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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
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Speaker 2 (00:38):
He's Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a roddy. Do you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And because we obviously have no time to waste, let's
jump right in and go look at the blog. When
you go to find the blog, just go to Mandy's
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Look for the latest posts, and then look for the
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(01:05):
twelve thirty but plenty in the blog to keep you busy.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within Oh god, I think within South American all
with ships and clipments of.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Press plant.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Today on the blog Rockies versus Brewers at twelve thirty.
I've got oodles on the tariffs, scrolling scrolling. Why doesn't
the Araria campus sue them back? Our brief fake love
affair with EV's is over. Yes, Jeanette Vizgera has had
due process. The Kelly Loving Act criminalizes hurt feelings? How
(01:40):
much do you have to make to take home one
hundred k? The Democrat Party of violence? Stuff to listen
to you while the game is on. Millennials and gen
Z are not playing nice at the office. Great insight
on tariffs from Steve Eisman. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I know what
you're thinking. You're like, Wow, Mandy, there wasn't that many headlines.
(02:03):
The band didn't even have a chance to do the
warm up. But within each of those headlines there is
so much information. I did a deep dive for you
guys today on tariffs and again went to a bunch
of different sort of perspectives and places, and really I
think got you some stuff that's very very interesting if
you really want to do a little bit of a
deeper dive on the different theories about what Donald Trump
(02:27):
is doing feel free. But one thing I want to
share with you is that after watching two podcasts this morning,
I read I don't even know ten fifteen different articles
or columns. The overwhelming thing that I am left with
is that the only person that knows what Donald Trump
is really doing is Donald Trump. And I think that
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to underestimate whether or not he has a plan or
a big picture here is at your own peril.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Whether it's the right big picture or the right plan,
I don't know. I really don't know. I've read some
stuff this morning about China and the things that they
have been doing to shore up their economy, and they've
sort of decided they're going to run deficit spending in
China with stimulus plans to kind of prop up their
economy until we capitulate. And it's not a bad strategy,
(03:20):
not at all. And what does that mean. So there's
a lot of stuff on Tariff's on the blog. There's
a Twitter thread that I found very very interesting. Billionaire
investor chemth Palpatias. I don't know how to say his
last name, you guys, I apologize, mister billionaire investor.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And his take his look, this is the biggest redistribution
of American wealth that we have seen in our lifetime,
but in the way that it's not been done for
a very long time, which is a redistribution of wealth
back to the middle class.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And it's a very interesting thread.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
There's a lot about people are starting to pay attention
to the fact that world trade overall, and I said
this yesterday. I think it is a net benefit, right,
because more of us can afford more things. Now, if
things are the sort of indicator of success, then we
are a very successful country. And people in the United
States of America enjoy a higher standard of living, even
(04:22):
living in poverty most times, than Europeans enjoy in their
daily lives, even if they're not quote living in poverty.
We have a much higher standard of living here. And
I think that cheap goods from China have allowed that
to happen. But there has not been no price to
be paid, and that price has been paid in the
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absolute gutting and hollowing out of manufacturing in this country,
especially in Middle America, in sort of the you know,
the heartland of America, and people there have been really
negatively affected. So he makes the point that by doing
this by trying to onshore some manufacturing will, recognizing we're
never going to have the manufacturing heyday that we had
(05:05):
in the past. But the reality is is that China
is now investing heavily in robotics. Right so, we've always
been told, and it has been true, that the reason
that China is able to manufacture goods so cheaply is
that their standard of living there is so low that
they can pay people a couple bucks a day and
they're going to work all day in the factory. Right now,
it's not a couple bucks at this point, but when
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all this started in the early two thousands, in many
rural areas, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A couple of bucks a day.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well, now, China has spent the last twenty five years
investing into things. They've been investing in technology. They've stole some,
but then they've also been investing in research at a
very high level, and at the same time, they've been
educating their workforce, so their workforce is capable of doing
high skill factory job work without having to be paid
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the same wages that high skill factory work has.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
To be paid here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And one of the most disturbing things I read this
morning as in an article in Foreign Affairs, and it
just kind of goes through. It starts with the fall
of the Roman Empire, and.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Stay with me. I know what you're thinking, But it
has to.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Do with the sheer scalability of an economy. And when
Britain was in charge of the British Empire, they created
the British Empire in part because they had essentially outgrown
the ability to industrialize on their little tiny island. I mean,
the United Kingdom is not very big, right. They don't
have the resources that we have in the United States.
