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April 8, 2025 - Lionel Nation
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Trump Drops the Hammer: Threatens China with Brutal 50% Tariffs—Game Over for the CCP?
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If you spent any time today trying to figure out what is happening regarding the world of tariffs, you wasted your time.
Because, I don't know.
It's the same thing over and over again.
I don't know.
Which side do you like?
Do you like that side?
Or do you like that side?
Do you want to hear that guy?
Or do you like that guy?
Do you want to hear CNN and Trump's a jerk?
Or do you want to watch this?
Do you want to watch Rand Paul?
Do you want to watch Bill Ackman?
Which guy do you like?
Not what truth do you like.
Which guy do you like?
Which person do you like?
Which channel do you like?
It has nothing to do with reality.
It has nothing to do with reality.
It's the most incredible thing I've ever seen in my life.
It blows my mind.
It absolutely blows my mind.
And what's also more important than anything else, what I find fascinating, really, really, truly fascinating, more than anything else, is the idea that, and this is important for you to understand, we are no closer today than ever in finding out what this is about.
Now let me take you through this and let me give you a couple of things.
First of all, I, you, and everybody know nothing about what's going to happen regarding tariffs.
I don't know.
I can pretend.
I can pretend.
I can play that Milton Friedman.
Peace over and over.
I can do that.
Would you like me to do that?
Would you like me to do that?
I can play that again for you.
We have a Ronald Reagan one today.
I got clips that confuse you.
When we get done this evening, you are going to be so confused.
So confused.
What am I talking about?
What's going on here?
That's exactly right.
Because remember, no matter what, The truth is, no matter what they say about Reagan, about Trump, you're not going to hear anything good if he solves everything.
If he does something which is so humane and colossal that he doesn't...
I don't even know how to say this.
That he doesn't even...
I...
If he is Jesus Christ Almighty without being blasphemous and does something so incredible by changing the...
bankrupting China or having them beg for forgiveness, whatever he does, the left will never acknowledge it.
You do understand that, right?
Do you understand that?
The left is never going to acknowledge it.
So we've got stuff for you tonight that is so interesting.
And it'll go to show you how everything is nuts.
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All right, dear friends.
Now let's start off with a couple of things.
This was pretty good today.
China, China, put this up today.
China, that's right, China.
You heard me, China, or China, was quoting Ronald Reagan, did you see this?
Oh, this was big today.
...s tariffs on foreign imports.
It looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs.
And sometimes for a short while it works, but only for a short time.
What eventually occurs is, first, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs.
They stop competing.
And stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.
And while all this is going on, something even worse occurs.
High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars.
The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition.
So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, People stop buying.
Then the worst happens.
Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industries shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs.
The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity.
Now, it hasn't always been easy.
There are those in the Congress, just as there were back in the 30s, who want to go for the quick political advantage.
Well, you see, that's the problem.
A lot of people are suggesting that, and this is important, they're suggesting that, you know, when Ronald Reagan was doing that neoliberal thing, maybe things weren't as good as I thought.
Maybe things were, it could have been even better.
Maybe, maybe.
Maybe.
If he had done a better job, we wouldn't have outsourced all of our stuff elsewhere.
Now, you and I, remember, you want to argue the point?
You want to argue Reaganomics now?
I don't.
Do you want to?
I don't.
I really don't.
I don't.
And you don't either.
You don't.
So, let's also think back a little bit as well.
You see, there were these other people who said, we've got to do something about China.
And you know what the EU was doing?
They're already doing zero for zero tariffs.
Already!
Already!
Imaginary value of their money is the problem.
One of the things, Hillbilly, that you must understand is the notion of what money is.
Remember this?
Is it a fiat currency?
Is it Keynesian Bancorp?
Is it crypto virtual currency?
Oh dear God, don't do that.
Anyway, that's what he said.
Remember Chuck Schumer?
Chuck Schumer was furious.
Furious!
Oh my God, what happened?
There we go.
Chuck Schumer.
There we go.
Chuck Schumer was furious with President Trump for not protecting us enough from China.
See, China gets people's attention.
Remember Chuck when he said this?
