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You guys did a 31 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:45.439 great jobs, great job holding up the Ford. Here On 32 00:01:45.519 --> 00:01:49.000 today's show, Lindsey Graham is dead and Mitch McConnell is alive. 33 00:01:49.760 --> 00:01:52.519 We'll talk about Graham's legacy and McConnell's proof of life 34 00:01:52.519 --> 00:01:55.200 photo and how the absence of both men is affecting 35 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.439 Republican's agenda in Congress. We'll also get into Trump's latest 36 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.200 war on the press after the White House and cash 37 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.439 Ptel subpointed four New York Times journalists over there reporting 38 00:02:04.519 --> 00:02:08.840 on Katari Force one and whether RFK Junior has a 39 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.759 lid on what's become an explosive outbreak of diarrhea. 40 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.560 Then love it talk that's not about your vacation. 41 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:22.240 Sort yeah, I was gonna say, see if you can 42 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:24.599 help me out then love It talks to our pel 43 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.840 Brian Tyler Cohen about his brand new book The Day 44 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:31.159 After Had a Wheeld Power in a post Trump world. 45 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:37.719 Fun to fantasize. Okay, Brian, all right, but first let's 46 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:39.960 get to the top story this week. It appears as 47 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:43.159 though the ceasefire with Iran fell apart last week while 48 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.680 I was gone, and now we're back to full scale war. 49 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:50.639 Rip the MoU of Versailles. Trump officially notified Congress that 50 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:54.759 military action has resumed. He also says he's reinstating the 51 00:02:54.840 --> 00:02:58.280 naval blockade of Iranian ports and that quote the USA 52 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:02.319 will be from this point forward known as the Guardian 53 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:05.520 of the Horror moves straight. Really rolls off the tongue. 54 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:07.400 Just say Guardian the horrm mos straight. 55 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:10.360 That's how they always wanted to be. USA was kind 56 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:12.120 of boring. What do you call it? The Guardian of 57 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:13.120 the Horror moves straight? 58 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:18.240 Not the first time an agreement signed it Versailles after 59 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:21.759 a war ended poorly, hopefully not as badly as the 60 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:22.280 last time. 61 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:26.759 Good job, Jade Vance, good job, Yeah, really nailed it. 62 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:29.639 We're also apparently going to start charging a twenty percent 63 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:32.199 toll on all cargo that goes through the Strait, according 64 00:03:32.199 --> 00:03:36.080 to Trump, which seems like it's a violation of international law. 65 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:39.240 That's according to Marc or Rubio last month. 66 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:45.000 Yeah, taking Master's like why so little, Yeah, they're just 67 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:45.960 trying to get their beaks wet. 68 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.159 But yeah, and the Rubio isn't just like, oh, this 69 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.719 is legal. It would be a contagion that would spread 70 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:51.639 across the globe. 71 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.759 Yes, yeah, looking forward to him talking about that now. Meanwhile, 72 00:03:55.759 --> 00:03:58.280 Iran continues to fire off rockets at US targets across 73 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:01.639 the Middle East and openly threatened venge on America. Uh, 74 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:03.919 not to worry. Trump's got this whole thing under control here. 75 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:06.560 He is calling into Fox and Friends this morning. 76 00:04:06.879 --> 00:04:10.080 We're going to keep the straight and we'll probably run it. 77 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.439 Will become the Guardian of the Strait. Maybe we'll call 78 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:15.319 it the Guardian Angel of the Strait, and we should 79 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:17.839 be reimbursed for that. Obama was the worst of all, 80 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.639 because Obama actually went to their side. Obama, because you know, 81 00:04:21.720 --> 00:04:26.879 he's a well let's not say, let's let's not say, 82 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:28.439 let's leave that for another time. 83 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.680 Muslim is that what he was going to say, socialist 84 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.240 social trader, socialist foreigner or something of that in that 85 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:36.639 vein an Ayatola. 86 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:37.519 He's such a dick. 87 00:04:39.079 --> 00:04:40.600 Tell me how feasible do you think it is for 88 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:44.319 the US to become the Guardian Angel slash toll booth 89 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:45.519 operator for the Straight. 90 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:49.360 Of hor Moves paging Curtis Sliwa, Right, Guardian Angels? Could 91 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:52.120 we stand up a mission to permanently escort boats to 92 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:55.000 the Straight of hor Moves? Yes, they could do a 93 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:58.199 formal escort mission. It would require a lot of navy resources. 