(06:34):
So once the industrial revolution hits the UK, we take
that technology into the United States, where we have far
more resources, we have far more natural resources, and we
just made it better because we could scale it up
because we simply had more bodies and more space. Well
guess what China has compared to us. Way more bodies
(06:55):
and way more space. And one of the things that
I I am becoming more certain of is that a
lot of this has to do as much with aligning
the rest of the world against China by creating and
exposing the unfair trade practices of China. But if we
(07:16):
don't work harder or at all to bring in other
trading partners from all over the world. We cannot create
this barrier against China. That is going to have to
happen unless we want China to overtake our economy and
become the world's gold standard, which is where they're headed.
I mean, there's a lot to think about right now,
(07:36):
but we're playing a game of chicken and for today
for the first time, I'm like, don't know if I
can win this with China.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Do not know, but I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'm hoping that there's a Plan B somewhere in the
White House somewhere, because what I think is going to
happen is we're going to negotiate with all of these
other countries under a deal with Hey, you know what,
if you can buy it from China and you can
buy it from us, we'd like you to buy it
from us.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because China puts all these.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Artificial trade barriers on their products anyway, in order to
drive down the cost of goods so they can capitalize
and become, you know, the major shareholders in multiple industries.
This is what they've done with shipbuilding. They control thirty
percent of the world shipbuilding capacity.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That's huge we used.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
To control that much and now it's less than two percent.
You know what else they have China? This is another
interesting thing. Do you know where we get the ingredients
for our ammunition? If you guessed China, you guessed correctly.
Now if we have to actually posture and have some
kind of military response to China's invasion of Taiwan and
we can't get the ingredients for ammunition, that sounds like
(08:44):
a problem to me. And I'm not a person who
wants to go to war with anyone ever. I'm just
I'm done. It's stupid. War is the stupidest thing that
human beings do, truly is now. Sometimes it may be just,
but it's the stupidest way to handle a problem. It's
just the barbarian on us coming out. But ultimately lots
(09:06):
of stuff on the blog today, including at the very bottom.
You know, the game's coming up at twelve thirty If
you don't want to listen to Rockies Baseball. I embedded
an episode of my brother John's podcast. He has a
top ten podcast on Apple podcast at.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Escaping the Drift. He also has it on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He interviewed Steve Eisman about the tariffs, and I was
pleased to find out the Steve Eisman, who is the
guy who predicted the housing market collapse and bet against
it and made a craft ton of money. He's the
guy that Steve Correll's character in The Big Short was
based on. So he talked to my brother about this
and he's like me, He's like, I don't know what's
(09:44):
going to happen here. It's impossible to know what's going
to happen next. It's all very unnerving, extremely unnerving. So
I hear you, guys, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now good news.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm very proud of Republican Congressman Jeff heard who has
has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in filing a
bill which has a companion bill in the Senate that
would do something that we need to do a little
more of, and that is claw back the powers that
Congress has given the presidency instead of doing the jobs themselves.
(10:17):
And in this case, it is the power over tariffs.
The power to levy tariffs is a constitutionally mandated power
and it is mandated to Congress.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So why did it get sent.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Over Because it clearly says Article one, Section eight of
the Constitution is clear that tariff authority resides with Congress.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So how did it get this way in the first place.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Because congressmen and women are cowards, and any opportunity they
can get to punt something that might be unpopular to
someone else, they're going to take it. And that's why
we have a presidency that has far too much power
right now. It's far too centralized. I talked about it
when Joe Biden was president. I'm going to continue talking
(11:06):
about it when there's a Republican president who is actually
doing things that I like. But nonetheless, the separation of
powers is incredibly important. Now if this passes the House
and the Senate, and that's a big fat if, Although
it has bipartisan support, I'm guessing that every single Democrat
would vote for it, right, I Mean, that's just no
doubt in my mind that they would all vote for it.
(11:28):
But even if they could get it through the Senate.
