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Episode 513: Corollary in Caracas (Patreon)

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2026-01-08 02:12:39
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We talk through the recent developments in the U.S. attack on Venzuela, and the meaning of the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.

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Davis

Yooooo

Ty B

Chat do I listen now or at work tomorrow morning

Maya Sarder

YOU CANT LEAVE AGAIN BAD THINGS KEEP HAPPENING

Zugg

Mr. Sixth

Dakota

Gonna be a busy 2026 y’all

Rebolledont

the true anon vacation curse strikes again

Little Monster

they're calling it the Donroe Doctrine, I hear

Big-Stink

what a time to be alive

Leo

Fuck yeah

Travis

“the gourmand takes Venezuela”

DeadPrince

Is Stephen Miller writing all the speeches now?

cellardoor

IT’S 9 PM, DAMMIT!

Trevor Wookfield

"crazy things happen when we take a long break" Leaves anyway...... Ends the Bolivarian Revolution. ........

Vero

Oh thank heavens

Michael Rance

it’s been a real shitty time over here, but i just want to say how thankful i am for this pod — it’s very good thing in a bad world. thankful for you all <3

bud dustin

The very long arm of america....... um..... gross

Nick

When would now be a good time?

Sneb

I know the war nerd in brace thought that mission was cool as shit from a military stand point

minnie

west coast worst coast buddy

shame

:0

Gummy

Shakeman

wet_poptart

Absolutely insane timing as always🫡

Joe Cusack

it took a week for this year to be horrifying but nevertheless we’ll get em next year

avery parkway

I just got home from 7hour road trip and i could have totally used this on the drive . but it's fine it's literally whatever . it's fucking fine

bob

the most lethal military in history 🫡🫡

The Nega Chin

Oof, could not have timed this release worse. Viva La Revolution

Jbear

I can't listen to trueanon at work only when going to bed ymmv

T

I thought I was listening to Radio War Nerd but then I was rudely interrupted by that intro music

Sam

It was about as cool as the raid to capture and kill bin Laden. Which was totally a thing that happened as told in zero dark thirty

Swimaroo

American Military Intervention has now Roller Coaster Tycooned a head of state from Latin America to Brooklyn

Sneb

That was also cool

Ross Moore

Who do you think was overthrowing Venezuela?

Hot Rod

Slow news week, eh?

Ross Moore

Taking a break to overthrow the Venezuelan government. We are on to you Brace, you imperialist dog.

Ryan

My opinion on the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro just dropped

Chapo Bath House

I liked the time Brace took a week off and no one knew if he was in Syria, preparing Bolsonaro's defense, or had shot that CEO

Brian Long

“You’re probably hearing ‘YMCA’ 10,000 times.”

Erik Bourre

the people have spoken. great title

Erik Bourre

💜❤️🧡💚💛💙🩵 all we have is each other!

Blank

TA we need you in these times, do your thing 💗

Comrade Cat

I have a feeling that Maduro sent some of his retinue to escort the Chinese special envoy and the US found a window to kidnap him during that time and just went for it. All of these loose ends to me seem like parts of a plan that was abandoned at the last minute for an opportunistic smash-and-grab.

Comrade Cat

Also I think securing Venezuela's oil makes a lot more sense for hedging against hitting Iran again. More as a way to help assuage the skittish market that the oil will keep flowing even when the bombs are dropping.

Brian

Dont tell me Liz is into numerology lol

Marcelle Roulin

Narco Rubio is a LOT better than Little Marco

DoctorShields

I was hoping for wild speculation around Venezuela’s Blue Gold.

Elsie Hupp

You know who deserves to be appointed “Transitional President” of Venezuela? Hillary Clinton! Yes, Venezuela deserves better, but Hillary deserves her own bathetic Maximiliana!

Elsie Hupp

Don’t make him sound cool, though. I’m hoping the narcos will save us from the pedos!

Elsie Hupp

The fact that Maduro didn’t get straight-up shot in the head in his bedroom I would say means that Maduro is the real winner here. Just… make sure the security cameras are working outside his jail cell, you know? 😅

Zzz

I wouldn't be surprised lol I was genuinely shocked finding out she's into astrology

Elsie Hupp

My fanfiction here is that this is the culmination of generations of rivalry between the narcos and the pedos. Maduro is actually doing deep cover to rescue the mole children from the tunnels under Central Park. The drone strikes against Venezuelan fishing boats were actually carried out by Ghislaine Maxwell’s TerraMar Project, and she was also using the underage girls she was sex trafficking for the purpose of fighting drug traffickers. This also explains the Windsors: Liz Windsor was the narco-in-chief, but she had a soft spot for her younger son, Andrew, which allowed him to become a narco-pedo double agent, and it took her death for Chuck Windsor to put an end to that. So here’s hoping the narcos save us from the pedos! 😅 (MadurAnon? I hardly know her!)

