Schrodinger’s Tariff (Trade War, Stock Market Falls, Protestors Arrested) | Ep405 - Look Forward - Progressive Political News

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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello, and welcome to a brand new episode of Look Forward.
I'm your host, Jay. I'm here with my co host Brad.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
I continue to hate it here, all right, fair enough.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Apropos of nothing, Brad. I love the fact that watching uh,
what is it SpaceX's ship explode.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
A rapid, unscheduled disassembly. Jay, let's not let's not uh,
let's call things what they are.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry if if those are the pronouns
you'd like to use, I know they're not pronoun I'm
not an idiot Republican. But watching the SpaceX ship disassemble
itself or maybe God did it is a perfect It
is emblematic of exactly what is happening to Elon's entire

(01:15):
empire of businesses this week and over the last what
six weeks? Wonderful, wonderful one.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
It's also a studying, a studying representation of the sort
of efficiency that an Elon Musk backed venture provides, as like,
literally every flight within a five hundred mile radius had
to be diverted and rerouted to avoid to avoid the
blast rapital immediately.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
So good job. We're not gonna talk a lot of
We're not gonna talk about SpaceX at all. We'll talk
about STARTLINGK actually this episode, but I do want to
mention something I saw which I thought was such a
good point. I had never thought about it. I saw
an interview, a quick interview with Neodograss Tyson, right, and
they were asking him like, hey, you can kind of

(02:00):
like said at one point, I think he's on Bill
Maher or something like you kind of said that going
to Mars, like Musk's idea to go to Mars, it's
kind of bullshit. And you know, you're a big dreamer.
Is that really fair? I think it was like Pierce
Morgan or some other fucking shud who asked him this,
and he's like, was that really fair? You're a big dreamer,
you know, like he supports like, hey, space exploration, like

(02:23):
go big, you know, that's the sort of thing. And
he's like, you, you know, you dream big. Why are
you kind of shitting on elon Musk's you know, dream
to go to Mars. He goes, Look, I think it's
great that he wants to go. That's awesome. And his
point and I've never heard anyone say this is brilliant.
He goes, here's the problem with going to Mars. If
you go to Mars, the only way humans can live
on Mars for an extended period of time, not just

(02:45):
like go and come back type of shit, go and
like actually inhabit the planet. It's to terraforming, right for
folks who don't know, terraforming would be to start trek
it up here. You basically have to convert Mars, like
using kind of large scale weaponry, right to like blow
up on Mars. That would change the atmosphere and like

(03:06):
the terrain of Mars to be more like Earth. Right,
they're working on this kind of technology, right, so you'd
have to terraform all of Mars. And he goes, if
you have the technology to terraform Mars, why wouldn't you
use said technology to save the Earth. And I was like,
that's a good point. He was like, so what is
like the argument of like we got to go to Mars.
It's like it's ultimately very silly. I think it's cool

(03:27):
that you want to go, but it doesn't really make
any sense. It's fair enough.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Well, and the other the other thing about that too,
is is like the moon is right there, like like
like you have, like you have to do a lot
of the same things to inhabit the Moon, and that
you have to do in Mars because the Moon doesn't
have an atmosphere, so you'd have to literally like create
fucking bubbles for people to live in this essentially to
kind of do me that.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
I think Mars is a little bit more inhabitable but
than the Moon necessarily. But yeah, your point, your point
is correct. Like at a certain point, it's like, what
are we doing? How about always do all this technology
and ship they we're doing to save the planet we're
on once we save that fucking true for the Moon
or Mars or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I And it's funny because like it's it's it's the
typical like extremist, mega rich person like legs. Hypothetically, let's
say that somebody Elon Musk or whoever, were to get
someone a human being to Mars and and start to
begin that. You know that that process of terraforming to

(04:29):
make it habitable, how immediate would the flip be from
those same people like Earth is doomed? Fuck Earth, like
we got to get the fuck out of Earth.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like and by the way, that would be for poor
people to die on Earth? You think they move in
all the pores to the new fancy Mars to funck
that up.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
Actually, actually they might because they're gonna need someone to
work in the fucking Mars minds to to to prock.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
So you know, somebody's got to do it, all right.
That's RedLong, that sweet red lug, not like your granddad's
black alung. This is the new ship, so there is
plenty to talk about. We were off last week. Look,
it won't bore you with all the all the ship,
but there was a addressed to Congress that when that

(05:17):
went over, real, well, apparently there's transgender mice that we're
paying for. If you don't know how.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
To read, which which he doesn't.

Speaker 1 (05:25):
He doesn't. Those were transgenic mice. They're used for experiments,
You dumb, dumb idiot. And everyone who wrote that down
for you and had you do the speech over and
nobody corrected you. All of you are dumb, every single
one of you. Now, maybe he said that lie and
he knew it was a lie on purpose to gin up.
I don't think so, yeah, I think. But you know,

(05:49):
of course people were like, eh, they're fucking nailing it.
You're you're not you're you're you're in fact not nailing it.
So that was the That was the really big story
that we missed unfortunately last week. But there's plenty of
tre about this week, so let's get into it.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's interesting you say it's unfortunate that we missed the
story talking about the address to Congress that neither of
us listened to or what.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
No, I have no plans on I will never watch
any of his stated of the unions. I will get
the highlights. Yeah, No, I don't need to listen to
a propagandist tell me things that I know are one
hundred percent lives. Well, Jay, you're not informed. I'm very informed.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Actually I'm more informed by not listening to them.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
But yeah, exactly, Yeah, if you listen to that, you
are lesson for that is true. All right, So big
topic of this week Schrodinger's tariff, as you wrote it,
one hundred percent correct. We are back, Brad. We are
by the way, Look, I should put a fucking line
between us. We are enemies in this, Brad. We are

(06:50):
podcast brother against podcast brother, as I told you with
the with the sound of Dixie playing lightly in the
back by bad Bunny down here where I am as
podcast enemies. Bread, what do we.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Say that buddy is in Mexican. You fucking pray.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
It doesn't matter, not for not for white people. It
doesn't matter. I think he's Puerto Rican. It doesn't matter. Yeah,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They're all, all of
them in Mexican, even though ones who are American citizens,
they are all Mexican. Uh So, so the tariffs are
back on. These are the ones that were paused.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
No they're not Jay, No, they're not. They and then
they're off again, kind of.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Sort of kind of like alright, so go for it.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, so so so the so he said, so like
when he when he had the tariff spat with Mexico
and Canada back in February, he's like, all right, we're
gonna thirty day pause these tariffs so that they stop
all the fentanyl from coming over, I guess. And and
so that's the thing that'll stop. And so it's all done,
not according to him, because all tariffs are back on,

(07:56):
they're still fentanyl coming across the border. And so so
he reimposed the tariffs that were off of which is
twenty five percent on goods coming in from those countries
across the board. But then he like rolled it back
a little bit because like car manufacturers got really pissed off. Yeah,
for obvious fucking reasons, because it was gonna up the

