Some More News - Even More News: Trump Attacks Venezuela And Says Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, And Greenland Are Next

Episode Date: January 6, 2026

Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan were hoping to talk about all the news that happened over the past two weeks, and then Saturday happened: the Trump administration kidnapped Venezuelan President ...Nicolás Maduro and his wife, then announced that we're going to be running the country and taking their oil. They discuss the many war crimes committed and the international implications of Trump's actions.And as always, we recorded right before that big thing that happened.PATREON: https://patreon.com/somemorenewsMERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.comYOUTUBE MEMBERSHIP: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvlj0IzjSnNoduQF0l3VGng/join#venezuela #Greenland #evenmorenewsSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:21 please contact Connix Ontario at 1866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming Ontario. Hi, hello. Today we are discussing the abduction of President Maduro and the ongoing fallout. Happy New Year. Oh my God. Hi. Welcome back to Even More News, the first and only news podcast. in 2026. My name is Katie Stoll. Hello, I am Cody.
Starting point is 00:01:05 Hi, Cody. Hi. Greetings. Greetings. Welcome to the new year. Thank you. I feel so welcome in this bold new year. As you should.
Starting point is 00:01:17 Everything's different. Everything is fine, I was going to say, and different it is because it's fine. It wasn't and now it is. Don't worry, everybody. Jonathan is still here. Hi. Oh. Oh, hello, you changed it up.
Starting point is 00:01:32 I got thrown. I did. No, you're within your rights to do it. You should. Jonathan never left. I didn't leave. I've just been here doing the news. Thought we were recording, staring at an empty Riverside chat.
Starting point is 00:01:46 They're really good episodes. I listened to them. Oh, yeah? You liked them? Oh, yeah. They're really good. They help you catch up with the news and stuff. Yeah, which we needed because we weren't paying attention.
Starting point is 00:01:55 60 minutes. Pull this story. Can you believe that? Anyway, let's get into it. Okay, but before we get into it, should I address the costume controversy up top or at the end? I don't know. Look, folks.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Do we want to cut it from the beginning or the end? Leaving it all in. Look, real quick, we have the receipts. We watch the show. And, okay, per usual, I was not as articulate as I remembered. That's a thing. But regardless, it was addressed that there was a costume change. I get it. I get it. I get it. You're not going to like what I'm about to say. I realize that more of the conversation happened off camera before we were recording where I did absolutely say it was a costume change situation. And no one's going to believe me because it wasn't on camera, but I feel the need to say it. And that is so important that it, I had to say it before we talked to the very important news.
Starting point is 00:02:51 I'll tell you why it's going to be hard to accept that you said beforehand that there was. So let's just watch a few seconds of this And I think you'll see from our Reactions here that it is the first time we're hearing This information You would think that but it wasn't because we talked before I don't want to Turn people off don't click away
Starting point is 00:03:17 Just because we're recording this in the van Just because we haven't changed our clothes in two weeks I'm planning to change Oh you guys are changing I am going to change from this I probably am going to change as well, he says. After we record this, we're going to record our normal episode of even more news that comes out on December 19th. And so you'll see me in an outfit change. And Cody said that he was going to too, too.
Starting point is 00:03:42 I might change for the sake of the changing, because it's going to be the same episode. But I don't know. My reaction of laughing and surprise would seem to indicate that it was not, that an outfit change was not brought up. It was confusing. your reaction was confusing because it was about it previously. Anyway, it's fine. We're going to put that to rest for now.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Outside of this episode. There's a lot and we'll never talk about it again, maybe. We'll replace the holidays with just relitigating that every episode. Folks, we had a whole long thread going about all the
Starting point is 00:04:20 different stories we wanted to talk about today to catch us up. And then we did crimes, we stole a president of another country, and that's what we're going to talk about. Jonathan, walk us through the latest in Venezuela. Yeah, well, that's what happened. So on Saturday morning, the U.S. military in conjunction with U.S. law enforcement, apparently. We'll talk about that, went into Venezuela, and Trump says we can use the word kidnapped.
