January 6, 2026 • 37 mins
Time again for receipts from Ryan's audio archives, as Democrats change their tone on the overthrow and removal of communist dictator Nicolas Maduro from his post of illegitimate power in Venezuela after the Trump Administration's successfully executed military operation to back up years of rhetoric from American political leaders and elected officials.
Plus, another foray into 'Bayou Bits of Wisdom' with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on the official decommissioning of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Plus, another foray into 'Bayou Bits of Wisdom' with Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) on the official decommissioning of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kayoway and Hi heard radio stations.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
He brags about all these things he wants to do
or is doing, but his actions belie his words. Maybe
the best metaphor was his claim to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
There was a big policy there, Chuck Schumer in twenty twenty.
It flopped. Oh, if the policy was working.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Juan Guido wouldn't be in the balcony here, He'd be
in Venezuela. Oh should be eh, he'd be sitting in
the President's palace, or at least waging a fight to win.
He's here, and the President brags about his Venezuela policy.
Give us a break. He hasn't brought an end to
the Maduro regime.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
He just did.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Meduro regime is more powerful today and more intrenched
today than it was when the president began.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Something I've noticed, and this isn't like a slam dunk
endorsement of the Republicans in the House of the Senate
Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Don't misread it as that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But what I noticed from them is a complete lack
of this cognitive dissonance in which they go right out
to the media in the Democrats case, in Chuck Schumer's case,
they're sick of phanic. They're looking to carry water for
the Democrats, for Schumer, for Jeffries, for the leadership, for Pelosi,
for Biden. So the Democrats know this, so they get
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lazy and they don't have those muscles developed figuratively metaphorically speaking,
to be able to calculate, like I'm going to say
something now and it might come back to haunt me
because I'm going to say the exact opposite thing a
year later, two years later, in this.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Case, five years later.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Do they not know that there is video and audio
evidence which I just played, which will go on the record,
which will go into the archives of Ryan Schuling Live
with the Dan Kapli Show, of all that cares to
use it throughout the United States of America, and that
this audio will be reprised and repurposed to counterpoint a
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new point that a Democrat makes now that Donald Trump
has done it. It is so intellectually dishonest, But that's
the least of it. It's just laughable for anybody with
cursory knowledge of the political arena who pays any attention whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm talking like a medium information voter.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But what they're counting on, and what they're probably right
about in the calculus, is that most people are low
information voters, that they won't take the time to do
their research, that they won't go back and wait a minute,
you said the exact opposite thing five years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What changed?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, Donald Trump did the thing that you were criticizing
him for not doing. Because here comes Chuck Schumer just
now over these last few days since the ouster of
Nicholas Maduro from Venezuela. Oh, we well, we wanted it done,
but it shouldn't have been done like that. You should
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have notified Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So what can the Congress do about it? Is the
next question?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, the next question is very simple, and that is
that we have the War Powers Act. That's a privileged resolution,
which means the Republicans can't block it. Tim Kane and
I and Ran Polar sponsors of it. It's going to
come to the floor this week and if it is
voted for, if it's voted positively in both houses, then
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the President can't do another thing in Venezuela without the
okay of Congress.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We have to pass You don't have to pass this
I mean, we have not declared war on Venezuela the nation.
That is a foolish notion and he should know that.
He probably does know that, and cynically he is stating otherwise.
There was a very specific target admission to move an
illegitimate leader from a communist country that was once free.
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Venezuela was a thriving capitalistic economy, society and nation not
that long ago, within my lifetime, but then you had
a communist dictator take over and then Nicholas Baduro assumed
the reins.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
After that, Baduro was a murderous thug.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Set aside the fact that New Year knew, Anna Navarro
on the View, She's not gonna go as far as
to just flip flop on this issue like Chuck Schumer did,
and like, well, Jason Crowe is and we'll get to
him in just a moment. Come on, Anna Navarro in
the View yesterday, what your question?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Who voted for this?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban
American community, the akoraj when American community voted for this,
and for us, this is a very very happy day
when we see a dictator who has been part of
oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for twenty five years.
When we see him in handcuffs and held to some
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sort of accountability, it brought me into two tears.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It brought me great joy.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And you know, I live in South Florida, But there's
these Are you okay with the way that it was done?
But you can I think both things can be true.
I think you can criticize and ask questions and have
concerns about the way it was done and what this
means in the future. And I think you can still
celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, satistic son of a bitch
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is out of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah he has.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think there's say million Venezuelan exiles all over the world.
People have fled from this man's tyrannical rule.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Good for Anna Navarro And I asked this now in
the moment, in the present moment. Here we are Tuesday,
January sixth, This executed raid of the Madeuro compound. His
extraction along with his wife went flawlessly over the weekend.
There was not a single American troops life loss. There
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were injuries, so those are technically casualties, but no fatalities.
There were fatalities all around the Maduro compound as the
United States Special Forces Troops, air, land, and Sea executed
this flawlessly.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I might add.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
This is where a person like Jason Crow or Senator
Mark Kelly, they get in a little bit of a
sticky wicket, because now, what are you going to do?
Are you going to criticize the execution of the mission,
which again went off without a hitch, mission accomplished to
this point, it could not have been.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Done any better than it was.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Without a single life loss, without a single civilian casualty,
I might add, on the ground in Venezuela, they killed
the thugs that were supposed to be protecting Nicholas Maduro.
That's part of the cost of doing business here. I
ask a sunny hoston now, I don't ask her leave
her out. She's not no longer the raining full of
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the year, but she was full of the year twenty
twenty four before Jasmine Crockett ascended to the throne for
twenty twenty five. But I'll ask a Jason Crowe and
you'll hear this too. In just a moment with Martha McCallum,
who was a masterful in slicing and dicing Crow, serving
him up hot on a platter on her program. I
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don't know why he subjects himself to this. It's a
complete mismatch on the story with Martha McCallum on Fox News.
And it is not the first time it's happened, and
if he keeps going on there, it won't be the last.
But I ask them, how could this have been done
any better?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It couldn't have been.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This was masterful now part of this whole endeavor I
fully acknowledge. And I'm a little bit with rand Paul
on this, and you'll hear him in a moment. It's
not just winning the war.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The war's over.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We're not at war with Venezuela any longer. We got
rid of its leader. He's gone. Imagine if we had
been this neat and clean in removing Saddam Husayn from Iraq,
we weren't. We lost thousands of lives in Iraq. And
what was not a formal declaration of war. We have
to go back to that to be historically accurate. Congress
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authorized the use of force in Iraq. We never formally
declared war. We haven't formally declared war since World War
II by congressional vote and act. The military conflict in
Korea was just that it was. We call it the
Korean War. No formal declaration of war, no formal declaration
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of war in Vietnam, no formal declaration of war in
Desert Storm, no formal declaration of war in the War
on Terror, because that was a bit more nebulous. We
were technically, I guess, at war with the Taliban with
in Afghanistan. There was a congressional authorization use of force
in the wake of nine to eleven. Yes, there was
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a congressional authoration authorization use of force in Iraq after
the case was presented to the United Nations, to the
American people, to the world. You remember infamously by Colin
Powell as he held up the vile weapons of mass destruction.
