This week the guys return to have a quick mini-show all about the objectively insanely corruption that is happening in the open with the Trump administration. Donald Trump decides (AGAINST THE LAW) that he will accept a $400M plane from the Qatari government as the new Air Force One all the while structuring personal Trump Organization deals for a new multi-billion dollar Trump golf course resort in the Middle Eastern country. Also, the new tariffs rollback with China has begun, and lastly Trump pretends to care about lower drug prices through signing a completely useless executive order.
Big Topics
Big Topics
- Trump about to accept a luxury jet “gift” from the Qataris
- The great tariff rollback
- Drug Prices Coming Down?
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hello, Welcome to a brand new episode of Look for
And I'm your host, Jay. I'm here with my co
host Brad.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Mean. Look, all right, everyone who's listened to TNP Studios
programming over the past twelve years knows I am a
fan of pedantry. I am a pedant myself, sometimes with
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very specific things. But even I don't think we need
to drag ourselves down in the discourse of what constitutes
a literal bribe versus what is just like something that
looks improper but is probably maybe fine.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, and this is why you'll never work for the
New York Times.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's why I've never worked for the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Thank God, you're not a gigantic asshole. But before we
get into all of that, I do want to do
so a little bit of inside baseball kind of information here.
So this episode is going to be like forty five minutes,
which is much shorter for our listeners that they're used to.
It is on purpose. Okay, we're going to do a
mini show today. We are recording Monday, May twelfth. This
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will come out on May thirteenth on Tuesday, and then
we will be recording another mini episode on Thursday of
this week that will release on the following Monday. The
reason we're doing that is because we have to change
because of me, because I've got some shit going on
in my personal life. We have to change our show
release day, right, and the episode has been coming out
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too late because I've got work stuff and everything else.
So we didn't want to leave you guys with nothing
this week and then start next week with the with
the new release dates. So we're gonna record twice, but
instead of trying to do two two hour shows, which
is insane, we're just gonna cut one show, cut it
up in half. So enjoy this little mini show. Know that,
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then in a couple of days, on Monday, that'll be
another mini show. If you are a premium or excuse me,
if you're a free listener, full forty five minutes of
both shows will be available to you right starting on
that Monday. When you get that forty five minute show,
that will be the beginning of the new release schedule,
and so then normal episodes will come out every Monday. Okay,
so just a little inside baseball, This show is gonna
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be short. Expect another short one on Monday, and then
everything is back to normal. All right, So let's get
into it. This episode, this mini episode brought to you
by corruption.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just out the open, just vakedly, like not even fucking
trying to hide it at all, as I told you earlier,
Like that. That's the part that's kind of still still
shocking to me, is just just the degree to which
they're just they're just doing it out there and being like,
and you have a problem with this, you're the fucking idiot,
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and and you're just like, why are you surprised about this?
And I'm just like, because because Jay, I like my
grifters to at least have the token appearance of trying
to keep it, keep it under wraps. Yeah, do that
for me.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, No, that party is over right, Like they they
are blatant about the corruption, and they're blatant about this
sort of scamming. And we're obviously going to talk about
the luxury gift jet that Donald Trump has been given
by the Qatari government. But they also are weird. You
and I were talking about this offline, like they're really
weird about denying reality. Like, if you're gonna be so
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blatant about it, just fucking lean into it, don't talk
to me like I don't see what's happening, Like that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the thing you said they are. They're like like
Trump's out there like oh like like yeah, a fucking nerd,
Like of course I would take this, Like why the
funk wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I I'm corrupt.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm that's what yeah, and and and and again in
reality kind of smart that that's the method that he's
taking because the current media market like like like the
like the mainstream market turns out really dumb and they're
willing to to meet him halfway on this like oh,
(04:31):
you know, like Democrats say that this viole and like no,
Democrats don't say it. It's a fact, Like it's a
fact that honestly, if he were to accept this jet
that it would be a huge violation of the Emolument's clause.
But they they have to frame and it's like, well,
you know, one side says this and the other side
says that, like no, you can just you can just
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say what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like when when they do
that like that that it's like the uh remember when
John Stewart interviewed that one like state senator or something
like that, or state representative, you're talking about control and
the guys like Stuart's like, what is the number one?
Cause right, he's like, oh, you're gonna say He's like, no,
(05:15):
don't say it, Like that's an opinion, that's a fact,
Like fuck you, dude, Like you're trying to do the
thing which is what they do, which is well democrats
say no, democrats are just quoting the law man. Like
you can't just pretend that that's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I will say, like I said, if you've never seen
that it was an Oklahoma state senator that John Stewart
was interviewing, embarrassed perhaps in a long media career, perhaps
John Stewart's like finest moment in reality, Like like he
had the perfect amount of indignance with that fucking guy
(05:49):
and let him know it, and that dude looked very
uncomfortable getting berated by John Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I mean, yeah, it is, and it is wild to
say that that might be his finest moment, but I
don't think you're wrong. Like it's like everyone watching that
is like like, dude, get off the TV, for the
love of guy, just get off the TV.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Like run away.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, we're like we're laughing at you, but also I
feel sorry to watch a man be literally destroyed on television.
I can't stop watching it, but like, yikes, so I
do want to read a little bit. This is a
weird document. A lot of people have never heard of it.
The Constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay, this is this is this is this is news
to me. What is this all about? Yeah, it's just
like it's just like how good the United States is
at like at not taking damage like when they get hit.
That that's the Constitution. That I that's that's a stat
that you want to dump a lot of a lot
of points into to make sure that you stay stamping America.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Plus twenty on Constitution, Yeah, which minus five on history
and minus five on it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Right, yeah, right, right, right now, we're rolling a lot
of net ones on Constitution. Under stand by meeting.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So Article one, Section nine, Clause eight quote. No title
of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and
no person holding any office or of profit or trust
under them shall without consent of Congress, except of any
present emolument, office, or title of any kind, whatever, from
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a king, prince, or foreign state. Meaning federal officials cannot
accept gifts, payments, or titles from foreign governments without the
approval from Congress. This is meant to prevent foreign influence
of US leaders. Getting a jet from the Qatari government
is not okay? Is not okay. By the way, there's
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been no vote in Congress about this. There's been no vote, Like,
there's been nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And he's just like, yeah, I'm not not just not
just a jet a four hundred million dollars like Jumbo
seven forty seven. And you're asking, like, why does he
need this? Apparently like Air Force one is being taken
out of commission because it needs like upgrades or updates
or whatever. So and it's gonna be out, which is nice.
(08:09):
That's yeah, which is whatever. Fortunately there's a second plane
uh in the in the fucking uh the hangar that
you can use. Uh maybe it make it might make
it difficult for jad vans to get around a little
bit here and there, But that's he can drive. Like
like who gives a shit, like like like we're finding is.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That a marine one? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like who gets like like it doesn't fucking matter. And
and I just I pointed out the four hundred and
forty million dollar aspect because that dollar amount I saw
earlier today is seventeen times more then Republicans alleged the
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Biden family got from like Bearisma and China and all
these other stuff that was such a tragic uh violation
of norms and laws and and and procedures that we
had to have all fucking Senate subcommittee.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I had to apparently see uh Joe Biden's sons
dick several times.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
According to like like like that that was bad and
and apparently it was when and and if I recall correctly,
Joe Biden wasn't even in fucking office at the time
that he received these fucking gifts or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That is right, that is correct. He was vice so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean he wasn't president, okay, so but but okay,
so he was in office then. But still like like stop,
the press is like this is corruption on the highest degree. Hey,
the Katari is when he give Donald Trump a four
hundred million dollars playing nothing to see here. He's a
president of his friend.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Baby is like, hey that dollar jet. Of course. Now
look here's the here's the funny thing about this. This
is a Boeing jet right, like so it was not
like made like in you know, in Qatar or whatever. Right,
irrelevant because because it's coming from the Qatari government, it's
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coming from Qatar. Is there is there a terriff on that,
Like what what is the like, I mean, people are
asking these very I think, yeah, so, but in all honesty,
him accepting this gift, it was like, well, that's weird
and blatantly corrupt and not okay. And then people made
the the other point of like, surely this thing is
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going to have like listening devices on it and everything else.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. If I had to
make a bet.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I mean, that's that's that's the other part of it, right,
like like the thing that's not being said enough. I'm like, hey,
there there there's a famous story about accepting massive gifts
of large suh from a from from a foreign from
a foreign state.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It's just just this thing, the Katari trojan horse, Like
could this be an yeah, like fucking just just they
should paint a horse on the side and see if
he gets I don't know, like what are these guys
doing in here? Like it's but it's really a fucking
weird thing, right, because Okay, you're accepting this and look
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to people's point, yeah, they could be listening devices. Look,
make no mistake, this is a national security issue. So
they're going to rip the plane down to the fucking
bare bones to make sure there's nothing in it, of course, right,
like it would be stupid for them not to unless
Donald Trump is like, I don't want to wait, just
get that thing in the fucking air, which I could
totally see.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
By the way, which he will do, which he will
will do. Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So but let's say that he has some level of
the fucking wherewithal to allow the the fucking CI or
the you know, like the FBI or CIA or whoever
would be in charge of that someone in the DJ
to rip the thing down make sure it's you know,
it's clear what amount of millions of dollars does that
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cost to rip all the shit out and then put
it all back, Because it's not it's not as if
whatever they send, even if you're talking about okay, they
don't have to rip it down to make sure they're
no secret microphones or what have you. It's not set
up for the presidency like no plane is. Those planes
are very specific in how they're set up. Certain conference
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rooms got to be there, certain you know, I'm sure
you know security setups for like it's basically a mobile
skiff and all this sorther shit. It's got to have
a bunch of other things. That's why we don't get
it from somewhere else. We get it from the Boeing
factory where they go make it X y z and
then they send it over and then the government still
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goes through and does other things, like you're never going
to get a plane.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I know, maybe this is hard for Donald Trump to understand,
but like you don't buy the fucking plane off the
wreck like your shitty suits. Okay, like you get it
custom done, right. I know it's really hard for him
to understand that. But like there's going to be an
extra amount of cause you are just driving up set
cost by getting it from a foreign government, which already
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seems like a real bad idea, like it just on
its face. Also, you better hope that thing doesn't fall
out of the fucking sky on purpose or not. I'm
just saying, like.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, you know, I was gonna say, like the Kataris
do have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever,
but you know that's besides the point. But here, but
here's the thing. Jay I would argue that the Kataris
don't necessarily need to roll a trojan horse into Washington,
d c U to get the details on the Trump administration.