Starting point is 00:04:51 Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife, they're being charged in a, federal court in Manhattan with a bunch of conspiracy charges is it regime change depends on who you ask right now it seems like no what if you ask the president well the president says we're running Venezuela which just practically is not true because we don't have a bunch of troops on the ground controlling their courts and government and all that stuff so no Marco Rubio says well what that means is we're just going to put pressure on their oil industry and we're going to, you know, make things really tough for them unless they kind of do what they say vis-a-vis the oil, it seems. One of the main most interesting things to me about this is the various motives for doing this at all, because it seems like everyone involved, the primary trio being Rubio Trump and Heggseth, all having different interconnected motives for,
Starting point is 00:05:55 doing this. Trump seems to really like dominating other people. He seems to feel emboldened. That's why he's talking about we're going to do it to Mexico. We're going to do it to Columbia, Greenland. He feels real good about being the king. Military success and whatever is just universally applauded. You know, lots of praise for Obama, you know, take out what's his name? Osama bin Laden. Wow, we were supposed to never forget and Osama bin Laden.
Starting point is 00:06:35 Osama bin Laden. You know, in general, he wants this. He wants the praise. He wants to be the big, strong military guy. And this did, this horrific excursion did go well. He did get the president kidnapped
Starting point is 00:06:51 and brought him to the United States and we didn't have any American casualties. There were casualties, Venezuelan casualties. But he's got that rush that like, yeah, let's do more. Let's do more. This is good for me. Let's distract from Epstein. Let's bolster my approval ratings. The distraction angle, I think, is a little bit interesting because while no, this is like a horrific incident that's going to have geopolitical ramifications, like I'm not going to say this is a distraction from Epstein but I think for the media
Starting point is 00:07:25 and Trump it sure is like he sure likes doing this instead of talking about his horrendous domestic policy that everyone hates. Yeah and they love that they have access to him they can call them up they call them up and they ask him questions immediately and he's like yeah I'll answer my phone and talk to you so they love
Starting point is 00:07:41 that about him as well so this is actually good for both they also love praising just like any military action oh the beautiful bombs all that kind of stuff they like it the military might of America or you know home of the free land of the brave whatever the fuck but I just to circle back on that real quick it's not that I think all of this is simply intended to be a distraction but that is part of it and it it is what they want us to be focusing on instead of
Starting point is 00:08:11 Epstein's stuff all of the stuff all of the stuff that you know they want us to be distracted from But this has been a long-term plan, and there are bigger geopolitical implications, which we will talk about that they've always wanted to be working towards. This was put in motion in 2020, and this is the final realization of what these long-term plans have been. Anyway. Also, you know, put into motion generally for decades and decades as America does this kind of thing. Right. but more covertly like they're you know what a thing to happen what a guy to have in charge because we used to do these things like with some sort of pretense that wasn't just the president
Starting point is 00:08:59 being like yeah we're going to take the oil we got the oil and we're doing it and now it's ours and now he's just sort of saying it out loud he's saying he's saying the thing that we do out loud proudly and boldly and there are going to be no consequences Yeah, it's blatantly imperialist. Openly, it's the Don Roe doctrine. Like, we're doing imperialism. The Americas are ours to do with as we wish, and maybe with Greenland. But we used to pretend that, like, we, like, at least like, oh, we're doing it for this or this or this reason.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Like, no, we're just doing imperialism and we're going to extract from all these nations. The Western Hemisphere is ours. Yeah. the claim like no literally like when like for you all the the west the west they mean it we are the entire western hemisphere now yeah no pretense as of like well the venezuelan people deserve to choose their own leaders in democracy he's like no uh we'll run it uh i decide who's in charge right now it's the vice president that's why it's not regime change it's the current regime is still in charge uh the vice president of uh Venezuela apparently did you see the reporting that
Starting point is 00:10:12 when asked about the opposition leader who won the Nobel. Yeah, Machado, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well, Trump obviously said, I don't think she's ready. She doesn't have the support. And reportedly, that's because she didn't give him the award. Instead of dedicating the award, instead of dedicating the award to him, he wanted her to reject the award and give it to him. She's been like his fan.
