WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #10 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:03.160 Also media. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.120 This is it could happen here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.320 newscast covering what's happening in the White House, the crumbling 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.000 economic world, and what this means for you. I'm Garrison Davis. 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:21.360 I'm joined by Robert Evans, James Stout, and Mio Wong. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:25.799 It is a liberation day in America. Everyone. How do 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.760 you feel? I feel liberated. 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.880 Last, free at last, Thank God Almighty, we are free 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.240 at last for being able to afford things. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:37.120 I am so so liberated. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.800 Right now, unchained from a burden of having money. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.240 Yes, yes, well, as the Buddhists say, you know, freeing 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.919 yourself from attachment is really the path to nirvana. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.479 Trump really is our first Buddhist president, is. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:52.360 One thing they say about him. That's right. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:54.960 He may be the new Dali Lama who can say 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:56.920 the Dhali Lama and he hasn't but. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.760 Yeah, yeah, and the priests who for him after he 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:05.520 dies when he comes back. This guy's Unfortunately, they're probably 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:06.920 on a fucking travel band list. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.319 Now, oh my god, there's I mean, pretty good chance 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.040 they're in ice custody at the moment. 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:17.760 If I understand buddhistm. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.399 Well, I think we should just get right to the 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:22.280 most pressing news, which is line go. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:28.200 Down, Line, Line is on its way down. Yeah, line 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.720 in free fold currently. Yeah. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.800 It's funny because they chose they were supposed to initially. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:35.960 I think it was like going to be three pm 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:39.080 or something. E St two or three was the initial 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.679 time they wanted to announce this, which would have given 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.160 the stock market a couple of. 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.240 Hours on April second, right, yeah. 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.320 Yeah, on April second, it would have given it Liberation Day. 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.280 On Liberation Day, there would have been a couple hours 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.800 for it to take effect, and they attempted to mitigate this. 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:57.520 I guess in the hope that we would all get 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.960 over it overnight, we would forget some other ship before 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.440 the new prices. Even Kevin, we'd be like, ah, no, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.639 I'm on in the next thing. But the Dow and 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.520 the Nazi all all plunged because it's clear if the 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:15.359 president is like deliberately shifting an event to not hurt 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.720 the stock market, that's going to hurt the stock market, 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.360 you know. Yeah, yeah, it's good. When you see a 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.520 ninety degree angle on the old stock market graph, that's 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.240 when you know someone's really crushing it. In the economic delip. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.120 And so far we were recording this a little afternoon 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:33.680 on Thursday, the April third, So just in the course 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.960 of today, major stock indexes have dropped by about five 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.760 point six percent, which means about two point seven trillion 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.320 dollars in market value, which will be the largest decline 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.120 since March of twenty twenty sick. So we are it 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:47.800 is looking like this is going to be, at the 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.560 very least a stock market decline in line with the 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.080 one that came as a result of the global pandemic, 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.760 with the noted caveat that there's really no reason to 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.640 believe it will get better at any point. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.919 Yeah, yeah, you can't ready vaccinate against you bid. 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.440 No, I'm not qualified to give financial advice, but I 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.359 think everyone should pull out your four O one K 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:09.360 right now, go to the bank, withdraw all your money, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.600 all of it your accounts ripe. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:16.320 Put it into the worst tasting survival foods, and you're 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.200 gonna want to buy kel texts, lots of col texts 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:20.959 in a caliber no one. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.680 Else has five to seven. Get the one that doesn't 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:28.919 eight thirty two ACP. I won the thirty two ACP. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:29.320 That's it. 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:32.839 That's it, James. Everyone buy thirty two ACP and guy, 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.520 it's exceeded in ending one World war, and right it 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:37.440 won't let us down. We call that doing a hitler, 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:38.400 but in a good way. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:41.240 Someone here has to be vaguely responsible and say, don't 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.520 fucking do that. Do none of those things zero zero 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:47.520 of those into your accounts, get hard cash. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:52.720 Mark Cuban told people to do that. Absolutely not Mayor 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.200 endorses Reagan Coin is the exclusive safe source of the 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:57.360 time savings. 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.640 You're gonna want to put every dime you've got impressed latinum. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.440 Now I know that that's the currency from star Trek 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.480 and does not exist. Nevertheless, cancel your accounts, put it 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:09.320 all in latinum. 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.560 I mean it's gonna exist in like what like forty 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.120 years per time. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.840 On the ground, it's not already a meme coin ten 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.240 minutes off to discussion, more. 0:04:17.240 --> 0:04:18.640 Stable than your four oh one k. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.080 Right now, you can be rich just in time for 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.839 money to stop being a thing. There you go, there 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.800 you go. Yeah, this is why we're launching cools on 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.040 coin guys for years. It's redeemable for whatever money the 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:32.719 Ferengi use when they exist. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.200 We should probably talk about why the stock market is 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.560 doing poor Leah, So I think Robert, you can handle 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:40.120 this segue. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:45.160 Well, you know, wait, what is that? Oh my god? 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:48.720 Is that Mina Wong's theme music by God? 0:04:50.360 --> 0:05:01.320 Locks right, jasp, locking. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:03.560 Locking, jasp. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.640 Oh God, that was a great purchase, you guys. I mean, 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.600 can we all agree with every penny? 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.560 Really was the best financial partise we've made is the 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.360 tariff talk theme. Thought, it's gonna get so much mileage 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:18.000 out of that thing. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:21.440 It's an un I'm gonna be using this fucker for 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:26.840 years at least something good came of face. When you're 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.760 struggling to get by with your family, just remember the song. 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.760 Yeah, yeah, this will keep you warm as you huddle 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.680 around a barrel waiting for the uh, the new police, 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.039 which are just called murder police to reach your shanty 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.000 down anyway, Pah. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:45.240 Let us talk tariffs. Power. Sections of the left have 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.040 long argued is in logistics. It was logistics that allowed 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.480 the capitalists of the nineteen seventies and eighties to crush 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.680 the labor movements by enacting the so called spatial fix 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.400 to the Crisis of capitalism by shifting production from countries 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.320 where workers' movements were strong to countries where violence against 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:04.760 workers was easier, and workers were thus poorer and more exploited. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.720 CEOs could pit workers against each other in an endless 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.560 race to the bottom. These practices became known as offshoring. 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.760 Infused with the international attack on unions and the power 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.560 of workers heralded in the US by Reagan, together they 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.800 crushed the workers' movement and implemented neoliberal austerity throughout the 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:25.760 globe through a regime that is colloquially known as free trade. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:29.440 Now there was, of course resistance to this, maybe most 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.359 famously the uprising of the Zapatistas and Chiapas in nineteen 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.960 ninety four on the day the NAFTA went into effect. 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.360 But for all of the victories and all of the 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.600 spaces that were carved out, it is still the CEOs, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.680 the bosses, and the capitalists to rule the world. However, 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.480 in the wake of their defeat, sections of the working 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.080 class came to see their own power as a product 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:54.200 of the nation of masculinity of American jobs. For American workers, 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.159 in this view, you didn't need to form a union, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.560 you didn't need to organize, you didn't need to fight 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.800 the boss who exploit you. All you needed to do 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.560 for the high paying blue collar jobs of the nineteen 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.560 sixties to return was getting rid of the immigrants and 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:12.600 bring jobs back home. This American nationalist ideology was extremely 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.040 useful to the ruling class. It allowed them to turn 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.160 the rhetoric of the old base of the workers' movement 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.920 into a fascist movement, which they could then use to 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.320 smash any genuine worker struggle and then ride to power 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.400 to impose more brutal austerity and more pro capitalist reforms, too, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.920 in their view, make it impossible for their power ever 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.000 to be challenged again. But a strange thing happened in 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.679 the nationalism bred by the defeat of the worker's movement. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:41.600 The human personifications of the capitalist bubble economy in Donald 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.360 Trump and Elon Musk, have come to see their own 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:49.160 victory as defeat. They became convinced that the trade deficits, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.160 which from a capitalist's perspective, simply do not matter as 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.720 long as companies are making money. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.320 Yeah, yes, they no better for shit? Yeah. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.640 Juse the fuck we're calling a trade deficit? Is us 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.560 getting things we want from people? 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.720 Like yeah, yeah, it's buying stuff Like I saw a 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.520 good post. It was like, you don't have a trade 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.680 deficit with your dentist. You just pay them to fix 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.840 your teeth. Like, yeah, I was. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.400 I was told at one point in this nation's greatest 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.480 living previous moment of crisis, that what we needed to 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.720 do was go buy things to make it better. 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:29.720 Not anymore, buddy, Nope, because because these people, Donald Trump 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.600 and Elon Musk and the cadra of weird white nationals 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.560 fanatics sets around them have absolutely convinced themselves that if 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:39.839 you have a trade deficit, you are being ripped off 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:41.360 by foreigners. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:42.360 Yep, yep. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.199 And so they concluded that we needed to put tariffs 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:46.920 on fucking all of the rest of the world in 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:51.640 order to bring American jobs back to Americans. A new 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.920 national autarchy for a fascist world. Now, the ruling class, 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.960 all the capitalists, all these fucking goddamn Golden Sax, motherfucker 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.439 financial analysts, all of these CMBC dipshits, all of these 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.120 fucking all these motherfuckers at black Rock and all of 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.119 the global hedge funds, and all of these all these motherfuckers, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.920 all of the tech dipshits, all of the people who 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:13.480 backed Trump to a hilt, simply assumed that none of 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.880 these hairs would ever happen, that it was all campaign bluster, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.360 that he was lying out of his ass. And you know, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.720 Obama again I've said this before, ran an abolishing NAFTA. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.520 So there was you know, and what the fuck ever 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:26.439 came from that, right? We of course fucking tried to 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.320 tell them otherwise. We tried to tell them that they 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.640 could not fucking control the fascist beasts, that one day 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:32.840 it would rise to consume them all along with us. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.280 They didn't care. They backed Trump anyways because they thought 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.640 they would get fucking tax breaks. And now Liberation Day 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:39.959 is here. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.400 Don't forget Crypto. They were really bulletshot back. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:47.240 Yeah, yeah, all of these motherfuckers. They really thought that 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.000 Trump was going to fucking that. Literally, all Trump was 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.520 going to do was punish the transgenders, get rid of woke, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:53.559 and give them tax cuts. 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.920 Mm hmm yep. 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.640 And now if the terrorfalls have gone up, the old 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.760 world is dead, the new world struggles to be. Now 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:02.480 is the time of monsters. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.720 Now we're in what I'm what I'm referring to as 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.319 the Chinese Century. I came up with this this this 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:08.440 week on my own. 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:08.720 Wow. 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.080 Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, hmm yeah, good. 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.359 Now that's that's of course named after Chinatown in San Francisco, 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.280 which Garrison is very bullish about. Uh, positive, positive real 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.600 estate developments there. Uh, you're big into real estate. People 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:24.040 don't know that. 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.400 Chinese real estate absolutely where you want to be right now, 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.439 both both in Chinatown and in actual China. You put 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.760 all your money in the Chinese real estate. The bubble 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.120 can't pop a second time, can only go back up. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:37.400 It does. 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.480 There were so many like enemies on the verge of 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:43.440 defeat in like the traditional US geopolitical sense, like China's 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.959 economy is doing great, Russia could have been easily pushed 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.959 to collapse, and we were just like, na, no, no, 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.719 you know what's better. We're gonna shoot ourselves right in 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:52.120 the dick. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.000 We've snatched defeat from the get ourselves in a dick 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:01.600 with a bullet. That venmos, both of you guys. It's great. 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.120 We dug up the Cold War, resurrected it and then lost. Yeah, 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.160 just to lose. Yeah, Yeah, it's beautiful. You can't. Yeah, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:08.319 it's so. