America at a Crossroads: Economy, Education, and Governance

In this timely and thought-provoking episode, we examine the critical challenges and opportunities facing the United States today. From a rapidly shifting economy and growing concerns about educational equity to the complex state of American governance, this conversation explores how deeply interconnected these systems are and what’s at stake if we fail to act. 

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Stephan: 0:01

Hey everyone. My name is Stefan, and I can't, I can't do it. I, I can't get through that without laughing like we are. Our economy sucks. Like some of you said, you know, oh, well, Biden made our economy suck. Well, Trump is making it. Fucking worse, like our economy is in shambles right now. This man has started a trade war with the biggest importer to America. Like most of the stuff that you have, like remotes, TVs, apple, apple headphones, apple phones are all made in China because it's just cheaper to make it in other countries that, yes. They do have different regulations than they do and all that other stuff, but making it here in America would cost either two times or even triple the amount because we didn't start making it here. We just had other countries make it. And so China has decided, nah, okay, we don't need America. Right. China doesn't necessarily need America. America just buys a lot of good. So now China's like, well, we'll find someone else who wants to buy our products and probably make some products too. But that's besides the point. Our economy is in shambles, and for all of you who voted for him, I hope you're losing money in in your 401k. And normally, I'm not mean like that, but I truly hope that you have a 401k and you lost money because you deserve this. We literally told you from day one this is what this man is going to do, and you guys are like, no, he's just saying that because he's just, he's just, he doesn't know. He knows. He just crashed our market and every single time he talks about tariffs, it just makes the market more unstable. I would say. I will say this, that if you are. Into buying stocks. This is probably the perfect time to buy stocks. I was telling my best friend this couple weeks ago, I was like, especially when the market really did go down, I was like, this is the perfect time for you to buy stocks.'cause they're really dirt cheap, right? So it's a double-edged sword. Yes. He crashed our entire market and our markets are gonna be down for a while, especially with tariffs and a trade war. And. Then here's the other thing. He, he puts these like 90 day pauses on it, and it's like, I, I seriously think he's one of those old people who doesn't know what the fuck he's really doing. Like he's crashing markets. Our egg prices still hasn't increased. Our gas prices hasn't increased, and I just believe it's only gonna go downhill from here. And we're not even a full year until his term. And now. Putting all these tariffs in all these other countries is really going to hurt global trade market at the end of the day. But at the end of the, we're here to talk about something called a pink tariff. Did you guys know that women's clothing is taxed higher than men? We're gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about this war with Harvard because you know, ever since his administration moved in and we've had, we've seen companies bend a knee to the administration saying, yeah, we're gonna pull back on DEI. But Harvard, one of the oldest universities in our country is saying, well, fuck you. We're not bending our knee. So Trump is like, well, I'll pull about$50 million from your budget that federally we give you. And Harvard is now kind of deciding maybe. Just maybe, and we're also going to look at tariff itself, right? I wanna explain tariffs very briefly about how they work, and I want to go into, because of how the tariffs are, the Federal Reserve Federal Bank has pretty much said that, Hey, interest rate, like that, number inflation could go up if Trump keeps doing this. BS about tariffs here. High tariffs here. A hundred, 150% tariffs on China. Yeah. The Fed share's like, Hey, that inflation rate, interest rate is going to go tick up. Right? Obviously Trump is like, well, it's really the share's fault. It's his problem. Nobody, it's your problem. Those are what we're gonna talk about. We'll be right back after our intro. Let's go. I. Before we talk about pink tariffs, if you shop at Temu or Sheen. Yeah. Even those are getting here. Tariffs. Take a listen or take a look or listen whichever one, one of them.

