Name: Dave Smith on Venezuela, Maduro and Regime Changes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dave Smith on Venezuela, Maduro and Regime Changes' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2026-01-06. Transcript available.

Dave Smith on Venezuela, Maduro and Regime Changes

Dave Smith good to see you bro yeah dude you too man thanks for having me yeah
we met up around
this time last year yeah that's right yeah as we it's funny that we set this up
like really quickly
and they snuck in a regime change war in between when you said it's 48 hours we
planned this and
they fit a whole regime change in that 48 hours well it's good to know that
they're making them
faster here we are and it's happened man they're crazy they had that the photo
came out of Maduro
and his wife I guess they picked him up well the the US plans to run Venezuela
and tap its oil
reserves Trump says after operation to oust Maduro what were the actual um
hours after an audacious
military operation that plucked leader Nicolas Maduro from power and removed
him from the country
President Donald Trump said Saturday the United States would run Venezuela at
least temporarily
and tap its vast oil reserves to sell to other nations at least they're being
honest about that
part yeah it makes you wonder kind of what's going on what were the exact
attacks that happened is it
say like did we go kill a bunch of people yeah we definitely killed some people
um there were a bunch
of attacks uh and then there was like an elite uh team that went and got uh
that was able to kidnap
maduro and i know so mike lee the senator posted on twitter that he had spoke
to marco rubio and that
marco rubio had said something like the other attacks were like in service of
the mission to get maduro
so like i don't know what that you know taking out their defenses or something
like that um but
so i mean i don't know even where to start here right but so there's a lot
there's been
obviously for for months now there's been like they've been attacking they've
been bombing the
boats that they're claiming are drug boats but they haven't really demonstrated
that they are it's
kind of just taking their word for it right and we don't know you just see this
video you see this
footage of like a black and white and then like a uh zooming in of a night
goggles right explosion uh and
there was that whole controversial double tap strike where they came back to
kill the survivors
which there was a big controversy about you know because that's illegal under
international law
you'd have to demonstrate that they were like still in the fight and then there
was you know i guess
pete haggs had said someone else made the decision but then they claimed that
they were still trying
to get in the fight it's all kind of sketchy it's not exactly clear um it's marco
rubio who's the
secretary of state and also the national security advisor and he's had that
position for most of the
the last year um this has been his pet project for a while he's really wanted
to get rid of the uh the
maduro regime in venezuela the drugs thing has always just been an obvious
bullshit pretext i mean
like there's no that's what it feels like to me well if you just look at the
numbers the the venezuela is
responsible for like a tiny fraction of the drugs that come into america and
like almost none of the
fentanyl and if you really had a problem you know when people look at like the
od deaths the fentanyl is
really where the action is there and that's all from mexico yeah from parts
made in china then even
when like donald trump or vivek ramaswamy or or some of these guys would have
real tough language about
the the drug cartels on the campaign trail it was always the mexican drug cartels
they were always
saying that because they could at least point to that and say look that leads
to fentanyl which leads
to all these overdoses now those numbers have been going down and getting
better but i think some
people uh people i love but uh some people have falsely like i attributed that
to the attacks on
these these boats off the coast of venezuela when really all that is is that
there's a secure border
now and so less of the stuff is getting in than was under joe biden oh for sure
um but so so then
cut to what was it last week it got uh well i want to bring this up go ahead go
ahead uh venezuela is
involved in trafficking cocaine but current data shows it is responsible for
only a small share of the
drugs that actually end up in the u.s market best to compare with routes
through mexico and central
america u.s government classifies venezuela as a major drug transit country
mainly for colombia
cocaine moving towards the caribbean central america but even that would be
more of a justification
to deal with colombia right than it would be 100 a dea fact sheet cited in 2025
reporting
says 90 of cocaine reaching the u.s is produced in colombia and enters through
mexico without even
mentioning venezuela as a primary corridor um yeah and there's some other
reasons i want to go into
too why people think that we're what we're doing down there um but yeah i just
wanted to get some of
the stats sure sure which no that's important i'm glad you did where were you
uh well so last week if
you remember um tucker carlson had said that uh he had he had a source saying
that donald trump is
donald trump was addressing the nation that night and he had said that donald
trump's going to announce
you know an escalation in the war or a declaration of war which you know
technically the president can't
do but i guess we're way past that yeah um that he was going to announce that
he was going in there
and i had a couple i had a couple people i know who were like close to it who
said the same thing
and then he didn't which was kind of strange and he also like he interrupted
your regularly scheduled
programming like it was a presidential address to the nation yeah a week ago
but then like didn't
really announce anything i didn't just announced how great the economy was or
something like that
and so then it came this week instead but this was look it's an unbelievably
