New York Got More Radical (Feat. Micah Haarhoff)

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Just when you thought the radical leftists in New York couldn't get any crazier, they've nominated a radical socialist muslim to be their new mayor. 
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always is. All right, let's talk a little bit about
some local stuff going on. This is a huge story
that I think technically I broke oops the all the
major outlets started doing it the day after I posted mine.

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On KIH dot com. That's another place where you should
be getting regular updates KGRH dot com. And of course
listen to Kichradio on the free ihit radio app. That's
our sister station, by the way, KPRC and KTRH. So
anyway you may think that, hey, I live in Texas,
I can send my children to the public school without

(02:20):
having to worry about them coming home as a different
gender because we're a Red state right. We protect our
kids from garbage like that, and you'd be mistaken. Not
only is this still happening in Red States, it's still
happening in Texas, and even crazier, it's still happening right
here in our own backyards. HID is still attempting allegedly

(02:43):
to trans the kids. I was just as shocked as
you are, but it's happening. Alliance Defending Freedom has filed
a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of a family
in the Houston Independent School District after HISD failed to
commit to referring to Aup's daughter by her given name
and correct pronouns. The issue began back in December of

(03:05):
twenty twenty three, when the Osbourne family discovered a masculine
name on their daughter's school work, and they learned that
their daughter had been socially transitioned at school for several months.
According to an announcement from the Alliance Defending Freedom, HISD
employees had originally agreed with a request from the Osborne's
that they stopped socially transitioning their child, but the parents
later learned that the social transition had continued. The family

(03:29):
has now had meetings with the principal of their daughter's school,
but according to the ADF, there has been no sign
that HISD intends to comply with the wishes of the
parents in this matter. ADF attorneys have now filed the
case Osborne v. Houston Independent School District with the US
District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.
HISD has made no public comments so far. I actually

(03:51):
reached out to them about this. I sent an email
to HISD because I'm a good reporter and I try
to get both sides of the story. I sent an
email to HISD, and I gave them the opportunity to say, Hey,
is this what's what's going on here? We're getting one
side of the story from ADF because they're the only
ones talking about it. Can you tell us what's going on?
Do you have anything to say? And they never got

(04:13):
back to me. They ignored me. But I saw this
to say, listen, I don't care if we're in a
red state. I don't care how conservative you think your
area is, how conservative you think your school district is.
You have got to be involved, not only in local politics,
because that's the big kind of concern here. You have

(04:34):
got to be involved in local politics because this one
hundred percent, I guarantee it is coming down from the
kind of upper levels of HID You've got officials, you've
got suits and bureaucrats at HISD that are part of
me watch at my coffee quietly pushing this sort of policy.

(04:56):
I guarantee you it's not on the books, it's not
written down. You have to socially train kids without the
parents' knowledge, but I guarantee you their's suits telling lower
level teachers and whatnot. Hey, if some kids says, oh,
I think I might be a different gender, you socially
transition them and you don't tell the parents. I guarantee
you that's what's going on. I guarantee it. So be
involved at the local level, at every local level. Even

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if you don't have kids at the public school, be
aware of what's going on in your school district because
you may have kids there in the future, or you
may have friends who have kids there all right, so
be aware. And also if you have children, be involved
in their lives. That is incredibly important. You have got
to be aware of what is going on with your kid. Again,

(05:39):
this girl had been being socially transitioned for months before
the parents found out. And I don't want to rack
on the parents too much because obviously they're going through
something difficult right now. But this is a sign probably
that you're not as involved in your child's life as
you should be. You have got to know what's going
on with your kids. I growing up, our church would

(06:01):
always kind of emphasize this, primarily when it came to lunch.
We would always have a potluck lunch, and we have
this ongoing problem of kids would just load up on
food and then like eat half of it and throw
the rest of it away, or just kind of basically
just only eat the sweet stuff lay dotty do at
the pot luck. They would just get a bunch of
desserts and not actually eat any real food at at
the potluck lunch. And so every so often we get

(06:23):
an announcement from the pastors from the pulpit, hey, parents,
remember to be active parents. We need to practice active parenting.
And it was always to kind of not only just
make sure your kids are following the rules, but also
be involved in your kids' lives. And that I think
is the real kind of danger of the public school system.

