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Jack Posobic
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Donald Trump
I don't want anything to go down but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something. Now we have hundreds of billions of dollars is pouring into our country on a monthly basis. It's pouring, it's already started because they put tariffs on and eventually it's going to straighten out and our country will be solid and strong again.
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Jack Posobic
I got a report from the USTR last that more than 50 countries have reached out to the President to begin.
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Scott Besant
A negotiation Republican controlled Senate approved budget framework that includes a multi trillion dollar track breaks and spending cuts. 51 lawmakers voted in favor of the plan that focuses on defense, immigration, energy and tax policy changes. The plan would allow for more than $5 trillion worth of tax cuts and would also raise the debt limit in the US by 5 trillion in 2020.
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Unknown Commentator
The hedge fund Bro Bros were almost all Covid lockdowners. They wanted the economy shut down. They had a panic attack over Covid because they're so fragile and lack any kind of spiritual dimension. Why was it okay to destroy small business? Because you were so afraid of COVID But now when it comes to tariffs and your precious little portfolios are down, you expect us to view you as as good faith actors, right?
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Jack Posobic
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live in A rainy Washington D.C. today is April 7, 2025 Anno Domini. We are told that President Trump is now meeting live with Bibi Netanyahu. We are going to be going to that momentarily to take it direct from, direct from the individuals who are meeting right now in the East Room of the White House. Okay. And so this shot that we're actually showing is, is not live. So we are going, we are going to hold off on that until it takes place. And so we know that the meeting is going to be coming up soon. We know certainly tariffs will be discussed. We know that this has been the first time. Israel, of course, was the first country that came in and said that they would drop all tariffs on American goods. Why did Israel have tariffs on American goods to begin with? We know that we have this alliance. We know that we have this situation going on. And so we want to know when will the other countries follow suit? President Trump's tariffs, of course, working together with the baseline 10% tariffs around the entire country. And yet when you look at it, folks, it's time, it's time for all this to take place. It was time for this to happen. President Trump talked about it on the campaign trail ad nauseum. He said there will be tariffs. He was very clear about this. Tariffs and deportations. Tariffs and deportations. Why? Because America's immigration policy had gotten out of control and America's trade policy had gotten out of control. And so what was the way to fix that, in a sense, actually fixed both of them. But that's, that's another much deeper rabbit hole. The point being is deportations to fix immigration tariffs to rebalance and fix trade. And here's the thing, boys and girls, this is about Wall Street. This is about the average American. This is about the working class finally getting a bailout of their own. The bottom 50% people that Trump said he was going to vote, he was going to work for so he could get their votes. That's what this is all about. And that is what we are going to fight for and continue to fight for. We've got it up@humanvents.com you can check it out right now because Trump just canceled. Trump just reset. The great reset. America first truly means. Welcome to the second American Revolution. All right, Jack WSopic we are back live here, Human Events Daily, Washington D.C. folks want to also bring in hour three of the Charlie Kirk show on the Salem Radio Network. Well, folks, you've heard me talk about my patriots apply because I trust them when it comes to my family's well being. And I just got word they're doing something they've never done before. Right now you can get the best selling mega 3 month emergency food supply for the same price as the standard kit. That's more than $360 of real beef, real chicken, plus farm fresh fruits and vegetables included, no extra charge. Even better, this kit now gives you 2500 calories a day, more than any other emergency food supply that I've seen. And let's be honest, when things go sideways, you're going to need more than just survival. You need strength, you need energy. You need real food. This kit will be there when you need it, stays fresh for up to 25 years, and it ships fast and discreetly. So if you've been waiting for the right time, this is it. Go to my Patriotsupply.com and claim your mega kit while this offer lasts. That my, that's my patriotsupply.com my patriotsupply.com all right. As we await for President Trump and his his meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, they're going to be holding a press conference very soon. Hopefully we get some word about a peace process going forward