Speaker 1: So there's some truly stupid takes on tariffs. And if
you're listening to this, then you don't. You're gonna say,
why do you sound like you're talking from a bathroom
in Dallas, Texas. It's because I'm near a bathroom in Dallas, Texas.
And look at all this gear I got and I'm
too stupid to figure out how to put it all
together and this thing, and so we figured that content
matters more than quality. We're going to talk about the
truly stupid takes on tariff for Zach Abraham, who sent
me a beautiful text. It made me feel better. We'll
do this with the help of Visible at gobisible dot
com and of course through God Almighty.
Speaker 2: But Todd Herman show is one hundred percent disapproved by
big pharma technocrats and tyranne s everywhere from the high
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Speaker 1: Today is the day the Lord has made, and these
are the time so which God is sided we shall live.
And he's gonna sound better than me because he's got
his fancy dand microphone. I'm stuck in a Marriotte in Dallas,
quit and Reflia, Porto Bayarta. Good to see you brother,
that text you sent me. We need to talk about this.
But let's just get straight into this.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: What are people missing in the tariff discussion?
Speaker 3: Well, you and I have You and I have had
these discussions round about in several different ways. But the
biggest thing that is really frustrating me is people acting
as if the status quo isn't broken. Right, So if
you think that I would encourage you to go to
all of our major cities, go to their downtown areas.
I'd love you to go to the rust belt, head
to Detroit, go to the places that have been massively impacted,
especially places that were once considered Cleveland would be another
great place to visit. Go visit places that used to
be seen as manufacturing hubs in this country. Okay, and
so now we know there's every well, yeah, we know
the jobs moved to China, but most people don't understand how.
And let me start off by saying that I'm kind
of reminded of Sun Sou, right, which is no your enemy, right,
and quit looking at them through a lens of ideology,
and look at them through a lens of really trying
to earnestly understand. Then if you look at the Chinese
tactics and strategy that they've rolled out over the last
twenty five years. I know I'm going to make some
people angry when i say this, but it's been brilliant.
It's been brilliant the way they've gone about this. And
the reason I say that is you have a world
that post World War Two was cooperative in its nature,
that being, you know, opening up lines of free trade
was seen as a form of economic morality and maybe
not just economic right, maybe humanitarian right. And in so
many ways that was the case. Well, if you want
to take advantage of that system, that system worked because
for the most part it truly was free trade right.
So meaning we're going to source this thing from over
here because those people have a ton of it or
and they're really good at it, and in exchange, they're
going to source what they need from us over here
for the same reasons. Both of our margins increase, both
of our GDP's increase, and it's a rising tide, and
it really is a beautiful thing when it works that way.
But if you flip around and look at what the
Chinese did, it was nasty, it was nefarious, and it
was brilliant, which was they said, he we under under
under dingsdau Ping, right, the guy that was the leader
of the Chinese Communist Party, that led and truly did
led the opening up right, the opening of the Chinese economy.
And they were heading in a really great way. And
had his philosophy led the charge, I think that global
idea about incorporating China into the global economy, I think
it would have played out. But unfortunately a fellow by
the name of Xijinping took over. And he is a Maoist, right,
he is a Mouist down to his bones. Look at
the way he dresses, look at his hairdoo right, none
of that is by accident.
Speaker 1: And he's a Chinese. He's a Chinese supremacist too.
Speaker 3: Totally, totally. And here's the beautiful thing they did. Here's
here's the brilliant part of what they did.
Speaker 1: They said, all right, we're.
Speaker 3: Going to get involved.
Speaker 1: Let us in.
Speaker 3: We want to play ball, right, so let him into
the World Trade Organization, let him into the right just
make him a part of the global global community. And
then on the back channels, what China was doing for
a while was artificially suppressing their currency, which was inhibiting
the beneficial side of their trade from coming. Right, because
what you want is you wanted their currency to appreciate.
That makes over time, that gives them less of an
advantage over everybody else in terms of labor costs.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: So and again other economies, you let that happen, and
we grow together and some grow faster. Right, it's and
it works well. They first started by suppressing their currency valuations,
and then they started radically subsidizing all of their corporation,
not all of them, but a big portion of them, right.
