April 14, 2025 • 23 mins
Dan Carroll is joined by former vice mayor of Cincinnati Chris Smitherman for the weekly Smither-vent.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas fifty five KRS the Talk Station.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
One of the great things I always look forward to
whenever I get to sit in for Brian Thomas, especially
on a Monday, is this segment right here where Chris
Smitherman joins us and we have we like to call
the smither Vent and Chris Smitherman, welcome again to fifty
five KRC.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I did, Dan, thank you so much. My grandson came
to visit with his beautiful parents. I'm about that Christopher
and my Bill, and he's five months old and it
was just a great opportunity to spend some time with him.
So had I had a great weekend. I'll have to
send you a picture after the after the show. But
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let me tell you. Let me tell you, Dan Carroll,
I want to establish some common sense things in this
first segment, some things that I know that I know
are going to be obvious, but I think they need
to go out over the airways. Number one is that China, China, China,
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their government is the political enemy of the United States
of America. Period. They want to dominate the world, and
they view the United States of America as in their way.
I'm a person that shops to at lalmart, our Target,
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our Costco, our Sam's Club, and I think over the
last thirty years, when I look at products, it says
made in China. Okay. And so this notion that all
of a sudden, people are saying that the United States
is being aggressive towards China as it relates to tariff,
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It's not. China has been aggressive towards the United States
with their tariffs for the last thirty or forty years
and making it very difficult, Dan Carroll for the United
States companies to do business in China. So far, I
think I'm one hundred percent on everything I've just said.
This is not about the Chinese people. Meaning when I
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say the Chinese government, I'm being very specific the Chinese government,
not Chinese Americans that are living in our countries who
are patriots of the United States of America. I'm talking
about the Chinese government wants to dominate us. That is
why they have warships, It's why they're buzzing over Taiwan,
and they were punking out President Biden. And they just
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found out that there's a new sheriff in town. His
name is President Donald Trump, and he's saying, listen, I'm
not gonna allow you to continue to treat American goods
and services poorly. If you want to do business in
America and you want to charge our American company's tariffs,
We're gonna have reciprocal tariffs for you. So far, it
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all makes common sense to me. And so I've been
watching the news over the weekend and I've listened to
all these globalists who seem to be advocating and cheerleading
for China. Meanie, I'm sitting there going, man, we're really
concerned about China and what's going on with the Chinese
manufacturing there. What is their middle class going to do?
That's what President Trump ran on. He said, Look, I've
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been going through places like West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
basically I'm those that there's three examples, and I'm seeing
towns that have just blown apart because they don't have
the same manufacturing infrastructure that they had thirty or forty
years ago. I wonder why, because the globalist said to
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our country that if you you just open up our borders,
you do what they call free trades, that the middle
class is gonna be Okay, that's not what happened. All
of our jobs were shipped over to China, Nike being
one of those companies with sweatshops over there, and then
they bring their products back to the United States without tariffs.
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So they set up shop around the world, whether it's Taiwan,
whether it's Vietnam, whether it's China. They put all of
their manufacturing their Dan Carroll, and then they bring their
products back here, and they've left out the middle class,
the people that used to be able to make enough
money to buy a house, then their children to college,
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right have a decent retirement. They don't want to live
off the government. They're not here saying man, I'm trying
to get on food stamps. I want you to subsidize
my apartments. These are hard working men and women who
want to get up every day and go to work
in their country, and they deserve that dignity. That is
what is at stake right now, Dan Carroll, as we
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go into what I consider a short term fight for
a long term.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Game, well, and you know what I want to get
into that.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I want to explore that a little bit more of you, Chrisman,
because or Chris Smithman, because I think you're right on
the money with all of this. And you know, there
are so many now who are expressing this expectation and
this frustration that none of this has come to fruition yet.
And I was talking about that this morning. I look
at my calendar. Donald Trump hasn't been in office for
(05:31):
three months yet, and already we're expecting or supposed to
have results, tangible results for all these things that are
going on. And somehow this is equating to a failure
on behalf of this administration because the results aren't in yet.
But Chris Smitheman, stay right there. We'll do a little
traffic and weather together here and then we'll get right
(05:53):
back to Chris Smitheman and the smith Event on fifty
five KRC.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The Talk Station. Fifty five KRC. Fifty five KRC the
Talk Station.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Dan Perrell in for Brian Thomas, continuing on now with
Chris Smithman and the Smither Event, and Chris Smithvan always
great to have you here, and you laid out the
case I think pretty well about what is happening with China.
