4-9-25 - 7am - The Media Wants Us To Focus On Tariffs and The Value Gap

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Man, I am so impressed by people that can do
math in their head. We're a half of the way
through the year. Uh, third of the way, fourth of
the way through the year. That was some quick math,

(00:20):
you know.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Now she's on my feces list? Who isn't? That list
is getting really long. Well it's it's easier to cat
who's not on my list? Right? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? My
two dogs. That's about it. It's about it. That's about it.
My two dogs love me. And beyond that, it's like, yeah,
because you feed them. I feed them and walk them,

(00:42):
you know, and they and they sleep in the bed
so that you know they're the McDonald's. Yeah, she know.
My sleep app, I was saying, mister Tammer last night.
So my sleep app it also has a It monitors
the noise in the room, and the average is a
like a quiet library. So my bedroom is pretty quiet, okay,

(01:06):
except it will show like the maximum and I forget.
I was showing this to Tame at dinner last night.
Night before last. It was like a lawnmower. Is that
the dogs? I think it's the dogs. I think it's
the dogs, you know, getting they've got this bed that's
up against the bed, so I think it bangs that bad.

(01:28):
And then they go and they PLoP down in the bathroom,
which is all open to the end of the master bedroom,
and I think they're just they're constantly and maybe sometimes
they play. I don't know. I'm drugged out of sleep.
I don't know what's going on, but it's like no
one of my sleep's crappy sleep. So let's go back
to the tariffs are just what the media wants you

(01:52):
to focus on right now while all these other things
are going on that we knew we would reach a
tip point where the monetary systems would start to collapse,
the debt would become overwhelming, there would be a global
realignment of the American world order. And as somebody said,

(02:18):
I just read it on the text line how we
ignore China. It's a good enough text seventy four hundred
that I want to share it before we go back
into the dissection of these things that I think are
underlying and are just as important, if not important, in

(02:41):
the tariffs seventy four hundred, writes Mike, I laugh when
our media refers to Trump as authoritarian China as an
authoritarian leader, and our media rarely reports on him in
a negative manner. I think if the public knew about
the One China policy, their view on China would change.
What she has done to the people of Tibet, Taiwan,

(03:01):
the Wigers, and the Inner Mongolian should cause a worldwide uproar,
taking away their religion, their traditions, their language, basically life
as they knew it. Everybody inside China knows better than
to talk about any of this publicly. Now you add
on the Belt and Road initiative China has with other
countries that allows them to essentially do to other countries
what they've done to the ethnic minorities inside their expanded borders.

(03:25):
Economy plays a huge role in all of this, and
if we don't stop our downward economic spiral, how do
we ever change what is going on in the world
with China. Economy is a more important factor in global
affairs than most people realize. Bam, That's exactly right. But
we also don't understand just how bad communist China is.

(03:49):
Not only is it the Tibetans, the taiwan Is, the Vegers,
the Inner Mongolians, it's the Chinese people themselves. The Chinese
people themselves are so to the most massive, intrusive, all
inclusive social surveillance and all surveillance system that's ever existed

(04:12):
in the history of mankind. You cannot it. Well, let
me just describe that you cannot even you get a
ticket for jaywalking. That's a ding on your social score,
which means that if you want to go see Grandma,

(04:33):
you probably can't take one of the high speed rails,
or depending on how bad your social score is, you
might not even be able to take a bus. You
might even be able to you might not even be
able to leave your home because your social score is
so bad. And it's not just because you jaywalk. It
may be because of something you wrote, you said that
they that you said to somebody else that they reported

(04:55):
to the party officials. Your business your business. While you
may air quote own your business, the Chinese Communist Party
controls your business. So they tell you what you can
do and what you cannot do, who you can hire,
who you cannot hire. They can even they can even
force you to go borrow money to even sell assets.

(05:16):
They can tell you who to sell to. It not
sell to, I mean, it is a total authoritarian dictatorship.
Over one point six one point eight billion people. It's awful,
and they're spreading that communism all over the world. So
they go to craphole countries or not even a craphole country,

(05:38):
because I really don't consider Panama. It may not be
a first World country, but it's not a third world country.
But they go to Panama and I forget Hudson, or
I forget the name of the company that owns or
operates the canal. Well, they operate that company. Let's just
say it's I know it's not the Hudson Bay Company.

