On this episode of RUMBLE: The Lineup Exclusive, we have a special guest, Tanya Franks, join us to discuss Liberation Day and much, much more! Featuring: Tim Pool, Viva Friese, and special guest Tania Franks.
00:02:16.000You don't need to correct me right away.
00:02:17.000So welcome Bongino army, and of course those people coming in from Vince, which comes from the, you know, the romance language is Vincente, which means that's, I think it translates to, that's not a rug.
00:02:28.000Today, we're going to be discussing Liberation Day.
00:02:35.000There's a lot of speculation out there, and the math is a little more complicated than how it was initially presented, but it's actually pretty easy to figure out.
00:02:44.000Also, there was a A really tragic stabbing that took place in my home state here in Texas and there's a media blackout on it though it's trending on social media that shows you that sort of chasm between what affects people or what matters to people versus what the media chooses to cover and they don't want you to acknowledge that there's perhaps a racial component or dynamic but There is, and that's why we're not on YouTube.
00:03:29.000Protests continue across the country this evening, and we want you to know, of course, that though there are some individual protesters who are agitated, It is not the norm.
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00:08:20.000Although I don't know your lived experience because I'm a privileged white man.
00:08:23.000So, the urban jungle is a place that's, you know, always full of surprises, and this video that I've not seen is living proof that you never know what to expect in the big city.
00:13:30.000I can picture them interrogating it, like, sex puppet, are you cheating?
00:13:38.000It's just, it's a silly, silly place, and we should take nothing that they say or do seriously, not only because of the historical timeline of Germany, if you're a history buff, but even today they can't get it right.
00:16:43.000That's why they're finding more and more sex in movies.
00:16:47.000You need to understand, this has become a huge industry because of, yeah, you can trace it back to feminism, because of male-female dynamics, where a lot of men, young men, are checking out of the dating pool.
00:16:58.00044% of Generation Z males, well, 13, they've never dated.
00:17:03.000According to a study in 2023, 63% of men aged 18 to 29 are single.
00:17:09.000And 10% of men between the ages of 22 and 34 have never had any type of sexual relations, which is, by the way, the highest ever.
00:17:18.000It would be good if it was an abstinence choice of, like, waiting for marriage.
00:17:57.000And then that was used against him as though he was a predator.
00:18:00.000And a lot of men are going, unless I happen to meet the woman who I'm going to spend the rest of my life with, anything consensual can be used against me.
00:18:08.000And so now with the innovations in AI and I would imagine textiles, I'm just going to go with a sex puppet.
00:18:17.000Pretty soon they're going to have, these sex puppets are like really good in detail.
00:18:23.000You know, pretty soon they're going to have, like, anatomy, so these people, these murderers can go cut them up and dispose of them and still get the same feeling.
00:20:21.000But there were a lot of people who were falsely accused and it became a witch hunt.
00:20:25.000And feminists in the 21st century, it's the only movement that will literally create gatherings, events centered around protesting compliments as catcalling.
00:20:38.000And then turn around two, three, four years later now and say there are no good men left and why is chivalry dead?
00:21:20.000You gotta max your looks and then she'd get in the paneled van.
00:21:25.000Next story here, this is one that, and this is a, let me know, comment below if you have seen this story, because if you've already seen the story, that means that you're not watching Legacy Media.
00:21:37.000This is one of the top trends on pretty much all the social platforms right now, and it has not been covered by Legacy Media.
00:21:46.000This really does show that divide, and I have a hunch as to why.
00:21:51.000Yesterday, and I warn you, this is a heartbreaking story, a boy named Austin Metcalf, a white student was stabbed to death by Carmelo Anthony, a black student, and I know what you're thinking, another basketball player went broke and is robbing high school students?
00:22:20.000The story's so sad, we have to find a way.
00:22:21.000Yeah. So, there was a black student, and this was at a track meet, a stabbing.
00:22:27.000People use the term senseless killing, and yeah, most killing is senseless, but often you can find a motivation, or you can find some kernel of Warped as it may be, reasoning from the killer's point of view.