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.920 It's sort of like Michael Jackson coming back for Space 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:15.440 Jam if he had immediately like fucking thrown a basketball 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.439 so hard at a bugs bunny skull that it put 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:18.080 him at traction. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:20.680 I'm sorry, wait, did you just say Michael Jackson. 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.079 Jordan didn't, Okay, Jordan, you just said jacks Well, definitely, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.800 you know, leave it in different, different movie, maybe better. 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:32.120 You know, he always he always performed well around kids. 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.200 So it's good. 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:36.760 God, Yeah, I love Space Jam. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.839 It's a good movie. Anymore. Garrit said, it's forevitainted. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.920 Now, so let's let's talk about the nature of like 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.760 what's actually going down with these terrors. 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:48.960 Yeah, let's get to the tariff's terrible, terrifable, terrifable. That's right, Garrison. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.319 Yeah, So okay, so let me let me, let me 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.120 just let me just read off some of the ones 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.680 that are going to fuck everyone. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:55.320 Great. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.520 Fifty four percent tariff on all goods from China. This 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.360 is a third four percent tariff that is being added 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.040 on to the twenty percent tariff that was already on. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.520 There is a twenty percent tariff on all goods from 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.720 the EU, forty six percent on Vietnam, which is fucking 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.320 devastating because there's a huge amount of capital from China. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:17.120 Also, speaking of the China panic, our strongest geopolitical ally 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:22.560 in the region, like in terms of having a military, right, Yeah, 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.880 a contry that we've been discussing going to warfall quite recently. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.800 Yeah, like we we just we we have literally and 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.240 this is this is the funny thing about all of these. 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.280 Vicky Osto will pointed this out. The more closely allied 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.360 with the US, the more fucked you got by these. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.400 It's such a weird move. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:38.840 Yeah. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.280 Yeah, twenty four percent tariff on Japan. 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:44.439 What is it like eighty or ninety percent on fucking Cambodia? 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.000 Why, yeah, yeah, yeah, So what we'll get to why 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.320 in a second. I want to also cover So there's 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.199 there's a thirty seven percent teriff on Bangladesh, which is 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.000 going to be devastating for I mean a lot of 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.760 textile imports. Twenty five percent on South Korea, so fucking 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.680 you ever getting a phone again? On Taiwan, so rip 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:09.440 the entire tech industry. Fucking rip Taiwan too. These tariffs 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.560 are going to devastate the international economy. 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:12.199 Okay. 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.920 I have been angry about this since the fucking election. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:19.079 People have been calling these tariffs attacks. That is just no, 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:21.800 it is not what's happening here. This is like calling 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:27.000 it a tax is to completely underplay how serious this is. 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:29.440 This is not a fucking tax. This is the wholesale 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.439 destruction of entire industries. And some of these industries like 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.720 fast fashion, which you know has always been undergirded by 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.040 the exploitation of workers from China to Bangladeshi and also 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.640 like in the US two but like, you know, fuck 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.120 those things whatever, they never needed to exist. Fuck them. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.839 But like you know, like you're probably not gonna be 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:45.840 able to fucking buy board games anymore because they're going 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:46.920 to be too expensive to produce. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.000 Oh, it's gonna shatter games like tabletop gaming. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's done. Like the economy as we 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:56.679 knew it does not exist as of like this morning, right, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:13:58.839 everything that we've known about how this thing works is 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.199 fucking done. And some of these are just you know, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.760 like unbelievably hideously cruel. So, for example, a forty four 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.719 percent terriff on me and Mark, which you know is 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.199 a country, yeah, devastated by a horrific war wage for 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.640 a brutal dictatorship and also fucking suffering from a catastrophic earthquake, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.200 and we're like, fuck you eat shit. Forty four percent 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.439 tariff also embargoed. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.920 No, like we've seized their government assets in the United States, Like, yep, 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.400 it's one of like Diego Garcia for instance. 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.960 Yes, there's well it's on the British Indian Ocean Territory, 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.120 which collective population is primarily US soldiers. 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:37.120 Yeah, like Christmas Island is on there, like yeah, you know. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.960 And there's one more that I want to talk about, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.320 which is that so Sri Lanka has been suffering from 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.480 an unbelievably devastating series of economic crises, and they're getting 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.040 hit with a forty four percent fucking tariff in a 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.800 moment when like they already haven't had enough dollars to 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.760 fucking import fuel for their economy to function. So this 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.320 is going to be devastating not just for US, but 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:00.200 for a whole bunch of people across the world. So 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.360 this is the other aspect of this too that's really 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:05.640 fucking brutal, is that for the US, Right, we don't 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.720 need other countries' money, We don't need to have piles 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.800 of any other countries's money around, Right, we can just 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.160 buy things in American dollars. But if you are Sri Lanka, 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.560 you need American dollars to buy oil. Yes, there are 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.480 so many fucking things that you could only buy in 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.160 American dollars. And when these TIFFs go up, when the 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.480 prices increase, and when they can't fucking sell their stuff, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:27.600 that means that they don't have dollars, and that means 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.560 that they can't get access to a whole bunch of 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.640 the vital commodities that they need to survive. And this 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.360 is just going to fucking devastate them. And I think 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.720 that's been an angle that I really wanted to make 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.320 sure we talked about, because it's been I haven't seen 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.280 any fucking mention of it at all, even though those 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:43.520 are the people who are going to suffer the most 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.840 in this are people who are already completely on the 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.520 fucking edge, whose economies have already been collapsed. You've already 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.960 been so brutally exploited by these same fucking people, and 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:54.400 they're just fucked. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.560 Yep. You know, we always say we know like to reefs, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:15.360 but we do like these ads. We're back. I don't 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:16.120 feel great about that. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:20.160 But now there is a funny part of all of this. 