And the idea was, hey, we're going to pretend like
we're playing free here, but due to our subsidies, you're
gonna be able to manufacture goods at an artificially low price,
and just like they did with steel, we're gonna dump
them all over the world. Right, And we can continue
to do this because because we are manufacturing at such
a lower cost and the government is subsidizing. And people
are like, well, they can't keep that up forever, right,
where are they getting that money? And you go, they're
printing it, and they're like, well, their currency is going
to go to zero u uh uh, because guess what,
they're the world's greatest exporter of goods. So what does
that mean. That means all of that currency, including US
dollars and euros and all that stuff is flowing back
into their country, right, and so then they use those
FX reserves to buy back their currency in the open market.
And so what they're doing. If you allow that to
continue on and nobody counteracts it, they literally will just
take over everything. And if you don't, if you don't
stop that, there's no way because one of the constraints
from governments being too involved in economies is they run
out of money, right, but not when you're the world's
largest exporter, because the FX is pouring in is faster.
Speaker 1: You can print X means you use using phraseology that
smart people use, so.
Speaker 3: Foreign reserves right, So meaning meaning if I sell you know,
X amount of widgets to the United States, United States
is purchasing them with dollars, And as long as I've
got more foreign currency flowing in, then I've got flowing out.
And oh, by the way, oh by the way, they're
also one of the only countries in the world that's
considered to be a free trading company country that has
a closed capital account, meaning on top of that money
flowing in, they restrict the amount that they'll allow their
citizens to outflow. Right, So you and and look, this
isn't hyperbole, This isn't me like, you know, spitballing this.
This is exactly what they're doing. And this is exactly
what they've done. And so I've heard people say, well,
they can't keep printing, they're gonna clan collapse their economy,
and you go, they're an export nation, man, They'll just
buy back their currency in the open markets with yours.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this then gets us to something had to break, yes,
otherwise they what you just said is true. They take
off everything. And that is their goal. That is cheese goal.
And what includes you know, by a warfare. They said
that we're going to be the best. This chemical warfare
includes Taiwan. Clearly they're posturing for that and eventually it
includes us. I mean, that's that's the goal, to take
over the world. So we'll talk about that. You and
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Go visible dot com. So China, they you know, they're maoists.
But there's a reason I talk about the China model.
They invented the four sets of purchase products you don't
want from companies, you don't like it, process you can't
afford for services don't need. And so Obama saw that
though that's a good model, the Democrats are gonna do this.
Obama's a mauist. And oh but he's rich, right, so
is cheap. Have you seen how he lives?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Have you seen how the Dictatormurth's crea lives. All maoists
are rich if they're on top of the party. That's
why they're maoists. He's also, as I said, a Chinese,
not nationalists. He's a Chinese supremacist. The Chinese race is
the master race. And you were saying that they get
this economic setup where this massive exporter, of the world's
biggest exporter, they're buying their currency back so they they're
not going to collapse, and something has to change, and
everybody talked about it. But then Donald Trump came along,
and I want to read your text. You sent me this.
This gave me a great bit of believe. This would
be like the fifth time I've read it. Say I
was walking around the airport reading it to people. Hey
want to here's something cool about the tariffs. So you
wrote me this earlier today and you wrote, Hey, Trump
tariff approach working even better than I would have hoped,
looking like a total master class. Now China's in their
biggest buy in the last forty years. He's told to
kick the legs up from under the political system undermine
their entire economic strategy. Pretty remarkable how fast tables have
turned to no surprise, media totally oblivious, oblivious, or they're
like figuring, oh wait, this might work and we need
to trash Trump. Let's start with why you're so thrilled
and the master classes you see it.
Speaker 3: So now let me let me first also say I
realized it's a masterclass. But I'll also pair that with
saying that Trump is flying close to the sun, meaning
it's not a This is not are you kidding?
Speaker 1: This is the biggest like no no limit poker game
in the world.
Speaker 3: It is but it's also a wonderful time to go
all in. And the reason why it's a wonderful time
to go all in is because if this were to
go as badly as you could possibly imagine, the outcome
would be very similar to doing nothing right. That's really interesting, Right,
So when when when the status quo is guaranteed death,
it should change the risk perceptions of doing something else. Right. So,
one of the things that Trump is recognized and one
of the biggest problems and this is kind of an
underbelly of this whole thing that a lot of people
don't understand. Why this problem is so pernicious is the
vast majority of Western countries or companies rather are going
to scream and kick and throw fits and get on
CNBC and tell you what a disaster this policy is
because it contracts their margins by twenty five or thirty percent. Right,
And now Z knew that. Z's like, hey, how do
we take down capitalism? We take advantage of the ineptitude
of their governments, and we take advantage of the corporation's greed. Right,
we will literally help them build their own prison because
they'll be sending their dollars to us because it increases
their profits. So how do you do that? Tarrifitt by
one point forty and eliminate the profitability of working with them, right,
and just say no more? You're done, right, If you
want to buy their stuff, it's going to cost you more. Well,
it's gonna hurt consumers.
