God, I don't know. Fucking Vin Diesel. Let's
just fucking family this shit. Shall we? All
right. So new jerk -offs went into effect against
China. I'm sorry. I have to repeat that. New
tariffs went into effect against China Tuesday
night, setting the stage for a possible trade
war. Uh, this of course is after Trump put on
a, um, 25 % tariff on Mexico and Canada, both
were placed on a, or he tried to do that. Both
were placed on a 30 day hold. Um, fun facts here,
based on my research, we get almost two thirds
of our vegetables from Mexico and half of our
fruit. From Mexico and 70 % of our lumber and,
uh, gypsum, which is what we use to make dry
walls out of, um, comes from Canada and Mexico.
So like, and there's, there's a long list. God,
I, I did think like, oh, we could, uh, list out
everything that this would affect, but it would
be like. That'd be the whole show. I was like,
ah. So there's a huge list. And no matter what
you're doing, the American people, we're going
to feel this. This is going to hurt if we actually
pass tariffs with Mexico and Canada. But yeah,
I don't know. So there's been a lot of talk of
these here. Trump wanted Mexico to control their
fucking immigrant issue with their with their
drugs coming into America. Yeah. And he wanted
Canada to stop it. No crossing the border. I
don't even I didn't even know that was a Canada
thing. It's not. Not really. What the hell? And
then. Yeah, of course everyone. Everyone saw
the very iconic booing at the hockey game in
Canada when they played the national anthem for
America. So yeah, I don't know. What are your
thoughts here? I think I've heard a lot of kind
of theories here that this is just he's playing
kind of chicken. He's just wanting stuff from
Canada and Mexico that he's not actually going
to go through with the tariffs. because like
another thing that's going to happen is if these
tariffs actually do pass, most likely gas prices
are going to go up. And when you raise the price
of gas, you're going to piss off fucking everyone
in America. Well, I don't know. So there's a
few things to cover here. He backed off the Mexico
and Canada tariffs pretty immediately. And the
funny thing about this is they declared victory
over something that the Canadian Parliament voted
to do in December. Right. Canadian parliament
passed a $1 .3 billion Canadian dollar border
security bill back in December, right? When Biden
was still president. So I don't know, like, and
I guess Trudeau called him and was just like,
yeah, here. And he was like, oh, we win. And
then Canada was like, we'll send 10 ,000 troops
to the border. But they had sent 15 ,000 there
when Biden was president. So again, he's he's
declaring victory over something. And what was
funny about is he was like 25 % blanket tariffs
on Canada, except fuel and energy. Not that.
Not that. Because he knew that the gas price
thing was going to happen. And then again, he
immediately backed down on all of them and put
them on pause. The China one, the bigger issue,
and this is the one that doesn't just affect
people, but the one that affects companies, and
this is where I think he's going to back off.
is they got rid of what's called the de minimis
exception, right, which is this. Let's say Jay
orders a knockoff Xbox controller for his computer
from Timu. Right. OK, let's say he orders that
from Timu. Anything worth less than eight hundred
dollars that's coming from China, right, was
not. taxed, was not tariffed, was not anything
at all. So individual packages going to individual
people never went through a customs tariff, right?
Nothing. He got rid of that exception, right?
So now, T -Mu, Shien, Amazon, anybody who's shipping
direct from China, right? That's going to have
to, and right now the confusion is how is that
going to work? Like are you just gonna stop every
individual package that's coming into the country
and Customers check it and then who and then
charge the tariff to the customer if they want
to get their package Like because you have to
open it up to verify what's inside Right. Is
it actually? You know fucking jeggings from Sheehan
Right, like we don't know So that's one problem
that he's got The other problem is again, these
are they're fake pictures again mag is doing
their their victory lap right now On a bunch
of things and again, this kind of goes back to
what we talked about in the last segment So much
of the information environment right now is these
guys going see we win and they state things as
fact and There's just no good way To be like
is that what actually happened? You know what
I mean? Yeah, like how much time be did you have
to spend just on this one topic going? All right,
what actually happened? It's fucking it's hard.
It's a very fucking hard Especially with like
literally every single day. The shit is changing
Like I'm not sure if you noticed but I put the
topic in on Monday and flagged it red and it
was like waiting for I'm future development.
