Jonathan V. Last
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2,481 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Sep
Jonathan V. Last’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's 19 when Chavez takes over.
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And by the time he's out of college, and he comes from a very wealthy family to begin with, you have in the early Chavez years the elites in Venezuela doing
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One of two things.
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They're the people who decide they're gonna try to oppose Chavez and recapture liberal democracy.
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And then you have rich guys like Alejandro who decide they want to play ball.
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And they go from being like, you know, normal rich to being filthy fucking oligarch rich.
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And this is what happens every time a strongman takes over everywhere in the world.
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This is Saudi Arabia.
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This is Putin's Russia.
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It's it's a tale as old as time.
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This is happening right now, here in America.
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Right.
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Right.
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With with Nutlik and uh Trump kids.
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The Trump kids.
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Who's the the guy?
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The Whitcoff kids, yeah, all those mon anyway.
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So Alejandro decides I'm gonna play ball with Chavez and Maduro.
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And what he gets in return for that is a bunch of state-run uh contracts for power generation.
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And so he's like 29 years old and he's being given two billion dollars to, you know, oh, I think you're just the kind of guy to go building power plants for us.
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