Ronny Chieng breaks down how JD Vance's comments calling Chinese people "peasants" have escalated both the shade war and the trade war with China, impacting American industries from automakers to Hollywood. Plus, Troy Iwata chimes in on the one thriving business of the trade war: TikTok luxury knockoffs.
Michael Kosta checks in with Canadians to see how they feel about Donald Trump's aims to make them America's 51st state, including one ex-pat who immigrated to Canada when Trump first became president and a gun-loving member of Canada's silent MAGA minority.
Iraq War veteran and Democratic Senator from Illinois Tammy Duckworth sits down to discuss the work she is doing in Congress to improve care for veterans and how the Trump administration is setting back that progress by taking jobs away from thousands of veterans and making DOGE cuts to life-saving Veterans’ Affairs programs. They also discuss Trump’s broken promises to the veterans who voted for him, how DEI benefits the military, and why confirming someone as unqualified as Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense contradicts the right’s alleged “meritocracy.”
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
From the most trusted journalists at Comedy Central. It's America's
only source for news. This it's the Daily Show with
your home's Promia. Welcome to the show, Why Ray Shang, We
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got so much to talk about tonight. TikTok is making
offers who can't refuse America Maze Canada and offer is
definitely refusing. And Trump and China are fighting so hard
they should just make out already. So let's get right
into the latest developments in trade wars. My favorite word,
(00:55):
my favorite word caraffs. It's been two weeks since Liberation
Day and we're in a full blown trade war with China,
with Terra's now at one hundred and fourty five percent,
which means the trade war is officially moved from shoer
to grower. And some people are concerned about this trade
war because they like want the economy to be like
(01:16):
good or something. But you know what, Trump is not
stressing about it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yesterday, the White House Press Secretary reading a statement, she
said President Trump dictated.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
China needs to make a deal with us. We don't
have to make a deal with them.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
There's no difference between China and any other country, except
they are much larger.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, that's that's kind of a big difference.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Though.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's like saying, why should I be scared to fight
the rock. He's just like any other person, except much larger. Yeah,
that's the scary pot. But I guess Trump's people must
be confident that they can push China around, because they're
not just throwing around tariffs. They're throwing some shade.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
President JD. Vance is caught in a firestorm of his
own making. Calling the Chinese peasants.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Make it a little bit more crystal clear.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things
this Chinese peasants manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. Oh shit,
he's really calling Chinese people peasants. Nobody likes to be
called a peasant, even legit peasants. I like, actually, I
consider myself more of an agricultural entrepreneur. But yeah, Jdvans
called the Chinese peasants a couple of weeks ago, and
now that the news finally got to the villages by
(02:33):
Donkey Kot, they are pissed.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Tonight. We were seeing China and trading insults with the
Vice President JD. Vance and the latest knock against President
Trump's trade war. I mean, bab.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That went so hot? Oh no, weave the drake in
this beef? Are we the certified peasants? At the same time, though,
saying your five thousand year old civilization doesn't intimidate Americans
because half the people here don't even think the earth
is that old. Also, let's just be real, Okay, there's
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no way Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have
medical debt? Then think so? Checkmate China. But it's not
just Chinese officials. Well mad, China has extremely online losers,
just like all peasants, and they're mad too.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
On China's tightly controlled Internet, government censors are allowing Vance's
interview to go viral, amplifying the outrage, igniting anger and sarcasm. Look,
this is their true face, arrogant and rude as always.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We may be.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Peasants, but we have the world's best high speed rail,
the most powerful logistics, and leading AI and drone technologies.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Aren't such peasants quite impressive?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
One hashtag about the Chinese peasants remark shot to the
top of China's Twitter like platform.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Waboat? Wait is that is that Michael Costa? How did
the third whitest host of the Daily Show go viral
in China before the Asian wie? That's dough, that's that's
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that's that's the same triangle and everything. Wait is China
watching this? Oh? Okay, well, hey, thanks for watching this? Hi? Uh?
Don't then? What was sung seing wall? Since I saw
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the wh what since it's our paramon? The tinman took
a slipping. I was just talking tough to China. But
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woods are not China's only weapon in this trade war.
They're also using, you know, trade.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
China's retaliation now includes suspending exports of rare earth minerals
and magnets to the United States. Those materials are essential
to a number of American industries, including carmakers, aerospace manufacturers,
and semiconductor producers.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
China produces ninety percent of the world's rare earth minerals.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Okay, so rare earth metals are critical. Well, maybe we
should have thought that before we launched a trade war
against the country that had them all. I mean, where
we're going to get oh, gattolinium now, huh, we're gonna
buy Congolese gattolinium. That shit's mid Well what else are
they hitting us with?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
China has reportedly told Chinese airlines to stop buying parts
from American companies, and It's says it will no longer
accept deliveries of Boeing jets.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Come on, you're not going to accept our Boeing jets? Well,
good luck finding another plane with self crashing technology? Is
there anything else.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
China could strike that in other ways, like urging Chinese
students to study elsewhere, telling travel agents to steer tour
groups away from US cities.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh no, If Chinese students stop coming to the US,
who are Americans going to lose their spots to Indians? Yeah? Yeah,
that will work. Yeah, actually actually yes, But look, Americans
have to stay strong. Okay, I don't want to hear
any whining. Oh no, China's not buying all made in
(06:46):
America products. Well, suck it up, patriots. Certain industries are
just going to have to suffer. And that's how it is,
because this is war.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
China announce their restricting imports of Hollywood movies to their country.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Okay, that this war has gone too far. Some of
our finest, most likable Chinese Malaysian actors have built a
career in Asian theme movies that depend on the Chinese market.
All right, it's called it's called crazy rich Asians, not crazy,
just getting buy Asians. And don't forget this affects you
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to China. If you ban American movies, how will you
ever find out the ending to all these remakes of
movies from decades ago. But as drastic as some of
these trade policies are, they are nothing compared to the
awesome power of Chinese propaganda. And luckily for China, we
all have a Chinese propaganda app on our phones.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They're the videos seen by millions of Americans TikTokers claiming
to work at Chinese factories that make high end products
and offering to sell them directly to Americans for much,
much cheaper.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Products like Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuittan.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you like this bag?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Are this tda put on a.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Queues on the Oh yes up? Yeah, good news, honey,
I am getting you that Gucci bag for your birthday.
But uh, forget about the designer products, because these tiktoks
aren't just offering cheap Chanel bags. They're offering cheap everything.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Do you want buy laundry pots?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you want a laundry capsule? Do you want a
laundry bits? One part cost only five cents?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Just the ship custom percentage kettles to us probably do dollars.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Do you need a house?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We can build it for you in just forty eight hours.
