Matt O'Brien
speaker
1,469 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Matt O'Brien’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Log off and feel.
Of course.
And everybody's seeing the same video.
And to see such starkly different interpretations of it.
is kind of baffling.
I don't know, I can't really think of an analogy or another time where people are seeing what's in front of them and running it through such broadly different filters in their mind.
Right.
Of course, moving on from that dreadful story to the next one, we kidnapped the president of Venezuela, seized a couple of their oil tankers, and now it's slowly starting to crystallize what our semblance of a plan is moving forward.
The latest is that we are going to essentially micromanage Venezuela and run Venezuela by seizing their oil and using the profits to run the country.
That's as far as we've gotten.
And it feels like what comes to mind is it feels like a private equity firm.
coming in and firing everybody, in this case kidnapping, and saying, okay, we're going to take it over and run it and essentially use the money for what we see fit to make it run more efficiently.
If you can name a historical precedent...
Particularly recently that this has proven to be a bad idea.
I'd love to hear it.
But then so basically we're going to take the oil money and put it in what amounts to a slush fund for the president, a checking account for President Trump to do with what he sees fit.
I think you could fit it into the don't believe your eyes.
The world is crazy right now.
Yes, I know.
A check in balance, if you will.
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