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3:04Live from Studio C. We are in a dimly lit room, deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong and Gatti comedications compound. And here on Day, uh, whatever this is of war, we're toiling them to the title of the show. Yeah, I tell the will be missed by the left media, apparently, or my personal favorite. Missile's whistle, leaving gristle. That is pretty funny. The posthumous rehabilitation of the Ayatollah by the lefty media is something to behold. An all-stealer scholar with a bushy beard and a ready smile. The Ayatollah was beloved by family and friends alike. Who loved poetry and lesbian, lesbian is. Right. We have the Washington Post. Uh, Michael and I were both talking about the Daily Show, which we watched last night, which was pretty funny. But John Stewart was making jokes about the Ayatollah and the crowd groaned.

4:07And he was like, what? I can't make fun of a murderous dictator. What I'm supposed to go soft on the guy. Thank you, John. Yeah. Yeah, I appreciate that. He said, although we, we did what, what did he say? We did what saturated fat was going to do in a couple of weeks, because he was talking about other guys 87 years old. Wow. That's another good one. Yeah. The, I realized we're coming off the winter Olympics and not the summer Olympics, but the incredible gymnast like flexibility of the American media on display is really something to see like the New York Times, which you may recall last year back in June was hammering the Trump administration because the strikes against the photo plant were unsuccessful, according to intelligence reports. And barely center on's nuclear program back a month. And it was a terrible, terrible failure by Trump. But now they're saying there was no need for the attacks, because that attack last year sent them back forever. I mean, they'll never get a new after that unbelievably devastating attack. Sometimes the same people wrote those two articles.

5:09It's just ridiculous. I am interested in this hole is, was this a war of choice thing? So that was one thing I, John Stuart in the Daily Show, of course, would be against whatever Trump is doing and kept referring to this as a war of choice. I suppose technically it is, but if you have to wait until you're punched in the face before it's not a war of choice, I don't quite understand that. And then I heard Senator Mark Warner, he's a Democrat, but he's a serious man. He's one of the handful of serious people on both sides. I just heard him say there was no imminent threat to the United States. There was an imminent threat to Israel. And if we're going to count an imminent threat to Israel as an imminent threat to the United States, we are in an uncharted territory now, which is an interesting thing to say. There was not an imminent threat to the United States. I suppose that is true.

6:10No, the whole war of choice thing, it's funny. I just 10 minutes ago dove into a long scholarly piece about the very concept of a war of choice. And it went back to the freaking codes of homeroppy, which is the, viewed as the first written law mankind's ever had and goes through, you know, the Talmud, not sorts of ancient traditions. And I gave up. I thought this is way to esoteric and eggheaded a discussion. And obviously it's one of those terms that people use when they want in the way they want. And when it's their side, they use it differently. Well, it's going to fit into the Congress is going to do some war powers act voting this week. And I think it's going to play into that because the president does have the right to defend the United States an imminent attack or one more under attack. If we're not though, if we weren't, then it gets more complicated. Right. And then we will end up in that turf. No doubt.

7:11Because to use the term imminent threat, I think it probably overstates the nature. Well, not overstates, but overstates the urgency of the threat. I think it's a much more long term never ending terrible threat that killed more of our people than any other country on earth over the last 50 years. It's worth remembering that over and over and over again, every chance they got and their desperate attempt to secure a nuclear weapon so they can hold the world hostage in an opportunity came to end that never ending threat. And that may not be an imminent threat per se, but it's a reason to act. If you write the legality of it is complicated and prone to flip flopping by either side depending on their needs of the day. And Iran has now attacked 10 countries, I think, nine or 10 countries. Good strategy. Continue to do that. And it's dangerous all over the place in the Middle East.

8:14I heard it called last time. Suppose this is true. This is the biggest war in Middle Eastern history, which is a heck of a thing to say because there's been a lot of wars in the Middle East throughout the last several thousand years. There's never one that encompassed this large an area. So it's the biggest war in Middle Eastern history that we technically started though. I still see it as a defensive war personally. Right again, you've got an adversary that kills your people constantly, threatens you constantly and you saw a chance to take them out. So who started what? I don't know. I think it was the New York Times was trying to or some of one of your usual suspects trying to make the case that we started it back in 1953 when we assisted in the overthrow of a popularly elected communist government and installed the Shah. So that that was the original sin, therefore we're not allowed to do anything because we're the bad guys in Iran. Okay, here's Marco Rubio's response because this is fast moving conversation. And it's pretty important when I think, especially as Congress gets ready to vote on a variety of things.