But you know, there's all these narratives that the left
continues to throw out there to try and undermine Trump
and everything is he and that he is doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And the.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Narrative that's getting a lot of play right now, there's
two of them that are developing out there right now.
And number one is is that we're not seeing any
results from this. This has gone on too long. The
American people are on the precipice of peril with their
four oh one ks and their investments and everything. That's
all going to go down the drain as long key,
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as long as Trump keeps up this this war with China,
this trade war with China. And then the other narrative
is that if Trump wants man manufacturing to come back
to the United States, And I just played the cut
from John Carr from ABC News. He's talking about, well,
those factories make iPhones, and they make and they make shoes,
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and he says, are we going to become a nation
of cobblers, as if somehow these manufacturing jobs really are
beneath the dignity of the American people to go out
there and go to work and be productive in this
sort of way.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What say you, brother, We've got some incredibly ignorant people
out there. It's just amazing to me mail that lacks
common sense and they just absolutely lie, like Senator Shift.
But let me say this. When President Barack Obama took
over the presidency, approximately the Dow was at sixty five hundred.
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We hit forty five thousand on the Dow. Ten percent
corrections are normal. The correction we had was ordered. So
when I see the market down ten or twelve or
fifteen percent, I just want to share with Americans who
are hearing our voices. Markets just don't go up. Sometimes
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they come down, and that's a part of the process
of kind of pushing out the excesses that are in
the market so that the market can find a floor
and then move higher. So first, I'm not concerned about
paper losses. I don't think that Donald Trump is hitler,
and I don't think he plans on bringing the end
of the world. And so the Democratic Party keeps pushing
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these crazy narratives about what is happening, and it is
causing people to panic. Look China, China, China owns approximately
seven hundred the seven hundred and fifty billion dollars of
our debt, and I think what happened is China started
to sell that debt on the open market pushing our
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rates down, which would have caused us to have a
spike in our in our long term rates, and the
White House probably got concerned about it. Now, everything that
I just said right there is speculation, But the reality
of it is, why did future past presidents allow the
Chinese government to buy seven hundred and fifty or seven
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hundred and sixty or eight hundred billion dollars of our debt?
Why did future past governments allowed the Chinese government to
walk in and buy our agricultural farms, our small farmers.
They're buying land all around us, Dan Carroll, which makes
no sense to me. The Congress and the Senate has
been they've been sitting on their hands. You know why speculation.
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I believe China's been buying them all off. Nancy Pelosi,
she makes a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. Somebody
explained to me why this woman is worth a hundred
million dollars? How does that happen? And I'm saying to everybody, China,
We've got to focus on them. We've got to give
this president, that Congress, and the Senate the opportunity and
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the space in order for them to reset our relationship
with China. We've got to send the message to China
now at some point we've got to draw a line
into say and I say, let's do it. Now. It's
economic today, maybe one day it's World War three. I'm
not calling on that. I'm just saying we can't allow
China to push us around. That's why Russia is taking
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Ukraine under Biden. If we had a week president, You've
see China taking Taiwan right now. We can't allow this.
And so this notion that all of a sudden, this
president has caused the trade war is crazy. We're already
in a trade war. We're getting our buts kicked, and
we have a president that says.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
No more, you know, Chris mythan We've had so many
different companies announce their intentions to build factories in the
United States, to have manufacturing here, not just pharmaceutical but
chip factories and apple and car manufacturers and all the rest.
And I believe the number right now is near seven
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trillion dollars of investment in the United States. But these
things take a little bit of time to come into fruition.
But this whole notion that we're supposed to start seeing
results now that we need to have results now. And again,
you know, the United States economy is the biggest ship
out there, and it takes a little while to turn
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these things around. So how do you get the notion
out there that we need to have a little bit
of patience when again, we have the constant drumbeat that this,
this whole notion that Trump wants to have manufacturing come
back to the United States is going to be a failure.
And there's one hundred and thirty countries out there now
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that there, and there, and the Trump administration is negotiating
with every single one of them. And when I see
all these gears in motion and I see all these
sort of things that are happening, it looks to me
like they are aligning in the way that they need
to align for the bigger picture to all come together.
