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This is a massive blow to the Trump administration.
The Supreme Court has just struck down his ability to issue emergency tariffs.
This is stripping away all of Donald Trump's leverage in negotiating trade policy with foreign countries.
And I believe this is a massive detriment to the United States.
And I think it shows you the problem, dare I say it, with this classically liberal form of government that we have been trying to maintain for some time.
And I don't mean liberal in the tribal sense.
I mean the functions of a country that are more concerned with sounding like they're right as opposed to doing what needs to be done.
I'm sorry, but a country that tries to maintain that is not going to last much longer.
And it is sad, to be completely honest, but what we're looking at, in my opinion, is not that Trump should be able to decree things or just do what he wants, but that the structures of governance have become so corrupt, convoluted, and inept that there is no mechanism, it seems, by which we can rectify the problems that are destroying this country.
Now, I've seen my liberal and libertarian friends say that the tariffs are bad, but they have not explained how we pull ourselves out of a downward spiral where, I'm going to be honest with you guys, the idea that opening up the borders to flood the country with workers is a good idea while simultaneously moving our factories to China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Mexico, Canada, or otherwise, none of it makes sense.
So I can only say this.
I am not necessarily of the opinion that Trump as president should be allowed to simply make these decrees.
But the important thing is for this country that we stop the bleed.
We have endured over the past, let's call it a decade or 30 years, a mass influx of low-skill labor, which by all means you can say is fine and you like, but you can't simultaneously have an influx of low-skilled labor while giving away entry-level and low- to mid-skill skill jobs to foreign countries.
It is a recipe for the death of this country.
Now, me, I'm very, very much in favor of Donald Trump's tariffs for a variety of reasons, though I admit, and I will say it again, only because Congress is dysfunctional and broken.
Only because we have no mechanisms by which to stop the degradation and destruction that we're facing.
The end result, my friends, it would seem, is that we have become a nation of external support.
That is, too many people in this country prefer to provide support to foreign countries as opposed to itself.
We have become a country that cannot solve its own problems due to this dysfunction.
And thus, we are effectively a nation of people sitting on a plane trying to fasten an oxygen mask to their neighbor's face instead of their own, and then both will asphyxiate and die.
So, this was expected, my friends, absolutely expected.
We thought this was going to be the case that the Supreme Court was going to strike down Donald Trump's tariff capabilities.
And so this was, unfortunately, this is what we thought was going to happen.
And now I just think, oh boy.
And I'm going to tell you from my own personal perspective on tariffs, which I have quite a bit, the companies that I run, the problems of Trump's plans, as well as the requirement for such tariffs.
Let me just say before we start reading through the breaking news that's coming in right now, we are about to get ripped to shreds.
The U.S. economy is going to be beaten to a bloody pulp with a cudgel by all of these foreign countries now hearing that Trump has no capability to negotiate.
Now, by all means, you can argue, hate Trump, but understand what this means.
It means Trump goes to China and they laugh in his face.
It means Trump goes to the EU and they laugh in his face.
Now, don't get me wrong.
Trump does have other mechanisms by which he can negotiate.
It just means this inches us closer to full-scale war.
Because the methods by which Trump can negotiate now are going to be a bit more forceful and direct on the international stage, notably issues like sanctions.
Whereas Trump could just say, we're going to charge a fee if you try and sell, now he's going to say, we're going to block the sale to your countries.
It's going to escalate things.
So what do I see?
SCOTUS, largely, in my opinion, on this pathetic John Roberts style of, I have no problem watching my country burn down if it means I look correct.
And the liberals, we'd rather just watch the whole country burn down.
Surprise, surprise, it was Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh who dissented.
So here we go.
The breaking news from the New York Times, Supreme Court strikes down Trump's sweeping tariffs.
And a major setback for President Trump's economic agenda, the court ruled that he could not invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 to set tariffs on imports.
Unfortunately for us, it means it's about to get pretty dang spicy.
Now, what I will say is, expect there to be some short-term gains, but it does mean we're looking at long-term losses, unfortunately.
This thing never works.