94 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.759 It could last a long time, maybe permanently, definitely a 95 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.040 perpetuity aid another forever war everybody. It would cost a 96 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:06.839 lot of money, and it would be really, really risky 97 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:09.040 because again it's a thirty kilometer choke point and iron 98 00:05:09.079 --> 00:05:12.439 can hit you with drones, missiles, naval minds, god knows 99 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:14.160 what else, and you know, the whole thing unravels if 100 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:17.680 one gets through. So I don't think that a permanent 101 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:19.519 escort mission is going to get you back to pre 102 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:23.600 war shipping traffic levels because there's like limitations on how 103 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:27.759 many you know, navy destroyers you have. Fewer companies are 104 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:29.480 going to want to try this because it is inherently 105 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:31.720 more risky, and then a lot of companies are not 106 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:33.319 going to pay a twenty percent surcharge. 107 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:34.519 That's that's a pretty big. 108 00:05:34.360 --> 00:05:37.680 Big on the on the shipping fee. So my guess 109 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:39.639 is that this is an empty threat designed to create 110 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:41.959 leverage from the White House and they'll probably walk the 111 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:43.800 whole thing back in a couple of days. I just 112 00:05:43.839 --> 00:05:46.000 can't see how that this will actually get implemented. I 113 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.720 remember the last time Muhammad bin Salmon, the Saudis were like, no, 114 00:05:48.759 --> 00:05:51.160 you're not using our airspace, You're not doing an escort mission. 115 00:05:51.399 --> 00:05:52.959 What are you even talking about? And then I saw 116 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:54.800 did you see the what? New York Post reported that 117 00:05:54.839 --> 00:05:58.680 the White Ust is calling this latest operation Operation Bitch Slap. 118 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:00.319 No, that's is that a joke? 119 00:06:00.480 --> 00:06:00.920 No? 120 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:01.879 No, that's official. 121 00:06:02.040 --> 00:06:04.519 Yeah, it's very heg Sethian to me, But it suggests 122 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:07.600 that they've viewed sort of what's happenings as a time 123 00:06:07.720 --> 00:06:10.759 limited and temporary battle with the Iranians. 124 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.560 Also feels like just a way to try to get attention. 125 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:16.319 It's like it's like he's trying to act up heg 126 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:18.079 Seth And they've named all the other missions and they 127 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:19.800 didn't get enough attention, so now we're just going to 128 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:20.360 bitch slap. 129 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:22.680 Yeah, this was This is someone on background for what 130 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:24.680 it's worth, but it feels hegg Sathian. There's also a 131 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.879 great Water Journal piece about how there's some poorly worded 132 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:29.720 language in the ceasefire MoU that's being interpreted by Iran 133 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:32.079 as meaning they now controlled the strait. So great work, 134 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:35.439 as you said, Jadie Vance, Steve Wikoff, and Jared Kushner, 135 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:37.800 like just big picture. It's just worth remembering this was 136 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:39.959 going to be a four to five week operation to 137 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.120 deal with Iran's nuclear program, and now we're well over 138 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:44.839 four months and we're talking about how to reopen the 139 00:06:44.839 --> 00:06:45.560 Strait of Hormuz. 140 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:47.360 Yeah, just would add one thing to your list of 141 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.319 reasons that this is not a good idea. One other 142 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:53.879 would be that it is not traditionally in the conception 143 00:06:53.920 --> 00:06:56.680 of Americans the role of the US military to be 144 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:01.560 the permanent security detail for oil anchors moving through the Gulf, 145 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:05.560 to protect the investment of large multinational corporations and the 146 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:08.240 infrastructure by which they trans transmit. 147 00:07:09.079 --> 00:07:11.120 That's why we got to take a cut love it. Yeah, 148 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:13.040 what I was just doing some math on this. About 149 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.600 twenty million barrels a day go through go through the 150 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:20.560 straight at it usually eighty dollars a barrel. That's three 151 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:24.439 hundred and twenty million dollars a day. 152 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:28.879 The it really did remind me Trump saying we're gonna look, 153 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.199 we got to stop these Iranians from trying to charge 154 00:07:31.199 --> 00:07:33.240 a toll for people moving this straight over moose and 155 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.680 as a as a consequence, we are going to charge 156 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.040 a toll for moving through this strade and muses. And 157 00:07:37.040 --> 00:07:39.519 there's this episode of Sopranos where this port gardener is 158 00:07:39.519 --> 00:07:42.959 stuck between a war between Fislamana and Polly Walnuts and 159 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:44.879 he just gets the ever loving shit beat out of 160 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:46.720 it over at the end of it, Polly Walnuts is like, 161 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.279 you're gonna pay me, and I did you a favor, 162 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.639 I protected you from the other guy, and you're gonna 163 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:54.360 have to do some ones for free. That's Trump with this, 164 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:57.399 And they're like like the that that meme of the 165 00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:00.600 you know the our you know, our our our blessed 166 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:04.040 ships there barbarous and they're barbarous murderers and it's like 167 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:08.959 our blessed protection services, your barbarous protection racket. 