Starting point is 00:10:39 This is, it's very funny. She wins the Felford. again award. Exactly. It's been this whole thing like, oh, so you think you're going to be the one, but you should have given him the prize instead of just dedicating it to him. Idiot. That is absurd. But okay. But this does underscore part of the confusion as to what happens next. Who will be in charge? Apparently we keep, like we've said, suggesting that the United States is going to be in charge, but of course we don't have anybody on the ground there. You know, they like to rely on the justification that Maduro is a dictator and does terrible
Starting point is 00:11:25 things, which is true. People in Venezuela, a lot of people do not like him. Their lives have been torn apart. However, if we're removing him and the regime stays the change, this stays the same. The Maduro government just works with him. Then it wasn't really about that. I'm not trying to weigh in and pontificate about whether or not the United States should be the watchdogs and, you know, protecting people from their government. But that is a justification that they've put out. People hate Maduro. Venezuelans are celebrating in the streets. Not all Venezuelans. Some of them are AI Venezuelans. And some of them are AI. I don't even need to go down that. But I'm trying to articulate is that
Starting point is 00:12:09 well it's not even about saving Venezuela from Maduro of course it's not of course it's not well yeah they it's literally just about the oil not yeah they're not even pretending but also at the same time it's like I don't even need I don't even
Starting point is 00:12:25 you didn't even need to say like oh he's he's a he's a brutal statements like he's a brutal dictator right we're better off without him but it was bad that it did it illegally all this sort of stuff it's just this weird equivocating like it doesn't matter we don't I don't even feel the need to be like and I can't I obviously condemn Maduro and it's better that he's gone it's not our business it's not our business it's not our
Starting point is 00:12:47 job it is not our job and if we're going to do that then are we going to do it to everybody else are we okay with are we okay with some other nation doing it to us and taking Donald I mean you know well right because There are, that's a good point you make, Cody, similar to a point that J.D. Vance made a couple years ago that there are leaders all over the world that you could remove from power and it would probably be better for the people under them. But that's not our job to do. That's a tweet J.D. Vance sent out in 2023. So is his position the same? No. It is not because of reasons involving drugs and et cetera. So. Oh, he's a fraud. Oh, he doesn't believe in anything. He does not care. Yeah, no, no, it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:13:46 No one cares. This, they seem to have done this with very little, and they admitted this, like, they didn't know what the plan was next people, reporters immediately said, what's next for Venezuela? They said, well, we're figuring that out now after we, after we kidnapped the guy. And so now you've got Trump saying, well, you know, we're going to work with Del C. Rodriguez, the vice president as an off ramp from the
Starting point is 00:14:13 regime. As long as she stays in line and does what we ask and of course she immediately went on TV and said, no, Maduro's the president, you have to return him, all this stuff. And so Trump says, great, we're just going to keep going down the line. Who's the eighth in line? Who's next? Who's next?
Starting point is 00:14:29 So there's no plan for what comes next. And if they do want this is why my whole thing is that Trump still thinks he's doing the No More Wars thing. He thinks he can do the get in, get out real quick thing like they did years ago with Soleimani like they did a few months ago in Iran, that this is just like oh, it'll work itself out, go in, take the guy, leave. Now
Starting point is 00:14:52 everything's better. And we're not getting mired in a decades long thing that everyone will hate me for. Does he think that? Does he think that? I mean, because because, I mean, that whole article, this New York Times piece about how the U.S. ran a war game on ousting Maduro back in 2020 and they see very clearly that Venezuela falls into chaos. I just, I don't know how you could think that this is just an easy in and out in any situation, except that he doesn't think that he will be needing to clean up those pieces. Yes. You'll be dead. Let me clarify. He doesn't care what happens in Venezuela at all. He wants this victory that he can tout as a thing. And he thinks,
Starting point is 00:15:33 thinks it's still keeping his promise that they're all like now pretending that this fits into the promise of no more war to it elsewhere because yeah as we see so many people out there a just real quick about the monroe doctrine i keep seeing people like evoke like invoke it as like a document that's like a law like well look up the monroe doctrine yeah you mean a thing a president said like it's not that was labeled that decades later Should we explain that real quick for anybody? Okay, Cody, you may be fill in the blanks if I get anything wrong here. The Monroe Doctrine is this idea from the early 19th century that North America and South America is kind of like America, the United States of America's domain and that European colonial power should not meddle in the affairs of Latin and South America because that's like our imperial.