Place another and we will deliver it to a country.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Good news, honey, I am getting you that prefabricated house
for Memorial Day. For more on the trade warll we
go live to the White House with Troy Water. Okay, uh, Troy.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
That's a lot of designer clothing and I got it
all for eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Thank you, trade war? Okay, Troy, Please don't thank the
trade war right. If tensions keep building, it could be
economically devastating.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay, I know.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
But the longer this trade war goes, the more incredible
deals I'm finding on TikTok. So personally, I think tensions
could get like five to ten percent higher. Even a
dumb peasant country like China could understand that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Okay, Troy, No, Troy, that's exactly how I talk. Could
escalate the trade war, Okay, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Look, look, this is like four hundred tie pods and
it was fifteen cents.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I had to break a dollar.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
I have a lot of luxury clothes to wash, and
these are extra nights, so I'm gonna wash them on
extra hot with my towels.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, no, this could cause a global recession.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Then we'll buy our way out of it. For the
first time in our lives. We can get our mez
scarves in bulk, like all those dumb people in China, Troy,
those aren't real o mesca if you believe Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Okay, but if everyone can afford to get them, are
they even really luxury goods anymore?
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Yeah, Socrates, okay, just wait until Christmas. You'll change your
tune once we're stuffing our stockings with Gucci.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Aren't you jewish? Not at these prices, this is still
a huge risk, all right. Is it really worth a
market crash just to get a washing machine for twenty bucks?
Speaker 9 (10:27):
A whole washing machine for twenty dollars? Okay, let me
speak to.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
China Jongo to Siangba need the chang chun oiba Uncle
Sam's penis ya kwa damn.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I fucking nailed that, Troy. I speak Chinese. I have
no idea. What the you just said?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
All right, do you need to be to explain Uncle
Sam to you or a Penis say, you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Get out of here, Troy. Troy wata everybody when we
come back, not to cos stuff. This is our new estate,
so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
(11:23):
Donald Trump might be in the middle of a trade war,
but we shouldn't forget his other wars. Michael Cossa checked
in on them just to find out what's going on.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
For decades, Canadians have been wasting away in a country
known best of the world as America's hat.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
But that's all about to change.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Canada was meant to be the fifty first date, just
an artificial line that was drawn in the sand beside.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
In the ice, but not Everyone's so sure a boot
that meet Stephen Shane Bart, American political refugee.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Night that Trump was elected in twenty seve sixteen, I
started looking into becoming a Canadian citizen and I moved
here in twenty twenty full time. Gave up my apartment
in Brooklyn, moved to Toronto.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
A lot of people said they were going to move
to Canada when Trump won, and.
Speaker 11 (12:14):
It's bullshit, you actually did it, So I wrote I
actually did it Becoming Canadian because of Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Is that the book where you admit that you killed
OJ's wife?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
No, No, it's not.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I didn't know Hm exactly what Oj said in Just
like a White Bronco chase cut short. Steven's worried his
escape from America might have been a feudal gesture.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Just look at history.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Austria was the first country that Hitler took over when
he was expanding, and it was very similar to Germany
the way Canada is similar to the US. And they
just kind of absorbed it and that was the beginning
of Hitler's expansion.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
If you think Trump's Hitler, then why would you move
to America's neighbor. It's like, well, I'm going to ride
this whole Hitler thing out over there in Poland.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
I'm not saying at all that Trump is Hitler.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He's not.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
But if Trump is ten percent as bad as Hitler,
that's bad enough.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, Stephen Trump didn't want to invade Canada until you
moved up here. So are you flatter in a way?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
No, you fled America, but America's coming and you can't
stop a bulldozer. We're gonna take Canada. That'll be a
fifty first state. Then we'll go to Greenland. I think
we should get Hawaii. That's nice over there.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That'd be sweet to have Hawaii. U huh, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Keep running away from it?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
There's no where to come.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, of course Steven hates this idea, but I bet
every day Canucks couldn't wait to trade in their free
healthcare to join Team USA. How excited are you to
be the fifty first state of the United States?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Not that fired up about it?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you need a stronger language than that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We have guns.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Can you look in that camera and tell Donald Trump
how you feel about becoming the fifty first state of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean, you're you're throwing a lot of words around,
but I think that's yeah, we know what you're doing.
It's not going to anywhere. That's the meanings you can get. Yeah,
maybe they just didn't know what they were missing. This
is a bottle of our syrup. That's not maple syrup.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I don't know. There used to be a black woman
on them, but that kind of became a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We love our country, we really do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Don't you want to dominate the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Olympics.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm on the Summer Olympics, the one that people care about.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is what the new flag would be. I don't know, man,
I'm thought the Maple.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Leap was going to be with the stars.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But I should have had this thing made in China.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Canadians of all ages, races, and species seemed united in
their rage. It's a good thing Christine isn't here and
this trade war is getting messier than a plate of
poutine at a Saline Dion concert. Thousands of Canadian hockey
fans booing our national anthem.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Flicker stores have removed American distilled alcohol from their shelves.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Pools show ninety percent of Canadians do not want to
be part of the United States.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
But what about the other ten percent? The silent majority,
the most elite and until lectual Canadians take a different view.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I'm just trying to make Canada great, So let's make
it the fifty first steam.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Finally, a normal person, you got to make a stand.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
If you believe in what you believe, and I believe
and I want to become an American, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I mean just think about the possibilities. You could be
sentenced to the death penalty. You can drive over a
bridge not knowing if it's going to collapse. Cheese coming
out of a spray can.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
I've never tried spray can cheese, right, but I'm looking
forward to it.
Speaker 12 (15:30):
And after living under Canada's jack boot, Josh is.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Eager to speak his mind first moment right for the
space freedom of speech.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
And the thing about the First Amendment is that that
thing is ironclad. Yeah, I mean unless you're a protester
or a legal firm, or a member of the media,
or a Democrat or a Green card holder.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But other than that, huh, it's good.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And in case you couldn't tell by the way he looks,
there's another amendment that Josh is way more excited at boot.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So Canada doesn't have a second Amendment.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
We do have certain guns, but not the ones that
we do in America. The AR fifteen. We can't have
any guns that have over I think it's five rounds.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Five rounds.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
That means that you can't even have a mass shooting.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Well, you know, you can't even mash shoot out a deer, right.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's why American hunters are so good because they can
pop off two hundred rounds in five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You're gonna hit something this well.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Beccan Shaman was almost passing for an American. But there
was just something that was off about them.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Get it, get it, let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Like the Canadian dollar, it's closed, but just not quite there.
What is this monopoly money? In fact, there was something
off about this whole country.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The differences are subtle but really significant. Like when I
go get pizza, they asked me, you know what kind
of sauce I want on the pizza? If I want
like sweet and sour sauce or Chipotle sauce.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Wait, what the did you just say?
Speaker 11 (16:59):
They give it here and they say what kind of
sauce do you want on it? And I said, what
do you mean? I'm from New York.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
We don't do that, these bastards sweet and sour sauce
on pizza.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Not even Little Caesars would do.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
A thing like that. Anyone know what they put on
pizza in Greenland?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thank you, Michael, Let me come back. Senator Tammy dunk
Wolf will be joining me on the shows Don't Go Away,
(17:42):
Welcome back to a dairy show. My guests tonight is
an Iraq war hero and Purple Hot recipient who currently
represents Illinois the US Senate. Please welcome Senator Tammy duck Wolf.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Listen, come ont.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Say they're having fun. Yeah, well, man, if you share
for Illinois New York, that's tough. Yeah, Senator, you're a
war hero, you served in Iraq, you sacrificed so much
for your country. But you're also a Democrat. Why do
you hate America?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I actually love America so much. You know, maybe we
have too much liberty and freedom.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't know. Seeks to me what this administration thinks.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, Like you were a war veteran and then you
decided to go to Congress. Yeah, I mean what was
hot that? The War of Congress.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I mean they gave me body armor and bullets when
I went to war. So I think Congress is harder.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But you're in it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm in it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You're in it right now.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm in it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah. I used to fly nicians in Iraq. I did helicopter.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I was a black Hawk helicopter pilot.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Loved it, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah. And he decided to run for Congress and you won.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I did.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
I was I was pissed off. That we were not
taking care of our veterans, so I decided to run.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, and and so how are we treating our veterans?
