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New members only Premier membership performance monitor and monthly billing required. Discount applies to first month only. Other terms apply. See Studio for details. Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty and now here's Armstrong and get. A senior White House official tells me that Maduro's quote overt arrogance, including his rejection of multiple offers to surrender and his public dancing, helped persuade some of the President's team that Maduro would not leave on his own. Is public dancing. I gotta mention that to my wife next time we're at a gathering where there's dancing, honey. Probably better not. Look what Happened to Maduro, right? So Maduro put out a video of himself dancing at a party, doing the Trump dance. Like, oh, yeah, you think I'm worried? Well, and Trump and Kump had offered him amnesty and a life of riches and just get the hell out of Venezuela. You gotta go. He said, no, no, I'm not. And two weeks later, he's on the helicopter. Whoops. One thing I don't get, and we'll have to talk about it later, because you got a different thing to do. But one thing I don't get is how. How in the hell do all those helicopters and everything show up and the rangers break in and all that different sort of stuff, and they're still in their bedroom. I don't get that. Sound sleepers, God, I would say they got the good soundproofing in the walls. They got the paid extra for the windows with the, you know, the sound pack. We were listening. We had listening devices in there. And so I saw the thing yesterday with Secretary of War, what's his name, Hegseth, saying, the wife said, twice, I think I hear planes. Do you hear planes? Said twice in the last three minutes between the helicopters landing. It's fine. Apparently. Wow. Wow. Oh, and I saw one video online where you could see fire coming from a building toward the U.S. forces. Like, it might have been machine gun or small arms of some sort, but it was tracer, so you could see it. And the response was instantaneous with what sort of missiles? Blackhawk fires and that building went. Kurt Bluey. Here's a hint. US Comes to town, don't fire back. It's gonna end really bad for you. Just lay down your arms, put your hands in the air. We're nice folks. We're not gonna kill you. All right? Don't shoot back. Anyway, having said that, yeah, for all the we're as bad as Putin or whatever crowd, if we were Putin, the guy would be dead. We would have killed him a long time ago. You think we would have arrested him, read him his Miranda rights there in his bedroom and put him on a plane and taking him to the United States for a fair trial? Does that sound like Putin? Right? And as if Putin looks for an excuse to violate international norms. Shut up. Speaking of which, there are a number of Democrats, moderate Democrats, saying Democrats, who behind the scenes are saying, hey, why are you telling us all to be against taking Maduro out? He was a monster. They're bravely saying it behind the scenes, but at least, you know, there's some sanity still alive in that party. And, and to that end, you know, he was a kleptocrat and his regime is still in place largely. Um, and I've got some really good stuff on why the CIA advised Trump. Look, don't decapitate the entire regime. The opposition does not have the, the mechanics, if you will, of governance in place. You've got to maintain order and have an orderly transition is going to take a while. But if we throw it all up in the air, that's when you end up with a more Iraqish situation, even though there are real differences between the two places. But the mechanisms of, of governance are important. If it all goes to hell, then you have chaos. And so the CIA judged no, you keep the Maduro loyalists in place and we squeeze them, and we squeeze them and we squeeze them. That's the way to get this done. Yeah, otherwise you end up with like what we had in Baghdad. We rolled in there, we kicked right out and all of a sudden everybody's just raiding banks and there's garbage everywhere and just, I mean, it was complete anarchy. Yeah, use your favorite AI tool to look into debathification. Two A's. De bathification wasn't a good idea. Nice job, Don Rumsfeld. Anyway, so back to the nature of the Maduro at an Uber driver over the Christmas that apparently believed in de bathification, if you know what I'm talking about. Oh, no. Unpleasant. Anyway, where do I start? How about this from beloved listener Jason. Do we start with this or end with this? Let's end with this. So no, let's start with it. When I moved to Venezuela in 1994, the inflation exploded, made it very difficult to buy food. So we and several of the youth we were with would forage for bananas and mangoes to add to our saltine porridge. Saltine porridge. Then President Caldera ignited constitutional rights, I think he means ignored, implemented price controls and oversaw annual inflation of 70 plus percent. It was under this free regime that the population was inspired to elect the communist Chavez. In other words, they elected a guy who turned out to be a kleptocrat himself. As the winter storms of. After the winter storms of 99, 2000, Chavez confiscated the new build hotels along the Caribbean to house the poor who'd lost their ranchitos on the hills. He also confiscated oil developments, private land and the media. These confiscations drove international investors out. When I spoke with people living in the commandeered hotels, they thought Chavez was right to take claim over the investment property since he was helping the people International money and investment dried up. That sounds like the sort of things that Mum Donnie would like to do. