal is to overthrow capitalism.
Therefore, what you're saying is if we don't have access to capitalist markets, then because we're being sanctioned, then our economy collapses.
Well, then if you abolish capitalism, you've guaranteed the collapse of your own economy.
So this has already failed, right?
So it's intrinsic that this is not purely about the United States.
It's so frustrating having to have this argument.
It's just like, oh, did all of these communist countries fail or socialist countries fail because they couldn't trade?
Well, what is trade?
Yes.
Yeah, exactly.
But anyway, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, they do say, yep, it's generally agreed that your sanctions hurt.
So there is it did contribute to the collapse, but it's not the entire thing because, I mean, Venezuela itself faced fuel shortages a couple of years ago.
Venezuela faced fuel shortages.
The most oil-rich country in the world.
Your own domestic production was not sufficient to meet your domestic needs.
And so in 2019, I think it was, Iran sent shipments of oil to Venezuela in defiance of the US sanctions.
Like, sorry, you can't say that it's just the U.S. sanctions that have done that.
Are we sure this is anything to do with communism and might not just be a result of the Latin American work ethic?
No, no, no.
Everybody was on siesta.
No, no, no.
This is not, because it didn't used to be this way.
Go back a few years, they were still Latin Americans.
They were still siestering.
And yet they had to.
Were they blonde-haired, blue-eyed Latin Americans?
No, they were not.
They're a bit further down than Latin America.
Oh, true, true.
Anyway, so what happened to Venezuela's oil?
Well, let's talk about, let's look at The Guardian.
Apparently, the vast 80% of the crude oil that's produced in Venezuela is exported to China.
And of course, this is a problem.
Now, they're exporting it to China because China is the largest investor in Venezuela.
And so they take shipments of oil as repayment for loans, which makes perfect sense.
But all of a sudden, you can see why Donald Trump is like, well, hang on a second.
You know, we're not just allowing this.
You're not just going to not only tank your own oil industry, which, you know, we wanted to buy that oil.
But also, you are now just the majority of your oil is going to our primary geopolitical competitor.
Like, sorry, no, we're not having it.
And to be honest with you, from a strategic perspective, you know, as much as I...
Of course, from a geopolitical perspective, absolutely.
You can't say it doesn't make sense.
You can't say it doesn't make sense, right?
And so, I mean, we don't know how much China has loaned Venezuela, but it could be somewhere in the region of $100 billion.
And basically, what this has done is put the screws on China because China was getting a lot of oil out of this.
And then we go to NPR just to talk about, well, why was Venezuela starving?
And because, I mean, let's assume you've got complete sanctions on your country.
Well, Venezuela is on the equator or near the equator, and it has a massive amount of oil, right?
So if there's one thing you could do, it would be farm food.
You have tractors, you have oil, you have fertile land.
There is no reason you should start.
I hate to break something to you, but there's the history between communists and farming.
I've heard such a thing.
The greatest enemy of communism is not capitalism, it is agriculture.
No, it really is.
And obviously, the Chavez and Maduro governments annexed farms and just stole farms off people, like literally treating them like kodaks.
I remember when I covered this and there were anecdotes from farmers that when party officials or even, you know, Maduro or Chavez himself were visiting a farm, they would be absolutely terrified because they'd just say, oh, I like this farm.
This is nice.
I'll have it.
There's a documentary of Chavez literally doing that to some guy's shop.
And it's just like, you thieves, right?
But anyway, so in 2021, various groups have found that 42% of the ways that they were measuring children from Venezuela's poorest neighborhoods were stunted or wasted as in too short or underweight for their age.
So this is really, really bad.
As NPR, notable right-wing outlet says, Venezuela's food crisis was largely brought on by its authoritarian socialist government.
Unlike many other nations, played by malnutrition, Venezuela is not at war and boasts an abundance of fertile land that could be used to grow food crops.
The country also stands atop the world's largest proven oil reserves.
It's literally ideological socialism that has starved Venezuela into the point where nearly half of their children are malnourished.
Right?
So, again, we can complain about the global capitalist system, but our children are obese.
So, you know, we've got the opposite.
Yeah, exactly.
We've got the opposite problem, but I'd rather obesity than malnourishment.
You know what I mean?
As they carry on, years of mismanagement and corruption have brought on his worst economic meltdown in history.
Price controls, seizure of farms and factories by the government led to food shortages.
What a shock.
Hyperinflation made it impossible to afford groceries.
And to alleviate the suffering, the government says it hands out food to about 7 million Venezuelan households.
Okay.
Don't steal it off me in the first place, and I don't need your handouts.
But of course, everything is just getting worse and worse and worse.
