PMQs #007 - Why Trump Wants Venezuela

Hello. Hello. Happy New Year, and, welcome to another episode of PMQs. I'm your host. I'm Peter McCormack. I have got your boy, the radical, the groiper, the revolutionary, Conor McCormack. How are you doing, boy? Good. Have a new year. You too. Did you have a good Christmas and a good break? Yeah. It was alright. We've met Alden. We've done a show since Christmas, haven't we? Yes. We did. We did a final one of the year where we ranted about inflation and the government. It's been a quiet start to the year. Just a few. Few what? Near wars. Near wars. Was it a war? No. Does it count as a war if it lasts twelve minutes? No. We are obviously talking about Venezuela. Is that something young people think about? Do they talk about it? Have you had any conversations about Venezuela in the last few days with any of your friends I don't really speak to any of my friends you're too crazy I just I gotta speak to 40 year olds now hey where are us 40 years I guess you're, I bet your main contact with this is through memes and Yeah. And probably for a lot of use. Like, they they don't actually they don't realize who Maduro is, but they've seen Trump dancing. There's some dude half naked With his eyes and his ears closed off drinking a, non GDPR compliant bottle of water, dancing and singing. The diddy ones. The diddy. That's do you know what? That's the wild thing about this. You know? There is a, potential shift in geopolitics, the global world power order. Then you just spend half your day cracking up at memes. It's the culture war now. It's it's it's all memes. That's how you get your, opinion out there. Who gets the most likes on their meme? Is that how is that how young people get the news through memes? I think so. Fuck with so fucked. It's such a it's such a weird world. Look. Look. We need to get into this because, two things. I've been to I've been to Venezuela. We can talk about that. And when it when it was first announced that, Trump has sent in the guys, they black bagged Maduro, whisked him out of, Venezuelan, takes him to New York, on a drug actually, was it on a machine gun indictment? Anyway, whatever the bullshit excuse was. I was, like, immediately celebrating. I I was I was like, this is cool. The dictator is gone. And then, and then I, I noticed that, like, the majority of public the majority of public opinion was losing their shit. It seemed like the people from my world, the people hate the government, the Bitcoiners, and, few of the more base conservatives were like, yeah, this is great. This is cool. Happy with this. And then pretty much everyone was, like, losing their shit for all kinds of reasons, all …