{"video_id":"dpb_k-3Qz3o","title":"Trump Just Did the EXACT Opposite of What He Promised…","creator":"BlackScoutSurvival","source":"User-supplied YouTube transcript","entry_count":172,"duration_seconds":1316,"entries":[{"time":"0:00","seconds":0,"text":"Next guys, I want you to look at what happened essentially over one weekend because taken separately, these stories look like normal political BS, but put"},{"time":"0:09","seconds":9,"text":"them together and they tell you something much bigger about where we're going. Donald Trump just escalated a trade war with Canada. Trade war,"},{"time":"0:19","seconds":19,"text":"Carney's calling it a war. And uh this is one of our largest trading partners."},{"time":"0:26","seconds":26,"text":"A lot of people that aren't in the know may think it's nothing."},{"time":"0:30","seconds":30,"text":"This is a country whose economy economies basically bolted on ours. The United States just slapped 50% tariffs"},{"time":"0:39","seconds":39,"text":"on roughly 20 billion worth of Canadian goods after negotiations collapsed."},{"time":"0:43","seconds":43,"text":"Canada immediately said, \"Fine, you hit us. We're hitting you back dollar for dollar. Their retaliatory tariffs are"},{"time":"0:50","seconds":50,"text":"scheduled to begin September 8th.\" And according to the US Trade Representative, there aren't even new negotiations currently scheduled. So, we're not talking about, \"Hey, man,"},{"time":"0:58","seconds":58,"text":"we're negotiating hard.\" No, the negotiations failed. The tariffs went into effect. Canada is retaliating."},{"time":"1:05","seconds":65,"text":"Listen to the guy. Canada will match Washington's new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian"},{"time":"1:12","seconds":72,"text":"workers, farmers, families, and businesses."},{"time":"1:17","seconds":77,"text":"Our response will be concentrated in sectors such as steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics."},{"time":"1:26","seconds":86,"text":"also include products that are currently subject to unjustified section 232 and 338 tariffs."},{"time":"1:35","seconds":95,"text":"Fantastic news, man. Because what you just heard there, we're going to talk about a little bit because apparently groceries, housing, fuel, and everything"},{"time":"1:43","seconds":103,"text":"else weren't expensive enough. We needed to add a a little international economic knife fight to the grocery seat. But here's where this gets absolutely freaking bizarre."},{"time":"1:54","seconds":114,"text":"At almost the exact same time of raising the tariffs on Canada, Donald Trump announces he's removing tariffs on"},{"time":"2:02","seconds":122,"text":"foreign beef because Americans can't afford it. Think about that for a second. We're putting tariffs up over"},{"time":"2:10","seconds":130,"text":"here because tariffs supposedly protect American industry and we're taking tariffs down over here because"},{"time":"2:18","seconds":138,"text":"apparently tariffs apparently make products more expensive. Interesting."},{"time":"2:23","seconds":143,"text":"We're going to come back to that because it's very contradicting. Now, today I concluded a deal to substantially lower"},{"time":"2:31","seconds":151,"text":"the price of American ground beef for American working families. As everyone knows, under President Biden, beef prices soared at their fastest rate, and"},{"time":"2:39","seconds":159,"text":"American beef herd fell to its smallest size in modern history. As we work to rebuild this herd and help our ranchers for the next 90 days, the United States"},{"time":"2:47","seconds":167,"text":"will allow up to 300 metric tonses of product for ground beef to be imported with no out of quota tariff."},{"time":"2:55","seconds":175,"text":"We have a commitment that this beef will be sold at 25% below current market prices. This deal reduce prices for Americans while giving space for our great American beef herd to grow again."},{"time":"3:06","seconds":186,"text":"Now, to be fair, Donald Trump is not the sole blame for this. This is this has been years and years and years of"},{"time":"3:13","seconds":193,"text":"Democrats and Republicans just destroying our food, right? And beef is a part of the story"},{"time":"3:21","seconds":201,"text":"is one of the strangest pieces of policy that I've seen in a while we're talking about here. Okay, for the next 90 days, he's going to allow 300,000 metric tons"},{"time":"3:31","seconds":211,"text":"of product for ground beef to enter without a quot of terror. He says, \"Foreign exporters have committed to"},{"time":"3:39","seconds":219,"text":"selling that beef 25% below current marketplace.