Trump argued in part of a longer social media post yesterday that if the court strikes down his tariff policy, it would be impossible to ever recover or pay back those massive sums of money and honor. It would be 1929 all over again a Great Depression, he wrote. [00:00:18] Would it be a Great depression for the country, or depression for the CEOs that President Donald Trump is trying to do favors for through his honestly, increasingly unhinged tariffs policy? Because if you think the tariff policy is about increasing manufacturing jobs in the United States, keep in mind that manufacturing jobs actually went down [00:00:37] in the last few jobs reports. And it turns out, no, this tariffs policy is just about essentially getting corporations and various companies to Greece. Trump. So he does exemptions and all sorts of favors for them. So let's get into the details here. [00:00:53] Because according to new reporting from the Washington Post, Trump is using tariffs as a tool for more than what we previously knew. He's launching trade wars that will impact the whole country to advance the interests of individual companies, likely his donors. [00:01:09] So the internal negotiating document obtained by The Washington Post showed that U.S. Officials used the threat of tariffs to pressure other nations to provide concessions for companies, including Chevron and, of course, Elon Musk's Starlink. [00:01:26] In Israel, U.S. Officials wanted the government not to proceed with any draft regulations or potential plans to force Chevron to sell its interests or status as operator in one of its offshore natural gas fields. [00:01:43] And just for reference, Chevron's annual gross profit for 2024 was just $78.87 billion. It's funny, the one time they might stand up to Israel is to back a corporate donor, [00:01:59] because it's a it's a donor clash. Yeah. And and the oil companies actually give more than Israel does usually not this cycle but in normal cycles. That's why they actually get ten times the bribes that Israel gets. Israel normally gets 3.8 billion a year. The oil companies get $35 billion in subsidies every year. [00:02:17] They rob us every single year to give them that money. And then Trump added another 18 billion in oil subsidies. And so they're super powerful. So they can even out bribe the Israelis, which is amazing. No, I mean, it is amazing. [00:02:33] But also that example that I just gave you kind of shows you that the American government is willing to play hardball with Israel. Yeah. As long as there's other donor interests in mind. So again, it has nothing to do with religion or governments, etc. It's just a matter of pure corruption, right? [00:02:49] Whoever can bribe our politicians the most gets everything they want, all at our expense. So in Lesotho, the poor African country that Trump had threatened with 50% tariffs, negotiators wanted the government to finalize deals with multiple US firms. [00:03:08] Yeah. Oh, is that where the dealmaking is happening? Not at the white House. Apparently it's happening between governments and US based companies. So guys, look, this has been around forever. And there's two phenomena that are connected to what's happening today. One is all of our trade deals sucked. Why do they suck? [00:03:25] Because they're not written by people who are representing us. We literally have corporate lobbyists write the deals. This we've documented it on tight when all the trade deals were happening and showed it to all the documents to you guys. Okay. And so the government hands it off to the corporate lobbyists. [00:03:42] They write it. Sometimes they'll forget their name, their company's name on the documents. They give it back and are corrupt, useless politicians. Then hand that in as if it's representing the American people. But it isn't. It's representing those international corporations. They're not American companies. [00:03:58] Their shareholders are from across the world. Their executives are from across the world. So those foreign corporations, there's international corporations control our government through corruption, right. So that's why our trade deals are terrible. And outsource all your jobs. Second reason, second phenomenon connected from the old days [00:04:15] is that's why we did coups. Cuz. So we did a coup against the democratically elected government of Iran back in 1953 because they chose to charge us, not us, but American and British oil companies. A slightly higher rate for oil because it was the oil of Iran. [00:04:33] And they're like, well, if you want to buy it from us, you have to pay at market rates. They're like market rates. Coup is ass. And they did. And that led to a disaster which eventually led to the ayatollah and that regime that we have now in Latin America. The reason why some of the countries were called banana republics is because we did [00:04:50] a coup on behalf of Dole Banana Company, not on behalf of the American people. We endangered the American people by doing these coups all across the world to help these international corporations, because they run our government. That's exactly right. And by the way, this is a headline from January of this year. [00:05:09] Chevron donating to president elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee spokesperson says. I mean, this is this is how politics works in America. We have bribery baked into our political system. Now, I want to just give you a few more examples. For instance, let's go to graphic for the negotiating document [00:05:25] showed that administration officials plan to push several governments, including Taiwan, India and Indonesia, to increase their defense spending or to buy more U.S. Military hardware, doing a nice little favor for the defense contractors and weapons manufacturers in America, of course. [00:05:43] And speaking of defense, the document also made clear that the Trump administration was using tariffs to further national security goals as well. They insisted, for instance, that South Korea publicly support deploying U.S. Troops to deter China and North Korea. The U.S. [00:06:00] Also wanted Seoul in South Korea, of course, to boost defense spending to 3.8% of GDP, up from 2.6% last year, and to increase its $1 billion plus contribution to cover the annual costs [00:06:18] of basing the roughly 28,500 American troops in South Korea. So those are two different things that I want to split them. Them covering the cost of us, providing security for them. That makes sense to me. Okay. And I'm not unhappy about that. [00:06:34] I don't know why we have to pay for all those bases across all the world. I'm glad we protect a lot of people, including South Korea, but should they chip in for sure forcing them to use our military industrial complex and buy more weapons even if they don't want more weapons? [00:06:53] That's just corruption. And it's not about, you know, threatening high tariffs to increase manufacturing jobs in the United States. That's the important takeaway from this, right? This is essentially a narrative that was used to further serve [00:07:09] the interests of corporations. That's it. - I mean, that's what I'm seeing here. - Yeah. And look, what a lot of people don't understand is this grassroots donors that in American politics, they're generally trying to fight this overwhelming tide. They're almost all good people trying to help. [00:07:25] Five bucks at a time, 200 bucks, whatever they can afford, right? There's some mid-level donors that are good people that are also fighting against this tide. The rest of them are corporate PACs with infinite money and foreign governments with infinite money. And so it's a tsunami. [00:07:41] And that's why our government never represents us and never will until we get money out of politics. And that's why it just frustrates me so much that the rest is just gobbledygook. Like you're never going to represent you on any of these. On the trade deals, on forcing other governments to use our [00:07:57] military industrial complex and our oil companies, etc., on subservience to Israel and whoever else funds our politicians. You know, all of it is money in politics, fight corruption us, fight corruption us. [00:08:12] That is a genuine group that's wolfpack trying to get money out of politics. They don't give a damn if you're a Republican or a Democrat or independent. Go help them if you don't get money out of politics. This is our government's never going to work for us. And the robbery is going to continue for the rest of our lives. [00:08:27] Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.