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Welcome to the Common Term magazine Daily Podcast. Today is Friday, May 20, 2022. I'm John

Bob Horts, the editor of Common Term Magazine. Christine Rosen is out today with us as always

executive editor, a Greenwald Hyade. Hi, John. Associate editor, no Rossman Hynoah. Hi, John.

And joining us in Christine's stead, Common Term Magazine contributing editor, podcast host,

Bonvi Vom Manorown town, Eli Lake, Hyalye. Hi, thanks for having me. You bet. So Eli,

there's a lot of action in front, bipartisan ferment, but actual bipartisanship in this supposedly

torturously polarized society when it comes to the American support for the Ukrainian effort to

stave off the Russian bear. So we now have in excess of $50 billion, I believe, that is now going

from the United States to Ukraine. And what do you make of the fact that the Republicans

have so far been relatively deaf to this kind of siren song of the Tragcon, Natcon, Tucker Con

idea that we should be spending that money at home and why are we, you know, what globalist,

what globalist madness is this that we're dedicating all of our resources to Ukraine. A conversation,

by the way, that I think is probably going on very heavily at the conservative political action

conference that is now taking place in Budapest. That's right. Oh, I did see some stuff on that.

Yeah, they're in Budapest and they're not letting any press in. So, yeah, so that's really

the manifold ironies of the great new love of the Tragcon right, which is, you know, hungry

and my dear old friend, and I mean that literally is a dear friend, my dear friend, Rod Dreyer,

you know, basically going on Twitter and saying that what he really wants is a nice king. He's

had it like a king. And that king, I believe, Noah, wasn't it you? They hold on, hold on. Sorry,

I've read something this morning. That was a quote from Confederacy of Dances.

Oh, okay. So we're dropping it. I'm not going to say that. Oh, unless he quoted it,

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