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2026 Kickoff: Venezuela, Trump, and the Political Script · D-constructing Topics

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What's going on, everybody? And what's going on, folks?
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My name is David, and I'm your host of this legendary podcast,
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The Deconstructing Topic Podcast, where we grab a topic, and we just de-read, kind of deconstruct.
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Toon-toon, we break it down, or at least for us to have an understanding of what's going on.
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And once again, my name is, let's go, David, The Deconstructing Topic Podcast
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host, And we got a good one off the bat, not normally.
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This is my first podcast of 2026, and I would have loved to do a podcast, and I definitely will.
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And I promise you, for those folks out there listening to me and subscribed
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and all that good stuff, if you're new here, welcome.
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If you're not, you already know, much love, and much love to everyone out there.
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Because I would love to kind of start the new year with a little bit of kind
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of inspirational podcast So how are we going to set the 2026 on fire?
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Like, how are we going to make 2026 legendary?
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But today we got to talk about, you know, what's going on with Venezuela and
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what's going on with Trump, Niggas Maduro, all this good stuff, whatever is going on.
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And sometimes I say to myself, man, I love politics.
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And if you're listening to this, it's going to be a political episode.
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So just my opinion and my observation on what I think about the situation or
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what I've seen about the situation.
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And once you have to kind of think like, hey, here we go again.
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You know what I mean? If you are someone of living in this world for quite a
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while, more than four decades, given my age away there.
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You're seeing this script before, you've seen this before, and you're seeing
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this time and time on behalf of the United States.
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But what's interesting is that I have the receipt, and I spoke to more than
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a handful of people about two or three weeks ago.
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And in the United States, we had a lotto, the Mega Millions, $1.7 billion.
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I don't play the lotto, but sometimes when you have a pool of friends that want
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to throw a dollar to, you know, to play what they call a pool,
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to buy a lotto tickets and split the prices.
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So whatever. Hey, I'm down. So the lotto Mega Millions was $1.7 billion.
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And what I said a couple of weeks ago, and I've been saying it for a while,
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whoever wins the lottery, whoever wins the prize, I'll guarantee that within
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two weeks, maybe one, United States will strike on Venezuela.
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And I got receipts. Hey, listen, I got people to reach out to me.
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It's like, oh, man, you said it.
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You predicted that was going to happen. I said, this is not a prediction,
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as Paul Heyman was saying.
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Sometimes in life this is not
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a prediction And I'm not predicting that It's more or less of a spoiler,
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Because I've observed From years, from years of observing Thinking independent,
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thinking on my own That's why I suggest people Think on your own Think on your own,
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unplug yourself On these mainstream news And unplug yourself on the establishment
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Of the two political parties system Because that's what they do And this is
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what's happened In the United States just about,
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every decade that I've been living in this country.
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And hit the light button because you're going to, after this,
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you're going to be like, wow, so he predicted, just like last year,
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I remember early in the year, I predicted that Joe Biden was going to drop out of the race.
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It's that you have to understand how this establishment works. It's like a script.
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And I look at politics in the, just like in the eye of wrestling.
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You know, I love me some wrestling. I love me some WWE, you know,
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back then, WWF. It's a script.
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And it seems like it's just different people That it's put But it's the same
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storyline And in the case of the United States With Donald Trump You know,
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Bombing How can I say Venezuela Taking Maduro Now he's being charged Indictment
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Here or there Whatever is going to happen here I don't know He's being charged.
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For drug trafficking And phantom and all this And some people are like Well,
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Here's my thing I don't like it Obviously And I see that a lot of people have
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come out and what works with different why this happened.
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Obviously, you know, a lot of people say, well, this is not because of the drug trafficking.
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It's more of all you. Some people say maybe it's not the all you.
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It's because of the relationship that Venezuela has with China and Russia.
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You already know that the United States is not too fond of those two countries.
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Some say that it's because, you know, Maduro was not a fan of Israel.
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You know, we could go on and on and on and so on. It could have been that,
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hey, Maduro just got caught in, you know, on purpose.
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And, hey, he probably knew that his time was going to come. He's like, hey, just get me.
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Some people have mentioned that this is kind of similar to what happened with Manuel Obrador.
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In Panama, 1989. I remember that. And then there's some people,
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oh, look, Trump did this, and he didn't have the permission of Congress.
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And I say, well, I mean, the president has that type of power.
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But for those people who are pointing to the finger, oh, look how evil Trump
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is. Hey, listen, if I look at every president, it doesn't matter what the difference is.
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It's just the same script, whether it's George W., whether it's Bill Clinton,
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Bill Clinton, under Bill Clinton, the situation in Haiti happened,
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and some other things there.
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George W., you already know, that's where to start with George W. Bush, right?
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Barack Obama, you know, the situation with Libya and Gaddafi and a couple of others.
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Donald Trump, look, there you go. Even before coming to this country,
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the first president that was, I believe it was Reagan's last year or George H.
