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This is the reality of the history of colonialism in the 20th and the 21st century. It is a communist enterprise. Communist colonialism has covered the globe with Marxist monsters. Take all the communists out. That's my position. With the caveat that these things usually don't go great anyway.
Hey there friends, fans, and foes of Dad Saves America. John Papola here and well, what a start to the year. There are just so many communists in New York City.
This is a photo of Nicholas Maduro being led away in handcuffs at Steuart Airport. The Venezuelan president and his wife being led off a plane surrounded by DEA, FBI, and customs personnel as they were next led to a hanger. Later, Maduro helicoptered to Manhattan and then driven in an armored vehicle to be processed. The Venezuelan president now being treated like any other accused criminal.
Earlier, President Trump posted a first photo of Maduro in custody, calling his capture quote, an extraordinary success.
>> Is finally gone in Venezuela. People are free. They're free again.
>> They're not free yet. They still have quite a few bad guys to deal with, including a bad guy like this, who's uh one of Maduro's enforcers. In fact, as we sit here, that that man is riding through the streets apparently on motorcycles, beating the hell out of people.
I have mixed feelings about uh about this because I don't in general particularly like US foreign interventionism, but I love taking down commies and I also happen to have spent um well my entire June in neighboring Colombia in Bogota. So I got a taste firsthand of some of the instability in our neighbors to the south. In fact, while I was there, one of the opposition leaders to the current president of Colombia was shot in a way that's left him completely incapacitated. And uh well, when I went to mass on Sunday, I came out to a mass protest that frankly was a little unnerving. So I I I got I got a upfront taste at what South American instability can feel like.
These are beautiful countries with beautiful people and they are being oppressed. Oppressed by people that frankly have far too many friends north of the border.
I called the president and spoke with him directly to register my opposition to this act and to make clear that it was an opposition based on being opposed to a pursuit of regime change to the violation of federal international law and a desire to see that be consistent each and every day.
This is good old new communist mayor Zorheim Amdani in New York City who's opposed to regime change and our involvement in it unless of course it's Israel and Palestine in which case he's quite active in wanting regime change and uh and frankly I think the broader left is a little skitso because we've been being browbeaten over not being wararmongering enough in Ukraine. Uh but regardless, it's a good thing he, you know, called the president or maybe left him a text to let him know that he opposes this particular one.
>> And what was his response to you and not a conversation?
>> Congress.
>> I registered my opposition. I made it clear and we left it at that.
I >> I sent him the text. I saw the three dots and then they went away and then they came back and then they went away. So, you know, I did my duty.
Uh I think one of the reasons why uh quite clearly uh Zoran is so opposed to uh taking out Nicholas Maduro who for what it's worth had a bounty on his head by the Biden administration and who has been deemed illegitimate from around the world uh is that frankly his team is in favor of guys like this. In fact, uh, good old Bernie Sanders has long been a sympathizer to left-wing radicals in South America. So, of course, it makes sense that Bernie would, despite being the Vermont senator, um, be the one to usher in Mr. Mandani, as the mayor, swearing, of course, on a Quran.
I, Zanwami Mandani, >> I, ZafranWame Mandani, >> do solemnly swear >> do solemnly swear >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> that I will support the Constitution of the United States >> the Constitution of the State of New York >> the Constitution of the State of New York >> and the charter of the city of New York >> and the charter of the city of New York.
>> Do you notice the laughter? And when the laughter happens, let's just look at that one more time.
>> The Constitution of the United States.
>> That I will support the Constitution of the United States.
>> The Constitution of the State of New York. Yeah. You know, we're Yeah, sure. We're going to we're definitely going to support the Constitution.
Basically, Mr. Mani's entire platform is at odds with the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of New York. In fact, I just out of curiosity looked at the Constitution of New York and one of the central things of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of New York is protections for private property against essentially being stolen without fair compensation or due process. And as we're going to get into, most of Mr. Mandani's entire set of proposals uh South American inspired let's say proposals are are are flatout theft of the public.
But let's get into exactly what he had to say because it was really something. To those who insist that the era of big government is over, hear me when I say this. No longer will city hall hesitate to use its power to improve New Yorkers lives >> because it's shown itself to be so good at that so far.
