Back to episode — Episode 3045 ChatWSA 12/17/25
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Good morning. Hold on. All right. All right. I've got a few minutes here to say good morning and have a quick simultaneous sip of whatever it is you're sipping. I thought I would try checking the news while you're joining me. Come on in. Join me. Looks like the Locals people are here first, as they should be. Damn it. I didn't check my voice before I started talking. Top 50. Good morning. No, n…
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Did you know that Trump put a blockade on the Venezuelan oil tankers? And apparently he has some kind of justification for that. Did you know that Venezuela nationalized a bunch of U.S. assets back in the past? And so I think that's Trump's rationalization. It's like, you nationalized our assets, we're going to take them back. But I guess Chevron has some kind of special deal where they can still do oil.
So I'm definitely wondering what is the real story about Venezuela. I don't feel like we know. Do you? I mean, it's a little bit about drugs, but not completely. It's a little bit about the Monroe Doctrine. Maybe that's more of it. Maybe it's about just somebody making money, but it might be a combination of all those things.
Hey, Sergio. Good morning. Well, yeah, they obviously would like regime change, but to what end? Because the current regime has already said we'll give you whatever you want basically. It's not like we're negotiating with them. So yeah, they definitely want regime change, but we don't know to what end because probably there's a lot of countries we'd like to regime change.
You think it's a Kraken? That's entirely possible. It's entirely possible that the only way Trump can prove that 2024 was stolen or 2020 was stolen is by getting control of the Venezuelan government. Maybe it's to move China, Russia, and Iran out. Well, that would be the obvious reason. That would be the Monroe Doctrine reason. But it does seem like he could get that through negotiating. What do you think?
Will SpaceX be bigger than Tesla? Yes. The thing with SpaceX is there's no limit to how big that can get.
Says he stole the election. Maybe.
All right. Is anybody following the Candace and Erica story? So I've
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been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news. But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently Candace has a hypothesis that the Egyptian government has two of its official state planes that have somehow intersected with the travels of Erica Kirk like 70 times, and that it would be statistically impos…
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