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Well, we were doing really well until Trump decided to
fire six thousand of them from their federal jobs in the.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Last three months. Yeah, and why do you do that?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Well, you know, I guess this is a guy who
hugs the flags as he loves America, but then fires
six thousand veterans.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't think he cares about us.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, So what like, what was the what was the
would he give any reasonable fire?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
There was no reason.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
It's part of their cuts across federal government. Veterans after
they serve in the military tend to want to serve
the country, continue to and civil service. So thirty of
the federal workforce are veterans. And so this president has
fired more veterans than any other veterans than any other
president in modern history.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, six thousand encounting.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How is that? How is that? Okay, we get it
all right. They don't like it. Well, and that's specifically
was it doge or was it something else?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It was dog?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Just across the board cuts. When you fired this many
federal employees you're going to lose that many veterans. But
dog has also come out and they've announced they want
to cut eighty thousand personnel just from the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's their next target.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But okay, and that I don't know. Are these people
they can lose or is it? Is it gonna run?
Is it running fine? Now? What's the situation in the
Veterans of Fairs?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It was getting better.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
We passed the Packed Act, which was bipartisan, which basically
signed up a million more veterans who were exposed to
cancer causing toxic smoke from burn pits. They're finally getting
the care that they need. And now we have those
folks on board, and now they're going to fire all
the people who take care.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Of those folks.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, and so I'm pissed. Okay, can anyone stop this?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
So well, we can try to stop them. We are
fighting them every step of the way. In my case,
I've been able to get some veterans their jobs back.
They fired veterans from the Veterans Crisis Hotline. These are
people who answered the phone when a veteran is contemplating suicide.
They pick up the phone and ni get an answer
within eight seconds, so at least they used to. And
so some of the folks who work in that hot
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line were fired and they reached out to me and
we were able to get them their jobs back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So we are fighting.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Back, so.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like one at a time, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So there's jobs, there's jobs all lost, but then there's
overall just like veteran healthcare right, they've.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Had to cancel operations. The spouses, the family members of
disabled veterans are not getting support through their hotline appointments
and are being canceled or now they're having to wait
even longer. We would just turn in the corner. We
were actually reducing the number of homeless veterans. We were
just adding more veterans getting more beat But remember this
is a president who says people who are wounded to
(22:03):
die for this country in uniform are all losers and suckers.
He doesn't care about us.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Okay, So just to put it out there, this is
also a guy who arguably a lot of veterans would
also vote for at the time. So how do you
reconcile that? I mean, well, I think.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
What they bought was this rhetoric from him that he
was going to you know, he wants going to make
America great, strong and powerful, and yet all he's done
has made us weaker, sicker, and less secure.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, so yeah, so I mean, I guess the relevant
question is do you think it's changing the opinion of
the people who voted for him?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh? Definitely.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Have you seen what's been happening at these Republican town
halls where people across the country is showing up in
tom haws and saying, what are you doing to have veterans?
I'm a veteran, Why did you cut my benefits? I
had a veteran reach out to me from Tennessee because
he was declared dead and didn't get his didn't get
his regular checks.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What he did, he.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Didn't reach out to me through reach are born. He
actually reached out to me.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But okay, But again the question is, okay, so we
all have obviously, you know what kind of preaching to
the acquire here. Obviously the people who didn't like who
didn't want to vote for his president, still we maintained
that we shouldn't have vote for this guy. The question
is what about the veterans specifically, because you're more in
touch with that community. When do you feel that there
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is a change in sentiment that was previously overwhelmingly in
his favor. Do you think it's changing a bit or
is it still very much? No, he's doing the right thing.
We don't see a problem. The issues are exaggerated.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I mean, is that I think it's changing. I think
there's two things that are happening. One, the fact that
he is basically kissing Vladimir Putin's uh you can see it,
you know, means that these are people who spent their
entire military careers getting ready to oppose Russia and now
(24:07):
they see the commander in chief basically doing whatever Putin
wants him to do. So that is changing the sentiment.
The other thing that's happening is all of this rhetoric
against women serving, against LGBTQ veterans serving. You people forget
that there's been a generational change within the military.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Gen xers are now the old people. Millennials are now
the upper management and they've only ever.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Served well, happy to be here, and they're not the
field people. I'm gen X Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
So so millennial millennials are now the majors, colonels. They're
not they're now colonels, right, they're.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Not sergeants majors, you know, they're now higher ranking.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And so you say this, but then it's like, but
they think they he kind of said what he was
going to do before he ran. He was p hegsef
before he got a pointed against. You know, women in
military they still want. So my question is is anything
that's happened changing the sentiment.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It is because I think a lot of.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Them didn't believe that that was what was going to happen,
and they saw the reality of the fact that the
military cannot do its job without women in service. The
military cannot truly do its job without diversity in the
in the force where people can speak different languages around
the world, you want soldis who and speak to Wahili.
Without forces in Africa, you want, you know, soldiers that
can speak all the different languages. And so the millennials
(25:38):
have only ever been in the military where there was
equal service with women.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And you're seen white people can't speak so human.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Well, you know, but you want native speakers, right, you
want you want more diversity. You want that that you know,
diversity inclusion is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You want people who have those backgrounds.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You want somebody like me who speaks Taian and Indonesian
to be able to go in and and and speak
those local languages. And we also have people in charge
of the military now, the millennial generation who have only
ever served equally without don't ask, don't tell, so they
know the line behind.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
LGBTQ people are not good for the military.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Well, no, they know that we've always served equally and
we can't go to war without each other.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Okay, I mean that's that deserves an applause. That's a
nice sentiment. I hope you're right, because we cover the
news every day here and I just feel like nothing
changes moves the needle either way. I do a lot
of jiu jitsu. All the jiu jitsu guys are like
like a lot of veteran veteran people, So I'm not
connected at community at all. Let me just say the
(26:38):
ones I have met are very mega, so I don't
know how a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Are remarked, but they're seeing the reality behind the betrayal,
and they're seeing what's happening to veterans with the cuts
at the VA. They're also seeing what is happening with
Trump bound down to put. Just watch those town halls.
