Dave Smith

But this is John Podhoretz, who is Norman Podhoretz's son, legendary neoconservative.

One of the most influential, like right behind Irving Kristol and those guys, his father, Norman Putthorst, was one of the most influential neoconservatives.

And they both I don't know if they founded Commentary magazine, but they were both over there for a long time.

Yeah.

Yes.

He's the one who said all the Jewish money should flow in to take out Thomas Massey.

Yes.

And of course, he's been a cheerleader for war in Iran for, I don't know, 30 years.

But anyway, here here he is now on Trump.

There's, listen, man, there's something interesting about this critique John Putthart has of Donald Trump.

And as you listen to this, Rob, I bet even you'll say he's not entirely wrong.

There's something reasonable about what he's saying.

But of course, there's also something truly disgusting about what he's saying and what he's advocating for.

Like the obvious conclusion of this is that, yeah, that's why you shouldn't have launched this war.

That's why this was not just a mistake, but a goddamn, you know,

just like a catastrophic mistake I mean this thing already if we end here essentially the point he's getting to is that this is worse well no kidding this is worse Rob I mean how much listen but again there's that those 168 school girls that got killed that everyone makes a big deal about but there's probably at least a couple thousand uh Iranians who have died from this thing I don't know uh

several thousand um uh people in lebanon have died and i know some israelis have died at like 13 to 15 u.s soldiers have died a couple hundred wounded at this point we'd probably spent just like a hundred billion dollars on just military munitions and movements that

damage to our bases and everything like that's probably another 100 200 billion dollars the damage to the global economy is probably in the hundreds of billions of dollars like this thing is a big goddamn catastrophe all for nothing um so yeah it's bad but the thing is there's just something about and i'm sure i don't know rob there's something about looking at john pod horitz call somebody call donald trump a chicken and the ch like

I don't know, Rob.

There's something about when men like John Podhoretz use this kind of like bravado language talking about war that really just sickens me.