>> We will make the word city hall synonymous with both resolve and results.
>> As someone that lived in New York for over a decade, a 30-year-old that's never held a real job accomplishing that would would be like the second coming of Christ on earth. That is what that that that is more likely to happen over the next four years than New York City being a model of efficiency.
City Hall will deliver an agenda of safety, affordability, and abundance where government looks and lives like the people it represents, never flinches in the fight against corporate greed, and refuses to cower before challenges that others have deemed too complicated. In so doing, we will provide our own answer to that age-old question. Who does New York belong to? Well, my friends, we can look to Madiva and the South African Freedom Charter. New York belongs to all who live in it.
I'm not sure the South African situation is where you want to go for protecting every New Yorker's rights. Although again, it's actually quite consistent with where we're heading. Together, we will tell a new story of our city. This will not be a tale of one city governed only by the 1%. Nor will it be a tale of two cities, the rich versus the poor. It will be a tale of eight and a half million cities. Each of them a New Yorker with hopes and fears. Each a universe, each of them woven together.
Interesting rhetoric kind of talking about individuals there. One little note is he's you know New York City as he notes is 8 million residents yet he won with a little over 1 million votes. So just as a little reminder, democracy is the process by which we elect people and hold them accountable. But it does not create something like a general will in which everyone in the area is represented by the winner. 1/8 of the population of New York City voted for Sir Han Mani. 1/8. Yet all 8 million will be subjected to what he's going to do to them. And they are going to be getting it good and hard.
>> We will draw this city closer together. We will replace the fragility of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
>> It was hard not to immediately go into my nerd catalog for that one.
>> Who are you?
>> I am the Borg.
>> That is contradiction. The Borg have a collective consciousness. There are no individuals. Reveal the viewer.
>> I am the Borg.
>> Greetings. This is the warmth of collectivism that I think is probably best represented on the screen in fiction. I am curious. Do you control the Borg collective?
>> You imply a disparity where none exists. I am the collective.
>> Perhaps I should rephrase the question. I wish to understand the organizational relationships. Are you their leader?
>> I bring order to chaos.
>> An interesting if cryptic response.
>> An interesting if cryptic response. We've gotten a lot of that in the past week alone when it comes to Mr. Mom Donny's New York City. here where the language of the New Deal was born.
>> We will return the vast resources of this city to the workers who call it home. Somehow there's a lot of them that have been just stolen from people, right? Having been in New York City during the 2008 bailouts of Wall Street, that was theft. So just to understand there's quite a bit of actual theft that has been done again by the government that is worth being angry about. But it not much of it has to do with Mr. Mandani's agenda.
And I think one of the most important things, one of the kind of most interesting things about this moment in American politics is that our biggest city is being run by someone who was pretty open about what he believes. And because he won decisively, he is not shying away from it. He is not moving to the center. There is no reason for him to do that. And he knows it. I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist.
>> I will not abandon my principles for fear of being deemed radical.
>> He clearly will not. I will give it to him on that. In fact, among his more radical picks out of the gate is this woman, CIA Weaver, to head up his tenant advocacy position. Again, as part of his um his effort to make everything free and to make housing a human right, which of course means it's a right to other people's property and labor, which last time I checked sounds a little more like slavery, but I will get back to that.
This woman uh is really something else. really something out of somewhere, but not anywhere that you would expect to be put in a position of authority over 8 million people's lives. I think the reality is is that for centuries we've really treated um property as an individualized good and not a collective good and we are going to tr and transitioning to treating it as um a collective good and to towards a model of shared equity will require that we think about it differently and it will mean that um families especially white families but some POC families who are homeowners as well um are going to have a different relationship to property than than the one that we currently have.
>> So, racist communism, that's that's her that's her agenda. Um, but she she's been thinking about it. She's got quite a plan and it's all been recorded and it's all out there and we'll, as you'll see, it's being put into practice pretty quickly.
>> Rent control and they need to be rent controlled. The reason why they need to be rent controlled is not because like rent control is inherently socialist, but because rent control limits the speculative value of the land. Like our goal is to have the housing actually be worthless.