A lot of them revolve around people standing up and saying,
what are you doing for our national security?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And on the on the subject of DEI. So another
thing you've recently had to you on the front lines
of hiring because they had to. You were in the
Senate when people had to get confirmed and show you
pot of the committees had to have hearings on who
to confirm. And so I guess you're kind of on
the front lines of this, Like, I don't know what
you want to call this a backlash against DEI towards meritocracy,
(27:20):
and you were you had to basically appoint approve the
secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, I voted against him.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
These the least qualified secretary defense in our nation's history,
the least qualified.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just give him a chance, give him a chance. This
is the least What do you don't like about this guy?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Well, let's see, the largest budget he ever was in
charge of was something like thirteen million dollars and he
screwed that up so badly they had to bring in
forensic accountants to figure out what he did wrong. And
now he's in charge of an eight hundred and twenty
five billion dollar budget. You're talking about a guy who
used signal chat to plan, you know, a strike right,
(27:58):
a military strike right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Exactly, So who.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Basically put in an unsecured channel thirty minutes after the
drones hit F eighteens will be on target, basically telling
the bad guys this is where those F eighteens are
going to be and exactly what time he put those
pilot's lives in danger. He does not deserve to be
the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But you've never planned an outing with group chat before
tried some build.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
I never planned an outing for the military involving weapons
of war.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So how would you say to the people who are
like who think that the DEI thing in the military
is inappropriate cand of use DEI categor reason in the military.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
For how what I say is that's not true? It
never was.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
This is a fake argument on their side because it
was never done. Remember that this president fired a Secretary
of Defense who was a pilot, highly decorated, forty years
of experience, commanded major units, and replaced him with a
guy who is a platoon leader, who had never run
a budget larger than ten million dollars, and who couldn't
(29:10):
even mention parts of the world. You know where the
US has huge troop presents who didn't understand where the
nations of Asian were for crying out loud, and this
is the guy that's going to be in charge of
our nuclear submarines, that transition that those sea lanes.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (29:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So he got confirmed though.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He got confirmed party line.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Vote, party line vote, and I guess a couple.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Of people, a couple of people crossed the party line,
but not enough.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay. So that brings me the next question. I mean,
you're actually on the front lines of Congress. You have
to talk to Republican congressman all the time, like, what
is it in Congress? Are people are your colleagues Republican colleagues.
Are they seeing the same reality behind closed doors and
telling you like, hey, listen, I know this is crazy,
but whatever or are they are? Are they drinking? Are
(29:58):
they true believers? Drinking a kool aid? What's happening in that?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
I think the Republicans who are willing to stand up
to him were the ones from the first time. They're
not back right, and so the ones that are there
are becoming invertebrates. They've lost their backbones and they're hiding
in their shells.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, this is where they are, like.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They just roll over for this president.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
They you know, they say I always are they true believers?
Are they?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You know?
Speaker 8 (30:22):
I mean no, they're they're they're worried about their own
re election. And at a certain point you need to say,
you know what, come at me, go ahead in primary me.
My country is more important than this job.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Right And unfortunately most of my recubitent colleges don't think
that are.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not acting in that role.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Sure, so, I mean, you know, again, you have been
You've always kind of I think you've kind of like
with integy integrity. You've stood by a world yours too. Yeah,
how do you The Democrats like have lost a lot
in the last They don't control any branch of government,
(30:59):
they don't control popular vote, they don't have any cultural momentum.
So clearly they were doing something wrong. Like what is
what should they be doing? Like what what message isn't
getting through here?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You know, I think the message that's not getting through here?
What Trump did was he spoke to a group of
Americans who were disaffected, who really felt that this country
was leaving them behind, and he made these promises, and
a lot of people were watching the reality TV show,
and I get from a lot of people it's like, oh,
I voted from but I didn't think he was going
to come after me. I didn't think he was going
to deport my wife. I didn't think that he was
(31:32):
going to cut funding to my kids public school.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I think because he said specifically he was going to
deport that guy's wife.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Well, no, no, because he said he was going to
do all of these things, right. He said he was
going to cut the Department of Education. You know, people
were saying, well, but we didn't think that he was
going to go after my special needs kids funding, right.
They just thought that it was all in act, sure,
and it's not.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And it's not.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
And now people are being fired, they're losing their jobs.
They're seeing the reality of where we are there with
the economy tanking, with us less safe than we were before,
and they're realizing, oh, I made a mistake. This is
why you're seeing people talk about I voted for him,
but I wish I had. I made a mistake. And
what democrats need to do is talk to all of
those people and say, you know, Illinois, where I'm from,
(32:19):
is one hundred and two counties. Only six are blue,
ninety six are red. And I go into the red
parts of my county and of my state, and I say, listen,
it's about loving this country. It's about putting America first.
It's not about a guy who hugs the flag and
then shits on America by starting trade wars and cutting
funding for veterans.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's not what this is about.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
This is about making sure that we support our farmers
who grow.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The food that we need.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
A country that can't feed itself, it's not a country
that can defend itself. This is about making sure that
our veterans have the services that they earned. This is
about making sure our military has capable, competent leadership who
knows better than to plan war plans on group chat,
on security group chat. This is about putting America before yourself,
and this president has never done that. And Democrats need
to start talking to the heartland and talking to people
(33:05):
and saying we are here to fight for you, and
we're going to fight for you every step of the way.
And that's why you're seeing folks like me getting out there,
especially from the Midwest, talking about industrial America, about what
we need to do to regrow our economy, and what
we need to do to stand up to this president
to make sure that we make those investments in this
country and not in the oligarchy billionaires that he surrounded
(33:26):
himself with, because that's all they care about themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Sure do you think that Do you think that message
is coming.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Across I think it is.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
You know, when I talk to the act sector, for example,
they've seen body blows. At the body blows, they firmer
stand it to vote for Trump. But when I go
to talk to him, they're like, well, these terriffs are
killing I'm not going to be able to hand my
family form off from my generation to the next generation.
I'm the seventh generation. There will not be an eighth generation.
The terriffs are going to hurt me. John Deere is
losing jobs because the steel coming from Canada is now
(33:57):
going to be more expensive, and so they're seeing the difference.
And we need to just continue to pull on those
people together and let people do understand that the way
that we make America great greater than she already is
to come together and work together, not by dividing us,
which is what this present is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I hope you're right, Senator. Thank you, thank you so
much for coming to speak to me. Thank you for
serving our country, thanks for something with integrity, and thanks
for representing Asian people and Southeast Asian people in America.
I really appreciate it. Till me talk abouf everybody. Well,
God take a quick break. We'll be right back after
this thing.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
The thanks.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That's what's over tonight now here. It is your moment
of that we have.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
All heard in the five second rule.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Right, let's put it to the test. Shall we now.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
To know what that is?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Shoes walk around New York City?
