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Trump is slashing prescription drug prices. Qatar is offering the president luxury jets. The Episcopalians want white people to die in Africa. There's a lot going on. But before we get to any of it, I just need us to savor this video of the new Pope, Leo XIV, snubbing a rainbow flag yesterday. Here is the Holy Father. He's walking in, greeting crowds of people.
He's facing his left side, and then he turns to his right side and he's greeting people, just as there's a rainbow flag. And then right when he gets past the rainbow flag, then he turns back to the left side. Now, technically, I don't think that was even the LGBT LMNOP flag. I think that was an Italian peace flag. But the public certainly would have confused it for the LGBT flag. And the Pope refused to engage with it, which...
Taken with the Pope's choice of name, vestments, use of the Latin language, liturgy, etc., etc. It is making me feel dangerously optimistic. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. The Michael Knowles Show.
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President Trump made big news yesterday with a major policy initiative. He signed an executive order about it, but he really raised eyebrows when he announced the policy initiative by talking about his super fat friend. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a businessman, very, very, very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman, seriously overweight, and he takes the fat
the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said, "President," he used to call me Donald, now he calls me President, so that's nice respect, but he's a rough guy, smart guy, very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how he would know this, but because he's got comments. "President, could I ask you a question?" "What?" "I'm in London, and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take." I said, "It's not working." They said,
He said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I paid $1,300. What the hell is going on? Okay, so the upshot of this story is drug prices in America are high relative to the rest of the world.
That's the thing that Trump is trying to convey here and is conveying very successfully. He could have just said drug prices in America are higher than they are in the rest of the world. But instead he says, I have a friend, very, very fat friend. He's successful, rich, but fat.
fat is he oh he's so fat he's so fat his mama said so he's got this really fat friend you know and he calls me he says hey president that's what he called him the president i don't know if you knew that anyway this is like a norm mcdonald shaggy dog joke this is like a rodney dangerfield bit you know i'll know my doctor dr vinnie wombats and then he says yeah yeah hey president you know i'd take the fat shot excuse me i gotta interrupt it's not working
Why? Why say all of this to introduce an executive order to bring down drug prices, to call attention to a simple fact that drug prices are higher in America than they are in the rest of the world? Because it gets your attention, because it humanizes the issue, because it turns policy wonkery into an image of real world problems. All the Republicans before Trump, they go on,
Well, I think it's very important that we need to reduce the cost of pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmaceutical drugs in the United States can cost sometimes 80%, 100%, sometimes 400% or 500% more than they cost in other developed nations. And so what we're going to do is boring. Who cares? Because I got this friend. He's so fat. Oh, boy, he's so fat. How fat is he? He's so fat. He's got moons orbiting around him. I tell you, I got this friend. So then he gets to the actual executive order.
The executive order says that the pharmaceutical companies must reduce prices 30 to 80% in the United States. How's Trump going to do this? Is this just communism? Is this just a command and control economy? Well, hold on. Let's get into the specifics. Trump says, I will be instituting a most favored nation's policy whereby the United States will pay the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world.
Our country will finally be treated fairly and our citizens' health care costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought before. So I love this language, most favored nation status, because we apply this moniker to different nations around the world for all sorts of different policy initiatives. But Trump is saying, wait, why are we giving other countries more favorable policies than we give to ourselves? Shouldn't we be the most favored nation?
of our own nation. We can favor other nations too, over and above others, but we should be the most favored nation of our own nation, shouldn't we? He says, Big Pharma will either abide by this principle voluntarily or will use the power of the federal government to ensure that we are paying the same price as other countries to accelerate these price restrictions and reductions. So Big Pharma is going to cut prices for American customers
Or we're going to use the government to smash those companies into dirt. Now, how much higher are the prices in America? President Trump yesterday said that some drugs in the U.S. cost 10 times more than they do in other countries. And according to ABC News reporting, this executive order follows Trump's long-held view that the U.S. is subsidizing other countries and not getting enough in return. So not just on drugs, but on trade, on all sorts of things, on the military. So...
What do we make of that claim? That's just true. I mean, I remember studying politics in college and totally null, anodyne, middle-of-the-road kind of people, many of whom don't even like Trump, were teaching me that the United States subsidizes the cost of drugs everywhere in the world because we pay for all the research and development, and then the other guys get to freeload on all of the costs that we pay. So is this a just use of government?