(06:45):
Too often we just sort of send our kids to
the public school, and then we put the whole system
on autopilot. We're not involved in what's going on at
the school. We're not involved in what's going on in
our child's life. We say, oh, they're getting their education,
they're at the public school. Maybe every once in a
while we'll get report card and we'll check it and
we'll make sure they're getting good grades. And if not, well,
then we'll address the issue. But hey, be involved in
your kids. Be involved in your kids school, because if

(07:09):
you're not, you may come home one day and realize
that your kid is trans Nobody bothered to tell you. Again,
this is another really good argument for school choice too,
because if they're if HISD is taking the time to
push transnists on kids, chances are they're not taking all
the time they need to in order to make sure

(07:30):
your kid is actually learning. Right, Does that make sense?
You can't be doing both effectively. You just can't. You're
either transiting the kids you're teaching them. You can't do both.
All right, Listen, We've got a great show coming up
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This D break.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
All righty, welcome back at underscore. Ethan Buchanan on X
check me out there. All right, So we need to
talk elections. Remember, we have got elections under way right
now in this country. There is no time off basically
in politics. It just doesn't exist. It's twenty four seven
all the time. There are always elections somewhere. We've got

(08:33):
a bunch of people announcing reelections here in Texas. John
Cornyan is like twenty full points behind Ted Cruz or
not Ted Cruz, Ken Paxson. What am I saying? John
Cornan is twenty points behind Ken Paxton according to a
recent poll that I saw. So that's good news for Texas.
We need to talk a little bit about New York.

(08:54):
I don't like typically talking about New York because I
just don't feel like it's super relevant here in Texas.
And by New York I mean New York City. But
this I think is an interesting story. I mean, you've
probably seen it if you're on the internet, if you've
been watching Fox News, you've heard about this guy who

(09:15):
won the Democrat Party nomination for New York mayor, and
they just had a whole cast of characters running for
that position. One of the people that was running was
a former governor, Andrew Cuomo. He got ousted from the
governor's office because he was basically sexually harassing, allegedly a

(09:36):
bunch of his staffers. So he got kicked out of
the governor's office. And now he is trying to be
the mayor. And he basically blew that. He ran for
the Democrat primary and got blown out by a Muslim socialist,
which is wild. This guy is quite an interesting fella.

(09:59):
Name is Zorun Kwame Mom Danni, And I'm pretty sure
I'm pronouncing all of that properly. I'm almost positive, but
I could be bushering it. And if i am, I
don't care. This guy is basically the radical leftist to
end all radical leftists. I have not seen somebody this

(10:24):
openly off the walls radical left when anything since David
Hogg won a position in the DNC. Just to give
you an idea of how crazy this guy is, I'm
going to read to you some things he supports. According
to his actual Twitter. He put out a list and again,
this is in twenty twenty, so you know it's five

(10:48):
years old at this point. But it's not like I'm
digging up ancient history here, all right. This isn't I'm
going back and looking at stuff from twenty ten saying, oh,
you said mean things on Twitter? How could you? This
is not like an I'm digging up old tweets to
cancel you. I'm digging up and I'm not even doing it.
I found this. It's open, it's out there, it's not hidden.

(11:09):
These are the policy positions that he was advocating for
just five years ago. I don't believe his opinion on
these things have changed. So here's kind of the top
things that he wants to get done. He wants to
end cash bail. He wants to repeal the walking while
trans ban, and that's in quotes. I don't know what
the hell he's talking about. You can walk while trans.

(11:31):
I don't think there's anywhere that that's not allowed. I
don't know what he's on about there. But then again,
I don't know the laws of New York. I have
to assume that New York, being a radical left place,
wouldn't ban walking while trans. I feel like he's getting
worked up over nothing. There here's another good one from him.
He wants to decriminalize sex work because that won't possibly

(11:53):
go wrong. That yeah, good idea, good idea. Legal marijuana.
I won't fight you on that. I tend to lean
more towards that. I'm a libertarian in that sense. You know,
obviously we need you can't drive all you're high, that's important.
You know, we should probably have some age rest restrictions

(12:14):
on marijuana. But at the end of the day, that
is a plant created by God. God said it was good.
It's in the Bible. You can hate me all you
want for saying it. I don't think marijuana should be legal.
The war on drugs has not been a particularly good
use of public resources, nor has it worked. So legalize marijuana.
I won't fight you on that one. Permit safe injection sites,