(06:00):
That's why I keeped cleaning in my head. But it's
Hudson or something something like that that owns the operating
rights to the Panama Canal. They also own harbors and
ports all over the world. Black Rock Larry Fink, Blackrock,

(06:22):
the largest hedge fund in the entire world, trillions of
dollars under their control in their portfolio, offered this company
in China billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars
to buy that company because they wanted to get American

(06:46):
control over the Panama Canal. You would think that's a
private transaction. Chijing Ping and the Chinese Communist Party said no. Now,
Larry Fink has said, Blackrock has said, really hold my beer.
So there's another example of another clash going on between

(07:10):
I don't care what you think about Blackrock. I don't
agree with everything Blackrock does. But here is Blackrock actually
trying to protect American interests and the Chinese Communist Party
telling a private company inside China, which is a euphemism,
you really cannot do that. No, you cannot sell to Blackrock,

(07:30):
and Blackrock is now going to challenge that. Now. I
don't know how they're going to challenge it. Blackrock doesn't
have an army, but maybe they're going to do something.
Who knows what they're going to do. But that's the
kind of control that the Chinese Communist Party has. Now
you think about it. I've got a story which I
may or may not get to today about what China
is doing in terms of invading Taiwan. I you know,

(07:52):
they have said that by twenty twenty seven, that's their
that's their mark on the calendar of when they want
to take control of Taiwan. They may speed that up.
You understand that TSMC when it comes to the high
end semiconductors, they make about ninety of those. When it

(08:17):
comes to just regular semiconductors that we all have in
our gadgets, in our cars and our kitchens and everywhere else.
TSMC manufactures about sixty percent of those. Now, if that
falls into Chinese communists hands, they get to decide who
gets those semiconductors, which could utterly destroy the world economy,

(08:41):
because Chinese could just say, instead of fighting kinectic war,
they'll just And of course TSMC has it set up
so that if that invasion occurs, they pretty much destroy
their equipment just becomes worthless, It just becomes a scrap heap.
But that means that semiconductors are no longer available. That's

(09:05):
the equivalent of an electromagnetic pulse an e MP being
exploded in the atmosphere over the entire world, and suddenly
we can't manufacture new laptops, new iPhones, new cars, new anything,
because we're so dependent upon semiconductors. Hell's bells. We had

(09:28):
to buy a new refrigerator a few months ago. It's
got a computer inside it. Everything's computerized. You would be
shocked at how much you depend upon semiconductors. And China
wants to take over the world's largest manufacturer of those
semiconductors that we use, which gets too why why Trump

(09:49):
is so busy trying to get TSMC and others to
start manufacturing in this country, which leads me right back
to where were we the old monetary economic order. You
take China, they manufacture things, just call them things. You

(10:12):
could be semiconductors, it could be iPhones, it could be
cheap craft that you buy from Walmart or anywhere else.
They manufacture cheap stuff, and they manufacture it inexpensively, they
sell it to us, and then they because we buy
stuff from them, they take the money that we buy

(10:34):
that we spend with them, and they buy our debt assets.
And then Americans borrow more money from countries like China
so that we can make more of those purchases, and
in the course of doing so, we build up huge
debt liabilities. And that's going to have to change at
some point. That is obviously an unsustainable circumstance. That's made

(10:59):
even more so by the fact that they have led
to American manufacturing doing what disappearing. That's what Trump is
trying to fix. And when you obliviate American manufacturing, that
hollows out the middle class jobs in this country. And
then requires us to import the items that we actually

(11:22):
need from a country that is increasingly seen or should
be increasingly seen as an existential enemy to this country.
That's all happening right now. But what's the media telling
you about. Well, let's go over once again to Drudge
stops continue, plunge, bond sell off deepens Wall Street panic,

(11:45):
China slaps us with eighty four percent tariffs. They want
you to think this is all about tariffs, and I'm
here to tell you today this is not about tariffs.
Tariffs just happen to be the topic of the day
because Trump's imposing them, and we'll get to some more
detail about them in a minute. But I want you
to understand the larger phenomenon going on, and that is

(12:08):
the entire world orders being upset right now. And you
can't blame Donald Trump. For example, the debt scenario that
I just described to you is the fault of our
own We did that, and we hauled out our own manufacturing. Again,
I'll remind you Ross Bureau in nineteen eighty eight that

