Ruthless Podcast
Ruthless Podcast
Josh Holmes, Comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook
Maduro Arrested: What's Next?
1 hour 19 minutes Posted Jan 6, 2026 at 10:00 am.
Maduro captured: why it matters and why it’s funny
The failed state next door
Rubio crushes the Sunday shows
How the mission works and why defenses don’t matter
The oil question and why our adversaries care
Iran/Russia/China/Cuba ties and the pipeline logic
Tactical details and the message it sends abroad
Democrats flip to “illegal” and “unconstitutional”
Chris Murphy then and now
“Epsteinzuela?”
Mamdani was “briefed” is pure comedy
Minnesota fraud fallout
Electability over accountability
USPS driver vs. kid’s scooter in Florida
Tennessee monkey hits the music store
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🎙️ We walk through the Maduro capture and why it matters that the U.S. can go in, grab the guy, and get out—clean. We talk through the stakes in the region, the role of adversaries in propping up a failed-state mess, and why the oil angle is less about “needing it” and more about who gets to control it in our own hemisphere.
🫏 Then, the democrats trip over themselves to pretend they never spent years saying Maduro had to go, only to suddenly act shocked that anyone actually did something. We run through the Sunday-show spin, the fake confusion routine, and the weird scramble to frame an obvious win as a scandal. Their only reflex is to oppose whatever Trump does, even when it’s something they demanded yesterday.
🗽Did we miss a memo? Is the New York City mayor a global military commander? Plus, Tim Walz is stepping aside, Klobuchar is hovering, and a fraud fiasco that’s about power more than accountability.️
📦 We close with a USPS driver in Florida allegedly trying to run down a ten-year-old over a misdelivered package, and a loose monkey in Tennessee that apparently wants to “shop local” by wrecking a music store.
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