And all of these factors, they give a load of different things that the government has done has led to widespread malnutrition.
And then, do you remember this?
The funny thing about communist dictators is they always tend to be nipl.
Oh, it's but this he's giving an address on TV in 2013.
And while he thinks he's off camera, he sneaks this bite of an empanada.
But the thing is, it's still on camera.
So the and these broadcasts are mandatory for all the television stations.
So everyone in the country sees this fat bastard saying, yeah, sorry, you're all starving.
It's going to be a bit rough.
Say, what are you doing?
Like, wait till after the broadcast to have your lunch, man.
It could be similar to, I know that people who treat people with anorexia all the time have a problem with sort of empathy eating.
Maybe he's just seeing starving people in the streets so often.
It's like, oh, I'm so hungry.
Get stuff in my face.
Because he cares too much.
I guess.
I'm being tongue-in-cheek, of course.
But it's just comical how evil Maduro is.
Like, how unsympathetic do you have to be at this point?
It's just like waving the cash you've just drawn out in front of a homeless person.
It's like, look, what you can't have.
You do that, Josh.
I know, but enough about my, you know, my weekend.
Enough about your New Year's.
I saw this post then.
This is what inspired this, really.
This is from a chap who was the head of trading in the region of Venezuela for an American food company called Cargill, right?
I thought I'd just read this because it just, from personal experience, trying to get food in the country, you see the kind of corruption, right?
Cargill is the leading producer of critical staple ingredients such as flour, pasta, vegetable oil, and rice in Venezuela.
I'm not saying I agree with grabbing the dictator, but I did have a front row seat to the damage the kleptocracy did to innocent people.
One, the government took over our minute rice facility at gunpoint because we were gouging the nation's poor.
The government was never able to run the plant.
It never ran again.
It was returned years later with no equipment inside.
Two, there are thousands of generals in the army, each given a slice of the economy to loot.
The large number of generals made it difficult to organize a coup against the regime.
Three, the government opened grocery stores and sold staples below the cost we sold them to the government.
In theory, they used petrol oil money to lower the grocery prices.
Our regular grocery outlets were forced out of business.
When the government demanded we sell them products below cost, we simply had to shut down.
The populace became ever more dependent on government handouts.
P.S.
This is what Maduro, Mandami wants.
Four, dollars.
We needed dollars to buy raw materials like wheat from places like US and Canada.
The government would periodically allocate us some dollars that could only be spent for raw materials and freight.
Eventually, only the local companies that can and would pay bribes got dollar allocations.
We had several facilities closed from a lack of raw material.
And this is a perpetual thing about these sort of tyrannical governments.
The corruption becomes a liberating factor.
It was the same thing under fascist Italy.
You essentially had to bribe the party members to get the raw resources.
And if you don't do that, you don't get it.
And sorry, the rest of your economy dies off with it.
My employees liked working for Cargill.
The office was an armed compound with access to a gym, blah, blah, blah.
We provide a safe and secure environment, if only for the working hours.
Employees became very close because going into the street with a desperate population was not advisable.
And then he carries on.
And as you can see, it's just this continual theft from any kind of private investment, obviously because they're socialists.
And this leads to a society that just describes a society that's deeply and institutionally corrupt at every level that can't get anything done.
So even if Venezuela was, you know, a war with America, if it was a capitalist economy, it would have been just fine.
It would have been just fine.
So it could have been thriving.
It could have been thriving, right?
I mean, the Russians are actually showing us actually it can be done, right?
Russia is obviously under every sanction you could possibly think of with America, but the Russian economy didn't collapse, and we're all carrying the burden of the Ukraine war, right?
So it's not that this can't be done.
It's just don't be a weird ideological socialist about it, and it can be done.
Anyway, so then you've got Maduro obviously stole the election last time.
I mean, it's very likely he stole previous elections as well.
However, he definitely stole the last one.
And even The Guardian, again, you couldn't think of a more pro-Venezuelan socialism outlet than The Guardian.
Even they say, quote, analyses carried out by opposition academics and media organizations have offered strong evidence that the Venezuelan president lost by a landslide to the main opposition candidate, retired diplomat Emundo Gonzalez.
So what have we learned here?
Well, the tyrannical socialist government, not only did it burn bridges that it relied on for a large portion of its economy, it wasn't even capable of running its own economy outside of those issues properly to the point where people were starving and the country has been ruined.
And it's worth remembering that this is all part of Chavez's plan.
Maduro was the continuity candidate of Chavez, and he represents something ideological.
He represents a dream.
This is what some of his supporters told the BBC in 2019.
Quote, he was more than an icon.
