Ep. 303: The Maduro Raid (1/5/26)

0:00Welcome back to Highly Respected. I'm your host, Scott Green, and today we're going to have another incredible, invigorating episode today. So sit back and enjoy. I think most of you should know what I'm going to talk about at first. It's no mystery as this is the biggest news in the world right now. And it is Trump's military operation in Da Venezuela that captured Maduro. And we got several questions about this. We got a question from K-Max, Nitro, and two from Duda Normative. But we're going to be covering pretty much all those angles that they asked. So we're not going to read out the questions. But just know that those are the three people asked for my opinion on the military operation. And so we're going to go into that whether it's a good thing, bad thing, what I think, et cetera, et cetera. So my

1:03opinion is I fully support it. I was skeptical. I had a tweet a month or two ago about how it might not be what how we should support regime change in Venezuela because Maduro is anti-American has been pushing hundreds of thousands of migrants to our country has been pushing drug to our country is allied with our enemies, particularly China. And it is not a you know, it's a shit hole state. And allowing Maduro to stay in power encourages more Venezuelans to come here. If we had a stable prosperous Venezuela, we could one ensure that no more Venezuelans come here to also with the foreign policy manner is ensure that China doesn't have a foothold in our backyard. And then three, be able to send migrants back there. And so we want right wing governments or at least US friendly governments to take over in Latin America to control their

2:06migrant or to control their populations for migrating to the US to keep China out of our backyard and to take back migrants that they we have in our country. So it's all around good thing for it. But I was always skeptical of this because we had tried to get rid of Maduro in the first Trump term. We kept backing or encouraging various military coups. They all failed. There was even an operation I think with American mercenaries where they capture the boat like it all ended in failure. So that's why you know when people like I think Hanani and others were bringing up Grenada and Panama, I was saying it seems that he has a degraded degree of support within the country or at least enough of a military to prevent a coup. So that's why I was always skeptical about it. But I didn't realize that we would do a operation a special forces operation in the middle of the night that last a little over an hour and we immediately capture them and the

3:10military operation is done. I didn't realize that we could actually pull this off and so my attitude towards it has changed is that the main important thing is that we have a quick transition to a friendlier government that does what we want it to do. Does people are all like we need a military dictator. We need a Democrat. It doesn't even with the new socialist leader that they have this woman who's being like oh we need to get Maduro back. We're staying with Maduro. She's likely going to be better because she does want to end up like Maduro being kidnapped in the middle of the night and she knows she's coming at this for a far weaker position and she's going to be more likely to do what we want them to do rather than Maduro. Even Maduro was trying to make a deal but he was trying to ask for millions of millions of dollars and all of these set of sides that you know it's not good to just allow that to happen especially when we send a better message by

4:11kidnapping in the middle of the night. Does that terrifies all the rest of these Latin American socialists who are anti-American who encourage migration to our country who are encouraging drug trafficking to our country and it sends a message also to the cartels that we should start doing this to cartel leaders as well. So it really announces American power over the region and it's necessary to do it like these are shit hole countries. They do not have a degree. They do not have or they should not be allowed to just thumb their noses at us and do whatever they please and invite our enemies into their country in order to defy us. It is necessary to send a message to them that we are the top dog and if you fuck around this is what's going to happen to you and I think it's I think it's fully awesome what we've done and I think it's the right call. I think these quick

5:13military operations in Latin America is what we've done throughout history. We'll probably going to be doing a IQ supplement later this week on Friday about Latin America and America's historical relationship with it. So we'll eventually cover that later on this week but this is not unprecedented. We've done this for well over a century. We were sending end troops into various parts, a Latin America, Nicaragua, Haiti if you could and say well it's a Latin American Caribbean, Mexico you know and we've even had a near war with Venezuela and with Britain in the late 19th century and also we're combating with Germany. We've been having an intervention. We've been involved in Latin America since the founding since well I don't know if the founding but since the early 20 early 19th century what was the Monroe doctrine establishing this is our backyard and

6:15the rest of the world should stay out. That was dropped in the 1820s. This is a part of keeping our policy. What was the Mexican American War? What was the Spanish American War? This is this is a time honored American tradition and even though there's some people like we just need to focus on our own country which I understand when it's like happening with Ukraine or you know some you know random part of the Middle East but Latin America is connected to us. We understand it's our backyard and we just can't let the entire the entire rest of the western hemisphere to go to shit and expect it not have result. That not to affect us. Because when these countries turn bad then we get migration then we get drugs then we get all these other terrible things that are coming and then we get instability and and particularly revolutionary governments and then they're inviting China in. So it's necessary for us to intervene in these countries and we've always done such actions. So I think it's I think it's totally warranted and it's it's something you should be feeling patriotic

7:19about as well. I do have to say it's it's very funny seeing all the cope for this action coming from right wing. There's a lot of more foreigners but it's so funny that this is like just a complete and total victory for the empire and these guys are like you've just awakened a lion of to do what? What are the best way let's go to do? Oh no internet people angry mouth contents on the internet are really upset. You know there's these people and people were just so coping that this is wrong like I was arguing with such idiots. I mean I do that every day. I mean the dumbest people on the internet always come into my mentions to be morons but there's all these people like oh we're just set off we incurred a lot of risk doing this and it's like no we well there were risks and they always didn't happen. So there was that you know I had some guys saying Nixon would never do such a thing. Nixon toppled I end I in got Pinochet and Chile and he was very committed to ensuring that

