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July 17, 2025 15 mins

Economic double standards have reached absurd heights. The latest inflation numbers came in at precisely 2.7% - exactly where analysts projected - yet headlines scream catastrophe over this modest 0.3% increase. Remember when 9-11% inflation was downplayed during the previous administration? The selective outrage is deafening.

Looking beyond the shallow headlines reveals a much more nuanced economic picture. Used vehicles saw substantial price declines in June. The energy sector reversed previous trends with a full 1% decrease from the prior month. Meanwhile, substantial positive developments receive minimal coverage - like the multi-decade agreement just signed between a major European energy company and Virginia-headquartered Venture Global, securing American natural gas exports for years to come. These international trade wins directly counter narratives that tariffs are damaging global commerce.

Quality of life improvements are emerging too, with Coca-Cola finally agreeing to use real sugar cane in US drinks instead of high fructose corn syrup - something consumers in Mexico and the UK have enjoyed for years. The political hypocrisy extends beyond economics, with the same voices that previously defended redistricting now crying foul when similar measures might be implemented in Texas. Through all this noise, one thing remains clear - objective analysis has been sacrificed at the altar of partisan narratives. When you look at the complete picture rather than emotion-driven headlines, the truth becomes evident: the economy is strengthening, international trade deals are advancing, and consumer benefits are expanding despite the doomsaying.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
What you just said is one of the most insanely
idiotic things I have ever heard.
At no point in your rambling,incoherent response were you
even close to anything thatcould be considered a rational
thought.
Everyone in this room is nowdumber for having listened to.

(00:22):
It is now dumber for havinglistened to it.
You don't know what that oughtto is, mr Trash.
I'd show you, but I'm too old,I'm too tired, I'm too fucking
blind.
If I were the man I was fiveyears ago, I'd take a
flamethrower to this place.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Do you understand the words that are coming out of?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
my mouth.
You want answers.
I think I'm entitled.
You want answers.
I want the truth.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
You can't handle the truth.
We've said it once, we've saidit before, we've said it a
gazillion times the truth shallalways set you free this attempt
to get off my lawn the madramblings of a Gen Xer.
Want to talk about inflation?
Oh no, the sky is falling.
What was trending on Xyesterday was 2.7%, and that is

(01:21):
the consumer price index at 2.7%in June, which is up from the
previous month of 2.4%.
So people are talking aboutthis uptick in inflation.
Now, mind you, it went from2.4% to 2.7%, so it went up 0.3%
.
They're saying that thepossible signs that Trump's

(01:45):
tariffs are starting to sting.
Oh no, oh, dearest me.
But if you actually go throughthe chart and you actually think
about this logically, a lot ofpeople don't want to think about
this logically.
Last year we were under our lastmonth.
I should rephrase that we wereunder analyst predictions.
Analyst month.

(02:05):
I should rephrase that we wereunder analyst predictions.
Analyst predictions last nightwere supposed to be last year
was supposed to be last month.
Excuse me, it was supposed tobe 2.7.
We came in at 2.4.
Analyst predictions for Junewas supposed to be 2.7.
So, literally, it came in rightat where it was supposed to be,

(02:26):
but the sky is falling.
So inflation came in exactlywhere it was supposed to be.
So, if you go back to January,the US inflation rate was three,
and then February 2.8, March2.4, April 2.3, May 2.4, and now
June 2.7.

(02:47):
So it literally has come inwhere analysts predicted that it
was going to come in.
And then I love it because ifyou take a look at some prices,
the index shows that used cars,trucks and new vehicles saw some
of the most substantialdeclines in June in reference to

(03:08):
rate of inflation.
But we don't want to talk aboutthat.
We want to talk about that itrose, oh my God.
It went up 0.3%.
Food prices rose 0.3% for themonth, with gains in both food
and home dining out.
Let's see here.
Let's for the month, with gainsin both food and home dining
out.
Let's see here.
Let's see the energy sectorreversed, meanwhile, and

(03:29):
declined one full percent fromthe month prior, raising to 0.9%
in June.
The sector is still down fromwhere it was last year.
Medicaid services grew to 0.6%.
Transportation services inchedup to 0.2%.
Airfare fell to 0.1% in June,which is one of the main reasons

(03:51):
there was there was a, I guess,good air travel and couldn't
get anywhere in and out ofNewark.
But if you take a look at thisand you analyze it and you don't
go by the stock market, youdon't go by the naysayers, you
don't go by the doomsters, itmet what they predicted it would
be.
So.