He represented hope and still does because his ideas were revolutionary.
He was all about social equality and justice.
He opened our eyes, created a national conscience about how to take Venezuelan politics to the people.
And this chap's wife chimes in and says, before it was all about rich people, politically powerful people, and we had nothing.
Chavez loved us.
Sounds a touch brainwashed to me.
It sounds like you arrived in exactly the position that you thought you were in before.
Oh, my God.
Yes.
He's got his little shrine.
Yes, he's literally got a shrine, right?
So it's a political cult that has taken over this country, absolutely ruined them, and sitting there going, well, we had nothing before.
It was all about the politically powerful people.
And they're sat there starving to death with absolutely no money, no oil, no prospects.
It's like, right.
So it's not about reality.
It's about ideology.
And this ideology has failed on its own terms.
This ideology has to be pretty potent for you to worship an idol of a squinting man with a great big double chin.
I was going to say, a fat man.
Yeah.
While you're starving.
Again, weird how socialist dictators in Latin America get so fat.
And again, maybe it's like, you know, like Shaolin monks praising Buddha or something when they're like stick thin.
Yeah.
They're trying to marry one grain of rice a day.
How big was the grain of rice?
Well, it was empanalised.
But anyway, so the reason I'm saying all this is that this is just an idea whose time has passed, right?
And it's clear that global capitalism has defeated this and this has failed on its own terms, right?
You had this dictatorship under Chavez and under Maduro for a long time and it just didn't work.
And so Jeremy Corbyn is the kind of last holdout of this in Britain.
And again, it's just important to note that this has just failed on its own terms.
The audio is up there.
It's called socialism.
And it's Is a different and a better way of doing things.
It's called socialism, and it's something that Venezuela has made a big step towards.
Right.
Okay.
So we are all in agreement now, and it's just irrefutably obvious that this was not the way to get abundance.
Right?
This didn't bring about social justice or equality.
What it brought about was a corrupt, tyrannical kleptocracy that ruined the country, ruined its international standing, and literally caused half the children in the country to end up malnourished and starving to death.
So you can imagine how Jeremy Corbyn has taken this stuff.
Oh, sorry, this is.
I forgot I'd included this.
This is from 2013, where Jeremy Corbyn rings Maduro's radio show to congratulate him on a job well done towards building socialism.
Watch it.
It's in Spanish, but you'll be able to understand it.
Ahora tenemos una llamada, me dicen, desde Londres, desde Londres.
Tenemos una llamada de un amigo de Venezuela en contacto con Maduro desde Londres.
Se trata de Jeremy Corving, parlamentario británico, militante y dirigente del Partido Laborista.
In this day, you have a noticeable muy treat utio choanos.
Tenemos a Jeremy Corving que no estállamando de delundres y a proposito recordamo te grand amigo de Venezuela.
Adelante Jeremi, te cuchuchamo de Caracas, Venezuela ungranabrasón.
Muchisa gracia, Presidente.
Sorry, Jeremy Corbyn, the Deputado del Parlamente Británico, y chambien an amigo muy muy bueno de Tony Ben Hora muy Triste el Murio de la semana pasado, el zuna bidad de la lucha contra les queras.
I'll stop it there because you can tell that's Jeremy Corbyn's voice.
But he doesn't speak bad Spanish, actually.
He speaks very good Spanish because his wife is Spanish.
Oh, that'll do it.
He doesn't do the Uno Buro por favor look to her at home.
Here we go.
So he's got here where he says, and Corbyn says this: we discussed many times the problems for building socialism and the fight against capitalism.
Well, I'm sorry, I think you've lost that, right?
I don't think you've built socialism, or if you have, that was real socialism.
There's not really much old world socialism anymore, is there?
No, it's vanishing from the world.
Exactly.
And again, I think the use of the old terms like capitalism to describe whatever the hell we've got on the and all over the world these days, they're all anachronisms.
Yeah, I agree.
But whatever it is that Corbyn is describing with capitalism, like the international system, Western liberal globalism or something, whatever we want to call it, they've lost.
This is an idea whose time has failed.
It has passed.
They did not produce abundance.
They did not produce a successful democratic society.
They produced the exact opposite.
And so this is why I think there's something about Trump just kidnapping Maduro that's kind of, I don't know, it just feels like it's just putting a full stop at the end of a sentence, right?
It's just kind of, yeah, this is over, right?
You're getting global capitalism, and then you're also going to get food, right?
So, like, you know, you can complain about it as much as you want, which Jeremy Corbyn is.
He gave an emergency protest.
Hands off Venezuela.
It's over.
It's over, bro.
You look like an impotent child.
All they need is one American tourist.