(12:35):
and there you go. You took it too far. They
did this in Portland. What this means when you say
permit safe injection sites, that means you're gonna have the
government set up on the taxpayerdim. Hey, this is where
you can come to shoot yourself up with heroin and
do crack and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
Not.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Hey, let's maybe fund centers to help people dealing with addiction.
Maybe wean people off of these rehab centers and whatnot. No,
this is just hey, come do drugs on the public.
Don are you kidding me? They did this in Portland.
It's a disaster. You have people just on the streets
cracked out. This has not worked anywhere it's been tried,

(13:13):
and it's been tried in a lot of places. There's
a number of different examples you can point to to
say this is clearly a bad idea, And to my knowledge,
he hasn't walked this back since twenty twenty restrict solitary
confinement and Act Elder Parole reenfranchise incarcerated New Yorkers. So,
in case you didn't know, and basically any part of

(13:35):
the country, if you're convicted of like a serious crime
or you're incarcerated, you're not allowed to vote, which makes sense.
It's hard to really argue against the logic of that.
People who are in jail for serious crimes really should
not be a part of our democratic system. You have
given up your right to participate in society by committing

(13:55):
hainous crimes. Go to jail, stay there, shut up. This
guy doesn't like that he wants to let these people
vote decriminalize simple drug possession. That's a slippery slope. I mean,
to a certain extent, maybe we need to look at
how we prioritize our law enforcement resources with that regard,
but completely decriminalizing that's just a terrible idea. Repeal all

(14:17):
mandatory minimum sentences, so basically just you can do crimes now,
reduce maximum sentences with retroactive effect. That's crazy. Repeal felony
bump up status. I don't know exactly what that means.
Repeal sentencing enhancements, and end cooperation with ICE. That's who
this guy is, and I have not seen anything from

(14:38):
him saying, hey, no, these things that I was pushing
back in twenty twenty, I don't want those now. As mayor,
I won't pursue that. So it's safe to assume all
of this stuff is stuff he's going to try to
enact if he does become mayor. He also said, we
don't need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, antiqueer,
and a major threat to public safety. What we need
to do is defund the NYPD. So this is back

(14:59):
in a twenty twenty of course, when all of that
was big. But again I haven't seen any indication from
him that he doesn't believe in that anymore. We've seen
that this doesn't work. We need police, especially in New
York where you already have so much violent crime. I mean,
it's not hard to find videos on eggs from all

(15:21):
the garbage that's going on, and why see subways. It's
a disaster. It's like a third world. But that's who
this guy is. I mean, he's as radical left as
you could possibly be. He couldn't be radical lefter. Now,
I will grant you these are old tweets. I know that.

(15:42):
So let me just to give you a good idea
of how radical he still is. He is a socialist.
He is a crazy socialist. Here he is recently in
this campaign he cut this video, this campaign video talking
about how he wants to create government run grocery stores.
Take a listen to this.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Grocery prices are out of control. The cost of eggs
and milk has skyrocketed. Dumb stores are even using dynamic pricing,
jacking up the cost over the course of a day
depending on what they can get away with. It doesn't
need to be this way. I'm Zaham Mamdani, and as mayor,
I will create a network of city owned grocery stores.
It's like a public option for produce. We will redirect
city funds from corporate supermarkets to city owned grocery stores

(16:22):
whose mission is lower prices, not price gadget. These stores
will operate without a profit motive or having to pay
property taxes or rent, and will pass on those savings
to you.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
That's literally socialism. It's government run grocery stores. We saw
this attempt at in the Soviet Union. It didn't work.
We've seen this attempted in every socialist country. It never works.
Yet this guy is pushing it while also pushing defund
the police. Let me ask you this, what happens when
somebody robs the government run grocery store. Nothing because you

(16:53):
defunded the police. And yet this is who New York
Democrats want to run their city. I mean, hey, you
get what you vote for. I actually, hey, if the
Democrats and the people in New York want this, go
for it. I don't hate the idea of this guy winning,
only because I think it's a good idea to have
this shining, glistening example of how terrible all of these

(17:15):
Democrat policies are go for it, go a hole hog.
Let the entire country see how terrible of an idea
all of this is. And that way, these radical crazies
will never win another election again, which is what's going
to happen here. But it is kind of sad to
see that this is the point we are in America
where some guy who is this crazy can win a