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.240 There is some fun here good, which is okay. So 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.760 one of the big questions about the tariffs was how 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.960 were they going to calculate the tariffs on all of 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:32.160 these countries right because they were saying that their terroriffs 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:34.440 were going to be a projection of like currency manipulation 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.440 and like value added taxes and like all of these 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.280 like like subsidies to vital industries and you know, And 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:42.720 the question again was like literally, how can they possibly 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.280 cockyate the tariff rates of hundreds of different countries and 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.000 taking into account all these things right now? The news 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.160 have been making a couple of weeks ago was that 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.080 they were going to do brackets. What they actually appear 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.600 to have done is ask check GVT. 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.280 It's entire people have like reverse engineered the prompts. It's 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.720 almost directly just the schatchy probably shit, there's a couple 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.600 different engines that give almost identical responses, but it's probably it's. 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.800 Amazing that they're doing the same ship as like my 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.600 undergraduates and the people are doing the same shit. Sure 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:17.320 you're undergraduates. Spends a little more time trying to add it. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.399 Ja most of them a smart enough to to like 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.360 had it a little bit so that you can't put 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.440 prompt into chat GPT and find it. Yeah, So that 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:25.920 my lowest effa undergrads. 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:27.760 I want to give a lot of credit to the 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.360 economist James Surohreki, who's the guy who figured out their formula. 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.760 So their formula and this is drawing for something. I 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.320 mean I saw it from from James first. Uh, But 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.560 like so their formula is literally just you take a 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.399 country's trade deficit with the US. And it's also important 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:46.880 to note here that they're not counting services. They're only 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.959 counting goods. Right. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.560 Well, again, if if you're missing the products and just 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.480 getting in services, that's half the economy as I understand it. 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:00.680 Yeah, yeah, especially provides an enormous number of services. You know, 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.760 But these people are fucking fascists and so they don't 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.359 they don't think that like the services are fucking real, right, 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.600 It's it's the same ideology that undergirds the whole thing 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.000 about like service workers not being fucking real work. 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.920 Literally, the only real job is that one video of 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.800 a guy wrestling with an oil Derek. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.040 Yes, that is the only job. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.680 That is the manager and was just doing that for 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.840 the video and was doing it very wrong. You've got to. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:27.080 Take some pieces of metal, move them around to where 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.280 they're not supposed to go. That's that's when you're a real. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.800 Labor, labor that's working. Only jobs are things where you 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.199 wear safety to boots and well and and and. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.280 That's and that's the thing that because like their image 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.040 of the world is is the fascist image of the world, 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.159 and the fascist image of the world, like labor is 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.720 just masculinity. Yeah, and that's like that's why they're fucking 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.440 doing it like this, and so you know, and so 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:52.840 so the fascists have asked chat GPT how to do tariffs, 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:54.919 and what they got is again, so do they take 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.160 the country's trade deficit and divide it by their total 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.040 experts in the US? Now, this is nothing, right, like 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.480 in economic terms, that's not how you do anything. This 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.000 is this is not a real thing like this is 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.600 this is like trying to measure someone's height by like 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:10.480 dividing their favorite number by the average radius of an apple. 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:13.720 Like it's literally at you know, what are we what 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:14.800 are you coming after me? 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:15.040 Here? 0:19:16.560 --> 0:19:18.720 Look just because I'm imagined differently. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.399 Okay, there is no scientific basis Robert for for for 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.440 measuring height by dividing favorite number by apple radius. We 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.600 simply must accept the truth of science. 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:29.879 That's what you say, Joe Rogan, and I feel it everently. 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:35.240 The dictatorship of chat GPT is just it's so bleak. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.399 Yeah, yeah, it's just they asked chat GPT. 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:40.840 It's a mix of they don't actually care or think 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.959 this will affect them, and also they legitimately think it's 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:45.400 the smartest person in the world. 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.000 Yeah, yeah, it's smarter than them. Yeah, it would just 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.600 maybe a good thing, but not in this instant. 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.880 Well well, and you can you can tell the extent 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.679 to which they were relying on this and didn't cancnate 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.840 themselves because so after after it started to spread that 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.760 this is just how they were doing its James Suroreki 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:05.480 like calculated it. The White House said no, no, no, no, no, 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.040 hold on, no, no, no, no, that's not right. We 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.560 use an actual complex formula, and so they released a 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:13.040 fake formula. But I think about the formula, right, is 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:17.000 that the formula is just it is literally just trade 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:19.320 deficit divided by total exports. But they threw in two 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:22.840 random variables as Greek letters. But there's one on the top, 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:24.840 but there's one of the numerated, one of those denominator 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.439 and they're the same so they can't sell each other out. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:27.280 That sounds right to me. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.880 That's how you know they're smart. It's because they're using 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:31.000 Greek letters. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.760 Yep, which Greek letters did they use? And which person's 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:37.200 fraternity does it represent? 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:40.480 I don't even speak Greek letters, so they are They 0:20:40.520 --> 0:20:42.560 must be smarter than me, you know what, I rescind 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:43.359 my complaints. 0:20:44.600 --> 0:20:47.520 This is how the economy dies, not through tragedy but 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:48.119 through farce. 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:53.000 It's both. Yeah, tragic fuss, I think is what Marx 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.040 cold is. A lot of people are gonna die, you know, And. 