00:22:44.000Now, I understand they're psychopaths, they can be sociopaths, but sometimes there's something we go, okay, this is where it went wrong.
00:22:50.000In this case, it truly does meet the definition of a completely senseless killing.
00:23:41.000Now, I'm going to be quite clear about this.
00:23:44.000This is not racially motivated, as far as we know, but to act as though there isn't a component or a pattern that people recognize, that would only serve to breed more racism.
00:23:54.000We do need to have an honest conversation about this, especially as white Americans who have been browbeaten as the greatest domestic terror threat, as what white supremacy, of course, labeled as the greatest threat to national security.
00:24:12.000And you can't solve a problem if you don't actually understand the nature of the problem.
00:24:16.000So social media trending everywhere, top five, certainly right now on X. As of the time of this broadcast, The mentions of this story on national media, one on CNN online, zero at MSNBC, and the local headlines conspicuously omit the race of the perpetrator.
00:28:09.000Now, again, if it was consistent, okay.
00:28:12.000But why does it statistically, observably, only take place when there's a specific race involved?
00:28:20.000Yeah. As far as, if you're white, it will be listed.
00:28:23.000If you're a black criminal, probably not.
00:28:27.000And that, just like legacy media, there's a huge chasm between what they are covering and what you care about with this story.
00:28:36.000There's a huge difference in the coverage here, in labeling perpetrators and victims, versus statistical reality.
00:28:43.000According to the FBI, black offenders, if you look at crimes, blacks against whites in this country, blacks are two and a half times more likely to commit a crime against a white person than a white person against a black person.
00:28:55.000Look, if you were to add up All of the Klan's lynchings, as horrible as they are, just to be clear, it wouldn't amount to the kind of violence that you see from black people in this country against white people and Asian people.
00:33:06.000I mean, but that's, you know, that's what somebody's faith can do.
00:33:09.000It can be, it literally can be the bedrock in your life.
00:33:12.000And, uh, unfortunately that bedrock was tested in this man's life, but.
00:33:16.000Obviously he's he looked at this there was another clip and he was talking about a sweet moment with his son and it's again hard to talk about this because I have kids and yeah you just you imagine them in these scenarios and it makes you angry and he's talking like hey it's not goodbye it's I'll see you later mm-hmm it's a different it's a different thing and don't have that kind of faith don't mistake our you know Christians our compassion for weakness or that we don't seek justice because I don't want us to be sitting ducks either no you can forgive someone and Still be perfectly fine
00:33:47.000with our system, you know, setting up the meeting between that person and God.
00:33:52.000So that's the problem, is we have had a society that has been based on Christian principles for a very long time.
00:33:57.000It kind of had to be an unwritten agreement, otherwise this doesn't work.
00:34:02.000But you can't have one group, and I mean progressive left, I mean the propaganda that is being pushed, the race baiting.
00:34:07.000You can't have one group taking advantage of the compassion and empathy of the group that has come before them.
00:34:14.000That's the dynamic that we see today, and there needs to be compassion, forgiveness, sure, as a Christian, but there also needs to be a strong sword as well, because this is a problem that's not going to go away unless we address it.
00:35:15.000So like we said, biggest loser, China.
00:35:16.000Biggest winner, surprisingly, Mexico, because they kind of showed you how to handle this right.
00:35:20.000Yeah. They screwed Canada twice, and they're doing a pretty good job.
00:35:25.000Canada was omitted from the master list because they're individually going to be stuffed.
00:35:33.000We're not even going to be addressing Canada, but there are some dynamics here that maybe people aren't considering.
00:35:40.000For example, if you look at a lot of these poor South American countries like Nicaragua, I don't think you maybe know this, if these countries have to end their reciprocal tariffs, it may allow them to come out of the third world if some of these countries can for the first time have Actual access to affordable American goods.
00:35:58.000I'm not talking about an iPad and Grock.
00:36:00.000I'm talking about basic appliances, things that we take for granted that they can't access because their government is protectionist.