(08:19):
average value the costs of automobiles to consumers by like
twelve thousand dollars, which I don't know if doing that
overnight is good for the car to tree Jay, but
maybe you could tell me if just you know, increasing
the price of cars by twenty five percent overnight is
a great idea.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I saw, I saw the video. A guy was like, yeah,
I was gonna sell this truck for eighty thousand dollars.
Now it's one hundred thousand dollars. And the guy doesn't
want to buy it.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
No shit, no shit, yeah Jesus Christ and so and
so he rolled back like some of the tariffs, like
there's some goods that are now exempt and some goods
that aren't.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
But here but here's the problem, right, So, like while
this is going on, Canadians are getting fucking tired of
this shit. So like you have, like you have the
fucking you know, premiere of various provinces in Canada that
are pulling things like you know, American bourbon off the shells.
And it's not like they're putting it back like when

(09:14):
when Trump changes his mind, they're like, we're not doing
this fucking back and forth shit, like get your shit together.
Here's the fun one that didn't get publicized. But I
just happen to know it because it affects me in
the industry that I work in, so part of USMCA
when we ship goods to Mexico. So when people based
in the US ship goods to Mexico, anything over one

(09:35):
thousand dollars in value has to be brokered by like
a freight forwarder, right which it which is an initial
service you have to pay. But anything under one thousand
dollars could come through without without any issue, like no problems,
like it doesn't require any special any special treatment. Well,
now as a result of this shit going on, Mexico's
like you know what, every package coming over here, everything

(09:58):
coming over here needs you know, special treatment coming over
So now it makes it very difficult for US companies
who sell goods to Mexico, which we do. It's not
like we're exclusively importing for Mexico, not exporting anything. Anything
you send to Mexico now has to go through all
these extra hoops comes with the additional cost because it
has to go through a like a broker who specializes

(10:20):
in getting the shipment from the US to Mexico, which
has caused a bit of a crimp at my place
of employment. Pretty sure it's caused a bit of a
crimp in several other places of employment as well. And
again they're not flipping that switch off like they flip
that on because they're like, we're tired of getting jerked around. Yeah,
we're gonna make this fucking hard for you. Stop fucking
being stupid.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, now that makes sense. I So okay, you may
or may not be able to answer this question. I'm
curious about that about this. If you are a US
company and you're a US based company, let's say Walmart, right, Walmart,
hum deepot that sort of thing, or any you know,
or any comp size company you're a US space, if

(11:01):
you have if you have businesses or you have stores
in Mexico, are you paying any teriff for anything like
that to like to get to a broker to your
own shit?

Speaker 2 (11:16):
So it depends on how it's being imported. So I
would imagine that a place like Walmart, who obviously is
you know, like they're Walmart in Mexico's I'm the suping correct, Okay, great, So,
so I would assume that Walmart when they're importing goods
for those stores are probably importing to Mexico directly from China,
so they would not be getting any tariff on the

(11:37):
way through. And actually a lot of companies when Trump
was just talking about imposing the additional Chinese tariffs and
was backing off on Canada and Mexico, they were thinking
about routing a lot of their shipments through hubs in
Mexico and Canada to be able to bypass the Chinese
tariff that was on stuff. Something that we thought about
as well, because we were in the company that I

(11:58):
worked for was looking at opening a distribution center in
Canada to try to maybe import it into Canada from
China and then just you know, bringing into the States,
and that way you're only paying a border crossing fee
and and some other you know, extra costs. But it
still is undercut, you know, it definitely undercuts twenty five
percent tariff. But obviously that ship's out the window now
too with the stuff called Canada Mexico.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
So okay, yeah, I was I was just unsure about that,
you know, I was talking to someone. They were like, Oh,
I don't know, why would they pay a tariff? And
I'm like, that's it, that's I don't think that's an
easy question, like just because the just because the company
is in both places, like well there, it's not like
the federal government is, you know, giving a text credit
to itself. Let's say, like you'd have to be And.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
It's also like even in a world where you could
do that, right, Like they're like, there's not like an
equivalent to like the Port of Los Angeles. Yeah, exactly
where that much that that many goods through, like that
big giant right, yeah, that quickly.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
So yeah, I was curious about that, And that makes
sense that you would try to circumvent it, which which
tells me that if that is the case, there is
some level of brokerage for fee or something, even if
you're not in the midst of it, like a terriff
kind of fight, but there is some level of brokerage
fee to get your goods from one place together even
though you even though you own both ends of it,

(13:19):
you know what I mean, Like you still you know
they're not gonna just let free, free flowing ship through
without getting a little bit of a taste that that
doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Brother, it is it is so bad that he's even
getting pushed back on this ship from Marina Maria fucking
bart Romo, like like she interviewed him on Fox Sunday
and and was trying to like press him to say that,
like hey, like like you're gonna have a consistent plan, right,
because you know what businesses really hate. It's uncertainty when
shi it is on and then it's off again, and

(13:47):
it's on and yeah, and and and he wouldn't even
fucking commit to that.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Why why? Why? Yeah? Why should I fucking you? What
do you as all the truth get out of here?
You did you?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Did you hear what he said when he was so
so he had Johnny Johnny Infantino, who's the head of FIFA,
visiting last week because obviously we're hosting the World Cup
in twenty twenty eight here? Did you hear what Trump
said when talking about so they asked him about the
tariffs because you know they were you know like oh,
like like while he was talking peat, He's like, actually, yeah,

(14:25):
like I think that adds some extra tension to like
the matches between like Canada and Mexico. Like, I think
it's really good for the entertainment value because because like
we have all this extra like he's he's a ratings whore,
like that's literally all the reason he does this shit
is because he wants the fucking attention for it. That's it.
We don't have to we don't have to. Hope.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
I hope he eventually get to all the attention he deserves. Yeah,
So there's another wrinkle to this, which is China has
has entered the another another challenger has emerged. Cool, and
so China comes back and it's like, got some terrorists
for your ass too, And and here they come, Oh shit,

(15:07):
they're on Canada. What did we do? Like I'm sure
the Canadians were saying, So China's like, look, y'all want
to fucking war. Let's fucking let's go, baby, Like we're ready.
So China puts institute, institutes tariffs on uh like lumber
or very specifically actually not even lumber, but very specifically

(15:30):
canola is a big thing. The Canada's the number one
exporter for canola. Also peas, because China uses a lot
of peas in their pea protein, which are very very
big in China and around the world, but especially in China.
Uh So, China will apply one hundred percent tariff to
just over a billion dollars of Canadian rape seed oil,

(15:52):
which is canola oil, oil cakes, and yeah, no, it's unfortunate.
That's why they call it canola oil. That nobody nobody's
out there like, yo, give me, you know, give me
a couple bottles of the rape seed like, excuse me,
it seems weird. Oil cakes and p imports and a
twenty five percent duty on one point six billion dollars

(16:16):
worth of Canadian aquatic products in pork, so a lot
of Chinese pork comes from Canada, like a shit ton.
So basically Canada had imposed tariffs on China back in October. Right,
they went super hard on them with like one hundred
percent tariffs on electric cars or specifically Chinese electric cars,

(16:38):
and I forget what the other thing was, and they
had just been like chilling on that.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Right.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
My guess is Canada doesn't want because they said they
Basically China practice is what they refer to its overcapacity,
which is just flooding the market.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Right, and again, something I'm very instantly familiar with, and
you're about to see. The US also put massive tariffs
on Chinese small evs because they are just like especially
stuff that's cheap cheap to produce, like they ATVs and
golf cars and stuff like that. Like they are so
many Chinese companies hopping up that are just like making

(17:14):
slapping shit together and just dumping into the market. Like
we've seen it over the past several of years.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
So yeah, now now they they are. So here's the
thing Chinese evs, the US and Canada are very much
afraid of them because one the quality is not bad and.