I'd like to see him explain his decision to the thousands of steelworkers whose jobs are on the line because their companies aren't competing on a level playing field because China repeatedly subsidizes Doesn't play by the rules and cheats.
It's another classic example of the Trump administration promising one thing but doing another.
President Trump has promised many times to crack down on China.
And still, ten months into his administration, his commerce secretary is once again needlessly delaying a preliminary step in that effort.
That's right.
Every time I see Secretary Ross, I've known him for 30 years, he's a New Yorker like I am, I say to him, when are we going to do something on China?
Oh, we're going to do something tough.
See?
And each time there's a different excuse.
This should have happened in the first two months of the administration.
It hasn't.
That's right, Chuck.
So.
Listen carefully.
Because of the Republican inaction, because of the President's unfulfilled And rapidly becoming broken promise on being tough with China, Senate Democrats will be sending a letter to President Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross demanding that the administration keep its promise to crack down on China's unfair and predatory trade practices.
Now, one more thing on China.
Today I read Tesla, our great car manufacturing company, will be relocating to China.
What?
When you want to sell cars or many other advanced products in China, you have to do one of two things.
Set up a joint ownership company which lets them steal our intellectual property or face huge tariffs.
That's based on the fact that the WTO was poorly negotiated and China was regarded as a developing country.
That's right!
That was the fault of President Bush and President Obama.
Neither did enough to stop China.
China.
Based on his campaign rhetoric, you'd think President Trump would be tougher as China steals our family jewels.
It's no longer clothing and furniture.
Family jewels?
Oh my God.
It's our best industries.
They steal our intellectual property by these joint ventures.
Sometimes they do it by cyber theft.
A lot of times they do it by cyber theft.
There's nobody in the Senate.
And it's hurting the good-paying jobs that might be available to our children and grandchildren.
Doesn't that sound great?
Based on campaign rhetoric, you'd think President Trump would be tougher on China.
But so far, it's been a lot of talk and not very much action.
What about now, Chuck?
Stop right there.
Tell me you understand what we're talking about.
It's all bullshit.
Bullshit.
Let's say one thing to another.
It's bullshit.
It's all bullshit.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
My friend, I'm a reasonable man.
I know you are too.
I understand there are subtleties and nuances.
I understand these things.
But I also recognize the fact that there are sometimes things that, well, things that go beyond us.
And the thing I found out is in Washington and with this, nobody knows what they're doing and they don't know what they're saying.
It's the most incredible thing in the world.
Remember, and it's not just them.
I mean, nobody knows what they're talking about.
They talk about this thing called the middle class.
Do you remember that?
The middle class.
You know who spoke about the middle class?
You know who was really big on the middle class?
Bigger than anybody you could imagine.
You know who really was?
I'll tell you.
Honorable middle class people are being crunched.
Unless we begin to figure out how to begin to rebuild the middle class and speak to the middle class, we're in deep trouble.
They ain't voting for us, folks.
By the way, just quickly, he was good.
I mean, in terms of his loquacity, his delivery, he was actually very, very good.
He had a very good...
Not so much a turn of the phrase, but his ability to speak and articulate.
He was wonderful.
Wonderful!
And then, well, you know what happened.
But listen, this is the best of...
JoJo.
Every single year, the earning power of the middle class dropped.
Middle class people are getting killed.
Middle class needs relief.
The middle class is struggling.
Barack Obama will change.
The middle class got left behind.
That's why President Obama asked me to lead the middle class task force.
Middle class people actually lost.
The middle class is struggling.
And right now, right now, middle class life is much more fragile than it needs to be or it should be.
And the middle class is being screwed.
If you're leaving middle class life, that's hard.
Top 1 and 2% have done exponentially better.
Exponentially.
As middle class incomes have plummeted.
Exponentially.
But you know what's happened to the middle class at the beginning of this century?
It's been clobbered.
It's been absolutely clocked.
This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class.
It really is.
This is deadly earnest, man.
This is deadly earnest.
How they can justify.
How they can justify.
Isn't he good?
Raising taxes in the middle class has been buried the last four years.
He's a Republican.
But you know the truth.
The middle class is still in trouble.
The middle class is still in trouble.
The middle class is in real trouble now.
That should be middle classes.
That's what it's about.
