Trump's Third Term

26:30Do you remember, they love the narrative that Joe Biden had beat Trump in the debate in 2020, which was really like Trump just beat himself in that debate. But they love that. So their thing was like, Biden's going to go smoke him again. Bannon is as delusional as a Biden supporter thinking he was about in 2024 to have a great debate performance. Note, not one drop less delusional than that. So here, let's play. Steve Bannon, the guy who got Donald Trump elected on Bill Maher's show. The Constitution. Can I read a passage to you?

27:08Amendment 22. No person shall be elected to the office of the president more than twice. And yet you keep talking about Trump's. Maybe you should have this.

27:24I'll get you to sign it backstage. President Trump didn't bring up running for the third term. Myself and others brought up running for a third term. President Trump is going to run for a third term. And President Trump is going to be elected again on the afternoon of January 20th of 2029. He's going to be president of the United States. Okay. But the thing I just read in there, it seemed like there was no wriggle room there. It seemed like it was just eight or 10 words that said only two times. We have a team of people that are watching. A team? A team. How can a team do something about that?

27:59I don't care if the team is 12 trillion people. The words are still the words. Bill, every day in federal courts, right now in federal courts, there's 120 lawsuits on what President Trump's doing for his Article 2 rights on the unified executive theory. But he's chief executive, he's commander in chief, and he's chief magistrate and chief law enforcement officer. There's 100. And they're running to court every day to sue President Trump all because of the interpretation of this. the interpretation of this is open for interpretation. How could it be open? Could I have it back? I'm sorry to read.

28:34No person. You would agree he's a person. Okay. Shall be elected. He was elected to the office. That's the office of the president more than twice. Twice is once and then another time. I don't see what the team is finding. Okay. I will disagree. Listen, Bill. Bill. In 2014, you talk about long odds. In 2014, when I backed President Trump, when I was running Breitbart, they said I'd turn Breitbart into Trump Pravda. The odds there, he pulled at zero. Then later in 2021, after he got back to Mar-a-Lago, when Fox abandoned him and the Murdochs abandoned him, the Republican Party abandoned him, the odds were longer then.

29:15So our group, the MAGA movement and the tip of the spear of the MAGA movement, we've had long odds before. You know, we've come out winning twice and we're going to come out. We've got long odds on this. We're going to come out winning a third time on the afternoon, the 20th of January, 20, 29. He's going to be. All right. Again, on the evening of this debate, Joe Biden's going to come out and look sharp as attack. I mean, I don't know. Look, man, I will sit here and say this. If Steve Bannon is going to say that on January 21st, 2029, Donald Trump is going to be sworn in for his third term, I will guarantee you on everything I own.

29:57If that is the case, it's because there wasn't an election. It's the only way. Listen, I hate Donald Trump at this point. I think I'm as anti Donald Trump essentially as you can be. I think I'm more I'm more against him than a resistance lib in 2017. You know, I got good reasons, unlike them, but whatever. I can't stand the guy. I mean, I literally like I mean, I've never liked the guy, but I just I think he's the biggest disaster, you know, in modern American history at this point. I would love for him to run again. I would love nothing more than Donald Trump. If you hate Donald Trump's guts, there is nothing that should make you happier than the idea of him running again.

30:42If you are a Donald Trump, but anyway, Rob, I don't know. He's got no argument here. He's just pathetically flailing about how there could be an interpretation. It is clear as hell. Don't get me wrong. I wish Bill Maher or Bannon, for that matter, would read more than just those two sentences of the Constitution. But there's some other good stuff in there about who gets to declare war. But there is no legal interpretation that is going to say he's allowed to run again. And you are goddamn delusional to think he would have any chance of winning. Donald Trump, dude, like Donald Trump's approval rating is around 20 points lower than it was when he got reelected.

31:21In what world do you think you can be down 20 points and even be competitive? Kamala Harris would route him in a landslide today. that's the reality. So Bannon is just out of his mind and, and he could say, Oh, things looked really bad after January 6th or when Trump was just a celebrity, the odds were very low. He was going to win the presidency. Rob, do I even need to point out that this is different? This is different. He didn't have a track record of, of betraying his, in every stated promise. So I don't know. And you're also, uh, in those instances, not talking about, uh, tearing up the constitution.

