Speaker 1: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to another edition of The
Speaker 1: Cajun Night Live. I am your host, Jacob Mook the
Speaker 1: Cajun Night and Man, I gotta tell you last week,
Speaker 1: I didn't necessarily expect the conversation to go into all
Speaker 1: of the depths that it did, but I'm very happy
Speaker 1: that it did, and I'm very happy to let the
Speaker 1: conversation go that way tonight. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: we do have to talk about some current events for
Speaker 1: just a little minute. I don't know if anybody has
Speaker 1: been paying attention to what's been going on this past week,
Speaker 1: but there's a few things in particular that I think
Speaker 1: we do need to discuss, maybe not at length, but
Speaker 1: at least talk about, right, So I'm gonna go ahead
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Speaker 1: So we appreciate, or I say we Jesus soundly, Jonathan.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everybody who's done so so that they could
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Speaker 1: write so real.
Speaker 2: Quick before we get started onto anything this week.
Speaker 1: I thought that this was worth mentioning something that happened
Speaker 1: last week. So apparently Ukrainian bombers quote unquote it was
Speaker 1: a drone struck a Russian air base and with that
Speaker 1: led to this massive mushroom cloud, and everybody was concerned
Speaker 1: that Russia was storing nukes on this airstrip so that
Speaker 1: it could potentially drop nuclear warheads on Ukraine via plane.
Speaker 1: I find that weird because a nobody drops nukes from
Speaker 1: planes anymore. That's that's really bad radiation wise. But I digress.
Speaker 1: The other conversation was that maybe they had, you know,
Speaker 1: some nuclear weapons that were stored there, like you know,
Speaker 1: missile silos and things like that. Okay, it's a little
Speaker 1: more believable. And you know, when you see these pictures
Speaker 1: of Ingles Airbase deep inside of Russia was hit overnight
Speaker 1: by Ukrainian drone.
Speaker 2: Strike, the mushroom clouds are a bit ominous.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm honestly, I was perplexed by it, and it
Speaker 1: didn't sound completely crazy, out of the realm of possibility
Speaker 1: for Russia to be storing nuclear weapons just in case
Speaker 1: things went too too crazy. They were like ready to
Speaker 1: get after it right. It says the air base is
Speaker 1: about seven hundred kilometers from the front lines and it
Speaker 1: hosts Russian Tupi lev Tu one sixty nuclear capable heavy
Speaker 1: strategic bombers. Again, I didn't realize that anybody was dropping
Speaker 1: nukes out of bombers or planes anymore. I thought that
Speaker 1: kind of went by the wayside after all World War Two.
Speaker 1: But apparently in Mother Russia, you know, they still be
Speaker 1: doing things like that. They're still using those type of
Speaker 1: tactics if you look at their front line and trench
Speaker 1: warfare things. But neither here nor there. Russia has now
Speaker 1: declared a state of emergency in the Ingles district. Following
Speaker 1: the explosion, a Ukraine hit a warehouse holding missiles at
Speaker 1: the air base, reports claim, with ten people injured in
Speaker 1: the blast. Footage appeared to show multiple munitions flying away
Speaker 1: from the blast as they caught fire in a second explosion.
Speaker 1: Locals claimed the strikes had hit an ammunition depot crammed
Speaker 1: with the missiles and fuel which had triggered the huge explosion.
Speaker 1: The smoke could be seen from miles away, with residential
Speaker 1: homes damaged by the shockwave. An urgent evacuation of civilians
Speaker 1: for safety reasons quote unquote was reportedly ordered, and the
Speaker 1: closure of schools in the area, including Saratov City. After
Speaker 1: a four am attack, the local governor said there had
Speaker 1: been a Ukrainian drone attack on the town of Ingles.
Speaker 1: So right, understood, got you. Now, there was one video,
Speaker 1: and I hope it's loading here. There's one video that
Speaker 1: I wanted to show of this dude had a barn
Speaker 1: or a shed or something like that, and you could
Speaker 1: see the rattle of the explosion. Of course it's not
Speaker 1: going to be on this one. That would make too
Speaker 1: much sense. Oh well, it'd be like that. I do
Speaker 1: have multiple articles pulled upon this one, so we would
Speaker 1: at least see something more with it. But all right,
Speaker 1: So everybody thought that it was a nuke that got hit,
Speaker 1: and again from the mushroom cloud, that's not the craziest possibility. However, However,
Speaker 1: upon further review, I don't believe that it was a
Speaker 1: nuclear anything that actually got hit. I do believe that
Speaker 1: it was Russian munitions for sure, but there was no
Speaker 1: radiation fallout. The people were evacuated for multiple reasons, but
Speaker 1: nothing that would systemically tell me that it was something
Speaker 1: of a nuclear variety. Here this is from the TWZ newsletter,
Speaker 1: and I do believe this is actually yeah, no, it's
Speaker 1: not a Russian publication. I forget what it's from, but no,
Speaker 1: it says Russian bomber base suffered major damage to munitions
Speaker 1: area in Ukrainian drone attack. Satellite imagery obtained by the
Speaker 1: war Zone confirms that ammunition and weapons storage bunkers at
Speaker 1: Russia's Ingles Air Base were destroying a Ukrainian drone attack
Speaker 1: on Thursday. The attack resulted in a massive fireball and
Speaker 1: mushroom cloud. The high resolution images taken today by Maxar Technologies,
Speaker 1: and by today I mean as of a week ago.
Speaker 1: So I had this one pulled up for last week,
Speaker 1: but we got way off into the weeds on religious conversations,
Speaker 1: which is fun, which is fun. Shows most of the
Speaker 1: damage occurred at a storage area about a mile east
Speaker 1: of the runway. At least a dozen storage facilities and
Speaker 1: other nearby buildings were destroyed in the attack, and it
Speaker 1: also created several large craters. The severe damage was caused
Speaker 1: by massive secondary explosions when the drones detonated explosive ordnance
Speaker 1: stored there, targeting munition storage areas for their second effects. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for their secondary effects. Is a common tact to used
Speaker 1: by both sides of the war, employing standoff weaponry. Okay,
Speaker 1: so again agreed all the stuff. That's not a crazy
Speaker 1: concept again that yes, you would want to hit weapons
Speaker 1: and storage depots. This is a video of the mushroom
Speaker 1: cloud as it was going up in the airs. If
Speaker 1: you're just chilling and you didn't even know that that
Speaker 1: kind of munitions were being stored there, and you see
Speaker 1: that kind of mushroom cloud flying up, I get the hesitation, right,
Speaker 1: I get why people would think that maybe something nuclear
Speaker 1: was going down, especially when you see other videos of
Speaker 1: all right, this is the one. This is the one, So.
Speaker 2: This is pretty crazy. Probably should have turned down the
Speaker 2: volume on that one.
Speaker 1: My apologies everybody, but yeah, so that was the instant
Speaker 1: where the bomb went off or the strike happened, and
Speaker 1: then the secondary exploses or whatever. Homeboys farmhouse and he
Speaker 1: just had a regular you know security camera on it
Speaker 1: you see the flash from the bomb and then the
Speaker 1: shockwave hits the building. So some people were speculating that
Speaker 1: Russia was preparing to drop nukes on Ukraine.
Speaker 2: It has since been understood that that is not accurate.
Speaker 1: There was some nuclear capable bombers that were being stored there,
Speaker 1: and there were some high power munitions. A lot of
Speaker 1: the time when Russian air when Russian air assets do
Speaker 1: bomb Ukraine, a lot of the time, they do come
Speaker 1: from angles, or at least they used to anyway. Right, So,
Speaker 1: all right, I understand why they thought that this was
Speaker 1: a nuclear attack or something that nuclear that went off.
Speaker 1: It is not, It is not. It was a very
Speaker 1: successful drone strike by Ukraine. But I did at least
Speaker 1: want to have that conversation. Everybody thought it was nukes.
Speaker 1: It's not, but it was a very very successful attack. Now,
Speaker 1: with all of that being said, there's some other stuff
Speaker 1: going on this week that I really really wanted to
Speaker 1: get in and break down and all the things and
Speaker 1: all the stuff before we even talk about Trump and
Speaker 1: the tariffs and all these things. A guy named Corey
Speaker 1: Booker Gay He's a Democrat out of New Jersey. If
Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. Oh yes, that's right here, he broke
Speaker 1: the all time record for longest speech. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: all joking aside and all whatever. It's really impressive that
Speaker 1: this guy was able to speak for twenty five hours
Speaker 1: and five minutes without stopping. Like I mean, I understand
Speaker 1: filibusters are not you know, useful or whatever, but just
Speaker 1: for the going the distance of it, right, the Guinness
Speaker 1: Book of World Records, if you will of it, this
Speaker 1: guy really did his homework. And with that being said,
Speaker 1: I think it's worth noting. It's worth mentioning, it's worth
Speaker 1: giving at least that tip of the cap, you know.
Speaker 1: Corey Booker's long speech. By the numbers, this is going
Speaker 1: to be a breakdown of everything that was said and
Speaker 1: done overall. He breaks the record for the longest Senate
Speaker 1: floor speech in history. This is on April first, actually
Speaker 1: April Fools Days, when this was written.
Speaker 2: Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: United States. Senator Corey Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey,
Speaker 1: hailed the Senate floor with a marathon speech that began
Speaker 1: at seven pm Eastern Standard time Monday evening and lasted
Speaker 1: until Tuesday night, after twenty five hours and five minutes,
Speaker 1: speaking directly to the American people, Senator Booker broke the
Speaker 1: record for longest individual floor speech ever delivered, surpassing the
Speaker 1: previous record set by storm thoroughm Into, South Carolina, who
Speaker 1: philibustered for twenty four hours and eighteen minutes against the
Speaker 1: Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Yesterday, Senator Booker,
Speaker 1: I also think it's also kind of cool in that
Speaker 1: regard that this person, Philip bustered against the Civil Rights
Speaker 1: Act and that was the record. A black senator from
Speaker 1: New Jersey broke that record. I'm given the props where
Speaker 1: they're due as far as that's concerned.
Speaker 2: That's that's legit. That's a flex right.
Speaker 1: Yesterday, Senator Booker took the Senate floor with the intention
Speaker 1: of speaking as long as he was physically able to
Speaker 1: uplift the stories of Americans who are being harmed by
Speaker 1: the Trump administration's reckless actions, attempts to undermine the institutions,
Speaker 1: and disregard for the rule of law.
Speaker 3: Again, disagree with them, agree with him. That is not
Speaker 3: why I'm giving them the tip of the hat. You
Speaker 3: boys spoke for twenty five hours straight. As somebody who
Speaker 3: speaks professionally, that's not an easy feat. By it, I mean,
Speaker 3: speaking for four and a half hours. At the end
Speaker 3: of it, I feel drained. Twenty five hours straight.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know your boy was wearing it depends
Speaker 1: you know that thing was sagging low by the time
Speaker 1: he got off the stage.
Speaker 2: But I mean again, you gotta give the respect where
Speaker 2: it's due. Say anyway, in that time, let's look at
Speaker 2: this thing.
Speaker 1: By the numbers, twenty five hours and five minutes total
Speaker 1: length of Booker speech, one thousand, one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four pages of prepared material. With that, more than two
Speaker 1: hundred stories from New Jerseyans and Americans across the country
Speaker 1: shared in the speech. Three hundred and fifty million plus
Speaker 1: likes on his TikTok for live streaming the speech. Yo,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about something going viral. You just
Speaker 1: went live stream for twenty five hours and had three
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million likes. Again, given the props where
Speaker 1: they're due. More than twenty eight thousand voicemails of encouragement
Speaker 1: left on his main office line, three hundred thousand plus
Speaker 1: largest member, the largest number of people viewing the live
Speaker 1: stream across just his platform at once, which I could
Speaker 1: I could probably get down with But y'all eleven hundred
Speaker 1: pages eleven hundred and sixty four pages of prepare material.
Speaker 1: Again as somebody who writes down and prepares material for
Speaker 1: a living YO, thirty pages front and back will cover
Speaker 1: the spare for me anyway, for how you know, when
Speaker 1: me and Jonathan do our show, if I have thirty
Speaker 1: pages front and back of notes taken, I'm gonna cover
Speaker 1: about a three possibly a three and a half hour
Speaker 1: spread with breaks for conversation in the middle to solo
Speaker 1: miket buy yourself for twenty five hours like it's that
Speaker 1: seems like almost an impossible feat to me, like that,
Speaker 1: that's mind blowing. But your boy did it. And with that,
Speaker 1: I thought it would be nice to play the closing
Speaker 1: remarks of his speech. And again I don't agree with
Speaker 1: pretty much anything he spoke on gonna be honest, but
Speaker 1: that is not the point. For the man that broke
Speaker 1: the record, I think the least we could do is
Speaker 1: listen to the last two minutes of his speech. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and listen in, shall we?
Speaker 4: But I know who does have the power, the people
Speaker 4: of the United States of America. The power of the
Speaker 4: people is greater than the people in power. It is
Speaker 4: time to heed the words of the man. I began
Speaker 4: this whole thing with John Lewis. I beg folks to
Speaker 4: take his example of his early days, where he made
Speaker 4: himself determined to show his love for his country. At
Speaker 4: the time, the country didn't love him to love this
Speaker 4: country so much, to be such a patriot that he
Speaker 4: endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettis Bridge at lunch
Speaker 4: counters on freedom rides. He said he had to do something.
Speaker 4: He would not normalize a moment like this. He would
Speaker 4: not just go along with business as usual. He wouldn't
Speaker 4: know how to solve it. But there's one thing that
Speaker 4: he would do that I hope we all can do that.
Speaker 4: I think I did a little bit of tonight. He said,
Speaker 4: for us to go out and cause some good trouble,
Speaker 4: necessary trouble to redeem the soul of our nation. I
Speaker 4: want you to redeem the dream when our founder said
Speaker 4: we must mutually pledge, pledge to each other our lives,
Speaker 4: our fortunes, and our sacred honor. We need that now
Speaker 4: from all Americans. This is a moral moment. It's not
Speaker 4: left or right, it's right or wrong. It's getting good
Speaker 4: trouble my friend, Madam President, I yield the floor.
Speaker 1: Now again. If you want to go back and listen
Speaker 1: to you all twenty five hours of it. There's tons
Speaker 1: of tons of videos of it, tons of the live
Speaker 1: stream that were recorded, and yo, mad respect, everybody left
Speaker 1: right of the aisle didn't matter. Your boy just spoke
Speaker 1: for over an entire day. Whatever. Stand class for the man.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That's that's insane. But yeah,
Speaker 1: all the things, all the stuff, so that happened this week.
Speaker 1: That's I think that's that's historic, right again, regardless of
Speaker 1: the politics of it, it's historic as hell and it's
Speaker 1: worth talking about. Right. So with that, before I go
Speaker 1: to the next thing here, actually know what, Yeah, let
Speaker 1: me go ahead and check out the chat because I
Speaker 1: guarantee y'all have said some things. I know Alex dropped
Speaker 1: that meme a minute ago. All shit, my bad. I
Speaker 1: completely stipped my mind to stay to say my typical
Speaker 1: what's up to shut up? Alex? You you ass uh atypical?
Speaker 1: Such a boy. Ah Royce, the resident Jew. I love
Speaker 1: it ravenly. It's crazy he went that long. Yeah again, respect,
Speaker 1: and at the end you could tell he was kind
Speaker 1: of like flubbing some words here and there, but I
Speaker 1: mean I flub words after an hour of speaking. Your
Speaker 1: boy was going at it that long. Good God, like
Speaker 1: he earned his money on that day. I'll give him that.
Speaker 1: He earned his paycheck with this one. Stephanie, what you got? Well?
Speaker 5: My question, I just so the point of a filibuster
Speaker 5: isn't it to block a bill? And I, you know, personally,
Speaker 5: I think I could go for twenty four hours if
Speaker 5: you give me a couple of shots of fireball. I
Speaker 5: could tell you some stories. I don't know if it
Speaker 5: would be productive, but I could tell you some stories.
Speaker 5: But it isn't the whole point. What bill was he
Speaker 5: trying to block? Isn't that the point of a filibuster?
Speaker 1: It can be, That's the thing. I'm not even sure
Speaker 1: if there was a bill he was necessarily trying to block,
Speaker 1: or what the case was. But I mean, if nothing else,
Speaker 1: twenty five hours of a speech in general, and again
Speaker 1: he's talking about causing good trouble and his entire speech
Speaker 1: was very much just anti Trump because again Booker has
Speaker 1: been a very big proponent of anti Trump, you know, rhetoric,
Speaker 1: as everybody on the left is wanted to do, especially
Speaker 1: right now, and I didn't. I didn't actually go back
Speaker 1: and watch the nuances of it because I know Booker's
Speaker 1: quality and he is a true blue politician and I
Speaker 1: don't typically have much aligned with that side. So I
Speaker 1: didn't go back and look at the nuances. But just
Speaker 1: for the history or you know, precedence of this, to
Speaker 1: break a record in that way, that's that's quite a
Speaker 1: flex especially because he broke the record from a guy
Speaker 1: who was going against the Civil Rights Act in the fifties,
Speaker 1: and it was this guy that broke that record. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm at least give them the tip of the hat
Speaker 1: and the props where they're due. You know, that's just me.
Speaker 1: And again, I would like to go back and check
Speaker 1: it out. Let's see here. Alexandra said, it sounded like
Speaker 1: he was about to start bawling, like he listened to MCR. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, a Booker listened to my chemical romance. I
Speaker 1: would I would actually be actually that'd be a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a step up. I'd give him a
Speaker 1: little bit more props if I found out he was
Speaker 1: a closet emo kid. I doubt it. I doubt it.
Speaker 1: He's way too much of a stuff. But uh yeah,
Speaker 1: not talking to twenty five hours is long, but damn yeah,
Speaker 1: Alex is straight up drinking from the bottle. You know
Speaker 1: what Alex be doing that?