8:25America that pro-American governments were installed throughout Latin America and in other parts of the world. Nixon would have totally done something like this if you had the ability to do so and then he's like oh no he just focused domestically and it's once again people have zero knowledge base within our side and if you think that Nixon was focused domestically you know absolutely nothing about Nixon. Nixon didn't focus on anything domestically and most of his domestic policies weren't very good because he didn't have any power to do to do much of the domestic front so that's why I focused entirely on foreign policy but then people just make a lot of themselves and dilute themselves and so you get all these stuff is like you're not looking at rack this is a this is going to get us involved in a quagmire we already got in and out like this is not a rack and also the Latin America is not the Middle East is that we are not dealing with religious nut jobs and you know the Islamic terrorists that we were dealing with in the Middle East and it is a bit more of an advanced civilization as well despite have how crappy it is you know the tribal blood

9:32feuds and and the extreme real Islamic fundamentalism and all these countries having these massive divides based on ethnicity religion tribe these are really the case in Latin America there are poor countries there is a divide between the indios and the kastisas but that's still nowhere near the typo divide between like the Kurds and Arabs and the Sunnis and Shias and various parts of the Middle East and it just aren't as you know if we're not having troops there we don't really this isn't really our problem to deal with either you know so it's very you know Syria is Syria is very you're Syrian Iraq and Afghanistan are very different from Latin America and we've been doing this stuff all the time and with generally decent results for America you know not the type of blood bath and and and quagmire that we dealt with in the Middle East so we're not gonna have

10:38that but I didn't have all these people like this is gonna encourage terrorism from what is there like Islam or there's no jihadis in Venezuela and also these socialists like all the people who are dealing our main problems in Latin America are dealing with much more rational actors than we're dealing with the Middle East like jihadis are extremely irrational actors that we can't really understand and can't deal with whatsoever compared to this the socialists and the cartels they are much more rational actors cartels just want their business model to keep going and for them to make money and if they piss off the American government too much in their business model is screwed then they will try to make terms it's like you got to think about this is that the cartels when they briefly kidnapped some black drug dealers who wandered into Mexico and they turned out to be American citizens and we made up this story like oh they're just touring tourists or something you know the cartels immediately released them and even handed over the guys suspected

11:42for it as they were terrified of an American retaliation for that that's something that ISIS al-Qaeda the Taliban would not do you know they they're have far different motivations and the same with the socialists is like these people in Maduro's government they're not al-Qaeda they're not willing to fight to the bitter end this woman who's now in charge she is terrified of the same thing happening to her and she would much rather make a deal to stay in power than to carry on the Chavez legacy here you know she would much rather you know make a deal and sure she stays in power and does what America wants then to you know wage holy war against the United States so we're dealing with you know people of much more rational motivations that they just want to stay in power and they just want to make money and when you have those as your primary motivations that's far easier to deal with than the insane motivations of Islamic fundamentals that we're

12:43dealing with all the time in the Middle East or even the you know the longstanding blood feuds like we will never cooperate with our long our mortal enemies you know and so we would have to deal with that stuff so Middle East is a completely different situation we're dealing with a lot of America and we have you know a two century you know a two hundred year experience of dealing with the region so I don't think that that's that's really the matter here in dealing with and dealing with and dealing with Venezuela but it's all so there's just all this type of cope and seeding about it it's like although where we're going to really have this is really going to be bad thing you know I saw and some of the people who are getting into this is very funny with like white nationals is like the only type of government that white nationals some white nationals seem to have any support for or non-white dictatorships that are complete crappy countries whether it's Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, the IAC colony, the human aunt colony you know and they're like we

13:47hands off this this is like we're very into being white that's why we love the human aunt colony the the mullahs and Maduro the most like non-white forms of the governments and the world but so they're into that which I guess shows more of the level of disconnection between them and actual white people and actual Americans and it's also it's just a bad move to always want to be a traitor to your country and always want to see your country lose and to always demand the breakup of it it's like you know even communists at the early 20th century showed a greater loyalty to their country than a lot of you the online right wingers that are always wanting to be traitors and you know standing against their country the one thing is that these guys are just doing it as a video game they don't actually have the guts to carry through with these actions but due to their own alienation and their status as a misfit they get into this and have a traitorous attitude towards

14:49the country that's not to say you can't criticize the country when it does something stupid and to not like you know buy it in and and when it's controlled by liberals but I think when you view Maduro and North Korea and China and Iran or even Russia as your real you know the real people you support against your own country you know that's that's really that's a very good optics and it's it's not just yourself as a traitor and that's and nobody wants to listen to a even the North Vietnamese really hated American leftists who came over and we're siding with them they're like all the things for the support but all these North Vietnamese leaders were like we really don't like these people because they're traitors to their own country and they had no respect for them at all for the American leftists and that's the same with it is like there's never going to be there's very little respect for traitors and you have to for people you have to realize is that we are Americans we should be for we should be supporting our country that's why

15:56we don't want it to get involved in idiotic foreign policy entanglements that are going to hurt our country like a rack or Libya we wanted to pursue an America first foreign policy that's why we want to keep out immigrants because we want the best of our country we don't want to destroy our country and I think the accelerationism argument I have no time for it because you lose by losing not you know when by losing and destroying the country you're most likely going to replace it with something even worse as if you look at how the Roman Empire fell it was then taken over by war bands which if you want to look at the modern day equivalent those are cartels and gangs it's not the productive citizens of Rome you know the heritage Romans who are then taking over power with the Roman Empire falls it is these foreign war bands who are taking over power and we'd likely see a similar situation in America fell it wouldn't be the heritage Americans now get to establish you

