7/20/26: Trump Insider Trading, ICE Shooter Details Exposed, Tim Dillon Rips JD Vance

23:44Sorry, worn. It was not turned on. It was not turned on. And so you had basically he said, he said situation. Then you had the initial statement by the DHS where, I mean, I said it, they're hit. If you can't say I feared for my life and discharged my weapon, that's all you've got. Because if you have I fear for public safety and discharge my weapon and a man was killed, good luck. There is no single justification use of force doctrine. And, you know, I previously, we talked about many of these other instances, and I know it's unpopular. I think most of them you're probably going to get off in a court of law just because of the extraordinary deference that police get in law enforcement shootings.

24:24Not this one. Definitely not. Whenever you have a moving vehicle where, you know, against your own guidance, you try to move, you try to stop said vehicle, and then you can't even say, I feared for my life in that moment. And maybe I don't know what he said to the initial investigators. Obviously, he probably can't speak because of, for legal reasons. But, you know, if you've got this level of documented problems in your history and then putting guns in those people's hands and then it becomes in a hyper politicized moment, it's a disaster. Well, and let me play another aspect of this because we touched on this some when we were covering.

24:57This killing occurred right on the heels of a very similar situation in Texas where an immigrant was killed. And so Tom Homan went on the Sunday shows and Margaret Brennan challenged him because he's like, well, they should just comply. And she said, well, how do they even know that this is, you know, a law enforcement operation? Because you've got unmarked cars. The guy in Texas, his family explicitly said he thought he was being carjacked, which any reasonable person, you've got these psycho unmarked cars trying to, you know, push you off the road. He had a bunch of equipment in the back of his van.

25:30He's thinking they're trying to steal my stuff from my work vehicle. Tom Hellman was challenged on this and really ultimately crumbles under pressure and admits that there may have been a problem with the way that the protocol went down here. This is E0. Let's take a listen to that. These were fatal shootings, of course, in Houston and in Maine. And in Houston, it was an unmarked car. So when you're saying don't resist, these individuals who were chasing the man who died, they didn't have markings on that vehicle that would allow for him to know that they were ICE. It just looked like a car coming after them in the videos.

26:10No, they have emergency lights. Officers have insignia. So when they get that car and post a car, you can clearly see the law enforcement officers. Well, in the video that has been public, it's not a marked car. These people, I'm not saying it's a marked car, but they have emergency lights and sirens. So when they pull somewhere, they want to activate the emergency lights. A lot of police departments, I'm in New York City right now, a lot of NYPD officers are driving unmarked vehicles. And that helps them find people that don't want to be found, right? So, you know, but bottom line is, we'll see when the investigation plays out.

26:45But they would be alive today if they simply complied with a vehicle stop by federal law enforcement. Just comply. If you don't think you've been treated right and they had no reason to stop you, then there's avenues to take them to court, to sue. Well, the family of the man in Houston said that he thought he was being robbed because it was an unmarked vehicle. Not that it was law enforcement at all. They had emergency lights. They activate emergency lights, blue light. You know, in my vehicle, I drive around with my security detail. You've seen that on video? Because we haven't. Seen what on video, ma 'am?

27:21That there were lights? Because in the videos that we've seen, there aren't. And because there weren't body cameras, it is hard to substantiate some of what you were saying. Okay. Well, I have not seen the videos, but I'm saying our vehicles are equipped with emergency lights. Now, if they didn't activate the lights, again, I haven't seen that video. if they didn't activate the lights, then there's an issue there, right? But I'm saying they are equipped with lights. So let me just caveat that. They should have been equipped with lights and sirens, but I do not know specifically if they activated those lights.

27:54I mean, that's pretty devastating there. And then to claim, Sagar, you haven't seen the video? I mean, if you haven't seen the video, what are you even doing? Like, this is your job. You're supposed to be overseeing this. You're supposed to care about whether the right protocol was filed, followed. This is an extremely high profile killing on your watch. And you're claiming, oh, I didn't actually get a chance to look at the video. Like what complete and total bullshit. And she just has him dead to rights there. I mean, we saw the video there. There's no video. There's no emergency lights. I agree.