between Israel and Gaza. Netanyahu just arriving at the West Wing minutes ago. Were told that the president is having lunch with Netanyahu as we speak. We'll wait for that East Room conference to begin and we'll take it as soon as we can live. We're told it should be within 10 minutes time. Up at humanevents.com, there's a new editorial that's out called Human Trump just reset the great reset. The golden age is on the other side. And this started this morning because myself and other members of the editorial team were looking at all of this and saying people are looking at the situation in a vacuum and this needs to stop. And in fact, this needs to change for people to understand why this deal is taking place now, why this trade policy is going in now, why the tariffs are coming now, and why President Trump is enacting what we call the Great Deal. Why is the Great Deal necessary? Well, it's very simple. All right, let's go through some of it. Trump has ignited one of the most urgent economic battles of the 21st century with his baseline 10% and reciprocal tariff policy on top of that. What does it mean? Means prioritizing American workers and families over billionaires and bankers. While markets are heaving and Democrats are wailing, the American working class may finally see some relief. Instead of exporting jobs and importing cheap goods, the US May start importing jobs and exporting goods made by American labor. Wow. American labor. What a concept. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was recently on a TUCKER CARLSON INTERVIEW and we of course had him on this program as well. And he said that the top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt. They have credit card bills, they rent their homes, they have auto loans. And we've got to give them some relief. And if you read my book, UN Humans the Secret History of Communist Revolutions, crush them. What did we talk about? Well, we talked about extreme wealth concentration. And unfortunately, in the United States, after the events of 2008, and of course, Covid in 2020, that's the situation that we now have in the United states. The top 1% holds a disproportionate share of the wealth, around 30% of total net worth, while the bottom 50% only owns about 2 to 3%. Now this. What does this mirror? The stark divides in czarist Russia, where a tiny aristocracy controlled vast estates and resources, and imperial China, where landowning elites and the imperial court dominated wealth, leaving peasants in abject poverty. Well, what happened in those situations? You got a little dose of Vladimir Lenin and Chairman Mao. You got the Bolshevik Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party revolution in China. Now, there's all sorts of things that we can discuss about how those took place. The funding from overseas that certainly backed the Bolsheviks, perhaps looking the other way, that was done by the, by the Americans and by the Allies post World War II. But this isn't about that. What we're talking about are the fundamental conditions for that type of, of anger, that sentiment. Why do you think the Luigi left is out there right now? Why do you think that Tesla dealers are being bombed and targeted for firebombing? Why do you think Carmelo Anthony is up to what? 160. I'll check his give sending right now. 160. No. 170. 173. There you go. I had to hit refresh. $173,000. You think all of this is done because of, you know, just, just, just some random stuff that they read in college? No, no. It is cultural Marxism, and there's a lot of economics driving it. Now, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll put an aside that the Carmelo Anthony situation is not necessarily economics driven, but I would say that it's a function of it. Let me explain. Because we're living now in a situation where people in the lower 50% are angry. The middle has been completely eroded in this country. It's fallen out. And Ambassador Lighthizer has talked about this as well. Look, we know that productivity has gained in the United States over the last few decades, but real wages for the working class have barely budged since the 1970s. And that means while executive pay and investment income from the rich have absolutely soared again. 2008, who got a bailout? Wall Street. 2020. Who got a bailout? Wall Street. And what did you get told? You got told that you had to be in lockdown, you got told that your school had to shut down, that you had to put on masks, that you had to get vaccinated. All this stuff, by the way, many of which was supported by the same Covidians who are now totally against the tariff policy and totally reaped the benefits of the massive money printing that went in. Funny how that works in 2020. So what did we see? Well, this is similar to what a place that you might call Tsarist Russia, where in Tsarist Russia, the serfs and laborers saw no share of economic growth. In Imperial China, peasants faced crushing taxes and rents which enriched the gentry. Now, a lot of this came as a result of the Industrial Revolution, the first wave of communist upright uprisings. So you have a massive technological or industrial revolution. It leads to wealth concentration, which then, if not properly dealt with, leads to massive uprisings. It's also happened in France, it's happened