And they'll be like, wow, America must be prosperous.
What a very, very fat man.
Oh, yeah, of course.
And Corbyn, of course, thought Maduro was a legitimate president, and he was been removed illegally.
And so it's just like, look, this is just a series of ideas whose time have passed.
It's over.
This doesn't work for the modern world.
The modern world is so terribly different to the world in which this sort of thing was conceived.
And the 20th century has been the long history of the failure, the long century of the failure of socialism.
And this is basically the very tail end of it.
These ideas do not work.
And you can see that Corbyn's currently polling at like 1%.
So it's not even that they have managed to capture the imagination of the British public or anything like that.
Corbyn looks like a relic.
These people look like relics.
And I'm not saying that I'm in favor of the global corporate system that is going to take over and do all these things.
But it's just like, look, the reality on the ground is that things have changed.
The world has changed and they failed to change with them.
I mean, it makes sense that Corbyn would support Maduro.
the first thing the party did was run a phishing email scam yeah and and not just that um but i still can't believe that's the first thing they did well corbyn ran your party in the same sort of way that he ideally would run the country and how he thinks people like madura and chavez was it was the s show yeah Yes.
Yes, no, that's the exact thing.
And so the whole thing is just collapsing from the inside in exactly the same way.
It's just Corbyn doesn't have access to men with guns.
If you had access to men with guns, you know, give us your email address right now.
You would give it over.
Let's go to the video comments.
I'm not even joking, though.
It's so funny that Corbyn's party just failed on exactly the same model, just really, really quickly.
It's the ideology manifesting in every area of their life.
It happens on their personal lives as well as in their organizations as well.
Yeah.
There's a lot of speculation about U.S. involvement in Venezuela right now, but just as everyone understands that Elon does half the things he does because he's a nerd, like setting Tesla stock at full $20, it's just as clear that Donald Trump is a nerd making references.
This is clearly a nod to 2013's Call of Duty Ghosts in which the USA sends in a special forces team to Caracas to kill a Venezuelan leader.
Or maybe it's not to cyberpunk in the Second South American War in which Venezuela is a combatant.
Or maybe it's a reference to Doctor Who in the record time in which the heroes captured the villain.
Three minutes, 42 seconds.
I'm not even sure it's a reference to anything.
I think it's just been something that's been long on the cards.
Yeah, I think Americans like shock and awe.
Well, this wasn't shock and all, though, was it?
It's just surgical.
Well, that's the thing.
The efficiency and surgical nature, and then also blowing up Chavez's Chavez's crypt or whatever it was.
That's the shock and awe aspect of it.
That's what you're supposed to see on the international stage and go, all right, don't mess with him.
Is that so he couldn't come back from the dead?
I can only assume so.
Let's go to the next one.
I'd love to see that little soy boy come up here and mess with me.
You all know he ain't gonna say anything to my face.
Chad, he's at my bedroom door.
What do I do?
I have no idea what the audio from that is from.
But that was AI, Jenny.
Yeah, I assume it's AI as well.
Which is, honestly, political memes is the one good thing about AI.
Genuinely, it would take too long to get all that sort of stuff made otherwise.
It is funny that the guy was like, literally last week, he was dancing on the stage, like, oh, you're thinking about it.
I think John Lennon is a man.
Bang.
Oh, I guess I got got.
And now he's in New York going, not guilty, mate.
He might as well just not even put in a plea.
Come on.
Also, we got Cranky Texan for $10.
Socialism is not a political or economic system.
It's a propaganda campaign to get massive to celebrate concentration of wealth into the small hands of a small group of elite.
No, I think it's honestly about an idealistic cult.
I really think.
Because I mean, he was done.
It can be both.
Yeah, sure, it can be both.
I use the cult to excuse it.
I think the cult is a genuine true belief.
Like, he was singing John Lennon's Imagine the other week, right?
Yeah.
He's on stage singing John Lennon's Imagine.
It's genuinely a set of beliefs.
It's a religious precept for them.
You know, they genuinely believe it, and they turn an entire country into a weird cult.
And it failed on its own terms.
Scotty says, I wouldn't call for the death of a group of anything.
I didn't say anything.
I said any people, right?
Because he says, well, wasps, mosquitoes, the books, mustaches.
Yeah, yeah.
Obviously, I'm happy for the total wasp death.
Throwing ticks in there.
They're horrible.
Yeah, total tick death.
Also, they can make you allergic to meat.
Some in America.
That's right.
The lone star ticks.
Yeah, but these are just engineered super ticks.
Do wasps contribute anything important to the ecosystem?
They kill other insects.
Yeah, but so the spiders.