>> You hear that? Her goal is to destroy the value of people's property, which would technically be constitutionally what's called a taking. To destroy the value of people's property is to not compensate them for it. That is a taking. that is immediately like you know day one that this is why the laughter on the uh the swearing in uh is noteworthy >> in to some degree, right? Like we don't want this to be an investment vehicle. We want it to be like long-term stable homes. We don't need people to become millionaires off their homes >> or even have their homes which they invest most of their life into hold their current value. We want the value to go to zero.
>> So that's the first thing that I would do. And then the second thing that you know socialists need to really think about is how are we exploring um models and there's some transitional models mutual housing associations community land trusts um community opportunity to purchase like mechanisms to municipalize more and more of the housing stock and like if you have public housing over here which New York City is blessed to still have a great deal of private home ownership over here what like mechan there's a lot of policy mechanis MS that can take everything that's on like the right and like move it in this move it towards I'm on a podcast so like can't believe I'm visualizing this but move things in the spectrum to municipalize that.
>> So she once do collectivize all of all of private property all of housing all of land. It it it's just a little weird to to see this like infantile uptalker get put in any kind of position of power or authority. She's creepy. I mean, I wouldn't say this about a private individual, but this is someone that wants to steal 8 million people's property and put it in the hands of the state. So, she deserves all the scorn she gets. and she's gotten a fair amount of scorn already.
>> Mayor Zuran Mdani is sticking with CIA Weaver, the director of the mayor's office to protect tenants. This despite her controversial tweets, her exac account has been deleted. The mayor spent a good part of his press conference in Jackson Heights, Queens yesterday taking questions about Weaver. She is 37 years old and like him, a Democratic socialist. I'm kind of shocked that she's 37. Am I the only one that thinks she sounds like she's like 19? I know those videos were a tiny bit old. They weren't that old. You know, again, the endocrine disruptors in our water supply are a non-trivial part of this shift towards psychopathic politics. I am convinced of this. This is this is the maha in me coming out. The new food pyramid is going to maybe move us back from the brink. Hopefully, we we need some we need some more protein with these people.
>> Mani announced her appointment right after he was inaugurated on New Year's Day. In 2018, she tweeted, "Seize private property." In another tweet, a year later, she called home ownership a weapon of white supremacy.
>> Ask any of the non-white immigrants in this country if they believe that to be true.
>> The New York Post reported that Weaver's mother owns a home in Nashville worth about $1.6 million. Maldani appeared to distance himself from her home ownership tweet, but then he defended her.
>> My focus as the mayor of New York City is to deliver stability in a city. And we know that one critical pathway to that stability is home ownership. The core issue at hand here is what are we hiring this person to do? We are hiring them to stand up for tenants in a way that we haven't seen before. And that's exactly what they're doing.
>> So she thinks home ownership is a tool of white supremacy. Her mother owns an approaching $2 million home in income tax-free Nashville. And when confronted about these things, she breaks down in tears and runs in to hide behind her free Palestine flag. These are the white pill moments in um in our times because, you know, the old communists used to be a lot scarier than people like this. And that's a good thing. These are not capable people. These are not people that know how to marshall anyone really other than fed up and frankly gullible voters. Besides the tweets we mentioned, she also tweeted that she supports a no more white men in office platform and in 2018 she wrote impoverish the white middle class.
>> She spoke about her past posts this week on New York One. You know, those are certainly regretful tweets and and not something that I would that I would say today.
>> They're certainly regretful. I won't say why because I don't and it's not something I would say today now that I'm in the limelight. Now I have to I have to pretend to be uh presentable now.
>> You may remember that shortly after Mamani appointed Cat Dcasta to be his director of appointments. The Anti-Defamation League found some of her past tweets denigrating Jews. She then resigned. So far, no res resignation coming in from Miss CIA. Um, however, uh, her plans are the mayor's plans and actually more than just the mayor's plans. But let's start with the mayor's plans. If we want to end the housing crisis, the solution has to be moving toward the full decommodification of housing. In other words, moving away from the status quo in which most people access housing by purchasing it on the market and toward a future where we guarantee highquality housing to all as a human right.