TikTok: 5:17

We have some news right now. Temu and Sheen are going to start raising their prices on April 25th because of Donald Trump's trade and tariffs policy. So previously, Temu and Sheen were able to sell to American consumers extremely cheap because of a di minimis exemption within trade policy for any product sold under$800. Well now that's gonna go away, or at least it's gonna be changed. And Team Mu and Sheen have both informed their customers that their prices are going to go up starting in just about nine or 10 days. And also Team Mu and Sheen have stopped or have reduced the amount of advertising they're doing on American social media platforms, American websites, and more. I know that's gonna upset a lot of folks here on TikTok because all I see on my TikTok for you page are people trying on Sheen clothing or using products from Temu. Well, now it's gonna be a hell of a lot more expensive if you want to buy those products. From China, I'll do a full breakdown on my substack, so be sure to subscribe free at the link in my bio and follow along. Stay up to date on all the news you need to know about. I know I promised you this would be my la or the last one would be my last video for the night, but this one is.

Stephan: 6:18

Thank you Aaron from TikTok for that amazing update on that. First off is Pink tariffs. Have you ever heard about it? Neither have I. Apparently there has been an increase on tariffs of women clothing. That's correct. Women's clothing actually costs more than men clothing. Let's get into the article. So President Donald Trump is using tariff. Disrupt nearly everything about the global trade order, except for a tariff policy that favors men over women. For decades, the US tariff system has taxed women clothing more heavily than men's. Clothing tariff on women's clothing are currently about 3% higher than men's. A policy that's known as pink tariffs similar to pink tax that makes the same products for women more expensive than men. This means that women pay an average, a dollar per garment compared to men costs them more than$2 billion a year. According to research by Edward Greer, vice President and Director for Trading Global Markets at the Progressive Policy Institute. With Trump imposing a 10% tariffs on most trading partners with even higher levies for Canada, Mexico, and China, the cost for women could go even higher as he is instituting massive tariffs. President Trump is missing a chance to tackle historically regressive and misogynistic traits of the global free trade system. And Steve Lamar, the president of American Appeal and Footwear, said most manufactured appeals and footwear are classified by gender, United States harmonized tariff schedule. So HTS, which sets out a tariff rate for all. Categories of merchandise imported into United States. The tariff rate on women's clothing were on average 16.7 in 2022, 2.9% points higher. Then the 13.6 average tariff rate for men's clothing according to greaser, breaking it down on individual items. Women's suits in 2017, for example, were subject to a 15.1% tariff rate while men's suits were subject to a 13.3 tariff. Women's underwear were hit with a 12.8 tariffs while men's underwear were hit with a 8.6 tariffs. So during the 1930s and forties when America helped design the global free trading system, women's clothing production was a smaller industry. While men's clothing was a major source of employment and economic driver, US textiles and appeal manufacturers at the time were more focused on lobbying for low of tariff and ending trade barriers on men's clothing. Trade experts say the current tariff gap is a relic of the old trade regime. Companies have attempted to end the gender bias and tariff rate. Steve Madden. Columbia Sportswear and other companies sue the government in 2007 to strike down the tariff policy, but the suit failed. The courts rule that tariff gaps were not designed to be discriminatory. There's also been little movement from the federal government to fix the policy, but this year, two Democratic lawmakers represent Lizzie Fletcher of Texas, and Brittany Patterson of Colorado introduced a legislation known as the Pink Tariff Study Act. That would direct the Treasury Department and other agencies to examine the impact of tariffs on women and other consumer groups. Trump's tariff could unintentionally narrow the gender gap by raising the floor of tariffs on men's clothing. However, Lori Taylor, or professor at the Department of Public Service and Administration of Texas, who studies trade policy. But Trump's tariff will ultimately impact women more than men because women spend more money on average, on clothing in 2023, household spending on women's appeals average$655 compared to$406 for men's appeals according to the parole of labor and stats. My policy preference would've been lower tax for both men and women's clothing to reduce the gap. That's what Taylor said, but this is ultimately going to be hitting those low income families. So I love Ross. Like I am a huge fan. Like I bought myself a gift card to Ross because that's how much money I spent in Ross. But this new Taron woman's clothing, especially for our lower income families. It's gonna hit them pretty hard, especially if it's already hard for them to buy new clothing for themselves. And even for their children. This is, this is a pretty big blow. Trump's tariff will have an outsize impact on clothing'cause nearly all clothing sold in the United States. Pretty much imported. Consumers immediately