Ben
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Doge, right, how Doge ripped to shreds our State Department and Trump fired the CIA people, how Trump's demolition of the FBI, including in the past two weeks when Kash Patel has fired a lot of FBI agents, the main counterintelligence group at the FBI that investigates and that deals with foreign threats, all their leadership was fired two weeks ago.
The CI12 group from the Washington field office, the counterintelligence group, they were all fired last week by Kash Patel.
And all these moves, Trump sucking up to Putin, Trump isolating Ukraine, Trump turning... It has created a situation now that once he did this Iran invasion, all those other things are now completely...
have completely caught up to him.
Iran has shut down the Strait of Hormuz.
That means oil prices will be, the last thing I'm thinking about is like, you know, I mean, it's not the last thing, but like my bigger concern is the lives of our troops, our safety, security, life.
But let's talk about the reality of it.
We're shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.
Gas prices are going to be skyrocketing right now.
When gas prices skyrocket and our bond markets are impacted, that means mortgage rates increase significantly as well.
Inflation's going to skyrocket.
This is gonna have a cascading effect on everything.
And truly the question, and I'm not trying to scare or be hyperbolic though, is what's gonna happen with the rest of the world?
You know, again, I avoid the language World War III.
I avoid that language.
But the world is at war right now.
That is undisputed.
And how do you untangle this?
I mean, you have one of the big diplomats in Iran who was negotiating with Trump, this guy Ali Lanaraji.
And he's saying, we don't want to negotiate with the US.