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:57.800 I mean, like, like, my actual serious line on this 0:20:57.960 --> 0:21:00.520 is that this is the great double bind of capitalism, 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.400 is that we are all reliant simultaneously, We are reliant 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:05.800 for our survival on the same economy that will make 0:21:05.880 --> 0:21:08.280 us all homeless, right is the same economy that we 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.119 need to fucking eat every single day. That even in 0:21:11.240 --> 0:21:13.640 good times, this economy fucking strips from us the value 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.240 of the labor we produce and hands us back a 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:18.560 bunch of fucking scraps that pay for not enough of 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.680 anything that we need. So even as our enemies, you know, 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:25.159 terror part the system that exploits us, we are the 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.720 fucking ones who's going to suffer. Neoliberalism finally has in 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.480 Trump produced its own grave digger, and our fucking job 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.040 and the job of every single one of us and 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.520 every single person listening to this show is to make 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:37.840 sure that we also aren't the ones thrown into this 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.760 fucking grave. And this is going to require a kind 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.800 of organizing that is in some ways like but in 0:21:43.880 --> 0:21:46.160 some ways unlike anything we've done before. We are we're 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:51.040 about to experience a level of unbelievable economic chaos that 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:53.560 we sort of saw during twenty twenty. But during twenty 0:21:53.640 --> 0:21:56.280 twenty there was you know, as bad as everything got, 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.919 the state stepped in and decided to do welfare reforms, 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:02.240 right like, they gave people a bunch of fucking money. Yeah, 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.520 and it wasn't enough, but they did it. Now, none 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:07.280 of that shit. He are the only people who are 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.320 going to be able to keep each other alive. And 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:11.280 that's that's what we have to be doing right now, 0:22:11.400 --> 0:22:13.280 is we have to be keeping each other alive until 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:15.680 we are organized enough and we are powerful enough to 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.720 fucking run these people out so they can't ever fuck 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:18.720 us again like this, so. 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.720 We can resurrect neo liberal globalism. We can restore free trade, that's. 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:26.320 Right, that's right, and bring it back to the Clinton era. 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:29.240 Oh god. One last thing we should mention is that 0:22:29.320 --> 0:22:33.000 like this is already united the entire world against us. Effectively, 0:22:33.400 --> 0:22:36.000 people countries who have never worked together before in their 0:22:36.160 --> 0:22:37.960 entire existence are working together. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:42.560 And unfortunately, Poles also show Americans can distrust or the 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:46.479 tendency to view like Canadians and the EU as enemies 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:48.760 is rising both Republicans and Democrats. 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:51.920 Yeah, so that's great. That's great, cool cool, cool cool 0:22:51.960 --> 0:22:52.560 cool cool cool. 0:22:53.240 --> 0:22:55.280 Yeah. And also you know, and like the thing, the thing, 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:56.800 the other thing that we have to do here, and 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.240 this is this is literally our responsibility on this podcast 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:01.639 and also just ability of like fucking everyone who was 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:04.560 having conversations with another person is that this is entirely 0:23:04.640 --> 0:23:07.920 Trump's fault. He fucking did this. Like, oh yeah, this 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:10.439 is not fucking the EU or whatever the fuck whoever's 0:23:10.480 --> 0:23:11.400 doing retalitory show. 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:13.760 Yeah, this is this is no one else ever wanted this. 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:17.879 Yeah yeah, no, like the people who put Trump in 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:19.200 power didn't want this. 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:20.480 This is just him. 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:26.000 And so yeah, the the actual solution to this is 0:23:26.840 --> 0:23:29.439 all of us running this fucker out and not us 0:23:29.640 --> 0:23:33.600 getting drawn into his fucking bullshit wars with Canada or 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:36.800 Greenland or whatever the fuck country he decides to invade 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:37.760 in the next year. 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:42.120 Is that all for tariff talk? 0:23:42.680 --> 0:23:44.160 Yeah, that's all we got on the terrace. 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:45.280 I don't know what else to say. 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:48.240 I mean, I just I'm just looking at the numbers 0:23:48.320 --> 0:23:51.000 right now where the Dow Industrial is down a fifteen 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:55.200 hundred points since the start of the day, So it's. 0:23:55.160 --> 0:23:56.400 Things are looking very good. 0:23:56.480 --> 0:23:56.640 Yea. 0:23:57.200 --> 0:23:59.760 All of the lines, like if you look at the 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:04.439 in which the line went down, there's like it's just this. 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:09.320 Direct vertical drop on the third Yep, it's shocking. So 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:10.720 it is a ninety degree angle. 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:14.400 It is legitimately if you set the Google stock viewer 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:17.000 thing to a one day view, the drop is so 0:24:17.119 --> 0:24:19.160 shocking that it looks like it just started down. 0:24:19.280 --> 0:24:22.000 Yeah, it prompts you to turn your phone in the 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.359 other direction. I've never seen anything like it, but I 0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:27.520 guess no one has. Yeah, no, I mean some of us. 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:30.920 I guess people still alive in the nineteen thirties. Yeah, yes, 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:39.680 Woody Guthrie has fucking grandma. I guess, like, Yeah, it's great. 0:24:39.760 --> 0:24:41.880 We did it in the nineteen thirties. It was bad 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:43.960 then and it's bad now. 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:47.159 Well, now that we got those pesky tariffs out of 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.840 the way, let's talk about the actual most important thing 0:24:49.880 --> 0:24:52.240 to happen this week. In the news, New Jersey Senator 0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:57.280 Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest yea 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:01.240 twenty five hours in five minutes. Yeah, that's horrible, beating 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:05.560 Strom Thurman's filibuster of the nineteen fifty seven Civil Rights 0:25:05.600 --> 0:25:07.760 Bill by forty six minutes. 0:25:08.240 --> 0:25:13.960 We did it. Vokes excellent, outstanding, good. I'm just checking 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:15.880 on Ah Wall Street bets and they're having a real 0:25:15.960 --> 0:25:16.440 one today. 0:25:16.600 --> 0:25:21.119 That's pretty I will say. I will say the thing 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.359 about the Booker won. So if you were writing a 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:27.000 parody of the Democratic Party, you would write that Corey 0:25:27.080 --> 0:25:30.159 Booker did this and like, did this filibuster and then 0:25:30.200 --> 0:25:32.720 immediately turned around and voted yes for a cloture vote 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:36.560 to allow Trump to appoint another nominee. And that's exactly 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:37.400 what they did. 0:25:38.320 --> 0:25:39.560 Yeah, we can't even you. 0:25:39.560 --> 0:25:43.119 Can't perry to them. It's beyond parody. I like, it's astounding, 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:43.840 it's astonishing. 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:46.119 It's not even a filibuster. He's not filibuster or anything. 0:25:46.760 --> 0:25:47.080 We didn't. 0:25:47.119 --> 0:25:50.000 He didn't actively stop anything happening other than people not 0:25:50.040 --> 0:25:52.880 paying attention to it. I got a response from someone 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:54.240 being like, well, you know, they didn't get to do 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:56.000 anything on Monday, and I was like, yeah, they weren't 0:25:56.000 --> 0:25:59.639 really planning on it and things continued as normal. 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:04.000 Yeah, yeah, And you know, and here's the thing about that, right, Like, 0:26:04.359 --> 0:26:06.720 do you know how many Democrats there are in the Senate. 0:26:07.359 --> 0:26:09.600 Do you know how many hours you could filibuster them 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:11.960 for if you were actually determined to fucking do this, 0:26:12.080 --> 0:26:13.440 and on how many different things. 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:15.680 We had a rotating series of Democrats. 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:17.560 Yeah, show it if you tag teamed it. 0:26:17.800 --> 0:26:20.159 Yeah, but they're not They're not willing to fucking do it. 0:26:20.240 --> 0:26:23.000 No, and they'd be stopped eventually the Republicans would do 0:26:23.160 --> 0:26:24.600 something fucked up to stop it. 0:26:24.720 --> 0:26:27.320 But at least you'd have tried, Yeah, yeah, and people 0:26:27.320 --> 0:26:30.880 would maybe take some fucking energy from that. And even 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.240 if you were gonna do this as a fucking show 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:35.320 vote thing, you could have voted no one the cloture 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:38.960 motion to like fucking do the to like appoint the 0:26:39.000 --> 0:26:40.600 next nominee. But they're just like no, fuck you. 0:26:40.760 --> 0:26:43.840 Mention the fact that Chuck Schumer caved on the Republican 0:26:43.920 --> 0:26:46.199 budget from a few weeks ago. Yeah, and secretly got 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:48.520 a number of Democratic senators just which their votes to 0:26:48.600 --> 0:26:51.480 make it pass. Yeah, and no one did this for 0:26:51.760 --> 0:26:54.560 for that which which previously Democrats were talking about this 0:26:54.640 --> 0:26:56.639 budget bill like it's the worst thing to ever happen 0:26:56.680 --> 0:26:59.520 because it is a bad bill. Yeah, it's really bad. 0:26:59.840 --> 0:27:02.840 And then they just caved last minute, or specifically Schumer 0:27:02.920 --> 0:27:05.760 and the people he talked to caved. And Schumer definitely 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:07.880 would not have been in supportive of Booker doing something 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.840 like this for that bill. But now Schumer gets to 0:27:10.880 --> 0:27:15.040 applaud along as as Booker delivers a twenty five hour 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.879 maybe like well orated speech, but it was. 0:27:18.400 --> 0:27:21.400 A very well written speech. Like technically it was good, 0:27:21.560 --> 0:27:22.600 but that didn't matter. 