16:58know the their ethno state it's more that now all these cartels gangs and other and other people who have the capacity to wield violence independent of the state which is generally criminal elements are now in control and that would be a worse situation than we have now so I'm never into the accelerationist argument or or you know let's say the government's still there and then the people rise up and support a left-wing government that can avenge Maduro but I was seeing people were like we're gonna have one day avenge Maduro and it's like yeah well we're gonna have a white nationals revolution to avenge brown dictators yeah that's the I really right attitude towards that but I think it's all copency because there's no really way to get be mad about this and you all these people have to rationalize it it's a huge w for the American Empire and shows the strength of bar military and how we can just do things if we feel like it and you can even look at Europe Europe is just having like we're gonna review the matter to see if it's legal

18:03fuck you what are you gonna do send a strongly word of letter that we throw the trash like the door dash driver delivering food to the people planning this operation have far more influence than anyone from the EU they don't matter and this in this map and this degree it's so it's like the rest of the world realizing how much of a flexis is and we also flexed on China we flexed on Russia and it's just showing the strength of it so I think it was really moved by Trump that's my main thing and I think it's gonna send a message to a lot of these Latin American countries that are being anti-American like Lula the guy in Columbia Nicaragua is led by a left wing dictator as well Cuba that they're gonna need to play ball with us or they may end up like Maduro and I think that's in our interest to do you know it's our backyard we can do what we want in it and we've always done that and even when people are complaining like oh this is for oil it's for

19:04our companies well that benefits you you're now gonna have a cheaper more secure you're gonna have more oil at a lower price coming into the market thanks to this you know American's gonna benefit for this when they're like this is a war over oil it's like uh that sounds like it's gonna benefit us like wow now our gas prices go down even further now our energy costs are lower wow we're really losing here where this is awful that we have this you know it's like Thomas Massey and MTG talking about this stuff it's like yeah a war for oil yeah that's that's benefiting America like actually securing tangible economic benefits for our country yeah that's a necessary intervention we didn't get any tangible benefits for for Iraq actually we lost blood and treasure there we didn't get we didn't secure any oil there but now here in Venezuela like oh this is for American companies well they come in and that provides more products and at a lower cost

20:06for Americans so Americans are gonna be happy with that it's like it's stupid with that even with like MTG and mass there are like wanting to go and like it would be really funny if they try to impeach Trump over this uh well I think this is MTG's last week in office so we'll never have to hear from Kim Trill Jeff like again but you know there it's like all these all-purpose critics of Trump it's like no matter what I mean it makes sense that Massey's against this but you know with MTG she's supposed to be America first it's actually putting Americans first by trying to secure the oil in in Venezuela that makes a lot more sense than trying to spread democracy or values around the world so that that is my matter about I I think all the criticism is stupid it's it's it's good for us for the left to want to rally behind Maduro because he's such a taudry indefensible character so we should so it's good for us that the left it goes uh rallies behind him and is like free Maduro we just further embarrass them but nobody on our side should

21:11even be thinking about this we're America first not a brown dictator first now that brings up all the people crying about international law international law no this is violating it how could you do this that it it's also really funny coming from people who think that Nuremberg was the greatest injustice ever where now they're citing international law it's like I wonder what event establish international law more than anything else I wonder but I'm sure the Nuremberg critics will help inform us about this but you know it's like all these people you know there's like an account like armchair warlord crying about international law it's like I don't think a warlord would really care about international law now the thing is there is a degree that you need to have some respect for international law is that we establish it so we have an orderly stable uh you

22:12know world order or orderly world order you know what I mean and but the the guaranteeer of international law is the United States of America no one else cares about it what the hell is you're up gonna do send a strongly wordy letter like that or not gonna do shit China doesn't give a shit about the international law Russia doesn't care about international law then as well it doesn't give a shit about international law there are rogue state that thumbs their nose at us and does you know when it's involved in narco terrorism and it's involved you know being a state power involved in drug trafficking that kills Americans and kills other people is not a sign of falling international law so we are taking out an international pariah here by going into by going into Venezuela but we are the guar we guarantee international law we make it and we've done these policies all the time when Grenada and Panama and took out other rogue actors we do this all the time

23:14in the Latin America and we don't need to ask the rest of the world for permission because we make international law not them and you know all these people and it's even some of the funny things with like libertarians who talk about uh the injustice of having law like laws in America that want an anarchic society here where it's like you can do whatever you want no matter what and there's just the NAP you have to follow and then they want some kind of anarchic system here and then when America takes out a rogue actor who is threatening the international order and you know supports criminal elements that harm us and the rest of the world then they're like oh no international law we can't we've got to respect it no and first off the the base is of international law as I as I said we establish it but we get to do what is in our best interests in the western hemisphere weird and we're doing this by the book we didn't execute them we're bringing him to stand trial

24:17under the law under the law so we are following the rule law we did this legally and it's just another way of complaining about this like the Iraq invasion which some of these people who are whining about international law were supporting I don't know not not like right wing elements but some of the liberal centrist elements you know would have supported that you know that was a far greater violation of international law but no one can enforce it we're the enforcer of it we make international law there's not some higher body that can tell America oh you're violating it you're going to pay the price that doesn't happen we we guarantee it and our enemies are less more of international law than we are what is Russia and they're like we're going to embolden Russia embolden Russia to do what invade Ukraine they already did that you know and it's like oh China might invade Taiwan you know they'll invade Taiwan what they'll do they will do whatever they want within Taiwan regardless of what we're doing within Venezuela these are dumb arguments

25:20that you shouldn't entertain so there's all these matters now I'm going to go to some of due to renovatives questions on it is he he asked he asked just two things about what are the odds melee bucale and the new Venezuelan governor successful enough to inspire a continent wide shift towards politically stable capital societies by the end of century well in a century that's a long time way we're about 74 years from the way of century so I don't you know that's a a lot could happen I mean it's like asking like you know in the 1920s what will happen in Latin America by the year 2000 that's a little bit but in terms of you know this decade maybe meant by the end of the decade I think that they're going to all Latin America it's going to want to play ball with us and do what we say because of this action they're terrified of being the next Maduro and I think that's even the same with the new Venezuelan governor I think it's also smart with the Venezuelan government just to find whatever has the most support within the government but it's willing to