Is it going to take a little while?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But according to the left and according to the news media,
we should be seeing results now.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, first, you're right that this is going to take
some time to reset, and I believe that time period
is going to be greater than ninety days. We'll see
a lot of great trade deals that will come down
through the White House. But this is going to be
a process, as you have clearly outlined for your listening audience.
But skilled labor is a natural security issue. If we
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happen to go to war, we need people that know
how to build ships, build tanks, build planes. Now, whoever's
out here talking about widgets, let me just explain something.
Why is the uaw so behind Trump because they understand
that they want to see their corvette rolling through China.
They're tired of the terraffs. They want to see their
month things. If you are a Ford lover, they want
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to see the Cobra down the streets of China, not
with a thirty forty or one hundred percent cara. We
want to see the Porsches over here. People love them.
But what we want to see our corvette in Germany.
We're tired of our European partners and our Asian partners
pushing us around basic common sense that if you sell
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more cars, you create more stability, greater workers, more workers
here in the United States of America. Think about a
company like Boeing. Now they're only competitors' air Bus, but
the more planes they sell, do you know what China
has been doing to Boeing over the last four years.
They literally listen to this. Boeing doesn't get paid until
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they deliver a plane. Dan Carroll they they built about
eighty four planes for China, the Chinese airline industry. Each
one of those planes worth about two hundred and sixty
one million dollars. Under Biden, those plans have been sitting
somewhere in a warehouse because China has been refusing to
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take ownership for planes that they purchased that they told
Boeing to. Well, they put a deposit down, and then
Boeing cannot deliver these plans and capture the two hundred
and sixty one million dollars per plane. I'm tired of
China pushing us around. We've got to show the rest
of the world that doesn't matter whether you're African Americans,
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whether you're a Latino American, whether you're a Jewish American
or white American. We are Americans. And then let me
tell you, if you travel anywhere out of the United
States of America, they say you're an American. I don't
care if you're African American, Jewish, they hear your accent,
that's an American. We better understand that we're in the
same ship here. It's not about race. What China has
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been trying to do with their money is make us
fight about race. They've been using the Democratic part the
Socialist Party, the Communist Party like the AOC, pushing this
crazy agenda that I shouldn't like you just because of
the color of your skin. And then they put out
people like Representative Crockett that reinforces her own congressional member
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who's married to a white woman all of a sudden
is not African Americans because of his selection of who
he loves and the children that he makes. That was
Representative Crockett. We've got to push back on all of
these narratives. Come together as Americans, give the executive branch
of this government the opportunity to clean it up, make
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sure that trade is fair, so that we are a
stronger country one hundred years from now for our children.
I hope I've answered that question for you, Dan Carroll.
We need to give this executive branch the time and
the space to take on our partners, which by the way,
is also Europe, not just our enemies, but it's also
places like Europe.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Chris mnthven stay right there, We've got one more sayon
to go, and when we come back, I want to
ask you about this poll that shows about half of
those who were on the left believe that killing Musk
or killing Trump may be justified, and I'll get your
thoughts on that as we continue on with the Smith
event on fifty five KRZ the talk station.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Fifty five KRC, the Talks station seven forty three. Dan
Carroll in for Brian Thomas, and we continue with Chris
Smitherman and the Monday Smith Event. And Chris Smitherman, this
is I read this over the weekend about Rutgers University
did a study of mostly left of center people and
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they found that forty eight to fifty five percent of
left of center people were able to somewhat justify the
murder of Elon Musk or President Trump. And this to
me is a very disturbing finding. That number should be zero.
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How do we get to the point in this country
where you've got so many And it doesn't say the
ages of the people that they that they talk to,
but as I read this, I get the sense that
it's predominantly younger people, but how do we get to
the point in this country to where the justifying of
political assassination is something that people can abide and abiding
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This by any degree whatsoever should be totally and completely unacceptable,
but somehow it is amongst you know, a certain segment
of our population.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, first, let me thank Eli Musk for his service
in the Doze group and his team that are exposing
for all of us the waste, the fraud, the abuse
that's happening at the federal level. Number one. Number two,
there's never a place in our society for violence, political
or otherwise, and so I love that you're denouncing it.
