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087 - Trump's Tariffs Get Torn Up


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Trump, aliens, and fake geniuses all collide in this episode as Jimmy and Alyssa unpack another cursed news cycle.​

They open with the Supreme Court blocking Donald Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap universal tariffs on imports, and how he’s already trying to route around it with other laws to re‑impose a 10% worldwide tariff anyway. They break down why trade deficits aren’t automatically bad (Jimmy’s grocery store analogy makes it obvious), why universal tariffs are awful for regular people, and what it means that $275 billion in unconstitutional tariff revenue now hangs with no clear plan to refund those who paid it.​

From there, they zoom out to Trump’s open contempt for the Constitution, his refusal to follow Supreme Court limits, and the viewer comment that haunts the whole episode: “Why do I follow any laws if he doesn’t have to?” That spins into authoritarianism, impunity, and how long people are expected to play by the rules when their leaders never do.​

The show then veers into aliens and Elon. After Obama gives a calm, scientific answer about extraterrestrial life, Trump responds like he’s handling classified intel he might have just leaked and promises to “declassify” UFO files. Jimmy and Alyssa explain why that’s nonsense, what “UFO” actually means, and why nobody should trust disclosure from a man who protects abusers.​

Finally, they torch the myth of Elon Musk as super‑genius: the fake top‑10 gamer flex allegedly propped up by paid grinders, a disastrous livestream that made his ignorance obvious, and a pattern of paying for other people’s excellence and taking credit. Sprinkle in K‑pop industry nightmares, aging bodies, brain fog, and weird canker sores, and you get a chaotic, furious, darkly funny hour about living in a world run by the dumbest possible villains.

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