(17:38):
major seat, like a Democrat nomination to be the mayor
of New York. That's all. That's all I have to
say about this. This guy is crazy, New York is crazy.
But hey, what are you gonna do? What are you
gonna do? All right, stay tuned, we'll be right back.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
All right.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
All this talk about a potential socialist mayor in New
York City has got me feeling down and out. We
hear a lot about how difficult it is in America
right now, how young people can't make it, how basically
anybody that's not a billionaire can't succeed, and how people
who own businesses are terrible and ladi dotty do. I

(18:33):
want to contrast that with some actual good news here
in Texas, business is booming, and to talk about that,
I reached out to one of my buddies who actually
owns his own business, and it seems to be going
pretty well for him. It's a motor or power sports business.
They basically sell all things motor sports. So here to

(18:53):
talk a little bit about that is Michael Harhoff, President
of Revolution power Sports. Micah, thanks for joining me. I
appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Thank you, Ethan.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
So, first of all, let me start with this. How
did you get into the power sports or mortorsports business.
What kind of led to you deciding, Hey, this is
what I want to do. I want to build a
company around this.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Yeah, no, for sure. So I started in the power
sports industry when I was probably about thirteen and I
I was flipping them out of my driveway, you know,
about five years ago, and pretty much decided to open
a dealership at that point. Basically to become legal, I

(19:42):
could no longer balance titles around in my driveway. So
to turn legal it turned into you pretty much have
to have a facility. Took me eleven months to get
a dealer license. But going back, probably I started out
as a technician. We're from you know, probably thirteen to

(20:07):
sixteen or seventeen on and off, and then about then
I'm twenty four now. For reference, I've owned the dealership
for about three years and then I just started flipping them,
buying them, fixing them, selling them just out of my driveway.
And I was making more doing that than I was
at my main job. And you know, so now we do.

(20:32):
You know, we do quite a bit of revenue, have
about ten employees over there now and it's a scalable thing.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
So yeah, that's pretty crazy to hear, just because I
remember seeing your Facebook post back in the day of
just hey, I have this in my driveway. Who wants
to come buy it?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Ye?

Speaker 1 (20:52):
So, you know, over five the last five years basically,
I mean, that's not to get to a political here,
because I really don't want to that that is through
the Buiding administration, and we know, just the hard facts
of it, that was a little bit of a difficult
business climate. So how how hard was it to build
a business basically from scratch with that going on?

Speaker 4 (21:15):
You know, So it was one of those things. I
have two failed dealerships prior to this one, both of
them with partners, and I just wasn't the kind of
person to have a partner. And you know, I've grown
a lot and learned a lot, and you know, so
I just went out on my own on this and
did it that way. But pretty much the process to

(21:39):
scaling a company comes down to delegation. Because when I
was trying to run around and do everything myself and
you know, buy them, sell them, pick them up, fix them,
I had no time to focus on actual problem solving,
seeing what's going on in the economy, you know, and
being able to modify and adapt to that. So as

(21:59):
I've scaled and put in the systems and processes and
hired the people to run them, now that's freed up
my time to where I can you know, get ahead
start on the economy and see something that's going to
affect my business way prior to when it actually does,
and we're able to adjust and you know, kind of
pivot and go in whatever direction we need to. For that,

(22:22):
COVID was actually our best year. You know, everybody was
stuck inside and not able to do anything, and you know,
we blew up. It was just kind of one of
those everybody sitting around scrowing on Facebook, and you know
we really hammered down on the marketing and you know,
trying to kind of copy the Fuckies model. You know,
you're just everywhere and you know, nobody can think of

(22:45):
a nice gas station without thinking of you, and so yeah,
that was kind of how we did that. And yeah,
I love the economy is always a problem. Then it's
also it's also you know a lot of problem solving.
So what we would run into. You know, we we
had probably eighty percent of our business was cash, and

(23:06):
that turned into probably ninety five percent finance. We barely
deal with cash anymore, and we pretty much had to
pivot to where we could finance pretty much everything zero down.
And that was really the only way to make it
through that. You know, if I had only stuck with
cash deals and whatever, you know, we wouldn't be today.
But being able to bring on financing and that kind