The Master

She thinks ghosts are real

Zzz

Boooooo 👻

NeoKon Knueppel

The only villain that got sacked this week was ice trae in the A

Kevin C

Its her turn

Charlie

No way this is the way I found out

Michael S. Judge

In North Korea, we had to live on crumbs, except we had no crumbs, because Kim Jong Un ate and left none of them

Major Pisano

Libre Venezuela! Viva viva Venezuela. Facts.This is an episode. This is important, it’s worth listening to. Thanks for the well formulated humorous take on a serious topic. Thanks. It’s so much more important than snl or the individuals in said television series. Thanks. Ps. Move to Reno, it’s cheaper and the next best city for the Brooklyn New York podcast commode fall out and proximity to resources. The greater new land of milk and honey. San Francisco is 5 hours away! New York is thousands of miles away. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Brian

I think the reason why trump is enamored special forces is because JSOC has a very short chain of command that goes directly to the president/executive branch

Salex

The wanted posters on the State Dept website are so janky and funny. They look like a former DOGE intern made them on Microsoft Publisher

D G

....and meanwhile the epstein files still aren't being released.

Kevin C

Gold star lesbians are women that have never been penetrated by a penis. Theres a joke in there somewhere

Michael S. Judge

I know you can say names however you'd like, but turning "Solzhenitsyn" into "Solzhenitstein" is really fuckin funny

Danny

Astrology is real tho

Clean Shirt Piggie

Shrub had Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL) I shit you not

Zzz

The level of showmanship from the US is astounding. The talk around Cuba, Greenland, and Iran specifically seem like a scare tactic but idk everything is chaotic af. The meme-ification and spectacle of it all has its consequences and we feel it all around. No one is being checked, lawlessness run amuck, civil unrest and quality of life diminished. It makes me psychologically nauseous.

Johnny Haircut

Venezuela is stealing Mother Vance's fentanyl

Subodh Kafle

Did they pronounce the -stein bit in the Corbyn way?

Valentina Vargas

The wrath of Operation Keybump coerced me into taking a dookie at Beauty Bar, therefor, I am no longer hittin them slopes

LET ME DELETE MY ACCOUNT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES

Controlling what an area uses for its energy, wether you allow it to transfer to different sources in the future etc... That a hell of a yoke around the Monroe Doctrine countries

Mersham

What if it was Peter Brian Hadsex?

Pink&TealCore

I finished the fort Bragg Cartel by Seth Harp the day of Maduro's abduction, and for all the books and my conclusions about the US' evil, I always liked to imagine it as an evil, competent empire in service to capital. Now, and however moralistic and thus cringe this may sound, I have realised that it is all the above, but primarily the US and the tip of its spear are a death cult; dedicated to death for its own merits, they have consiousciouly or unconsciously realised that nothing matters and that we are heading towards an ending. I don't think the US empire is ending, not for a long while yet, but with how some are acting it's really giving me prelude to the collapse of the USSR, just x1000 worse because the last thing to collapse in the US will be the army and financial institutions.

drewb

devil numbers 😈🧮

i shyr

congratulations dasha, pack up your sag card and vyvanse - you have been crowned the new grand poobah of venezuela

Brent

I can see her and Bill doing the Macarena while singing “Heeey, Venezuela!”

Smalls

Never go on brake again guys

Mathias Marvin Huseby

Happy new year, TrueAnon! :-) That opening speech by Pete Heggseth was gayer than gay sex, wow

MRSAful Fate

It's a weird time. Everything is meme, but everything is also dead serious.

MRSAful Fate

The fracas in Caracas, the duela in Cuba, the arse kick in the Arctic.

Adam

Secretary Hegseth would like to remind you he wants no femmes, no beards, no fatties.