We have evidence that they're there. Saddam Hussein was protecting them.
My theory is that Hussein may in fact have had
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weapons of mass destruction at some time at one time
that column ae, and they were either moved or destroyed,
or when he knew they were coming, he got rid
of the evidence.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's one possibile.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The other one is he used completely bluffing because he
wanted people to believe that he had weapons of mass destruction,
and in fact he did use those kinds of nerve
gases chemical weapons mustard gas. I believe in the Iran
Iraq war of the nineteen eighties, that is a fact
Hussein did do that. But where they went, whether he
had him anymore, we'll never know. But in the wake
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of that, the invasion of Iraq seems to have been
in error, at least that's the kind reading on it.
The other one was w was finishing the job that
he feels his father did not. There were attempts on
Herbert Walker Bush's life assassination attempts authorized by Iraq and
Saddam Hussein. The weird thing about Hussein was a very
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you know, like most maniacal dictators, he was a strange man.
He was a very big fan of The Godfather, the movie.
Not joking here. He viewed himself as Don Corleone. He
viewed his sons, his two sons who were subsequently killed
in the military conflict in Iraq, Kuda and huse Uda
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and cuse Uda and Cusse. He hewed him as Sonny
and Michael Corleone. He actually liked Ronald Reagan, because Reagan
and for as many tremendous strengths, and he is my
all time favorite president, but Trump's closing ground on that.
Reagan and his administration propped up Saddam Hussein as the
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lesser of two evils in the Iran Iraq War because
we wanted to stand up to the Iatola's in Iran,
that theocracy which is now set to top and we
hope that it does from within, from within by the
Iranian people, because we viewed Iraq as a secular nation
with the Baptist regime of Saddam Hussein as being the
lesser of two evils. And I hate getting into the
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middle of that crap because where else did we do that?
Ironically and tragically Afghanistan, who did we fund and supply
Osama bin Laden and the resistance fighters against the Soviet
Union going way back?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And that blew up in our faces.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Literally, so you could see the historical precedent or lack thereof,
of congressional authorization of actual war, even military action, that
the president has plenary powers, that the President of the
United States, the commander in chief, has wide discretion, broad
discretion in the use of military force, as he or
she sees fit, and the Supreme Court has held this
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over the years. So this again, this is a fool's
errand by Chuck Schumer, But he continues in this analysis
over the phone.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
President Trump say that he intends for the United States
to run Venezuela. It was reckless, it was dangerous, and
looking at the president's demeanor, he didn't even seem to
be aware of how dangerous and reckless it is. Let
me be clear, Maduro is an illegitimate dictator. So that
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I'm launching military action without congressional authorization, without of the
credible plan for what comes next is reckless.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Who says we don't have a plan for what comes next.
We're in the midst of that right now. Now if
it tends to stumble and the Trump administration drops the
ball on this with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who's
there's all these memes out there that are hilarious. By
the way, of all these things that Marco Rubio now
has to do, they have them in different outfits, like, well,
he's got to run Venezuela. He's got to be the
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next Shaw of Iran, He's got to be the next
head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, and he's all
these visual depictions. He's got to be the next governor
of Minnesota, so he's got like some hunting gear on,
like Tim Malls tried to pretend that he did. So.
If they botched that, then let's wait and see whether
or not it's a success or a failure.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
We're not there yet. We're in the midst of that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We should be there for as little of time as
it takes to conduct legitimate freefare elections in Venezuela, there
were elections. Merduro defied the results of those elections. Hold
those Let the Venezuelan people decide who are their leaders
going to be. But until then, yeah, there's a vacuum
and avoid of power. There needs to be a plan
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for a transition. That is what Trump meant by saying
we run Venezuela right now. We got on an a
dish of hot takes dedicated to here's more from Schumer.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now, I was in the skiff on three different occasions,
as recently as the December, and I asked the administration,
I said, I asked them, is that are you pursuing
regime change? Are you intent on taking military action in Venezuela,
Belezuelan territory, and they assured me that they were not
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pursuing those things.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Is Chuck Schumer a person you would trust with that information?
Here's another element. It's the element of surprise in a
military mission like this where American lives are on the
line in real time, as they were with Navy Seal
Team six and the raid on the Osama bin Laden
compound in Pakistan, that was highly sensitive information. And I
don't blame President of Barack Obama one bit for conducting
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that raid with only the knowledge of the inner sanctum
of the Obama administration as they watched that play out.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You see the famous photo.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
As Shannon brilliantly pointed out yesterday, Joe Biden was the
only voice against it, against that successful ray, that historic raid.
And yes, I will give Barack Obama full credit. That
took gumption, that took stones, that took vision and good
judgment in that moment to go, you know what we're
going in. We got as good of intel as we're
ever gonna have. We got to do it now, We
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got to go in there now. And they got him
and they killed him. Osama bin Laden the greatest villain
of the twenty first century, and that needed to happen
under the cover of darkness, secrecy, cloak and dagger.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh, President Obama, here I go.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is wild. It's twenty twenty six, it's a.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
New year, folks.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'm going to defend Obama in this instance because I
want to be intellectually honest and consistent in the messaging here.
He couldn't afford to go to the leaders of the
House and the Senate, congregate them together, get some so
called gang of eight, talk to the full body of God.
Here's what we're gonna do. Let me show you the
game plan, and uh, please don't tell anybody, but we're
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going in a very time sensitive fashion to invade this
compound and either extract or kill Osama bin Laden. That
information could have leaked and you could not take that risk.
And the same applies in this raid in Venezuela to
extract Nicholas Maduro one Squeaky Wheel, one, shifty Shift one,
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Chuck Schumer, all these Democrats that are buddy buddy with
the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN. Remember the
tip to CNN on the raid of Roger Stone's home
or the mar A Lago raid in which they just
so happened to be there to cover it live. Do
you trust these dopes who obviously have it out for Trump,
who want him to fail, who want his administration to
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fail at all costs, even if it were at the
cost of American lives, of our troops in the field
in a special mission like this. No, I don't trust them,
And no, I don't blame President Trump for not trusting
them as far as he can throw them verbally, even
which is a pretty far distance.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Finally, from Schumer, Clearly they're not being straight with the
American people.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I've bean straight with you.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So I've been talking to so many members of my
caucus today. Everybody is very, very just, it's just totally totally,
totally troubled, worried about how dangerous this is.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh, come on, let me.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Lay out just a few of the actions that have
already been taken to hold the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Accountable accountable for what.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
First Leader Jeffries and I called on the Trump administration
to brief the Gang of Eight immediately following followed shortly
by a briefing for the entire Congress in the beginning
of next week.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well, he's doing the former this Gang of eight stuff.