(04:12):
When Biden's inflation was 9%,10%, 11%, that was okay when it
was supposed to come in like 5%or 6%.
But Trump, it ticks up 0.03%and the world is ending and all
of a sudden, all that good workis starting to reverse.
Oh no, this is what I don't getabout this.

(04:37):
This is literally what I don'tget about this at all.
You, actually, this is.
And now people will point to thestock market.
How much, oh, there was so muchvolatility in the stock market
the other day.
The stock market is basicallyand I'm not trying to pick on,
I'm not going to try to put iton anyone, but it's basically
like a woman can never make upits mind and sometimes it's

(05:01):
overrational.
My wife's going to kill me forthat one.
Oh, we got, we had, we had adouble bang on that.
That's what she said.
But sometimes you know it's,it's irrational and it's it's
based off of emotion.
It's based off the emotion ofthe investor, the investors see
something that they think may bebad news and then all of a
sudden they turn around and saywell, you know what, it wasn't

(05:22):
that bad, it's not, it's notthat terrible.
But at the end of the day, youknow, the end of the day is
where we, where we just have a,a, a issue with the uh, Jerome
Powell just needs to be fired.

(05:43):
Can we just fire him now?
He needs to get on board.
You need to get on board thewinning team.
That's what they always say.
But this guy, just this guyjust doesn't freaking get it.
I loved a couple months agothat he basically came out and
said you know what?
We kept rates where they are,interest rates where they're at,
because we brought in too muchmoney off the tariffs.

(06:04):
Rates where they are interestrates where they're at because
we brought in too much money offthe tariffs.
I thought the whole idea of thisworld was to make money.
I thought the whole idea was toget the economy rolling, get
everyone back to work, get wagesback up again.
I thought that was the wholeidea, but evidently it's not.
And now liberals are trying tofreak out a little bit because

(06:25):
Trump is pretty much hisreported plans are to order to
open up 401ks to private markets.
Financial firms are alreadydeveloping.
Financial firms have alreadyfigured out how to work on 401ks
or how to do 401k-esque things,but now they're going to open.

(06:45):
He's talking about opening itup and so he's talking about
that.
He would basically direct theLabor Department Securities
Exchange Commission to develop aregulatory guidance for
employers and planadministrators about inclusive
of private assets into 401kretirement plans.
That sounds like a good thingto me.

(07:11):
But of course, the sky isfalling and you have Rama Dama
ding dong, who's running formayor of New York.
You know that that's going tobe bad for him because he only
comes from a wealthy family.
I love when people come from.
I love when people come from awealthy family and they're
socialists, because it's easy tobe a socialist when you have
money.
It's it's very, it's verysimple and I love let's, let's
see.
Do I think we have?

(07:31):
A hold on?
Do I have a nice snippet fromRamadama Ding Dong?
Oh, yes, I do, From when he wasgiving an interview the other
day.
Hold on, we got to talk, we got, we got to listen to the Zoham
Ramadama Ding Dong.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
I worked until January, and then I took time
away from my job, and one of themajor reasons I could do so is
because I knew that if I ran outof my savings, my family would
be able to support me?

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Oh, so your family.
You know what they say aboutsocialism.
Promise, socialism is that youeventually run out of other
people's money.
That was, of course, fromMargaret Thatcher.
So the Ramadama Ding Dong ishedong.
He doesn't have to worry aboutmoney.
He had a big lunch with AOC andthe other Democrats, the other
socialist Democrats.

(08:13):
I love it.
Winston Churchill sayssocialism, the philosophy of
failure, of greed, of ignorance,and the gospel of inherent
virtue, is the equal sharing ofmisery.
Let that one sink in for alittle bit.
But don't worry, the economy isstarting to roar.
We're starting to move in theright direction.

(08:33):
We're starting to move in theright direction.
The tariffs have not hurt likepeople were going to say.
You see a small increase andthen you see some good coming
out of the tariffs.
You say, Tim, what good goodcoming out of the tariffs?
You say, Tim, what, what goodis coming out of the tariff?
Us and an EU firm has struck amajor deal, or gas deal.
As trade talks are going intoovertime, We'll say one of

(08:55):
Europe's largest energycompanies signed a multi-decade
let's say that again amulti-decade agreement to buy
American natural gas.
That's a good thing.
Virginia headquartered VentureGlobal confirmed that it's
penned a 20-year deal to ship 2million metric tons of liquefied

(09:18):
natural gas per year.
This announcement marks thefirst long-term contract signed
between the ENI or CD and Jackand I remember ENI and a gas
producer.
Why it's going to help them getaway from purchasing gas from
like natural gas from I don'tknow other countries they
shouldn't be, but this is.

