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just a little minute. I don't know if anybody has been paying attention to what's been going on this past week, but there's a few things in particular that I think we do need to discuss, maybe not at length, but at least talk about, right, So I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen at this time for anybody who would like to be a part of The Cajun Night Live. If you're listening to this on Thursday, because this is gonna drop immediately after we record it, then come check

out the Cajun Night on page. That is the only place to see the videos for this, and also it is the only place to join in on the conversation. So we appreciate, or I say we Jesus soundly, Jonathan. I appreciate everybody who's done so so that they could be a part of this conversation and help grow the Caje to Night in its own you know, respect and write so real.

The other conversation was that maybe they had, you know, some nuclear weapons that were stored there, like you know, missile silos and things like that. Okay, it's a little more believable. And you know, when you see these pictures of Ingles Airbase deep inside of Russia was hit overnight by Ukrainian drone.

nukes out of bombers or planes anymore. I thought that kind of went by the wayside after all World War Two. But apparently in Mother Russia, you know, they still be doing things like that. They're still using those type of tactics if you look at their front line and trench warfare things. But neither here nor there. Russia has now

declared a state of emergency in the Ingles district. Following the explosion, a Ukraine hit a warehouse holding missiles at the air base, reports claim, with ten people injured in the blast. Footage appeared to show multiple munitions flying away from the blast as they caught fire in a second explosion. Locals claimed the strikes had hit an ammunition depot crammed with the missiles and fuel which had triggered the huge explosion. The smoke could be seen from miles away, with residential

homes damaged by the shockwave. An urgent evacuation of civilians for safety reasons quote unquote was reportedly ordered, and the closure of schools in the area, including Saratov City. After a four am attack, the local governor said there had been a Ukrainian drone attack on the town of Ingles. So right, understood, got you. Now, there was one video, and I hope it's loading here. There's one video that I wanted to show of this dude had a barn or a shed or something like that, and you could

see the rattle of the explosion. Of course it's not going to be on this one. That would make too much sense. Oh well, it'd be like that. I do have multiple articles pulled upon this one, so we would at least see something more with it. But all right, So everybody thought that it was a nuke that got hit, and again from the mushroom cloud, that's not the craziest possibility. However, However, upon further review, I don't believe that it was a

nuclear anything that actually got hit. I do believe that it was Russian munitions for sure, but there was no radiation fallout. The people were evacuated for multiple reasons, but nothing that would systemically tell me that it was something of a nuclear variety. Here this is from the TWZ newsletter, and I do believe this is actually yeah, no, it's not a Russian publication. I forget what it's from, but no, it says Russian bomber base suffered major damage to munitions

area in Ukrainian drone attack. Satellite imagery obtained by the war Zone confirms that ammunition and weapons storage bunkers at Russia's Ingles Air Base were destroying a Ukrainian drone attack on Thursday. The attack resulted in a massive fireball and mushroom cloud. The high resolution images taken today by Maxar Technologies, and by today I mean as of a week ago. So I had this one pulled up for last week, but we got way off into the weeds on religious conversations,

which is fun, which is fun. Shows most of the damage occurred at a storage area about a mile east of the runway. At least a dozen storage facilities and other nearby buildings were destroyed in the attack, and it also created several large craters. The severe damage was caused by massive secondary explosions when the drones detonated explosive ordnance stored there, targeting munition storage areas for their second effects. Yeah, for their secondary effects. Is a common tact to used

by both sides of the war, employing standoff weaponry. Okay, so again agreed all the stuff. That's not a crazy concept again that yes, you would want to hit weapons and storage depots. This is a video of the mushroom

cloud as it was going up in the airs. If you're just chilling and you didn't even know that that kind of munitions were being stored there, and you see that kind of mushroom cloud flying up, I get the hesitation, right, I get why people would think that maybe something nuclear was going down, especially when you see other videos of all right, this is the one. This is the one, So.

want to have that conversation. Everybody thought it was nukes. It's not, but it was a very very successful attack. Now, with all of that being said, there's some other stuff going on this week that I really really wanted to get in and break down and all the things and all the stuff before we even talk about Trump and the tariffs and all these things. A guy named Corey Booker Gay He's a Democrat out of New Jersey. If I'm not mistaken. Oh yes, that's right here, he broke

the all time record for longest speech. Yeah, I mean, all joking aside and all whatever. It's really impressive that this guy was able to speak for twenty five hours and five minutes without stopping. Like I mean, I understand filibusters are not you know, useful or whatever, but just for the going the distance of it, right, the Guinness Book of World Records, if you will of it, this guy really did his homework. And with that being said,

I think it's worth noting. It's worth mentioning, it's worth giving at least that tip of the cap, you know. Corey Booker's long speech. By the numbers, this is going to be a breakdown of everything that was said and done overall. He breaks the record for the longest Senate floor speech in history. This is on April first, actually April Fools Days, when this was written.

philibustered for twenty four hours and eighteen minutes against the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Yesterday, Senator Booker, I also think it's also kind of cool in that regard that this person, Philip bustered against the Civil Rights Act and that was the record. A black senator from New Jersey broke that record. I'm given the props where they're due as far as that's concerned.

hundred and fifty million likes. Again, given the props where they're due. More than twenty eight thousand voicemails of encouragement left on his main office line, three hundred thousand plus largest member, the largest number of people viewing the live stream across just his platform at once, which I could I could probably get down with But y'all eleven hundred pages eleven hundred and sixty four pages of prepare material.

Again as somebody who writes down and prepares material for a living YO, thirty pages front and back will cover the spare for me anyway, for how you know, when me and Jonathan do our show, if I have thirty pages front and back of notes taken, I'm gonna cover about a three possibly a three and a half hour spread with breaks for conversation in the middle to solo miket buy yourself for twenty five hours like it's that seems like almost an impossible feat to me, like that,

that's mind blowing. But your boy did it. And with that, I thought it would be nice to play the closing remarks of his speech. And again I don't agree with pretty much anything he spoke on gonna be honest, but that is not the point. For the man that broke the record, I think the least we could do is listen to the last two minutes of his speech. Let's go ahead and listen in, shall we?

himself determined to show his love for his country. At the time, the country didn't love him to love this country so much, to be such a patriot that he endured beatings savagely on the Edmund Pettis Bridge at lunch counters on freedom rides. He said he had to do something. He would not normalize a moment like this. He would not just go along with business as usual. He wouldn't know how to solve it. But there's one thing that he would do that I hope we all can do that.

I think I did a little bit of tonight. He said, for us to go out and cause some good trouble, necessary trouble to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream when our founder said we must mutually pledge, pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. We need that now from all Americans. This is a moral moment. It's not left or right, it's right or wrong. It's getting good trouble my friend, Madam President, I yield the floor.

That's I think that's that's historic, right again, regardless of the politics of it, it's historic as hell and it's worth talking about. Right. So with that, before I go to the next thing here, actually know what, Yeah, let me go ahead and check out the chat because I guarantee y'all have said some things. I know Alex dropped that meme a minute ago. All shit, my bad. I completely stipped my mind to stay to say my typical what's up to shut up? Alex? You you ass uh atypical?