I just saw Senator Shaheen. She's part of this kind
of smaller group of Senators and House members on these
special committees that are being briefed on the situation. And
of course the Democrats aren't going to go along with this,
and of course neither is Ran Paul. Where I differ
from rand Paul and I like him a lot. I
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love how he's taken down doctor Fauci, and that was
very important work that he did. But he is an isolationist.
He is America only not America.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
First. We're talking about like Lindbergh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Prior to World War Two, there was some understandable reservation
about getting involved in another military conflict on a global
scale after World War One, but there came a point
in time where Hitler represented an existential threat to the
planet and we needed to help Winston Churchill and Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It is proper for.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
The Congress to debate it, but the Senate will vote
on a bipartisan War Powers resolution to block the President
from any further military action in Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
How are you planning to vote?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'll vote yes because you know, our founding fathers debated this.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They debated whether or.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Not the initiation of war, the declaration of war should
begin with Congress, with the people, with the people's representatives.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
We are not at war with Venezuela. We liberated the
Venezuelan people from a dictator who was wrongly in power,
who lost an election and refused to conform to those results.
We are not at war with Venezuela. We are looking
to repower them on the global scale, economically, in their
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society so they didn't have to eat dogs in the
street anymore.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Or whether or not should be left to one person.
This was a long and very public debate.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's in the.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Federalist papers, the discussion. They worried about allowing too much
power to gravitate to the executive. They lamented what had
happened in wars. One hundred years of wars in Europe,
fought between the royalty, and they wanted to make it
harder than better war. So they gave the power to
the clear war to Congress.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
One brief aside here on Venezuela specifically, every situation is different.
When we toppled Saddam Hussein and his Baptist regime, in
Iraq there was a void. Was it Donald Rumsfeld or
Dick Cheney Shannon that said we would be greeted as liberators?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I believe it was Cheney who said that we were not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There was no history in that region, Constantinople, any of
it going way back where there was any remnants or
hint of democracy or that type of governance or that
type of society. Really in Iraq somewhat before Saddam Hussein,
before he took power by force, I might add, but
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nothing like Venezuela, which was a free and prosperous capitalistic
economy and nation prior to Hugoshaves. And as always happens,
and this case in history, Zora and Mundani, Bernie Sanders,
Alexandria Cassio Cortes, any of these so called democratic Socialists
of America who are fools, who are fools of history.
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Any time Bolshevik resident Revolution that turned into the Soviet
Union following the fall of Czarist Russia, it got worse,
It got markedly worse, It got infinitely worse. The breadlines
that pty, the squalor, the despair, the Gulags, the centralized
power of Joseph Stalin of Vladimir Lenin before him, even
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of Khrush Jeff.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Of China.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
What we're watching play out right now because power in
the hands of a few, at the expense of the
so called proletariat, forms inherently and ironically a centralized bourgeoisie.
You were told we're going to fight against them, and
now we have become the very thing that we told
you to fight against. And we hold the cards, and
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we hold the strings, and we took your guns, and
we took your ability to compete in the marketplace for
your consumer dollar to make decisions. Know we the centralized
government of a socialist economy, of a communist regime. We
are going to dictate the terms to you because we
know better than you individual rights, individual freedom's, individual liberties
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die at the altar of the collective, which makes this
statement by Zora and Mundani so chilling.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Welcome the change, No, you don't.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of
civility have deployed decorum to mass agendas of cruelty. Many
of these people have been betrayed by the established order.
But in our administration their needs will be met. Their
hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government.
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They will shape our future. And if for too long
these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we
will draw this city closer together. We will replace the
frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
My God, the fall of the Soviet Union, the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of Yugoslavia from which
my mother emigrated and both my grandparents are parents fled
from the communist dictator Tito to come to America, to
be Americans, to enjoy those very rugged individualistic freedoms that
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my grandparents enjoyed, that my grandfather in particular, prospered with.
He set up shop, He had a farm of his own,
He hired young men to come work on his farm.
He worked hard, and he built a very small portion
of the American dream. And he did that here where
he couldn't do it in Yugoslavia, where it could not
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be done. This is why when you hear somebody let
me speak to this, it echoes what you hear, probably
from Marco Rubio, from Ted Cruz, who descend themselves from
Cuban Americans, who experience this absolute nightmare of socialism and communism.
The Venezuelan people know this full well. There is a
tremendous opportunity here that they will hit the ground running
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in a nation base on capitalistic principles, on an oil
reserve that is unmatched in the world, whether it be
Saudi Arabia, Texas, Russia, wherever else. The richest oil reserves
on the planet are right there in Venezuela, just waiting
to be tapped into so that the people of Venezuela
can prosper. So they can prosper, and that is the plan.
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But Democrats would have you believe otherwise. When long in
this segment, will come back your tax five seven, seven,
three nine. Let's open those phone lines as well. Three
zero three seven to one, three eight two five five.
Another example of centralized government crumbling, at least in this country.
I used to work for National Public Radio for a
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station affiliated at WCMU Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
for a public radio station there. And the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting has breathed its last breath. And Senator John
Kennedy will have some buy you bits wisdom on this
when we come back after this.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
On Ryan schuling life.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's time to head to Cajun Creole country with Louisiana
Republican Senator John Kennedy for today's installment of Buy You
Bits of Wisdom.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I'm going to give you a few examples of stories
that NPR has published using taxpayer money. I'll just read
the headline. First headline, NPR News Service Michael Abanati quote
a profile of the media savvy attorney. They love Michael Labanatti.
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You know where Michael Abanatti is today. He's in jail.
You know why. He's a crook. But for a while
he was a media darling on NPR. Here's another headline
from NPR, how racism became a marketing tool for country music.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I kid you not.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
American taxpayers are spending half of billion dollars a year
to pay a local station to buy content that says
country music has racist Here's another headline from NTR, Donald
Trump's long embrace of Vladimir Putin. Remember the the Russia Gate,
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the Steel Dossi eight.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
NPR was right in there promoting it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
A couple more.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Headlines than NPR. It's putting out there using your tax dollars.
This headline monuments and teams have changed names. Let me
say the game monuments and teams because of the police.
Sports teams and change names as America reckons with racism.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Birds are next.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I don't know any birds that are racist. Here's another headline,
eating less beef is a climate solution. Eating less beef
is a climate solution. I don't have anything that's vegetarians.
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I'm a semi vegetarian myself. I eat beef and beef
and Towsy eat grass, So that makes me a semi vegetarian.
But that's my choice, not on NPR. Eating less beef
is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some
American men. Here's the final hit line. I could go
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on the rest of the evening. How the Talibond adds
to Afghanistan's woes when it comes to climate fuel disaster. Boy,
I can tell you that's on the mind of every
person that afghanis Standarday is climate change and the Taliban.