Speaker 2: And for what Alex got going on a pole up?
Speaker 1: Okay you do you boo boo. Ain't nobody judging you here?
Speaker 2: All right, let's see here Merlin, welcome, Welcome to the group.
Speaker 1: Meeting dog.
Speaker 2: We got two recovering Mormons in the group.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true. We do on this. On this
Speaker 1: particular episode of the Cage to Night, we got two
Speaker 1: recovering Mountain Jews that are I'm not saying, seen the
Speaker 1: light and are going towards it.
Speaker 2: At least they just left the darkness.
Speaker 1: Let's leave it at that, you know. Uh But anyway, anyway,
Speaker 1: getting back on track here, So, another massively historic thing
Speaker 1: happened just today. Everybody, I don't know who's been keeping
Speaker 1: up with what type of news source or whatever's going on.
Speaker 1: All week, we have been hearing that the stocks are
Speaker 1: tanking and America is probably in a recession right now.
Speaker 1: We just can't admit it because bet bet bet bap
Speaker 1: and I've heard it from the left. I've heard even
Speaker 1: some from the right that are saying that America is
Speaker 1: in a soft recession right now and it's only gonna
Speaker 1: get worse from here. Did anybody notice that the stock
Speaker 1: prices and extee me that the Dow jumped up three
Speaker 1: thousand points today. Now I thought this was a joke.
Speaker 1: I thought this was like a gimmick. I thought it
Speaker 1: was clickbait. No, no, no, no, it is not. And
Speaker 1: with that, Trump basically just put China in a stranglehold.
Speaker 1: And is I think he's get ready to lube up
Speaker 1: to bend him over. That seems to be the gesture
Speaker 1: that's taking place right now. At the same time, he
Speaker 1: put a ninety day hold on all other tariffs to
Speaker 1: all other countries as an extra middle finger to Ji,
Speaker 1: which I am a fan of, because if anybody has
Speaker 1: ever heard me speak, you know I'm not the biggest
Speaker 1: fan of the CCP or jijuping like at all. But
Speaker 1: I didn't see it coming. I definitely didn't see this
Speaker 1: one coming. And I think that this is kind of
Speaker 1: what happens. Remember when we were talking about the ceasefire
Speaker 1: deals that were happening with Russia and Ukraine, or at
Speaker 1: least what he was trying to make happen. He basically
Speaker 1: strong armed Ukraine to come to the negotiation table, and
Speaker 1: everybody thought he was just the He's an ass for
Speaker 1: doing it this way, Bob, Bob Bob. Then Ukraine went
Speaker 1: to the other side of things, tried to get help
Speaker 1: from other people, realized that there was no help to
Speaker 1: be had decided to come to the negotiation table. He
Speaker 1: tried doing the same thing with Russia. Russia went back
Speaker 1: on their word, and he's working that deal. This is
Speaker 1: kind of how I guess these backdoor business deals happen
Speaker 1: with these fortune five hundred CEOs. It's strong armed leverage
Speaker 1: and it's mafioso style sit downs. But because he's the
Speaker 1: president now everything is out in the public. So when
Speaker 1: he's trying to strong arm China in playing ball and
Speaker 1: they're deciding that they don't want to play ball, he
Speaker 1: decided that he's gonna make them an offer that they
Speaker 1: can't refuse. And he's not doing it with weapons. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna hold a gun to GI's head. He's gonna
Speaker 1: make him hold a gun to his own head. And
Speaker 1: that seems to be the play here, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Raven I was gonna say a lot of people have
Speaker 6: been asking, like what if, like people could explain what
Speaker 6: tariffs are and how they work. That's been a big
Speaker 6: conversation because a lot of people don't really understand how
Speaker 6: it actually works. So if you could break that down
Speaker 6: for people, that'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not an economist by any means.
Speaker 1: But I literally had to break this down to my
Speaker 1: twelve year old earlier today because he had asked about this. So,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna give an example. Let's say that
Speaker 1: if I wanted to open a food cart a Lucky
Speaker 1: Dog stan right whatever, chicken and waffle stand, because that
Speaker 1: is a dream of mine to open a fucking chicken
Speaker 1: and wafflestand I will do it one day. Anyway, if
Speaker 1: I wanted to open this type of a food cart
Speaker 1: in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Okay, once I
Speaker 1: get the cart, and once I get the health code
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, I have to get a state
Speaker 1: permit to sell food. I then have to get a
Speaker 1: Jefferson Parish permit to sell food. I would then have
Speaker 1: to get a French Quarter permit to sell food there, right,
Speaker 1: these are you want to call them extortion fees? Fine,
Speaker 1: interchangeable dialogue. That is kind of how the tariff game
Speaker 1: works on the macro. That was a very micro example.
Speaker 1: Now cut to the macro. Let's cut to the world
Speaker 1: stage here. If Pakistan wants to if we want to
Speaker 1: sell something in Pakistan, we have to pay a ten
Speaker 1: percent tariff to the Pakistani government for anything that says
Speaker 1: I'm made in the USA to be sold there. And
Speaker 1: it's not just towards the US. Countries do this against
Speaker 1: each other, and it's not like it's understood to be
Speaker 1: the way it goes. You're paying your extortion fee. You're
Speaker 1: paying for the right or the ability for your goods
Speaker 1: to be sold in this place. Okay, It's like a
Speaker 1: thing of a licensing fee something similar. Okay. Now America
Speaker 1: is a nation of consumers. That is what we do, Okay.
Speaker 1: And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's not necessarily
Speaker 1: a good thing either. It's just kind of how everything
Speaker 1: is shaken out historically speaking.
Speaker 2: And as I always explaining this to my kid as
Speaker 2: a matter.
Speaker 1: Of fact, we got home and I open my garage
Speaker 1: and he's like, what do you mean by that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: look inside this garage right now, do you see anything
Speaker 1: that we require as a family. Or do you see stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, you see bikes, I got my armor picked
Speaker 1: up in there. You see some weights over here, you
Speaker 1: see that. But like maybe the tools that I have,
Speaker 1: you could argue that that's a need. But like other
Speaker 1: than that, this whole garage is filled with things that
Speaker 1: we don't actually require for survival. Right. Other countries don't
Speaker 1: have that, some do, some don't, and there's varying degrees
Speaker 1: of that. But the reason why is because Americans like
Speaker 1: to buy stuff. That's something that we really love doing.
Speaker 1: Other countries, yeah, they like to buy stuff, but they
Speaker 1: don't always have the means to buy stuff or the
Speaker 1: stuff to buy. Okay, now keep this in mind. So America,
Speaker 1: being the nation of consumers as it is, and as
Speaker 1: it has been for quite some time, we have operated
Speaker 1: under a policy of no tariffs. There are some countries
Speaker 1: that get teariffed a little bit here, a little bit here,
Speaker 1: and there are some that we straight out say we're
Speaker 1: not buying any of your products. And like you know,
Speaker 1: if there's a time of war whatever, that's why. Like
Speaker 1: Cuban cigars, for instance, were illegal to be sold in
Speaker 1: America or even illegal to have here because we have
Speaker 1: put up these type of you know, embargoes, right, but
Speaker 1: that's different. Basically, an embargo is we're not buying any
Speaker 1: of your shit. A tariff is okay, we will allow
Speaker 1: you to sell your goods in our store or in
Speaker 1: this case, on our soil, but you're gonna pay the
Speaker 1: United States government x amount percentage wise to sell your
Speaker 1: goods in our country. Does that kind of clear it
Speaker 1: up for everybody? Now, when we pay that extortion fee,
Speaker 1: it's understood that that's quiit pro quote, that's the status
Speaker 1: quo of the day. We have always operated with a
Speaker 1: lot of these countries with no tariffs because we want
Speaker 1: to buy their goods for super super cheap.
Speaker 2: Now here's where that's kind of screwed us in the
Speaker 2: long run.
Speaker 1: Once upon a time, we were a manufacturing hub, not
Speaker 1: to the realm of sweatshops by any means, but we
Speaker 1: made our own goods here and you didn't have to
Speaker 1: pay shipping costs. When you build stuff two states over
Speaker 1: or at least, the shipping costs are substantially less. But
Speaker 1: this is why all of these American companies get their
Speaker 1: American goods quote unquote made in China because yeah, you
Speaker 1: might be paying the shipping costs, but you're paying five
Speaker 1: cents an hour in labor. And whenever you account for
Speaker 1: the shipping costs and all of that, it's it's the
Speaker 1: same thing. It actually equates to them making more money
Speaker 1: if they outsource the labor force to put things together,
Speaker 1: or to weld certain things, or to make little components,
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. It depends, you know,
Speaker 1: industry to industry here. So now Trump has said, all right,
Speaker 1: if we're trying to hook up the American people, what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do is we're gonna put tariffs on everyone
Speaker 1: for everything, and some higher than others. And there's political
Speaker 1: reasons for that and socioeconomic reasons for that, and I
Speaker 1: get this, but basically he's saying that every country, the
Speaker 1: same way that they make US America pay a tariff
Speaker 1: to be sold in other countries, we are going to
Speaker 1: reciprocate this. And this is why he let out this
Speaker 1: list of reciprocal tariffs. Basically, he's saying, you're charging us
Speaker 1: ten percent, we're charging you ten percent. Now, what does
Speaker 1: this look like on the real market here? Okay, energy drink, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's an easy example. Let's say this costs three fifty
Speaker 1: at the store. I don't actually know if that's what
Speaker 1: it costs. It's about that. It depends on the gas station.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can get two for five. That's neither here
Speaker 1: nor there. So let's say three fifty for the energy drink. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: It may have cost just throwing out random numbers here,
Speaker 1: just bear with me, maybe fifty cents to actually produce
Speaker 1: this energy drink. Okay.
Speaker 2: And if you want to account, let's say that this
Speaker 2: was a.
Speaker 1: Foreign made drink. This I think is a Coca Cola product,
Speaker 1: but neither here nor there. Let's say that it's a
Speaker 1: foreign drink. And when you account for the shipping and everything,
Speaker 1: let's say you're adding on an extra dollar, give or take.
Speaker 1: So now you have a dollar fifty to put it
Speaker 1: on the shelf, you're selling it for three fifty. You're
Speaker 1: still making a solid profit margin. Okay. And again I
Speaker 1: don't actually know if these are real figures. It's just
Speaker 1: for the example. But if you were to throw a
Speaker 1: ten percent tariff on that, that means that you also
Speaker 1: are charging the foreign country thirty five cents for every
Speaker 1: one of these sold on US soil. Okay, And that's
Speaker 1: a that's literally just the fee for you to come
Speaker 1: here and play the game. You want to sell your
Speaker 1: goods here, we will be taking thirty five or ten
Speaker 1: percent right off the top, and that goes to the
Speaker 1: US government. Okay, Now, a lot of people think that
Speaker 1: that means that, oh, well, the price of the good
Speaker 1: will increase because the company's not gonna pay that. In
Speaker 1: certain cases, yes, and in certain cases strong arm leverage
Speaker 1: will happen and they'll say no, no, you're not increasing
Speaker 1: the price, or we'll just make it to where you
Speaker 1: can't sell your goods here, period. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: how this goes. It's the same way when America sells
Speaker 1: goods in other countries, we pay the tariff. The consumer
Speaker 1: doesn't pay that tariff the American company. If you were
Speaker 1: to have a T shirt company in America, and it'd
Speaker 1: be a very compliant company, which for everybody who doesn't know,
Speaker 1: that means it is a basically every component of the
Speaker 1: company is US through and through, or at least within
Speaker 1: the realms of basically completely one made in the USA, right,
Speaker 1: the inink, the cotton, the manufacturing, the whole nine. Right.
Speaker 1: If you have a very compliant T shirt company, and
Speaker 1: you're trying to sell a T shirt in France. The
Speaker 1: company is paying a ten percent tariff to the French government.
Speaker 1: The French government is not charging the buyer and extra
Speaker 1: ten percent off the top to make that up. And
Speaker 1: that's why I've never understood when people were like, the
Speaker 1: terrifts are going to screw over the people. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work like that anywhere else on earth. Why would it
Speaker 1: work that way in America? But I digress. I have
Speaker 1: I kind of paying a decent picture. Here have I
Speaker 1: gotten people lost in the weeds? If I have? Please
Speaker 1: tell me I can go back now you're good.
Speaker 7: I was just ta.
Speaker 6: I'm putting the chat of about the consumerism of like
Speaker 6: when it really started and stuff it started in like
Speaker 6: nineteen fifty two that's where the big push started, and
Speaker 6: then from nineteen fifty two to sixty four, as when
Speaker 6: they did the real designs for how to make because
Speaker 6: like everybody, like all of our grandparents always said like, oh, well,
Speaker 6: back in my day, things were made, and like we
Speaker 6: bought one thing and that was it. And it's true,
Speaker 6: they're still around. You can buy them at antique stores
Speaker 6: and like you can use them. It's because it was
Speaker 6: done by design to be able to create a consumerism,
Speaker 6: because if you built something so good, then nobody ever
Speaker 6: has to buy it. Like in Japan, instead of having
Speaker 6: the consumerism mindset, they have shops around everywhere that you
Speaker 6: can repair almost everything, even broken plates and glass. You
Speaker 6: can take it in and they'll actually use like different
Speaker 6: types of metal or different types of product to make
Speaker 6: it look artistic, but put it back together so you
Speaker 6: don't have to buy it, so they're not consuming so much.
Speaker 6: But here it's pushed in almost everything, every cartoon, even
Speaker 6: in Looney Tunes, it was heavily pushed to be consumers.
Speaker 6: That's where they really started to add it and to
Speaker 6: get to the children to be able to grow up
Speaker 6: and be consumers. So it all is a big game
Speaker 6: here in America, but really not overseas as much.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I would even say that the nineteen eighties
Speaker 1: were the first time that children, in particular teenagers but
Speaker 1: even younger were actually looked at for their marketability. Right.
Speaker 1: There was a whole wave of movies, any of those
Speaker 1: iconic eighties movies that you can think of that were
Speaker 1: geared towards high school kids, even though everyone acting in
Speaker 1: them were like in their mid twenties, either here or there,
Speaker 1: it was geared towards the high school students, and there
Speaker 1: was products that were being pushed in such a way
Speaker 1: because they realized, wait a minute, in the past, we
Speaker 1: were always going after the dad, right as far as
Speaker 1: the consumerism was concerned, because everything was a single income household.
Speaker 2: Then when it got to the men and the women
Speaker 2: both had to.
Speaker 1: Go to work to support the family, then they saw
Speaker 1: it that they could double their profit margins. Finally, they realized,
Speaker 1: mostly high school kids have jobs after school, meaning they
Speaker 1: have money to blow, meaning that we can get that
Speaker 1: money from them. So they started looking at the younger
Speaker 1: generation as the next base of consumers. They started to
Speaker 1: lay it in really thick. Cut to the nineties when
Speaker 1: the only channel that didn't have commercials playing was the
Speaker 1: Disney Channel, and the only commercials they had playing were
Speaker 1: Disney commercials. But that's a whole other talk for a
Speaker 1: whole other day. But yeah, they've started to really push
Speaker 1: the entire mindset of shoppers, consumers, people that buy stuff
Speaker 1: from the very oldest to the very youngest in America.
Speaker 1: Now cut to what just happened as of today in America.
Speaker 1: So Donald Trump. You know, I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: share the screen and we're just gonna talk about it
Speaker 1: from some people that are way better explaining it than
Speaker 1: I am. This is a CNBC television event, and I
Speaker 1: think this is also they have some Australians that we're
Speaker 1: speaking one to hear. Trump announces a ninety day tariff
Speaker 1: pause for at least some countries. Let's listen in. Meghan
Speaker 1: Casella is in our DC bureau. Megan, maybe you can
Speaker 1: enlighten us with more Kelly.
Speaker 8: We are just sifting through everything that we're seeing in
Speaker 8: this true social post. But two major developments I'm going
Speaker 8: to go first. That the President says he is authorizing
Speaker 8: a ninety day pause and substantially lowering the reciprocal tariff
Speaker 8: during this period of ten percent effective immediately. There's some
Speaker 8: fuzzy language here. The upshot is that there's a ninety
Speaker 8: day pause in the reciprocal tariff. What I'm not clear
Speaker 8: on is whether we go to zero during that time
Speaker 8: or two back where we were, or if the ten
Speaker 8: percent tariff remains in place. Either way a major step forward.
Speaker 8: The President says that this is because more than seventy
Speaker 8: five countries have called representatives of the United States. Negotiations
Speaker 8: are ongoing, and so he's instituting this ninety day pause.
Speaker 8: In the meantime, on the other hand, some negative news
Speaker 8: on China, saying that based on the lack of respect
Speaker 8: that China has shown to the world's markets, he's raising
Speaker 8: the tariff on China to one hundred and twenty five that's,
Speaker 8: of course up from the one hundred and four percent
Speaker 8: that took effect just at midnight, now going even higher
Speaker 8: to one hundred and twenty five percent, because he does
Speaker 8: not like the way China has been retaliating rather than
Speaker 8: coming to the United States and wanting to negotiate. So
Speaker 8: two major step forwards here. One obviously very good for
Speaker 8: the markets. You're seeing the markets react to that. The
Speaker 8: other one on China looking like, you know, they don't
Speaker 8: like the lack of respect that they see. So we
Speaker 8: are looking at a world in which things continue to
Speaker 8: get worse with China, one of our largest trading partners
Speaker 8: but of course not the largest, but getting much better
Speaker 8: with everybody else, at least temporarily while these negotiations, Kelly
Speaker 8: are ongoing.