Is this just communism and command and control? And is this going to is a smack in our nose to spite our faces is going to hurt us in the long run? Not necessarily, because the plan does not pressure big pharma just to eat the costs. This is not just a Barack Obama left wing Democrat kind of initiative that tries to pretend that you can pull money out of nowhere.
This executive order is going to force other countries to eat the costs. So it's not this pie-in-the-sky utopian, we can just make money appear out of nowhere. It's saying, no, no, we're going to make money appear out of the other countries.
We're going to stop subsidizing the other countries. Their costs are going to go up. Our costs are going to go down. We're generous. We've been very generous to people all around the world. But maybe we've been a little bit too generous. Maybe we've been a little bit prodigal. Okay. And we need to we need to pull it in a little bit. In principle,
That is totally different from the left-wing, commie, command and control, utopian, we'll just bring all the prices down and there won't have to be any costs to offset that. No, there will be. And the costs will be borne by the other countries. That's Trump's vision. And that's what got him elected. So if you don't like it, take it up with the voters. I've got many more pearls of wisdom to give you. First, though, I want you to go to livemomentous.com, promo code Knowles. While other brands chase trends and flood the market with endless options, Momentous takes a different approach.
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Qatar is offering President Trump, well, is offering the government of the United States, I should say, a luxury jet to be the new Air Force One temporarily because Boeing has taken a really, really long time, way longer than we expected, building the new Air Force Ones. This, we are told, is egregiously corrupt. You're hearing this even by people within America.
the broader MAGA world, even some people who have supported Trump. Now, I think the reason that a lot of people are criticizing this is not so much because it's a plane as because it's coming from Qatar. Because a lot of people don't like Qatar because Qatar sponsors all sorts of bad things around the world. And sometimes Qatar is enemies with nations that other people like and nations that we're allied with. And
They don't want us to have alliances with Qatar, and they want to play this country off that country off this country off that country. And it's all a big geopolitical game, and it's not really about the plane. However, there is a legitimate question. I don't think it's much of a concern, but it's a legitimate question about Qatar.
the propriety of the United States government accepting a big gift from a foreign country. Does that come with strings attached? Is this Qatar buying influence? Is this corrupt? The way the deal would work here is the plane would be Air Force One, so the U.S. would kind of refit it, slap some new paint on it, make it Air Force One. And then before the end of President Trump's term,
the plane would be donated to the Trump presidential library. So now the alarm bells are really going off. You're saying this is corrupt. Trump's just giving himself a luxury private jet worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Here's Trump's take on it. What do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you? Why not leave it? You see fake news, right? It's only only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you.
You should be embarrassed to ask him that question. They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us, I want to pay you a billion or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, there was an old golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear of him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer. And he had a motto, when they give you a putt,
You say, thank you very much. You pick up your ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on putting it. Then they put it and they miss it. And their partner gets angry at him. You know what? Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you say, thank you very much. That's great advice. That is some of the best political advice I've heard Trump give, you know,
I think Trump has done a tremendous job in both of his terms as president. He's done a tremendous job reshaping the Republican Party. Sometimes when he's articulating what he's doing, it's less persuasive than when he's just doing what he's doing. But there, I think he's articulating it absolutely perfectly. So as you people, you're wringing your hands over this free plane. You know, when you're on the course and someone gives you a putt, say thank you and move on. Just move on. What's the fear here?
Well, the fear for some people is that Qatar is going to buy influence with Trump. Will it? I don't know if that's true. Because look at how Trump works with his enemies and with his friends. I'm talking on the geopolitical stage. I'm talking about people like Xi Jinping. I'm talking about people like Zelensky. I'm talking about people like Netanyahu. I'm talking about Vladimir Putin. I'm talking about Kim Jong-un. I'm talking about all of these people. Trump, he has enemies, he has friends, and then sometimes...
He's really nice to some of his enemies, tries to get a deal done. He calls Kim Jong-un a fat rocket man who's got a little button that doesn't work. And he's really mean to him. And then he goes out and has an in-person meeting. He's really tight with Netanyahu in Israel. He's got a town named after him in Israel. And then when Israel's not doing what Trump wants him to do, Israel goes on its own. He's polite and respectful to Putin. Then he cuts a minerals deal in Ukraine.
drives Putin up a wall because it means that the United States is going to continue to back Ukraine. I don't think you can really buy Trump off with a private jet. In fact, I don't think Donald Trump needs a private jet. He's been flying on a 747 for his entire adult life. I think the guy's got money. All right.