32:00You're talking about just the odds of winning. You're not talking about the, yeah. I have a lot of thoughts on this. I'll just start with, you know, when this first, when the storyline first came out of Trump's going to go for a third term, I actually had a big fight on a phone call with a friend of mine where I was like, I don't care. Like we have so much time between now and the end of his presidency. And for that, even to be a conversation, he'd have to be pulling so high. The economy would have to be doing great. Like if let's just say Trump won the Iran war in two days and he ended the Ukraine war within two weeks and our economy was doing the best that it ever could.

32:37There would there could be a conversation about should we be amending the Constitution because this is the greatest thing that ever happened? Should be running his vice presidents that he could stay in office. That's and it would be a dumb conversation because that the rules, the rule and whether or not there's enough people in Congress or whatever that they want to amend the Constitution. You could just find out whether or not they're going to do it, but there would at least be a conversation there at the moment. This guy's not winning an election. And if you change the rule for a third time presidency, guess what?

33:06Obama is going to wipe the floor with Trump talk and talk about a fun debate. It's a, and I will sit out that election cycle. I quit the show. If it's Obama versus Trump, I don't want to do politics anymore. That is boring. I got no interest. 4. We're going to key West Rob. Yeah, we're done. I'm going to buy a little comedy room, Rob. This is what we're going to do. We're going to pull all our money together, buy a little comedy club, maybe not in key West. Cause they already got one there. One of the other keys we're going to drink drinks out of coconuts and we're just going to live in one room.

33:39Me, you, my wife and kids, that's it. We're out. We have very little money coming in now, Rob, but if you guys want to come see us, come down to the keys. No, I mean, look, I mean, none of this This is just, this is ridiculous. It's not happening. I wouldn't say Bannon's failing, flailing here as much as he's just playing a stupid confidence game around a stupid conversation. But I think the only thing that isn't, is a path to this happening is what you were describing is that Donald Trump just goes straight dictatorship and we have a much bigger problem on our hands, which is not going to happen either.

34:14I mean, I don't think he has control of the military like that. It's also just not like there are certain things that maybe one day in the future could change. But in today's America, it's like the idea of Donald Trump just installing himself as a dictator. Look, government is largely dictatorial, all forms of government. Even dictatorships are always really oligarchies. There's always a secret council that's behind with the dictator. And There's a so like I'm not even saying like it's that drastic a change in the actual mechanisms of government. In fact, Daryl Cooper was just making this really good point the other day about how empire and democracy are totally incompatible.

35:01Because once you have an empire, what do you think? You think the Pentagon is just going to let the people decide who the next war is against? Like, no, you got to have Pentagon people deciding who the war is for, you know. but in the consciousness of the American, if you were to just say, Hey, we're going to suspend elections and just have one guy rule over it. That just is incompatible to the way Americans think about themselves and believe their system operates. So like, that's not happening, but I think your point, um, your point was a very, a very good one. And one of the things, uh, I think in your kind of prerequisites that, that you left out there.

35:36Um, but, but I think it goes very much in line with the spirit of what you're saying, right? Like if he had, if Venezuela was a big success and Iran was a big success and Ukraine was a big success and they were quick and they were cheap, and then he was able to focus on his domestic agenda and prices were coming down and things were more affordable. Like if, if all of this was happening, well, what you're talking about, could we amend the constitution? But what's the biggest prerequisite for even having a conversation about amending the constitution, um, which would be downstream of those things that you just mentioned is dominant victories in the midterms, complete control of both houses of Congress.

36:12You have to have that before we even start having the conversation about amending the constitution. You're about to lose the midterms, dude. You need 75. Am I getting this right? I believe you need 75 % in a vote for an amendment to the constitution. It's not just like passing a bill and then you got to get it ratified by the states. Like it's a huge thing to get this. why there hasn't been a constitutional amendment in a long time um you know and so yeah look i think in in a similar type of thing i mean obviously this is much more uh substantial a substantive but substantial um substantive i think is the word i was looking for anyway they're like that's a big deal if donald trump runs for president but it's kind of rub it's kind of like renaming the lakes and the gulfs and all that shit you're like dude this would be fine as a cherry on top, you know, like if you were, if you were putting up wins and then you said, and also Gulf of Mexico is Gulf of America.