in Spain. Go through the rest. In our book on humans, you can get copies, by the way, we sold out. We've been selling so many copies of this thing. We sold out of signed copies over the weekend. You can go to unhumans book.com right now. You can get a signed copy or just go to Amazon. They have it audible, the audiobook, whatever. That's not the point. The point is you need to understand that this is a massive driver for communist recruitment and communist activity. We talk about this in chapter 13 of the book. So I'll just give it to you for free. In chapter 13 of the book, we go through various case studies in the United States and how did the United States avoid this type of destabilization? Well, the United States avoided this type of destabilization because we actually had people like Teddy Roosevelt come in other entrepreneurs. We walked through the National Cash Register Company and their story out of Dayton, Ohio, Ohio, John Patterson. And what did they do? They started listening to the workers. They started saying, hey, maybe we can find some ways to actually make your lives have better conditions. Maybe we can give you the weekend, maybe give you an eight hour workday, a five day work week. John Patterson at the National Cash register company said, how about we actually put some windows on the factory so we can let some light in, Then you open the window and maybe to even have some airflow from time to time, Wouldn't that be something? You have to realize that's how bad things were in the late 1800s, early 1900s in this country. So when all of those policies came in and after the policy shifts happened, the economics got better, conditions got better for workers, and guess what? There was no massive uprising in the United States like that. So the question is, which would you, which do you want? Do you want Main street to finally get a piece of the pie? Do you want the American people to stop being forgotten and hollowed and lost out? Or do you want the Luigi's and the Carmelo's and the Tesla terrorists to be the ones that show a completely different path for the American people to walk down? Because I'm telling you, in this bottom 50%, they want an answer and they're tired of waiting. We'll be right back. Human Events daily.
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Donald Trump
You know they talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine. By Jack. Where's Jack? Jack. He's got a great job.
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Jack Posobic
All right, Jack, here we are back Human events daily, Washington D.C. and we're talking about how tariffs have historically been used in America to stave off class warfare and to stave off problems of wealth inequality. And by the way, no, I'm not talking about President Trump. I'm talking about someone over 100 years ago who dealt with the same situation during the Industrial Revolution. And his name was President William McKinley. That's right. There's a reason that President Trump is constantly talking about William McKinley. See, when William McKinley was the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, McKinley himself spearheaded something called, listen to this, the Tariff act of 1890, which raised duties on imports to an average of nearly 50%. What did they do? The goal was to shield U.S. manufacturers from foreign competition, particularly in industries like steel, textiles and tin. By making imported goods more expensive, domestic producers could thrive, which increased jobs and wages. This was basic protectionism. In order to help deal with with the working class stabilized their employment. That which was a group that was squeezed by the rapid industrialization think automation AI and the low wage foreign labor. So the tariffs intent was to give that breathing room to raise profit margins for American industries which could then support higher wages. For example, industries like steel saw growth and real wages for unskilled workers rose, oh my gosh, by 50% between 1869 and 1899. A period which overlapped with what? Oh, the high tariff policies. Now that doesn't mean it was wealth redistribution. What it means was that it lifted the economic floor for the laborers, which reduced the disparity. So yes, you still had your industrialists and you had your working class, but what did it do for the working class incomes? It greatly improved them. Now, before the income tax, by the way, the income tax didn't even exist when tariffs first started, started to get going. This was the original primary revenue source of the United States. Now what the McKinley tariff did was adjust the current deterrence, the tariff system by placing items like. By the way, this is before the creation, before the federal income tax was instituted. This was in 1913. This before the Fed. What did McKinley do? He placed items like sugar on the free list while increasing tariffs on manufactured goods. This shift balanced revenue needs with protectionism, though there was some debate about this, etc. Etc. Then McKinley, of course becomes President in 1897. In 1897, he passes new tariffs, which raises the rates further to 49 to 52%. Continues the push, continues to save jobs, continues to keep everything going. Fostering domestic production, secures unemployment, secures