Starting point is 00:16:27 That's our business to business. We will settle. And now Trump is making it the Don Roe doctrine, which, seems to me the exact same thing plus Greenland or anywhere else if the strategic resources to the United States demand it. Does that seem like I
Starting point is 00:16:43 know the simple Monroe doctor? It's just saying it's the Western Hemisphere is ours leave it alone. It's all ours but it's not like a legal document it's not a law. It's just a position. It's a way of life man. It's also imperial
Starting point is 00:16:59 and bad and we rejected that stuff centuries ago. Is his version of it essentially the same, or is it ratcheted up a little bit more? Because it does seem to also include, like, keeping people from migrating and, you know, protect. But it's all about protecting our own self-faces. He's integrating other aspects of his brain to it. But this is essentially the same thing. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:22 No, he's like, white man's burdening this thing where he's like, I got to do it. I got to control. It's our responsibility. And that all of these regions need to be protecting the American self-interest and economic, And it's just, yeah, white man's burning it. And they're also doing this thing, as you were mentioning and alluding to, where they say, yeah, it's not a forever war. It lasted 90 minutes. And sort of like excusing it because they like went in, they did it surgically and they got them out.
Starting point is 00:17:54 And like, that's the end of it. As if the aftermath isn't like a huge part of why those wars are bad. And as if this act of war is the end of it, it's, again, this sort of position we're like, yeah, we're very anti-interventionists, unless it's quick and like we get oil out of it. There are some people like Matt Walsh who are literally just saying that. There are others who are trying to like navigate that a little bit. It comes down to, I don't know if you remember this, I believe it was late last year where J.D. Vance was talking about intervention. in the Middle East, and he talked about how, like, yeah, we don't like doing that. But back then, that was done by dumb presidents who did dumb things.
Starting point is 00:18:44 They did it badly. We'll do it well. And this is the example, I guess. Just the idea that, like, well, yeah, the interventionist position and all the wars and all the death, which again, there was a death toll here, that we didn't like it because it took a long time, and it was done by dumb people. We'll do it smartly and shortly. And then we'll leave, but also we won't leave. And we'll take their oil, but it's not for oil. It's for the drugs, which they can only do because of the oil, which we need to take. But we're not doing because
Starting point is 00:19:20 of that, but also, yeah, we are. But we're not there. And will there be elections? We don't know yet. For Trump, it's oil and domination and feeling good. For Rubio, it's like stepping stone to Cuba it's Cuba it's all he's going he's going for Cuba and for hegseth it's I like to blow stuff up as my wife says boys with toys or as Natalia Simanova and golden eye said boys with toys uh yeah heggseth's having a blast and Vance is just riding the waves till he can be uh hopefully the present for him yeah like does Trump know that Vance wants him to die Vance wants Trump's heart to explode preferably as soon as possible preferably preferably right after January 20th of next year so he could feasibly serve
Starting point is 00:20:04 two terms after that because of the amendment, but he doesn't like him and wants him dead. Thinks he's Hitler and Nixon. But he wants to be Hitler and Nixon. Exactly. That's my job. God, these people suck so bad.
Starting point is 00:20:19 They're so transparent. How about the fact that not shocking, there was no information given to Congress. There's obviously no approval at all because apparently they're afraid of leaks. although there is reporting that it did indeed leak to the New York Times and the Washington Post and they chose not to report on it in advance.
