4/21/26: Trump Freaks Over Ro Khanna On Israel, FL Student Arrested For Netanyahu Joke, Palantir Pushes Draft

22:09because lack of assimilation is not just, you know, people who are concerned about culture and any of that, which I think is legitimate, especially with lack of English. But it does lead to this like, this, you know, this ethnic hijacking of the highest elements of our government for whichever purpose, this rich immigrant group happens to be able to exert influence.

22:31Jeremy Scahill:Cut the money politics, problem solved. Because, I mean, you're also talking about - It's about voting swing groups. It's about influence. It is about those things as well. But predominantly in our democracy, the thing that makes it run is money. And if you deal with that, then, you know, you have their voices are equal to other voices and competing. I mean, there's a reason why Muslim Americans have not had as much sway and influence as the pro-Israel lobby. And it's all about where the concentration of money in politics has come from. And then also, like I said, the military industrial complex.

23:05Jeremy Scahill:But here's the other thing that I would say is that you should be pleased to know that studies show that assimilation today happens at a much more rapid clip than back during the time of your talking about being worried about German and Irish immigrants, etc. We have such a well-integrated, multiracial population that even some of our Nazis are biracial, mixed race, and various minorities. So true assimilation, I think, is happening in front of our eyes. And I mean, I hate to even take this Chip Roy thing seriously because he's talking – what he's talking about is just purely insane and is not vetting for even any sort of like ethnic commitment or whatever you would want to see.

23:42Jeremy Scahill:It's about him defining, I don't like – you know, socialism. Is that Medicare for all? Like is that free public child care? I think that's the way that he would think about it. And that is completely insane. And he's not just talking about vetting incoming immigrants. He's also talking about people who are here who are citizens. I agree. Being denied citizenship because they're socialists, because they're members of the DSA, because they have some view that Chip Roy finds to be abhorrent. And so I don't even like to, like, validate that view by making an alternative case for a completely different piece of legislation that you would be interested in.

24:17Yeah, no, I get what you're saying. I just think it's—look, I have watched, you know, with great fear as the tide has moved to where I think we will have mass levels of migration for decades now to come. and we are going to deal with ethnicism of probably the most historic degree in the history of the United States. We're already at the same levels we were in World War I. And I do think that people who share your politics and that should have to grapple with, what's that going to mean? We will have mass amounts of foreigners. Like we have millions of people who came here in the last decade from El Salvador or from Central America.

24:50Are they gonna get upset about some shit going on in El Salvador? And if they start advocating for us to go to war, like that's a real problem for me.

24:58Jeremy Scahill:Well, then maybe what we've seen it with Cuba, then maybe what we should do is stop, you know, like doing regime change and random place sanctioning places, going into Cuba, just trying to destroy Iran and Syria, et cetera. I mean, I would be much more in favor of most people want to be able to stay where they're from. Immigration is not an easy thing, as you're you know, your family sure can attest to. It's most people want to be able to stay in their culture and where they're from. But it is the U.S., which is the, at this point in the world, the primary force that creates these refugee crises.

25:32Yes and no. See, this is where I, like El Salvador is safer than here. I would be safer today walking the streets of El Salvador than the streets of Washington, D.C. That's empirically true whenever it comes to crime rates. Well, it's like, now what?

25:42Jeremy Scahill:I mean, the biggest migration crisis that has upended politics in recent years is not actually here. It's in Europe with Syria. And we are, you know, like wholly to blame for, largely to blame, I should say. Israel's got to blame there, too. But we go along with it, yeah. So does the Gulf. So in any case, you know, and that's what we're courting in Iran right now with a much larger country, is Israel wants a serious situation in Iran. Absolutely. Which would be an utter catastrophe, obviously, for the Iranian people first and foremost. But, you know, Israel wouldn't be the ones that are having to take in the refugees as people fled from the destruction that was caused by us and by Israel.

26:19Jeremy Scahill:So in any case, let me get to these couple other news stories here with regard to the attack on anti-Semitism. We've got some indications here. Put E2 up on the screen. You know, the U.S. is set to host the World Cup. That Trump's anti-Semitism envoy is saying that the U.S. is going to bar World Cup attendees who are tied to anti-Semitism abroad. So Rabbi Yehuda Kaplan, the U.S. special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, which why do we have that? anyway, said this week that the U.S. will bar individuals from attending the World Cup who are accused of fostering anti-Semitism in their home countries.

