Bryan Callen

And they've glazed it a little bit.

They've crop dusted close, but not quite.

Short-term pain for long-term gain.

We want to stabilize oil trade.

Just to be honest, the American people, and if it doesn't work, well, then too bad.

We told Iran, fall in line with the petrodollar, stop putting pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, stop threatening your Gulf state neighbors, stop arming militias and the Houthi rebels who are bombing civilians, and you're fine, and they don't want to do it.

So you want to live clean and comfortable?

You want cheap computers, cheap cars, and cheap gas?

I think the reality is the reason why we do the freedom narrative

The truth is lowest common denominator is how you sell.

Have you ever seen these comedy videos just for laughs, gags on YouTube?

There's no talking.

It's a laugh track and all of the gags are done without words.

And they get massive viewership because someone from China, India, someone from Madagascar can watch that and get the joke.

So if you want to convey a message to most people, what's gonna work?

They kill protesters, they're evil, and they hate our freedom.

And you're gonna cut off the intellectuals, you're gonna cut off the moderates, but you're gonna get 60% of the disinterested and ignorant masses.

but most of the countries that say okay we're going to play ball with the us and and use the petrodollar system etc most of them end up with markets that make their societies better off in the long run the the long-term play was we're going to give you money for development and then you'll be in debt to us forever and that's how we stabilize the planet they are trying to create uh you know the problem is they want global homogenization they want everyone operating under the quote-unquote rules-based order that is the liberal economic order

The problem is when we go to Afghanistan and you've got a bunch of people who are, you know, with all due respect, not very smart.

They can't do jumping jacks.