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May 13, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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The art of a BAD DEAL - Trump's trade war "victory" against China is actually a total surrender
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Alright, welcome to this special report on Trump's trade deal, which was a total surrender to China by Trump.
And yet, astonishingly, and this is kind of the point of this broadcast, Trump supporters and the White House and the Trump media and Fox News are all celebrating this total capitulation by Trump as some kind of an art of the deal victory, which is absolutely astonishing.
And it makes me thinking I'm actually living in idiocracy.
Now, as you may recall, in idiocracy, nobody could do math.
And you could spit out numbers to trick people.
And that's exactly what the Trump administration has done here, tricking people who are otherwise intelligent into thinking this is a great deal.
Well, I'm going to break it down for you here and just explain, using basic math, why America...
just got royally screwed by china actually in this deal that trump is announcing as a victory but first this 50 second clip from idiocracy which explains exactly what i'm talking about check this out listen i i I supersize with you, but didn't you go to jail for not having enough money?
Okay, how about this?
You get me to the time machine, and when I get back, I open a savings account in your name.
That way, 500 years later, it'll be worth billions.
Billions!
Because?
Because of the interest, it'll be worth billions of dollars.
Oh, I like money.
Yeah.
How many billions?
Like, ten.
Yeah, a stock one.
Time machine costs like 20. Yeah, okay.
Uh, 30. All right, so there's the idiocracy.
I like money.
Yeah, yeah, it sounds like Forrest Gump, right?
Peas and carrots.
And we was running and running and running.
Anyway, that's Forrest Gump, and we're living in an idiocracy world.
So let me explain.
Let me break it down here.
So in order to understand this, we have to know what China's tariffs on U.S. goods were before April 2nd, because April 2nd was Trump's big liberation day.
And if you go to Visual Capitalist, And you read their average tariff rates by country, published April 3rd, 2025.
They compiled this just one day after April 2nd, but it was showing the rates up until Trump's Liberation Day.
China had an average tariff on U.S. goods of 3%.
Okay?
3%.
Remember that number.
Because China and the United States are part of the World Trade Organization, the WTO.
And so they have most favored nation rates between each other normally.
And so China did not have a 67% tariff rate as Trump's team claimed they did.
Not at all.
China had a 3% tariff rate.
Okay?
Now, then on April 2nd, Trump announced the big trade war or liberation.
And then over the subsequent weeks, the U.S. ended up slapping a 145% tariff on...
China made goods, and then China reciprocated with a 125% tariff on U.S. goods, and China said, we're not going to raise it anymore because this tit-for-tat, just everybody's a loser.
This is crazy.
This is insane.
And China said, we're not even going to negotiate until you just drop your tariffs back to some reasonable level.
And fast forward then to this recent weekend when Trump's team, they met with China's team in Geneva, China happened to already be there for other events.
And they hammered out this new deal.
This new deal that was announced by Trump as an amazing, wonderful, great, brilliant deal for America.
This is a victory.
And the stock market skyrocketed.
It's a victory.
And the business community, this is awesome.
And they all screamed, I like money.
And what it actually did is it tripled China's tariffs on U.S. goods.
From 3% to 10%.
So actually, a little more than triple.
So from 3% to 10%.
So remember, before April 2nd, U.S. exporters faced a 3% tariff on average importing into China.
Now they face a 10% tariff.
Meanwhile, Trump dropped the 145%, and he went back down to 10%, plus a 20% Duty related to fentanyl, which has nothing to do with the tariffs.
It's not part of the negotiation.
So it's not even called a tariff.
It's called a duty.
It's a different deal.
So now China and the U.S. each have 10% tariffs on each other.
Whereas before all this, the China tariff on U.S. goods was only 3%.
So if your goal is to have more U.S. companies have more exports to China, To try to solve the trade imbalance, I dare say, how is this a victory?
How is this a victory?
That's a lot of billions.
It's like, please, just watch Idiocracy over and over until your brain gets fried enough to try to understand how this is the art of the deal.
And let me explain the context here.
I'm not looking.
For opportunities to hammer Trump.
That's not at all what I'm doing, and I'm really glad Trump won the election.
Don't get me wrong.
Now, I didn't vote for him, but I was confident that he would win, and I certainly did not vote for any Democrats.