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Works over and over again. Fast forward to 2026. Chavez is gone now. Maduro is also. But Machado is just a socialist. The people look to the government to protect and provide for them. She's not a freedom candidate, she's a socialist, just not the dictator type yet. Although Khan, she was like ran the police that are enforcement force, not law enforcement, but dictatorship enforcement. I think we're in for a series of disappointments before we see a free Venezuela. Because they don't want it. They want softer socialism. Those that wanted real freedom left when Chavez ruled, then another wave emigrated once Maduro punished them for speaking out. There's a Venezuelan here in Idaho who has tried in his. Who was tried in absentia as a traitor to the homeland, as a sentence over his head for life imprisonment because he spoke out for freedom. It's ugly. I've got a dozen personal stories that show that this is far from resolved. KTTPT ovr there's an unfortunate word in here. Keep trying to polish the turd of Venezuelan reform. That's Jason. Thanks, Jason. You know, on the inflation I was just reading in the Wall Street Journal, at its worst, inflation in Venezuela was 130,000%. I'm not sure I comprehend that. No, I don't. I can't even imagine the math on that 130,000% inflation. Doing the math. So today a big Mac is $7. Next year it will be $50,000 or more. Yeah. Here's another point of view. This is by Nelson Marino. He writes, I was an active participant through Venezuela's 2024 presidential cycle, which was won by Ms. Machado's appointed successor. And then Maduro just stole the election. But he served as an electoral coordinator. He writes in the 28th, July 28, and fighting to prevent Maduro from illegally seizing power. On July 30, after he claimed victory, I was detained and charged with four offenses. Resisting authority, obstruction of public roads, incitement to hatred and terrorism. Sounds like some of those charges that like Europe and Britain and Australia are leveling on people for tweeting the wrong thing. But anyway, my stay in the torture center known as Torocon or Tokoron in aragua state, lasted 2 months, 18 days and 15 hours. Inside, I lived through the greatest horror I can imagine. We were tortured. We had no access to clean drinking water and no proper food. Medical care was deficient or delayed, and our rights as citizens were trampled by the regime's lackeys. In Tokaron there were more than a thousand people of all cultures, nationalities and ages, including minors. There were people from age 17 years to 80 detained. At no point was due process respected. We never brought were brought before a judge. We had no rights, only what they called privileges. And then he talks into. Every two weeks family members were allowed to bring a five liter bottle of drinking water, some packs of crackers, one chocolate bar, that's all. We were humiliated, forced to beg for a bite of food or sip of water. Six people lived in a single cell. No hygiene, no recreations. Rotten, green, foul smelling, full of flies or worms. Food, not to mention starvation and denial of water, is underappreciated on its own as a torture mechanism. Oh yeah, yeah. The guards at Tokoron and the regime they worked for are malevolent because they enjoyed every act of torture they inflicted. This was a place where abuse exceeded all logical limits of human cruelty. We were beaten with batons, stripped naked, forced into scorching pavement, electrocuted, deprived of food and sleep, denied urgent medical care. They woke us up by throwing buckets of cold water or urine on us. Oh my God, and you're starving. At times they banged on the cell bars in the middle of the night to startle us awake. Every day they told us we were guilty, that we were terrorists, murderers and anti patriotic simply for opposing Nicolas Maduro's dictatorship. And it goes on and on. God, it's wild. You could. That's exactly the same thing that has happened in so many different socialist communist regimes throughout history. Exact same thing. A couple of punchlines for you here. Great story in the New York Post. And Michael, get 63 and 64 ready for me. Cops forced to separate pro Maduro protesters from joyous Venezuelans. In a wild New York City scene, the NYPD was forced yesterday to separate clueless lefty US protesters, dictators who wanted Nicolas Maduro freed from Venezuelans and Cubans who were cheering the socialist dictators capture. As both sides clashed outside court, several hundred demonstrators were waving pre printed signs almost immediately after the abduction reading Free President Maduro and no war for Venezuelan oil. Meanwhile, the Venezuelans and Cubans were chanting and crying with joy that he'd finally been removed. Uh, progressive groups that had once denounced Maduro's inhuman tactics were now saying he had to be freed. And here's a Cuban shouting, you're an a hole. You don't even know where Venezuela is at. One of the lefty protesters, Maria sue, immigrated from Caracas a Few years ago, raged. They're not Venezuelans. They're paid protesters. They don't speak Spanish. There's another fellow who said, you're not for my country. Go to Cuba. 80% of you people don't even understand what I'm saying. You don't speak Spanish. Mfers. I wonder how many of those were printed by Russia or China, those signs. Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, actually, one of the groups protesting, one of the big DSA type groups protesting are directly, financially supported by the communist Chinese. Right. That's. That's one of our biggest weaknesses. So China or Russia can, you know, get the signs in the hands of literally useful idiots and get them out there. And then it sows such division in our country because then you got a whole bunch of people, you know, watching Fox News who see that stuff and think liberals are. Look at the liberals. You know, it represents a tiny number of people who are dancing to the tune of the Russians. Might even be being paid by the Russians. Right, right. Or the Chinese. Sure. The. The no war for Venezuela. Oil is a perfectly legitimate concern. If you think we're gonna have boots on the ground and it's all about oil, the up with Maduro stuff is insanity. Yeah. You. You are a jackass. You are a fool beyond description. All right, finally, here's your. Your dessert. You put up with all the torture talk and polishing you know what's. And the rest of it. Here is, ladies and gentlemen, Chuck Schumer. Just yesterday, and then Chuck Schumer in 2020, back to back. The American people did not sign up for this kind of military adventurism. They wanted a president focused on America first, focused on lowering the cost of living. The president brags about his Venezuela policy. Give us a break. He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime. The Maduro regime is more powerful today. So in 2026, Trump sucks because he got rid of Maduro. In 2020, Trump sucks because he hasn't gotten rid of Maduro. Signed Chuck. Hilarious hypocrite Schumer. Yeah, it's just the way the game is played, which is very. Makes us all very, very cynical. It's a stupid game. I don't want to play. It is a stupid game, and I don't want to play it either. More on the way Star Armstrong and Getty. This episode is brought to you by Prize Picks. Whether you're starting a new routine or making player picks for the first time, trying something new can be hard. But in life and on price picks, it always feels good to be right. 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So that the voice you just heard, an exciting preview of was and totally intensely was created. Chris Minns, who is the premier, something like the governor of New South Wales, which is one of the states within Australia. Okay? Australia, not only part of the English speaking world, with which we're pretty close, but an important, important ally in the five eyes. The shared intelligence and a bulwark against the Chinese in the Pacific. The Australians matter to us as a guy who knows a guy who's very, very involved with the Navy and has been for decades. Our relationship with the Australian Navy is very important. Having said that, Australia, like Britain, has gone nuts with the prosecuting, persecuting, perfectly reasonable free speech if they find that it could offend someone, mostly because they're afraid of their immigrant population. Here is Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales. There's been some that have been agitating in the parliament to nullify the laws to remove them off the statute books. Think about what kind of toxic message that would send to the New South Wales community. And I think the advocates for those changes need to explain what do they want people to have the right to say? What kind of racist abuse do they want to see or be able to lawfully see on the streets of Sydney? I recognise, and I've fully said from the beginning, that we don't have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States. And the reason for that is that we want to hold together our multicultural community and have people live in peace, free from the kind of vilification and hatred that we do see around the world. I have several answers to that. The most simple being it won't work. It will not work. Telling people they cannot express their pain, dissatisfaction, unhappiness, even if it's nasty, illegitimate, stupid unhappiness. Telling people you can't express what you think is wrong is exactly the wrong way to do it. Well, I set your goal. I retweeted that clip at the beginning of vacation. I was happy to see the response by a lot of our followers on Twitter, just as horrified as me that anybody could have that attitude. It's just, you know, you grow up in the United States and you take this whole free speech thing for granted that apparently we shouldn't, because there's plenty of people that agree with that dude. And as always with anything, free speech. Okay, well, as soon as you go down that road, who's deciding what is okay and what isn't who's making that decision and why are they always right as to what is the sort of thing that shouldn't be said as opposed to the sort of thing that can be said. That was the second thing I would bring up to the honorable Mr. Minns. I don't trust you. In fact, I don't trust anybody to have the Godlike King Solomon esque judgment to decide what is an honest and protected expression of dissatisfaction or unhappiness and what is not. You don't. I don't trust you to draw that line. In fact, I don't trust anybody to draw that line. Why? Because we tried it roughly a million times as humanity and it always goes wrong. Well. And even if you got lucky and the first person or. Or panel that you choose to make those decisions you agree with the next crowd is not going to be somebody you'll like well. And the moment someone could gain a significant advantage, electoral, right, financial, whatever, by, you know, keeping the thumb on that scale. It's just not hate speech exactly. But that to get the other guy elected. Chris. Dude, they're going to do that the first second they get a chance. How can you be such a naive fool or afraid of your immigrant population that you believe that? How could you be that naive? I'm just