Jon Lovett

A billion dollars a day is a lot of money.

People have been pointing out that just over the course of the year, that's enough to insure 20 million Americans, provide healthcare for 20 million Americans with enough left over to buy Kristi Noem one sex plane per day.

That's how much money we're spending.

That's a lot.

It's a lot of sex.

Yeah.

For sure.

I am sure they are hoping that this settles down and the oil prices come down and gas prices come down and there's not a long political hangover to what they've done here, but

They don't just need there to not be a problem.

They have a problem they need to solve before this began, which is people don't believe they're focused on bringing down the cost of living.

In fact, they've come to believe that Trump is doing the opposite of helping this with tariffs and now with this.

And so they may not, like, I don't know what the long-term political ramifications of this conflict will be.

Nobody does because we're not entirely in charge of when it ends.

But at the very least, they made their huge midterm problem worse.

Yeah, I think they're probably managed to calm oil speculators and future sales and traders in the near term.

But like nothing is solved in the long term.

Right.

I mean, again, we killed the new supreme leader's father, wife, mother and son.

He's probably pretty pissed off.

We killed half the IRGC.