In the House, the first time, President Trump has indicated
he's going to veto it, and that, my friends.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is why we have the separation of powers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Like the power should have never been given to any
president that is delegated to Congress, but Congress wanted to
be able to pass the book and not be held
responsible for votes on unpopular things. So the Trade Review
Act of twenty twenty five. I'm not super hopeful, but
at least there are people Republicans standing up and saying,
wait a minute, we need to claw back some of
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the power we've given over the years, and we're going
to start with this because of the chaos that it's creating. Now,
this is going to make republican A representative Jeff Heard
very unpopular with some of the Republicans in his district,
but that district is just such a political squeaker. Now
where's it used to be solidly Republican? After redistricting, it
(12:21):
is not nearly a solidly Republican. And I think this
is a very smart play by Jeff Heard. And I
know from what I know about Jeff Heard, he seems
like a principal guy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So this may be a principal issue. But he also may.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Have been asked to take the hit by Republicans who
are saying, look, we got to get something done here,
but I can't be the one to do it because
my district is so Republican. You know, things like this,
when you fence Republicans in where they can't come out
and say, wait a minute, I don't like what we're doing.
This is why I am more and more a supporter
(12:54):
of rank choice voting. We'll talk more about that later.
I've got so much stuff on the tariffs. If you
want to know anything, it is all on the blog today.
So I also have this story on the blog that
I want to get to because I don't want to
talk about it again because I got so mad reading
it today that I don't want to talk about it
for much longer because I'll just get too mad and
then I'm a curse and then I'll get fired in
(13:16):
I don't want to get fired over this stupid story anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What am I? What am I talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm talking about the moronic pro Hamas anti Semites who
set up tense illegally on the a Aria campus downtown
and the idiotic pro murderous regime Hamas faculty members who
went down to link arms to protect the students.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
From the me mean cops, who.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
By the way, treated them far nicer than I would
treat them if I were a police officer.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
But that's why they don't give me a badge.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And now those idiots are suing. Oh yeah, yeah, they're suing.
They named the Araria campus PO chief and six other
officers in a civil rights lawsuit where they allege that
their first demendent rights were violated. Oh they have pain
(14:12):
and suffering and other injuries during the criminal process.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Law enforcement claimed that they were here simply.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
To enforce a campus policy against camping. Their actions tell
a very different story. Well, how about this, idiots, when
they asked you nicely to leave and you said no,
and you gathered together in front of the site, making
a chain, linking your arms together, and then ignoring an
(14:42):
order to leave the area. Yeah, they can arrest you.
They can totally arrest you because you were doing something
illegal and the cops nicely asked you to leave and
you said no. Now here's what I'd love to see happen.
I would love to see the Araria Campus turn around
(15:02):
and sue these idiots for these six hundred and fifty
thousand dollars that they cost the campus because they had
to fix all of the sod, They had to erase
the graffiti, tagging in vandalism and pick up the They
had to hire a hazmat team to handle their illegal
toilet situation.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
In addition, there were.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
One hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in losses from
forty canceled events, forty thousand in lost revenue from parking.
I mean, come on, and you're going to argue that
because you were an idiot. I'm just gonna say this,
If any of you know anyone at the A Area
Campus Police Department, please tell them, do not fold. I
(15:45):
don't care if your attorneys tell you, oh, it's going
to be cheaper to just go ahead and pay a settlement.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Do not settle with these people.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I am so sick of protesters in Denver, Colorado acting
like idiots and then suing, and then everybody just capitulates and.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is like, oh, we're just gonna do this because it's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
What stops them from doing this? They're not gonna get arrested.
The Araria Campus so called leadership sure didn't do anything
to him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean it's got to stop.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We have to stop letting the inmates run the asylum
and if Alex Budrucus, Kyle Mountanio, Sarah Napier, Alexandria Nickens,
Elwyn Vonstock, Spencer, Pagic Joyha, and Harriet Falconet want to
put their names on this lawsuit. Then Ararius should put
a name on their names on a lawsuit right back.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
But see, this is why they don't let me in
academia or the police department. Apparently, what I'm saying is
frowned upon. Oh so said, gotta let them have their thing,
go to let.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Them see their stuff. It's not about what they were saying.
It was about the fact that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They were blatantly ignoring police orders when asked nicely to
not do something they were illegally doing. Goll Lee, Mandy,
it's time to bring back the water cannons for crowd control. Yep, yep, Mandy.
This isn't about clawing back power. It's about stopping Trump.