I can guarantee you I don't have a problem with
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these headlines. This is America. If you want to publish
articles like this, which no person with a brain above
a single cell organism would call fair and balanced. If
you're a news outlet, and you want to publish this
kind of stuff, that is your right as an American.
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We have freedom of the press, we have the First Amendment.
You're not free in our country if you can't say
what you to crank. You're not freeing our country if
you can't express yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm all par of this.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
If that's what these outlets want to do, but I'm
not for take and five hundred million dollars every single
year and giving it to these stations to the exclusion
of everybody else so they can do it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Programming is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and viewers like you remember those intros to PBS shows.
There was a time when that model was necessary. Fred
Rogers testified in front of Congress and he had them
do a one eighty on the funding for the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, be it PBS or NPR at a
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time when our choices were limited to and Shanner remember
these days rabbit ear televisions, ABC, CBS, NBC and then
maybe your local PBS station. Those days are over and
they really started to end. In my childhood as a
gen xer with Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon was privately funded. Nickelodeon depended
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on cable subscriptions Sports Channel.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We're in the day of streaming.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Services Netflix, Paramount Plus Prime Video, and these are all
standalone organizations. They don't rely on government funding. So if
you want to run bull bonk like that, that's fine.
According to John Kennedy, but why should the government be
propping it up and funding it when it's clearly partisan
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in its agenda.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It should rely exclusively on listeners like you, on viewers
like you, on underwriters who now become sponsors, and somehow
you find a way to monetize the programming, and if
you don't like commercial interruptions, then you sell those that
are a higher rate for sponsors that are willing to
say at the beginning of a program, or maybe one
time in limited commercial interruption in the middle of a program, Hey,
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we sponsored this. There was no reason for this antiquated
bottle to continue. One final point before we go to
break here, we'll get to your text on the other
side five seven seven thirty nine NPR ridiculus as it was,
and he pointed out several examples.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This is my main problem.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
One of them one of epluribus unham out of many one.
The Taliban, okay, with their seventh century riding around on
camels and donkeys. They're poppy fields for heroin. They represent
a threat their lifestyle, whatever you want to say, you know,
cow farts, camel farts, whatever, going into the atmosphere. They
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Afghanistan Caliban represent a threat the climate change. Where are
the stories, the protests, the rallies, whether it's John Carey
or Bill Gates who has since changed his tune on this,
By the way, Greta Tunberg for China or India, the
two by far most polluting nations on the planet, and
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yet there is an interesting lack of focus, attention, coverage
on those two countries when it comes to that issue,
but they focus on the Taliban. Please explain that to me,
like I'm five, how that makes sense and why they
would leave China alone, the most massive polluter on the planet,
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China alone.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Why why is.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Greta Thunberg not protesting in Tienamen Square or Beijing? A timeout,
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This Saturday in Greeley.
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Mandy Connell, my colleague over at KOA, you'res truly going
to be moderating this event. I went from six invites.
That one was declined by Victor Marx, one of the
candidates who has been on this program and you may
have heard him that conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
On Monday morning.
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Then we had Greg Lopezan studio yesterday. He changed party
affiliations from Republican unaffiliated, so he subsequently bowed out of
any and all Republican events, including the primary itself, and
he's going to try to get on the ballot as
an independent, gathering signatures that way and then we hear
yesterday an announcement from Senator Mark Basley, real nice guy,
had him in studio myself that final week before the
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end of the year break in hiatus that I was on,
and instead of running for governor, the state senator will
be running for US Senator against John Hickenlooper if he
can make it through a Republican primary himself, and we'll
have Mark on I'm sure to discuss this change of
attack for him to go after the Senate race rather
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than the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So what are we left with?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Sheriff Mike Sel, Representative Scott Bottoms, Senator Barb Kirkmeyer. The
three of them at least as it stands right now,
set to participate in that forum coming up on Saturday
at the Double Tree in Greeley. Still tickets available. If
you want more information, contact me via text five seven
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Gonna be jam packed, gonna be fun. Hope you can
make it. This email comes in from Travis, and I
don't want to get him in trouble because of what
he says in the email good morning, I work in
a skiff and cannot have my phone, but always catch
your show for several years now, Well thank you, Travis
loving the Venezuela segment. Problem I have is this the
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lamestream media will never report on the flopping from the
Dems and could serve it as largely struggle with calling
them out and getting the hypocrisy out there. Improving slightly,
they would start getting more support if they could get
the message out better. They could do so just by
aligning themselves with this program, because that's what we do.
That's all I have to do is just present the facts,
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the evidence, the audio archives, compare and contrast them, and
just allow listeners like you.
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To drive your own conclusions. And you know where this
is going.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Ryan, way to overwork Dragon for making him work the
situation reloaded. He was complaining about all the extra work
he now has to do. Yeah, that was all my fault.
Actually know, that's Michael Brown's fault. He's the one that
started this whole domino theory in the first place by
bouncing over to KOA nine am to noon. Then I
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had to come in here and clean up his mess.
And then what do we do because I am a human.
I'm a man, not a machine. Jim star Trek. If
John Caldera is listening, I know he appreciated that one.
But I can't do the four hours here and then
the two hours two to four and then also come
back and do Dan Show, which I'm still doing. So
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they're repackaging the situation with Michael Brown as a situation
reloaded Dragon Go Reload for me, because you know, Michael
Brown's not doing any of that work.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Behind the scenes.
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At least, Shannon and I are working on a system
where we're posting the post production elements of this program,
meaning the podcast, and there's some communication along those lines.
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But lucky for Shannon and lucky for me, we have
each other.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That's the Detroit connection. I'm still a little wrapped around
the axle with Chuck Humor's insults of me after our
brief meeting in the congressional locker room.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Flopped and long and unsatisfying.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Thanks Chuck, Wow, at least there was anyway. I'm just
gonna let that stand alone. It doesn't need my help.
I need help. So we're gonna go to break and
then when we come back our number two, we're really
gonna get into the devil of the details of the
disastrous appearance by Representative Jason Crowe. I reluctantly say my
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congressman voted against him every time that I've lived here
since twenty eighteen, including for the awesome John Fabricatory, who
should be our congressman in the sixth Congressional district. But
he went on the story with Martha McCallum and had
his own head served to him on a platter by Martha.
That's the end of this hour again. You can line
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Guaranteed human.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
He brags about all these things he wants to do
or is doing, but his actions belie his words. Maybe
the best metaphor was his claim to bring democracy to Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
There was a big policy there, Chuck Schumer in twenty twenty.
It flopped. Oh, if the policy was working.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Juan Guido wouldn't be in the balcony here, He'd be
in Venezuela. Oh should be eh, he'd be sitting in
the President's palace, or at least waging a fight to win.
He's here, and the President brags about his Venezuela policy.