Speaker 12 (35:04):
Show?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay? Should we go ahead and call out and sick
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got so much to talk about tonight. TikTok is making
offers who can't refuse America Maze Canada and offer is
definitely refusing. And Trump and China are fighting so hard
they should just make out already. So let's get right
into the latest developments in trade wars. My favorite word,
(00:55):
my favorite word caraffs. It's been two weeks since Liberation
Day and we're in a full blown trade war with China,
with Terra's now at one hundred and fourty five percent,
which means the trade war is officially moved from shoer
to grower. And some people are concerned about this trade
war because they like want the economy to be like
(01:16):
good or something. But you know what, Trump is not
stressing about it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yesterday, the White House Press Secretary reading a statement, she
said President Trump dictated.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
China needs to make a deal with us. We don't
have to make a deal with them.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
There's no difference between China and any other country, except
they are much larger.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, that's that's kind of a big difference.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Though.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It's like saying, why should I be scared to fight
the rock. He's just like any other person, except much larger. Yeah,
that's the scary pot. But I guess Trump's people must
be confident that they can push China around, because they're
not just throwing around tariffs. They're throwing some shade.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
President JD. Vance is caught in a firestorm of his
own making. Calling the Chinese peasants.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Make it a little bit more crystal clear.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things
this Chinese peasants manufacturer.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That is not a recipe for economic prosperity. Oh shit,
he's really calling Chinese people peasants. Nobody likes to be
called a peasant, even legit peasants. I like, actually, I
consider myself more of an agricultural entrepreneur. But yeah, Jdvans
called the Chinese peasants a couple of weeks ago, and
now that the news finally got to the villages by
(02:33):
Donkey Kot, they are pissed.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Tonight. We were seeing China and trading insults with the
Vice President JD. Vance and the latest knock against President
Trump's trade war. I mean, bab.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That went so hot? Oh no, weave the drake in
this beef? Are we the certified peasants? At the same time, though,
saying your five thousand year old civilization doesn't intimidate Americans
because half the people here don't even think the earth
is that old. Also, let's just be real, Okay, there's
(03:15):
no way Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have
medical debt? Then think so? Checkmate China. But it's not
just Chinese officials. Well mad, China has extremely online losers,
just like all peasants, and they're mad too.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
On China's tightly controlled Internet, government censors are allowing Vance's
interview to go viral, amplifying the outrage, igniting anger and sarcasm. Look,
this is their true face, arrogant and rude as always.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
We may be.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Peasants, but we have the world's best high speed rail,
the most powerful logistics, and leading AI and drone technologies.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Aren't such peasants quite impressive?
Speaker 5 (03:56):
One hashtag about the Chinese peasants remark shot to the
top of China's Twitter like platform.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Waboat? Wait is that is that Michael Costa? How did
the third whitest host of the Daily Show go viral
in China before the Asian wie? That's dough, that's that's
(04:23):
that's that's the same triangle and everything. Wait is China
watching this? Oh? Okay, well, hey, thanks for watching this? Hi? Uh?
Don't then? What was sung seing wall? Since I saw
(04:47):
the wh what since it's our paramon? The tinman took
a slipping. I was just talking tough to China. But
(05:08):
woods are not China's only weapon in this trade war.
They're also using, you know, trade.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
China's retaliation now includes suspending exports of rare earth minerals
and magnets to the United States. Those materials are essential
to a number of American industries, including carmakers, aerospace manufacturers,
and semiconductor producers.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
China produces ninety percent of the world's rare earth minerals.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Okay, so rare earth metals are critical. Well, maybe we
should have thought that before we launched a trade war
against the country that had them all. I mean, where
we're going to get oh, gattolinium now, huh, we're gonna
buy Congolese gattolinium. That shit's mid Well what else are
they hitting us with?
Speaker 6 (05:54):
China has reportedly told Chinese airlines to stop buying parts
from American companies, and It's says it will no longer
accept deliveries of Boeing jets.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Come on, you're not going to accept our Boeing jets? Well,
good luck finding another plane with self crashing technology? Is
there anything else.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
China could strike that in other ways, like urging Chinese
students to study elsewhere, telling travel agents to steer tour
groups away from US cities.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Oh no, If Chinese students stop coming to the US,
who are Americans going to lose their spots to Indians? Yeah? Yeah,
that will work. Yeah, actually actually yes, But look, Americans
have to stay strong. Okay, I don't want to hear
any whining. Oh no, China's not buying all made in
(06:46):
America products. Well, suck it up, patriots. Certain industries are
just going to have to suffer. And that's how it is,
because this is war.
Speaker 8 (06:55):
China announce their restricting imports of Hollywood movies to their country.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Okay, that this war has gone too far. Some of
our finest, most likable Chinese Malaysian actors have built a
career in Asian theme movies that depend on the Chinese market.
All right, it's called it's called crazy rich Asians, not crazy,
just getting buy Asians. And don't forget this affects you
(07:21):
to China. If you ban American movies, how will you
ever find out the ending to all these remakes of
movies from decades ago. But as drastic as some of
these trade policies are, they are nothing compared to the
awesome power of Chinese propaganda. And luckily for China, we
all have a Chinese propaganda app on our phones.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
They're the videos seen by millions of Americans TikTokers claiming
to work at Chinese factories that make high end products
and offering to sell them directly to Americans for much,
much cheaper.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Products like Gucci, Prada, Louis Vuittan.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Do you like this bag?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Are this tda put on a.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Queues on the Oh yes up? Yeah, good news, honey,
I am getting you that Gucci bag for your birthday.
But uh, forget about the designer products, because these tiktoks
aren't just offering cheap Chanel bags. They're offering cheap everything.
Speaker 7 (08:19):
Do you want buy laundry pots?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you want a laundry capsule? Do you want a
laundry bits? One part cost only five cents?
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Just the ship custom percentage kettles to us probably do dollars.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Do you need a house?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
We can build it for you in just forty eight hours.
Place another and we will deliver it to a country.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Good news, honey, I am getting you that prefabricated house
for Memorial Day. For more on the trade warll we
go live to the White House with Troy Water. Okay, uh, Troy.
Speaker 9 (08:56):
That's a lot of designer clothing and I got it
all for eight dollars.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Thank you, trade war? Okay, Troy, Please don't thank the
trade war right. If tensions keep building, it could be
economically devastating.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Okay, I know.
Speaker 9 (09:11):
But the longer this trade war goes, the more incredible
deals I'm finding on TikTok. So personally, I think tensions
could get like five to ten percent higher. Even a
dumb peasant country like China could understand that.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Okay, Troy, No, Troy, that's exactly how I talk. Could
escalate the trade war, Okay, and I'm fine with that.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
Look, look, this is like four hundred tie pods and
it was fifteen cents.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I had to break a dollar.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
I have a lot of luxury clothes to wash, and
these are extra nights, so I'm gonna wash them on
extra hot with my towels.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
No, no, this could cause a global recession.
Speaker 9 (09:49):
Then we'll buy our way out of it. For the
first time in our lives. We can get our mez
scarves in bulk, like all those dumb people in China, Troy,
those aren't real o mesca if you believe Ronnie.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Okay, but if everyone can afford to get them, are
they even really luxury goods anymore?
Speaker 9 (10:10):
Yeah, Socrates, okay, just wait until Christmas. You'll change your
tune once we're stuffing our stockings with Gucci.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Aren't you jewish? Not at these prices, this is still
a huge risk, all right. Is it really worth a
market crash just to get a washing machine for twenty bucks?
Speaker 9 (10:27):
A whole washing machine for twenty dollars? Okay, let me
speak to.
Speaker 10 (10:30):
China Jongo to Siangba need the chang chun oiba Uncle
Sam's penis ya kwa damn.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
I fucking nailed that, Troy. I speak Chinese. I have
no idea. What the you just said?
