Good evening. It's Wednesday, December 3rd. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the Free Speech Alternative to YouTube. Just one quick note. I don't know why, but last night, whatever method we were using for me to connect remotely, you can see I'm not at the normal studio. Enabled me or rather forced me to see the ongoing live chat, which I don't often see sometimes I look at it, but I don't actually just see it in front of my face. And a couple of you successfully baited me into stopping what I was doing and commenting on it, but it's going to be much more difficult for you this evening because I don't have that live chat directly in front of my Facebook. I'm going to stay much more focused and not be distracted by people in the chat. I will be checking it on you occasionally, so don't act as though you're, it's a free-for-all, like the cat's away. No, it's not time for the mice to play. I will be seeing you just not quite as much as last night.

All right.

So with that clarified tonight, it's actually bizarre to watch a regime change war propaganda

show unfold in real time, especially one that had never been previously featured, the idea

of attacking Venezuela or changing the government of Venezuela or bombing boats in Venezuela.

It was never even mentioned in the 2020-204 campaign.

This is just coming out of nowhere.

And as a result, it's very difficult to try and convince Americans with no groundwork laid that somehow Venezuela is important to their lives

with the question of who governs Venezuela is important to their lives, with the question of who

governs Venezuela is important to their lives, just like it's been very difficult to try and

convince Americans that who governs various provinces in eastern Ukraine matters to them.

As a result, the rhetoric is becoming increasingly histrionic.

The claims that are coming from the administration to justify the war are becoming increasingly

unhinged to the point where they're so wild now, they're so completely disconnected from any reality,

that the claims that are coming from the White House are, would be laughable if the matter weren't so serious in terms of how not just exaggerated they

are, but just how made up some of the claims are. And I do think whatever views of the Trump

administration are or even the war are, it's my job as a journalist. And I think it's all of our

jobs as citizens when the government's making false claims, even in support of a policy that we

agree with,

to dissect those claims to point out the ways of which they're deceitful and misleading.

So that's part of what we're going to do tonight.

And then we often cover on this show threats to free speech in general,

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