Mike Benz

You know, it's not political.

I mean, you can bet if...

If Donald Trump gave him everything they wanted on foreign policy, how quickly so much of this would dry up.

And this is why I think, for example, Ron DeSantis does not get tarred with the same icy Pentagon bill.

dirty diplomat fervor that Donald Trump does, because even though Ron DeSantis goes harder than Trump in many ways on certain domestic left-wing issues, going after wokeness and DEI and all these sort of somewhat partisan issues, his foreign policy vision, as he's articulated, is much more in line with the blob.

So it really does come down to that.

But this is where I'm getting at with

weaponization has its hands somewhat full, I think, with everything it's taking on with the Justice Department, which, by the way, there's this whole Justice Department element to this blob activity, if we have time for, can touch on.

But what I'm getting at is weaponization is taking on everything from this ongoing COVID inquiry to abuses by the FBI, to abuses by the Justice Department, to abuses by a dozen different government agencies.

And they all have to be educated on the layout, the constellation architecture of the dark heart of it all, which is the foreign policy establishment.

So this is really something that we should have had a dedicated committee on six years ago.

But the issue is...

I do think that there could be an element of capture here.

If you've seen the movie Big Short, you're familiar with that scene where the person is talking at the pool to someone from Moody's or S&P, the bond rating agencies, and the person's saying, hey, have you looked at these AAA ratings being given by the banks on these mortgage-backed securities?

And the person who's tasked with oversight and accountability, I guess at the SEC, of those debt instruments

is saying, we don't really look at those anymore.

Actually, I'm floating my resume to these banks.

And the person says, shouldn't this be illegal?

You're supposed to be oversight and accountability of the banks.

So it's sort of, are you rubber stamping these garbage mortgage-backed securities and giving them a perfect AAA rating because your own financial future is hitched to the star of this financial network?