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happened since we last recorded last week oh we're now at war with ir. Yeah. I mean, is it a war, though? Can you say that? Are you allowed to? Because sometimes you say it and then sometimes you take it back. It is... Sometimes it feels like a war. Sometimes it's not. It's only a war if it comes from the sparkling war region of France. Otherwise, just a sparkling hostilities.

Yeah, otherwise, yeah, otherwise it's a sparkling bombing. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, what I saw was us definitively attack Iran.

Oh my, yeah. Blow up ships, attack a school. Yeah. You know, that's been reported. Right. Like, from multiple different sources that there was a school that blew up that we killed a bunch of people, although the administration I saw yesterday was essentially, not denying it, but saying, we're looking into it, but we know that there's a lot of propaganda that gets spread during wars. So we're not sure whether it's true or not, et cetera, et cetera. So again, you're fighting against, you know, it's so funny to fight against your own propaganda machine. Right. Yeah. So there's been that that's happened. And then when I'm talking about it, Rubio called it a war. Rubio called another senator called it a war.

And then when they were asked again, they had to roll it back.

At one point, Rubio said out loud that the reason we did it is because Israel was going

to attack him first and we wanted to do it first.

And then later they're like, is that what you say?

He's like, no, I didn't say that.

And it's literally on tape.

The messaging has been fucking insane on this whole thing. It's insanity, dude. Because, like, really, there was very little messaging out to the public in the lead up to this war. And it is a war. It's a war. And, Congress is supposed to get a say in whether or not we do that.

But they've absolutely abdicated their responsibility. They tried to get a vote yesterday and failed. And they failed to get a vote for war resolution powers. That's in the Senate. I don't know. The House is today, but I have no idea. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Right. Because it's not going to go anywhere in the Senate.

It doesn't matter.

So essentially, now what we have is a president who has complete carte blanche to just launch a,

and this is not, like for a long time presidents have exercised some amount of unilateral authority

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