Jon Stewart

I'm going to add what people consider to be the government's arrogance during the COVID crisis.

See, it's so interesting that because I actually think you've got a much better case to make with Xi and China in that regard.

And they certainly have their state run capitalism and.

however they want to do it, than you do with Putin, because Putin actually doesn't get things done and makes incredible and is unbelievably kleptocratic and corrupt.

And what a terrible example.

And I would say they would never align themselves with the authoritarian nature of China, but they would with Putin.

And the reason is they view him as a defender of what they call Western civilization, not the Western civilization that you and I define as the enlightenment values that create the foundation of democratic societies, but Western civilization along the lines of racial and religious lines.

Yeah.

That's actually why they align there.

And also certainly can't point to results.

I don't think he's got anything, to be honest.

You know what's incredible?

15 minutes before Donald Trump announced that he wasn't going to be bombing Iran's energy infrastructure after all, the stock market insider traders made millions.

And that's where we are.

Yeah.

So in some respects, we are turning into just this explicit kleptocracy.

I think it's on there.

I think it's a harder... Look, we have enough trouble, as you said, from the 2008 financial crisis.

Insider trading, polymarket calcium.

I think they're overwhelmed.