37:10Okay. You know, like doing some wins and then having some Trump fun on top of it. But when you just get into the dumbest, like trade war with our biggest trading country to the North, and then their response is just that they're going to reciprocate with tariffs against us. And so you go, Oh yeah, well now we're calling the lake, Lake America. You're like, you're just a gigantic. Like, what is this? This is absolutely nothing. Like you literally, it's not now it went from being a thing of almost like, Oh, you're twisting the knife after getting a win to now being like, wait, that's all you care about the vanity of it.

37:46Well, that's like, what are you a woman? Sorry. Sorry, women. I know there's a few of you who listen, but like what, I don't know. I just find that to be like a, you know, it's, it's, it's like these, all these things like, yeah, dude, this is the move after you've, you've delivered victories after you've won after when you got approvals in the seventies and how we go, Hey dude, look, man, he's got a 73 % approval rating. The economy's bum buzzing. The wars are over, but you're saying you're good. You're going to just have a disaster. And then I think this, this really is to me, the heart of it is like how delusional people like Bannon are.

38:27Your guys going down in flames and you're talking about him breaking George Washington's precedent seems unlikely to me. I mean, I understand FDR ran for president a bunch of times and it wasn't, you know, the law of the land until it was officially put into the constitution, but there's never been a president in, in who was the last president FDR. I think FDR was the last president who's served over two terms. You know, you're going, um, it's a hundred years. This is, this is goofy. None of it's going to happen. I also, I mean, with the, with the way that this presidency is headed, um, I think, I don't think Marco Rubio or JD Vance can win the election unless it's against Gavin Newsom or AOC, in which case I do think that there is a possibility for it.

39:13Um, but if Donald Trump sticks around and goes, I'm actually going to be running the party, I'm not allowed to be president. Firstly, he's getting old and crazy So I don't even know if he's going to be in a situation Also the age, yeah, Jesus Good point I also think Donald Trump played ball this time around And he's looking to take a part And enjoy his wealth I don't really think that He wants to do this endlessly And particularly as he's not winning at the moment And his whole thing is pretending to win I gotta assume even for Trump that gets exhausting You know what I mean? I don't think, you know what I mean?

39:46At some point I don't think Trump enjoys He's going on the news every day and pretending like he's winning when he's not, it might be more fun when you're actually winning, but the way you're currently doing, I got to assume that this Donald Trump doesn't seem, he doesn't seem like he's enjoyed this last year. It seems like he's been stuck. It really seemed like he enjoyed the year before that. And I, so, you know, I, unless they're going full dictatorship, which I think is a tough pathway and I don't think Trump will get away with it. This is just, I mean, what does Bannon doing? What's the point of this?

40:21I mean, I don't know. They got to get on a TV show and go, Hey, I'm still the most loyal supporter of Trump. I'm still absolutely so behind everything that's happening right now. I still think that we need him to be president in three years, even though it's against our constitution. I guess that's it. It's just some sales bluster. Speaker 0 0 7. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is prize picks. Football is finally back and prize picks is bringing out their best offer yet. New users who sign up will get$150 in lineups if you win your first$5 lineup.

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42:23And likewise, I just think the only effect this has is just absolutely destroying Steve Bannon's credibility for all of the future. Like, you know, and he, um, you know, Steve, Steve Bannon was a kind of interesting guy. You know, a lot of the economic populism, a lot of the anti-war stuff in Donald Trump's 2016 campaign came from him. But like, you're okay. So you're on record now saying that like what Trump, Trump's doing a great, he's doing such a great job that he should get another term. That's what you think about this. Okay. We've got Jeffrey Epstein's dear friend to say, I think it's been a great last year.

43:03Oh, that should, that should really be successful i'm guessing it's a trying to pull a trick here of people the conversation shifting to the trump supporters still think that trump is doing so well that he should remain president against the constitution instead of having a conversation about all the failures uh the problem with when you put up that much bluster it's a little bit like when netanyahu was making statements that israel or israel supporters were saying that they're the most moral army And then sometimes you just piss people off Because you're like, well you're definitely not that And then people start digging in and go Well fuck you, you're lying to my face The most moral army It's unbelievable So whatever Bannon's trying to do here I think is a It's a foolish marketing trick And my guess is it's going to just die out But it just I don't see this working And it just seems so unbelievably dumb Did you By the way I was about to say, did you see?