And then furthermore, there's this claim that, well, Trump is going to keep the plane after he leaves office, and that's the height of corruption. He's not going to keep the plane when he leaves office. The plane will be donated to the Trump Presidential Library, just like happened at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. There's an Air Force One in the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. If you haven't been, I strongly recommend you go. It's very cool. You can go on tours. It's a big, beautiful presidential library. As Trump pointed out, it's one of the reasons that the library is so successful.
Do you think that Trump, just at a very practical level, Qatar gives the United States a plane worth, by the way, upwards of $2 billion. Trump actually undersold it there. It's not that it's really worth $2 billion, but it's worth it to us because we pay almost $2 billion per Air Force One jet made by Boeing, even though it takes way too long to make it. So the United States gets $2 billion essentially for free. They slap the pant all over it. It says Air Force One on it now.
That Air Force One is then donated to the Trump Presidential Library. Do you think Donald Trump is going to be privately flying around on a plane that is Air Force One? He can't do that. That's not going to happen. They're going to park it at the library and make it a big attraction and make the library a big success. I just can't get riled up about this. I understand why some people are getting riled up. They're getting riled up because they hate Qatar.
And they don't want Qatar to have influence. They want other countries to have influence, but not Qatar. Okay, fair enough. That's fine. We're all playing different geopolitical games. If we prefer this alliance and not that alliance, we want to cozy up to Saudi Arabia. No, we want to cozy up to Iran. No, we actually want to appease this guy or that guy, whatever. I get it. But please do not relieve yourself on my leg and tell me it's raining. Please don't tell me this is about the U.S. government getting a free airplane. It's clearly not about that. Now,
Speaking of foreign affairs, Trump has just announced a marvelous policy through his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, to accept refugees. Now you'd say, hold on, haven't we accepted enough refugees? No, no, not the kind of refugees that the Democrats talk about. Not the economic migrants who are abusing our refugee system by claiming political persecution where there is none. No, no, we're talking about Afrikaners in South Africa.
These are the white people who are targeted by their government, the government which chants, kill the boa, kill the fama, shoot to kill, shoot, shoot, shoot. These are people who are actually fleeing murder and rape. Small number of people. Trump is going to admit them. And Stephen Miller articulates why.
What's happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created. This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case race. So this is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty, and historically it has been used that way. Wherever there's global poverty or wherever there's dysfunctional governments, then the U.S. refugee program comes in,
swoops people up, relocates them to America, and you have multi-generational problems. Even into the second and third generation, you have endemic poverty, you have crime issues, you have integration issues. The U.S. refugee program in America has been a catastrophic failure. I mean, if you look, for example, at the Twin Cities area, just in terms of markers of educational outcomes, in terms of
public safety, in terms of welfare use. I mean, it's been a complete public policy failure. And so this is an example of the president returning the refugee program to what it was intended to be used as. So simple enough, right? He's saying, no, no, it's not that the United States is opposed to taking in refugees. We take in a lot of them. It's just that the program has been abused to classify economic migrants as refugees, and they're not that.
The point of the refugee program is to help people who are seriously being persecuted in a systematic way by their government to get them out of those countries and give them a chance in small numbers. Okay, this totally checks the boxes, but there's this big problem. The Afrikaners are white. That's the big problem. And the libs don't want to come right out and say it, but the libs only want to take in brown immigrants. They don't want to take in white immigrants.
And they even only want to take in brown refugees. They don't want to take in white refugees. The white refugees can be murdered. They can be raped. They can be slaughtered. That's totally fine. White people bad, brown people good. Two legs bad, four legs good. That's what they are saying. Some are saying it more explicitly than others, including the Episcopal Church, the preeminent mainline Protestant church in America, WASP, Old Blue Blood Central, the Episcopal Church,
would rather stop helping refugees entirely than have to help white refugees from South Africa. According to Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, quote, just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa, whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.
In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of South Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. government. How many people are we talking about here? 49 people. Not 49 million. Not 49,000. 49 Afrikaners.
whose lives are threatened, who face rape and murder in South Africa, landed at Dulles Airport, and the Episcopal Church would rather stop helping all refugees than be forced to help even 49 white people threatened with murder. What's the total number in South Africa? 70,000 people. 70,000 people applying for refugee resettlement. How many do we take in per year?
