On today's episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Poso talks about the impact of President Trump's executive order protecting ticket reselling from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other anti-ticket reselling laws, as well as the latest on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Plus, a look at why the MAGA movement is so important to the American people.
00:02:44.520I never realized I'd spend so much time in my life in Wisconsin,
00:02:49.000but with all of the insanity around Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse, all the reporting I did on that,
00:02:55.720I ended up spending a lot, a lot of time in Wisconsin.
00:02:58.300Then was there last year, of course, for Milwaukee and the incredible RNC that was held just days after President Trump's assassination attempt.
00:03:06.580So my thoughts and prayers for Wisconsin.
00:03:08.580I hope everybody gets out there and performs well and pushes Brad Schimmel over in this very important election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
00:04:22.400Guess what else you won't see in the mainstream media?
00:04:24.560Why was Kid Rock at the White House yesterday?
00:04:26.480Because President Trump signed an incredible anti-online ticket scammer EO focused on the online ticket scalpers and these scam processes that go on where they're using bot farms.
00:04:41.540Many people, not even in the United States, in places like India and other where, where they're going in, they're buying up all the tickets and then jacking up the prices to sell them back to the American people who actually want to go to the concerts or sporting events.
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00:12:55.640And you look how it's completely devastated.
00:12:58.280And it doesn't take you, you know, you don't have to drive far from any major city to find these towns that have just been completely devastated.
00:13:05.700I'm not just talking about in the Rust Belt or Appalachia.
00:14:27.780Did you feel like he conveyed any of what we're talking in that press conference at all?
00:14:32.900Or was there a whole bunch of distracting issues that that that will be the soundbites and that will be the clips that are all over social media?
00:14:41.220Because remember, I mean, social media is a powerful force.
00:14:44.400It's not like you have to spend an entire hour speaking about this stuff.
00:14:48.280But if there's not something in there that directly addresses their fears, it's it's not a win.
00:14:53.860This is big. This is very important, Rich.
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00:16:19.420We're talking with Rich Barris, we're getting into Liberation Day, which is coming up tomorrow here.
00:16:25.140We've got Election Day today in Wisconsin and Florida, and they're already voting in Wisconsin and Florida, but tomorrow is Liberation Day, the day the tariffs hit.
00:16:34.840He's saying tariffs on every single country around the world.
00:16:39.200And look, Rich, we've spent every day here on the program going through how what President Trump is doing is fundamentally restructuring the global economy.
00:16:47.800No more of this idea where American IP will be outsourced to the Laobaijing of China, where they're going to be the global factory.
00:16:55.900And the people in the middle, right, the multinational firms, the IP holders, Silicon Valley is a huge part of this as well.
00:17:02.240They're the ones making billions and possibly even trillions of dollars, honestly, if you look at it market on market, off of this entire situation.
00:17:11.240But who gets screwed over? The people in the middle.
00:17:13.680Why does Detroit look the way that it does and Chicago?
00:17:17.500And oh, by the way, why does Shanghai and Shenzhen and Ningbo and all these cities in China, these port cities, why do they look the way they do?
00:17:29.820It was a systematic wealth transfer from the American middle class, which has seen the bottom absolutely fall out from under them over to places like China and other of these third world, these third world export outsourced job jobs.
00:17:48.320So, yes, there's going to be it's it's it's it's it's, you know, Rich, it's like it's like what you said before.
00:17:54.360When you're getting off an addiction, when you're getting off an addiction, you're going to have to go through withdrawal.
00:17:59.620There's you're going to have to take your medicine and this is going to be the medicine, but it's going to be better on the other end.
00:18:05.140Talk to me through some other some other messaging that you've seen regarding this.
00:18:10.180Well, it's also a national security issue.
00:18:12.280And he doesn't ever phrase it like this, but it should be if you remember covid, for example.
00:18:17.160OK, during covid, we had issues finding very various medications, even the ingredients to medications and it impacted antibiotics and other drugs.
00:18:27.940This if you look, of course, pharmaceutical and companies in the industry in general is on that list, then that absolutely should be a selling point, by the way.
