The CCP Taps to Tariffs

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[00:02:26] Hidalgo The phoenix is over at Instagram as well See Instagram I don't know what they do with their notifications and stuff But they hit people right off the bat And then boom They start coming into chat Like boom Real quick So it's Monday We are talking about the fact that the CCP Has tapped to tariffs The people Layoffs and business closures And pissed off Chinese in the streets

[00:02:55] As we kind of thought Right Have forced the hand of the communists to say Alright, alright, alright Fine Fine We'll stop At least in the short term We'll stop Screwing the Americans over I think my best advice though On all of that Is pretend like the tariffs exist Pretend like they exist We're going to feel the effect still Because there's this blip In shipping, right?

[00:03:25] So like there's like Ship, ship, ship, ship Tariffs hit Things get a little wonky Product inventories get low And then they'll You know As long as everything goes well With the talks And the agreement is You know Inked and all that kind of stuff Then I imagine that inventory will go up But I think something You know Maybe not 100% But it might be kind of cool To live in this 50% world Of maybe the tariffs

[00:03:53] Really are still 125% And everything from China Does also Suck and cost too much money I don't know It's something to consider It reminds me a lot Of the mentality For ration of ruin Right now In my head, right? Garden girl in chat Let's me know Something wonderful This is I didn't know about this But this is wonderful The DOJ is now investigating

[00:04:22] The epic city in Texas Which is This is really good news I mean Make no mistake about it Like We talked about The Muslim enclave That's being built A thousand Person Is it a thousand person Or a thousand Square mile Whatever it is This giant Sort of Muslim Community That was being built Muslim exclusive too If I go knock up And say Hey, you mind if I move in? Like that ain't gonna happen It being built in Texas

[00:04:51] And one of our listeners Is real close by So that means people Are real close by Like regular Americans But aside from like Just aside from the sheer Amount of people I did not ask for you To follow me Why can't I talk I gotta turn this off On this camera You're a little overzealous Johnny Five Take it easy Okay Aside from What could happen You know Building a small Palestine-esque Sort of place

[00:05:20] In the United States It's hard for me To imagine A place like that If they start Putting things in place Like Sharia law Which I put I don't have all The details in front of me So I can't go too deep Into what exactly it is But when you start Thinking about like Radicalized Sort of What's the word I'm looking for Doctoral Is not the word Devout Devout To the Practices Of radical Islam Even just from

[00:05:50] The religious sense And sort of The treatment Of women You start Thinking about Like an entire Community An isolated Community Like that In the United States And there are Probably some already But a new one Right Thousand people Men Women Children All I can think About is like Inside that Community The horrors That will happen You know what I mean Not that you know

[00:06:19] America's not free Of horrors In our own right But do we need to Build more horror shows I'm glad to hear it Garden Girl Yeah it doesn't It seems like Literally like Nothing good You know what I mean Prove me wrong Prove me wrong How about that I see rockets Flying out of it To be quite honest With you It's way too close To cities In Dallas I just see I mean And also in Texas

[00:06:49] Really really cool Convenient spot In Texas Because if you can Get your ass Over the border You can run Right into that town And then you're Kind of you know You're amongst The crew If that's what it is I know It's all so mean To make these Assumptions Brutal right But it is what it is So I'm glad to hear That they're Investigating it Jiu Jitsu Welcome in Let's talk about This thing though Because The CCP

[00:07:18] Has tapped to Tariffs It's important It's preparedness Related Though Celebratory as it is I do think There's benefits To saying to yourself Maybe I continue On my life Pretending that Chinese goods Are either unavailable Don't cost Or aren't as Cost economical Right I think in the long term You'd be better off Like I said Not everything But consider it Some things Most things As many things As you can What I've noticed Through Ration or Ruin So far For those of you Who have been

[00:07:48] Paying attention To Ration or Ruin Is And if you haven't Been paying attention To Ration or Ruin Then go listen To the subsequent Podcasts Whether you're Listening to this Through podcasts Through I think on On YouTube On X On Instagram We have Updates on Ration or Ruin On all those Platforms Right And it Fundamentally Is just a Survival food And food In general Challenge You know What I mean Like a Restricted eating Challenge Fundamentally But one of the