I'm always mashing this button over here.
You can see me doing it.
The Supreme Court ruled Friday that President Trump exceeded his authority when he imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, a major setback for his administration's second-term agenda.
The court's 6-3 decision has significant implications for the U.S. economy, consumers, and the president's trade policy.
The Trump badminton said that a loss of the Supreme Court could force the government to unwind trade deals with other countries and potentially pay hefty refunds to importers.
Mr. Trump is the first president to claim that a 1970 emergency statute, which did not mention the word tariffs, allowed him to unilaterally impose the duties without congressional approval.
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the statute does not authorize the president to impose tariffs.
Quote, the president asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope.
In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.
Clarence Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissented.
Earlier last year, he invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers to set tariffs on imported goods from more than 100 countries.
He said his goal was to reduce the trade deficit and spur more manufacturing in the United States.
Since then, he has used the tariffs to raise revenue to pressure other countries in trade negotiations.
Now, you've heard me say it.
I'm going to tell you all again, from a personal perspective, why Donald Trump was correct.
Now, Trump has a lot of things.
You can call him every name in the book.
You can call him an a-hole.
You can call him lewd and lascivious.
By all means, please.
You're allowed to criticize him.
However, what we are dealing with right now in this country is a Congress that cannot pass a law to save its own life, save the Epstein files, or maybe the purchase of the ban of TikTok or something stupid.
Now, don't get me wrong, there are reasons for these things, but Congress isn't going to pass any meaningful legislation because the goal of the Democrats right now is hyper-partisan disruption.
So I'm going to tell you from a personal perspective what I have witnessed over the past 10 years of this failed economic policy and a Congress too disabled to actually solve the problem.
Now, there are many liberals out there who are just going to say whatever the TV tells them to say.
Sorry, but that's true.
And if you're insulted by it, well, by all means, you know, insult me back.
But I run a skateboard company.
We produce skateboards.
Many of you have purchased our Boone's HQ skateboards for which we do limited runs.
And there's an unfortunate reason why we do limited runs.
The production of these boards is increasingly difficult in the United States.
And we are fighting to bring these manufacturing jobs.
I'm not going to pretend it's the most important manufacturing job in the world, but we want these production jobs back in the United States.
And let me tell you why.
First, from an environmental and green perspective.
Since I was a kid, I've heard the insane stories of they're going to chop down a tree in Canada, ship it to the U.S., ship it to China, where Chinese peasants will work for pennies and the dollars to turn that lumber into skateboards, ship it back to the U.S. to be sold to the American consumer at marked up prices, where the companies that were doing this were earning a pretty profit.
The only problem, when they shut down the skateboard manufacturing in the United States, the jobs were gone with it.
The marketing was gone with it.
No longer did you have a dad bringing home samples to his kids.
No longer were you having companies do demos for their product where they brought the kids to the park to say, hey, check out this cool product we have.
And don't get me wrong.
By all means, you can say that skateboarding is not life-saving materials, but it is an Olympic sport.
It is a massive industry, and it is dead effectively in the United States.
You go to Southeast and East Asia, and guess what you find?
A booming, massive industry with TV shows, with youth, with expansion.
Why?
Because they took every factory we had.
The U.S. worker cannot compete with peasants in the third world.
And so something that I grew up with that I love is dead.
It's remarkable how much they beat this to a pulp.
And you know what you can say to me?
You can say, Tim, I don't care about skateboards.
Fine.
This one industry is not unique.
You can look at the auto manufacturing industry.
Trump famously, according to Michael Moore, went to the auto manufacturers and said, if you move your factory from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio to Mexico, I'm going to slap a 30% tariff on your car and no one will buy it.
And Michael Moore famously said, this is back in 2015, 2016.
He said, they were shocked.
No one had dared say that to them.
Right now in this country, we have a variety of problems.
You flood the country with illegal immigrants and legal, low-skill labor, but then you send our low-skill labor jobs overseas.
And what do you get?
Hyper-competition at the lowest level, a struggling lower class in this country, an expanding wealth divide.