(13:48):
So one of the you know, things that kind of
has to pass the muster here is dj has to
weigh on at this because, of course, like you mentioned,
Themayum's clause is a thing, and d OJ of course
there they are the top lawyers. They know the law
inside and out, and they've determined that it's actually totally
cool and not a problem that Donald Trump accepts his plane.
It will violate no laws or anything like that. Important
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to note that the head of the DOJ, Pam Bondi,
the current Attorney General, was a Qatari lobbyist in the
past couple of years, earning over one hundred thousand dollars
a month from the Qatari government.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Rice.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, nice work. If you can get it right, that
ain't bad.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can I read you a quote that I think is
pretty fucking interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
From twenty twelve, Qatar hosted the Hamas party leadership when
Hama's head relocated from Syria to Qatar. The former head
of Hamas has resided in Doha since twenty sixteen until
his death in twenty twenty four. Quote. Qatar has been
called Hamas's most important financial backer and foreign ally. But again,
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please feel free hop on that plane, my guy. I'm
sure everything.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well. Either that or they're hoping that all of a sudden,
the US hardline support stance of Israel. Maybe something's a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I wouldn't bang on that, but you're gonna hop in
a plane given to you by Hamas's largest financial backer
and foreign ally. Look, I know the woman from ABC
went on, you know she was. She asked President like, hey,
the fuck, bro, like what are you doing? And he
got all pissed off at her and was like, oh,
(15:41):
ABC sucks and didn't address anything she said, right, which
was a valid question she had. However, this point, this
might be it, Hey, man, you really don't like Hamas. Uh,
you guys don't really fuck with Hamas like that. You're
doing all this financial acting of Israel taking on Hamas.
(16:05):
Qatar is Hamas's number one for an ally. Is that
not a national security concern for you to take a
jet from them? I bet he doesn't know this. I
bet he doesn't know I bet no one from him
to Pam BONDI none of these motherfuckers have googled this shit.
They're like, we might have made a mistake, we might
(16:26):
have made a sake. They're keep in mind, by the way,
and this is not I'm not trying to see it
any sort of conspiracy theory, but these are facts. Iran
has been reported as trying to do assassination attempts, trying
to figure out assassination attempts on Donald Trump. Again, why
are you getting a plane from people who are aligned
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with people who are aligned against you? That feels like
a really bad fucking idea. Again, I'm not here to
tell you not to get on the plane. I'd like
you to get on it tomorrow. But I just find
it really weird, like his greed very well, maybe his
undoing like that this is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Will shock you to learn, but I'm pretty sure that
it didn't get any further in his brain than oh,
someone wants to give me a real big plane and
that was it. Yeah, now they are what they are saying.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I disagree. Actually, okay, it does go further than that,
and we'll talk about that story.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, just after this, they're uh. Now, they are also
saying that after he is not president anymore. It will
be donated to the Trump Presidential Library. I don't know
how write a massive plane to a to a presidential library.
But okay, just just warning everyone now I'm gonna see
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the ground for you and predict the future. Don't be
surprised when that doesn't happen and he just fucking uses
the plane.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He will. They will give it to the library, and
the library will say, yes, you're allowed to just fl
That's well, who cares? Who cares? Here? Here, I'll see
this ground. I don't know if if any of this
will Maybe people live long enough to ever fly on
that plane after.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I mean that would be fantastic. That would be fantastic. Yeah, Like,
are they going to build like a fucking runway like
at the Presidential Library so that the plane can take off?
Is just gonna fucking be decommissioned and fucking sit there.
But what's gonna happen? Yeah? Right? The fun Will people
be able to go into the plane and take a tour?
Maybe maybe maybe the plane will be either musy or
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the library.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah maybe inside well, they like it doesn't have a
lot of space for books. I mean in this library,
what's in this library? What's in this library?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Gold, gold, toilets, enemies list, uh that you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Can read while sitting on a toilet, of course naturally.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like like like just just a fucking line of sharpies,
but like the real thick ones that stink like it's
just it's just like that. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's gonna be amazing. Like somehow I remember thinking, surely
there will be nothing in the the GW. Bush Library.
I bet that thing is fucking stocked with real comparative
to what the fuck is in the Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh, they'll they'll probably be like a kiosk where you
can just buy meme coins, like right there, like in
the fucking library. He's probably can't sell it, but you
can buy it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You can buy that's right, You've got a hold.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I have to imagine whatever his library ends up being.
It's just a grift, right, Like it's just it's just
there to make money. There is no there, You're learning
nothing about the guy. You had a great golf swing anyway,
give us fifty dollars, like it'll be like one hundred
dollars to enter for some reason. Why why They'll have
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like the virtual golf machine set up where you try
to like out drive Donald Trump or something like that.
What's what's the what's the golf game? What is it?
Golden tea, golden tea.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, the Trump building with that in it, the Trump
it'll it'll be the first of it's guy in the
Trump Presidential Library and theme park, Like it'll be a
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh my god. I hope it's not. I hope that.
I hope they build it and then it just gets
fucking detonated. It's like, blow it up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
This is useless.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So okay. So here's a coincidence, Brad, purely coincidence.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
This happened a couple of weeks ago. I will point
out for the record, but it is it is weird
that this happened a couple of weeks ago and all
of a sudden, Donald Trump's getting a jet.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Mmmm, go for it, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, So uh unbeknown stuf us because this one of
the radarc is like, I'm not trying to pay attention
to the comings and goings of the Trump organization in
this day and age.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But they have.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Signed an agreement with the Katari government UH to build
a golf course and resorts any guitar.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
For five point five billion with a b dollars. Oh,
I'm sure it had nothing. I'm sure it had nothing
to do with this nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, good, good, good thing. Uh. Donald Trump completely divested
himself of dealings with the with the Trump organization. Otherwise
this could this could look really suspect, especially in the
way of being given a gift of a half a
billion dollar plant.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, as he said in his little press conference, uh,
in his little tent of hate, Hey, um, some famous
golfer that nobody gives a fuck about because that's all
he cares about. One said, if some money gives you
a putt, you just take that putt. And that's the
lesson you guys can learn. Okay, what does that have
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to do with you violating the emoluments claws? Like so, yeah, no,
so a five point five billion dollar golf resort and
that gets done, and then all of a sudden, here
comes this free plane.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, I mean, I mean again and again. Like there's
some people out there that I mentioned at the top
of the show they're getting real pedantic about, like, well,
it's not actually bribery because there's no clear quick poke
quote Like okay, sure there's no clear one. But I'm sure,
but again, like these two stories being in sequence with
each other, sure seems like a real big coincidence. Putting
that aside, forget forget a plane, right, Like, let's assume
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the Katari government somehow caught wind of the look forward
to Political podcast and they're like, man, we really like
the cut of these guys. Jib. We're gonna give TNP
Studios one hundred thousand dollars and if we accepted that money.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Now fuck that crank that money. Oh come on man, whatever,
I want to get millions?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, whatever, a million dollars. And if we accept that money,
would you trust what we have to say about the
Katari government? It would be weird because all of a sudden,
like our coverage of Qatar would probably like flip on
it change, like.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Coverage whatsoever. We don't talk about like, by the way,
did you guys know like we just give Qatar fasts
every episode for thirty just reading from there like.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh yeah, but but yeah, you rightfully would be like wow,
fuck these guys, like like I didn't trust them at
all this ship. Yeah, this is why, like you shouldn't
fucking trust anything that the President's gonna do either, because
he's been given a big fucking plane, or at least
that's that's the plane.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, look this is not on the docket. But this
is also we did not deal with this. But you know,
the Trump family also is doing this crypto venture thing
that is basically a two billion dollar investment deal bribe
(24:15):
from from the from the Emirates. Right, an Abu Dhabi
state backed investment firm is making a major two billion
dollar investment in a crypto business deal that could serve
as a major boost for the Trump family Crypto Venture
World Liberty Financial. So this shit is fucking unbelievable. Uh.
(24:41):
They are basically just dumping two billion dollars in a
like through Binance, right, which is partially like it's partially
owned by what is it not LUTNX, the other dude
like his son or whatever is Yeah, like his son
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runs runs that. So they're dumping the two billion dollars
into finance and basically using that as a proxy to
get a good portion of that to the Trumpetman the
Trump family. Yeah, it's it's a fucking insane just straight
up scam, Like just a straight up scam. And everyone's like, yeah, no,
(25:23):
that seems fine. So the guy for The New York Times,
Which quid pro or quote do you need? Like, what
do you need? Like, there is nothing worse than people
who are so focused on, like on paper definitions that
they cannot see that the world is moving and changing
that they just they're like, I'm waiting for Chuck Schumer
does this. I'm waiting for the paper definition of a
(25:46):
you know, constitutional crisis. There's one happening with an earshot
of you, Chuck, like razor right, just raise your head
from the paper, dude. It's like, well, it's got ninety
nine point nine percent of the things here, but I'm
still waiting on understanding and the other point one percent
to come to light. Well that part's the corruption part
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that they're never gonna tell you about. Well, there's no
way for me to know, like you know, it's like,
come on, man, Like I hate to be that where
there's smoke, there's fire, but like the house is on fire,
there's fire, Like what the fuck are right?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And it's not and and like like when we say
connect the dots, like it's not like you have to
go to this like Nixon era asks fucking board with
the red string and stuff like that. It's like a
connect the dots puzzle where you just have to follow
the numbers and draw the lines in between. You just
make the ways like it's like like, it's not it's
not fucking difficult. And if we said it before in
(26:39):
this podcast, and we have and we've probably said it
dozens of times, it still remains as relevant today as
it ever was. They made Jimmy Carter sell his fucking
feet out far yeah, and mind long ago.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, and look one, it's not that long ago too.
Never forget that that motherfucker Donald Trum literally stood in
front of folders, hundreds of hundreds of folders with blank
sheets of paper in them and said that his divestment
information it was not it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You know, I'm really upset that folders of blank paper
that didn't exceed binders of women in like the public
consciousness like that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm telling you, man, if I was, if I was
in that room, I would have just prepped. I would
have done a pret fall right into those blank they're blank. Yeah,
like it's all bullshit. The Emperor has no clothes, like
it's it's just nonsense. But yeah, this two billion dollar
cryptocurrency scam is maybe one of the most corrupt, blatant
(27:45):
things he's done. But then again that came out before
the plane thing, and then like oh in the golf course,
like at a certain point, like this has gotten so
bad that even Laura Lumer was like, bro, this doesn't
look good. Even she said this, and she's insane, Like
why am I on the same side with Laura Lumer?
