Audie Cornish

He thinks that's the way to do it.

And so tariffs, it is, you know, resources and transactional.

I think Google called it transactional predation of resources.

he sees himself as doing like what China is doing or something like that.

Now, of course, it's very different.

It's very, very different.

And it's often, as you mentioned, Bill, undermining our allies.

And I think that it's very difficult to watch in real time the post-World War II world order and systems be not just chipped away, but kind of kicked in the knee.

And maybe like retirement, it was always a myth, you know, like maybe it was never going to last more than 50 to 80 years.

But we are witnessing the falling apart of something.

That doesn't mean that something else can't be rebuilt in its place.

But for sure, I think that it might be baffling to the average person because you're like, why are we suddenly talking about Greenland?

And you can say that almost every week.

Why are we talking about X?

Why are we talking about Z?

Can I raise one more thing that's sort of baffling to me?

You have a generation of Republicans in MAGA world, whatever, who were against the forever wars.

You have Navy SEALs in Congress now, lawmakers.

They're there because they were against forever wars.

They were against our actions abroad and interventions, and they hate the neocons, and they're kicking dirt over Dick Cheney's grave.