28:27I mean, in terms of being stopped by an unmarked vehicle, like, yeah, if you flash your lights, I think most people would stop. Or if you don't, then at least, you know, you know what's going on. But if you're coming up and somebody is coming up behind you, then a reasonable person could say, I had no idea what was going on here, especially when you're in your vehicle. And then it's even worse because – I'm not saying he deserved to die, like period. But it's even worse that he wasn't even the person that was supposed to be stopped in both of these instances. I think Ryan and Juan talked about it.

28:55I mean if you look at the story of this Colombian guy who was killed in Maine, it is honestly kind of insane. Like he was the right wing – he seemed to have been like a right wing Colombian nationalist. I don't know what he was doing here. if he's a right-wing Columbia nationalist, but okay. But, I mean, just to show you, people are complex and a little different, and it does demonstrate that they didn't even know who they were stopping, because they were supposed to try and stop some sort of, they were trying to stop another person whenever they pulled this guy over, and then initially he is shot in a bad incident like this.

29:26But given the background here, it will demonstrate that ICE is going to have serious problems. I also just think this is a preview of what the next three years are going to look like. Like in terms of Democrats, if they take the House of Representatives and if they investigate or if they initiate any sort of congressional review of ICE hiring, how many more, David Brod? And like this will validate like the, look, and I'm not a cab or any of that, but I know for certain that if you rush things and you don't do like a methodical job and you have a bunch of people who slip through the cracks or who are intentionally pushed aside or you don't initiate types of processes.

30:06Like, you're the government. You put guns in people's hands. Like, you're going to own that entire process. That's going to be—seriously, I really think this is going to be a massive problem for the administration. A brief moment where Mark Wayne Mullen comes out and says, we're not going to do vehicle stops. And we're sort of accustomed to this vehicle stop thing now. This is new. In previous administrations, I think including the first Trump administration, Vehicle stops were only used with ICE agents or any sort of Border Patrol or any of these affiliated agencies in situations that were relatively extreme, where you knew who the target was.

30:38They were violent. There was some sort of criminal record. It was extraordinary circumstances. Now this is just par for the course. And as you can see in both of these instances, these guys weren't even the target. So they just literally were like, oh, they look brown. Maybe they're undocumented. Let's pull them over in this, again, very, very aggressive manner. No lights in terms of the one down in Texas. We don't know in terms of the one up in Maine because we have more limited camera footage there. But in any case, this is relatively new development. Mark Wayne Mullen says we're going to stop doing this for now.

31:07Trump immediately, apparently after Stephen Miller yelling and blowing his top over the pullback, Trump immediately comes out the next day and says, no, we're going to continue. The other piece that I want to layer on here is, you know, in a bunch of these instances, like these ICE agents should go to prison. I mean, if you're the guy in Maine, there is even DHS is saying that they discharged their weapons out of fear of public safety. That is not a defense in a court of law. That man should be alive today. So in any case, you've had all of these instances of ICE agents and CBP who are starting fights, who are aggressive, who are assaulting protesters and immigrants themselves, where there should be investigations.

31:48There should be court cases. Let's take a look at E9. This is a report from the New York Times that is saying that federal agents were told the FBI is no longer going to investigate ICE confrontations. And the TLDR here, by the way, the FBI denies this, but there were multiple federal agents that talked to the New York Times about this new guidance that they received. In any case, the TLDR here is that instead of the FBI investigating to see, OK, was it the protesters fault? Was it the immigrants' fault? Were they actually assaulting ICE agents or were ICE agents involved in misconduct, potentially prosecutable misconduct?

32:24Now it's going to be kicked to an investigative unit within ICE itself. So ICE investigating itself. You can imagine how much is going to come out from that. And then in terms of their level of trust and when they come out with these claims that, oh, this immigrant was trying to murder an ICE agent. and he's lucky he escaped with his life, et cetera. Let's take a look at where the rubber meets the road, which is in a court of law when you actually have to produce evidence of these wild claims that have been made by basically everyone affiliated with immigration throughout the administration. Put E8 up on the screen.

33:00This is a comprehensive review from The New York Times. The headline on this article was they were charged with assaulting ICE agents. The cases are crumbling. Here are the numbers. 558 people were charged with assault of an immigration agent. 191 of those dismissed. 22 outright acquitted. You ready for how many convicted out of 558? Four. Four. You've had 246 that pled guilty. You have 95 that are still pending. And then you have a whole rash of other ones where they just dropped the charges. They just walked away from charging the people altogether where the thing just completely fell apart.