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Number Three, our mass media outlets have been calling Elon
Musk and President Donald Trump a Nazi. Now, now, the
Nazis killed six million Jews. So this notion that this
language that they're using, they are inciting the violence, Dan Carroll,
They're basically saying it's okay to kill Hitler. And so
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you and I understand that Elon Musk, nor President Trump,
nor anyone in his cabinet or the Congress Democrat or Republican,
are independent or in the Senate, none of those people
are Hitler. And so they keep pushing this narrative on MSNBC,
on CNN, on whatever liberal news channel that you can
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listen to, trying to justify that killing somebody in any way,
shape or form is okay. It's a scary time that
we're currently living in. And let me say to all
of you that if we get to the point where
killing people is the option, you know, we are in
a very very very bad place as a country. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But is it? Is it the schools? Is it the parents?
Is it the media?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Is that all these things combined? Because to my way
of thinking, this needs to be examined thoroughly, because we
have if if we can't, if we can't get through
to groups of people that you know, the way to
settle your differences is through elections or through coming to
the table, through having discussion, I mean really meaningful discussions
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and not some of the you know, some of the
nonsense that we're subject to when it comes to people
having roundtables or consultant driven kind of stuff, but real
face to face and human interaction, that that is the
way to resolve your differences instead of just going out
and eliminating what you consider to be a threat. If
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you don't like that threat, in a political sense.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Absolutely, But look, we've had leaders in our country which
is incredibly scary. It the dark history in the sixties
where people were saying that doctor Martin Luther King was
a communist, he was a threat to our culture, threat
to our society. The FBI, the CIA, everybody was looking
at this guy, a light upon him, and they dehumanized
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him so far that people thought it was okay to
take him out, to kill him. Here's the bottom line.
We now understand that doctor King was one of the
greatest Americans to ever live. He was one of those
men who understood the Constitution. He understood that being conservative
and saying that all of us are made equal, no
matter the color of your skin. Right. Obviously, Representative Crockett
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has lost that right. Maybe she's missed something in her teaching,
in her history of America. But you can d humanize
somebody far enough, Dan Carroll, that you can then come
to these conclusions that it's okay to kill them. I
put this right at the at the footsteps of mass
mainstream media. They continue to push these narratives and dehumanize
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the leaders that you just identify, and if they get
away with it, right, which we hope they won't shame
on all of us. So you being outspoken about it,
I think is incredibly critical. The Democrats right now just
don't have any solutions. That's why they're bathing in all
of this. You know, when you sit back and you say, well,
what is your solution to the disparity in trade? I
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don't have a solution to that. So what do you
think your solution is? When we're dealing with China stealing
our secrets, meaning our technology companies have been screaming from
the rooftops that China is literally stealing our intellectual property? Democrats,
what is your solution to that? See, at the end
of the day, these elections locally, that's why supporting this
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guy named Corey Bowman here in Cincinnati for mayor who's
running as a Republican because I'm tired of the status quo.
I'm tired of my potholes. I'm tired of bridges falling,
I'm tired of the flood's happening and we don't know
where the mayor is. I'm tired of all of these
no answers and this cultural warfare that we're having. I
love Americans, I love this country. I'm glad that I'm
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an American. I'm going to fight for this country and
I'm betting on America. I'm betting on the executive branch.
I'm betting off President Trump and whoever was the president.
I've always been a person to bet on America, it
didn't matter who was in the White House. We're living
in a time now where people think it's okay as
an American to bet against our own country. That is
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absolutely up sane, obscene, and a complete shameful thing for
anyone to say. China is the target. China wants to
take us over. The government of China, not the people
are the enemy of the United States of America, and
they've made that very clear. Please, please, listening, audience, give
the executive branch the opportunity to solve some of these
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big problems. Because most politicians want to kick the can
down the road. They don't want to deal with the
big problems. That's what you're talking about, Dan Carroll. If
you give the executive branch the opportunity to deal with
the big problems, we know they'll be short term pain,
but there will be long term game, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
When with that, Chris Smitherman We've got to run. You
are the best. Every Monday Morning the smith Event right
here on fifty five KRC. Chris Smithman. Always great to
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
One of the great things I always look forward to
whenever I get to sit in for Brian Thomas, especially
on a Monday, is this segment right here where Chris
Smitherman joins us and we have we like to call
the smither Vent and Chris Smitherman, welcome again to fifty
five KRC.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I hope you had a great weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I did, Dan, thank you so much. My grandson came
to visit with his beautiful parents. I'm about that Christopher
and my Bill, and he's five months old and it
was just a great opportunity to spend some time with him.