Speaker 2 (17:34):
The cost of the cost is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Let me tell you. I told Mike of this. I'll
tell you this. There are three or four Chinese companies here,
car companies here. One of them is by D Build
Your Dreams, and they only have electric or hybrids, like
that's all they sell. They don't have any full gas cars.

(17:58):
Most of their cars are electric. When I tell you,
those motherfuckers are everywhere, they are everywhere, believe they are
fucking there, from pickup trucks, the sedans, the fucking everything
they have a ton of and they're not expensive. They're
not like a really nice EV sedan is like fifty
grand Can you compete with that in the fucking US? No,

(18:22):
not really, like to the point where it looks like
a tesla, Like it looks like a nice luxury tesla,
and it has a lot of shit teslas don't even have.
They don't want that shit in the US. They don't
want that shit in Canada. Get the fuck out of here, right,
So they're throwing these huge they're throwing up these huge
percentage of one hundred percent tariffs on this shit to
try to keep it out of the market. It's only
a matter of time, dude, They're gonna come in, right, Like,

(18:45):
it's just a matter of time. But part of that
is why China is retaliating. Now, there's another wrinkle to this,
which is China is the sort of the side note
as to why they're doing it is because they see
Canada as being vulnerable, because Canada is in the middle
of a fucking tariff war with the United States.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
It's almostly your allies, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, But look, here's the thing. If Canada falls, if
Canada falls and has to pull back there and then
I don't think that they will, by the way, but
if for some reason they decided that it might be
a little bit easier to pull those tariffs or pull
down those terrafs on on evs. You think having those

(19:28):
evs in Canada doesn't affect the US market?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
You think one, right.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Because we're too close, bro, Like, if we're too close,
people gonna be there a.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Strong name, a strong car company based in Canada. Right,
it's all the ship that we have here.

Speaker 1 (19:50):
So it's it's only a matter of time. And that
could easily be their thing, like, look, we're gonna, we're gonna,
you know, we're gonna tear the shit out of your
canol oil and your p imports. That's the like two
of the biggest things that they export outside of basically Lumper,
which is all sort of thing. How long can Canada

(20:11):
sustain that? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe they're
just like, we're in it for the fucking fight. Cool,
I'm not even mad about that. But at a certain point,
those evs are going to get through, and they're probably
gonna be the one thing that China's like, you drop
these tariffs, or you lower them considerably, you let the
evs come on in with you know, no bullshit, We'll

(20:32):
pull all the way back and then because China doesn't
give a fuck. They just want to get into that market.
They don't need like, oh no, you put you put
all these turfs. You think they're suffering, They'll be fine.
They're playing this ship, they're gaming this shit out. They
want to get evs into those Western markets. Once they're
into those Western markets, it's all she wrote.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
So it's over. I mean, I mean you want to
talk about devastating the American auto industry, like that's that's
how you do that.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah, And instead of the auto industry pushing for this
shit years ago, we only let one guy and in
to his credit, right, you let one company really take
it over. And then they were like, oh shit, people
want a electric cars, we should probably do something. Oh
fucking course they do. Dumb assy like that's insane that

(21:20):
you thought that that wasn't true. And also, in fairness
to those car companies, American consumers were really bullheaded and
dumb for a long fucking time about this shit. Yeah
electric cars gave blah, yeah, how much is gas now?
A million dollars a gallon? Who the fuck cares? Give
me the one that I can hit the button. And
it goes like that's all people want. They want to

(21:41):
save money at the end of the day. And car
companies should have been like they should have taken that
advice that Michael Keaton gave and that shitty Robocot remake,
which was people don't know what they want until you
give it to them. It's true.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
Oh no, that's that's literally the number one rule of
any successful industry that's popped up is knowing out what
the market wants before the market realizes they need it,
and then giving it and having it there for having
it ready, it's ready.

Speaker 1 (22:06):
And and in fairness, that's what Tesla did. But now
maybe not so much so good. So yeah, the terriffs continue,
so what we we're the tariffs are off, but like
kind of is.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, and and who knows what it'll be a week
from now. Plus by the way, so again like the
ones he did, suspend again they kicked down the can
or kick kicked the hand down the road by thirty days. Uh,
guess what else expires in thirty days? Jay, that we
may have all forgotten about.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
The dead ceiling. I didn't forget.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
No, no, no, I'm not talking about the dead ceiling.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Oh okay, I was gonna say that's member.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Remember how when we unbanned TikTok we didn't actually unbannon it.
We just said we're gonna we're gonna file file an
extension and they can have some time to work out
the sale. How much have you heard about the sale
of TikTok jay in the past.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Not much, gotta tell you.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, Yeah, it's all. It's almost like they're not doing
it at all, and they're going to force the Trump
administration to shitter get off the pot when it comes
to that. So look forward to that happening. Yes, Also
around the budget, the government funding deadline, all happening at
the same time. April fools, everybody, It's gonna be a
fucking hell of an April all the time.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Oh good god. Um. Yeah. Look, I don't want to
get too much into it because I want to end
this conversation here and get into some the the uh
fast corruption and faster scripts. But with the budget coming
up and the fucking government shutdown looming, I just want
to say this. I want to put this on the

(23:37):
record so when it happens, no one needs to be surprised.
I am going to be thoroughly pissed, and I think
I can probably speak for Brad too. I Am going
to be thoroughly pissed if HACKEM Jeffreys gets up there
and tries to coerce Democrats to fucking playball to keep

(23:58):
to save Republicans will be so fucking mad.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
So some some people got real some people got real
mad at him because there was a story that came
out that him and Truck Schumer. Basically the line they
were saying was, hey, like, we're like, like, Republicans have
to understand the only reason, the only way we'll cooperate
on the funding bill is if Elon Musk like gets
his you know, like gets out of the government what
he's doing and Democrats actually have like an actual say

(24:24):
in like the legislative process and stuff that is being
passed off. A lot of people get really pissed at
Hoking Jeffries for coming out that's saying, why the fuck
are you playing ball? What the hell are you doing.
I'm just gonna point out the fact that asking for
something that you know is not going to be given
to you is not capitulating. It's yeah, it's a line.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Well, it's drawing the line, right, will they hold the line?
That's a different question you have. The only way these
guys will ever get it, and the only way, and
I hate to say this, the only way the American
public will get it is they've got to see them fail.
Stop grabbing these guys by their arm right before they
leap off the cliff. Let them leap once, Let them

(25:03):
leap just like. Because remember the last time during the
Trump administration they shut down the government, Fucking Nancy Pelosi
was like all right, and they fucking walked out with
a fucking collar pop, and they won the fucking news cycle.
And those assholes fixed it within a cup, like a
day or two because they lost the fight. Oh, we'll
blame the Democrats. How you're in charge of everything?

