Luke Thomas
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1,281 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Jun
Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
I mean, that the power grab is being very ham fistedly executed and they're hemorrhaging support across the country because what's the backdrop for all of this?
People suffering economically.
Just this year alone, new all-time record high prices for rent, for groceries, for the power bill, for a meal out at a restaurant.
And what the public sees is...
The president engaging in reckless and incompetent militarism around the world, talking obsessively about building a new ballroom and trying to prosecute his political adversaries.
And so it is extraordinarily dangerous and it's unacceptable.
It's also a big part of the reason that the national mood and the political momentum has so drastically shifted against this administration and toward the opposition.
I think this is strategic and geopolitical malpractice and it's been a debacle for the national security and economic interests of the United States.
Because first of all, not only is the regime in Tehran intact, it now appears to be dominated by hardline IRGC elements.
who may pose even more of a threat to our national interests, and who may be arguing internally against any kind of restriction on nuclear weapons development, particularly now that for them, this is like the lesson of Libya versus North Korea.
From their perspective, they may believe that they have more reason to sprint for a weapon on the basis of a stockpile of highly enriched uranium that they only built after Donald Trump shredded President Obama's Iran deal over the objections of his secretaries of state and defense.
So you've got a more hardline and dangerous regime in Tehran, which has now shown to the world
that under heavy aerial bombardment from the two most powerful air forces in world history they can sustain closure of the strait and throttle global energy supply and very swiftly in this conflict
The president found himself in the dilemma where his options were to escalate or to lose.
And now we're in this standoff that is doing immense damage to the global economy and our leverage in these situations.
nuclear negotiations, which are crucially important because an Iranian nuclear weapons capability would be an existential threat to many of our allies, a critical national security threat to the United States.
Our leverage in that diplomacy is now diminished.
I deeply and sincerely regret the immense damage that this incompetent president has done to our standing in the world, our position in the world, to our national power, to our economic power, and to our alliances through his and his team's rank incompetence.
and amateurism this has been an ill-fated ill-considered debacle from the very start and the whole world can see it and they can never unsee it well there's some good news though we can say pussy again you know so that's nice we can they said he gets back in there
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