9:19Marco Rubio's response to the, it wasn't an eminent threat to the United States. It wasn't an eminent threat to Israel. And if we're now counting Israel being under threat the same as us, we're into uncharted territory. Marco Rubio's response was Israel was about to act. Iran would have attacked our bases. So that's why it was an eminent threat to us because Israel is going to act whether we did or not. And then our bases would have been under attack. Is that too far a stretch? It's true. No, that's fine with me. We can hear both the lefty anti-Semites and righty anti-Semites. They're at the cozy end of the horseshoe saying there it's as a pro for dancing on the strings of the Jewish Jewel puppeteers. But you know, I just... Well, the polling is terrible on this war right now. So you got the, what you've said there, you've got the, we shouldn't be fighting for the Jews crowd that are both Republicans and Democrats. You've got the never like any military action at all crowd, which is a certain percentage of people always.

10:25And then you've got the, I'm going to oppose anything Trump does, including if he saved childhood cancer. So you combine all those people and you get to a pretty big number. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see the polling as it unfolds as the case is made by the administration. It's bitter lately. Well, I don't remember a war where it was upside down like this at the very beginning. Well, over 60% high, 60% are against what happened. I don't remember that ever in my life. One point that was made on that score that I thought was pretty interesting is usually there's a pretty obvious trigger. We are hit. We are attacked. We have our people hurt or killed. And there's a rally around the flag effect. And that lifts poll numbers a lot. This was a more strategic. Now we have an opportunity that lets end this threat for all time moment, which is a different scenario. If you're into this stuff, I think people, I think the people who follow the news most closely probably have the highest poll numbers in approval of these strikes.

11:28Well, yeah, but you're right. It's opposed to a lot of other stories, but it's the other way around. Sure. And as you made the point many times, the lack of discussion about this leading up to it was just amazing. Since it was clear what was about to happen. So here's some analysis for one of my favorite punts on the whole poll thing. Maybe tomorrow Americans will support Trump on Iran. Americans like success. And as we are successful, the polls could completely flip in a week. We will see. That's, that's a possibility also. But it's going to matter to Congress and they have control over, you know, given more money or allocating more funds for building more munitions. Oh, on that front, is this a new thing in the last couple of years where we're always in danger of running out of material? I don't remember that in the past. I always always kind of saw us as the arsenal of democracy is like practically a never ending supply or whatever we needed. It seems like a new conversation of where we're on the verge of being out all the time. Or we're spending more than we have in quite a while for one thing and the offshoring and manufacturing included defense through the years.

12:37We're not the arsenal of democracy anymore. We don't have enough factories. Well, that ain't good. We can't have a couple of dust ups like this and be on the verge of running out of everything already. Yeah, we can hardly build a ship. We depend on the South Koreans for a significant chunk of that. We just, the post Cold War, the armor realization of the United States, I made a board. And, and D, you know, a manufacturing of the United States is left us in a hell of a spot. Let's start the show officially. I'm just plenty of cheap Chinese crap on the shelves of your local Walmart though. So, shop and enjoy. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, March 3rd, the year 2026, where I'm strong and getting me a proof of this program. All right. I know we all miss the smile of the Ayatollah that could light up a room. But here we go, officially according to FCC rules and regs at Mark. America and Israel attack Iran. And Iran's answer is to just fucking attack everybody. You know, having been in a bar fight or two in my life, I'm pretty sure the worst thing you can do during a two on one beat down is slap everyone else.

13:49Hey, hey, not every part of me is getting punched. What are you doing? What are you doing? Hey, you! I know that was all about burn rate, Jack burn rate. We're all learning what burn rate is now. How quickly we're going through our anti-missile shelves and armaments. So the idea, Iran's idea wasn't his crackpot. We're going to spread this out since so many things, so many places that the United States Israel and everybody else is going to use up all their defense munitions. And then we'll be able to really strike people. That's their plan. They will have to back off. And it could work, couldn't it? Do they have enough rocks? And let's we take out all there's launchers because it doesn't matter how many rockets they have if they have no way to launch them. Well, they're gamblers that if they escalate enough and the burn rates burns through everything. The other countries in the region will say, we got to stop, we got to stop, we got to stop.