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Good luck, good luck.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
So don't run to their rescue, please, don't. I know
it's gonna be fucking hard. It's gonna fucking suck. And
here like, they just want to shut down the government, bro,
That's what they want. No, what they do want is
they want to keep it open and destroy it. That's
what they want. If you shut it down, guess what,
Guess what doesn't go out? Social Security checks don't go out,
nothing goes out. Make them own that shit, hope, people

(25:50):
are gonna be pissed. Good, they fucking should be, and
it's high time you let them know why they should
be mad.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Right, and then, and then, and then you get to
ride everyone in your life who voted for this shit that, Hey,
this is what you wanted. You vote. You literally voted
for a dysfunctional party that couldn't govern their way out
of a fucking wet paper bag. Yep, to be put
in charge. So enjoy reaping what you have sown. Yeah,

(26:18):
don't cry to me about it. I voted for Kodos, right, exactly.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
All right, I want to take a I want to
take a short break, and then we're going to talk
about what is going on with the stock market, because
it's great. Everything's going fine. Guys, don't worry. Everything is fine.
What they would say if they were alive. All right,
we'll be right back, Okay. So the Dow Jones and

(26:45):
the entirety of the fucking financial markets are what many
people would refer to as shitting the bet because to
Maria Barbiromo's credit markets don't like uncertainty. This is not
a thing, guys. And it turns out over the last
month or six weeks at this point, or seven weeks.

(27:09):
Shit has been rolling downhill real fast. I think the
Dow is down since since January. What can I look
says January twenty first of twenty twenty five, So his
like first full day in office, the Dow is down
like three thousand points.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Yeah, it has literally given back all of the games
that it made since he was elected president. If you
recall when he was elected, it shot up pretty good
because for whatever reason, people that trade stocks things that like, oh,
having Donald Trump in charge of the country is going
to be good for business because I guess they were

(27:51):
asleep for four years from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.
But so so yeah, so a lot of games made,
a lot of games lost in in in the Dow,
which uh, like you know, I'm not my my four
oh one k is not happy about it. But you know,
as someone who doesn't own holdings outside of that, I
couldn't give two ships enjoy it. You fucking idiots for

(28:13):
for exactly what happened or what we do with what
that would happen. Uh. Also part of that interview with Barbaroma,
she asked him to rule out that there won't be
a recession. Uh and he did not rule that out,
Like he could have just said like, no, we're gonna
do everything we can to keep recession for happening. And
he's like, eh, no, it might be. It might be

(28:35):
tough for a while, and and and again, like this
is the fucking thing that that that that gets me,
Like like the ease to which Republicans pivot from one
position to the next. It would be impressive if it
wasn't so craven like like they were talking to Fox
was interviewing America's smartest senator, Tommy Tubberville uh today in

(28:56):
a in a clip that went viral, and they were
asking him about like the stock market decline, and he's like,
you know, the stock market might have actually been a
little overheated. So this is actually good that the stock
market is is it's coming down, it's getting back to normal.
I guess I know. It's it's not good when investors
are making money like that.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
That you know, super bad. No, my favorite, very.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Anti Republican to have rich people making getting even richer
like that. We Republicans definitely don't want that happen.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Yeah know, we're we're for the regular, the working man.
A stone cold relax like it's it's really hilarious to me.
Like they they will jump, like they will jump ship
to go to the direction you're talking about. They'll also
do the thing where like, well, the stock market isn't
a indicator of how the economy is doing, Like one,

(29:45):
it isn't. That's true, but you always say that it
is when it is beneficial to your narrative. But now
that it is not, you're like, absolutely not, it is
not an indicator. Like who's even paying attention to the
stock market? You guys are paying attention stock market?

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, you go, we gotta cut the tariffs off like immediate,
and of course, mister like I'm gonna start fixing things
on day one, like all of a sudden, two months in, well,
you know, we're still we're.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Still dealing with the Joe Biden economy. Like it's the
Joe Biden economy that is causing all this happens. Like, oh,
Joe Biden rigged like a time bomb in the fucking
US economy that would go off exactly one month after
he left office, like fucking master schemer Biden got him again.
I mean, sleepy Joe awake at the wheel.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, awake at the wheel. This is so funny. He
somehow simultaneously like a brain adult mush brain idiot, but
also a financial fucking Svengali, Like yeah, I'm I'm.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
A nevolent genius who's able to put like trip mines
in the stock market. That coming like rights just as
just the worst, just the worst time for Republicans, Like,
oh he got us again, that damn Biden. Dude.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
It'll be three years from now and the economy will
we'll be trading fucking bottle caps for water, and they'll
still be like, Joe Biden, why did he do this
to us? Why did they just just like they don't
there there's a own how much of.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
Us there there? There was an interview that Nicole my
Orches did, who she's a Republican congresswoman from New York,
I believe where they were like grilling her on CNN
about this ship and like the the the matrix thing
she was trying to do to fucking dodge these questions
and fucking boomerang the ship back on Joe Biden. The
host was absolutely not having it. They were just like

(31:35):
fucking stone face and she's like you know, you know, well,
you know this is a recession, it's Joe Biden's recession,
and the host like, yeah, but it's based on things
that the current president is doing right now, like like
like Joe Biden's not in office anymore and hasn't been
for several months. Like things that Donald Trump is doing
is literally causing this to happen. Do you think that

(31:55):
it's a good idea for companies, like you know, like
when best Buy and Walmart right here saying like, yeah, no,
we're gonna raise prices because of the terrorists, Like that's
that's absolutely happening.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yes, yeah, I mean they've they've said it, like not
even in like hushed language or like couch language. They're
just like, I'm going to raise the prices of my items.
I think it was like the CEO of Target or
something like that on.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Earning Squalls, They're like, yeah, we're gonna have to up prices.
We're paying more for the goods coming into the country
because of the tariffs that Donald Trump is putting in price,
Like how is that right? And they asked Republicans Trump, oh,
you know the by economy. I'm just like, you have
you have nothing. I didn't think you would. But still
pretty funny so.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean, I do like, I do like that. Even
Trump is just kind of like a it's really hard
when you get in there. We got a lot of
fixing and the doging, like we don't have you don't
know anything.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Because retruthing articles that Charlie Kirk wrote where Charlie Kirk
is imploring people to stop talking about the price of eggs.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Oh yeah, no, no, I have that story. Let me
read the exact quote because it's so fucking insulting. Charlie
Kirk quote, shut up about egg prices. Trump is saving
consumers millions. But he isn't though, But he isn't, Like

(33:22):
that's the thing he isn't. Also, did you see that
clip of Charlie Kirk at some college campus where they
were and they were like, oh, like, what the fuck's
up with the elon must Nazi salute? And he was like,
it wasn't a Nazi salute And they're like, oh, no,
I missed that, no you Oh my god, I should
have Oh I should have fucking saved that video. And

(33:43):
he's like, no, it wasn't Nazi salute and all these
college students around because that's all he debates, because he's
a fucking cowardly piece of shit, and they were like, cool,
do it right now. And he's like and he's like,
my heart goes out to all of you, and they're
like business not what he did, Like what the fucking
like he kept putting his hand like underhand. It's like,
all right, dude, like you are such a cowardly piece

(34:05):
of ship. If you're gonna own it, if you're gonna fucking.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Be say it with your chest, hey, with your chest.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
He fucking did, hid him bullshit that like he fucking
hit the chest, fucking hard line. We'll do it, we'll
do it together. I'll do it with you. Yeah, you're
not gonna do it. But like to me, my response,
they were too nice, right, They're like, don't even line.

