May 7, 2025 • 30 mins
Just over 100 days into Trump’s second term, the political and economic landscape is shifting rapidly, with aggressive tariff policies causing a projected 35% drop in imports at Southern California ports, raising fears of supply chain disruptions and shortages. In this episode, we unpack the immediate domestic effects, declining global perceptions, and economic instability marked by reduced tourism and capital flight. We draw connections between Trump’s actions and Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for reshaping government, despite his public denial of involvement. Finally, we reflect on the progressive policies that built modern American society and how they are now under threat, emphasizing that these developments carry real consequences for all Americans, regardless of political party affiliation.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
hey everybody, welcome back to the rtwj podcast
we were here right now justgetting ready to record the show
.
Just a little back and forthhere as we're planning.
I just, I love it.
Is there a?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
need for every time you have to you have to what
Tell me?
Narrate what we just did Likejust go on with the show man,
Because it's always such aspectacle every time, but it's
great.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's how we warm up, I guess.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's you's how we warm up.
I guess it's you know we.
We do a little back and forth,we argue a little bit and we're
ready to go.
We've got energy.
So I'm glad.
Yeah to everyone who continuesto listen to us every week, and
well sorry, not every week, butevery episode twice a month.
Yeah, we really appreciateeverybody that connects with us
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(01:10):
Please stay connected with us.
Um, we are continuing to justfight back on this.
I'm not gonna call themrepublicans or I'm going to call
them red hats.
Now, I'm the red hats.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, Because we are.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm completely upset and you know it's funny because
people this is where I getreally riled up, because people
constantly keep coming back andtry to get us to like, oh you
know, we have Trump derangementsyndrome and all these things,
right, yes, but every time theydo that they fail miserably,
because I'm waiting to come backevery episode with more things
(01:51):
that goes against what they'retalking about.
Fact of the matter is and youguys probably know already is
that we do not like him.
We greatly despise him.
He is the most incompetent,loser, idiot that we've ever had
in a position of a presidencyever I.
I'm looking at neighboringcountries canada, you know who,
(02:11):
who.
Who elected someone with a phd,with a, with a, with a very
high, prestigious educationalpast.
Our neighbors down south inmexico elected a woman, someone
who is highly educated same samething PhD.
you know math, mathematics,science experienced politician,
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someone that has studied andbeen educated, and then we have
this guy, someone that just hasno concept of his name.
He wears you know so muchtanning lotion on his face.
He looks brown sometimesbecause it's just piled on him.
He doesn't complete sentenceswhen he speaks.
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Everything is someone else'sfault.
Whenever they critique him,it's always someone else's fault
Every single time.
He's never taken accountabilityfor making mistakes when
mistakes have been made, andthat's what we have there have
been a lot of mistakes lately.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I mean, yes, it's, it's always biden's fault too.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
This is biden's stock market right now, like his name
out of his mouth, can he?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
yeah, get over him day one we were supposed to have
change.
Well, now it's day 100 andwhatever we just recently did
the 100 days.
So where are we at now?
And this is a pivotal time, andwe might not just focus on this
, on today's episode, but onething that comes to mind for me,
actually two things.
So, first of all, we're nowreally going to play this tariff
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gamble.
So we've been playing for thepast month now I can't believe
it's been what since his firstround of proposed tariffs were
April, the beginning of April.
Now we're here on May 3rd.
We've been doing this tariffback and forth for the past few
weeks, but now we're waiting tosee if we're really going to get
in the ass.
Right, we now already.
So we now have this next roundof tariffs.
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Whatever we're doing now Idon't even know it's so
confusing each day where we'reat round of tariffs or whatever
we're doing now I don't evenknow it's so confusing each day
where we're at but basically,the ports of LA and Long Beach,
which are our local ports, someof the busiest ports in the US
they're already forecasting inthis coming week, as we really
get hit with these tariffs, thatshipments or imports that we
get are going to go down byabout 35%.
So we're already dealing withthat and we're going to have to
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see truly what the impact ofthese tariffs are.
We've been kind of dancingaround them the past few weeks.
What's going to happen?
What's going to happen Now?
We're there.
We're now at the point do storeshelves, do we start to see
empty store shelves?
Do we see a major disruption inthe supply chain?
We've got that and I don't havethe exact term in front of me,
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but it's basically when theWhite House throws out like a
budget concept of what theyrecommend that Congress consider
for the budget for the comingyear.
He threw that out.
Defense spending is going upMeanwhile, basically from Social
Security, any type of quotesocialist program.
As they see, anything thathelps people is being targeted,
(05:05):
being targeted right the irs isthe party of not helping people.
Yes, so all programs, so socialsecurity is on their entitlement
programs.
The irs is getting their bigbudget hit.
Uh, climate change,environmental protection
programs the list goes on.
That was just thrown out in thelast few days too, and that's
what he's proposing now.
Um, going forward, I don't seethe big cuts.
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I just see that the spending'sbeing transferred to what his
interests are.
So, in terms of doge and allwe're gonna save.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We're gonna cut expenses, we're increasing,
we're just transferring, we'retransferring, that's all we're
doing.
So, uh, people that remember wehad someone that was talking to
us about that who reached outto our show and said oh, we're
saving, we're saving yeah we'resaving and that we're super
extreme liberals, or whateverthey call us.
I mean, please explain to mewhere we are saving this money,
(05:58):
Because you someone that'slistening to our show has been
very adamant about that, sayingthat Doge is saving money, money
, money, but we're not.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The money is being allocated to other spending
habits.
The national debt will increase.
Where are these?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
savings going and Musk is already too under fire
because people have looked andbeen like okay, you say you're
going to save money for thegovernment, yet your own
business and your own interests.
You have billions of dollarsworth of contracts.
Where are the slashes to yourown contracts?
Oh never mind Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
See, this is what frustrates me.
You can't make this stuff up.
These things literally writethemselves.
Things literally writethemselves Every single time we
are told something about thisadministration.
And to change.
Because, let me tell you, I amabout learning, growth,
experiencing, making my owndecisions, critical thinking,
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emotional intelligence.