Speaker 1: You know what.
Speaker 3: Not half as bad is what it's done to consumers
and manufacturing workers in our country for the last twenty
five years. And if you think we can ignore them
a tasticizing problem for twenty five years and fix it
with no pain, you're a child, right, leave the room.
Let the adults deal with it. And so how do
you do it? You've got to put them in a bind.
But you need to put them in a bind. You've
got to get a sort of damicles hanging over their head.
They've got to feel the pressure. And the only way
to do that is restrict their access to US dollars.
Is it a perfect restriction?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: But what it will event Now what the downside is?
I think this leads to two places. It either leads
to a much better trade association and a much better
structure to deal with China and to get them to
force them to do things in a more fair and
non predatory way, or it ends in kinetic warfare. But
like I said, this idea that the status quo isn't broken.
The only people telling you that are the people that
are billionaires, the elites who it doesn't matter. And it
doesn't matter because they've probably got a twenty billion dollar
house in China or a twenty million dollar house in
China somewhere, right, They're integrated, they've got options. And so
once again it's the wealthy and the elites taking advantage of,
you know, getting rich off the backs of the middle
class of this country, and China taking full advantage of it.
That's why the Larry Finks of the world step up
and try to support him so much. Right, And oh no,
China's goal of China's the way it is, and it's
just all nonsense. I mean, if you took away China's
ability to steal our ip and steal our code and
do all that, I mean, they'd still be manufacturing toys
right right now. Do they have a greater capability today? Yeah,
because we've done nothing right. The things they did with
deep Sea got to scare their living crap out.
Speaker 1: Of people, right, And so the I love what you
said about the result of this goes very very badly.
Is very similar to if we did nothing, which is
eventually China takes over and that's very very bad. There's
one piece to this that has me concerned because there's
a set prior to netic warfare that they could take.
Remind me to get to that. But let me let
me just ask you. So Trump comes out, he does
the tariffs for everybody, a bunch of nations. Israel's over here,
Vietnam's over here, and a bunch of nations over here. Okay,
let's talk, let's talk. Let's work this out. And Trump said,
don't retaliate. It's gonna get worse if you retaliate. Just
you know, understand, We're just gonna level the playing field.
He waves that, and and they're all the muckingbird media.
One Trump blinked, Really, the guy who wrote art of
the deal blinked, I don't think so. I think he
isolated China. And because that move happened the second China says, Okay,
we're gonna double the tariff.
Speaker 3: We're gonna go at you.
Speaker 1: No, Hollywood movies, We're gonna tariff for movies. Then Trump
says ninety day pause for everybody else, and you think
this guy will will alle it again. I mean that's
a check raise basically, Yeah, if we're gonna take orker
metal or that's a check raise. And from check China
China raised, and Trump's like right yep, called race right well,
and do you think that's do you think that's part
of the master class that he put China on an islands?
Everyone else has it pause, everyone else has disigotiate, but
not China.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and again, I it's it's funny because I'll be
honest with you, his negotiating style scary to me just
because it is so aggressive. Yeah, I mean it's it's
but the results are really hard to argue with, at
least so far. So if we look at it, you know,
I'm listening to some people that would be in the
know about these things, not in the meetings, but people
the minute he announced those tariffs, DC like turned into
like a turnstyle. Everybody and their mother was sending their
emissaries in there to deal And I just don't think
I kinda I'm sure there are some of our allies
that we put off. I'm sure. Well, I looked at
some of the tariffs that went out, and I thought
to myself on some of them, I was like, that's
not fair.
Speaker 1: Like there was, But there's also a deal where.
Speaker 3: I think you got to put people on notice, you know,
and just say, hey, guys, you've been living off this
credit card for too long. It's done. I'm cutting it
up right in front of you, and then going behind
the closed doors and going, hey, you guys are our friends.