Jose

I love that Brace and Liz's conception of gen z slang is 90% gay and stan twitter

Mitch

Is there a coup review in this ep?? Is the jury still out? Probably

James Mitchell

I think it's hilarious that this administration has decided to go full Hitler at the same time they're losing the global supply chain. They've become 1939 Germany just as China has become the 1939 USA.

subhmskalien

I used to joke with my friend that DELTA were smoking crack and then I read in Harpers book that they are commonly called “pipe hitters” as a term of endearment…

Kimble

in carcosa

Degrassi Knoll

Beards are mandatory for gay marines though.

Mungo Franczak

Having Russia annex a snow blasted, deserted plain of the steppe under a casus belli of reclaiming historical territory or China expediting their reunification with Taiwan doesn’t seem so ridiculous anymore, considering we’re kidnapping presidents of sovereign nations under a new pretense every other day of the week

Hermit Hero

“Madurismo” is valid if “Trumpism” is

Man2quilla

They could also be talking about "electronic warfare" as in suppression of enemy air defense and jamming stuff and trump is just a moron

Man2quilla

Just Cause was the invasion of Panama

MRSAful Fate

Hegseth's reqs: 6 packs, 6 foot, 6 figures, 6 inches

Mungo Franczak

Liz actively chooses to avoid Morton’s Salts, due to them proudly stating they’re kosher on the box

FA

If they wanted to be sci fi they shouldn't have made space force its own thing, it should just be part of the navy. Eventually we're gonna have space ships and all ships are navy. America needs to build the Pillar Of Autumn

Kimble

stocked for life on all these giant grains of salt

Pranjal Dwivedi

The amount of oil produced is too low and poor quality, maybe some good for oil refineries in Texas, but it really is about the Donroe doctrine

Rooti Tooti Giuliani

Thinking about the frequency of overlap between True Anon going on break and some shit happening has made me believe that this is a psyop and has given me schizophrenia

Petrorenminbi

Después del trabajo un buen perro

Branden Snyder

Pretense? There's no pretense this time. They just said "we're going to take the oil"

Michael Xin

Bro the Yankees are washed. If this was 50 years ago the entire Chavista government would've been decapitated and an organized golpista force spearheaded by Machado herself would've seized the presidential palace. Instead we just have overgrown toddler Stephen Miller loudly proclaiming America's imperial might while accomplishing something far less impressive than what Poppy Bush does for fun on the weekends.

Patrick

I’ve been saying the Trump asylum thing for years! He thinks people who seek asylum are coming out of Arkham Asylum like the Joker

Matt Jolo

Insanity reins. 2026 is going to be a banner year again for the kooks, snizz hounds, and functionally schizophrenic personnel again.

N P

Haven’t listened yet, but Adam Tooze’s substack has some good articles regarding the whole situation.

swervegriffin

Why are these trueanon takes on South American US coups so confusing confusing. It’s all corrupt conspiracy unless the country is a Tepid social democracy that doesn’t threaten imperialism whatsoever like Brazil.

swervegriffin

Like why even cite imperialist media like Reuters/NYT/Miami herald as if it’s fact.

swervegriffin

I’m an hour into the episode I feel like this is a joke 😭

Clean Shirt Piggie

So old, I got interviewed in flyover state by local tv news as man on the street after Poppy kidnapped Noriega and it made the evening news.

Elsie Hupp

Get Manet to do their portrait? 🤓

ERIC

Shock! And, awwwww.

Horse

Brace said 'my brain is sucking fucking' and everyone just let it slide

not reflective (vampire)

Because Venezuela is confusing. That's what happens when you have active, contemporary conflict: information is distorted by active warfare and propaganda, so the only thing possible is to deduce/make educated guesses.

Jon W

Brace Belden know what was happening, but he was too slow to stop it

Mugiwara

RE: who is in the Space Force? IIRC there was some evidence that they started just moving the trans people there, for reasons I honestly cant recall. I think it was meant to be either a mild desk job punishment or a way of avoiding dealing with ever changing requirements

Eric Neilson

What are the documented crimes of Maduro? Sounds like a lot of "Victims of Communism" stuff insofar as the Chavez regime putting down the criminals that ran the country before the revolution.

Meowzedong

I’m starting to think America can’t be trusted guys.

Tim O'

We were all Havana great time

Michael

I don’t want to say it, but Trueanon needs to go on an indefinite break to turn the wheel of history

Mark Owen

I think Just Cause was Panama.