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Bush, once again, situation that happens in Panama.
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And those situations are never popular because a lot of Americans,
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no matter what the political aisle is, you know, a lot of Americans,
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especially those middle class, hardworking Americans, hey, listen,
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my tax dollars, my tax dollars. But here's the issue.
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When Americans tend to, how can I say, not be too fond of what's going on,
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sadly, when it comes to voting, I guess you're going to vote for the same establishment.
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Republicans and the Democratic Party here in the United States.
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Some people, you know, it's funny because of what Donald Trump did,
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you know, that he did that thing in Venezuela.
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Now, if you are pro-Ukraine, and I remember this situation where people who
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were not too fond of, whoa, we got to stop Vladimir.
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We got to send as much money as Ukraine because no country should invade country.
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Now you upset at this situation with Donald Trump.
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And I'm like, okay, you can't pick side. You can't be pro-Ukraine and be anti-Trump
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for the sake of invading Venezuela. It just doesn't add up there.
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You see how this kind of reminds me. So I'm a resident fan of it.
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And if you know, and I'll be doing a podcast, John Cena, former wrestler,
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one of the legendary icons, maybe the GOAT, the greatest wrestler of all time.
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It was his last little tour, and one of the storylines, he became a heel,
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he became a bad guy, you know what I mean?
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Kind of reminds me of what happens in this country, that one person,
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it could be, let's say, anti-Democrat, and the Democrats do something,
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let's say they went after Gaddafi, you get mad.
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Oh, well, we went after Gaddafi and we wasted taxpayers' dollars,
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but then you could be okay when Republicans, let's say Donald Trump, went after Maduro.
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For whatever it is, you know, whatever behind thing that we don't know,
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we're never going to know, maybe, perhaps.
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It's never a good thing because this is what the United States does,
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and you see how it flip-flops.
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So John Cena, when he used to wrestle, the fans.
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One minute would say, let's go, Cena, Cena sucks let's go Cena,
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Cena sucks when John Cena and this was when he was a good guy, babyface,
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and when he became a heel the bad guy, the roles reversed,
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you see what I'm saying so the fans that cheered now started to jeer him and
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boo him the fans that booed him started to cheer him and John Cena said you
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see this is the problem with you
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guys don't know what you want and this is kind of in a sense the way I see the American voters is.
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The American voter, if you grab at the average American voter,
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they're going to be running always on the same establishment.
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And as long as we got the same establishment, sadly, we're always going to have
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these Maduros, Noriega, Gaddafi, Hussein, Osama, the list is going on.
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We tried with Castro and so on and so forth.
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If the United States makes a move on Cuba, I'm like, oh, my goodness.
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Sadly, you know, this is what Russia is probably doing on the other side of
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things with the help of China.
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Now, China doesn't get involved much like that. But if China decides to go after Taiwan, guess what?
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See how these, you know, I tend to think that these countries,
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Russia, China, and United States, right?
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Throwing maybe, you know, Israel, Saudi. But these are the three kind of top
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tier countries in terms of military, in terms of some military.
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I'm just going to simply say military.
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These are the three strongest military countries there is. Got a little bit
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of sprinkles of other countries, but these are the three.
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And the other day, I'm over here. I order a product online because,
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you know, that's the other thing, too. They turn us into consumers.
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That's what happened with the situation with the lotto. They turned us into
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so much consumer that we were thinking and maybe 60% of the American population
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that played the lotto were thinking about just winning the lotto instead of
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what's going on. But this is what happened.
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And then listen, they turned me into a consumer as well. So the other day I'm
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doing a little shopping online. Need a little closet.
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Little nice metal closet, you know, portable.
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And I got the box. The box says made in China. Like, hear me out.
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So I ordered this product in an American company website.
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And this product is made from China.
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And it was brought to you by a company.
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American company. So in other words Sometimes I feel like these three countries
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And the Alioks of these three countries They sit.
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Every day Maybe every year And they just do a script on how to manipulate The world,
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If you go to China It's pro-China, anti-American If you go to Russia,
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the same thing And if you come here, United States Anti-China,
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anti-Russia, pro-United States But then in this country We tend to point the finger at the other.
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You know, if you voted for Hillary, no different than you voted for Trump.
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No different than you voted for Barack Obama.
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The two Bushes, the clans, it's all, they do the same thing,
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and I feel like they do the same thing globally with these two countries because
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I'm like, there's no way that China is going to do something silly that's going
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to jeopardize their companies.
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And there's no way that the United States will do something drastically,
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Let's say getting war with China or Russia and heard a lot of American companies
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said that depend on China.
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Yes, is that what I'm saying? Apple, right?
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I'm recording my podcast on Pop Beam using my Apple phone.
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My understanding is that, hey, China was the place to be to make these sight phones.
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Guess who's reaping the benefits? You see what I'm talking about?
