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Good afternoon and welcome to Need To Know with Dr. Nsenga Burton. I am she and I am happy to be here today. Like many of you all, I have been paying close attention to these tariffs that the 47, I won't say his name anymore 'cause I just feel like it's like Candyman. If you say it too many times in a row, something's gonna show up in front of you. So, um. We don't need Candyman 'cause we see the price of everything showing up in front of us. Um, so, you know, gas showing up in front of us, all the things that were supposed to go down. Right. That you all voted for him. Those of you who voted for him. 'cause I know all of us did not. Many of us did not. And the more we learn about the election, it's, it is a little questionable, but. About how many of you all actually did vote for him. But I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I'm waiting for more data to come out before I start throwing, uh, throwing out that information. But for what we do know, these tariffs are going to have ridiculously horrible, um, effects on us. So some of you might have been checking your 401k. It is in the toilet. I looked at mine and I was like, wow. I am gonna die at work because I used to be like, I'm probably gonna die at work 'cause I have to work so much. 'cause I, you know, I chose to be an artist and a creative and an educator, all the things that do not pay well. And so I said, I'm probably gonna die at work, you know? And then I looked at it and I say, oh, I am gonna die at work. Like, legit, I'm gonna die at work. So anyway. Um, and people keep saying, oh, but you can make it back. You can make it back. Yeah, but why should I have to, why should I have to? I mean, I've worked very long and hard many years. I've had a job since I was 15 years old, um, and have not, had, not had a job or been doing something, um, even in my periods of underemployment, you know? Um, and I paid into all the systems social security, which they keep saying is optional or is like, I don't even understand how you can tell people why people. Think that social security is not something they paid into every time they had a job. Like, that's crazy to me. Like you don't know history and you don't know how your money works. How money works. Um. But I say that to say these tariffs are not going away, uh, anytime soon. And know, I think he's gonna have to turn it around. You know, if you do basic economics, basic, not complicated. Not, uh, Oxford level, not the London School of Economics, just. Basic, that one economics course you had to take to get your college degree. If you had to take one or those basic, um, government economics courses you had to take in high school, um, if you had AP classes or whatever. Um, the point is they're gonna have to go away 'cause we're not gonna be able to sustain them. And he keeps saying that this is gonna be a little bit pain again, here we go with that pain. It's just gonna hurt a little bit now, but it'll be great later. Well, we're not all Trump, we're not billionaires, so people aren't like lined up to. Do deals with us, um, so that we can be the next man and candidate. We're not trying to be president of the United States, so I can't be bankrupted seven times and think that somebody's gonna then hand me money to to pay my bills. Like that just does not happen for the regular person. Even people who are, who are so-called middle class people are, check away from poverty. Because the cost of everything, whether you talk about housing, whether you talk about, uh, automobiles, those are gonna go up too, like exponentially. Um, you know, whether you talk about groceries, you know, people were talking about eggs for a while. Um. All of these things, we have to have them. And you know you have to work because you have to pay for things. The United States is incredibly expensive, even when you live in poverty. And there are people who go to work every single day and still do not make enough money to pay their bills because they do not make what we call a livable wage. All right. So, um, what I mean by that, I, uh, I was at a bar this weekend. I was hosting an event there, and this gentleman said, um, to this guy, he had been there for 15 years, and the guy's like, oh, you must be making great money. Now I'm overhearing this. I'm listening ear hustling. And he says, Nope, $5 an hour, and then whatever. I'm making tips. So I'm sitting there thinking, wow, if you've been there for 15 years, you should be a manager. You should have some ownership, should have a stake in this, uh, ownership. If it's owned by a chain or conglomerate of some sorts, you should have stock. Like, what the heck? Like, and he was, this dude was excellent. He's the person I was working with. He's excellent. My point is this, and you're like, what is your point? The tariffs. The tariffs are going to cost us and that would be the consumer. 'cause they're gonna basically. Cost businesses a lot more money and those businesses are gonna pass, pass on those additional costs to consumers. And that's why it's gonna cost us money. 