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's break this down, shall we.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read this article from Investipedia and just for
Speaker 1: the record, one hundred and twenty five percent tariff on
Speaker 1: West Taiwan aka China. So what that means is, basically,
Speaker 1: if you're buying a product for one dollar from China,
Speaker 1: China is paying the United States government a dollar twenty
Speaker 1: five for the opportunity to sell a one dollar product. Here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's he's not even pissing in their face and
Speaker 1: calling it rain. He's letting them know exactly what it is,
Speaker 1: and he's laughing about it. And that makes me happy.
Speaker 1: That makes me so happy because West Taiwan has been
Speaker 1: needing to get put in their place for a good
Speaker 1: little while now, but neither here nor there. What you
Speaker 1: see him holding right here in this picture is the
Speaker 1: reciprocal tariff chart, and he is showing what tariffs these
Speaker 1: countries have been putting on us for forever and now
Speaker 1: what he is planning on doing to them in reciprocity. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not trying to strong arm leverage the entirety of
Speaker 1: the world, yeah China, sure, in a couple other countries
Speaker 1: in particular, but for the most part, he's trying to
Speaker 1: make it equal and fair. If you're gonna charge us
Speaker 1: ten percent. You will now be charged ten percent. This
Speaker 1: is just gonna be the way it's gonna be. Well,
Speaker 1: then nobody's gonna make money in that case. That would
Speaker 1: be the point He's trying to make the fair and balanced.
Speaker 1: Either we're all gonna deal in playball, or nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: deal in playball. That's how Donnie t does business. And
Speaker 1: I know the left is really upset by that, but
Speaker 1: you know, hey, all right, here we go. Here. Countries
Speaker 1: are reacting to widespread terariffs proposed by the United States,
Speaker 1: and there are two distinct approaches.
Speaker 2: Some countries are attempting to negotiate deals with the US
Speaker 2: in hopes of lowering tariffs, while none has been seen
Speaker 2: or none has been successful yet, President Donald Trump paused
Speaker 2: his most extreme tariff's Wednesday, just hours after they had
Speaker 2: been implemented, in an effort to make tailored deals with
Speaker 2: each country. The administration said, And.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the report? Seventy five countries have directly
Speaker 1: called the White House willing to make deals. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: this is the result of this, and I know people
Speaker 1: are gonna get upset by that for some reason. Oh No,
Speaker 1: American companies will be able to make more money now.
Speaker 1: He's so evil anyway, Others retaliated in the early hours
Speaker 1: of the day, enforcing their own additional tariffs on US goods.
Speaker 1: In response. The largest retaliation Trump reattached or ratcheted the
Speaker 1: import duties on Chinese goods. Other countries that answered Trump's
Speaker 1: tariffs with import tax of their own did not see
Speaker 1: any US response. Yet. Here are a lists or some
Speaker 1: of the countries that are taking different approaches. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is the retaliating countries. Separate countries are responding to
Speaker 1: Trump's tariffs with additional import taxes on the US products.
Speaker 1: Trump has said that if the countries retaliate, he will
Speaker 1: increase the reciprocal tariffs on that country. China. Obviously, China
Speaker 1: has already planned a thirty four percent retaliatory tax or tariff.
Speaker 1: Last week, in response, Trump ratcheted up tariffs on Chinese
Speaker 1: goods to one hundred and four percent, and those went
Speaker 1: into effect early Wednesday mornings. That would make the all
Speaker 1: encompassing total percent. Neither he nor there The Chinese government
Speaker 1: responded by raising its levy on US goods to eighty
Speaker 1: four percent.
Speaker 2: So they're trying to play this game. But they're also
Speaker 2: not willing to go all in, or at.
Speaker 1: Least not at this time. Anyway, the US practice of
Speaker 1: escalating tariffs on China is a mistake on top of
Speaker 1: a mistake which seriously infringes on China's legitimate rights and
Speaker 1: interests and seriously damages the rules based multilateral trading system.
Speaker 1: China's Ministry of Finance said, all right, now, I want
Speaker 1: everybody to keep that in mind, because I got a
Speaker 1: video we're gonna play here in a little bit that
Speaker 1: shows that this sitting like a nuanced thing that Trump's doing.
Speaker 1: For decades now, Democrats were pushing for US to put
Speaker 1: harder trade tariffs on China, but when Trump does it,
Speaker 1: he's evil. But we're gonna get to all of that
Speaker 1: in kind, I promise you. As I repeatedly said, China
Speaker 1: is the most imbalanced economy in the history of the
Speaker 1: modern world, and they are the biggest source of US
Speaker 1: trades problem, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a press
Speaker 1: conference with reporters after the increased were announced. Okay, and again,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more about the whole China thing in
Speaker 1: a bit, but I digress. Let's move on the European
Speaker 1: Union is taking retaliatory approaches here. The European Union officials
Speaker 1: voted Wednesday to implement retaliatory tariffs on US goods. The
Speaker 1: blocks tariff will affect around twenty three point two billion
Speaker 1: dollars in US exports, according to Bloomberg, a very very
Speaker 1: liberal media outlet, and are in response to the steel
Speaker 1: and aluminum teriffs previously implemented. According to a statement released
Speaker 1: by officials, the EU considers US tariffs unjustified in damaging,
Speaker 1: causing economic harm to both sides as well as the
Speaker 1: global economy. The statesman said, the EU has stated its
Speaker 1: clear preference to find negotiated outcomes with the US which
Speaker 1: would be balanced and mutually beneficial. They they're saying that
Speaker 1: because we're giving them equal tariffs to what they're putting
Speaker 1: on us. But all right. The tariffs will be implemented
Speaker 1: on April fifteenth, and could be suspended should two governing
Speaker 1: bodies reach a deal. Canada, Now, Canada and the US,
Speaker 1: I know we're neighbors. We've been on very friendly terms
Speaker 1: for a good while.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 1: Trudeau sucks. We all agree. The guy that's about to
Speaker 1: take his place also sucks. I've done more research into him.
Speaker 1: He's literally a Trudeau junior, but neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: And Trump has been saying a lot of things about, yes,
Speaker 1: I know, annexing Canada, they're gonna be the fifty first state.
Speaker 1: They're not. They're not, y'all, they're not. That's that's him
Speaker 1: talking shit. I think most people could understand that, although
Speaker 1: if it does happen, I mean at this point, at
Speaker 1: this point, I don't even know if that would shock me.
Speaker 1: But you know, let's get into it here. The US's neighborhood,
Speaker 1: the North also focused on auto tariffs, implementing a twenty
Speaker 1: five percent import tax on American made vehicles. These teriffs,
Speaker 1: like the US counterparts, exclude US MCA automobiles. Shocker. We
Speaker 1: are responding today with and we responded throughout the day
Speaker 1: with carefully collaborated and targeted counter tariffs. Canadian Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Mark Carney reportedly said during a press coop difference Canada
Speaker 1: was included in the countries with a base tariff of
Speaker 1: ten percent under the pressure announced wednesday by Trump. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just make sure we get that right here. We
Speaker 1: gave them a ten percent, just flat tariff that we've
Speaker 1: given to every other country as well. They responded with
Speaker 1: a twenty five percent tax on cars. I keep using
Speaker 1: the term tax, excuse me, tariff. That's not very reciprocal
Speaker 1: of them. But also we put that on all Canadian goods.
Speaker 1: They put it on just the automobiles. So like all right,
Speaker 1: Canada was included with the countries on the base of
Speaker 1: ten percent under a pause announced Wednesday by Trump, but
Speaker 1: since said but it was not immediately clear what that
Speaker 1: meant on tariff announced previously on the country that were
Speaker 1: not included in the reciprocal framework. Okay, so with that,
Speaker 1: he did put a hard pause on all tariffs, and
Speaker 1: as of this very moment, the only country that's being
Speaker 1: tariff that hard is China. Every the other one that
Speaker 1: he put that flat tariff on is currently lifted for
Speaker 1: ninety days. So he's giving them the opportunity before he
Speaker 1: puts the screws to them. He is giving them the
Speaker 1: opportunity to come to the negotiation table and make a deal. Again.
Speaker 1: Your boy wrote the book The Art of the Deal.
Speaker 1: This is how this goes down now, Negotiating Treasury Secretary
Speaker 1: of Scott Since said seventy countries had called to negotiate
Speaker 1: trade deals at the beginning of the week. Trump has
Speaker 1: posted on true social that he has met with or
Speaker 1: had calls with several countries. Below are some countries that
Speaker 1: are confirmed to be making an attempt to negotiate lower tariffs. Japan.
Speaker 1: Japanese government officials have been in talks with Trump since
Speaker 1: the beginning of last week beginning of the week excuse me.
Speaker 1: According to the reports, the country seeks to negotiate down
Speaker 1: the twenty four percent tariff that the US is charging
Speaker 1: on Japanese imports. Japan has long been an economic ally,
Speaker 1: with the US importing one hundred and forty eight point
Speaker 1: two billion dollars of goods from Japan last year, so
Speaker 1: I get it doesn't want to be tariffic that they're
Speaker 1: making that monet off of us, so they're willing to
Speaker 1: come to the negotiation table. Twenty four percent is not
Speaker 1: a little bit, Y'all's a that's a pretty hefty chunk. Vietnam.
Speaker 1: Vietnam's first attempt to deal with was dismissed by Trump's
Speaker 1: trade advisor Peter Navarro early in the week, but it
Speaker 1: reportedly is still attempting to negotiate with the administration.
Speaker 2: Many companies move their manufacturing out of China.
Speaker 1: In recent years, as wages have increased and tears put
Speaker 1: on China in Trump's first administration increased costs. Nike, for example,
Speaker 1: sources large portions of its shoes and apparel from Vietnam,
Speaker 1: according to its most recent annual report. So Vietnam started
Speaker 1: to become the new sweatshop country. Right, China had to
Speaker 1: increase wages. And that's another point. If the tariffs are
Speaker 1: going to hurt the American consumer, then why is China
Speaker 1: increasing their pay to their employees. Right? They're increasing the
Speaker 1: call of goods, which increases everything across the board. So
Speaker 1: China is feeling the effects of the tariffs that Trump
Speaker 1: put in on his first go round. Why are people
Speaker 1: all of a sudden believing that the Nike shoes will
Speaker 1: get more expensive in America. It gets more expensive for
Speaker 1: China to make them and send them to us, it
Speaker 1: doesn't get more expensive for us to buy them. This
Speaker 1: is proof in the pudding, if you will. So now
Speaker 1: Vietnam being the new sweatshop hub, or at least if
Speaker 1: some is getting these tariffs and they are trying to
Speaker 1: get a hold of the White House to make a negotiation,
Speaker 1: I like it South Korea. We're homers of South Korea.
Speaker 1: But also ever a body can get these tariffs. That's
Speaker 1: the motives operandi that Trump is working on right now.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, Trump wrote on a social media site that
Speaker 1: True Social that he had a great call with South
Speaker 1: Korea Acting President and Prime Minister ham Duck Sou. I
Speaker 1: swear to God, I'm not mature enough to try to
Speaker 1: pronounce these names. I'm sorry. Uh have we have the
Speaker 1: confines and probability of a great deal for both countries,
Speaker 1: Trump wrote, Their top team is on a plane headed
Speaker 1: to the US and things are looking good. The US
Speaker 1: levied a twenty five percent tariff on South Korean goods
Speaker 1: when widespread tariffs went into effect in the early hours
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. Okay, so that's just a few of the countries.
Speaker 1: But we do have another list right here that shows
Speaker 1: every country working on trade deals with the US. And
Speaker 1: this was April seventh, so this is a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 1: Israel.
Speaker 2: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin n Yahoo is in Washington, DC on.
Speaker 1: Monday to meet with Trump. Hashing out economic deal in
Speaker 1: the near is near the top of his priority list. Oh,
Speaker 1: go ahead, royceid know on this one.
Speaker 7: Actually, this actually has nothing to do with Israel.
Speaker 10: This was actually on the previous page where there was
Speaker 10: that picture of Trump holding the taxes because it seemed
Speaker 10: like on one hand, there are the blist was a
Speaker 10: lot higher than that which we were given as opposed
Speaker 10: to the other side, which is like so really even
Speaker 10: the tariffs that were given is not nearly as bad
Speaker 10: as what we're being getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, oh no, no, there that have us
Speaker 1: under twenty five percent tariff. Trump just gave them ten
Speaker 1: and they are losing their minds about it. And the
Speaker 1: reason why is because America has way more consumers to
Speaker 1: buy their goods. I just heard of economic economists excuse me,
Speaker 1: talk about this earlier.
Speaker 2: For instance, the iPhone just shot out of a cannon.
Speaker 1: Here. It is much more advantageous for China to sell
Speaker 1: us the iPhone America the iPhone because more Americans can
Speaker 1: afford an iPhone, as opposed to them going to I
Speaker 1: don't know, Columbia and maybe be able to sell fifty
Speaker 1: thousand iPhones give or take. In America. That's like the
Speaker 1: most popular cell phone and we have a nation of
Speaker 1: hundreds of millions. So this is why they're absolutely feeling
Speaker 1: the brunt of this. So all these countries understand that
Speaker 1: they we will buy their shit. That's what America does.
Speaker 1: We buy things. We are a consumer nation, so any
Speaker 1: tariff put on them hurts their bottom dollar, it doesn't
Speaker 1: hurt us. So even a ten percent tariff levied against them,
Speaker 1: and even if it isn't in reciprocity, even if a
Speaker 1: country has a ten percent tariff on American goods, when
Speaker 1: America puts a ten percent tariff on their goods.
Speaker 2: They feel that way more than we do.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you're gonna play ball
Speaker 1: in our field, then you're gonna pay the ticket to
Speaker 1: play ball in our field. And at least that's the
Speaker 1: over under of what Trump's trying to get done. So
Speaker 1: all right, so net and Yahoo, long story short, he
Speaker 1: is trying to negotiate these tariffs out of his out
Speaker 1: of his way. Here Japan, we already talked about the UK.
Speaker 1: Britain was hit with a ten percent tariff, the least
Speaker 1: severe tier of Trump's wider tariff plan. Nevertheless, UK leaders
Speaker 1: say they hope to secure a carve out in the
Speaker 1: coming weeks, but they said the relatively low tariff level
Speaker 1: was already evidence of some success. Business Minister Jonathan Reynolds
Speaker 1: said negotiating negotiations are ongoing, telling reporters that it is
Speaker 1: not inaccurate. Jesus, I can't speak right now reporters that
Speaker 1: it is not inaccurate that the two sides have agreed
Speaker 1: to a deal. We've got to keep this work going,
Speaker 1: he said. Okay, so the UK is trying to play ball,
Speaker 1: and they're at least acknowledging that ten percent was the
Speaker 1: lowest rung of the tariff deal, so maybe they could
Speaker 1: schmooze their way into a lesser degree. Which, okay, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much how many goods we buy
Speaker 1: from them, from industry or from you know, consumers, but sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, if they're able to wedge their.
Speaker 2: Way in, why not Vietnam go ahead?
Speaker 7: I have a quick question. Yeah, as far as the terriffs,
Speaker 7: so whatever we.
Speaker 10: Tax or whatever you want to call it another countries,
Speaker 10: where does that extra money go to.
Speaker 1: The United States government? Think about this, Think of it
Speaker 1: like this, a farmer's market. I think this is actually
Speaker 1: a way better example. If you want to set up
Speaker 1: a booth and a table at a farmer's market to
Speaker 1: sell your shit, right honey, whatever the case would be,
Speaker 1: you have to pay your booth fee to set up
Speaker 1: for the weekend, right. Sure, this is Trump forcing all
Speaker 1: of these countries to pay their booth fee. You want
Speaker 1: to sell your product at our market, you're going to
Speaker 1: pay the toll. So where if you're ready to go
Speaker 1: at a farmer's market to the owner of the land.
Speaker 7: Gotcha?
Speaker 10: So then does that money go into a budget for
Speaker 10: next year? Does it go into getting down our national debt?
Speaker 10: Do we have any idea if it's just going to
Speaker 10: be blown on maybe some politicians.
Speaker 1: So as of this moment, what I've heard the most
Speaker 1: of is that this money would go towards a paying
Speaker 1: off the national debt, b lowering the income tax required
Speaker 1: from the American citizens. See, this would go more towards
Speaker 1: the I don't want to say the dissolution of the IRS,
Speaker 1: but as they just fired half of the IRS employees
Speaker 1: during tax season, I think that that's more along the
Speaker 1: lines of what he's trying to do. Maybe not completely
Speaker 1: abolish the IRS, but make it to where people are
Speaker 1: not paying a third of their paychecks to the government.
Speaker 1: That would be nice, It would be very nice. It
Speaker 1: would be very very nice. And also it also goes
Speaker 1: in line with paying off our national debt because, okay,
Speaker 1: you know how whenever you owe an amount of money
Speaker 1: and it goes to a debt collection agency, you'll get
Speaker 1: a call from a Continental Continental debt collection right, and
Speaker 1: then you might pay a little bit, whatever the case
Speaker 1: would be. Three months later, you'll get a call from
Speaker 1: Golden Golf Coast collection agency. It's the same debt, it's
Speaker 1: the same bill, but now it's owned by another company.
Speaker 1: Maybe next year you'll get a call from a Snowy
Speaker 1: Mountain Peak collection agency, whatever the case would be. It's
Speaker 1: the same bill, but they have sold the debt and
Speaker 1: sold the debt and sold the debt. I think most
Speaker 1: people have understood that this happens right when America had
Speaker 1: a national debt. Okay, what they have done for years
Speaker 1: and years and years is they have taken that debt
Speaker 1: and put it on the open market. Okay, China owns
Speaker 1: a trillion dollars of America's debt, so it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: we owe China. We owe a debt that is now
Speaker 1: owned by China. So I guess it's six and one
Speaker 1: hand half dozen in the other But it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: us paying the CCP to relinquish ourselves of our own debt.