And I'm glad that he won.
And, you know, America was on the verge of total collapse before this last election.
But unlike a lot of Trump supporters, I don't put my brain into...
Like a suspension mode just because Trump got elected.
I still think.
I still do the numbers.
I still look at things critically.
I can still do math, for God's sake.
And I know that 10% is higher than 3%.
And I know that Trump, basically, he tried to bluff his way into getting something from China, which, so far, we have nothing from China.
I mean...
Was there anything announced that China gave us or that China gave in or that China capitulated on anything?
Has there been a single thing reported?
No.
Nothing.
There was nothing that China gave America in this deal.
And it's not even being announced as a deal.
It's being announced as a temporary 90-day suspension of the high tariffs while they try to work out a deal.
So, technically, we don't even have a deal.
We have...
The Art of No Deal is what we have.
That should be Trump's next book, The Art of No Deal.
So we also don't have anything that China gave in about.
I mean, can you think of anything?
I know that everybody's all happy, happy news.
Oh, it's great.
The stock market's going to go up.
Business is great.
The shelves aren't going to be empty.
It's all good now because Trump got us a deal.
And if I ask people, well, what did Trump get from China?
They can't name anything.
They can't name a thing.
Other than just both parties agreed to drop the high tariff rates back down to 10%, which again is triple, more than triple, what China was previously charging us.
So the upshot of this is that China has higher tariffs on the U.S. than before, and China didn't give us anything that Trump is asking for.
And if you go back to so-called Liberation Day, April 2nd, you may recall that Trump's team I falsely claimed that China had a 67% tariff on U.S. goods.
And I remember in the first few days after that, I got hoodwinked by that too.
I was saying, oh man, that's crazy.
Yeah, we should have reciprocal tariffs on China if they're charging 67% on all our goods.
Yeah, then it's reasonable for us to have 33% or whatever back on them.
And I believed, granted that's my fault, I believed That their numbers that Trump was showing us on this giant board, I believed for a short couple of days, I believed that those numbers were accurate.
And then I found out those aren't tariffs at all.
There's some kind of funny math related to trade imbalances.
So Trump was saying basically there's some kind of a 67% trade imbalance between the U.S. and China.
The way they came up with that number doesn't even make any sense economically anyway, so I'm not even going to try to explain it, because it just doesn't make any sense.
So the trade imbalance issue is actually what Trump was targeting with the tariffs, right?
Right?
This is what Trump essentially demanded, was that China take steps to correct the trade imbalance.
And how do you correct a trade imbalance?
Well, it would mean that the U.S. would have to sell more goods to China, and China would have to sell fewer goods to the U.S. Okay?
Right?
Because that's the only way you solve a trade imbalance.
So I ask you this.
What has been announced or agreed upon over the weekend between the U.S. and China that would resolve the trade imbalance?
Can you think of anything?
Is there anything at all?
And the answer is nothing.
If anything, this so-called deal worsens the trade imbalance because it makes U.S. exports more expensive for Chinese people to purchase.
And those exports typically include soybeans and corn, among other things, by the way.
So now U.S. farmers just got hurt with more than triple tariffs that China is placing on U.S. agricultural products.
It's like, how is this a good deal for America?
It's not.
It's a horrible deal for America.
But what Trump has managed to do is to package it as a success.
And because a lot of his supporters are not thinking critically about this issue, apparently they can't do math at all, they think this is a victory.
And they're probably also out there buying lottery tickets because...
Lottery tickets, that's a tax on people who can't do math.
You know, I mean, I think if you can't do math in one area of your life, you typically probably can't do it in any area of your life.
This is not a good deal for America.
This is a defeat of Trump by China.
And it's exactly what I predicted would happen.
Exactly.
You heard me talk about this in the past few weeks.
I said, look, I know Chinese culture.
I mean, you know, I speak Chinese.
I lived in Taiwan.
I know Chinese people.
And I know that you don't achieve victory against Chinese leadership by insulting them in public and shaming them in public.
That is exactly the opposite of what you need to do.
You have to make them look good in public.
And then you negotiate uncomfortable details behind closed doors, okay?
That's how you deal.
With Chinese people, trust me.
And this is just proving my prediction as being completely accurate.
I also said that China will not capitulate.
China will not give in to the U.S. because of their whole history.