Starting point is 00:20:41 It also was, the operation was, the oil companies were clued in. Well, obviously. Something that's going to take 10 years to ramp up. You got to get them started. Yeah, right away. Yeah, I need a heads up. Ten years, even. I mean, I don't know exactly, but it's like they, the oil industry in Venezuela took
Starting point is 00:21:01 a big enough hit that it's going to take a long time, even in Trump's ideal world to ramp up oil production and we get all of it, the stolen oil. And in the meantime, think about the decimation that does to the economy for Venezuelans, you know? It's not regime change, but the new regime is like ExxonMobil, actually. And they do have a lot of oil, but it's also heavy crude oil, which takes a lot of processing that they can't handle, which they're going to do, I guess, billions of dollars in there. So we got Venezuela and Gaza, Greenland, Cuba, Mexico, Colombia. Is that enough?
Starting point is 00:21:43 Is that enough for the Dunrow Doctrine? Apparently people online saying like, get ready for prices to go down in America. Hell yeah. No, don't be so dumb. Please. Please, little bot. Like, realistically, being like a decent human being, if prices went down 30 cents a gallon, is that worth, like, taking over another country and blow? Like, we killed 80 people doing this. What are you talking about?
Starting point is 00:22:15 And the chaos that will likely ensue there. I thought affordability was a Democrat hoax. The gas is already low. We're fine. What are you talking about? Yeah. And Katie, Katie, you mentioned the press being tipped off by whom. Who knows? Laura Lumer. Some signal chaps. Interesting, yeah. That they had this information. They framed it like they didn't do anything because to like protect the troops, right? But if they did leak and report on it, then they wouldn't have done it, right?
Starting point is 00:22:53 Because that would have made the mission compromise. They wouldn't have done it. So really, it's like you're not really. protecting the lives of the soldiers you're protecting the effectiveness of the mission I mean also they and they praised it afterwards but Trump kind of leaked this months ago when he said he authorized covert CIA activity which was all about monitoring we know now monitoring Maduro's movements and I'm sure the Venezuelan security intelligence forces had an inkling of that
Starting point is 00:23:26 like it's not like they didn't know that this was a possibility that they've been hinting at for months and months and months and months and months so you know if you've got a chance and it's with what three hours in advance and it's leaked to you and then you report on it that uh Venezuelan reports say that u.s military has like you you report on it as if it's a third party speculating and you don't know that it's happened right that feels to me like an abdication of some journalistic responsibility. But they got a heads up that the mission's happening and start working on their articles in advance, you know, be the first report. Was Trump's truth social post the first? Because I woke up right on Saturday morning and was like, ah, Saturday morning, one more weekend before the bull, you know, and then had to go trying to piece back. Friday night, I saw a headline.
Starting point is 00:24:22 It was Trump's Post. Our producer saying yes, it was trust post. But on Friday night, I saw bomb. in Venezuela headline or bombs and I went oh no oh no oh no I don't want to look at this right now I want to go back real quick to the congressional authorization piece because obviously they didn't let anyone know about it and then after the fact Senator Mike Lee seemed briefly a little bit concerned about this and then he tweeted that oh I got off the phone with Marco Rubio this is cool actually, apparently.
Starting point is 00:24:56 And I do want to like, I read a whole bunch from Steve Vladick and some other people about their actual legal argument such as it is. The administration is saying that this was a essentially a law enforcement action, a FBI
Starting point is 00:25:11 action to go in and arrest a criminal for crimes, and since they had to do it extra territorially in another country, they're allowed to bring the U.S. military to protect those FBI agents, and there is case law and precedent for that kind of thing. It's a real stretch of that legal argument to say that this isn't really military action. This is just a law enforcement
Starting point is 00:25:40 activity, and it's okay to do that in another country to a foreign head of state, even if he's not recognized as legitimate as he once was. This is all, like, extremely. Legally shaky and that's what Marco Rubio is going on TV and saying, well, we didn't need to get congressional authorization because this isn't a military action. We're not at war. Meanwhile, Trump is like, I'm the war king and we blew him up and we'll do it to all of you and I don't care. And so it's one of those things where they're kind of saying different things in court as they're saying on Twitter and on CNN. And of course, it's like a joke. I'm not a lawyer, but it's a joke. It's completely illegal and imperial. And, and unjustifiable on its face. And my final point on this is that Congress could still legally stop him from doing it and stop him from doing anything else if they weren't a bunch of spineless wimps who hate their lives and jobs. Yeah, they all have their lives and jobs.