And the middle class is being clobbered.
It's time to help the middle class not lay more burdens on the middle class.
Everything that's happened is eviscerated the middle class.
Is Donald Trump...
Again, not a bad guy, but his value set is totally different.
He has no idea.
What the middle class is facing.
And for a lot of middle class people who have been able to live the middle class dream, they are in danger.
Folks in the middle class are in trouble.
It's not just their perception, they are in trouble.
The middle class is getting killed.
We're going to rebuild the middle class.
It's been decimated.
The bottom's falling out.
Without the middle class growing, we're all in trouble.
The poor are getting poorer.
The middle class is getting killed, and the poor have no way up.
Where I come from, the neighborhoods I come from, They're in real trouble.
Working class people and middle class people, they're being clobbered.
He was still not even close to being really bad.
He was in pretty good shape.
Remember how we thought he was bad because he wouldn't do anything?
This is 2020.
And it hit him hard.
They're being killed.
If you're a middle-class family, you're getting hurt badly right now.
You're sitting at the kitchen table this morning.
That's the old Trump.
But we can't get new tires.
They're bald because we have to wait another month or so.
They're sitting at the kitchen table with their bills spread before them, knowing that there's no way to make it another day.
Isn't that something?
Do you understand what's going on?
Do you see what's going on?
Do you see this?
Oh, my God.
And it's not just him, though.
It's not just him.
And I'm not even done yet.
There's a veritable cacophony.
This Besant is not exactly...
I don't know if he's the best person, but he was on with Larry Kudlow.
And Larry Kudlow is just a great guy.
He's a nice man.
He's a good guy.
Just a good, good, good guy.
Here he is with Mr. Besant.
And this doesn't exactly rouse the crowd, but it kind of gives you a little bit of the rudimentary aspects of what the president's trying to do.
I haven't seen anything from them, but Larry, I can tell you that there are 50, 60, maybe almost 70 countries now who have approached us.
So it's going to be a busy April, May, maybe into June.
And Japan is a very important military ally.
They're a very important economic ally.
And the U.S. has a lot of history with them.
So I would expect that Japan's going to get priority just because they came forward very quickly.
But it's going to be very busy.
And if President Trump, again, gave himself maximum negotiating leverage and just when he achieved that.
I gotta go.
Okay.
Not exactly a ball of fire.
But let me tell you who was actually very, very good.
Let me tell you who was actually very good, who was excellent, beyond excellent, tremendously good, fantastically excellent, was this fellow who was up against one of these, bless her heart, this young gal who pretty much read from her notes, and she was going to speak to the crowd using that which she had memorized.
Okay?
That which she had memorized.
And here is our friend from Shark Tank.
What's his name?
That dude from Canada.
Listen to him really answer this.
This is one of the best responses.
Believe it or not, he would be in my cabinet.
Listen.
Start on these tariffs.
The market is on track right now for its worst weekly performance since March of 2020.
How do you continue to be an advocate for these tariffs, given the sell-off we're seeing, given that I have had every source on our show this morning say that these tariffs will be causing a recession in the United States?
They don't know that yet.
They don't know how long the tariffs are going to be on.
We've never done this before.
We've never taken on the entire globe.
Usually it's done in trade agreements with specific countries, such as NAFTA, which was Canada and Mexico, or a European Union situation.
This is unique, over 60 countries.
Now, there's two aspects to these tariffs.
Number one is there's separability against tariffs from one country to another based on products and services that are specific.
So if you're charging a 20% tariff, By the way, let me just throw something in there.
Japan is already talking.
Taiwan is already talking.
And EU, what's your name?
Helga von Sch...
Whatever she's talking about.
So it remains to be China, ladies and gentlemen.
China.
It's all about China.
Come in, China.
Come in, Berlin.
The largest economy on earth is the United States.
So really you're starting a behemoth negotiation.
It's happening in every country.
You highlighted Canada, but you might as well talk about Britain or even Switzerland, where I am right now, where they have over 30% tariffs imposed 48 hours ago.
And so you can assume that behind the scenes are two spheres of negotiations.
One is, let's try and reduce the imbalance of trade by buying more stuff from the United States.
That's one signal.