Speaker 1: But that is how they've operated for so long, and
Speaker 1: most countries do. By the way, Now, when a country
Speaker 1: goes into a national debt like this, they try to
Speaker 1: do things to try to like make up that difference. Right,
Speaker 1: They try to sell treasury bonds, They try to do
Speaker 1: things as far as the economy is concerned, to try
Speaker 1: to lessen that blow. But when it's to this scale,
Speaker 1: to the trillions of dollars, at a certain point, you
Speaker 1: have to sell that debt to someone, if you put
Speaker 1: it on the open market, rather than just pay the debt.
Speaker 1: And America has paid or sold the debt for decades.
Speaker 1: So there's multiple countries out there, and multiple big, big conglomerates,
Speaker 1: right the wroth Child's and I mean just like ooh child, No, no,
Speaker 1: no no, the global banking network owns a massive chunk
Speaker 1: of the American national debt.
Speaker 2: So, with that being said, if we were able to
Speaker 2: use the money made from these tariffs to a stop
Speaker 2: adding to the deficit, possibly get that national debt number
Speaker 2: that keeps rising and rising, maybe make that thing stop
Speaker 2: clicking up, that would be a massive win. Then we
Speaker 2: could start using.
Speaker 1: That hypothetically, hypothetically to start paying off some of these
Speaker 1: debts that have been bought and owned by other people.
Speaker 1: Because at that point, when another country owns a portion
Speaker 1: of our debt, they have leverage over us that they
Speaker 1: can call in whenever they want. Now, if they were
Speaker 1: to do that, that's the problem. Though you're calling in
Speaker 1: if China, for instance, I know I shit on them
Speaker 1: a lot, I will continue to do so, probably for
Speaker 1: the rest of my life, but neither of them. China
Speaker 1: owns a trillion dollars of our debt. If China decided
Speaker 1: to call in that debt and strong arm us into paying,
Speaker 1: we have the largest and most capable military on earth,
Speaker 1: that would more than likely lead to some sort of
Speaker 1: a false flag event and we would probably go to
Speaker 1: actual hot war with China rather than an economic cold war.
Speaker 2: And they know that, so that's why they don't do that.
Speaker 1: It's more like they're ace in the hole that they
Speaker 1: could call at any time, but they're not gonna call
Speaker 1: it ever because it also exposes their hand as far
Speaker 1: as that's concerned. These countries that own our debt are
Speaker 1: in that same boat. They have leverage against us, but
Speaker 1: they wouldn't dare call that leverage in if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm completely no.
Speaker 7: I know it makes sense.
Speaker 10: Just it frustrates me that we are in this position
Speaker 10: of detriments and I just want us to get out
Speaker 10: of it. But it's like, since we are how many
Speaker 10: trillions in debt, getting it to stop will be fantastic,
Speaker 10: but it seems like it's gonna take just as long, if.
Speaker 7: Not longer, for it to go down.
Speaker 10: I mean, obviously the goal would be net zero, but
Speaker 10: I mean, how likely is that.
Speaker 1: It kind of depends on how successful these tariffs will go,
Speaker 1: because the that's the other thing too. Trump put down
Speaker 1: a ten percent flat tariff on pretty much every country,
Speaker 1: but then like, for instance, Vietnam, he hit them with
Speaker 1: a massive ninety percent tariff. Right in China's at one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five percent tariff as we speak. Some
Speaker 1: countries got a twenty five percent. It's all over the place,
Speaker 1: but there's reasons for it all. Now, if of the
Speaker 1: seventy to seventy five countries that have called the White
Speaker 1: House this week and are trying to work a deal,
Speaker 1: if they were to work a deal. That would help
Speaker 1: us because we would work a deal to where hey, look,
Speaker 1: you don't charge us, we don't charge you. So that
Speaker 1: also helps our overall economy, our business, not you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not you and me and the people listening right now,
Speaker 1: but American industry. It would help business, which helps America
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. But if these countries
Speaker 1: don't come to the negotiation table, they will be slapped
Speaker 1: with these tariffs, and Vietnam with a ninety percent tariff
Speaker 1: put on them. The Nikes that are being made in
Speaker 1: the Vietnamese sweatshops right now, Vietnam as a country will
Speaker 1: now have to pay ninety cents on the dollar for
Speaker 1: every dollar they make on US soil to the US government.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they're really willing to do such,
Speaker 1: but if that was to happen, and that's just a
Speaker 1: Nike example, there's tons of sweatshops in Vietnam. I think
Speaker 1: there's still a communist country as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: or at least they If they're not they it's more
Speaker 1: of a more recent thing only in the past few
Speaker 1: decades that they swapped to a different but neither here
Speaker 1: nor there, But they would lose their ass hard if
Speaker 1: they were to agree to do or not fight this
Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form. And it's not like
Speaker 1: they could fight it in a military or economic way,
Speaker 1: soil you have to come to the negotiation table or
Speaker 1: eat it, and I don't believe they're going to be
Speaker 1: willing to eat it. But that's how this works, That's
Speaker 1: how this leverage game and this kind of big business
Speaker 1: economics really happens played out. So couple this with DOGE
Speaker 1: and all the wasteful spending that they are also finding
Speaker 1: and bringing to light and stopping. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the United States government will do with all of the
Speaker 1: excess funds that they didn't have in the past few decades.
Speaker 1: I have hopes, and that's a lot more than I
Speaker 1: can say that I've had for this country since I've
Speaker 1: been born.
Speaker 2: So I'll take it as a win. Even if it's
Speaker 2: a lowercase W, it's still a W.
Speaker 7: I agreed.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, like I was saying here, Vietnam got hit
Speaker 1: with a mass of ninety percent tariff and Trump announced
Speaker 1: on Friday that he already had spoken to the nation's leader,
Speaker 1: to Lom Toulm doesn't matter, Trump said, Lom has offered
Speaker 1: a to completely eliminate all tariffs in a deal with
Speaker 1: the United States through no formal agreement has been made.
Speaker 1: Just had a very productive call with to lom Is
Speaker 1: from Trump. As a matter of fact, General Secretary of
Speaker 1: the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was right, they are still a communist nation.
Speaker 1: That's horrible. Yeah. Who told me that Vietnam wants to
Speaker 1: cut their tariffs down to zero if they are able
Speaker 1: to make an agreement with the United States. I thank
Speaker 1: him on behalf of country and said I look forward
Speaker 1: to meeting with him in the near future. That is
Speaker 1: how deals get made. You absolutely strong arm them into compliance.
Speaker 1: I love it. And the best part he strong armed
Speaker 1: them into compliance without the threat of weapons, without the
Speaker 1: threat threat of invasion, because that's been America's big jam
Speaker 1: right as soon as something happens. Told that place needs
Speaker 1: some freedom.
Speaker 2: He's doing all this without trying to call upon the military.
Speaker 2: And somehow the Democrats are still throwing shade.
Speaker 1: It blows on mind. It blows on mind. Cambodia another
Speaker 1: very sweatshop heavy country, I might add. Cambodia's Commerce ministry
Speaker 1: reached out to the US Trade representative Jamison Greer with
Speaker 1: an offer to cut tariffs on more than a dozen
Speaker 1: categories of US goods from thirty five percent to five
Speaker 1: percent last week, and that's what the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: had reported on Trump's announcement last week. Hit Cambodia with
Speaker 1: a forty nine percent tariff again, so they were charging
Speaker 1: US thirty five cents on the dollar for everything America
Speaker 1: made and sold in Cambodia. So Trump said, fine, you're
Speaker 1: gonna pay US forty nine cents on the dollar. And
Speaker 1: Cambodia has sweatshops and they sell a lot of things here.
Speaker 1: By sel, I mean you'll see a tax saying made
Speaker 1: in Cambodia or something to that effect. So now they're going, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe thirty five's a bit hasty. Maybe we could charge
Speaker 1: all five cents on the dollar. And Trump's like, I
Speaker 1: look forward to talking to you. Yes, this is this
Speaker 1: is beautiful Thailand again, very much so. Thai commerce minister. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not even going to try to pronounce that name
Speaker 1: confirm to Reuters that he is seeking negotiations with the
Speaker 1: United States, though the nation's government hasn't made it a
Speaker 1: formal offer on the tariff charges. Well, he's looking to negotiate.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that goes India. The White House hit
Speaker 1: India with a twenty seven percent tariff, but India's leaders
Speaker 1: are not considering retaliation, according to a government official who
Speaker 1: spoke with Reuters. Instead, India has informed the US that
Speaker 1: it is willing to cut tariffs on more than half
Speaker 1: of US imports, totaling some twenty three billion dollars as
Speaker 1: part of an initial deal. I'm liking the sound of
Speaker 1: all of this thus far. I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 2: South Korea, we talked about that a minute ago.
Speaker 1: I don't see any percentages really, but yeah, we covered
Speaker 1: that already. Australia. Australia's Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton called
Speaker 1: for a quick or for call for quick negotiations with
Speaker 1: the United States last week, saying Australia could hope for
Speaker 1: a good deal thanks to its access to critical minerals
Speaker 1: and its close defense relationship with the United States in
Speaker 1: the Indo Pacific. Reuters reported with that Royce, you had
Speaker 1: brought up a moment ago about these things. Here, all right,
Speaker 1: let's just look at this picture real quick. And this
Speaker 1: is not the whole list. I think I haven't pulled
Speaker 1: up in another article here, but all right, on the left,
Speaker 1: we have tariffs charged to the United States, that's things
Speaker 1: that we are paying to them, Like we're getting screwed here,
Speaker 1: and the US discounted recipprocessual reciprocal jesus ris. Yeah, China
Speaker 1: charges us sixty seven percent. We only have been charging
Speaker 1: them thirty four okay, European Union thirty nine twenty, Vietnam
Speaker 1: ninety forty six. Uh oh yeah, charge with the US,
Speaker 1: Taiwan sixty four percent, the discount reciprocal tariffs thirty two percent,
Speaker 1: Japan forty six and twenty four, India fifty two and
Speaker 1: twenty six, South Korea fifty percent, twenty five percent, Thailand
Speaker 1: seventy two percent, thirty six percent, Switzerland sixty one thirty one,
Speaker 1: Indonesia sixty four percent, thirty two percent, Malaysia forty seven percent,
Speaker 1: twenty four percent. So again, I'm liking this. I'm liking this.
Speaker 1: There are some countries down here that are a ten
Speaker 1: to ten swap, and like, okay, fair is fair. But yeah,
Speaker 1: this is the overall plan. If they're not going to
Speaker 1: give us a good deal, He's going to force them
Speaker 1: to give us a good deal or they'll lose their
Speaker 1: entire ass in the deal. I love this. Argentina is
Speaker 1: one of the few countries that have already met with
Speaker 1: the White House regarding a tariff deal. Argentine Foreign Minister
Speaker 1: Heraldo Worthene Yeah, said he met with the US trade
Speaker 1: negotiator Jameson Greer and the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik
Speaker 1: on Thursday in Washington. He said he was hopeful that
Speaker 1: he would soon come to an acceptable free trade agreement. Okay, Canada,
Speaker 1: we talked about them a moment ago. Mexico. Mexican President
Speaker 1: Claudia Sheenbaum confirmed last week that her economic minister would
Speaker 1: be traveling to Washington, d c. And early April to
Speaker 1: hold tariff negotiations. Yeah, I'll bet so. She said her
Speaker 1: administration was particularly interested in auto, steel and aluminum industries.
Speaker 1: According to CNN Switzerland, the Swiss President Karen Keller Sutter
Speaker 1: said on Thursday that her country plans to seek trade
Speaker 1: talks of Washington and her government has no plans to
Speaker 1: retaliate with its own tariffs in the mean time. Very
Speaker 1: very wise move of you, Malai.
Speaker 10: What I said unlike a typical Karen.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, that's but also look the way it's spelled.
Speaker 1: It's not a typical Karen whitch Hey good things. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that she's uh recognizing the writing on the wall
Speaker 1: and is like, hey, bro, we don't want no smoke.
Speaker 1: We're count We're down to come talk with you. And
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, come on, talk with me, all right. Malaysia.
Speaker 1: Malaysian leaders have also confirmed that they will not retaliate
Speaker 1: against Trump's tariffs. The nation's trade ministry said it is
Speaker 1: looking to actively engage with the US to seek solutions
Speaker 1: that will uphold the spirit of a free and fair trade.
Speaker 1: Very good. We already talked about the EU a little bit.
Speaker 1: Indonesia Trump's administry. Oh god, when that happens, hold only
Speaker 1: on an ad'll pop up and it shifts the entire article. Indonesia.
Speaker 1: Trump's administration smacked Indonesia with a thirty two percent tariff
Speaker 1: last week. The president nope, I'm not even try that one.
Speaker 1: The President of Indonesia has already dispatched a delegation to
Speaker 1: Washington for negotiations before the tariffs take effect on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So again, as we see, without the use of military force,
Speaker 1: without the threat of violence or anything like that, Trump
Speaker 1: is making moves happen and again this makes me extremely happy.
Speaker 1: You know, before I read any more of these articles,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and check out the chat because
Speaker 1: I think there was some Yeah, there was some more
Speaker 1: things dropped on this one. Here. Let's see here, that's
Speaker 1: why I buy American whiskey over foreign whiskey, so says Alex,
Speaker 1: I love it. What if countries were saw or what
Speaker 1: if countries were saw blades? I mean, he didn't Argentina.
Speaker 1: Didn't that prime minister come in with a chainsaw and
Speaker 1: he was gonna cut tariffs and taxes out of his country,
Speaker 1: which he did. He's kind of crazy, but in a
Speaker 1: good way. And then Elon Musk did the exact same
Speaker 1: thing later on, but then when he did it, he
Speaker 1: was a psycho and whatever. Anyway, silks, okay, I had
Speaker 1: I failed to see a problem at all trying to
Speaker 1: consuct the agreed agreed Alex Jesu Pinge really needs to
Speaker 1: suck a fat Richard.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: Let's see. Yeah, and they are communist assholes. WHOA all right,
Speaker 1: so Raven has sent three different articles. Let me go
Speaker 1: ahead and check those out. WHOA, Okay, that is not
Speaker 1: what I thought they were gonna be about. But all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the next one here, Sorry, y'all. As
Speaker 1: as the conversation goes on, we typically do veer off
Speaker 1: of the main talking points, and that's completely fine. Absolutely
Speaker 1: things going down in Texas, Texas ag probes controversial Muslim
Speaker 1: centric development near Dallas. Oh of course they are. I
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm even shocked anymore.
Speaker 6: Also, all three articles are about the same thing, just
Speaker 6: different perspectives and like different viewpoints. One of them is
Speaker 6: from like inside Dallas that way, Like, there's not just
Speaker 6: like a one sided thing, but there's a whole bunch
Speaker 6: of differ articles about it.
Speaker 1: Wow. Absolutely all right. Now I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: share this Green woman another again. Let's get back at
Speaker 1: it here. Let's see, we talked about that one already.
Speaker 1: I think possibly possibly. Uh let's see, this is a
Speaker 1: list of the worst hit countries, but I think we
Speaker 1: already talked about that. Oh here's a better graft though,
Speaker 1: which is I like that? Get that add there? Okay,
Speaker 1: So the full list of Trump's reciprocal reciprocal God, why
Speaker 1: do I keep messing that word up? My apology, y'all.
Speaker 1: The full list of Trump's reciprocal tariffs by country, So
Speaker 1: here we go. Here China and this was a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, because now it's one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five percent on China, but as of this article is
Speaker 1: writing eighty four percent.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna move closer because that's tiny. Lesotho.
Speaker 1: I think that's an African country fifty percent, Uh, Saint
Speaker 1: Pierre and McKeon fifty percent, Cambodia forty nine percent, Lous
Speaker 1: forty eight percent, Matta Gascar forty seven percent, Vietnam.
Speaker 2: Forty six percent, Sri Lanka forty four.
Speaker 1: Percent, Miammar formerly Burma forty four percent, which is kind
Speaker 1: of crazy because they're still in the middle of a
Speaker 1: civil war right now. Last I heard, the military hunt
Speaker 1: is like backed up against the coast and they are
Speaker 1: getting onslaughts by the rebel groups, but neither here nor there.
Speaker 1: The Falkland Islands forty two percent, Syria forty one percent,
Speaker 1: and that's another one. Syria has gotten to a point
Speaker 1: where they're not a peaceful nation right now. But the
Speaker 1: guy who's currently the warlord in charge seems to be
Speaker 1: kind of a stamping out the wild things going on there,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to restore some sort of assimbilance of
Speaker 1: law and order. So, like you know, I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: a big fan of him by any means, but at
Speaker 1: least some order is better than no order, So you know,
Speaker 1: I'll give the props for they're due there. Uh Mauritius
Speaker 1: forty percent, Iraq thirty nine percent, Botswan on A thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent, Guyana thirty eight percent, Bangladesh thirty seven percent,
Speaker 1: Serbia thirty seven percent, Liechtenstein thirty seven percent. That's something
Speaker 1: you don't really hear a lot about is the nation
Speaker 1: of Liechtenstein. But apparently they needed to catch them terraffs
Speaker 1: as well. Reunion thirty seven percent, Thailand thirty six, Bosnia
Speaker 1: and Herzegova thirty six, North Macedonia thirty three, Taiwan thirty two,
Speaker 1: Indonesia thirty two, and Gola thirty two, Fiji thirty two.
Speaker 1: Let's see Switzerland, Libya, and Moldova thirty one percent. South Africa, Nauru, Yep,
Speaker 1: Algeria all of them thirty percent, Pakistan Norfolk Island both
Speaker 1: of them twenty nine percent, Tunisia twenty eight. Let's see
Speaker 1: Kazakhstan and India both twenty seven percent. South Korea and
Speaker 1: Japan twenty five and twenty four percent, Malaysia and Brunei
Speaker 1: twenty four percent, the naw Tou don't know how to
Speaker 1: pronounce that one twenty three percent, the Ivory Coast twenty
Speaker 1: one percent, Nambia twenty one percent, the EU and Jordan
Speaker 1: both twenty percent, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and my Maloi Yep eighteen percent, Israel,
Speaker 1: the Philippines and Zambia seventeen percent, Mozambique in Norway both
Speaker 1: sixteen percent, Venezuela and Nigeria fifteen and fourteen percent, Chad
Speaker 1: Equatorial Guinea thirteen percent, Cameron twelve percent, and the Democratic
Speaker 1: Republic of the Congo eleven percent. So again, I like
Speaker 1: this a lot. And that's just the ones that got
Speaker 1: hit the hardest. Every country got hit with a ten percent.