The history of imperial control, the history of the British Empire and Hong Kong and the Opium Wars.
The history of Japanese occupation in World War II and the history of internal strife in China throughout all the different dynasties spanning thousands of years.
I can tell you from the history of China, they are very long-term thinkers.
They will endure a trade war rather than capitulate to what they see as an imperial force, which would be the U.S. today.
And I even pointed out that the Chinese people are capable of great suffering and great sacrifice.
And they can live with that as long as their nation wins in the end.
So I said, look, hunker down.
If China has to wait a year or multiple years, they can do that.
But I also said, part of my prediction was that the U.S. won't be able to last very long.
Now, I didn't think it was going to be just a couple of weeks before Trump.
Caved in and surrendered to China.
I thought maybe Trump would hold out through the summer or something.
You know, give him a few months to try to hold his ground on this before completely capitulating.
But I was wrong.
It turns out that Trump couldn't last a month on this.
Well, I mean, since April 2nd, it's been more than a month.
But since I made that prediction, it hasn't been more than a month.
So Trump gave in.
China just won.
China achieved art of the deal.
And all Trump did was cause chaos in the supply chain.
He introduced massive delays that are going to impact the U.S. retail marketplace and auto manufacturers and Amazon and so on because there's about a six-week gap in the pipeline from China now.
And you can't solve that.
That gap is about to arrive in the next couple of weeks.
You're going to see supply chain problems now for anywhere from one to two months.
And that's no matter what happens.
Even if China restarts all the factories today, you're going to see a one to two month period of chaos on shelves and supply chains and you can't get parts, whatever.
But hey, at least it's only one to two months.
It's not a year, which would have been catastrophic.
And I think that what happened here is that Amazon called the White House and said, you're going to put us out of business if you decouple from China.
And Walmart called the White House, and Ford called the White House, and General Motors, and pretty much every large company, manufacturer, or retailer in America called the White House and said, you're killing us here, Don.
Come on.
You've got to turn this thing around.
And a lot of the manufacturers, you know, even though they make their products in America and they're labeled made in America, they will use typically some components from China.
And if you're missing the one component, you know, you can't make the product.
So, you know, you can make 99% of a car, but you still can't sell it if it's missing one microchip or something that comes out of China.
So all these companies were no doubt calling the White House and saying...
You've got to resolve this thing.
You're going to cause scarcity and inflation and supply chain chaos, and you're going to bankrupt U.S. companies left and right.
So what did the media report during all of this?
The media reported that China was on the verge of collapse, that China was going bankrupt, and China was struggling with the tariff war.
Not that anything was happening in the U.S. because the empty shelves hasn't happened yet because the pipeline hasn't...
I should say the gap in the pipeline hasn't yet wound its way through the system.
You see, when China shuts down factories, there's about a six-week delay before the empty products impact U.S. retailers.
So China feels the effects first, and then the U.S. feels the effects second.
Roughly about six weeks later, depending on whether it's West Coast or East Coast, what have you.
So the effects haven't yet really been fully felt by America, and even so, Trump was getting heavy domestic pressure to reverse course, you know, drop the tariffs.
And that's exactly what he did.
And then, like I said, he just packaged it as a victory.
And a lot of his base just bought it, either because they're just, I don't know, Trump groupies or something, or they...
They refuse to look at the math.
They can't do math.
They don't want to look at the numbers.
They're not interested in reality.
They just want to claim a victory when it's not a victory.
I don't know.
I mean, you pick the reason that you're most comfortable with.
But I'm telling you, this is no victory.
This is a surrender by Trump.
And it's not even officially a deal.
Because remember, it's a 90-day pause in the tariffs during which there are supposed to be negotiations.
Well, we don't know what's going to be announced after 90 days.
You know, it's very clear to me that China is coming to the table with a much stronger negotiating position now.
Because Trump was the one that begged to talk to China on this.
China's like, we don't need to talk to you.
You know, you drop the tariffs and then we'll talk.
That was China's position.
China wasn't begging Trump.
You know, Team Trump was begging China.
Like, please, come to the table.
Let's work something out.
Let's pause this so we can announce a victory.
And sure, China agreed to a 90-day pause.
But at the end of 90 days, do you think China is going to give in to now a weakened Trump administration?