14:50I suspect it will be more like, all right, now we've got to level the place. Not we got to quit. But we got to go whole hog. And that might speak to the really big wave Trump was talking about yesterday that hasn't come yet. What we saw on Saturday was not the big wave. The big wave is still coming. I don't know if that's a fog of war type threat or if that's real. I have no idea. That's hard to imagine though. I don't know if you've read much about it, but it's quite the stunning operation. In fact, we got some of the numbers on that we can talk about later is just a cloud of the most amazing flying things on earth coming at one area and dropping stuff on them. But again, we ran through a five year supply in two days. Yeah, any good. All right, we got Katie's headlines in the way and lots of stuff stay here. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help.

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18:57Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what these days. It's the lead story with Katie Green, Katie. Of course, the lead story is Iran from ABC. US closes embassies in Saudi Arabia. Kuwait amid attacks. CNN. Trump tells CNN the big wave is yet to come in war with Iran. NBC Ukraine offers to help against Iranian drones as new war over shadows Russia peace talks. Oh, all that. Wait, the Russia peace talks. I know. Every time I hear that phrase, I roll my eyes. Poor President Zelensi's got to be thinking, good lord, this is not going to help. Nobody's going to pay attention to us now. From the Wall Street Journal. Rubio warns that the quote, hardest hits are yet to come. I wonder if that's true or not. Doesn't seem like we are holding back a lot. From the Washington Post, China building subs that can strike United States from closer to home,

19:59according to the US Navy. Let's just read in that. Yeah, our supremacy under the sea is definitely eroding fast. From MS now. Quote, he would be on my witness list. Hillary Clinton says Trump should absolutely be deposed on Epstein. Well, logically, if you're going to have the Clintons on there, I suppose you should have Trump on there, although he's a sitting president. But as soon as he's out of office, he'll definitely be called by a Democratic Congress. Any chance we can shoot Epstein's bones at Iran with that little at all. I'm not sure how that math works. Oh, for goodness' sake. From the New York Times. Automakers dilemma. Invest in new tech. Or stick to gas cars. Hmm, that is a dilemma. You got to make what people want. Entertainment Weekly. Shyla Buff. Arrested for a second time in New Orleans.

21:01Said three men. Touching his leg. He cleared the initial altercation. Man, he doesn't have an arrow to it. Touching my leg. All right, there's nothing better. Get your ass kicked. There's nothing better than the him getting beat up by six guys at a bar. He gets thrown in jail because he started it. Then as soon as he bales himself out, running two miles to get back to the parade and start drinking it. And to get arrested again. Yes. From study finds. Oh, it's the egg argument. Data from 142 countries shows that eating eggs may actually protect your heart. There you go. There you go. More eggs. And finally, the Babylon B. Ground breaking. New study finds Islamophobia may be partially caused by Muslims killing people all the time. Yeah. Yeah, there's that. Islamophobia. But if that word has ever passed your lips. Drop your knees right now and pray for forgiveness from both me and the Almighty.

22:03The guy with the property of Allah and a Quran in his car in an Iranian flag in his house and all that other stuff. An anti-shirt, right? Yeah, and all these investigations about cause still being investigated. Not sure if it's attached to the war or anything to do with Muslims. What? Oh my God. Are you kidding? The way ABC did that last night. The FBI is investigating. Yeah. I'm hilarious. We got more on the way. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weather bug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, right at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local, real-time, customizable alerts. Make sure the weather never takes you by surprise so you can plan every day with confidence. Download the free weather bug app from the app store today and start getting accurate weather forecast 24-7.