TrueAnonPod

Sometimes I’m confused by comments…we specifically say all of those media outlets are either wrong or lying in this episode…which is about Venezuela, not Brazil…

Chapo Bath House

I'm still holding out hope Catturd Army will rise against the tech fascists

Floodlights

1/3 is also the birthday of our 3rd favorite American hero, Kyle Rittenhouse

swervegriffin

I’m gonna need to relisten to the episode I just am like why is it more complicated than the us illegally arrested a sovereign leader, killed 80+, and is doing obvious imperialism. I get that you’re saying those sources lied but like you’re also saying that Maduro and delay negotiated to be arrested at the expense of their country right? And that they’re agreeing to let the us take all of their oil. I agree with your analysis of trumps cabinet but I find it weird to assume these imperialist sources are not just categorically false

Antipaganda

Well, trans people are more used to cyborgism and biotech, so they are most suited to be our future astro-army when we invade China's space elevator and pretend we built it.

hey_boo

FR. The lawless chucklefucks committing these war crimes think it’s COD or some other stupid video game. Fuck all these people.

hey_boo

But ghosts are real! How do you explain half of the Democratic Party!

Sam Stephens

one of the five dumbest people from my high school is in the space force.

TrueAnonPod

I don't think we said anything definite on Maduro or Delcy; we laid out what we think are reasonable possibilties. One could also spin it that Maduro was given up to benefit his country, to avoid an invasion or to lift sanctions etc etc. We don't know, which I hope we made explicit in the episode. Writing off all mainstream media as categorically untrue makes it difficult to analyze situations dialectically; sometimes what they report is not false, other times they're serving as messengers for the government or factions within the government.

swervegriffin

Ok but like… them saying that Maduro negotiated his own arrest months in advance is a serious claim that would benefit imperialism in (sorry) manufacturing consent for his illegal removal, right? I get that you said we can’t trust them but you ran with that as like partially true. Later in the ep you said Maduro has been open to allowing the us industry in so that he can get his ICC case thrown out, again basing that in us media reporting and caveating that somewhat. How big are these grains of salt, and where do you think the truth is?

Alexander

During a game of trivial pursuit over the holidays this was one of the questions that came up for me

Special Adeline

I could be wrong though because as stated I'm a fairly low IQ individual I just have a hard time believing Trump has any back scene Cold War plans with all this considering how much everything he does is on a whim

TrueAnonPod

The security lapses or betrayal that led to the US being able to kidnap the sitting president of a large country while taking 0 casualties lends itself to a lot of speculation, and we tried to be clear we do not know for a fact what the circumstances that led to that moment were.

Daniel

2.5 hour conversation about oil and not one mention of climate change lol

swervegriffin

Speculation that intelligence may have had an insider makes sense but to consider it went as high up as Maduro himself (and delcy) is where I disagree. Is this what you’re implying in the episode? Also a lot of his security gave their lives defending him, I don’t think it’s fair to represent it completely as a stand down order, unless there’s evidence.

Daniel

Anyone else remember we have less than 5 years to meet the 50% reduction in global emissions as agreed upon at the 2014 Paris Climate accords???

Joey

gta vice city came out the same week YC went to israel & his parents would NOT hear the last of it

Christopher Price

what do you want them to say? because to the people like Trump who are coveting the oil, climate change, the Paris accords, etc are fake and gay. there's no meat there.

Quinn

Maduro looks badass in all the photos

TrueAnonPod

Yes, we mention all of this within the episode. I think speculation is going to happen with security lapses this egregious, but we lay out a wide range of options of what might have led to this and explicitly and repeatedly throughout the episode do not endorse any one of them as absolute fact.

J HUTCH

Whatever you do, do not search Maduro Bloopers on YouTube

J HUTCH

Eating a succulent empanada from a desk drawer

delle_chiaie

sure, the farce of benevolent US world governance has been abandoned (this I agree is very notable), but this country hasn't been perceived as a good faith actor in bilateral or multilateral negotiations in half a century. from the asymmetric structuring of international organizations to recurring unilateral deployments of force, I'm stunned to hear eulogising over the waning of US soft power as if it ever existed beyond the value of our cultural exports. you sound like Joe nye lmao huge fan btw

Victoria

We should call her Machado About Nothing. Unless you make that joke later in the episode I’m only halfway thru

mitchell

Some of the conflicting reasoning behind the invasion/kidnapping reminds me of the conflicting reasoning behind the tariffs, in that I assume it’s people trying to backfill a reason when there is none and Trump is just doing all this because he’s stupid/trying to look cool on TV

Joey

lib franczak is so good. chat, why didnt we think of that? fuck.