\" Okay, that actually sounds fantastic. Cheap hamburgers, everybody"},{"time":"3:46","seconds":226,"text":"wins. Except somebody asked a pretty simple question."},{"time":"3:52","seconds":232,"text":"Where did the patty come from? Where did the beef come from?"},{"time":"3:58","seconds":238,"text":"We have right now. The growth will take care of that very easily. Mr."},{"time":"4:03","seconds":243,"text":"Mr. on the beef deal. Which countries did you make that deal with? What are the sources? The beef deal."},{"time":"4:10","seconds":250,"text":"I don't want to say which countries, but there are a few countries, but they're going to be sending in the highest quality beef. And it's something that we need."},{"time":"4:20","seconds":260,"text":"The highest quality beef. He actually said, I don't want to say which countries,"},{"time":"4:27","seconds":267,"text":"right? He called it high quality beef, but he wouldn't identify them. I'm sorry, man. What? We're announcing 300,000 metric tons of form beef"},{"time":"4:35","seconds":275,"text":"allegedly discounted 25%. And the answer is none of your freaking business. It's incredible,"},{"time":"4:44","seconds":284,"text":"right? And I'm not telling you this beef is unsafe. Could it be? Absolutely."},{"time":"4:50","seconds":290,"text":"I'm not telling you secretly it's pork or horse. I'm not telling you it's radioactive cow ass scraped off the floor of some Soviet slaughterhouse."},{"time":"5:00","seconds":300,"text":"Trump says it's high quality beef."},{"time":"5:02","seconds":302,"text":"Right. But it's a little alarming that we got mystery meat. Okay. Mystery meat surrounding this deal. Which countries?"},{"time":"5:11","seconds":311,"text":"Which exporters? Which importers? How exactly is the 25% discount in force?"},{"time":"5:16","seconds":316,"text":"How does Washington guarantee that discount reaches you at the grocery store? Because exporters don't determine"},{"time":"5:23","seconds":323,"text":"the final price at Walmart. Walmart does, right? And even reporting on the deal notes that it's unclear how the"},{"time":"5:31","seconds":331,"text":"administration can guarantee that full discount gets passed through to consumers. So, so imagine this."},{"time":"5:39","seconds":339,"text":"The exporter sells it cheaper. Importer gets their cut, processor gets theirs, distributor gets theirs, retailer gets theirs, and then you walk into Publix 3"},{"time":"5:48","seconds":348,"text":"months from now and it's like, why is this damn hamburger still $7? And the cow just sits there and shrugs."},{"time":"5:55","seconds":355,"text":"Now, here's where I think this becomes a very serious America first question because America's cattle producers are already pissed off, right? The National"},{"time":"6:03","seconds":363,"text":"Cattleman's Beef Association came out against this move, saying flooding the market with cheaper foreign beef could undermine American cattle producers at"},{"time":"6:12","seconds":372,"text":"the exact same moment the country needs to be rebuilding its domestic herd. Right."},{"time":"6:18","seconds":378,"text":"And and people are flipping out. GOP lawmakers criticized Trump's beef import blowback. beef producers disappointed by"},{"time":"6:26","seconds":386,"text":"Trump's and and and so a lot of people that aren't in the know that aren't in the agriculture will immediately blame the producers and etc etc but we're"},{"time":"6:34","seconds":394,"text":"going to get to that wait good ranchers came out and said we don't understand why beef prices [snorts] are a problem right now ground beef is"},{"time":"6:43","seconds":403,"text":"averaging 689 a pound up 57% since 2021 and that's real pressure on American families [clears throat] but flooding the market with this meat"},{"time":"6:51","seconds":411,"text":"is not the solution for American ranchers. It's a short-term price fix and that puts more downward pressure on the cattle producers who are already"},{"time":"6:58","seconds":418,"text":"struggling to stay viable. Trump has not said which countries the beef is coming from or who committed to the 25% reduction he's promising. It's [snorts]"},{"time":"7:06","seconds":426,"text":"also fearful because we heard Iran has been wanting to make a deal for quite some time. We've heard that. We've heard"},{"time":"7:13","seconds":433,"text":"it. Listen to this rancher here talking about here. This guy's a veteran uh that started ranching."