>> Again, it's guaranteed as a human right even though it is a scarce resource that's produced by other people's labor and capital. So, but it's guaranteed because we say it because words just manifest reality. If you really have the right intentions,
>> we'll have to go beyond the market. We can establish community land trusts to gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership. We can give tenants a right of first refusal to buy out their landlords when buildings go up for sale. And we can fully commit to a new era of social housing, ending subsidies for luxury housing development and using our wealth to build beautiful, highquality social housing projects that offer good homes and strong communities to everyone.
And when he says using our wealth, he means using your wealth. He's not using his wealth, which is his his mother's wealth, his wealthy mother's wealth. Um, he's not using his communist anti-colonialist uh Colombia University father's wealth either. He's using yours. He's taken from you to do this.
And what is this going to do? Well, actually, this is already happening. These community land trusts and this right of first refusal. This is some of the first stuff that's been passed in New York. The final day of the city council session brought major changes to housing across the burrows, including how homes are bought and sold and who's first in line to buy them. News12's Ron Flax has the details.
>> If you want to buy a home in Brooklyn, get in line behind a community land trust. The Community Opportunity for Purchase Act, also known as COPA, passing tonight with 33 votes. The bill requiring homes with more than four units inside or more than six if the owner lives there to be offered to community land trust first before they hit the open market for up to 180 days.
So think about that for a second. Imagine what the value of your house would be if before anyone could buy it, you had to make it available to government created, sponsored or financed radical left-wing nonprofits to buy it. and they would have, let's say, 30 days to think about it and then 180 days, half a year to decide after submitting an offer if they're really going to go through with it. You won't have any buyers. You will have a real problem on your hands. And it's pretty obvious to anybody that thinks about this for more than two seconds.
Many homeowners opposing the measure >> would drastically increase the amount of time for a property to go to sale and also would suppress the market sale price of that property.
>> He says he's all for keeping homes locally owned, but >> these homes have been in the community owned by families for generations and the restrictions of COPA and the delays in a sale are not what anyone in this community can absorb.
>> But that's the point. That's the point. They've said the quiet parts quite out loud. The goal is not for anything to be affordable. Not really. And it's not for any of these workingclass people who manage to buy a brownstone and hold on to it and make it sort of the cornerstone of their household wealth to hold on to any of of that wealth. The goal is to destroy it.
>> Like our goal is to have the housing actually be worthless.
>> That's the goal. Have your assets, your value, your livelihood be worthless so that you are basically laid bare before the socialist state. The loving, warm embrace of the collective.
>> Come play with us, Daddy, forever and ever and ever.
>> Run by people who win a majority of a minority of people that show up on one day to pull a lever thinking it's not going to do anything bad for them. All of this has been tried. And before I get into how it's been tried in the very place that is now uh that has now surrendered its current leader into the arms of New York City prisons, I went and looked because so much of this dialogue, this discourse on this far and even not so far-left about housing and housing affordability, which is a problem generally, focuses on again people of color. the pox, the pox, the bipox, and makes these claims, these claims about all this historical injustice about the fact that the reason why we have disparities in home ownership on the basis of race in America is because of the past discrimination. And that's why in the words of Ibram X Kendi, the only solution to past discrimination is current discrimination, which is exactly what people like this woman Enzoron himself believe and say out loud.
So I went and looked because one way to test that hypothesis, a hypothesis that's rooted in something like intergenerational essentially estate transfers like the the reason why current let's say black Americans aren't as wealthy is because they aren't receiving you know the estates of their parents and grandparents who would have been able to buy homes except for say redlinining. That's the basic if you want to make any logic out of this that's one of the logical chains from the past to the present you could imagine being true and look there are past discrimination against African-Americans and other Americans um against every American against every newcomer let's be clear but if that's true for people today people say born in the '9s like these children well one way to test that is what's the hormone home ownership rate for firstg generation foreignborn immigrants because they are coming here cold and they don't have mama and papa white rich Americans to basically hand them a house or or turn over their estate when they pass. And when you look at that data, what you find is that the home ownership rate is exactly the same as Americans who've been here for multiple generations. It's the same. It's in the mid60s, 60 to 70%. In fact, for some immigrants, particularly immigrants from Vietnam, you know, brutalized by communism, Vietnam, Vietnamese who've come here largely as refugees surviving the murderous dictatorial monstrosities of communism in their home country actually have a higher rate of home ownership than Americans in general and white Americans. So most of their story is just false. Today's homeowners are dealing with today's reality for them as individuals, and that's overwhelmingly true.