And the other, which is very easy to fix, is simply remove all tariffs.
If you're going to have reciprocal tariffs at 20%, 30%, 40%, just get rid of them, bring them down to zero.
But Kevin, as of this morning, with the 34% retaliatory tariff from China to the United States, we are not getting closer to free trade.
We are just getting further into a trade war.
It just started.
What's this trade war?
It just started.
What are you doing?
They gave her these things.
God damn it, you want to work for Yahoo Finance?
You better make sure you say this stuff.
Don't you give Trump a chance.
Just read this.
I don't care if you understand it.
Just read it.
Read this.
China's a whole different story.
This isn't about trade war with China.
This is about leveling the playing field on a wide range of issues, including IP law, access to business, access to courts, being compliant with U.S. regulations on securities.
There is a laundry list of grievances with China that have been around since they joined the WTO, and none of the administrations previously have ever dealt with China.
So why are tariffs the right way?
So this has nothing to do with just tariffs.
I mean, right now, I can't limit it.
But that's the tool that the administration is using.
Very good.
You figure that one out.
Tariffs, the correct tool, if, to your point, these have nothing to do with tariffs.
What tool do you suggest they do when nothing else has worked?
I'm not the president.
It's not my job.
No, no.
Well, you're an expert.
You're an expert all of a sudden.
You talk to all of your sources.
What do you think, honey?
Well, exactly.
So let him do his work.
China's different than all the other countries.
But it's not working.
This is hours old.
Can you believe this?
Hours old!
Look, I'm having lots of problems with China, as are millions of other companies in the United States that try to do business there.
They do not play by the rules.
They're going to have to start doing it pretty soon.
That's a different conversation.
You want to talk about the markets correcting?
Yes, they are.
By the way, markets correct every 18 months up to 20%.
You're watching it happen right now.
It's not pleasant.
You can't blame just the tariffs for this.
These have been very expensive markets now for almost 18 months.
Now they're having a correction.
I think what matters...
By the way, isn't he...
He should be on...
He's a lot better than Besant.
You see, my friends, half of the goal, half of the problem, half of all of this is to just...
is to just explain.
And why he's on Yahoo Finance, I don't know.
But this is very, very good stuff.
I'm sorry, Kevin.
Continue.
Is this a recession signal, yes or no?
And how long will these tariffs be on?
I would say 50% of these tariffs across these 60 countries will be negotiated pretty quickly, including the Canadian situation you made details on.
Canada's different because they're in the middle of an election.
Carney's not an elected official.
He has no mandate from the Canadian people.
He's just an interim prime minister when they threw out Justin Trudeau a few weeks ago.
He's got to get elected first, so he's going to say anything he possibly can to try and distract Canadian voters from the fact that his party bankrupt the country.
25% of Canadians live in poverty.
They have had no GDP growth for 10 years.
There's no investment capital in Canada anymore, and the dollar's lost 41% of its value.
Canadians can't go to the United States because they can't afford it under Carney's leadership in his party.
So those are different issues.
There's a lot of things going on at the same time.
A lot of things that economists tell me are not fixable via tariffs, but I am curious.
See, she keeps saying economists, her whole thing is, the people I talk to tell them this can't be done.
The people I talk to, the people I talk to, I talk to people all day long.
This is a sinking ship.
We are headed for a recession, then a depression, then a stagflation, then inflation.
And the people I talk to, one of the people I talk to, I don't know anything independently, but the people that I talk to and the people that we book.
And the people that we book, the people that we have here, those people, they tell me this.
They tell me.
They tell me.
From your perspective, then, why do you think that we are moving towards a negotiation where these tariffs are not going to be as bad as they seem right now, at least for financial markets?
Did you just hear what he said?
I think somebody might have been talking to her.
Sometimes in IFBs, little earpiece, they talk to you.
And when they talk to you repeatedly...
You're not listening to the person.
They're saying, okay, you're going to break.
Ask him about this.
Because he just answered them.
What is it that gives you confidence that there is going to be a negotiation reached?
Because...
There's a good reason to do it.
I mean, you've got to distinguish the noise versus the signal.
I've said this countless times about Trump.
Let's take the Canadian situation, which we've been talking about.