We were doing that to leverage against China. We have
no intention of doing that to you. We're not booking,
And I'm assuming that's what's happening behind closed doors. And
when you hear about the interactions, that's another thing you're
not even gonna hear about from And I think it's
kind of amazing. It's another thing you're not gonna hear
from the mainstream media. Is there's people in the know,
fairly widespread reports that communication between Trump and Z hasn't
even broken down yet, Like so it isn't it isn't, Hey.
Speaker 1: You know, we're done with you.
Speaker 3: Trump Trump isn't you know what I mean that he's
in a lot of ways, he's more amicable and more
genial than Clinton was in negotiation, he has.
Speaker 1: A habit of when people are dictatorial, he can read
an ego.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so he's you know, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: She's great and you know, we're working hard, and and
he can he can be ingratiating. The man got where
he's at. Yes, he inherited a bunch of money. I
don't want to suddenly become you know, Trump fanatic. And
he did it all on his own. He inherited a
ton of money. And yet he can be ingratiating. I've
talked to people who've met him, and he can be very,
very ingratiating. Yeah, so he gets this up. China to
this point, their big move is movies. And here's part
of me, like from a from a godly perspective, a
we're funding a truly ungodly regime. China is not the people,
but that regime they really do have have death camps.
They really are murdering people for their organs. That that's real. Yeah,
selling hair, that's real. That that happens people in prison
camps because they did at a low social credit score.
And that's that's all very very real. But so what
if not everybody can afford one hundred and twenty four
into Big Green TV, And so what if we don't
get to export the latest Hollywood movie. They might need
to make movies for Americans because the Chinese market's a
big padding for them because people go watch, you know,
just about anything because it's from America, and they CeNSE
you the movies over there. And so what if kids
spend less time on video games? And so what if
iPhones cost thirty thousand bucks? I think we'll end up
with a simple phone, like a cricket phone. And guess what,
you might be a better in a better state of
being spiritually. People might spend time with their families. They
might be not staring at a wall sized TV for
the rest of their life. You think China doesn't know
these things? Yeah, or but they don't know that making
all this stuff incredibly cheap and easy to buy is
hurting America. You don't have their kids over there on
video games fifteen hours a day. And if they are,
it's because they're solving calculus problems, right right, Yeah, y'uring
the video game. You know what's your game? Oh, I'm
building a nuclear semiconductor that you can put in your hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So no, it's a panic. Yeah, Well, and it's
all meat. It's all media induced, and media is funded
by who right and the media. The other thing is,
if you haven't figured this out, media is not freaking
out right now because they understand this better than everybody else,
and they understand the true implications. They're freaking out right
now because their corporate sponsors are telling them to right.
That's that's why they're freaking out right. It and and
it's and it's plain and simply obvious. And the other
thing is there is this the other The other thing
I found hilarious about this whole thing is you have
a scenario going on in this country where wages are
going up. Now I'm not giving all that credit Trump,
but you've got wages going up at a greater pace
than they have at any point in the last twenty years.
And then Trump's policy is hitting the stock market, so
wages up, rich people in stocks going down. I thought
that was liberal nirvana right right now, all of a sudden,
we define economic decisions by short term stock market gyrations,
right like.
Speaker 1: This is this is I hear conservatives like aw Peterson.
He he's a Libertariti's in Congress for a while. He's
a very smart guy. He put out this note through
the day. Oh okay, so all conservative are Bernie Sanders. Now, no,
because what we're not saying is go seize everybody's wealth
and redistribute it and be a redistributive. What we're saying
is no, big government has become big business, and big
business is big government. It's not free markets. This is fascism, right,
We're not becoming socialists. We're living in reality saying Bernie,
big government is big business. No, that's that's literally what
we're being accused of. Because you and I talk about
this disparity. Now we're socialists, my god.
Speaker 3: And it's because there And I don't mean to sound
like an arrogant jerk when I say this, but I
was talking to somebody else on another interview today and
I said, look, here's here's the plain truth of it.
Speaker 1: The vast majority of people.
Speaker 3: You hear talking, even on financial shows, don't know they're
from a hole in the ground. And and it does
not stop their willingness to talk about the subject at all.
And like for this guy, if he and I had
an economic debate, it would be very very short, and
I would look at him and go, you want us
to practice free trade? Practices with a country that has
communist and protectionist policies, you're an idiot. That's not free trade.
Speaker 1: That's called exploitative trade.