(28:05):
This like old hatchet Face.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Is and you're you're you're in Rand Paul's score ship. Yeah,
so much like much like much like Ted Cruz, like
Rand Paul is like you know, you know, like once
a year he comes out and it's like, yeah, you know,
Rand Paul's making a good point. This is the only
(28:28):
time you're getting credit this whole year. Ted Cruise also
gets one of those sometimes too. Yeah, he has he
has a lucid moment where he like says something about
like actually, you know, like we we really should look
at regulating AI and I'm like, holy ship, like like
what happened.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And he's like, yeah, we should use AI to make
sure people can't see what kind of porn I'm watching
them up. Yeah, Like that's really like you just gotta go,
you gotta go one wrong down it's like, ah, there's
old That guy sucks. Yeah, it's it is unbelievable. Yeah,
critics say Trump's luxury jet from Katar violates the constitution.
(29:03):
It's not critics, it's the constitution that says it, Like,
stop doing that, stop writing fucking bullet headlines like that. Yes,
it's the constitution that says it. It's not the critics. No,
it should be critics point out Donald Trump is breaking
the constitution, you know by accepting this jet. Stop saying
critics like, yeah, the founding fathers? Are those the critics
that you're talking about the ghost of Thomas Jefferson. Yeah,
(29:28):
it's just just unbelievable. So let's move on from there.
This story is uh and this is our last. Oh no,
I'm sorry, we're doing the tar rollback. Let's talk about
the terrors. Yeah they're up. Pause pause.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah. Turn turns out that despite the protestations of the
current president, every American company not shipping their goods holding
them in China was gonna have pretty catastrophic implications down
the road. And so they finally got with the Chinese
government and they have rolled the They put a pause
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on the reciprocal tariffs. They have rolled them back from
one hundred and forty five percent to thirty percent, which
is still insane. I will point out for the record,
in the general term of things, to just have a
flat thirty percent tariff on anything coming out of China
still stupid, but it's certainly not one hundred and forty
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five percent. And China has in kind taken their tariffs
down from one hundred and twenty five percent down to
ten percent on goods coming from the US to China.
But it's only a ninety day pause, So who the
fuck knows where we're going to be come August when
this extension supposedly runs out. I know that again, my company,
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much like probably every other company, is going to use
this window to try to get as much shit as
we can sees right, which which again is gonna is
gonna send container pricing skyrocketing, So you know you're don't. Basically,
what I'm saying is like, if a company has raised
prices in response to these tariffs, don't expect them to
go down in the wake of this news. However, the
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stock market believes that good tidings are on the horizon
and jump back up to I think like forty two
thousand points in the doubts.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And er something like that, Look, this is this is nonsense.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, what's stupid is what this is?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, it is because it solves nothing, it doesn't it.
I like that he's using he's using tariffs. He's using
the same method with tariffs that he's using for TikTok,
which is just keep kicking the can down the road.
We're gonna ben it now. We're not gonna we're gonna
do tars one hundred now.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Maybe, but but instead of but instead of two app
stores who are sitting here, like, what the fuck is
gonna happen? Every American company is that that that sells
goods and that sells goods are like what the fuck
is gonna happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And cannot they can't weather these kind of jump ups
and jump downs, like they like, it's not you. You
can't if you buy some widget that helps your business run,
you cannot afford to be like it's one hundred and
forty five percent, it's thirty percent, it's thirty percent, one
hundred four, Like you can't run a business like that,
Like you cannot handle those kind of fluctuations, where then
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what you have to blow extra money in buying these
products because you're trying to do it before the ninety
days happens. But then the ninety days gets here, does
the can get kicked down the road again? And you
have all this inventory.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And by the way, that's if that's if the product
lands within the ninety day window. As we talked about
it in the past three weeks, it takes time from
shit to get exact china on the boat over here.
So like, and and there's going to be a logjam
now because everyone is gonna be trying to get shit
at the same time. So like, you better hope that
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if you get your shit, it gets here before that
ninety days thing expires, because who the fuck knows what
he's gonna do in ninety days time or even before
because again, this ship changes weekly right with this administration, And.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
There was there was also a report that there were
quite literally no container ships leaving for California. Yeah, like
the other day they they said they have not seen
that since COVID. Yeah. So to your point, even if
you're even if you're dropping a pause on these tariffs,
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things don't restart that fast, like, and when they do,
you're going to have bottlenecks. And you're also if you're
a small business, you're kind of fucked because of those bottlenecks,
because who do you think is gonna get priority? You
think Nike is gonna get priority, or you know, Jane's
Widgets emporium. Right, like Nike, who is spending you know,
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a billion dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars, is
definitely getting a priority on those container ships. You are not.
So if you're a small business and you depend on
the stage, you're in a world of trouble. And by
the way, you don't even have to be a small business,
just a medium sized business, right like, you're in a
world of trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And then, by and by the way, it's important to
note that while they did roll back to terrafs, what
they did not roll back was the removal of the
Dominicus exception. So now so again like all these drop
ship packages are still going to get hit with with
import fees coming in where they didn't before, and that's
still pretty important as well.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Interesting, Yeah, I didn't know that. So yeah, him cutting
these these these terriffs, by the way, this is this
is a this is a loss for him. This is
yet another loss. Yeah, yeah, China said they're fine.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And and they will be fine. Like the only reason
that they back down is trust me. I people are like, oh,
like they agreed. No, the US blink first, They're like, hey,
we've made it a fucking devastating mistake. And China's it's like, yeah,
you're gonna back down. We'll back down ours Like this
isn't they.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Don't hurt us.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We'd like to make money, right, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
But ultimately it doesn't hurt them, right because you, yes,
the United States is a huge market. And that's that's
basically Trump's thought, right, United States is a huge market.
China wants to sell us a bunch of stuff. They do,
but they know that they can hold out and sell
stuff around the world around you, and they know your
citizenry will not stand for empty shelves and kids not
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being able to have dolls and all that. They won't
stand for that. Americans have gotten incredibly spoiled in their
rabbit consumerism. This is a fact, right, you can't just
take that that culture that has existed I would argue
since the forties, right, like really, and I don't mean
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that China do the manufacturer. I mean just rabbit consumerism.
Like really since like the nineteen forties all the way
up to now, that can it's gotten.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Post World War two, absolutely like it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Right, we had a ton of money. We were just
like this massive you know, superpower, you know economy. So
post World War Two all the way to present, Americans
have just been spending more and more and more and
more and more money on these kind of on these
you know, on all these goods, and then credit came
(36:21):
into play and then they spent even more. So then
it's going to exponentially higher than that China can just
China can still sell to everyone else, dude, But do
you think there're you think there's no fucking walmarts in
Canada or wherever the fuck of course, So they're gonna
sell all of their ship to wherever wherever they want.
American citizens are the big factor in why these tariffs
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will not work, because Americans are not gonna go to
the store at Christmas time and be like, yo, there's
no dolls from my daughter on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well that's and that's and that's that is that is
the core problem is that this administration is kind of
like operating from this belief. It's like, oh, like America
is the only market, and it's like, no, we're the
most important market. But China literally sells to everybody and
it's a big fucking world and other people have money too.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. I mean look again, do you think that China's like,
oh great, we get to lose the biggest market. No,
they're not happy about it. Will they survive? Yeah, because
they can hold out longer than we can. Again, yeah,
they're they're there, going we have this stuff, and American
citizens are like, we need this stuff and Trump is
standing in the middle like, no, you don't need it.
(37:35):
That doesn't fucking work. Have you met Americans before, like
do we love it?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It would be it would be one thing, like if
you had like a great fucking plan in place to
reshure all these industries that you claim you want. Again,
as we talked about the show, it's not a good
idea to reshure a lot of the a lot of
the stuff that China is doing right now, that's the
industry you shouldn't want. But if you're like dead on it,
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like if you have a plan to do it, I
can kind of see where you're coming from. His plan
is literally like the Field of Dreams plan like if
you stop the shipping, the manufacturing will come back. And
it's like, no, that's not how it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's not how you need factories, you know, by the way,
you need to build factories, right, Like, that's a that's
a big point, and a lot of people have obviously
said that it made that point. You know, it's the
most obvious point. Here's a point I hadn't thought about
that I saw made about that. Where the fuck are
you gonna get the parts to build set factories? Dude, Like,
(38:34):
you have to go and get these things that you
don't have that you don't have the equipment to even
spin up factories because you're gonna have to then pull
this up. Which is why if you were going to
do this, which again I don't recommend it, but if
you were going to do it, you'd start building that
ship without announcing any tariffs. You just start building factories.
(38:54):
You would start talking to those companies like, listen, this
is what.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We're gonna but you. But you can't because companies are
gonna because again rightfully, companies are gonna look at you
and be like, why the fuck would we do that? Exactly,
It's hardy chief enough as it is to get in
for Chia, Why am I gonna spend all this money
to fucking build a factory where I then have to
pay an American worker ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
To be livable. Wait right, going to Bangladesh where I
can pay people and a nickel and a half. And
if they still so much, just lop their hand off,
right whatever, Banana Republic, crazy shit you live in, right,
I mean, that's the one thing that's really bizarre. Like
corporations are like, yeah, we care about America too, and
you know we we love America. Then they go overseas
and they're like, make the kids work for us. It's
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just like they don't believe in any of the ship there.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Well, well, again, they have the degree of separation because
they're not the bad guy. They're just contracting labor to
the factory, and the factory is the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It's not us.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's you know, we don't we don't see. Uh, it
doesn't matter. But again, and and I'll put those so
they can't kill themselves. It doesn't get set enough. American
companies like did this to themselves. Like the American people
are the ones that are paying the price for it.
But y'all fucked yourself like like this, this is the
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bed that y'all made, so you know, deealed it. But
that does not excuse the idiocy of the current administration. It,
you know, it does not flying by the seat of
their pants with all of our money in the balance,
essentially exactly.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
All right, So last story before we get out of here,
and this is this is my favorite one because it's
so fucking ridiculous. So I'm gonna play a clip. This
is how Trump introduced this idea of how they are going.
He's signing in an executive order to lower drug prices
by thirty to eighty percent. Okay, this is how he
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let everyone know that's what's happening. I swear to god,
this is not AI. This is a real fucking press conference.
