Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that are shaping our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show

on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126.

When we first began this podcast journey together, you may recall that I told you that

we had to spend some segments focusing on establishing

a common understanding, a common language.

For example, when it comes to the discussions I have on my radio show, we already know what

it means when we're talking about white Christian nationalism.

We have a definition for white supremacy. We know what it is to break apart

the distinctions between diversity, equity, and inclusion. And it's opposite, which focuses on a

world where the only qualifications one has to have is to essentially be white, entitled,

and or incompetent. So having done that and really gotten on the

same page about some concepts and phrases and language, now it's time for us to move into what this

podcast is really all about. Breaking down what's happening in our world today with an analysis

that hopefully will inspire us to do what we can in order to make this a better

world. Are you ready? Let's get into it. We are in the midst of what feels like an economic

disaster in the making. Unfortunately for Americans, it's an economic disaster that American policy

is making. We heard this week on so-called Liberation

Day where Donald Trump on April 2nd basically put tariffs on the entire world, except Russia,

of course, but on the entire rest of the non-Russian world, so much so that y'all, he even

had tariffs issued as against volcanoes that don't actually

have human beings, don't actually have people on them, no living beings beyond penguins

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