00:36:06.000So that's an underlying theme here that I'm not hearing a lot of people talk about.
00:36:10.000But of course, we do have here to discuss this because he's, I guess, yeah, let's just say expert on cable news.
00:36:17.000I say expert even if they're not on international policy and relations.
00:36:57.000Before we get to everything else here, for those of you who maybe missed it, yesterday President Trump announced the new tariffs from the White House Rose Garden and presented a chart, and this has been the source of controversy.
00:37:10.000We'll actually clarify that first as far as what the math is and how these tariffs have been calculated, because you've no doubt heard the reaction, but here's his announcement.
00:37:18.000My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.
00:38:47.000because one thing is there's been a lot of misinformation about there, and this is one of those areas where This is why you can line up a hundred economists and you'll have 50 say that this is awful, it's the end of the world, and 50 say, well, hold on a second, there's actually something here that you're not taking into consideration.
00:38:59.000So some of what I'm going to present here, both of us, is our opinion and speculation.
00:40:48.000Hitler didn't try and tank his economy.
00:40:51.000No one would have a vested interest in tanking their economy, guaranteeing that their legacy is tarnished forever and their party has not a chance at midterms.
00:40:59.000There's no rational argument to be presented for that statement.
00:41:12.000Yeah, that's what I do want to make that point because you mentioned we use leftist sources to kind of bolster our own arguments, which you should.
00:41:18.000The source she's citing for China, South Korea, and Japan getting along is Chinese Central Television.
00:41:59.000Hey, Lane, who knew to take out literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years of wars and hatred and violence, thousands, All we had to do was have terrorists.
00:42:08.000Literally, before Jesus was on the planet, this was a war that was going on.
00:42:11.000China and Korea are like, hey, we can be friends.
00:42:13.000Literally, the basis for the entering into, you know, for World War II with the Japanese is wanting to create a superior pan-Pacific race, which specifically does not include Chinese people.
00:43:12.000We do actually have kind of the net result as far as what the math equation should look like.
00:43:18.000We haven't been able to verify theirs.
00:43:19.000But let's first go, what are reciprocal tariffs?
00:43:23.000That's according to Donald Trump, not the media, who says it's the end of the world.
00:43:26.000They're basically tariffs imposed on a country according to Whatever rate or penalty they charge us.
00:43:33.000For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, non-monetary barriers, and other forms of cheating.
00:43:41.000And because we are being very kind, we're kind people.
00:43:57.000So, they presented this math saying this is how they came to the number because it's not just about the actual tariffs that they actually put up.
00:44:07.000So, in reality, this is what the math equation seems to be.
00:44:10.000It's a trade deficit with the country divided by the imports from said country.
00:44:14.000If you do that, all of these numbers add up.
00:44:17.000And you know it works because the ones that are all 10% are all countries that we have trade surpluses with, and he's like, screw it, 10% for all of you.
00:45:21.000But he's also looking at people who are doing things with tariffs against us that he's trying to just correct in general because they're hurting us Yeah, it's bigger than that Well, yeah, then to Stephen's point, there are other things that are not just tariffs like, you know, greenhouse gas emission regulations or environmental regulations that make our products impossible to sell places.
00:45:38.000But with the two points, like to re-shore manufacturing near shore to a place like Mexico and punish China, they're one and the same because China has taken our manufacturing base by manufacturing things very cheaply, subsidizing them, and then flooding other markets with them, even when they're taking losses, just so they can occupy market space.
00:45:55.000Right. It's called overcapacity, and it's what their entire economy is based off of.
00:45:59.000Yes. And that is why there's no longer a middle class in Ohio or a place like Gary, Indiana, because of this problem.
00:46:06.000Right. Well, just like we've said that as far as national defense for the Western world, you, the American taxpayer, you subsidize it, right?
00:46:21.000Yeah. It's not capitalism versus capitalism.
00:46:23.000No. A designed market specifically, it's not even designed to turn a profit, it's designed to destroy American economic stability.