Such a boy. Ah Royce, the resident Jew. I love it ravenly. It's crazy he went that long. Yeah again, respect, and at the end you could tell he was kind of like flubbing some words here and there, but I mean I flub words after an hour of speaking. Your boy was going at it that long. Good God, like he earned his money on that day. I'll give him that. He earned his paycheck with this one. Stephanie, what you got? Well?

right now, and I didn't. I didn't actually go back and watch the nuances of it because I know Booker's quality and he is a true blue politician and I don't typically have much aligned with that side. So I didn't go back and look at the nuances. But just for the history or you know, precedence of this, to break a record in that way, that's that's quite a flex especially because he broke the record from a guy who was going against the Civil Rights Act in the fifties,

and it was this guy that broke that record. Like, I'm at least give them the tip of the hat and the props where they're due. You know, that's just me. And again, I would like to go back and check it out. Let's see here. Alexandra said, it sounded like he was about to start bawling, like he listened to MCR. Yeah, oh yeah, a Booker listened to my chemical romance. I would I would actually be actually that'd be a little

bit more of a step up. I'd give him a little bit more props if I found out he was a closet emo kid. I doubt it. I doubt it. He's way too much of a stuff. But uh yeah, not talking to twenty five hours is long, but damn yeah, Alex is straight up drinking from the bottle. You know what Alex be doing that?

and I've heard it from the left. I've heard even some from the right that are saying that America is in a soft recession right now and it's only gonna get worse from here. Did anybody notice that the stock prices and extee me that the Dow jumped up three thousand points today. Now I thought this was a joke. I thought this was like a gimmick. I thought it was clickbait. No, no, no, no, it is not. And with that, Trump basically just put China in a stranglehold.

And is I think he's get ready to lube up to bend him over. That seems to be the gesture that's taking place right now. At the same time, he put a ninety day hold on all other tariffs to all other countries as an extra middle finger to Ji, which I am a fan of, because if anybody has ever heard me speak, you know I'm not the biggest fan of the CCP or jijuping like at all. But I didn't see it coming. I definitely didn't see this one coming. And I think that this is kind of

what happens. Remember when we were talking about the ceasefire deals that were happening with Russia and Ukraine, or at least what he was trying to make happen. He basically strong armed Ukraine to come to the negotiation table, and everybody thought he was just the He's an ass for doing it this way, Bob, Bob Bob. Then Ukraine went to the other side of things, tried to get help from other people, realized that there was no help to be had decided to come to the negotiation table. He

tried doing the same thing with Russia. Russia went back on their word, and he's working that deal. This is kind of how I guess these backdoor business deals happen with these fortune five hundred CEOs. It's strong armed leverage and it's mafioso style sit downs. But because he's the president now everything is out in the public. So when he's trying to strong arm China in playing ball and they're deciding that they don't want to play ball, he decided that he's gonna make them an offer that they

can't refuse. And he's not doing it with weapons. He's not gonna hold a gun to GI's head. He's gonna make him hold a gun to his own head. And that seems to be the play here, go ahead.

and wafflestand I will do it one day. Anyway, if I wanted to open this type of a food cart in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Okay, once I get the cart, and once I get the health code and all that stuff, I have to get a state permit to sell food. I then have to get a Jefferson Parish permit to sell food. I would then have to get a French Quarter permit to sell food there, right, these are you want to call them extortion fees? Fine, interchangeable dialogue. That is kind of how the tariff game

works on the macro. That was a very micro example. Now cut to the macro. Let's cut to the world stage here. If Pakistan wants to if we want to sell something in Pakistan, we have to pay a ten percent tariff to the Pakistani government for anything that says I'm made in the USA to be sold there. And it's not just towards the US. Countries do this against each other, and it's not like it's understood to be

the way it goes. You're paying your extortion fee. You're paying for the right or the ability for your goods to be sold in this place. Okay, It's like a thing of a licensing fee something similar. Okay. Now America is a nation of consumers. That is what we do, Okay. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's not necessarily a good thing either. It's just kind of how everything is shaken out historically speaking.

we don't actually require for survival. Right. Other countries don't have that, some do, some don't, and there's varying degrees of that. But the reason why is because Americans like to buy stuff. That's something that we really love doing. Other countries, yeah, they like to buy stuff, but they don't always have the means to buy stuff or the stuff to buy. Okay, now keep this in mind. So America, being the nation of consumers as it is, and as it has been for quite some time, we have operated

under a policy of no tariffs. There are some countries that get teariffed a little bit here, a little bit here, and there are some that we straight out say we're not buying any of your products. And like you know, if there's a time of war whatever, that's why. Like Cuban cigars, for instance, were illegal to be sold in America or even illegal to have here because we have put up these type of you know, embargoes, right, but that's different. Basically, an embargo is we're not buying any

of your shit. A tariff is okay, we will allow you to sell your goods in our store or in this case, on our soil, but you're gonna pay the United States government x amount percentage wise to sell your goods in our country. Does that kind of clear it up for everybody? Now, when we pay that extortion fee, it's understood that that's quiit pro quote, that's the status

quo of the day. We have always operated with a lot of these countries with no tariffs because we want to buy their goods for super super cheap.

cents an hour in labor. And whenever you account for the shipping costs and all of that, it's it's the same thing. It actually equates to them making more money if they outsource the labor force to put things together, or to weld certain things, or to make little components, or whatever the case may be. It depends, you know, industry to industry here. So now Trump has said, all right, if we're trying to hook up the American people, what we're gonna do is we're gonna put tariffs on everyone

for everything, and some higher than others. And there's political reasons for that and socioeconomic reasons for that, and I get this, but basically he's saying that every country, the same way that they make US America pay a tariff to be sold in other countries, we are going to reciprocate this. And this is why he let out this list of reciprocal tariffs. Basically, he's saying, you're charging us ten percent, we're charging you ten percent. Now, what does

this look like on the real market here? Okay, energy drink, Okay, there's an easy example. Let's say this costs three fifty at the store. I don't actually know if that's what it costs. It's about that. It depends on the gas station. Sometimes I can get two for five. That's neither here nor there. So let's say three fifty for the energy drink. Okay, cool. It may have cost just throwing out random numbers here, just bear with me, maybe fifty cents to actually produce this energy drink. Okay.