Now, what about the new social experiment being tried? There's nothing new about it at all. Here is all of their favorite charismatic leader going around doing what they intend to do in his country while it still had some wealth to steal. He is in the square. I believe that's Boloulevard square just pointing at buildings to take. Take that one. Take that one. He would walk into people's businesses and say, "This is now the people's business." Which is to say his business. Mr. Chavez, Mr. Ugo Chavez, he was beloved by Hollywood. He was beloved by all of these people. He still is. He is lionized. He did exactly what they want to do. He did all of it. He built an entire policy regime that looks an awful lot like Mr. Manny. And what were the results? What happened? For example, one of Mr. Chavez's programs was called the Great Mission Housing Venezuela, GMVV. And the state seized unused land and property to build at least they were building something I guess but build 4.6 million homes. But the residents in them didn't really get to keep the keys and were muscled to vote for him in order to keep the keys to these homes that they didn't really own. It was all a patronage scam to keep him in power. Of course, Mr. Chavez had the benefit of running a petrol state, a state powered by oil where money actually grows out of the ground. But that didn't stop him from sending Venezuela down a dark path because of socialism. And after his death, his successor, Mr. Maduro, well, kept the train running.
A former bus driver and trade unionist, Nicholas Maduro became the protege of revolutionary Hugo Chavez and was catapulted to the presidency when Chavez died in 2013. He was not long in office before protests erupted over runaway inflation and critical shortages of basic goods. Protests in which his government quickly gained a reputation as repressive. Indeed, the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into the regime in 2021 for alleged crimes against humanity, including torture and sexual violence.
>> By and large, this these international law enterprises are pretty suspect. They are often dominated by the leaders of dictatorial regimes. Uh so um I I believe Iran has played a role in the UN human rights committee, council, whatever. So, it's fair to be skeptical of of a lot of these things. Even so, even the international sort of like left of center progressive technocrats don't think and haven't thought for a long time that Nicholas Maduro was legitimate. He was just a thug.
>> Millions of Venezuelans have left the country under his rule due to political and economic troubles.
>> And I saw this firsthand. I saw on the streets of Bogota that the people begging were there from Venezuela. I saw families begging on the streets in Bogota and around Colombia, all from Venezuela or claiming to be from Venezuela because it was understood that basically there was what has turned out to be one of the worst refugee crises on planet Earth out of this country that has the largest oil reserves on the planet. Only socialism can make that kind of thing fail. as despite sitting on the world's largest oil reserves, the country's economic hardships continued and only worsened as international sanctions ramped up against his regime, deemed undemocratic by the US, Europe, and much of Latin America, who declined to recognize both his 2018 and 2024 re-elections.
>> So, what President Trump did with Mr. Maduro is um is of a different kind than a lot of the typical US intervention, particularly in places like the Middle East. this was at least up for grabs. I personally, just my own opinion is I'm glad he did it. I'm glad he took them. He should take them all. Take them all out. Take all the communists out. That's my position. With the caveat that these things usually don't go great anyway.
The reason why communism and socialism fail is because no central planner has the knowledge to manage a complex society. That's why we need individual freedom. And that applies equally to foreign interventions and nation building abroad. We can't run communism even at the level of a city. Trying to run other countries uh isn't up for grabs. And actually, for what it's worth, President Trump has basically said, "Nah, we're going to protect the oil. We're going to make sure there's no more thugs, and then we're going to mostly protect the oil." which even there would be an upgrade from what's going on now. If the US sends Chevron in to Venezuela to start extracting their oil and selling it globally at market prices and keeps half of it, that will be five times more oil producing wealth for the Venezuelan people than they're getting now. Because when there's no competition and everything's run by people like 30 something uptalkers that live in their apartment, well, oil refineries and pumps don't work.