168 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:11.759 I saw the Iranians. One of them like tweeted out, like, 169 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:15.240 you know, you're right, someone needs to control and like, 170 00:08:15.439 --> 00:08:16.879 but we're gonna do it for much less. 171 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:19.000 Yeah, Hey, Ron, are you guys a better deal than Trump? 172 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.160 Let me get you into the straight. I'll only take 173 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:25.120 ten percent. I'll get you through the straight and ten 174 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:28.480 percent stupid. It seems to me like Trump's chances of 175 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.600 negotiating that MoU into a long term deal with Iran 176 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:35.000 may have dropped precipitously over the over the last week 177 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:36.559 or so. But I don't know, what do you think, Tommy? 178 00:08:36.679 --> 00:08:36.879 I mean? 179 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:39.720 The Wall Street Journals reported that the Trump administration thinks 180 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.200 a nuclear deal is increasingly unlikely. I wonder why they 181 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.159 would think that, you know, if you can't kind of 182 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:47.039 do abide by the sixty day MoU, I don't know 183 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:49.320 if you're gonna get them into a more complicated nuclear deal. 184 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:52.120 Yeah. I feel like when we first talked about this, 185 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:54.679 we talked about the fact that there's like a fundamental problem, 186 00:08:54.720 --> 00:08:56.639 which is that the two circles of the ven diagram 187 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.360 don't overlap because Donald Trump can't accept a deal that's 188 00:09:01.600 --> 00:09:04.399 not demonstrably better than the Obama deal, but the only 189 00:09:04.440 --> 00:09:06.320 deal that will ever be on offer is one that's 190 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:10.919 demonstrably worse, right, And everything about that MoU is about 191 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:13.559 kicking the can on that fundamental problem, and all the 192 00:09:13.639 --> 00:09:16.440 ups and downs, like we have a deal, we have 193 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:19.240 an embass These people are bastards who can't work with 194 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:21.519 I've never met more reliable partners. Like all of it 195 00:09:21.559 --> 00:09:25.360 has been a kind of like high dudgeon dramatic Trump 196 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:28.559 show on top of like the fundamentals which have been 197 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:29.679 terrible from the beginning. 198 00:09:29.759 --> 00:09:31.600 Well, and the Trump administration was betting that they could 199 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:33.799 offer around a bunch of economic incentives and get them 200 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:35.480 to not want to go back to war. But for 201 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.840 a run, they're like, we just survived a war against 202 00:09:37.840 --> 00:09:40.919 the US in Israel. This is our moment to like 203 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.279 assert our dominance over the entire region. And they're betting 204 00:09:44.279 --> 00:09:45.759 that Trump doesn't want to go back to war before 205 00:09:45.799 --> 00:09:48.000 the midterms. And I think they are right because Trump 206 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:49.480 tells us as much all the time. 207 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:53.519 So Trump did a little interview with Tommy your friend 208 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:55.919 Hugh hewittt I caught that you see that. So hw 209 00:09:55.960 --> 00:09:58.840 had ask them, do you plan to oust the Iranian regime? 210 00:09:58.879 --> 00:10:00.919 And Trump says, well, I think they're a little cuckoo. 211 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:03.519 They all are. To them, deals are made to be broken. 212 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:07.519 They're extremely unreliable people. Hugh, was the MoU that your 213 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:09.960 negotiators brought back built. 214 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:10.399 To fall apart. 215 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:11.559 What does that mean? 216 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:12.519 Trump? 217 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:14.679 Trump says, it was built to test. It was a test. 218 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:18.120 We didn't know. Memorandums of understanding when you're dealing with 219 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:20.759 sleeze bags don't mean much. It is like to your 220 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:23.720 how many times was Trump like this new group of people, 221 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:26.320 they're so reasonable, we can make deals with them. Jd 222 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.600 Vance is out there being like, it's really cool for 223 00:10:28.639 --> 00:10:30.799 the first time in forty seven years that we have 224 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:33.080 all these channels to the Iranians and they just want 225 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.799 to chat, and it's just it's been so cool. 226 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.840 Yeah, the friends we make along the way, and yeah, 227 00:10:37.840 --> 00:10:41.639 the Hughes setup question, it's like, is it possible, mister president, 228 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:43.840 that things are going exactly as you plan? 229 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:45.039 Why? 230 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.039 Yes, Hugh, I think they might be. I think you're right, 231 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:48.159 exactly as we planned. 