Or a USA that looks even weaker than before?
A USA that couldn't even last two months in a trade war without...
Crying tears of, oh, we're all broken and we have to negotiate.
Yeah, see, China just learned that they don't have to capitulate at all.
And if you're listening to this, by the way, don't get me wrong.
I'm an American and I love America.
I'm a Texan and I love Texas.
I am not a resident of China.
I'm not favoring China.
I favor America.
We have to approach these kinds of deals in a rational way that takes advantage of America's strengths and doesn't just try to bluff the Chinese.
Because, like I said, my prediction, you can't insult the Chinese and bluff the Chinese into capitulation.
It won't work, and it didn't work.
And it's not going to work in 90 days either.
So my prediction is, in 90 days, China will still not surrender to America.
But Trump will have something that he'll be able to announce a brilliant victory.
It'll be something like, well, China agreed to open their markets to another fast food chain from the West or something.
China agreed to allow Walmart to expand in 10 more cities or whatever.
It'll be some little thing that doesn't even really matter, but it'll be announced as a huge victory and then the stock market will skyrocket and then Trump will parade around like...
You know, I got us a deal.
I defeated China with my brilliant negotiation.
And the Chinese would be laughing like crazy.
It's like, what's he talking about?
Like, we owned you in the whole negotiation.
We got what we wanted.
You didn't get jacked.
So that's no doubt the way this is going to go.
And I'm pretty sure that 10% is the same deal that the U.S. reached with the U.K. And the U.K. is our ally, right?
So Trump just gave China the best deal that our allies get.
And China is supposed to be the big enemy that we're supposed to be strategically overpowering and long-term destroying their economy or whatever the plan is.
So then we just gave them the best deal on the planet?
While Trump announces victory.
Again, I'm not going out of my way to try to hammer Trump.
I am a, let's say, an equal access critic, but, you know, I'm a high IQ, high math functioning person, and I can't help but look at the numbers and go, wait a minute, that does not compute.
And it just seems rather obvious, you know?
So, we didn't win.
We didn't get a deal.
We got reamed, actually, and in 90 days, we're probably going to get reamed far worse.
But the stock market will keep going up as long as we're living in idiocracy and people can think it's good news.
Oh, we're winning!
How many billions is that?
80 billions!
That's a big minus, isn't it?
Yeah, it's 80 billions.
So this is why it's dangerous to try to short the stock market.
That's why I don't do that.
Because even though the market may be wildly overvalued and it's propped up by mathematically illiterate Morons.
You don't know the limits of their stupidity.
Their stupidity can go on for a long, long time, and it can actually bankrupt you if you're buying put options or holding a bunch of shorts or whatever.
You can actually get wiped out because you're betting on reality when, in fact, the whole market is run by stupidity, which is set by false expectations and fake announcements of victory and whatever.
It just goes to show you...
How irrational the markets really are, which is why I prefer gold and silver because the value of gold and silver doesn't depend on somebody's stupidity.
It depends on the table of elements.
You see?
So I would rather not jump on some bandwagon that only holds value as long as there's enough mathematically illiterate people involved who will keep propping up the price.
No thank you.
And finally, I want to mention that the empty shelves issue is still going to hit us.
It's going to hit, like I said in previous broadcasts, it's going to start hitting in about two weeks in parts of America, and you will see it throughout June at some level.
Not a catastrophic level, but you're going to see some kind of chaos.
And then sometime in July, That should start to get sorted out.
And then we have to wait and see what happens with the negotiation with China in 90 days.
And I guess we'll have to stay tuned then to find out how much more America gets screwed.
And by the way, as a final thought here, I know people say, well, it's easy to be a critic.
And I agree, it's easy to be a critic.
But sometimes people ask me, what would you do?
How would you solve this problem?
Okay, that's actually an easy answer, but it's difficult to implement.
First of all, you have to radically revamp the entire education system to stop producing woke tards out of the public schools and the universities.
So you have to end the NEA, the Teachers Union.
You've got to end it.
You've got to get all the woke idiots out of schools.
Then you actually have to start teaching math and science and engineering and history.
You have to return to an education system that educates people.
And then instead of the Woketard University system, what you need is trade training programs so that a lot of kids coming out of high school can go immediately into some kind of a mentorship or an internship to learn hands-on skills.