00:46:32.000I don't like to use the term elites, but this was the elites in America that were fine with this happening because they were going to reap the short-term benefits of it.
00:46:38.000It's the McKinsey method, it's the people, they don't care about growing a middle class, they care about patting their pocketbooks and that's why the Clintons and the Bushes and the World Trade Organizations Push to get China involved in this world system.
00:46:49.000Right. And one thing I want to address too is, you know, the math.
00:46:51.000The reason that that's necessary, you have some people going, well, why don't they just show the actual tariffs?
00:46:58.000And I know this is going to sound nerdy.
00:46:59.000We covered the Canadian dairy, for example, it's 250 something percent, right?
00:47:02.000And people would argue, well, actually, that's only the top tier tariff.
00:47:05.000And so, and we don't export enough dairy.
00:47:07.000Well, yeah, because of that top tier tariff.
00:47:10.000So if you're going to look at the average tariff, you're going to look at the average penalties, for example, in a place like Canada.
00:47:15.000The average would be taken down because you go, well, hold on a second, we're only in that first tier because there's only about a 3% tariff for tax on dairy.
00:47:23.000It's like, well, yeah, but there are more dairy farms, there's more dairy production in Wisconsin than all of Canada.
00:47:28.000If not for that tariff, we'd be exporting a whole lot.
00:47:32.000So what really is 250-something percent looks like zero, and that throws off the average.
00:47:50.000He's the only president, he is the only president, at least in the last two centuries, who has direct experience with this, in dealing with manufacturing, in dealing with supply chains, because of his businesses.
00:48:03.000The other ones before him, they wouldn't.
00:48:05.000They didn't have that experience in the private sector, and certainly not to this degree.
00:48:08.000So some of this is new, and yeah, I get it, there's some instability in these uncertain times.
00:48:13.000It's a good idea to be prepared for anything.
00:49:19.000And by the way, you don't have to be some kind of a doomsday prepper.
00:49:21.000You have people right now who could use this where they're in a pathway of storms.
00:49:26.000It's always good to have some water, some kind of a heating mechanism, like a Bunsen burner, and to have some food that can get you through it.
00:49:33.000This stuff has a shelf life of 25 years, over 2,000 calories when you're looking at the servings.
00:50:07.000And you were telling me this, you know, President Trump also cancelled the de minimis protections for...
00:50:12.000Places like Timu and Shine, that's where, if it was below a certain amount, it was exempt.
00:50:16.000Yeah, it allowed the cheap manufacturers like Timu and Shine to export their goods under $800 without any duties.
00:50:22.000Right. And so, basically, by getting rid of that protection, it will effectively ruin those companies' ability to export to the U.S., which is great.
00:50:29.000You mean the ones that sell flammable children's onesies?
00:50:41.000And I didn't know this, but are Taiwan semiconductors exempt?
00:50:44.000So if you actually look at a lot of these countries, there's a whole list of products that are exempt from these tariffs that he didn't really talk about because it doesn't drive home his point, but semiconductors being one of them.
00:50:52.000So almost like 60% of Taiwan's exports to the United States are in the semiconductor industry, so they're a little bit more protected than you'd initially think.
00:51:00.000Is there something similar like that with Japan?
00:51:03.000No, Japan, because most of theirs is automobiles.
00:51:06.000Korea's getting similar cuts, too, because they have a lot of semiconductor exports to the United States.
00:51:11.000And the biggest winner you're talking about here is Mexico.
00:51:14.000This is something you're pretty passionate about, because all of the USMCA, the compliant goods, they're exempt.
00:51:20.000So the same is true, by the way, for some of the auto tariffs that were announced last week.
00:51:24.000Only the goods originating in other countries like China will be affected, which by sheer coincidence timed perfectly with the unveiling of China's newest gift to Mexico, the province of Guangdong.
00:52:02.000In Houston, they can't feel their knees.
00:52:03.000When people talk about, oh, you're trying—one of the greatest things for the United States, or at least what could be a very big positive from this, would be an economically prosperous Mexico.
