Ep. 254 China Can Have It
Kump
Ray Kump
4.8 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Ray covers Trump’s trip to China, the closed Strait of Hormuz, rising inflation, AI chips, Taiwan, fake data centers, LinkedIn layoffs, IRL streamers, and the future of war.
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| 0:00.0 | The street of our moves remains closed, and the price tag for the war we never knew we wanted |
| 0:06.1 | is sending inflation soaring. |
| 0:09.1 | LinkedIn laid off close to a thousand workers, because I guess they're not bullish on the whole |
| 0:14.4 | people having jobs thing. |
| 0:17.5 | Americans need a win, and our leaders need to buy time while they figure out where to dump our bodies. |
| 0:24.6 | And so, like a man crawling back to his wife after his mistress sets his car on fire, President Trump went to China this week. |
| 0:34.1 | He brought the CEOs of Black Rock, Navidia, and many other vultures, hoping to make some deals, |
| 0:40.3 | and to convince China to leverage their lack of fear of non-existent Iranian nukes to help end the war on favorable terms. |
| 0:49.3 | And the summit went so well at the Dow plummeted 500 points. |
| 0:59.9 | All of this is enough to give you pause and wonder if we're going to be okay. |
| 1:02.3 | But Americans are resilient. |
| 1:04.9 | It takes a lot to keep us down. |
| 1:13.9 | The young people of today are making up for a lack of hope or opportunity with grit and determination and a bit of moxie. IRL streamers are roaming the streets with modems in their backpacks, chips on their |
| 1:20.7 | shoulders, and guns in their hands. These angry young men are the spiritual successors of |
| 1:26.7 | Pat Sejack and Ryan Seacrest, |
| 1:29.7 | and the streets are their wheel of fortune. |
| 1:32.7 | The price is not right, but we still have to pay. |
| 1:37.2 | Get rich or overdose trying. |
| 1:41.1 | Welcome to Kump. |
| 1:42.7 | Here is President Trump. |
| 1:43.8 | He's showing up in China. |
| 1:45.3 | President G is showing him his various soldiers and children with flowers. |
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