but until the white house is ready to take a different approach here, the state department is not going to acknowledge that. and so we are going to continue to see, as you said, this sort of orwellian disregard for the truth. which again, gets back to some of my concerns about this all the starting to sound very trump in or just the ways in which reality is denied. people can see with their own eyes what's happening. they have direct accounts from social media, from people inside gaza. and, and yet this administration doesn't seem to have caught up to the fact that they've lost the narrative here. they can't continue to just treat this as a p r issue to be managed, that they have to take a different approach or they do risk. not only, you know, losing the, this election, but sort of the, the credibility of the united states on the world stage writ large. i mean, this visit ministration likes to talk about great power competition with china, with russia. we have the obviously ongoing ukraine conflict and the, and there's a lot more at stake here as, as father had mentioned. i mean it's d