I love it. Has books behind.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I'll tell you a story.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Friend of mine who's a business man, very very very
very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him,
a highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes
the fat the fat shot drug and he called me
up and he said President, he used to call me Donald.
(41:20):
Now he calls me president. So that's nice respect, But
it's the rough guy, smart guy, very successful, very rich.
I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but
because he's got comments the president, could I ask you
a question. What I'm in London and I just paid
for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's
not working. He said, he said, I just paid eighty
(41:44):
eight dollars and in New York I paid thirteen hundred dollars.
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
And so we're going to lower drug prices? What this is?
How he announces this?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Let me give him. Look, I mean, I'll give credit
words due. He he is focusing in on a series problem,
right problem, and it's like so like, I am so like.
I started taking uh some glue tide last year, which
which for those who don't know what that is, that's
(42:17):
basically like ozet bigger a week of a year that
bound or whatever fucking you know name. It's out there.
My insurance doesn't cover it because health insurance in this
country sucks ass. And I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
By the way, I'm googling what it costs here at
the Fromasia right downstairs from.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, I'm sure you are so so if I were
to buy my my my some glue side from Amazon,
like the brand name one, it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Would literally cost me what's what's your brand name? One?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Zet bound is what I'm is what I'm taking right, Okay,
So it would cost me literally one thousand dollars per
per vile, which lasts like maybe four to six weeks,
which is insane. Wow, I'm not despite Jay's you know,
the comments in recent episodes about like how wealthy I
apparently have an affluent.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Brad is a billion Brad's the guy he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, it's true, it's not working, but so mean, it's
so mean for no reason. Just fight Jay's ascertations. I
do not have that kind of money to be spending
fucking ten thousand dollars a year on weight loss medication.
So I buy the compound version that my local pharmacy
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manufactures and cells, and even that is still like one
hundred and eighty dollars per per vile.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Essentially, is that like, like how much is a vile? Like?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Is it? Like I said, it's like four to six weeks.
It's it's like, uh, what is what is probably the dosage?
Because my dosage is twenty five millileaters. So if it
lasts six weeks, that's that's like one hundred and fifty
milli leaders essentially.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Okay, I don't know. I don't know what this particular
one is. Yeah, it's here. I don't know how long
this would last, but here it's like like one. I
guess it's like one eighty.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
And that's and that's probably for like the brand name.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Right though, No, that's ozempic. Yeah, like that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
That's what I'm saying, Like like I'm getting like the
fucking like great value version.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Of stuff, Joe six packs ozempic, Like what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Which which still which still worse? Like it's just.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
A guy who yells at you like go run. You're like,
all right, well this is.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Right, yeah, but but but what what I'm paying for,
not brand name, is how much it costs in Mexico
apparently to buy like the real shit.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Holy shit, dude, it's a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
It's that's fucking bananas. Okay, so yeah, wow, holy shit,
that's really Look, man, if you want me to smuggle someone.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Across the border, well I might need to because because apparently,
like the pharmaceutical companies got an injunction in the US
over the companies that are selling the compound versions because
they have patents on this ship. So they're so apparently
that's that gravy train is ending soon. So yeah, I
might have to give you a look.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Like here's some pass. Just bring me as much rosimpic
as you can, right, right, But so so so this
is a problem. Look, however, it's in fair. It is
a problem, right. The problem the larger issue large is
how like how Republicans deal with anything, especially in the
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era of Trump. Trump is like, hey, man, drug prices
are fucking too high. They need to lower. They're giving
they're giving like a ninety day like moratorium to the
drug companies. I mean, like, you bet a lower the
fucking prices in ninety days, motherfuckers, Like that's that's it, right,
or we're coming. I'm sorry. Is this the same Republican
(46:09):
party that when Kamala Harris said that she wants to
she wants to deal with price price gouging, these people
are like, we have the freedom to get screwed by companies.
That's our freedom. You're ring in capitalism. But now Donald
Trump says we're just going to lower drug prices by
FIAT and they're like, no fucking hell.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, we said as you said earlier. Is this the
same White House who threw the guard who threw out
the Biden executive order that capped insulin prices on Medicare
at thirty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yes. Yeah. On January twentieth, the very first day in office,
I might could not wait to do it right. President
Trump resented several binariw drug pricing policies, including Executive Order
fourteen seven excuse me one four zero eight seven, which
had directed the Department of Health and Human Services to
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explore new payment models to lower drug price or drug
costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. However, it's important to
note that key revisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Inflation
Reduction Act, such as the thirty five monthly insulin cap
and medical Medicare's authority to negotiate certain drug prices, remain
in effect. So I would like to just point out
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when people are like drug prices are too high, he
rescinded them, causing prices to go back up to where
they were before Joe Biden was president. You're bitching and
complaining about it, and now here he comes to solve
a problem he created, which is a very Donald Trump thing,
and he's not even doing it in a way that
makes sense. He's just we're just gonna make the prices lower.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Right, So basically what he's doing is he's is he
this executive order requires drug companies to sell direct to
consumer at most most favored nation price points. So basically,
whatever the lowest price they sell to a country is,
that's the price that he wants it sold direct to
Americans from the drug companies. I don't know how you
(48:13):
plan on enforcing that, Yeah, with good luck to you.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yeah. So this is an executive order, so it's not
a law. There is nothing that the drug companies have
to follow. They can just do it if they're if
they're scared, so then what so when they don't do it,
what happens?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well then well then then he's saying that if they
don't listen, then RFK Junior is gonna propose a rule
making plan to impose most Favored nation pricing. Again, to
your point, unless you pass a law, you're accomplishing not
much of.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
Anything, right, But again, okay, I hate to you.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
You might you might be able to do it through
Medicare and medicaid. That's about the only control that the exactly.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But they already have, they already have the right, but
they already have they already have the ability to negotiate
drug prices. Right, he did not you kill that? Here's
my thing. I hate saying this because it actually might
give them an idea. You could probably get Democrats on
board for this, sure, right, you could. This is this
(49:21):
is actually if you didn't try to do this by
FIAT and just said, hey, let's draft some legislation, reasonable
legislation that said, hey, this fucking favorite nation. Fucking shit,
it needs to be this price. Democrats are not going
to go out on a limit say no and not
help that pass, because that's going to help people for real.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
But here's the.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Thing that I know will happen. They're not actually going
to do the work because they don't believe in that.
So they would rather win on style points and accomplish
nothing than to actually sit down and do something and
get Democrats to come along and get a real win.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Will here's what you need to know. Here's here's here's fun.
Donald Trump's been in office the second time around, for
almost four months.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
Guess so many executive orders he signed this go around already.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
I don't know, it's over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
One hundred, one hundred and fifty at this point. Get
so many bills he signed into law. M maybe like
two sounds zero. It sounds zero, but you needs one hand, right,
I was gonna say two or three. It's five five, Okay,
that's it. Yeah, you have control of all of Congress.
Like but yeah, because they're not good at governing. They're
(50:33):
bomb throwers, that's what they're really good at their But
also to your point, he's not interested in Congress doing
it because then he can't get the credit. That's right,
that's all he fucking wants.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
The funny thing is he could still get credit. You
came out and you're like, my fat friend is not
working or whatever. I went to Congress. Congress did it?
I sign the thing, Just fucking sign the thing. Who cares? Right,
But he would rather win on style points than to
do the work. This is one of the great moments
in politics that you could absolutely trap your opponents because
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they do actually believe in trying to lower drug prices.
You could trap them and get the win. But fundamentally,
the Republican Party is so in bed with drug companies
ripping the shit out of fucking the American public, they're
never gonna do it. So Donald Trump says this thing,
I signed an executive order. Look what I did. Most
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people who don't know jack shit will go, he fucking
did it. They'll look at their drug prices. They'll be
exactly the same, and they'll go, he fucking did it.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
They don't know right, they're not paying, they're not paying attention,
or they you know, cognitive dissonance. They just fucking just
allow themselves to believe an objective lie. And then Congress
will do nothing, and then mid terms will come up
and Democrats will go, hidn't do shit, And they'll go,
it's not an executive order, baby, Like, that's got to
mean something. But it doesn't mean anything. Yeah, he doesn't
(51:55):
mean anything because they're not in the business of doing
the work. So no, I'm not. I'm not a person
of like, oh, they're gonna do it. They're not gonna
do it. When I saw this story, I didn't even
bother reading it because they're not gonna do it. They're
not gonna do ship. They're not gonna do shit. Also, look,
maybe I will change the Uh, I'll change the link
(52:17):
so that you guys can see Donald Trump is standing
in the story. Donald Trump is surrounded on both sides
by RFK Junior and uh doctor oz Doctor oz has
dyed his hair blonde so that he can fit in
with Donald Trump. I just want to point that out.
(52:39):
That's very weird.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And Jay had to point this out to me because
I saw like a picture of doctor Ozma was like,
oh wow, he's gone even grayer. Uh since he ran
for Senate. Nope, that is a that is a bad
a bad die job. Just as I told, as I
said before the show, like if you're gonna do that,
like you can't go halfway. You gotta you gotta apply
(53:03):
the bronzer, you gotta you gotta do it all like
like like the reason it works for Trump is because
he's got the contrast in colors there, like like it
doesn't work if you if you go full tow head,
like that's not gonna that's not gonna enough.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
That's not enough. Yeah, you got you gotta go, you
gotta go all in. I just find it. I just
find these guys to be bizarre to me, like just
really bizarre individuals that would think that this makes sense.
But they don't do that. They don't do the work.
They don't of course the work. They don't do the work.
All right, that is it for this mini episode. It's
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really weird because we're like getting on a roll here, but.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
We we we didn't. We didn't. We're not doing the work.
Worst off theah.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
But yeah, we're done. We're out of here. So we
will be back on Monday with another little mini episode.
So we will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Let's se yeah, fe
Hello, Welcome to a brand new episode of Look for
And I'm your host, Jay. I'm here with my co
host Brad.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Mean. Look, all right, everyone who's listened to TNP Studios
programming over the past twelve years knows I am a
fan of pedantry. I am a pedant myself, sometimes with
(00:47):
very specific things. But even I don't think we need
to drag ourselves down in the discourse of what constitutes
a literal bribe versus what is just like something that
looks improper but is probably maybe fine.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Well, and this is why you'll never work for the
New York Times.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
That's why I've never worked for the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Thank God, you're not a gigantic asshole. But before we
get into all of that, I do want to do
so a little bit of inside baseball kind of information here.