So had I had a great weekend. I'll have to
send you a picture after the after the show. But
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let me tell you. Let me tell you, Dan Carroll,
I want to establish some common sense things in this
first segment, some things that I know that I know
are going to be obvious, but I think they need
to go out over the airways. Number one is that China, China, China,
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their government is the political enemy of the United States
of America. Period. They want to dominate the world, and
they view the United States of America as in their way.
I'm a person that shops to at lalmart, our Target,
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our Costco, our Sam's Club, and I think over the
last thirty years, when I look at products, it says
made in China. Okay. And so this notion that all
of a sudden, people are saying that the United States
is being aggressive towards China as it relates to tariff,
(02:05):
It's not. China has been aggressive towards the United States
with their tariffs for the last thirty or forty years
and making it very difficult, Dan Carroll for the United
States companies to do business in China. So far, I
think I'm one hundred percent on everything I've just said.
This is not about the Chinese people. Meaning when I
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say the Chinese government, I'm being very specific the Chinese government,
not Chinese Americans that are living in our countries who
are patriots of the United States of America. I'm talking
about the Chinese government wants to dominate us. That is
why they have warships, It's why they're buzzing over Taiwan,
and they were punking out President Biden. And they just
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found out that there's a new sheriff in town. His
name is President Donald Trump, and he's saying, listen, I'm
not gonna allow you to continue to treat American goods
and services poorly. If you want to do business in
America and you want to charge our American company's tariffs,
We're gonna have reciprocal tariffs for you. So far, it
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all makes common sense to me. And so I've been
watching the news over the weekend and I've listened to
all these globalists who seem to be advocating and cheerleading
for China. Meanie, I'm sitting there going, man, we're really
concerned about China and what's going on with the Chinese
manufacturing there. What is their middle class going to do?
That's what President Trump ran on. He said, Look, I've
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been going through places like West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and
basically I'm those that there's three examples, and I'm seeing
towns that have just blown apart because they don't have
the same manufacturing infrastructure that they had thirty or forty
years ago. I wonder why, because the globalist said to
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our country that if you you just open up our borders,
you do what they call free trades, that the middle
class is gonna be Okay, that's not what happened. All
of our jobs were shipped over to China, Nike being
one of those companies with sweatshops over there, and then
they bring their products back to the United States without tariffs.
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So they set up shop around the world, whether it's Taiwan,
whether it's Vietnam, whether it's China. They put all of
their manufacturing their Dan Carroll, and then they bring their
products back here, and they've left out the middle class,
the people that used to be able to make enough
money to buy a house, then their children to college,
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right have a decent retirement. They don't want to live
off the government. They're not here saying man, I'm trying
to get on food stamps. I want you to subsidize
my apartments. These are hard working men and women who
want to get up every day and go to work
in their country, and they deserve that dignity. That is
what is at stake right now, Dan Carroll, as we
(05:03):
go into what I consider a short term fight for
a long term.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Game, well, and you know what I want to get
into that.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I want to explore that a little bit more of you, Chrisman,
because or Chris Smithman, because I think you're right on
the money with all of this. And you know, there
are so many now who are expressing this expectation and
this frustration that none of this has come to fruition yet.
And I was talking about that this morning. I look
at my calendar. Donald Trump hasn't been in office for
(05:31):
three months yet, and already we're expecting or supposed to
have results, tangible results for all these things that are
going on. And somehow this is equating to a failure
on behalf of this administration because the results aren't in yet.
But Chris Smitheman, stay right there. We'll do a little
traffic and weather together here and then we'll get right
(05:53):
back to Chris Smitheman and the smith Event on fifty
five KRC.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
The Talk Station. Fifty five KRC. Fifty five KRC the
Talk Station.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Dan Perrell in for Brian Thomas, continuing on now with
Chris Smithman and the Smither Event, and Chris Smithvan always
great to have you here, and you laid out the
case I think pretty well about what is happening with China.
But you know, there's all these narratives that the left
continues to throw out there to try and undermine Trump
and everything is he and that he is doing.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
And the.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Narrative that's getting a lot of play right now, there's
two of them that are developing out there right now.