26:24do what we say we don't need this Machado woman or some other puppet is that one of the lessons to learn from Iraq is to pick whatever is the most stable leader that they have who can guarantee the most order regardless of whether they're proper democrats regardless of their past of supporting the regime we were opposed to etc like it would have been far better to find a bathist general who realized the new order that had been established by America and had agreed to be our the pro-American strongman and to keep peace and order intact through a strong hand in Iraq than to have imposed some puppet who had no support among the people and so I think if this new lady if she plays ball it does what we want and plays to our interests and she's able to maintain support within the system then it's fine to keep her there it doesn't matter whether the right or left it matters whether

27:25they do what we want and stop and keep an orderly country and Venezuela so that's it you don't want to do too radical of experiment that could create de-civilization and may delete a civil conflict that's the most important thing is to prevent Venezuela from descending into the civil conflict and I don't think it's going to happen with this because the government is you know terrified and it's just lost their leader and wants to do something to prevent the next person from being Maduroed and I think they'll play ball so I think that's really what it's going to happen with the rest of the lot of American is that a lot of these countries are going to be less inclined to thumb their noses and the second question is like what are the odds these Trump friendly governments experienced significant road tributions from future left wing administration generally American policy towards Latin America always is okay with these governments as long as they're maintaining peace and order and are staying pro-America the one exception was Balsonaro

28:29where you know Balsonaro was the pro-American candidate and Lula was the anti-American candidate but we saw Balsonaro as a part of an international MAGA alliance so the Biden administration backed Lula who is pro-China and in hostile towards their interest just to you know shove it to the MAGA elements in our country just because of domestic reasons but they left Bukali alone they'll leave Milay alone they'll leave anybody else right wing alone I mean they will sometimes and really we didn't put our thumb too much on the scales in Brazil or elsewhere we just didn't back the government that we should have backed it said this is our guy well with the Trump administration we're obviously going to pack a right wing candidate in Brazil we want to topple Lula we want to end it's the same without throughout Latin America as we should but I don't think the left wing governments will do too much anything the Democrats are more the real thing you have to

29:33worry about democratic administrations is them dealing with right wing governments in Europe more so than in Latin America they might try to punish Bukali because he was true pro-Trump but I think that they're they still have experienced foreign policy hands you don't want on instability arising in the region and so I think they'll be smart of but you know no they might due to Bukali's involvement in immigration enforcement it might become a campaign issue in 2028 for Democrats to say we're going to punish Bukali that might be the case but other people they're never going to go after Milay and you know the guy who just became the right wing leader of the new right wing leader of Chile and others they're just they're probably just not going to provide as much you know endorsement for them as they should but I don't think that they're going to try to engage in regime change there Bukali might be the one exception if it becomes a campaign issue for Democrats in 2028

30:35and they're all up in arms over his involvement in immigration enforcement so to conclude I do there is one bad thing that we could we could take away from the Venezuela thing I think it's fine to do these operations in our own backyard Latin America is our backyard we established that two hundred years ago with the Monroe doctrine we've always done this stuff it's nothing new you know I had a certain you know I quoted it on my entire it was like saying that like oh well when we have Hispanics full all in the state department we then want to wage war on their people's land it's like our both our wars were in Latin America were conducted by wasp the main people pushing for annexation of camp Cuba were always southerners who saw this as a new slave state they could add and you know it was fully wasp who've been involved in sending troops to Latin America you know when we sent troops to will count Haiti as part of the region we sent them under Wilson we sent troops

31:37into Nicaragua and Wilson you know this is when wasp controlled foreign policy this isn't something new we don't even have very many Hispanics in the state department besides Marcarubio and Marcarubio while he's Cuba needs white Hispanics so I don't know if any other Hispanics are Cubans in the state department you know you can make that arguments about you know the ethnic interest towards Israel may be in the state part of the Latin America wasp wasp have always had a long standing interest in Latin America so I've that aside it's fine to do this stuff in Latin America the problem is if we take this lesson and say we should start doing this in the Middle East and maybe do this in Iran that Iran is not Venezuela first off the mullahs have far stronger social base that is willing to fight to the death of them they've got the clergy and they've got the IRGC these and they've also got a rural popular rural Shiite population that is fully backing the regime and they are

32:40divided by these ethnic and religious conflicts that is something very different from the type of class conflict of Latin America you know that as we already witnessed in Iraq when we get involved in that stuff you lead to extremely bloody civil war and you're if you're unable to establish a stable government that means a ton of migrants are going to go to Europe now you might say well Europe should just strengthen the borders like we do the problem is is Europe doesn't have quite this stomach to do these necessary measures that we're doing like Europeans are never going to type to do the ice terror raids that we're doing here in America they don't really have the stomach work now hopefully they do get eventually get that stomach book for right now they don't and so they're going to have another migrant way where Greece and some of these border countries are going to try to keep them out and then all the you know Nordics and other Europe bureaucratic people oh no this is bad there's a terrible they're going to try to persecute the prosecute the Greeks and

33:40others and the Italians who try to keep them out you know it's going to be a nasty situation and it's going to destabilize the regions and I do first off you if you kidnapped the I told he's a religious leader you're instantly going to make him a martyr like this is not a corrupt you know guy like Maduro who's flying on drugs when he's doing his stupid dancing and singing along to John Lennon I do have to say this is awesome that our justification was him singing John Lennon and dancing and this is what we invented this is like the best justification for for intervention ever is that some shitty got a leader starts singing John Lennon and that pisses Trump off so much that he goes in and we Trump has great instincts I have to say but you know let's say it got to be a completely different situation if you do that with Iran now Iran is far weaker than I think a lot of people would have thought at the beginning of 2025 you know we were able to bomb them with zero consequence I mean Israel was able to bomb them with no consequence