232 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:48.879 Yes. 233 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.519 Also, I noticed that trumpet NATO was like, we've already 234 00:10:53.519 --> 00:10:55.519 got the nuclear material. Because it's so far under ground, 235 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.320 nobody's going to be able to get it except us, 236 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.679 So why did we go to war in the first place. 237 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.360 It wasn't the whole point to get the nuclear material. 238 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:06.559 You're gonna drive yourself crazy trying to find any sort 239 00:11:06.600 --> 00:11:08.879 of internal logic. Yeah, and he's calling it the nuclear 240 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.440 dust now because it's it's so stupid. 241 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.840 It is funny that the MoU It formalized the ceasefire. 242 00:11:14.919 --> 00:11:18.200 That's gone, it ended, the blockade, blockheade's back reopened, the 243 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.039 street of hor moves closed again, sanctions relief, oil waiver 244 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.720 that's gone now, and now a sixty day' clock to 245 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.159 negotiate the permanent deal. That's August sixteenth. We are well 246 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:32.360 on our way. Yeah, good stuff, good stuff, Well done everyone, 247 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.720 before we move on. I kind of missed this when 248 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:39.360 I was gone, the story about the Iranians, the Israelis 249 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.720 giving the US intelligence that the Iranians are trying to 250 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:45.799 kill Trump again. What's going on there? 251 00:11:45.960 --> 00:11:48.360 Oh yeah, well apparently they did that. They did, Yeah, 252 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:52.360 they the Iranians. Apparently the Israeli's passed along intelligence to 253 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.200 the US claiming that Trump was on there's some new 254 00:11:56.639 --> 00:11:58.919 effort to assassinate him. And Trump went and bragged to 255 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:00.480 the press about how he's like number one on the 256 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.720 Iranian hit list, and that maybe is why he switched 257 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.639 from the old Air Force one to the new Air 258 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:07.240 Force one on the way home. We're gonna talk about 259 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.080 this later. Yeah, but also maybe why you started bombing again. 260 00:12:10.480 --> 00:12:13.120 So I Trump be pretty piss if Jad Bets keeps 261 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:15.960 talking about how cool Iranians are, if I would a 262 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.080 stop last time there was that much daylight between two 263 00:12:18.279 --> 00:12:21.000 members of a mob family, Corleone gets shot outside that 264 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:23.679 fucking orange stand, It's like, don't be a little too 265 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:25.039 much daylight inside the family? 266 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.840 Guys did make me feel too, like the like Israeli 267 00:12:27.840 --> 00:12:30.159 intelligence meant, Yeah, it was probably like, oh, not bombing 268 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:32.120 enough lately. See see they're trying to kill you. 269 00:12:32.200 --> 00:12:33.679 It's just such a mark, like, of course they're trying 270 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.000 to kill you. Man, you killed Costom Solilani and then 271 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:38.919 you bombed their country for like a month, So I 272 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:40.159 like you now, right. 273 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:41.360 Uh. 274 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.360 Democrats and Congress haven't really had the ability to reign 275 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:46.840 in Trump and Iran, though they may have a chance. 276 00:12:46.919 --> 00:12:49.039 This week. Brian Shott said he's voting no on the 277 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:53.840 annual Defense Bill known as the NDAA, citing Trump's request 278 00:12:53.879 --> 00:12:57.679 for a fifty percent increase at the Defense Department. This 279 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.519 is separate. This is an addition to the extra sixty 280 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.360 seven billion I think in funding that haig Set's asking 281 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:08.440 for by August and a separate supplemental bill. You guys 282 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:12.440 think every Democrat will see this is an easy call, 283 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:13.559 like shots. 284 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:16.639 No, they won't. I mean maybe they should, but they won't. 285 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:19.639 First so this is not appropriations as an authorization, right, 286 00:13:19.679 --> 00:13:24.840 So this is about how the Congress is directing money 287 00:13:24.840 --> 00:13:27.039 to be spent, but it doesn't actually appropriate the money. 288 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:32.000 That's a separate process for reasons. That makes sense if you, 289 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:36.080 I don't know, roll call on the toilet, but as 290 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:40.039 many as many great Americans do. But where else you're 291 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:40.679 gonna read it? 292 00:13:40.759 --> 00:13:40.960 Right? 293 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:46.080 But I wonder because so it's had similar debates in 294 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:48.200 the past about holding something up that actually includes the 295 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:51.519 reforms that Democrats want, Right, so there is an argument 296 00:13:51.559 --> 00:13:55.559 that you continue to have this pass with a huge supermajority. 297 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:59.440 It also raises incomes for the troops, that kind of thing. 