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So what are you waiting for? Head to 66 00:03:24.639 --> 00:03:27.360 Crooked dot com slash friends to join today? All right, 67 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:30.080 they're starting to use the Q word to describe Trump's 68 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:33.520 disastrous war in Iran. You know what the Q word is, Dan. 69 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:36.240 There are all kinds of jokes I was going to make, 70 00:03:36.280 --> 00:03:38.280 but none of them seem to work. So I'm just 71 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:40.520 going to go with the right answer. Is it quagmire? 72 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:43.800 It is. That's the headline and one of the most 73 00:03:43.840 --> 00:03:46.400 read Politico stories of the week. The Iran war is 74 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:50.639 a whole new level of quagmire for the US. Both 75 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:54.000 Trump and the Iranians are claiming that they're in control 76 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.479 of the Strait of Horror moves, which can't be true, 77 00:03:57.719 --> 00:04:01.759 and the strait remains functionally closed. I think only fourteen 78 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:05.840 vessels went through yesterday. Gas prices are higher than they 79 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.039 have ever been at this time of year in the 80 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.800 United States ever in history. The war also continues to 81 00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:16.399 deplete our military. The Washington Post reports that we've lost 82 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:19.920 about a quarter of our supply of Reaper drones, we're 83 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:23.160 using up our limited supplies of both Patriot and Tomahawk missiles, 84 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:25.879 and some of our service members have been deployed so 85 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.360 long that on the USS Abraham Lincoln, which is an 86 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.000 aircraft carrier that's been in the Middle East since November, 87 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:36.439 several of the five thousand sailors and marines on board 88 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:40.639 have tried to jump overboard due to the stress and 89 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:45.279 horrible conditions. That's according to both the Military Times and 90 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:50.160 Stars and Stripes. But nothing better illustrates just how badly 91 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:52.439 Trump is getting his ass kicked by the Iranians than 92 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:55.560 the story of how our president was forced to hide 93 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:59.079 in a catering truck and board a secret plane to 94 00:04:59.279 --> 00:05:03.519 escape at tent assassination threat involving Iranian proxies in Turkey 95 00:05:03.959 --> 00:05:07.319 launching surface to air missiles at Air Force One. When 96 00:05:07.360 --> 00:05:09.600 Trump was asked why it was too dangerous for him 97 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.120 to fly on Air Force One but not any of 98 00:05:12.160 --> 00:05:16.240 the reporters and White House officials who weren't told they 99 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.800 were flying home on a potential target, the President said, 100 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:22.000 the dumbest thing possible, I. 101 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:24.879 Think actually the plane that I flew on was at 102 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:25.560 greater risk. 103 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:28.839 I think it was because that would be the plane. 104 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:31.959 I think that way that they would be more likely 105 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:40.879 to go for it. Fucking idiot. Yeah yeah, yeah, they'd 106 00:05:40.920 --> 00:05:42.959 be more likely to go for the plane you were on, 107 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:45.560 of course, which is why they tried to put you 108 00:05:45.639 --> 00:05:49.959 on another plane that they didn't know about. You, fucking moron. Yes, 109 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.480 I don't know why I say that in such a 110 00:05:51.480 --> 00:05:54.079 shocked way, but like that is it's just like new 111 00:05:54.160 --> 00:05:56.480 levels of Trump being a dipshit. Yeah, what did you 112 00:05:56.519 --> 00:06:00.360 make of the whole the catering KRT caper? Uh? 113 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:03.959 On one hand, it is very very funny that he 114 00:06:04.040 --> 00:06:06.759 hid in a cavering cart, that he flew home on 115 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.759 a secret plane, that he hand picked the people who 116 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.519 would survive with him, like Pete Haigseth and the woman 117 00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:14.839 who prints all of his documents. 118 00:06:15.279 --> 00:06:17.560 But he sent Dance Marbino is former caddy. 119 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:20.079 And Daniz Scavito. But he's then he sent Marco Rubio 120 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:22.160 to die with the press. 121 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:24.319 And Marco Rubio was the only one on that other 122 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:28.399 plane who knew what was happening. Scott Bessett was with 123 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:30.759 Marco Rubio, none the wiser. 