34:43I mean they were really a punk in that now I have my problems with it because I think that we should not green light Israelis Israel's reckless actions in the region because you risk destabilization and they also are prone to not listen to us and just do whatever they want which is not our interest but I don't you should not apply this lesson to Iran which I'm worried the administration might do but I think they do realize the risk of killing the itola much more than they do with material I think it would be much harder to kidnap the itola but I do they might try to do a targeted assassination of them which they were threatening to do when that during the bombing raids of Iran in Iran last summer so that's the one downside is that we may take this lesson and try to apply them at least which the Middle East the main thing is this is both to support Latin American interventions and to not support Middle Eastern interventions is the Middle East

35:46and Latin America are completely different you we should have a different policy for both what works in Latin America is not going to work in the Middle East what we do in the Middle East is not how we should treat a Latin America the lessons of Iraq if besides a lesson that we should prove we should support whoever is going to promise stability in order regardless of their past there are a commitment to liberal democracy whatever that's an important lesson to use across the world at the same time there there are lessons that we had from Afghanistan Iraq Libya elsewhere Syria those don't really apply to Latin America completely different region you know we as right wingers we understand that there's now such thing as universal man is that you are defined by your ethnicity culture religion place and what happens in one part of the world doesn't mean it's going to happen in the other and that should be a lesson for Latin America versus Middle East so that's my last takeaway is that we should realize Latin America is different from Middle East we

36:49should not do this stuff in the Middle East but we we should pursue more actions similar actions in Latin America and threaten Cuba Nicaragua Colombia and Brazil to get what we want from those countries as it's in our interest to establish stability in order in those countries so they so we prevent future migrants and we got a ton of Nicaraguan's Cubans and a bit of Colombians we got a ton from Venezuela during the Biden administration due to their left wing government sending all their criminals here and being unable to offer a prost enough prosperity to keep up full in their country compared to that to El Salvador so that is my take on the Venezuela strike which we're supportive of now we're going to move on to a question from James he's got a bunch of questions on right wing crit critiques of law fair and a courtesy of an sub-sacke piece saying the window for the abman to do regime change is closed due to compliance with judiciary so it's both the same

37:53it's two different questions with the first question is are the lower courts going to defeat us in the end and does Jarvan's argument have merit and so they're both a part and I will say Jarvan's argument has no merit I think I'm I'm really sick of people who are wanting to eliminate our constitutional order and the rule of law to please internet people who are not even supportive of Trump is that the thing you have to realize is the process is working out for us is that this supreme court has pretty much ruled nearly every single time in Trump's favor we're also able to do and incredible things unprecedented things they were never able to do in the first term because we're more willing to push the boundaries push the envelope on on the courts and force them to do things and we're also more inclined to just not quite follow the lower courts we've also got enough conservative justice is in the in the courts to support our cause

38:55and the only thing that prevented Biden from establishing Libertar dictatorship in the first term and or not as first term he uses only term I don't think he's going to run again in 2028 is the courts is the courts restrained by it and I know people think we're going to have a permanent right wing dictatorship even though everybody want also these same people saying this also want Trump and peach and replaced with I don't I don't know who the hell they want in place was but you know there's this assumption that we're going to have permanent right wing power the Democrats are never going to have power again and we need to have full on regime change at this time and this we should just eliminate the judiciary and have Trump rule but then we're all going to be mad when Trump does this because we're going to say it's being done for Israel's interests or not doing enough and we shouldn't peach him and then we complain about how he's not falling international law while we're wanting him to throw our own laws which actually matter which

39:55we people actually care about has been a long established for you know nearly 250 years we want him to eliminate that which is more serious has greater support among the population while then they're crying about international law so I think it's all rather stupid is that the lower courts are not going to defeat us in the end because the higher courts are supporting our cause it's just the process a lot of people are have zero impulse control and can't have can imagine that they that things will happen in the future that will go their way there's no understanding of time it's that something doesn't happen immediately they chimp out and go crazy and that's like most of our side is that they don't have enough impulse control and enough and they don't have a low time preference they're high time preference people you know who else are high time preference people they're the people that we always have to avoid because they have bad schools

40:58and bad neighborhoods so all these people are like low impulse control high time preference and subscribe to a certain magical community in our country and people are just like that it's like look the process is generally playing out in our interest and also we're not facing a crisis within this country and it's would be extremely unpopular among our own party and among the public to establish dictatorship and to declare national a state of emergency because we fell for fake news over the Brown University shooting and we need to arrest all lived arts you know that's just not going to how it's going to work and there's no mechanism for doing an act regime change there there's nothing for this and I just people it's like going along with this couch potato authoritarianism where people want an authoritarian government simply to entertain themselves but they're not willing to carry these risks you know if we start to topple the legal order that are you know that's gonna inspire a lot of assassination attempts and future legal problems and future

42:02criminal prosecution for a lot of these people if we ever came out of power and then when that happens all these people will be like but the rule of law the law that we you can't prosecute Trump that's against his rights you know and some people will have this is that essentially we wouldn't work for us because we don't have control over the media in the way that left the left would and it just establishes the precedent that you know that lib tarts can then have regime change and get rid of the courts and push out these conservatives and they'd have much more ability to do that due to their institutional power that we don't have so no the there is there was not a mandate for regime change when Trump came in the American public the votes which even though all these people like we need to get rid of democracy but as I said our sphere is the most hyper democratic hyper individualistic hyper egalitarian element within our society you know an all very person will you know I had all these people who were like are you opposed