If you combine those economies, I'm not saying buying the country, but if you combine the economies, which seems impossible to do given the rhetoric and what's going on right now, but the truth is, the signal is it would be much stronger against China if there were no tariffs between Canada and the United States, and they had a common currency, and they protected the northern border, not the 49th parallel.
Isn't this incredible?
I've learned more from this fellow.
And by the way, thank God for Yahoo Finance for letting him speak.
But I learned a lot more through him than I have Mr. Besant.
Because 75% of their output has been sold to the United States for over 120 years.
17 states call Canada the number one trading partner.
Yeah.
28 states, in addition to those 17, number two trading partner.
He's Canadian, by the way.
He kind of knows this.
So it'd be economic suicide not to work this out.
The obvious answer is to remove all tariffs, and that will happen, my guess is, right after the election, when the Canadians make their choice about who they want to lead them, that person will fly to Washington immediately and start negotiations, which I would call NAFTA 3. But right now,
that's not happening because Carney's trying to use this whole Trump issue as fulcrum to try and distract Canadians away from the facts that he wiped By the way, one thing about O 'Leary, remember this, if you can go back and watch, there was a young lady, she's older now, but her name is Rachel Parent.
And she did this thing called Kids for, she's not a kid right now, but kids, she was the utmost GMO expert.
And during the course of something, she and Carney, she Tore him apart on GMOs.
I mean, a kid!
So he knows this.
GMOs he didn't.
But I digress.
Maybe he'll get elected, maybe he won't.
Nobody knows right now.
But nothing's going to happen on the Canadian situation until the election's over in just over five weeks.
So let's talk about the Canadian citizen reaction because we've already seen evidence of Canadian citizens' boycott.
Hear that?
My ears go crazy.
That's a handy...
When I hear that, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, listen, listen.
...cotting American products.
We've heard from CEOs that they are concerned about that.
Even airline CEOs and the governor of New York being concerned about Canadians not wanting to travel to the United States.
Are you getting that pushback from your fellow citizens in Canada?
No, no, no.
You can understand if you've got the froth and rhetoric around an election cycle why you would get some of that.
Some Canadians are unhappy.
There's no question about it.
But Canadians are not stupid.
Okay.
They understand the economic advantage of working and selling to the United States and having no tariff.
By the way, this is the most incredible thing.
Whoever it was, touche for Yahoo Finance.
Normally they would say, it's gone too long, it's gone, because I know the way these people think.
This is actually excellent.
The behemoth economy is a golden jewel of an idea and everybody gets that joke.
Americans do not hate Canadians.
Canadians do not hate Americans.
Politicians have lots of rhetoric when they're trying to get elected.
That's what they're doing here.
All of this will pass...
Do you see?
Do you see what is happening?
Do you see how this is working?
Do you see...
How all of this is working.
Do you see how nobody knows what they're doing?
Nobody knows what they're saying.
Nobody knows.
They kind of know.
Her job is to, you cannot do anything that in any way appears to be in support of President Trump.
You cannot do this.
Or, in support...
Or in favor of his plan working.
This is Trump.
Even though I could list for you case after case, and I have people who basically said, what are you going to do about China?
But you understand the way this works.
The president cannot, there is no, you cannot say, and by the way, whether you're Bill Ackman, whether you're Rand Paul, whether you're Dave Portnoy, That retardate?
Why he's on?
I have no earthly idea this mega zillionaire.
He's a moron.
You have these people who are...
How do they do?
Go out and blast Trump.
It started today.
Today was day one.
I don't know.
I don't understand.
It's like...
You ever talk to people before who go on a diet and they say, hey, I'm hungry.
Hungry.
Hungry.
You're on a diet.
But I like that.
I don't like this.
I'm hungry.
They say, what do you think this is?
Or somebody who's trying to get off of drugs.
Hey, I'm going, I got the shakes.
I know.
I don't understand what people think is the reaction to this.
I don't know if people...
I don't know if people don't know what to say.
That's all I'm saying.
That's all I'm trying to say.
I don't know if they really grant it.
Coming up, my friends, I want you to listen very, very carefully to the best example of what I think is one of the most perfect examples of people not knowing at all what they're talking about.