What kind of skills?
Well, the kind of skills that you would use in manufacturing, right?
So machining skills, or 3D design, CAD design, 3D printing, whatever, materials science, minerals extraction, metallurgy, or mechanical engineering, or whatever.
All kinds of skills that would be used in manufacturing.
So that then, within a generation, you have millions of Americans who actually know how to do stuff.
One way that you would get there is you'd have to ban all mobile phones in all the high schools and grade schools and schools.
If kids show up at school with a mobile phone, you put the phone in a box for the whole school day.
And then you've got to make school a lot more interesting, which means you have to have natural sunlight in the school.
You can't have the artificial light all day because that's putting kids to sleep.
You've got to stop the mass SSRI drugging of kids.
And then you have to teach them interesting stuff.
And guess what's really good now at teaching?
AI systems.
You can use AI to build really interesting teaching programs for kids in every area.
History, science, literature, you know, math, engineering, whatever.
Reading.
You can teach it more easily now than ever before in human history.
So you need a radical revamp of the education system.
And then, if you do a good job with that, in about 20 years, you're going to have a workforce.
And then that workforce would allow you to build factories at that time and actually have people who could work in them.
And you'll probably also have some pretty advanced robots available by that time as well that can assist in that project.
But you can't just pop up factories overnight when you don't have a skilled workforce, you don't have a domestic infrastructure.
For all the factories and all the parts and all the deliveries and logistics, etc.
And you don't even have a tax structure in the United States that allows people to make a lot of investments in factories because you have this crazy long IRS depreciation schedule where if you build a factory, I mean, I know this because I build buildings.
I pour concrete.
You know, I expand operations, and every time I do, it's like being punched in the gut because the IRS won't let you write it off.
You have to write it off over 30 years.
So now, you know, your cash flow is a giant sucking black hole because of the tax situation.
So if you want America to build factories, you've got to get the IRS off everybody's backs.
You've got to set the entrepreneurs free to actually make investments in infrastructure.
Build factories and write it all off this year.
I'm going to build more factories, you know?
And I'll figure out a way to train people.
I'll have training programs right out of high school or something.
I'll have semi-automation along with the human workers that are trained.
I mean, we'll figure it out.
But the tax structure punishes businesses in America.
There are so many things that you could do immediately.
End the IRS.
End the regulatory tyranny in America.
End the Woketard education system, or I should say reform it to the point where you're actually teaching skills, and then start a massive nationwide skills-building internship type of program where even adults who are displaced by AI robots or AI agents, they could get free training paid for.
By the federal government, you know?
I mean, I'm not a big tax and spend guy, but in this case, free retraining is a worthwhile investment in the workforce where even an adult could go in and they could learn to code or they could learn to run AI systems or they could learn engineering or they could learn design or whatever.
That makes a lot of sense as a nation.
So that's how you actually solve this problem.
But it can't be done overnight, and part of it is a cultural thing.
Because in America, often in schools, it's not cool to be smart.
It's not cool to be the capable kid who knows how to do anything.
It's cool to be the dumb kid that's failing and never shows up.
That's the cool kid.
So culturally, a lot of things have to change as well.
But that's all doable.
But I don't see any of this happening.
Do you?
You see any of that?
No.
The announcements that I've seen on behalf of Trump and the White House of investments in America are all automated systems.
From what I've seen, like, what was the company, Oracle, a couple other companies were announcing big AI data centers, a big data center expansion.
In Texas, no less.
Like, I think they said $500 billion of data center expansions.
Okay.
Well, data centers don't hire a lot of people because the people aren't, like, mining the data.
There's nobody in there.
It's just racks of computers and servers and cooling systems.
So if you build a bunch of data centers, have you employed a bunch of people?
No, you haven't.
I mean, you employed people one time to build it, but once the construction's done, those people are done.
I mean, that job is over.
Or they're talking about, oh, we're going to build robot factories.
Okay.
Well, robot factories are going to be run by the robots, made by the robot factory before very long.
Well, they're talking about, oh, we're going to have a new microchip plant, you know, Samsung or Taiwan Semiconductor or whoever.
We're going to invest in microchip plants.
Okay.
Well, how many humans work in the microchip plants?
Well, fewer and fewer because of automation.
And before long, it's going to be AI robots.