Starting point is 00:26:43 And probably a lot of Democrats, too. They don't like the president. They don't like their way they do it. But they are like, ultimately, like Cody already said, it's not. Yes, obviously Donald Trump has been laying the groundwork for this for a while, including in 2020. But as Cody has already said, it's not just that. This has been decades of people wanting to extract a resource. Yeah, we like it.
Starting point is 00:27:09 And, yes, contain, have control over a region. So unfortunately, I think a lot of members of Congress would have wanted it on this. They would have wanted some of the credit for it. They would have wanted to, yes, do it the right way. That's their official thing. But, like, they're not that mad about it. They're not that mad about it. Every statement, some of them, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:36 And there's also reporting off the record some quiet, some quiet reporting about how some Democrats are, like, upset that they have to, like, condemn it. This is what I mean. It's like. And they think it's like, we, it like comes off as a week if you don't support this that happened and it's clear that not everybody's on board with the fact that this form of imperialism and interventionism is not good and won't lead to anything good and illegal on
Starting point is 00:28:06 his face obviously it's predictable and funny to see all the like the right wing like we're not the world police we're not the world police when they're literally like actually this was a law enforcement matter we sent in the police yeah yeah yeah Um, it's really, really absurd. One of the administration's arguments is the drugs, right? This he's a narco terrorist. He's doing all the bad drug stuff. So of course, it makes sense for members of the press to say, hey, what about that
Starting point is 00:28:37 former Honduran president who did all the drug trafficking that you part? Right. A month ago, two months ago, something like that. Doesn't seem relevant. Trump has asked about this first. And he kind of vaguely gestures to the people behind. him and the person directly behind him is Marco Rubio. I started it very quickly and then I started it in great detail.
Starting point is 00:28:59 I went to a lot of the people standing behind me and they felt that that man was persecuted and treated very badly. That's why I gave him a pardon. When Rubio was asked about it on Meet the Press this weekend, he's asked, does the pardon of the former Honduran president not undercut the administration's stated goal to go after these narco terrorists? Marco Rubio says, number one, the former president. of Honduras. So this is not someone who was in power, had any influence of the politics of Honduras any longer.
Starting point is 00:29:27 Number two, I don't do the pardon file. I'm not against it or for it. I just didn't review the file. So I can't speak to you about the dynamics that led the president to make the decision that he made. I think he talked about it yesterday at the press conference. He reviewed the file. He went through the argument in it. And he felt that the former president of Honduras was treated very unfairly by the previous administration and made the decision that he made. Someone in the White House is saying, pardon this guy and then everyone else is like all right whatever like
Starting point is 00:29:55 Trump is specifically saying is like I do what these morons behind me so I trust these dimwits and then Marco Rubio's like I'm not that dimwit I can't say whether it was good or bad I don't know anything about the the crux of the argument
Starting point is 00:30:11 we're trying to make for why we straight up went into another country and kidnapped their president uh yeah it does look very similar to the thing that I can't. I can't. Why you ask me these questions on Meet the Press, lady?
Starting point is 00:30:26 There's no moral consistency here. It was never about drugs, as we've known. There's never been a shred of evidence that any of the fucking boats contained fentanyl or anything. In fact, while we were on break, there was some report about one of the testing of the waters and the debris from one of the explosions and all they found was marijuana, which the president just officially decided we're going to legalize. federally or whatever his announcements are my point is is it's never been about that they don't give a shit they don't care it is oh i'm sorry this is it's just that and or quote it's they have no shame do they they don't even bother to lie badly anymore i suppose that's the final
Starting point is 00:31:09 humiliation that is they do not care they're just going to lie and then they're going to lie about the guy behind them and the guy behind them is going to lie later or earlier or whatever they're just gonna it's they don't care it's because they know it works because it's working exactly i know i've said versions of this throughout the episode today but i do keep thinking about venezuelans and all the shit that they've been through and continue to go through and how this will affect them in the chaos and the you know the power struggles the power vacuums the economic insecurity all of the things that are going to almost certainly happen for a while now for untold number of years.
