America on Edge: Political Violence, Race Narratives, and the Future of Economic Stability

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Impact Theory

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🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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0:00.0	A woman is stabbed to death by a literal madman and race rights break out on X.
0:05.0	The Fed has seemingly lost control of the ability to control interest rates.
0:09.0	You're not going to want to miss that.
0:11.0	Israel bombs Qatar and Trump is not happy.
0:14.0	Russia claims crypto is just the U.S. is plan to export more inflation,
0:20.0	and they're not necessarily wrong.
0:21.6	PBD goes on Jubilee in Capitalist versus 20 anti-capitalists.
0:26.6	An MIT tech company has made mental telepathy real,
0:31.6	and an AI studio backed by OpenAI is set to launch their first animated feature in 2026.
0:39.3	Things are looking crazy.
0:42.3	We just found out Charlie Kirk has passed. He's no longer with this. He has died after the result of the shooting at UVU.
0:50.3	This is a moment where I think people are going to react incredibly strongly.
0:57.0	And I would urge everybody to isolate what happened, to not look at it as being this is the entire left versus the right.
1:07.2	This was a gunman who unfortunately became convinced that he saw things more clearly than anybody else and that he had to take action to save his vision of the country and make it about that person and this horrifying tragedy don't make things worse by seeing it as that team has tried to kill my team.
1:34.6	Because once we make it about the teams, that's where things will really escalate, escalate, escalate, and people will feel like they need to get theirs back.
1:43.1	And this is how this really spirals out of control.
1:47.2	So we've got to let the justice system do its work, give this person due process.
1:54.5	And hopefully, instead of responding to this tragedy as a call to arms that we see this as that warning of like
2:06.1	this will only get worse and if history is anything moments like this where somebody is fatally
2:14.9	shot often sparks that huge violent reaction.
2:20.0	And all that will do is guarantee the size of the tragedy is magnified a thousandfold.
2:27.5	And so recognizing this moment as that call to find a path back to each other.
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