26:56Jeremy Scahill:The president and the secretary of state, he said, have made it perfectly clear that people who want to sow discord in this country are not welcome here. People who want to bring their brand of hate to the U.S. with anti-Semitism are not welcome. Coming to this country is a privilege. It's not a right. His comments on a potential ban first reported by Euractiv, which said he told a European Jewish Association conference in Brussels the U.S. was holding countries accountable for ministers who are saying things, and they're not being allowed into the country. So I don't know what this means exactly and what this process is going to entail, but you can easily imagine an analysis of social media.

27:34Jeremy Scahill:You know, these are the sort of things that pre-AI would not be possible. Now it would be easy to do, to go and pull someone's social media history and look through and see if they've ever said from the river to the sea, Palestine would be free, right? Or, you know, even something that's even, that's like genuinely off color that they find to be problematic. But we know in Germany, you get arrested if you say from the river to the sea. So there was a video clip that went viral of a police officer telling a lady, like, I'm going to have to arrest you if you say that forbidden phrase again. And she said, well, what if I said from the river to the beach?

28:05Jeremy Scahill:And he was like, no, you still can't say it. So is that what we're talking about here is screening people for wrong think on Israel? No other country Right? There's no other prohibition just on whether or not you have the right politics with regard to this one country. Yeah, we seem determined to keep the FIFA World Cup like the lowest attended one possible. Maybe I'm wrong. I don't know. No, apparently already hotel sales are way down. Ticket sales are down. Like it's not going well. I'm not surprised by that. And U.S. tourism overall is way down. That I know. Yeah. Yeah, some benefits of that.

28:35It's easier for some of us in national parks. But I'm reading here, and first of all, I just learned from this article that Rudy Giuliani's son appears to be the executive director of the White House FIFA World Cup Task Force, Andrew Giuliani. Oh, my God. That's a vote of confidence. Didn't know that either. Certainly had no idea. Look, I think that remember all the World Cup criticism that we had with Qatar? I guess we want to be Qatar now. Qatar, remember, there was that guy. He died or something in weird circumstances after he had worn – I think he wore like a gay pride shirt. We covered it here on the show.

29:06Yeah, that's right. to a game. And that was banned. His family claims he died of natural causes. Just saying. But yeah, I think he was kicked out.

29:13Jeremy Scahill:But they were banning any sort of expressions of gay pride or other league. Oh, gay pride. Look, I care all that much about gay pride. Yeah, but you should be, I mean, I do, and you should be able to express what you think. For me, it was like, hey, are we allowed to talk about migrant workers in Qatar? Guess what? That wasn't allowed. There were all kinds of weird press. I mean, it just drives me nuts of whitewashing what these countries are. Having lived there, I know exactly what they are. People were very mad at us for that coverage. Yeah, they were. A lot of Qataris. A lot of people who I went to school with in Qatar in the royal family, furious.

29:45I hadn't heard from them in 10 years. They're pissed off about it, don't care. But it's interesting to me, I think, that they seem fully committed to this. And the whole world, and even this I find difficult, should we care what the world thinks of us? Yes, no. A lot of Europeans have been snobs about Americans for many decades. And it's not like they have so much to stand up for. But I think with the anti-Semitism piece, even though Europe does it too, adopting it just shows a level of like subservience to this foreign state, which is bizarre and strange and intolerable for the American population.

30:21It also makes everybody else around the world just be like, I don't understand this because it's so foreign to their own politics.

30:28Jeremy Scahill:It's really hypothetical to the, you know, some of the parts of America that are the things that I'm most proud of in this country, like freedom of speech. You know, I mean, that's supposed to be a grand tradition and core value here, et cetera. And so on behalf of this country, we are curtailing our own, undermining our own rights. It makes no sense. And speaking of that, this is a crazy, crazy story that is unfolding down in Florida. This college student has been arrested for a joke she made in a private group chat involving Netanyahu. This is a local news report. Let's go ahead and take a listen to that.

