David Bell

It works like the 90s again.

Just run right up to the plane.

Right.

But because that's not normalized, them doing that in this case is like, oh, you really fucked up, huh?

Yeah.

No, you made a mistake.

You realized that you were about to be overthrown.

Yeah.

MBS was not fired after this fuck up, but his popularity and reputation took a major hit.

Perhaps one reason why it was so hard for Saudi citizens to accept any cuts to their benefits was that they'd seen the Al Saud family's personal finances balloon during the same period.

And they have a point where it's like, yeah, you guys aren't really working, a lot of you, or you're doing barely a job compared to what you're getting paid for.

But the Al Saud family is worth an insane amount of money, and they do nothing at all, right?

Even as the government revenues have collapsed, they continue to be – the family net worth as the state's finances are in freefall, the Saud family net worth is $1.4 trillion.

So I get why these people are like, we got to make cuts.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Yeah.

Oh, the story of everything, right?

Where it's like the rich people are like, sorry, you're going to have to tighten the belt.

Us, I mean, I need my super yacht.

Yeah.