[0:00] Hello folks, my name is Ernest. Thank

[0:02] you for being here. Dear American,

[0:05] imagine for a moment you rejolted from a

[0:07] sound sleep just before sunrise, but

[0:10] incredibly loud commotion. You look out

[0:12] the window and your home is surrounded

[0:14] by tanks and armored personnel carriers

[0:17] with armed troops hollering out orders

[0:19] and surrounding your home for attack as

[0:22] military helicopters circle overhead. I

[0:25] bet you'd be thinking, "What in God's

[0:28] name is this?" and the only thing you've

[0:30] done wrong is maybe an unpaid parking

[0:33] ticket. Welcome to Venezuela.

[0:37] I am making this episode for all of my

[0:41] listeners in South America and Venezuela

[0:45] in particular

[0:47] because there's one thing that I would

[0:50] like to make very clear.

[0:53] Regardless of your opinion of America or

[0:58] Americans,

[1:00] I for one wanted to make clear that we,

[1:05] the proverbial we are not crazy,

[1:10] at least generally speaking.

[1:13] Um, unfortunately the same can not be

[1:18] said for our fearless leader,

[1:23] our king Trump.

[1:26] And this makes it a particularly

[1:30] uh bad time of the year. Um, meaning

[1:34] that most Americans anyway are actually

[1:37] going to be pretty oblivious to the

[1:40] plight of what's going on in your

[1:43] country because we have entered a very a

[1:48] very deep comeosse state. It's very

[1:51] sacred to Americans because it's been

[1:54] programmed into them for the last 80

[1:56] years at least. And that is the infamous

[2:01] holiday shopping season.

[2:04] And that means that when Black Friday

[2:07] comes,

[2:08] the only thing in the [ __ ] world that

[2:13] can possibly dislodge or disfocus their

[2:17] attention from anything concerning

[2:20] Costco or Walmart or any other hundreds

[2:25] of other shopping opportunities for the

[2:29] holiday shopping season would be a

[2:32] nuclear bomb.

[2:34] going off in their back [ __ ] yard.

[2:38] And even that still probably wouldn't

[2:41] break them out of their consumerist

[2:44] holiday shopping season trance.

[2:48] This is terrible. And again, most

[2:52] Americans couldn't even begin to imagine

[2:55] this. Of course, we uh having the most

[2:59] powerful military in the world is one

[3:02] thing.

[3:04] But when you have a uh well basically a

[3:08] king as president

[3:11] um yeah he can just uh call on an

[3:15] aircraft carrier to place out in the

[3:20] world anywhere because well he's king

[3:24] Trump and in addition to that this is a

[3:28] an administration of syncopants

[3:32] so

[3:34] deeply

[3:37] so deeply committed to their furer that

[3:40] um nothing will nothing will seem to

[3:44] dislodge this. These people are

[3:48] fanatical.

[3:50] These are not Republicans. These are

[3:52] creatures. These are right-wing

[3:54] creatures. Well, let's just say these

[3:58] are people that would make Joseph

[4:00] Gerbles very proud. So, here we have it.

[4:05] Um, and with the cost involved in the

[4:08] rest of the world watching, um, you

[4:11] know, you don't send a gigantic aircraft

[4:14] carrier to a country. It's not just

[4:16] there to drop off some troops, have a

[4:19] party, and say goodbye. I think they're

[4:22] going to be there for the long haul. And

[4:24] although they haven't perhaps officially

[4:26] attacked yet, from the communications I

[4:29] have had of my few friends in that neck

[4:33] of the woods, um, helicopters are

[4:36] definitely a presence. And so, what

[4:40] could this all really be about? It's not

[4:45] about any pettiness concerning

[4:48] governmental affairs. I don't think so.

[4:54] I'm rubbing my chin thinking, hm,

[4:58] what could Venezuela possibly possess?

