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Welcome to my back porch again, waiting for it to rain.

It's raining most of the day,

although from about,

I guess,

around noontime till now,

I'm recording this.

The time is at 630, so it hasn't rained.

Well, I don't know.

It probably stopped around three o'clock, I guess.

I don't know.

Kind of lost track of time.

Somewhere around three o'clock, I realized it stopped raining.

So I went into the pole barn and grabbed a bunch of small boxes that I burn in the fire pit.

You know, the bigger stuff I can break down and flatten it out.

So hopefully tomorrow,

if it's not raining,

I will go to the cardboard recycling place,

which I didn't know existed.

I actually had to find it.

Which is kind of an odd thing.

You would think of recycling as sort of a,

I don't know,

not the kind of thing you'd see in West Virginia,

but we have one.

They recycle everything but styrofoam, of course, which I have a ton of that.

I've got like six trash bags full of this stuff.

But anyway, the small stuff, you really can't break it down, but it's just too small.

So I burn it in the fire pit.

So that was around three o'clock.

But it's supposed to start pouring down rain here at 630.

Now it's supposed to have already started raining.

So that's why it looks kind of grim.

Although the grass is all turning green.

Over on the, well, let's see, to your left, my right, is where you exit the screen porch here.

I don't know what it is, some sort of weed.

It's all sprouted up.

It's now six inches high.

This happened last year when I was, I didn't have a mower to use.

I was going to transition to the electric mower.

I ordered it.

It was delayed and, you know, a million things.

So anyway, of course, it rained for like two straight weeks.

The grass grew.

It was like, I don't know.

Shin high, you know.

So anyway, it'll be the same kind of thing here.

I can see it coming.

But of course, if you're watching this, let's see, let's keep an eye on the time.

If you're watching this,

it means you did not jump out your office window because of the stock market.

And that was, what, 1,300 points, something like that.

And it's hilarious in a way to watch the crazies,

the kooks,

all these people who hate corporations,

even the real far out there where the buses don't run types,

the ones who actually still call themselves Marxist or anarchist,

people who just hate everything about capitalism or market economics.

They're now defending the marketplace.

They all sound like Milton Friedman or somebody from the Mises Institute.

Because they just hate certain people, normal white people.

That's what they do.

They just hate normal white people.

So anything that's perceived to be normal and white, they hate.

That's why they can be all over the place.

So Donald Trump, his policies are...

probably closer to what most of these people have wanted.

And if he was a Democrat saying these things, they'd be celebrating them.

But because he's Donald Trump, they hate all this stuff.

It really is.

It's so tiresome, really.

I think that's really the right word for it.

It's not even funny anymore.

I'm well past the point.

I imagine most people are.

of getting excited about the hypocrisy.

I just don't care.

I just want these people to go away.

If they kill themselves, it's great.

They jump off a building.

I just don't care.

You know,

they all move,

you know,

and they all promise to move after election and they never do.

You know, I'd volunteer to drive them to the airport.

But anyway,

you know,

the market,

it's going to be a big adjustment because you have to remember that almost,

what,

98% of the trading on the market is done by robots.

You know, it's basically done by formulas.

You have these models, and that's what triggers the buy and sell calls.

It's all, you know, robotic trading.

So these models have to be adjusted to account for the new models.

the new world, the new world of reciprocal tariffs.

Because that's really what Trump is doing.

He put up that chart.

If you watch that presser he gave, it's not just tariffs for the sake of tariffs.

He's looking at it and saying, look, this country, Vietnam,

Well, they do a lot of business with us, but we can't do any business with them.

The things that we could sell them,

well,

they have these high tariffs,

so we're going to put high tariffs on their stuff,

stuff they want to sell us.

And that's what they're doing, which is perfectly reasonable.

I mean, this is the way it has to be.

You know,

this nonsense that we've been fed for the last 30 years at least,

I mean,

I was a kid,

so really...

40 years,

maybe even longer,

from the so-called right that,

oh,

we have to have free trade,

we have to have free markets,

we have to have the free flow of people and goods and blah,

blah,

blah.

But all this stuff is free and none of it was true.

What it was is our financial class and some of our elites were benefiting from

basically allowing the rest of the world to gut the American economy.

Sure,

a lot of that was brought back in some ways because of cheap money and debt and all

this other stuff.

