Trump gets brutally exposed mid Venezuela invasion - Another Day - Brian Tyler Cohen

[TexasTowelie]

My apology for not getting this posted last night, but I wasn't feeling well yesterday and almost went to the ER with shortness of breath.

BTC: Donald Trump delivers on his America first promise to oil executives. This is just another day.

For many Americans, today is the first day back at work after the holidays and one of the cornerstones of coming back to work is trying to pretend like you even remember how to do your job, and that includes me. This morning, I was starting to make an unboxing video before I realized that's not what I do. But some Americans not only forget how to do their jobs, they forget what they said to get those jobs in the first place.

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Trump: We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, in Libya, in Egypt, and in Syria.

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BTC: Ah, 2016. We were so young and so completely {un}aware of what a lying sack of this guy was because as luck would have it, a few days ago, the Trump administration took part in the first step of a regime change and nation building war when they flew into the sovereign nation of Venezuela and captured Nicholas Maduro and his wife. And I'll let 2026 Trump explain why this is so different from what he said a decade ago.

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Trump: This isn't a country that's on the other side of the world. This isn't a country like where you have to travel 24 hours in an airplane. This is Venezuela.

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BTC: See, Trump has been consistent all along. He's always said the US should not be in the business of regime change unless you can fly there direct, which is great news for Tallahassee. Sure, three connections to get to a state capital seems right. But to be fair to Trump, he's not the only person completely contradicting their previous statements.

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Tulsi Gabbard: For decades, our foreign policy has been trapped in a counterproductive and endless cycle of regime change or nation building.
JD Vance: We had a long experiment in our foreign policy that traded national defense and the maintenance of our alliances for nation building and meddling in foreign countries affairs.
Pete Hegseth: The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building, interventionism, undefined wars, regime change, climate change, woke moralizing, and feckless nation building.

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BTC: Yeah, they're not going to get distracted by those stupid things. says, "This guy taking part in the dumbest name change since IHOP tried to pivot from pancakes to burgers with IHOP. IHOB will still clog your arteries, but now with meat."

By the way, Trump's anti-regime change and anti-nation building speech was from 2016. The statements from these folks were from this year. That's how little respect they have for their base. I guess they just assume that when there's mountains of horrible policies and unconstitutional scandals to sift through, people are bound to forget a few things.

So, the man who said that America would not be in the business of running other countries had this to say about what's next for Venezuela.

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Trump: We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition.

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BTC: Yeah, no biggie. Can prob knock that one out in the next week or two. I mean, Trump is a builder, so building a nation should be a piece of cake. And now that Trump's administration has done a complete about face on their foreign policy, you know what time it is? Time for their sycophants to hit the airwaves and pretend that this was the plan all along.

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Congressman (sorry, I don’t recognize him): So what we want to see is that the Venezuela people take their country back and they become that democracy again. And I think that's what the president is saying right now.
Kasie Hunt: Do you support putting American boots on the ground in Venezuela for a long period of time?
Jim Jordan: Well, again, that that's that's a question for later.
Rep. Lisa McClain: Look, I I think the president's putting the world on notice. And any time that you go in and and uh take over, so to speak, um uh uh uh the the country, not that he's taking over the country.

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BTC: It's like regime ch well, more of a transformation of regimes. Not really a change, just a quick fun mixup of regimes, like a transformer, but real and will cost countless lives and billions of dollars. Fun, right?

But besides the blatant hypocrisy, the worst part about all of this is that it is no secret as to why Donald Trump went into Venezuela.

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Trump: We're in the oil business. As everyone knows, the oil business in Venezuela has been a bust, a total bust for a long period of time.

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Reporter: Then before the operation took place, did you maybe tip them off?
Trump: Before and after.

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BTC: The man isn't even hiding it. Trump apparently thinks that corruption isn't corrupt if you just tell people what you're doing. But that's not how it works. If it was, Bernie Madoff would have been a free man 5 minutes after getting arrested. Oh, hi officer. Just so you know, I used a Ponzi scheme to steal billions from unsuspecting people who put their faith in me. May I go now?

The reality is that Donald Trump does not give two shits about Maduro or the well-being of the Venezuelan people. He cares about the oil, and that is the only campaign promise he seems willing to keep. See, back during his 2024 campaign, Trump made a deal with oil execs. At a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in April of 2024, he sat with 20 oil executives and said that if they gave a billion dollars to return him to the White House, it would be a deal because of the taxation and regulation he would help them avoid.

Well, unfortunately for Trump, like his hands, those campaign donations were smaller than he wanted, but they still came in at millions. And if there's any group of people Trump feels the need to reward for putting him back into office, it's rich people. What we are seeing now is merely the quo of the quid pro quo. But at the end of the day, the big question Americans should be asking themselves, I mean besides, is it still considered dry January if you convert your alcohol to steam and then just breathe in the party? I'm going to say no. Is why? Why would a president who is apparently so America first get into the business of nation building? Why would a man who spent years decrying US involvement in foreign wars suddenly get us into one? Why would a man spend so much time, money, and resources making campaign ads like this…

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Trump: And we will make America affordable again? I will cut your energy costs in half. It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break. We are going to bring back the American dream bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.

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BTC: …if he had no intention of actually accomplishing any of it, and the answer is for Donald Trump, the presidency has never been about putting Americans first. If it was, he wouldn't have spent the entire first year of his second term gutting health care, cutting food assistance, and raising taxes on lower and middle class citizens through his chaotic tariff policy. Donald Trump cares as much about everyday Americans as Lauren Boebert cares about the please refrain from hand job sign at the theater. In Trump's mind, the presidency isn't the peak of power, It is merely a steppingstone to being a Supreme Ruler.

Donald Trump didn't go around Congress to invade Venezuela because he forgot. He didn't defy court orders around immigration and the deployment of troops to US cities accidentally. And he didn't drag his feet on releasing the Epstein files after he signed a law requiring him to release the Epstein files because it slipped his mind. He did it because he's a dictator. All of Trump's moves are in line with all of his favorite people.

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Trump: I just for whatever reason I got along great with Putin. I got along great with President Xi of China. I got along great with Kim Jong-Un of North Korea.

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BTC: Yes. for whatever reason. It could be their shared love of collecting labudus, or it might just be that Donald Trump has a kinship with other gold obsessed tyrants who don't give a about democracy. Trump does not care about stopping the flow of drugs into the US or lowering energy costs for Americans or protecting the people of Venezuela. He cares about power and he doesn't want to accumulate that through strategy, diplomacy, or partnering with our allies. He wants to get it by side-stepping Congress, stealing oil from a sovereign nation, and taking over their country.

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Rep. Lisa McClain: Not that he's taking over the country.

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BTC: Sure.

[Skittles]

1. hey are you OK

[TexasTowelie]

2. I'm still having some problems.

I'm mostly having to keep myself propped up when I'm laying down and I had to take some nitroglycerin for chest pain. I'm going to get in contact with my cardiologist to see if they can prescribe an inhaler to help, but I know that albuterol accelerates the heart rate so I'll need another option.

At least I was able to get some sleep last night so it is slightly better. I just need to take frequent breaks.

[Skittles]

3. OK

just making sure a medical professional is aware