Speaker 1: This is just the ones that are outside of that
Speaker 1: ten percent. And again this was as of April nine,
Speaker 1: so yeah, this is updated today. Go ahead, Royce, what
Speaker 1: you got?
Speaker 10: No, So it's interesting as far as that list, one
Speaker 10: country that I didn't see was Iran.
Speaker 1: So we have an embarbaro against Iran. Oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: so we're not doing deals with them regardless, And I don't.
Speaker 1: I honestly can't. Can't say the last time I saw
Speaker 1: in Iranian make good in America. Actually, I'm assuming that's
Speaker 1: a thing. I just I think we just have a
Speaker 1: full on embargo against them, so the tarifflaw wouldn't even
Speaker 1: do anything. Plus, I don't even think they make anything
Speaker 1: that we would want.
Speaker 7: I could be right, right, I guess.
Speaker 10: I'm also just trying to think of where else we
Speaker 10: get our fruit oil before we're.
Speaker 7: Able to get our pipeline up and running.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, for now we buy a lot from
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia. But I mean, even still, even with that,
Speaker 1: Trump just let out last week that the European Union,
Speaker 1: for all their shit they talk about Russia and how,
Speaker 1: oh my god, it's the biggest threat and all this
Speaker 1: and this and this, they have bought more as far
Speaker 1: as the money is concerned, the true numbers and facts
Speaker 1: and figures, the European Union has spent more money to
Speaker 1: buy Russian oil since the war began then they have
Speaker 1: given to Ukraine to support them. And that's not even
Speaker 1: He said this, and people are like, that's not true.
Speaker 1: There's no way that yo. But if you actually look
Speaker 1: at the numbers, they have spent. I think it's like
Speaker 1: a three to one ratio that the European Union as
Speaker 1: a whole has spent on buying Russian oil, keeping the
Speaker 1: Russian economy afloat, and keeping the war going on longer
Speaker 1: then they've actually given to Ukraine to help them win
Speaker 1: the war. So yeah, the Europeans are buying their oil
Speaker 1: from wherever. We buy a lot from Saudi Arabia, and
Speaker 1: we buy a lot from the Arabic countries. And as
Speaker 1: of right now, Trump is trying to get the whole
Speaker 1: drill baby drill mindset going, which I know a ton
Speaker 1: of guys in the oil field that are super happy
Speaker 1: to hear that. By the way, the roughnecks are getting
Speaker 1: back to work where they belong, I might add. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's see, there's another list. We already kind of went
Speaker 1: down the list of the numbers and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I mean, there's multiple places where
Speaker 1: they can get their oil from, and we have since,
Speaker 1: you know, for a good long while. Here is this
Speaker 1: what I yeah, already wrote this article. I can't believe
Speaker 1: I had it up on air twice. Excuse me. The
Speaker 1: Associated Press talking about the one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: percent tariff on China. But I mean again, that's we've
Speaker 1: kind of beaten that dead horse here. It says he
Speaker 1: raised the tariffs one hundred and twenty five percent on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: hours after China boasted or boosted the duty on American
Speaker 1: goods to eighty four percent, and an escalating battle that
Speaker 1: threatens to disrupt trade between the world's two largest economies.
Speaker 1: Citing a lack of respect, Trump set China apart from
Speaker 1: the other countries. He said in a social media post
Speaker 1: that he is pausing his so called reciprocal tariffs. Gott
Speaker 1: to write that time boys on many other trading partners
Speaker 1: because they had responded by reaching out for talks rather
Speaker 1: than retaliating. The tip for tat hikes between US and
Speaker 1: China are the latest in an ongoing trade war that
Speaker 1: threatens to raise prices for consumers in America and derailed
Speaker 1: China's attempts to reinvigorate its sluggish economy. The response from
Speaker 1: the Chinese government signals its determination not to been to
Speaker 1: Trump's pressure despite the risks. Again, I really the Associated
Speaker 1: Press being the overtly liberal publication that they are. Of
Speaker 1: course they're gonna have some things about how this is
Speaker 1: gonna hurt the American consumer.
Speaker 2: However, that's not exactly a true statement.
Speaker 1: So if it was, China wouldn't be increasing the price
Speaker 1: of things in their own country to the level they
Speaker 1: have been since Trump's initial tariffs on them took effect.
Speaker 1: But I digress, all right now. I also wanted to
Speaker 1: show this one Sky News Australia is speaking on this matter,
Speaker 1: and again Australia just came to the negotiation table, they're
Speaker 1: talking with Trump, all good things. But this news clip
Speaker 1: shows democrats from years past saying the exact same thing
Speaker 1: that Trump is saying right now, wishing that the president's
Speaker 1: at the time would have done what Trump is doing
Speaker 1: right now. But because it's Donnie t that's doing it,
Speaker 1: obviously it is evil and I think it is worth
Speaker 1: a watch. Let's check it out.
Speaker 12: Nold Trump is not bluffing about tariffs. As most of
Speaker 12: the world scrambles to book a meeting with the President
Speaker 12: to negotiate a trade deal, China is only escalating tensions
Speaker 12: with the United States.
Speaker 13: As you know, against my statement, they put a thirty
Speaker 13: four percent tariff on above what their ridiculous tariffs were already.
Speaker 13: And I said, if that tariff isn't removed by tomorrow.
Speaker 7: At twelve o'clock.
Speaker 13: We're putting a fifty percent tariff on above the tariffs
Speaker 13: that we put on. So they've done for years. They've
Speaker 13: become a rich country because of people. Again that we're
Speaker 13: in the White House that allowed this to happen.
Speaker 12: And true to his word, Donald Trump slapped a further
Speaker 12: tariff on China in a bid to level out the
Speaker 12: playing field.
Speaker 14: How about tariffs, Well, look, I just spoke to the
Speaker 14: President about this, and he believes that China wants to
Speaker 14: make a deal with the United States. He believes China
Speaker 14: has to make a deal with the United States. It
Speaker 14: was a mistake for China to retaliate.
Speaker 5: The President.
Speaker 14: When America is punched, he punches back harder. That's why
Speaker 14: there will be one hundred and four percent tariffs going
Speaker 14: into effect on China tonight at midnight. But the President
Speaker 14: believes that she and China want to make a deal.
Speaker 14: They just don't know how to get that started. And
Speaker 14: the President also wanted me to tell all of you
Speaker 14: that if China reaches out to make a deal, he'll
Speaker 14: be incredibly gracious, but he's going to do what's best
Speaker 14: for the American people.
Speaker 7: China has to call first.
Speaker 14: The Chinese want to make a deal, they just don't
Speaker 14: know how to do it. But the President will be
Speaker 14: implementing these one hundred and four percent tariffs on China tonight.
Speaker 12: He doubled down at a Republican function just hours ago,
Speaker 12: saying China will not be getting away with any more
Speaker 12: abuse under his leadership.
Speaker 11: What other presidents allow China to get away with is
Speaker 11: absolutely criminal. But I'm not like the other presidents, and
Speaker 11: it's not going to happen under President Trump.
Speaker 1: It's just not going to happen.
Speaker 11: After all of the abuses they've purpose traded, China's attempting
Speaker 11: to impose additional unjustified tariffs just so you understand, they
Speaker 11: all got rich because the tariffs.
Speaker 1: You know, now when we do it.
Speaker 11: Oh, it's so terrible what Trump is doing. It's so terrible.
Speaker 11: They got rich, and not only China, many countries. I mean,
Speaker 11: you look at Vietnam, you look at so many. I
Speaker 11: could name fifty right now. Biden couldn't do that. You
Speaker 11: couldn't have any name, one country, name any country. What's
Speaker 11: the name of our country? He doesn't know. That's why
Speaker 11: additional tariffs and Chinese goods are in place effective midnight
Speaker 11: tonight at one hundred and four percent until they make
Speaker 11: a deal with us. That's what it's going to be.
Speaker 11: I think they'll make a deal at some point.
Speaker 1: China will. They want to make a deal, they really do.
Speaker 1: They want to make it deal.
Speaker 11: They just don't know how to get it.
Speaker 9: So, because they're.
Speaker 11: Proud people, China will now pay a big number to
Speaker 11: our treasury. Is all taxes. And don't let them keep
Speaker 11: telling you that this is a tax on our people.
Speaker 1: I hate that, you know, they say it's a text.
Speaker 11: Now often much of it is paid.
Speaker 1: And hey, look what.
Speaker 11: Happened during my first term. We had no inflation.
Speaker 12: And in response to the mammoth tariff, China hit back
Speaker 12: with a very bizarre boycott. Chinese media are reporting that
Speaker 12: they will ban American films, which elicited a hilarious response
Speaker 12: from American commentators. This person said, China is banning Hollywood
Speaker 12: films as a result of the tariffs. If only I cared,
Speaker 12: Hollywood is morally bankrupt and will soon be financially bankrupt.
Speaker 12: Couldn't happen to a better group of people.
Speaker 1: I just want to throw this out here China, the
Speaker 1: communist country, is saying they're going to ban American movies
Speaker 1: in their country. I'm pretty sure they already had pretty
Speaker 1: harsh restrictions on what kind of Western media they allow
Speaker 1: right off the rib. But okay, that's that's a flat
Speaker 1: That's one of the flexes of the century, honestly. And also, listen, y'all,
Speaker 1: anytime that the news puts out these Chinese military parades
Speaker 1: and all of this, I've had this ask to me
Speaker 1: quite a few times, and I'm gonna get back to
Speaker 1: this video. I promise you it gets better. But they've asked,
Speaker 1: why doesn't America do military parades or victory parades like
Speaker 1: this to show America's might and all of these things
Speaker 1: like Russia does it, North Korea does it, China does it.
Speaker 1: Why don't we do it? Because to scale that just
Speaker 1: throwing this out here, for America to send all of
Speaker 1: its humb's just throwing it out to DC and to
Speaker 1: let one of them roll every minute, it would take
Speaker 1: three days.
Speaker 2: That's why we don't do those types.
Speaker 1: Of parades in this country because it's not Why why
Speaker 1: would we do such a thing. We don't need to
Speaker 1: flex our military might It's kind of like that old
Speaker 1: adage from the Game of Thrones, right, he who is
Speaker 1: king doesn't have to tell you he's king. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: leave that there, let's continue.
Speaker 6: But some are.
Speaker 12: Taking the move more seriously, Noting the substantial revenue that
Speaker 12: flows into Hollywood from China. This commentator said recent data
Speaker 12: shows Hollywood films generated more box office revenue in China
Speaker 12: than in the US, highlighting their significant profitability in the market.
Speaker 12: This commentator agreed, saying China to ban Hollywood films in
Speaker 12: retaliation for Trump tariffs five hundred million in US box
Speaker 12: office at risk and whilst the.
Speaker 1: Democrat again, is anybody actually upset by that like any
Speaker 1: normal people? Is anybody, like any normal American citizen like
Speaker 1: super upset that Hollywood might suffer from this? I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure most of us can't stand Hollywood, But all right,
Speaker 1: moving on, crowd's.
Speaker 12: A deicizing the Trump administration for their courageous tariffs. It
Speaker 12: seems as though they do actually agree with him. Resurf
Speaker 12: It's footage of Chuck Schumer passionately advocating for a twenty
Speaker 12: seven point five percent tariff on China in two thousand
Speaker 12: and five sounds remarkably similar to the point Trump has
Speaker 12: been making.
Speaker 15: It says to the Chinese enough already. It says to
Speaker 15: the Chinese that their unfair trade policies have got to end.
Speaker 7: It says to the Chinese, this.
Speaker 15: Is a shot across your bow reform, because if you don't,
Speaker 15: there are going to be dramatic consequences throughout the world,
Speaker 15: in our country and in your country as well. The
Speaker 15: bottom line is very simple, mister President. The Chinese have
Speaker 15: enjoyed a huge trade surplus with the United States, as
Speaker 15: this chart shows, every year it gets larger and larger
Speaker 15: and larger.
Speaker 12: And if we go further back, Nanci Pelosi echoed the
Speaker 12: same criticism against China in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 16: How far does China have to go, how much more repression,
Speaker 16: how big a trade deficit and loss of jobs for
Speaker 16: the American worker, and how much more dangerous proliferation has
Speaker 16: to exist before members of this House of Representatives will say,
Speaker 16: I will not endorse.
Speaker 1: The status quo.
Speaker 16: As I mentioned, it's about jobs, proliferation, and human rights.
Speaker 16: And there are those who say we shouldn't link human
Speaker 16: rights in trade and proliferation and trade.
Speaker 1: I disagree.
Speaker 16: But if we just want to take up this issue
Speaker 16: on the basis of economics alone. Indeed, China should not
Speaker 16: receive Most Favored Nation status.
Speaker 12: And in twenty twelve, Barack Obama took a similar hardline
Speaker 12: stance against China.
Speaker 17: We had a tire case in which they were utting
Speaker 17: us with cheap domestic tires or cheap Chinese tires, and
Speaker 17: we put a stop to it and as a consequence,
Speaker 17: saved jobs throughout America. I have to say that Governor
Speaker 17: Romney criticized me for being too tough in that tire case,
Speaker 17: said this wouldn't be good for American workers, and then
Speaker 17: it would be protectionists. But I tell you those workers
Speaker 17: don't feel that way.
Speaker 12: But of course when Trump does it, the Democrats lose
Speaker 12: their minds.
Speaker 8: This newfound hatred of tariffs from the left stands in
Speaker 8: stark opposition to what Democrats were saying in the past.
Speaker 1: Beautifully said, beautifully said, I love it. I absolutely love it.
Speaker 1: They throw shade when it, you know, goes in line
Speaker 1: with them, and then they also take a stance when
Speaker 1: it's not anyway. At home, real quick, we're going to
Speaker 1: check out the chat real quick. If anybody wants to
Speaker 1: chime in with some thoughts. Please feel free to do so.
Speaker 1: No need to raise a hand here. Let's see the hell.
Speaker 1: Now is a perfect time to buy before everything skyrockets. Yes,
Speaker 1: but also I would I am very curious to see
Speaker 1: which items and which types of things actually do skyrocket
Speaker 1: and how many of these things actually go down in price,
Speaker 1: because now that we're imposing tariffs on them, maybe they'll
Speaker 1: come off of it a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't know that for a fact. I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see what happens next.
Speaker 1: Thus far, it's been nothing but green lights as far
Speaker 1: as my research is shown. Yep, I'm giddy and feel
Speaker 1: better for it. Thank you, Merlin. I agree good things there.
Speaker 1: I'm glad that the trend is lower. Hold on, Raven,
Speaker 1: you sent something here. What is this representative? Marjorie Taylor Green? Okay,
Speaker 1: China should stop murdering Americans with fentanyl instead of trying
Speaker 1: to fight a tariff battle they can't win. God, I
Speaker 1: love when she talks that shit. Absolutely, America is a
Speaker 1: consumption economy and we have the upper hand, and China
Speaker 1: imposes the death penalty for selling drugs in their own country,
Speaker 1: So they need to stop being hypocrites and stop murdering Americans.
Speaker 1: I agree with what Miss Green is saying. However, that's
Speaker 1: also I think that's China's ploy, right. Wasn't it just
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago that they showed that baby
Speaker 1: toys from China actually had lead paint on them, and
Speaker 1: it was, like, I kind of think it was a
Speaker 1: long form way of trying to reduce America's population, whether
Speaker 1: we're at an actual war with China or a Cold
Speaker 1: war or an economic war. Listen, the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is China is currently our biggest enemy, our biggest
Speaker 1: threat to the American way of life. I know that's
Speaker 1: going to be counterintuitive to what some people believe, and
Speaker 1: that whole situation with Obama, with the with the tires,
Speaker 1: you know, sales and all of that. Mitt Romney one
Speaker 1: of the most prolific rhinos to ever walk through DC.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget his kid was also involved in the
Speaker 1: Beisma scandal in Ukraine alongside Hunter Biden, alongside Chelsea Clinton.
Speaker 1: So to see that he was also super in bed
Speaker 1: with China with a tire deal, that also sounds like
Speaker 1: it's pretty much the standard.
Speaker 2: Mitt Romney's kind of been a cuck for way too long.
Speaker 1: Here, Merlin says, you know, I feel bad about anyone
Speaker 1: whose retirement was in for one case, but I've got
Speaker 1: to say, it's really hard to choose which stock to
Speaker 1: pick since all of them are so low. Yes, I
Speaker 1: agree with that. However, the S and P five hundred
Speaker 1: is currently up three thousand points, So I mean I
Speaker 1: and again I I can't get down with the stock market.
Speaker 1: I'm not good at gambling. I never have been, and
Speaker 1: I understand it's in a style of investing, not knocking it,
Speaker 1: not throwing shade. I just also don't get down with
Speaker 1: it myself because it's nothing that you can actually bank on.
Speaker 1: The stocks go up and down based off of who
Speaker 1: won the last election. You know, it plummets for any
Speaker 1: reason that it just decided to do. Bubbles happen and
Speaker 1: then they burst, and there's so much outside sources that
Speaker 1: can affect it. I don't see that as a viable
Speaker 1: retirement option, although it's the most viable that most people
Speaker 1: deal with. And I agree, there's a lot of people
Speaker 1: that have absolutely lost their ass in the four oh
Speaker 1: one k in the stock markets under Biden since Trump's
Speaker 1: been in. Yeah, it took it took a good spike,
Speaker 1: then it dipped a little bit. Today it's at a
Speaker 1: massive spike. The pendulum is gonna swing both ways on this.