And here's the thing, Texter, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I don't care if it's about stopping Trump because the
same rules will be in effect when a Democrat that
I hate is then in charge. I actually think that
Congress needs to review any law or vote or action
that has been taken that has taken anything off of
the constitutionally required list for Congress and given it to
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the presidency. I think they need to review every single
one of them. And pull them all back. I mean
what we have now. You know, this is why people
freak out so hard when Donald Trump or someone they
don't like gets elected, because the presidency has far too
much power. This is why people freak out when anybody
at the federal level gets elected. The federal government has
(17:58):
far too much power. I truly believe that the founding
fathers who who were living under tyranny, right, they were
living under a tyrannical government, and they were riding from
wherever they were in the Thirteen Colonies. They were riding
to Philadelphia to have very important meetings to try and
(18:18):
figure out the foundation of this nation.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So during that time, they're on horseback.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't have an iPad, they're not on their cell
phone calling their mom.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They're riding a horse for days.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And in that time, you got to think to yourself,
they're coming out of a directly tyrannical situation. They don't
want to go back to that. And they decided that
they were going to split up the responsibilities of government
in such a way that no one could ever have
so much power that they themselves could possibly damage the
United States of America because those powers would be checked
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by another branch of government, and over the years, Congress
is like, Ooh, that's going to be unpopular.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
To declare war. We'll just let the president do that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Are you guys comfortable with that that the president of
the United States can basically take us to war without
any real input from Congress.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I am not at all.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't think we should go into any military action
without a vote of Congress.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't think we should do these little.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Police mark you know, put support or whatever we call them.
It's so crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A lot going on in the blog today, a lot
going on here. And the other story that I wanted
to get to is this one. And I know I've
already talked about it before. The Kelly Loving Act, which
is the act which will say if a parent calls
their son a son when their son has decided he
is a girl, then that would be taken into consideration
(19:47):
as abuse in a custody settlement. It also gives schools
chances to create chosen names and dress code policies themselves,
and it also makes it a violation of the oft
abused Colorado Civil Rights Act to misgender someone. Now, why
is this a problem misgendering someone. Let me just break
(20:09):
this down for just a second because I'm gonna go
here in just a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You got Rocki's baseball coming out after that.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's like this misgendering someone is when you call them
the wrong gender after they have decided to transition to
another gender.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now what impact.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Does that have just across the board, if you say
he and they are actually a she, What impact in
anyone's life except for the trans person does that have?
I would argue none, zero. All it does is upset
them and hurt their feelings. So now the Colorado Civil
Rights at whatever is going to make that a violation.
(20:45):
So basically Colorado has made hurting someone's feelings who is
trans a crime. Now I'm not aware, and maybe there
are laws on the books in Colorado. I wouldn't be
surprised where if you call someone the N word or
they can bring you up on civil rights charges. I mean,
does that exist? Because this is what we're doing here.
(21:06):
And what I find remarkable is that has there ever
been in the history of the United States of America
a group whose mental health state is driving more policy decisions.
They are the most fragile group of people in the
entire world.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But I'm not supposed to.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Notice that, nor am I supposed to wonder if perhaps
being trans is part of a larger mental health issue. See,
they're so fragile that we can't say you're a he
or a she, even if it's accidental. And yet we're
supposed to believe that there's not some kind of mental
health component here. It's really absurd, and it's kind of
(21:45):
amazing to think that it is even a conversation. But
that's where we are. That's where we are. This is
going to be signed in the law, I'm sure by
the governor. And if I'm a parent of a young child,
I'm homeschooling and laying them to hang out with anybody
else or have the Internet or any of that other stuff,
just until they get to the point where they can
(22:06):
think for themselves and not be sucked into some kind
of social contagion. All right, guys, I know it was
a lot in this half hour. I feel like I
did my part, You did your part. We're gonna do
our parts together, and we'll be back tomorrow. We have
a full show and it is chock full of great
guests and great information.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So see you tomorrow at noon. Colorado Rockies baseball coming
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Thursday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next uh let's see checks
watch twenty two minutes Mandy Connell join, of course, by
my right hand man.
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He's Anthony Rodriguez. We call him a roddy. Do you?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
And because we obviously have no time to waste, let's
jump right in and go look at the blog. When
you go to find the blog, just go to Mandy's
blog dot com. No phosterphe just mandy'sblog dot com. That
is going to take you to the KAWA Mandy Connell page.