the wages. And guess what? It addressed those disparities by strengthening the economic base. Then listen to this. This is, this is amazing. This is amazing. Late in his Presidency, what was McKinley advocating? He was advocating. Listen to that. Just, just, just listen to. This is going to blow your mind. Reciprocal trade agreements. Reciprocal trade agreements. Where have I heard that recently? Oh, reciprocal trade agreements from President McKinley, which were a shift from pure protectionism across the board. In fact, in his final speech in 1901, before he was shot by an anarcho socialist nutjob named Leo Czolgosz, which later executed, McKinley suggested lowering tariffs selectively via negotiation to boost U.S. exports and expand the already strengthened markets for American goods and labor. Folks, this is what it's all about, okay? We're not talking about the fact that the rich aren't the rich. Of course the rich stayed rich and of course the working class stayed the working class. That's not the point. The point is you can actually build it all. So listen, listen to this. Now President Trump has a new truth out. Countries from all over the world are talking to us. Tough but fair parameters are being set. Spoke to the Japanese prime minister this morning. He is sending a top team to negotiate. They have treated the US Very poorly on trade. They don't take our cars, but we take millions of theirs. Likewise agriculture and many other things. It has to change, but especially with China. Okay? Understand this is the plan. Now, Secretary Bessant's got a new tweet up and he says we just had a very constructive discussion with the government of Japan. President Trump has tasked me and the US Trade rep to open negotiations to implement the President's vision for a new global age of global trade. Golden age of global trade with the, with Prime Minister Iba and the Cabinet. But of course, China has decided to be recalcitrant and double down on their previous negative behavior. So we'll see China. We'll see. The choice is yours. All of this goes back to McKinley. And if you understand what President Trump's doing is he's taking that previous plan, that previous playbook that worked, and moving it forward. We'll be right back. Human Events.
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Charlie Kirk
Dale.
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Donald Trump
And Jack. Where's Jack? Where's Jack? Where is he? Jack, I want to see you. Great job, Jack.
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Jack Posobic
Thank you.
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Donald Trump
What a job you do. You know, we have an incredible thing. We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys should be getting policies.
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Jack Posobic
All right, folks, we're back. Jack Posobic here. Human events daily, Washington, D.C. rainy day here in D.C. folks, listen up, because if you're still drinking that corporate watered down nonsense out there for coffee, it's time for serious wake up call. Let me tell you something. Blackout coffee is not just a coffee. It is a statement. The declaration that you're done with weak beans and weak values. This is high octane American roasted fuel for those who grind harder, stand taller, and never back down. Look, look, I. I love this stuff, you know, but the problem is when my brother's here or k postos around or where my dad's around, they keep snagging it out for me. And I need to find better ways to get it, Especially the cold one, the cold brew. They love that stuff. But folks, blackout coffee, they're not playing games. They're cranking out more bags than ever, shipping faster than ever, and keeping you locked in with coffee that actually fires you up. Whether you're chasing big goals, crushing the daily grind, or just refusing to drink coffee made by people who hate you. Blackout coffee has your back. So stop settling. Go to blackout coffee.com poso and use promo code POSO for 20% off your first order. Drink like a patriot. Drink blackout. That's blackout coffee.com poso. Stop waiting. Wake up with blackout coffee. I want to play a couple of clips now that we have, we have Secretary Bessant as well as a CNBC clip. Guys, let's just, let's just play them both back to back. I think, I think this is important because we want to get into, want to get into where we came from and really set the stage for how this stock market bubble was, was blown up, was just absolutely inflated from. It goes back to 2008 in some ways with this massive liquidity being injected into the markets and the funny money that I like to call it. But then during COVID the entire situation just got completely insane. And people are gorging themselves, people are absolutely gorging themselves on free money from the Fed. Free money that was injected into the system. Oh, we're fighting Covid. We're fighting Covid. We gotta fight hard. We gotta fight hard. Go get your vaccine. Go get your vaccine. You remember all of it, right? You remember all of it. Well, guess what? Those guys were gorging themselves on, on free money, on all the free money that they could get. And at some point, people were going to have to pay the piper. That's what's going on now. Let's roll the clips.