will face a 64% higher appeal prices when Trump's tariff, according to the Yale budget, actually go into effect tariff. Disparities aren't just between women and men. Tariffs will hurt lower income household and the goods they rely on more than wealthier households. That's because lower income consumers spend a greater share of their income on basic clothing and necessities than higher. Income consumers, especially those people who, you know, get, you know, influencer statuses, people who like companies will just send clothing to versus some of us, you know, lower people, middle class people where we actually have to go out and go buy underwear now and again, or socks or shoes or shirts or whatever the case may be. That's why it's good. Good. Socks, underwear, t-shirts, and sneakers and other clothing basics have higher tariff rate than luxury items because tariffs. Very by fabric content said Shang Lu, a professor of fashion and appeal studies at University of Delaware. High-end fabrics such as wool, cashier, slick, have lower tariff rate than cotton, polyester, and nylon. Use the manufacturer INP clothing and sneakers. Prices for clothing basics will also rise more quickly than luxury items because Trump's tariff we've seen over and over that people have come and outspoken about tariffs. That tariffs don't hurt the rich, they don't care, they're rich, they, they can spend it. Tariffs hurt the poor and the middle class people. We're the only ones who are going out daily spending money on stuff. And as. Multiple or hundreds of people have already said how tariffs work. When you have such a high tariff. That company, the Ameri, the company that's here, they're not gonna absorb 150% tariff. They're gonna pass that down to us. They may absorb maybe 50%. The other a hundred gets kicked down to us. I don't know a lot of companies that are gonna sit there and be like, well, we'll absorb it all. Absolutely not. They have to make their profit, and if they do absorb it, that means the cost of other products that they sell are going to skyrocket. Right? So let's use Disney for an example. If Disney Desi decides to absorb. Those that that tariff, right? That means something in the Disney parks are going to go up, whether it's soda, you know, soda's like$5 now, or the cost of a a park ticket or maybe their genie pass goes up. There's so many different avenues. Or different products that they could raise. Right? Especially when you talk about like wage increases. Wage increases don't come free. If they decide to give their employees a raise, that means they have to find out there's gotta be some product or products that are going to get an increase because they have to pay for that paid raise. You get it? Understand it. Good. Now because we talk about pink tariffs and you know what they are. So now, you know, women's clothing are, is a lot more expensive than men. And I would assume that, you know, like I don't, I don't go out and buy clothing that much. When I do, I do. But mainly like I look for a lot of discounted stuff and you would never know where I got it from because look, I make it look good. We are going to talk about Trump versus Harvard, one of the oldest schools here in the country, As we've learned since the Trump administration has taken over, there are either companies bending knee or even there are some schools who are bending the knee to this Trumpism. Pretty much essentially as I would say it is that any school that is against the Trump administration that's not, you know. Promoting his propaganda and is still supporting DEI, those are enemy number one. Harvard is definitely on that list. And I just think it's not for an administration, just like these are just times of uncertainty. You never, you're never, you are, you're not gonna know what this administration's going to do, whether it's gonna go after schools like it's already going after. Our, our, our immigrants. And now, you know, parents don't wanna send their child to school because they feel like they're gonna get grabbed up. Like people don't wanna go outside or, you know, do anything because they feel as though they're already a target. You know, if you disagree with the administration and you're very vocal about it, depending on what your position is, you're gonna fear for your life. Let's go into it. Turn over here. Harvey University a. Such perfect foul for the Trumpism that it is a wonder, it avoided the MAGA mainstream for so long. But the nation's oldest university is now head to head with the White House that sees few limits to its power, which wants to use these shatter elite. Pillars. Harvard President Alan Garger Gerber decided not to bend to the administration demands to change its policies declaring the university would not surrender its independence or its constitutional rights. A university more used to producing presence that defy them. Thus set one of the most important clashes yet between President Donald Trump and the established institution. Those without an Ivy League prestige often mop. The the country's most prestige seats of learning, though degrees, often elite circles off limits to most Americans. And when Trump portrays the esteem academics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, a far left activist pushing woke policies on race and gender, he's not working in a vacuum. Many of Americans agree with him. Poll showing. Distrust in the higher education institution, especially among Republicans. Well, we know Republicans don't care for education. They