},{"time":"7:18","seconds":438,"text":"So, the government has decided they're going to allow 300 metric tons of imported ground beef into the country."},{"time":"7:27","seconds":447,"text":"And not only are they going to do that by getting rid of the terrace for it, but they're also going to allow it to come in at 25% under market value. The"},{"time":"7:37","seconds":457,"text":"same day that passed is the same day that the future of cattle dropped as well."},{"time":"7:43","seconds":463,"text":"Ranchers have to have the ability to replace their herd by keeping replacement heers. They can only do that"},{"time":"7:51","seconds":471,"text":"if the market is strong. Well, what you've [snorts] just did is make our market for our American ranchers weaker."},{"time":"7:58","seconds":478,"text":"Now that we're at a 100redyear all-time low in cattle, how are we supposed to ever build these numbers back up? You're making it where instead of supporting"},{"time":"8:06","seconds":486,"text":"the American farmer, you're now supporting foreign beef and you're only making us weaker and making it harder on us."},{"time":"8:16","seconds":496,"text":"[clears throat]"},{"time":"8:17","seconds":497,"text":"This this is argument is not difficult to understand. If you want more American beef five years from now, somebody has"},{"time":"8:25","seconds":505,"text":"to raise more cattle today. That means keeping breeding cows, buying feed, buying land, paying veterinarians, running tractors, running trucks, paying"},{"time":"8:32","seconds":512,"text":"employees, surviving drought, disease, surviving Washington. And all of that costs money. If we look at what is some"},{"time":"8:40","seconds":520,"text":"of the futures here, live cattle futures, they were going up. And you see they drop tremendously."},{"time":"8:48","seconds":528,"text":"So it says the note here it says worth noting that under Biden cattle futures grew 70% during the final two years and under Trump it has experienced the"},{"time":"8:56","seconds":536,"text":"sharpest decline since the pandemic very scary things right"},{"time":"9:03","seconds":543,"text":"but going back a few months ago this is not something new because Trump was buying Argentina beef and and I don't"},{"time":"9:10","seconds":550,"text":"know they don't label if you know this they don't label country of origin so you may be buying if you've eaten some meat and it's just like you go get steak and it's just terrible cut and so on."},{"time":"9:19","seconds":559,"text":"It's probably a foreign produced meat."},{"time":"9:23","seconds":563,"text":"Trump admitted that he was going to start buying Argentinian beef. And he was asked this month ago, what what do what"},{"time":"9:30","seconds":570,"text":"about the ranchers that are upset about this?"},{"time":"9:32","seconds":572,"text":"What do you have to say to us farmers who feel that the deal is benefiting Argentina more than it is them as they are"},{"time":"9:40","seconds":580,"text":"Argentina's fighting for its life? Young lady, you don't know anything about it."},{"time":"9:44","seconds":584,"text":"They're fighting for their life. Nothing is benefiting Argentina. They're fighting for their life. You understand what that means? They have no money."},{"time":"9:51","seconds":591,"text":"They have no anything. They're fighting so hard to survive."},{"time":"9:55","seconds":595,"text":"Americans are fighting hard for their lives right now and ranchers are. And if your long-term objective is rebuilding the American cattle herd, what happens"},{"time":"10:02","seconds":602,"text":"when you Washington suddenly says, \"By the way, man, we're bringing in 300 tons of form beef at 25%.\" Maybe that helps the consumer"},{"time":"10:10","seconds":610,"text":"temporarily. And personally, I know what this is for. This is for the midterms."},{"time":"10:15","seconds":615,"text":"You'll probably see gas come down right before midterms as well. It always does before every election. Both sides do it."},{"time":"10:23","seconds":623,"text":"But most people don't pay attention to this or they forget when gas spikes back up after the votes are counted. Is how it is."