So this episode is going to be like forty five minutes,
which is much shorter for our listeners that they're used to.
It is on purpose. Okay, we're going to do a
mini show today. We are recording Monday, May twelfth. This
(01:32):
will come out on May thirteenth on Tuesday, and then
we will be recording another mini episode on Thursday of
this week that will release on the following Monday. The
reason we're doing that is because we have to change
because of me, because I've got some shit going on
in my personal life. We have to change our show
release day, right, and the episode has been coming out
(01:53):
too late because I've got work stuff and everything else.
So we didn't want to leave you guys with nothing
this week and then start next week with the with
the new release dates. So we're gonna record twice, but
instead of trying to do two two hour shows, which
is insane, we're just gonna cut one show, cut it
up in half. So enjoy this little mini show. Know that,
(02:16):
then in a couple of days, on Monday, that'll be
another mini show. If you are a premium or excuse me,
if you're a free listener, full forty five minutes of
both shows will be available to you right starting on
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and so then normal episodes will come out every Monday. Okay,
so just a little inside baseball, This show is gonna
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be short. Expect another short one on Monday, and then
everything is back to normal. All right, So let's get
into it. This episode, this mini episode brought to you
by corruption.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Just out the open, just vakedly, like not even fucking
trying to hide it at all, as I told you earlier,
Like that. That's the part that's kind of still still
shocking to me, is just just the degree to which
they're just they're just doing it out there and being like,
and you have a problem with this, you're the fucking idiot,
(03:12):
and and you're just like, why are you surprised about this?
And I'm just like, because because Jay, I like my
grifters to at least have the token appearance of trying
to keep it, keep it under wraps. Yeah, do that
for me.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah, No, that party is over right, Like they they
are blatant about the corruption, and they're blatant about this
sort of scamming. And we're obviously going to talk about
the luxury gift jet that Donald Trump has been given
by the Qatari government. But they also are weird. You
and I were talking about this offline, like they're really
weird about denying reality. Like, if you're gonna be so
(03:54):
blatant about it, just fucking lean into it, don't talk
to me like I don't see what's happening, Like that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
That's the thing you said they are. They're like like
Trump's out there like oh like like yeah, a fucking nerd,
Like of course I would take this, Like why the
funk wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
I I'm corrupt.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I'm that's what yeah, and and and and again in
reality kind of smart that that's the method that he's
taking because the current media market like like like the
like the mainstream market turns out really dumb and they're
willing to to meet him halfway on this like oh,
(04:31):
you know, like Democrats say that this viole and like no,
Democrats don't say it. It's a fact, Like it's a
fact that honestly, if he were to accept this jet
that it would be a huge violation of the Emolument's clause.
But they they have to frame and it's like, well,
you know, one side says this and the other side
says that, like no, you can just you can just
(04:53):
say what it is.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah, I don't. I don't like when when they do
that like that that it's like the uh remember when
John Stewart interviewed that one like state senator or something
like that, or state representative, you're talking about control and
the guys like Stuart's like, what is the number one?
Cause right, he's like, oh, you're gonna say He's like, no,
(05:15):
don't say it, Like that's an opinion, that's a fact,
Like fuck you, dude, Like you're trying to do the
thing which is what they do, which is well democrats
say no, democrats are just quoting the law man. Like
you can't just pretend that that's an opinion.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I will say, like I said, if you've never seen
that it was an Oklahoma state senator that John Stewart
was interviewing, embarrassed perhaps in a long media career, perhaps
John Stewart's like finest moment in reality, Like like he
had the perfect amount of indignance with that fucking guy
(05:49):
and let him know it, and that dude looked very
uncomfortable getting berated by John Stewart.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
I mean, yeah, it is, and it is wild to
say that that might be his finest moment, but I
don't think you're wrong. Like it's like everyone watching that
is like like, dude, get off the TV, for the
love of guy, just get off the TV.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Like run away.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Yeah, we're like we're laughing at you, but also I
feel sorry to watch a man be literally destroyed on television.
I can't stop watching it, but like, yikes, so I
do want to read a little bit. This is a
weird document. A lot of people have never heard of it.
The Constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Okay, this is this is this is this is news
to me. What is this all about? Yeah, it's just
like it's just like how good the United States is
at like at not taking damage like when they get hit.
That that's the Constitution. That I that's that's a stat
that you want to dump a lot of a lot
of points into to make sure that you stay stamping America.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Plus twenty on Constitution, Yeah, which minus five on history
and minus five on it.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Right, yeah, right, right, right now, we're rolling a lot
of net ones on Constitution. Under stand by meeting.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
So Article one, Section nine, Clause eight quote. No title
of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and
no person holding any office or of profit or trust
under them shall without consent of Congress, except of any
present emolument, office, or title of any kind, whatever, from
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a king, prince, or foreign state. Meaning federal officials cannot
accept gifts, payments, or titles from foreign governments without the
approval from Congress. This is meant to prevent foreign influence
of US leaders. Getting a jet from the Qatari government
is not okay? Is not okay. By the way, there's
(07:44):
been no vote in Congress about this. There's been no vote, Like,
there's been nothing.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And he's just like, yeah, I'm not not just not
just a jet a four hundred million dollars like Jumbo
seven forty seven. And you're asking, like, why does he
need this? Apparently like Air Force one is being taken
out of commission because it needs like upgrades or updates
or whatever. So and it's gonna be out, which is nice.
(08:09):
That's yeah, which is whatever. Fortunately there's a second plane
uh in the in the fucking uh the hangar that
you can use. Uh maybe it make it might make
it difficult for jad vans to get around a little
bit here and there, But that's he can drive. Like
like who gives a shit, like like like we're finding is.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
That a marine one? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Like who gets like like it doesn't fucking matter. And
and I just I pointed out the four hundred and
forty million dollar aspect because that dollar amount I saw
earlier today is seventeen times more then Republicans alleged the
(08:52):
Biden family got from like Bearisma and China and all
these other stuff that was such a tragic uh violation
of norms and laws and and and procedures that we
had to have all fucking Senate subcommittee.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I had to apparently see uh Joe Biden's sons
dick several times.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
According to like like like that that was bad and
and apparently it was when and and if I recall correctly,
Joe Biden wasn't even in fucking office at the time
that he received these fucking gifts or whatever.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That is right, that is correct. He was vice so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean he wasn't president, okay, so but but okay,
so he was in office then. But still like like stop,
the press is like this is corruption on the highest degree. Hey,
the Katari is when he give Donald Trump a four
hundred million dollars playing nothing to see here. He's a
president of his friend.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Baby is like, hey that dollar jet. Of course. Now
look here's the here's the funny thing about this. This
is a Boeing jet right, like so it was not
like made like in you know, in Qatar or whatever. Right,
irrelevant because because it's coming from the Qatari government, it's
(10:10):
coming from Qatar. Is there is there a terriff on that,
Like what what is the like, I mean, people are
asking these very I think, yeah, so, but in all honesty,
him accepting this gift, it was like, well, that's weird
and blatantly corrupt and not okay. And then people made
the the other point of like, surely this thing is
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going to have like listening devices on it and everything else.
Maybe it will, maybe it won't. If I had to
make a bet.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
I mean, that's that's that's the other part of it, right,
like like the thing that's not being said enough. I'm like, hey,
there there there's a famous story about accepting massive gifts
of large suh from a from from a foreign from
a foreign state.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
It's just just this thing, the Katari trojan horse, Like
could this be an yeah, like fucking just just they
should paint a horse on the side and see if
he gets I don't know, like what are these guys
doing in here? Like it's but it's really a fucking
weird thing, right, because Okay, you're accepting this and look
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to people's point, yeah, they could be listening devices. Look,
make no mistake, this is a national security issue. So
they're going to rip the plane down to the fucking
bare bones to make sure there's nothing in it, of course, right,
like it would be stupid for them not to unless
Donald Trump is like, I don't want to wait, just
get that thing in the fucking air, which I could
totally see.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
By the way, which he will do, which he will
will do. Yes.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
So but let's say that he has some level of
the fucking wherewithal to allow the the fucking CI or
the you know, like the FBI or CIA or whoever
would be in charge of that someone in the DJ
to rip the thing down make sure it's you know,
it's clear what amount of millions of dollars does that
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cost to rip all the shit out and then put
it all back, Because it's not it's not as if
whatever they send, even if you're talking about okay, they
don't have to rip it down to make sure they're
no secret microphones or what have you. It's not set
up for the presidency like no plane is. Those planes
are very specific in how they're set up. Certain conference
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rooms got to be there, certain you know, I'm sure
you know security setups for like it's basically a mobile
skiff and all this sorther shit. It's got to have
a bunch of other things. That's why we don't get
it from somewhere else. We get it from the Boeing
factory where they go make it X y z and
then they send it over and then the government still
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goes through and does other things, like you're never going
to get a plane.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
They don't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
I know, maybe this is hard for Donald Trump to understand,
but like you don't buy the fucking plane off the
wreck like your shitty suits. Okay, like you get it
custom done, right. I know it's really hard for him
to understand that. But like there's going to be an
extra amount of cause you are just driving up set
cost by getting it from a foreign government, which already
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seems like a real bad idea, like it just on
its face. Also, you better hope that thing doesn't fall
out of the fucking sky on purpose or not. I'm
just saying, like.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, you know, I was gonna say, like the Kataris
do have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever,
but you know that's besides the point. But here, but
here's the thing. Jay I would argue that the Kataris
don't necessarily need to roll a trojan horse into Washington,
d c U to get the details on the Trump administration.
(13:48):
So one of the you know, things that kind of
has to pass the muster here is dj has to
weigh on at this because, of course, like you mentioned,
Themayum's clause is a thing, and d OJ of course
there they are the top lawyers. They know the law
inside and out, and they've determined that it's actually totally
cool and not a problem that Donald Trump accepts his plane.