31:03In a WhatsApp group chat of about 215 students, where students were discussing an event that was to take place Friday at the Ocean Bank Convocation Center on campus to make their capstone presentations. An FIU police officer read some of the statements in court. The exact words utilized was there's going to be a bomb in the Ocean Bank Convocation Center and it's going to be at Jonathan's fault. One of the members in the chat. Seven News obtaining some bits of that chat. It seemed the student wanted the event rescheduled and wrote, quote, Denyahu, if you can hear me, drop some bonbons for us Capstone students in Ocean Bank Convention Center.

31:44Other students wrote they didn't take that text lightly. She later in the chat wrote, quote, I wrote a dumb joke that should not have been made. I can understand your position, Miss Corey, and you're saying this is a joke. But to an objective person, it's not a joke. And there would be enough for probable cause. I'm not saying it's enough for beyond a reasonable doubt. I don't know what the state's going to be able to prove at trial. But for purposes of this hearing, I believe there is enough for probable cause.

32:14Jeremy Scahill:I mean, come on. Drop some bomb bombs for us capsule students in Ocean Bank. Obviously, you think this is a credible threat? Are you kidding me? I mean, it's just insane. Who's this judge? I don't know. What's up with this judge? Seriously. A judge is elected in Florida? I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. But I mean, for the charge to be made to begin with, insane. Some stupid joke made in a private group chat on WhatsApp, where she's clearly referring to the fact that Netanyahu bombs everywhere, and she saw some things she wanted to reschedule, like, hey, hook a girl up and help us get this reschedule.

32:48Jeremy Scahill:Like, it's clearly, you can think it's not a funny joke or wasn't good in taste. Who cares? Who cares? You really think this girl is, like, in touch with Netanyahu to bomb this center or whatever? That's insane. A threat is supposed to be, you know, clear, incredible, and actionable, like, that you have a time and a place and the ability and means to carry it out. And so you're going forward with this thing. She's charged, and then this judge doesn't immediately throw this out. Just complete insanity. Yeah, I need to find out more about these judges. Nothing will give you less faith in the judicial system than actually learning anything about it.

33:22You know, there's all this stuff about, you know, the Constitution and your rights, and then you learn about some of these judges and the bullshit that they allow to go through. This woman is literally charged with threats to kill or do bodily harm with prejudice, and has a bond set at$5 ,000. So, I mean, the fact, I mean, she's in an orange jumpsuit. Sorry, nuts, already, we're way beyond anything, which is remotely acceptable. And if anybody has a contact for legal defense or anything, let us know. Send us an email. Maybe we'll send her some money. I will pledge to send her some money for her legal defense if somebody from her team can get in touch.

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36:52Output is for informational purposes only and is not an investment recommendation or advice. Complete disclosures available at public.com slash disclosures. turning now to palantir a selection from alex carp's book the technological republic has gone viral recently igniting a lot of debate let's go ahead and put this up here on the screen from palantir they say the technological brief uh technological republic in brief silicon valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible we must rebel against the tyranny of apps. Three, free email is not enough. Four, the limits of soft power of soaring rhetoric alone have been exposed.

37:29Five, the question is not whether AI weapons will be built. It is who will build them and for what purpose. Six, national service should be a universal duty. Seven, if a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it. And the same goes for software. Eight, public servants need not be our priests. Let's continue, shall we? Nine, we should show though far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. Disagree. We need less grace for them. Psychologicalization of modern politics is leading us astray. True. Our society has grown too eager to hasten and is often gleeful at the demise of its enemies.

38:0312, the atomic age is ending. 13, no other country in history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. 14, American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. 15, the post-war neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. 16, we should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. 17, Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. And then we have a few more. The ruthless exposure of private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The caution in public life that we unwindingly encourage is corrosive.

38:36The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. Some cultures have produced vital advances. Others remain dysfunctional and regressive. And 22, we must resist the shallow temptation of vacant and hollow pluralism. So each of these have their own epigraph, I guess you would say. You could go deep on any one of them. All 22. Many are notable. I would say the one that has gotten the most attention is number six. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone fights in the shares of risk and at the cost.

