48:26 And Venezuela has been the textbook example of a socialist economy failing for most of that time. I know that's capitalist propaganda to a degree, but their economy has struggled, I guess for almost a decade and I get that the US meddled but I struggled to see how a leader at the wheel during a big period of economic devastation would be popular with the people and win a re-election It comes down to the reality that this has been a country lied about across left, right administrations for what? Four or five of them or four of them. They have been meddling in Venezuela for decades. This is a very easy thing to look up and so just start with Aaron's point there what John Bolton is highlighting is exactly the reality didn't start with John Bolton
49:11 This went back to Chavez and before, where they have been trying to overturn this government for a very long time. Now this obviously comes back to this question about whether you somehow or anybody listening somehow thinks that communism or socialism is somehow inherently bad versus the others? I think that's kind of childish perspective on this. I think any government in any sense like we're literally living through right now can collect power at the top and then hurt people I likewise think that any government could also do the opposite, depending on how the leadership responds. The rulers actually choose to be leaders or rulers." Just so it's clear, I don't support any of them. I'm of a much more radical perspective that government is the problem but our world is just not ready for that it seems but there's a whole conversation to be had around that about anarchism for example which people tend to associate with chaos because that's a very clear manipulation. I can tell you why anarchism is the only ideology with no place for these rulers. So of course they want you think that its chaos, it's not. It means no rulers, not no rules and that's a whole conversation we could get into but the point is John Bolton
50:11 explicitly highlights the fact that they were destroying this country. Now you could argue that it's for a means to an end, which by the way you could prove his own documents, own statements in the past. It's not what it's about but that means they created the suffering of the population even if you want to mean it because Maduro is the worst guy alive You can prove many many elections in the past well before Maduro that they have been watching this election system Jimmy Carter himself famously said that it was one of the best in the world right? Because as far as I can tell he actually is and that's a very contentious statement with all these right wing screamers online about what's going on from our political perspective of this from outside that country, but there are a lot of people that have been there both left and right that are watching this thing. They're telling you what they're seeing on top of according to Rania Kellick 800 international observers
50:57 from countries all around the world, not just pro-Venezuela countries. People that are there with the interest of making sure that they don't cheat right? And all of them including some opposition members have now said everything was on the up and up The only thing you're getting is what we get literally every time which is that the opposition backed by CIA and by the U.S government very easy to prove by the way Machado is literally working with these people You can see that they will call foul cry foul every time they lose During the last one, a couple back I think and Abby Martin's covered this. Maduro was running against one of their opposition lackeys and because it was so clear that they weren't gonna win they just had him pull out of the race so they could then later say that he ran unopposed look at what dictator he was these are very easy things to see and so if Bolton is literally saying we were doing this to put pressure on them That means they starve the population guys thats what they did
51:48 look at how bad they are, they're starving their people. On top of the fact that the caravan was later blamed on anything but these sanctions except he literally took credit for it you know it's so transparent we must be able to see and if you can see how often they're lying about the most basic parts of this maybe ask if they're lying about a lot more I'm not supporting their government or not supporting Maduro now that might not be to say that I think there is positives there make a general point of not leaning in and supporting any of these governments because I think from a core point behind all this that they're all the real problem. But if you're going to compare what let's just say the US government is doing around the world or what Israel is currently doing in Palestine, to anything you can prove that taking place in Venezuela and I can tell you there are some things you can prove that are bad
52:30 It's night and day. It's not even remotely close, and to your point about why they would support him even though they're going through a decline it's because they're all historically decades long aware of what's going on. They know what's happening. They've seen it. They're watching as it plays out. They're not stupid! Anybody with a brain could see what Guaido was—an obvious flimsy attempt to just declare a president name at democracy and then carry on attacks against the people. The whole ploy they pulled with the aid, weirdly like we see what Israel doing in Gaza where they were trying to deliver aid and they were trying to stop it and then it turned out that was full of barbed wire wood and it turned out that people throwing the Molotov cocktails are Guaido's guys and they got caught on video doing it! And then I just turn the conversation elsewhere funny how Guaidó who is the living embodiment democracy suddenly became not useful anymore
53:21 working with Maduro again because they needed something, right? I mean it's just all these points are so obvious. So bringing it back to what's going on right now, It's obvious to me that this is yet another example of the people that they want a dwindling influence by the way of the US government and Israel because the primary aspect of what Elon Musk has been leaning into Is the woman who wrote a letter in 2018 directly to Benjamin Netanyahu calling for regime change of Venezuela. It's on the record saying we need a regime change will be Israel's greatest ally That's not what Venezuelans want. If you actually compare anything she is trying to publicly do, basically saying it will move the embassy to Jerusalem, will immediately do a central bank stuff, will basically sell out this country to the interest of US and Israel
54:02 for my inner circle benefit and the people don't want that. You know, I mean there's so many different angles to this but i think it's obvious that we're being played yet again and that's not taking sides in the government it's just that this is what our government does guys if you look around the history of Syria Afghanistan Libya...I mean they're batting zero even if you think they're trying to spread democracy they weirdly keep tripping over their shoelaces and destroying everything So let's maybe not let them do it again Yeah well said it's confessions of an economic hit man 101 and all that stuff. It's weird because people will sometimes make a hero out of the dictator like saddam or gaddafi to be like the real story is that they were trying to get,