Starting point is 00:31:52 And, you know, at the same time, this regime, this Trump regime is banging the drum about migration and the illegals and all that. And what do you think is going to happen? What do you think will happen in the face of all of this disruption? More people will want to leave Venezuela. And I just, it's a fucking mess. It's just a nightmare to me. And, you know, we go back and forth and like, Venezuelans are thrilled or whatever.
Starting point is 00:32:23 No, this is real. These are people's lives. This is someone else. This is their country. And we fucking ruin everything. Again, I know I've said a version of this throughout the show, but I just keep coming back to it. Everything we talk about are politics. I'm like, but these are, this is real people's lives, you know, in their country.
Starting point is 00:32:46 Anyway. It's like brilliant Republican politics to just ruin everything and then when people like us pointed out, they say, well, you just think America's the worst at everything, don't you? You hate America and everything it does. And the answer is, well, not always, but the stuff you do tends to be violent and evil. Wouldn't you agree? You guys get in power and then every single time you go and blow a bunch of stuff up and ruin a couple countries and then crash our economy while you're at it. So many problems worse. So it's no, no, it's not hate America first. It's hate Republicans. The Republican Party is a stain on everything. Even like the economy, you just make the economy worse and then the next president fixes it. And then you got more.
Starting point is 00:33:35 It's just like your whole model is that. And it works on so many people. It's going to work like the next time, the next time we get out of this, there's elections going forward, et cetera, assuming that all happens. There's going to be a Republican candidate for president in 10 years and everyone's going to think, well, he'll probably keep us out of the wars and do the economy better. This is a responsible person. And those of us who've lived, I mean, you know, in four decades, this has happened three or four times already. Keeps happening. Yeah. It's so, it's such recent history. It's so frustrating. I mean, we did like two of our final episodes of the year last year was
Starting point is 00:34:15 literally like, here's how George Bush made all this stuff easier. And then also an episode about how we're going to do war at Venezuela because of all the stuff that Bush did. And it's just they're just doing it all and Trump's making it even easier. So the next person doesn't even have to pretend to lie. They're just going to, like, we're going to actually kidnap a bunch of people because we can. And we're doing it for their resources. And in 10 years when some more news is obviously like the most popular streaming show or whatever we're going to do remember that trump guy here's a two-part episode about how he was bad bet you forgot didn't you forgot it he's bad yeah but he's what led to the gnome uh administration and all the bad stuff the gnomes the gnome is doing yeah and i wish it was
Starting point is 00:35:05 like a real like an actual gnome i'd be okay with that wouldn't that be fun but you mean christie you meant you met christie anyway um folks we are at the end of our show today like I mentioned there's a lot of stuff that happened over the holidays that we wanted to talk about GROC president's health
Starting point is 00:35:26 oh yeah the 60 minutes things pulled but maybe we will talk about those things on Thursday maybe maybe if more crazy news doesn't break between now and then Cody you got something no I'm just going to say the Grock things were like truly disgusting and abhorrent and I
Starting point is 00:35:43 think people need to go to jail. Elon Musk should be in jail right now for now. Yes. He's generating. Yep. And he's laughing about it. He loves it.
Starting point is 00:35:54 He should be in jail. That's just a little cliffing or tease. We'll talk about it on Thursday because including this. All right. Cody, come back. I can't say goodbye without you here. Oh, a costume change. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Starting point is 00:36:11 Holiday costume change. I can unbutton my sweater. Oh, geez. Costume change for the laugh. We have to leave it in now. Silent night. Holy night. Tan and bombs.
Starting point is 00:36:35 Gene Hackman's song. We love you. Virgins. very much teaching lessons about christmas cheer we love you very much much to see you thursday

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