(23:28):
of stuff for people's people's decisions, you know, it helped.
It helped that way.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
So obviously you do a lot of sales, and I
imagine this is probably a place where people can go
to get into power sports for the first time. So
let me ask you this, what's something because I think
anybody who works in sales has these repeat questions that
customers always ask, and it it just kind of gets

(23:54):
to the point where you're like, come on, dude again, So, like,
what's one question that you would wish customers knew already
when they walked in the door.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
You know, that is a very good question, and I
would say probably just what they want and what they're
going to use it for, because that's that's our typical thing.
You know, somebody, there's so many different options as far
as sport utility.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
You have utility, you.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
Want, you have a dumb bed, you have turbode machines.
You know, what are you going to use it for?
And then what's your price point? You know, because it's
almost always it's going to come down to payment. But
the nice thing about our industry is a lot of
people that do come in have a rough idea of
what they want. So it's not like car sales where
it's super high pressure sales. We're able to take a

(24:40):
very relax for you know, approach to it because the
machines sell themselves. As long as you know, you know
kind of what you're going to be using it for
what you want and a decent price point, I can
find you anything you want, you know, and we're kind
of known as the Amazon Prime of the our sports world.

(25:01):
You know, so you tell me what you want and
it's going to sell up at your door.

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Here you go. So this very much seems to be
like you said, you've been doing this since you were thirteen,
So you definitely took something you enjoy, You took a passion,
and you turned it into a career, which is honestly great.
I mean true at Kathy, the founder of true fil
I always said, if you do something you enjoy, you'll
never work again.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
So out of one hundred per cent true what do
you think so far.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Has kind of become your favorite part of working in
this business of owning your own business. What's like the
one thing you're like, I can't wait to do X
at work today? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (25:37):
I think so. Now, Now, my my that has probably
changed over the years. It used to be, you know,
sales work, full service dealership, so we have parts service, sales, delivery, detailing,
you know, holesday and now it's changed, you know, as
I've scaled and delegated and put the people in place.
Now what I really find myself enjoying is building my team,

(25:59):
you know, taking kind of that leadership aspect, you know,
versus because I'm really not in the day to day
of the business operations anymore. And so now it's like
really being able to pour into my team's lives, you know,
on a personal level. And that's kind of what separates
us from a lot of companies is the owners are

(26:20):
still so involved in the day to day they have
no time to build their team, you know, and then
they have really high turnover and you know, this and
that and whatever. But that's really what I enjoy doing,
is you know, the person personal development with my team
and just being able to empower them and you know,

(26:40):
help them get where they're wanting to go.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
All right, So let me give you a hypothetical. I'm
looking at your website right now, that's ourps ride dot com.
So I'm seeing a twenty twenty one canam Maverick X
three max DS Turbo R and a twenty twenty one
Honda Pioneer one thousand five Deluxe. I have no idea
what either of those means. So let's say hypothetically, I

(27:03):
have a beach house and I'm looking for something that
I can drive up and down the beach on a
relaxing evening. I see those two and I ask you
which one should I pick?

Speaker 4 (27:11):
One hundred percent so honestly, your best bet is going
to be that hont Of Pioneer just because it is
more utility type machine and versus like the X three
is a turbo machine. It's better for you know, kind
of racing and you know, some high speed stuff.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
That one.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
You know, it's two on a horsepower, So the Canam
is two on a horsepower, so compared to the hont
A Pioneer, it's naturally aspirated. It's a very comfortable machine,
just to you know, pitdle around with versus you know,
you're buying that X three and you're gonna go race.
You know, that's kind of the main difference.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
And let's say I wanted to do a bunch of mudding.
Would the cannon be good for that?

Speaker 4 (27:58):
Absolutely? Yeah. And there's there's a lot of different things
that you can change with them. You know, you can
put bigger tires on it. We do portals, snorracles, you know,
clutch kits. You know, you can turn almost any machine
into what's best for you for whatever that application is.
You know, but that's really what it does come down to,

(28:19):
what are you going to use or are they going
to spend most of the time at that beach house
or is you know, are you going to take it
out on the weekends, you know, and then you can
kind of modify and adapt to do that.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, I got thirty more seconds here. Tell people
real quick, where can they find you? Where can they
find Revolution Power Sports man.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
We're on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, pretty much every social
media platform. Micah Harnhoff, that's my personal Feel free to
hit me up anything you need.

