Jon Stewart

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.

And unfortunately, rather than sort of a more strategic news day, what you find in our news day is...

a redundancy.

It's every hour after hour is the same rhythm of stories.

So it's, we're going to go down to the airports and see the TSA line, and then we're going to go.

So they don't have an opportunity to delve into the types of analysis.