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Unknown Analyst
If politics were a video game and the President were a character you could play, tariffs would be your most powerful economic move. USA is uniquely a reasonably big country with a huge consumer class by global standards. So most every sizable company in the world needs to sell here. The argument against tariffs is that they just tax the US consumer. If you say, have to pay 100 bucks to bring my $100 widget over from China, I'll just charge $200 for it. But it doesn't always work that way. What tariffs can also do is encourage companies to avoid the extra charge by making things here in the US or they can level the playing field for US Manufacturers who are getting crushed by cheap imports. So you can't just swallow these headlines that claim tariffs are just attacks on US Consumers. If tariffs always dramatically raise prices for consumers, why did that happen in 2018 and 2019?
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Charlie Kirk
The good news is we have President Trump's previous term when everyone said none of this was going to work. Oh, the China terrorists are going to do this. They're going to cause inflation. They didn't. This is going to happen to working. It's going to be bad for working class Americans. Well, guess what, working class Americans that hourly workers did better than supervisory workers. The bottom 50% of households, their net worth increase faster than the top 10% of households.
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Jack Posobic
Okay, folks, is what we're talking about. This is what we're talking about here. Understand the conditions that the bottom 50% in this country currently experience on a day to day basis that they've been experiencing in some ways since the 1970s, in other ways, certainly since 2008. That's why you're seeing the growth of rapid populism. That's why the initial Tea Party, the economic nationalism and the economic populism, the initial Tea Party, Occupy Wall street movement, both within a few years of each other. That's why they're raising up so much right now. That's why they're coming up so much. One is populist left and one is populist right. We've been talking about this for a long time here on the program, trying to explain what's really been going on. One is, we want conditions better for the American people, not living at the expense. Why are we paying for the defense of Europe when we have these situations in our country? For the bottom 50 cents, 50%. Why are we paying for the defense of the entire world when it comes down to this? Why? That's why President Trump is having the peace meetings that he's having. We're not paying for it anymore. We're not underwriting your defense. The security umbrella is getting smaller. You guys are going to have to do something that's called a little bit something that's called a little bit of shouldering your burden. Okay, it's done. The unfunded mandates to, oh, anything goes wrong in Europe, we're going to take care of that. Anything goes wrong in the Middle east, we're going to take care of that to Asia. Don't worry. We got it. We got this here, we got that there. 25,000 troops here, 25,000 troops there. All the troops in Stuttgart, all the troops on the Korean peninsula, all the troops in Japan, all the troops all through the Middle east, all the air bases that we have there, here's an aircraft carrier. You get an aircraft carrier, you get an aircraft carrier. Who pays for all that? Where do you think the money comes for all that? The money comes from the American people. The money comes on you and your children and everybody else that's putting into the system. And we do so because we think that's making America better. But meanwhile, while all that's happening, while we're paying for this massive global system, we keep borrowing from overseas to be able to do so. You come back home and you say, what's going on at home? Oh, wait, the factory closed down. So used to be you got, you, got you, you, you won World War II. You came home. You got a job, local factory. Well, guess what? Now you get back from Iraq. Now you get back from Syria. Now you get back from Afghanistan. Pulled out, missing limbs. And suddenly. Oh, wait, there's no factory. Sorry, factory's closed. But there's a fentanyl dealer who's taken up shop outside so you can hang out with him. Oh, you want to take your kids down to Kensington, go do some shopping on the weekend? Sorry. Fentanyl zombies everywhere. No, it. Wall Street's addiction to cheap Chinese labor actually has an interesting parallel to the fentanyl addictions, you know, of. Of. Of middle America. Because in a sense, the fentanyl comes from China. Just like the cheap labor, it's done to weaken the inside of the United States and hollow us out on both angles. And it's happening on both angles. It's China that's winning on both ends here. On both ends. They got you coming, they got you going. They got your upstairs and they have your downstairs. Remember the PPP loans for the savvy thieves? It was like redistribution. It was like reparations. Who knows what it was? Look, the loan fraud is everywhere. And Besson is right. The bottom 50%, what do they have? They have the credit card