don't want you to get a higher education because they want you to say as stupid as possible so you don't understand what the hell they're doing. That's why Republicans don't want you to. Have an education, but Trump's assault on the country's top colleges goes beyond an issue that will execute his political base. Administration heats up on top universities as part of a broader fact to challenge cent centers. Of what it regards as liberal power, which also includes the courts, federal bureaucracies, and the media. After remaking the Republican party in the Supreme Court, Trump hopes to extend his populist ideology, the higher education, as a way to challenge belief systems that conflict with his MAGA creed and to shift the country hard to the right. Trump is not the only. A academic and surveys show that their left leaning facilities has immigration. Crackdowns has stirred a culture of fear on campuses. Some students have been taken off the street by border agents while hundreds more have had their visas canceled on the grounds of their views are damn damaging to the American foreign policy interest. That sense of repression threatens to strike the atmosphere of open debate. That animates a health university and Trump threat to halt funding to top schools. Endanger the country's world leaning, world, leading scientists in medical research into killer disease such as cancer and Alzheimer's. So they're going further because first they said it was like antisemitism, but now it's kind of going a lot more deeper into that. So. This was driven home in December, 2023 when New York rep Elise Shrieve the presidents of top universities over campus protests that critics say decentralized into anti-Semitism following the Hamas attack on Israel. Academic new sons answers might have passed muster into a campus seminar, but they turned into a political ca. Sphe, the moral outrage. A Harvard graduate helped lead the resignation of the university's president Claudine Gay. The New York Law Lawmaker's performance also made her one of the fastest rising stars in the MAGA movement and the house GLP Leadership. Nik led the charge against Harvard again on Tuesday after the administration froze 2.2 billion in federal funds when the university refused its demands. If you look at the facility, the tenured facil faculty of all these schools, they are so out of touch with American values. 97% of the facility are self-identified as democrat progressives, and they are propping up the radical. Far left ideas and really teaching anti-Americanism. What is, what is anti-Americanism? Is that a thing? I didn't, can I, I didn't know universities taught that. Is that something that they teach anti-Americanism? I think this is just making up words at this point. Let's keep going. The administration has used antisemitism. To fuel both. Its wider assault on the universities and its mass deportation drives. It demands that Harvard Commission an outside party to audit multiple programs, schools and departments with within the university that it said were tainted by egregious records of antisemitism and other bases, but it's stunning list of demands doesn't end there. It's called for End to all Diversity. Equity inclusion programs, including reduction in power of the faculty ending any hiring based off race, gender, or sex, and new crackdowns on student protests and student groups and clubs, including those that support PAC stand sovereignty a long time. If lapsed US government policy, the White House demands investigations into past campus protests Sit. Sit-ins that took place on the aftermath of Hamas attacks on Israel. These are demands of the White House, right? The wishlist represented an unusual attempt by the presidential administration to excerpt power over the independent university. The showdown which follows agreements by other universities, including Columbia to seed similar pressure, is almost starting to land in court. But Lauren Summers, the former treasury secretary and president of Harvard told CNN that the university should not comply with government That is being extra lawful. He added universities are in need of a great deal of reform and it's come too slowly. But that's not a reason why the government can entirely suspend the law and make up self-serving political demands and impose them on. Trump may believe he's. Onto a political winner. Whatever happens when universities cave fearful of losing billions of dollars in public funding, his power is enhanced. And he can p on even more pressure when they defend themselves. They give him a fight, he's happy to wage, and when Democrats criticize him, they take the side of what millions of Americans believe are elitist establishment figures. Who are disliked by much of the country to staying for top universities run deep in the MAGA movement, perhaps mostly among Ivy leagues like Nik and Vice President JD Vance, who often appear to be seeking to atone to their base for their elite educations. These populous backlash against establishment institutions is the root of the MAGA movement and the America first. Conservatism along with the belief that liberal facilities are responsible for pr, a belief system that is anti-American. For instance, at the national Conservatism Conference in 2021, Vance a Yale Law graduate. Advocate a campaign against very hostile institutions at it. If any of us want to do the things we wanna do for our country and people who live in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country on a campaign trail