33:40And you have instances here, Sagar, that are so wild where, for example, you had an ICE agent that busted open someone's window, injured themselves busting open the window, and then charged that person with assault for the injuries that they caused to themselves. You have an example in this article of two women who were on their way somewhere, saw that ICE was doing an action and pulled into a parking lot to observe from a distance away. Afterwards, they left. ICE agents followed them, again, had this very aggressive interaction with them and ended up claiming that they had assaulted the ICE agents where there was camera footage that proved that was not the case whatsoever.

34:23You have an instance with Greg Bovino, I think, that was directly involved in where he beat up some immigrant. Then he charged the immigrant with assault. A jury came back and said, no, you people started this situation. So they they have been rebuked numerous times for making up incidents, for lying about what actually occurred. And under scrutiny, these cases frequently, frequently fall completely apart. And in many instances, and there's a quote in here from an expert, they say, you know, It's actually the ICE agents that should be charged. Like in a rational world, they would be facing criminal charges.

34:57And so to your point about the political fallout, this is exactly the path. You know, if Democrats get power in the House, certainly, or possibly also in the Senate, and certainly moving forward into 2028, if they end up with control of government, this is the sort of thing that the base is going to be pushing them to do, to look through the records of all of these ICE agents, to go through the vetting process, to see who is there. And obviously there's a huge push to get rid of the agency altogether. And when you have situations like this, you know, total psycho with brain damage and mental illness and a wife beater and a child beater who was given a gun, that makes the case that, yes, this whole thing, we need a different process for handling immigration and forcing, you know, immigration, forcing the border, that this whole thing is so rotten that it just cannot persist and go forward.

35:44I mean, I hate to say it. I do think it'll probably come to pass. I mean, I will say, you know, you got 246 here, you pled guilty. So it's not like, you know, half of them roughly did plead guilty. So it's not like it's invented out of whole cloth. I actually. But let me just say prior to Trump, there were you know what the conviction rate was? I'm sure it was 90 percent. 100 percent. They have never failed on this. And now it's like, you know, they're just throwing it at the wall. Like any time someone just irritates an ICE agent, they charge him with assault, send him through the court system, try to make their life miserable.

36:13Because prosecutorial discretion usually meant that you would only bring very extreme cases to these. Also, if you're not doing much enforcement, then you're also not going to have many cases. But look, I have said it before. They blew the entire political sack whenever it came to the way that they wanted to do enforcement. There were a lot of different ways this all could have been done. A lot more people could have been deported and a lot more illegals could have left the country and you just didn't have to do literally any of this. They decided to go in this direction for the full show of force, and the entire country has basically turned – or most of the country has turned against it.

36:47Even people who are dramatically like me who are on the side, largely because – it's not just the political fallout. It's also just like chaos. It's like, guys, we can't live in a crazy world where you've got unmarked cars and people are getting shot. I mean like I literally went to that town of Biddeford. It's a very small town. When I saw the news, I was like, I cannot believe this, that this is happening in Biddeford, of all places. And it's not just because I've been there. Houston, too. Like, yeah, Houston's a city chock full of illegals. But it's like you can't just have it so that people are getting shot and pulled over.

37:20That's exactly—look, people turned on the border because of Biden, who left it wide open. Tens of millions of people came here illegally. Nobody really knows. The number is roughly 10 to 12 million, according to the U.S. government before, under Biden, just in case people think. That number is politicized. People found that intolerable. I certainly find that completely intolerable. I do think what we find here is now a situation where what you talked about there with the Democrats and their turn on. It's going to be very similar to a lot of the way that MAGA came into the office in January of 2025, where, you know, the whole like January 6th, we have to go after the prosecutors.

37:55We have to pardon many of the people who were involved. It became an issue which was absolutely 100 percent core to the Republican base. And I mean, they did get a lot of what they wanted. And I think it will be very similar with the Democrats. I don't know how popular it might probably be a little bit more popular, if I'm willing to guess, whenever it comes to that time. I have no idea. But in a sense, it doesn't matter because it will become the type of mandate that people will focus on. I mean, I do – I personally blame the Trump administration for taking this – I also really blame the Republican Party, which stood at every turn and stopped any of the other institutional ways that you could have immigration.

