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I'm like, dude, how little do you understand about the Middle East and energy prices to think that there was a scenario where you can
beheaded an authoritarian regime and have it not have global consequences including economic consequences with energy prices i mean gas has gone up what 60 cents a gallon 70 cents a gallon like every day it's like 12 cents more so it will have gone up another dollar a gallon by the time everybody hears this episode so yeah because i got a fucking road trip to do this weekend i'm pumped it's gonna be great get one of those teslas
They signed one of those 700-year contracts.
I mean, they fired all the... They fired all the inspectors general, like, over a year ago now.
I could not figure out a way to spend that much money.
I mean, besides like,
Or like, could you buy like a, you could buy like NASA.
But if they just put that on the list, like 50 billion for weapons, people would be like, yeah, that tracks.
I think he's still there.
I think he took a mobility move.
I think I heard that somewhere, right?
That's a great subject because I was looking that up.
to potentially cover it in a video the other day.
And so all the numbers are fairly top of mind, but NPR's analysis, which is correct, was able to prove that they saved $2.4 billion.
Of course, Elon Musk, the max he said was 150 billion before.
And that was of course, after they cut it from 2 trillion to 1 trillion to 250 billion.
So 2.4 billion is the,
Is the max on the one side of the balance sheet.
The other side, they estimate, I think, $50 or $80 billion in lost tax revenue because of all of the lack of oversight.
And so the net impact is like 20x, 30x in the red.