It will violate no laws or anything like that. Important
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to note that the head of the DOJ, Pam Bondi,
the current Attorney General, was a Qatari lobbyist in the
past couple of years, earning over one hundred thousand dollars
a month from the Qatari government.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Rice.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Yeah, nice work. If you can get it right, that
ain't bad.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Can I read you a quote that I think is
pretty fucking interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
From twenty twelve, Qatar hosted the Hamas party leadership when
Hama's head relocated from Syria to Qatar. The former head
of Hamas has resided in Doha since twenty sixteen until
his death in twenty twenty four. Quote. Qatar has been
called Hamas's most important financial backer and foreign ally. But again,
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please feel free hop on that plane, my guy. I'm
sure everything.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Well. Either that or they're hoping that all of a sudden,
the US hardline support stance of Israel. Maybe something's a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
I wouldn't bang on that, but you're gonna hop in
a plane given to you by Hamas's largest financial backer
and foreign ally. Look, I know the woman from ABC
went on, you know she was. She asked President like, hey,
the fuck, bro, like what are you doing? And he
got all pissed off at her and was like, oh,
(15:41):
ABC sucks and didn't address anything she said, right, which
was a valid question she had. However, this point, this
might be it, Hey, man, you really don't like Hamas. Uh,
you guys don't really fuck with Hamas like that. You're
doing all this financial acting of Israel taking on Hamas.
(16:05):
Qatar is Hamas's number one for an ally. Is that
not a national security concern for you to take a
jet from them? I bet he doesn't know this. I
bet he doesn't know I bet no one from him
to Pam BONDI none of these motherfuckers have googled this shit.
They're like, we might have made a mistake, we might
(16:26):
have made a sake. They're keep in mind, by the way,
and this is not I'm not trying to see it
any sort of conspiracy theory, but these are facts. Iran
has been reported as trying to do assassination attempts, trying
to figure out assassination attempts on Donald Trump. Again, why
are you getting a plane from people who are aligned
(16:50):
with people who are aligned against you? That feels like
a really bad fucking idea. Again, I'm not here to
tell you not to get on the plane. I'd like
you to get on it tomorrow. But I just find
it really weird, like his greed very well, maybe his
undoing like that this is.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Will shock you to learn, but I'm pretty sure that
it didn't get any further in his brain than oh,
someone wants to give me a real big plane and
that was it. Yeah, now they are what they are saying.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I disagree. Actually, okay, it does go further than that,
and we'll talk about that story.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, just after this, they're uh. Now, they are also
saying that after he is not president anymore. It will
be donated to the Trump Presidential Library. I don't know
how write a massive plane to a to a presidential library.
But okay, just just warning everyone now I'm gonna see
(17:48):
the ground for you and predict the future. Don't be
surprised when that doesn't happen and he just fucking uses
the plane.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
He will. They will give it to the library, and
the library will say, yes, you're allowed to just fl
That's well, who cares? Who cares? Here? Here, I'll see
this ground. I don't know if if any of this
will Maybe people live long enough to ever fly on
that plane after.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I mean that would be fantastic. That would be fantastic. Yeah, Like,
are they going to build like a fucking runway like
at the Presidential Library so that the plane can take off?
Is just gonna fucking be decommissioned and fucking sit there.
But what's gonna happen? Yeah? Right? The fun Will people
be able to go into the plane and take a tour?
Maybe maybe maybe the plane will be either musy or
(18:40):
the library.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah maybe inside well, they like it doesn't have a
lot of space for books. I mean in this library,
what's in this library? What's in this library?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Gold, gold, toilets, enemies list, uh that you.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Can read while sitting on a toilet, of course naturally.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Like like like just just a fucking line of sharpies,
but like the real thick ones that stink like it's
just it's just like that. Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
It's gonna be amazing. Like somehow I remember thinking, surely
there will be nothing in the the GW. Bush Library.
I bet that thing is fucking stocked with real comparative
to what the fuck is in the Trump.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Oh, they'll they'll probably be like a kiosk where you
can just buy meme coins, like right there, like in
the fucking library. He's probably can't sell it, but you
can buy it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You can buy that's right, You've got a hold.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I have to imagine whatever his library ends up being.
It's just a grift, right, Like it's just it's just
there to make money. There is no there, You're learning
nothing about the guy. You had a great golf swing anyway,
give us fifty dollars, like it'll be like one hundred
dollars to enter for some reason. Why why They'll have
(20:05):
like the virtual golf machine set up where you try
to like out drive Donald Trump or something like that.
What's what's the what's the golf game? What is it?
Golden tea, golden tea.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Yeah, the Trump building with that in it, the Trump
it'll it'll be the first of it's guy in the
Trump Presidential Library and theme park, Like it'll be a
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Oh my god. I hope it's not. I hope that.
I hope they build it and then it just gets
fucking detonated. It's like, blow it up.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
This is useless.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
So okay. So here's a coincidence, Brad, purely coincidence.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
This happened a couple of weeks ago. I will point
out for the record, but it is it is weird
that this happened a couple of weeks ago and all
of a sudden, Donald Trump's getting a jet.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Mmmm, go for it, go ahead?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Yeah, So uh unbeknown stuf us because this one of
the radarc is like, I'm not trying to pay attention
to the comings and goings of the Trump organization in
this day and age.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
But they have.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Signed an agreement with the Katari government UH to build
a golf course and resorts any guitar.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
For five point five billion with a b dollars. Oh,
I'm sure it had nothing. I'm sure it had nothing
to do with this nothing nothing.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Yeah, good, good, good thing. Uh. Donald Trump completely divested
himself of dealings with the with the Trump organization. Otherwise
this could this could look really suspect, especially in the
way of being given a gift of a half a
billion dollar plant.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Well, as he said in his little press conference, uh,
in his little tent of hate, Hey, um, some famous
golfer that nobody gives a fuck about because that's all
he cares about. One said, if some money gives you
a putt, you just take that putt. And that's the
lesson you guys can learn. Okay, what does that have
(22:06):
to do with you violating the emoluments claws? Like so, yeah, no,
so a five point five billion dollar golf resort and
that gets done, and then all of a sudden, here
comes this free plane.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Okay, I mean, I mean again and again. Like there's
some people out there that I mentioned at the top
of the show they're getting real pedantic about, like, well,
it's not actually bribery because there's no clear quick poke
quote Like okay, sure there's no clear one. But I'm sure,
but again, like these two stories being in sequence with
each other, sure seems like a real big coincidence. Putting
that aside, forget forget a plane, right, Like, let's assume
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the Katari government somehow caught wind of the look forward
to Political podcast and they're like, man, we really like
the cut of these guys. Jib. We're gonna give TNP
Studios one hundred thousand dollars and if we accepted that money.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Now fuck that crank that money. Oh come on man, whatever,
I want to get millions?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Yeah, whatever, a million dollars. And if we accept that money,
would you trust what we have to say about the
Katari government? It would be weird because all of a sudden,
like our coverage of Qatar would probably like flip on
it change, like.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Coverage whatsoever. We don't talk about like, by the way,
did you guys know like we just give Qatar fasts
every episode for thirty just reading from there like.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Oh yeah, but but yeah, you rightfully would be like wow,
fuck these guys, like like I didn't trust them at
all this ship. Yeah, this is why, like you shouldn't
fucking trust anything that the President's gonna do either, because
he's been given a big fucking plane, or at least
that's that's the plane.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yeah, look this is not on the docket. But this
is also we did not deal with this. But you know,
the Trump family also is doing this crypto venture thing
that is basically a two billion dollar investment deal bribe
(24:15):
from from the from the Emirates. Right, an Abu Dhabi
state backed investment firm is making a major two billion
dollar investment in a crypto business deal that could serve
as a major boost for the Trump family Crypto Venture
World Liberty Financial. So this shit is fucking unbelievable. Uh.
(24:41):
They are basically just dumping two billion dollars in a
like through Binance, right, which is partially like it's partially
owned by what is it not LUTNX, the other dude
like his son or whatever is Yeah, like his son
(25:02):
runs runs that. So they're dumping the two billion dollars
into finance and basically using that as a proxy to
get a good portion of that to the Trumpetman the
Trump family. Yeah, it's it's a fucking insane just straight
up scam, Like just a straight up scam. And everyone's like, yeah, no,
(25:23):
that seems fine. So the guy for The New York Times,
Which quid pro or quote do you need? Like, what
do you need? Like, there is nothing worse than people
who are so focused on, like on paper definitions that
they cannot see that the world is moving and changing
that they just they're like, I'm waiting for Chuck Schumer
does this. I'm waiting for the paper definition of a
(25:46):
you know, constitutional crisis. There's one happening with an earshot
of you, Chuck, like razor right, just raise your head
from the paper, dude. It's like, well, it's got ninety
nine point nine percent of the things here, but I'm
still waiting on understanding and the other point one percent
to come to light. Well that part's the corruption part
(26:07):
that they're never gonna tell you about. Well, there's no
way for me to know, like you know, it's like,
come on, man, Like I hate to be that where
there's smoke, there's fire, but like the house is on fire,
there's fire, Like what the fuck are right?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
And it's not and and like like when we say
connect the dots, like it's not like you have to
go to this like Nixon era asks fucking board with
the red string and stuff like that. It's like a
connect the dots puzzle where you just have to follow
the numbers and draw the lines in between. You just
make the ways like it's like like, it's not it's
not fucking difficult. And if we said it before in
(26:39):
this podcast, and we have and we've probably said it
dozens of times, it still remains as relevant today as
it ever was. They made Jimmy Carter sell his fucking
feet out far yeah, and mind long ago.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yeah, and look one, it's not that long ago too.
Never forget that that motherfucker Donald Trum literally stood in
front of folders, hundreds of hundreds of folders with blank
sheets of paper in them and said that his divestment
information it was not it was nothing.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
You know, I'm really upset that folders of blank paper
that didn't exceed binders of women in like the public
consciousness like that.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I'm telling you, man, if I was, if I was
in that room, I would have just prepped. I would
have done a pret fall right into those blank they're blank. Yeah,
like it's all bullshit. The Emperor has no clothes, like
it's it's just nonsense. But yeah, this two billion dollar
cryptocurrency scam is maybe one of the most corrupt, blatant
(27:45):
things he's done. But then again that came out before
the plane thing, and then like oh in the golf course,
like at a certain point, like this has gotten so
bad that even Laura Lumer was like, bro, this doesn't
look good. Even she said this, and she's insane, Like
why am I on the same side with Laura Lumer?
(28:05):
This like old hatchet Face.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Is and you're you're you're in Rand Paul's score ship. Yeah,
so much like much like much like Ted Cruz, like
Rand Paul is like you know, you know, like once
a year he comes out and it's like, yeah, you know,
Rand Paul's making a good point. This is the only
(28:28):
time you're getting credit this whole year. Ted Cruise also
gets one of those sometimes too. Yeah, he has he
has a lucid moment where he like says something about
like actually, you know, like we we really should look
at regulating AI and I'm like, holy ship, like like
what happened.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
And he's like, yeah, we should use AI to make
sure people can't see what kind of porn I'm watching
them up. Yeah, Like that's really like you just gotta go,
you gotta go one wrong down it's like, ah, there's
old That guy sucks. Yeah, it's it is unbelievable. Yeah,
critics say Trump's luxury jet from Katar violates the constitution.