[00:08:17] Things that I've Noticed is Snacking Stuff It's pretty Easy to just Pretend like That stuff Doesn't exist It's pretty Easy to pretend That things Don't exist Especially when There's benefits Like when You feel the Benefits of it So in other Words we've Had this Sort of Restricted Model of Eating with Foraging And things That you Grow and Things that You hunt And things That you Fish and Nothing Else and Then exclusively Survival food

[00:08:47] You know What I mean Certain days Of the week And what's Become Apparent Is like How you How quickly You forget That certain Things are Food options Just because You know It's off the Table and You're saying To yourself I can't Have it So what's The point Of thinking About it You know What I Mean And I Think you Could apply The same Thing To this Chinese Tariff Deal If You're in That boat You know I know There's a Lot of People who Carry

[00:09:17] Like a Certain Level Of guilt With them I know You're out There I feel It Sometimes You carry A certain Level Of guilt With you Because You're Thinking To yourself You know Could I just have To see Who's Going Absolutely Out of Their Mind On the Messages That It's been The breaker Of the Banksters And the Ration Ruined Crew Let's put Them on Blast Some Some good Some good Updates From the Ration Ruined Crew I'm Supposed To be Keeping Track Of my

[00:09:47] Weight Apparently But I Don't Even Have a Scale In my House To be Honest With you I Don't Even Have A Weight Scale I'm Not Buying A Weight Scale Just For This I Don't Think Anybody Will Use It So Let's Get Into The Details Shall We U.S. And China Agree To Slash Reciprocal Tariffs In Major Step Toward Easing Trade War Where's The Good Stuff U.S. Tariffs On Chinese Imports Will Be Cut 30% To One

[00:10:17] From 145 All Right So Chinese Imports We're Cutting From 145 Down To 30% And And China Is Has Bended To The 10% Like Every Nation Right The 10% So They're Down From 125 Everything That Comes Into Our Country Was They Had To Pay A Tariff Of 145 Now It's Only 30% Everything That We Send To

[00:10:46] Their Country We Were Paying A Tariff Of 125 Now It's Cut Down To 30% And 10% Tariffs In Play So Fundamentally We Got What We Wanted You Know What I Mean We Got A Higher Tariff On China At Least For These 90 Days

[00:11:16] And I Have A Feeling It'll Iron Out Just Like This I Mean How Does China Say Let's Go Back To Riots In The Streets I Think I Think We Need Some More Riots And Some More Layoffs And Some More Economic Upheavals So Yeah We'll Phoenix Survival In Chat Over At Paracord Instinct Costa Rica You You Welcome In You Got A Lot Going On In Your Name Dude You You Literally Caught My ADHD Brain With That

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[00:12:16] Today They Have The Mountain House Which Isn't Bad I Mean Mountain House Is Probably The Second Best Option We Have We've Got Some MREs To Come And We've Got Some Jones Homestead Food To Eat For The Fourth Week But Today They're Essentially Eating Mountain House Foods On The Days They're Allowed To Eat Without Foraging And Since They're In

[00:12:50] I Eggs In Four Days Which is A Thorny Bush That Puts Off A Blue Blueberry Size

[00:13:20] Green Grape Looking Thing Right It's A Little Fruit It's A Little Perfectly Spherical Fruit Kind Of Sweet Ish Sour It's Good They're Good You Know I've Never Made A Gooseberry Jam And I Don't Know If I Ever Will Because Right Now I Don't Have Enough Gooseberries Not To Chew Through Them All Like I Just Like To Eat Them Maybe If Like If You're

[00:13:50] Looking To Build Perimeter Thorny Kind Of Pain In The Ass Perimeter They Wouldn't Be A Bad Option Because They're A Little Thorny And Food Producer Right Now I Don't Know How The Deer Would Do With Them Deer Might Eat Them Down To Nothing They Definitely Would Eat The Fruit I After

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[00:33:11] of that show tell us what the name of that one is i can't keep up but is that the old survival school old school survivalist camp or what's it called there's a ton man i think what's happening right now for me in the background is a bunch of hosts and people who listen are going to these shows and i'd say probably within the next three to four years i'll be doing more of these shows

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