So I welcome people offeringdifferent opinions.
I've always been like that, butthis isn't differing.
Nothing of substance has cometo me to say that this is
someone that I should support.
So Marcus has always focused on, like you know, policy.
Right, he's focused on, forexample, he's talked about the
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tariffs.
He's talked about, you know,the economic situation,
financials.
But my focus, this episode iskind of going to be more about
you know what?
There is the stark differencebetween the left and the right.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Sure, and it's just it frustrates me because I I try
to just, you know, really givepeople the benefit of the doubt,
and I've spoken to a lot ofpeople lately about things right
, and they tell me about allthese crazy conspiracy theories
and it's just, it cracks me upbecause everything they talk
about and saying they want tocut or don't believe in supports
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them first of all and, secondof all, was not created by the
party they support.
I will say this and say thiscountless times and I really
want that person from thatpodcast that listens to us to
really hear this statementbecause it's kind of like my,
like my final, not my final, butlike my, like my significant
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idea of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
OK.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're not living in a conservative victory.
You're living in liberalprogress, progress.
And when you talk aboutpolicies and government agencies
and things that we utilize inour way of life, there's a
constant fight.
Right that conservatives saythat they're being oppressed by
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the left.
Right that the left is out hereto take back and crazy left,
radical, lunatic stuff like that.
The only reason why this existsis because conservatives and
red hats are not oppressed byliberalism.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They're empowered because, okay, let's dive into
that thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's a great, because every liberal policy in
many ways has a benefit of somecapacity to the people that live
in this country.
Sure so they have to fight back.
They have to find little things.
That's what they go for okayevery policy, right, you know,
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let's look at some stuff let'sdo it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, let's talk about?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
um, let's talk about the fact that women can vote.
Okay, how did the right forwomen to vote happen?
It happened through radicalindividuals quote that protested
, and protested, and protested.
Then, invoking the 19thAmendment, progressive policies.
(09:52):
We talk about unions, right,unions had a major impact.
And again, progressive policies.
You like your 40-hour work week, right?
Sure.
You like your workers'compensation?
Oh yeah.
Workers' protections, yes.
Vacation allocation, sick timeallocation, workplace safety
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these are progressive policies.
If you're a veteran and youcash your VA check based on a GI
Bill and stuff like that, thatis also a progressive policy
that the right, historically,has tried to fight against.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And they're currently doing it at this moment cutting
VA spending.
They are they're going afterthe va, that's absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Please tell me.
Tell me how they are.
The party of the people I don'tget it.
Every single major policy is aprogressive and liberal movement
.
No child labor that's aprogressive movement.
Weekends off that's aprogressive movement.
Public transit, public roads,public parks these are
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progressive movements.
Education it's a progressivemovement.
Innovation technology areprogressive movements Right,
it's a progressive movement.
Innovation technology areprogressive movements Right.
So this just goes to show thatthese things that people enjoy
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have been created by progressive, left, liberal movements.
The things that make us haverights autonomy, you know, the
ability to purchase a home, theability to drive our car on
public roadways these are allliberal policies.
The right to go into anestablishment and not feel
discriminated these areprogressive policies.
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The right to be yourself is aprogressive policy.
So I don't get how they saythey are trying to save what,
because they're not savinganything.
It is blatant, blatantdiscrimination.
Yeah, racism and bigotry.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They're trying to save a traditional way of life
that, again, as we've talked onthe show, that we just flat out
don't like.
I mean, they want to createthis little box that if you fit
in their box, you're gonna befine and if you don't, then you
have a problem Again.
If it was truly about freedom,right, then why are they going
after, for example, transsexualindividuals?
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Why are they doing?
Why are they creating policy,creating restrictions, creating
barriers for those types ofthings?
It's not just about oh, we'rethe party of freedom and
whatever.
It's about establishing thisway of life, right, this
specific way of life that theythink everybody should follow,
no matter what our views are andhow we think differently.
Right, that's where it's at andthis is controversial and
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people debate this all the time.
Project 2025 is well underwaythe boxes based on what trump
has been doing and many of hisexecutive orders, a lot of what
he's been saying, a lot of whathis followers have been saying
and doing.
The whole attitude aligns withproject 2025, which is basically
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it's it's it's a plan tocompletely reshape the country
right to follow this traditionalconservative way of life.
They are pursuing it actively.
They're accomplishing many ofthe steps within it.
That's what their focus is isbasically creating this new way
of life where we all follow onestandard, we all have one
approach and if you don't fitwithin that box that they're
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creating, you're gonna have aproblem, and that's what we're
seeing right now check this out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, an ethical man, right?
Someone is supposed to takecare of the corruption in
washington.
What corruption?
He himself is the most corruptperson of all time.
Remember that private dinner tohis biggest meme coin buyers.
So the value for his coin shotup 100 million dollars and he
offered a private dinner to hishighest buyers and investors.
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This calls for an ethics probe.
Absolutely sure.
Like, what are you doing?
Like, how can you take moneyanonymously from anybody in the
world?
Okay, he is been told what'sbeen told, that he's been kind
of making business deals for hisfamily businesses.
Um, you know, using thepresidency, we've seen surprise,
right, yeah, surprise and it'sjust again talking about elon
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musk and his multi-billiondollar pentagon deal,
considering the doge cuts.
It's like like, like what?
The firing of inspectorgenerals, you know.
All these, all these things.
It's like like like what?
The firing of inspectorgenerals, you know all these,
all these things.
It's just like like, what is itthat we're doing?
Like this?
Corruption continues to be seenand to be shown.
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We see it countless times.
We had a dealership in thefront line of the white house,
you know one point, selling cars.
Oh yeah, you know.
It's just like okay, I get it.
You know, biden has done thatwith jeep.
We've seen it, sure, but we'relooking at the impacts of the
man that was behind thesevehicles, someone that's in
government, right, you know, ina capacity to make changes in
government.
(15:09):
I'm just upset that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Can we stop on that real quick?
I don't understand.