39:13You know, what's funny is I made that exact point to you. However, I think that there's a little bit of a difference between a company which gets government contracts for more than a guy who's a YouTuber. I was trying to make a philosophical point, which is if the nation should be at war, then everybody should be eligible for a draft. Everyone. No rich, nobody should be able to buy their way out. And that means that when you go to war, the society has to be so bought in that if they're not, people will literally riot. Like think about what you would do or I would do. If we were in a war, like the Iran war, what's the real inconvenience we've all been caused?

39:48Gas. Okay, it's bad. But if my life was on the line or your kids are on the line, I will literally do anything. And so will most people to make sure that that doesn't happen. I think that that is an incentive. I think the all-volunteer force actually enables people to do these ridiculous foreign adventures like Iraq and Afghanistan and basically bribe working-class Americans who may or may not know better or who get tricked or whatever into doing it. And then they go over and they have no idea even necessarily what they've signed up for or they're in too deep once it's already happened. So that's why I think that's – now, it's a real different story for me to say that compared to a palantir is saying.

40:22That's a little bit different.

40:23Jeremy Scahill:That's the other thing is you look at all of this and you're like, oh, that's very convenient for your bottom line. I'm sure you would love for Germany and Japan to fully remilitarize and, you know, destroy the, you know, completely obliterate the end of World War II. Why do the leftists have so much beef with that one? I agree with that totally. The non-nuclear Germany and Japan has turned them into U.S. vassals. Like Germany, especially Japan. Japan is way better off with nuclear weapons. Yeah. We don't need to have all these bases over there. They can defend themselves against North Korea. Then we can purely have a trading relationship.

40:58Obvious, I trust them. I think everybody else, I would give them a nuclear weapon. Honestly. Well, here's the thing.

41:02Jeremy Scahill:Here's the thing is the logic of the world that the U.S. has created argues in favor of basically every country. Of course. Of nuclear weapons. Do I think that is a good fit? No, I think it's terrible that we're, you know, we are now in an era where increasing nuclear proliferation is inevitable because of the logic that we have created. There's no doubt about that. Do I think that's a good thing? No, I don't think that's a good thing. And then to have it come again, I mean, I feel like I said a little bit the way you feel about the draft, you know, which if there was a draft for a military technology company whose bottom line is dependent on us being in forever war and selling technology also to Israel and also to Germany and also to Japan, all these other countries, you know, that they see as part of Western civilization or whatever, their bottom line is dependent on that thing.

41:48Jeremy Scahill:And then, well, conveniently, they have a manifesto that argues in favor of endless war, never being able to coexist with anyone, increasing militarization of countries that have, as of to this point, spent less on their military. Just look at that. That's very convenient for you. And you're going to enlist our entire population to fight these endless wars that you yourselves profit from? It's disgusting. But I mean, regardless of how you think about all of these individual points, my biggest takeaway is just like, these people have to be checked. Like, who are you, Palantir, to come out and tell us we should have a draft?

42:22Jeremy Scahill:Who are you to come out and say, oh, these are our guiding principles of philosophy? No, no, no, no, no. You are subordinate to the American people. You should be. You should be subordinate to, you know, a government that has the interests of American people in mind. And instead, the people who are profiting off of these endless conflicts are the ones who are increasingly driving the train. And the piece about AI obviously is very scary and dystopian. And they're like, look, AI weapons are inevitable. So just suck it up and, you know, relax and enjoy Palantir basically deciding who gets to live or die.

42:55Jeremy Scahill:That's the view that comes from here, which, again, is like terrifying. And there is a level of inevitability to AI. They're right when they say it matters who owns it and how it's deployed, which is exactly why we need to trim the sales of these companies and get them under control. because right now they are driving the train much more so and their ideology is dominant much more so than what the American people would want to see here. You know what's funny? One that got no attention, but which I disagreed with the most is the atomic age is ending. I could not disagree more. Like he said, one age of deterrence, the atomic age is ending and the new era of deterrence is built on AI.

43:30No, it's not. Iran doesn't have AI and they don't need it. They have literally oil and they have the Straits of Hormuz.

43:36Jeremy Scahill:The Straits, yeah. What does Russia have? They don't have a ton of AI. They have nuclear weapons. they have a shitload of oil. That's literally all you need. It's again, completely self-serving ideology. Yeah, I'm like, what are you talking about? The atomic age has never been more relevant than ever before. North Korea doesn't have AI and they don't need it. All they have is ICB. They literally murdered like a huge chunk of their population via famine just to achieve a nuclear weapon. And they won. They don't need AI to deter anything. They're fine. The Kim regime will survive long after I am dead.