And number one is is that we're not seeing any
results from this. This has gone on too long. The
American people are on the precipice of peril with their
four oh one ks and their investments and everything. That's
all going to go down the drain as long key,
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as long as Trump keeps up this this war with China,
this trade war with China. And then the other narrative
is that if Trump wants man manufacturing to come back
to the United States, And I just played the cut
from John Carr from ABC News. He's talking about, well,
those factories make iPhones, and they make and they make shoes,
(07:11):
and he says, are we going to become a nation
of cobblers, as if somehow these manufacturing jobs really are
beneath the dignity of the American people to go out
there and go to work and be productive in this
sort of way.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
What say you, brother, We've got some incredibly ignorant people
out there. It's just amazing to me mail that lacks
common sense and they just absolutely lie, like Senator Shift.
But let me say this. When President Barack Obama took
over the presidency, approximately the Dow was at sixty five hundred.
(07:50):
We hit forty five thousand on the Dow. Ten percent
corrections are normal. The correction we had was ordered. So
when I see the market down ten or twelve or
fifteen percent, I just want to share with Americans who
are hearing our voices. Markets just don't go up. Sometimes
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they come down, and that's a part of the process
of kind of pushing out the excesses that are in
the market so that the market can find a floor
and then move higher. So first, I'm not concerned about
paper losses. I don't think that Donald Trump is hitler,
and I don't think he plans on bringing the end
of the world. And so the Democratic Party keeps pushing
(08:34):
these crazy narratives about what is happening, and it is
causing people to panic. Look China, China, China owns approximately
seven hundred the seven hundred and fifty billion dollars of
our debt, and I think what happened is China started
to sell that debt on the open market pushing our
(08:56):
rates down, which would have caused us to have a
spike in our in our long term rates, and the
White House probably got concerned about it. Now, everything that
I just said right there is speculation, But the reality
of it is, why did future past presidents allow the
Chinese government to buy seven hundred and fifty or seven
(09:17):
hundred and sixty or eight hundred billion dollars of our debt?
Why did future past governments allowed the Chinese government to
walk in and buy our agricultural farms, our small farmers.
They're buying land all around us, Dan Carroll, which makes
no sense to me. The Congress and the Senate has
been they've been sitting on their hands. You know why speculation.
(09:41):
I believe China's been buying them all off. Nancy Pelosi,
she makes a couple hundred thousand dollars a year. Somebody
explained to me why this woman is worth a hundred
million dollars? How does that happen? And I'm saying to everybody, China,
We've got to focus on them. We've got to give
this president, that Congress, and the Senate the opportunity and
(10:03):
the space in order for them to reset our relationship
with China. We've got to send the message to China
now at some point we've got to draw a line
into say and I say, let's do it. Now. It's
economic today, maybe one day it's World War three. I'm
not calling on that. I'm just saying we can't allow
China to push us around. That's why Russia is taking
(10:27):
Ukraine under Biden. If we had a week president, You've
see China taking Taiwan right now. We can't allow this.
And so this notion that all of a sudden, this
president has caused the trade war is crazy. We're already
in a trade war. We're getting our buts kicked, and
we have a president that says.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
No more, you know, Chris mythan We've had so many
different companies announce their intentions to build factories in the
United States, to have manufacturing here, not just pharmaceutical but
chip factories and apple and car manufacturers and all the rest.
And I believe the number right now is near seven
(11:09):
trillion dollars of investment in the United States. But these
things take a little bit of time to come into fruition.
But this whole notion that we're supposed to start seeing
results now that we need to have results now. And again,
you know, the United States economy is the biggest ship
out there, and it takes a little while to turn
(11:30):
these things around. So how do you get the notion
out there that we need to have a little bit
of patience when again, we have the constant drumbeat that this,
this whole notion that Trump wants to have manufacturing come
back to the United States is going to be a failure.
And there's one hundred and thirty countries out there now
(11:51):
that there, and there, and the Trump administration is negotiating
with every single one of them. And when I see
all these gears in motion and I see all these
sort of things that are happening, it looks to me
like they are aligning in the way that they need
to align for the bigger picture to all come together.
Is it going to take a little while?
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think so.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
But according to the left and according to the news media,
we should be seeing results now.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Well, first, you're right that this is going to take
some time to reset, and I believe that time period
is going to be greater than ninety days. We'll see
a lot of great trade deals that will come down
through the White House. But this is going to be
a process, as you have clearly outlined for your listening audience.
