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The Welcome to Media Roots Radio. This is Abby Martin.

And this is Robbie Martin. Thanks for joining us, everybody.

Thanks so much for joining us, guys.

Well, there's a coup underway in Venezuela.

Just as we were talking about Trump expanding the empire

and fomenting regime change and upping drone strikes

and bombing the, quote, shit out of terrorists and their families,

this happens.

So we know that they had their sights set on Venezuela,

the troika of tyranny, as John Bolton said. And just yesterday, Robbie, we just did a whole podcast

on the Venezuela situation as well as a whole bunch of other things. So please check that out,

because that's where the main brunt of, you know, what's unfolding is, is at right now.

But we need all of you to be in line in solidarity with the Bolivarian movement and against

regime change because I see a lot of kind of just talking out of both sides of people's mouths.

Maduro's bad.

Maduro is an authoritarian dictator, but I oppose regime change. It's like,

dude, why are we falling victim to this again? Now is not the time for that kind of wishy-washy

bullshit posturing. I don't, I'm sick of seeing people acting like that. I mean, I've even seen

some like paleo-conservative libertarians taking a stronger position than some of those

career leftists like Medea Hassan and Greenwald. So that says a lot. They're some of the most

anti-s, some of those people are super anti-socialist, but yet they are not saying those kind of things

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