44:07I am firmly planting that flag right here. They will survive forever, and they don't need AI to do it. That's where this is very self-serving, obviously, is about AI and the way that we need to build these new tools. Like, I've never disagreed more, like, with the idea. I think that really what's transparent from the Iran war is energy matters above all. Number two is weapons that are cheap and easily accessible. Like our aircraft carrier systems are, you know, we've become the Germans and the Japanese with their super high precision machines, which have to be serviced all the time. When we were the nation of the B-17, which just rolls these fuckers off of the assembly line and can just pour them into the war.

44:50It doesn't matter if somebody is breaking the sound barrier or not. Like we're good to go because we just have a ton of them. Like I think we've inverted and become the highly inefficient system. And Palantir, these guys, the manifesto, it's like I said, like I agree with some of it. I disagree with some of it. But it really, I don't know. I mean, they see themselves as this philosopher kings who are building the tech and using and pushing this ideological agenda. I think that's like a privatization of this type of debate, which should happen not only in a public sphere, but by people who don't have a vested interest monetarily in what they're talking about.

45:29So let's give good examples of the so-called intellectual titans and all of them. I'll pick a leftist one, like Henry Wallace, right? Henry Wallace, who was FDR's vice president, he was somebody who was much more of a pacifist, but he didn't have a financial stake necessarily. Or even some of the major hawks in the Second World War in the cabinet, they really believed this from an intellectual perspective. They didn't have a financial interest necessarily in the war continuing. They just were statesmen, great statesmen who had ideas about the world. You could say a lot of shit about Kissinger, but he was not rich before he got into – he became very rich afterwards.

46:03But, you know, before he went into government, like he was just the Harvard professor who was had these ideas about nuclear weapons and about the U.S. And that caught Nixon's attention. Like these philosophers and these guys with ideas, Atchison and others, they came up through the bureaucracy and the government. They were not multibillionaires who had companies which should to potentially profit. And I think that's where the big disconnect has to come from more than anything.

46:26Jeremy Scahill:Yeah. I mean, your point on the AI piece that atomic age is over now we're in the age of AI deterrence. And again, why is it self-serving for them to hold that view? Because what that argues is in favor of, look, you know, our adversaries are developing AI, so we have to, you may have some reluctance, the population may have some reluctance, but we have to charge for it no matter what. This is where you have to invest all of your money and all of your, you know, all of your time and your bandwidth and capacity needs to go. We need to strip away all the regulations so we can do whatever we want, whenever we want.

46:57Jeremy Scahill:That's what that argues for. And it sets up this sort of like clash of civilizations conflict between the U.S. and most likely China, you know, and frames it as this inevitable outcome. And this was – we could put Arno Bertrand's responses, which typically, you know, as is typical for him, is very thoughtful. But one of the things he talks about here, he says, they basically promote a clash of civilization worldview in which there exists a they, the supposed enemies of Western civilization whose cultures the document codes as inferior. and a we who must stop indulging in decadent restraint and invest massively in AI weapons and defense software, which conveniently makes Palantir's product catalog the civilizational cure.

47:36Jeremy Scahill:Look at point four, for instance. They write that the limits of soft power or soaring rhetoric alone have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. I believe we have another tarot sheet here we can put on. It all rests on a pretty massive assumption that coexistence is impossible. Why would free and democratic societies, by which they obviously mean Western-style liberal democracies, need to, quote, prevail? Why can't they simply coexist with other civilizations or political systems that are out there?

48:08Jeremy Scahill:Nowhere in the document do they defend this assumption. It is simply asserted as the starting condition of the argument. And that really gets to the heart of they position themselves, the way he says it. Palantir is your, you know, ready-made, handy-dandy civilization cure All you have to do is give us all the contracts, strip away all the regulations, you know, create a draft so that your people are ready to fight the wars that we want to get into. And we're off to the races. And that's really when I look at this from a, I guess, materialist perspective, you can just see them pursuing their bottom line throughout this entire document.