[5:02] I mean, uh, just say for instance, if

[5:05] some overbearing tyrannical government

[5:09] was there to uh

[5:12] perhaps liberate, let's see, um, low

[5:18] wage labor

[5:20] Nope. You get that from Mexico. So,

[5:24] yeah, we we pretty much got that. So,

[5:27] don't need them there.

[5:29] I don't know. Uh pineapples. Nah, it

[5:32] can't be pineapples. We have plenty of

[5:34] pineapples. Plenty of coconuts.

[5:37] Damn, this is this is tough.

[5:40] It can't be oil because we have the

[5:43] Saudis and

[5:45] the Saudis actually hate us and are

[5:51] basically paying

[5:53] protection from the military to protect

[5:56] their oil

[5:58] and they want to get off the petro

[6:01] dollar

[6:02] and well, oh yeah, connect the dots.

[6:06] Damn.

[6:08] I think maybe it could be the oil. Now,

[6:11] let's see. All that would be needed is

[6:14] some kind of petty argument.

[6:17] Doesn't matter. Make up one. The White

[6:21] House, State Department, whatever

[6:23] cronies you need to do it. Come up with

[6:25] any pretext whatsoever

[6:29] and uh somehow

[6:32] get a hold of that oil. Hey, it's the

[6:36] king's way. It's the mob way. And that's

[6:40] what we have a a king who basically is

[6:44] well, you know, he's from Brooklyn, so

[6:48] hey,

[6:50] you do this or else.

[6:54] Yeah, that's what you got. Yep, that's

[6:56] fellow. That's what you have. You have a

[6:58] thug mobsterish

[7:02] king

[7:04] who's got a aircraft carrier

[7:08] um with enough firepower to bomb you

[7:11] back to the stone age. Then he's going

[7:14] to send a few of his boys over to talk

[7:16] with you, you know, to be reasonable,

[7:20] to make you do the right thing.

[7:24] That's what it is.

[7:27] my friends in South America and

[7:29] Venezuela,

[7:32] that's what you're dealing with.

[7:35] Um,

[7:36] let's just say a guy that, you know, he

[7:39] doesn't like to take no for an answer.

[7:43] Um, and, uh, I mean, I'm just telling

[7:47] you like it is. I'm just I am just one

[7:50] of many million Americans,

[7:53] but this is not what you'll hear on the

[7:56] major news networks. Hell, even in

[8:00] America, nobody hears what I'm saying.

[8:03] For one thing, I'm just this teeny tiny

[8:06] guy.

[8:07] I'm an unknown. I'm a rebel.

[8:12] And because of that, because I say that,

[8:16] I'll just say this,

[8:19] if you're enjoying this episode, please

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[8:28] more subscriptions I have, the more

[8:30] people get to hear what they won't hear

[8:34] anywhere else.

[8:36] I don't know exactly.

[8:39] um

[8:41] what you can do. I'm not there, of

[8:44] course. I'm here in the Pacific

[8:48] Northwest, USA,

[8:50] so I uh I don't feel qualified to tell

[8:56] you what to do. And besides really,

[9:02] since I don't have the

[9:05] psychopathology of being a king, I don't

[9:09] want to tell you what to do. But bearing

[9:12] that in mind,

[9:14] you guys have certainly had a lot of

[9:18] experience

[9:19] with tyrants in the past,

[9:23] and I don't think I need to tell you

[9:27] what they do

[9:30] um and what you need to do with them.

[9:36] If anybody knows resistance and what you

[9:39] can do,

[9:41] um it's you.

[9:44] But

[9:46] I uh

[9:48] I just wanted to say um um I am very

[9:54] very sorry

[9:57] that you have to deal with this

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[10:02] um

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[10:08] I wish you the very best.

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[10:13] I'm sure that

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[10:19] more powerful heads will prevail.

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[10:28] his country killer and move it somewhere

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[10:37] next country

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[10:44] for their lunch money.

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[10:49] I want you to know for what it's worth

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[10:55] absolutely understands

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[11:02] and I uh I sincerely

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[11:10] is Ernest

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