(12:31):
giant sucking sound of American jobs leaving America and going elsewhere,
and everybody laughed at Rossparo because he had big ears. Well,
maybe there was something between those big ears, maybe Ross
pro and that sucking sound. Maybe we ought to recognize
that Ross PuO has been vindicated. What do we make

(12:55):
so in an air of deglobalization, with all these trade
and monetary capital imbalances, which reflects trade and capital interconnectedness,
it's all interconnected. All that's going to have to shrink.
It's going to shrink somehow. And it should be obvious

(13:18):
that our government debt level and the rate at which
the government debt is being added is unsustainable. How many
times I'm going to say that till I'm blue in
the face, which means clearly that the monetary order is
also going to have to change in a big which

(13:38):
will be disruptive in order to reduce all these imbalances
and all the excesses. And right now we're in the
early part of the process of that changing. And of course,
of course, why are you shocked that Wall Street is

(13:59):
gyrating the way that it is Because Wall Street knows
that all of these imbalances are being corrected, and now
they're trying to figure out where do I land, When
do I land at? What price do I land on?
Any given stock, which is why the indicies are gyrating

(14:19):
up and down all the time. So that's what I
would call, in broad terms, that's what I would refer
to as the economic order is breaking down. But let's
go back to the second point that I made in
the last hour, and that is that our domestic political

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order is breaking down. Now, why is that we never
stop and think about? You know, we talk about useful idiots?
Why do we have useful idiots? Have you ever have
you ever really thought thought about? Why? Why are people stupid?

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Because the there's a huge gap in education levels. Now, Fortunately,
I believe I'm speaking to a highly educated Well, in fact,
I know because I got the data to prove it
that I'm speaking to a highly educated audience. But my
audience is not the size of say, Rushlumbos. So I'm
speaking to a very small, highly educated audience. I don't

(15:23):
know how many of me, of effact, none of me.
There's only one me. Now, are there people smarter than me? Sure?
Do they have talk shows? I don't know. Do they
do their talk show this way? I don't know. There
may be, you know, I'm in fact I'm sure there are.
But the point being that talk radio, while one of

(15:45):
the largest media markets, is still tiny compared to a
population of three hundred and fifty plus million. People that
primarily get their news from the cabal and the people
that are generally speaking getting their news from the cabal

(16:08):
have a different education level. So you have a gap
in education levels and you have what I truly believe
to be the failure of the public school system. It's
become a system of indoctrination. And I know that's a
broad sweep, and I know, including in my own home,

(16:30):
there will be a school counselor in my home that
will say, no, you're you're speaking too broadly. No, because
when you look at where we rank in terms of
scores and math and reading and science capabilities, we're no
nearwhere We're nowhere near the top. We're spending billions of

(16:53):
dollars and we're sliding backwards. So the data proves that
we have a huge, huge education gap in this country
and what we're doing to educate people is not working.
So what happens when you have gaps in education levels, Well,
then you've got gaps and opportunities. You've got gaps in productivity,

(17:19):
you've got gaps in income and wealth levels. You have
a gap in people's value systems because we're not educating properly.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
You're going, Michael Jackon, this is your favorite keep highly educated.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Well, you give me too much credit, Mike, you give
me way too much credit. Good data. I'm day what
days come day day day. You know, based on that,
maybe we do give him too much credit. It's excited
about humpday. So back to our political situation. Someone argue, well, yes,

(18:12):
I think our political situation is breaking down. But I
think it probably a better way to describe it is
it's a realignment. The breakdown portion is these gaps that
we have, the wage gap, the opportunity gap, the education gap,

(18:32):
the values gap. I really do believe there's a gap
in values. You know, I am a I'm a Western
civilization guy. Now some people say that's racist because when
some people interpret somebody sent me an article that was
I'd already read it. It was over on the Free Press.
I forget the author about our fight for Western civilization,

(18:58):
and when you read through it, it was I think
it was a New York Times reporter that actually had
written this story that those of us who support air
quotes here western civilization are really kind of European, white centric,
and we're opposed to brown people or Asian people or whatever. No,
that's not it at all. It's Western values of individual

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liberty and freedom, you know, freedom of speech, and you know,
recognizing you know Burke, and recognizing Alexander Hamilton, and you know,
recognizing the founding fathers and recognizing what they believed in
and the values that they represented. That's what we want.
I don't care where you come from. I want you
to assimilate into our values. But then when you look around,

(19:47):
look you don't have to and you don't have to
look very far. Look in Colorado. Look does color do
the laws that are being passed by the Marxist the
Communists at the colorad of pollup Bureau, do those represent
your values? And if they represent the values of the