The administration of Zarandani couldn't run an oil field. What it can do and what it shares again with people like Nicholas Maduro is a belief that their intentions and their heart expressed not through their actions but only through their words is good enough to be seen as a good guy. us people. Living for today. Yeah, I kind of feel like you need to live a little bit for tomorrow, for your kids, for your future. Just living for today is called being a selfish narcissist.
Speaking of selfish narcissists, there are no more selfish narcissists in our society than the people who have taken to the streets demanding that the brutal dictator Nicholas Maduro be set free.
>> DON'T BE STUPID. YOU ARE NOT FOR MY COUNTRY.
>> I LOVE THE MARIA. GOD BLESS HER. GOD BLESS AMERICA.
>> So that's that's the New York sort of uh luxury belief democratic socialist types wanting Maduro and then the actual Venezuelans that have immigrated to America being happy that Maduro is gone. There's been a lot of that this week. This might be the best video that was put out drawing the contrast. It is spectacular. It really says it all. The luxury belief class, of course, on the left, where they belong, and reality on the right, where it these days tends to be.
>> We're bombing Venezuela right now.
>> It is 2:35 a.m. And Pete Kbreing Cosplay GI Joe is literally bombing Venezuela. You guys didn't stop them when they were bombing in the ocean. Libre, libre, freedom, freedom. That's what the man on the right who's living under communism is saying. He can't contain himself. He can't contain his joy. Even though he knows that this isn't a silver bullet and that the rest of the horrendous commie thugs are probably going to take to the streets to tomorrow. They all know this. They all know it. Latin America has had swings and instability for a very long time. For decades and decades. So, he knows what's coming next. He still can't contain himself. And if you're feeling contempt for the woman on the left, well, it's understandable.
>> Then when they took a tinker coast of Venezuela like a bunch of pirates you guys didn't say when they bought Nigeria less than two weeks ago. What the are you guys doing? We are the terrorists. We are exporting. to the rest of the world. What
>> is it going to take for you people >> to remove this dementiarridden patient who needs to be in a padded cell at this point?
>> I know somebody that needs to be in a padded cell. You can argue about President Trump, but there's at least one person on that screen that definitely needs to be in a padded cell. Here's a couple more before we start to bring things to a close.
>> Hands off.
>> Hands off Venezuela.
>> Hundreds hit Times Square Saturday for an emergency rally yelling hands off Venezuela for the no war on Venezuela stopped the bombing protest.
>> Again, I wonder how many of those signs if you flip them around say free Palestine or flip them around and say free Ukraine.
>> It's a protest over the US strikes that nabbed President Nicholas Madura and his wife.
>> Not about drugs. It's not about democracy. It's not about the last election. It's because the Venezuelan Bolivarian Socialist Project did indeed challenge US domination. Venezuela challenged US domination by driving its population into desperate grinding poverty. Just for context, in the 1950s and60s, Venezuela was the fourth richest country per capita on planet Earth. And in the 1920s, Argentina was almost tied with the US in income per capita before the Peronists, another left-wing bunch of barbarians, came in and smashed that country to smitherines.
But of course, it all boils down to Zoran Mandani and his father's favorite slogans about colonialism.
>> And so I think it's really important for us to come out here um and strongly show uh that we oppose this war that we oppose the you know American imperialist drive toward war.
>> Okay, little graph you know I love these graphs. This is from our world in data. This is GDP per capita. So that is total production in the society divided by the number of people. It is not a perfect measure of of let's say typical income. That would be median income. But those numbers track this actually quite closely. Let's just see on the top you see the United States and on the bottom this first dot in 1800 the first measure is Venezuela. And as we expand out what happens? We have the 1800s. We have this consolidation of the country, the beginning of it as a as a true state with a sort of centralized authority kind of going flat, going sideways as the US sort of uh takes off. We've got the late 1800s really the industrial revolution starting to kick in, keep on going. got a little bit of going sideways after the uh financial crisis of 1907 in the US, but we're still kind of keep on going. Venezuela is not really making enough progress here. But now look, as we get into the 30s and 40s, they discover oil. They don't go commie, but they do have incredible amounts of production of oil. They get to uh put that to use. They're still a largely free market society. And now we're at 1970 where the politicians at the time drawing inspiration from the global left, global communists and their friends in Cuba start to nationalize. And you see the divergence, the challenging of the American project sort of running in place. financial crisis and now we're into the early 2000s and Chavez Maduro kicks in. Ugo stays in place. He's got a little bit there's a we got an oil price run up here. So we got a little bit of a bump. He dies and here comes the full revelation of the M Donnie communist seize property effects. total collapse.