for the example. But if you were to throw a ten percent tariff on that, that means that you also are charging the foreign country thirty five cents for every one of these sold on US soil. Okay, And that's a that's literally just the fee for you to come here and play the game. You want to sell your goods here, we will be taking thirty five or ten percent right off the top, and that goes to the US government. Okay, Now, a lot of people think that that means that, oh, well, the price of the good

will increase because the company's not gonna pay that. In certain cases, yes, and in certain cases strong arm leverage will happen and they'll say no, no, you're not increasing the price, or we'll just make it to where you can't sell your goods here, period. And that's kind of how this goes. It's the same way when America sells goods in other countries, we pay the tariff. The consumer

doesn't pay that tariff the American company. If you were to have a T shirt company in America, and it'd be a very compliant company, which for everybody who doesn't know, that means it is a basically every component of the company is US through and through, or at least within the realms of basically completely one made in the USA, right, the inink, the cotton, the manufacturing, the whole nine. Right. If you have a very compliant T shirt company, and

you're trying to sell a T shirt in France. The company is paying a ten percent tariff to the French government. The French government is not charging the buyer and extra ten percent off the top to make that up. And that's why I've never understood when people were like, the terrifts are going to screw over the people. It doesn't work like that anywhere else on earth. Why would it work that way in America? But I digress. I have I kind of paying a decent picture. Here have I

gotten people lost in the weeds? If I have? Please tell me I can go back now you're good.

and like you can use them. It's because it was done by design to be able to create a consumerism, because if you built something so good, then nobody ever has to buy it. Like in Japan, instead of having the consumerism mindset, they have shops around everywhere that you

can repair almost everything, even broken plates and glass. You can take it in and they'll actually use like different types of metal or different types of product to make it look artistic, but put it back together so you don't have to buy it, so they're not consuming so much. But here it's pushed in almost everything, every cartoon, even in Looney Tunes, it was heavily pushed to be consumers. That's where they really started to add it and to get to the children to be able to grow up

and be consumers. So it all is a big game here in America, but really not overseas as much.

There was a whole wave of movies, any of those iconic eighties movies that you can think of that were geared towards high school kids, even though everyone acting in them were like in their mid twenties, either here or there, it was geared towards the high school students, and there was products that were being pushed in such a way because they realized, wait a minute, in the past, we were always going after the dad, right as far as

the consumerism was concerned, because everything was a single income household.

lay it in really thick. Cut to the nineties when the only channel that didn't have commercials playing was the Disney Channel, and the only commercials they had playing were Disney commercials. But that's a whole other talk for a whole other day. But yeah, they've started to really push the entire mindset of shoppers, consumers, people that buy stuff from the very oldest to the very youngest in America. Now cut to what just happened as of today in America.

So Donald Trump. You know, I'm gonna go ahead and share the screen and we're just gonna talk about it from some people that are way better explaining it than I am. This is a CNBC television event, and I think this is also they have some Australians that we're speaking one to hear. Trump announces a ninety day tariff pause for at least some countries. Let's listen in. Meghan Casella is in our DC bureau. Megan, maybe you can enlighten us with more Kelly.

day pause in the reciprocal tariff. What I'm not clear on is whether we go to zero during that time or two back where we were, or if the ten percent tariff remains in place. Either way a major step forward. The President says that this is because more than seventy five countries have called representatives of the United States. Negotiations are ongoing, and so he's instituting this ninety day pause.

In the meantime, on the other hand, some negative news on China, saying that based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the world's markets, he's raising the tariff on China to one hundred and twenty five that's, of course up from the one hundred and four percent that took effect just at midnight, now going even higher to one hundred and twenty five percent, because he does not like the way China has been retaliating rather than coming to the United States and wanting to negotiate. So

two major step forwards here. One obviously very good for the markets. You're seeing the markets react to that. The other one on China looking like, you know, they don't like the lack of respect that they see. So we are looking at a world in which things continue to get worse with China, one of our largest trading partners but of course not the largest, but getting much better with everybody else, at least temporarily while these negotiations, Kelly are ongoing.

and he's laughing about it. And that makes me happy. That makes me so happy because West Taiwan has been needing to get put in their place for a good little while now, but neither here nor there. What you see him holding right here in this picture is the reciprocal tariff chart, and he is showing what tariffs these countries have been putting on us for forever and now

what he is planning on doing to them in reciprocity. Okay, he's not trying to strong arm leverage the entirety of the world, yeah China, sure, in a couple other countries in particular, but for the most part, he's trying to make it equal and fair. If you're gonna charge us ten percent. You will now be charged ten percent. This is just gonna be the way it's gonna be. Well, then nobody's gonna make money in that case. That would be the point He's trying to make the fair and balanced.

Either we're all gonna deal in playball, or nobody's gonna deal in playball. That's how Donnie t does business. And I know the left is really upset by that, but you know, hey, all right, here we go. Here. Countries are reacting to widespread terariffs proposed by the United States, and there are two distinct approaches.

import duties on Chinese goods. Other countries that answered Trump's tariffs with import tax of their own did not see any US response. Yet. Here are a lists or some of the countries that are taking different approaches. Okay, so this is the retaliating countries. Separate countries are responding to Trump's tariffs with additional import taxes on the US products. Trump has said that if the countries retaliate, he will

increase the reciprocal tariffs on that country. China. Obviously, China has already planned a thirty four percent retaliatory tax or tariff. Last week, in response, Trump ratcheted up tariffs on Chinese goods to one hundred and four percent, and those went into effect early Wednesday mornings. That would make the all encompassing total percent. Neither he nor there The Chinese government responded by raising its levy on US goods to eighty four percent.

For decades now, Democrats were pushing for US to put harder trade tariffs on China, but when Trump does it, he's evil. But we're gonna get to all of that in kind, I promise you. As I repeatedly said, China is the most imbalanced economy in the history of the modern world, and they are the biggest source of US trades problem, said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a press

conference with reporters after the increased were announced. Okay, and again, we're gonna talk more about the whole China thing in a bit, but I digress. Let's move on the European Union is taking retaliatory approaches here. The European Union officials voted Wednesday to implement retaliatory tariffs on US goods. The blocks tariff will affect around twenty three point two billion dollars in US exports, according to Bloomberg, a very very liberal media outlet, and are in response to the steel

and aluminum teriffs previously implemented. According to a statement released by officials, the EU considers US tariffs unjustified in damaging, causing economic harm to both sides as well as the global economy. The statesman said, the EU has stated its clear preference to find negotiated outcomes with the US which would be balanced and mutually beneficial. They they're saying that because we're giving them equal tariffs to what they're putting

on us. But all right. The tariffs will be implemented on April fifteenth, and could be suspended should two governing bodies reach a deal. Canada, Now, Canada and the US, I know we're neighbors. We've been on very friendly terms for a good while.

talking shit. I think most people could understand that, although if it does happen, I mean at this point, at this point, I don't even know if that would shock me. But you know, let's get into it here. The US's neighborhood, the North also focused on auto tariffs, implementing a twenty five percent import tax on American made vehicles. These teriffs, like the US counterparts, exclude US MCA automobiles. Shocker. We are responding today with and we responded throughout the day

with carefully collaborated and targeted counter tariffs. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney reportedly said during a press coop difference Canada was included in the countries with a base tariff of ten percent under the pressure announced wednesday by Trump. Okay, let's just make sure we get that right here. We gave them a ten percent, just flat tariff that we've given to every other country as well. They responded with a twenty five percent tax on cars. I keep using

the term tax, excuse me, tariff. That's not very reciprocal of them. But also we put that on all Canadian goods. They put it on just the automobiles. So like all right, Canada was included with the countries on the base of ten percent under a pause announced Wednesday by Trump, but since said but it was not immediately clear what that meant on tariff announced previously on the country that were

not included in the reciprocal framework. Okay, so with that, he did put a hard pause on all tariffs, and as of this very moment, the only country that's being tariff that hard is China. Every the other one that he put that flat tariff on is currently lifted for ninety days. So he's giving them the opportunity before he puts the screws to them. He is giving them the opportunity to come to the negotiation table and make a deal. Again. Your boy wrote the book The Art of the Deal.