Speaker 3: That's literally like leaving your back door open and yelling
for somebody to come in and rob your house. Free
trade trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And this is like an NFL football game or
a football game where your team, you're eleven guys, you're
an offense, and you cross the fifty yard line and
the other team's like, okay, stop, yeah, no, won Well
you don't get to go any further. You have to
throw a touchdown passes from here, or you have to
kick right. But you just ran the ball done number
one yard line and went in for a touchdown. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the analogy I used is I was like the
guys making that argument. It would be the same argument
as if we were looking at the NFL and thirty
two teams and we said, you know what, we're gonna
let this team not get tested for performance enhancing drugs,
and then five years later we look down and go, boy,
they must have some GM or head coach. They've won
five Super Bowls in a row. Look at that, and
then we go slour gap, Yeah, and they go, they're cheating,
and then that guy whatever his name was, would be like,
you're just a poor sport man. You're just yeah and
well by yeah, and you're obviously racist. But I mean
even some of these, like I heard Ben Shapiro come
out and talk on this subject, I literally had to
turn it off. I go, you know, I got a
lot of respect for Ben. Once again, another really brilliant
guy that knows nothing about finance and investing and he
shouldn't talk about it because it's embarrassing to hear him.
Speaker 1: But it gets back to his distaste for Trump in
my mind that I don't think Ben's and look, I mean,
you don't have to like the guy's personality, but there's
sort of this reflection thing I want to get into
any more than you want to talk about on this
and some of the bad takes you've seen, because there's
been some utterly, utterly bad takes. The biggest one for
me was a five minute episode or five minutes segment
on Good Morning America. I'll tell you about this just
a second, and then I want to offer you a
thought that a step before kinetic warfare, because there is
a piece of this that does worry me, and it's
some of this like I'm gonna step for a second.
Speaker 3: Hold on, just stay there, don't go anywhere. Just just
stay in air, don't you.
Speaker 1: Don't you disappear. People think and they doubt me about stuff.
They doubt me, all right, So this is not by
the way I've been traveling through. I'm not in customs yet,
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You look at it like I'm a crazy man. What?
Speaker 3: No, Why?
Speaker 1: What pink sea salt? What is their issue with pink sealed?
I drink four hundred ounces of water a day. If
I don't put sink pink sea salt in it, my
electrolyts are out. And I'm.
Speaker 3: Huh no, no, I'm saying, TSA. Why would they have a
problem with pink sea salt.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But every single time we're looking at this,
and I've got creatin over here, and creatin looks like cocaine.
They don't care about that, probably because they don't see
a lot but this is right here. This is me
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So let me say this, and then a little bit
discombinated because I'm sitting in a hotel room and there's
a guy outside saying, can you speak more quietly. I'm
doing a show, sir. I am. I'm a podcaster and
radio host. I'm very important, you see. I think it's
I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've been told.
Speaker 1: I know I'm getting a call from the security sir.
Can you you know I am very very important. The
worst take I saw was a five minute segment on
Good Morning America the price for flat screening TVs could
skyrocket above ten thousand dollars. And video games.
Speaker 3: This is a Wii.
Speaker 1: I talked to my daughter about her Wei, and I
told her that we might not be able to afford
the new games and the tears. And they're showing kids, Zach.
They're showing kids in public in parks on their Wis
and their and their Nintendo's and all the handheld devices.
And they think they're making the case that I'm going
to go, oh my gosh, this is a nightmare. These
kids aren't going to have these aims and these devices
and these TVs to your God. And they think they're
they And I know that they're probably there's a population
out there going mav materiv video games. But for rational
human beings who would like to see humanity, and at
least American humanity, get back to reading a book or
thinking some deep thoughts or making things.
Speaker 3: They're not only making.
Speaker 1: The case that we should let that we should keep
the tariffs of this stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so so the let's yeah, let's dissect that for
a second. So first of all, I think you're looking
at the wrong thing. I'm a little more concerned when
I see the people that are frozen in place and
folded in half because of fentanyl abuse, you know, that whole,
That that whole. When I see fecal matter all over sidewalks,
when I see entire towns that.
Speaker 1: Have just been eroded, I find that to be.
Speaker 3: A little more compelling then whether my kid's gonna be
able to get the new Smash Brothers game from Here's
the other thing.
Speaker 1: Look around.
Speaker 3: Do you realize how fast and nimble our economy is.
You don't think if people have money to burn out
of their pocket that these companies are going to figure
out quick ways to reroute manufacturing. I mean, come on, this.