debt. Let me tell you something right now. Power does not come through consumerism. Liberty doesn't just necessarily mean the right to make 10 choices at Starbucks or which color Nike you're going to wear. Liberty comes from knowing where your food comes from, where your medicine comes from, and not having to rely on nations with dictators, totalitarian regimes that want our way of life extinct. That was the Great Reset. That's what it was all about. It was Chinese ownership of America, Chinese ownership and control of the American people, particularly in these areas, particularly in these depressed areas. And that's. You get situations like Springfield, Ohio, where the town leaders say, oh, gosh, what are we ever going to do to revitalize the town? I know, let's import 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 Haitians. Let's just do that. Let's bring them all in. Sorry about all the cats and dogs in town. Where'd they go? Oops. Don't worry, though. The Haitians are all working at the meatpacking plant and they'll be able to take care of it for you. Oh, yeah, you're worried about your kids going shopping down on Main Street? No, don't worry. Don't worry about that for one second. It's a joke. It's been a joke for years, and it's all got to Stop. It's all got to stop. The free ride is over. No more bailouts for Wall Street. It's a bailout for Main street if you don't have your latte money. Oh, no, no, no. I can't afford a latte. Oh, no, you'll be all right. Because trust me, every working class American that got their knees broken by the housing crisis or by Covid and got backstabbed by the people that they thought they could trust, well, they haven't had a latte in a minute. Those are the people living with debt. Those are the people saying, you know what? Maybe Luigi has a point. Those are the people saying, you know what? I don't think AOC goes hard enough. I don't think Bernie goes hard enough. I want to burn the whole thing to the ground. And I'm going to start with the local Tesla dealership. Do you understand? Do you understand how we get there? That's the unhumans playbook. That's what they do. They go into one of these situations, they start preying on people's fears, and they say, you know what? It's not your fault. It's Donald Trump's fault. It's the white man's fault. It's Christian's fault. And you need to fight against all of them. Fight against Trump. Fight against Elon Musk. Fight against the white, affluent male Christians. Fight against the patriarchy. Aslan can be a girl who cares. Fight against the patriarchy. Destroy them. Tear everything down. You get it? Do you get where this is all driving, driven from, why there's a market for these things? Because people out there are angry. People out there are upset. You got people watching the Joker movie, the first one, not the second one, because we don't talk about the second one. They're watching that movie and saying, you know what? Seems like a good idea. So this is my message to the folks saying, why is Trump doing all this? Why is Trump making all of these choices? Trump is. Is just going off. Trump is doing it. No, it's not random. It's not random at all. It's about actually improving conditions for the working class and middle class of this country that have been completely blown out. They've been blown out. You go to some of these areas, the Rust Belt, go to Sandusky, Ohio, go to Western Pennsylvania, go throughout Michigan, throughout Wisconsin. It looked like they lost the war. And in many ways, they kind of did. In many ways, they kind of actually did lose a war. And meanwhile, you got people on the coast. Look, I've been there. I've seen them, been everywhere. Right? You got people on the coast living large. Hey, let's go buy a bigger yacht. Hey, let's go buy a bigger plane. Meanwhile, you go to some of these other areas and you say, how do you even make it down the street? How do you live here every day? How do you do this? It's hard Scrabble and it's done. The free ride is absolutely over. It's time for the American people to get a peace. That is the point of the maga. Populist. Right. That is the reason that we had a populist uprising in this country. And if you want to come on board, if you want to come on board the movement, then please do. But also understand that this issue, the issue of trade and economics, just like the issue of immigration to the MAGA movement, is foundational. This is a foundational issue of the movement. We are not changing it. We are not negotiating it. We are not backing down. It's simple. This is a foundational issue. Isn't Jeb Bush up in here? No. This is Donald Trump's movement. Welcome to the great deal.
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Donald Trump
Jack is a great guy. He's written a fantastic book. Everybody's talking about it. Go get it. And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event. And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
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Jack Posobic
Amen.
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Charlie Kirk
Believe that. It's going to work. And I know that what we were doing wasn't working.
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Jack Posobic
Yes.