Every time socialism and the seizing of private property by the government has been instituted on every country in every creed, it has resulted in terror, in poverty and terror. That is the facts. The fact that we have to have this conversation in 2026 is fundamentally a complete failure of our education system because a real education system would teach all of us real history. And real history has a very different spin on colonialism and which colonial force was the worst, the most repressive, the most far-reaching, the most dominant. And that is the European colonial power known as Marxism. Cooked up in French salons by people living off their buddies like Karl Marx and then propagated by the Soviet Union in the aftermath of the Bolevik Revolution.
What most people don't understand and what a friend of mine and economist Phil Magnus pointed out is that Karl Marx himself was basically sort of one of many like kooky utopian left-wing progressive scribblers right up until 1917. He was indistinguishable from a kind of mass of utopian writers. But with the Bolevik revolution, the Soviet Union proceeded to promote him and turn him and their quest for total global domination, also known as colonialism into their project. They created institutes to push Marx and Marxism Leninism around the world. They funded places like Cuba which exported this foreign idea. this idea that is so foreign that all of us understand it's false if you have kids because what's one of the words kids start to say first besides mama and dada and no it's mine mine mine mine that's that's the first thing our kids come to understand property ownership what is mine we have to teach our kids to share and actually only up to a point because they want to have things of their own. This is as human as it gets. To have ownership and to trade with each other is human. It is natural. Communism is unnatural. It is a colonial force. It has been imposed on the world by the Soviet Union by force, by goologs and walls and men with guns. And yes, the US has been an imperial power, too. But ours is of a different sort.
Ugo Chavez. He was only there because he had a buddy. That's it. That's why he was there. And why did that buddy hold on to power despite being opposed by the United States just a couple miles to the north? Because he had big buddies backing him up in the Soviet Union. At one point at its height, the Soviet Union was funding something like 20% of Cuba's entire GDP.
>> So missiles are 1500 miles range and more. We're pointing at American city from Russian ports. For a long time now, military supplies have been sent to Cuba. Not only rockets, but bomb carrying planes. And so pro is Cuba to the states that the warning system would be useless. American men of war rapidly deployed and to the red ships bound for Cuba went orders to change course. In Cuba, President Castro long ago chose to ally his government with Russia, a course he may regret. He made his allegiance clear at the United Nations two years ago. The Russian leader played up as only he can. But as we go to press, it is announced that he will suspend shipments of arms to Cuba. Kennedy has spoken and acted in the way the Soviet understands.
>> You know what has turned out to be the thing that the Soviets understood? the thing that actually all of the the red wave on this planet has ultimately been powered by crude oil. It's the greatest irony of our times. The Soviet Union was centered in Russia. Russia has always basically been a petrol state. Despite having wealth come out of the ground, they collapsed. When they collapsed, they stopped funding Cuba. And so Cuba needed a different petrol state to fund its communism. And they turned to Venezuela. and they backed uh Mr. Chavez and then Mr. Chavez returned in kind sending whole tankers full of oil to Cuba for free.
This is the reality of our history. This is the reality of the history of colonialism in the 20th and the 21st century. It is a communist enterprise. Communist colonialism has covered the globe with Marxist monsters. And it's not just South America. When you look at Africa, you will find vanguard revolutionaries, all of whom were installed or backed or financed by the Soviet Union. And here's a quick list of just some of them. Angola, Mosambique, Ethiopia, Benin, Congo, Madagascar, and Somalia. So the next time you hear this claim by progressives that we need to atone for colonialism or that they're trying to write the wrongs of colonial scars left on a society, you should shoot back. There's way deeper scars being left and have been left on this planet by communist colonizers than the mostly pretty benevolent British Empire.
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