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25:04Restrictions apply. FBI officials confirming that they're urgently trying to determine why that gunman who went on a murderous rampage in Austin, Texas was wearing a t-shirt, fearing the flag of Iran, the gunman wearing a sweatshirt with the words, property of a lot, officially identified as Jagajung, a U.S. naturalized citizen originally from Senegal. In addition to the flag, authorities have discovered writings about Iran and its leadership after searching his car and other properties. Okay. Robbery gone wrong. And yeah, he was upset about the Dobbs decision. IRA. It says, it smells like the IRA to me. What the hell have you seen? What? He's still trying to investigate a motive, but guy wearing an Iranian jacket with an Iranian flag in his house and a car in his car. Hmm. All right. What are we doing? A couple of angles to the Iran conflict that I found absolutely fascinating

26:06slash troubling, number one. And I'm sure the big news bureaus have somebody who just sits there and stares at truth social for when Trump unleashes a new barrage not of missiles, but of words. I'd missed this one somehow. Although I guess it was in the middle of the night last night. There's the late last night. President Trump bragged the US has a virtually unlimited supply. That's in quotes of medium grade munitions and proclaimed America is ready to win big in an ominous warning to the Iran regime. The United States munitions stockpiles have at the medium and upper medium grade never been higher better. He wrote on truth social. I guess addressing the conversation that we and others have had about our low stockpiles. As we stated, as was stated to me today, we have virtually an unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought forever and very successfully using just these supplies which are better than other countries finest arms. At the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be.

27:10It goes on. Additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries. And then he blamed Biden for the stockpile not being what it should be. Listen to this, Jack, you're going to hate this. Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time in our country's money giving everything to PT Barnum, Zelensky, of Ukraine. Oh, boy. Hundreds of billions of dollars worth. And while he gave so much of the super high end away free, he didn't bother to replace it. He claimed. Trump then proclaimed he rebuilt the military during his first term before revealing the United States is stocked and ready to win big. There were a lot of people making the legit argument though that when we were given stuff to Ukraine, what if we need to go to war? Oh, yeah. An argument that we get the time set over and over again is legit. I feel like the answer is not turning down very military operations that are in our interest. It's building more stuff so we got enough.

28:10Yeah. Where the richest country on earth. Clearly. Yeah. And once you disarm, though, once you dismantle that arsenal of democracy, capability that we had for so long, it's a slow, expensive thing to rebuild it. And companies are thinking, well, gosh, the next administration might be a bunch of peace next. So do I invest a zillion dollars in a missile plant or not? So I don't know that much about this, but like if we ended up on a prolonged war China that started two years ago, would we have run out of stuff in like nine months? I've heard various projections of how long we could hold out. And I don't know how seriously to take them, but they're not good. Not good at all. Now, we didn't have hardly anything when World War II started. We got ready to join World War II. We were ramped up or really damn fast and it was unbelievably impressive. That's one of the best things that they portray at that fabulous World War II

29:11museum in New Orleans was our industrial might and how we got ramped up and all the business leaders of America came together. And the Ford plant or the GM plant, one of your big car companies up there in Michigan was cranking out giant bomber planes one in an hour. Wow. I mean, just incredible. But do you have to be a war before you turn yourself to that? Probably or have a threat that your whole country perceives as serious. I'd like to see a real scholarly serious comparison of where we were then and where we are now, not just in terms of actual manufacturing facilities, but the people who do that sort of work, who could easily switch from making a washing machines to fighter jets because we don't make washing machines anymore. Or virtually anything else. Right.

30:11It'd be much easier, I assume, to turn a plant that makes cars into a plant that makes fighter planes and it is to take a whole bunch of people who type into computers cubicles into people who are cranking out fighter planes. Yeah. The drones or whatever we're going to build. The skills of both the manufacture of war goods and the warriors themselves are much more of the skills of America in the 40s than they were than they are now. You're going to send a bunch of social majors who sit around cubicles, the different world. I don't know what the answer is. I really don't. So I said I had two angles. One was the Trump saying we got plenty of arms and then taking a shot at Zelensky calling him PT Barnum, which gave me a sick feeling in my stomach. But listen to this. She isn't as well. And you tell me Jack whether you think this is true and why we know it now. But Israeli spies spent spent years hacking nearly every traffic camera in Tehran.

