Trump derangement syndrome; NY Times Tom Friendman on Iran Regime

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00:00 I love this. Texture 592 apparently wants a little bit of attention, so we'll give it to them. Trump has you, you clowns twisted like has us. We're not the ones with Trump derangement syndrome 592. It's people like you. It's people like you that really and truly want to see the downfall of this country. 00:28 That is your goal. That's what you're living for. That's what you want. 00:37 In fact, listen to this. Here's a guy from this. This is going to sum up everybody. It's going to sum up everybody. This is Tom Friedman of the New York Times. OK, New York Times, Tom Friedman going to sum up the negative texture five nine two. Here we go. Yeah, I find myself, Michael, in a situation where I really want. 01:04 to see Iran defeated militarily because this regime is a terrible regime for its people in the region and nothing would improve the region more than um the replacement of this regime with a regime in Iran that was focused on enabling its people to realize their full potential and integrating peacefully with other countries and stop occupying Lebanon, Syria, uh Iraq, and Yemen. ah So I'm all for that. The problem is I really don't want to see 01:32 Bibi Netanyahu or Donald Trump politically strengthened by this war because they are two awful human beings. They're both engaged anti-democratic projects in their own countries. right. Explain the anti-democratic projects. You want to talk about an anti-democratic project? We just had, remember the, oh, by the way, we'll get to that in just a second, but we'll get back to the texture. Iran is bad. 01:59 But I don't want Donald Trump to be able to do something about it because I think Donald that'll make Donald Trump look good. No, my goodness, that will just upset me so bad. There's some people out there actually pulling for a rant. They're pulling for a rant. They want a rant to win this thing. They're not going to. But that's what they want. They hope it happens. These people. 02:29 anything. And it's not so much that they want the downfall of this country in general, okay? It's that they really want the downfall of this country under Donald Trump or under the Republicans. That's what they really want. 02:55 They want this to be such a, they would sacrifice America. 03:03 As long as it led to getting Republicans in Donald Trump, mainly Donald Trump. 03:10 They would. They hope for our downfall. Well, Iran is bad, but I don't want Donald Trump to look good in this thing. Well, you need to shut up. Because let me tell you, let me tell you who Iran prospered under. They prospered under Joe Biden. They prospered under Barack Hussein Obama. Go back even further. They prospered under George W. Bush. 03:36 They prospered under all of those people. 03:41 Obama sent them pallets of cash in the middle of the night. oh Biden gave him billions of dollars his own self. So they just don't want Trump to be the guy that does it. that's, I mean, literally that's, that's what's going on. 04:01 It's like we need something fixed, but we don't want you to do it. We don't want him to be the guy. That's not the guy we want getting the kudos to all of this. We want somebody else. Let's get somebody else in there. Let's find some sort of a way to say that Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, 04:26 and Barack Obama and even Joe Biden. We'll Joe Biden in there. They were the ones that really, I'll almost promise you this is going to be discussed. They were the ones that really were part of the downfall for us. they don't. It's just, not what's being done and it never is. not what's being done, it's who's doing it. That's what they want. That's what they don't like. So. 04:54 Some people out there are like, oh, oh, Iran's got the upper hand on this thing. Iran's got upper hand. 05:02 This naval blockade will impose $435 million a uh day in economic damage to Iran. Storage fills in 13 days, forcing well shut-ins that cause permanent reservoir damage to mile. 05:22 That could ...

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