Dave Smith

TBA.

How are you feeling?

Well, it's from everything.

I'll say this, right?

From everything that we've talked about since this war has started, everything that I've read about this, I think we've had a pretty good track record of kind of where we've been on this whole thing, and most importantly of all, why we oppose doing this to begin with.

But...

Like, everything I've seen in the war, everything that's been hinted about this deal, everything that's been leaked about this deal, and all of the reactions by the people, you know, the various different camps, kind of tells you that...

This is I mean, this is almost a surrender and not a surrender in the sense that you're surrendering your own country.

But in terms of the war itself, it's basically Donald Trump giving up, not getting anything and calling it quits and giving them everything.

I am not maybe not everything, but a whole lot.

That seems to be pretty clear.

And it's kind of the only thing that's consistent throughout.

And if that is the case, which overwhelmingly it seems to be, this is what I've been thinking about the last day since we stopped recording.

is that you're like, well, this really, dude, this sets up quite an interesting dynamic.

If this really is just Donald Trump going, I'm pushed so far that, like, we're out.

We got to get out of this thing.

And he's going all in on, we're giving them all this.

I'll spin it as a win, but we're giving them everything.

We're giving up without getting any of the war aims.

Because, man, then you're telling me, Rob, we have...