Speaker 9 (10:48):
All right, do you need to be to explain Uncle
Sam to you or a Penis say, you know what.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Get out of here, Troy. Troy wata everybody when we
come back, not to cos stuff. This is our new estate,
so don't go away. Welcome back to the Daily Show.
(11:23):
Donald Trump might be in the middle of a trade war,
but we shouldn't forget his other wars. Michael Cossa checked
in on them just to find out what's going on.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
For decades, Canadians have been wasting away in a country
known best of the world as America's hat.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
But that's all about to change.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Canada was meant to be the fifty first date, just
an artificial line that was drawn in the sand beside.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
In the ice, but not Everyone's so sure a boot
that meet Stephen Shane Bart, American political refugee.
Speaker 11 (11:57):
Night that Trump was elected in twenty seve sixteen, I
started looking into becoming a Canadian citizen and I moved
here in twenty twenty full time. Gave up my apartment
in Brooklyn, moved to Toronto.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
A lot of people said they were going to move
to Canada when Trump won, and.
Speaker 11 (12:14):
It's bullshit, you actually did it, So I wrote I
actually did it Becoming Canadian because of Trump.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Is that the book where you admit that you killed
OJ's wife?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
No, No, it's not.
Speaker 12 (12:24):
I didn't know Hm exactly what Oj said in Just
like a White Bronco chase cut short. Steven's worried his
escape from America might have been a feudal gesture.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Just look at history.
Speaker 11 (12:37):
Austria was the first country that Hitler took over when
he was expanding, and it was very similar to Germany
the way Canada is similar to the US. And they
just kind of absorbed it and that was the beginning
of Hitler's expansion.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
If you think Trump's Hitler, then why would you move
to America's neighbor. It's like, well, I'm going to ride
this whole Hitler thing out over there in Poland.
Speaker 11 (12:57):
I'm not saying at all that Trump is Hitler.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
He's not.
Speaker 11 (13:00):
But if Trump is ten percent as bad as Hitler,
that's bad enough.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Well, Stephen Trump didn't want to invade Canada until you
moved up here. So are you flatter in a way?
Speaker 2 (13:10):
No?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
No, you fled America, but America's coming and you can't
stop a bulldozer. We're gonna take Canada. That'll be a
fifty first state. Then we'll go to Greenland. I think
we should get Hawaii. That's nice over there.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
That'd be sweet to have Hawaii. U huh, what are
you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (13:26):
Keep running away from it?
Speaker 11 (13:27):
There's no where to come.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Well, of course Steven hates this idea, but I bet
every day Canucks couldn't wait to trade in their free
healthcare to join Team USA. How excited are you to
be the fifty first state of the United States?
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Not that fired up about it?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
And you need a stronger language than that.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
We have guns.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Can you look in that camera and tell Donald Trump
how you feel about becoming the fifty first state of
the United States.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
I mean, you're you're throwing a lot of words around,
but I think that's yeah, we know what you're doing.
It's not going to anywhere. That's the meanings you can get. Yeah,
maybe they just didn't know what they were missing. This
is a bottle of our syrup. That's not maple syrup.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I don't know. There used to be a black woman
on them, but that kind of became a whole thing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
We love our country, we really do.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Don't you want to dominate the Olympics.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Olympics.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I'm on the Summer Olympics, the one that people care about.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
This is what the new flag would be. I don't know, man,
I'm thought the Maple.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Leap was going to be with the stars.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
But I should have had this thing made in China.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Canadians of all ages, races, and species seemed united in
their rage. It's a good thing Christine isn't here and
this trade war is getting messier than a plate of
poutine at a Saline Dion concert. Thousands of Canadian hockey
fans booing our national anthem.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Flicker stores have removed American distilled alcohol from their shelves.
Speaker 7 (14:48):
Pools show ninety percent of Canadians do not want to
be part of the United States.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
But what about the other ten percent? The silent majority,
the most elite and until lectual Canadians take a different view.
Speaker 7 (15:02):
I'm just trying to make Canada great, So let's make
it the fifty first steam.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Finally, a normal person, you got to make a stand.
Speaker 7 (15:11):
If you believe in what you believe, and I believe
and I want to become an American, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
I mean just think about the possibilities. You could be
sentenced to the death penalty. You can drive over a
bridge not knowing if it's going to collapse. Cheese coming
out of a spray can.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
I've never tried spray can cheese, right, but I'm looking
forward to it.
Speaker 12 (15:30):
And after living under Canada's jack boot, Josh is.
Speaker 7 (15:33):
Eager to speak his mind first moment right for the
space freedom of speech.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
And the thing about the First Amendment is that that
thing is ironclad. Yeah, I mean unless you're a protester
or a legal firm, or a member of the media,
or a Democrat or a Green card holder.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
But other than that, huh, it's good.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
And in case you couldn't tell by the way he looks,
there's another amendment that Josh is way more excited at boot.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So Canada doesn't have a second Amendment.
Speaker 7 (16:01):
We do have certain guns, but not the ones that
we do in America. The AR fifteen. We can't have
any guns that have over I think it's five rounds.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Five rounds.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
That means that you can't even have a mass shooting.
Speaker 7 (16:13):
Well, you know, you can't even mash shoot out a deer, right.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
That's why American hunters are so good because they can
pop off two hundred rounds in five seconds.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
You're gonna hit something this well.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
Beccan Shaman was almost passing for an American. But there
was just something that was off about them.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Get it, get it, let's go.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Like the Canadian dollar, it's closed, but just not quite there.
What is this monopoly money? In fact, there was something
off about this whole country.
Speaker 11 (16:46):
The differences are subtle but really significant. Like when I
go get pizza, they asked me, you know what kind
of sauce I want on the pizza? If I want
like sweet and sour sauce or Chipotle sauce.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Wait, what the did you just say?
Speaker 11 (16:59):
They give it here and they say what kind of
sauce do you want on it? And I said, what
do you mean? I'm from New York.
Speaker 12 (17:04):
We don't do that, these bastards sweet and sour sauce
on pizza.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Not even Little Caesars would do.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
A thing like that. Anyone know what they put on
pizza in Greenland?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Thank you, Michael, Let me come back. Senator Tammy dunk
Wolf will be joining me on the shows Don't Go Away,
(17:42):
Welcome back to a dairy show. My guests tonight is
an Iraq war hero and Purple Hot recipient who currently
represents Illinois the US Senate. Please welcome Senator Tammy duck Wolf.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Listen, come ont.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Say they're having fun. Yeah, well, man, if you share
for Illinois New York, that's tough. Yeah, Senator, you're a
war hero, you served in Iraq, you sacrificed so much
for your country. But you're also a Democrat. Why do
you hate America?
Speaker 8 (18:19):
I actually love America so much. You know, maybe we
have too much liberty and freedom.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I don't know. Seeks to me what this administration thinks.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, Like you were a war veteran and then you
decided to go to Congress. Yeah, I mean what was
hot that? The War of Congress.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
I mean they gave me body armor and bullets when
I went to war. So I think Congress is harder.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
But you're in it.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I'm in it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
You're in it right now.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
I'm in it.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah. I used to fly nicians in Iraq. I did helicopter.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I was a black Hawk helicopter pilot.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Loved it, that's.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah. And he decided to run for Congress and you won.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I did.