(34:33):
I would even like you're a punk bitch and you're
a fucking line, like just say that ship. But you're
not on CNN. You're on college campus, like you're a
punk bitch. And if I could get over this fucking
rope to you out beat your Nazi ast, So I did.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
I didn't see that clip. I did. I did see
what he said afterwards thought, which I'm assuming has to
be related to that situation where he said, oh, like
like because this is the world we live in, Like, oh,
college campuses that aren't so nice to turning Point USA,
like might see like their funding impacted and stuff like that.
Like not giving Charlie Kirk a safe space to platform

(35:06):
his bullshit is very important to him, I suppose.

Speaker 1 (35:10):
Unbelievable. Also, Gavin Newsom did that interview with Charlie Kirk.
Fuck Gavin Newsom, Now how about that? Sorry, what are
you doing? Dude? What are you doing? You think going
to the right is gonna fucking help you? I saw people, Oh,
what Democrats need to do is basically they need to
move to the middle. And that's how the last election.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
With Piers campaigned with Liz fucking Cheney.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Right, and god, by the way, people got mad at
her for that, and Liz Cheney wasn't doing She wasn't
saying I agree with Liz Cheney's policies. She was saying
that both Liz Cheney and I agree that democracy matters.
That was it. By the way, I don't have a
problem with you saying that, because you should be able
to look to Republicans and be like, hey, the democracy matter,
Like yeah, what the fuck? Even even though we are

(35:58):
fucking mortal political enemies. They could say that. Meanwhile, oh,
they need to move to the middle. How far to
the middle do you want them to go, dude, You
want them to go to the right, is what you're saying.
She lost because she is a black woman. That is
a big part of the reason she lost. Not acknowledging
that is not acknowledging what America is. That's it. You

(36:21):
take her fucking message, you put it in Gavin Newsom,
and you run that campaign. He would have probably beaten Trump.
He probably would have. Sorry, like, I don't know why,
Like I'm so tired especially from white people being like, oh,
there's all these other No, dude, this is an Akham's
razor fucking situation. Dude. It is because it's easy to

(36:41):
tell because if you already regret your vote six weeks
or four weeks after the guy you voted for is
in office. You didn't listen to anybody who was running
for president what they said. You listen to anybody you
looked up and you're like that or that, uh, another
black person and a woman. Absolutely not I'll go with
that guy because you or anything he said. You hear

(37:04):
anything she said because then those same people who say
they regret their vote are advocating for policies she fucking had.
That's how I know you didn't listen. And there's a
major reason you didn't listen. So now I get the
fuck out of here. Yeah, just look at this point
until he fucks up. I think Pritzkers are pretty good choice. Yeah,

(37:26):
I think it's a pretty good choice. Also, Elon Musk
said that empathy was a was a bad thing in
Western countries, and I'm like, that's cool. You should get
thrown off.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
Of a building.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'm just saying, like, you don't deserve to be in society, dude.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
I mean he also literally called Mark Kelly a trader
today on Twitter because Mark Kelly went to Ukraine and
was like, yeah, like we need to support Ukrainians like
they're fighting a war against an enemy, and Elon Musk
call him a trader. So cool, that's deep, right.

Speaker 1 (37:55):
Yeah, the guy who was former military and went to space,
and I mean he also put on a girl issue,
which is pretty dope, Like that guy has served his country.
Like what the fuck are you talking about. You've done nothing,
You've done nothing, you don't even you don't even go here. Bro,
Like you don't even go here, like get the fuck

(38:15):
out of here. And that's coming from me. I don't
even live there anymore. So like fuck got here, all right,
so fast corruption and faster screw ups. Trump administration has
arrested and tried to disappear a foreign student for having
organized pro palasityan protests at Columbia University. Two things. One, dude,

(38:41):
we told you, We fucking told you this type of
shit's going to happen. Also, he told you. Trump said
that he was going to do this, but you didn't
believe him. So a bit of a like haha, uh. Two,
you're violating this guy civil liberties and that's not fucking cool,
Like this is unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Not like, not only did you arrest him for exercising
his free speech rights, which is, you know, obviously a
pretty direct violation of the First Endment. Like there was
several like like there was a like half a day
over the weekend after he had been arrested where people
could not locate him, including his eight month pregnant fiancee,
who had no idea where he was, and and he

(39:23):
somehow surfaced in some prison outside of Louisiana. Jesus from
New York. Yeah, like like this this is some fucking
third world like like this is this is some shit
you'd see from Vladimir Putin against one of his political
opponents like that, like this is the kind of shit

(39:43):
you'd see here, and and it pisses me off for
a variety of reasons. But it really pisses me off
because I have to fucking admit that they're that that
the Trump administration, by targeting this dude, specifically a brown
guy who's advocating for Hamas, is really smart of them

(40:05):
to do because this puts it shouldn't do this, but
it puts Democrats into a corner because then if they
come out and advocate for this dude.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Well hold on, but he's not he's not advocating for Hamas.
He's advocating for Palestinians, right, But you know how it's
can be framed, Yes, okay, fair enough.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Yeah, they will frame it as like, oh, this guy's
pro Hamas. Democrats are pro Hamas, like like they're literally
they literally arrested this dude on the charge that he's
he's advertised like enhancing anti Semitism, Like that's that's the
that's the charge that they are trying to to gin
up on him. And again they're doing it because they're

(40:50):
not I.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Mean, I'm not cool with anti semitism at all, not
actually illegal, right, like to say some horrible anti se
Semitic shit is not illegal. I don't want people to
say it. I think it's fucking imporant, and I'm against.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
By any counts I've seen. He hasn't done like the
only anti support Palestinians. And but so again, like I
haven't seen any Democrats or not very any Democrats speak
out very lovely about this. Yeah, and it's for that
reason because right to.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
Your point, right to your point, yes, it puts them
between a rock and hard place. But at the same time,
I think it actually okay, it is a between a
rock and heart place, because yes, you're easily going to
be like labeled as like, oh, you're fucking pro Hamas
or whatever dumb shit right by Republicans. They already say

(41:44):
that shit anyway. So here's what I would do. This
is in New York, right is Columbia University. Get dressed
down there or up there? Right, your argument should be
to show the Palestinian community who the fuck Democrats are

(42:05):
because all of the Palaestinian community that turned their backs
on you in that election. You don't turn your backs
on them now, because that's not what you were about.
That's what Republicans would do. H you weren't for us,
Well fuck them, let them burn. I get that ideology,
I get that thought process. Look, trust me, what was
my first point? Like, well, dude, we told you right.

