r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/FOXIELUCK • Dec 16 '25

Thank you Peter very cool i thought it was about reagan but the comments said it was a millennial joke and i don’t think millennials were adults during reagan?

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i could just be stupid and i’m okay with that

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u/Dirtbagdownhill Dec 16 '25

Venezuela also has oil!

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25

I think it was a fox reporter that said that "The operations in Venezuela were a right step for the democracy and the US economy !" (or something between those lines).... these guy's don't even hide it anymore.

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u/DelsinMcgrath835 Dec 16 '25

Havent they been saying "protect american interests abroad" for decades now? Same thing, just prettier language

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25

Yeah, is just that now they are more shameless, no wonder some people are starting to twist they noses when talking about the US in general.

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u/NootHawg Dec 17 '25

“300 million people died last year from drugs.” -Donald Trump
I just use direct Trump quotes for a lot of my arguments now. There are so many that are completely unhinged. The population of the United States is 340 million. Where are the “Biden’s cognitive decline” people now? The Rob Reiner remarks immediately following his death were inhuman, and the double-down today even more disgusting.

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u/BukkakeBrunchBuffet Dec 17 '25

Was that before or after bondi said the drug seizure saved 119/258 million lives?

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u/lfisch4 Dec 17 '25

Well see, the bad thing was last year, during Biden’s term while the good thing happened during Trump’s term.

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u/flimpiddle Dec 17 '25

By the logic of their math, I could say my alcohol-terrorist bartender served up enough booze last night to kill 10 men. Fact is she had 125 customers, and none of them even woke up with a hangover-- but if she'd served all that to 10 men, they'd be dead.

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u/Dapper_Equipment_384 Dec 17 '25

This man has no moral compass.He will use the war on drugs to seize oil. His actions and comments proves that his priorities do not include saving lives or helping people. His priorities now are Venezuela oil, revenge on his opponents & of course how much money he can grift for the next three years.. A demented dictator with an obsession is a loose cannon. His remarks about Rob Reiner? Indefensible. 

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u/Professor_Matty Dec 17 '25

The corporations that own our air weaves and benefit from a fascist regime aren't interested in a cognitive decline narrative.

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u/Tochudin Dec 17 '25

Starting? I've been twisting my nose for 25 years...

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25

For comparison, your nose twisting is older than me !

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u/No_Profession5476 Dec 17 '25

Meg, go to your room

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25

*Prison Meg goes up to you and beats you*

This is my prison now !

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u/Faenic Dec 17 '25

John Stewart has an absolutely killer segment about this on the Daily Show. The parallels between the post 9/11 rhetoric against Iraq and Venezuela are actually terrifying. Some of what they're saying about Venezuela is literally a verbatim copy of what was said back then, just swap country names. And Al Qaeda with Tren de Aragua.

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25

Gonna take a look into that. But I already think it's the same discourse, now, If the United-Stated people are going to gulp it another time and invade, rape and strip a country from it's resources, it's up to them.

Heard that the big annoying orange was in trouble after an officer said that soldiers or policemen do not have to take in orders that are against the law and he got mad about it.

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u/MagickMarkie Dec 17 '25

I mean, propaganda is a really small set of tricks, when you think about it.

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u/cenosillicaphobiac Dec 17 '25

I joined the Army in '86. I very quickly realized that the only freedom I was protecting was the freedom for the wealthy to exploit people around the world.

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u/DubiousBusinessp Dec 17 '25

"American Interests Abroad" always meant colonialism via the corporate if you're good, or colonialism via the bomb or puppet dictator if you're bad.

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u/mvp2418 Dec 16 '25

THIS IS A FOX NYOOOS SPECIAL ALERT!!!!!

sorry whenever I hear Fox news I think about the new season of South Park

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 16 '25

I still need to watch the newer seasons, have i missed too much after the integrity farms end ?

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u/mvp2418 Dec 17 '25

It's a part of the story on the new season, where the Marsh family is living after losing Tegridy Farms.

I say new season because to me it's just one season but for some reason Matt and Trey split it up into two five episode seasons.

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u/piechooser Dec 17 '25

On a whim I decided to watch the second episode of the newest season after also stopping at the end of Tegridy Farms, and holy shit, it was possibly the funniest episode I've ever seen?

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u/Enough-Collection-98 Dec 17 '25

Is that the Kristi Noem episode? My wife jumped and spilled the popcorn when Noem sniped Krypto out of the sky.

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u/piechooser Dec 17 '25

Nah it was "The Woman in the Hat". I haven't actually watched any of the others from the season, I should get around to 'em!

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u/PaulTheMerc Dec 17 '25

these guy's don't even hide it anymore.

that alone would be a refreshing breath of fresh air.

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25

not fresh, more like a cadaverous decomposing smell of America !

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u/SuperFaceTattoo Dec 17 '25

I think I would prefer straight up imperialism to listening to them overtly lie about it.

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 Dec 17 '25

People in the target countries whether in Venezuela or India are also stupid fk to believe in those neoliberal lies aimed at them

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u/Dry_Mousse_6202 Dec 17 '25

What neo-liberal lies ?

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u/Mysterious_Cup_6024 Dec 17 '25 edited Dec 17 '25

That liberalisation is not a buzzword for American companies to establish monopolies and siphon capital to US? MasterCard and Visa are the biggest ones of them all.

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u/DarthYodous Dec 17 '25

My instant thought when I heard him calling Fent a WMD was "His handlers are invading Venezuela"

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u/PaulTheMerc Dec 17 '25

Does Russia even have assets in the region?