Speaker 1: Is this is the piece that drives me nuts. I
had this debate with this guy on YouTube, and because
you know, everyone there's a finance expert, and I fully
admits I'm not a finance expert, but I can observe culture.
But see, the iPhone is projected to cost five thousand
dollars right now, there are people at Google, at Facebook,
at x Dash, Twitter, and they're been tasked with figure
out how quickly we can get a phone to market.
Figure out how we're not gonna have screws in it. Oh,
that's the screws of the problem. I would get to
this market. Is there a startup processor company. Find me
the startup processor company and buy them, right that's got
the great microprocessors for the phones. Buy them. If you
have these companies rolling in cash because of their their
their insane pe value and they're you know, sixty times
revenue and a per month, things are going up, right,
they're on the automatic teat through the ETFs and they're
getting forty percent of our money every month. Anyway, what
do they care? Find need the plus that's or company,
the startup company. Eliminate the screws. Get me a phone
that's one hundred percent three D printed. I don't want
human beings touching it. Find me plastic that looks like glass.
Get me a nine hundred dollars phone in here right now,
and let's put an open source X software on it,
and let's use X as a distribution platform for the apps.
And I bet you Elon Musk could have a phone
to market in a nine hundred to eighteen hundred dollars
range within about a year to eighteen months if you
really really had to.
Speaker 3: Well, it's another interesting idea. You don't have the big companies,
and they're not blameless. I know they've done the kind
of shady things to your show. But there's a big
tech company out there that has virtually no business with
China whatsoever. I mean almost none, and they have a
really good phone platform. It's called Droid, it's called Google.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: Now, I'm sure they still get a big part of
it manufactured in China, But what I'm saying is when
you're not reliant on the Chinese market, it makes it
a heck of a lot easier to switch. They also
manufacture way less of the phones. I've been arguing for
a long time that I actually thought a window was
opening for somebody to take the Droid platform or another
you know, create come up with another platform because Apple's slipping,
the quality of the products has gone down. I don't
like funding them. I don't like the fact that they
talk about a company that could afford to build facilities
here in the United States and could work with the
US government get tax breaks to make it.
Speaker 1: You know, from out of company it's got what one.
Speaker 3: Hundred and eighty two hundred billion on the balance sheet
ranking in you know, thirty five billion a year? No,
what are that ninety three billion a year in profit?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 3: And how much of that has come off the back
of the American consumer? You can't give back with a
manufacturing facility that complete with tax breaks with you come
on right, right, and we don't want our shareholders to
get hurt. How about the citizens in your country? How
about those people?
Speaker 1: Right right?
Speaker 3: And so what So the cost of the iPhone goes
up twenty five hundred, First of all, won't be five grand,
that's scare tactics. But so it's twenty You guys, you
finance the phones anyway, So just buy a phone one
year less often than you do, and you offset the
cost like I did. This is my thing, is everybody
once again you and I have had these conversations again,
and it's these childish arguments where people act like there
is a solution that has no cost, you know, and
no pain and no pain, and you look at them
and go, good, guys, I don't want the cost of
my phone to go up a grand either, But what
is the alternative? Right? And if you have a way
to get China to come to the table like nobody
has over the last twenty five years without being willing
to endure some economic pain, I'm all ears okay, but
unless you want to be speaking Mandarin twenty five years now,
you don't have a.
Speaker 1: Choice, right, right, And here's if you boil down the
argument that these guys are making. It's this, Uh, change
is hard. Don't change, It's super hard, like the eor. No,
change is super hard. I don't want to change. But
I'm going to tell you. I need to tell you
one thing that I think is going to concern you. Okay,
it's a step before cadetic warfare. Did I cut you
off because you look like you were going to say
something about e or No?
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, how good? I'm good? Right, So let me.
Speaker 1: Remind you guys that there are people who've been in
real war and they would not like to see kidetic warfare.
My friend Kim Krukchank in fact, you remember this. We
were talking about all the Chinese nationals that seem to
start companies in extra American military bases. That's interesting. I
guess what they are. They're transportation companies, and they're laundry companies.
And guess who their main clients are airports, military races.
That's so weird, isn't it. So Tim has been warning
forever about Hey, these guys are posturing if they put
people here that can go Connecticut any time. But doesn't
mean that Tim's going back to fighting. He's got a
coffee company to run. He loves what Trump is doing
economically and socially, and so he created this beg of
coffee called Golden Age, and you see this eagle on
its and this beautiful wings holding America.
Speaker 2: Again.
