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I don't know what the word is, but they're MAGA.
They're more nationalistic.
And so I think Boris Johnson was more of the center-left, center-right, back-and-forth Kamala Mitt Romney type.
Maybe it's not everybody around him having the problem.
Maybe he's the problem.
Maybe they respond to everybody else.
Yeah, there's a common denominator.
Ludwig's not going to call you, whether or not you use Quo.
Let's go to Iran because it reminds me, what you just said about your friend in Venezuela reminds me.
I've been talking to two people in Iran during what's going on right now and a couple people who live here who have family there.
And, uh, I'll just give the broad overview here, which is that, you know, we talked about the whole history of Iran on this podcast before and how we, you know, with the, the U S doing almost great Britain's bidding to cause the initial, uh,
revolt that took out Muhammad Masadeh and led to the Ayatollahs taking over, okay?
So the Ayatollahs have ruled Iran for a long time.
And I'll just say, much like Venezuela, it's been horrible.
It's been a very badly run country, right?
Economically, it's done very poorly, very repressive.
People aren't generally happy.
The average person's not very happy.
And they've had a lot of protests and riots and many revolutions escalating over the past few years.
The most recent one in 2022 and 2023 was because a woman got executed in police custody for not wearing the face covering correctly.