This is how this goes down now, Negotiating Treasury Secretary of Scott Since said seventy countries had called to negotiate trade deals at the beginning of the week. Trump has posted on true social that he has met with or had calls with several countries. Below are some countries that are confirmed to be making an attempt to negotiate lower tariffs. Japan. Japanese government officials have been in talks with Trump since the beginning of last week beginning of the week excuse me.

According to the reports, the country seeks to negotiate down the twenty four percent tariff that the US is charging on Japanese imports. Japan has long been an economic ally, with the US importing one hundred and forty eight point two billion dollars of goods from Japan last year, so I get it doesn't want to be tariffic that they're making that monet off of us, so they're willing to come to the negotiation table. Twenty four percent is not

a little bit, Y'all's a that's a pretty hefty chunk. Vietnam. Vietnam's first attempt to deal with was dismissed by Trump's trade advisor Peter Navarro early in the week, but it reportedly is still attempting to negotiate with the administration.

call of goods, which increases everything across the board. So China is feeling the effects of the tariffs that Trump put in on his first go round. Why are people all of a sudden believing that the Nike shoes will get more expensive in America. It gets more expensive for China to make them and send them to us, it doesn't get more expensive for us to buy them. This

is proof in the pudding, if you will. So now Vietnam being the new sweatshop hub, or at least if some is getting these tariffs and they are trying to get a hold of the White House to make a negotiation, I like it South Korea. We're homers of South Korea. But also ever a body can get these tariffs. That's the motives operandi that Trump is working on right now. On Tuesday, Trump wrote on a social media site that True Social that he had a great call with South

Korea Acting President and Prime Minister ham Duck Sou. I swear to God, I'm not mature enough to try to pronounce these names. I'm sorry. Uh have we have the confines and probability of a great deal for both countries, Trump wrote, Their top team is on a plane headed to the US and things are looking good. The US levied a twenty five percent tariff on South Korean goods when widespread tariffs went into effect in the early hours on Wednesday. Okay, so that's just a few of the countries.

But we do have another list right here that shows every country working on trade deals with the US. And this was April seventh, so this is a couple of days ago.

We buy things. We are a consumer nation, so any tariff put on them hurts their bottom dollar, it doesn't hurt us. So even a ten percent tariff levied against them, and even if it isn't in reciprocity, even if a country has a ten percent tariff on American goods, when America puts a ten percent tariff on their goods.

severe tier of Trump's wider tariff plan. Nevertheless, UK leaders say they hope to secure a carve out in the coming weeks, but they said the relatively low tariff level was already evidence of some success. Business Minister Jonathan Reynolds said negotiating negotiations are ongoing, telling reporters that it is not inaccurate. Jesus, I can't speak right now reporters that it is not inaccurate that the two sides have agreed to a deal. We've got to keep this work going,

he said. Okay, so the UK is trying to play ball, and they're at least acknowledging that ten percent was the lowest rung of the tariff deal, so maybe they could schmooze their way into a lesser degree. Which, okay, that's fine. I don't know how much how many goods we buy from them, from industry or from you know, consumers, but sure. I mean, if they're able to wedge their.

pay the toll. So where if you're ready to go at a farmer's market to the owner of the land.

lines of what he's trying to do. Maybe not completely abolish the IRS, but make it to where people are not paying a third of their paychecks to the government. That would be nice, It would be very nice. It

would be very very nice. And also it also goes in line with paying off our national debt because, okay, you know how whenever you owe an amount of money and it goes to a debt collection agency, you'll get a call from a Continental Continental debt collection right, and then you might pay a little bit, whatever the case would be. Three months later, you'll get a call from Golden Golf Coast collection agency. It's the same debt, it's the same bill, but now it's owned by another company.

Maybe next year you'll get a call from a Snowy Mountain Peak collection agency, whatever the case would be. It's the same bill, but they have sold the debt and sold the debt and sold the debt. I think most people have understood that this happens right when America had a national debt. Okay, what they have done for years and years and years is they have taken that debt and put it on the open market. Okay, China owns a trillion dollars of America's debt, so it's not necessarily

we owe China. We owe a debt that is now owned by China. So I guess it's six and one hand half dozen in the other But it's not necessarily us paying the CCP to relinquish ourselves of our own debt. But that is how they've operated for so long, and most countries do. By the way, Now, when a country goes into a national debt like this, they try to

do things to try to like make up that difference. Right, They try to sell treasury bonds, They try to do things as far as the economy is concerned, to try to lessen that blow. But when it's to this scale, to the trillions of dollars, at a certain point, you have to sell that debt to someone, if you put it on the open market, rather than just pay the debt. And America has paid or sold the debt for decades.

So there's multiple countries out there, and multiple big, big conglomerates, right the wroth Child's and I mean just like ooh child, No, no, no no, the global banking network owns a massive chunk of the American national debt.

owns a trillion dollars of our debt. If China decided to call in that debt and strong arm us into paying, we have the largest and most capable military on earth, that would more than likely lead to some sort of a false flag event and we would probably go to actual hot war with China rather than an economic cold war.

but there's reasons for it all. Now, if of the seventy to seventy five countries that have called the White House this week and are trying to work a deal, if they were to work a deal. That would help us because we would work a deal to where hey, look, you don't charge us, we don't charge you. So that also helps our overall economy, our business, not you know, maybe not you and me and the people listening right now, but American industry. It would help business, which helps America

in any way, shape or form. But if these countries don't come to the negotiation table, they will be slapped with these tariffs, and Vietnam with a ninety percent tariff put on them. The Nikes that are being made in the Vietnamese sweatshops right now, Vietnam as a country will now have to pay ninety cents on the dollar for every dollar they make on US soil to the US government. And I don't know if they're really willing to do such, but if that was to happen, and that's just a

Nike example, there's tons of sweatshops in Vietnam. I think there's still a communist country as a matter of fact, or at least they If they're not they it's more of a more recent thing only in the past few decades that they swapped to a different but neither here nor there, But they would lose their ass hard if they were to agree to do or not fight this

in any way, shape or form. And it's not like they could fight it in a military or economic way, soil you have to come to the negotiation table or eat it, and I don't believe they're going to be willing to eat it. But that's how this works, That's how this leverage game and this kind of big business economics really happens played out. So couple this with DOGE and all the wasteful spending that they are also finding

and bringing to light and stopping. I don't know what the United States government will do with all of the excess funds that they didn't have in the past few decades. I have hopes, and that's a lot more than I can say that I've had for this country since I've been born.