(29:03):
It's not critics, it's the constitution that says it, Like,
stop doing that, stop writing fucking bullet headlines like that. Yes,
it's the constitution that says it. It's not the critics. No,
it should be critics point out Donald Trump is breaking
the constitution, you know by accepting this jet. Stop saying
critics like, yeah, the founding fathers? Are those the critics
that you're talking about the ghost of Thomas Jefferson. Yeah,
(29:28):
it's just just unbelievable. So let's move on from there.
This story is uh and this is our last. Oh no,
I'm sorry, we're doing the tar rollback. Let's talk about
the terrors. Yeah they're up. Pause pause.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah. Turn turns out that despite the protestations of the
current president, every American company not shipping their goods holding
them in China was gonna have pretty catastrophic implications down
the road. And so they finally got with the Chinese
government and they have rolled the They put a pause
(30:07):
on the reciprocal tariffs. They have rolled them back from
one hundred and forty five percent to thirty percent, which
is still insane. I will point out for the record,
in the general term of things, to just have a
flat thirty percent tariff on anything coming out of China
still stupid, but it's certainly not one hundred and forty
(30:27):
five percent. And China has in kind taken their tariffs
down from one hundred and twenty five percent down to
ten percent on goods coming from the US to China.
But it's only a ninety day pause, So who the
fuck knows where we're going to be come August when
this extension supposedly runs out. I know that again, my company,
(30:54):
much like probably every other company, is going to use
this window to try to get as much shit as
we can sees right, which which again is gonna is
gonna send container pricing skyrocketing, So you know you're don't. Basically,
what I'm saying is like, if a company has raised
prices in response to these tariffs, don't expect them to
go down in the wake of this news. However, the
(31:15):
stock market believes that good tidings are on the horizon
and jump back up to I think like forty two
thousand points in the doubts.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And er something like that, Look, this is this is nonsense.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Yeah, what's stupid is what this is?
Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah, it is because it solves nothing, it doesn't it.
I like that he's using he's using tariffs. He's using
the same method with tariffs that he's using for TikTok,
which is just keep kicking the can down the road.
We're gonna ben it now. We're not gonna we're gonna
do tars one hundred now.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Maybe, but but instead of but instead of two app
stores who are sitting here, like, what the fuck is
gonna happen? Every American company is that that that sells
goods and that sells goods are like what the fuck
is gonna happen? Right?
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And cannot they can't weather these kind of jump ups
and jump downs, like they like, it's not you. You
can't if you buy some widget that helps your business run,
you cannot afford to be like it's one hundred and
forty five percent, it's thirty percent, it's thirty percent, one
hundred four, Like you can't run a business like that,
Like you cannot handle those kind of fluctuations, where then
(32:24):
what you have to blow extra money in buying these
products because you're trying to do it before the ninety
days happens. But then the ninety days gets here, does
the can get kicked down the road again? And you
have all this inventory.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
And by the way, that's if that's if the product
lands within the ninety day window. As we talked about
it in the past three weeks, it takes time from
shit to get exact china on the boat over here.
So like, and and there's going to be a logjam
now because everyone is gonna be trying to get shit
at the same time. So like, you better hope that
(32:57):
if you get your shit, it gets here before that
ninety days thing expires, because who the fuck knows what
he's gonna do in ninety days time or even before
because again, this ship changes weekly right with this administration, And.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
There was there was also a report that there were
quite literally no container ships leaving for California. Yeah, like
the other day they they said they have not seen
that since COVID. Yeah. So to your point, even if
you're even if you're dropping a pause on these tariffs,
(33:32):
things don't restart that fast, like, and when they do,
you're going to have bottlenecks. And you're also if you're
a small business, you're kind of fucked because of those bottlenecks,
because who do you think is gonna get priority? You
think Nike is gonna get priority, or you know, Jane's
Widgets emporium. Right, like Nike, who is spending you know,
(33:53):
a billion dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars, is
definitely getting a priority on those container ships. You are not.
So if you're a small business and you depend on
the stage, you're in a world of trouble. And by
the way, you don't even have to be a small business,
just a medium sized business, right like, you're in a
world of trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
And then, by and by the way, it's important to
note that while they did roll back to terrafs, what
they did not roll back was the removal of the
Dominicus exception. So now so again like all these drop
ship packages are still going to get hit with with
import fees coming in where they didn't before, and that's
still pretty important as well.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Interesting, Yeah, I didn't know that. So yeah, him cutting
these these these terriffs, by the way, this is this
is a this is a loss for him. This is
yet another loss. Yeah, yeah, China said they're fine.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
And and they will be fine. Like the only reason
that they back down is trust me. I people are like, oh,
like they agreed. No, the US blink first, They're like, hey,
we've made it a fucking devastating mistake. And China's it's like, yeah,
you're gonna back down. We'll back down ours Like this
isn't they.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Don't hurt us.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
We'd like to make money, right, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
But ultimately it doesn't hurt them, right because you, yes,
the United States is a huge market. And that's that's
basically Trump's thought, right, United States is a huge market.
China wants to sell us a bunch of stuff. They do,
but they know that they can hold out and sell
stuff around the world around you, and they know your
citizenry will not stand for empty shelves and kids not
(35:28):
being able to have dolls and all that. They won't
stand for that. Americans have gotten incredibly spoiled in their
rabbit consumerism. This is a fact, right, you can't just
take that that culture that has existed I would argue
since the forties, right, like really, and I don't mean
(35:49):
that China do the manufacturer. I mean just rabbit consumerism.
Like really since like the nineteen forties all the way
up to now, that can it's gotten.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Post World War two, absolutely like it.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Right, we had a ton of money. We were just
like this massive you know, superpower, you know economy. So
post World War Two all the way to present, Americans
have just been spending more and more and more and
more and more money on these kind of on these
you know, on all these goods, and then credit came
(36:21):
into play and then they spent even more. So then
it's going to exponentially higher than that China can just
China can still sell to everyone else, dude, But do
you think there're you think there's no fucking walmarts in
Canada or wherever the fuck of course, So they're gonna
sell all of their ship to wherever wherever they want.
American citizens are the big factor in why these tariffs
(36:45):
will not work, because Americans are not gonna go to
the store at Christmas time and be like, yo, there's
no dolls from my daughter on the shelf.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Well that's and that's and that's that is that is
the core problem is that this administration is kind of
like operating from this belief. It's like, oh, like America
is the only market, and it's like, no, we're the
most important market. But China literally sells to everybody and
it's a big fucking world and other people have money too.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah. I mean look again, do you think that China's like,
oh great, we get to lose the biggest market. No,
they're not happy about it. Will they survive? Yeah, because
they can hold out longer than we can. Again, yeah,
they're they're there, going we have this stuff, and American
citizens are like, we need this stuff and Trump is
standing in the middle like, no, you don't need it.
(37:35):
That doesn't fucking work. Have you met Americans before, like
do we love it?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
It would be it would be one thing, like if
you had like a great fucking plan in place to
reshure all these industries that you claim you want. Again,
as we talked about the show, it's not a good
idea to reshure a lot of the a lot of
the stuff that China is doing right now, that's the
industry you shouldn't want. But if you're like dead on it,
(38:00):
like if you have a plan to do it, I
can kind of see where you're coming from. His plan
is literally like the Field of Dreams plan like if
you stop the shipping, the manufacturing will come back. And
it's like, no, that's not how it.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
That's not how you need factories, you know, by the way,
you need to build factories, right, Like, that's a that's
a big point, and a lot of people have obviously
said that it made that point. You know, it's the
most obvious point. Here's a point I hadn't thought about
that I saw made about that. Where the fuck are
you gonna get the parts to build set factories? Dude, Like,
(38:34):
you have to go and get these things that you
don't have that you don't have the equipment to even
spin up factories because you're gonna have to then pull
this up. Which is why if you were going to
do this, which again I don't recommend it, but if
you were going to do it, you'd start building that
ship without announcing any tariffs. You just start building factories.
(38:54):
You would start talking to those companies like, listen, this
is what.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
We're gonna but you. But you can't because companies are
gonna because again rightfully, companies are gonna look at you
and be like, why the fuck would we do that? Exactly,
It's hardy chief enough as it is to get in
for Chia, Why am I gonna spend all this money
to fucking build a factory where I then have to
pay an American worker ten dollars an hour.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
To be livable. Wait right, going to Bangladesh where I
can pay people and a nickel and a half. And
if they still so much, just lop their hand off,
right whatever, Banana Republic, crazy shit you live in, right,
I mean, that's the one thing that's really bizarre. Like
corporations are like, yeah, we care about America too, and
you know we we love America. Then they go overseas
and they're like, make the kids work for us. It's
(39:34):
just like they don't believe in any of the ship there.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Well, well, again, they have the degree of separation because
they're not the bad guy. They're just contracting labor to
the factory, and the factory is the bad guy.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It's not us.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
It's you know, we don't we don't see. Uh, it
doesn't matter. But again, and and I'll put those so
they can't kill themselves. It doesn't get set enough. American
companies like did this to themselves. Like the American people
are the ones that are paying the price for it.
But y'all fucked yourself like like this, this is the
(40:07):
bed that y'all made, so you know, deealed it. But
that does not excuse the idiocy of the current administration. It,
you know, it does not flying by the seat of
their pants with all of our money in the balance,
essentially exactly.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
All right, So last story before we get out of here,
and this is this is my favorite one because it's
so fucking ridiculous. So I'm gonna play a clip. This
is how Trump introduced this idea of how they are going.
He's signing in an executive order to lower drug prices
by thirty to eighty percent. Okay, this is how he
(40:47):
let everyone know that's what's happening. I swear to god,
this is not AI. This is a real fucking press conference.
I love it. Has books behind.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
And I'll tell you a story.
Speaker 3 (40:56):
Friend of mine who's a business man, very very very
very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him,
a highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes
the fat the fat shot drug and he called me
up and he said President, he used to call me Donald.
(41:20):
Now he calls me president. So that's nice respect, But
it's the rough guy, smart guy, very successful, very rich.