Speaker 8 (19:03):
I was I was pissed off. That we were not
taking care of our veterans, so I decided to run.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Yeah, and and so how are we treating our veterans?
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Well, we were doing really well until Trump decided to
fire six thousand of them from their federal jobs in the.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Last three months. Yeah, and why do you do that?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Well, you know, I guess this is a guy who
hugs the flags as he loves America, but then fires
six thousand veterans.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
I don't think he cares about us.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, So what like, what was the what was the
would he give any reasonable fire?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
There was no reason.
Speaker 8 (19:40):
It's part of their cuts across federal government. Veterans after
they serve in the military tend to want to serve
the country, continue to and civil service. So thirty of
the federal workforce are veterans. And so this president has
fired more veterans than any other veterans than any other
president in modern history.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Okay, six thousand encounting.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How is that? How is that? Okay, we get it
all right. They don't like it. Well, and that's specifically
was it doge or was it something else?
Speaker 1 (20:09):
It was dog?
Speaker 8 (20:10):
Just across the board cuts. When you fired this many
federal employees you're going to lose that many veterans. But
dog has also come out and they've announced they want
to cut eighty thousand personnel just from the Department of
Veterans Affairs.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That's their next target.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
But okay, and that I don't know. Are these people
they can lose or is it? Is it gonna run?
Is it running fine? Now? What's the situation in the
Veterans of Fairs?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
It was getting better.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
We passed the Packed Act, which was bipartisan, which basically
signed up a million more veterans who were exposed to
cancer causing toxic smoke from burn pits. They're finally getting
the care that they need. And now we have those
folks on board, and now they're going to fire all
the people who take care.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Of those folks.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Okay, and so I'm pissed. Okay, can anyone stop this?
Speaker 8 (21:01):
So well, we can try to stop them. We are
fighting them every step of the way. In my case,
I've been able to get some veterans their jobs back.
They fired veterans from the Veterans Crisis Hotline. These are
people who answered the phone when a veteran is contemplating suicide.
They pick up the phone and ni get an answer
within eight seconds, so at least they used to. And
so some of the folks who work in that hot
(21:23):
line were fired and they reached out to me and
we were able to get them their jobs back.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
So we are fighting.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Back, so.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like one at a time, one at a time.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So there's jobs, there's jobs all lost, but then there's
overall just like veteran healthcare right, they've.
Speaker 8 (21:41):
Had to cancel operations. The spouses, the family members of
disabled veterans are not getting support through their hotline appointments
and are being canceled or now they're having to wait
even longer. We would just turn in the corner. We
were actually reducing the number of homeless veterans. We were
just adding more veterans getting more beat But remember this
is a president who says people who are wounded to
(22:03):
die for this country in uniform are all losers and suckers.
He doesn't care about us.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Okay, So just to put it out there, this is
also a guy who arguably a lot of veterans would
also vote for at the time. So how do you
reconcile that? I mean, well, I think.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
What they bought was this rhetoric from him that he
was going to you know, he wants going to make
America great, strong and powerful, and yet all he's done
has made us weaker, sicker, and less secure.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Okay, so yeah, so I mean, I guess the relevant
question is do you think it's changing the opinion of
the people who voted for him?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Oh? Definitely.
Speaker 8 (22:46):
Have you seen what's been happening at these Republican town
halls where people across the country is showing up in
tom haws and saying, what are you doing to have veterans?
I'm a veteran, Why did you cut my benefits? I
had a veteran reach out to me from Tennessee because
he was declared dead and didn't get his didn't get
his regular checks.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
What he did, he.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
Didn't reach out to me through reach are born. He
actually reached out to me.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But okay, But again the question is, okay, so we
all have obviously, you know what kind of preaching to
the acquire here. Obviously the people who didn't like who
didn't want to vote for his president, still we maintained
that we shouldn't have vote for this guy. The question
is what about the veterans specifically, because you're more in
touch with that community. When do you feel that there
(23:35):
is a change in sentiment that was previously overwhelmingly in
his favor. Do you think it's changing a bit or
is it still very much? No, he's doing the right thing.
We don't see a problem. The issues are exaggerated.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
I mean, is that I think it's changing. I think
there's two things that are happening. One, the fact that
he is basically kissing Vladimir Putin's uh you can see it,
you know, means that these are people who spent their
entire military careers getting ready to oppose Russia and now
(24:07):
they see the commander in chief basically doing whatever Putin
wants him to do. So that is changing the sentiment.
The other thing that's happening is all of this rhetoric
against women serving, against LGBTQ veterans serving. You people forget
that there's been a generational change within the military.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
Gen xers are now the old people. Millennials are now
the upper management and they've only ever.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Served well, happy to be here, and they're not the
field people. I'm gen X Yeah, okay, so.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
So so millennial millennials are now the majors, colonels. They're
not they're now colonels, right, they're.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Not sergeants majors, you know, they're now higher ranking.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
And so you say this, but then it's like, but
they think they he kind of said what he was
going to do before he ran. He was p hegsef
before he got a pointed against. You know, women in
military they still want. So my question is is anything
that's happened changing the sentiment.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
It is because I think a lot of.
Speaker 8 (25:16):
Them didn't believe that that was what was going to happen,
and they saw the reality of the fact that the
military cannot do its job without women in service. The
military cannot truly do its job without diversity in the
in the force where people can speak different languages around
the world, you want soldis who and speak to Wahili.
Without forces in Africa, you want, you know, soldiers that
can speak all the different languages. And so the millennials
(25:38):
have only ever been in the military where there was
equal service with women.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And you're seen white people can't speak so human.
Speaker 8 (25:45):
Well, you know, but you want native speakers, right, you
want you want more diversity. You want that that you know,
diversity inclusion is a good thing.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
You want people who have those backgrounds.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
You want somebody like me who speaks Taian and Indonesian
to be able to go in and and and speak
those local languages. And we also have people in charge
of the military now, the millennial generation who have only
ever served equally without don't ask, don't tell, so they
know the line behind.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
LGBTQ people are not good for the military.
Speaker 8 (26:13):
Well, no, they know that we've always served equally and
we can't go to war without each other.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Okay, I mean that's that deserves an applause. That's a
nice sentiment. I hope you're right, because we cover the
news every day here and I just feel like nothing
changes moves the needle either way. I do a lot
of jiu jitsu. All the jiu jitsu guys are like
like a lot of veteran veteran people, So I'm not
connected at community at all. Let me just say the
(26:38):
ones I have met are very mega, so I don't
know how a lot of them.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
Are remarked, but they're seeing the reality behind the betrayal,
and they're seeing what's happening to veterans with the cuts
at the VA. They're also seeing what is happening with
Trump bound down to put. Just watch those town halls.
A lot of them revolve around people standing up and saying,
what are you doing for our national security?