31:14I heard that. So they could monitor the Ayatollah everywhere he went before he was eventually wiped out. The cameras, including one directly put into a communist closely guarded compound, allowed the Masad to build highly specific intelligence files that aided Saturday's deadly strikes and multiple sources told the Financial Times, London blah, blah, blah. We knew Tehran like we know Jerusalem, an Israeli intelligence official claimed. And when you know a place as well as you know the street you grew up on, you notice a single thing when it's out of place. So some of the images that they got from the cameras allowed Masad operatives to determine a pattern of life for Chameleon security guards, including exactly where they parked their cars. There are addresses who they were tasked with protecting et cetera. They knew everything about his security forces. So when I heard this story, my first thought was this is either completely true or not at all true. And it was a different way that we tracked Chameleon and killed him

32:15and good for us for lying about it because the world doesn't need to know. Right, exactly. Great minds think alike apparently or certainly mediocre ones. So which side do you come down on? It sounds legit as hell. Yeah, I find it hard to believe that we would, we or the Israelis would reveal exactly how we track evil doers because your mind are probably other evil doers. We're tracking right now, whether it's Putin or she or whoever, wherever. On the other hand, it's a good thing to put out there to frighten the hell out of people and make them paranoid. Yeah, we're hacked into your traffic cameras. We're watching everything and happens. That's how we figured it out. It's not that we got a bunch of moles in your embassy or whatever. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what to think. But I am intrigued by the idea of the Israeli intelligence guy sitting around saying, hey, Muhammad didn't come to work today. Check out his place. He has car still in the driveway. Haven't seen him come out yet. I wonder if he's sick. Interesting. He just didn't come to work today.

33:15I think you're going to have to narrow it down a bit. Muhammad number four. Yeah. Yeah, that is amazing, though, if that, if that played a role. And he's right about the, you know, if you know something as well as your own street, I pull into my own street every single day. And if there is a different, completely different car there, I would notice immediately. Sure. Many times I've said to Judy, who's that blue car? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She's in Ping's probably thinking, oh, yeah, you can track people like that. Traffic cameras, street lights, security cameras, manholes, please. Right. Exactly because they're doing it already with their own people. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. They knew exactly where the dude was. And well, well, well, where four he dudes were. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I can't wait to read more about this years from now because they won't, they won't release this information for a very long time.

34:15But man, when they ran to Trump and said, hey, look, we have an opportunity here. The Ayatollah and 40 of his top guys are going to be in one room above ground Saturday at two. Do we do something or not? Now, I like the way we had my clients on yesterday and he went out of his way to portray it as everything was Israel's decision. I noticed. Yeah. Well, because we don't assassinate people, political leaders. Right. So if we give you all the information and the coordinates and the planes and the bombs and maybe train the pilots, it wasn't as me you're not going to bomb them. All right. Okay. It wasn't us. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just picturing what it must be like to work in the Masad and you're sitting there. You've got like the number five guy in the revolutionary guard. That he's your guy that you track with the traffic cameras if it's legit. And you report to somebody, yeah, he seems to be moving toward the Ayatollah's compound

35:18and like everybody's saying the same thing at the same time Saturday morning. And what that is the fever pitch of conversation and calls back and forth and quickly assembled meetings must have been like. So there were, I didn't agree with John Stuart's overall take on the Daily Show last night. But he had a number of jokes that I thought were quite funny. First of all, the name Epic Fury. Why do we name our wars the same way the Paul Brothers name energy drinks? That's good. This is a pretty funny joke. But he also said he played the clip of Trump in the middle of the night. And he said, is this way we announce wars now? You come out in a jacket and no tie and a big hat on your head and dimly lit. He said, he looks like the father of the bride settling up with the caterer at the end of the night. But she's incredible. That's a good. That's good too. He is a clever little wordsmith that John Stuart. Getting back to the joke that we opened with.

36:18How many bar fights do you reckon he's actually letting that's funny? I got distracted by that too when John Stuart said I've ended a couple of bar fights with that. Yeah. A guy who writes for a living, you're like five five hundred and twenty five pounds. An intellectual. Maybe, maybe you've seen a couple or maybe he's one of those smart asses that got himself into trouble all the time. I've known a few of those guys that like you would think you'd keep your mouth shut if you were that size. Right. Right. That's possible. That's funny. That's the first thought I had too. Really? I don't know if I believe this. Okay. We got mailbag on the way and other stops stay here. Armstrong and Getty. No one knows what the future holds, but you deserve a weather app that can help. Weatherbug is easy to use and provides forecasts for your every need. From storm warnings to pollen levels, write at your fingertips. Get the fastest local alerts and comprehensive 10-day forecasts wherever you are. It's hyper-local, real-time customizable alerts.