Here we go, let's go down thisrabbit hole.
He's all about going againstelectric vehicles.
Right, he's stopping, he is.
I don't want to hear anybodysay, no, he's not, he's doing
this.
He is going after federalprograms, funding programs that
support electric vehicleinfrastructure.
(15:33):
He is against.
It did not recently too, and Idon't have all the details in
front of me.
There's this whole issue nowabout california's ban on um
gasoline powered cars.
That who is?
It is someone within the.
Someone within the federalgovernment is now blocking that
ability for california to dothat.
Now.
Do I completely agree with thatpolicy?
(15:53):
Separate issue.
I'm just saying he's going afterthat right, it's a little messy
here in California, we agree.
He's going after that, and yethe's putting Tesla and an
electric vehicle company on thelawn of the White House.
Basically, how do those twothings add up?
They don't make any sense.
How does he do one thing butthen do that too?
(16:14):
The hypocrisy alone in that isjust outstanding, honestly.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Here's another good one, right?
They say he's so progressive,he's getting stuff done, right,
wait, wait.
He's progressive I'm sorry,that's why he's progressive and
getting stuff done Like he'sprogressing and getting stuff
done.
That's the thing.
Oh, donald Trump is.
Oh, donald trump.
Oh, he's making, like he'smaking changes.
Yeah, he's making changes,right, let's see, okay, well,
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according to a time analysis ofcongressional records, it says
that so far, congress has onlypassed six bills uh, five of
which have been signed to law inthe first 100 days, which is a
fuse of any president in thefirst 100 days of administration
.
In the last seven decades we'vetalked about this.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Where's the movement?
The backlog of work right nowis no.
How can you even get work?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
he has signed 142 executive orders the most of any
president.
Yes, in the first hundred days,because you see there he's not
good.
He can't even get his congressto make these bills happen.
He hasfully execute his powerin the executive branch to do
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this.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How is he successful?
The judges come in, he getsblocked and he sometimes with
his decisions, as we've seen hehas to pull them back.
He has to pull them backbecause he makes a mistake.
Guess how many lawsuits theTrump administration faces in
the first 100 days.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Over 220.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, that's more than one per executive order.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
essentially he's ignored federal courts.
Yep, okay, um he.
They want to impeach the judgesthat actually have tried to
fight back on his nonsense.
His first hundred days havebeen chaos, yes, absolute chaos.
This isn't this is a democracy.
This is not an oligarchy.
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This is not a fascistgovernment.
This is a democracy, but itfeels like it's heading in the
wrong direction.
It's embarrassing that thepresident of the united states
thinks that it's appropriate tosay that he wants to be the next
pope.
Oh, how does that make sense?
Please, this isn't.
I'm tired of it.
I'm sick of it.
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I'm sick of trying tounderstand what the fuck is
going on.
You're aware, too, that heactually put a picture of
himself on his own social mediaaccounts.
He's embracing this he'scrashing out though, because his
tweet, his tweets, are alwayslike around 5 40 in the morning.
You know, five in the morning.
He's, just like you know, goingcrazy, he just starts writing.
Oh, yeah, that's the presidentof the united states.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yes, he is putting a picture of himself that he
should be the pope.
He should lead the catholicchurch around the world.
Now he has the audacity.
I thought we left that behind.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I thought we left a reigning king behind.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I thought we left a fascist government behind, but
he's so good and perfect in hismind he's the savior of the
world that he truly is that is aking he's the king.
Yes, because when the king ofengland the head of the church,
haven't kings been the heads ofchurches?
Shouldn't it be where?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
a collective group of individuals make decisions for
the greater good of the majorityof individuals.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
No because the liberals are destroying our
country.
So we need one man to come inand just wipe clean the slate,
right.
That's what he's doing.
He's just wiping out everything.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The countries with the highest quality of life
throughout the world areprogressive countries, yes, are
liberal-leaning countries.
The countries with the mostsupportive services human
services, healthcare, lifeexpectancy, access to food,
shelter, life-sustainingservices are all liberal,
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left-leaning countries.
That's the point of government,the point of government.
We've gone from all of thesethings in the past, leaving
these, you know, we've learned,right Over thousands of years of
humanity.
We've learned that certaintypes of you know control do not
work.
Certain types of structure ofsociety do not work.
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Government doesn't work.
It's shown that the best typeof government is the one that
incorporates different.
You know branches andideologies and differences in
opinions and respect forindividual.
You know individuality.
But we're, we're going back.
Oh yeah, isn't this what thiscountry was founded on?
Fleeing persecution of a tyrant, yes, of of one person making
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the choice for everybody.
That's why he fled, right,that's what this country was
founded on.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But those that support him love what he's doing
, so he's the savior of theworld.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
There's got to be some research on why these
people support him.
I just it sounds like he's aprophet.
It sounds deranged.
It's almost like a prophetDeranged.
There we go.
Oh, don't say that.
This is where the derangementis right.
Here, oh, absolutely it's.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's almost like like he's a prophet, a long-sought
prophet.
The same almost like he isjesus christ himself, like it's
it's this savior mentality thathe has come to save the country
from whatever evils that haveflourished for years.
And now he is here to justrevolutionize the country into
some project 2025 concept ofperfection.
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I don't know wouldn't be great.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Tourism fell, uh, about 12 percent in the last
month.
Tourism from countries ineurope like germany, denmark,
fell by 30%.
About 25% for Spain, norway,ireland, australia, austria.
Air travel from Canada is down.
The founder of Kayak, thewebsite that does that traveling
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stuff, oh yeah.
Kayak.
He quoted saying that in justtwo months, trump has destroyed
the reputation of the US, shownone way by diminished travel
from the EU to the US.
This is not only one moreterrible blow to the US economy,
but it also representsreputation damage that could
take generations to repair.
Absolutely.
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You know what FIFA said.
And the Olympics?
They said time is on our side.
If it was truly good, theywould say, no, we're good.
They just said time is on ourside.
If it was truly good, theywould say no, we're good.