And they represent this This phalanx, this contingent of anti-Trump rhetoric.
But first, especially now as we talk about food and tariffs and prices and food and imports and grain and all this stuff, listen especially carefully to this.
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What happens when the trucks stop?
Think about this.
Trucks.
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What happens when all of a sudden, suddenly, the entire supply chain collapses like dominoes?
What happens then?
We've seen it happen, and it doesn't take much.
And that's the thing you've got to think about.
A trucker strike, a cyber attack, some EMP, some carrion.
Carrington-class disaster.
A city shut down by violence.
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You know, I'm so fascinated by this, especially those individuals.
I know Mel.
Mel is fascinated.
Mel says, Dave Portnoy was in your hood this past weekend pooping on Hell's Kitchen Pizza.
Okay.
I don't listen to a word.
Why he is an expert on pizza, I have no idea.
It's the most stupid thing.
George Lennon says, this is my world.
The woman has no idea, understanding on what is going on.
They are feeding her talking points.
Conversely, O 'Leary is quite skilled.
I believe you're absolutely correct.
Yeah, Portnoy, talking about pizza.
Pizza?
Oh, it's got the flop test.
This is stupid.
Pizza?
How complicated?
Not something where you can explain well, you know.
Pizza?
Look, look.
God bless anybody who's got a gig.
God bless anybody.
He's a moron.
I see him and I'm thinking to myself, he looks, put it this way, he's that, he looks, he looks special.
You know what I mean?
That's all I'm going to tell you.
And speaking of special, This is something which is really interesting.
This is a guy, this made everybody's day today.
This was a fellow who was handed, during the hands-off movement, he was just handed something.
He had no earthly idea of what he was doing, what he was there for, what was happening.
And his moment went something like this.
Trump a fascist.
Look at this guy.
What makes Trump a fascist?
He does things without...
Yeah, talk loud.
I don't have my mic on.
I'm not really good at interviews.
Sorry?
He just does everything he wants and, you know, not following laws or, you know.
He's a convicted felon, you know.
But your sign says he's a fascist, and I'm just curious what makes him a fascist.
One of the things is that he's trying to control the media, right?
Say that again?
He's trying to control the narrative.
How is he trying to control the media?
Doesn't every president try to control the narrative?
They try to control the media.
Oh, please.
After the Twitter files?
After people were basically deplatformed for daring to provide a different or a contrary working explication of the Rona pandemic?
See, this is...
And he said the Gulf of America.
Come on!
He does these things to troll people.
Look at this guy.
He looks like a Bret Hart.
Doesn't he like a more of an effeminate Bret Hart or something?
I don't know who else.
And then not allowing the Associated Press to come into the White House.
Obama wanted to knock Fox News out.
By the way, it's a rotation.
This is ridiculous.
After the Twitter files?
Basically, you know, trying to get...
What are your feelings about him renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America when a majority of the Gulf is, in fact, on the coast of America as opposed to Mexico?
I mean, it's kind of pointless.
What kind of pointless?
Why is it kind of pointless?
People...
Is it pointless?
Yeah, people call it the Gulf of Mexico.
Well, okay.
And before California...
It's called California.
It had a different name, too.
Don't you think it could have a positive tourism impact, potentially?
Tourism has been down heavily.
He's just making this up.
Tourism?
Not where I am.
My question is, the sign says the fascist Trump regime must go.
And so I'm just curious what makes him a fascist.
You pointed out that maybe something about his relationship with the media, he wants to control it, but...
It's not fascist.
Again, you're calling him a fascist.
What makes him a fascist?
One of the core tenets of fascism is creating an enemy, right?
No, no.
What's that?
The paper they gave me.
I don't know.
They gave me the paper and I read it.
And then they give me a pizza and we go home.
Who gave you that?
The people that gave me the sign.
It's a free sign.
Someone gave you the sign, and then they gave you the handout.
So are you reading it now to try to answer the question?
I don't know.
Can I see that?
Can you hold that up?
Sure.
No, I'm just curious.
You can have it.
I can have it?
You can have it.
Too many words.
So where did you get the sign?
They gave it to me.
Oh, all the way over there.
Gatekeeper's house.
That's another one?
They gave you two pieces of paper?