Give us a break. He hasn't brought an end to
the Maduro regime.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
He just did.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Meduro regime is more powerful today and more intrenched
today than it was when the president began.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Something I've noticed, and this isn't like a slam dunk
endorsement of the Republicans in the House of the Senate
Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Don't misread it as that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
But what I noticed from them is a complete lack
of this cognitive dissonance in which they go right out
to the media in the Democrats case, in Chuck Schumer's case,
they're sick of phanic. They're looking to carry water for
the Democrats, for Schumer, for Jeffries, for the leadership, for Pelosi,
for Biden. So the Democrats know this, so they get
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lazy and they don't have those muscles developed figuratively metaphorically speaking,
to be able to calculate, like I'm going to say
something now and it might come back to haunt me
because I'm going to say the exact opposite thing a
year later, two years later, in this.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Case, five years later.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Do they not know that there is video and audio
evidence which I just played, which will go on the record,
which will go into the archives of Ryan Schuling Live
with the Dan Kapli Show, of all that cares to
use it throughout the United States of America, and that
this audio will be reprised and repurposed to counterpoint a
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new point that a Democrat makes now that Donald Trump
has done it. It is so intellectually dishonest, But that's
the least of it. It's just laughable for anybody with
cursory knowledge of the political arena who pays any attention whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
I'm talking like a medium information voter.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
But what they're counting on, and what they're probably right
about in the calculus, is that most people are low
information voters, that they won't take the time to do
their research, that they won't go back and wait a minute,
you said the exact opposite thing five years ago.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
What changed?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Oh, Donald Trump did the thing that you were criticizing
him for not doing. Because here comes Chuck Schumer just
now over these last few days since the ouster of
Nicholas Maduro from Venezuela. Oh, we well, we wanted it done,
but it shouldn't have been done like that. You should
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have notified Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
So what can the Congress do about it? Is the
next question?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
Well, the next question is very simple, and that is
that we have the War Powers Act. That's a privileged resolution,
which means the Republicans can't block it. Tim Kane and
I and Ran Polar sponsors of it. It's going to
come to the floor this week and if it is
voted for, if it's voted positively in both houses, then
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the President can't do another thing in Venezuela without the
okay of Congress.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
We have to pass You don't have to pass this
I mean, we have not declared war on Venezuela the nation.
That is a foolish notion and he should know that.
He probably does know that, and cynically he is stating otherwise.
There was a very specific target admission to move an
illegitimate leader from a communist country that was once free.
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Venezuela was a thriving capitalistic economy, society and nation not
that long ago, within my lifetime, but then you had
a communist dictator take over and then Nicholas Baduro assumed
the reins.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
After that, Baduro was a murderous thug.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Set aside the fact that New Year knew, Anna Navarro
on the View, She's not gonna go as far as
to just flip flop on this issue like Chuck Schumer did,
and like, well, Jason Crowe is and we'll get to
him in just a moment. Come on, Anna Navarro in
the View yesterday, what your question?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Who voted for this?
Speaker 5 (04:51):
The people in South Florida, the Venezuelan community, the Cuban
American community, the akoraj when American community voted for this,
and for us, this is a very very happy day
when we see a dictator who has been part of
oppressing and abusing the Venezuelan people for twenty five years.
When we see him in handcuffs and held to some
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sort of accountability, it brought me into two tears.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It brought me great joy.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
And you know, I live in South Florida, But there's
these Are you okay with the way that it was done?
But you can I think both things can be true.
I think you can criticize and ask questions and have
concerns about the way it was done and what this
means in the future. And I think you can still
celebrate that this murderous, corrupt, satistic son of a bitch
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is out of Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah he has.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
I think there's say million Venezuelan exiles all over the world.
People have fled from this man's tyrannical rule.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Good for Anna Navarro And I asked this now in
the moment, in the present moment. Here we are Tuesday,
January sixth, This executed raid of the Madeuro compound. His
extraction along with his wife went flawlessly over the weekend.
There was not a single American troops life loss. There
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were injuries, so those are technically casualties, but no fatalities.
There were fatalities all around the Maduro compound as the
United States Special Forces Troops, air, land, and Sea executed
this flawlessly.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I might add.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
This is where a person like Jason Crow or Senator
Mark Kelly, they get in a little bit of a
sticky wicket, because now, what are you going to do?
Are you going to criticize the execution of the mission,
which again went off without a hitch, mission accomplished to
this point, it could not have been.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Done any better than it was.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Without a single life loss, without a single civilian casualty,
I might add, on the ground in Venezuela, they killed
the thugs that were supposed to be protecting Nicholas Maduro.
That's part of the cost of doing business here. I
ask a sunny hoston now, I don't ask her leave
her out. She's not no longer the raining full of
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the year, but she was full of the year twenty
twenty four before Jasmine Crockett ascended to the throne for
twenty twenty five. But I'll ask a Jason Crowe and
you'll hear this too. In just a moment with Martha McCallum,
who was a masterful in slicing and dicing Crow, serving
him up hot on a platter on her program. I
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don't know why he subjects himself to this. It's a
complete mismatch on the story with Martha McCallum on Fox News.
And it is not the first time it's happened, and
if he keeps going on there, it won't be the last.
But I ask them, how could this have been done
any better?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
It couldn't have been.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
This was masterful now part of this whole endeavor I
fully acknowledge. And I'm a little bit with rand Paul
on this, and you'll hear him in a moment. It's
not just winning the war.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
The war's over.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
We're not at war with Venezuela any longer. We got
rid of its leader. He's gone. Imagine if we had
been this neat and clean in removing Saddam Husayn from Iraq,
we weren't. We lost thousands of lives in Iraq. And
what was not a formal declaration of war. We have
to go back to that to be historically accurate. Congress
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authorized the use of force in Iraq. We never formally
declared war. We haven't formally declared war since World War
II by congressional vote and act. The military conflict in
Korea was just that it was. We call it the
Korean War. No formal declaration of war, no formal declaration
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of war in Vietnam, no formal declaration of war in
Desert Storm, no formal declaration of war in the War
on Terror, because that was a bit more nebulous. We
were technically, I guess, at war with the Taliban with
in Afghanistan. There was a congressional authorization use of force
in the wake of nine to eleven. Yes, there was
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a congressional authoration authorization use of force in Iraq after
the case was presented to the United Nations, to the
American people, to the world. You remember infamously by Colin
Powell as he held up the vile weapons of mass destruction.
We have evidence that they're there. Saddam Hussein was protecting them.
My theory is that Hussein may in fact have had
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weapons of mass destruction at some time at one time
that column ae, and they were either moved or destroyed,
or when he knew they were coming, he got rid
of the evidence.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
That's one possibile.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
The other one is he used completely bluffing because he
wanted people to believe that he had weapons of mass destruction,
and in fact he did use those kinds of nerve
gases chemical weapons mustard gas. I believe in the Iran
Iraq war of the nineteen eighties, that is a fact
Hussein did do that. But where they went, whether he
had him anymore, we'll never know. But in the wake
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of that, the invasion of Iraq seems to have been
in error, at least that's the kind reading on it.