I wouldn't even know how we would know this, but
because he's got comments the president, could I ask you
a question. What I'm in London and I just paid
for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's
not working. He said, he said, I just paid eighty
(41:44):
eight dollars and in New York I paid thirteen hundred dollars.
What the hell is going on?
Speaker 1 (41:51):
And so we're going to lower drug prices? What this is?
How he announces this?
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Let me give him. Look, I mean, I'll give credit
words due. He he is focusing in on a series problem,
right problem, and it's like so like, I am so like.
I started taking uh some glue tide last year, which
which for those who don't know what that is, that's
(42:17):
basically like ozet bigger a week of a year that
bound or whatever fucking you know name. It's out there.
My insurance doesn't cover it because health insurance in this
country sucks ass. And I can't wait.
Speaker 1 (42:31):
By the way, I'm googling what it costs here at
the Fromasia right downstairs from.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yeah, I'm sure you are so so if I were
to buy my my my some glue side from Amazon,
like the brand name one, it.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
Would literally cost me what's what's your brand name? One?
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Zet bound is what I'm is what I'm taking right, Okay,
So it would cost me literally one thousand dollars per
per vile, which lasts like maybe four to six weeks,
which is insane. Wow, I'm not despite Jay's you know,
the comments in recent episodes about like how wealthy I
apparently have an affluent.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Brad is a billion Brad's the guy he's talking about.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Yeah, it's true, it's not working, but so mean, it's
so mean for no reason. Just fight Jay's ascertations. I
do not have that kind of money to be spending
fucking ten thousand dollars a year on weight loss medication.
So I buy the compound version that my local pharmacy
(43:36):
manufactures and cells, and even that is still like one
hundred and eighty dollars per per vile.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Essentially, is that like, like how much is a vile? Like?
Speaker 2 (43:49):
Is it? Like I said, it's like four to six weeks.
It's it's like, uh, what is what is probably the dosage?
Because my dosage is twenty five millileaters. So if it
lasts six weeks, that's that's like one hundred and fifty
milli leaders essentially.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Okay, I don't know. I don't know what this particular
one is. Yeah, it's here. I don't know how long
this would last, but here it's like like one. I
guess it's like one eighty.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
And that's and that's probably for like the brand name.
Speaker 1 (44:20):
Right though, No, that's ozempic. Yeah, like that's yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
That's what I'm saying, Like like I'm getting like the
fucking like great value version.
Speaker 1 (44:30):
Of stuff, Joe six packs ozempic, Like what the fuck?
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Which which still which still worse? Like it's just.
Speaker 1 (44:36):
A guy who yells at you like go run. You're like,
all right, well this is.
Speaker 2 (44:39):
Right, yeah, but but but what what I'm paying for,
not brand name, is how much it costs in Mexico
apparently to buy like the real shit.
Speaker 1 (44:49):
Holy shit, dude, it's a thousand dollars.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
Yeah, it's nuts.
Speaker 1 (44:54):
It's that's fucking bananas. Okay, so yeah, wow, holy shit,
that's really Look, man, if you want me to smuggle someone.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Across the border, well I might need to because because apparently,
like the pharmaceutical companies got an injunction in the US
over the companies that are selling the compound versions because
they have patents on this ship. So they're so apparently
that's that gravy train is ending soon. So yeah, I
might have to give you a look.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Like here's some pass. Just bring me as much rosimpic
as you can, right, right, But so so so this
is a problem. Look, however, it's in fair. It is
a problem, right. The problem the larger issue large is
how like how Republicans deal with anything, especially in the
(45:44):
era of Trump. Trump is like, hey, man, drug prices
are fucking too high. They need to lower. They're giving
they're giving like a ninety day like moratorium to the
drug companies. I mean, like, you bet a lower the
fucking prices in ninety days, motherfuckers, Like that's that's it, right,
or we're coming. I'm sorry. Is this the same Republican
(46:09):
party that when Kamala Harris said that she wants to
she wants to deal with price price gouging, these people
are like, we have the freedom to get screwed by companies.
That's our freedom. You're ring in capitalism. But now Donald
Trump says we're just going to lower drug prices by
FIAT and they're like, no fucking hell.
Speaker 2 (46:32):
Yeah, we said as you said earlier. Is this the
same White House who threw the guard who threw out
the Biden executive order that capped insulin prices on Medicare
at thirty five dollars.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
Yes. Yeah. On January twentieth, the very first day in office,
I might could not wait to do it right. President
Trump resented several binariw drug pricing policies, including Executive Order
fourteen seven excuse me one four zero eight seven, which
had directed the Department of Health and Human Services to
(47:07):
explore new payment models to lower drug price or drug
costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. However, it's important to
note that key revisions in the Inflation Reduction Act Inflation
Reduction Act, such as the thirty five monthly insulin cap
and medical Medicare's authority to negotiate certain drug prices, remain
in effect. So I would like to just point out
(47:28):
when people are like drug prices are too high, he
rescinded them, causing prices to go back up to where
they were before Joe Biden was president. You're bitching and
complaining about it, and now here he comes to solve
a problem he created, which is a very Donald Trump thing,
and he's not even doing it in a way that
makes sense. He's just we're just gonna make the prices lower.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Right, So basically what he's doing is he's is he
this executive order requires drug companies to sell direct to
consumer at most most favored nation price points. So basically,
whatever the lowest price they sell to a country is,
that's the price that he wants it sold direct to
Americans from the drug companies. I don't know how you
(48:13):
plan on enforcing that, Yeah, with good luck to you.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yeah. So this is an executive order, so it's not
a law. There is nothing that the drug companies have
to follow. They can just do it if they're if
they're scared, so then what so when they don't do it,
what happens?
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well then well then then he's saying that if they
don't listen, then RFK Junior is gonna propose a rule
making plan to impose most Favored nation pricing. Again, to
your point, unless you pass a law, you're accomplishing not
much of.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
Anything, right, But again, okay, I hate to you.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
You might you might be able to do it through
Medicare and medicaid. That's about the only control that the exactly.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
But they already have, they already have the right, but
they already have they already have the ability to negotiate
drug prices. Right, he did not you kill that? Here's
my thing. I hate saying this because it actually might
give them an idea. You could probably get Democrats on
board for this, sure, right, you could. This is this
(49:21):
is actually if you didn't try to do this by
FIAT and just said, hey, let's draft some legislation, reasonable
legislation that said, hey, this fucking favorite nation. Fucking shit,
it needs to be this price. Democrats are not going
to go out on a limit say no and not
help that pass, because that's going to help people for real.
Speaker 2 (49:40):
But here's the.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Thing that I know will happen. They're not actually going
to do the work because they don't believe in that.
So they would rather win on style points and accomplish
nothing than to actually sit down and do something and
get Democrats to come along and get a real win.
Speaker 2 (49:57):
Will here's what you need to know. Here's here's here's fun.
Donald Trump's been in office the second time around, for
almost four months.
Speaker 1 (50:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (50:04):
Guess so many executive orders he signed this go around already.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
I don't know, it's over one hundred.
Speaker 2 (50:10):
One hundred, one hundred and fifty at this point. Get
so many bills he signed into law. M maybe like
two sounds zero. It sounds zero, but you needs one hand, right,
I was gonna say two or three. It's five five, Okay,
that's it. Yeah, you have control of all of Congress.
Like but yeah, because they're not good at governing. They're
(50:33):
bomb throwers, that's what they're really good at their But
also to your point, he's not interested in Congress doing
it because then he can't get the credit. That's right,
that's all he fucking wants.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
The funny thing is he could still get credit. You
came out and you're like, my fat friend is not
working or whatever. I went to Congress. Congress did it?
I sign the thing, Just fucking sign the thing. Who cares? Right,
But he would rather win on style points than to
do the work. This is one of the great moments
in politics that you could absolutely trap your opponents because
(51:06):
they do actually believe in trying to lower drug prices.
You could trap them and get the win. But fundamentally,
the Republican Party is so in bed with drug companies
ripping the shit out of fucking the American public, they're
never gonna do it. So Donald Trump says this thing,
I signed an executive order. Look what I did. Most
(51:27):
people who don't know jack shit will go, he fucking
did it. They'll look at their drug prices. They'll be
exactly the same, and they'll go, he fucking did it.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Right.
Speaker 1 (51:34):
They don't know right, they're not paying, they're not paying attention,
or they you know, cognitive dissonance. They just fucking just
allow themselves to believe an objective lie. And then Congress
will do nothing, and then mid terms will come up
and Democrats will go, hidn't do shit, And they'll go,
it's not an executive order, baby, Like, that's got to
mean something. But it doesn't mean anything. Yeah, he doesn't
(51:55):
mean anything because they're not in the business of doing
the work. So no, I'm not. I'm not a person
of like, oh, they're gonna do it. They're not gonna
do it. When I saw this story, I didn't even
bother reading it because they're not gonna do it. They're
not gonna do ship. They're not gonna do shit. Also, look,
maybe I will change the Uh, I'll change the link
(52:17):
so that you guys can see Donald Trump is standing
in the story. Donald Trump is surrounded on both sides
by RFK Junior and uh doctor oz Doctor oz has
dyed his hair blonde so that he can fit in
with Donald Trump. I just want to point that out.
(52:39):
That's very weird.
Speaker 2 (52:41):
And Jay had to point this out to me because
I saw like a picture of doctor Ozma was like,
oh wow, he's gone even grayer. Uh since he ran
for Senate. Nope, that is a that is a bad
a bad die job. Just as I told, as I
said before the show, like if you're gonna do that,
like you can't go halfway. You gotta you gotta apply
(53:03):
the bronzer, you gotta you gotta do it all like
like like the reason it works for Trump is because
he's got the contrast in colors there, like like it
doesn't work if you if you go full tow head,
like that's not gonna that's not gonna enough.
Speaker 1 (53:17):
That's not enough. Yeah, you got you gotta go, you
gotta go all in. I just find it. I just
find these guys to be bizarre to me, like just
really bizarre individuals that would think that this makes sense.
But they don't do that. They don't do the work.
They don't of course the work. They don't do the work.
All right, that is it for this mini episode. It's
(53:37):
really weird because we're like getting on a roll here, but.
Speaker 2 (53:39):
We we we didn't. We didn't. We're not doing the work.
Worst off theah.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
But yeah, we're done. We're out of here. So we
will be back on Monday with another little mini episode.
So we will see you guys next time.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
Let's se yeah, fe
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