They just said time is on ourside, indicating something,
hoping that something willchange something but yeah, how's
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that going?
and then, marcus loves this onecapital flight.
People are taking their moneyout of the us and they're
putting it into other countries.
Why?
Because the US dollar isweakening, yes, and quick.
The stock market is falling,bond yields are going up, so
when the dollar goes, you know,value goes down.
That's actually scary becausethat means that there's what A
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loss in confidence in the usdollar.
Because we're focused on gold,right, the gold reserves.
But you know, people are veryconfident in the us dollar,
right.
Why are they confident in theus dollar?
Because you have a government.
That's that's that's, you know,stable.
We have a, you know, ademocratic style of, you know,
electing individuals, of runninggovernment programs, of the,
you know, maintaining the dollar, our financial security.
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There's structure, but theynotice that the structure is
falling apart.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Do you want to go back with me in time about like
15, 18 years ago?
Let's go.
I was at a training at workearlier this week and there was
someone there that was attendingand they made this comment, and
this reminded me of 15, 20years ago.
What was happening then?
Right, the Great Recession wewere going through that Made
this comment that their publicsector we call it a 457.
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It's the same as a 401k thevalue of their 457 has changed
to where now they're not surethey're going to retire.
They might have to delay by afew years.
Does that comment ring a bellfrom what people were saying
back then when their 401ks werecollapsing?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
We're doing it again, but this time we just stabbed
ourselves and the bleeding'shappening because of our own
doing.
It's not because of global.
What was happening back then?
Right, it's just because ofwhat Trump's been doing these
past few months and thecraziness and the volatility in
the markets that now people aresaying that I've lost money, I'm
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not gonna retire for a fewyears.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm gonna have to work.
That's concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That's what they were saying in 2007, 2008, as things
were falling apart.
And they saying in 2007, 2008,as things were falling apart and
it and they did.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They had to wait until things recovered.
We're in that setting again,but here's one key difference
with what's happening now.
Back then, during thatrecession, there was still
confidence in the us dollar yes,that is true people were still
putting it, because in times ofcrisis, in times of global
economic crisis, countries stillbet on putting their you know
investments, their money, intothe us dollar that was bad
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decisions in the credit market.
That's what that so they knew,but this time around they're not
.
They're fleeing and they'reputting their money somewhere
else.
Because the us dollar is not asstrong and stable as it was
then.
Right, because of socialinsecurities, the things that we
have happening in our country,travel warnings against the US
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because of disruptions insociety, the fear that people's
rights can be taken away whenthey're visiting this country.
Yes, we used to be bigots anddiscriminate other countries,
saying don't travel therebecause they're going to attack
you for being from the US.
Now we're the ones in the sameboat.
How embarrassing is that?
Absolutely so.
That's the crazy part is we'reseeing time and time again that
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these things continue to beproven, that this presidency and
this administration does notwork.
And it is not working.
It's been 100 days.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It is a complete disaster absolute disaster,
complete disaster.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
No timeline, no guides, no plans, no structure
no, strategy no strategy.
We're just pick up the pen andsign this thing.
Most of the time he justlistens to the summary.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's like, okay, I'll sign it yeah, as long as it
sounds like it's from project2025, basically, which he claims
he never read.
But that's not true he is thepuppet he is the grandmaster.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
They want project 2025 to be enacted.
This guy is just gonna sitthere and sign away, right?
That's all he's doing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It was made for him.
Don't forget they say it wasmade for him.
Don't forget they say oh, itwas made for a president.
It was designed for him toexecute and he's been doing it.
Look at the.
I mean, there were constantcomparisons between Project 2025
and what he was doing withinhis first few weeks.
He was already making a gooddent in that list just with the
first few weeks of hispresidency.
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And here we are now.
By the way, tariffs, tariffsbig part of that plan too
investors do not believe in theus anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Economists say that trump has broken the country and
its finances.
Noah smith said that the worldis treating the us like a
developing nation like adeveloping nation.
Usually.
Traditionally, countries buy usdebt and the us then uses that
to stimulate the economy that'show the great recession worked.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Remember with president obama.
He went, did a bunch ofstimulus packages to get things
rolling again, correct, but nowwe gotta go at these high rates
now because interest rates arehigher.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's gonna cost more because because people are not
putting in their belief in theUS dollar.
I call it.
I call it Within the next fouryears, somehow, someway, this
crazy lunatic is going to saysomething along the lines of
let's move our currency to justUS currency and somehow change
the dynamic of the dollar, andI'm afraid of that.
(27:59):
Yeah, I'm very afraid of that.
I'm somehow some, some way it'sgonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
There's gonna be a word, wild idea?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
yes, whether it manifests or not, there's gonna
be some wild idea yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely the world does not
stop here in jam and um, we'regonna keep going until they drag
us out of the studio.
It's just every time I talkabout these things I hearing
(28:29):
myself talk about it I just I'mlike I'm actually seeing these
things as truth and it's not asa vision?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's not as a vision.
What would the apocalypse looklike?
No, this is actually happeningright now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And it's only been a little more than 100 days.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, he hasn't even passed his first budget yet, the
first budget under hispresidency.
We haven't even gotten that faron what they're going to end up
doing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh, my God.
Well, until next time For allof us here at the RTWJ podcast.
I'm John.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'm Marcus.
Make sure you're following uson Instagram for the latest
updates on the show and we willcatch you guys on the next
episode.
Hopefully, the store still haveproducts on the shelves by that
point.
I think we're looking at Juneor July.
That's the forecast right now,and things get really crazy with
the stores.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You know what We'll?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
be here to cover all that.
We have our equipment already.
We have stockpiled equipment.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that way, we won't have to worry about it, right.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Because there won't be any podcast equipment
anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Right, okay, yeah, take care, thank you Bye.
hey everybody, welcome back to the rtwj podcast
we were here right now justgetting ready to record the show
.
Just a little back and forthhere as we're planning.
I just, I love it.
Is there a?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
need for every time you have to you have to what
Tell me?