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have a chance to talk to Tim, ask him about
the number of Chinese national companies all around these airports,
Like I'm in and I remember talking through another guy,
a vet Michael O'Brien's on the show that he was
a special FORTSS guy. Dallas is one of the main
places for this where there's Chinese nationals with businesses here.
All right, here's my concerns. Act we China has done something.
You've talked about the nefariousness of buying back their currency
and being a lockdown economy while they're pretending to be
free trade and the number one exporter and trapping companies.
Now we own you because you can't make your product
to wear because you'll lose your margin, and using capitalism
against capitalism. It's classic maoism and far far longer game
thinking than we are. President Trump has gone all in
or just about and he has to someone has to
do this to stop this. Here's what the world needs
to get behind right now, America. About ninety percent of
the precursors for antidepressants and anti anxiety drugs are made
in China, and there is about it's about, believe it
or not, about ninety million Americans take these and under
the age of about we do the ages of like
thirteen and twenty five. There are populations where eighty percent
of kids are taking these China were to decide we're
gonna go ahead and stop making that you be around
someone who's become addicted to these fine drugs that are
dear friends at Farma make that love China that you know,
member Pfizer helped them figure out how to tie the
how to put together the social credit system. Pfizer did that.
You want to see the collapse of the world. Get
into your uber when the guys twenty four hours without
his zoloft or twenty four hours without his lamech dol
and you were gonna hear nine to one to one
calls of and I'm not trying to be morbid of
thirteen year olds trying to stab their moms in bathrooms.
Speaker 2: That that.
Speaker 1: To me right now this instance RFKA Junior not a
big fan of pharma. Praise God for that. He needs
to get the pharma companies in a room and he
needs to say, you got these kids addicted to this stuff,
You're going to figure out how to get the precursors
made here. And I really don't care about your profit margin,
not even a little bit. You decided to get in
bed with the double I mean that's got to happen. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And the other thing is that man. And again I'm
not cheering for this, but maybe it's not a bad
thing if the price of that stuff goes way up.
When you look at the amount of kids on this
the farm, it's just it is disgusting. It is And
I don't you know, it's like you're singing the same
old song and people are used to Again. It's one
of the reasons why I like to explain exactly what
China did so people understand. You hear so much hyperbolean
hot takes, you don't realize how disgusting it is and
how evil is and you look at I mean, for instance,
I don't think it's any accident that they want now
they manufacture everything, but I don't think it's any accident
that they are manufacturing those precursors for as cheap as
they are. Now, let's go and let's go look at
the percentage of Chinese kids that are on those same drugs.
Speaker 1: Right, and we go right back to this comparison of
Chinese TikTok versus American TikTok. Yep, Chinese TikTok is math
problems and the Great Revolution and Chinese supremacy, and over here,
it's hey, what happens if you decide to shove a
watermelon up he or something? You know?
Speaker 3: This is here's a great point that I would shove
back at that guy that made that ridiculous comment you
said about being a libertarian, all that kind of stuff.
If China was anywhere close to an honest player, why
would they be pumping what they know to be poison
into one of their top trading partners. Right. That tells
you everything you need to know, because if they were
interested in trade, destroying us would not be a priority.
Speaker 1: Right they. Look, here's something people, I beg you to
understand about Maoists. Satan is smart, he is clever, he's scheming,
he's willing to do anything. And I don't know that
these people are actively Satanists, but they are against Jesus.
You're with me or against me, and they are brilliant
at making money to burn things down. Right, why should
look at look at what the Taliban was doing shoving
Heroin over here with the help of Baracusine Obama and
Joe Biden, and they say, hey, why are we paying
for our weapons? Why don't we have the Americans do it? Right,
Why don't we just sell drugs to them. You have
people over here in our country who are selling things
like like counterfeit cigarettes. Hamas, this is a thing. Hamas says,
they sell counterfeit cigarettes because cigarettes are expensive. They send
that money home to buy their weapons. She just looks
at that and goes small timers. Yea, yeah, yeah, I shoot,
how this is done? You put on the suits and
the tie and you go into tour San Francisco, but
that it has been cleaned up for three days. And
Gavin knew some shut down the traffic. And in Seattle,
what's his name, the former mayor there shut down the traffic.
The guy who was also in a likelihood of pedophile
who adopted by the way, Yeah, yeah, I don't even
want to remember, I know, yeah, And they shut down
the freeways for him. So he is a typical, I think,
passively satanic maoist who's brilliant at getting paid to burn
their countries down and doing it at a top, top level.
