BAD NEWS for Tesla: Musk FINALLY gets what he DESERVES

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00:00If you're wondering what it looks like when Elon Musk gets a taste of his own medicine,

00:04Tesla just sent a letter to the US trade representative that President Donald Trump's trade war could

00:08make it a target for retaliatory tariffs against the US.

00:11Quote, as a US manufacturer and exporter, Tesla encourages USTR to consider the downstream

00:17impacts of certain proposed actions taken to address unfair trade practices.

00:21In other words, the trade war that Donald Trump launched is now set to hurt Elon Musk's

00:26own company.

00:27If you're looking for some poetic justice, this is it.

00:31And to be clear, this is why these tariffs are so damaging, because they lead to reciprocal

00:36tariffs and trade wars benefit no one.

00:39Like it or not, we live in a global economy.

00:41We rely on other countries, like for example China and Canada and Mexico, for auto parts

00:47among a raft of other goods.

00:49So when you haphazardly impose tariffs on those countries, which impact sales, countries

00:54respond accordingly, which means that prices rise for everyone.

00:57And at the end of the day, the winner is literally no one.

01:01And yet will that move Trump?

01:03Absolutely not, as he proves right here.

01:07Why should we subsidize another country for 200 billion?

01:10Of course it's 200 billion dollars a year.

01:12And again, we don't need their lumber.

01:14We don't need their energy.

01:15We have more than they do.

01:17We don't need anything.

01:18We don't need the cars.

01:19I'd much rather make the cars here.

01:22And there's not a thing that we need.

01:24Now there'll be a little disruption, but it won't be very long.

01:29But they need us.

01:30We really don't need them.

01:31And we have to do this.

01:32I'm sorry.

01:33We have to do this.

01:34Yes.

01:35And why won't he change his stance?

01:36Well, that's easy.

01:37Because he's also stated his position.

01:39And Trump views any reversal as a capitulation.

01:41And his ego couldn't possibly handle that.

01:44And so instead, we're forced to barrel ahead as our economy crashes and the stock market

01:48tanks, all because Trump is too fucking sensitive to alter his strategy because his fragile

01:53sense of masculinity can't handle it.

01:56And yet, we're told that women are too emotional to be president.

01:59Right.

02:00And let's be clear.

02:01Tesla wouldn't be the first company to be subjected to retaliatory tariffs.

02:05According to reporting from over a month ago, Canada would specifically target their tariffs

02:09to impact red states.

02:11According to the New York Times, the Canadian officials said their choice of goods was meant

02:14to be precisely targeted and aimed at political impact.

02:17They specifically want to focus on goods made in Republican or swing states where the

02:21pain of tariffs, like pressure on jobs and the bottom lines of local businesses, would

02:25affect Trump allies.

02:27Canada's government hopes that those allies, including governors or members of Congress,

02:31would then pick up the phone and call Mr. Trump intervening in favor of de-escalation.

02:35Melanie Jolly, Canada's foreign minister, met with a slew of Republicans to make her

02:39country's case, including Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sen. Jim Reich of Idaho,

02:44and the Senate Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota.

02:46Ms. Jolly said that she hoped her outreach to senior Republicans would persuade them

02:50to intervene to avert or limit a trade war and its negative impact on consumers and jobs

02:55on both sides of the border.

02:56Quote, my job here is to be able to talk about facts and that comes before any threat of

03:00counter tariffs from our side.

03:02Because then the senators might say, well why are we doing this?

03:04Why are we imposing tariffs?

03:05It's affecting my own constituency.

03:08First of all, pretty funny to think that these Republican officials would ever put their

03:12own loyalty to their own constituents above their loyalty to the God King, Donald Trump.

03:17But in fact, Canada immediately began doing what it promised.

03:20British Columbia announced that it would no longer buy American liquor from red states

03:23in response to the tariffs.

03:25As a first step in response to the tariffs, the premier has announced immediate measures,

03:28including, British Columbia's premier has directed the B.C. liquor distribution branch

03:32to immediately stop buying American liquor from red states and to remove the top-selling

03:35red state brands from the shelves of public liquor stores, and directed the B.C. government

03:40and crown corporations to buy Canadian goods and services first.

03:43And this is what it looks like inside of Canadian grocery stores as employees clear the shelves

03:47of American liquor.

03:49That right there is bullet bourbon.

03:50It comes from Kentucky, meaning that red state's economy is going to suffer as the direct result

03:55of Donald Trump's policies.

03:57Here's even Fox News reporting on how Trump's tariffs on our neighbors are raising prices

04:01on pickup trucks.

04:03Could be ground zero for the impact on the tariffs, Maria.

04:06This Dodge Ram truck, $80,000, instantly became $100,000.

04:14Now I understand that I might be working off of stereotypes here, but I think a number

04:18of Trump supporters might have just a particular interest in the rising cost of pickup trucks.

04:24Just a wild guess.

04:25And yet I have to repeat for the umpteenth time, none of this should come as a surprise

04:29to anyone.

04:31Donald Trump has been adamant about the fact that his policies, far from lowering costs

04:35on day one, as promised, will actually cause pain.

04:39His words, not mine.

04:41We may have short term, some little pain and people understand that, but long term, the

04:47United States has been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.

04:51We have deficits with almost every country, not every country, but almost, and we're going

04:56to change it.

04:57It's been unfair.

04:58That's why we owe $36 trillion.

05:01We have deficits with everybody.

05:03We help everybody.

05:04We've been helping everybody for years, and to be honest, I don't think they appreciate

05:08it.

05:09So we're going to change that.

05:10We're going to change it fast.

05:11We're going to make America great again.

05:13We have to focus on our country.

05:15We have tremendous potential if properly used, and we have to focus on our country.

05:21Tremendous deficits with China, tremendous deficits with the European Union, tremendous

05:27deficits with Mexico and Canada.

05:30And of course, the little foot soldiers on the right are dutifully falling in line, now

05:35propping up this talking point about enduring pain as if it's our patriotic duty to do so.

05:40And Trump's tariffs make an America great again.

05:43It's a great strategy is somebody's finally doing something out of the White House.

05:49President Trump, that is, that says you have to take an action in another country.

05:53Yeah.

05:54Uh, no pain, no gain.

05:56That's what we used to tell our football players.

05:58There's going to be some pain with tariffs, but tariffs got us back as the strongest economy

06:03in the world.

06:04When President Trump was in the first time, he knows what he's doing.

06:07Democrats get out of the way.

06:08Shut up.

06:09You have no answers.

06:10You didn't do anything right in the last four years with Joe Biden.

06:13We have a game plan.

06:14Trump has a game plan along with Howard Ludnick and the other people that that are pushing

06:19the tariffs.

06:20We can turn this thing around.

06:22But folks, let me tell you, this is our last chance.

06:25If we can't get it done now with tariffs and with putting and pulling regulations and getting

06:29people back to work and cutting our debt and cutting the amount of spending, we're

06:34not going to have the country that we've had before.

06:36So people need to just listen, learn from this, understand it's short term pain.

06:42We're going to get this turned around.

06:43President Trump knows exactly what he's doing and he has a game plan, something Democrats

06:48didn't know anything about.

06:49So I suppose my message now is quite simple.

06:52If the goal out of the Trump administration is that it's somehow our patriotic duty to

06:55endure pain and hardship, then Elon Musk should be first in line to volunteer to endure it.

07:01The fact that he clearly won't goes to show that while Elon and Trump are perfectly content

07:05to mandate that the rest of us do, is a testament to the fact that their mantra here is pain

07:10for thee, but not for me.

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