Narrate what we just did Likejust go on with the show man,
Because it's always such aspectacle every time, but it's
great.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's how we warm up, I guess.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's you's how we warm up.
I guess it's you know we.
We do a little back and forth,we argue a little bit and we're
ready to go.
We've got energy.
So I'm glad.
Yeah to everyone who continuesto listen to us every week, and
well sorry, not every week, butevery episode twice a month.
Yeah, we really appreciateeverybody that connects with us
and has been following ourinstagram.
Remember rtwj podcast?
Um, you know, search us, findus.
And uh, we don't have afacebook, no more do we no, we
are done facebook yes instagramis where it's at.
(01:10):
Please stay connected with us.
Um, we are continuing to justfight back on this.
I'm not gonna call themrepublicans or I'm going to call
them red hats.
Now, I'm the red hats.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay, Because we are.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I'm completely upset and you know it's funny because
people this is where I getreally riled up, because people
constantly keep coming back andtry to get us to like, oh you
know, we have Trump derangementsyndrome and all these things,
right, yes, but every time theydo that they fail miserably,
because I'm waiting to come backevery episode with more things
(01:51):
that goes against what they'retalking about.
Fact of the matter is and youguys probably know already is
that we do not like him.
We greatly despise him.
He is the most incompetent,loser, idiot that we've ever had
in a position of a presidencyever I.
I'm looking at neighboringcountries canada, you know who,
(02:11):
who.
Who elected someone with a phd,with a, with a, with a very
high, prestigious educationalpast.
Our neighbors down south inmexico elected a woman, someone
who is highly educated same samething PhD.
you know math, mathematics,science experienced politician,
(02:32):
someone that has studied andbeen educated, and then we have
this guy, someone that just hasno concept of his name.
He wears you know so muchtanning lotion on his face.
He looks brown sometimesbecause it's just piled on him.
He doesn't complete sentenceswhen he speaks.
(02:54):
Everything is someone else'sfault.
Whenever they critique him,it's always someone else's fault
Every single time.
He's never taken accountabilityfor making mistakes when
mistakes have been made, andthat's what we have there have
been a lot of mistakes lately.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I mean, yes, it's, it's always biden's fault too.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
This is biden's stock market right now, like his name
out of his mouth, can he?
Speaker 2 (03:17):
yeah, get over him day one we were supposed to have
change.
Well, now it's day 100 andwhatever we just recently did
the 100 days.
So where are we at now?
And this is a pivotal time, andwe might not just focus on this
, on today's episode, but onething that comes to mind for me,
actually two things.
So, first of all, we're nowreally going to play this tariff
(03:38):
gamble.
So we've been playing for thepast month now I can't believe
it's been what since his firstround of proposed tariffs were
April, the beginning of April.
Now we're here on May 3rd.
We've been doing this tariffback and forth for the past few
weeks, but now we're waiting tosee if we're really going to get
in the ass.
Right, we now already.
So we now have this next roundof tariffs.
(04:00):
Whatever we're doing now Idon't even know it's so
confusing each day where we'reat round of tariffs or whatever
we're doing now I don't evenknow it's so confusing each day
where we're at but basically,the ports of LA and Long Beach,
which are our local ports, someof the busiest ports in the US
they're already forecasting inthis coming week, as we really
get hit with these tariffs, thatshipments or imports that we
get are going to go down byabout 35%.
So we're already dealing withthat and we're going to have to
(04:22):
see truly what the impact ofthese tariffs are.
We've been kind of dancingaround them the past few weeks.
What's going to happen?
What's going to happen Now?
We're there.
We're now at the point do storeshelves, do we start to see
empty store shelves?
Do we see a major disruption inthe supply chain?
We've got that and I don't havethe exact term in front of me,
(04:44):
but it's basically when theWhite House throws out like a
budget concept of what theyrecommend that Congress consider
for the budget for the comingyear.
He threw that out.
Defense spending is going upMeanwhile, basically from Social
Security, any type of quotesocialist program.
As they see, anything thathelps people is being targeted,
(05:05):
being targeted right the irs isthe party of not helping people.
Yes, so all programs, so socialsecurity is on their entitlement
programs.
The irs is getting their bigbudget hit.
Uh, climate change,environmental protection
programs the list goes on.
That was just thrown out in thelast few days too, and that's
what he's proposing now.
Um, going forward, I don't seethe big cuts.
(05:26):
I just see that the spending'sbeing transferred to what his
interests are.
So, in terms of doge and allwe're gonna save.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
We're gonna cut expenses, we're increasing,
we're just transferring, we'retransferring, that's all we're
doing.
So, uh, people that remember wehad someone that was talking to
us about that who reached outto our show and said oh, we're
saving, we're saving yeah we'resaving and that we're super
extreme liberals, or whateverthey call us.
I mean, please explain to mewhere we are saving this money,
(05:58):
Because you someone that'slistening to our show has been
very adamant about that, sayingthat Doge is saving money, money
, money, but we're not.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
No.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
The money is being allocated to other spending
habits.
The national debt will increase.
Where are these?
Speaker 2 (06:14):
savings going and Musk is already too under fire
because people have looked andbeen like okay, you say you're
going to save money for thegovernment, yet your own
business and your own interests.
You have billions of dollarsworth of contracts.
Where are the slashes to yourown contracts?
Oh never mind Look at that.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
See, this is what frustrates me.
You can't make this stuff up.
These things literally writethemselves.
Things literally writethemselves Every single time we
are told something about thisadministration.
And to change.
Because, let me tell you, I amabout learning, growth,
experiencing, making my owndecisions, critical thinking,
(06:57):
emotional intelligence.
So I welcome people offeringdifferent opinions.
I've always been like that, butthis isn't differing.
Nothing of substance has cometo me to say that this is
someone that I should support.
So Marcus has always focused on, like you know, policy.
Right, he's focused on, forexample, he's talked about the
(07:17):
tariffs.
He's talked about, you know,the economic situation,
financials.
But my focus, this episode iskind of going to be more about
you know what?