Look for the latest posts, and then look for the
headline that says four ten twenty five blog baseball at
(01:05):
twelve thirty but plenty in the blog to keep you busy.
Click on that and here are the headlines you will
find within Oh god, I think within South American all
with ships and clipments of.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Press plant.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Today on the blog Rockies versus Brewers at twelve thirty.
I've got oodles on the tariffs, scrolling scrolling. Why doesn't
the Araria campus sue them back? Our brief fake love
affair with EV's is over. Yes, Jeanette Vizgera has had
due process. The Kelly Loving Act criminalizes hurt feelings? How
(01:40):
much do you have to make to take home one
hundred k? The Democrat Party of violence? Stuff to listen
to you while the game is on. Millennials and gen
Z are not playing nice at the office. Great insight
on tariffs from Steve Eisman. Those are the headlines on
the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. And I know what
you're thinking. You're like, Wow, Mandy, there wasn't that many headlines.
(02:03):
The band didn't even have a chance to do the
warm up. But within each of those headlines there is
so much information. I did a deep dive for you
guys today on tariffs and again went to a bunch
of different sort of perspectives and places, and really I
think got you some stuff that's very very interesting if
you really want to do a little bit of a
deeper dive on the different theories about what Donald Trump
(02:27):
is doing feel free. But one thing I want to
share with you is that after watching two podcasts this morning,
I read I don't even know ten fifteen different articles
or columns. The overwhelming thing that I am left with
is that the only person that knows what Donald Trump
is really doing is Donald Trump. And I think that
(02:49):
to underestimate whether or not he has a plan or
a big picture here is at your own peril.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Whether it's the right big picture or the right plan,
I don't know. I really don't know. I've read some
stuff this morning about China and the things that they
have been doing to shore up their economy, and they've
sort of decided they're going to run deficit spending in
China with stimulus plans to kind of prop up their
economy until we capitulate. And it's not a bad strategy,
(03:20):
not at all. And what does that mean. So there's
a lot of stuff on Tariff's on the blog. There's
a Twitter thread that I found very very interesting. Billionaire
investor chemth Palpatias. I don't know how to say his
last name, you guys, I apologize, mister billionaire investor.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
He was talking about this.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
And his take his look, this is the biggest redistribution
of American wealth that we have seen in our lifetime,
but in the way that it's not been done for
a very long time, which is a redistribution of wealth
back to the middle class.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And it's a very interesting thread.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
There's a lot about people are starting to pay attention
to the fact that world trade overall, and I said
this yesterday. I think it is a net benefit, right,
because more of us can afford more things. Now, if
things are the sort of indicator of success, then we
are a very successful country. And people in the United
States of America enjoy a higher standard of living, even
(04:22):
living in poverty most times, than Europeans enjoy in their
daily lives, even if they're not quote living in poverty.
We have a much higher standard of living here. And
I think that cheap goods from China have allowed that
to happen. But there has not been no price to
be paid, and that price has been paid in the
(04:44):
absolute gutting and hollowing out of manufacturing in this country,
especially in Middle America, in sort of the you know,
the heartland of America, and people there have been really
negatively affected. So he makes the point that by doing
this by trying to onshore some manufacturing will, recognizing we're
never going to have the manufacturing heyday that we had
(05:05):
in the past. But the reality is is that China
is now investing heavily in robotics. Right so, we've always
been told, and it has been true, that the reason
that China is able to manufacture goods so cheaply is
that their standard of living there is so low that
they can pay people a couple bucks a day and
they're going to work all day in the factory. Right now,
it's not a couple bucks at this point, but when
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all this started in the early two thousands, in many
rural areas, it was.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
A couple of bucks a day.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Well, now, China has spent the last twenty five years
investing into things. They've been investing in technology. They've stole some,
but then they've also been investing in research at a
very high level, and at the same time, they've been
educating their workforce, so their workforce is capable of doing
high skill factory job work without having to be paid
(05:53):
the same wages that high skill factory work has.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
To be paid here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
And one of the most disturbing things I read this
morning as in an article in Foreign Affairs, and it
just kind of goes through. It starts with the fall
of the Roman Empire, and.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Stay with me. I know what you're thinking, But it
has to.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Do with the sheer scalability of an economy. And when
Britain was in charge of the British Empire, they created
the British Empire in part because they had essentially outgrown
the ability to industrialize on their little tiny island. I mean,
the United Kingdom is not very big, right. They don't
have the resources that we have in the United States.