Yeah, but I was going to say loads of things.
I prefer a wasp to a spider.
Really?
What?
Spiders can't hurt you.
I know, but they're creepier.
Spiders are fine.
They can't go for your neck.
Yeah, but I've never been stung by a wasp.
All you need to do is like dying.
You've never been stung by a spider.
I've been bitten by a spider.
Oh, okay, but it's not like a bitten.
You didn't even get into that.
I didn't.
No wonder you assaulted.
I know.
Omar says Labour are so consistently true South on every issue that's generally remarkable.
They haven't stumbled upon a single positive result by pure chance.
You almost have to assume some kind of directed malice behind the scenes as the probability of being this bad by accident is increasingly absurd.
Yeah, that is a great point.
I mean, like, if you throw enough darts at the board, you're going to hit the board eventually.
But Labour have managed to successfully fail at every point.
I think it's fair to assume malice, to be honest, because they clearly hate us.
Yeah, and have said as much, and import people who do so, and side against us at every opportunity.
Dajini says, to be fair, if I were a security guard and I somehow stumbled on an armoured tactical squad of special forces on my nightly rounds patrolling the president's palace, I'm not resisting either.
I didn't see anything.
I called sick on that day, actually.
I should go home.
Do you want to know something funny that's even more expressive of how much of an old school tyrant it was?
Like his personal bodyguards weren't even Venezuelan, they were Cuban.
Of course they were.
And they all got killed.
Of course they were.
That's straight out of Aristotle.
Yes.
They will hire foreigners to protect themselves because they can't trust you.
Well, you can't.
But this is the point.
It's a regime whose time has come.
And, sorry, I'm not really very sympathetic.
And also, what's interesting is that Trump has set himself up as kind of...
Do you know anything about the Assassins, the original order of Assassins?
Oh, what?
From Assassin's Queen?
No, from history.
Or the historic ones in the Middle East, yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, I can't remember the guy's name now.
But this guy sets up this Order of Assassins that basically sets itself up as a kind of shadow empire above empires.
Because what they do is literally send assassins sneak, you know, they literally brainwash them into some weird cult using drugs and all these sort of religious precepts.
And then they send these assassins into people's emperors' chambers and either assassinate them in the middle of the night or stab a knife into the floor next to them or something like that.
Shouldn't they be in?
But show them, look, you are actually vulnerable to us is what we're saying.
And so you will just pay us some tribute and just leave, you know, you'll stay away from this, you'll do that, whatever it is.
But we have an indirect intimidatory control of you now.
And that's what Donald Trump has gained.
Because basically he's saying, look, I can just vanish you in the night.
You can end up in New York on trial if you like.
What's her name Shinebaum or whatever in Mexico?
The guy from Columbia.
Just wind your necks in, basically.
And so he's got this kind of assassin-like power there, which is a really interesting.
I mean, the annoying thing is that the administration is now at the same time trying to use the extra points that they've gained from that to act belligerent again towards its own vassals and allies.
Denmark.
Towards Denmark.
Guys, engage in diplomacy.
Yeah.
Like, we know that you're the world empire.
That's great.
You do still need allies to work with you.
Because if you make everything, if you turn life onto hard mode for yourselves, like empires stretch thin.
And they do fall eventually.
But I saw the best Coney Drockpa meme about that, where it's like Mads Michelson just reading a paper, and America is just like, ha, what do you think of that, Denmark?
And he's, what?
What?
Hello?
What's Denmark ever done?
Take that, Denmark.
And the thing is, you could just...
As well, the Danish government, I know they're the Social Democrats, but in terms of how they handle immigration, are generally praised as being much better than a lot of other Central European countries.
So you'd think that they would be a government that the Trump administration would be very favourable to.
You don't need, like, you can, there's this diplomacy thing.
If you want more bases on Greenland, just like you could literally do like the British did with Hong Kong and lease it for 99 years, and then 100 years, see how things are.
You know, you might want to lease it again for another 99 years.
Who knows?
You know, but you pay the Danes a certain amount.
No diplomatic problems.
You get what you want exactly.
Blah, blah.
They already do that in Britain.
Yeah.
Loads of American bases.
We're fine.
And it's just so bizarre.
California refugee says it's the same as it ever was.
The globalist left and the globalist right.
We had it in 2011 with Occupy Wall Street.
Left and right saw the real enemy.
Feminism killed it.
I'm tired, boss.
Yeah, but I mean, on the plus side, right, at least something has happened, right?
When nothing ever happens, everything just remains in the same sort of torpid state.
But at least something has happened, and the results might be good, the results might be bad, but at least something new will come about and will be somewhere else in the future.