last year. Trump I am bastard. Universities he claimed were packed with Maximus maniacs. And the president's movement has long fostered suspicions of academic intelligence and distrust of the highly educated, which was elaborated by his tax on the experts during the COVID-19 pandemic in his first term, and which now shows in his unorthodox second term cabinet. Polarized approach leaves little doubt that the administration motives to go beyond eradicating antisemitism from college campuses. Its transparent effect to change what is taught what we say in our classrooms, what we teach our students to make sure that the only things that are actually said on university campuses are things that the Trump administration wants to hear and wants to be set. Andrew Manuel, a Harvard Law professor, tilt, CNN on Kate Collins Show. So let's just take a break there. Universities are the foundation of our, it. It's just the foundation. It's where you go to learn different things. It's not for administration to say that you're anti-American because you're taking, you know, maybe let's say that you're taking a feminist class, right? That's not, that's in a MAGA book that no, you shouldn't be taking that. That's probably left-leaning. So they want these universities to bend their knee and curb programs that have DEI in them or curb the faculty from having so much power. And it's like, and like the article says, if these universities bend a knee. That's just given him more power. It enhances his power so much because he's like, well, if they've bend the knee, this place is gonna bend the knee. And honestly, the power really lies with the universities that don't bend the knee. Right. Some of those other universities did bend an knee because maybe that funding is a lot for them. Right. But if you're already an Ivy League school that's, you know, 2 billion, yeah, that's a pretty good chunk. But you're Harvard. Is essentially like a focal point. You know, you have these companies that are standing up like Costco and now you have Harvard. It's like these institutions that are standing up. These are true American institutions because we don't bend a need to a administration. That's not what America is. We don't bend a knee to a king or a Tyra or a dictator. We don't bend a knee to anyone for that matter. You may not like what a university is teaching, but that does not give you the right to sit there and be like, well, we're gonna take away funding because you're not doing that because like we've seen before, what if Obama did that? Or what if Biden did that? Y'all would be chopping at the White House because they did something like that. It's about time you people start standing up. No one should have to bend a knee. Universities are an open, inclusive place for you to be who you wanna be, learn what you wanna be and grow from that. But if we have these colleges, these universities sitting here bending knee to a tyrant, we're no longer America. It's no, it's no longer. Freedom. It's now it's either Trump or deport or deportation. We have to do something standing up, going out, spreading the word. If there's things you don't like, speak up about what you don't like. But for to have an administration sitting here and dictate what we can, what we can't say. Having your own fellow students scared to even come on campus. God, if there's even a protest, it's that not standing up to the administration that is anti-American. Let's keep going. So there is fear on these college campuses, as I previously stated. So the administration's heavily hand immigration enforcement has also fueled a response atmosphere or repressive atmosphere on campus, following the tension of several students who took part in the campus protest against Israel and some who did not. The Trump administration last week won a deportation order from a Louisiana immigration judge against Columbia University graduate Mahad kli illegal. Permanent resident. He was accused of undermining the US policy to combat antisemitism, but the government cited no. All allegations of criminal activity. Kael who is married to a US citizen is a prominent Pakistani, a advocate who played a critical role in protests against Israel, Warren Gaza on campus last year. Many within the administration have long been prominence of the notion of make it bad enough that people will self deport, save us the efforts and the money. And you see that though, these actions were underlying message is if you don't self deport, these are the consequences. The targeting of universities may also. Stifled, the free willing essence of American higher education. According to Jamal, executive Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute of Columbia University, people come from all over the world to study at American universities, in part because there are other people from all around the world. There you get to hear from people with extremely different experiences, life experiences, perspectives and political views, religious views. You know that that's what makes American universities great. Jafa Rat told CNN, I'm gonna interview, interview on her podcast called The Assignment. But if the non-citizens are intimidated from speaking out or participating in public discourse, that has a cost, not just to them, but to the rest of us, I don't know where we need to go from here. My idea is that we just need to speak up more. We need to follow local elections and make sure that the right people get elected into the right positions. This administration gets more powerful