124 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:33.319 And it's there's no protocol here for the reasons like 125 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:36.879 maybe hag Seth, you could possibly fabricate some reason. But 126 00:06:36.920 --> 00:06:39.920 the fact that he picked Dan Scavino and Natalie Harp 127 00:06:40.040 --> 00:06:43.079 the once again the woman who follows him around and 128 00:06:43.160 --> 00:06:45.920 prints his documents for him, were the ones who got 129 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.519 seats in the life raft and Marco Rubio didn't. It 130 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:52.839 should be a real tell to Marco Rubio. Also, how 131 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.399 do you eve impress this information? You get luked in 132 00:06:55.480 --> 00:06:57.560 and you're like, which way to Trump's plane? They're like, 133 00:06:58.079 --> 00:06:59.199 you didn't make the cut? 134 00:06:59.480 --> 00:07:02.399 I mean, well, or what were they? What did they 135 00:07:02.480 --> 00:07:03.720 Where did they think Trump was? 136 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.240 I mean they just assumed he was in his cabin 137 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:07.079 I assume. 138 00:07:06.920 --> 00:07:09.079 Oh yeah, I mean I know that's what the reporters thought. 139 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:11.360 But I was wondering about the like Scott Bison just 140 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.120 sitting there, has no idea with his buddy, Mark Rubio 141 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:16.480 has no idea. He's just a sitting duck for me. 142 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:19.120 Normally you would see the president walk up well, I 143 00:07:19.160 --> 00:07:20.639 guess they saw him walk up the steps. And there 144 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:22.720 are plenty of times we've been on the plane when 145 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:24.959 we used to fly on it where the president would 146 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:27.160 just be in their cabin and we would be seated 147 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:29.120 where we would sit, which is not in his cabin. 148 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:32.360 You would have no idea until the plane landed and 149 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:34.040 he did not walk down the front steps. 150 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:35.680 Who do you think was making it in the secret 151 00:07:35.680 --> 00:07:37.480 plane with Barack Obama? Definitely wasn't me. 152 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:38.199 I don't know. 153 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.519 It might have been you quick, I need a speech. 154 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:43.959 Well, how's that? We would have done it by actual 155 00:07:44.000 --> 00:07:48.240 protocol and not by who he likes most. There is 156 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.560 like a more serious thing to this, which is. 157 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:55.839 That the Iranian proxies in Turkey were potentially going to 158 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.319 take down Air Force One. Yeah, that's a well I mean. 159 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:01.920 That, yes, that that, But there's something like this probably 160 00:08:01.920 --> 00:08:04.759 sounds really quaint in like the dystopian, fucked up world 161 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:08.000 we live in, But there is just something terrible about 162 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.560 the fact that the president lied to the press, lied 163 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:15.199 to the country to hide a threat to himself. No 164 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:17.639 one knew where he was. He could have that plane 165 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:19.600 could have landed anywhere in the world and no one 166 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.720 would have ever known. And the only reason we know 167 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:25.879 about this now is because the Washington Post did some 168 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:28.360 really great reporting, Like, there is a world where obviously 169 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.160 his security, the president security, whether trumpettying else comes first, 170 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.919 so you could I understand the ruse. I don't really 171 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:36.960 understand why you would take Air Force one off, you 172 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:39.320 would just fly the other plane that they don't think he's. 173 00:08:39.159 --> 00:08:41.480 On, right, It definitely seemed like there was a need 174 00:08:41.519 --> 00:08:44.360 to protect Trump, even if it was now we should 175 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.480 say too. Since this story was first reported, there's been 176 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:52.320 more reporting that suggests that this intel about a potential 177 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.879 assassination plot came from Israel, from the Israeli government, and 178 00:08:56.919 --> 00:09:02.799 then the CIA. Our CIA judged it as low confidence, 179 00:09:03.240 --> 00:09:06.000 meaning they didn't think it was They didn't think it 180 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.360 was like a serious, serious threat, but clearly they thought 181 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.120 it was serious enough to put the president in a 182 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:14.399 catering cart and send him on a separate plane. 