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Joining me today is Jimmy Dore, here to discuss yet another budding US-backed coup attempt in Venezuela, the history of Venezuela being targeted in this way, and the new addition of a digital coup leader of sorts, in the form of Elon Musk — as well as the numerous times Musk has already been caught sharing verifiably fake information in the interest of removing Maduro from power. We also discuss the way the Right appears to be being played by the establishment in order to usher in everything they were most resistant to during COVID-19, but this time under the guise of topics such as illegal immigration and opposing socialism. We also end with a brief discussion of Trump’s attempted assassination.
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- (40) Caitlin Johnstone on X: “It’s so wild how every few years the US just casually tries to install a coup regime in the oil-rich nation of Venezuela and the western political-media class treats this as perfectly normal. And then they’ll have the gall to shriek about “election interference” if some Russians” / X
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- (44) The Last American Vagabond on X: “Elon once again blindly sharing zionist propaganda. By the way, Elon has now deleted his tweet where he famously said “we’ll coup whoever we want” as he begins a coup over Twitter right now. https://t.co/UdaVhuTHKv #Venezuela” / X
- Elon Musk on X: “This is messed up” / X
- (36) Megatron on X: “@elonmusk You are spreading fake news.. Thise are air conditioners and has nothing to do with the recent votings in Venezuela 😂” / X
- (36) Elon Musk on X: “@historyofarmani Also, we get our lithium from Australia” / X
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- ‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros | Society books | The Guardian
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- (57) The Last American Vagabond on X: “@elonmusk Despite sharing numerous things from this account that have already turned out to be false, one of which they even deleted already, you continue to blindly share their propaganda? Do you just not care about the facts or do you have an agenda here? #Lithium #WellCoupWhoeverWeWant” / X
- (30) The Last American Vagabond on X: “@elonmusk Are you knowingly sharing fake information? Or simply not checking any of it? #Venezuela https://t.co/TRfQtlSG9Z” / X
- (28) Alan MacLeod on X: “[Thread] There is a coup d’etat attempt underway here in Venezuela 🇻🇪, fueled by tons of fake news. In this thread, I’ll debunk some of the most egregious and viral fake stories circulating. Add your own in the replies.” / X
- (28) Alan MacLeod on X: “FAKE NEWS: his video is going super viral, with over 20k likes. It claims to show a Venezuelan 🇻🇪 military helicopter massacring protestors. But there are two problems: 1. It is 8 years old. 2. It is from Turkiye. 🇹🇷 https://t.co/jy3rVrtppX” / X
- (28) The Last American Vagabond on X: “@goddeketal @elonmusk That is incorrect. A lot of verifiably false info being amplified by Elon. https://t.co/C4alniJhEq” / X
- (25) The Last American Vagabond on X: “So now world leaders are only official if Elon Musk decides that is the case. Get ready for the US (s)election.. #TwoPartyIllusion” / X
- (28) Craig Pasta Jardula on X: “There have been a lot of accusations of #FRAUD by the opposition in #Venezuela as well as the MSM here in the US. However, the accusations are very broad and if there was cheating taking place, it would have been caught in real time. Because, The Venezuelan election process is…” / X
- (42) The Last American Vagabond on X: “@elonmusk Hiding your ongoing propaganda push for a regime change in #Venezuela under a flimsy veneer of trolling, or making jokes, is very transparent.” / X
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- (47) Danny Haiphong on X: “@elonmusk You’re openly backing a U.S. coup. But it will fail. The military has long stood with the Bolivarian Revolution. With a democratic process celebrated by Jimmy Carter. With the gains made for the poor. You won’t get their oil Elon. Your wealth doesn’t make you any less a” / X
- (24) Elon Musk on X: “This is real https://t.co/3KjTZiVJG0” / X
- (26) Alex Rubinstein on X: “Elon Musk had, out of his nearly 50k tweets, zero about Venezuela prior to April. Now he’s tweeting non-stop about the “dictator.” When I said Twitter is going full-circle back to the days of the Arab Spring, as a tool for toppling governments, this is what I meant.” / X