Two!
Can I have that one too?
So what brings you guys out here today?
Because I saw people were hanging out with people.
Same thing as everyone else.
Executive overreach.
Executive overreach.
This guy at least is better with some of his slogan.
Isn't that something?
Doesn't that just me?
George says this is why the Department of Education is going bye-bye.
No, that's not really why.
Because education is not going by.
The Department of Education is just a mindless piece of Washington bureaucracy.
This is what we have.
This is what we have.
So what I'm telling you, my friends, please.
You know what I talked about today, which is even more interesting?
First, believe it or not, you love this stuff.
Nobody understood how bad, and they're really, did you know that they're looking at the numbers of the Michelle Obama podcast, and it's just horrid.
Next, coming up later on, Barack is on his way out.
He's kind of giving the sign that I'm tired, and I'm out of here.
That's what he's doing.
Very interesting.
He's out of there, through.
And, more importantly, moving on, which is even more funny.
Not funny, but...
Tomorrow I'm going to be on the...
Is it tomorrow?
I think so.
I'm going to be on Mr. Atwood's show in the UK regarding...
This is a very interesting thing.
Of Russell Brand.
And...
Nobody knows anything about what this is really about.
None.
Nothing.
Nothing.
We're not really sure.
And I go through this very, very, very detailed.
I want you to see this video I just did on the problems revolving or involving Mr. Brand.
How we get to the point sometimes where these people with 20 to 26 year old accusations all of a sudden that are from before.
And I also did something for the private gym.
You know there's a private gym.
Then there's no nobody cares about anything.
See I can't even use there was a story today about FDLE, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, busted a huge CSAM group, child sexual abuse material.
And I can't even mention the crimes because YouTube's sensibilities.
You think you've got problems?
I can't even say the crimes of what Mr. Brand is charged with.
And so, it's getting better.
It's getting better.
Another thing, too, is I want people to understand.
If there's one thing, and this may seem priggish, it might be pedantic, it might be a waste of time, but I'm telling you right now.
There is a word that starts off with P-E-D-O.
It deals with a chronophile, chronophilia.
And you know there's a hepophilia and a febophilia and all types of other names of this.
But there's one, this P-E.
Who is it?
Sean, that was my friend, calls it the PDF file.
Because you've got to come up with these stupid things.
It's ridiculous.
And what I'm trying to tell you is forget what it is or the motivation that might be for abusing human beings.
We don't care what you like.
You can't Violate human beings.
Nobody ever refers to DWI drinkers as scotch fanciers or enophiles.
We don't do that.
We don't talk about that.
For some particular reason, we get into a kind of a habit where we say something repeatedly and we're just used to it.
As far as anybody's concerned, they just keep saying it.
It is not, repeat, it is not what you think.
We're never going to arrest you because of what you like.
You could have the most bizarre medieval self-abuse fetish that is just disgusting and violent, as long as you don't act on it.
You can think whatever you want.
You can fantasize about cannibalism.
I one time was on a TV show where there was a New York City cop.
And he was a part of this kind of a role-playing thing where he was actually acting like a cannibal.
And he was on this chat line talking about, can you get pans to cook?
I mean, it was crazy.
But it was all nonsense.
I think the word is bullshit.
So...
I thought, they said, well, should you fire him?
I said, well, as a police officer, probably a good idea to remove a gun from him.
But, is there anything wrong with you fantasizing?
No.
Can you play Dungeons and Dragons?
No.
What was that thing called, honey, years ago?
Not Pokemon.
Remember they were walking around in the middle of, remember they were on the plaza, they'd be walking to traffic and they would, was it Pokemon?
Remember that when they were all converging and it lasted a week and then it just stopped.
Remember that one?
The most incredible thing in the world.
They just converged and then they stopped.
I don't know why.
They just did.
Yeah, right.
But I don't know why it just stopped.
It wasn't fun anymore.
It was like a week and all of a sudden we went one time by the plaza and all of a sudden they're in the fountain.
What are you doing?
Anyway.
What you are a part of in terms of what turns you on, what attracts you, means nothing if it never involves at any point the actual...
How do I say this?
The actual victimization of individuals.
That makes sense to me.
I don't care what you think.