We are being ripped off and extracted.
Now, again, I'm not just going to sit here and say Trump had the absolute authority to decree things.
That's a problem too.
But we are looking at the death of the working class in this country and a gleeful, spiteful establishment that wants second-class non-citizens to do menial labor while the American Gen Z has no home, no family, nowhere to live, and no opportunity.
You tell me what the plan is.
Because Gen Z can't buy houses.
Gen Z can't find work that will allow them to have a wife or a husband, have kids.
All they can do is suckle the tea to the welfare state as the whole system burns down.
And we get a mix of America first ultra-nationalists saying it's time for heavy reform and far left is saying burn the whole thing down.
I don't see an answer for you.
Trump's tariffs were abandoned in a bullet wound.
I'm not going to pretend that it was going to save us from what's happening.
But you know, I just see a pathetic, spineless conservative base in this country.
Hey, hey, hey.
I know a lot of conservatives like Tim Hoggy say, you know what I'm talking about.
You know exactly what I'm talking about.
Because that's why you say MAGA is distinct from the Republican Party.
Because people like Roberts go, the right thing to do, the morally correct thing to do, is to stand on the letter of law.
And the liberals are laughing and slapping their knees as the country burns down.
What will be left for our children?
I suppose a withered husk of what once was.
Yesterday, we had a great question on our Timcast IRL uncensored portion of the show.
And someone said, what will we do to prepare our children for this future?
And I said, my friends, well, you know, for my daughter, and we're planning on having more kids.
Right now, I'm not really worried about teaching her anything related to surviving, you know, an economic collapse or a faltering nation or anything that's more so how to walk and how to say please and thank you, right?
However, in the back of my mind, I know survival stuff.
That's what I said.
You're going to need to be able to chop lumber.
You're going to be going to be able to, you're going to have to be able to tend to animals because we are going to fall off.
Now, again, it's a bit black pilly.
Perhaps where we go as a nation is something different, something different.
Maybe Trump does find a way.
I don't want to be too blackpilled or apocalyptic.
Maybe there is a strategy or something that we see moving forward.
JD Vance comes in.
These things turn around.
But the problem that I see is Democrats are largely motivated by their hatred for Republicans and nonsensical, I mean, just culture war nonsense from the corporate press.
Trump is Hitler, blah, blah, blah.
And then I look to industry and I take a look at Gen Z and there's no jobs.
I take a look at the U.S. economy and manufacturing is crippled.
The liberals mock Trump and laugh and say, we've lost manufacturing jobs.
So tell me how stripping Trump of his leverage and allowing all of these companies to offshore their factories is going to bring any of these jobs back.
Democrats don't care.
They are extracting and burning everything down.
And Republicans don't care either.
They just want to go to their country clubs wearing their nice suits saying, but I, it was morally correct.
It's the lawyer who says, I got the pedophile off, but I was right to do it.
That's the argument they're making.
And you know, I can understand, I really can, the right to a trial, the importance of a functioning legal system.
But at a certain point, you have to wonder, was it actually the right thing to do to unleash rapists, murderers, and criminals onto our streets as we watch them all burn down?
Unfortunately for us, classical liberalism is rammed, being rammed headfirst into the brute force of an aggressive reality.
You know, guys, I'm a big fan of Star Trek The Next Generation.
And this debate's been going on now because we have that ridiculous new show, Starfleet Academy.
And now many of you may be saying, Tim, I don't care about Star Trek.
And by all means, that was always allowed.
But this is not about a TV show.
It's about the perspectives of a bygone generation.
What the boomers thought life was going to be like.
They were hippies.
They grew up.
They got jobs.
And they made shows like Star Trek The Next Generation.
This show represented a utopian view of a future of liberalism in outer space with replicators and space travel.
Now, by all means, again, ignore the lore of Star Trek.
Let me just explain.
The show very much represented a future intergalactic society with no military.
The Federation in this show, this is the dream of the classical liberals, the hippies.
True diversity of different species.
And they had a limited military capability.
Don't get me wrong, the show does show they have military capability.