But skilled labor is a natural security issue. If we
(12:43):
happen to go to war, we need people that know
how to build ships, build tanks, build planes. Now, whoever's
out here talking about widgets, let me just explain something.
Why is the uaw so behind Trump because they understand
that they want to see their corvette rolling through China.
They're tired of the terraffs. They want to see their
month things. If you are a Ford lover, they want
(13:06):
to see the Cobra down the streets of China, not
with a thirty forty or one hundred percent cara. We
want to see the Porsches over here. People love them.
But what we want to see our corvette in Germany.
We're tired of our European partners and our Asian partners
pushing us around basic common sense that if you sell
(13:27):
more cars, you create more stability, greater workers, more workers
here in the United States of America. Think about a
company like Boeing. Now they're only competitors' air Bus, but
the more planes they sell, do you know what China
has been doing to Boeing over the last four years.
They literally listen to this. Boeing doesn't get paid until
(13:49):
they deliver a plane. Dan Carroll they they built about
eighty four planes for China, the Chinese airline industry. Each
one of those planes worth about two hundred and sixty
one million dollars. Under Biden, those plans have been sitting
somewhere in a warehouse because China has been refusing to
(14:09):
take ownership for planes that they purchased that they told
Boeing to. Well, they put a deposit down, and then
Boeing cannot deliver these plans and capture the two hundred
and sixty one million dollars per plane. I'm tired of
China pushing us around. We've got to show the rest
of the world that doesn't matter whether you're African Americans,
(14:31):
whether you're a Latino American, whether you're a Jewish American
or white American. We are Americans. And then let me
tell you, if you travel anywhere out of the United
States of America, they say you're an American. I don't
care if you're African American, Jewish, they hear your accent,
that's an American. We better understand that we're in the
same ship here. It's not about race. What China has
(14:54):
been trying to do with their money is make us
fight about race. They've been using the Democratic part the
Socialist Party, the Communist Party like the AOC, pushing this
crazy agenda that I shouldn't like you just because of
the color of your skin. And then they put out
people like Representative Crockett that reinforces her own congressional member
(15:16):
who's married to a white woman all of a sudden
is not African Americans because of his selection of who
he loves and the children that he makes. That was
Representative Crockett. We've got to push back on all of
these narratives. Come together as Americans, give the executive branch
of this government the opportunity to clean it up, make
(15:36):
sure that trade is fair, so that we are a
stronger country one hundred years from now for our children.
I hope I've answered that question for you, Dan Carroll.
We need to give this executive branch the time and
the space to take on our partners, which by the way,
is also Europe, not just our enemies, but it's also
places like Europe.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Chris mnthven stay right there, We've got one more sayon
to go, and when we come back, I want to
ask you about this poll that shows about half of
those who were on the left believe that killing Musk
or killing Trump may be justified, and I'll get your
thoughts on that as we continue on with the Smith
event on fifty five KRZ the talk station.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
This is fifty five KRC and iHeartRadio station.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Fifty five KRC, the Talks station seven forty three. Dan
Carroll in for Brian Thomas, and we continue with Chris
Smitherman and the Monday Smith Event. And Chris Smitherman, this
is I read this over the weekend about Rutgers University
did a study of mostly left of center people and
(16:45):
they found that forty eight to fifty five percent of
left of center people were able to somewhat justify the
murder of Elon Musk or President Trump. And this to
me is a very disturbing finding. That number should be zero.
(17:06):
How do we get to the point in this country
where you've got so many And it doesn't say the
ages of the people that they that they talk to,
but as I read this, I get the sense that
it's predominantly younger people, but how do we get to
the point in this country to where the justifying of
political assassination is something that people can abide and abiding
(17:31):
This by any degree whatsoever should be totally and completely unacceptable,
but somehow it is amongst you know, a certain segment
of our population.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Well, first, let me thank Eli Musk for his service
in the Doze group and his team that are exposing
for all of us the waste, the fraud, the abuse
that's happening at the federal level. Number one. Number two,
there's never a place in our society for violence, political
or otherwise, and so I love that you're denouncing it.
