Tim Dillon (58:13)
know, completely and utterly out of the loop. This is not how you project power. You don't project power by, by getting your allies attacked and making a big mess of everything. You project power by, by not invading a country, not getting stuck at a stalemate, not having the price of oil skyrocket and not getting your allies attacked. That's how you project power. And that power that you keep and you reserve is for when you are in a war, an aggressive war that was. That you're confronted with, or there's something that's literally something you, you have to deal with. But a war of choice, largely at the behest of a foreign power, if not completely where you're jeopardizing the entire region and the global economy, is not a way to project power. It is the way a dying empire spits and sputters out anyone with any level of intelligence, and I'm a community college dropout, but they'll tell you that this is not the way an empire projects power. This is how they fall. This is how they spin out, where you have people, without any justification running around talking about how well we're doing, gaslighting the public. Our government's completely dysfunctional and everybody knows it. And most of the people know it. There's small groups of them that, you know, continue to believe, whatever. And I'm. I don't, I don't care. You know, if you look at the polls, there's probably more people that believe, you know, the things that people are saying than I am potentially, than I would think. It's a little disturbing, but that's fine. I have friends like that. They don't care. Iran's bad. You know what they do to women? I. Yeah, I hate it. How's this gonna help? You're gonna get a more hardline guy now. You're going to get a more hardline guy or you're going to get a nuclear exchange, or you're going to get Israel, the us. Somebody's going to use Israel, maybe, I don't know, use nuclear weapons. Then you're going to get a generational religious war for the rest of our time on Earth, which might be short. And this is what we're going to get because all the neoliberal retards that run around cities like New York and la, but here to a lesser extent, because they're, they're, they're too stupid here, which is a fucking blessing. All of these people that are running around these places and they think the world is still America's plaything, they think the world is still America's plaything because they've gotten so used to gambling on the blood of other people's children and other people's money and the, the debt that future generations will pay back. So they still flex, for lack of a better word, that we own this world and who the fuck does Putin think he is? And we'll go over there and fuck him up. No, we won't. No, we won't. So you can share the globe, or you can perish, you know, or the system can collapse under its own weight. It's pretty obvious to everybody, all these people that. That talk like America. Well, there's a lot of people that want to see America's power diminish in the world. The people that are pushing this war, whether they know it or not, have done more to diminish America's standing in the world than anyone I have ever seen in my life. We were in a terribly difficult position right now, and in a very public way. In a very public way, with very few, if maybe no good solutions. So the idea. And I've heard people say things like this about American power and history and all this stuff. They are drunk on the. On the early 2000s. They are drunk on regime changes in places like Syria that they didn't pay attention to or Libya or things like that. It sended floods of refugees and destabilized the political situation in the economy of Europe. But Americans don't care about that. They don't give a shit about that. The effects of those wars haven't really been. They haven't seen that here as of yet the way they've seen it in Italy, uk, Ireland, France, whatever. So you have a bunch of people talking about American power and the need to exert American power and confront countries like Iran and I. The irony of it is that actually you've done this is the complete opposite. The result will be the complete opposite of what you say it will be. It will be the destruction of American power. It'll send a signal around the world that our military is overextended and that, you know, without using unconventional weapons, we can't do this the way we thought we would do it. And no one in our country wants that. Nobody wants us to lose. I don't want a single life to. To be lost. But now we're in this situation where it's a black mark on our name. If we lose, we walk away. Whatever. But I don't know what winning is. Pete Hegseth doesn't know what winning is. None of them know what winning is. No one's explained to us what winning would even look like. So you have to be careful. You have to be careful out there. And don't. And please don't travel. Have the decency. I'm going to ask you now, have the decency. Sit your American ass home while we destroy the globe. I am going to ask you go to Vermont. I'm going to ask you do not show up at a country and huff and puff in the lobby of a hotel and be the entitled American until we've gotten out of this thing. There's nothing the world wants less. There's nothing the world wants less, by the way. And if you're going to go somewhere, go to Dubai and get bombed and spend money, take a missile and spend a buck. Because they're the fucking our Gulf states whether you like them or not. They're a little silly. Couple of too many lip injections, whatever. But if you want to do a good thing for an American ally, if you're going to go on a trip, you go to fucking Qatar, you go to Dubai and get a lip filler, go get your Botox done in Dubai. Go buy a Gucci bag in Dubai. If you're a fucking patriot, go to Dubai or Qatar. Go to one of these Gulf ally states that's taken a whole lot of shit because we went into this. Don't go to Spain, don't go to France, don't do that. Don't go to Italy. Stay away. Stay away. Have the decency. And I know it's not your fault, it's not our fault, but let's have the decency while we're blowing up the entire world to just take a beat. It's, it's just fair. It's just fair. Nobody wants to hear you in the back of the cafe being like, you know, the ayatollah is really bad. Because then they're going to throw acid on you because they're paying a lot more for, for the Saudi soda. They're paying a lot more for the black gold for the juice