right as soon as something happens. Told that place needs some freedom.

had reported on Trump's announcement last week. Hit Cambodia with a forty nine percent tariff again, so they were charging US thirty five cents on the dollar for everything America made and sold in Cambodia. So Trump said, fine, you're gonna pay US forty nine cents on the dollar. And Cambodia has sweatshops and they sell a lot of things here. By sel, I mean you'll see a tax saying made in Cambodia or something to that effect. So now they're going, hey,

maybe thirty five's a bit hasty. Maybe we could charge all five cents on the dollar. And Trump's like, I look forward to talking to you. Yes, this is this is beautiful Thailand again, very much so. Thai commerce minister. Yeah, I'm not even going to try to pronounce that name confirm to Reuters that he is seeking negotiations with the United States, though the nation's government hasn't made it a formal offer on the tariff charges. Well, he's looking to negotiate.

We'll see how that goes India. The White House hit India with a twenty seven percent tariff, but India's leaders are not considering retaliation, according to a government official who spoke with Reuters. Instead, India has informed the US that it is willing to cut tariffs on more than half of US imports, totaling some twenty three billion dollars as part of an initial deal. I'm liking the sound of all of this thus far. I'm gonna be honest with you.

let's just look at this picture real quick. And this is not the whole list. I think I haven't pulled up in another article here, but all right, on the left, we have tariffs charged to the United States, that's things that we are paying to them, Like we're getting screwed here, and the US discounted recipprocessual reciprocal jesus ris. Yeah, China charges us sixty seven percent. We only have been charging them thirty four okay, European Union thirty nine twenty, Vietnam

ninety forty six. Uh oh yeah, charge with the US, Taiwan sixty four percent, the discount reciprocal tariffs thirty two percent, Japan forty six and twenty four, India fifty two and twenty six, South Korea fifty percent, twenty five percent, Thailand seventy two percent, thirty six percent, Switzerland sixty one thirty one, Indonesia sixty four percent, thirty two percent, Malaysia forty seven percent, twenty four percent. So again, I'm liking this. I'm liking this.

There are some countries down here that are a ten to ten swap, and like, okay, fair is fair. But yeah, this is the overall plan. If they're not going to give us a good deal, He's going to force them to give us a good deal or they'll lose their entire ass in the deal. I love this. Argentina is one of the few countries that have already met with

the White House regarding a tariff deal. Argentine Foreign Minister Heraldo Worthene Yeah, said he met with the US trade negotiator Jameson Greer and the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnik on Thursday in Washington. He said he was hopeful that he would soon come to an acceptable free trade agreement. Okay, Canada, we talked about them a moment ago. Mexico. Mexican President Claudia Sheenbaum confirmed last week that her economic minister would be traveling to Washington, d c. And early April to

hold tariff negotiations. Yeah, I'll bet so. She said her administration was particularly interested in auto, steel and aluminum industries. According to CNN Switzerland, the Swiss President Karen Keller Sutter said on Thursday that her country plans to seek trade talks of Washington and her government has no plans to retaliate with its own tariffs in the mean time. Very very wise move of you, Malai.

against Trump's tariffs. The nation's trade ministry said it is looking to actively engage with the US to seek solutions that will uphold the spirit of a free and fair trade. Very good. We already talked about the EU a little bit. Indonesia Trump's administry. Oh god, when that happens, hold only on an ad'll pop up and it shifts the entire article. Indonesia. Trump's administration smacked Indonesia with a thirty two percent tariff last week. The president nope, I'm not even try that one.

The President of Indonesia has already dispatched a delegation to Washington for negotiations before the tariffs take effect on Wednesday. So again, as we see, without the use of military force, without the threat of violence or anything like that, Trump is making moves happen and again this makes me extremely happy. You know, before I read any more of these articles, I'm gonna go ahead and check out the chat because I think there was some Yeah, there was some more

things dropped on this one. Here. Let's see here, that's why I buy American whiskey over foreign whiskey, so says Alex, I love it. What if countries were saw or what if countries were saw blades? I mean, he didn't Argentina. Didn't that prime minister come in with a chainsaw and he was gonna cut tariffs and taxes out of his country, which he did. He's kind of crazy, but in a good way. And then Elon Musk did the exact same thing later on, but then when he did it, he

was a psycho and whatever. Anyway, silks, okay, I had I failed to see a problem at all trying to consuct the agreed agreed Alex Jesu Pinge really needs to suck a fat Richard.

centric development near Dallas. Oh of course they are. I don't know why I'm even shocked anymore.

The full list of Trump's reciprocal tariffs by country, So here we go. Here China and this was a couple of days ago, because now it's one hundred and twenty five percent on China, but as of this article is writing eighty four percent.

where they're not a peaceful nation right now. But the guy who's currently the warlord in charge seems to be kind of a stamping out the wild things going on there, and he's trying to restore some sort of assimbilance of law and order. So, like you know, I'm not necessarily a big fan of him by any means, but at least some order is better than no order, So you know,

I'll give the props for they're due there. Uh Mauritius forty percent, Iraq thirty nine percent, Botswan on A thirty eight percent, Guyana thirty eight percent, Bangladesh thirty seven percent, Serbia thirty seven percent, Liechtenstein thirty seven percent. That's something you don't really hear a lot about is the nation of Liechtenstein. But apparently they needed to catch them terraffs

as well. Reunion thirty seven percent, Thailand thirty six, Bosnia and Herzegova thirty six, North Macedonia thirty three, Taiwan thirty two, Indonesia thirty two, and Gola thirty two, Fiji thirty two. Let's see Switzerland, Libya, and Moldova thirty one percent. South Africa, Nauru, Yep, Algeria all of them thirty percent, Pakistan Norfolk Island both of them twenty nine percent, Tunisia twenty eight. Let's see

Kazakhstan and India both twenty seven percent. South Korea and Japan twenty five and twenty four percent, Malaysia and Brunei twenty four percent, the naw Tou don't know how to pronounce that one twenty three percent, the Ivory Coast twenty one percent, Nambia twenty one percent, the EU and Jordan both twenty percent, Nicaragua, Zimbabwe and my Maloi Yep eighteen percent, Israel, the Philippines and Zambia seventeen percent, Mozambique in Norway both

sixteen percent, Venezuela and Nigeria fifteen and fourteen percent, Chad Equatorial Guinea thirteen percent, Cameron twelve percent, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo eleven percent. So again, I like this a lot. And that's just the ones that got hit the hardest. Every country got hit with a ten percent. This is just the ones that are outside of that ten percent. And again this was as of April nine, so yeah, this is updated today. Go ahead, Royce, what you got?

