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4/4/25: China Calls Trump's Bluff, Stocks Plummet, Lawyer Responds To JD Vance

Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss China calling Trump's bluff on tariffs, stock market reacts, and a lawyer for a wrongly deported man responds to JD Vance.

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(00:00)Introduction and Overview of Liberation Day
(2:25)Jobs Report Analysis and Economic Implications
(14:58)The Impact of Tariffs on Domestic Economy
(26:15)Trump's Economic Strategy and Its Consequences
(40:55)The Autocratic Leadership Style of Trump
(42:19)The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
(1:12:02)The Shift in Democratic Leadership Dynamics
(1:17:53)Upcoming Nationwide Protests Against Trump
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4/4/25: China Calls Trump's Bluff, Stocks Plummet, Lawyer Responds To JD Vance

That clip is blowing up everywhere. It was on John Oliver last night and the news. Go, Krystal!

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On today's episode, Sagaar talked about a "neo-confederate" idea that states arent cooperating with federal agents to enforce immigration law. He doesnt seem to understand how the division of power works under our constitutional law.

1) The Supreme Court (conservative and liberal justices alike) have consistently held that immigration enforcement is the sole province of the federal government. Which makes sense. If each state could set its own immigration laws, we would have serious issues as a nation (interestingly, this is essentially how we did immigration before the 1860s, but once the feds started acting, the states lost the power to do anything.)

2) Despite immigration enforcement being fed based, they cannot compel state legislatures or executives to assist federal agents in doing their job. This is based on the 10th amendment principle known as anti commendering. The people responsible for the strong anti commendering laws we have are conservative justices on the Supreme Court!

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Worth your time since it might be considered more local, but parkland hospital (largest county hospital in Dallas) is being sued for declining 36 good kidneys that were then sent to UT southwestern (a large private hospital that shares Drs with parkland) so private health insurance could pay for it since Medicade dosent pay as much

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