The other one was w was finishing the job that
he feels his father did not. There were attempts on
Herbert Walker Bush's life assassination attempts authorized by Iraq and
Saddam Hussein. The weird thing about Hussein was a very
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you know, like most maniacal dictators, he was a strange man.
He was a very big fan of The Godfather, the movie.
Not joking here. He viewed himself as Don Corleone. He
viewed his sons, his two sons who were subsequently killed
in the military conflict in Iraq, Kuda and huse Uda
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and cuse Uda and Cusse. He hewed him as Sonny
and Michael Corleone. He actually liked Ronald Reagan, because Reagan
and for as many tremendous strengths, and he is my
all time favorite president, but Trump's closing ground on that.
Reagan and his administration propped up Saddam Hussein as the
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lesser of two evils in the Iran Iraq War because
we wanted to stand up to the Iatola's in Iran,
that theocracy which is now set to top and we
hope that it does from within, from within by the
Iranian people, because we viewed Iraq as a secular nation
with the Baptist regime of Saddam Hussein as being the
lesser of two evils. And I hate getting into the
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middle of that crap because where else did we do that?
Ironically and tragically Afghanistan, who did we fund and supply
Osama bin Laden and the resistance fighters against the Soviet
Union going way back?
Speaker 2 (11:46):
And that blew up in our faces.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Literally, so you could see the historical precedent or lack thereof,
of congressional authorization of actual war, even military action, that
the president has plenary powers, that the President of the
United States, the commander in chief, has wide discretion, broad
discretion in the use of military force, as he or
she sees fit, and the Supreme Court has held this
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over the years. So this again, this is a fool's
errand by Chuck Schumer, But he continues in this analysis
over the phone.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
President Trump say that he intends for the United States
to run Venezuela. It was reckless, it was dangerous, and
looking at the president's demeanor, he didn't even seem to
be aware of how dangerous and reckless it is. Let
me be clear, Maduro is an illegitimate dictator. So that
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I'm launching military action without congressional authorization, without of the
credible plan for what comes next is reckless.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Who says we don't have a plan for what comes next.
We're in the midst of that right now. Now if
it tends to stumble and the Trump administration drops the
ball on this with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who's
there's all these memes out there that are hilarious. By
the way, of all these things that Marco Rubio now
has to do, they have them in different outfits, like, well,
he's got to run Venezuela. He's got to be the
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next Shaw of Iran, He's got to be the next
head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders, and he's all
these visual depictions. He's got to be the next governor
of Minnesota, so he's got like some hunting gear on,
like Tim Malls tried to pretend that he did. So.
If they botched that, then let's wait and see whether
or not it's a success or a failure.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
We're not there yet. We're in the midst of that.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
We should be there for as little of time as
it takes to conduct legitimate freefare elections in Venezuela, there
were elections. Merduro defied the results of those elections. Hold
those Let the Venezuelan people decide who are their leaders
going to be. But until then, yeah, there's a vacuum
and avoid of power. There needs to be a plan
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for a transition. That is what Trump meant by saying
we run Venezuela right now. We got on an a
dish of hot takes dedicated to here's more from Schumer.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Now, I was in the skiff on three different occasions,
as recently as the December, and I asked the administration,
I said, I asked them, is that are you pursuing
regime change? Are you intent on taking military action in Venezuela,
Belezuelan territory, and they assured me that they were not
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pursuing those things.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Is Chuck Schumer a person you would trust with that information?
Here's another element. It's the element of surprise in a
military mission like this where American lives are on the
line in real time, as they were with Navy Seal
Team six and the raid on the Osama bin Laden
compound in Pakistan, that was highly sensitive information. And I
don't blame President of Barack Obama one bit for conducting
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that raid with only the knowledge of the inner sanctum
of the Obama administration as they watched that play out.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You see the famous photo.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
As Shannon brilliantly pointed out yesterday, Joe Biden was the
only voice against it, against that successful ray, that historic raid.
And yes, I will give Barack Obama full credit. That
took gumption, that took stones, that took vision and good
judgment in that moment to go, you know what we're
going in. We got as good of intel as we're
ever gonna have. We got to do it now, We
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got to go in there now. And they got him
and they killed him. Osama bin Laden the greatest villain
of the twenty first century, and that needed to happen
under the cover of darkness, secrecy, cloak and dagger.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Oh, President Obama, here I go.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
This is wild. It's twenty twenty six, it's a.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
New year, folks.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I'm going to defend Obama in this instance because I
want to be intellectually honest and consistent in the messaging here.
He couldn't afford to go to the leaders of the
House and the Senate, congregate them together, get some so
called gang of eight, talk to the full body of God.
Here's what we're gonna do. Let me show you the
game plan, and uh, please don't tell anybody, but we're
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going in a very time sensitive fashion to invade this
compound and either extract or kill Osama bin Laden. That
information could have leaked and you could not take that risk.
And the same applies in this raid in Venezuela to
extract Nicholas Maduro one Squeaky Wheel, one, shifty Shift one,
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Chuck Schumer, all these Democrats that are buddy buddy with
the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN. Remember the
tip to CNN on the raid of Roger Stone's home
or the mar A Lago raid in which they just
so happened to be there to cover it live. Do
you trust these dopes who obviously have it out for Trump,
who want him to fail, who want his administration to
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fail at all costs, even if it were at the
cost of American lives, of our troops in the field
in a special mission like this. No, I don't trust them,
And no, I don't blame President Trump for not trusting
them as far as he can throw them verbally, even
which is a pretty far distance.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Finally, from Schumer, Clearly they're not being straight with the
American people.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I've bean straight with you.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So I've been talking to so many members of my
caucus today. Everybody is very, very just, it's just totally totally,
totally troubled, worried about how dangerous this is.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Oh, come on, let me.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Lay out just a few of the actions that have
already been taken to hold the Trump administration.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Accountable accountable for what.
Speaker 4 (17:30):
First Leader Jeffries and I called on the Trump administration
to brief the Gang of Eight immediately following followed shortly
by a briefing for the entire Congress in the beginning
of next week.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Well, he's doing the former this Gang of eight stuff.
I just saw Senator Shaheen. She's part of this kind
of smaller group of Senators and House members on these
special committees that are being briefed on the situation. And
of course the Democrats aren't going to go along with this,
and of course neither is Ran Paul. Where I differ
from rand Paul and I like him a lot. I
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love how he's taken down doctor Fauci, and that was
very important work that he did. But he is an isolationist.
He is America only not America.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
First. We're talking about like Lindbergh.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Prior to World War Two, there was some understandable reservation
about getting involved in another military conflict on a global
scale after World War One, but there came a point
in time where Hitler represented an existential threat to the
planet and we needed to help Winston Churchill and Great Britain.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
It is proper for.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
The Congress to debate it, but the Senate will vote
on a bipartisan War Powers resolution to block the President
from any further military action in Venezuela.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
How are you planning to vote?
