JVL (Jonathan V. Last)

That is going to hurt advanced economies a whole lot more than it's going to hurt the Iranian economy.

So we're not going to do it.

Every day that this goes on more, the eventual cost to us goes up.

And so you might as well just bite the bullet, pay them whatever they need to be paid and get out.

Today's Friday, it's actually spurred on by listening to you and Luke yesterday.

And it does occur to me that J.D.

's real problem here is that he was right about Iran and Trump will never forgive him for that because Iran turned out to be a shit show.

Had Iran worked, had it been just like Venezuela part two and J.D.

was wrong.

Yeah, no, no, it's exactly right.

It's exactly right.

Then Trump would have just like made fun of him from time to time.

Oh, remember what a worrywart you were, J.D.?

But it would have been fine.

But because J.D.

was right, and even though he's been totally on board publicly, he's never questioned, right?

Trump knows.

That J.D.

was the one who didn't want to do this thing, which has fucked his presidency six ways till Sunday.

And Marco was not, you know, by the reporting we have, Marco was, oh, yeah, no, no, you know, we could do a lot there.