There is the stark differencebetween the left and the right.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Let's do it.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Sure, and it's just it frustrates me because I I try
to just, you know, really givepeople the benefit of the doubt,
and I've spoken to a lot ofpeople lately about things right
, and they tell me about allthese crazy conspiracy theories
and it's just, it cracks me upbecause everything they talk
about and saying they want tocut or don't believe in supports
(07:57):
them first of all and, secondof all, was not created by the
party they support.
I will say this and say thiscountless times and I really
want that person from thatpodcast that listens to us to
really hear this statementbecause it's kind of like my,
like my final, not my final, butlike my, like my significant
(08:19):
idea of what's going on.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
OK.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're not living in a conservative victory.
You're living in liberalprogress, progress.
And when you talk aboutpolicies and government agencies
and things that we utilize inour way of life, there's a
constant fight.
Right that conservatives saythat they're being oppressed by
(08:45):
the left.
Right that the left is out hereto take back and crazy left,
radical, lunatic stuff like that.
The only reason why this existsis because conservatives and
red hats are not oppressed byliberalism.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
They're empowered because, okay, let's dive into
that thought.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
That's a great, because every liberal policy in
many ways has a benefit of somecapacity to the people that live
in this country.
Sure so they have to fight back.
They have to find little things.
That's what they go for okayevery policy, right, you know,
(09:29):
let's look at some stuff let'sdo it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah, let's talk about?
Speaker 1 (09:32):
um, let's talk about the fact that women can vote.
Okay, how did the right forwomen to vote happen?
It happened through radicalindividuals quote that protested
, and protested, and protested.
Then, invoking the 19thAmendment, progressive policies.
(09:52):
We talk about unions, right,unions had a major impact.
And again, progressive policies.
You like your 40-hour work week, right?
Sure.
You like your workers'compensation?
Oh yeah.
Workers' protections, yes.
Vacation allocation, sick timeallocation, workplace safety
(10:13):
these are progressive policies.
If you're a veteran and youcash your VA check based on a GI
Bill and stuff like that, thatis also a progressive policy
that the right, historically,has tried to fight against.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
And they're currently doing it at this moment cutting
VA spending.
They are they're going afterthe va, that's absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Please tell me.
Tell me how they are.
The party of the people I don'tget it.
Every single major policy is aprogressive and liberal movement
.
No child labor that's aprogressive movement.
Weekends off that's aprogressive movement.
Public transit, public roads,public parks these are
(11:04):
progressive movements.
Education it's a progressivemovement.
Innovation technology areprogressive movements Right,
it's a progressive movement.
Innovation technology areprogressive movements Right.
So this just goes to show thatthese things that people enjoy
(11:28):
have been created by progressive, left, liberal movements.
The things that make us haverights autonomy, you know, the
ability to purchase a home, theability to drive our car on
public roadways these are allliberal policies.
The right to go into anestablishment and not feel
discriminated these areprogressive policies.
(11:51):
The right to be yourself is aprogressive policy.
So I don't get how they saythey are trying to save what,
because they're not savinganything.
It is blatant, blatantdiscrimination.
Yeah, racism and bigotry.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
They're trying to save a traditional way of life
that, again, as we've talked onthe show, that we just flat out
don't like.
I mean, they want to createthis little box that if you fit
in their box, you're gonna befine and if you don't, then you
have a problem Again.
If it was truly about freedom,right, then why are they going
after, for example, transsexualindividuals?
(12:24):
Why are they doing?
Why are they creating policy,creating restrictions, creating
barriers for those types ofthings?
It's not just about oh, we'rethe party of freedom and
whatever.
It's about establishing thisway of life, right, this
specific way of life that theythink everybody should follow,
no matter what our views are andhow we think differently.
Right, that's where it's at andthis is controversial and
(12:50):
people debate this all the time.
Project 2025 is well underwaythe boxes based on what trump
has been doing and many of hisexecutive orders, a lot of what
he's been saying, a lot of whathis followers have been saying
and doing.
The whole attitude aligns withproject 2025, which is basically
(13:11):
it's it's it's a plan tocompletely reshape the country
right to follow this traditionalconservative way of life.
They are pursuing it actively.
They're accomplishing many ofthe steps within it.
That's what their focus is isbasically creating this new way
of life where we all follow onestandard, we all have one
approach and if you don't fitwithin that box that they're
(13:33):
creating, you're gonna have aproblem, and that's what we're
seeing right now check this out.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Okay, an ethical man, right?
Someone is supposed to takecare of the corruption in
washington.
What corruption?
He himself is the most corruptperson of all time.
Remember that private dinner tohis biggest meme coin buyers.
So the value for his coin shotup 100 million dollars and he
offered a private dinner to hishighest buyers and investors.
(14:00):
This calls for an ethics probe.
Absolutely sure.
Like, what are you doing?
Like, how can you take moneyanonymously from anybody in the
world?
Okay, he is been told what'sbeen told, that he's been kind
of making business deals for hisfamily businesses.
Um, you know, using thepresidency, we've seen surprise,
right, yeah, surprise and it'sjust again talking about elon
(14:24):
musk and his multi-billiondollar pentagon deal,
considering the doge cuts.
It's like like, like what?
The firing of inspectorgenerals, you know.
All these, all these things.
It's like like like what?
The firing of inspectorgenerals, you know all these,
all these things.
It's just like like, what is itthat we're doing?
Like this?
Corruption continues to be seenand to be shown.
(14:48):
We see it countless times.
We had a dealership in thefront line of the white house,
you know one point, selling cars.
Oh yeah, you know.
It's just like okay, I get it.
You know, biden has done thatwith jeep.
We've seen it, sure, but we'relooking at the impacts of the
man that was behind thesevehicles, someone that's in
government, right, you know, ina capacity to make changes in
government.
(15:09):
I'm just upset that.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Can we stop on that real quick?
I don't understand.
Here we go, let's go down thisrabbit hole.
He's all about going againstelectric vehicles.
Right, he's stopping, he is.
I don't want to hear anybodysay, no, he's not, he's doing
this.