given to Ukraine to support them. And that's not even He said this, and people are like, that's not true. There's no way that yo. But if you actually look at the numbers, they have spent. I think it's like a three to one ratio that the European Union as a whole has spent on buying Russian oil, keeping the Russian economy afloat, and keeping the war going on longer then they've actually given to Ukraine to help them win the war. So yeah, the Europeans are buying their oil

from wherever. We buy a lot from Saudi Arabia, and we buy a lot from the Arabic countries. And as of right now, Trump is trying to get the whole drill baby drill mindset going, which I know a ton of guys in the oil field that are super happy to hear that. By the way, the roughnecks are getting back to work where they belong, I might add. But yeah, let's see, there's another list. We already kind of went down the list of the numbers and stuff like that,

but I don't know. I mean, there's multiple places where they can get their oil from, and we have since, you know, for a good long while. Here is this what I yeah, already wrote this article. I can't believe I had it up on air twice. Excuse me. The Associated Press talking about the one hundred and twenty five percent tariff on China. But I mean again, that's we've

kind of beaten that dead horse here. It says he raised the tariffs one hundred and twenty five percent on Wednesday, hours after China boasted or boosted the duty on American goods to eighty four percent, and an escalating battle that threatens to disrupt trade between the world's two largest economies. Citing a lack of respect, Trump set China apart from the other countries. He said in a social media post

that he is pausing his so called reciprocal tariffs. Gott to write that time boys on many other trading partners because they had responded by reaching out for talks rather than retaliating. The tip for tat hikes between US and China are the latest in an ongoing trade war that threatens to raise prices for consumers in America and derailed China's attempts to reinvigorate its sluggish economy. The response from the Chinese government signals its determination not to been to

Trump's pressure despite the risks. Again, I really the Associated Press being the overtly liberal publication that they are. Of course they're gonna have some things about how this is gonna hurt the American consumer.

talking with Trump, all good things. But this news clip shows democrats from years past saying the exact same thing that Trump is saying right now, wishing that the president's at the time would have done what Trump is doing right now. But because it's Donnie t that's doing it, obviously it is evil and I think it is worth a watch. Let's check it out.

a deal with us. That's what it's going to be. I think they'll make a deal at some point.

That's one of the flexes of the century, honestly. And also, listen, y'all, anytime that the news puts out these Chinese military parades and all of this, I've had this ask to me quite a few times, and I'm gonna get back to this video. I promise you it gets better. But they've asked, why doesn't America do military parades or victory parades like this to show America's might and all of these things like Russia does it, North Korea does it, China does it.

Why don't we do it? Because to scale that just throwing this out here, for America to send all of its humb's just throwing it out to DC and to let one of them roll every minute, it would take three days.

Now is a perfect time to buy before everything skyrockets. Yes, but also I would I am very curious to see which items and which types of things actually do skyrocket and how many of these things actually go down in price, because now that we're imposing tariffs on them, maybe they'll come off of it a little bit.

love when she talks that shit. Absolutely, America is a consumption economy and we have the upper hand, and China imposes the death penalty for selling drugs in their own country, So they need to stop being hypocrites and stop murdering Americans. I agree with what Miss Green is saying. However, that's

also I think that's China's ploy, right. Wasn't it just a couple of years ago that they showed that baby toys from China actually had lead paint on them, and it was, like, I kind of think it was a long form way of trying to reduce America's population, whether we're at an actual war with China or a Cold war or an economic war. Listen, the fact of the matter is China is currently our biggest enemy, our biggest

threat to the American way of life. I know that's going to be counterintuitive to what some people believe, and that whole situation with Obama, with the with the tires, you know, sales and all of that. Mitt Romney one of the most prolific rhinos to ever walk through DC. Let's not forget his kid was also involved in the Beisma scandal in Ukraine alongside Hunter Biden, alongside Chelsea Clinton.

So to see that he was also super in bed with China with a tire deal, that also sounds like it's pretty much the standard.

not throwing shade. I just also don't get down with it myself because it's nothing that you can actually bank on. The stocks go up and down based off of who won the last election. You know, it plummets for any reason that it just decided to do. Bubbles happen and then they burst, and there's so much outside sources that can affect it. I don't see that as a viable retirement option, although it's the most viable that most people

deal with. And I agree, there's a lot of people that have absolutely lost their ass in the four oh one k in the stock markets under Biden since Trump's been in. Yeah, it took it took a good spike, then it dipped a little bit. Today it's at a massive spike. The pendulum is gonna swing both ways on this. I know that it's gonna come down, that three thousand is not gonna stay where it's at, but I also

have hopes that it will continue to go up. The American economy seems to be in a very upward trajectory, especially now that these terrifts are getting put on countries. So I have hopes. That's just me here, let's see, let's continue here, Raven said super off note, but multiple articles dropped women over forty having babies or having babies that team for the first time in decades. Oh, women over forty are having more babies than teens for the first time in decades. I find that to be good. Yes,

I mean not necessarily the over forty part. Fine, whatever, I don't you know, as long as you're doing it healthily and you're not putting yourself for the baby at risk. Fine, But like, that's good that adults are having more kids than teenagers for the first time in a long time. That's a very positive step in the right direction of my opinion. But hey, positive things here. It's like the South Park episode when China was consensoring everything, and Randy

had to kill Winnie the Pooh. I couldn't give less of a fuck about some dumbass communist lepon. Yes, Alex, Yes, I absolutely agree. It's good.

with that whole thing, that's that's crazy. Like did you see how before the COVID virus got locked down and the lockdowns happened, that they were actually protesting in China because they wanted democracy rights, And then all of a sudden, this COVID virus gets put out and everything goes on lockdown, shutting down their protests completely. That blew my mind. I was like, why isn't that.

the same thing going on. They had riots all over China before the lockdowns happened, then the lockdowns took place, and again it's I would rather the lockdowns in China over Tianaman square two point oh. But what's to say that they didn't have a version of Tianaman square two point zero and they just kind of never talked about it because China has no problems losing a million people tomorrow.

They don't care. If anything, I would actually help them less mouths to feed, which is the other side of this coin. With all these tariffs that America's putting on China and China's putting on America, their biggest export from US that they require like to survive is soy. They buy a metric fuck ton of American soy just to

feed their people because they are starving there. Maybe not to the level of North Korea starving, but like the Chinese, the Chinese government cannot produce enough food to feed all of the mouths that they've created.

mouths to feed, and they are buying American soy. And now America just said, Okay, you're gonna charge us this much money to buy our products that you require to feed your people. Fine, we can play this game. So I'm yeah, interesting stuff, interesting stuff across the board here. I'm gonna share the screen again one more time, and we're gonna hear from mister wonderful. Y'all know that I'm a bit of a fan of his as far as

his uh, his money mind works. And yes, he is a dick, I'm aware of that, but he's a dick that knows how to make money. And he's the type of dude that knows how to make money, make money. He's very much like Trump in so many regards. So let's see what he has to say about all of this. A lot of all AXI leave in the market right now.