},{"time":"10:31","seconds":631,"text":"But you now created another pressure on a domestic producer. You're supposedly trying to expand. And this is where my bigger problem comes in. Food is a"},{"time":"10:39","seconds":639,"text":"national security issue. And I don't mean that in some prepper bumper sticker way. I mean literally a modern country"},{"time":"10:46","seconds":646,"text":"has certain things that cannot become strategically dependent on for other countries to provide. Energy, medicine,"},{"time":"10:54","seconds":654,"text":"semiconductors, critical minerals, weapons, and food. You don't need to produce a 100% of everything domestically. You don't. Although it is how we won World War II."},{"time":"11:06","seconds":666,"text":"If you s system systemically or systematically sorry destroy your own production capacity because the foreign product is temporarily cheaper"},{"time":"11:14","seconds":674,"text":"eventually you don't have a domestic capacity anymore and then cheap foreign product stops being a bargain it becomes the leverage because when somebody else"},{"time":"11:23","seconds":683,"text":"controls something you can't live without it they control the ne negotiation we talk innocently about China having us by the balls because"},{"time":"11:32","seconds":692,"text":"they manufacture electronics pharmaceuticals and rare Earth processing whatever. Okay. What happens when another country has your has you by"},{"time":"11:40","seconds":700,"text":"balls over food? You think tariff negotiations are ugly now? Imagine negotiating when the thing crossing the"},{"time":"11:48","seconds":708,"text":"border isn't a television but it's dinner. Now let's since we're bringing up tariffs, let's get back to that."},{"time":"11:55","seconds":715,"text":"I think this beef announcement accidentally exposes something politicians have been dancing around. We've repeatedly heard"},{"time":"12:02","seconds":722,"text":"versions of foreign countries pay the tariffs. Okay, then explain this. Why are the they suddenly suspending beef"},{"time":"12:09","seconds":729,"text":"tariffs specifically to make beef cheaper for Americans? You can't have the simplistic version of both arguments. You cannot say tariffs don't"},{"time":"12:18","seconds":738,"text":"raise prices for Americans and then turn around and say we're removing this tariff so Americans can pay less. If removing the tax lowers the price,"},{"time":"12:26","seconds":746,"text":"somebody on this side of the border was obviously carrying that cost. People are pretending tariffs are magic invoices mailed directly to Beijing."},{"time":"12:37","seconds":757,"text":"And that's why this Canada situation is so important."},{"time":"12:41","seconds":761,"text":"We're now dramatically increasing tariffs on certain Canadian goods because the stated goal is protecting American workers and supply chain."},{"time":"12:49","seconds":769,"text":"Meanwhile, we're eliminating tariffs on foreign beef because American consumers need lower lower prices. So, which principle wins? Protect domestic"},{"time":"12:58","seconds":778,"text":"production or obtain the cheapest possible foreign product? Because depending on what product we're talking about this week? We're apparently doing"},{"time":"13:06","seconds":786,"text":"both. And that's not strategy. That's that's economic whack-a-ole. Price pops up here, whack. Tariff removed. Trade dispute pops there, whack. 50% tariff."},{"time":"13:18","seconds":798,"text":"Rancher complains. Whack. Import more beef. Consumer prices rise. Whack. Blame someone else. And meanwhile, Americans"},{"time":"13:26","seconds":806,"text":"are standing underneath the machine getting hit in the head with a freaking mallet."},{"time":"13:33","seconds":813,"text":"Look at this. Trump temporarily waves higher beef uh beef tariffs to lower prices. Well, I thought we don't pay it."},{"time":"13:39","seconds":819,"text":"I thought we don't pay it. Huh?"},{"time":"13:42","seconds":822,"text":"Oh, but we are. American paying for Trump's tariff study fine. So you're getting all these other taxes along with your tariff tax. You're talking about getting"},{"time":"13:50","seconds":830,"text":"a tariff refund check. You're you didn't you didn't get a doge check. You didn't get any of these things. You add another"},{"time":"13:58","seconds":838,"text":"layer to this. Energy. Our agriculture doesn't exist in some magical field where costs don't matter. You're talking diesel, transportation, fertilizer, refrigeration, processing, and shipping."},{"time":"14:09","seconds":849,"text":"We're simultaneously dealing with an enormous geopolitical crisis over there in the straight of Hormuz, right?"