Speaker 1 (28:49):
Alrighty, Hey, thank you very much for joining us. Listen,
stay tuned. We'll be right back with one more segment.
This is the next sim Report. Alrighty, thanks again to

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mica Oh Harhoff from Revolution Power Sports. Go check them
out RPS ride dot com again. He and I go
way back. He's a good buddy of mine. I knew
him when I was what like five or six years old.
Good friend, good friend. All right, So we talked a
little bit about some economic good news. Of course, he
was able to build a pretty successful business throughout some

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kind of difficult economic times, which is great. The good
news is those difficult economic times look to be coming
to an end. We've got a lot of good news
on the economy, which is always great. Always great. First
of all, do you guys remember when Trump first announced
the tariffs and everybody went on and on and on

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and on and on about how this was basically just
going to destroy the economy. Like Liberation Day was April third.
In the day afterward, everyone's going, oh my god, it's
it's it's the end of business in America. The stock
market is crashing, it plunged. They completely ignored the fact
that the stock market was even worse under Biden. They
ignored the fact that this is a negotiation tactic by

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the president, and from what we've seen so far, it
appears to be a negotiation tactic that's actually working. Of course,
we have this headline from CBS News. The S and
P five hundred reached a new record high with investors
bullied by signs of easing global trade tensions. The broad
based injects rose thirty two points or zero point five percent,

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close to one hundred and seventy three, surpassing its previous
all time high in February of six one hundred and
forty four. So the stock market's on its way back up,
and this has forced a lot of people who were
what Trump likes to call the Pannikins. They all had
to take a step back and say, Okay, maybe we

(30:57):
were wrong, which is always my favorite part of any
news cycle. So news cycles basically work like this. It
starts with a thing happening, everybody losing their mind over
the thing. You'll have some people that will say, hold on,
let's wait a minute and see how this plays out.
And then it'll play out, and then all the people

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that lost their mind will have to start walking things back.
It's always so much fun to watch. It's especially fun
to be on the I Told You suicide, which is
where I've been finding myself lately. Wall Street Economists this
is from the New York Post. Wall Street Economists who
ripped Trump admitst president may have arts out outsmarted all

(31:39):
of us on tariffs. Yeah, kind of trust and slock.
I have no idea where that name comes from. Chief
economists had investment giant Apollo Global Management said that while
the uncertainty surrounding trade policy has already started to weigh
on the economy, Trump could lower tariffs on most US

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trading partners while using the levees to boost federal revenue.
Wait a minute, you mean the thing that Trump said
he was gonna do from day one. He might do
and it could help the economy. What a shocker. Remember
the line from Trump was never we need to have
fifty percent tariffs on everybody. He always was saying, Hey,

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we need to have like maybe a flat ten percent
tariff rate, and then we can use that to boost
the economy. He bumped it up to things like thirty
and forty percent on certain products from certain countries as
a negotiating tactic. He's trying to push the bill a
little bit, and then they push back, and then he
pushes back. You never started what you want? Right. If
his goal is, hey, at flat ten percent tariff on

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all products coming into the country, and that's just the baseline,
everybody pays that. We can plan for it, we can
do business for it, and we'll use that as revenue
to do things like pay down our debt or even
cut back on the income tax, which would be amazing.
That really isn't going to hurt the economy. What everybody
was saying, is I hurt the economy is the oh,
the uncertainty. But the uncertainty lasts for maybe a month

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while we negotiate, and then we start cutting deals, which
is what we've seen, even with China. I mean, that
was the big one that everybody thought, Oh my god,
we're going to wreck the economy by having all these
tariffs on China. Our prices are going to skyrocket because
China has to pay tariffs on all the cheap goods
they're importing into the United States. Well, guess what, now,
we've got to deal signed with China. Here's President Trump
on the twenty six announcing that.

Speaker 5 (33:26):
A few months ago, the press was saying, do you
really have anybody of any interest as well? We just
signed with China yesterday, right, just signed with China.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
We have everybody. We're not going to make.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Deals with everybody. Some were just going to send them
a letters say thank you very much. You're going to
pay twenty five thirty five, forty five percent.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's the easy way to do it. And my people
don't want to do it that way.