Speaker 11 (26:57):
Right?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
And on the on the subject of DEI. So another
thing you've recently had to you on the front lines
of hiring because they had to. You were in the
Senate when people had to get confirmed and show you
pot of the committees had to have hearings on who
to confirm. And so I guess you're kind of on
the front lines of this, Like, I don't know what
you want to call this a backlash against DEI towards meritocracy,
(27:20):
and you were you had to basically appoint approve the
secretary of Defense.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Yeah, I voted against him.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
These the least qualified secretary defense in our nation's history,
the least qualified.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just give him a chance, give him a chance. This
is the least What do you don't like about this guy?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Well, let's see, the largest budget he ever was in
charge of was something like thirteen million dollars and he
screwed that up so badly they had to bring in
forensic accountants to figure out what he did wrong. And
now he's in charge of an eight hundred and twenty
five billion dollar budget. You're talking about a guy who
used signal chat to plan, you know, a strike right,
(27:58):
a military strike right, exactly.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Exactly, So who.
Speaker 8 (28:04):
Basically put in an unsecured channel thirty minutes after the
drones hit F eighteens will be on target, basically telling
the bad guys this is where those F eighteens are
going to be and exactly what time he put those
pilot's lives in danger. He does not deserve to be
the Secretary of Defense.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
But you've never planned an outing with group chat before
tried some build.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
I never planned an outing for the military involving weapons
of war.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
So how would you say to the people who are
like who think that the DEI thing in the military
is inappropriate cand of use DEI categor reason in the military.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
For how what I say is that's not true? It
never was.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
This is a fake argument on their side because it
was never done. Remember that this president fired a Secretary
of Defense who was a pilot, highly decorated, forty years
of experience, commanded major units, and replaced him with a
guy who is a platoon leader, who had never run
a budget larger than ten million dollars, and who couldn't
(29:10):
even mention parts of the world. You know where the
US has huge troop presents who didn't understand where the
nations of Asian were for crying out loud, and this
is the guy that's going to be in charge of
our nuclear submarines, that transition that those sea lanes.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 10 (29:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:25):
So he got confirmed though.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
He got confirmed party line.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Vote, party line vote, and I guess a couple.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Of people, a couple of people crossed the party line,
but not enough.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Okay. So that brings me the next question. I mean,
you're actually on the front lines of Congress. You have
to talk to Republican congressman all the time, like, what
is it in Congress? Are people are your colleagues Republican colleagues.
Are they seeing the same reality behind closed doors and
telling you like, hey, listen, I know this is crazy,
but whatever or are they are? Are they drinking? Are
(29:58):
they true believers? Drinking a kool aid? What's happening in that?
Speaker 8 (30:01):
I think the Republicans who are willing to stand up
to him were the ones from the first time. They're
not back right, and so the ones that are there
are becoming invertebrates. They've lost their backbones and they're hiding
in their shells.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Okay, this is where they are, like.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
They just roll over for this president.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
They you know, they say I always are they true believers?
Are they?
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You know?
Speaker 8 (30:22):
I mean no, they're they're they're worried about their own
re election. And at a certain point you need to say,
you know what, come at me, go ahead in primary me.
My country is more important than this job.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Right And unfortunately most of my recubitent colleges don't think
that are.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Not acting in that role.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Sure, so, I mean, you know, again, you have been
You've always kind of I think you've kind of like
with integy integrity. You've stood by a world yours too. Yeah,
how do you The Democrats like have lost a lot
in the last They don't control any branch of government,
(30:59):
they don't control popular vote, they don't have any cultural momentum.
So clearly they were doing something wrong. Like what is
what should they be doing? Like what what message isn't
getting through here?
Speaker 8 (31:10):
You know, I think the message that's not getting through here?
What Trump did was he spoke to a group of
Americans who were disaffected, who really felt that this country
was leaving them behind, and he made these promises, and
a lot of people were watching the reality TV show,
and I get from a lot of people it's like, oh,
I voted from but I didn't think he was going
to come after me. I didn't think he was going
to deport my wife. I didn't think that he was
(31:32):
going to cut funding to my kids public school.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
I think because he said specifically he was going to
deport that guy's wife.
Speaker 8 (31:38):
Well, no, no, because he said he was going to
do all of these things, right. He said he was
going to cut the Department of Education. You know, people
were saying, well, but we didn't think that he was
going to go after my special needs kids funding, right.
They just thought that it was all in act, sure,
and it's not.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
And it's not.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
And now people are being fired, they're losing their jobs.
They're seeing the reality of where we are there with
the economy tanking, with us less safe than we were before,
and they're realizing, oh, I made a mistake. This is
why you're seeing people talk about I voted for him,
but I wish I had. I made a mistake. And
what democrats need to do is talk to all of
those people and say, you know, Illinois, where I'm from,
(32:19):
is one hundred and two counties. Only six are blue,
ninety six are red. And I go into the red
parts of my county and of my state, and I say, listen,
it's about loving this country. It's about putting America first.
It's not about a guy who hugs the flag and
then shits on America by starting trade wars and cutting
funding for veterans.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
That's not what this is about.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
This is about making sure that we support our farmers
who grow.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The food that we need.
Speaker 8 (32:42):
A country that can't feed itself, it's not a country
that can defend itself. This is about making sure that
our veterans have the services that they earned. This is
about making sure our military has capable, competent leadership who
knows better than to plan war plans on group chat,
on security group chat. This is about putting America before yourself,
and this president has never done that. And Democrats need
to start talking to the heartland and talking to people
(33:05):
and saying we are here to fight for you, and
we're going to fight for you every step of the way.
And that's why you're seeing folks like me getting out there,
especially from the Midwest, talking about industrial America, about what
we need to do to regrow our economy, and what
we need to do to stand up to this president
to make sure that we make those investments in this
country and not in the oligarchy billionaires that he surrounded
(33:26):
himself with, because that's all they care about themselves.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Sure do you think that Do you think that message
is coming.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Across I think it is.
Speaker 8 (33:35):
You know, when I talk to the act sector, for example,
they've seen body blows. At the body blows, they firmer
stand it to vote for Trump. But when I go
to talk to him, they're like, well, these terriffs are
killing I'm not going to be able to hand my
family form off from my generation to the next generation.
I'm the seventh generation. There will not be an eighth generation.
The terriffs are going to hurt me. John Deere is
losing jobs because the steel coming from Canada is now
(33:57):
going to be more expensive, and so they're seeing the difference.
And we need to just continue to pull on those
people together and let people do understand that the way
that we make America great greater than she already is
to come together and work together, not by dividing us,
which is what this present is trying to do.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
I hope you're right, Senator. Thank you, thank you so
much for coming to speak to me. Thank you for
serving our country, thanks for something with integrity, and thanks
for representing Asian people and Southeast Asian people in America.
I really appreciate it. Till me talk abouf everybody. Well,
God take a quick break. We'll be right back after
this thing.
Speaker 8 (34:34):
The thanks.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
That's what's over tonight now here. It is your moment
of that we have.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
All heard in the five second rule.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Right, let's put it to the test. Shall we now.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
To know what that is?
Speaker 8 (35:01):
Shoes walk around New York City?
Speaker 12 (35:04):
Show?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
Okay? Should we go ahead and call out and sick
for him?
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Next?
Speaker 10 (35:09):
All?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah.
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