astounded by that. He could just be afraid. But I think. I don't know. I think he believes that's the situation in Europe. Yeah. They're just afraid. I just. They are praying. If everybody keeps their mouth shut at the dinner table, there will be no argument arguments. Yeah, right. Metaphorically speaking, we don't have the same freedom of speech laws they have in the U.S. u.S. And the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community. Wow. So everybody first response is it will not work. Everybody being forced by the government to keep their mouths shut is going to help. Yeah, Great, great example. And there are. She's so many of them we could, you know, jabber on till our, our or vocal cords were fried in Germany. Yeah. You're not allowed to say anything anti immigrant because that might upset the immigrants and lead to the opposite of what Mr. Mims was saying they're trying to accomplish there. Mr. Minns, we'll have strife within our multicultural community. So don't raise any objection to rampant immigration from places that abhor our principles and ways of life. Okay. Who's willing to go ahead and say those things? Your ultra right wing parties like the AfD, who are nuts by the way. They are legitimately Perfectly. You know, appropriately speaking out against that sort of rampant immigration. They're also harshly anti US. They're also harshly pro Russian. You don't want the AfD. But if they are the only people, because they're outlaws who are willing to express those uncomfortable truths that Chris Minns doesn't want spoken, that's where the people will go, you naive fool. Yeah, so his actual quote is, you can have free speech or you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both. I got my choice already. Do you want a minute to think of. No, I'm good. I'm ready. You know what, folks? While my little half humorous knee jerk reaction there may have amused us all, let's. Let's take the humor out of this and just take him at his word. Take that at face value. Can you read that again? You can have free speech or you can have multiculturalism. You can't have both. Holy f. I know that's an Aussie. That's not Chairman Xi. I know that's an Aussie. I didn't think I'd see this in my lifetime where we had to re argue the whole free speech thing in Western civilization. Oh, my God. In the English speaking world, the, the, the. The. The Magna Carta people, the common law people, the rights of Englishmen people. The king may not enter your cottage without a warrant. People are now saying we can either have free speech or multiculturalism, but not both. Seriously, Chris, and I wish you could hear these words. You won't. But I wish you could. You have betrayed virtually everything that has built the post enlightenment Western world out of cowardice or desperation. And I'm sure you're a nice fella. In fact, I'll bet you are. But you have wandered so far away from the sacred principles that we hold dear, you have become a monster. Kind of a soft, accommodating, apologetic monster. Which is kind of an interesting thing to contemplate, isn't it? Somebody who is so soft they have become a monster. I was trying to find that quote I brought us yesterday from the leader of Italy, what she said about if you're bothered by our nativity scenes, you need to get out. Out. Yeah. This is not the country. Here it is Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney, who I like to third world migrants, if you feel offended by a crucifix or a nativity scene, then this is not the place where you should live. We will defend God, the homeland and the family. That would absolutely not pass. That guy in Australia's. Oh, no rules. Oh, no. Hey. And Chris. 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But the. The whole wing on the Holocaust and the rise of anti Semitism bit by bit and everything like that. And I got to tell the story about inappropriately running through Anne Frank's bedroom, which was an unfortunate situation that I ended up in with a bunch of people, you know, practically in tears, standing around the recreation of the room they all hid in. I ended up with the Burden of Damascus. I needed to go to the bathroom. I mean I needed to go now. Oh, no. And I knew this was not the right wing of the museum to be in when this happened, but I ended up like, excuse me, excuse me. I got to get through here with a bunch of people who are in the reproduction of that room that they hid in in Amsterdam for the Frank family and all the pictures. And then, you know, the house, she died and they family died, and pictures of people who are skeletons and stuff like that. And every. It's very solemn, but I'm like, excuse me, I've got to get through. I reminds me uncomfortably of when I was a third of the way through the Holocaust museum in Washington, D.C. and I realized I'm gonna miss my flight if I do this whole museum. So I rushed through it. Yeah. And I. Oh, my situation was I was telling this to my nieces, my ones. That is very layered, Gary David. You can almost hear the music, the bum, bum, bum, bum. People in there looking at me like, what are you doing? This is Anne Frank's bedroom. Like, tragic, right? Yeah, I get you, man, but I have got to go to the bathroom. Oh, boy, I'm sorry to hear that. Yeah, it happens. Anyway, what was my point with that? The lead up to anti Semitism. Oh. Anyway, watching how that grew and grew and grew. You know, it fits in with this whole free speech thing by little, by little, just. Just to try to avoid the uncomfortableness of addressing it, I guess. It just. It gets worse and worse. Oh, yeah. Keep it underground. Yeah. Let that build underground without being able to confront it. That's our strategy. Oh, my Lord. Well, and the worst ideas with the most violent people are the ones that will be expressed because they don't care, like you were saying earlier. Right, Right. And people turn to them because they're the only people who are expressing what they feel. Right. My God, it's a terrible, terrible thing. Speaking of underground, you know who's underground? The Cuban regime. They're like, thinking, this bunker ain't deep enough. Can we build a deeper one? They saw what happened to old Maduro and. And what a great indication of how illegitimate the Maduro regime was. Maduro was being protected by Cuban intelligence agents because he didn't trust his own people. Well, the Cubans know they're next. In fact, little Marco is openly saying, you're next. So how that unfolds will be interesting to watch. 