David Bell

Mr. President, how did they get in here?

How did they overthrow the government?

Well, sir, they had raw salmon on them.

Fortunately, all everything- There was nothing we could do.

Yeah, there's nothing.

So MBS's first move in his war against the religious police was to ban them from stopping or detaining Saudi citizens in public.

Great first start, right?

The thing that you were doing that was getting a lot of people killed, you just can't do anymore.

You're not allowed to just fuck with people in the world.

His predecessors had tried to curb the influence of religious hardliners but failed, most famously blocking for six years an attempt by King Abdullah to make it legal for women to work in lingerie stores selling underwear to other women.

And like the religious – the hardliner clerics would be like, no, women can't work.

But then the problem is like, OK, so are men supposed to sell lingerie to women?

So we have lingerie.

Is that better?

Yeah.

But women can't work in the like, yeah, you know, the lingerie industry was like, guys, please.

Come on.

You got to give us something.

What do we got?

We just want to sell you people underwear.