183 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.799 It's not probably not surprising that Israel's one who told 184 00:09:17.799 --> 00:09:21.080 this to Trump, because if you read Regime Change, the 185 00:09:21.120 --> 00:09:23.559 Maggie Haram of Jonathan Swan book, like one of the 186 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:25.840 themes in there, and Maggie talks about this interview with 187 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.000 Ezra Klein a few weeks ago, is that Trump is 188 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:31.080 securely obsessed with the idea that Ron wants to kill him, 189 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:33.799 and so you tell Trump Aron wants to kill you 190 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:37.240 at the same time, you're trying to keep Trump fully 191 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:38.480 focused on the war in Iran. 192 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.000 It's not a bad idea, right because that, Yeah, Bibi 193 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:45.159 did not want him to reach any kind of peace agreement, clearly, 194 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:49.559 So yeah, I thought it was. I thought it was. 195 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:53.120 So it's wild to me that, like it's one thing 196 00:09:53.159 --> 00:09:57.879 to protect the president, it's another thing to unnecessarily put 197 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.279 the rest of the people on Air Force one in danger. 198 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:04.519 Yeah, you just hold there for us one on the ground. 199 00:10:05.080 --> 00:10:08.480 You take the president, let him fly on this other plane. 200 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.559 No one knows what is right, and then after he lands, 201 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.480 you say Trump has landed, the Iranians know he's on 202 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:17.840 the plane. Then you fly the other plane. 203 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:21.000 Home, right, and we're not in the CIA. We're not 204 00:10:21.039 --> 00:10:23.120 in secret service to the CIA. You know, we could 205 00:10:23.120 --> 00:10:23.759 figure that out. 206 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:27.519 Yeah, it's I mean, it's it's crazy. It's also crazy 207 00:10:27.519 --> 00:10:30.279 they didn'tell anyone afterwards. Like that's also no, that's the well, yes, 208 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.879 thank you. That is the biggest problem. Like you could 209 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:35.840 do this whole thing and then once everyone lands be like, oh, 210 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:38.279 by the way, this happened and we couldn't tell you 211 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.360 at the time or whatever whatever, But like that is 212 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:42.200 it's wild that it had to be broken by the 213 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:46.000 Washington Post and that the administration subpoened New York Times 214 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:48.879 reporters for the leak about them not taking the new 215 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:53.360 Katari Force one home because it didn't have like the 216 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:58.440 right defensive maneuver capabilities that they might need if if 217 00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:01.399 proxi's on the ground were eating surfaced air missiles at 218 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:04.480 Air Force one Like this is entirely a hypothetical. You 219 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.480 just want to point this out there. But in a 220 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:09.440 world in which oh is right, In a world in 221 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:11.679 which the president can get on a secret plane without 222 00:11:11.720 --> 00:11:13.360 the press and have no one know where he is, 223 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:17.039 that plane can land anywhere. It could land on Epstein 224 00:11:17.159 --> 00:11:18.679 Island theoretically, Oh. 225 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.720 My god, you're really looking for a viral clip, aren't you. 226 00:11:21.879 --> 00:11:23.879 I did not want a viral clip. I did not 227 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:26.440 want this posted. I did not tell the social body 228 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:28.519 I want this posted. I'm making a point just to 229 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:32.519 our listeners, the people who tune into this podcast, that 230 00:11:33.320 --> 00:11:36.159 I'm just using the extreme example to make a point 231 00:11:36.279 --> 00:11:38.399 that if when the press is not with the president, 232 00:11:38.440 --> 00:11:40.320 the president can do lots of things we don't know 233 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:42.639 what are. He could have stopped in the UAE and 234 00:11:42.679 --> 00:11:43.559 cut a crypto deal. 235 00:11:43.720 --> 00:11:46.519 He could have He could have stopped in Moscow to 236 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:48.639 hang out with his friend Vladimir. 237 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:50.279 Pele could he could have picked up the P tape. 238 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:51.679 He could have picked up the P tape. 239 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:55.679 Right, Yeah, all these things were possible protocol. 