44:00But yes, I know you saw because you emailed it to me earlier today. Although I had seen it on social media. But there's this video going super viral today. It's the number one trending thing on Twitter right now, on X right now. And I guess the video is not worth playing on the podcast because it's not in English. But Benjamin Netanyahu has given, I think, what is a campaign speech over in Israel. and he's just straight up bragging about how he got Trump to launch the war on a round. Like, just no. I mean, it's really is just this unbelievable dynamic. I mean, Rob, there is literally no difference between the statement he's making and the confidence he's making it with.

44:47And what I say, we're both saying the exact same thing. Like, it's really unbelievable. People. This this is the dynamic, right? It's constantly this dynamic. It's someone like me goes, hey, the Israel lobby just unseated a democratically elected congressman in Kentucky. And they go, dude, it had nothing to do with the Israel lobby. Like that's just an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. It's just that Trump didn't endorse him. And that's why Trump's really popular, blah, blah. And then John Podharris goes, the Jewish money came in and took him out. Randy fine goes, the Jews came in and took him out.

45:24And you're like, wait a minute. So it's offensive when I say it, if I'm opposed to it, but then you can just agree that you're dude. And I'm sorry, but this plays right into the Bannon point too. Dude, everybody sees this. Everybody knows what just happened. Donald Trump got sucked into a war on behalf of a foreign country. The leader of that foreign country is openly acknowledging this. it is crazy dude to me that like people you know think about how many arguments i've been in over the years about israel dragging america into war and that you might as well have the longest serving prime minister in israeli history sitting here going i'm dragging you into war it's been my life's work i mean what robin i'm not really exaggerating much he basically says that he says I had to push the Americans into war.

46:16I spent decades doing it. Thousands of interviews, thousands of meetings right from the horse's mouth. Yeah, I think later in the interview also says like we were surrounded by enemies. We can't go about this alone. And you just got to put it together. We're surrounded by enemies. We can't go about this alone. Luckily, I have a hold over the U.S. government and I'm persuasive enough that I can get on their TV cameras all the time. and I was able to push them to take out Iran and to treat Iran like the serious enemy that it is. And I guess that's a nice pitch to your country of, hey, we're milking this other country dry and we're getting them to spend all this money over here because we can't go about it alone.

46:57But then you hear that over here and you go, isn't that exactly what we're complaining about, that we're doing this on their behalf and that they're the junior partner and that they're bossing us around? And why do they have so much influence and how do we benefit from this? isn't this exactly what we're complaining about is now his pitch to his country is hey look look I'm able to get these suckers yeah yeah I mean this is dude it really did remind me of course because this is the same man um but if you remember that famous uh secret videotape of him uh also in Hebrew or I guess I guess it's not clear whether it's a secret videotape of it like It's not clear whether the kid intentionally left the camera running or whether they accidentally left the camera running.

47:42But anyway, there is a candid video of Benjamin Netanyahu where he's bragging about how he moves the Americans. And his own words were, it's ridiculous. He goes, I can move the Americans. I can get them to do what I want. And then he just explains to all of them how he torpedoed the two-state solution. and that he's basically that he got all these poison pills into the agreement. And so that, yeah, essentially like we had made it. So like, I forget exactly what he says in the video, Rob, but it was something like he goes, he goes, look, we got a defensive corridor. Yes. Israel has control over the defensive corridor, which he can define as whatever.

48:24I believe that was language. And then he says at one point, I think he goes, I define all of area C as a defensive corridor, meaning like essentially a third of the West bank. I just decided. way. So meaning there's no two state solution. You'll never get Palestine. You'll never like, and he's just on, he's openly bragging about that. And like, look, that one is at least he doesn't think he's being recorded. This one, he knows he's being recorded. Now he's speaking in Hebrew. I mean, they're very conscious of that. Like you listen to what Netanyahu says in Hebrew and what he says in English. And it is like, that's what he wants to tell the Israelis.

48:56And that's what he wants to tell the Americans, which, you know, makes sense. um but yeah he's just openly saying yeah we moved the americans we wanted this war and so we got it you would think you know now that the war is going so bad he'd be hesitant to say that um it's uh again i guess getting america stuck in this mess because he does say in the speech quite a few times that we need regime change there uh which is a different goal than you know what uh what what Trump is looking to stand by. And so, you know, I guess this is going, going to plan for Netanyahu. He's got us stuck in a mess. All right.