},{"time":"14:19","seconds":859,"text":"Washington has escalated economic pressure on Iran while military and shipping tensions around Hormuz remain"},{"time":"14:26","seconds":866,"text":"part of the conflict. So if energy remains elevated, guess what happens?"},{"time":"14:32","seconds":872,"text":"The ranchers pay more processor the trucker and eventually you pay more. You cannot keep increasing the cost structure underneath American production"},{"time":"14:41","seconds":881,"text":"and then act confused when American products become more expensive."},{"time":"14:44","seconds":884,"text":"Everything has come become more expensive. Have you been to the store lately? Have you feel people saying everything has been astronomically it since the pandemic that thing has been going up?"},{"time":"14:54","seconds":894,"text":"Another thing too is a this is a volatile topic is that labor fits into this because you'll hear well American farmers just need to produce cheaper."},{"time":"15:03","seconds":903,"text":"Okay, how land costs more, equipment costs more, fuel, labor, insurance, financing, and then they're enforcing"},{"time":"15:11","seconds":911,"text":"immigration policy more aggressively, which can tighten certain low-wage labor markets."},{"time":"15:17","seconds":917,"text":"And the other thing is, I don't want to [ \\_\\_ ] you here. H-1B is not a program for farm workers. It's just not. H1B is generally skilled professional labor."},{"time":"15:28","seconds":928,"text":"for bringing those guys in at the largest scale since because the buddies of the Trump administration,"},{"time":"15:36","seconds":936,"text":"these larger corporations, they want cheap labor. They're funding Donald Trump so he's like bringing in H-1B so they can come take your job."},{"time":"15:46","seconds":946,"text":"Agriculture relies on something called a H2A, temporary agricultural worker visa."},{"time":"15:52","seconds":952,"text":"And so anyway, politically, look at the message. American create can create systems to bring in foreign labor where businesses say they need it like again"},{"time":"16:02","seconds":962,"text":"all your jobs that are getting sold out to the lowest bidder. Meanwhile, domestic agricultural production becomes"},{"time":"16:10","seconds":970,"text":"too expensive and one solution suddenly becomes hey just import it, import more finished uh food. How exactly does that rebuild a"},{"time":"16:19","seconds":979,"text":"miracle? That is a philosophical contradiction."},{"time":"16:25","seconds":985,"text":"Uh because America first cannot simply mean whatever Donald Trump announced today. America first used to have a pretty understandable pitch. Bring"},{"time":"16:34","seconds":994,"text":"manufacturing home. Protect strategic industry. Stop hollowing out American towns. Stop depending on foreign"},{"time":"16:42","seconds":1002,"text":"governments, foreign labor. Put the American worker first. Okay? Those principles shouldn't disappear when the"},{"time":"16:49","seconds":1009,"text":"American worker is wearing boots and standing next to cattle in a trailer instead of wearing a hard hat inside of a factory. If American manufacturing"},{"time":"16:58","seconds":1018,"text":"matters, if the agriculture does, if domestic supply chains matter,"},{"time":"17:05","seconds":1025,"text":"domestic food production, if foreign dependence is dangerous when we're talking about microchips, it's probably worth thinking about when we're talking about freaking dinner."},{"time":"17:18","seconds":1038,"text":"Right. And going back to can Canada ain't China. It's not Iran or North Korea."},{"time":"17:24","seconds":1044,"text":"Right. We have one of the most deepest economic relationships with them. We imported hundreds of billions of dollars worth of Canadian goods the last year."},{"time":"17:34","seconds":1054,"text":"Right."},{"time":"17:36","seconds":1056,"text":"But there's, you know, talking about steel, aluminum, autos, lumber, dude. I mean"},{"time":"17:43","seconds":1063,"text":"everything now they're saying they're going dollar for dollar with us, right?"},{"time":"17:50","seconds":1070,"text":"If we're asking for these higher pro prices and disruptive supply chains because tariffs are necessary to protect"},{"time":"17:58","seconds":1078,"text":"American economic interests against Canada while simultaneously waving tariffs on foreign meat because Americans need cheaper groceries."},{"time":"18:06","seconds":1086,"text":"Maybe there's a coherent strategy somewhere, some 40 chess I'm not understanding."