Andrew Sage

And maybe you could go back and say the Khmer Rouge, but they weren't really a government by that point.

So this is not a designation that has ever been given to a government before.

Right.

It doesn't make any sense to give it to a government.

It doesn't make sense to give it to this government.

I mean, you know, even if you're working within the logic of counterterrorism, which is just, you know, unhinged murderous imperialism to begin with.

But all of the reporting on this has been assuming that the blockade will be of, you know, like of these specifically sanctioned oil tankers.

However, the thing about the Foreign Terrorist Organization designation is that it does things.

And one of the things that...

that foreign terrorist organization designation does is that if you do business with a, with a foreign terrorist organization, you are now immediately on the line for material support of terrorism charges like Chevron.

So yes, there are lots of countries like Facebook.

I'm fine with the U S military carrying out airstrikes on Chevron executives and their, and their property.

Let's be clear about that.

I would salute the red, white, and blue if we dropped some hellfires on that C-suite.

Yeah, I don't know.

This is all very weird.

My understanding of the FTO designation process is that how it's supposed to work is that the president proposes it, and then the Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasurer, I think, have to approve it.

And then there's a seven-day period where Congress has the opportunity to say no to

and then it goes up.

So right now, we should be theoretically in the seven-day window, but it's also really unclear what the administration has actually been doing, because, again, we're being governed by post.