Matt Gaetz

You know what that means?

That means we've got troops wandering around Syria, figuring out which Bedouin leaders to go bribe as a part of some coalition we can represent.

And that is everything Donald Trump is against.

Donald Trump doesn't want to import a bunch of Syrians.

He doesn't want to control Syria.

And I think that there is a lot of the military industrial complex that just needs us to be in a state of

kind of constant latent war everywhere.

And I want to ask you... And by the way, just while I'm on the rant, the reason that happens is because in Congress, there's this great sense of deference.

Like if you're not on the Agriculture Committee, you defer to those people.

If you're not on the Intelligence Committee, you defer to those people or the Armed Services Committee.

And under a system where people's specializations were being represented in that way, that might work.

But it's just a function of which special interests are controlling which committees and which members of Congress.

The way you get on the war committee is to be for the wars.

The way you to get on the intelligence committee is to be for the intelligence apparatus.

The way to get on the agriculture committee is to be for big food.

The way to get on the natural resources committee is to be against natural resources.

And then when you do all of that, you end up with this highly deferential system to people who were elected by no one, who buy off your leaders.

And those leaders justify it by saying, well, at least I'm moving up in the system.

And thus, whatever I do to surrender my agency is justified.

Yeah, but you're not even really there because you've sold all the shares of yourself.