},{"time":"18:12","seconds":1092,"text":"Explain it because I'm I'm lost. Explain to me like I'm a five-year-old, right?"},{"time":"18:16","seconds":1096,"text":"Because from where I'm sitting, it looks like we're creating cost of one hand and then desperately trying to erase the consequences with the other. And that's"},{"time":"18:24","seconds":1104,"text":"before we even address the weirdest freaking part. We still don't know which countries are behind this giant beef agreement, right? The highest quality beef. But don't ask where it's from."},{"time":"18:37","seconds":1117,"text":"It sounds like a guy selling stakes out the trunk of his Buick behind the Dollar General, man."},{"time":"18:44","seconds":1124,"text":"And I don't care whether you love Donald Trump, whether you hate him, remove the per personality from this, take the red hat off, take the blue hat off, whatever. Just look at the policy."},{"time":"18:55","seconds":1135,"text":"If terrorists protect American producers, then explain why removing tariffs and importing discounted beef won't hurt American ranchers."},{"time":"19:02","seconds":1142,"text":"Simple. If tariffs aren't paid by American consumers and explain why removing a tariff supposed to make beef"},{"time":"19:09","seconds":1149,"text":"cheaper and if America first make America great again means reducing foreign dependency"},{"time":"19:18","seconds":1158,"text":"explain how deliberately increasing foreign food supply fits that strategy because no other industry that would work for. You say, you know, we're going to bring a bunch of cheap cars would"},{"time":"19:26","seconds":1166,"text":"totally destroy American automotives, right?"},{"time":"19:30","seconds":1170,"text":"That's why they don't allow certain vehicles to be sold here that are sold in some other countries because it would just decimate the country, the manufacturing."},{"time":"19:40","seconds":1180,"text":"But I I just don't know why we're escalating a trade war, guys. And and then everything of that goes downstream to Americans at already high prices, man. And that ain't a liberal question."},{"time":"19:51","seconds":1191,"text":"That ain't a that ain't a a MAGA question. These are just simple math questions, bro. That's all this is. Math questions."},{"time":"19:59","seconds":1199,"text":"Right. And I think we're going to be dealing with these consequences a lot longer than 90 days. I'm sorry. Years. Years."},{"time":"20:08","seconds":1208,"text":"I'd love to know your thoughts, guys. To me, it just seems very evident. I don't know why people aren't thinking. Uh they they see this and they they think"},{"time":"20:16","seconds":1216,"text":"nothing about it. I'm not sure. Anyway, like my shirt says, no one is coming to save you. We got some of these left."},{"time":"20:22","seconds":1222,"text":"This is from the In-N-Out Burger where our old buddy was laying out suppressive fire. saved a bunch of people with that, him and a police officer. So, go grab"},{"time":"20:30","seconds":1230,"text":"one up. We have a few left. And also, tomorrow the sale ends for buy one get one free on all of our knives for"},{"time":"20:39","seconds":1239,"text":"National Knife Day. And we're doing that obviously because the economy sucks and not something we'll probably ever do"},{"time":"20:47","seconds":1247,"text":"again, but just right now I felt led to do that. Um, someone asked me, he said, \"Why are you doing this with the economy?\" It's the precise reason I"},{"time":"20:56","seconds":1256,"text":"can't I don't sell gas, so I can't help you there. I don't sell bread, so I can't help you there. But what can I help you with? Giving you tools to"},{"time":"21:04","seconds":1264,"text":"defend yourself, survive if absolutely have to. Tools you can trust, and and and and taking a massive loss doing it."},{"time":"21:12","seconds":1272,"text":"It doesn't make sense why somebody would even be upset that we as a company are taking a massive loss to help other people. It's absolutely insane. But"},{"time":"21:20","seconds":1280,"text":"people are insane now. Everybody's insane if you hadn't noticed. That's where we are in the world. Anyway guys, go grab a shirt. Let everybody know no"},{"time":"21:27","seconds":1287,"text":"one is coming to save you. This is Black Scout Survival. Stay frosty, stay strapped, stay dangerous, and I will see you in the next one. Black Scout out."},{"time":"21:35","seconds":1295,"text":"Two, three, two. [music]"},{"time":"21:47","seconds":1307,"text":"[music]"},{"time":"21:56","seconds":1316,"text":"[music]"}]}