43:08to Venezuela strike so my voice matters you know that's very democratic of you to view with with that mentality but you know the people did not vote for regime change they voted to inwoveness they voted to deport illegals and they voted to have a much more saneer country where common censors restored they do not vote for dictatorship and already Trump's authoritarian moves are not popular with the public so and you might think it's like well if we get the judiciary we can then end democracy it's like that's that's not how this is work because the Republican party's not gonna go along with this the military is not gonna look along with this nobody's really gonna go and there's not like even a crisis for this it's like we it's why we try to search around for any crisis like somebody stubs their toe and then we'll say oh we need a national state of emergency so we can have a dictatorship and then everybody wants Trump out of power like half the people want

44:09like a right wing dictatorship think Trump should be impeached which I guess they'll impeach him non-democratically I don't know what that means but no I have no time for this stuff is that the wisdom of the founding fathers this might sound cockservative but I don't care because guess what the founding fathers or base they're awesome we should respect their wisdom that they had and the system that they establish is a right wing system that is designed to protect property to prevent you know socialist madness and prevent the will of angry moms that would demand wealth redistribution and a lot of other stupid things they establish this system to and generally their their wisdom matters more than people who have low impulse control and high time preference who don't even back Trump might not even be Americans and we should instead listen to

45:09those types instead of the founding fathers who had were some of the wisest most reasonable people who have ever existed on planet earth you know who are you going to trust there I'm going to pick Alexander Hamilton and James Madison to listen to and I don't think it's you know it's not necessary to eliminate a constitutional order the constitution is a gift to us it sports most of our interests there's a few changes here and there there doesn't need to be this type of cockservative attitude towards it where it's like you can't deport people that's against the constitution well you know actually it's not against the constitution but you should not try to establish a dictatorship because this is extremely unpopular as I've tried to mention is that our people including Trump supporters hardcore Trump supporters like democracy they like freedom they like liberty they are not wanting you know North Korea to occur in America and so I just don't have time with it it's like the thing with the arbonis like the arbonis I know he was complaining

46:11about how we're going after higher education and these universities is like oh no we're alienating future supporters from the Lee which is such a stupid argument you know this is the funny thing is that regime change is when we arrest judges but we need to not try to fire and harass Harvard and Yale you know this makes no sense and he's also still trying to get uh you know the administration of funders pet projects and stuff so I think it's all stupid you should not let you know I get along with them personally I don't some people view him as the devil I don't view him as much as the devil because I probably don't take his political thoughts or his thoughts on on contemporary politics that seriously as other people do and I think this is the same with that and you always see this stuff with the regime change and I also all these people like this is so true and it's so true that I'm now going to back Democrats in 2028 and I'm just like whatever you know I think it's more due to the type of primitive behavior we'll say primitive behavior

47:15that's rewarded on Twitter where people cannot have delayed gravitation they can't control their impulses there are always in a state of hysteric panic like like female peasants and they can't they have high time preference and all this stuff that it's behaviors that associate with people that generally mock and criticize so I don't it has no merit judiciary is generally going in our direction and the way to do this is to utilize the law we already have we can put pressure on some of these older judges to retire and to get better judges in there we should do a more thorough job of betting these judges to ensure that they're going to support right wing agenda items but Supreme Court right now is a huge benefit to us the fact that we finally tip the scales in our favor for the Supreme Court I mean there are still problems with Barrett primarily Barrett

48:17but also Kavanaugh courts such have their weaknesses but it's still far better it's the best Supreme Court we've had in a hundred years and a huge problem with the trans our why America was able to be transformed in a liberal direction was due to the Supreme Court's composition now when we finally have a conservative composition of it we've been able to return abortion to the states I know a lot of conservatives like that we've been able to eliminate affirmative action from universities when it been able to pass rulings encouraging trumps tough immigration enforcement policies and other things so and we even have the possibility which I even though I don't I only give this a 25% chance of happening but it's a higher percentage chance a chance of happening than any time in the path reaching past all the eliminate birthright citizenship so you know the courts are not really the problem they have a few problem with these liberal judges but there's thankfully our system gives us the way to overturn those decisions and gently scotus has

49:22been overturning it it just requires a low time preference and high impulse control namely white behaviors to understand and to comprehend so no I I support our constitutional system I I trust the wisdom of the founders over deranged people on the internet who don't even support Trump and that's my view points sorry if that makes me a coxervative but I think that's it and I don't even I think even some of these people you know they undermine themselves and I think Yarvan is especially with these he in the beginning of last year was attacking Trump for his strong moves and now he's like saying they are not strong enough whatever right and the solution of policy and even like that it's like if you want to know my solutions you have to subscribe you have to get past the paywall you have to subscribe to me and I was like you know that's that's a little I mean I have paywall stuff but you know I'm not having my full opinion buried in the Meternick

50:24podcast okay you know it's and generally what I say in the paywall mailbag and that stuff comes out in articles and in in the free podcast so if you want my solution you've got to pay me $15 a month I admire the I admire the the hoodspot of that but or at least I find it funny but you know it further undermines that argument he's making so that is my take on that. KMAX had a quick question that I will take literally less than a minute he said he said Keith would sat down for an interview with Jared Taylor your thoughts and interview if you saw it I didn't watch it I'm sure it's fine so that's my answer to that question and then typerian fan asked a question is what is going on with the GOP at the national level it seems that a lot of state parties are a lot of just go rogue with zero consequences with local communities being left in the dust maybe I'm going to blind spot but I thought getting rid of Veronica