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40:27I'm tired and sick of war. It's glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance for desolation war is hell. Yeah, he and Grant were perfectly suited to to that war, both grimly doing what had to be done to win and not liking it at all. Yeah, yeah, unwilling soldiers who just wanted it to be done. And in both of their views the way it's done is if you win mail back. Proper snow, mailbag at Armstrong and getty.com whenever you like. Boy, if we got any just dreams of email lately. How about this Brent the Bay Area, California? Just interesting. I signed up for next account for the first time over the weekend followed Armstrong and getty and Tim Sandifer. That's it. My feed is now covered with right leaning posts and very few neutral left leaning ones. All the follow suggestions are all conservative voices.

41:27It's no wonder why most of the population never hears multiple perspectives on an issue. I know. I wish the algorithm could choose smart people with a variety of opinions as opposed to Oh, as sort of an opt-in option as opposed to lots of dumb people whose politics lean my direction. Yeah, yeah. I'd rather her smart people on the other side. Brent with some nice writing he says, Armenia platforms basically throw you into one walled garden of ideas and throw away the key based on very little input from the users. Just a few likes and follows. And it's how you can end up at a conversation that has happened to me several times in the modern world. We're end up at a conversation and we're just like at some point staring each other like we're talking about completely different things here because we have such different information. Yeah, you can't even have a conversation you're so far apart. Right, where is the broad range algorithm? I mean, even if I believe what I believe, I think it makes me a much better conservative.

42:27If I confront the arguments of the people who disagree with me, obviously, and wrestle with them and help them. You know, have them help, have them help hone my ideas. And sometimes I'm wrong or we're wrong. So having the other side is a good idea. Speak for yourself. Loyal listener Eugene of centerbrook connect ticket rights. Hey guys, love the show. I digress. Look at the old flag of Iran versus the current flag of the Islamic Republic. The old flag has prominently displayed a lion. As in the lion, we'll be coming back. Operation rising lion. Weamble up. On the topic of a rules based order, Sean writes. People complain the old rules based order is gone. That order didn't exist because the U.S. Relented to European and East Asian states pressure. It existed because the U.S. Enforced it vigorously. Do you want a rules based order? Maduro in Iran and seasoned ghost tankers is how you get it back.

43:29Yeah, well, that was George Wells column in the Washington Post. Deterrence is back. Yeah, boy, all of this stuff is so interesting. There's so many subtopics, but I'll discipline myself to stay with mail back for now. Let's see. Alvin writes guys. I heard the Iranian TV guys or some Middle Eastern TV guys say the weapons Iran got from China aren't working. Maybe they got them from Timo, which brings me to yet another subtopic of this conflict. How China over and over again is super good bodies with you until the chips are down and then country after country around the world are discovering. Oh, that's weird. They won't take my calls when the poo hits the fan. They are a fair weather friend at best moving along. Reporting from the CCOP rich rights, and that'll be explained in a minute. Hey, fellas, just a quick round. Run down to the reporting here at the Communist City of Portland.

44:29Local media reported a few seconds worth of the rally of Iranians that were thrilled with the death of the dictator. Then they spent several minutes covering the protests, which were predominantly white, overeducated and screeching through their bull horns. Apparently, the higher education affords you the opportunity to not go to work like the rest of us. I guess, yeah, the people do seem to have unlimited time to protest. Si writes. The more I learn about the hierarchy of Iran's Islamic leadership, the more it reminds me of the sopranos. There's this big FBI board on the show with pictures of the whole family starting with the dawn at the top of the pyramid, coppers, soldiers, so on. It's almost like when the FBI used, used to update their board in the show, adding new faces, shifting alliances, constantly reshuffling players in the game. It's funny. Organized crime really does look the same wherever you go. And this real quick from Frank, imminent threat, question mark. When did Nazi Germany become an imminent threat, a period of Japan? And simple naive Jack needs to wake up that Mark Warner is a political hacked and corrupt.

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