Speaker 1: I know that it's gonna come down, that three thousand
Speaker 1: is not gonna stay where it's at, but I also
Speaker 1: have hopes that it will continue to go up. The
Speaker 1: American economy seems to be in a very upward trajectory,
Speaker 1: especially now that these terrifts are getting put on countries.
Speaker 1: So I have hopes. That's just me here, let's see,
Speaker 1: let's continue here, Raven said super off note, but multiple
Speaker 1: articles dropped women over forty having babies or having babies
Speaker 1: that team for the first time in decades. Oh, women
Speaker 1: over forty are having more babies than teens for the
Speaker 1: first time in decades. I find that to be good. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean not necessarily the over forty part. Fine, whatever,
Speaker 1: I don't you know, as long as you're doing it
Speaker 1: healthily and you're not putting yourself for the baby at risk. Fine,
Speaker 1: But like, that's good that adults are having more kids
Speaker 1: than teenagers for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1: That's a very positive step in the right direction of
Speaker 1: my opinion. But hey, positive things here. It's like the
Speaker 1: South Park episode when China was consensoring everything, and Randy
Speaker 1: had to kill Winnie the Pooh. I couldn't give less
Speaker 1: of a fuck about some dumbass communist lepon. Yes, Alex, Yes,
Speaker 1: I absolutely agree. It's good.
Speaker 2: On here it says, uh, what do you mean, Eu Loo,
Speaker 2: She's a total fox?
Speaker 1: Wait? Which one? Pelosi br Okay Merlin, Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need you to justify that statement. Yes, I know that
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi's got them heavy's owner. I wouldn't call her
Speaker 1: a fox. Mighty means dude. I mean maybe in her
Speaker 1: younger days. Maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 9: That's the total opinion. They asked about context. I should
Speaker 9: have put parentheses around total fair.
Speaker 1: Enough, fair enough, fair enough. Although I did find it
Speaker 1: interesting that her and Chuck Schumer and Obama were all
Speaker 1: saying the same thing about tariffs on China that yeah, that's.
Speaker 9: Totally crazy like but that seems to be the cycle
Speaker 9: with everything, Like before Trump was all all against COVID
Speaker 9: and saying it was from China. Everybody was selling him
Speaker 9: to lock down, do this, do that, do this, it's
Speaker 9: China's bah blah blah blah. Can you just say something?
Speaker 9: And then they all turned on him. As soon as
Speaker 9: he started saying something yeah, it was like, hmmm, but
Speaker 9: with that whole thing, that's that's crazy. Like did you
Speaker 9: see how before the COVID virus got locked down and
Speaker 9: the lockdowns happened, that they were actually protesting in China
Speaker 9: because they wanted democracy rights, And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 9: this COVID virus gets put out and everything goes on lockdown,
Speaker 9: shutting down their protests completely. That blew my mind. I
Speaker 9: was like, why isn't that.
Speaker 7: In the news.
Speaker 1: Well, the news that we get out of China is
Speaker 1: very heavily scripted. It's like news from Russia. It's Russian
Speaker 1: state media, So I mean, it's never going to be
Speaker 1: the entire full story. There is currently riots in Moscow
Speaker 1: and in Saint Petersburg all over Russia calling for Putin
Speaker 1: to be brought down. Well, we'll never hear about that,
Speaker 1: or at least not on any kind of mainstream source.
Speaker 1: If anything's going to be fringe and quote unquote tabloid sources,
Speaker 1: because oh no, the Russians love Putin.
Speaker 2: He's there, exalted leader, bro. He has sent how many millions.
Speaker 1: Or to the front lines. I think their death toll, right,
Speaker 1: now is rapidly approaching. Well, I say death toll, it's
Speaker 1: a casualty toll, because not all casualties end in death.
Speaker 1: But yo, they have absolutely lost over half a million,
Speaker 1: if not approaching six hundred thousand right now. And I
Speaker 1: mean that's not a good thing. And nobody in Russia
Speaker 1: won it in the first place, no matter what the
Speaker 1: media will tell you that they wanted. It's yeah, but
Speaker 1: of course we're not going to hear that. China with
Speaker 1: the same thing going on. They had riots all over
Speaker 1: China before the lockdowns happened, then the lockdowns took place,
Speaker 1: and again it's I would rather the lockdowns in China
Speaker 1: over Tianaman square two point oh. But what's to say
Speaker 1: that they didn't have a version of Tianaman square two
Speaker 1: point zero and they just kind of never talked about
Speaker 1: it because China has no problems losing a million people tomorrow.
Speaker 1: They don't care. If anything, I would actually help them
Speaker 1: less mouths to feed, which is the other side of
Speaker 1: this coin. With all these tariffs that America's putting on
Speaker 1: China and China's putting on America, their biggest export from
Speaker 1: US that they require like to survive is soy. They
Speaker 1: buy a metric fuck ton of American soy just to
Speaker 1: feed their people because they are starving there. Maybe not
Speaker 1: to the level of North Korea starving, but like the Chinese,
Speaker 1: the Chinese government cannot produce enough food to feed all
Speaker 1: of the mouths that they've created.
Speaker 2: That's why they put the single child policy in place.
Speaker 1: Now, with that, they screwed themselves out of their biggest
Speaker 1: economic push, which was their manpower, their sweatshop labor force.
Speaker 1: That's gone. That is now, and in the next twenty
Speaker 1: to thirty years, the workforce that will be required to
Speaker 1: maintain what China has won't be there. So that's why
Speaker 1: China's been taking more of an economic approach to capitalizing
Speaker 1: on the situation more than a manpower approach because they
Speaker 1: no longer have that advantage, but they still have these
Speaker 1: mouths to feed, and they are buying American soy. And
Speaker 1: now America just said, Okay, you're gonna charge us this
Speaker 1: much money to buy our products that you require to
Speaker 1: feed your people. Fine, we can play this game. So
Speaker 1: I'm yeah, interesting stuff, interesting stuff across the board here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna share the screen again one more time, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from mister wonderful. Y'all know that I'm
Speaker 1: a bit of a fan of his as far as
Speaker 1: his uh, his money mind works. And yes, he is
Speaker 1: a dick, I'm aware of that, but he's a dick
Speaker 1: that knows how to make money. And he's the type
Speaker 1: of dude that knows how to make money, make money.
Speaker 1: He's very much like Trump in so many regards. So
Speaker 1: let's see what he has to say about all of this.
Speaker 1: A lot of all AXI leave in the market right now.
Speaker 18: And here's why this uncertainty in terms of how long
Speaker 18: these tariffs will be in place. Everybody understands that Donald
Speaker 18: Trump's a negotiator. He's using these tools to negotiate what
Speaker 18: he wants, in very simple terms, is reciprocal tariffs on
Speaker 18: every product in every country.
Speaker 7: There are different schedules.
Speaker 18: India has a different one than Ireland has, in Canada has,
Speaker 18: in Mexico has. But he's just doing it right across
Speaker 18: the Board's saying, look.
Speaker 1: It's gonna charge us one hundredercent tariffs. We're going to
Speaker 1: charge one hundred percent.
Speaker 18: The idea eventually is to have free trade with no tariffs.
Speaker 18: The question the market's asking is how long is that
Speaker 18: going to take? And that's why you're seeing this volatility. However,
Speaker 18: the economy is still pretty strong, so this may be
Speaker 18: a buying opportunity.
Speaker 1: You just don't know.
Speaker 18: So you layer in, you nibble, as I like to say,
Speaker 18: and I've been doing a little nibbling. But you see
Speaker 18: the volatility in the market, you've got to get used
Speaker 18: to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes your stomach feel cuasy, Get over it, okay.
Speaker 2: So basically that was in reference to what's going on
Speaker 2: with the stock market.
Speaker 1: And yes, the volatility is not going to feel good,
Speaker 1: especially especially for people that had their entire retirement wrapped
Speaker 1: up in four one k's that are based off of
Speaker 1: the stock spikes. I get it. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: if these other countries can play ball and remove all tariffs,
Speaker 1: that's good for all parties. If they don't and the
Speaker 1: tariffs stay at a ten percent, ten percent, twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty five, whatever the case would be, then everybody's eating.
Speaker 1: Either way that goes, everybody eats, and all right, that's
Speaker 1: the way it's gotta happen. That's the way it's gotta happen.
Speaker 1: I don't exactly know what the future is gonna hold.
Speaker 1: As far as the stock market's concerned, I don't see
Speaker 1: it going down like into the you know, deficit or
Speaker 1: anything like that. I don't see a crash happening anytime soon. Again,
Speaker 1: speaking completely out of my ass on this, I'm not
Speaker 1: an economist. I don't even fully understand how the stock
Speaker 1: market operates. Watching Wolf of Wall Street taught me that
Speaker 1: it's all ethereal faery dust. It's nothingness that people are
Speaker 1: betting on, basically, and I don't understand it. But that
Speaker 1: being said, what these companies could do, okay, foreign companies,
Speaker 1: American companies, whatever the case. If they were to build
Speaker 1: manufacturing facilities on US soil, the products sold that were
Speaker 1: made in the local facility wouldn't be tariffed. So the
Speaker 1: other side of that would be that name a foreign
Speaker 1: company doesn't matter who makes a product in a foreign country.
Speaker 1: If they were to set up a facility in America
Speaker 1: to make the product and sell it to the Americans,
Speaker 1: the tariff is no longer valid. It goes away. It
Speaker 1: was made in America, probably by American workers for the
Speaker 1: American consumer. So either a, they will give Americans jobs
Speaker 1: if it doesn't get taken over by robotics and AI.
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand. The theory here is that it
Speaker 1: would open up more job opportunities for Americans. B. It
Speaker 1: would equalize the economies to where nobody's getting shafted or
Speaker 1: everybody's getting shafted equally, and by everybody, I mean government
Speaker 1: to government, not the consumer. C. It could potentially make
Speaker 1: it to where all these tariffs go away and it's
Speaker 1: cheaper to buy everything. So, as far as I can tell,
Speaker 1: making it a reciprocal tariff situation will lead to a
Speaker 1: a good option, be an okay option, or see a
Speaker 1: good option. It doesn't seem like a negative at this point.
Speaker 1: Now again, that remains to be seen because this just
Speaker 1: started to take place. Trump hadn't even been in office
Speaker 1: six months yet. Can y'all imagine what we'll be talking
Speaker 1: about when it comes time for his turn to be
Speaker 1: over and all the things that he has done. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, it's wild things go ahead, Merlin.
Speaker 9: That's one thing I've been thinking about a lot too.
Speaker 9: Like it's a Republican party wants to keep all of
Speaker 9: this implemented.
Speaker 7: They need to start like.
Speaker 9: Going out and hitting the streets now, like finding a
Speaker 9: good candidate to take over for him, because I don't
Speaker 9: really like jd. Vance, Like the boy's got mouth on
Speaker 9: him and he seems to pipe off way too much,
Speaker 9: Like wait, wait he did with Zelenski, Like there's a
Speaker 9: more gentleman way of doing that. Yeah, yeah, I was like,
Speaker 9: do you just kind of watch it from me right there?
Speaker 9: But yeah, in four years, the Democrats are more likely
Speaker 9: going to get back in because the penzel m Away
Speaker 9: swings really far one way goes back the other way.
Speaker 1: I see that at all. I don't even know who
Speaker 1: the Democrats could put up, though, I've heard a few
Speaker 1: different political talking heads say this, dude, the Liberal Party.
Speaker 1: The Democrats have gone so far off the rails with
Speaker 1: the wild and psychotic rhetoric that the only way that
Speaker 1: you could be a quote unquote true Democrat in the
Speaker 1: political sphere anymore is if you side with that far left,
Speaker 1: psycho extremist side of things. All the Republicans have to
Speaker 1: do is put up a semi normal candidate against one
Speaker 1: of these psychopaths. And it's like, I think that I've
Speaker 1: heard some people say that if they just continue down
Speaker 1: this road, the Democrats will never win another election in America.
Speaker 1: I don't know that to be a fact. But I
Speaker 1: could also see a world where Trump is grooming Don
Speaker 1: Junior or Ivanka to run behind him and kind of
Speaker 1: make a Trump dynasty happen. Yeah, I don't. I know.
Speaker 7: AOC seems like a pretty good like. She speaks to
Speaker 7: the younger popularity.
Speaker 9: Like my little brother loves AOC and I don't really
Speaker 9: see why.
Speaker 1: But I don't understand it with AOC, dude, she's a socialist,
Speaker 1: loud and proud proclaimed socialist. I don't think that she
Speaker 1: will win an American election. There's no way. The closest
Speaker 1: that they had to running a socialist was Bernie Sanders,
Speaker 1: and they cut his legs out from under him in
Speaker 1: favor of killery, and then we saw how well that
Speaker 1: worked out.
Speaker 2: AOC speaks to the younger generation. I'll give you that,
Speaker 2: But most of that younger generation hasn't truly entered the.
Speaker 1: Workforce just yet. They may have just broke out, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Or they're still in college and
Speaker 1: they haven't really gotten a taste of what the actual
Speaker 1: real world is like yet. I have this weird, sneaking suspicion.
Speaker 1: You notice that too, most of these college kids that
Speaker 1: are like bleeding heart liberals while they're at these universities
Speaker 1: and stuff, become wildly conservative by the time they're thirty five.
Speaker 1: Whenever they get a job that has a four oh
Speaker 1: one K and they realize that their votes actually can
Speaker 1: equate to their retirement possibilities, all of a sudden, they
Speaker 1: start voting a whole different way. Now, aside from the
Speaker 1: big cities. You're never going to get out of it
Speaker 1: with the big cities. But by and large, a lot
Speaker 1: of these people that keep thinking these things, like these
Speaker 1: younger kids that we always see on the news that
Speaker 1: these riots and protests cut to them. Ten years later,
Speaker 1: they sing a completely different tune. I don't really see
Speaker 1: AOC having a snowballs chance in hell of winning an
Speaker 1: election against even a moderate conservative, especially after Donald Trump
Speaker 1: with these types of economic policies. All the Republicans have
Speaker 1: to do is pick any guy that can do what
Speaker 1: Trump did, or at least following those footsteps and kind
Speaker 1: of ride that wave. I see the next two or
Speaker 1: three elections going to the Republican side if they can
Speaker 1: just do that. And again I agree with you, they
Speaker 1: have to start grooming somebody for that position now. But
Speaker 1: I also think that Trump thinks five steps ahead. I
Speaker 1: think that he's probably got somebody in the in the
Speaker 1: line that he's thinking that he would endorse. And I
Speaker 1: also feel like an endorsement from Trump would go a
Speaker 1: hell of a long way as far as the way
Speaker 1: Americans see things in the current standings. But I agree
Speaker 1: with you one hundred percent, go ahead, Royce.
Speaker 10: So the only thing that I have to say about
Speaker 10: AOC is in the chat pretty much. And it seems
Speaker 10: like most people on the Cult of Conspiracy slash Cajun
Speaker 10: night peoples. We know that AOC is vapid, she is
Speaker 10: full of nonsense.
Speaker 7: She's socialists.
Speaker 10: But I think that the people that are just looking
Speaker 10: at her as a container and not what the content is.
Speaker 10: I think that's the thing is people see her as
Speaker 10: being young and oh, look, she came from being a bartender, and.
Speaker 7: She's she is charismatic.
Speaker 10: There's one thing that we can say is that she
Speaker 10: tries to be very charismatic, and unfortunately, people who are
Speaker 10: very charismatic can lure and low people to a horrendous degree. Also,
Speaker 10: people in the opposite party, they're going to say, oh,
Speaker 10: oh my god, we've had all these years of years
Speaker 10: of Trump, But we can't have.
Speaker 7: Any more and no more dynasty, no more of this,
Speaker 7: no more.
Speaker 10: It's like they're going to be doubling down as well,
Speaker 10: because then obviously, but we're going to have you know,
Speaker 10: four years or three and a half four years by
Speaker 10: that point.
Speaker 7: But they're just looking at her.
Speaker 10: As being a young female, charismatic, attractive woman, and they're like, Okay,
Speaker 10: well this is I mean, she's a face, you know,
Speaker 10: just like with some of the other people have been
Speaker 10: for the last you know, X amount of years it
Speaker 10: has been, you know, a puppet.
Speaker 1: I agree, I absolutely agree, And yeah, charismatic quote unquote.
Speaker 1: I'll give you that, she can speak, and yeah, the
Speaker 1: younger population, the younger generation sees her as some sort
Speaker 1: of a i'll use the term inspiration very very loosely here,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I agree with you. But yeah, she's she's
Speaker 1: got nothing of substance, Like even the what was that
Speaker 1: picture with the whole kids in cages thing, and she
Speaker 1: went to the border and was like screaming and wailing
Speaker 1: at the chain link fence because she was so broken hearted.
Speaker 1: Then you pan out and she's outside of a parking
Speaker 1: lot like it was. It was not even pretend it
Speaker 1: was a whole photo op that was trying to be
Speaker 1: used by the media in that way. I don't. And
Speaker 1: besides that, she's also one of the psycholiberals like she
Speaker 1: sides with. And it's not even just the I see you, Alex,
Speaker 1: I see you talking that tranny shit over it. And
Speaker 1: it's not even that. It's not even the LGBTQ element
Speaker 1: O p whatever group, right. It is the socioeconomic policies
Speaker 1: and the social policies and the just day to day
Speaker 1: living standards that that side is now saying should be normal.
Speaker 1: And it's the American people have spoken, we don't want
Speaker 1: that existence, we don't want that reality for ourselves. I
Speaker 1: don't think that she understands that, because I think she
Speaker 1: also lives in an echo chamber of that psychosis, if
Speaker 1: you will. But yeah, no, I agree with you, Royce.