49:34I cannot, you know, look at, I did so many like high profile debates around the 12 day war and rather it's just, it's unbelievable how this always just works this way. Dude, the, I can't tell you, I mean, I know you saw some of these, My argument would always be last summer, a year and two months ago or whatever it is now, that I'd go, guys, Donald Trump may think that this is just about hitting the nuclear sites, but this is about regime change. And that is the goal of the Israelis. And that was the topic of debate. All the defenders of the 12-day war said, that's not true, Dave. They're just worried about their nuclear ambitions.

50:16Nobody's talking about regime change. This isn't a, what do you think, he's George W. Bush? No one's talking about a regime change war. We're just talking about hitting their nuclear facilities. I like, I don't know, a year later, now they just openly say that it was, of course it was always about regime change. I'm like, yes, actually, he basically is George W. Bush. You know why? Because it's still Benjamin Netanyahu. That's why. And so our government still has to be George W. Bush, even though the entire American people reject that and voted for this government largely because they ran against all of that stuff but you know i don't know i mean i i don't know what you can say about this it's it's just both with with benjamin netanyahu and with steve ben with all of them this is this is peak wokeism level delusions on the republican side now you know like at the very least rob right when you announce that, right, this, I mean, this is just real objective, real easy.

51:19If you announce the goal of this war is regime change, the people should rise up and take control of the government. We will be extracting all the nuclear dust. We will be ending the nuclear program. The strait will be open. There's all this up. And it's over six months later. And none of those things have been achieved. You got to at least admit you go, okay, that, that part's tough. So that's going to be, you know what I mean? Like you launch a war of choice and you didn't achieve any of the things. It's six months later. A lot of people have died. A lot of money has been wasted. Okay. Now look, if you want to argue, Hey, I think we're still going to achieve all those goals in the next three months and this will be worth it.

51:57Fine. But to pretend as it's, it's, it's pretending Joe Biden's economy was great. They literally said that as we had the highest inflation of our lifetimes. They went, no, it's great. So like, yeah, I guess they can look at this war and say, yeah, it's great. But that didn't work with Joe Biden. And it's not going to work here either, man. All right, guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Superpower. You know, everybody always has a plan to get healthier and exercise more and eat better and things like that. But if you really want to take your health to the next level, you got to check out Superpower.

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54:20Did you see the situation with Canada? Because it is, and I know you said you hadn't been following it super closely, but just essentially, just to know the, so essentially Donald Trump announces these huge tariffs, like 50 % tariffs on a few billion dollars worth of Canadian goods. And the Canadians turned around and said, okay, then we're doing reciprocal tariffs on all of that. And so that's where we are now. And then Donald Trump said he's going to rename the lake and then started talking shit and all this. But like, I just look, I guess in some like I'm anti tariff in general, like I always said with you.

54:58And I think we had a lot more leniency at the very beginning of Trump's administration when there was some thought that maybe he'd do something decent. that you go, look, while tariffs are bad economic policy, in theory, you could get a government maybe to do something that you want them to do by threatening them with tariffs or something. Like maybe you can extract some concessions. And if you remember, Rob, it was reported during Trump's first term that at one of the G7 meetings, he threw out the suggestion that he goes, hey, you guys are also against my tariffs. Why don't we all just agree to not have tariffs anymore?

55:34And I'll do that because the point in Donald Trump's, you know, his vision of economics, I guess the argument being that like, we have to have the tariffs because you have tariffs on our stuff. So it's unfair that you don't have tariffs. But like, Rob, I'm just saying, if that's like, like, that's the best almost like use of tariffs you could have is to go, Hey, I'm going to tariff you unless you bring your tariffs down. And then if the end result is we all bring our tariffs down, that actually is better economic policy. But my point is here, some people, I suppose, would argue that, no, there's a benefit in tariffs because they protect American business.

56:12Now, me and you would go, I think, think this is a very flawed argument. It's just, does it, this is, you could go to Henry Hazlitt here. This is, you're arguing that the sun is putting the candle makers out of business. Like, I don't agree with that. I think it's goofy. That being said, if you do believe that, Rob, right? Like if you're a protectionist, if you believe, so you would say, well, look, dude, if we have, if we have tariffs on foreign steel, then, um, our domestic steel producers will benefit because of that. Now, someone like you, Rob, who's thought about these things, you might point out like, yeah, but what about the consumer?

56:48What about the producers who use steel? Right. So like they may buy foreign steel, but then produce things in America and now they get the cost of their steel with it. So like you have to, but if you had the mindset that protectionism is good because it protects industry, you would have to admit, Rob, with that mindset that foreign tariffs are bad, right? Because that's hurting your industry when you try to export it, because now it's more expensive for other people to consume. And so even if you think that tariffs help us, but their tariffs hurt us, well, then we just got their tariffs raised.