Either way that goes, everybody eats, and all right, that's the way it's gotta happen. That's the way it's gotta happen. I don't exactly know what the future is gonna hold. As far as the stock market's concerned, I don't see it going down like into the you know, deficit or anything like that. I don't see a crash happening anytime soon. Again, speaking completely out of my ass on this, I'm not an economist. I don't even fully understand how the stock

market operates. Watching Wolf of Wall Street taught me that it's all ethereal faery dust. It's nothingness that people are betting on, basically, and I don't understand it. But that being said, what these companies could do, okay, foreign companies, American companies, whatever the case. If they were to build manufacturing facilities on US soil, the products sold that were

made in the local facility wouldn't be tariffed. So the other side of that would be that name a foreign company doesn't matter who makes a product in a foreign country. If they were to set up a facility in America to make the product and sell it to the Americans, the tariff is no longer valid. It goes away. It was made in America, probably by American workers for the American consumer. So either a, they will give Americans jobs if it doesn't get taken over by robotics and AI.

I understand. I understand. The theory here is that it would open up more job opportunities for Americans. B. It would equalize the economies to where nobody's getting shafted or everybody's getting shafted equally, and by everybody, I mean government to government, not the consumer. C. It could potentially make it to where all these tariffs go away and it's

cheaper to buy everything. So, as far as I can tell, making it a reciprocal tariff situation will lead to a a good option, be an okay option, or see a good option. It doesn't seem like a negative at this point. Now again, that remains to be seen because this just started to take place. Trump hadn't even been in office six months yet. Can y'all imagine what we'll be talking about when it comes time for his turn to be

over and all the things that he has done. I'm just saying, it's wild things go ahead, Merlin.

But yeah, in four years, the Democrats are more likely going to get back in because the penzel m Away swings really far one way goes back the other way.

of these psychopaths. And it's like, I think that I've heard some people say that if they just continue down this road, the Democrats will never win another election in America. I don't know that to be a fact. But I could also see a world where Trump is grooming Don Junior or Ivanka to run behind him and kind of make a Trump dynasty happen. Yeah, I don't. I know.

Whenever they get a job that has a four oh one K and they realize that their votes actually can equate to their retirement possibilities, all of a sudden, they start voting a whole different way. Now, aside from the big cities. You're never going to get out of it with the big cities. But by and large, a lot of these people that keep thinking these things, like these younger kids that we always see on the news that these riots and protests cut to them. Ten years later,

they sing a completely different tune. I don't really see AOC having a snowballs chance in hell of winning an election against even a moderate conservative, especially after Donald Trump with these types of economic policies. All the Republicans have to do is pick any guy that can do what Trump did, or at least following those footsteps and kind of ride that wave. I see the next two or three elections going to the Republican side if they can just do that. And again I agree with you, they

have to start grooming somebody for that position now. But I also think that Trump thinks five steps ahead. I think that he's probably got somebody in the in the line that he's thinking that he would endorse. And I also feel like an endorsement from Trump would go a hell of a long way as far as the way Americans see things in the current standings. But I agree with you one hundred percent, go ahead, Royce.

but yeah, I agree with you. But yeah, she's she's got nothing of substance, Like even the what was that picture with the whole kids in cages thing, and she went to the border and was like screaming and wailing at the chain link fence because she was so broken hearted. Then you pan out and she's outside of a parking lot like it was. It was not even pretend it was a whole photo op that was trying to be

used by the media in that way. I don't. And besides that, she's also one of the psycholiberals like she sides with. And it's not even just the I see you, Alex, I see you talking that tranny shit over it. And it's not even that. It's not even the LGBTQ element O p whatever group, right. It is the socioeconomic policies and the social policies and the just day to day living standards that that side is now saying should be normal. And it's the American people have spoken, we don't want

that existence, we don't want that reality for ourselves. I don't think that she understands that, because I think she also lives in an echo chamber of that psychosis, if you will. But yeah, no, I agree with you, Royce. I don't see her getting the nomination, at least for a good bit.

that in their culture that's very normal. And it's like you you understand you said this out loud on the mic, and like it's this is what I'm saying, dude, it is. It's not even throwing shade. It's more or less just like repeating the things that they said out loud, and then they say it like we're making fun of them.

It's like, no, we're you said it. This is a you thing, AOC with the same way the whole Yeah, it's I don't really see the Liberals having any candidate that could potentially even look like a decent option currently anyway.

things in a more conservative manner. If Trump has shown anything, he has shown that America doesn't want moderate we want action. I don't know, and I might I could be so wrong here. I just don't feel like Ben Carson would take enough action that the American people would respond to, especially when you're like economically, I'm not saying he's not a brilliant guy and a brilliant surgeon and all the things.

I don't know if he would have the foresight to choose a cabinet that could steer him in the direction to do things like Donnie t is doing right now. I could be wrong. I could be wrong.

for real, for real, alex I agree. Uh, Well, plenty of people waiting in line for their mouth, oh oo for AOC's mouth.

how to evade ice. A normal politician, elected official would understand, like, hey, that's illegal, maybe you shouldn't do that. But of course it was for the it was for the eyes, right, it was to get her name and keep her relevant and all these things. But it's like, yeah, it's it's it's silliness. It's absolute silliness, all right. She reminds me of my ex Merlin. For real, AOC reminds you of your ex. You dated a psycho Latina, didn't you, Yep, that's hort. Did she try to stab you?

of it. May we'll come a little closer to quote unquote normalcy in some way. I don't know.

this from the Times now world. Is Texas getting a what the hell's state records? Is Texas getting a four hundred and two acre self governed Islamic city? Here's what we know. Wow, Texas getting a yep, all right, we you simply must read about this one. A rural video has garnered attention online claiming that a four hundred and two acre self governed Islamic city is being built in Texas.

The development, called Epic City, is a proposed residential and commercial project led by East Plano Islamic Center.

a claim. Let's go here. Epic announced plans for in early twenty twenty four for what it described as a historic project, quote unquote, a residential and commercial development near Josephine, Texas, roughly thirty minutes from its Plano based mosque. As reported by The Daily Mail, the project includes proposals for one thousand homes, a school, a shopping complex, and a central mosque intended to serve a growing Muslim population. However, the

proposal has encountered stiff resistance. No bruh for real, you think like this ain't this ain't Deer Park, Michigan.

a few other issues. Yeah, unless you like the call to prayer that I could see that getting old real quick. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has taken a tough stance, directing state agencies to investigate the development.

misinformation direct quote here. We understand that there has been a lot of rumor milling and misinformation circulated by many who are uninformed. We look forward to working with the Attorney General to ensure we are in legal compliance every step of the way, said the mosque in a statement.

No construction has begun on the site, and the project's official website lists twenty twenty six or twenty twenty seven as a potential move in timeline, as per The Daily Mail, with the permit vote by Collin County scheduled for April fourteenth, the future of the epic city remains uncertain, so that vote is coming up. While the viral video claims the community aims to establish independent governance based on religious law, okay,

no official documentation has confirmed such intent. At present, the project appears to be a large scale housing and community development initiative with religious affiliation pending state and county approval. Okay. That is that is absolutely a thing. That's happening right now, Merlin, I saw your hand raise go ahead.