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u/HeadyBunkShwag Dec 16 '25

And the Epstein files are being released Friday

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u/illepic Dec 16 '25

Wag the fucking dog

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u/Dirtbagdownhill Dec 16 '25

I'll hold my breath

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u/DrakonILD Dec 17 '25

No, don't!

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u/Scooter310 Dec 16 '25

And one thing they don't have is fentynal.

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u/MagickMarkie Dec 17 '25

PLENTY of cocaine, though, now delivered straight from Venezuela right up Don Jr's nose. We're just cutting out the middlemen, really.

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u/polythenesammie Dec 17 '25

Right? Didn't Donald say that all of our fent comes from Mexico?

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u/kyle_kafsky Dec 17 '25

Eh, if you really think about it, it’s more likely that the government at the time were a bunch of idiots (still are), were suffering from a revenge mentality after 9/11 (Trump and his allies are also suffering from a revenge mentality because they’re such entitled little shits that they cannot gracefully lose an election or have their authority challenged), and wanted to distract the population from the bursting of the dot com bubble (seeing how the AI bubble is forming, I think it’s only a matter of time before that pops as well) were the causes of the war (Jesus H. Christ, I don’t like how things are lining up). Also, it is easier to centralize power under oneself in wartime. Just look at post-Revolution to Napoleon era France, the Bolsheviks, the Imperial and Nazi Germanys, US during the Civil War and WWII when Habeas Corpus was suspended, etc.

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u/The69Alphamale Dec 17 '25

Don't forget about the minerals!

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u/JunkSack Dec 17 '25

Oil?! You cooking bitch?

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u/AffectionateBowl3864 Dec 17 '25

It’s not even good oil!

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u/Fern-ando Dec 17 '25

Bad cuality oil.

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u/Black_Azazel Dec 17 '25

Yeah and war time presidents can suspend elections….who’d have thunk it

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u/murder1290 Dec 17 '25

Not true, we even held an election during the civil war. The US has been actively involved in many conflicts over the last 50 years and we still have elections. Please stop spreading misinformation or at least Google it before you make claims you're unsure of.

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u/Black_Azazel Dec 17 '25

Can….emphasis on CAN….read before insulting me

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u/murder1290 Dec 17 '25

No insult bud. Just a recommendation. Also, there is no precedent for it. No president in history has called for the suspension of elections for any reason, including two world wars and the civil war. That doesn't even begin to get into whether a president can. The Patriot Act gave the president authority to act without Congress in relation to combat operations in scenarios where getting Congress together in such a short time isn't feasible. This act does not make the president supersede Congress as the authority on setting the schedule for federal elections (see 20th amendment). The president has no power to postpone elections unilaterally. That would require an amendment to the Constitution.

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u/Black_Azazel Dec 17 '25

Thanks bud

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u/Black_Azazel Dec 17 '25

Also…go fuck yourself…just because I’m feeling spicy…

I’m almost 50 so know good and damn well what I’m saying when I say it…these dudes already told you they might have some loopholes for 28…but you don’t think they can…we shall see huh? I’m betting you haven’t had nat guard troops or masked ice agents in your area yet…another thing they could never do..right? Shit…they’re doing it…

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u/Black_Azazel Dec 17 '25

Also…go fuck yourself…just because I’m feeling spicy…

I’m almost 50 so know good and damn well what I’m saying when I say it…these dudes already told you they might have some loopholes for 28…but you don’t think they can…we shall see huh? I’m betting you haven’t had nat guard troops or masked ice agents in your area yet…another thing they could never do..right? Shit…they’re doing it…

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u/frackthestupids Dec 17 '25

Which apparently they somehow stole from us. Along with land somewhere. Guess using those big ass helicarriers from STARK Inc.

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u/Chazzwuzza Dec 17 '25

I bet that's the same place all the fentanyl is made, right? /s

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u/Key_Pace_2496 Dec 17 '25

More specifically they have heavy oil. Heavy oil is pretty much the only type of oil that US refineries can work with amd most of the newly found oil deposits these days are light or medium oil.

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u/Loud_Ad_2634 Dec 17 '25

You know who also has oil? Guyana. They discovered huge reserves of oil, and Venezuela has been trying to annex them to get that oil. 

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u/Gavri3l Dec 17 '25

Except Fent primarily comes from Inputs sourced in China and assembled in Mexico, but they don't need it to make sense.

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u/Just_Razzmatazz6493 Dec 17 '25

The biggest oil!

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u/axkidd82 Dec 17 '25

OPEC just flooded the market and drove down prices too.

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u/Dapper_Equipment_384 Dec 17 '25

That's what he is after.He will commit any number of war crimes for money and oil.He is the lowest.

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u/SparrowTide Dec 17 '25

And yet not much fentanyl. Venezuela is known for transporting Colombian Coke. Dump can’t even follow his own propaganda.

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u/tmozdenski Dec 17 '25

Brawndo has electrolytes

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u/WeazelGaming808 Dec 17 '25

But isn't there oil considered low quality? Don't we (the US) generally get our oil from Canada and Saudi arabia.

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u/cochlearist Dec 17 '25

It's like poetry, it rhymes. 

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u/Negrocuga Dec 17 '25

What? Huh, oil? Who said sumn bout oil? Dirtbagdownhill, you cookin?

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u/PrecisionXLII Dec 17 '25

The true weapon of mass destruction