'cause at the end of the day, it always gets passed on to us. And so we're out here trying to make a living, trying to be, uh, productive citizens, trying to do the best that we can. You know, um, trying to have these jobs, some of which don't even have benefits. Some of them, you know, if you have a baby, you get a week off. Like, 'cause we don't even have that covered in the United States. All kinds of things. Um. We're out here trying to, to live and you have these billionaires and these technocrats 'cause that's what they are. They just really believe that technology drives everything. And, you know, forget all the other people who are not technologically driven or who aren't billionaires who haven't made their money. Um, you know, out there in uh, Silicon Valley or whatever. Forget everybody else, just. Leave them behind. We're just gonna take these rocket ships and go live somewhere out in space and forget the rest of y'all. Um, we, we'll leave you behind. So they don't care about it because they are gonna make their money back. And, you know, having billions and billions and billions of dollars is very different, you know, and at your disposal, even when you bankrupt your company seven times and people are still like throwing money at you, even when you're a convicted felon and people are like, Hey, here's more money. Um, even. Even when you have been found to have, uh, broken the law multiple times, 34 times, people are like, Hey, here's more money for you. That does not happen to the average person. That doesn't happen to the average white person, let alone the average, uh, historically disenfranchised person. So what I need you to know is that. What I need you to know, what I need my dogs to know is to stop barking. I'm on this podcast, but what I need you to know is that these tariffs are going to have really bad consequences for us, and I don't know why people are not more in the streets than they already were. Right. If this president does not walk this back, we cannot afford to be, um, saying, oh, hey, here, I'm gonna put a hundred percent tariff on you. Okay, no problem. I'm gonna do a hundred percent tariff on you. I mean, like a pissing match. And it's like, just take your penises out, measure 'em, and leave the rest of us out of it. We don't have nothing to do with this. So you and Chyna. And you and, and you know, these African countries you're trying to obliterate for whatever reasons, you know, 'cause I'm like, it's not a flex in my mind anyway, to obliterate countries that are on the brink of distinction of extinction. Anyway, that's not a flex, that's a bully move. That's a a mean man move. That's not a power move. That's some bitch acid ness to the highest level. Um, it really shows who you are and we know who you are. And that's a scared little boy trying to have little tantrums and take out his anger in violent ways on the American public because we don't love you enough, and we won't love you through your foolishness, your tirades, and your very poor decision making, which you will continue to do until you go into the grave. So what I need you all to know is that you have got to contact your Congress people. I don't care which party you are in, especially if you're Republicans and you have got to contact your, uh, Congress people and, and, and let them know they have got to put some pressure on this president. We have three branches of government as we see. One of 'em is working hand in hand with the president. That would be the Supreme Court, so they're no good. Don't even think about the Supreme Court, it's gonna come to save you. They're not coming to save you. That's unfortunate because in the three branches of government, it is the ju, the judicial branch that typically is in place to save us from ourselves, to save the executive branch from itself, to save the legislative branch from itself. It is the judicial branch. Unfortunately, our judicial branch, at least at that level, the federal level. Uh, the Supreme Court level, um, is not doing that. They're in lockstep with the president. So thus, and so we have to do what we can do with the other, within the other branches. Executive branch, you can't do nothing. Legislative branch, you might be able to do something because if we can flip these seats, then you can apply pressure and then it makes it harder for the president to get things done. Alright? So I need you to know that you still have some power. Do not give up. Don't throw your hands up and be like, I'm just gonna have to pay $15 for a dozen eggs. Stop eating eggs. You're not gonna have to worry about it. 'cause they're not gonna even be able to be produced after we finished with these tariffs. 'cause so many farms are gonna go outta business. You're probably not gonna even have eggs. And if you have them, they're gonna be like sky high. They're gonna be even more than the $15 that they are in California. Uh, the $12 that they are in Maryland and dc. Um, so. You know, just figure out how you're gonna make stuff without 'em. 'cause they're going away. A lot of your, your things that you thought of as basic necessities, they're gonna go away. Um, because you're not gonna be able, they're not gonna be able to afford to even give them to us the work that's going into them. They're not gonna even be able to afford the people to pay. Um, and we are not gonna be able to afford it. Once it gets on our shelves, we're not gonna be able to afford it 'cause we're not gonna be making any money. People are being very, um. Careful about adding jobs, right? People are being very careful about adding more money to salaries, things of that nature, because these tariffs are coming. So we're in a scarcity mindset, and when that happens, nobody wins. All right? So I need you to know I. You have power, contact your, uh, your, uh, senators and, and, uh, your congress people, your representatives, and let them know that you will not stand for this foolishness and that they have got to do something to apply pressure to this president to get him to walk back some of these terrorists. And that's it. 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