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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 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. 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 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 to underestimate whether or not he has a plan or a big picture here is at your own peril.
Now.
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, 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.
He was talking about this.
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.
And it's a very interesting thread.
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 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 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 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 all this started in the early two thousands, in many rural areas, it was.
A couple of bucks a day.
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 the same wages that high skill factory work has.
To be paid here in the United States.
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.
Stay with me. I know what you're thinking, But it has to.
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.
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
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 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, 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.
Do not know, but I'm guessing.
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.
Because China puts all these.
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.
That's huge we used.
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 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 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.
Escaping the Drift. He also has it on YouTube.
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 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.
Now good news.
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. 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.
So why did it get sent.
Over Because it clearly says Article one, Section eight of the Constitution is clear that tariff authority resides with Congress.
So how did it get this way in the first place.
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 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. 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.
Is why we have the separation of powers.
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 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 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.
So this may be a principal issue. But he also may.
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 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 I don't want to get fired over this stupid story anyway.
What am I? What am I talking about?
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.
From the me mean cops, who.
By the way, treated them far nicer than I would treat them if I were a police officer.
But that's why they don't give me a badge.
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 and suffering and other injuries during the criminal process.
Law enforcement claimed that they were here simply.
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 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 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.
In addition, there were.
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 don't care if your attorneys tell you, oh, it's going to be cheaper to just go ahead and pay a settlement.
Do not settle with these people.
I am so sick of protesters in Denver, Colorado acting like idiots and then suing, and then everybody just capitulates and.
Is like, oh, we're just gonna do this because it's cheaper.
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.
I mean it's got to stop.
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.
That's what I would do.
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.
Them see their stuff. It's not about what they were saying. It was about the fact that.
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.
I don't care.
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 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 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 figure out the foundation of this nation.
So during that time, they're on horseback.
They don't have an iPad, they're not on their cell phone calling their mom.
They're riding a horse for days.
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 by another branch of government, and over the years, Congress is like, Ooh, that's going to be unpopular.
To declare war. We'll just let the president do that.
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.
I am not at all.
I don't think we should go into any military action without a vote of Congress.
I don't think we should do these little.
Police mark you know, put support or whatever we call them. It's so crazy, absolutely crazy.
So I don't know.
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 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 this down for just a second because I'm gonna go here in just a minute.
You got Rocki's baseball coming out after that.
It's like this misgendering someone is when you call them the wrong gender after they have decided to transition to another gender.
Now what impact.
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. 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. 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.
But I'm not supposed to.
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 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 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.
So see you tomorrow at noon. Colorado Rockies baseball coming up next