240 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:59.639 Okay, Well, bigger picture, there's new reporting this week that 241 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.200 around is tracking Trump's political problems very closely. I guess 242 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.519 they're just they're looking at the looking at the RCP 243 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:10.559 average to the silver bullets and Trump apprual rating, and 244 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:16.000 they're looking to continue pushing negotiations far off past November 245 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.240 so that the so that Trump pays a maximum price 246 00:12:19.279 --> 00:12:22.440 in the midterms seems like a if we're just going 247 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:25.960 by political strategy, it does seem like a smart strategy 248 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:27.440 on Iran's behalf. 249 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:31.440 Now, on Ourn's part, Yeah, I mean, there's no question 250 00:12:31.559 --> 00:12:34.399 that they are correct to understand that Trump has very 251 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:39.320 very little leverage during election season because the things that 252 00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:43.840 would allow the sort of military maneuvers that would allow 253 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:47.639 him to gain an upper hand over the straight over 254 00:12:47.679 --> 00:12:51.080 Iran would raise gas prices in a way which would 255 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.799 hurt his party in the midterms. So that they figured 256 00:12:53.799 --> 00:12:56.679 that out. Now, I think the question for Iran is 257 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.240 what happens when Trump does and know what Trump cares 258 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:03.720 about has to face the voters for two years. Like, 259 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:06.559 if you're counting on Democrats to pass a War Powers 260 00:13:06.600 --> 00:13:09.399 resolution to stop the war, I don't think they're getting 261 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:10.600 to a vet a proof majority of that. 262 00:13:11.200 --> 00:13:11.320 No. 263 00:13:11.559 --> 00:13:15.519 Could a democratic Congress make it harder to fund the war? Possibly, 264 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.080 but this idea. But Trump may feel this is bad. 265 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:21.480 I'm honistic believe this is bad. 266 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:22.120 But it's not. 267 00:13:22.120 --> 00:13:24.840 Clear to me that Trump. Well it's not clear to me, 268 00:13:24.919 --> 00:13:27.200 and maybe it probably shouldn't be clear the Rdians what 269 00:13:27.320 --> 00:13:29.159 Trump does after the midterms. 270 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:31.919 Well after let's talk about what's after the midterms. It 271 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.799 is the beginning of the twenty twenty eight presidential race, 272 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:40.360 and you've got presumably jd. Vance who wants to be president, 273 00:13:41.320 --> 00:13:44.840 maybe Mark or Rubio, maybe both of them together. And 274 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.080 so there is an incentive at that point for the 275 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:53.679 administration to finally give Iranians what they want, to get 276 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:56.080 this off the table so that they don't win the 277 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:59.919 war or win Well, how are they going to do that? 278 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.679 I mean, that's ultimately what Iran is trying to forestall 279 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:06.320 right now is more true? Like not that I think 280 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:07.759 any of these things are going to happen per se. 281 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.200 But like Trump taking carg Island, for instance, one of 282 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.559 the things that was on the table earlier doesn't happen 283 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.919 the midterms. Could that happen in twenty twenty seven? Maybe 284 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.440 Trump launching all the other bombing. Yeah, like those sorts 285 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.519 of things like the right now, Trump won't use the 286 00:14:24.559 --> 00:14:28.799 military stick against Iran to the extent he has the 287 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:33.000 capacity to do so. Because of gas Price's election in 288 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:37.159 the calendar year of twenty twenty seven, he is relieved 289 00:14:37.200 --> 00:14:42.600 of that political the restraining nature of politics potentially. So 290 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:44.440 I don't The thing is, I don't know when Iran 291 00:14:44.440 --> 00:14:46.720 doesn't know either, said like this works in the short term, 292 00:14:47.080 --> 00:14:49.039 what happens in the medium and long term, who the 293 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:54.600 hell knows. Yeah, horrible story though about the Jesus Christ 294 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:58.320 to USS Lincoln and all those soldiers, and you know, 295 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.879 the families have been described being like moldy showers and 296 00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:06.320 broken toilets and shortages of hot water and food. They've 297 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:09.320 been trying to like figure this out. These the sailors 298 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:11.840 and marines have been sending messages like just to and 299 