He is going after federalprograms, funding programs that
support electric vehicleinfrastructure.
(15:33):
He is against.
It did not recently too, and Idon't have all the details in
front of me.
There's this whole issue nowabout california's ban on um
gasoline powered cars.
That who is?
It is someone within the.
Someone within the federalgovernment is now blocking that
ability for california to dothat.
Now.
Do I completely agree with thatpolicy?
(15:53):
Separate issue.
I'm just saying he's going afterthat right, it's a little messy
here in California, we agree.
He's going after that, and yethe's putting Tesla and an
electric vehicle company on thelawn of the White House.
Basically, how do those twothings add up?
They don't make any sense.
How does he do one thing butthen do that too?
(16:14):
The hypocrisy alone in that isjust outstanding, honestly.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Here's another good one, right?
They say he's so progressive,he's getting stuff done, right,
wait, wait.
He's progressive I'm sorry,that's why he's progressive and
getting stuff done Like he'sprogressing and getting stuff
done.
That's the thing.
Oh, donald Trump is.
Oh, donald trump.
Oh, he's making, like he'smaking changes.
Yeah, he's making changes,right, let's see, okay, well,
(16:38):
according to a time analysis ofcongressional records, it says
that so far, congress has onlypassed six bills uh, five of
which have been signed to law inthe first 100 days, which is a
fuse of any president in thefirst 100 days of administration
.
In the last seven decades we'vetalked about this.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Where's the movement?
The backlog of work right nowis no.
How can you even get work?
Speaker 1 (16:54):
he has signed 142 executive orders the most of any
president.
Yes, in the first hundred days,because you see there he's not
good.
He can't even get his congressto make these bills happen.
He hasfully execute his powerin the executive branch to do
(17:15):
this.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
How is he successful?
The judges come in, he getsblocked and he sometimes with
his decisions, as we've seen hehas to pull them back.
He has to pull them backbecause he makes a mistake.
Guess how many lawsuits theTrump administration faces in
the first 100 days.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Over 220.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Oh, that's more than one per executive order.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
essentially he's ignored federal courts.
Yep, okay, um he.
They want to impeach the judgesthat actually have tried to
fight back on his nonsense.
His first hundred days havebeen chaos, yes, absolute chaos.
This isn't this is a democracy.
This is not an oligarchy.
(17:59):
This is not a fascistgovernment.
This is a democracy, but itfeels like it's heading in the
wrong direction.
It's embarrassing that thepresident of the united states
thinks that it's appropriate tosay that he wants to be the next
pope.
Oh, how does that make sense?
Please, this isn't.
I'm tired of it.
I'm sick of it.
(18:20):
I'm sick of trying tounderstand what the fuck is
going on.
You're aware, too, that heactually put a picture of
himself on his own social mediaaccounts.
He's embracing this he'scrashing out though, because his
tweet, his tweets, are alwayslike around 5 40 in the morning.
You know, five in the morning.
He's, just like you know, goingcrazy, he just starts writing.
Oh, yeah, that's the presidentof the united states.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Yes, he is putting a picture of himself that he
should be the pope.
He should lead the catholicchurch around the world.
Now he has the audacity.
I thought we left that behind.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I thought we left a reigning king behind.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I thought we left a fascist government behind, but
he's so good and perfect in hismind he's the savior of the
world that he truly is that is aking he's the king.
Yes, because when the king ofengland the head of the church,
haven't kings been the heads ofchurches?
Shouldn't it be where?
Speaker 1 (19:16):
a collective group of individuals make decisions for
the greater good of the majorityof individuals.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
No because the liberals are destroying our
country.
So we need one man to come inand just wipe clean the slate,
right.
That's what he's doing.
He's just wiping out everything.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
The countries with the highest quality of life
throughout the world areprogressive countries, yes, are
liberal-leaning countries.
The countries with the mostsupportive services human
services, healthcare, lifeexpectancy, access to food,
shelter, life-sustainingservices are all liberal,
(19:54):
left-leaning countries.
That's the point of government,the point of government.
We've gone from all of thesethings in the past, leaving
these, you know, we've learned,right Over thousands of years of
humanity.
We've learned that certaintypes of you know control do not
work.
Certain types of structure ofsociety do not work.
(20:16):
Government doesn't work.
It's shown that the best typeof government is the one that
incorporates different.
You know branches andideologies and differences in
opinions and respect forindividual.
You know individuality.
But we're, we're going back.
Oh yeah, isn't this what thiscountry was founded on?
Fleeing persecution of a tyrant, yes, of of one person making
(20:40):
the choice for everybody.
That's why he fled, right,that's what this country was
founded on.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But those that support him love what he's doing
, so he's the savior of theworld.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
There's got to be some research on why these
people support him.
I just it sounds like he's aprophet.
It sounds deranged.
It's almost like a prophetDeranged.
There we go.
Oh, don't say that.
This is where the derangementis right.
Here, oh, absolutely it's.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's almost like like he's a prophet, a long-sought
prophet.
The same almost like he isjesus christ himself, like it's
it's this savior mentality thathe has come to save the country
from whatever evils that haveflourished for years.
And now he is here to justrevolutionize the country into
some project 2025 concept ofperfection.
(21:32):
I don't know wouldn't be great.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Tourism fell, uh, about 12 percent in the last
month.
Tourism from countries ineurope like germany, denmark,
fell by 30%.
About 25% for Spain, norway,ireland, australia, austria.
Air travel from Canada is down.
The founder of Kayak, thewebsite that does that traveling
(21:54):
stuff, oh yeah.
Kayak.
He quoted saying that in justtwo months, trump has destroyed
the reputation of the US, shownone way by diminished travel
from the EU to the US.
This is not only one moreterrible blow to the US economy,
but it also representsreputation damage that could
take generations to repair.
Absolutely.
(22:15):
You know what FIFA said.
And the Olympics?
They said time is on our side.
If it was truly good, theywould say, no, we're good.
They just said time is on ourside.
If it was truly good, theywould say no, we're good.