Yeah, it's still it's still says that in our
rundown. So we can see. So wait for further developments
because it changes every stinkin day. Yeah. Yeah.
It's and that's the thing. That's the thing that
I would say is like the worst part is that it's
so quick. It's hard to stay up on it. So like
Monday, I had time. I could like look into stuff.
But then like by Wednesday, most of it was outdated
and you're like, shit. OK, like, what the fuck
did he do yesterday? Like, what did he actually
do? OK, so we're no longer going to put tariffs
on Mexico and Canada. OK. But the tariff on China
did go through. And did you notice that the Chinese
tariff was less? It was only 10 percent. Yeah.
And that doesn't make fucking sense to me either.
Like, why? Why? Elon. Well, why are you trying
to piss off fucking Canada, the fucking one ally
that's been with us? And I mean, OK, you're a
military guy. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
They've been with us for every fucking war. Right,
Alex? Yep. The hell they lost China. I mean,
I'm sorry. I try. It's Canada. It's Canada. Every
fucking person loves Canada. They fucking apologize
when they accidentally bump into you. I mean,
come on. Why? I. There is, to my mind, no reason
behind it beyond just ginning up the base and
saying, look what I did, right? Even though what
you did wasn't substantive, right? It's kind
of like the old Doge thing, right? You're going
after USAID, which is 0 .02 % of the of the budget,
go after the Department of Defense, for fuck's
sake, right? Again, they're trying to do stuff
that, again, I don't think makes them do anything
substantive, but they're doing it. They're doing
stuff, right? And I think part of this is exactly
what you said. It's flooding the zone. We're
going to do shit so fast that somebody's mainstream
media acting like it's normal. A, I don't think
they're acting like it's normal. I don't think
they can keep up. Even with a 24 -hour news network,
you can't keep up. You would just have a chiron
of shit, and most people aren't reading that,
of everything that's happening day in and day
out for everything that's going on. It's an absolute
clusterfuck. This actually kind of reminds me
of a little news thing that popped up have you
seen the the video of The girl that supposedly
made eight 18 million dollars in one day and
it's kind of like she just showing products but
it's like a split second and then she throws
the box and she gets another box and she shows
like a product and throws it and I think I want
to say it's like from China, but like I've been
seeing this video pop up everywhere. It's kind
of it kind of went viral. This like girl, she's
it's kind of like the the old. What is it like
the channel that used to try to convince you
to buy like, oh, like buy this necklace. QVC.
Yeah, but it's like split second. Well, I mean,
that's huge on TikTok, like TikTok shop and their
integrations with like being able to do live
videos and be like, look, buy this thing, go
straight to the TikTok shop. Right. Was it linking?
That's a big thing So it doesn't surprise me
Yeah, I I don't even know where to start Honestly,
I think the tariff thing is pretty I think he's
done I think he he did his thing He he threatened
the 25 % He says he's gonna suspend him for a
month and then I think he's just gonna expect
everybody to just move on Right I think he's
going to expect that everybody's just going to
forget about it in two weeks, especially again
with everything else going on. Right. I. I don't
even know. I. It's it's absolutely ridiculous.
I said, I don't even. I don't even need to go.
Um, stupid people love to throw their money because
it's pretty tech talk. Hey, look, I'm going to
hate on her hustle. Right. If she can do that
and get people going on it. Good for you. I wish
I could do that out of the time or the patience.
And I'm not cute enough. Right. I've made the
joke many times. If I was a cute girl, I would
have an only fans. I'm not cute enough. Sorry
Yeah, don't don't ever put yourself down like
that Alex you you can do it Yeah, that's that's
my future they want to see the 41 year old guy
on only fans All right, Alex. How much are you
selling feet picks for the further for the fans
for the fans? I don't know man. I don't know
People to let me know if they want feet picks.
It's fine. My feet are fucking gross, dude I
spent too many years in boots marching around
there They're nasty. Just nasty. All right. Let
us know what you think. I mean, is this just
a situation of them flooding the zone? Were the
terrorists just a joke to begin with? How do
we even keep up with all the nonsense going on?
Let us know down in the comments below.