Jessica Tarlov

And we're saying, like, you got to focus on what's going on at home.

Our European allies are saying, this is so harebrained and you haven't been able to give us a decent briefing to explain what a decent set of goals are or what an exit strategy is.

And so no one's happy on that side.

And then the Gulf states aren't even happy with what's going on.

Would they prefer a world without...

Ayatollah Jr.

in it and the IRGC as it's currently constituted?

A hundred percent.

But we've even stopped taking out key members of the leadership, which I feel like is an admission that this is kind of it, right?

That, you know, there is no Delcy Rodriguez waiting in the wings for when, you know, she can come into, it will definitely be a he in Iran.

But you know what I mean?

Like, there's no moderate leader that you feel like you can make a deal with.

And some of the more moderate forces that we've seen are now just out there trolling Trump online mercilessly.

Like, everybody knows what his game is, right?

That he's going to tweet a couple hours before the market opens, try to smooth things over.

And I feel like we tried to put out our best AI slop from the White House account with the Super Mario-themed battle plans, but we're getting trolled worse than anything that we're producing at this point, which I'm sure is even more humiliating to him than whatever's actually happening on the battlefield.

Yeah, I mean, the lack of interest in the MO of the campaign trail for Donald Trump, which was we're going to doge federal government, right, and that we're going to start with the Pentagon, which has never actually passed an audit, is, you know, standing in very stark contrast to what's going on now.

And they have...

all but given up on the idea of trying to get the $200 billion supplemental that they wanted because no one's going to vote for it.

Even Republicans aren't going to vote for it.