(18:05):
Number Three, our mass media outlets have been calling Elon
Musk and President Donald Trump a Nazi. Now, now, the
Nazis killed six million Jews. So this notion that this
language that they're using, they are inciting the violence, Dan Carroll,
They're basically saying it's okay to kill Hitler. And so
(18:28):
you and I understand that Elon Musk, nor President Trump,
nor anyone in his cabinet or the Congress Democrat or Republican,
are independent or in the Senate, none of those people
are Hitler. And so they keep pushing this narrative on MSNBC,
on CNN, on whatever liberal news channel that you can
(18:50):
listen to, trying to justify that killing somebody in any way,
shape or form is okay. It's a scary time that
we're currently living in. And let me say to all
of you that if we get to the point where
killing people is the option, you know, we are in
a very very very bad place as a country. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
But is it? Is it the schools? Is it the parents?
Is it the media?
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Is that all these things combined? Because to my way
of thinking, this needs to be examined thoroughly, because we
have if if we can't, if we can't get through
to groups of people that you know, the way to
settle your differences is through elections or through coming to
the table, through having discussion, I mean really meaningful discussions
(19:41):
and not some of the you know, some of the
nonsense that we're subject to when it comes to people
having roundtables or consultant driven kind of stuff, but real
face to face and human interaction, that that is the
way to resolve your differences instead of just going out
and eliminating what you consider to be a threat. If
(20:02):
you don't like that threat, in a political sense.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Absolutely, But look, we've had leaders in our country which
is incredibly scary. It the dark history in the sixties
where people were saying that doctor Martin Luther King was
a communist, he was a threat to our culture, threat
to our society. The FBI, the CIA, everybody was looking
at this guy, a light upon him, and they dehumanized
(20:30):
him so far that people thought it was okay to
take him out, to kill him. Here's the bottom line.
We now understand that doctor King was one of the
greatest Americans to ever live. He was one of those
men who understood the Constitution. He understood that being conservative
and saying that all of us are made equal, no
matter the color of your skin. Right. Obviously, Representative Crockett
(20:53):
has lost that right. Maybe she's missed something in her teaching,
in her history of America. But you can d humanize
somebody far enough, Dan Carroll, that you can then come
to these conclusions that it's okay to kill them. I
put this right at the at the footsteps of mass
mainstream media. They continue to push these narratives and dehumanize
(21:16):
the leaders that you just identify, and if they get
away with it, right, which we hope they won't shame
on all of us. So you being outspoken about it,
I think is incredibly critical. The Democrats right now just
don't have any solutions. That's why they're bathing in all
of this. You know, when you sit back and you say, well,
what is your solution to the disparity in trade? I
(21:39):
don't have a solution to that. So what do you
think your solution is? When we're dealing with China stealing
our secrets, meaning our technology companies have been screaming from
the rooftops that China is literally stealing our intellectual property? Democrats,
what is your solution to that? See, at the end
of the day, these elections locally, that's why supporting this
(22:00):
guy named Corey Bowman here in Cincinnati for mayor who's
running as a Republican because I'm tired of the status quo.
I'm tired of my potholes. I'm tired of bridges falling,
I'm tired of the flood's happening and we don't know
where the mayor is. I'm tired of all of these
no answers and this cultural warfare that we're having. I
love Americans, I love this country. I'm glad that I'm
(22:23):
an American. I'm going to fight for this country and
I'm betting on America. I'm betting on the executive branch.
I'm betting off President Trump and whoever was the president.
I've always been a person to bet on America, it
didn't matter who was in the White House. We're living
in a time now where people think it's okay as
an American to bet against our own country. That is
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absolutely up sane, obscene, and a complete shameful thing for
anyone to say. China is the target. China wants to
take us over. The government of China, not the people
are the enemy of the United States of America, and
they've made that very clear. Please, please, listening, audience, give
the executive branch the opportunity to solve some of these
(23:07):
big problems. Because most politicians want to kick the can
down the road. They don't want to deal with the
big problems. That's what you're talking about, Dan Carroll. If
you give the executive branch the opportunity to deal with
the big problems, we know they'll be short term pain,
but there will be long term game, all right.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
When with that, Chris Smitherman We've got to run. You
are the best. Every Monday Morning the smith Event right
here on fifty five KRC. Chris Smithman. Always great to
talk to you, my friend, and all the best seas
you take care of your follow.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Me on at vote Smitherman. At Vote Smitherman, I just
send something to you.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
At Vote smith Man. Chris Smitheman will talk to you
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that guy. He is the absolute best. Dan Carroll for
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