Working in the microchip factories to make the microchips.
You're not going to have anybody in there except a couple of humans to hit reset on broken robots or whatever.
That's about it.
So I don't see investments happening in America that are going to create human jobs.
What I see is a bunch of automation investment that's actually going to require a massive amount of energy.
Which is one more point I should mention before I wrap this up.
If you want to make America more competitive in the world, you have to make energy affordable for the energy consumers, which would be the factories and the businesses.
So how do you do that?
Well, you've got to drop the green retard climate cult lunacy, number one.
You've got to stop with the wind farms and the solar farms because they're...
Crazy expensive.
They don't produce power reliably.
Hailstorms tear apart the solar farms and the wind turbines obviously don't generate electricity when the wind isn't blowing.
The solar farms don't generate electricity when the sun isn't up.
So what are you going to do?
Have data centers in Texas that only can process data when the sun is shining?
Well, what about after dark?
What are you going to do?
I mean...
It's insane to think that you could scale your economy on intermittent power sources that are out of your control because of things like, oh, day and nighttime, or wind versus no wind, you know?
That's crazy.
And it's the climate cultists who are irrational and scientifically illiterate who think that you can run a nation on renewable power.
Well, Spain just found out that you can't.
That's why they had...
A near total blackout a couple weeks ago because their renewable power systems failed.
If you want reliable power that you can scale, yeah, coal and natural gas, but you've got to have nuclear power.
You've got to have nuclear power plants that you can scale up by dropping more rods into close proximity to heat up the water, to drive the turbines, you know, to generate the...
The gigawatts of power that you need to power all these data centers.
So I'm wondering if they're going to invest half a billion dollars in Texas data centers, where's the power coming from?
Because you're going to need like a dozen nuclear power plants in the next decade.
And I don't see anybody building nuclear power plants in Texas, do you?
I mean, maybe I missed it, but I don't see any nuke plants going up.
Those take a long time to build.
The bottom line is, if you want America to be competitive in manufacturing, you've got to make electricity dirt cheap.
And what's the price of electricity in China?
Well, I don't know the average price, but it's well below 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
I'm certain of that.
In America, it's a lot more than 10 cents per kilowatt hour.
You've got to get it below 10 cents per kilowatt hour in order to be competitive.
So we should be unleashing cold fusion?
We should end the suppression of energy technology.
We should be working on micro-nuclear reactors that can power 100,000 homes or a giant data center.
You should have a nuke plant next to a data center so you can just scale up the power without robbing power out of the grid that's used by people to cool or heat their homes, for example.
But I don't see this kind of planning taking place.
Do you?
What I see is that the Northeast power grid announcing that they might have rolling blackouts this summer.
I covered that yesterday.
I don't see power resiliency in America.
Meanwhile, China's building a coal-fired power plant every single day, it seems like.
And they've got massive coal supplies from Australia.
They've already secured energy for the next 50 or 100 years.
America, meanwhile, is still suffering under this climate cultism lunacy where all these radical leftists think it's bad to use energy.
So you can't compete with the world if you think energy is bad.
So you've got to change that too.
And yes, some of that's changing.
I mean, we have Lee Zeldin, head of the EPA.
And that's a really positive thing, by the way.
Zeldin's doing some pretty great stuff so far.
I think Zeldin is one of the shining star examples of someone getting things done, actually, in this administration.
Whereas, like, Secretary Kennedy, RFK Jr., seems to be kind of somewhat paralyzed at HHS, but Zeldin at EPA is getting things done.
He's going to ban that stupid auto stall feature on your car, where every time you're at a stoplight, your car shuts off, you know?
The dumbest feature ever.
Like, who put this in all the cars?
Well, the government.
The EPA mandated that.
Like, every time you're in a stoplight, your car shuts off.
Like, what?
And then it has to start back up when you take your foot off the brake.
So, all your starters go bad sooner than they would, and you gotta buy starters.
You have to replace the starters all the time.
Where do the starters come from?
China.
And then you gotta pay all the labor and everything.
So...
We've got to stop with the stupidity.
We've got to end the idiocracy overlay in America and start being smart about this.
The problem is everybody's so dumbed down from vaccines and chemtrails, and I covered this yesterday, all the heavy metals, all the pesticides and herbicides and the fluoride.