We take in millions and millions of foreign nationals per year, most of them illegal. That has stopped now under Trump. But under Biden, millions of illegals per year, unvetted, run by the drug cartels, murderers, rapists, drug dealers, fentanyl peddlers. But 49 people, at most 70,000 white people from South Africa facing murder. Sorry, that's too much.
The left just hates white people. What other conclusion am I supposed to come to? I think it's as simple as that. They just hate white people. They hate white people. All this talk about the rights of the migrants and the refugees and the international treaties that allow people to seek asylum. It's all fake. It's all bunk. They don't believe a word of it. They just hate white people. I shouldn't laugh. It's really sad. But at least we know the terms of the game here.
And I'm not even just talking about the political operative libs who think that they're going to get more in the long run electorally out of a Guatemalan immigrant than out of an African immigrant. I'm not even just talking about the cold hard political operators. I'm talking about the left wing NGOs and the organizations that purport to be churches that run migration services. The Episcopalian Church just hates white people. Funny because the Episcopalian Church is whiter than the freshly driven snow. So it's a bunch of self-hating white people.
But that's it. That's all it comes down to. I think the next hymn, the next recessional you're going to hear at your Episcopalian service, they go, Paul, please rise for the recessional. Kill the boy. Shoot to kill. Shoot, shoot, shoot. Really disturbing stuff. If not so horrifying, it would be hilarious. Stop what you're doing. Pull over. We will get back to more.
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freddie o'connell is whining about federal immigration enforcement operations going on here in the city this is a tough moment and i am heartbroken that today many of our neighbors in nashville are experiencing fear over family separation rather than the safety we all deserve
The trauma inflicted on families is long-lasting and I'm doing everything in my power consistent with applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home. What's clear today is that people who do not share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harms. Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. MMPD officers are not ICE.
What's clear is that federal and state authorities are intent on enforcing immigration law. Their approach is not our understanding of what a Nashville for all of us looks like. And we're grateful to our community partners who make all of our residents feel welcome. We'll be launching a new fund called the Belonging Fund. All right, whatever. Forget about him. Forget about him. What's clearer... What's clearer is that some people...
don't really care. They don't share our view of keeping Nashville safe. So they're going to arrest all these criminals. Now, we think the way you keep Nashville safe is by having the criminals running amok. But Trump and the federal government, they think the way that you keep the city safe is by arresting the criminals. So I guess it's just a difference of opinion. Yeah, I guess it is. I guess it is. But he's right that Nashville has absolutely no authority to stop this.
And in some ways, I think he's speaking in this, you know, downer kind of way because he wants to save face with his liberal voting base while recognizing the broader electoral trends show most people want the mass deportations. That's what they voted for. This is, you know, I mean, there's really, we have no authority here. This government is just intent on enforcing immigration law.
You remember when we were told that democracy is sacred and no one is above the law and this is a nation of laws, not a nation of men. Remember when the Libs were prattling on about that? And now they're whining, they're complaining on the brink of tears because the government has the temerity to enforce the law. Now, this is sad. It actually is sad because there are going to be some people who are rounded up by ICE who are very sympathetic people.
I keep joking that the people ISIS is going after right now are face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters. That is true. But there could come a time when the ICE raids go after just illegal aliens, people who came here illegally, so they did commit a pretty serious crime, but they don't rob liquor stores, and they don't murder, and they don't rape, and they don't pillage. They're just kind of minding their own business, but they're here illegally. And some of them are going to be sympathetic figures.
And it's actually okay to feel sad for some of them when they get deported or when they have the misfortune of living next to MS-13 or something. So they get lumped in with them too and they're deported. That is sad. It is sad that Democrats put them in this position.
It is sad that Democrats at the local level, mayors of cities all the way up to Joe Biden as president, Kamala Harris as vice president. It's sad that they encouraged these people to come into America illegally, put them in a precarious position because the Democrats believed with justification that doing so would give them a permanent electoral majority. It's sad that now those people are facing the consequences of the thing the Democrats encouraged them to do. That's that's it. I feel sorry for them.
I do. What do you want me to do? What do you want me to do about it? I didn't do that. I didn't encourage you to come here. I didn't encourage you to break the law. I didn't insinuate that the law would not be enforced against you. I didn't try to override the Constitution with things like executive amnesty. I didn't do any of that. The Democrats did that. You're upset about the deportations? Blame them. They're the ones who did it. They're the ones who created the problem. We're the ones fixing the problem. Now, speaking of Democrat presidents...