the more people bend knee to it. And now the administration is also trying to ask the Supreme Court. That federal judges shouldn't be able to put a pause on his orders. They should not even be able to say anything, which goes to the effect of we have the wheel of checks and balances. And some of you who are out there saying, you know, these governments have too much power. Well, you're looking at one of the biggest power, the federal government now of this administration is probably the powerful. We've ever had. And any Republican government or state government, they're just imbued more. The more the Trump administration gets powerful, the more who align with him become even more bolded to take actions they normally wouldn't be taking. So when we come back, we'll look at your interest rates going up because of Trump's tariffs. Being like, yeah, there's tariffs. They're not tariffs. They're tariffs. They're not. 90 day, 30 day, the nigga doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. We'll be right back. So since the Trump administration has come into power, they are always pressuring the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, which we know that's not how it works. Federal Reserve looks at the economy, looks at, takes a number of things into effect before they lower it, but because there are so many other institutions that are bending their knee to the Trump administration. Trump now believes he has enough power to go after the federal chair to replace the current person, put someone else in there. But is that really how it works? Like could he do that? Let's go into it. So the Federal Reserve was set up by Congress in 1913 as an independent body to isolate. Its from, to isolate itself from political pressures that the president is imposing. This, its mission is to secure stable prices and employment, a mission that sometimes puts it at odds with these short term needs of lawmakers and. Trump were to acquire the power to manipulate interest rates at will through a proxy fed chair or otherwise. He sparked a confusion on the financial markets, buckle confidence in the United States economy, and almost certainly spike inflation. And it would be a further sign that the America's global reputation as a rock of financial stability is quickly eroding in his second term potential market turmoil following wide. While drops and swings in the share crisis since Trump launched this tear war this month maybe one factor in persuading Trump to leave Powell in place. The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that the president has talked about firing Powell. But the senior officials, including the Treasury Secretary Scott ett, have so far taught him out of it. It is greatly accepted in Washington. The lacks power to dismiss board members overseeing independent agencies without cause. The administration is hoping the Supreme Court will overturn a 1935 legal president, in which such assumptions were. Faced Trump growing on contempt for sound governance in its courts and his consent efforts to expand poten. Presidential power on questionable terms means that Powell's future is not certain. This is a white house that acts first in deals with the consequences of potential legality later, but there's a chance that the president is just venting. After all, he repeatedly complained. About Powell's caution during her first term. For bids reported that last year that he ordered Wilbur Ross to call the Fed chair and order him to lower rates, citing the former con commerce Secretary, a memoir. But Trump has also never been so unconstrained in his new administration. He's picked officials who are loathed to temper his wildest in bessett is seen as a. Moderator influence earlier this week, he told Blum Bloomberg that the monetary policy is a jewel box that's got to be preserved, but the Treasury secretary lacks significant political experience and history shows that any sub who, any subordinate who seats to. Rain in the present could soon find themselves fired. You don't agree with them, you're out the door. Uncertainty over pal's Future comes with the economy, reeling from successive shocks over Trump's tariff policy. Especially the 145% duties imposed on Chinese imports, the impact of his hardline approach could soon hit in the form of high prices and shortage of key consumer go goods and other items. While Trump has frozen these tariffs on dozens of countries and says multiple governments are offering trade deals, remains unclear whether he will be able to deliver on his goal of bringing back manufacturing and jobs in. Consumer confidence has maintained while tumbling and companies are struggling to set expectations and budgets for a year ahead, raising more fears that the economy could soon slip into recession, even if Trump doesn't try to dismiss Powell, but simply continues to talk about doing so, he could rattle investors' confidence. This is why most presidents understand interest rate policy. As infuriating as it may often be, it's best left as a independent Fed. Now the economy is already going down the drain. We could hit a recession probably by the end of the year, probably by the end of the summer. In the second term, as it said, he's hired people who loathe him, or I wouldn't even say Loa. And who are at his becking call to do whatever he wants them to do. That's just how it is. That's how he's made his second term. He's not picking people who are actually sound minded, who are going to go by the Constitution and he's gonna pick people