I have a really hard time seeing that and acially, bro It's not like you're going off into the desert of Arizona where there's nobody for like one hundred miles, and you're like building a community out that way. You might get away with it. Then Texas, of all the places where you think that's gonna go down, they are choosing Texas that uh hmm. Yeah. I have a real real hard time believing that Governor Abbott is going to even allow that to go down.

conversion at sword point, it's about the context. You can look at the context of it, and it's exactly what you think it is when it talks about shove hooks in their bellies and drag them into the streets and all these like, that's no, no, that's pretty much exactly what they're talking about there. Now, I don't think that every single Muslim alive gets down with it. I get that a lot of them that most of the Muslims I've met have been generally good people, just trying to

live their daily lives and earn their daily bread. But they've also all been Americanized Muslims. I've never had the experience of meeting a Muslim in a Muslim country who may have a different set of cultural ideas as far as that's concerned. Even with all of that being said, like if you were to try to do this in Michigan, where there is a massive Muslim population, you'd probably have a better time of it Texas though. Go ahead, Royce.

Sharia law is for the most part, comparable to the law of Moses. Comparable. Okay, the atments that are doled out go into different categories, for sure, But as far as modesty, how to treat others, all these things, Sharia law is a kind of one to one comparison. Not in all cases, but in most blood we're extreme.

a paying a fine. It's cutting your hand off for being a thief. It's uh stoning a woman for being a victim of rape. It's it's yeah, they bro I'm surprised that they I'm not surprised that they bought the land. I'm not surprised that they tried that they're developing it into a Muslim community. Even I get that. I see it. Fine a thousand houses. Hell, the subdivision I live in

is a thousand houses, like, and I hate it. I hate it so much, so much, But fine, Okay, you want to have a community unto yourselves where you can be around people with your culture and y'all speak that language and like, fine, cool things. I believe in religious freedoms in this country one thousand percent. But like, you know, go ahead stuff.

like Moab, not Moab Saint George. They have the Jeffs Commune in northern Utah, they have the Kingston Plan, they got the all Red Group. So there's different offshoots. The ones that are most well known are the Jeffs in southern Utah. They got you know, the pastel dresses with the long braided hair, and it very much creates conflict in the community with other people and even though they all believe in the same ship anyway.

happen in that community in Texas when they build it, whatever they believe in, you know it kind of whatever they believe in, they'll probably do that. There there's going

to be some secrecy. But over time, like you know, I'm I'm imagining that some Muslims will join the police department, and they'll join the judicial brands, and you know, over time it becomes it will kind of certainly like having an impact on the area, and there's going to be some awful things, illegal shit happening, and they get away with it because over time they start to kind of immerse themselves in the community and they will turn a blind eye to because of their ideology, they'll turn a

blind eye to all the abuse and human suffering happening and illegal illicit acts. So it happens all the time. It happens with mainstream Mormonism too. But that's the example I thought of, was just that group in southern Utah, although it's you know, it happens probably for every you know, extreme religious viewpoint.

their roots into the old school Mormonism. That was like a show about a family, and yeah, they all. I don't know, I just didn't think that like, I just thought that was it had nothing to do with like

what most people are experiencing in these groups. But the one that I thought was the most accurate was Escaping Polygamy, where these two these two young women, I think they're in their early twenties, maybe late teens, I can't quite remember, but they would help people escape polygamy because a lot of these especially young boys, if they're not given a wife, which most of them aren't, because the women will go

to the older men. So they kind of get kicked out of the community because they're no good, right, they're not old enough, they don't have any trades, they don't have any skills, and they're not they're not going to let these boys, you know, get wives because they're controlling the whole thing, and so they kick them out all the time. There's a lot of resources that they're developing now to help these people that are that are kicked

out of the community. But there is if you're driving to if you're driving south on I fifteen and you get past like Probo, and you're going all the way like I fifteen, it just cuts down the middle of Utah, goes straight down and once you get past Provo, you'll see all these duplexes on the west and those are all Polygamus's houses. So you're one hundred percent right, Jacob.

They do duplexes because legally it's like two individual families, but one wife will be on one side, another wife will be on the other side, and so that's like a huge community right there. Most people don't know it because they dress like regular people. So but so there's and because I worked for the state, I had tons of training on each you know, each group, the individual things that they believed in and stuff like that. So

it goes a lot into it. But you know, to think that this you know, Muslim group in like I think it originally, you know, it was probably gonna be a cool community for some people, but give it ten twenty fifteen, you know, twenty years down the road and you're gonna have some big problems with people outside the community, if that makes sense.

we already do. Some will say that we don't anyway, and this is not a Christian nation, even though all the founding fathers happen to be of the Judeo Christian belief system. I don't want that. I do believe in separation of church and state a one hundred percent as far as America is concerned other countries operate their own ways, not going to throw shade one of us. One country has won two World wars, the other ones have. Not Take that for what you want. I don't want the

unison of church and state. That's the whole reason why the Puritans made their way over here. But well, I should say the Pilgrims, but neither here nor there. That just reads like so at that point, what's the difference between them and any of these other cults that took place Waco, Texas? At this point, what is the difference between a cult buying land, doing their own religious law outside of the American law and it becoming a problem.

And then these people, right, the Amish are allowed to do what they do because they are inherently nonviolent, Like that's a whole thing about them. And the Mormons, I think, are allowed to do what they do because you don't hear of Mormon uprisings and Mormon terrorist attacks. Maybe they'll attack you with their over niceness, you might get smile bombed, but like that's about it. I oh, yeah, exactly, does the set exactly exactly? I mean? And look at au

Royce helped me out here. It's a section of New York City that's like is it the Upper East side of New York that is like Hasidic Jewishville.

building now. It was completely blown out of proportion. It has absolutely zero to do with any kind of trafficking, especially that that that area, and and we even when it came to when somebody was saying, all right, well what about all of the all the mattresses, and like you anybody who's not a part of that world doesn't understand that pretty much.

is the reason why they're the mattress. And then you don't people don't understand the behind the scenes of why these people were digging these tunnels and what was about. Like they didn't care because because in the new all it said is.

Upper East Side of New York that that happened. So even other examples of these communities that live unto themselves, that are allowed to do so, don't have a uh stigma around them because they haven't earned that stigma. This neighbor is coming from a culture in a society that has earned that stigma. I don't know what to make of it. I don't know. It is getting late. We have kind of made this episode longer than we've done

in the past, and I'm here for it. But I do need to wrap this up because I do need to start editing it so it can come out on the tomorrow. So thank y'all everybody for coming and joining in on this conversation. We talked about a lot today. We started off talking about some you know, Ukraine Rushia things, spent a good amount of time talking about tariffs and economy, and then we ended talking about some wild things going

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