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Charlie Kirk
So I think we have to try this. And I have a high confidence ratio. It's going to work. The good news is we have President Trump's previous term when everyone said none of this was going to work. Oh, the China terrorists are going to do this. They're going to cause inflation. They didn't. This is going to happen to working. It's going to be bad for working class Americans. Well, guess what, working class Americans, that hourly workers did better than supervisory workers. The bottom 50% of households, their net worth increased faster than the top 10% of households. The top 10% of Americans own 88% of equities. 88% of the stock market. The next 40% owns 12% of the stock market. The bottom 50 has debt.
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Jack Posobic
The golden age is on the other side. The golden age is on the other side of the great deal. Look, President Trump did tariffs in his first term, folks. Welcome everyone in Human Events Daily Real America's Voice, third hour of the Charlie Kirk show, the Salem Radio Network. This is about restoring The American Dream and actually kickstarting the golden age. We call it the Great Deal. Why do we call it the Great Deal? Because it is a great deal. Americans have been getting a bad deal. The bottom 50% of Americans have been getting a bad deal. I've been likening it to skipping leg day. What happens when you ignore your foundation? The foundation of a nation is its people, and the foundation of those people are the working class and the middle class. And the bottom half of the middle class and the entire working class have been absolutely forgotten in this country for a long, long time. They've been getting the bad deal, they've been getting the raw deal, they've been getting the China deal. And you saw what was happening when China was slowly taking control of our country. It doesn't mean there's going to be, like, Chinese flags and Xi Jinping mascots running around town. It means things that people are just going to slowly put you to sleep and then continue on the drip, drip, drip. Get that new iPhone, get that new Samsung, get that new tv, get that new thing. Yes, I know Samsung is Korean. The point being is they want you as a consumer. They want you in debt. They want you buying the new thing. Just take out a little more debt. Take out a little more debt. Who cares? You're dead in the end. We're all dead in the end. Take on a little more debt, take out a little more debt. Who cares? You should die in debt. Go ahead, consume, consume, consume, consume, consume. Only consume content, Only consume products. Yes, yes. That's what you want. That's what you need, is it? Or could we perhaps actually aspire to be something else? And I love, by the way, the left coming out for Wall street because they've gone completely mask off. So they were actually just tools of capital all along, the whole, like, oh, we're against the oligarchs throwing at the millionaires and billionaires. Yeah. It was just never. They weren't actual populists to begin with. The vast, vast majority of the left. No, no, no, no. Because don't worry, Wall street, don't worry. It's for the common good. It's for the common good. And we understand that Pennsylvania workers are out there. We understand that President Trump is out there. So we had the Pennsylvania State Treasurer here on the program on Friday in Harrisburg. She told us this will revitalize manufacturing of the working class in this country when it comes to steel, when it comes to Appalachia, when it comes to Western Pennsylvania. That's what this is about. Why do you suppose that the Rust Belt is where it is? Why is the Rust Belt located around the Great Lakes? Hmm, let's think about this for a second. Maybe it's because the production of this country used to be based on our manufacturing. And our manufacturing base was built along the waterways of the Great Lakes, which then were later connected to the outside of the Eastern Atlantic Seaboard through the Erie Canal, through the Mississippi River. That's what it was all about. But the Rust Belt was turned into the Rust Belt by policy, the same way that it was built into the manufacturing belt by policy. That's why it existed in the first place. Goes back to Benjamin Franklin. When you control the waterways, you control power. Why do you think President Trump is talking about the Panama Canal and talking about Greenland? It's about waterways. It's about sea power. You don't have to be a naval officer to understand that. Because MAGA folks, it's not just a voting bloc. When we say we want energy independence, the great deal, by the way, it's more than this. It's energy independence. It's no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on benefits, no tax on Social Security. It's about deregulation. It's about all of these things. And when we say we want world peace, it's not just words. That's why President Trump is holding the meetings that he's having now. We want world peace. We want to de escalate these tensions, end the forever wars, whether it be the Middle east, whether it be, you know, do not support a strike on Iran. That would blow up the entire peace process, by the way. Absolutely blow it up. We don't want that. We want greatness for every single American. And yes, that may come at some economic shock to other. To some. My retirement account is down. But you know what? I don't care because I'm all in. I'm all in on the great deal. And I know that the golden age is on the other side. So you disagree. You have your comments. 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