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:14.639 then of course someone asked Phigxeth today about it, and 300 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:18.440 he's like, Oh, it's all overblown, overblown. I respect all 301 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:20.679 these guys. They're great, they're doing a great job. It 302 00:15:20.720 --> 00:15:22.720 always always makes me feel bad that we talk about 303 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.519 the war purely in terms of gas prices and oil 304 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:29.960 prices because of the effect that it's having on politics here. 305 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:32.960 But it's also like there's a lot of fucking US 306 00:15:32.960 --> 00:15:35.919 forces deployed in the Middle East who are in harm's 307 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:38.279 way and who are also just have been away from 308 00:15:38.639 --> 00:15:41.480 their families forever and for what, for what? 309 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:45.600 And the military did not prepare for this. Hence the 310 00:15:45.639 --> 00:15:49.720 conditions on the ships. Yeah, because they know they'd never believe, 311 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:54.080 because they gave this zero thought that many many months later, 312 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:55.799 they'd still be in a conflict with Iran. 313 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:59.919 Missile stockpile estimates are that it won't recover until twenty thirty. 314 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:04.159 That's a whole other thing, Like God forbid someone else 315 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:06.480 at taxes. There's another war, Like we're not going to 316 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:09.559 be ready at all because we have now depleted all 317 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:12.720 of our military. We've sent soldiers for long, long deploy deployments. 318 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:14.639 We don't have missiles and drones and all that kind 319 00:16:14.639 --> 00:16:19.039 of all those capabilities because of this stupid fucking war. 320 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.039 It is it Like I kind of think that this 321 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:26.720 is what do you think about like Democrats, like how 322 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:30.360 they handle this over the next couple of months between 323 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.759 now and the midterms, because to me, it seems like 324 00:16:33.799 --> 00:16:37.039 it is the main issue and it's not your use. 325 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:40.600 It's like it combines both forever wars, which people hate, 326 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:45.159 and it's causing high prices, which people hate. So it's 327 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:47.440 like I feel like the whole you could run the 328 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:50.720 whole campaign about Trump's disastrous war and what it's doing 329 00:16:50.720 --> 00:16:52.000 to prices and all that. 330 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.320 Yeah, it should be the centerpiece of the campaign. It's 331 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:58.399 obviously it's best when tied to affordability, right, gas prices 332 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:01.759 and that. You know, like one of the messages tested 333 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:05.119 is the you know, they told us there wasn't enough 334 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:08.400 money for health care and food assistants, but now we 335 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:10.000 have money. We have billions of dollars for bombs in 336 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.000 the Middle East and for wars abilities like that tests 337 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:15.200 very well, it is, you know, so I think absolutely 338 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.759 hammer Democrats should have no fear. There's a lot of 339 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:20.200 sort of anxiety at the outset of this that what 340 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:21.960 if we get on the wrong side of the conflict. 341 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.519 And you know, we and we must begin every statement 342 00:17:24.559 --> 00:17:27.079 with a long throat clearing about how bad the Mullas 343 00:17:27.119 --> 00:17:29.359 and around are like. We don't like we were past 344 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:32.400 that this is an incredibly unpopular war. It goes at affordability, 345 00:17:32.599 --> 00:17:35.039 It goes at Trump's incompetence, it goes at Trump's weakness, 346 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.920 it goes to the chaos of his leadership style, and 347 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.400 I think, really importantly, it goes to the broken promises. 348 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.680 And when you see this in both focus groups and 349 00:17:43.720 --> 00:17:46.480 then in polling of people who regret who voted for 350 00:17:46.480 --> 00:17:48.759 Trump who were now disapprove of him, one of the 351 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.680 top things that comes up is that he broke his promises. 352 00:17:50.720 --> 00:17:53.079 And one of those big promises is the war, which 353 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:56.720 is tied to the other big promise, which is lowering prices. 354 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:07.759 Right. Today's show is sponsored by Strawberry dot me. 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