Rep. Thomas Massie: Battling the Treachery of Trump’s Republican Party, AIPAC, and the Epstein Class
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What is the impact of the Iran war on Americans?
So how's your Iran war been so far? You enjoying the Iran war? Well, that really depends on who you are. We like to think as Americans that we're all in this together and big events like wars or economic booms or crises or natural disasters affect all of us equally. But that's not true. And it never has been true. How you experience something big really depends on where you sit. And again, that's been true since the beginning of time. When Rome fell in 476, September 476, it of course was a history-changing disaster that we're still talking about. Books have been written about it ever since, more than 1,500 years. And for most people, it was really the end. It was the end of a civilization, the world's largest empire.
But there were some people, you can imagine, on new year's eve 476 sitting around the table with their families assessing the year that just went by and they looked around the table and said you know that was the best year we ever had of course germanic hordes are plundering the city of rome but for us honestly it's pretty great and that's just the nature of it not anything inherently wrong with that it's just a fact you saw it during covid covid was a massive disaster for most americans for most people in the west Addiction rates went up, suicide rates, divorce. Kids didn't get educated for over a year. It destroyed a whole generation of young people, affected them badly anyway. On the other hand, if you were fortunate enough to have a second home, like a weekend house in a rural area that didn't have COVID restrictions or enforcement officers capable of enforcing them, it was pretty great.
If you lived in a traditional world, like say where your wife didn't work because she didn't have to because you made enough money, you could live a kind of 1950s family existence. And you had a coherent family and children who still liked you sort of, and they were all home for months. It was like the best time you had in the last 20 years. People don't like to say that out loud, but that's real. And the Iran war is a little bit like that. It's an event that is affecting our lives right now, or certain to define our lives in important ways going forward, an event that's changing the world for all time, an event that people will write books about. And for most, it is a disaster, a true disaster, not just for the thousands who've already been killed, or the dozen countries that have been bombed, or for the hundreds of thousands of Britons in the UK who've dropped below the poverty line already two months in, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
It's a disaster. But for some small select group of people, it's been awesome. Let's check in with our old friend, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. This was him two days ago on CNBC. Here's how his war is going.
Iran has been, I think, a major funder of sort of anti-American protests and kind of otherwise.
How does historical context shape our understanding of crises?
I think, you know, that war is a very good one. The war is a very good one. Yeah, I think we've... It's very unpopular, though. I don't know. I don't know who surveys to trust. Look, I think most Republicans, many Republicans support the president. And it's it shouldn't be a bipartisan issue.
The Iran war is a very good one. Really, says the interviewer on CNBC. No, really. Yeah, it's a very good one. Is it unpopular? I don't know about that. And the truth is, Bill Ackman probably doesn't know. He may not know anyone personally who thinks this is a disaster because for Bill Ackman and his friends, the Epstein class, it's been a massive win. And that's been pretty obvious increasingly if you're following markets. So there's this phenomenon that people are starting to catch on to where a certain news organization predicts serially, many times in a row over the past 20 or so days, an imminent peace agreement between Iran and the United States. Now, that agreement has not materialized. Apparently, we're not actually close to getting one.
But at the moment when that's announced, every single time you've seen a massive move in global energy markets and in equity markets, stock markets.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the impact of the Iran war on Americans?
0:00–2:56
2
How does historical context shape our understanding of crises?
2:56–10:00
3
What are the implications of the Iran war for different social classes?
10:00–30:57
4
How does the discussion of foreign aid relate to the current political landscape?
30:57–1:17:40
5
What motivates Thomas Massie to pursue justice for Epstein survivors?
1:17:40–1:18:13
6
What challenges did Massie face with the Epstein Files Transparency Act?
1:18:13–1:18:39
7
How does Massie view the relationship between billionaires and politics?
1:18:39–1:19:14
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What implications does Massie see in the current political landscape?
1:19:14–2:36:22
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