Joey

ok lib franczak...

AfroCommie

It's only the 7th and all this shit is making me want to relisten to the Somalia/Italy episodes ...

SwagMasta420

Can't believe inempt empire theory is still alive and well in 2026.

Alec

Oil does have a future: the military. It is not interested in electrification even though it might pay lip service to caring about climate change. Tanks will continue to be fueled by oil. Planes too. Energy density of batteries isn’t there for military vehicles. Also charging the battery of an M1 tank is kind of a goofy proposition: electrical grids are unreliable in war zones at best. So they’ll be using generators… which burn diesel or methane. Strategic supply chains for militaries and the machines of destruction themselves will continue to be powered by fossil fuels. You can’t realistically airdrop an external battery for an M1 tank, but you can airdrop diesel fuel.

Alec

My friend did research for his PHD in the electrification of military aircraft and they (the US airforce) did not give a fuck

bud dustin

New York is kinda the west coast of the Atlantic, if you dont think about it

SwagMasta420

This is the start of the American Anschluss, weak players get eaten up by the fascists and anyone who sees what's coming next will try to get into the best position possible. Whether that's Europe submitting to the Reich for another go or Russia and China consolidating.

Zane

Just read the Löwy book on Lukács, From Romanticism to Bolshevism—crazy good

Daniel

jus saying no one ever talks about climate change anymore. But that's bc it is in fact v fake and gay

.

"The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the "good Germans" had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared. Since many "middle Americans" already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so”

Victoria

True Anon is the braking system on the wheel of history and our Patreon dollars are its brake fluid

pa_dutch

Facebook has randomly started serving me military/special ops news outlets/fan pages and I saw a vet 100% unironically comment on a post saying he used to be a pipe hitter. These people are morons

Eric Neilson

Oil definitely has a future. It's still the lifeblood of modern society.

pa_dutch

They also project the type of masculinity Trump admires

pa_dutch

When professor franczak speaks I listen 🤓📝📈 Liz can almost convince me that economics is real

Donald J Trump

A lot of cocaine is cut with baby laxatives. Yet another instance involving Brace, babies and potentially the need for adult diapers?!?! Coincidence, I think not

Leyland

Shit Daniel I’m so sorry to tell you once we blew through 1.5 and 2 those conversations became literally pointless. We can’t do shit while the US military continues to be the biggest emitter on the planet and only has more wars plotted out for the foreseeable future. We all done like turkeys together. We’re just in different parts of the oven. AI and Crypto escalating and compounding these issues makes this discussion even more pointless. All we can really do now is organise and create a foundation for mutual aid and support to meet this actual future. Look out for and look after each other and hunker the fuck down.

Sara Z.

Been entertaining myself translating latinx twitter over the past few days and they’re all just calling venezuelans smelly, gross and brown pests that vote for Nazi parties 😭😭 racist chileans vs kpop “center Venezuelan voices” bots have my sides hurting

Sara Z.

Labour camps for multifandom one piece kpop stans living in Spain and posting girlboss machado fancams IMMEDIATELY

ERIC

We have sweet crude production in the states. Almost none of our domestic refineries process it. Only foriegn refineries were built for it. Sour or heavy crude comes from these fields.

Sara Z.

“Venecos” is a great search term on Twitter for such gems

Mathias Marvin Huseby

To be effective, one must be NOT a girl, and also hot. The army is for men, by men, on men, in men

Beeethan

Am I misremembering or did they say the polymarket bet was placed by a Google employee? Where was that from?

Lulu

"Not for all the silk in Chyyyna could one swaddle Mr. Fetterman" - Brace Beldan

Strangely Enough

Mexico, So far from God So close to the united states

cl

It's about the petrodollar & undermining BRICS

Budget Hireling

Thank god for TruAnon. Stay safe out there yall.

Cameron Young

Getting Jessica Lynch hospital rescue vibes from this kidnapping.

Zac

what's this from?

Zac

The point about the "show" being more real than the outcome of any particular action is so astute - we're left groping in the dark for coherent motivations, when the actual explanation is that it gives the people who make up the regime a chance to perform for the cameras in a certain way that makes them feel fulfilled. This is particularly evident when you listen to Hegseth. Donald Trump is, and always has been, first and foremost an entertainment product and his Presidency is not different. The propaganda doesn't exist to justify the act, the act exists to justify the propaganda.