Speaker 1: I don't see her getting the nomination, at least for
Speaker 1: a good bit.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: I have heard some again psychopaths say that ilam Omar,
Speaker 1: y'all know who I'm talking about, the the representative from
Speaker 1: was it Michigan or something like that, the one that
Speaker 1: always wears the turban and shit. Never mind the fact
Speaker 1: that she married her brother, which is also confirmed right
Speaker 1: she she married her actual brother to get a visa
Speaker 1: to move to the US and then try to claim
Speaker 1: that in their culture that's very normal. And it's like
Speaker 1: you you understand you said this out loud on the mic,
Speaker 1: and like it's this is what I'm saying, dude, it is.
Speaker 1: It's not even throwing shade. It's more or less just
Speaker 1: like repeating the things that they said out loud, and
Speaker 1: then they say it like we're making fun of them.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, we're you said it. This is a
Speaker 1: you thing, AOC with the same way the whole Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I don't really see the Liberals having any candidate
Speaker 1: that could potentially even look like a decent option currently anyway.
Speaker 2: Now, maybe they could start shifting gears.
Speaker 1: Maybe they could pull their head out of their collective
Speaker 1: asses and put somebody up that's got, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: a couple of brain cells to rub together.
Speaker 2: Maybe say like, look y'all, I'm just left of center.
Speaker 1: The d by my name isn't like I'm not one
Speaker 1: of those Democrats, I'm like one of these Maybe they
Speaker 1: could do that. I just I don't see it, because
Speaker 1: in order to win the democratic election in your local
Speaker 1: area or whatever the case is, they have to go
Speaker 1: into the realm of talking psycho. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: Zombie slash Raven Lee said, literally the dumbest politician AOC. No,
Speaker 1: I agree, charismatic Ben Carson charismatic like under the bridge
Speaker 1: crack addict looking sug tick for their next hit.
Speaker 19: Yo.
Speaker 1: For real, the AOC does have serious crackhr vibes right, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be a dick, but like she's
Speaker 1: got those crazy eyes.
Speaker 2: Unronically, she's got crazy eyes.
Speaker 1: Bro, that's a real thing up for real, also says
Speaker 1: Ben Carson, fried her alive. Yeah, and I saw earlier,
Speaker 1: said I hope Ben Carson gets it. I don't dislike
Speaker 1: doctor Ben Carson for his policies or his beliefs. I
Speaker 1: like him a lot. I do that being said, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's got the stones to do something
Speaker 1: to follow Trump's act. You see what I'm saying. I don't.
Speaker 1: I think he's too moderate for and I mean, at
Speaker 1: one point in time America wanted that we needed a
Speaker 1: moderate conservative to come in and kind of like shift
Speaker 1: things in a more conservative manner. If Trump has shown anything,
Speaker 1: he has shown that America doesn't want moderate we want action.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I might I could be so
Speaker 1: wrong here. I just don't feel like Ben Carson would
Speaker 1: take enough action that the American people would respond to,
Speaker 1: especially when you're like economically, I'm not saying he's not
Speaker 1: a brilliant guy and a brilliant surgeon and all the things.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he would have the foresight to
Speaker 1: choose a cabinet that could steer him in the direction
Speaker 1: to do things like Donnie t is doing right now.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong. I could be wrong.
Speaker 2: I don't see him as a bad choice, a bad
Speaker 2: candidate to run.
Speaker 1: I think there's probably better people or better people that
Speaker 1: are suited for the role. I should say that. And
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying Trump's kids or anything like that,
Speaker 1: Like I'm I think it'll be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: who Trump nominates or he might actually be the one
Speaker 1: to push a nomination, but at least who he endorses
Speaker 1: for sure. Uh, this is why libtards are called fucking retards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for real, for real, alex I agree. Uh, Well, plenty
Speaker 1: of people waiting in line for their mouth, oh oo
Speaker 1: for AOC's mouth.
Speaker 2: Dude, is there really people out there that find her attractive.
Speaker 1: That was a dumb question. That was a dumb question.
Speaker 1: Everybody on my six under pound wife has a significant other,
Speaker 1: so of course there's somebody that thinks AOC's attracted. That
Speaker 1: was a silly question of me. Sorry about that. She's not.
Speaker 7: She's also not the worst looking woman in the world.
Speaker 7: You have to admit that she's not.
Speaker 1: She's not.
Speaker 7: She's not a ten, she's not a seven.
Speaker 10: But I try, I was, I was trying there.
Speaker 1: No, I mean, but I like my women with meat
Speaker 1: on their bones. She's a twig. So she's completely not
Speaker 1: even in the realm of like even semideas and looking
Speaker 1: to me personally. But I know I'm a little different
Speaker 1: in that regard.
Speaker 7: I don't you just gotta put a little coc in her.
Speaker 1: I'm good, all yo, for real, it's the eyes for me.
Speaker 1: I can't deal with the crazy eyes. Like that's that's
Speaker 1: too much. You know, there's like she's dead inside. She
Speaker 1: either she's possessed or b she's like fully dead inside.
Speaker 1: And she's a puppet, like an actual somebody's got their
Speaker 1: hands shoved up her, moving her mouth forward because like
Speaker 1: no person with a brainstem would be able to say
Speaker 1: these things as often as she does. She went on
Speaker 1: Facebook Live and gave hints to the illegal immigrants on
Speaker 1: how to evade ice. A normal politician, elected official would understand, like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's illegal, maybe you shouldn't do that. But of course
Speaker 1: it was for the it was for the eyes, right,
Speaker 1: it was to get her name and keep her relevant
Speaker 1: and all these things. But it's like, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's silliness. It's absolute silliness, all right. She reminds me
Speaker 1: of my ex Merlin. For real, AOC reminds you of
Speaker 1: your ex. You dated a psycho Latina, didn't you, Yep,
Speaker 1: that's hort. Did she try to stab you?
Speaker 9: No, but my mom did.
Speaker 1: Her mom did.
Speaker 9: No, my mom tried to stab me. My mom's full
Speaker 9: blood Mexican. Dude, she's crazy, like old school mom. Like,
Speaker 9: didn't get hit with a broomstick. I got hit with
Speaker 9: a frying pan. I I talked back. She was like, motherfucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, lies detected. Latina women are known to pull
Speaker 1: sharp objects when things get a little emotional and heated.
Speaker 1: No lies detected. I just I don't know, AOC, Actually,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know if she would even consider
Speaker 1: herself to be Latina enough to grab a knife and
Speaker 1: try to staber significant other. I think she's been too Americanized.
Speaker 1: Does she even speak Spanish? Yeah, a little bit, a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 9: But I have a feeling it would beat her selling needles.
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe. Oh, let's see. He's a really good balance
Speaker 1: and he's very strong and presenting his ideas. I think
Speaker 1: you were talking about Ben Carson their Raven, and I'm
Speaker 1: again I don't dislike him at all. Who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: after Trump, the Republican Party will want somebody a little
Speaker 1: more moderate in their beliefs and maybe not so over
Speaker 1: the top with everything. It's very possible the pendulum's got
Speaker 1: a swing in certain regards. Maybe we could keep it
Speaker 1: on this side, but maybe not to the farthest extreme
Speaker 1: of it. May we'll come a little closer to quote
Speaker 1: unquote normalcy in some way. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Uh. All right, so we are getting ready to wrap up.
Speaker 1: But I did want to read at least one of
Speaker 1: these articles that Raven sent because yeah, I saw this
Speaker 1: one too. For the record, elan Omar reacts to the news,
Speaker 1: claiming to confirm that she married her brother. By the way,
Speaker 1: if anybody wants to go check that out. It's not
Speaker 1: a joke. She absolutely legally married her brother, and the
Speaker 1: story goes that they may not have parented any children,
Speaker 1: but per that culture, they had to consummate the marriage.
Speaker 1: But I digress. I digress. So now we're gonna read
Speaker 1: this from the Times now world. Is Texas getting a
Speaker 1: what the hell's state records? Is Texas getting a four
Speaker 1: hundred and two acre self governed Islamic city? Here's what
Speaker 1: we know. Wow, Texas getting a yep, all right, we
Speaker 1: you simply must read about this one. A rural video
Speaker 1: has garnered attention online claiming that a four hundred and
Speaker 1: two acre self governed Islamic city is being built in Texas.
Speaker 1: The development, called Epic City, is a proposed residential and
Speaker 1: commercial project led by East Plano Islamic Center.
Speaker 11: Wow.
Speaker 1: A video circulating Wiline on social media, has gained widespread attention.
Speaker 1: We just read that one. Okay, I don't know why
Speaker 1: I did that. Option. Is this the video? Let's check
Speaker 1: it out.
Speaker 19: Four hundred two acres of beautiful scenery. Welcome to the
Speaker 19: future of living, Welcome to Epic City. Awesome nestled in
Speaker 19: the heart of Josephine Texas. It is about twenty miles
Speaker 19: in twenty mi.
Speaker 1: From Epic.
Speaker 7: Long Long.
Speaker 19: Welcome to Epic two point zero mad. Epic City is
Speaker 19: more than just a neighborhood. It's a way of life.
Speaker 19: A meticulously designed community that brings this alarm to the forefront,
Speaker 19: a community that blends with nature, crafted to elevate your
Speaker 19: living experience with single family homes, multi family town homes
Speaker 19: and apartments, senior living, and in the heart a mosque
Speaker 19: and a school.
Speaker 1: Okay, I know I'm not the only one that heard
Speaker 1: the very loud a lowha snack bar on that one, right,
Speaker 1: Oh for sure, Oh my god. And also the blending
Speaker 1: of nature. And I didn't see one tree. It's just
Speaker 1: it's a gaety community. It's a it's a giant, fancy neighborhood.
Speaker 1: Any kind of blending of nature. But okay, that's that's
Speaker 1: a claim. Let's go here. Epic announced plans for in
Speaker 1: early twenty twenty four for what it described as a
Speaker 1: historic project, quote unquote, a residential and commercial development near Josephine, Texas,
Speaker 1: roughly thirty minutes from its Plano based mosque. As reported
Speaker 1: by The Daily Mail, the project includes proposals for one
Speaker 1: thousand homes, a school, a shopping complex, and a central
Speaker 1: mosque intended to serve a growing Muslim population. However, the
Speaker 1: proposal has encountered stiff resistance. No bruh for real, you
Speaker 1: think like this ain't this ain't Deer Park, Michigan.
Speaker 2: Bro, this is this is Dallas, Texas area.
Speaker 1: Okay. A recent public meeting at the Collin County Commissioner's
Speaker 1: Court saw dozens of residents voicing objections, raging from infrastructure
Speaker 1: concerns to allegations that the development could promote religious extremism,
Speaker 1: reported Daily Mail. While the property lies out outside Josephine
Speaker 1: City limits, locals have expressed worry over noise from the
Speaker 1: call to prayer, with some stress on water supply and
Speaker 1: a few other issues. Yeah, unless you like the call
Speaker 1: to prayer that I could see that getting old real quick.
Speaker 1: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken a tough stance, directing
Speaker 1: state agencies to investigate the development.
Speaker 2: In a statement last week, Abbott accused EPIC.
Speaker 1: Of multiple legal violations, including operating a funeral home without
Speaker 1: a license and failing to obtain necessary construction permits. EPIC representatives,
Speaker 1: while declining to comment directly, to The Daily Mail, told
Speaker 1: CBS Texas that they intend to comply fully with the
Speaker 1: legal requirements and characterize much of the backlash as rooted
Speaker 1: Oh Jesus hey when it does that in rooted in
Speaker 1: misinformation direct quote here. We understand that there has been
Speaker 1: a lot of rumor milling and misinformation circulated by many
Speaker 1: who are uninformed. We look forward to working with the
Speaker 1: Attorney General to ensure we are in legal compliance every
Speaker 1: step of the way, said the mosque in a statement.
Speaker 1: No construction has begun on the site, and the project's
Speaker 1: official website lists twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven
Speaker 1: as a potential move in timeline, as per The Daily Mail,
Speaker 1: with the permit vote by Collin County scheduled for April fourteenth,
Speaker 1: the future of the epic city remains uncertain, so that
Speaker 1: vote is coming up. While the viral video claims the
Speaker 1: community aims to establish independent governance based on religious law, okay,
Speaker 1: no official documentation has confirmed such intent. At present, the
Speaker 1: project appears to be a large scale housing and community
Speaker 1: development initiative with religious affiliation pending state and county approval. Okay.
Speaker 1: That is that is absolutely a thing. That's happening right now, Merlin,
Speaker 1: I saw your hand raise go ahead.
Speaker 9: Is this going anybody else a bad feeling? Because it's
Speaker 9: gonna be a bad feeling. I'm kind of curious to
Speaker 9: see that overhead layout of the area to see if
Speaker 9: there's any symbolism in it, because that's kind of like,
Speaker 9: how are you going to operate a separate community inside
Speaker 9: of the United States, Like they're gonna like that's like
Speaker 9: putting something of the Vaticans, which I mean church just considered, yes,
Speaker 9: but like if you move Vatican into the United States,
Speaker 9: that doesn't really feel logistical.
Speaker 8: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: So, Okay, to straw Man, this, the Amish operate a
Speaker 1: cut off community. That is, they operate off of religious
Speaker 1: law and they're completely off the beaten path. They're doing
Speaker 1: their own thing. They sell their goods in the regular world,
Speaker 1: but then they live in their own world. So there
Speaker 1: is at least some sort of historical precedence for this
Speaker 1: in America. I get that. That being said, I have
Speaker 1: a really really hard time envisioning a gated community where
Speaker 1: sharial law is the law of the land just happening.
Speaker 1: I have a really hard time seeing that and acially,
Speaker 1: bro It's not like you're going off into the desert
Speaker 1: of Arizona where there's nobody for like one hundred miles,
Speaker 1: and you're like building a community out that way. You
Speaker 1: might get away with it. Then Texas, of all the
Speaker 1: places where you think that's gonna go down, they are
Speaker 1: choosing Texas that uh hmm. Yeah. I have a real
Speaker 1: real hard time believing that Governor Abbott is going to
Speaker 1: even allow that to go down.
Speaker 2: Let's see here, Alex said, speaking of the Amish.
Speaker 1: This last weekend, I went into Amish County and PA
Speaker 1: went to a shady maple. Okay, I have had I
Speaker 1: have bad feelings towards the Amish to an extent, but
Speaker 1: I loved that whole area. Fair enough. Fairno, they take
Speaker 1: care of their area. I'll give them that. They really
Speaker 1: make it look good. And then Raven said, yeah, but
Speaker 1: Amish aren't told to kill and repopulate anyone that isn't there.
Speaker 20: See, that's my issue, that's my issue. And I know,
Speaker 20: oh my god, I'm such a big blah blah blah.
Speaker 20: The Quran is a book of conquest. Muhammad was a warlord.
Speaker 1: His generals that continued his work after he died were
Speaker 1: all warlords. Yes, I understand the Islamic Golden Age gave
Speaker 1: us a lot of scientific breakthroughs as far as philosophy
Speaker 1: and human anatomy and medicine. I'm not negating that not.
Speaker 1: But also, and I know they're always like, that's misquoted
Speaker 1: conversion at sword point, it's about the context. You can
Speaker 1: look at the context of it, and it's exactly what
Speaker 1: you think it is when it talks about shove hooks
Speaker 1: in their bellies and drag them into the streets and
Speaker 1: all these like, that's no, no, that's pretty much exactly
Speaker 1: what they're talking about there. Now, I don't think that
Speaker 1: every single Muslim alive gets down with it. I get
Speaker 1: that a lot of them that most of the Muslims
Speaker 1: I've met have been generally good people, just trying to
Speaker 1: live their daily lives and earn their daily bread. But
Speaker 1: they've also all been Americanized Muslims. I've never had the
Speaker 1: experience of meeting a Muslim in a Muslim country who
Speaker 1: may have a different set of cultural ideas as far
Speaker 1: as that's concerned. Even with all of that being said,
Speaker 1: like if you were to try to do this in Michigan,
Speaker 1: where there is a massive Muslim population, you'd probably have
Speaker 1: a better time of it Texas though. Go ahead, Royce.
Speaker 10: So the only thing I have to say is I
Speaker 10: completely agree with everything you're saying and everyone else in
Speaker 10: the chad saying. So let's just say, hypothetically, if this thing,
Speaker 10: we're able to come to fruition and they created this community,
Speaker 10: so what about visitors? So if it's if it's under
Speaker 10: sureial law, So does that mean that any woman who
Speaker 10: doesn't have her hair covered with a hidgehob is going
Speaker 10: to be raped killed?
Speaker 1: You know? So I think that I know that there
Speaker 1: are the order of the day for that. Other countries
Speaker 1: take it to the extreme. But yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: So I doubt they'll let taurusts into this area. It
Speaker 1: will be like one hundred percent cut off from society
Speaker 1: thing optimistically, But does that mean that we're gonna have
Speaker 1: stonings on American soil?
Speaker 10: That would be murder American.
Speaker 2: Law right, And like the homage, don't even give the
Speaker 2: death penalty.
Speaker 1: They shun people. That's that's their biggest penalty, is that
Speaker 1: you are shunned and cut off from every member of
Speaker 1: the society and even your own family, which is not ideal.
Speaker 1: I get that, but it's not a death sentence. Sharia
Speaker 1: law calls for death a lot. It's not even like, oh,
Speaker 1: only in extreme cases. No, No, read the law, and
Speaker 1: I mean not all of it. The majority of Sharia law.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to throw shade Royce. You know, I
Speaker 1: love you. You know I love my Jewish brothers out there.
Speaker 1: Sharia law is for the most part, comparable to the
Speaker 1: law of Moses. Comparable. Okay, the atments that are doled
Speaker 1: out go into different categories, for sure, But as far
Speaker 1: as modesty, how to treat others, all these things, Sharia
Speaker 1: law is a kind of one to one comparison. Not
Speaker 1: in all cases, but in most blood we're extreme.