They just said time is on ourside, indicating something,
hoping that something willchange something but yeah, how's
(22:36):
that going?
and then, marcus loves this onecapital flight.
People are taking their moneyout of the us and they're
putting it into other countries.
Why?
Because the US dollar isweakening, yes, and quick.
The stock market is falling,bond yields are going up, so
when the dollar goes, you know,value goes down.
That's actually scary becausethat means that there's what A
(23:01):
loss in confidence in the usdollar.
Because we're focused on gold,right, the gold reserves.
But you know, people are veryconfident in the us dollar,
right.
Why are they confident in theus dollar?
Because you have a government.
That's that's that's, you know,stable.
We have a, you know, ademocratic style of, you know,
electing individuals, of runninggovernment programs, of the,
you know, maintaining the dollar, our financial security.
(23:22):
There's structure, but theynotice that the structure is
falling apart.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Do you want to go back with me in time about like
15, 18 years ago?
Let's go.
I was at a training at workearlier this week and there was
someone there that was attendingand they made this comment, and
this reminded me of 15, 20years ago.
What was happening then?
Right, the Great Recession wewere going through that Made
this comment that their publicsector we call it a 457.
(23:54):
It's the same as a 401k thevalue of their 457 has changed
to where now they're not surethey're going to retire.
They might have to delay by afew years.
Does that comment ring a bellfrom what people were saying
back then when their 401ks werecollapsing?
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
We're doing it again, but this time we just stabbed
ourselves and the bleeding'shappening because of our own
doing.
It's not because of global.
What was happening back then?
Right, it's just because ofwhat Trump's been doing these
past few months and thecraziness and the volatility in
the markets that now people aresaying that I've lost money, I'm
(24:33):
not gonna retire for a fewyears.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I'm gonna have to work.
That's concerning.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
That's what they were saying in 2007, 2008, as things
were falling apart.
And they saying in 2007, 2008,as things were falling apart and
it and they did.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
They had to wait until things recovered.
We're in that setting again,but here's one key difference
with what's happening now.
Back then, during thatrecession, there was still
confidence in the us dollar yes,that is true people were still
putting it, because in times ofcrisis, in times of global
economic crisis, countries stillbet on putting their you know
investments, their money, intothe us dollar that was bad
(25:07):
decisions in the credit market.
That's what that so they knew,but this time around they're not
.
They're fleeing and they'reputting their money somewhere
else.
Because the us dollar is not asstrong and stable as it was
then.
Right, because of socialinsecurities, the things that we
have happening in our country,travel warnings against the US
(25:29):
because of disruptions insociety, the fear that people's
rights can be taken away whenthey're visiting this country.
Yes, we used to be bigots anddiscriminate other countries,
saying don't travel therebecause they're going to attack
you for being from the US.
Now we're the ones in the sameboat.
How embarrassing is that?
Absolutely so.
That's the crazy part is we'reseeing time and time again that
(25:54):
these things continue to beproven, that this presidency and
this administration does notwork.
And it is not working.
It's been 100 days.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
It is a complete disaster absolute disaster,
complete disaster.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
No timeline, no guides, no plans, no structure
no, strategy no strategy.
We're just pick up the pen andsign this thing.
Most of the time he justlistens to the summary.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
He's like, okay, I'll sign it yeah, as long as it
sounds like it's from project2025, basically, which he claims
he never read.
But that's not true he is thepuppet he is the grandmaster.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
They want project 2025 to be enacted.
This guy is just gonna sitthere and sign away, right?
That's all he's doing.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
It was made for him.
Don't forget they say it wasmade for him.
Don't forget they say oh, itwas made for a president.
It was designed for him toexecute and he's been doing it.
Look at the.
I mean, there were constantcomparisons between Project 2025
and what he was doing withinhis first few weeks.
He was already making a gooddent in that list just with the
first few weeks of hispresidency.
(26:59):
And here we are now.
By the way, tariffs, tariffsbig part of that plan too
investors do not believe in theus anymore.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Economists say that trump has broken the country and
its finances.
Noah smith said that the worldis treating the us like a
developing nation like adeveloping nation.
Usually.
Traditionally, countries buy usdebt and the us then uses that
to stimulate the economy that'show the great recession worked.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Remember with president obama.
He went, did a bunch ofstimulus packages to get things
rolling again, correct, but nowwe gotta go at these high rates
now because interest rates arehigher.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
It's gonna cost more because because people are not
putting in their belief in theUS dollar.
I call it.
I call it Within the next fouryears, somehow, someway, this
crazy lunatic is going to saysomething along the lines of
let's move our currency to justUS currency and somehow change
the dynamic of the dollar, andI'm afraid of that.
(27:59):
Yeah, I'm very afraid of that.
I'm somehow some, some way it'sgonna happen.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
There's gonna be a word, wild idea?
Speaker 1 (28:07):
yes, whether it manifests or not, there's gonna
be some wild idea yeah, oh, yeah, absolutely the world does not
stop here in jam and um, we'regonna keep going until they drag
us out of the studio.
It's just every time I talkabout these things I hearing
(28:29):
myself talk about it I just I'mlike I'm actually seeing these
things as truth and it's not asa vision?
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's not as a vision.
What would the apocalypse looklike?
No, this is actually happeningright now.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And it's only been a little more than 100 days.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, he hasn't even passed his first budget yet, the
first budget under hispresidency.
We haven't even gotten that faron what they're going to end up
doing.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Oh, my God.
Well, until next time For allof us here at the RTWJ podcast.
I'm John.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
I'm Marcus.
Make sure you're following uson Instagram for the latest
updates on the show and we willcatch you guys on the next
episode.
Hopefully, the store still haveproducts on the shelves by that
point.
I think we're looking at Juneor July.
That's the forecast right now,and things get really crazy with
the stores.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
You know what We'll?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
be here to cover all that.
We have our equipment already.
We have stockpiled equipment.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
So that way, we won't have to worry about it, right.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Because there won't be any podcast equipment
anywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Right, okay, yeah, take care, thank you Bye.
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