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

Seems like it’s time for this show to have a PROPER debate about trans issues in the U.S.
In an otherwise informative show, their (rare) segments on this topic are maddeningly unhelpful.
And I think a proper debate would involve

  • Asking everyone to define their view. It’s not that helpful to know Ryan and Krystal oppose “hate”. What would be helpful is knowing whether they think there really is an infinite spectrum of genders and whether they think believing in a gender binary is harmful, reductive thinking that will eventually be (non-coercively) overcome.

  • Getting Emily to be part of it and I mean the ACTUAL Emily from After Party. I’m all for civility in cohosting but you tune into that show and think “Wow! This is a different and way more vocal person!” You can’t do this discussion justice without an evangelical voice and so she’d need to be present and non-deferential.

  • Having Saagar and Emily interact on the underpinnings: does it make sense to oppose trans ideology ...

Haha oh what is this? A historical parallel to the Nazis… Wow you don’t say they scapegoated trans, queer, Black, and disabled people too!?! Wow thank god nothing like this is happening now-

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-forgotten-history-of-the-worlds-first-trans-clinic/

Krystal says the dumbest lib shit on earth alert:

She says “white men disproprortionately cause violence”

White people are 58% of the population and represent 52% of murder rates. Meaning we are UNDERREPRESENTED in terms of the murder rate.

Whereas black men are ~6% of the population and murder at 20x the rate of white people.

In fact, black WOMEN murder at a rate higher than white men.

So who wants to have a conversation about that without admitting defeat by using the “R word”?

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