(20:08):
Democrat Party, don't you ever say that I'm using hyperbole
when I describe them as Marxist and communists, because that
is precisely what they are doing. This latest transgender bill, now,
I've got a story that again just teasing it because

(20:29):
I'm not sure I can get to it today. That
is a complete compilation of all of the taxes, including
the fees that are really taxes that Jared Poulas has
imposed on us. I still have the story that I
didn't get to yesterday. I still want to get to
about how businesses are finding it so difficult to operate

(20:53):
in this state because of over regulation. That all amounts
to what it amounts to a centraally planned economy, which
is communism or Marxism or fascism, depending on which level
you happen to be at, it's any of those isms.
And in terms of transgenderism and taking away the natural

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law of parents to raise their children and putting that in,
criminalizing some of that and putting it in the hands
of the government, that does not represent my values at
all at all. That's the tyranny of the minority. That's
a tiny little fraction of a population that has gender

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dysphoria controlling the majority. That's not how we operate. That's
not the principles upon which this country was founded, where
we respect and understand and give minorities their right to
be heard and to participate in the debate. But we
still have majority rule. But that's not what's happening here.

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So there is a values gap, and I think that
values gap is going to destroy the fabric of this society,
which again, every once in a while, I want to
pepper back in. I want to take the pepper grinder
and put a little bit of Donald Trump and what
he's trying to do, because I do believe that he Look,

(22:23):
he's a well educated guy. You may you know, it's
kind of like you know, my old boss, George Bush
was often mocked because he couldn't speak very well. He
mangled the English language. But I can tell you one
on one he was incredibly well educated. He was incredibly smart,

(22:43):
and I think the same thing is true of Donald Trump.
He says some outrageous things sometimes I think he says
outrageous things just absolutely on purpose because he's trolling people.
But what Trump is doing right now is he sees this.
He sees what I see in terms of this gap,

(23:03):
whether it's opportunity, education, income values, whatever it is, there
is this gap. Well, this is leading to democracies all
across the world to break down. You know, to function
as a republican form of government, you have to have compromise.

(23:26):
You can't always get what you want. You have adherence
to the rule of law. We see that going out
the window, and history is proven that both break down
at times like those that we're in right now. History
also shows us that strong autocratic leaders emerge as classic democracy.

(23:50):
Classic democracy and the classic rule of law are removed
as barriers to autocratic leadership. Now, don't think that I'm
saying this is what the cabal will tell you. Let
me first tell you what the cabal says that I'm saying.
If the cabal were to do a translation of what

(24:12):
I just said, they would see Aha. See, Michael Brown
is arguing that this breakdown leads to an autocratic authority,
and that's Donald Trump, and he's acting as an autocrat.
That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that
Donald Trump is actually the one that's standing in the
breach of these gaps and trying to fix this realignment.

(24:36):
He's trying to bring back the jobs, he's trying to
bring back the middle class. He's trying to realign the economy.
He's trying to realign the political order. He's trying to
realign our values. And Congress, which has a role to play,
is absent. You know, I told you about how they

(25:00):
they don't really work that hard. Well, they've announced whether
they stick to it or not, My guess is they will.
Easter is April twentieth, I think, so Friday is April eleven.
Friday is their last day of work for two weeks.

(25:24):
For Easter. For a holiday that's on a Sunday, well,
I would even dragon, just to try to be beneficent. Here,
you've got good Thursday, and I mean you've got Monday Thursday,
you've got good Friday, You've got Easter Sunday, and then

(25:45):
there used to be Easter Monday. So for a four
day let's just say, for not counting a Saturday. So
for a three day holiday, you got two weeks. Sounds
about right. Yeah. So Congress has a role to play
and they're not playing it, which is a further breakdown

(26:06):
of our political order. Trump's not stepping in as an Autocrat.
He's stepping in because if somebody doesn't do something, it'll
all fall apart. And he's trying to He's trying to
manage this realignment. Some people argue that what the Democrat

(26:29):
Party is doing and what Wall Street's doing, is they're
trying to manage the decline and they're trying to profit
as they manage the decline. I think Trump's doing exactly
the opposite. Is Trump profiting. Yeah, he still sells those
stupid watches. If I hear one more commercial about you know,
by your Trump watch right now, I'm gonna scream. But