But it was a, we're explorers, and they actually entertained in the show brilliantly.
There's an episode where they go to an alternate timeline where the Federation is losing a war and everything is dramatically different.
In the show, the Federation has families aboard because it's a science mission for exploration.
Because that's the beautiful utopian vision of the classical liberal society.
We would be at peace forever.
They entertained what it would have been like if we were at war.
And Captain Picard says, Are you joking?
There's no families on this ship.
This is a warship.
But what's fascinating about it is where we went.
Deep Space Nine, where the next series shows, war came to our shores and our ideals were meaningless.
And it was brilliant that these things were written at this time.
Deep Space Nine, of course, being written around much more in the late 90s into the early 2000s, when, of course, times they were a changing.
What I see here, my friends, and the reason why I bring this up is that we had for 30 plus years this golden age, utopian world.
The inheritors of the post-World War II economic order who felt like, you know, we could offshore all our jobs.
This was never going to end.
The dream was here.
American hegemonic power was here to stay.
And now we're being faced with the brute realities of those who seek to destroy us and a waning empire.
Call it whatever you want.
The fact is, you cannot simply say it is morally correct to allow foreign countries to destroy our way of life.
That's just it.
And that's what we have inherited from the previous generations.
John Roberts, who continually, who continually decides the appropriate thing to do is to sound smart while your country burns down.
I suppose the reality is we're between a rock and a hard place.
Should we rule, the executive is supreme, then our country doesn't exist, does it?
And that's the way things go, like the fall of the Roman Republic.
You eventually get the formation of an empire, prosperity, and collapse, because it just can't sustain itself this way.
With social media, however, and high-speed travel and trade routes, it seems that we're ever accelerating towards this reality.
And that's why guys sit all day every day and just think about Rome.
Because boy, are we getting there very, very quickly.
So let me tell you what I see with this.
When Trump enacted these tariffs and he told China to shove it, we saw something truly amazing.
Many of these skateboard companies that sold out our jobs to China were in trouble.
The boards they were selling online were now selling for $100 a pop.
So if you wanted to give your money to Chinese factories, you had to pay a premium.
But boonieshq.com stayed at $55 because we make and print our boards here in the good old US of A. American factories, American workers.
But many people say to me, Tim, why is it taking so long to get the board?
And I say, you know what?
It is.
It takes a long time.
Some people have been waiting three weeks for the manufacturing, which is unfortunately surprising even to us because we were assured it would be faster than that.
But you know what I'm going to say?
I'm going to say, you wait.
You wait patiently because this is American manufacturing trying to pull itself up by its bootstraps.
So it may take you a few weeks to get it.
But at least you know, it was an American who was working to make that board with lumber sourced in America, graphics printed in America, supporting an American small business to the best of our abilities.
But now what's going to happen is there's a lot of young people and they're going to say, don't know, don't care.
I want what's cheap.
Well, these pro model boards are still more expensive than ours.
But the cheapo blanks made in China, they're crummy boards, but they're getting better.
So my friends, I don't have any good answers for you.
I don't know what this means, but maybe there will be a path forward for us.
I'm going to grab some of your chats and rants and see what you guys got going on and loop you into this conversation, of course.
See what you have to say.
We got Raf and me says we need to stop paying all taxes and all Republicans need to start voting red and blue state elections until voter ID is passed.
Well, I got to be honest.
I don't see a reality where people stop paying taxes and this has been proposed quite a bit.
I don't think that's going to happen.
And it is what it is, you know.
Ian Slater says, it's like the opposition wants us to be wage slaves taxed to oblivion.
Go figure.
This is horrible news.
Yeah.
Drag says, bloody and violent civil war it is then.
I certainly hope not.
I certainly hope not.
James Tiberius says, tariffs, bah, we have aliens to distract us.
My friends, it's brutal news.
You know what is what it is.
We got a big show coming up for you today for IRL tonight.
I'm going to wrap this up here.
It's just a breaking news segment, so I appreciate you guys hanging out.
Thanks so much for watching.
Short live stream, I know, but it was huge news and it's got me all riled up.