Jake Auchincloss
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Right.
So that is what I think is going to happen with the Venezuelan.
where, yeah, he thinks that's the United States sphere of influence, but he's kind of open to being bought out of that mentality.
And what he has refused to do
is rule out US boots on the ground in Venezuela.
Now my boots have been on the ground in Latin America.
And I recently just this morning teamed up with James Tallarico, who is the state representative from Texas running for United States Senate in Texas as a Democrat.
And the two of us provided our perspective on what the president is doing in Venezuela as,
someone seeking to represent Texans, the oil producing capital of the world, and someone who has military experience in this part of the world.
And our consensus is that this does not serve the interests of American national security or of the United States energy economy.
Ben, how are the Qataris supposed to afford to buy jets for the president if they don't have Venezuelan money?
Please, I mean, makes all the sense in the world.
ICE has morphed under this administration from an arm of the law to an instrument of fear.
They have used bounties and social media advertising to recruit individuals.
They have then given them
bare bones five weeks of training before sending out these individuals with firearms into combustible situations that ice itself as you have said has engineered to be far more dangerous and contentious than would be necessary for civil immigration enforcement and minnesota is ground zero for this operation ice needs to be reformed retrained
the masking, the indiscriminate policing tactics need to end because Americans deserve federal, state, and local law enforcement that uphold public safety as opposed to instilling fear in our neighborhoods.
Ben, I don't even know where to start on this one.
The first is power.
Right now, the three most influential gatekeepers of news, information, entertainment in the world are Mark Zuckerberg,