Dr. Ivana Hughes

I mean, one, nuclearization is extremely profitable.

And I think keeping the world on the edge of their seats that at any moment we could all be eviscerated, I think does put a ton of money into, you know, this sort of vague, you know, military industrial complex we've talked about that I think a lot of people do profit from this heightened sense of anxiety and constantly being at each other.

I think it is a profitable industry and that a world of

you know, kind of more harmony and peace is probably less profitable.

And I think that our current profit motives probably lead us to these positions in a lot of places.

And to the political point, I mean, it is, I do see it as like a nonpartisan issue that, you know, it's not like, oh, I don't want this president or this president.

I don't want any president.

I

And I think to your point, like the executive order thing, I'm less concerned with, you know, what Trump is going to do tomorrow, yada, yada.

And I think, again, it's frivolous in the grand scheme of humanity's demise.

But I do think the executive order position does create a really scary paradigm where maybe it's not, you know, Trump that'll do it.

Because, I mean, we'll look at Obama that did executive orders and Trump did more.

And then what if there's someone three presidents from now?

that truly is a tyrant, truly is some type of demagogue that wants to utilize the precedent that's been made in the past to then do something catastrophic.

And I think that is...

To me, like, the biggest looming threat is kind of the precedent that these kind of orders make.

And, yeah, at times I feel hopeless because I'm like, what can I do?

Like, what can I really do, right?

Like, I'm just, I'm a comedian.

Like, I have no sway, no influence.