00:52:11.000Correct. And now, if you have a chance for U.S. investment to come in there, they're still going to be able to export to the United States.
00:52:17.000Their president has been very cordial in this whole deal.
00:52:20.000She showed you how to deal with it, why the Canadians have showed how to act like children.
00:52:23.000Yeah. And I think this will really benefit kind of that bilateral trade system.
00:52:27.000And yeah, if you want the cartel gone, there's nothing better than every Mexican to have a, you know, a good paying job.
00:52:43.000The kind of, the biggest question mark, I guess, most uncertainty, right?
00:52:46.000You're talking about this countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan.
00:52:50.000Right. This is one people are concerned about like they already have some pretty low tariff rates comparatively It's already very quite outside of a couple specific products like Japan has a high rice levy But I don't mind that because we don't export and we export a lot to them But the point is they can't really lower their tariffs much more I guess they could start increasing defense expend or defense buys But they're already doing that the Japanese are already investing a ton of money into the United States So I don't really know it I would like
00:53:20.000us, and I think behind the scenes you'll get this in negotiations, but you're not seeing at least forward facing what is the ask from these countries that have apparently up until this point done everything that they've been asked to do.
00:53:30.000So I can see where there'd be some confusion.
00:53:32.000In those capitals, unless there's backdoor negotiations.
00:53:35.000And historically, Donald Trump has been very amenable to negotiations with allies.
00:53:38.000Correct. I would imagine this is a bargaining chip.
00:53:40.000Look. The one thing I just, I'm sorry, I know we have time, is Vietnam is the one that's screwed in this.
00:53:45.000Because so many companies reshored, or went from China to Vietnam to avoid this exact kind of tariff.
00:53:51.000Right. Well now, that's not going to help them.
00:53:53.000Vietnam already dropped all tariffs, and they can't really afford to buy anything else from us because they're not, they don't have the per capita GDP to do so.
00:54:03.000Right. So, I don't know what they can do, maybe give us a naval base or something, but I feel very bad for the Vietnamese right now, and especially, that's the one country I'm looking at the most kind of hyper-focused because we really need that Vietnamese help if we're going to, you know, work vis-a-vis China in that region.
00:54:21.000So, I wouldn't want to be in Hanoi today.
00:54:47.000If people, you know, it's not a bunch of hipsters in coffee houses.
00:54:49.000The idea is, okay, you're talking about the proletariat.
00:54:52.000They're going to seize means of control and production, right?
00:54:54.000And then they're going to be the ones to benefit from this instead of the business owners.
00:54:58.000In China, they just get the worst parts of communism without even the false perks.
00:55:03.000Like, there's very little social safety net.
00:55:05.000So it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to be communists, but all you workers, you're actually not going to be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor at all.
00:55:11.000You're going to be in these factories.
00:55:13.000Okay, we're going to control everything.
00:55:15.000You're not going to have a social safety net.
00:55:16.000And as soon as it's done, you get to make all the cool crap and it's gone to America.
00:55:21.000So it's got to be, I often wonder how much this Chinese citizens have bought into the problem.
00:55:28.000It's hard to tell, but someone referred to this as being like a Hiroshima moment for the Chinese economy, because what you're doing is you're taking away their ability to export, which is what their entire economy is driven off of, because they don't consume.
00:55:41.000They've been trying to switch to a consumer market, but if you're a communist government, you can't give your consumers that much power, because then they start being able to dictate policy.
00:55:50.000They can't absorb the consumption from the other countries, and they can't export their way out of this anymore, because They don't have any place, they have massive tariffs even going to the other third-party countries.
00:56:02.000This is a really great move as far as hedging against China.
00:56:05.000Well, I do want to, maybe we can bring you back because we have Viva Frye on the line, of course, and we can go back, because I want to discuss South America.
00:56:11.000A lot of people are sort of glossing past this.
00:56:13.000And a lot of Americans don't realize these places haven't even had their Industrial Revolution.