(06:34):
So once the industrial revolution hits the UK, we take
that technology into the United States, where we have far
more resources, we have far more natural resources, and we
just made it better because we could scale it up
because we simply had more bodies and more space. Well
guess what China has compared to us. Way more bodies
(06:55):
and way more space. And one of the things that
I I am becoming more certain of is that a
lot of this has to do as much with aligning
the rest of the world against China by creating and
exposing the unfair trade practices of China. But if we
(07:16):
don't work harder or at all to bring in other
trading partners from all over the world. We cannot create
this barrier against China. That is going to have to
happen unless we want China to overtake our economy and
become the world's gold standard, which is where they're headed.
I mean, there's a lot to think about right now,
(07:36):
but we're playing a game of chicken and for today
for the first time, I'm like, don't know if I
can win this with China.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Do not know, but I'm guessing.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I'm hoping that there's a Plan B somewhere in the
White House somewhere, because what I think is going to
happen is we're going to negotiate with all of these
other countries under a deal with Hey, you know what,
if you can buy it from China and you can
buy it from us, we'd like you to buy it
from us.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Because China puts all these.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Artificial trade barriers on their products anyway, in order to
drive down the cost of goods so they can capitalize
and become, you know, the major shareholders in multiple industries.
This is what they've done with shipbuilding. They control thirty
percent of the world shipbuilding capacity.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That's huge we used.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
To control that much and now it's less than two percent.
You know what else they have China? This is another
interesting thing. Do you know where we get the ingredients
for our ammunition? If you guessed China, you guessed correctly.
Now if we have to actually posture and have some
kind of military response to China's invasion of Taiwan and
we can't get the ingredients for ammunition, that sounds like
(08:44):
a problem to me. And I'm not a person who
wants to go to war with anyone ever. I'm just
I'm done. It's stupid. War is the stupidest thing that
human beings do, truly is now. Sometimes it may be just,
but it's the stupidest way to handle a problem. It's
just the barbarian on us coming out. But ultimately lots
(09:06):
of stuff on the blog today, including at the very bottom.
You know, the game's coming up at twelve thirty If
you don't want to listen to Rockies Baseball. I embedded
an episode of my brother John's podcast. He has a
top ten podcast on Apple podcast at.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Escaping the Drift. He also has it on YouTube.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
He interviewed Steve Eisman about the tariffs, and I was
pleased to find out the Steve Eisman, who is the
guy who predicted the housing market collapse and bet against
it and made a craft ton of money. He's the
guy that Steve Correll's character in The Big Short was
based on. So he talked to my brother about this
and he's like me, He's like, I don't know what's
(09:44):
going to happen here. It's impossible to know what's going
to happen next. It's all very unnerving, extremely unnerving. So
I hear you, guys, I hear you.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now good news.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
I'm very proud of Republican Congressman Jeff heard who has
has joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers in filing a
bill which has a companion bill in the Senate that
would do something that we need to do a little
more of, and that is claw back the powers that
Congress has given the presidency instead of doing the jobs themselves.
(10:17):
And in this case, it is the power over tariffs.
The power to levy tariffs is a constitutionally mandated power
and it is mandated to Congress.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So why did it get sent.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Over Because it clearly says Article one, Section eight of
the Constitution is clear that tariff authority resides with Congress.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
So how did it get this way in the first place.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Because congressmen and women are cowards, and any opportunity they
can get to punt something that might be unpopular to
someone else, they're going to take it. And that's why
we have a presidency that has far too much power
right now. It's far too centralized. I talked about it
when Joe Biden was president. I'm going to continue talking
(11:06):
about it when there's a Republican president who is actually
doing things that I like. But nonetheless, the separation of
powers is incredibly important. Now if this passes the House
and the Senate, and that's a big fat if, Although
it has bipartisan support, I'm guessing that every single Democrat
would vote for it, right, I Mean, that's just no
doubt in my mind that they would all vote for it.
(11:28):
But even if they could get it through the Senate.