There's a mass dumbing down cognitive attack on America, and it has worked.
People are dumber than they've ever been in the history of this country.
Right now in America.
They're the lowest IQ people ever.
I mean, seriously, in the history of the whole country, because of all the deliberate attacks on their neurology.
Vaccines cause brain damage, fluoride cause brain damage, chemtrails, heavy metals, you know, all the things I mentioned, and a lot more.
5G, electromagnetic exposure, you name it.
People are dumbed down like never before.
So it's very difficult to suggest anything.
That makes sense that would also be recognized by people as making sense.
Hence, me playing the clip from Idiocracy.
We are living in idiocracy.
And it won't be long before when you say something in English to somebody, when you say something like, well, why are the corporate tax rates going to 25%?
Then the typical moron is going to say, you talk like a fag, you know, because that's a line out of idiocracy.
To speak in English in a way that makes sense is to, quote, talk like a fag.
You know?
And don't forget the doctor scene out of Idiocracy.
You know, like, your bleep's all effed up and is like, yeah, yeah, you know?
Like, that's the way the doctor talks.
And that's just about where we are in society right now.
Remember, it was a couple years ago that I was at, I think it was an office supply store, and there was an item that was 10% off, and I brought it up to the cashier, and they couldn't scan it.
It was unscannable, you know, which freaks people out.
That's also a line from Idiocracy.
And they were just befuddled of how to calculate 10% off, you know, and let's say it was like...
$90 or something.
And they couldn't just in their head say, oh, it's $9 off that, so it's probably $81.
That's too complicated for today's youth for the most part.
So I remember that this cashier, it was a young woman, she pulled out a calculator and then she was staring at the calculator like just...
An actual retard, you know, just like, like hoping that the calculator would solve the problem.
And I said, look, you know, you type in 90 times.9.
And she literally said to me, because I was, you know, obviously I'm trying to give her the formula for how to calculate 10% off.
She looked at me, and as I remember, she said, how do I know that's the right formula?
And I'm like, oh my God.
How are you even working as a cashier?
That's insane.
And that was years ago.
I think that was pre-COVID.
It's gotten a lot worse since then.
But that's how dumbed down people are.
We're living among a species that we can only call not homo sapiens, but homo stupidus, let's say.
Homo stupidus.
That's the species that's all around you.
They're homo stupidus.
Because they can't do basic math.
And you know, like, freaking chimpanzees can do math.
You know that?
You know dogs can do basic counting also.
Primates can count pieces of food and things like that.
But these humans that come out of the education system, they can't do basic math.
Homo stupidus.
Yeah, that's the species we're living among.
And that's why it feels like you're on an alien world sometimes.
When you're the only person that knows how to process integers and things, it feels like you're in an alien world because you can tell people.
If you were to go out to dinner with a typical group of dumbed-down morons, which hopefully you wouldn't go out to dinner with people like that, but if you did and you were trying to calculate a 15% tip on a $100 tab and if you say it's $15 and they'd be like, We're not sure that's right.
We're going to have to Google that.
It's like, oh my God.
How do you tie your shoes?
I mean, how do you function if you can't do basic math?
So don't believe everything you hear about trade deals and tariffs and numbers.
Actually look at the numbers and you'll find out that you've been lied to by the establishment.
What else is new?
Right?
And look, I'm willing to give credit to Trump where it's due, and he has done some positive things recently, and I'm covering those separately, and I'll say some positive things about that.
I'm always trying to be fair in my assessment, but I'm not a groupie, and I'm not going to cover for Trump or anybody.
If they do something that is a loss for America, I'm going to call it out and just be upfront and honest about it.
You want me to do anything less than that?
By the way, that quote from Idiocracy, it's so hilarious because, as I recall, that character is asking the question of, what did he say?
What's the minus of 20 and 30?
What's the minus of 20 and 30?
Instead of saying, what's 30 minus 20?
He's like, what's the minus of 20 and 30 or something?
He said it some way like that.
Even hard to remember because it's so bizarre.
But it was perfectly scripted by Mike Judge, who actually wrote that film, to sound like a mathematically illiterate moron.
So he absolutely nailed it.
All right, thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and brighteon.com.
And yes, we can do math and we can code.
So I hope you enjoyed this.
Take care.
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