Zac

the first week of january has consistently been the most evil part of the calendar for like 5 straight years now

Alec

Unless the infrastructure for hydrogen power gets built out in our lifetime (unlikely) we’ll keep burning this shit

taejo-pom

Learning so much

David Haigh

2:19:40 - I thought Liz was out Socialist Pole?

helena

Google employee was a separate bit of insider trading they mentioned in the same part as the polymarket bet

helena

Jeopardy music drop was beautiful great work Liz & YC

Marko Loko Lopez

I don't know that they would definitely tell China. If Maduro knew they were coming, sure. If they were counting on the element of surprise, they wouldn't tell the Chinese, would they? Certainly not more than a couple of hours in advance

Chris

Re: the space force, I met a guy in the space force at a bar just before Christmas who just seemed like a normal career military guy (army->navy->space force) and just really liked drinking and gambling. That is to say, they’re taking the same ppl that the other branches are taking

Andrew May

Thanks for another great episode, gumshoes. My guts are in knots that I did enjoy loosening with the laughs. Do you guys know Joan Didion’s collection of essays called Political Fictions? Or for that matter her books Salvador and Miami (“where Fidel Castro raised money to overthrow Batista and where two generations of Castro's enemies have raised armies to overthrow him, so far without success. It is where the bitter opera of Cuban exile intersects with the cynicism of U.S. foreign policy. It is a city whose skyrocketing murder rate is fueled by the cocaine trade, racial discontent, and an undeclared war on the island ninety miles to the south.”)? I sometimes feel like we’re stuck back then in this eternal recurrence. Maybe we never actually left, and political theater has always been running. In one of those (or maybe it’s in Fixed Ideas) she says how adroit the US has become since 1945 at staging its own domestic dramas within the crises it creates in other countries. Here we go never again.

Andrew May

Our newest political fictions

Andrew May

found it (it was Fixed Ideas, 2003): “‘This is in fact the kind of story we expect to hear about our elected officials,’ I wrote in 1988: “We not only expect them to use other nations as changeable scrims in the theater of domestic politics but encourage them to do so. After the April 1961 failure of the Bay of Pigs, John Kennedy's approval rating was four points higher than it had been in March. After the 1965 intervention in the Dominican Republic, Lyndon Johnson's approval rating rose six points. After the 1983 invasion of Grenada, Ronald Reagan's approval rating rose four points, and what was that winter referred to in Washington as ‘Lebanon’—the sending of American marines into Beirut, the killing of 241, and the subsequent pullout—was, in the afterglow of this certified success in the Caribbean, largely forgotten.” “That was 1988. Fourteen years later, we were again watching the scrims being changed, but in a theater we did not own. The Middle East was not Grenada. It was not the Dominican Republic. It was not, as they used to say in Washington about the Caribbean, "our lake." It was nitroglycerin, an unstable part of the world” (p.33–34) And it goes on and on from there.

Beeethan

Ahh got it thank you

.

Dirty truths by Michael Parenti

Aaron Friedland

There’s no reason to not stockpile oil, they can/already do control prices on it. Part of me wonders if some of this also because Biden emptied out that strategic fuel reserve or whatever during Covid. Just to undo something Biden did

Aaron Friedland

I doubt the specifically told them long before but you would give a heads up in the most formal sense as the operation goes down. But also doing it with the Chinese there and causing potential escalation would have only been a nice side bonus for the current fed

YIMBY 4 HEAVEN

Liz dropping a "Facts." after her own damn line is unfortunately very relatable

Aaron Friedland

Hegseth is definitely imagining himself in the 3rd person every time he gives one of those speeches - and of course larping as the Nat’l Guard is a joke to most people in the military and public

ronnylongjohns

I thought there are several facilities in the US that are for the heavy stuff (whatever it's called) and those refineries have been operating under capacity.