0:27:22.920 --> 0:27:25.880 It's just this pure show of like symbolic theater. 0:27:26.040 --> 0:27:27.359 Yeah, what's the point. 0:27:27.720 --> 0:27:31.040 It's like if a congress person got out and conducted 0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:35.879 like a perfect rendition of the Nutcracker like symphony of 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:38.040 like the ballet portion of that on their own in 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:41.000 front of like the Capitol building, Like, well, it's impressive, 0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.920 it's spectacle, Like you're clearly very good at what you're doing, 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:46.720 but it didn't change anything, like it had no impact 0:27:47.040 --> 0:27:48.000 on the problems. 0:27:48.640 --> 0:27:52.359 Right, Yeah, yeah, like you're good. I'll give you that. 0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:55.920 Corey Booker can deliver a fucking speech, but that was 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.719 really not what I was looking for. Yeah, fiddling impressively burned, 0:28:01.280 --> 0:28:01.960 thanks Corey. 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:05.760 Yeah, and every single moment the Trump is in power, 0:28:05.880 --> 0:28:09.320 the way the way that they fucking just rolled over 0:28:09.400 --> 0:28:10.359 for him looks worse and. 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:15.520 Worse because he said, I failed, and so did we. 0:28:15.760 --> 0:28:18.040 We didn't rise to the moment, and we let this 0:28:18.200 --> 0:28:21.800 horrible thing happen, which I even I got a little briefly. 0:28:22.040 --> 0:28:25.480 Oh shit, maybe he actually recognizes like, no, okay, well. 0:28:25.359 --> 0:28:28.200 Because it took him like twenty hours to like break 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:30.560 emotionally to the point where he could like admit that 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:31.760 to himself. 0:28:32.240 --> 0:28:34.080 His deep, deep deep failed. 0:28:34.160 --> 0:28:36.600 Yeah yeah, but like it took having your brain be 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:40.520 be shattered by this like pretty impressive physical act that 0:28:40.680 --> 0:28:44.840 like destroys your body, soul and spirit. And anyway, I 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:46.840 think that's all we have to say about that. Let's 0:28:47.040 --> 0:28:49.280 go on and ad break and come back to discuss 0:28:49.480 --> 0:28:55.800 more sad and I'll actually also possibly good news or 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:57.800 at least bad for Elon Musk which is good for us. 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:11.320 Yeah, all right, we are back. 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:15.760 I think let's pivot to James Stout for an update 0:29:16.040 --> 0:29:25.040 on Venezuela. Well, no El Salvador, Salvador the torture labor prison. 0:29:25.720 --> 0:29:26.880 James m hm. 0:29:26.960 --> 0:29:29.200 Of course. We have to begin my segment today by 0:29:29.240 --> 0:29:33.080 saying tepe rosbi to Abdullah Ojulen, whose birthday it is 0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:35.320 on the day that you are hearing this. So if 0:29:35.360 --> 0:29:36.760 you want to plant, if you want to plant a 0:29:36.840 --> 0:29:39.560 tree for appo, get it. Get out there and plant 0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:42.160 your tree. Unfortunately, that is the only good news we 0:29:42.280 --> 0:29:44.760 have today. Border Patrol to spend most of this week 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:48.080 touting the quote lowest number of border crossings in history. 0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.400 It will shocked listeners to hear that this is not 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:55.000 historically accurate. Bordering counters are way down. If there's one 0:29:55.120 --> 0:29:57.360 thing that I have ever taught you, it is that 0:29:57.600 --> 0:30:00.560 bordering counters are not the same as unique ind visuals 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:03.280 because people are being sent directly back to Mexico and 0:30:03.440 --> 0:30:07.120 will tend to return attempting a different route crossing the border. Right, 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:10.360 there's our way down. And they're the lowest since they 0:30:10.440 --> 0:30:13.840 began publishing monthly data in two thousand. But numbers were 0:30:13.840 --> 0:30:16.920 wailer in the fifties and sixties and before then. It's 0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:20.440 relatively immaterial. It's just sort of a nipiggy point. I 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:23.080 guess today, what I really want to talk about is 0:30:23.200 --> 0:30:28.800 the case of mister Kilmar Abragor Garcia. He was removed 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:32.240 by the Trump administration to els Albador to Secot in 0:30:32.320 --> 0:30:34.760 a way that they have admitted was a mistake. So 0:30:35.200 --> 0:30:36.760 we have to go back a little bit to understand 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:40.120 mister Abergo Garcia's story and how we got here. He 0:30:40.320 --> 0:30:42.480 was arrested in mid March due to the United States 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:45.080 government claim that he played a quote prominent role in 0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:49.680 MS thirteen. MS thirteen being the Salvadorean gang. He'd come 0:30:49.720 --> 0:30:51.720 to the United States in twenty eleven he was fleeing 0:30:51.800 --> 0:30:56.720 gang violence. He was allegedly arrested in twenty nineteen outside 0:30:56.760 --> 0:30:59.200 a home depot where he was standing with other men 0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:03.600 looking for work. However, the incident report for that particular 0:31:03.640 --> 0:31:07.680 incident gives other names, but not his. At that point, 0:31:08.000 --> 0:31:12.280 a Prince George's County Police Department detective filled out a 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:17.240 quote gang worksheet and claimed that mister Abergogarcia was associated 0:31:17.280 --> 0:31:20.280 with a member of MS thirteen. The evidence he cited 0:31:20.320 --> 0:31:23.760 for this was a Chicago bulls hoodie and the claim 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:27.080 of a confidential informant. The competition informant claimed that he 0:31:27.200 --> 0:31:31.120 was part of a group within this gang that was 0:31:31.360 --> 0:31:33.600 set up in a state that mister Abergagarcia had never 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:38.680 lived in the United States. In twenty nineteen, Ice argued 0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:42.640 that he shouldn't be given bond because of this alleged 0:31:42.720 --> 0:31:45.920 gang membership right, and so he wasn't given bond, but 0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:49.360 through an asylum claim. Although he didn't get asylum, he 0:31:49.800 --> 0:31:52.480 was protected from removal right, so a judge ruled that 0:31:52.520 --> 0:31:55.160 he couldn't be removed back to El Salvador, where he 0:31:55.280 --> 0:32:01.040 would presumably face violence. When mister Abergogarcia's lawyers tried to 0:32:01.120 --> 0:32:03.800 interview the police detective who had filed this report accusing 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:06.520 him of gang membership, they found no record of his 0:32:06.680 --> 0:32:09.360 rest and that the detective has been suspended since then. 0:32:09.760 --> 0:32:12.240 The department question also settled a lawsuit with its own 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:16.520 corps over racism in the department. JD Vance, who has 0:32:16.800 --> 0:32:19.560 a law degree right the JD is I guess before 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:22.320 and after his name. He has a law degree from Harvard, 0:32:22.600 --> 0:32:25.000 has claimed that mister Abergo Garcia is a convicted member 0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:27.840 of MS thirteen. This is not true. I can't find 0:32:27.880 --> 0:32:30.640 any evidence he has any conviction of any kind. I'm 0:32:30.680 --> 0:32:32.880 going to quote here from a filing by the United 0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:36.160 States government on the fifteenth of March. Although ICE was 0:32:36.240 --> 0:32:39.400 aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrigo 0:32:39.480 --> 0:32:43.560 Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error. 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:46.480 So the government there has admitted in a court filing 0:32:46.520 --> 0:32:50.480 that they accidentally sent this guide to the prison labor 0:32:50.520 --> 0:32:54.480 camp in El Salvador. Right, according to ICE acting field 0:32:54.520 --> 0:32:58.720 Officer Robert Cerner quote, he was an alternate as others 0:32:58.760 --> 0:33:01.360 were removed from the flight for versarious reasons. He moved 0:33:01.400 --> 0:33:03.960 up the list and was assigned to the flight. So 0:33:04.080 --> 0:33:06.760 it appears that they had a large list of people 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.840 they wanted to put on this flight. This is interesting, right, 0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:12.800 It's an insight into their process fulfilling that first flight 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:15.200 that they some people they cally didn't feel they had 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.880 enough evidence for. But somehow this guy, who again has 0:33:17.960 --> 0:33:21.280 never been convicted of having any membership of any gang, 0:33:21.800 --> 0:33:25.040 they put on this flight. Right, His wife and child 0:33:25.120 --> 0:33:28.440 are both US citizens and they have sued in court. 0:33:28.480 --> 0:33:30.720 That's why we're seeing this, right. They've sued for the 0:33:30.840 --> 0:33:34.400 United States government to stop paying El Salvador for his 0:33:34.520 --> 0:33:38.760 detention and for the United States government to demand he returned. 0:33:39.600 --> 0:33:43.160 Vance has advanced a kind of unique legal theory in response, 0:33:43.480 --> 0:33:46.480 claiming that withholding of removal only prevent someone being deported 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:49.360 back to their home state. I mean you could technically 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.560 that is what the withholding is, right, Like, it's like, 0:33:52.600 --> 0:33:54.480 he can't go back to El Salvador because he will 0:33:54.520 --> 0:33:57.200 be at risk in El Salvador. So so they can 0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.840 deport him to a third state. But they deported him 0:33:59.840 --> 0:34:03.000 to Well Salvador, or renditioned him to Well Salvador. Right, 0:34:03.480 --> 0:34:06.640 I want to read JD. Vance's post here. I'm not 0:34:06.680 --> 0:34:08.200 going to read the whole thing, but I'll start with 0:34:08.280 --> 0:34:12.000 the second paragraph. In twenty nineteen Immigration judge parentheses under 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:15.040 the Biden administration. For those of you who are familiar 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:19.279 with dates, it's at twenty nineteen, was under the first 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:22.080 Trump administration. That was that was the Trump administration. Yeah, 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:26.479 moving on, determined that the deported man was in fact 0:34:26.560 --> 0:34:29.280 a member of the MS thirteen gang. He also apparently 0:34:29.280 --> 0:34:31.680 had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:34.880 in court, a real winner. It is telling that the 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:37.640 entire American media is going to run a propaganda operation 0:34:37.760 --> 0:34:40.480 today making you think that an innocent quote father of 0:34:40.600 --> 0:34:43.640 three was apprehended by a gulag. Father of three is 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:47.800 in quotes here, by the way, Yeah, yeah, And gulags 0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:51.239 generally not capable of doing the apprehensions themselves. If we 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:54.160 think of a gulag as a place, is the police 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:56.480 who are apprehend the person send them to the gulag. 