(42:25):
But at the same time, if you are going to
represent everyone, and if you're going to represent the Party
of Civil Liberties and you're going to represent the anti
fascist aspect in the United States government, you got to
be there for him. You got to be willing to
take the fucking slings and arrows and stand next to
that guy and be like, this guy didn't even fucking
want us in power. This guy fucking screwed us. Whatever

(42:48):
I mean, you don't have to say of it like it's obvious, right,
and you still stand by them, so that you show
the Palestinian community like, oh shit, like not only were
we wrong, and like we should have already figured that
out many many months ago, but look what they're doing now.
They're putting their foot Yeah, they're putting them money where
their mouth is. Also, there was a there's a Chinese,

(43:08):
a woman who is a I believe she's originally a
Chinese immigrant was also arrested. I don't know if it
was at this this particular protest or a different one,
but she's also having the same thing happened to her
that they're trying to like take her visa and deport
her as well. Stand next to these people and be like, look,

(43:29):
we don't necessarily even have to agree, but we do
agree on your civil liberties to protest.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
That is well, that's that's my point is you don't
even have to like, like the smart thing to do
if you're a Democrat who's afraid of how they're going
to link you know, pala Citian support to you or something,
if that's something you're afraid of, which is against silly
to me because whatever, But you can separate that. You're
you're like, it doesn't matter why they arrested him. It

(43:54):
doesn't matter like what cause they arrested him for. You
either believe in the First Amendment or you don't. You
either believe the First Amendment protects everybody in this country
or it doesn't. And if it doesn't, then that's a
very different conversation and you're fundamentally Unamerican if you don't
believe that, because this is literally the bedrock principle of
what this country was founded on. And so that that

(44:16):
means that even if someone advocates for a position that
you personally don't agree with it or don't like much
like all these fucking neo Nazis out here that are
running our government right now, you still support their right
to say it.

Speaker 1 (44:28):
Yeah, even though you find it out horn and I
and I think that's the that's the avenue to take
like we are here to protect his free speech, his
right to assemble. That's a that it's in the constitution, dude.
I know Republicans only know the fucking Second Amendment and
they don't really even know that when they know half
a sentence. But that's where you show the difference in

(44:48):
who you are. So AOC Bernie Rashida to leave fucking
you know what I mean, Like I'm worried about That's
that's how you make That's how you make real in roads.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
On this shot. I'm not worried about those people coming
out for for him because I I believe they will,
even though they've been slow to slow to the dance.

Speaker 1 (45:10):
They got a lot. In fairness, they got a lot
of shit going on.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
Yeah, they got a lot going on. But but my
my concern is for the like the moderate Democrat who's
obviously gonna be way too scared to come out. And
I agree with that and say this ship with his chest.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
So yeah, no one, look like we'll talk about later.
Modern democrats are really fucking up. Yep, they're not meaning
the moment, which is very important of these times. It's
always important, but it's really important right now. All right,
air travel, air troubling news. We've been all waiting for.

(45:44):
Who is we white man? As Tanto used to see.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
Yeah, so the FAA obviously because we don't have a
you know, telecom company that works that that state owned.
Right So, like all government agencies contract with private companies
to provide them with services that they need, the FAA

(46:07):
is no different. They had a rigorous bidding process with
telecom companies to provide the communication support for the FAA
kind of important as we all know, you know, without
communications kind of you know, we kind of hard to
prevent plane accidents from happening. And so they agreed to
a deal with Verizon like like that, like to provide

(46:32):
those those those things, and recently too, Like it's not
like this is a long contract that's been in place,
like this is something that's been renegotiated semi recently, but
apparently not anymore, because I guess Elon Musk gets to
cancel the contract that the federal government made for two
point four billion dollars to Verizon and you, you know,

(46:56):
grease the palms of Sean Duffy and the Department of Transportation,
and to award it to Starlink instead.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Cool bro, good job everyone. This is real fucking smart.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
I mean, it's it's super cool that they're so brazen
and apparently immune from a consequence that they just do
this shit out in the open, like you don't even
have to pretend to do anything sneaky. It's like, kat, no,
we're canceling this contract. That's wasteful. Who's going to fulfill
the contract? Now? Oh? I know a guy, I know

(47:33):
a company that can take care of this for you.
I much two point four billion dollars. This SEMs pretty good.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Cool girl, Yeah, fine, yeah, What more do you need
to see from these guys to let you know that
they are not on your side?

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Well?

Speaker 2 (47:51):
The problem is that most people don't, like like your
your rank and file person in this country doesn't probably
never has seen this story that that's the problem.

Speaker 1 (48:00):
Podcast or no, yeah, it's uh okay, cool man, good
job everyone.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
And and and and again like this this fucking, this
fucking claim that he's making Elon Musk claim and that
he's seen quote the FA assessment is single digit months
to catastrophic failure before like like like saying that like
literally this year, the FA is going to somehow collapse magically,
as if the government, As if the government wouldn't see

(48:31):
this coming and take steps to mitigate it, if like
years in advance, if if there was an.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Actual risk, right and and also the horizon much like
like the post Office, which he's also advocated for taking
over or not taking over, but it being you know,
probably farmed out to Amazon or some shit. Uh right,
you're manufacturing it's destruction. You're you're not like you're not

(48:59):
reading the tea leaves. I mean like, oh, well, actually
these things are happening, and like we should probably get
out ahead of this. No, you're just manufacturing its destruction
and going see and you're just snapping a toy in
half of them. See it's already broken. So here's this
new thing, like, yeah, but you broke the toy, Like yeah,
I know, but why you why you bringing up bullshit
like that was four seconds ago, right, So yeah, I'm

(49:23):
not I'm not a fan of just handing this fucking
this piece of ship. Uh, these kind of these kind
of rings. I think it's terrible. And look them handing
you know, them being involved in the FA is a
disastrous idea. Again, they just had a fucking rocket ship.

Speaker 2 (49:41):
Well that's a different that's a different company. That's that's
a different company totally. It just happens to have just
happened to have one very specific common denominator involved between
the two of them. But pay no attention to the
av you know, fucking Corlaer there.

Speaker 1 (49:58):
Yet all pay no attention to the asshole behind the curtain.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Same guy also paying no attention to the fact that Tesca,
that Tesla's lost like literally a third of their market
cap in the past month.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Yeah, I sent you that here. I told you. I
saw an article that said that all the billionaires who
were at Trump's inauguration, your your Zuckerberg's and your Bezos
and all these other assholes. They were on the dais
with him. They've lost collectively two hundred and ten billion
dollars since election.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
There, Yeah, you know, you know, you know who hasn't
because because he was wise enough to stay out of
frame and and was kind of like hiding in the
back of the room. Cook. Oh really, yeah, he was there,
but no one, no one associates him with it because
he was just like, yeah, I'm just gonna be over here.
I'm just gonna have I wouldn't have gone. I wouldn't
have gone, dude, like neither. But you know, I don't

(50:49):
know why Tim Cook felt the need to like bend
the knee and give Trump a million dollars, like, well,
I guess he didn't want his ship to get probably
exempted from tariffs and all this other horseshit, I guess,
But sure, I just I just think it's I think
it's just fucking ridiculous. And look, I hope you lose
even more money. Com Me, honest, I hope you lose
all of it. I hope Elon must dies fucking penniless. Yeah.