Speaker 10: That's I mean, yeah, I mean even when it comes
Speaker 10: to modesty, is like a woman is so allowed to
Speaker 10: go out outside of her house. She she like if
Speaker 10: a woman is not married, she doesn't have to keep
Speaker 10: her hair covered. So, I mean, I do understand that
Speaker 10: on a simple level, they are comparable because it is
Speaker 10: a it is a religious law, not necessarily just a
Speaker 10: secular but they are so much more extreme, so much
Speaker 10: working the Jewish.
Speaker 1: Oh, by all metrics for sure. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: they'll use the ninety five percent of the Sharia law
Speaker 1: to justify it and be like, show me what's wrong
Speaker 1: with this, showing like this and this and this. But
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, show me the uh punishment for that crime,
Speaker 1: and then it's a whole different conversation, right, the crime
Speaker 1: being a crime quote unquote crime stepping out of the
Speaker 1: bounds of of acceptable whatever. Fine, fine, but the punishment
Speaker 1: doled out it's never just a shunning. It's never just
Speaker 1: a paying a fine. It's cutting your hand off for
Speaker 1: being a thief. It's uh stoning a woman for being
Speaker 1: a victim of rape. It's it's yeah, they bro I'm
Speaker 1: surprised that they I'm not surprised that they bought the land.
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised that they tried that they're developing it
Speaker 1: into a Muslim community. Even I get that. I see it.
Speaker 1: Fine a thousand houses. Hell, the subdivision I live in
Speaker 1: is a thousand houses, like, and I hate it. I
Speaker 1: hate it so much, so much, But fine, Okay, you
Speaker 1: want to have a community unto yourselves where you can
Speaker 1: be around people with your culture and y'all speak that
Speaker 1: language and like, fine, cool things. I believe in religious
Speaker 1: freedoms in this country one thousand percent. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: go ahead stuff.
Speaker 5: So as far as I can tell, if they do
Speaker 5: go through with it, which it sounds like they are.
Speaker 5: I'm all for people believing what they want to believe,
Speaker 5: and you know, being in a population of people with
Speaker 5: like minded I think community is great. But I think
Speaker 5: what could potentially happen is like what has happened with
Speaker 5: Southern Utail with some of these offshoots of the mainstream
Speaker 5: LDS church. They have and I want to say it's
Speaker 5: like Moab, not Moab Saint George. They have the Jeffs
Speaker 5: Commune in northern Utah, they have the Kingston Plan, they
Speaker 5: got the all Red Group. So there's different offshoots. The
Speaker 5: ones that are most well known are the Jeffs in
Speaker 5: southern Utah. They got you know, the pastel dresses with
Speaker 5: the long braided hair, and it very much creates conflict
Speaker 5: in the community with other people and even though they
Speaker 5: all believe in the same ship anyway.
Speaker 2: But no, you know what, I'm actually glad you chimed
Speaker 2: in on this.
Speaker 5: It's what I see happening is so what happens They're
Speaker 5: so well funded, they have so much money that they
Speaker 5: hire their own police department pretty much, and they've kind
Speaker 5: of infiltrated the government in that southern Utah area so
Speaker 5: that they can propose laws and have you know, privacy
Speaker 5: for certain areas so that they can and that's there's
Speaker 5: a ton of child labor laws that are violated, there's
Speaker 5: a ton, there's a ton of sexual abuse that happens,
Speaker 5: and so that will one hundred percent, without a doubt
Speaker 5: happen in that community in Texas when they build it,
Speaker 5: whatever they believe in, you know it kind of whatever
Speaker 5: they believe in, they'll probably do that. There there's going
Speaker 5: to be some secrecy. But over time, like you know,
Speaker 5: I'm I'm imagining that some Muslims will join the police department,
Speaker 5: and they'll join the judicial brands, and you know, over
Speaker 5: time it becomes it will kind of certainly like having
Speaker 5: an impact on the area, and there's going to be
Speaker 5: some awful things, illegal shit happening, and they get away
Speaker 5: with it because over time they start to kind of
Speaker 5: immerse themselves in the community and they will turn a
Speaker 5: blind eye to because of their ideology, they'll turn a
Speaker 5: blind eye to all the abuse and human suffering happening
Speaker 5: and illegal illicit acts. So it happens all the time.
Speaker 5: It happens with mainstream Mormonism too. But that's the example
Speaker 5: I thought of, was just that group in southern Utah,
Speaker 5: although it's you know, it happens probably for every you know,
Speaker 5: extreme religious viewpoint.
Speaker 1: No, I agree. I mean to that point, are we
Speaker 1: going to have to start keeping an extra eye out
Speaker 1: for child brides in this neighborhood outside of Josephine, Texas?
Speaker 1: Because according to their law and even to their below,
Speaker 1: the prophet Mohammad married a girl when she was nine
Speaker 1: years old, but he waited to consummate the marriage until
Speaker 1: she was eleven because that was the right thing to do,
Speaker 1: of course. And it's like, you know, I I just
Speaker 1: I have I take issue. I take issue with it,
Speaker 1: that's all.
Speaker 7: Also, what about polygamy.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of mobile wives, so the woman's
Speaker 1: also believe in polygamy, right.
Speaker 5: I can't I can't confirm.
Speaker 21: So I mean, yeah, they made a legal one legal
Speaker 21: wife quote unquote, but they will have multiple mothers of
Speaker 21: their children that they'll all have in the same And
Speaker 21: that's thing.
Speaker 1: Those single those homes didn't look big enough to maintain
Speaker 1: like two or three different wives that did look like
Speaker 1: single family homes, Like maybe no, but that's no.
Speaker 22: That was actually something they said, and the and the
Speaker 22: actual advertisement it said single family homes, which I kind
Speaker 22: of found ironic thinking about the whole Poligamia actist so
Speaker 22: as it could be like a whole community people they
Speaker 22: need to live together.
Speaker 10: So like you know, you have home A, B, C,
Speaker 10: and D, so depending on what day of the week
Speaker 10: it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's how certain places in Utah get down.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken stuff. There was a what was
Speaker 1: that show? There was a there was a TV show.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not really Mormonism. That's I don't know that
Speaker 5: that that's not it.
Speaker 1: Were they I thought they were Mormons.
Speaker 5: It's yeah, yeah they're Mormons, but they're kind of doing
Speaker 5: their own thing. And they're really so far from the ideology.
Speaker 5: You can tell it by the mannerisms, the way they dress,
Speaker 5: the way they most like Mormons that practice polygamy are
Speaker 5: either from from these like you know, pioneer families. That's
Speaker 5: why I say the Jeffs group, like there's thousands of people,
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of people in southern Utah, and then
Speaker 5: the all Red group and they all kind of have
Speaker 5: their roots into the old school Mormonism. That was like
Speaker 5: a show about a family, and yeah, they all. I
Speaker 5: don't know, I just didn't think that like, I just
Speaker 5: thought that was it had nothing to do with like
Speaker 5: what most people are experiencing in these groups. But the
Speaker 5: one that I thought was the most accurate was Escaping Polygamy,
Speaker 5: where these two these two young women, I think they're
Speaker 5: in their early twenties, maybe late teens, I can't quite remember,
Speaker 5: but they would help people escape polygamy because a lot
Speaker 5: of these especially young boys, if they're not given a wife,
Speaker 5: which most of them aren't, because the women will go
Speaker 5: to the older men. So they kind of get kicked
Speaker 5: out of the community because they're no good, right, they're
Speaker 5: not old enough, they don't have any trades, they don't
Speaker 5: have any skills, and they're not they're not going to
Speaker 5: let these boys, you know, get wives because they're controlling
Speaker 5: the whole thing, and so they kick them out all
Speaker 5: the time. There's a lot of resources that they're developing
Speaker 5: now to help these people that are that are kicked
Speaker 5: out of the community. But there is if you're driving
Speaker 5: to if you're driving south on I fifteen and you
Speaker 5: get past like Probo, and you're going all the way
Speaker 5: like I fifteen, it just cuts down the middle of Utah,
Speaker 5: goes straight down and once you get past Provo, you'll
Speaker 5: see all these duplexes on the west and those are
Speaker 5: all Polygamus's houses. So you're one hundred percent right, Jacob.
Speaker 5: They do duplexes because legally it's like two individual families,
Speaker 5: but one wife will be on one side, another wife
Speaker 5: will be on the other side, and so that's like
Speaker 5: a huge community right there. Most people don't know it
Speaker 5: because they dress like regular people. So but so there's
Speaker 5: and because I worked for the state, I had tons
Speaker 5: of training on each you know, each group, the individual
Speaker 5: things that they believed in and stuff like that. So
Speaker 5: it goes a lot into it. But you know, to
Speaker 5: think that this you know, Muslim group in like I
Speaker 5: think it originally, you know, it was probably gonna be
Speaker 5: a cool community for some people, but give it ten
Speaker 5: twenty fifteen, you know, twenty years down the road and
Speaker 5: you're gonna have some big problems with people outside the community,
Speaker 5: if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: One hundred percent understand this, and I mean taking away
Speaker 1: all of the stigma in the Some might call it
Speaker 1: bigotry of saying that having a Muslim community will inherently
Speaker 1: lead to having terrorist attacks. Okay, fine, let's let's remove
Speaker 1: that from the conversation, because not all Muslims are terrorists
Speaker 1: or even have terrorist ideologies or fine.
Speaker 2: Fine, I just again got no problem with Muslim people.
Speaker 2: Most of the ones that I have met have been
Speaker 2: typically good people.
Speaker 1: They just happen to pray five times a day and
Speaker 1: they have a certain way about them. Fine. Fine. Them
Speaker 1: wanting to live in a community unto themselves, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: good with that too. The fact that they are trying
Speaker 1: to make this community operate under religious law, that's what
Speaker 1: I have an issue with. And even as a Christian,
Speaker 1: I don't want the law of America to operate under
Speaker 1: Christian law. And I know there's going to be people
Speaker 1: that will argue with me on that and say that
Speaker 1: we already do. Some will say that we don't anyway,
Speaker 1: and this is not a Christian nation, even though all
Speaker 1: the founding fathers happen to be of the Judeo Christian
Speaker 1: belief system. I don't want that. I do believe in
Speaker 1: separation of church and state a one hundred percent as
Speaker 1: far as America is concerned other countries operate their own ways,
Speaker 1: not going to throw shade one of us. One country
Speaker 1: has won two World wars, the other ones have. Not
Speaker 1: Take that for what you want. I don't want the
Speaker 1: unison of church and state. That's the whole reason why
Speaker 1: the Puritans made their way over here. But well, I
Speaker 1: should say the Pilgrims, but neither here nor there. That
Speaker 1: just reads like so at that point, what's the difference
Speaker 1: between them and any of these other cults that took
Speaker 1: place Waco, Texas? At this point, what is the difference
Speaker 1: between a cult buying land, doing their own religious law
Speaker 1: outside of the American law and it becoming a problem.
Speaker 1: And then these people, right, the Amish are allowed to
Speaker 1: do what they do because they are inherently nonviolent, Like
Speaker 1: that's a whole thing about them. And the Mormons, I think,
Speaker 1: are allowed to do what they do because you don't
Speaker 1: hear of Mormon uprisings and Mormon terrorist attacks. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: attack you with their over niceness, you might get smile bombed,
Speaker 1: but like that's about it. I oh, yeah, exactly, does
Speaker 1: the set exactly exactly? I mean? And look at au
Speaker 1: Royce helped me out here. It's a section of New
Speaker 1: York City that's like is it the Upper East side
Speaker 1: of New York that is like Hasidic Jewishville.
Speaker 10: So I mean, I'm not from New York, so I
Speaker 10: couldn't tell you exactly, but I do know that there
Speaker 10: are some towns that are heavily definitely populated. So Crown Heights,
Speaker 10: for example, so Habad they their like home based operation
Speaker 10: is seven to seventy Eastern Parkway, Like that's very, very,
Speaker 10: very popular. Like the entire world well for the most part,
Speaker 10: knows about Crown Heights and labab Drebby.
Speaker 7: You also have like Borough Park and the five.
Speaker 10: Towns there are, there are some very Jewish places for sure.
Speaker 1: Right, but those places operate under United States law. Now, yes,
Speaker 1: people living there might culturally operate under the law of
Speaker 1: Moses and do their things.
Speaker 10: So I will tell you that that so sentence, the
Speaker 10: Sanhedrin is no, like the Jewish Courtsism basically doesn't have
Speaker 10: the power that it used to.
Speaker 7: Right, So thousands of.
Speaker 10: Years ago, the Jewish court systems used to be able
Speaker 10: to theoretically put people to death. They used to, you know,
Speaker 10: like now pretty much whenever you have any kind of
Speaker 10: rabbi or group of rabbis, a baking involved, it's arbitration
Speaker 10: between a couple of people's because there's some sort of
Speaker 10: financial dispute. Hardly ever, I mean not hardly ever, there
Speaker 10: is no case where there's any kind of bit being
Speaker 10: that can authorize or condemn someone to death. Like it's
Speaker 10: it's not a thing, right, not a thing whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And so that's my point. We don't have these Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I know the Jews in New York City were digging tunnels.
Speaker 10: Look fine, but hold on, by the way, hold on,
Speaker 10: hold on. That was so can I actually tell you
Speaker 10: what that was about? Because I actually so, I do
Speaker 10: actually know, because I because I have a so my
Speaker 10: rabbi happens to be from Kabad, and I asked him,
Speaker 10: I said, what the hell is going on? There's all
Speaker 10: these videos about these people, you know, digging these tunnels.
Speaker 7: All right, So this goes back to the lavavrop.
Speaker 10: So the seven seventy is comprised of a synagogue and
Speaker 10: like based measures, which is kind of where you go
Speaker 10: study and there's kind of like different buildings. It's like
Speaker 10: it's the same building, like there's different parts portions. Anyways,
Speaker 10: So at one point in time, I guess the Rebbie
Speaker 10: said something to the effect of these everything is going
Speaker 10: to get combined like into into one gigantic building.
Speaker 7: So there were there were some kids.
Speaker 10: When I say kids are like young adults who basically
Speaker 10: wanted to connect everything together, and so like they were
Speaker 10: tunneling from one shool.
Speaker 1: To the other to connect them.
Speaker 7: Like that's literally all it was about.
Speaker 10: So they were they were hiding it in there because
Speaker 10: they it was all clandestine and like they were trying
Speaker 10: to be like like kind of like one of those things.
Speaker 10: It's easier to ask for forgetness and permission. They so
Speaker 10: they did it with that intense oh brook through break
Speaker 10: through the walls. Hey look we we all have one
Speaker 10: building now. It was completely blown out of proportion. It
Speaker 10: has absolutely zero to do with any kind of trafficking,
Speaker 10: especially that that that area, and and we even when
Speaker 10: it came to when somebody was saying, all right, well
Speaker 10: what about all of the all the mattresses, and like
Speaker 10: you anybody who's not a part of that world doesn't
Speaker 10: understand that pretty much.
Speaker 7: A lot of people have spare.
Speaker 10: Mattresses because Judaism, and especially in a Hasidic environment, it
Speaker 10: revolves around family and community to where like, yo, so
Speaker 10: let's just say so you're my friend, right, So okay,
Speaker 10: so you're gonna come over to my house and your
Speaker 10: two friends are gonna come over, and like there's a
Speaker 10: lot of people. So what they do is they have
Speaker 10: spare mattresses for those people. So you have something that's
Speaker 10: very cultural as far as being everybody being together, which
Speaker 10: is the reason why they're the mattress. And then you
Speaker 10: don't people don't understand the behind the scenes of why
Speaker 10: these people were digging these tunnels and what was about.
Speaker 10: Like they didn't care because because in the new all
Speaker 10: it said is.
Speaker 7: Oh my god, Jews are bearing.
Speaker 10: They have they have tunnels and they and they have
Speaker 10: mattresses like this just just to make Jews look bad
Speaker 10: and they didn't want to even do fair research on it.
Speaker 7: Hey, what's going on? All right, here's this is what happened.
Speaker 10: But why it was just all the tabloids of oh
Speaker 10: my god, like they were blowing it out of proportion
Speaker 10: because they liked Unfortunately, if it seems like Jews are
Speaker 10: doing something wrong, whether they are or not, these you
Speaker 10: have their the actual truth and the perceived truth, and
Speaker 10: in that case, the perceived truth was that the Jews
Speaker 10: were doing something and they were trafficking individuals as opposed.
Speaker 23: To the actual truth of all right, well, these few
Speaker 23: people were doing that and once it was discovered, like
Speaker 23: they were going to be filling it with concrete because
Speaker 23: they realized, like, stop it, this is this is not
Speaker 23: what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: It made for good headlines, I'll give you that, I mean.
Speaker 10: For for sure, But nobody ever inquired anything more than
Speaker 10: the surface level topoid.
Speaker 1: I don't. This is the first I've heard of this. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I'd kind of forgotten about the Jews digging tunnels in
Speaker 1: New York until this conversation just kind of came up.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, but but my point was to
Speaker 1: that you don't hear about some sort of a Jewish
Speaker 1: uh you know, uprising or some sort of a Jewish
Speaker 1: violent attack or violence from the Jews stemmed from the
Speaker 1: Upper East Side of New York that that happened. So
Speaker 1: even other examples of these communities that live unto themselves,
Speaker 1: that are allowed to do so, don't have a uh
Speaker 1: stigma around them because they haven't earned that stigma. This
Speaker 1: neighbor is coming from a culture in a society that
Speaker 1: has earned that stigma. I don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of it. I don't know. It is getting late. We
Speaker 1: have kind of made this episode longer than we've done
Speaker 1: in the past, and I'm here for it. But I
Speaker 1: do need to wrap this up because I do need
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