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Your brain works that way. That's pretty common, I think. Comforting. I don't know. When I was younger, traveling man, I hated to come home. I wanted to stay out there doing the stuff. Now I'm want my own bed, my own routine, my own everything, my own bathroom. So Trump's still speaking. He's addressing the House GOP member retreat, whatever that is. He's standing at a podium and with a bunch of American flags behind him, and he's been talking for like an hour or so. And executive producer Hansen says, this 90 seconds or so is pretty entertaining. My wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this. She said, you know, she. She's a very classy person. Right? She said, it's so unpresidential, the dancing. I said, but I did become president. Somebody she hates when I dance. I said, everybody wants me to dance, darling. It's not presidential. She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing? She said that to me. And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know because he was an elegant fellow, even as a Democrat, right? He was the attack by Japan, you know, he was quite elegant. But he wouldn't be doing this, but. But nor would too many others. But she says, darling, please, the weightlifting is terrible. And I have to say this, the dancing, they really like, like. She said, they don't like it. They're just being nice to you. I said, that's not right. The place goes crazy. They're screaming, dance, please. But the weightlifting. But no. The girl gets up, now he's mocking trans weightlifters. And you see, I want to be more. But I have somebody watching. I want to be more effusive. I want to. Really? Yeah. When she gets into. And. Wow. That at the Improv in la. Wow. First of all, it's is kind of funny. What do you mean? It's not presidential? I've been elected president twice. It kind of by definition makes it presidential. And then he's doing the arms thing, showing the dance, but. And then if you've ever seen him do the trans weightlifter thing and he pretends he's trying to lift the bar up, but it's what Joe tweet texted me one time during the vacation. I don't remember what was going on. And it could have been anyone. What an interesting dude. I mean, he is the strengths and weaknesses of that guy and the Talents that he has or doesn't have. Just one of the most amazing combinations in the history of the planet. It may have been his announcement of the Maduro thing, but it was by turns brilliant and embarrassing. But you know, he is what he is. Speaking of, our transgender friends, a mini trans gender bending madness. Update. Next alone, I. When you were talking about the multicultural thing, or we were having that conversation versus free speech, I was thinking this. I had this experience while I was on vacation. As I mentioned yesterday, I took about 9,000 Uber rides or Lyft rides between San Francisco and New Orleans and then even in Wichita. And the completely different experience of having somebody who speaks English or not. Oh, yeah. Or who's from there or not. I mean, you. You are going out of your way to be multicultural. If you tell me that it's better to have somebody who's not from there and doesn't speak English. As you get in the car and you try to say something to them and they kind of smile and make it clear that they don't understand a single word of English. As my son says, how have you lived here for years and you haven't picked up a couple? I mean, yeah, hello, goodbye. But I land in New Orleans, for instance. It's one of those towns that every single Uber Lyft driver I got was from there and spoke English. And we'd have great conversations about where to eat or this or that, or what it's going to be like tonight or why it's so cold and what the weather's like. Everything like that. It was so nice. It was a combination of friendly, helpful, safe feeling, all these different things. And if you sound like a bigot to me, right? If you tell me you don't think that's better than when you get in a car and it's somebody from a different country who doesn't speak a word of English, you're just lying for some sort of weird political purpose. Oh, yeah. Well, they're xenophiles. The idea that all that is foreign is wonderful, just and shouldn't be questioned. It's xenophilia. I love saying to people, okay, so if you were in. That guy appears to be from Pakistan. If a Pakistani gets in an Uber car and that the driver doesn't speak any of their language and they can't communicate with them at all, you think that's good? That's beautiful. What if the driver can only speak English? Is that good? Well, well, I don't know. Because of settler colonialism. That's when you just slap them right upside that. No, don't slap anybody. 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