who are going to go with him over the constitution. For all of you, and I'm gonna say it again, for all of you who voted, who thought the economy was bad under Biden, who thought the, the economy was bad, now it's worse. So we'll see what happens from here. When we come back, we're just gonna take a short break.'cause we're already about maybe 45 minutes into the podcast. I'll tell you where we're gonna go from here and how you can support the channel as we do our own little project. We'll be right back. At this point, I'm gonna take this off for a second. At this point, I don't know where America goes from here. The only thing I can say right now is that for all of us who are still open-minded, who are understanding the consequences and the impact that the administration is currently having, all we can do is keep speaking out. And I know even that is so dangerous. It has, the freedom of speech doesn't exist because in a MAGA administration and you have, you already, you know, he has control of the house. It, it essentially puts us in a place where we can't say anything, you know, but I, you can't, that that's anti-American. You have to understand that the Constitution is always going to be there. The only people who can put this administration in her place is gonna be people like you and me who are fighting every day to make sure that people know this is not what we voted for. Hell, I did not vote for'em. I told you who I was voting for, and some of you guys still went off and voted for this man thinking that he was gonna make your life amazing. Gas prices are still high. Egg prices are still high. Grocery hell things now that we're getting from, from China or, or Sheen, whatever. It's making it so much harder, all because he believes that it's going to bring jobs back to America when companies and even people who study this say that that would take years to do. It costs millions and millions of dollars to do that. It's not something so easy to pick up Apple and be like, we're gonna take it from China and bring it over to America, because even Apple said that the iPhone would be almost three times the amount that it is now if they brought factories over here to America. My call to action for you. Is to stand up for what's right and fight for our rights that we have. Don't bend a knee to a tyrant or wanna be tyrant. Wanna be king? Don't bend your knee to this administration. That's why we have all these federal judges being like, Nope, that's unconstitutional. You can't do that. We have a checks and balances for a reason. The more the people keep bending the knee, the more people who keep giving in, all it's doing is en, is enhancing his power about what he can do. We haven't even reached a year with this administration and already we're seeing just chaos. We're seeing mass deportations, we're seeing just Tamil essentially from here. But I digress. What I really wanted to tell you is make sure you take care of your mental health. I've stepped away from doing podcasts just because it takes a toll on you. It truly does. And I've started 3D printing. I'm in the era of starting my own 3D business. I wanted something to just take my mind off of it. I, as most of you guys know, I was doing this, I've been doing this for years. I'm even still getting my Bachelor's and associates in political science because I believe there's change there. I believe that I can actually do that change in joining and running for these political offices, but I also have to take care of my mental health. There's no way in hell I'm gonna let this administration bamboozle me. Absolutely not. If you do wanna support the 3D business, I'm gonna leave the YouTube link below. Go ahead and watch the video. As I do my journey of starting a 3D business, I document it and I for people else who, other people who wanna start that journey, we're all learning together. That way you can see what I'm doing when I'm not talking about politics. I'm always still keeping up with politics. I'm just not doing these episodes as weekly as I normally do. Now they come either two weeks to almost a month. I think my last episode was like three months ago. So I'll edit this one, get it out to you guys so you guys can listen to it. We'll put reels on TikTok. That's where you can follow us. You can follow us on TikTok or follow us on Instagram, or I am usually posting on TikTok until then, I wanna thank my loyal fan base who are always listening to these episodes. And sharing them with friends and family and for all the new ones who come in and listen to it as well. Please make sure you take care of your mental health and just take care of you. Understanding that. Go out there, live your life as free as you can, and speak out when you see injustice. Have an open mind. Understanding all points of view. There's gonna be different religions, different perspectives, understand them and make a valid point. Understand there's gonna be issues that we're not gonna be able to solve right now. There are gonna be issues that we are gonna need to have multiple and multiple conversations in order to come to some type of equal footing. Understand that. Understand. And in this economy it's best to support your small businesses'cause they're actually hurting the most. Understanding that you have a voice and you can make a change. So with that being said, be safe. I love you. And may God bless America because Whew, man. Challenging times. Thanks for listening to the last conversation. We'll see you in our next episode. Bye for now.