(09:39):
This is another portion of theof the trade tariffs that we're
not talking about the tradedeals, that we're not talking
about the deals from behind thedeals that are happening.
I did see something that pissedme off a little bit.
Actually, it didn't piss me offa little bit.
Trump has announced thatCoca-Cola has agreed to use real

(10:01):
sugar cane in US drinks.
I have to admit, with Trump itis better.
Pepsi, for years now, has had areal sugar cane drink One of
their sodas and I love it.
I love it.
Evidently it's better for you.
Evidently it's not using thatprocessed stuff and they're
going to use that real canesugar in Coke and they agreed to

(10:22):
do so.
Currently, Coke right now uses ahigh toast, what is a high
fructose corn syrup, and useproducts in contrast to cane
sugar and uses other countrieslike Mexico and United Kingdom.
So you're going to get a betterquality product.
You're going to get some of thethis, these, these additives
and preservatives out of yourway.

(10:42):
Why did it take so long for usto do something like this?
Lord only knows.
I literally couldn't even tellyou, but you know what we're
moving.
You got JFK Jr moving in theright direction and then you
still have the morons, the moronbrigade.
We wouldn't be remiss if wedidn't have an AOC clip or a

(11:05):
jasmine crockett clip.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
This is about sesame street in iraq when you start to
talk about whether or not um,sesame street or anything else
that's on npr or pbs ends up inother places.
This is so that there is notthis warped this is how stupid
she is.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
I mean literally, I mean you.
You look at her and say youcould not theoretically be any
dumber thought process about thewestern world or about the
united states.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
we're talking about making sure that we don't end up
allowing people to beradicalized against us because
they have a terrible vision ofus, because they may be in a
government that actually putsout bad, terrible propaganda
about us.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
When you start, when you gave the money.
When we give the money to thesecountries, we do not control
the programming.
The programming is controlledby the country that it's in.
It's not like they're justtaking Bert Burton, ernie and
dropping them into Baghdad.
No, no, no, no, no, honey, it'sa whole different show.
But your mental capacity, just,just just, I mean I don't get

(12:20):
it.
I mean I don't get it.
How dumb can you be?
I mean seriously.
And if it's such a big deal,jasmine, why don't you just, you
know, why don't you just turnaround, raise the money yourself
and send it over there?
It's the little things that theDemocrats do that you kind of

(12:44):
just shake your head and justwonder sometimes what side are
they truly on?
And then what also just kind ofcracks me up is there is no
election interference.
Oh, all that MAGA did is justtalk about election interference
.
Oh, they're rigging theelections.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Those choices should be made by the voters in texas
alone, not donald trump, mikejohnson, governor abbott or
manga extremists who want tomanipulate the election, which
will have an adverse impact onthe quality of life of the
people of texas.
We are unified now.
That now of life Of the peopleof Texas.

(13:22):
We are unified.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Now of course he's unified, but of course.
But this is about the Texasredistricting.
When Biden redistricted, he didthe redistricting for the
voting, everything was fine, itwas alright.
It's not rigging elections.
But when you go and you take alook at it and you want to
redistrict Texas, it's all of asudden it's the MAGA extremists.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
I'm thankful for the leadership Of the members of the
Texas delegation, who arefighting On behalf of their
constituents and every singleresident In the great state of
Texas.
All of us should be focused onRescue, relief and rebuilding,
not egregious redistricting ofthe Texas congressional map as

(14:10):
part of an effort.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Now, remember when the Democrats did it in certain
states to give them an advantage.
It was okay, but now you'regoing to do the congressional
map and redistrict.
The world is ending.
Oh, I don't.
I literally don't know whatelse to tell you.
There's so much more we couldtalk about, but I'm actually

(14:33):
fighting a call today, so I'mgoing to I'm going to cut this
one short, so make sure you staytuned for the new episodes for
next week and, as always, thetruth that shall always set you
free.
This is Tim.
This is Kevin fromMyLawAndTheMadRamblings of a Gen
Xer, and I'm out of here.
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