Venezuela? I Hardly Knew Ya

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Support the show by signing up to our Patreon and get access to the full Weekender episode each Friday as well as special Live Shows and access to our community discord: http://patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman kick off the Weekender talking about the bad vibes in the air, which somehow leads to aliens because, honestly, it makes as much sense as anything else right now. From there they dive straight into the Venezuela mess: the US seizing an oil tanker, Pam Bondi’s incoherent spin, Trump rattling sabers at half the hemisphere, and a political class treating potential war like content creation. They break down why nobody in power seems serious, why the Supreme Court is rubber-stamping authoritarianism, why measles is suddenly back, and why visitors to the United States may soon have to hand over five years of social media posts. It is all connected by the same theme: these people have no idea what they’re doing, and we’re the ones living with the consequences.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the weekend your edition of the McCrack podcast. I'm
0:09.4	Jerry J.J. It's Sexton. I'm here with Nick Alson and Nick. This week has whipped my ass.
0:15.0	The weekend, whipped your ass or the week? The week has whipped my ass. I'm sorry. I hate to hear of anybody's ass being whipped.
0:23.6	It has been a week.
0:26.2	How's your week, Ben?
0:27.6	It's kind of flown by.
0:29.0	It's weird.
0:29.6	The general unease.
0:31.4	It's not even like anxiety or whatever.
0:33.5	It's just unease.
0:34.8	It's unease.
0:36.5	Yeah.
0:37.3	The vibes are bad.
0:39.2	I'm worried that something is going to happen. Yeah. Good. You know, whatever it is. The aliens coming down from, you know, the outer space. I don't know. You know what? We're doing the Weekender. We got a lot of stories to get to today. But, Nick, I have a question. And you keep saying, you feel like something's coming.
0:54.4	This is the Weekender.
0:55.6	By the way, everybody, head over to patreon.com slash muckgric podcast. Listen to the entirety of the weekender. We have so many things to go over, but because this is our weekender show, because it's a little bit different from the Tuesday show. Yeah. You keep saying you feel like something's coming.
1:12.9	There's all kinds of things that are happening.
1:14.4	You want me to sing it, don't you?
1:22.0	Well, our first story is about a potential invasion and regime change in a foreign country,
1:23.0	Venezuela.
1:26.3	You just said, aliens, what do you think is coming?
1:27.4	What is happening? What do you think is coming? What is happening?
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