ERIC

Sweet crude is processed in limited capacity. We have historically been domestically refining heavy (sour) crude and are at capscity. Greedy oil companies don't want to retro fit or build new capacity for the sweet (shale) crude. It is mostly exported. I think canada is big market? I am commenting because they seem to recognize the crude differences and what control of a large heavy crude supply would mean for markets. We can extract tons of our sweet crude domestically but can't process it.

ronnylongjohns

Yeah I need to look up that acronym lol

ronnylongjohns

366 Days Sometimes! in a lil Feb voice

Me

Great episode. Savagery run amok

Tranche Devereaux

3:40 I have a low tolerance for Jews… these days it’s 1 Jew and I’m hung over for 2 days I do love mushy food tho 🤔

Tranche Devereaux

I saw a meme: America loves destabilizing countries and then crying about immigration I don’t know much about Cuba … just that the Ragingest MAGA I ever knew personally was a Cuban-American lesbian. We were friends in LA and partied together in our early 20s in like 2001. The depths of her anti-immigrant stance… gobsmacked

Mungo Franczak

…is that a fuckin TNO reference in the TrueAnon comments section??

Eric Neilson

The number 1 export from Canada to the United States is tar sands oil converted to synthetic crude that gets refined in the Koch refineries in Minnesota and Texas. Nearly identical quality oil as what is in Venezuela.

ERIC

Do you know who is buying the sweet stuff we are pulling out of the Permian basin? Is it Europe? The low sulfur content does make better petroleum products. Seems like our regulation relaxation favors exporting as much light crude as possible.

Isaac

Trump also said the U.S. would take over Gaza

Penelope Higgins

Liz, with regards to your point on trumps war efforts as a managed spectacle of conflict - Kit Klarenberg’s recent substack article on British supported information warfare and propaganda during the Slovene 10 day war of 1991 seems a relevant antecedent. Albeit a seemingly much more coherent and successful example of a managed conflict spectacle than what we’ve seen so far from trump 2.0

Ian Firstenberg

Ironically, Operation Just Cause was the us invasion of Panama

Gato gris

Electric cook tops suck ass gas is king. Unless you get one of those bougie multi thousand dollar induction ones are supposed to be legit

chronye

363.25 days/year… leap year

Isaac

Dictatorship of the lumpen bourgeoisie

Marcus

The US empire has known since the end of ww2 that if another major war happened it would have to be fought with someone else's oil.

Wesley

Yeah it's totally worth giving your kids asthma and causing more climate change just to cook food slightly better

Gato gris

lol are the asthmatic children in the room with you right now bro lmfao. Also if you have a hood that’s actually vented outside it’s a moot point. People like you crack me up. What better message to the working class than “Actually we’re going to make your lives even shittier by removing choices from consumers, while also giving you a shitty alternative we want you to use” report me to the Feds for using an illegal stove nerd

BDupont

The Gulf War Did Not Take Place

MirrorOooMirror

Stupid AND Stuck inside a fantasy! A stupid fantasy.

Geoff Daniels

Anyone got a link to the Rubio cocaine article they referenced there?

Blank

Verso introductions edition of Lukacs introduced by Belden

B

Not my consooomer choice NOOOOOO lol just say you don't care dude at least that'd be more honest than posturing

Gato gris

Shit like this is why there is no coherent leftist movement in America. American workers don’t give a fuck about the negligible difference to climate change a shitty electric stove will provide. This is lib shit

k

True Anon rule: Disperse anti-aircraft facilities early in case of hostile military build-up.

k

Matthew Klein tweeted, sorry x-ed, that this is America's Suez Moment. Only time will tell.

k

Drones are powered by batteries though

Alec

Depends on the drone.

Josh

Can you think of any solutions to the problem of our president (whose son is on the board of Kalshi) and our media (who has partnered with Kalshi) seemingly being unable to settle on a truth even though everyone has already seen the proof? Related thought, I saw a CBS TikTok the other day about a sports controversy, which I love to analyze. It was the Auburn buzzer beater, and it was notable because: it shows a replay, and in that replay you can very very clearly see that the ball is feet from the shooter’s hands with time still on the clock, and then it shows a different angle and in the second replay you can very clearly see that the ball is still in his hand while the clock displays no time left. The video does not add commentary, and the comment section seems to be arguing about anything except why the video is showing two entirely different realities. They can just say that this was an editing mistake, and maybe it is, but it stood out to me after this week’s atrocities. It really feels like the disagreements between people and the confusion about reality is a feature of the media’s lies, not an unfortunate bug.

Josh

Btw, this new conspiracy theory was inspired by the Kalshi discussion, especially Liz’s line about “information is meta now.”

Robert Farrell

Increasingly thinking we're deep into end-of-days territory. To be honest, I'm very tired so I almost welcome it.

