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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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Hey Breaking Points producers: Someone I would be really interested to hear you guys bring on to the show to weigh in on the "Abundance" hullabaloo is Chuck Marohn, the founder/president of Strong Towns. He's the author of "Escaping the Housing Trap," so he has a long history of writing/activism in this space. Here's a recent article that inspired this recommendation: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/5/5/america-should-sprawl-not-if-we-want-strong-towns

Strong Towns is an urbanist organization that advocates for solving some of the urban development crises that we have in the US through localizing development. On a personal level, I clock Mr. Marohn as sort of vaguely right/libertarian coded but Strong Towns as a movement is very locally focused, pretty agnostic about national politics, and so doesn't map well onto right/left binary. There's an interesting overlap with YIMBYism, but Mr. Marohn has tangled with YIMBYs in the past on the practical matters of the YIMBY viewpoint that...

Two notes on MK Ultra:
First, the guest yesterday opens saying the CIA wanted to study brainwashing cuz Korean War POWs confessed to crimes they didn’t commit. But I’ve heard that part of it was all the soldiers who defected to China / N Korea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_and_British_defectors_in_the_Korean_War

Second, mind control assassination sounded crank to me until I heard Lisa Pease explain her Robert Kennedy 1968 thesis, I think on Bri Joy Gray.