successful operation
as of right now and so that's well maybe i got that wrong i said last week i
guess it was a couple
weeks ago on the evening of december 16th political commentator tucker carlson
set off a firestorm
when he claimed that president donald trump was poised to announce u.s military
invasion of
venezuela during his prime time address um but as the hour came went no such
announcement materialized
president trump made no mention of venezuela nor of any military operation
targeting the embattled
south american nation what if he did that because he didn't want carlson to
actually have called it no
it wouldn't have been that you know i don't know i mean it's like it's i don't
know it's possible that
he was planning on doing it and then backed out of it it's possible tucker got
bad information
it's possible that plans just changed or whatever you know it's but but the
thing did come a couple
weeks later so it does at least seem like there was something that might have
been you know accurate
about it um but look i mean i guess first and foremost this really wasn't an
incredible success
just in terms of a military operation like i was shocked they got yeah me too
got it done
and then they checkmated they took the king and queen dude there's a well that's
right i mean and
okay so this picture now and now it looks like he's playing one of those games
where those things
drop and you have to catch them or whatever like ilia tapora be like real good
at it you're like whoa
that's how he knocks people out like that he's got crazy speed if that's all he
was doing but it's
this is so because i first saw this this morning i was like who is this i
thought it was like one of
those like um the mass singer or whatever they were doing like at the military
or whatever i was
like who is this i just couldn't i couldn't figure out because i just saw the
image well then i realized
oh my god that's uh that's maduro so evidently the vice president was in russia
at the time and the
vice president demanded proof that he's that maduro's alive and then trump
tweeted this out so not clear
whether it's like in response to that like here's the proof that that he's
alive but it does seem like
they have him and his wife um and i just say like the success of the military
operation like i know
there's um you know there's been all types like historically of of attempts by
the u.s and the cia to
to kill you know saddam hussein or to kill uh um castro or all types of other
leaders and they have
succeeded in something noriega they got him and whatever but like there's been
attempts to like
kill or capture all types of leaders but for it to happen like this like in one
day in one attack
go in and get him i mean we even in in 2003 i think we were in iraq for a
couple months before we got
saddam hussein you know um so they got him okay but one of the things that's so
fascinating is like
it's almost like like the last 25 years don't exist when you go on like i go on
social media today and
you just see all the war hawks all got their mission accomplished signs up
right like they're
all celebrating like look we got them when really getting them i mean look it's
impressive they did
it in one day without like a lot of boots on the ground you know we got a real
badass military
if people haven't noticed like the most badass group of of fighting men that
have ever been
assembled in human history but we know we can kill these guys like we know we
could kill saddam hussein
we know we could kill momar qaddafi or or uh qadda uh qaddafi or bashar al-assad
we could get him
out of power it's like the question is what comes next that's always the
question right and that's the
question that dc has always gotten wrong you know for 25 straight years so like
to see them
celebrating when there's not even the we have no idea what the hell is going to
come next now and
it's not even a situation like iraq or afghanistan where we were militarily
occupying the country so
it's a lot easier to direct who comes next when your troops are there we don't
even have that right
now trump just said he's gonna run it he said we're gonna run it and then we'll
decide who to hand it
off to well that's fucking vague i mean all right like what and and since when
you know i listened
with a force of like over a hundred thousand troops substantially more than
that over two hundred
thousand at one point i listened to for 20 straight years every war hawk in
this country lie through
their fucking teeth about how capable this afghan government that we had just
built up there was
and how no i'm not saying venezuela and afghanistan are the exact same thing
but i'm just saying like
that was with a 20-year military occupation and all this backing and hundreds
of billions of dollars
of weapons it fell apart in two days you know so like the idea of the monkey
bars remember all that
shit oh yeah yeah like they're sending out they were doing like those tire
drills yeah like we have
our guys lost to that we were doing they were doing those like running through
the tires like get your
knees up type of shit like and they were and they were like huh we fucking kind
of nailed it there
they had pe teachers over there like just it was unbelievable and so anyway i
guess they're just
like the hubris of just being like yes you know like look i don't i said people
were kind of giving
me some of the anti-war people actually were kind of giving me shit today
because i just i posted
something on twitter where i was like well i hope this works well but like i do
i hope it works out
well like i'd i i would take it working out real well and then okay that doesn't
look as good for the
non-interventionist types like me like see this one works well okay it's
already done now so like i hope
it works out but to watch people celebrating as if it's a given yeah that that
it's gonna work out
it's like it's dude so you're and by the way we didn't at least as of now donald
trump kind of like
diminished the opposition leader and is at least floating out the idea that the
the vice president can
like kind of maintain a transitional control so we have any in