In the House, the first time, President Trump has indicated
he's going to veto it, and that, my friends.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Is why we have the separation of powers.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Like the power should have never been given to any
president that is delegated to Congress, but Congress wanted to
be able to pass the book and not be held
responsible for votes on unpopular things. So the Trade Review
Act of twenty twenty five. I'm not super hopeful, but
at least there are people Republicans standing up and saying,
wait a minute, we need to claw back some of
(11:58):
the power we've given over the years, and we're going
to start with this because of the chaos that it's creating. Now,
this is going to make republican A representative Jeff Heard
very unpopular with some of the Republicans in his district,
but that district is just such a political squeaker. Now
where's it used to be solidly Republican? After redistricting, it
(12:21):
is not nearly a solidly Republican. And I think this
is a very smart play by Jeff Heard. And I
know from what I know about Jeff Heard, he seems
like a principal guy.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So this may be a principal issue. But he also may.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Have been asked to take the hit by Republicans who
are saying, look, we got to get something done here,
but I can't be the one to do it because
my district is so Republican. You know, things like this,
when you fence Republicans in where they can't come out
and say, wait a minute, I don't like what we're doing.
This is why I am more and more a supporter
(12:54):
of rank choice voting. We'll talk more about that later.
I've got so much stuff on the tariffs. If you
want to know anything, it is all on the blog today.
So I also have this story on the blog that
I want to get to because I don't want to
talk about it again because I got so mad reading
it today that I don't want to talk about it
for much longer because I'll just get too mad and
then I'm a curse and then I'll get fired in
(13:16):
I don't want to get fired over this stupid story anyway.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
What am I? What am I talking about?
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I'm talking about the moronic pro Hamas anti Semites who
set up tense illegally on the a Aria campus downtown
and the idiotic pro murderous regime Hamas faculty members who
went down to link arms to protect the students.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
From the me mean cops, who.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
By the way, treated them far nicer than I would
treat them if I were a police officer.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
But that's why they don't give me a badge.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
And now those idiots are suing. Oh yeah, yeah, they're suing.
They named the Araria campus PO chief and six other
officers in a civil rights lawsuit where they allege that
their first demendent rights were violated. Oh they have pain
(14:12):
and suffering and other injuries during the criminal process.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Law enforcement claimed that they were here simply.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
To enforce a campus policy against camping. Their actions tell
a very different story. Well, how about this, idiots, when
they asked you nicely to leave and you said no,
and you gathered together in front of the site, making
a chain, linking your arms together, and then ignoring an
(14:42):
order to leave the area. Yeah, they can arrest you.
They can totally arrest you because you were doing something
illegal and the cops nicely asked you to leave and
you said no. Now here's what I'd love to see happen.
I would love to see the Araria Campus turn around
(15:02):
and sue these idiots for these six hundred and fifty
thousand dollars that they cost the campus because they had
to fix all of the sod, They had to erase
the graffiti, tagging in vandalism and pick up the They
had to hire a hazmat team to handle their illegal
toilet situation.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
In addition, there were.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
One hundred and twenty three thousand dollars in losses from
forty canceled events, forty thousand in lost revenue from parking.
I mean, come on, and you're going to argue that
because you were an idiot. I'm just gonna say this,
If any of you know anyone at the A Area
Campus Police Department, please tell them, do not fold. I
(15:45):
don't care if your attorneys tell you, oh, it's going
to be cheaper to just go ahead and pay a settlement.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Do not settle with these people.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
I am so sick of protesters in Denver, Colorado acting
like idiots and then suing, and then everybody just capitulates and.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Is like, oh, we're just gonna do this because it's cheaper.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
What stops them from doing this? They're not gonna get arrested.
The Araria Campus so called leadership sure didn't do anything
to him.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I mean it's got to stop.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
We have to stop letting the inmates run the asylum
and if Alex Budrucus, Kyle Mountanio, Sarah Napier, Alexandria Nickens,
Elwyn Vonstock, Spencer, Pagic Joyha, and Harriet Falconet want to
put their names on this lawsuit. Then Ararius should put
a name on their names on a lawsuit right back.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
That's what I would do.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
But see, this is why they don't let me in
academia or the police department. Apparently, what I'm saying is
frowned upon. Oh so said, gotta let them have their thing,
go to let.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Them see their stuff. It's not about what they were saying.