298 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:01.840 It has some reforms that Democrats want, and yeah, we 299 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:04.679 should say that everything's in here, everything's in there. So Ukraine, 300 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:08.600 like the whole Defense Department strategy everything for the whole 301 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:12.120 year and not passing it doesn't hamstring the administration to 302 00:14:12.159 --> 00:14:14.080 fight the war at all because it's not actually authorizing 303 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:16.200 any it's not actually appropriating any money. It's just a 304 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:18.360 kind of proving how money can be spent. And then 305 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:21.320 you have a fight that's coming over the supplemental, which 306 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.320 was which is what hag Seth really wants and Trump 307 00:14:23.360 --> 00:14:26.600 really wants? Which is I think to me, I look 308 00:14:26.600 --> 00:14:29.120 at the Senate. Everybody know on fucking everything they fought 309 00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:32.360 out fucking insane, stupid war that's hamsterring the global economy 310 00:14:32.399 --> 00:14:36.440 without any kind of justification. But the appropriations are the 311 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:38.159 is the money he needs and is the kind of 312 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:40.879 the what I would say is like the real back 313 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.200 end authorization of the conflict. 314 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.320 Yeah, it seems like if it seems like the reason 315 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:50.000 to target this one, even over the appropriations is the 316 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:53.279 is you could probably do a supplemental. If they do this, 317 00:14:53.399 --> 00:14:55.320 it would be a reconciliation. Bills soon only need fifty 318 00:14:55.320 --> 00:14:57.679 one votes, and this it seems like they need the 319 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.679 full This is not a fifty one vote margin. This 320 00:14:59.720 --> 00:15:03.399 is the so Democrats probably have if they all banded together, 321 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:04.559 they have the votes to black ops. 322 00:15:04.600 --> 00:15:06.679 Yes, but nothing about not passing this prevents them from 323 00:15:06.679 --> 00:15:09.399 doing the propriate Look, I'm just this is this is 324 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:11.919 something that traditionally passes like eighty twenty, which is a 325 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.480 creat like you know, huge majority because it's for a 326 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:17.399 kind of the broad support of the military and all 327 00:15:17.480 --> 00:15:19.000 kinds of rules that they've been trying to fight for. 328 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:21.720 Yeah, I think the status like the Congress has passed 329 00:15:21.720 --> 00:15:24.799 an NAAA every year for I think sixty plus years, 330 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:26.360 so this is usually a thing they get done in 331 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.320 a bipartisan fashion. I do like this authorizes one point 332 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.559 one five trillion. I think there's going to be another 333 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:33.759 request for up to three hundred and fifty billions. So 334 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:36.320 for one point five trillion total, which is what Trump wants, 335 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:38.399 that's what Trump wants, which is an insane amount of money. 336 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:40.720 There's a forty two percent increase on current levels, which 337 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:43.120 is just not necessary or justified or in her interest. 338 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:45.159 And there was some polling that a recent poll found 339 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:48.519 sixty percent of Americans think that that budget request is 340 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.120 too high, and the majorities think the Iran war was 341 00:15:51.159 --> 00:15:53.720 done and unnecessary, And they probably won't be thrilled if 342 00:15:53.720 --> 00:15:55.440 they were to learn that it's ramping back up again. 343 00:15:55.519 --> 00:15:58.159 So I like me think this is easy though for me. 344 00:15:58.200 --> 00:15:59.480 But there's a lot of Democrats, so I think we'll 345 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.360 have a lot of must memory that says voting against 346 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:05.320 all of the underlying things within this bill and voting 347 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:08.320 against authorizing pedagon spending is bad politics for them. Again, 348 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:11.080 I think that's a dated view of politics in the world, 349 00:16:11.080 --> 00:16:13.440 but I think that's why you'll see majorities vote for it. 350 00:16:13.559 --> 00:16:17.279 Yeah, there's a view among them. I'm sure that it's 351 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.480 bad politics for sort of the reasons you're getting at, 352 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:21.759 which is like week on national security not supporting the troops. 353 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:25.759 There's also like a bad local politics angle. Like Slotkin 354 00:16:25.879 --> 00:16:27.039 was asked about it and she said, oh, it's a 355 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:30.000 tough vote specifically because it includes like you know, money 356 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:32.600 for a new hangar at Selfridge Air National Guard Base 357 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:35.440 or stan So you can imagine that there's a number 358 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:38.080 of Democrats like that. But I do think, Look, I 359 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:41.600 think it's meaningful that shots who's you know, in line 360 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:45.759 to be in leadership here is saying that he's voting no, 361 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:48.279 and that they voted the Democrats voted no and committee, 362 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:51.519 So I don't know. 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