00:56:17.000You have people who are sleeping in hammocks and still, you know, warming a can of beans over an old ironing board.
00:56:23.000Some of these countries do have some purchasing power where if their own nations, if their own governments took off some of these tariffs, there would be American companies that sure would be great if they invest in manufacturing, but even before that could create some affordable goods and services that these people could finally use.
00:56:47.000They don't even necessarily have access to soap because it can be so expensive.
00:56:51.000And these kinds of things could be exported that could fundamentally shift the economies for some of these nations that people are overlooking.
00:57:36.000Okay, he's gonna be here for about five minutes, then we're gonna send you to Tim Pool, but of course, if you're a Rumble Premium member, you get to continue with us interviewing Viva Frye.
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00:59:01.000It feels more and more like an insane asylum.
00:59:03.000I'm born and raised in Westbound, lived in NDG for a bit, lived in Quebec City, which is the Capital National, where I studied French for four years.
00:59:10.000Every time I go back to Montreal, it's like a different city.
00:59:48.000When people complain about the corporate media, and I have my problems with corporate media, I go, well, the alternative is government media?
00:59:54.000That's what we had in Canada, and look what you're doing right now.
00:59:56.000Wouldn't it have been nice when we were there to have some kind of an alternative?
01:00:01.000Corporate media is government media in Canada.
01:00:04.000You've got CBC, which is the Canada Broadcasting Corporation, or the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
01:00:08.000Radio-Canada, which is Radio-Canada, the French version.
01:00:11.000Then you've got CTV News, Global News, whatever else the local branches are.
01:00:15.000It's all government-funded, either directly or indirectly, through government advertising, COVID subsidies, bailouts for print, advertising for digital.
01:00:25.000It's all government run, government owned, government controlled.
01:00:28.000And now we're entering into an election where the competition to the government is the one promising to defund the state funded media.
01:00:35.000Well, that's what happened with Trudeau, right?
01:00:42.000He either promised a hundred or a hundred and fifty million, and I think the NDP candidate promised like fifty or a hundred million.
01:00:47.000There was a discrepancy of about fifty million, and they were like, I don't go with Trudeau!
01:00:51.000Well, the NDP, which is the New Democratic Party, is tanking.
01:00:54.000It looks like everyone that was voting for them is going to vote for the liberals now.
01:00:57.000But yeah, it's a question of who can give the state-funded media more money compared to the conservative party, which wants to defund the CBC.
01:01:04.000And you see it in the way they control the narrative, suppress dissident voices in the upcoming election and the 2021 election.
01:01:13.000If people want to know what the left would do here in the United States, I mean, they would be at least Canada in a heartbeat if they had complete unfettered power.
01:01:34.000It looks like, I mean, if you go by the markets, it looks like Mark Carney, who now has a commanding lead in the markets and a ridiculous lead in the polls, but I don't trust the polls.
01:01:43.000It looks like they're going to try to make enemies out of America, ally with Europe or Yeah, we're good.
01:01:54.000themselves to be the enemy of the United States.
01:01:56.000And it starts as fun and games on the tariff war.
01:01:59.000But when it becomes actual issues for national security in terms of Chinese infiltration into Canadian government, Indian, uh, Terrorist elements infiltrating Canadian government, fentanyl, terrorists crossing the border.
01:02:10.000Well, then it goes from being a tariff war to being something much more serious as far as national security goes for the United States.
01:02:15.000Yeah, and it also makes me question their judgment because Canada has the United States to their south, right?
01:02:19.000They've been a horrible neighbor, but they decide to ally with Europe.
01:03:35.000Unless, oh sorry, or you could say it's the end of the world.
01:03:39.000American goods are also on sale right now apparently too.
01:03:42.000Yeah, so Viva, and I know we have a bunch of people here who, I'm sure a lot of them have questions, but let me ask you this though, because you were in law in Canada, is it just the judges or did you have to wear the silly outfits and wigs?
01:03:54.000No, they don't have the wigs anymore in Canada.