We have the second Democrat presidential campaign out of the cycle. The first one was from AOC. The second one airing on NBC News, some local affiliate in California. Look at this familiar face. It's school backpacks. In a few months, it'll be Christmas toys. These tariffs punish families and risk ending America's run as the world's greatest economy. Take it from California. We're the ones leading it.
We're the ones leading it. CaliforniaFacts.com. Now, this is not technically a presidential campaign ad. This is the governor of California who raised a bunch of money, got a bunch of money out of the state to effectively kickstart a presidential campaign, though in principle it was just to defend California against the predations of the federal government under Trump. It's really just a way to kickstart his campaign. He is airing this ad for...
Two reasons to carve out turf and to reserve donor money in the eventual presidential race. That's really what it's about. He doesn't need to raise awareness about California. He's not fighting any particular lawsuit with the Trump administration right now. This is about carving out some turf and keeping donor money on the side until he announces a PAC or a campaign so that he can accept that money. But the race has already started. That's what AOC was doing, too.
And actually, we played Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC. We played her on the show yesterday saying that the Democrat donors were already really, really excited about a certain white boy. Not a woman, not a person of color, and they're obviously talking about Gavin Newsom. Now, Newsom having this space right now does not necessarily bode well for him. I remember I was having dinner with a very successful Democrat back in 2016.
And he said, Michael, all the smart money is on Jeb Bush. I don't think so. Oh, yeah, Michael, all the really rich donors, they got their money on Jeb. Obviously, it did not work out very well. But right now, Gavin Newsom is carving out that space. Sometimes it works, as in the case of Mitt Romney, who was the front runner basically for the entire 2012 race. Sometimes it doesn't work like Jeb Bush, but it's on. Right now, the race is between Gavin Newsom and AOC.
Many others will join in. Now, speaking of incoherence, there is a story just popped up in Sky News. It says, could AI translate animal sounds into words? Tech experts hope so. The proposed system hopes to use AI to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into language. Will you be able to talk to your cat? We'll get to that in one second. First, though, I want to tell you about...
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It was the producers. So if it's a bad one, blame them. But if it's a good one, thank me for having trained them. This is from Blood Splatter Artist, who says, Pope's unearthed comments alarm LGBT Catholics is like saying his comments alarm adulterous Catholics. That's true. Yeah, it's exactly like that. His comments alarm...
alternately sinful or heretical Catholics. Yeah, wow. Who knew? Who knew, man? Okay, can you talk to your cat? Are you about to be able to talk to your cat? A Chinese tech company has revealed it is exploring whether it's possible to use AI to translate animal sounds into human language. It's not. Spoiler alert, it's not. You see these articles pop up a fair bit, and especially with this new rise of AI, this new technological revolution, it's really...
You've got to give credit where credit's due. Klaus Schwab in the World Economic Forum, much maligned and mostly rightly so, did call the moment that we're living in a fourth industrial revolution.
The first industrial revolution was, you know, the mechanization of industry. Then you added to that the assembly line, electricity. Then you added to that another industrial revolution, the third industrial revolution of data. And now we're in the fourth industrial revolution, which is AI, quantum computing, and the melding of biology and technology. We're all going to get chips in our head, that kind of stuff. So...
It does appear that we're in that moment. In fact, tying this all the way back to the first story of the day, the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, says that he chose the name Leo in part because we appear to be living through another industrial revolution. And just as Leo XIII, his predecessor, addressed the problems faced by mankind by the first industrial revolution, so too he's going to help us understand these. Well,
Just as with all of the big technological revolutions, certain people are developing utopian visions because they don't understand how human nature really works. No amount of AI will allow you to talk to your cat because your cat is not capable of language. And notice here the little sleight of hand in the description. The proposed system hopes to use AI to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into language.