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- (30) Fiorella Isabel on X: “They simulated the death of a person to record it on video and blame the government. In the same video, he’s seen alive and well, riding a motorcycle after he died on camera. Don’t fall for these fake or old videos used to stir chaos & violence. https://t.co/sDujNr2DQA” / X
- (25) Alan MacLeod on X: “BREAKING: The protestors in Venezuela 🇻🇪 that Elon Musk et. al. support have set fire to a hospital tonight. Hospitals have traditionally been a favourite target of the Venezuelan right-wing. https://t.co/HJFNfzAM14” / X
- (26) Alan MacLeod on X: “ALERT 🇻🇪🚨: Right-wing Venezuelan pseudo-journalist Eduardo Menoni is calling on his army of followers to find and kill @jacksonhinklle. A “warm welcome” code for burning somebody alive, as opposition terrorists have done multiple times before to their opponents. https://t.co/bDYG6dXIP9″ / X
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- (31) WikiLeaks on X: “”Venezuela’s right-wing opposition and US media outlets claim there was fraud in the July 28 election based on an exit poll done by US government-linked firm Edison Research, which works with CIA-linked US state propaganda organs and was active in Ukraine, Georgia, and Iraq.”” / X
- (33) Khalissee on X: “🇺🇸🇻🇪 American Lawyer and Politician Elliott Abrams gloats over US ability to prevent Venezuela from selling its oil and gold. He says the goal of sanctions is to “deny the regime money” and laughs while describing his gangsterlike threats against creditors: “we have a wide, https://t.co/cIVMJYneFm” / X
- (31) Afshin Rattansi on X: “Don’t believe the US🇺🇸 collapsed Venezuela’s🇻🇪 economy and created the humanitarian crisis? Hear it from Donald Trump’s Special Representative Elliott Abrams: Here he is gloating over the US’ ability to prevent Caracas from selling its oil & gold, says goal of sanctions is to https://t.co/2LVjyT36M3” / X
- (25) Afshin Rattansi on X: “Donald Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton in 2019: ‘Our sanctions on Venezuela have frozen $7 billion in PDVSA’s assets and will cost Venezuela🇻🇪 $11 billion of lost revenue in the next year’ Socialism didn’t destroy Venezuela, US sanctions did https://t.co/srpiVrIBnl” / X
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- (33) The Last American Vagabond on X: “Infowars now pumping how CIA propaganda. Lovely.” / X
- (27) Rania Khalek on X: “1/ Let’s be clear about which side you’re on if you oppose Venezuela’s elected govt: ISRAEL’S SIDE I’m getting angry responses to my Venezuela reporting from ppl who purport to be pro-Palestine yet repeat lies about Venezuela promoted by the same media justifying genocide on” / X
- (26) Alan MacLeod on X: “For those unsure over which side to support in Venezuela 🇻🇪, this might be informative: As President Maduro cast his ballot yesterday, he shouted “Long live free Palestine!” 🇵🇸 Maria Corina Machado, leader of the opposition, said that “Our struggle is Israel’s struggle”. 🇮🇱” / X
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- (21) Afshin Rattansi on X: “”In the CIA, we didn’t give a hoot about democracy…if a country didn’t co-operate with us, democracy didn’t mean a thing, and I don’t think it means a thing today.” -Ex-CIA Agent Philip Agee Remember this when you hear the US talk about Venezuela🇻🇪 https://t.co/rg7yZfj7sT https://t.co/HcYIgYKiC4″ / X
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- (33) Camila on X: “Venezuela Defense Minister: “We reaffirm the most absolute loyalty and unconditional support to Nicolás Maduro Moros, Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Our Commander in Chief, legitimately reelected by the People’s Power..” https://t.co/vZFKb4KQtT” / X
- (31) Megatron on X: “BREAKING: 🇻🇪 Criminal gangs threaten Maduro. The leader of the criminal gang “Tren del Llano” in Guárico state has released a video threatening Maduro’s forces. Once again, who funds the terrorists and criminal gangs around the world? https://t.co/SY4kNIqPrY” / X
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- (4) Alan MacLeod on X: “”Our well-meaning sanctions”. 🇻🇪 https://t.co/rp9ngnkDiC” / X
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- (4) Alan MacLeod on X: “The Carter Center has just denounced the election results in Venezuela 🇻🇪. But we must remember that it is far from a neutral organization. Consider: 1. It is based in Washington DC, and is directly funded by the State Department and USAID (as well as by the governments of” / X
- (22) Alex Rubinstein on X: “Here is the original English version of the document in which Venezuela opposition leader and long-time coup plotter Maria Corina Machado begs the butcher Netanyahu to help her carry out a regime change https://t.co/b6K1cADYf6” / X
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Jimmy seems to be turning a little ” red” ?
