Trade War: Will Trump's Aggressive Tariffs Pay Off? We debate USAID, and DNC Election Is Peak Comedy
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🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Trump said the magic word: tariffs, and the other countries jumped to comply. Does this mean no more avocados? He also froze US aid – cruelty or capability? The DNC met to vote on their chair – all that DEI talk and two white men take the throne – and during black history month too! All this and more on the LOOPcast!
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00:00 – Welcome back to the LOOPcast!
00:37 – The magic word: TARIFFS
23:40 – US Aid freeze
30:00 – Purge the DEI
39:20 – Panama canal splits with China
41:35 – DNC chair for dessert
56:45 – Twilight Zone
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And we're live. Welcome back to Loopcast. Today, joined by Erica and Josh. |
| 0:03.4 | Warm welcome to everyone here in the chat. We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:06.3 | We're going to talk a little trade war. I said we're going to debate USAID. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm not sure where we all fall on this. I'm probably on the extreme end of it. |
| 0:13.3 | And then we get a little dessert at the end of this episode of what's going on as the DNC regroups after a big loss. |
| 0:21.5 | Spoiler, I don't think they learned many lessons. |
| 0:23.7 | Yeah, they're building back, not better. |
| 0:26.4 | Yeah, you could say. |
| 0:28.1 | But big headlines everywhere. |
| 0:30.2 | Trump's crazy. |
| 0:30.9 | He's starting a trade war. |
| 0:32.6 | Trump has promised 25% tariffs on both Mexico and Canada. |
| 0:36.9 | Again, a little bit of a spoiler. |
| 0:38.2 | Mexico's already caved. |
| 0:39.9 | They already said that they would acquiesce the demands. |
| 0:42.1 | We can get into that in a second. |
| 0:43.8 | But the major reasons, I think we're summarized by this J.D. Vance clip in this interview, |
| 0:49.0 | and then we can get into it right after. |
| 0:51.2 | So go ahead and share the screen. |
| 0:56.4 | Trump is really smart. He has his apprentice go out there and talk to the media. All right, here we go. This whole idea |
| 1:01.6 | that they're going to retaliate is they have already been taking advantage of America for |
| 1:06.7 | decades. The retaliation is Donald Trump saying no more. We're not going to be taken advantage |
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