But language does not merely communicate emotional states. If language, not language, but sounds can communicate emotional states. For instance, if I'm really happy, I might sound like this. If I'm really upset, I might sound like this. That's not language. That's grunting. That's screaming. That's crying. That's
shouting. It's not language. Animals can already do that. Language is this. Language is in the Bacchae, Euripides tells us that if you talk sense to a fool, he'll call you foolish. That's language. Language is justice means giving to each what he deserves. That's language. Language communicates through signs and symbols.
rational ideas. Animals cannot do that. You can outfit them with every computer on earth, the most super duper grok 4.0 AI. They will not be able to do that. That's not what they do. So the best that this kind of thing could propose, or could really achieve rather, is to say that it will translate a pet's emotional state so that when the pet goes, ah,
the AI will pop out and say, I'm angry or I'm sad. But that's a translation in the sense that you're actually totally transforming what's really going on in the minds of your pet.
But this is also part of the real impulse of the fourth industrial revolution, the AI age, which is to make ourselves into gods. Most clearly articulated by Yuval Harari, the left-wing writer, maybe most famous for talking about this, who wrote a book called Homo Deus, God-Man. We will transcend Homo sapiens, we'll become God, and we'll give our dumb creatures even the ability to speak. Ain't gonna happen, buster.
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Now, speaking of conversations, the U.S. and China appear to be on the brink of a trade deal.
So last week, Scott Besson floated that just coincidentally, the US and China were going to sit down and try to work out this trade issue that has caused global markets to be convulsing for weeks.
The world has been coming to the U.S. and China has been the missing piece. I was going to be in Switzerland to negotiate with the Swiss. Turns out the Chinese team is traveling through Europe and they will be in Switzerland also. So we will meet on Saturday and Sunday. And, you know, look, we have shared interest that the U.S.
This isn't sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side. And, you know, 145 percent, 125 percent is the equivalent of an embargo. We don't want to decouple. What we want is fair trade. So it's clear. Besson couldn't be clearer. He says, no, no, no, we don't want to decouple. We don't want an endless trade war. We don't want the markets going up and down forever. We just want a better trade deal.
Now, news reports are out that the talks went pretty well and the U.S. and China are going to be announcing a trade deal very shortly. I don't know the details of it. I know that you're going to have partisans fighting over who won the trade war.
yeah, Trump really forced Xi Jinping to the table and now we got a better deal for the American people. That's going to be one side. The other side is going to say, ah, Trump backed away from most of what he was asking for and actually it was all useless because the evaporation of wealth in a short period of time, we didn't really get that many concessions at. The whole thing would have been better if we hadn't done anything in the first place. All right, fine. Duke it out. I don't care. That's the usual kind of partisan bickering. Politically speaking, what matters about this is
If a trade deal is done and satisfactory and the markets like it and everything goes back to a new normal, that means that the market volatility very likely will be a dead issue. The fact that markets have been roiled since Trump's liberation day in the beginning of all these tariffs has caused a market correction, that's true, but everyone expected a market correction before Trump got elected. Everyone thought the market was overvalued to begin with. Everyone was expecting some kind of downturn, if not an outright recession.
which certainly would hurt Trump and the Republicans in the midterm elections and maybe in the 2020 presidential election. So the political analysis on all this is, it is entirely possible, assuming this trade deal gets worked out and the markets like it, that the market volatility will be a dead issue in six months. If that is the case, what are the Democrats going to run on? What is the big issue for the midterm elections? Immigration? No, everyone loves Trump's immigration policy.
Um, the economy, if the, if the market volatility is a dead issue, then I'm going to run on that one. Uh, healthcare, that was always a big one for Democrats. Maybe that, oh, except Trump is bringing down drug prices 30 to 80% by forcing big pharma to force other countries to, to stop getting a free ride. Will it be foreign affairs? The American people seem to prefer Trump's approach to the big conflicts, Ukraine and Russia, Israel, Gaza. Um,
than they do to the Democrats. So what are they going to run on? You know what they're going to run on? They're going to run on Trump accepted an airplane on behalf of the US government from Qatar or whatever. What are they going to run on? They have nothing. They have absolutely nothing. That could be a very good sign. I know there's going to be all sorts of, but what about the economics of it? What about the substance of the trade? Yeah, I'm just looking at it politically. Looking at this politically,
The White House has played its hand almost perfectly. A good position to be in. That's not bad at all. So we can all whine, but no, but actually, but if you think about it, no, but why this isn't, Mitt Romney wouldn't approve of that. Yeah, whatever. See ya. Doesn't matter. We're looking pretty, as of now, as I said at the top of the show, I know it's very untrad, very unconservative to not constantly believe that the world is about to collapse. But as of right now, I'm feeling dangerously optimistic. Today is Tee Hee Hee Tuesday.
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