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Let’s Weekend #460 – The Tariff Trap

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In this episode of Let’s Weekend: We talk about the chaos of the tariffs rollout and pause, the fun times of seeing how depraved the Trump admin is to deport people wanting a better life, and what the difference is between The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

  • Intro
  • What Are We Up To?
    • C: The Running Man, The Core, MLB The Show 25, American Truck Sim
    • B: The Citadel, Shadows of Doubt, music, April showers.
    • Brandon’s Random Factoid
    • Assholes of the Week: A lie on Twitter about an interview from a Trump official claiming Trump considering pausing tariffs caused the stock markets to rally for a bit on Monday before the White House corrected it and the markets crashed again, Then Trump paused the tariffs for 90 days on Wednesday for every country but China to cause a big rebound, but then they went down again because there’s no trust in Trump’s BS, and now some want an inquiry into whether this whole charade was market manipulation to help insider traders, China raised their tariffs on US goods to 125% after Trump raised tariffs on China to 145%, Smartphones and computers are now spared from Trump’s tariffs
      • The Trump IRS finalized a deal to share tax information with ICE to help them find more immigrants in the US
      • Trump admin has added more than 6k living immigrants to the social security deaths list to try to force them to leave the country
      • Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that there was no criminal conduct by Mahmoud Khalil, but did say he could be expelled for his beliefs, Judge ruled that he can be deported
      • Supreme Court voted unanimously to order the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, Federal judge again ordered the Trump admin to provide her with daily updates on its efforts to bring him back
      • Heroes of the Week: Major nations have agreed on the first-ever global fee on greenhouse gases for international shipping boats
      • Trump Dump Truck
        • Trump admin backed off of the in-person requirements they announced for Social Security
        • White House ordered NIH to research trans “regret” and “detransition”
        • RFK Jr claims the HHS will find the cause of autism by September
        • RFK Jr endorsed the MMR vaccine with the measles outbreak, angering his anti-vax fans
        • The House passed the SAVE act to require voters to have more than just a driver’s license
        • Australian woman unknowingly gave birth to a stranger’s baby after IVF clinic error
        • Biotech company is trying to bring back the dire wolf from extinction
        • The National Recording Registry announced their 25 latest additions
        • A Minecraft Movie has done incredibly well to become the second biggest movie the year
        • Amazon’s working on a Carrie series
        • Amazon’s developing a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon series
        • Netflix landed a Monopoly competition reality show
        • AMC’s new Great American Stories anthology series’ first season will be The Grapes of Wrath
        • The Last of Us was renewed for Season 3 ahead of the premiere of Season 2
        • We got an official trailer for The Phoenician Scheme
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