48:42That's why it's not a trustworthy messenger. I even agree with some of the points. I mean, I agree. You know, I don't I mean, look, I like Arnaud. I think he's a little, you know, he's a little different. He's got more of your worldview than I do. Let's say, though, that we do agree. Let's say that we should make it and invest massively. Would you invest in AI after this conflict? I'll tell you about a project I learned of recently from a good friend of mine. It's called the North Slope Proposed Pipeline in Alaska. It would cost$40 to$50 billion, which is why nobody wants to do it. Coincidentally, that's less than the entire Iran war has cost now.

49:13The proposal is to bring all the oil from the Arctic Circle down to Anchorage, and then all of it would be bought by Japan and South Korea. Sounds like a pretty good idea, doesn't it? That's exactly what we should be doing instead of this bullshit. Like more AI data centers? No. If we just lived through the worst, we are living through the worst energy crisis of our lifetime. We destroyed Japan and South Korea. We could make Alaskans rich, even richer because they all get dividends from it, and we can sell all this oil, or natural gas, I think, to Japan and South Korea. Great idea. Why don't we do it?

49:47Why does nobody even talk about this stuff? We haven't built an oil refinery in this country since 1973. We've been building a new nuclear power plant, one nuclear power plant in over 50 years. Nobody even discusses this. Same with solar and renewables. I'm not saying it's bad. I'd be willing to throw a whole lot of money into it, but what are we doing? Even in terms of the grid, it's brittle. There's so many problems. It's like, you look at the way, people get mad at me for glazing China, but I'm sorry, I cannot help but look in despair When I look at Xiaomi cars and BYD cars and trains that go 200 to 300 miles per hour, like that's how you become a strong – it's definitely – like maybe AI will play a part in efficiency.

50:30But for me, it's the hard stuff. The concrete, it's the oil, it's energy. It's making it so that life here is abundant and cheap and easy to live.

50:39Jeremy Scahill:Like that's not where things are right. What's your point on the AI versus atomic and the world we live in now? I could not disagree with that more. I think of what has been revealed, where we're headed with the Iran war. It's the reassertion of, like, geography as a prime determiner. See, I wouldn't even say reassertion. It's always been there. America's greatest gift is its geography. Exactly, that we're, you know, isolated over here. We got two oceans. Everybody that is a threat, you know, is far away, so it's hard to hit us. We don't deal with the, you know, when we destroy Syria, we're not the ones dealing with the refugee guard, et cetera.

51:13Jeremy Scahill:You're right. But it has really made itself known in terms of this conflict because Iran is like, we've got cheap drones. We have a mountainous terrain that will be very difficult for you to penetrate. And we have this position on the Strait of Hormuz. And you know what? With those three things, checkmate. Exactly. That's it. I agree. Checkmate. Right? And other countries around the world, which looks very likely, Iran is able to maintain a new status quo that is profitable for them where they control the Strait of Hormuz. I mean, that is the new reality. other countries are going to do the same thing.

51:44Jeremy Scahill:They're going to look at the same thing. So it's sort of a regression to the era of like, you know, piracy. And before we had this, you know, ability as the U.S. to project our power all around the globe, et cetera. So not only is there something self-serving, dystopian, they have far too much power, but also they're just like wrong about where we are and what's going to determine the future. I don't think that AI will determine our future. I think, you know, Peter Thiel famously coined that term, the worlds of bits and atoms. I don't think it's ever been more relevant today. Like this globalized fantasy is fake.

52:14China is stronger in this Iran conflict because it has massive amounts of oil in its reserves. It has a global helium reserve. Guess which country gave up its helium reserve in the 1990s to pay off Newt Gingrich's obsession with debt? Oh, you guessed it, the United States of America. Like that's our problem is we don't have nearly enough actual stuff. And instead, all of our wealth is tied up in what, NVIDIA stock and all this other bullshit. like which could literally pop at any moment. I mean, look at this right now. We're in the world's worst energy crisis. What's the stock market? If the stock market is up today.

52:48I mean, technically it is a reflection of its reality, but it's not a reflection of our reality. That's the problem with our society. So anyway, that's my take. Build the North-South Pipeline. Let's do it. All right, AMA, let's get to it. Thank you all so much for watching. We appreciate it.

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