We have no business destroying heads of state in foreign countries loved by their ppl if it is over them protecting their country’s natural resources from greedy, selfish, thieving, criminal American Capitalists.
That’s NOT what America is about. We’re about spreading democracy, etc, & as such should NEVER be on the side of who’s in the wrong.
These damn Capitalists create so much poverty that’s so dire, complicated & in overwhelming numbers of the foreign population that even charities, both Christian & secular, including supra-national governing bodies, can’t keep up.
It’s totally inhumane, unnecessary & has got to stop now.
God only knows just how many innocent lives are at stake.
What our Capitalists should be doing is taking their capital & know-how down to these poor countries, teaching them how to use their natural resources & setting up industry. They should give them good-paying jobs with benefits & unionization.
It’s these wicked Capitalists that are everybody’s problem economically, both abroad & at home. They all benefit hugely at our expense. Greed creates vast economic inequities.
All you have to do is look at our stats.
We are the richest country in the world, & the richest country ever in the history of the world. At the same time our millionaires, billionaires & trillionaires are living high on the hog to the point that they’re even surpassing the roaring 20s. Yet we have the highest poverty rate among all 1st world countries in our class.
It’s pretty clear the Capitalists are greatly benefitting at the expense of everyone else & everything else.
When we actually had a govt checking them & fighting for the ppl a long time ago we had an American Dream for much more ppl, not this well-established American Nightmare.
We need to check them both at home & abroad. Going on as we are is becoming economically unsustainable for the govt. It seems the blind Capitalists are fulfilling Marx’s prediction that they would destroy their own economic system from which they benefitted.
They have no right bitching about the looming threat of Socialism when they created the need & the inevitability.
They need to be economically responsible in paying taxes commensurate to their incomes & corporations need to actually all pay taxes, & commensurate to their profits. It is the only way to preserve Capitalism. The revenue from taxing them wouldn’t kill them, & it would fund social programs w/o a problem, pay off the national debt, run the country right & run the country fully.
Failure to do this when they have placed Capitalism in jeopardy will result in them forced to accept Socialism.
Jimmy has now been brainwashed by trump and trumpets.
Mark Zuckerberg certainly did NOT endorse Trump.
Anybody who survives a legitimate assassination attempt is going to benefit from it. That’s just common sense and can’t be avoided, so you don’t then turn around and accuse them of staging it because you don’t like the benefit they are getting. Trump may be a lot of things, but he would never want innocent people to be murdered in a staged assassination solely to benefit him – and certainly not when he was already way in the lead. It’s about the most illogical, asinine theory going around and takes energy and focus away from where it really needs to be: uncovering the misdeeds of the deep state.
Who exactly is accusing him of “staging it”? Or even claiming that it was staged? Certainly not me. Seems to be your assumption however. I am just pointing out possibilities and you seem to be protecting the one you like. Out of the two of us, only one is being illogical, just not who you think. “trump would never”… oh you know him do you? He told you that? I am sorry to tell you that your worship of him is not the same as knowing what he would or would not do. People who talk like that are more lost than anyone. Considering all possibilities only takes time away from those gatekeeping. I make my thoughts very clear in my show, and what you seem to assume about my opinion is actually very wrong. Hope you work on keeping an open mind, because I don’t know exactly what happened, but neither do you, and there is a tremendous amount of obvious inconsistency and outright lies, but those who lionize politicians usually don’t want to see such things or assume they add up only what works for their chosen ideologue.