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See how this works? And then Trump goes and China, China, China.
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Then that's the Republican Party. The Democratic, Russia, Russia, Russia.
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And the people, they eat it up. The American people eat it up.
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And I'm not trying to say those countries got their own little problems.
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What happened in Russia?
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Ukraine, again, not a fan of it. Because when there's global conflicts,
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everything goes up because there are certain things in certain countries.
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Whether it's grain, wheat, you know, the stuff to make peppermint, everything goes up.
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Everything that has peppermint went up like 50% from the last three or four
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years, ever since the situation in Ukraine.
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Maybe there's some grains there that they use to make mint. I don't know.
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But you see where we at with that situation, what happens here in Venezuela?
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It's the same thing. We heard this story before.
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And for people to be like, Trump, Trump, man. There's some people that got a legit gripe.
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But when they call out Trump, they call the establishment, both the Republican
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and Democratic parties.
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There's no way when people to be like, well, this wouldn't happen if Harris, man.
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And have you not seen, even in New York City, where Mandani,
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our mayor, our new elected mayor, went to see Trump. You know what he said after the interview?
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You know, and it's funny because people are like, oh, look, Mandani owned Trump
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and all this. But guess what Mandani said? He said, Maduro is a dictator.
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See, he already was selling the war. See how this works?
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And I'm not going to say I see that it works. Sadly, people will eat this and
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people will go vote Republican, Democrat. Okay, I mean, just, you know, it's a cycle.
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I want people to wake up and realize, listen, what's happening,
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whether the drug traffic, fentanyl.
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Now, look, we had a lot of people a couple of years ago on the biting,
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to give you an example, especially the MAGA crowd, the Republican crowd,
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upset at the migrants, a lot of Venezuela, they're coming over here,
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whatever it is, what's going on.
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Then the Trump situation, now those migrants are going to now become different.
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Their status is going to change based on what Kristi Noem said.
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So that means that they're good.
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Now, if you're a migrant, what are you going to say now? Deport them?
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Well, your president under this administration decided to do that one thing and now look.
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You got fellow, how can I say, fellow Venezuelan citizens who will eventually
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be protected by whatever immigration law there is now because of what's happening
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in Venezuela. I'm telling you.
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So if you're a MAGA person, what are you going to do? You can't say anything now.
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See how they flip-flop and they make people like John Cena said.
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That's why sometimes this country is the way it is. They make you flip-flop.
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And they'll put the same script under the Democrat party and Republican voters will be mad.
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Then they'll use the same script later under a Republican administration and
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Democrats be upset and it will be the same script.
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Just different person. And you see how people tend to, every four years or whatever
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you vote, you see how they change the script?
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They make you, they don't basically change the script, but they make you flip-flops
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so that you could go and vote for the same establishment.
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At the end of the day, what really hits America?
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Now, with the lotto situation, the $1.7 billion, if you're talking about 50% taxes or whatever,
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even if it's $300 million taxes, my understanding, that's how much the operations
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that cost in those couple hours, about $300 million.
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I'm just saying, put it together. Put it together.
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Now, you might say, oh, but the budget, the military got enough.
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They don't need $300 million from the lottery. You got to keep in mind, it's a budget.
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The United States government has a fiscal year. That means that everything is
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already, just about everything is counted.
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So how can we get $300 million without nobody counting?
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The lotto. For those people that are not living in the United States and those
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who are living in the United States, when you win the lotto,
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you have to pay taxes, federal taxes, all that good stuff.
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So that means $1.7 billion would have been billions.
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Even worst case scenario, Texas would have been $300 million,
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and there you go. That's operation.
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Whatever the hell happened, you know, somebody said it's operation.
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United States do whatever it is that they do. No one could say anything.
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Not the people in this country, they're going to do a rally about Venezuela.
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That's another interesting aspect of things.
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Land country is interesting. And I know a lot of people from land countries
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that are, you know, not a fan of Trump, right?
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Because what's happening now is affecting their families, whatever.
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But, yeah, they find themselves like, well, you know, Maduro,
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he didn't treat his people.
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And that's the reason I can't tell this country because in my government, you see what I'm saying?
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And what I'm saying is that even those who are not too fond of MAGA might say,
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hey, listen, well, you know.
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That's the reason why a lot of Venezuela, you know, those people that are pro-border,
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I'll give an example, a lot of Venezuelans.
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And guess what they were saying? Well, the reason they left Venezuela because of their situation.
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Now, look, they mad at Trump.
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But you would think, oh, man, Trump is taking over a so-called dictator that
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people were fleeing from all these last couple of years under Biden.
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I'm telling you, it's like, please, America, please, everybody,
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wherever the country you're in.
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If you're not too fond of the government but you want to make changes just think
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on your own and think of things like that what happens in your country and what's
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happening here in the United States is the same thing as long as we got establishments sadly.
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We're always going to get these situations time after time after time well once
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that straight from the heart you already know they
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