51:26and it would fix things but it seems the organization is stagnant as ever well not sure what you're quite referring to I imagine you think that like the Indiana State GOP Utah State GOP are you know defying what Trump wants on redistricting and some other things but I mean it's like that you know we got a level where state parties can do things but they're still under pressure by Trump it's still Trump's party and they're less able to fight Trump than they were in the first term approach the entire party love defying Trump they were able to push out Steve King for making a defensive western civilization in 2019 when today you know DHS and the even the Department of Labor tweet out things that are far more radical than what Steve King said so I don't know I don't think it the state the party is getting a lot better but there's still elements of defiance within it there's still these old Mike Pence tier elements that are you know waging resistance

52:30and you can even see that within beltway conservatism with all these people leaving heritage to go to Mike Pence's thing take and so there's still a lot of people like that within the party and within the conservative well probably less so within the conservative movement except for the older types but there's still a lot of those elements within the GOP but they have far less power than they did in the first term or even in the early 2020s so the Trump there's still the trumpification going on within the GOP it's but there's still elements of resistance it just takes time um I do think of the Indiana GOP you know defiant Trump and voting its redistricting which is going its own interests is a bad time but still most the state GOPs are fully trumpified look at the south yes they're still Lindsey Graham and some of their senators aren't very good but if you look at other state legislatures they're very mega so it's just one of the things that happens uh it takes

53:30time to have a full internal revolution in the party and you know over the last decade of Trump being involved in politics the party has significantly changed but there's still those old elements there it happens but they might not be there in another decade so that is my answer to that uh renown has a question he said don't you agree that Elon Musk is by a long shot the most important right-wing leader no uh then he said Trump isn't he's a lame duck Trump is not a lame duck he's literally the president of the United States and how is he a lame duck he is the most important figure on the right what he says everyone pays an inch to every republican is eager to demand his support for their election that nobody is as is as kiss nobody's kissing must ring like they are with Trump uh Musk is no longer taking a leadership role Musk had to bend the knee and kiss Trump's ring

54:31he is not the most important right-wing leader he is less important as right-wing leader today than he was a year ago he's less public nobody cares about his tweets as much as they did in early 2025 he doesn't have a direct role in the administration like he did in 2025 so that doesn't make any sense I mean I guess you could make this point in like February of 2025 but in January 2026 that doesn't matter and also people are far more critical of Musk and more willing to make fun of him like I am than they were in early 2025 he's not the most important right-wing leader now most important right-wing donor yes he is the most important right-wing donor it's up there with him in the elephants it's probably a tie between them he still has importance but Trump is the leader he I don't know how he's a lame duck he is the guy we turn to he is the leader he's still the undisputed leader no one else compares if he it would be him bending the knee to Elon not the

55:32other way around if Elon was most important right-wing leader so you know he points out that like Elon Musk is retweeting more right-wing content he does but fewer people pay attention to it they paid more attention to that in last year because he mattered more now he can you know tweeting about white genocide and all the things but people don't care as much you know because they understand that he's no longer in that leadership role he's just kind of he's just the world's wealthiest man that's still level importance but he's not the one directing the right he's just more providing the money and support by running x in that way so he's not the most important leader I don't know where you get that Trump's a lame duck Trump is a very powerful president and still the most important leader of the right and no one no one comes close I think Trump's in a more powerful position on the right than he that at any point ever even in his first time he was never he'd never had this level leadership and level control over the right that he does now

56:34Ken's got two questions Ken's questions how many listeners do you get on the average regular episode mailbag and I I don't know why are you asking what what type of question is I don't know I get a million well it's like yeah let me send you all my metrics I don't know I get a few thousand that's it why why do you want to know that I don't know look up the own metrics some questions I it's I I shouldn't be that harsh on curiosity but I don't that's not I'm just going to say a million on each second question who should White America cheer for in the college football playoff probably Indiana um you know they've got a he they've got a white Hispanic quarterback uh yeah I'd say any they're not as white as you to might imagine for a big 10 team like a lot

57:37of big team teams have been in there have been very white but they're not as white as you would imagine but you know they've got a they've got an interesting underdog story everyone's written them off they've never really competed for a national title I think it makes for a good story and their quarterback is definitely a Trump supporter um I would back Ole Miss it'd be cool for the Rebels but at the same time I want Lane Kiffin to succeed at LSU I do I'm a huge a Lane Kiffin fan and I think it'd be undermining Kiffins move to LSU for them to win but I have no support for Oregon or Miami so I'd say I'd say Indiana they just have the most white seeming spirit you could argue for Ole Miss if they had a white quarterback a win even though their quarterback they do have is like sounds like the widest black guy ever you know they interviewed him on this post game interviews and whenever they interview got players after post game because they got the adrenaline pumping you know they just been getting tackled and smashing people for three hours and so they're all hyped up so they're not usually give very good

58:41interviews and they're like oh yeah we threw the ball but he gave a very articulate interview he's like hello you know what did you think about this he's like well we were uh we were uh want to get the ball down the field and we got a play harder than the other team and this I don't was like wow this is the what a sunny black guy on planet earth I was very surprised by that but still at the end of the day probably Indiana Ole Miss closed second but definitely not Miami Oregon that made my thoughts on that um so there's that and now we're gonna conclude with actually hold on we almost forgot about old New England refugee he said please discuss the Texas Senate primary again and how Wesley Huntson and Tristan's change everything it truly has changed everything because Trump world is more likely to back Wesley Hunt in this Paxton I think a lot of right wingers are gonna be mad about that because it's once again just backing around a minority the thing is unlike with some other races well namely Florida where