00:18:37.260So are rare earth material minerals and so are components in ICBMs, the stuff that makes up microchips.
00:18:46.660Right. All of this absolutely falls under the purview of national security.
00:18:51.800And during covid, if the Chinese wanted to stick it to us, Jack, they could have if there's another epidemic and we needed certain drugs like antibiotics or whatever, whatever it may be.
00:19:03.780They could hurt us because they have control over our supply chain in areas where we need to make sure we are prepared in the event of a catastrophe.
00:20:19.260I mean, there are so many, you know, there are so many, I can't even say secondary, but direct consequences of these policies that wound up being, you know, not just ethereal concerns.
00:20:37.840And then on the back of that, they got told, oh, and by the way, the only way we can fix this is importing, mass importation of Haitians and Venezuelans and H1s, whatever, whatever, H, I don't care.
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00:23:42.700So when you hear, and by the way, Rich, I love this.
00:23:45.260You know, there's so many Republicans, you can find out very quickly who the Republicans are that are in the pocket of Wall Street and who the pockets are that are, you know, who are in the pocket of like the Chamber of Commerce, the Club for Growth, all this stuff.
00:23:57.840Because they're the ones that, oh, tariffs are a tax, tariffs are a tax, tariffs are a tax.
00:24:02.200They'll never sit down and point out that the way tariffs work is it's a tax on the foreign companies that are importing cheap goods into our country.
00:24:12.180And I will give President Trump credit for this because he's been very consistent in our message by saying, if you want to avoid the tariffs, make your products here in the United States.
00:24:23.500So when we did the interview with Secretary Besson, we called it make made in America great again.
00:24:49.980Why do Amazon and Walmart and all these other companies run around and work so well?
00:24:55.720Because everybody likes shopping there because it's cheaper.
00:24:59.500Because as it turns out, people do base their decisions on economics.
00:25:04.400And certainly people do that in in states and in areas that are more working class.
00:25:10.040And so if President Trump wants to continue to win over this population and continues to win over this look, I get, by the way, I think it's smart to do this as far away from them.
00:25:17.760I know we have special elections today, but as far away from the midterms as possible, because hopefully things will have readjusted between now and then.
00:25:27.220But, Rich, walk me through some of this because there is going to be pain.
00:25:32.920And it's not just the polling, but there is going to be, look, there's going to be prices that go up because, as it turns out, we have foreign goods that have completely infiltrated our country for such a long time.
00:25:46.440Infiltration, invasion, national security.
00:25:49.560These are all things that we can use to understand that, right?
00:25:53.020It's like if it's not made in America, that means it's made somewhere else.
00:25:56.280That means there's something wrong with it.
00:25:59.100And that used to be the attitude that we had.
00:26:01.600But by the way, all these people, the terrorist attacks, the terrorist attacks, they're all the same people who argue about tax avoidance behavior, right?
00:26:10.100So they don't see any plausible potential for tariff avoidance behavior.
00:26:15.500Of course, people are going to start to try to avoid them if they're in place for as long as they are.
00:26:19.340And they're all also the same people who argued in the first Trump administration that when he did engage in the use of tariffs on a much more limited basis, granted, it was, that there would be a spike in the CPI because of automobiles, right?
00:26:36.320And the CPI was basically flat the entire time.
00:26:39.820So I've seen people use Honda and other automobile companies as an example when the truth is some of the parts go back and forth over the border, Jack.
00:26:49.420But for the most part, stuff that we are buying here, you know, they could change some of their operations up to avoid those tariffs.
00:26:56.780And you'd look at 60% or 70% that's already being manufactured here anyway.
00:27:01.800So, yeah, I just think, again, that the bottom line is there is some, of course, some danger because if it's not explained to people properly, they won't understand what's happening.
00:27:12.280And all they know is that Trump was elected to stop that.
00:27:14.860That being said, we've pulled this a lot.
00:27:17.420And when you tell or ask people whether or not they support tariffs as a use, you know, for trade negotiations, right, to restructure the economy, for national security, they do have, they definitely demonstrate the ability to deal with the pain on the short term.
00:27:35.640Of course, not long, you know, not very long, but on the short term in order to achieve the outcome that they want.
