Pat Ryan

speaker

91 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 4 Jan

Pat Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The MeidasTouch Podcast · Rep. Pat Ryan Responds to Trump’s Speech on Venezuela Attack · 4 Jan 2026 podcast

And uh that's just it's also by the way, uh sorry.

It's the opposite of what Donald Trump ran on.

Well, I mean, the that dichotomy between those two, clearly not having their stories straight.

Trump saying the quiet part out loud, as he often does, that uh this is not about drugs, this is about oil.

It's about his billionaire or big oil cronies that he made a bunch of promises to and getting them access to that oil.

I I do think though, sadly, um, and infuriate infuriatingly to me personally, this isn't fully outside the

Character of our country, of both parties, to be honest.

Like a lot of the rhetoric leading up to this echoes the rhetoric leading up to Iraq, shifting articulations of total bullshit stories, of even going to the point of saying that there were quote unquote weapons of mass destruction, that that drugs were should be considered weapons of mass destruction.

And using that language brought up to me that imagery of Dick Cheney as sort

of Darth Vader-esque imagery of this neocon.

We're going to go around the world and we're going to send our young men and women, including myself, including the people on this, you know, memorial bracelet, my my fellow soldiers that we lost.

Like we have a record in this country too of that.

And I'm not comparing us, of course, uh to Putin or authoritarianism, but but we need to get this out.

to the American people that this is about oil and regime change, and that is not a popular uh thing across the political spectrum and across uh the generational spectrum.

in the country.

And I I I do think one important difference, of course, there are checks and balances still.

The Republicans in Congress and the House and Senate have refused to use them.

But we're gonna have another we're gonna have two war powers votes coming up this next week in the Senate, and we're pushing for another one in the House.

We had two before the holidays knowing

That this was coming.

Showing 41–60 of 91 · page 3 of 5