59:47Byron Donald's is not really suited to a statewide race Hunt has less baggage from as far as I know and then Paxton Paxton has a lot of baggage Paxton I like Paxton but Paxton would potentially lose a general election race he's got a lot of corruption allegations and I don't that's not gonna help him in a contentious center race Corning is too much of the old guard he's old Trump doesn't like him and there's that huh though it might help Corning because it will divide the anti Corning vote but Hunt is far more willing to get it Trump's endorsement apparently Trump world has turned on Paxton for what reason I don't know but so they're more inclined to back Pat Hunt but they might just stay out of the race this might be a gift of Corning as it might help Corning stay alive in the center of primary but Hunt I don't like backing these random

1:00:54minorities he would be pro Trump he brought he vote better than Corning he could win a race he does not have the baggage that Herschel Walker and Byron Donald's have it's not ideal but it is what it is that what matters is you get a candidate guy in there who's gonna vote for the Magga Jinda and win a general election that's probably Wesley Hunt Corning not Magga he's always been trying to find a way to get amnesty he's been anti Trump many times now he's pretending to be Magga because he doesn't want Trump to endorse one of his opponents Paxton would be very Magga the problem is he's got a lot of baggage that would hurt him in a general election so there's that I mean I'll discuss this further down the line it does show a lot of stupid it goes on in Texas politics that this is the the most viable candidate but you know a lot of this is the fall of GOP primary but you know all the time I get this take is like the leadership

1:01:58the establishment keeps imposing these token minorities on the base it's like actually know the base always keeps falling for these token minorities they actually are the establishment didn't want Vivek like DeWine doesn't like him they wanted like Tressel or the lieutenant governor to be running in that position but Vivek had far more support so they weren't the ones backing Vivek dissented I don't know who you'd call this establishment in Florida but the old establishment doesn't like Byron Donald's probably for Greece and the establishment didn't like Royce White in Minnesota but guess who voted for him the base the base loves these token minorities they are like oh it's finally a non-white saying what we want they're the ones who are backing this it's not like the establishment like rubbing their hands together it's like oh we finally found probably pulling a fast one on the on the base that hates these token minorities no it's our base who keeps picking these people unfortunately I mean there's some people that they you know

1:02:59they established loves like Tim Scott Daniel Cameron and and Kentucky and other people like that but the base loves them too so it's it's it's not like the base is having this voicing upon them against their own wishes it's usually the basis fall to these people are become serious candidates in the first place it's the same with Byron Donald's same with Herschel Walker even though that was Trump back with the base loved him at first Royce White marked Robinson even though Robinson was pretty base but he was clearly not a candidate suited to run for governor or said but you know this is the fall the base they they can't get enough of these token minorities so that's my case for that and now we will conclude with okay Ruric okay Ruric his question is given the types of unsavory by our standards individuals and unstable minds attracted AOTI Israel right wing politics what is the Grirhead guy to being properly antisemitic I don't fucking know man it is you should

1:04:07just not fall for every first off we're not antisemitic as we're at the same time we disavow racism as well so we are we are the least bigoted we are opposed to bigotry in all its forms so all the anti-Israel stuff I think it just got a not think of it as like the center of the world and it animates all issues is that I find people is like I'm more Israel critical than what Kurt Servers would be would have tolerated I don't view that we need to have this undying worship of Israel I think it's necessary to rein them in and to reevaluate our relationship with Israel but at the same time I don't think it's the most important issue in the world and it's at the center of all issues is that with a lot of these people they view it they come to believe that everything that happens in the world involves an israelian they're doing that with Venezuela which Venezuela it's not because they're backing Hamas it's because they're a rogue agent that's anti-American this is

1:05:10Maduro in our own backyard that pushes drugs pushes migrants and allows China into our backyard that's the reason why the symbolic support for Palestine is not why we back we want to we got rid of Maduro but they think every issue now we're seeing that with the Somalis it's like no the and that doesn't even make sense because the Somali land thing yes Israel is wanting to recognize and send Palestinians there but if we all turn on Somalia and are wanting to send Somalis Somalis back to their homeland this to get interferes with Israel's objectives if this is fully on Israel we will be talking about how awesome Somalis are and wow we should support Somali land and we should absolutely not be sending Somalis back because if we're sending all the Somalis back then they're not going to have any room for the Palestinians so this does make any sense so they think every issue eventually comes back to Israel and I think that's what really what you need to do the mindset

1:06:12you need to oppose I guess that would be more than one thing about it it's like you can be it's probably necessary to be you know not have some skepticism towards Israel at the same time you shouldn't assess every single issue on this matter which is what a lot of the people on the online sphere do is that everything there's a shooting if they're you stop their tow if the red light is going slow if you can't get a job you can't get a girlfriend you you know there's Somali fraud every fucking issue comes back to Israel I think that's not very productive and it's something to avoid and so that would be my one takeaway from that is that it shouldn't is that we should be skeptical of Israel but we shouldn't imagine it as the most important issue in the world and we shouldn't relate every single issue back to it especially when they're unrelated so that is my take on that and so that is it for highly respected today hopefully you guys enjoyed we're going to have a different schedule this week

1:07:16we are going to have four podcasts this week tomorrow I was planning on for this today's podcast to do the opening segment as a retrospective on J6 because five-year anniversary is tomorrow but news got in the way so I'm going to do a podcast tomorrow on it for the sub-stack it will be pay world sorry we're gonna we're gonna do it for the pay world podcast on tomorrow and then on a Wednesday we're gonna have the mailbag then Thursday an article or we might have an article earlier depending on when I want to publish it and then on a Friday we will have an IQ supplement likely on the history of US Latin American relations so that will be the schedule this week so we're gonna have four podcasts so tomorrow will be a J6 retrospective and I will be able to give my takes on J6 that I was supposed to do today until we can nap Maduro so that is it for I respected today be on the lurch for all the great content coming up this weekend so until next time stay

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