But as I was talking to Paul on Wednesday night,

I made the point that what we're about to experience is we're going to have to

decide whether having good economics based on what the figures that economists give

us

whether that's what we want or we want to be happy you know because it's clear

people are not happy people are miserable i mean there's no getting around it you

know you you talk to anyone and sure i mean people can be happy in small ways but

when you when you ask them about the economy the culture what's going on with

foreign policy what's going on in washington what's going on hollywood or what's

going on their schools or colleges or all kinds of things you know all this sort of

this range of topics we consider to be the public square everybody is pissed off

And look,

you can eliminate the cranks and the crazies,

the 20% of whites who call themselves left-wing.

I mean, those people are just miserable, maladaptive mutants.

They're always going to be unhappy.

But the other 80% of white people want to be happy.

They want to be satisfied.

They don't really want to worry about politics.

They would just as soon have a normal economy,

live in small,

medium-sized towns,

be a part of a community,

have their friends and their family as the central part of their life.

That's what most people want.

But it's very hard to do that in this age.

It's very hard to have any kind of normal life now.

And technology hasn't made life easier for us.

The great technological boom has added all sorts of other problems.

Before I sat down to do this,

I have this sort of,

I call it my inbox,

things that I know I need to get to at some point,

and often I don't get to them on time.

And they're all things that are driven by technologies.

You know, some subscription that renewed that was supposed to be canceled.

Some thing that I have to take care of because,

well,

in order to use whatever that service is,

I have to,

you know,

I have to take care of that.

My bank just came up with new password rules so that I have to change my passwords

on all my accounts.

It's like, this is ridiculous.

It's not that, you know, what they're saying is wrong.

It makes sense.

It's that,

you know,

this is supposed to make life easier and it actually just makes life harder.

It's not as if that online service is such a huge time saver that this little bit

of a less of annoying thing is outweighed by it.

I mean,

frankly,

it takes the same amount of time now for me to pay my bills as it did in the old

days when I had paper checks.

I haven't saved any time when I did this stuff.

But back in the old days when I had paper checks, my bank used to pay interest on my savings.

Now they don't.

But they say, oh, but we have this online service.

That's the point, though, is that our economy has been asked backwards for so long.

People have gotten used to it.

They think it's normal.

And I think a lot of people are looking at what Trump's doing with these tariffs,

and they're like,

holy smokes,

what in the world is going on here?

But in a lot of ways, it's just a return to normal.

This is the way the economy used to run.

We used to say to somebody,

a country like Canada,

look,

the things that you want to sell us and that we might want to buy,

well,

we work out some tariff arrangements on those and vice versa,

the things that we want to sell you and you might want to buy.

But there's going to be some things we're going to say,

no,

no,

no,

you're not going to get to sell them because we want to protect our hockey puck industry.

We want to protect our maple syrup guys.

That's important to us culturally.

It's important to us because they're our fellow citizens.

They're not just economic units.

They're actually people.

That's how economic policy is supposed to work.

Now,

granted,

in the clownocracy that we live in,

it means that the maple syrup guys have to bribe a politician to make sure that he gets,

you know,

the exception for the maple syrup guys in and the hockey puck guys have to bribe a

different guy.

And, you know, I mean, that's just the way it goes when you live in a kleptocracy like ours.

But still,

I mean,

at least there's a way for people to get their government to be responsive to them

and protect their interests.

That's the way it's supposed to work.

The way it has been working the last 30 years,

our government's been saying,

screw you,

too bad for you.

Learn to code.

Learn to find some way to get ahead in the modern economy.

Learn how to be a con man or learn how to be an OnlyFans girl or learn how to be a

right-wing influence or whatever.

So many of our citizens now make a living being a public nuisance or being a public irritant.

And it's because of this screwed up economic model we have.

And what Trump's doing is, I mean, it's I mean, it's it is some tough therapy.

This is going to it's going to hurt for a while.

This year,

we're probably going to have a pretty rough economy,

you know,

depending on what you're into.

But then it'll turn around because people will adjust.

I guarantee you a lot of companies that operate outside the United States,

or I know many of them,

are already planning to move operations into the United States in order to avoid

the tariffs.

I work with a customer that does a lot of business in Germany and Mexico.

They've been planning for this for about a year.

We've been talking about it.

And you can be sure lots of other companies will too.

And it'll take a while.

It'll be an adjustment.

But it's the right thing.

We have to get back to normal, and there's no other way to do it.

All right, that's enough of that.

A little longer video this time.

I will see everyone the next time I have an opportunity to make a video.