38:35This could be a, I think, 80-20 issue easily if you had done it properly with mandatory e-verify and like genuine – if you had focused on like rapist criminals, if we had no C-cot, we had no Minneapolis. I mean, imagine what this administration—no Iran war, all those things together. We could be living in a totally different world. And then it would just be like human rights activists who are bitching and moaning all the time like they do no matter what. But now that is the popular position where you've got the median white college-educated lib is screaming about abolish ICE. That is not the situation in January of 2019.

39:14So I can see the future quite clearly. at least where things are going. Well, speaking of people turning on the Trump administration, good transition to Tim Dillon here talking about J.D. Vance. What's up, fam? I'm sports journalist Ari Chambers. Hey, what's up, y 'all? It's your girl, Sam Jay. And we're the hosts of Everyone Watches Women's Sports, a new podcast from Together and I Heart Women's Sports. Because let's be real, women's sports is giving us way too much to talk about these days. So Kelsey Finler, she became the first female solo rower to go from California to Hawaii. My first thought is, like, what's up with the snacks?

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42:36So we talked a little bit last week about J.D. Vance on Joe Rogan, where he sort of postures like he's just some guy, you know, doesn't really have any power to do anything. Just calling, you know, the way he sees it on the Epstein files and the Iran war, etc. Tim Dillon really had some fun with this one, went in on J.D. Vance and really the administration as a whole. And also, by the way, anyone who continues to support the administration, who we said must be the dumbest people on Earth. Let's go ahead and take a listen to Tim Dillon sounding off on J.D. Vance. This is the thing when like J.D.

43:09Vance goes on Rogan and goes, well, you know, they have this whole discussion about the Epstein docs. And J.D. is like, I'll go to my death believing it was a larger conspiracy. You know, it's it's kind of like these guys like, well, what are you going to do? What are you going to do? It's like, no, you're the you're the vice president. What are you talking about? jd vance is talking about this like he's a guy at a bar in the town i grew up in on long island where he'd be like i'll always believe it was a conspiracy you sure that guy owns a pool company he's he's gonna he's gonna be like yeah what are you gonna do i'll always believe someone on there this guy's the vice president of the United States of America going on the biggest podcast in the world going yep I read all the files Trump's innocent also I'll always believe there was a greater conspiracy there I'll always think something was going on but what am I gonna do I'm the vice president that's J.D.

44:10Vance's character arc right now is his whole entire thing is just telling people what the vice president can't do like what about the war in Iran he goes you know no, there's not much I can do. I just kind of hang out and, you know, watch as I'm part of the administration that betrays its voters and does the opposite of everything it said it was going to do. I just kind of hang out and, you know, this Epstein thing, who knows? This is the, they keep trying to play this game where they're like this folksy, kind of like relatable, like, yeah, these fucking elites, these fucking elites with these, they're fucking the kids.

44:50They're stealing your money. What? Who? You are doing it. You're the ones who are doing it. And they're relying on the fact that some of their most ardent supporters, the ones who aren't directly being paid off, are the stupidest people in the world. So that still works on them. They're like, yeah, fucking Hillary. Hey, Hillary Clinton. fucking Hillary Clinton. The guy, they're in the White House. They have the Congress. They have the Senate. They have the Supreme Court. It is them. It is now them. I don't want to hear about the deep state anymore. There's a lot there. I mean, I kept thinking actually about Thomas Massey was like, Trump's saying the elections are rigged.

45:41We won everything. What are you talking about? Like, you're in the White House. We have the House. We have the Senate. We have the Supreme Court. We won everything. What are you talking about? The elections were rigged. They were rigged for you. I mean, it's similar vibe here where he's like, you can't continue to sit here, J.D. Vance or anyone else, and have this whole folksy like, yeah, we're really going to stick it to those elites. It's like, no, that is you now. You are in control. This rest, the buck stops with you people. You don't get to just like divorce yourself from that reality. And pretend like you're just some armchair quarterback or some pundit watching this thing from afar.

46:17Jadie said something very interesting in the podcast. He said, I'm not a public commentator. I do my best to work things on the inside. And I was like, well, man, you are on the Joe Rogan podcast. You kind of are public. Do you see what I'm saying? It's like, well, you know, pundits I just talked about in the ice block. I'm like, OK, I support massive immigration enforcement. I think they fucked it up. He can't even say that, right, because that would cause a crisis. So everything with Epstein was like Trump did nothing wrong. And then he'll even then you're like, I'll put my hands up. We did mishandle portions of it.