It was about the fact that.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
They were blatantly ignoring police orders when asked nicely to
not do something they were illegally doing. Goll Lee, Mandy,
it's time to bring back the water cannons for crowd control. Yep, yep, Mandy.
This isn't about clawing back power. It's about stopping Trump.
And here's the thing, Texter, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
I don't care if it's about stopping Trump because the
same rules will be in effect when a Democrat that
I hate is then in charge. I actually think that
Congress needs to review any law or vote or action
that has been taken that has taken anything off of
the constitutionally required list for Congress and given it to
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the presidency. I think they need to review every single
one of them. And pull them all back. I mean
what we have now. You know, this is why people
freak out so hard when Donald Trump or someone they
don't like gets elected, because the presidency has far too
much power. This is why people freak out when anybody
at the federal level gets elected. The federal government has
(17:58):
far too much power. I truly believe that the founding
fathers who who were living under tyranny, right, they were
living under a tyrannical government, and they were riding from
wherever they were in the Thirteen Colonies. They were riding
to Philadelphia to have very important meetings to try and
(18:18):
figure out the foundation of this nation.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
So during that time, they're on horseback.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
They don't have an iPad, they're not on their cell
phone calling their mom.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They're riding a horse for days.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
And in that time, you got to think to yourself,
they're coming out of a directly tyrannical situation. They don't
want to go back to that. And they decided that
they were going to split up the responsibilities of government
in such a way that no one could ever have
so much power that they themselves could possibly damage the
United States of America because those powers would be checked
(18:52):
by another branch of government, and over the years, Congress
is like, Ooh, that's going to be unpopular.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
To declare war. We'll just let the president do that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Are you guys comfortable with that that the president of
the United States can basically take us to war without
any real input from Congress.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I am not at all.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I don't think we should go into any military action
without a vote of Congress.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I don't think we should do these little.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Police mark you know, put support or whatever we call them.
It's so crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
So I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
A lot going on in the blog today, a lot
going on here. And the other story that I wanted
to get to is this one. And I know I've
already talked about it before. The Kelly Loving Act, which
is the act which will say if a parent calls
their son a son when their son has decided he
is a girl, then that would be taken into consideration
(19:47):
as abuse in a custody settlement. It also gives schools
chances to create chosen names and dress code policies themselves,
and it also makes it a violation of the oft
abused Colorado Civil Rights Act to misgender someone. Now, why
is this a problem misgendering someone. Let me just break
(20:09):
this down for just a second because I'm gonna go
here in just a minute.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
You got Rocki's baseball coming out after that.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
It's like this misgendering someone is when you call them
the wrong gender after they have decided to transition to
another gender.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Now what impact.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Does that have just across the board, if you say
he and they are actually a she, What impact in
anyone's life except for the trans person does that have?
I would argue none, zero. All it does is upset
them and hurt their feelings. So now the Colorado Civil
Rights at whatever is going to make that a violation.
(20:45):
So basically Colorado has made hurting someone's feelings who is
trans a crime. Now I'm not aware, and maybe there
are laws on the books in Colorado. I wouldn't be
surprised where if you call someone the N word or
they can bring you up on civil rights charges. I mean,
does that exist? Because this is what we're doing here.
(21:06):
And what I find remarkable is that has there ever
been in the history of the United States of America
a group whose mental health state is driving more policy decisions.
They are the most fragile group of people in the
entire world.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
But I'm not supposed to.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Notice that, nor am I supposed to wonder if perhaps
being trans is part of a larger mental health issue. See,
they're so fragile that we can't say you're a he
or a she, even if it's accidental. And yet we're
supposed to believe that there's not some kind of mental
health component here. It's really absurd, and it's kind of
(21:45):
amazing to think that it is even a conversation. But
that's where we are. That's where we are. This is
going to be signed in the law, I'm sure by
the governor. And if I'm a parent of a young child,
I'm homeschooling and laying them to hang out with anybody
else or have the Internet or any of that other stuff,
just until they get to the point where they can
(22:06):
think for themselves and not be sucked into some kind
of social contagion. All right, guys, I know it was
a lot in this half hour. I feel like I
did my part, You did your part. We're gonna do
our parts together, and we'll be back tomorrow. We have
a full show and it is chock full of great
guests and great information.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
So see you tomorrow at noon. Colorado Rockies baseball coming
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