Dave Smith

Are you just repeating back to me the thing that you've heard repeated to you and you think I haven't heard it repeated yet?

When I talk about this for a living, everybody repeat after me, short-term pain.

By the way, translation of that, Rob, is what?

Oh, yeah, I can't defend what's going on right now.

Oh, yeah.

But there's this long-term gain.

You see, like, what are ridiculous talking about?

The short-term pain is offset by this long-term gain.

By the way, every last person involved in this conflict, Rob, fully admitted already on the record, they have no plan for the long-term.

They've all said, I don't know.

Witkoff just said again, I don't know.

I don't know how this ends.

I don't know who's next.

Hopefully someone better.

What long-term gain are they even talking about?

The one they would just wish would come?

Got to break a few omelets to make an egg.

Let me tell you something.

There's one thing I know about politics.

Everyone who's ever said you'd need to break some eggs to get an omelet, basically just a different way of saying short-term pain for long-term gain, was wrong about the long-term.