Jeremy Scahill
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is just getting completely... And maybe this is just the social media ecosystem that I'm in that feeds me this kind of stuff.
But it just seems like we're getting clobbered over the head in the narrative war or in the meme war, if you will.
Everything that I see from Pete Hegseth or what the White House account is tweeting, it's all just so...
cringe and sort of like over the top nationalism and, you know, whatever else.
And the Iranians are sort of like gesture maxing to use a term there and sort of like dancing around us.
I think it's also, you know, it's hard to win sort of the meme war, the propaganda battle when you're failing and kind of humiliating yourself in the actual literal war relative to like, you know, Trump seemingly completely delusional on the current state of the war.
You know, we just covered earlier today, he's like 50% off on the estimations of Iran's missile capacity that they have right now.
They're still in control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Like, even though we are the dominant power, we're sort of getting bullied around in some ways.
And so it's,
It's hard to win that propaganda battle when the Iranians are still in a position of control and strength and can sort of troll us in the middle of that.
All right, we got this next one here.
Breaking points.
What is your favorite way to decompress from the news or a bad day?
Hot tea, yoga, toke?
What is that?
Oh, toke.
Take it.
Okay, yeah.
Sager's token.