46:49But there's nothing damaging in it about Trump. You're like, oh, my God. And then the stuff about Israel and the U.S. intelligence. I mean, this is why even when we say it, he's the highest U.S. official ever to confirm to say Epstein had links to Israeli and U.S. intelligence. Yeah. No U.S. official has ever uttered those words ever before. Current official. but no evidence to back it up. Yeah. No deep familiarity with what he's saying. Is that an off the cuff comment? It's like, dude, are you just listening to a podcast talking about that? Or did you see intelligence? Right. And this is why it's like, if you're going to say anything that you need to know exactly what you're talking about, you just speak from a position of authority and you, at the very least, like splitting the difference between I'm not a public commentator where you're literally public commentating is in my opinion, like the worst of all of it because okay.

47:36On Iran, we all know what you're like for, So Rogan asked him directly, would you have handled things differently? He has to talk around it. He's like, well, the president has even said, you know, J.D. would have handled it differently. He can't even say, yeah, I would have. This is a fucking disaster because he has to praise Trump. He has to, you know, pay lip service to, well, we can't let the Iranians have a nuclear weapon. When I'm like, I don't even think you believe that. I don't even know if you believe that at all. Think about how poorly his analysis, such as it was, aged just from whenever that was recorded.

48:08He was like, oh, this, you know, back and forth. It's a blip. We're going to get back to the negotiating. Oh, are you? Are you? Because it doesn't feel like a blip right now. You know, now the Iranians are like, we're done negotiating with you. There is this theoretical 10-day proposal, et cetera. But they're pissed. They're, you know, bombing desalination plants, killing our service members in Jordan. And we are bombing their civilian infrastructure and, you know, threatening all sorts of things as well. So doesn't feel like this is all just a little bit of a blip on our way back, you know, days away from getting some larger deal.

48:44So even that quote unquote analysis he offered just days ago has already completely fallen apart. There was another part of this where Tim really went in on the Iran war in particular and sort of the overall track record of the Trump administration. Let's go ahead and take a listen to that. This guy's on a press tour for a book. We're days away from troops on the ground in Iran. The Middle East is a total nightmare. The economy is a nightmare. The Straits of Hormuz, there's going to be like a massive oil crisis soon. And they've given so much money to big tech and AI, the flock cameras, all of this stuff.

49:29all of this, they're building a surveillance state with this money. They're building a digital surveillance state with the money. And he's got to do this kind of like, oh, shucks. Can you, yeah, isn't it wacky? Isn't it wacky? He goes into this whole thing. Like, we're weeks away from Trump nuking Iran. J.D. Vance going back on with Joe. You know, isn't this crazy, Joe? Like, I never imagined as a little boy growing up in Appalachia that I'd end up here talking to you after we just nuked Iran. And he said something that I think was actually very insightful. He's like, you know, the truth is these wars, they don't work anymore.

50:12Like, you know, war didn't work in Afghanistan. It didn't work in Iraq. It's not working here. And he's like, you know, that's part of what it's not working for Russia and Ukraine. and part of what is pushing towards a potentially really disastrous, insane, like, nuclear outcome is that this conventional military approach, it doesn't get you where you want to go anymore. And China has kind of recognized that. They're not out starting wars. They're not spreading money around. Let's invest in infrastructure. Let's get tied into your economy. And that that's been far more successful for them in terms of building up, you know, their might domestically and also being able to do what they want to do and secure the supply lines they want to secure around the world.

50:51I thought that was actually a very insightful view of where we are because it's true. You know, even he says they work for Israel because Israel is willing to, you know, just go completely buck wild and commit genocide. Is this working for Israel? Even Israel? No, no. You know, I mean, did their genocide in Gaza, has that really made things better for them? Their state has its own problems and is in a sort of their own existential potential catastrophe of their own making because of their insane actions too. Yeah, it is. It's fascinating, actually. If you want to think about it like in historical terms, I was thinking a lot about this conflict in the context of World War I, where before the First World War, there was something called the cult of the offensive in a lot of these militaries, where this idea of you have these gigantic armies with mans and arms that you can just take over places.