57:22So this also just hurt us. Anyway, my point is, if you actually look at sound economics, it could maybe be a reasonable idea to threaten tariffs and then get everyone to lower their tariffs. But Rob, when you just go into our biggest trading partner to the North and put a bunch of tariffs on, and then they raise their tax, that would be the exact opposite. That would be both sides just raising their tariffs. So what we literally just accomplished out of all of this was both the Canadian government and the American government working to hurt the Canadian economy and the American economy and Donald Trump renaming a lake.

57:56That's what he accomplished with Canada over the last 48 hours. And it's just on top of everything else, it's just like, guys, this is like painfully stupid. It's painfully stupid and real people will actually suffer as a result of this. So anyway, it's just at least as of right now, just the worst result it could have been in terms of a little mini trade war. I just laughed when I saw the headline because my takeaway was, Why are you stirring up this shit now? You got enough on your plate. You got enough. That's not going well. Why are we poking the Canada problem? Just, just let that sit for a while and solve the other problems first.

58:34Why do you want this one on your plate too? You got, you got a night. You've made enough of a mess out of everything else. And also the fact that he was doing it the same week while he's putting a pause on his beef tariffs, because beef prices were going up. It didn't really make sense. Apparently, I guess whatever, when you walk into a grocery store tomorrow and you look at whatever the price of beef is, I guess in Donald Trump's centralized economy, that's exactly where he thinks the beef price should be because now's the time that he's going to change the tariff because he realizes this is the ideal beef price.

59:05That's what happens with central planning. He didn't want any lower because then we could have been importing beef this whole time. And this is at his discretion because he's perfect at in whatever move he makes in any direction. And so this is Donald Trump saying this is his ideal beef price. yep no i mean look this is what this is what it all comes down to it's all just different forms of price fixing man it's all the interventionist government policy can ever do is just change the price of something and every time they're changing the price they're changing it away from closer to what the market you know equilibrium was which is where you maximize efficiency um so you know it's it's interesting even as you say that um you know you go like why pick another fight right now when And you got all this and it's, it is weird.

59:49Like leaders act this way when they're going down, dude, you know, you think about it. I always, to me, I always thought the craziest part of world war two was that after Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor, at Pearl Harbor, excuse me. That was a nicer way to say it at all. Pearl Harbor Adolf Hitler declared war on America, which was crazy like we didn't we got attacked by a different country and he was already at war like he he was already had his hands full like it was almost you know in hindsight it was such a self-destructive move you know because then that then uh um fdr declared war again or excuse me i'm i'm so sorry i got stuck in modern american brain and i forgot that we were still somewhat of a constitutional republic, the Congress declared war as the last declared war.

1:00:50And they declared war on Hitler. And the fact that he had declared war on us was another, you know, like after Pearl Harbor, it was clear we're getting into the war, but it wasn't exactly clear. Like certainly, I think FDR really wanted to get into the war in Europe, but at least Hitler declaring war on us certainly gave a PR boost to be able to say, well, hey, we were attacked and then he declared war on us. So we're in this world war now, but like, it is kind of crazy. Like the, one of the things that's kind of fascinating about Adolf Hitler is that there were several points where he probably could have just chilled, you know, like, like when he, I mean, okay.

1:01:29He took Poland, England declares war on him, but he's got a, he's got a peace deal with Stalin still. He's not at war with America still, you know, like he's fine. He could have just held, he takes France. He could have held from France to Poland and just had it. Then he invaded the Soviet union. It declares war on America. You know, like this is insane. So it's like, I don't know, like it, there is something kind of interesting, even as you said, obviously I'm not saying Trump's Hitler. It's this isn't the same thing, but there's like this little mini version of like, as you're spiraling, you kind of like try to go for it more and more and more and more, you get more desperate.

1:02:03So you have to make a bigger move. You know, you need like, because you're down bigger. Now you need a bigger shot. So you got to take a bigger risk and things can spiral out of control. But yeah, it seems like a pretty poor time to just pick a trade war for no reason. All right. Well, we're going to have to call it a show there guys. Thank you so much for listening. And we'll be back tomorrow with a brand new episode. Peace.

1:02:36Thank you.