Speaker 6 (18:43):
I'll vote yes because you know, our founding fathers debated this.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They debated whether or.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Not the initiation of war, the declaration of war should
begin with Congress, with the people, with the people's representatives.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
We are not at war with Venezuela. We liberated the
Venezuelan people from a dictator who was wrongly in power,
who lost an election and refused to conform to those results.
We are not at war with Venezuela. We are looking
to repower them on the global scale, economically, in their
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society so they didn't have to eat dogs in the
street anymore.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Or whether or not should be left to one person.
This was a long and very public debate.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
It's in the.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Federalist papers, the discussion. They worried about allowing too much
power to gravitate to the executive. They lamented what had
happened in wars. One hundred years of wars in Europe,
fought between the royalty, and they wanted to make it
harder than better war. So they gave the power to
the clear war to Congress.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
One brief aside here on Venezuela specifically, every situation is different.
When we toppled Saddam Hussein and his Baptist regime, in
Iraq there was a void. Was it Donald Rumsfeld or
Dick Cheney Shannon that said we would be greeted as liberators?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
I believe it was Cheney who said that we were not.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
There was no history in that region, Constantinople, any of
it going way back where there was any remnants or
hint of democracy or that type of governance or that
type of society. Really in Iraq somewhat before Saddam Hussein,
before he took power by force, I might add, but
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nothing like Venezuela, which was a free and prosperous capitalistic
economy and nation prior to Hugoshaves. And as always happens,
and this case in history, Zora and Mundani, Bernie Sanders,
Alexandria Cassio Cortes, any of these so called democratic Socialists
of America who are fools, who are fools of history.
(20:46):
Any time Bolshevik resident Revolution that turned into the Soviet
Union following the fall of Czarist Russia, it got worse,
It got markedly worse, It got infinitely worse. The breadlines
that pty, the squalor, the despair, the Gulags, the centralized
power of Joseph Stalin of Vladimir Lenin before him, even
(21:10):
of Khrush Jeff.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Of China.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
What we're watching play out right now because power in
the hands of a few, at the expense of the
so called proletariat, forms inherently and ironically a centralized bourgeoisie.
You were told we're going to fight against them, and
now we have become the very thing that we told
you to fight against. And we hold the cards, and
(21:35):
we hold the strings, and we took your guns, and
we took your ability to compete in the marketplace for
your consumer dollar to make decisions. Know we the centralized
government of a socialist economy, of a communist regime. We
are going to dictate the terms to you because we
know better than you individual rights, individual freedom's, individual liberties
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die at the altar of the collective, which makes this
statement by Zora and Mundani so chilling.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Welcome the change, No, you don't.
Speaker 7 (22:10):
For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of
civility have deployed decorum to mass agendas of cruelty. Many
of these people have been betrayed by the established order.
But in our administration their needs will be met. Their
hopes and dreams and interests will be reflected transparently in government.
(22:32):
They will shape our future. And if for too long
these communities have existed as distinct from one another, we
will draw this city closer together. We will replace the
frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
My God, the fall of the Soviet Union, the fall
of the Berlin Wall, the dissolution of Yugoslavia from which
my mother emigrated and both my grandparents are parents fled
from the communist dictator Tito to come to America, to
be Americans, to enjoy those very rugged individualistic freedoms that
(23:12):
my grandparents enjoyed, that my grandfather in particular, prospered with.
He set up shop, He had a farm of his own,
He hired young men to come work on his farm.
He worked hard, and he built a very small portion
of the American dream. And he did that here where
he couldn't do it in Yugoslavia, where it could not
(23:34):
be done. This is why when you hear somebody let
me speak to this, it echoes what you hear, probably
from Marco Rubio, from Ted Cruz, who descend themselves from
Cuban Americans, who experience this absolute nightmare of socialism and communism.
The Venezuelan people know this full well. There is a
tremendous opportunity here that they will hit the ground running
(23:58):
in a nation base on capitalistic principles, on an oil
reserve that is unmatched in the world, whether it be
Saudi Arabia, Texas, Russia, wherever else. The richest oil reserves
on the planet are right there in Venezuela, just waiting
to be tapped into so that the people of Venezuela
can prosper. So they can prosper, and that is the plan.
(24:22):
But Democrats would have you believe otherwise. When long in
this segment, will come back your tax five seven, seven,
three nine. Let's open those phone lines as well. Three
zero three seven to one, three eight two five five.
Another example of centralized government crumbling, at least in this country.
I used to work for National Public Radio for a
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station affiliated at WCMU Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, Michigan,
for a public radio station there. And the Corporation of
Public Broadcasting has breathed its last breath. And Senator John
Kennedy will have some buy you bits wisdom on this
when we come back after this.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
On Ryan schuling life.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
It's time to head to Cajun Creole country with Louisiana
Republican Senator John Kennedy for today's installment of Buy You
Bits of Wisdom.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I'm going to give you a few examples of stories
that NPR has published using taxpayer money. I'll just read
the headline. First headline, NPR News Service Michael Abanati quote
a profile of the media savvy attorney. They love Michael Labanatti.
(25:38):
You know where Michael Abanatti is today. He's in jail.
You know why. He's a crook. But for a while
he was a media darling on NPR. Here's another headline
from NPR, how racism became a marketing tool for country music.
Speaker 7 (26:06):
I kid you not.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
American taxpayers are spending half of billion dollars a year
to pay a local station to buy content that says
country music has racist Here's another headline from NTR, Donald
Trump's long embrace of Vladimir Putin. Remember the the Russia Gate,
(26:38):
the Steel Dossi eight.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
NPR was right in there promoting it.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
A couple more.
Speaker 8 (26:47):
Headlines than NPR. It's putting out there using your tax dollars.
This headline monuments and teams have changed names. Let me
say the game monuments and teams because of the police.
Sports teams and change names as America reckons with racism.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Birds are next.
Speaker 8 (27:15):
I don't know any birds that are racist. Here's another headline,
eating less beef is a climate solution. Eating less beef
is a climate solution. I don't have anything that's vegetarians.
(27:36):
I'm a semi vegetarian myself. I eat beef and beef
and Towsy eat grass, So that makes me a semi vegetarian.
But that's my choice, not on NPR. Eating less beef
is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some
American men. Here's the final hit line. I could go
(28:00):
on the rest of the evening. How the Talibond adds
to Afghanistan's woes when it comes to climate fuel disaster. Boy,
I can tell you that's on the mind of every
person that afghanis Standarday is climate change and the Taliban.
I can guarantee you I don't have a problem with
(28:21):
these headlines. This is America. If you want to publish
articles like this, which no person with a brain above
a single cell organism would call fair and balanced. If
you're a news outlet, and you want to publish this
kind of stuff, that is your right as an American.