Look at the vertical and horizontal integration. I was at
a airport. I'm watching someone check and they were doing
some op stuff. So they're down on the tarmac and
they came up and they were like checking out the
plane or something, and just set of curiousity, I walk by,
What do I see Lenovo laptop? There are Lenovo laptops
running airplanes in our country, right, And if this goes kinetic,
I believe in our men and women in the military
without reservation. They are the best, and they're the bravest,
and they're the best trained, and they're gonna win. But
what she probably has planned around here a little Lenovo's
are off, all the spy systems are on, all the
back doors to the iPhones are turned on.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: You think that that pager thing in the Iranian nuclear thing,
that the big deal where the Israel activated the pagers
and blue people up. We think it was Israel and
maybe the CIA. You wait and see the back door
as they have with our stuff. So yeah, I President
Trump's planning ahead on that well.
Speaker 3: And if you don't think that they have offensive military desires,
wishes designs, just go explain to the South China see
to me. Just go go And if you don't know
what I'm talking about, go google China, South South China
see and islands. Just go do that.
Speaker 1: He's talking about that those are those those are for golf.
Speaker 3: Oh, of course, of course they are shots, all right.
It's it's so ridiculous, and we have ignored it. And
the reason we have ignored it is because the source
of our information comes from corporate funded media outlets who
are run by a bunch of morons, right, I mean
just and and that's one of the things also that like,
it kills me that we're at a place and this
is why I love the way new media is going.
Journalists are some of the dumbest people on the face
of the earth, not really good ones. And if there's
good ones listening, which I'm sure they are, there aren't.
But all too often these modern mainstream journalists the only
thing they know is journalism and they think that makes
them experts at everything. They don't ask questions, right, And
it's just And the more you know, the more the
more you realize how stupid and completely uninformed these people are.
Not not in a way that you disagree with them,
not in the way that you hate them, but in
the way you're sitting there listening to it and going, yeah,
that's completely wrong, Like factually don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: Said Martha. Do you hear yourself, right, you can say
this on all these topics, do you hear yourself? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And they don't, and you know is better than I do.
But they don't because they all live in an echo chamber.
They don't. They don't realize how stupid I say it
to people all the time. I'm like, Okay, repeat that
three times out loud. I just want to make sure
you heard what you just said, right, And and so
many times they go, oh yeah, yeah, I see what
you're saying. And you look at these journalists and go,
oh my gosh, just take a second. What is the
alternative if we don't do anything with China? What does
that look like? What would you suggest we do? What
do you think? Do you know what the problems are? Okay,
do you know what the name of the premiere prior
to Zijin Ping is. I would just shoot them right
back and put them on the spot and just go,
why don't you prove right here what you know? Because
I don't think you know anything?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that would They'll be a great approach.
Speaker 3: And it's it's so it's so frustrating because you have
you sit there and have to watch them answer these ridiculous,
loaded pointed questions, you know. And I love the way
Vance handles it. He just shoots them right back, cuts
their legs out. Yeah, he's so so good and we're
going to be blessed if he is the next President's
I think we're gonna be blessed.
Speaker 1: I think he's the smartest vice president we've ever had.
And this really is a time to pray for President
Trump because he's doing something here that we both said.
It's like all in poker. It's the most important. This
is the most important geopolitical events in our lifetime. And
this isn't easy for America.
Speaker 3: He's also he's also saying something that I am more
pro Trump than I was the day got elected. And
the reason why is because you're sitting back watching a
present risk his entire legacy and risk additional warfare or
lawfare when he leaves office. And we name how many
presidents out of the last hundred years, we're willing to
take that gambit, right.
Speaker 1: And President from to his eternal credit, said this is
going to hurt. Yep, this is going to be uncomfortable,
but stick with it. We have to do this. To me,
this proves something beyond the shadow of a doubt that
man loves America says, Hey, listen, his portfolio is ticket
to hit too. And you're exactly right. When he's done
in these four years, they're going to come. They're going
to try to end him.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And and there's something else I heard somebody say
the other day, and I've heard it before, but it's
it's really true. It's you know, we as Americans got
to figure out whether we want to die on our
feet or live on our knees and said, I'll I'll
take diying on my feet any day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam. And if I'm lying on my knees, it's
because I'm praying to the Lord Jesus. Yeah, thank you
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