Speaker 5 (33:47):
They want to do some of it, but they want
to make more deals than I would do. But we're
having some great deals. We have one coming up maybe
with India, very big one. Well, we're going to open
up India. In the China deal, We're starting to open
up China.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
So Obviously, big trade deals like this are a great sign,
but at the same time, they're not necessarily coming at
the expense of the reshoring of American manufacturing that President
Trump has said that he wants. What we've been able
to see is that Trump is doing both.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
He is.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Over the week, we got the news that General Electric
would be bringing some of their manufacturing back to the
United States. And this is on top of a number
of automakers that also announced the same thing. Over the
last couple of months, we have seen a massive restoring
in the United States of manufacturing, which is good news.
The AP reported on this. General Electric Appliances announced a

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nearly half a billion dollar project on Thursday that it
says we'll create eight thousand new jobs and shift production
of clothes swashers from China to its massive manufacturing complex
in Kentucky. The four hundred and ninety million dollar investment
positions the Kentucky Home Appliances Company to rank as the
biggest US manufacturer of washing machines. I mean, that's a

(34:59):
bart of clear I guess hell, if you want to
be the biggest manufacturer of washing machines, go for it.
We're bringing laundry production to our global headquarters in Louisville,
because manufacturing in the US is fundamental to our zero
distance business strategy to make appliances as close as possible
to our customers and consumers. CEO Kevin Nolan said, this
decision is our most recent product restoring and aligns with

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the current economic and policy environments. So he's openly an
outright saying, hey, we're doing this because of Donald Trump.
So we're getting trade deals, we're getting the restoring of manufacturing.
Everything seems to be going well. It's amazing the difference
a president can make. I think the biggest difference is

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the president is actually making these decisions as opposed to
Joe Biden, who for the last four years was basically
delegating every single aspect of his presidency to the freaking
auto pen. Here's the headline from Breitbart. Former Biden aid
Nara Tandon does not know who ordered the president's autopen signature. So,
in case you haven't been keeping up, we basically found

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out that half of if not more, of the documents
that President Biden signed as president, including a pardon's executive
orders everything else, was signed not by Biden but by
an auto pen. A machine that was designed to replicate
Joe Biden's signature. So the question then becomes how legitimate
are those documents because if it wasn't even Biden ordering

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these documents to be signed, and I think it's fair
to assume that maybe it wasn't because he was out
of it the entire time. We know that now watched
the debate that he had with Donald Trump and tell
me that man was making any decisions. He clearly was not.
So who is ordering signing of these documents? It's not

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Joe Biden's signature that has power, it's the president of
the United States, in which the power is endowed. You
can't just have a machine sign his signature in that count.
So the question now is how much of these documents
and pardons and whatnot that Joe Biden was signing her
actually legitimate. We have no idea who is actually ordering

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these to be signed, but thankfully it is being looked into.
Here's James Comer announcing that.

Speaker 4 (37:09):
What would your committee have to find to make the
determination that.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
These eos these laws are null and void?

Speaker 6 (37:18):
Who gave the authority for the low level staffers to
take that document, put it in the auto pen and
press power to sign Joe Biden's name, because many of
those documents were signed on days where.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Joe Biden wasn't anywhere near the White House.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
There's no evidence of any email communication between the President
and these staffers. We have the her Report where Robert
Herris sat down at length with Joe Biden and concluded
that he couldn't even sit in front of a jury
because he could even remember the date of his election
and of tragic events in his family's life and things

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like that. So there's plenty of evidence that Joe Biden
wasn't mentally fit to make a lot.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
Of these decisions.

Speaker 6 (38:02):
We want to know who actually gave the authority to
do these executive orders and these pardons, because again, I
think the American people have seen up close and personal,
especially during that debate with Donald Trump, that Joe Biden
wasn't at the top of his game.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
So who ordered the auto pen signatures? Basically, it's the
story there. We don't know, and we need to find out.
And listen, I know the reaction from the right is
we want to forget about this, We want to just
put this in the background, because honestly, it was a
terrible time for America it was, but we can't. We
have to stick to this. We got to figure out
who was behind this, and we need to make sure
there was accountability. That is important for this country. All Right,
that's all I've got. Stay tuned on Wednesday for the

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podcast and of course checking out on social media at
Underscore Ethan Buchanan on x this is the Next Gen Report.
Thank you very much for listening. We'll be back next Sunday,