(28:42):
We have freedom of the press, we have the First Amendment.
You're not free in our country if you can't say
what you to crank. You're not freeing our country if
you can't express yourself.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm all par of this.
Speaker 8 (28:55):
If that's what these outlets want to do, but I'm
not for take and five hundred million dollars every single
year and giving it to these stations to the exclusion
of everybody else so they can do it.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Programming is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and viewers like you remember those intros to PBS shows.
There was a time when that model was necessary. Fred
Rogers testified in front of Congress and he had them
do a one eighty on the funding for the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, be it PBS or NPR at a
(29:36):
time when our choices were limited to and Shanner remember
these days rabbit ear televisions, ABC, CBS, NBC and then
maybe your local PBS station. Those days are over and
they really started to end. In my childhood as a
gen xer with Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon was privately funded. Nickelodeon depended
(29:57):
on cable subscriptions Sports Channel.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
We're in the day of streaming.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Services Netflix, Paramount Plus Prime Video, and these are all
standalone organizations. They don't rely on government funding. So if
you want to run bull bonk like that, that's fine.
According to John Kennedy, but why should the government be
propping it up and funding it when it's clearly partisan
(30:22):
in its agenda.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
It should rely exclusively on listeners like you, on viewers
like you, on underwriters who now become sponsors, and somehow
you find a way to monetize the programming, and if
you don't like commercial interruptions, then you sell those that
are a higher rate for sponsors that are willing to
say at the beginning of a program, or maybe one
time in limited commercial interruption in the middle of a program, Hey,
(30:48):
we sponsored this. There was no reason for this antiquated
bottle to continue. One final point before we go to
break here, we'll get to your text on the other
side five seven seven thirty nine NPR ridiculus as it was,
and he pointed out several examples.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
This is my main problem.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
One of them one of epluribus unham out of many one.
The Taliban, okay, with their seventh century riding around on
camels and donkeys. They're poppy fields for heroin. They represent
a threat their lifestyle, whatever you want to say, you know,
cow farts, camel farts, whatever, going into the atmosphere. They
(31:26):
Afghanistan Caliban represent a threat the climate change. Where are
the stories, the protests, the rallies, whether it's John Carey
or Bill Gates who has since changed his tune on this,
By the way, Greta Tunberg for China or India, the
two by far most polluting nations on the planet, and
(31:50):
yet there is an interesting lack of focus, attention, coverage
on those two countries when it comes to that issue,
but they focus on the Taliban. Please explain that to me,
like I'm five, how that makes sense and why they
would leave China alone, the most massive polluter on the planet,
(32:12):
China alone.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Why why is.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Greta Thunberg not protesting in Tienamen Square or Beijing? A timeout,
wrapping up this hour of Ryan Schuling live again your
tax five seven seven, three nine, your phone calls to
that phone line, It's open. Shannon is lonely call him,
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Detroit Connection re established ACDC style and with your texts
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five via phone. Coming up during the nine o'clock hour,
our conversation with Sheriff Jason Mike Soel, who is running
for governor, and our feetield for the forum that's coming up.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
This Saturday in Greeley.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Mandy Connell, my colleague over at KOA, you'res truly going
to be moderating this event. I went from six invites.
That one was declined by Victor Marx, one of the
candidates who has been on this program and you may
have heard him that conversation.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
On Monday morning.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Then we had Greg Lopezan studio yesterday. He changed party
affiliations from Republican unaffiliated, so he subsequently bowed out of
any and all Republican events, including the primary itself, and
he's going to try to get on the ballot as
an independent, gathering signatures that way and then we hear
yesterday an announcement from Senator Mark Basley, real nice guy,
had him in studio myself that final week before the
(33:41):
end of the year break in hiatus that I was on,
and instead of running for governor, the state senator will
be running for US Senator against John Hickenlooper if he
can make it through a Republican primary himself, and we'll
have Mark on I'm sure to discuss this change of
attack for him to go after the Senate race rather
(34:01):
than the governor's race.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
So what are we left with?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Sheriff Mike Sel, Representative Scott Bottoms, Senator Barb Kirkmeyer. The
three of them at least as it stands right now,
set to participate in that forum coming up on Saturday
at the Double Tree in Greeley. Still tickets available. If
you want more information, contact me via text five seven
seven three nine. I'll send you a link from Sheriff
Steve Reims. They've expanded the seating capacity for the events.
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Gonna be jam packed, gonna be fun. Hope you can
make it. This email comes in from Travis, and I
don't want to get him in trouble because of what
he says in the email good morning, I work in
a skiff and cannot have my phone, but always catch
your show for several years now, Well thank you, Travis
loving the Venezuela segment. Problem I have is this the
(34:47):
lamestream media will never report on the flopping from the
Dems and could serve it as largely struggle with calling
them out and getting the hypocrisy out there. Improving slightly,
they would start getting more support if they could get
the message out better. They could do so just by
aligning themselves with this program, because that's what we do.
That's all I have to do is just present the facts,
(35:08):
the evidence, the audio archives, compare and contrast them, and
just allow listeners like you.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
To drive your own conclusions. And you know where this
is going.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Ryan, way to overwork Dragon for making him work the
situation reloaded. He was complaining about all the extra work
he now has to do. Yeah, that was all my fault.
Actually know, that's Michael Brown's fault. He's the one that
started this whole domino theory in the first place by
bouncing over to KOA nine am to noon. Then I
(35:41):
had to come in here and clean up his mess.
And then what do we do because I am a human.
I'm a man, not a machine. Jim star Trek. If
John Caldera is listening, I know he appreciated that one.
But I can't do the four hours here and then
the two hours two to four and then also come
back and do Dan Show, which I'm still doing. So
(36:02):
they're repackaging the situation with Michael Brown as a situation
reloaded Dragon Go Reload for me, because you know, Michael
Brown's not doing any of that work.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Behind the scenes.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
At least, Shannon and I are working on a system
where we're posting the post production elements of this program,
meaning the podcast, and there's some communication along those lines.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
But lucky for Shannon and lucky for me, we have
each other.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
That's the Detroit connection. I'm still a little wrapped around
the axle with Chuck Humor's insults of me after our
brief meeting in the congressional locker room.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Flopped and long and unsatisfying.
Speaker 1 (36:40):
Thanks Chuck, Wow, at least there was anyway. I'm just
gonna let that stand alone. It doesn't need my help.
I need help. So we're gonna go to break and
then when we come back our number two, we're really
gonna get into the devil of the details of the
disastrous appearance by Representative Jason Crowe. I reluctantly say my
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congressman voted against him every time that I've lived here
since twenty eighteen, including for the awesome John Fabricatory, who
should be our congressman in the sixth Congressional district. But
he went on the story with Martha McCallum and had
his own head served to him on a platter by Martha.
That's the end of this hour again. You can line
yourself up on the phone lines three zero three seven
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