0:34:56.960 --> 0:34:59.920 Moving on, here are the relevant facts. I'm still quoting. 0:35:00.360 --> 0:35:02.480 The man is an illegal immigrant with no right to 0:35:02.520 --> 0:35:05.279 be in our country. Obviously, the judge determined that he 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:09.319 was protected from removal. Quoting again an immigration judge during 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.239 the Biden I've been determined he was a member of 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:15.080 the MS thirteen gang. Again, that's not the case. 0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:17.239 It's staggering the extent to which they can say a 0:35:17.320 --> 0:35:21.040 sentence where every single individual word is a lie. Like stunning. 0:35:21.320 --> 0:35:21.799 Yeah. Yeah. 0:35:22.080 --> 0:35:24.800 The fact that so many members of the Modern Republican 0:35:25.040 --> 0:35:28.120 Party have like memory hold twenty nineteen to twenty twenty 0:35:28.200 --> 0:35:31.759 as being under the biden In administration is just insane. 0:35:32.040 --> 0:35:34.040 Yeah, it's bizarre. I think what they're referring to is 0:35:34.080 --> 0:35:36.799 that the initial hearing right where he was denied BOMB 0:35:36.880 --> 0:35:38.920 was in twenty nineteen, and then he filed his asylum 0:35:39.000 --> 0:35:42.279 claim and later was protected from removal. But that's not 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:43.279 what they're saying here. 0:35:43.480 --> 0:35:45.920 But like even the way they talk about, like the 0:35:46.200 --> 0:35:50.960 COVID response, they talk about it as if Joe Biden 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:51.600 was the president. 0:35:51.680 --> 0:35:54.760 They're not gonna lock us down again. But you locked 0:35:54.840 --> 0:35:58.440 us down, Yeah, who did that? And then the last one, 0:35:58.640 --> 0:36:01.000 I think it's most rebelatory because he's not a citizen. 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:02.920 He does not get full jury trial by peers. In 0:36:03.000 --> 0:36:05.760 other words, whatever due process he was entitled to he received, 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:08.840 the immigration court doesn't generally present the opportunity for a 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:11.880 jury trial. Right once again holds a JdE and he 0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:16.359 presumably knows this. What's more disturbing is the claim made 0:36:16.400 --> 0:36:19.000 by the United States government in its filing in this 0:36:19.160 --> 0:36:23.880 lawsuit that the Abergo Garcia family filed quote because plaintiffs 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:27.120 conceived that Abergogarcia is not in the United States custody, 0:36:27.440 --> 0:36:30.360 this court cannot hear these claims. So they're claiming that 0:36:30.560 --> 0:36:34.799 no US court has jurisdiction over the question of these 0:36:34.840 --> 0:36:37.560 people who are in El Salvador because they're not in 0:36:37.800 --> 0:36:41.400 US custody, right, which obviously if they stick the landing 0:36:41.480 --> 0:36:43.520 on this, it suggests that like it is a one 0:36:43.600 --> 0:36:46.160 way ticket to the prison labor camp, right, that you 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:49.400 cannot challenge that in US court, and you ain't going 0:36:49.480 --> 0:36:51.840 to get very far in court in El Salvador. 0:36:52.040 --> 0:36:55.000 Right. So what they're suggesting here is this, this is 0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:58.400 a forever detention, that there is no habeas right. That 0:36:58.680 --> 0:37:00.959 was they were asking for, Hey, colpus. 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:03.000 Can you spen my haabest Corpus actually is for the listeners. 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:06.320 Yeah, it means bring me the body, right in this 0:37:06.440 --> 0:37:06.960 case is. 0:37:07.000 --> 0:37:11.840 Yeah, you have to present evidence in order to charge 0:37:11.960 --> 0:37:13.160 like convict people and things. 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:16.480 Yeah, it's like the cnequa non of having a justice system, 0:37:16.560 --> 0:37:20.920 a criminal justice show something. Yeah, you can't just be 0:37:21.080 --> 0:37:23.160 like bad man and then put the guy in jail. 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:25.799 The most basic thing is that like, yeah, I mean 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:27.600 in literal terms, it means you have to like actually 0:37:27.680 --> 0:37:29.640 take somebody in front of a court in order to 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:32.799 determine if they're like being detained for a reason, right, 0:37:32.920 --> 0:37:35.200 Like a judge has to see them and say like, yes, 0:37:35.840 --> 0:37:38.480 this is this is not an unlawful imprisonment. There is 0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:41.800 a charge, there is some degree of evidence that somebody 0:37:41.880 --> 0:37:42.839 did something. 0:37:43.040 --> 0:37:45.080 Right, which they have not provided here. 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:47.719 Right, not that like you can prove they did it, 0:37:47.800 --> 0:37:50.440 but like something was done and you are here for 0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:51.560 that for a reason. 0:37:52.200 --> 0:37:52.399 Yeah. 0:37:53.000 --> 0:37:56.080 Yeah, so in this case, we we don't have any 0:37:56.160 --> 0:37:59.440 of that. Mister Abrigo Garcia is still the way his 0:37:59.560 --> 0:38:02.040 family found out he was in second was that his 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:04.719 wife identified him by scars on his head when they 0:38:04.760 --> 0:38:08.279 shaved it, and at tattoo they saw Jesus Christ. Yeah, 0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:11.719 they had no idea. It presumably doesn't come up on 0:38:11.760 --> 0:38:14.000 the ICE detainee locator. You know that you're going to 0:38:14.040 --> 0:38:16.239 look up your family members and if your family members 0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:18.799 are detained by ICE, doesn't have L Salvador as an option. 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:21.759 So yeah, this is where we're at. This is a 0:38:21.840 --> 0:38:24.399 case I will be following, right because I say it's 0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:27.360 pretty pivotal. If they can argue that the court doesn't 0:38:27.400 --> 0:38:30.399 have jurisdiction. Obviously, I'm sure at that point that ruling 0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:34.240 will be challenged and it will run up the courts. Currently, 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:35.879 it seems like the only court they're going to listen 0:38:35.920 --> 0:38:39.000 to is a Supreme court. But evidently that this is 0:38:39.080 --> 0:38:41.120 what they're going for, Like, this is their argument here 0:38:41.160 --> 0:38:42.920 that once you're in l salbad or you're out of 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:46.399 their hands and they can't do anything. So sorry, even 0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:48.719 though it was a mistake, you're stuck there forever, which 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:49.680 is pretty disturbing. 0:38:50.400 --> 0:38:54.160 Yesterday, me and James did an episode on ICE's targeting 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:58.560 of students at scholars and professors that they believe are 0:38:58.880 --> 0:39:03.160 associated with Palestine protests. So we did an update on 0:39:03.280 --> 0:39:05.800 that story that I did a peace on or a 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:08.520 segment down last week on executive disorder. So for a 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.320 follow up on that, you can look to yesterday's episode. 0:39:11.560 --> 0:39:13.960 But we are going to close with I guess kind 0:39:14.000 --> 0:39:17.759 of a feel good story because it makes Elon Musk sad. 0:39:18.680 --> 0:39:20.160 He has had a bit of a bit of a 0:39:20.280 --> 0:39:26.920 rough week for mister Musk's businesses and his political projects. 0:39:27.000 --> 0:39:30.800 I guess Elon Musk's efforts to buy the Wisconsin Supreme 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:36.160 Court have failed, as the Democratic backed candidate swept the election, 0:39:36.480 --> 0:39:40.200 maintaining four to three Liberal control of the Supreme Court 0:39:40.640 --> 0:39:41.520 of Wisconsin. 0:39:42.000 --> 0:39:42.200 Yeah. 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:45.000 I mean, the gist of it is of like three 0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:47.719 or four days ago, all of my friends from who 0:39:47.760 --> 0:39:52.120 are Scani's got furious because Elon Musk wore a cheesehead, 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:54.840 you know, like the ones for the packers that the 0:39:55.280 --> 0:39:58.120 people from Wisconsin ware when they're at games while he 0:39:58.200 --> 0:40:01.000 got up on stage and gave of a million dollars. 0:40:01.719 --> 0:40:05.319 Basically immediately before, like about little less than a week ago, 0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:08.600 a higher court ruled that it was not bribery for 0:40:08.719 --> 0:40:11.440 him to offer people a million dollars at random if 0:40:11.520 --> 0:40:15.680 they voted or showed up at like you know, different 0:40:15.760 --> 0:40:18.120 rallies and stuff, which is like what he's been doing, right, 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:21.720 is making these basically fake offers of a million dollars 0:40:21.760 --> 0:40:24.680 because these two went to members of the local Republican party, 0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:26.160 like it was clearly set up. 0:40:26.400 --> 0:40:30.280 Yeah, the head of the College Republicans of Wisconsin, amazing 0:40:30.800 --> 0:40:34.439 must fish twenty five million dollars leads on this race. 0:40:34.800 --> 0:40:37.360 He danced around on stage wearing a cheesehead, and he 0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:40.880 gave out million dollar novelty checks to quote unquote voters 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:46.120 who won a contest by signing his petition against activist judges. 