51:38But what they didn't foresee was that the cult of the offensive, always running forward, would run into something called the machine gun. And so what happens very quickly on the Western Front is the trench warfare. I actually think the drones are very analogous to that. Where prior to a drone technology, the conventional United States military could very easily be able to shoot down incoming missiles to take over the Strait of Hormuz and all of that. And look, we still do retain the ability to take control of the Strait of Hormuz. we would just have to, oh, I don't know, occupy the entire country of Iran.

52:09But even if we were to occupy it, they wouldn't just be getting shot with bullets and missiles. They'd be really the number one way they would die, as we see currently in the Russia and Ukraine war, is they would die at the hands of these drones. And then the drones would disrupt the entire supply chain. So I think what the drone warfare and the development of the last just probably 10 years, I remember seeing some preliminary drone stuff in Syria, is that it has dramatically made it so that the entire entire conventional military apparatus, which was the peace dividend of the United States military post-Gulf War, basically evaporated overnight.

52:44And we're just going to have to deal with that. That's the truth. It's kind of like the battleship for people who are familiar with that, or even the original idea that aircraft carriers or that U.S. Navy assets were invulnerable. Prior to World War II, there was a genuine theory, a belief in the Navy that a battleship or any of these other naval assets could not be sunk by an aircraft. And then one war happened, and even though this was disproved by members of the United States Air Force or Army Air Corps or whatever, at the time, they just went forward. They're like, it's not possible. And then you get into a war with Japan, you're like, holy shit.

53:20They're like, what are we going to do about all these aircraft? I think the drone is very similar. And you have to rethink everything. And I'm only saying this in terms of that disrupts a fundamental theory of American power, which has existed for a year and my entire lifetime, before we were even born, frankly, in terms of the Cold War and all that. And to deal with that in real time requires people who are really intelligent, who think very deeply, who can recognize the stakes that are ahead of us. And I would say, I actually, I always believed that JD was a person like that, you know? And I mean, maybe he still is, but it It almost doesn't matter at this point because you had the chance to prove the ability to do differently.

54:03And if this is the best we can get is some half-assed ceasefire, which barely lasts for two weeks, that's not necessarily a reflection on you because it's mostly on Trump. But if your best efforts can only result in this, then it's a failure. I mean, what else can you call it? I don't know, frankly, if any of that really exists in our current political system, which is what makes me really dire thinking about it in the future. But I do think Tim's comments, I do think he's the most incisive political comedian, really, who is currently working, specifically on the surveillance state and others.

54:37It sends a chill because at the same, there are rival surveillance states in the world, Singapore and China. And call me unpatriotic, I would rather live there under their surveillance than ours. Because ours is private companies, local contracts oligarch you know whatever like selective enforcement of the rules here we simultaneously live in a surveillance state and a shithole at least over there it's nice you know it's like there's no gum or whatever on the streets and the law is equally applied to everyone and the government has total control yes i know that sounds authoritarian but like here we don't even have real authoritarianism it's like oligarchical authoritarianism we've got all like the worst aspects of authoritarianism without the upsides.

55:22Right. I saw somebody say, I saw somebody say, it's like, you know, in Los Angeles, it's like, you can shit in the streets and take fentanyl, but if you jaywalk, you know, you will get a ticket from the flock camera. And it's like, I'm only living in a world where both people are getting tickets. Right. But we don't live in that. So like, that's the blue example, the red example. I don't know. I'm trying to think of. Well, how about, I mean, going back to the insider trading thing, like, you know, you have a teleprompter operator, you're getting popped. If you're, you know, Jared Kushner or Steve Wyckoff or whoever who are doing their deals and profiting off of their position there, that's fine and good.

55:52You're never going to face the prosecution. So that's a perfect white-collar example, right? It's like, I want to live in a world where everybody gets equally prosecuted, but we don't have that. So it's like, can you really then, you know, want a surveillance system? So, yeah, I mean, things are bad. I just keep saying, I'm like, things are really bad. I've been on a long, you know, kick reading about, I know you are too, about Weimar. Oh, yeah. And, you know, not just Weimar, but like all of the fractures in society. And maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it's so impossible not to look at our current moment and to see so much of the same stuff.

56:24And you and I both know how long it takes to crawl your way out of something. I'll tell you what we're missing from the Weimar moment is a, I mean, we're not that the economy is great, but like a mass economic crisis. That's what we're missing. And, you know, we may be headed in that direction. So just hang tight for that. Thank you guys so much for watching. Appreciate it. We'll see you all later.

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