00:27:41.620And if you were to give people the option between keeping the status quo and this, a short term pain that ends with long term gain, they'll pick that.
00:27:55.820It's just that, again, the messaging is so critical and so important moving forward, explaining to people because the prices will go up on some stuff.
00:28:04.460The price of eggs, that's all very well and good.
00:28:07.780And I understand that's a talking point, but you can't spend your time talking about eggs, right, if the real issue is with the time they go to purchase their next vehicle or whatever it may be, right?
00:28:18.600So they have to make sure they're talking about relevant stuff here.
00:28:22.400And I keep going back to that because obviously what I'm saying is that I don't think they're doing a good enough job doing that right now.
00:28:28.820And I also wouldn't undersell the American public.
00:28:32.320So part of that is on the White House to make that message clear.
00:28:35.060And the American public will stay with you if they understand you have a clear vision for the future.
00:28:41.900That's what I'm trying to – I guess that's what I'm trying to say here.
00:28:43.940Look, the clear vision for the future, and I think that really sets the stage, right?
00:28:49.860The clear vision for the future, it's made in America.
00:28:55.280Imagine your town not being surrounded by migrants and actually having jobs that can – by the way, every time I see one of the jobs that you can go to that are good and a place that you'll want to work at for 20 years, for 30 years, not just some place that pays the bills, but a place that will actually take care of you.
00:29:12.660You know, I talked to both – both my parents had jobs like that.
00:29:15.160A lot of people in that generation had jobs like that.
00:29:18.240And those jobs – that whole world doesn't exist anymore where a company will take care of you and send you back to school and do all this stuff.
00:29:26.780I think it's like the only organization that's still like that in America.
00:29:29.900But, you know, we were talking to Kenny Cody here the other day, the new opinion editor over at Human Events, and he said, you know, you talk to a lot of people, and they talk about the greatest generation, the greatest generation.
00:29:42.500They're like, oh, you know, in so much awe and all the movies are about it.
00:29:45.060He goes, well, you know what President Trump is trying to do?
00:29:47.560He's trying to make the next greatest generation.
00:29:55.260The Zoomers could be the next greatest generation, which, by the way, when you say that to a Zoomer, it's so jarring because they're one of the most cynical generations that has ever existed.
00:30:05.100And I think that's one of the reasons, actually, that you saw so many Zoomers come on board to support President Trump because they're so upset with the way things are in this country.
00:30:13.460They really want actual change, not just like some fake, phony Barack Obama promises.
00:30:18.480They want someone who goes against the grain, and that's Donald Trump.
00:30:21.160But at the same time, that means they want to actually see that.
00:30:23.780But I don't know that they've internalized that things actually can get better.
00:30:28.340They really and actually can get better.
00:30:30.880So, Rich, when you look out at those populations, because I see it, and you know what?
00:30:34.920The flip side of that cynicism is the Luigis.
00:31:22.860So, you think they're going to care much about a tariff levied on a car they can't afford?
00:31:27.740I mean, they want a different system that pays them enough where they're honest, they go to work, put in a certain amount of time every day that is expected of every normal human being, and they can come home and take care of themselves.
00:31:43.120That when they get out of that four-year college, that they're going to be able to do something with that degree.
00:31:47.800Or if they don't, Jack, and they try to get into a trade again.
00:31:53.400I mean, Vogue has completely disappeared from this world, right?
00:31:56.300So, not everyone is even, in that generation, not everybody is even, you know, I don't want to say college material, but you know, that's not their path.
00:32:18.940So, again, even if they were to, even if they were to see a price on a car, what does it matter if you can't afford that car?
00:32:25.600I really think people need to understand that.
00:32:27.860And that's what, that's really the message they have to move, they have to, going forward, and trying to rebuild a society to the point where everybody has access to things that right now, so few do.
00:32:39.320I love everything you just said there, because it's like, we're actually going to do something that helps you out.
00:32:46.980I think, you know, I saw something trending the other day, I don't know if it was Warren Buffett or someone who said something like, said something like, oh, why don't you go buy a house for $20,000?