(51:11):
That's that's the fucking crazy thing, is that, like you mentioned,
like all those those billionaires have lost two hundred and
ten billion dollars. Literally half of that is just the
Elon bosk. Good yeah, keep going, I say.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
Uh yeah, I have. I have more stories on Elon
must lose you money. So if that's a kink of yours,
it definitely is of mine. More on that later. By
the way, the A judge has ruled uh to that
previous story, the pro Palestinian protester. A judge has ruled
that A FED judge has ruled that the Palaestinian activists

(51:46):
who let protesting let Me University not be deported while
the court considers the lawsuit challenging his detention. Here's the thing,
what happens if they just do it?

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Then?

Speaker 1 (51:58):
One, do you think they won't? Who's gonna stop them?
I mean, I think we all know logically that the
judiciary has no fucking power over the executive at this point,
there is no checks. But I want to see what
happens if they do it. They're like, hey, just go
to the judiciary. So what are you guys gonna do?

Speaker 2 (52:21):
Nothing will happen again, You're you're the the the enforcement mechanism,
Like like you're correctly, the judiciary doesn't have any power
to enforce their ruling. The enforcement mechanism comes from the
legislative branch, but the legislative branch has capitulated to the
executive branch. So yeah, there is no consequence. You're probably right.
They probably will deport this kid and then say, yeah, now,

(52:46):
what what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Oh, sorry, we didn't read this thing, or yeah we
read it, and like what you gotta do? Will fight me?
What the fuck? Like you're not gonna do shit? But
okay again, somehow is that saving us money? That is
that what's happening?

Speaker 2 (53:04):
Oh well, I mean I'm sure, I'm sure Republicans in
Congress will gin of a reason. That's why it's okay
in this specific case, why like the you know, the
executive branch violated a direct cord order to not do.

Speaker 1 (53:16):
So and and and violated someone civil That's fine, Yeah,
we've done it before. After report dust up, Rubio gets
coucked by Elon this is your story.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, So there was reports over the weekend that there
was like a surprise cabinet meeting that Donald Trump called
and things apparently with the Cavern secretaries. UH specifically got
a little bit testy with Elon Musk because I'm pretty
sure that they don't like him going into their fucking

(53:51):
offices and being like, hey, I'm going to tell you
what the fuck to do. And reportedly the testiest of
all apparently was Mark Rubio. Now you know this happened
because Trump immediately went on true social t yel and
debunk reports that we're coming out about it again. That's
one of those things where it's you know, my my
T shirt is asking a lot of questions that the

(54:12):
T shirt answers, like if it didn't happen, just don't
fucking saying about it. Yeah, subtlety, not as strong suit.
But in the wake of this, uh, Marco Rubio comes
out today and says, hey, uh, we're gonna we're actually
gonna officially cancel eighty three percent of the programs that
are currently going on at USA I D. And he

(54:35):
was immediately followed like like like just to stick the
knife in further. Elon Musk of course, comments right under
the post on social media, uh, saying good job, good
for you, buddy, you did you did it. You did it.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Again. As as we talked about weeks ago and when
these when these cuts first happened from doge for US
i D. Like USA I D is the soft power
arm of America. They are they literally spend money doing
humanitarian missions around the world. Like that's what USA i
D does. Like like they're like there's a famous story

(55:16):
that happened, like after these cuts happened where there's literally
women in Africa walking around right now with iud's implanted
in them that they can't get removed because the doctors
that implanted them, that would be in charge of removing
them are gone now because of this program. Was because
funding was pulled from this program and all the doctors

(55:38):
had to go back home to the US.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
If they have any complications, they're fucked.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
Yeah, so that's cool. It's a good, good thing that's
going on.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, but have we seen now have we thought about
the transgender mice or no, we're not considering.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Us I admit that I didn't. I didn't consider the
transgender mice.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Think about all the money?

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Did we did? Did we? Did we think about the
one billion condoms that were sent to Gaza allegedly, Well.

Speaker 1 (56:05):
I mean we we would have thought about them had
that been true.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Yes, but that's fair, that's fair. But that's fair. In fact,
so so and again like we're talking about you know,
us ID has led the efforts to fight malaria, to
fight polio, around the world, to fight other you know, I.

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Thought you were going to say Texas. I didn't realize
you was gonna say.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
No, no, no, no, no, that's yeah. They rely on
domestic services for that. But like holmn, like do they anymore? Yeah?
Like again, like, we don't have problems with malaria here
because we have access to great medical care, but like
malary cases around the world are in the millions in

(56:50):
places that are more disadvantaged. Yeah, deadly disease.

Speaker 1 (56:55):
I'm sure we'll Yeah, we'll get the band back together again.
Malario out to fucking dumb moms in the Midwest who
don't want to vaccinate their kids. Yeah, and in the
West Coast there's a lot of dumb hippie moms. So yeah,
all right, cool.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Man, And and and and and and the programs they
are keeping are being folded into the state Department. So
so USAID functionally is not going to exist anymore, even
though technically it should take an Act of Congress to
do that. But you know, I guess if you remove
the funding from the program, then uh that takes care
of it for you. It's good. It's good. It's a good thing.

(57:35):
Congress doesn't seem to care about their uh, their their
job is appropriators a budget.

Speaker 1 (57:42):
They absolutely for some reason, they absolutely do not I
do not get it. So this is a this is
an interesting story. So somehow the buffoons over at DOGE
just keep they can't stop winning. An advisory task force

(58:03):
led by Elon Musk doche briefly listed a comp listened
a complex that allegedly houses a CIA facility in Virginia
as for sale this week. So this is a thing.
By the way, they are putting up these lists of
government owned buildings that are for sale, like and these

(58:23):
are like major buildings, right like they want to put
up like I think it's like the SBA building, like
Small Business Administration building, like all of these major but
they're just like now we're just selling them off because
we're closing all of this ship, right Like, these are
very famous buildings and they're just I don't know, give
them Amazon or fucking sell it to your you know,
your local fucking print shop or whatever. Who cares. Right well,

(58:47):
when they they they're going through and they're they're adding
all these things to this list, and they're putting them
up on their website. They put this building, this this
building in Virginia up on the website that's for sale.
It turns out it was a black site. Oops. Then
they pulled it off. Ah, don't let anybody see that, right,
So they exposed the black site. Why because they are

(59:09):
unbelievably inefficient, because they likely were searching and black was
one of the fucking names or the terms that they
were using to like find DEI shit, and they were
just like, all right, fucking sell it because it.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Was I I'm confused by what you're saying. Efficiency is
literally in the acronym.