You think whatever you want.
Which gets us into real trouble back with AI.
Because like I keep telling you, We're going to see, before you know it, the most incredible...
I've got a thumbnail that I created of Michelle and Barack Obama arguing, and it looks like a photograph.
I mean...
And I can, you can describe it.
I want a nice graphic of them arguing.
I want Michelle to wear that funky hair.
Did you ever see those hair, those balls of, those like topiary she has in her hair?
I want Barak to be lowered her to the right, wearing a jacket without a tie, screaming and yelling.
I want them to be crying.
You can use whatever your imagination is and either Grok or ChadGBT or OpenAI will say, okay, here it is.
Well, if I wanted to go and if there were no versions of that, it's going to get very, very, very scary.
One more thing.
Joe Rogan did something today which is part of the once extinct dire wolf brought back to life.
And it was part of a gene editing restoration process called de-extinction.
The DNA from the fossils of dire wolves was extracted and used to edit the genes of gray wolves.
Okay.
And lo and behold, they came out of nowhere.
And Joe Rogan did one of the best descriptions ever.
I want to ask you this question.
Do you see any problem?
Do you see anything scary?
Any problem?
And for those of you wonderful religious people that say, you're tampering with God.
You're tampering with this.
You're recreating.
Why do you think this is extinct?
Why are you playing with life?
What are you doing?
One minute you're trying to terminate it.
Do you think God?
Jurassic Park.
Do you think God would take umbrage of that?
Do you think?
What are the aspects of this?
What are the ends?
What are the limitations?
Do you ever think God would look down and say, what are you doing?
What are you doing?
You're taking my genetic code and you're chopping it up and you're moving it and you're...
Who do you think you are?
No, God, this is good.
This is extinct.
Excuse me.
This is like you putting arms in the Venus de Milo.
This is my code.
This is my...
How dare you?
Do you think so?
Do you think so?
It's not nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Carolina guy, who came up with this?
What was it's not nice to fool?
You must be roughly my age.
What was the commercial for It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature?
Who knows it first?
Who can answer the question first?
What was the FAFO?
It sounds like FAO Schwartz.
Doesn't it kind of want to hear the FAFO?
What was it?
It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature.
John says butter.
No.
Parquet.
Nope.
Chiffon.
Thank you.
Gracie Loves George.
Chiffon Marjorie.
Remember that?
It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature.
We'll talk about this, my friends.
I'm always defending God.
I'm not a proponent, but I'm always defending God.
I'm saying, wait a minute.
God would say, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Now you're playing with this?
Tell my friends, I think tomorrow we're going to pick up this Russell Brand thing.
I think one of the reasons why is because he decides he's going to go against the system.
He's turning his life around.
There is a fellow named John A. Light.
Or Ali, but it's pronounced Ali.
And he's running for...
No, he ran.
He was appointed to English Town, New Jersey City Council.
He was a mobster.
He was with the Gambinos.
He pled guilty.
He killed and did all this stuff.
And he was in prison and he testified against...
He did his thing.
Okay, fine.
But he's trying to put his life behind him.
And people are saying, you can't do that.
You can't do that.
Why not?
You just can't.
Well...
Why can't our friend Mr. Brand do that?
Why not?
Why?
They don't like when you do that.
They don't like when you take on the system.
That's like they have Candace Owens.
They've got her targeted.
Oh, they want her bad.
Oh, they want her so bad.
Ooh.
Ooh.
She scares me because she's She's a little reckless.
She thinks she's somehow protected by the truth.
It doesn't work like that.
It doesn't work like that.
But I wish her the best.
I like what she's doing, but she's sloppy.
We'll talk about that later.
My friends, I thank you so much.
To my trio of, actually my duo, Mr. Lenz and Mel, thank you.
Thank you so much for your kindness.
For your alacrity.
Don't forget to follow Mrs. L at Lin's Warriors.
Don't forget to follow our other station, our other channel, at Lionel Illegal.
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All right, dear friends, have a great and a glorious day.
Thank you for thinking.
Thank you for being with us.
And thank you for spending the time with me.
I am so honored.
Have a great and glorious night.
See you tomorrow.
Don't forget, the monkey's dead.
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