Well, is there anything going on at the moment in the world?

Ha!

Welcome to 2026, ladies and gents.

Another episode, our first exciting installment of the year of Josh versus the News.

Venezuela, Trump, the end of American exceptionalism, or, as I like to call it in a little theory I've been working on,

the big dick, little dick theory of American militarism. Bear with me. I'll come to this in

a moment. First of all, happy New Year. Happy, I was going to say happy holidays, but apparently

that's anti-Christian, so Merry Christmas, and also

it was a while ago, so maybe not. Happy Australia Day, if you want to get yourself into some

real heat, that's coming up in a couple of weeks. For those of you not in Australia, we happen to

celebrate the National Day on the anniversary of the invasion, the conquest of the First Nations

people by the first fleet, an impolite day on which to celebrate our national founding,

since it wasn't really the founding of anything, apart from when they first, when Europeans first

showed up here, the pickle is that the date on which the

country was actually founded is January the 1st and nobody wants to have a national holiday

on January the 1st and many people don't want to change January the 26th anyway.

I just say, just pick a random day any time in the year and make up some bullshit pretext

for it and be done.

Nonetheless, my thoughts about Venezuela, oh, before I get there, do you realize that we are now

closer to the second half of the 21st century than we are to the 20th century?

Like we're closer to 2050 than we are to the 20th century. Like we're closer to 2050 than we are to 1999.

So talk about being in the future.

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