Speaker 1 (59:33):
I know, it's hard to believe. Yeah, I can't believe it,
quite frank government efficiency, Yeah, which is weird, maybe an
oxymoron for these guys, but yeah. The Trump administration briefly
published a list of four hundred and forty properties it
planned to sell that were viewed as quote, not core
to government operations on Tuesday. It took it down on

(59:54):
Wednesday morning because of this, because they probably put a
bunch of things up there that they shouldn't, but including
this one black side. Good job, everybody, We're just googling.
We're just searching black in a list of properties and
nailed it. Put it up there.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
That's that's not the only word that they were searching for.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
Yeah, So this other story is fucking wild.

Speaker 2 (01:00:17):
So this this really belongs at the end of the show,
but like we kind of have to put it in
with the with the rest of the bullshit.

Speaker 1 (01:00:23):
So because it is so unbelievably stupid these morons, Pete
Hexath being one of them. So the military now, because
you know, it's really important to like show their horseship bravado.
Ironically with this story, they decided that they were going

(01:00:47):
to go through and remove images of anything that was.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Like I related.

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
Yeah, like technically that was like talking about race or
gender or LGBT anything any images that had to do
with that, right, So I think they took down like
four hundred and thousand images or some shit like that
right off of like military websites and everything else. Right,
like fucking don't say anything of these groups, like better

(01:01:19):
not be any broads in there, or blacks or gay
broads or anything, right, gay black women, like you know,
like the Triple Threat. And so in their infinite wisdom,
these motherfuckers Oh wow, I hadn't seen that. By the way,
Hecksteth has canceled all military observance of Martin Luther King

(01:01:41):
Junior Day. Classy, dude, classy. All right, let me guess,
is there gonna be a celebration of fucking Confederate Day
with fucking Roberty Lee right at the front, you fucking
racist piece of shit. Also Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance. Cool, bro,
you're a classy guy. So anyway, so he takes down

(01:02:02):
all these images, so they pull the They ended up
pulling the image of the Anola Gay. Now, I know
what you're thinking, who's Anola Gay? If you're like twenty
five years old and you're debating Sam Seedter, don't know
anything about government or history. The Anola Gay is the
name of the plane that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, right.

(01:02:26):
These motherfuckers pulled the image because gay's in the title
of the image, because all.

Speaker 4 (01:02:31):
They on the side of the plane basically yeah, yeah, yeah,
fucking well, and I'm sure it's categorized right Anola Gay
ninety whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:02:39):
So these fucking nineteen year olds are like, well, let's
make sure it doesn't have gay in it. Yeah, fucking
nailed it. I'm sorry, what are we doing? And look,
I'm not exactly excited to celebrate the Aola gay considering
we dropped a nuclear weapon onto fucking innocent.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
People, fucking killed you know, forty five thousand people or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
It was right and kind of reset Japan's hard drive
and made them into the kind of an amazing, slash
pretty socially weird country that it is today. I mean,
God loved them, but you know, a lot of shit
that happened then. So I'm not like, yeah, the nuclear
momb fucking hell yeah, bro, Like I'm not. But it

(01:03:23):
is a part of military history, it is a part
of American history, it is a part of world history.
The fact that you just search is it doesn't have
the word gay in it is fucking insane. Stop talking
about these guys being efficient at anything. They're not. It's
a bunch of nineteen year olds who are dumb when

(01:03:44):
it comes to doing this shit in like, not in
a fucking walled off environment. They don't know what they're doing.
They're not government officials, they're they're not qualified to do
this shit, and they're going to keep making stupid ass
mistakes like.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
This, So I guess no singing of deck the halls
at the do O D Christmas party this year?

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Days in there?

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
What? What? What? What kind of apparel we donn in?

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Mm hmmm straight up.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
Not in this fucking building.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
Absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Here, we wear ties that come down past our dicks.
It's very normal.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
And continues to be the weirdest fucking fashion thing that
he does. I don't understand.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
Why are your tie so long? You're being weird? Yeah,
it's it's really strange. Look, I saw somebody mention something
that I thought was really good. If like, with all
these cuts and everything, m hm, one or this. This
is a part of the observation that I personally had.
And then I'll tell you what someone said, which I
agree with. What it tells me with all these cuts

(01:04:50):
is that the government actually might be run a fuck
lot better than even we thought it was.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:04:57):
I'm not saying it doesn't have problems, but it is
amazing that these guys have gone in to like, oh,
we're gonna fucking grab it everything and we're gonna figure
out out what did you find? Where's all the big corruption?
Where is it?

Speaker 2 (01:05:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Because you haven't found any now in reality, they weren't
really even looking for in corruption. What they went in
to do was they went into just rip shit apart.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:05:24):
But even in their like, here's all these contracts we're
gonna find, We're gonna find something you haven't been able
to find shit, you haven't been able to do anything,
which I find really fucking funny. Why didn't you just
hire forensic accounts like just top.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
That would actually that would actually you know, require confidence
on their part. Also, forensic accounting might unveil some things
that Republicans maybe don't. One thing is in terms of
what's actually inefficient, uh, in terms of government spending and
how money is getting allocated in things of that nature.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
Right because as a and this is the thing I
saw someone say which I actually appreciated. If you were
to bring in like forensic accounts and stuff like that,
and you were to find actual ways, and I think
you could, by the way, but I don't think it
would be as insane as everyone thinks it would be.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
No, it'd probably be very similar to like, you know,
Rebund's like, yeah, there's voter fraud in every election. I'm like, yeah,
you're technically true, there is, but it's like a dozen people, right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
And by the way, it's like a dozen over thirty years, right,
Like it's not that serious. But if you brought in
forensic accountants and really did some like real hard work
and like we're really going through really trying to find
the shit. If you did that and you were really
honest about finding corruption, do you know the amount of
fucking political wins you could get while you're bringing cases

(01:06:46):
and all this sudden well this guy stole fifty billion
dollars blah blah, and you're like you're taking people to
court and you're fucking handling that shit. You would be
lauded as a fucking hero. But to your point, a
real forensic accountant team would likely find shit they don't
want people to find.

Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
You're gonna let that right And also too, you know,
to your point, it's not they're not actually trying to
look for government waste. They're just trying to fucking rob
the bank from the inside.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
That's that's it. That's slip, that's it, and that's how
you know, Like if you're saying, oh, those is gonna
do like that one god debating Sam Seeter, those is
gonna save all this money? Why aren't they picking people
who are forensic accounts and not nineteen year old hackers?

Speaker 2 (01:07:26):
Or why didn't you partner with the existing inspectors general
that were in place at all of these agencies, which
whose job is literally to do the things that you
say you want to do. Like, that's why they are
in the positions that they are in.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Right, been Like, look, we have this, We have hired
this massive team of forensic accounts, work with these inspector generals,
and you go fucking department to the department and you
just go in there and you fish shut out.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
No worries that I would not have if Trump was
doing that on day one, I'd be like, makes a
lot of sense. You find you find some shady shit,
then you find some shit people stealing money or whatever. Cool,
tak them the court. I don't have a problem with that.
That's not what you're doing. You're just ripping. You're ripping
the system apart and grabbing the the balloons and putting
them in your pockets on the way out of the
fucking room. That's it. Yep, so um yeah, pretty wild shit. Okay,

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