(26:50):
I just think it's inappropriate. But I don't think ethically
there's anything to do about it. So have at it.
But he's not trying to. He's actually at his to
his own peril financially. He's trying to manage this, not
manage the decline. He's trying to reverse the decline. So far,

(27:14):
so far, we've got the economic order is changing, the
domestic political order is falling apart. But what's happening internationally,
that's the geopolitical order and it's breaking down two, which
you ought to be able to with everything I've said now,

(27:36):
you ought to be able to define what I'm going
to tell you in the next segment, anyway.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Can you, Michael, If a bank has a loan or
two with me, the bank is in control.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
What about the thought.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Process that if the bank has all their loan with me,
I become in control. Maybe we are in control of
Loana of China.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
Through the debt. Yes, that that's there's there's some truth
to that, because we can threaten to not pay, but
then that has all of the expected and unexpected consequences
of US failing to not pay our debts, including the

(28:22):
complete collapse of the dollar. So if you want to
see an economy plunge into a depression, don't pay your debts.
And it's kind of like the old saying that you know, well,
let me just move on, because I got to get
to this point. I don't have much time the global order.

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At the same time that everything else is going on,
with tariffs and taxes and everything happening internally in this country,
the international geopolitical order is breaking down. And I think
that's because the American world order that post World War
two has kept everything in place is starting to crack.

(29:10):
Now I don't think it's over, but I think it's
starting to crack. This multilateral, cooperative, globalist world order is
being placed replaced by a unilateral power rules approach. Now
we would still be the largest power in the world,

(29:33):
but we're shifting to this unilateral America first approach. We're
now seeing that manifest in US leading this trade war,
if you want to call it a trade war, the
geopolitical wars. Look at what we're doing in terms of
trying to exercise our influence in the Middle East, in Russia,
and in the Indo Pacific. But if any of those

(29:57):
have an Archduke Ferdinand moment that plunges us into World
War three? How fast can we ramp up the manufacturing
of drones, ammo missiles, tanks, whatever we would need to
fight a connect a modern kinetic war as a strategic

(30:19):
petroleum reserve too, and dragon strategic petroleum reserve. Can't can't.
I don't think we can. Also, you don't think we can.
We can do it. China's already built you know what,
two x the number of ships that we have. Where's
where's our ship building capacity? And in World War Two

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when we shifted to a war based economy and we
said under the Defense Production Act, we want you, mister manufacturer,
to start making you know, fifty millimeter ammo instead of
whatever it is you Gerber's baby food over here, whatever
as you could do on europe manufacturing production line. We

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want you to switch over here. Well, where are where
are our production lines? Where are they? So we're seeing
all of that manifested self in this kind of trade
war that we're in right now, this geopolitical war, this
technology war, and in some cases the military wars that
we're trying to manage around the world right now. So

(31:27):
the international geopolitical world order is beginning to crack, and
I think Trump is trying to manage that by reasserting
the American world order. And of course there's pushback and
the cabal, I mean, first of all, Europe bitches about it,

(31:50):
but Europe also knows that, well they bitch about it.
And let me just stop right there. Why does Europe
bitch about it because they know that the cabal the
networks will carry their message for them. But what the
networks won't tell you is at the same time that
NATO and the countries in NATO are bitching about us
demanding they pay more, we know they really can't because

(32:14):
they have to do their own internal realignment to come up.
They don't have a manufacturing base, they don't have the
money to do it because they're social welfare states. So
all of that's going on at the same time that
you're being fed by the cabal about who's the problem here?
Donald Trump's the problem? Really? I think the problem goes

(32:37):
a lot deeper than Donald Trump. And then you have
why do you think they tell us, Yesterdy, we talked
about Janistine always talking to just about the national weather.
Why does the cabal feed you about the national weather?
Because they want you to think that those are really
disruptive and somehow they're also disrupting things. And then at

(32:59):
the same time all of that's going on, we have
all the changes going on like an AI that's going
to impact every aspect of our life, and including all
those world the monetary order, the economic order, the global order,
the values order, all of that's going to affect that too.
All of that's going on right now. And you wonder
why you might have a headache, You wonder why you

(33:21):
might feel a little overwhelmed, a little tired. We're living
in now? You live in fascinating times. Well, sure's hell,
that's what we're living in right now. So that's where
we are. So when you read the headlines, go beyond
just the terraffs. There's a lot more going on right
now than just the terriffs.