Project 2025 was all about taking over America.

2026 is all about taking over the Western Hemisphere.

Welcome to Independent Americans.

Welcome to episode 404.

I'm your host, Paul Reichoff.

And it is Monday, January 5th, Manosphere Monday.

And I'm coming to you from New York City, USA, where the weather is gloomy and cold.

2026 is here, and it's the first week back at school for kids, but all eyes in this city and across America and across the world are just a few blocks from here, where Venezuela and L leader Maduro and his wife appeared in court for an arraignment. And Maduro is being held not far from where I'm coming to you now

inside my congressional district. The same New York detention center that held Diddy, Jisleine Maxwell,

Sam Bankman-Fried, Luigi Mangione, and other high-profile inmates.

And just a couple of hours ago, the Madero Convoy rolled past my neighborhood in Lower Manhattan

and past the 9-11 Memorial, which was all kind of surreal.

That's how 2026 is going to be, and then some.

And our guest today is going to kick off a big first week back in 2026. It is me. I'm going to give you myself and my thoughts on the latest

out of Venezuela and beyond, and what I think is a perfect way to kick off the first Manosphere Monday

of 26. And there is a ton happening. We've got to lead

with all things related to Venezuela. Last night, Trump continued to double down on his assertion

that he's going to control and run all of Venezuela. He said, quote, we are in charge. So he's in charge. He's going to run it. He's going to take the oil and he's doubling down on that and not apologizing. Despite the fact that there's new polling from Reuters and Ipsos that says most Americans don't support this at all. Only one in three Americans support the U.S. military strike on Venezuela that toppled

the president. Seventy-two percent worried that the U.S. will come too involved in the country.

This was a poll done just yesterday. An overwhelming majority of Americans don't support this,

and Congress hasn't authorized it, and Trump doesn't care. He's all gas and no breaks and

nothing is slowing him down. If anything, he's picking up steam. And I'm going to go deeper on that

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