0:40:46.200 --> 0:40:48.960 Which has been the new rallying cry on the right 0:40:49.080 --> 0:40:51.680 is that everything that's going wrong, everything that's stopping Trump, 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.080 is from these active studges that we have to unseat. 0:40:54.640 --> 0:40:58.480 He also gave one hundred dollars each to every person 0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:02.520 who signed that petition, and on election day, Musk offered 0:41:02.600 --> 0:41:05.840 voters fifty dollars if they posted a picture of a 0:41:05.920 --> 0:41:10.280 Wisconsin resident outside of a polling place. How is that allowed? 0:41:10.880 --> 0:41:13.960 These are the same people who scream about like election interference, 0:41:14.080 --> 0:41:19.080 rigging elections, buying elections to the elections ed like, like 0:41:19.200 --> 0:41:21.759 this is insane stuff. You can go to jail for 0:41:21.840 --> 0:41:25.840 giving people a water bottle in line at polling places 0:41:25.960 --> 0:41:29.399 in multiple states. And Musk is allowed to give people 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:33.680 fifty dollars for pictures posted outside of polling places. What 0:41:33.880 --> 0:41:39.440 the fuck is happening? But luckily, the negative polarization against 0:41:39.560 --> 0:41:42.880 Musk and Tesla that's been increasing the past few months 0:41:43.200 --> 0:41:47.480 has resulted in Judge SUVN. Crawford beating the mega hat 0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:51.719 Republican judge who last year went as Donald Trump for 0:41:51.760 --> 0:41:57.000 Halloween beating this guy by by ten percent. This was 0:41:57.080 --> 0:42:01.320 a massive, massive reversal of the twenty twenty four persential 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:05.840 election results in Wisconsin. There was a record high turnout 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:08.480 for this spring election, forty percent higher than the last 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:12.399 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Which was in twenty twenty three, 0:42:12.719 --> 0:42:13.120 which was. 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:15.560 By the way, that was also a high turner election too. 0:42:15.640 --> 0:42:18.040 Yeah yeah, yeah, but that that previous one, then this 0:42:18.160 --> 0:42:19.560 one just fucking obliterated it. 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:22.480 Like this was like just under the results of like 0:42:22.520 --> 0:42:24.640 what you would expect to out of like a midterm election. 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:25.120 Yeah. 0:42:25.360 --> 0:42:25.600 Yeah. 0:42:25.920 --> 0:42:29.440 They shifted every single county in the state blue compared 0:42:29.440 --> 0:42:32.200 to the twenty twenty four presdential election, and on average 0:42:32.239 --> 0:42:36.600 by about ten to twelve points. Massive, massive chefs. 0:42:37.040 --> 0:42:39.279 And this was before the terriiffs, by the way, Yeah, 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:43.360 like this this was before the terrors announced. 0:42:45.400 --> 0:42:49.520 No, this was pure personal dislike of Elon musk meddling 0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:52.799 in Wisconsin politics well like and everything else has happened 0:42:52.840 --> 0:42:56.240 since January, but like it does seem like Elon Musk's 0:42:56.280 --> 0:43:00.279 personal presence was a net negative and all the money spin. 0:43:00.840 --> 0:43:01.200 Luckily. 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:04.759 The next day there was a Tesla sales report which 0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:08.040 was one of the worst in the history of their company, 0:43:08.600 --> 0:43:11.799 fifty percent fewer vehicles being delivered in the first three 0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:17.000 months compared to last year, with Tesla's stock continuing to 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:21.120 plunge the past week, although with reports that that Musk 0:43:21.239 --> 0:43:24.279 might exit the inner circle of the Trump administration. Yeah, 0:43:24.440 --> 0:43:27.279 those stocks are kind of flipping back and forth as 0:43:27.320 --> 0:43:29.160 he's expected to return to his company. 0:43:29.320 --> 0:43:29.520 Yeah. 0:43:29.640 --> 0:43:31.560 Yeah, and who know, like a lot of that's clearly 0:43:31.640 --> 0:43:34.600 the tariffs. Well yes, and then with the tariffs, this 0:43:34.840 --> 0:43:37.960 is a whole other issue, real double whammy for TESLA. 0:43:38.080 --> 0:43:41.000 The reporting is that people around Trump have largely soured 0:43:41.040 --> 0:43:43.840 on Musk. Who knows how true that is. There's always 0:43:43.880 --> 0:43:46.120 a lot of like reports from the Trump inner circle 0:43:46.239 --> 0:43:48.560 that are like, I don't know, it's yeah, he's always 0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:51.960 had a very leaky yeah, but and I can see 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:56.000 it being multi causal, Like Musk has failed badly in Wisconsin. 0:43:56.200 --> 0:43:59.640 The kind of suspicion right now is that Skibble or 0:43:59.640 --> 0:44:03.520 whatever name is was down about five points relative to 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:06.960 other MAGA candidates in the same election, which people are 0:44:07.000 --> 0:44:08.960 attributing largely to Musk's intervention. 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:12.279 Well, and like they were testing out if he was 0:44:12.320 --> 0:44:16.120 like a stable, consistent, reliable political operator, or if what 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:17.800 he did in twenty twenty four was kind of like 0:44:17.880 --> 0:44:20.359 a one off event, if he's like a one trick 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:24.520 tony there, and and this this complete like devastating loss 0:44:25.160 --> 0:44:30.440 demonstrated that maybe this unstable drug addict no offense a 0:44:30.880 --> 0:44:34.879 specifically for Elon Musk, who's railing ketemine all the time 0:44:34.920 --> 0:44:38.320 and trying to run the entire world. Luckily, Luckily, my 0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:41.600 friends who who might indulge in ketymene don't try to 0:44:41.680 --> 0:44:42.560 run the entire world. 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:45.560 You say that now, but you'll get older at some point. 0:44:45.640 --> 0:44:48.400 It's it's of midlife crisis too. 0:44:48.680 --> 0:44:51.120 But he was shown in like a very public way 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:54.719 to be to be like an unstable political force. And 0:44:54.920 --> 0:44:56.719 and yeah, that's going to turn some of some of 0:44:56.800 --> 0:44:58.799 the people in the Trump admins against him. 0:44:59.160 --> 0:44:59.359 Yep. 0:44:59.640 --> 0:45:01.879 Anyway, that's I think that's all I have to say 0:45:01.920 --> 0:45:04.160 about this Wisconsin right Wisconsin race. 0:45:04.239 --> 0:45:07.440 Sorry, all right, well I think that's probably an episode. 0:45:08.239 --> 0:45:11.239 Wait ship, hold on, I just I just found the 0:45:11.360 --> 0:45:14.200 funniest fucking thing about this tariff I think i've seen 0:45:14.320 --> 0:45:15.360 yet from fucking. 0:45:20.719 --> 0:45:31.160 Rocking rocking jazz, rocking jazz, rocking jazz. 0:45:31.280 --> 0:45:33.480 Bo Okay, we're back. 0:45:33.840 --> 0:45:37.360 Tarently, the tariffs are not broken down by country. This 0:45:37.480 --> 0:45:39.839 is quote from this guy in VFX on Twitter. They're 0:45:39.880 --> 0:45:42.040 not broken down by country. They're broken down by top 0:45:42.120 --> 0:45:46.840 level Internet domain. It's why the island's populated entirely by penguins. 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:49.560 The dot hm domain. And why the Diego Garcia military 0:45:49.600 --> 0:45:51.120 base Yeah. 0:45:50.960 --> 0:45:54.279 Yeah, yeah, like fucking McDonald's island, yeah yeah yeah. 0:45:54.400 --> 0:45:56.759 And why why Renon and Gibraltar our. 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:01.640 Yeah like yeah what love Reunion is part of France. 0:46:01.680 --> 0:46:06.719 Why are we hitting these guys? It's because they use it? Okay, 0:46:06.880 --> 0:46:07.560 that makes sense. 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:10.640 That that that is that that is what a nineteen 0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:14.040 year old who never went to college. My god, but 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:17.000 thinks he's he understands all of reality would do. 0:46:17.160 --> 0:46:22.120 Okay, great dictatorship of Chad GPT fucking phenomenal. 0:46:21.960 --> 0:46:24.400 Mynd fucking god, unbelievable. 0:46:24.600 --> 0:46:26.680 Look, look, okay. The note I want to close on 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:30.279 is that so podcaster Mike Duncan that the creator of 0:46:30.320 --> 0:46:32.919 the Revolutions podcast, a man who has spent literally tens 0:46:32.960 --> 0:46:37.799 of thousands of hours writing about like every revolution that's 0:46:37.840 --> 0:46:40.480 ever happened. At the end of the original run of 0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:43.480 the series Revolutions, he makes this point, which is that 0:46:43.960 --> 0:46:48.040 all revolutions work because they encounter you encounter one of 0:46:48.080 --> 0:46:51.040 the great idiots of history, a man who is blessed 0:46:51.120 --> 0:46:54.120 with with the the the inalienable ability to make the 0:46:54.200 --> 0:46:57.319 wrong decision at every single time. And my god, if 0:46:57.400 --> 0:47:00.840 we can't beat these motherfuckers like it that she's entirely 0:47:00.920 --> 0:47:02.719 on us because we have been handed one of the 0:47:02.760 --> 0:47:05.200 greatest idiots of history that has ever existed in the 0:47:05.280 --> 0:47:08.880 history of humanity, and our fucking job now is to 0:47:09.000 --> 0:47:11.680 turn that into fucking a better world. 0:47:11.880 --> 0:47:12.520 Do something. 0:47:13.040 --> 0:47:16.040 Yeah, yeah, we'll see the problem is that there's a 0:47:16.200 --> 0:47:19.120 lot of greater idiots out there, and they all do 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:22.880 still have guns and money. One of the great tragedies 0:47:22.920 --> 0:47:25.480 of the world is that very very stupid people can 0:47:25.560 --> 0:47:26.600 still fire guns. 0:47:27.960 --> 0:47:30.879 We made them too easy, folks. Yeah, I've I've seen 0:47:30.920 --> 0:47:33.160 that happen a couple of times. Yeah, in the old 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:34.080 conduct of my work. 0:47:34.600 --> 0:47:37.680 Anyway, all right, well, we reported the news. 0:47:37.880 --> 0:47:38.960 We reported the news. 0:47:39.120 --> 0:47:42.239 Now you go out there and you know what, find 0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:45.680 someone who lives on the Isle of McDonald near the 0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:49.319 Arctic and kick their ass today. Fuck them up, fuck 0:47:49.400 --> 0:47:50.000 that island. 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:52.480 Do trade with the penguin? Pay ten percent? 0:47:52.560 --> 0:47:54.640 Well, yeah, send us a picture of you fighting a 0:47:54.719 --> 0:47:57.480 penguin and we'll make sure you get a hat or something. 0:47:57.560 --> 0:48:00.919 Yeah, yeah, we'll send you so much. Be reported the news. 0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:11.880 It could happen. 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