Doug Cartel

"the theatrics seem more important than the rest" yeah idk Nazis just really love merging politics and theatrics, hence that definition of fascism as 'politics as aesthetics'. Put on a show not just because you're trying to distract people from other work (like the failed Putin assassination) but like...the theatrics are also the goal, because the show is so integral to governing for them.

Doug Cartel

People said this after every famine for thousands of years so until the nukes go off I'm not going to bother with that mindset

Praxcheat

did the US use a new sonic or electric weapon in Venezuela? the post is quoting that fake ass x post so i cant tell

B

I'm not talking to "American Workers", I'm talking to you. You're being disingenuous and I find it silly lol. "the American worker is this, the American worker is that, the American worker thinks this!!!!" Gimme a break bozo

Robert Farrell

Given there's never been a period in history when such a collection of stupid cunts has been in charge at the White House I reckon your nukes could be fairly close.

RHZM

I mean they need oil to go to war no? The country isn’t really doing that well economically, but has all of these bombs theyre sitting on. It’s like our only card after 50 years of over investment in the wrong sectors.

Cy Kayhan

Rubio’s family initially came to the US while Batista was in power, he just lies about his family being political exiles under Castro

Alexander

I believe the official story is that the electric grid attack was a cybersecurity hack based off intelligence gathering. I think if something new was used the general public would have figured it out by now.

GG Allin Dulles

The manpads are another issue but a big element of the lack of air defense was probably down to the fact that anyone in a dedicated air defense unit would know that one of the biggest strengths of US airpower is suppression of enemy air defense (or SEAD 🤓 I'm gay and autistic), things would be different in a country with more advanced equipment but the iraq and Balkan wars gave the navy and air force a ton of experience with fighting against the older integrated air defense systems fielded by former soviet allies, using the radar that guides those longer range missiles is like turning on a flashlight in a dark room, there's an electronic attack variant of the f/a-18 that can both jam those radars to prevent a lock and fire a very big and fast anti-radiation missile that either follows the radar beam back to its source or targets its last known location if the radar is turned off; even if you do burn through the jamming and get a shot off, something like an S-300 is gonna produce a huge thermal signature that anything in the area with a flir camera will pick up immediately especially at night. So if youre not prepared to shoot with the engine running and drive like hell theres a pretty high probability that a missile is gonna land in your vicinity within a few minutes (and S-300s are huge, they might not even have time to finish lowering the launch tubes and stowing away the hydraulic support feet before something nasty comes flying back at you. In desert storm and bosnia they had enough of those long range weapons to at least believe they might be able to win by attrition, but I don't think that was the case here; I don't doubt these guys would risk their lives for their country but it comes down to bravery vs stupidity and I don't blame those crews for not wanting to paint a target on their backs for a chance at shooting down a single f/a-18 in a conventional engagement they were never gonna win

N P

The Yeonmi Park left no crumbs but was a good one.

pj

At 1:49:20 liz says “facts” in response to her own comment…I’m putting that in hall of fame

chronye

presupposing the earth stays the same place relative to the sun but go off chronist

Elsie Hupp

Anyone with toxoplasmosis can’t be *all* bad…

Elsie Hupp

A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of Communism…

Elsie Hupp

Young man, there's no need to feel down, I said Young man, pick yourself off the ground, I said Young man, 'cause you're in a new town There's no need to be unhappy Young man, there's a place you can go, I said Young man, when you're short on your dough you can Stay there and I'm sure you will find Many ways to have a good time It's fun to stay at the N.Y.M.D.C. It's fun to stay at the N.Y.M.D.C. They have everything for young men to enjoy You can hang out with all the boys It's fun to stay at the N.Y.M.D.C. It's fun to stay at the N.Y.M.D.C. You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal You can do whatever you feel

Alex

I wonder if the Venezuela oil grab is intended to bolster American oil companies’ positions in anticipation of a war with Iran, which would destroy much of the oil infrastructure of the gulf Arab states

chronye

i have gas it stinks

Joseph Boyle

"Rare aehhths". Was that Liz or Jackie Kennedy?

Zzz

Just listened to someone named Cem Karsan give his opinion on Greenland saying the US won't "invade" Greenland, but is rather using this power approach/ tactic to prepare Europe for military spending and presence on ground

be nice to each other

Space Force bubbas are the same people that join the Air Force just without the illusion that they will become fighter pilots.