Share The Struggle
Share The Struggle
Rekindling the American Dream: Tariff Truth and a Path to Unity 227
Amidst the shifting tides of American politics, we're sharing our personal journey through the exhilarating aftermath of the 2024 presidential election. As a small business owner navigating the crossroads of expansion or closure, the election felt like a beacon of hope, rekindling faith in the American dream. Our family's decision to vote with our daughter's future in mind highlights the priorities of safety and prosperity, shaping our outlook on national security and economic stability. Join us as we unravel the story of resilience and the strength we find in struggles, buoyed by an election that promises opportunity for all.
Experience the electricity of a nation in celebration, as we reflect on a sleepless night filled with gratitude for the democratic process. Witness the triumph of the "Loud Proud Americans," whose voices resonated in election results that emphasize unity over division. We unpack the contrasting media narratives from Newsmax, Fox News and liberal media, delve into discussions about voter integrity, and explore the collective journey through shared hardships that have paved a path toward newfound optimism. This episode captures the raw emotions and reflections on an election that many see as a turning point.
Feel the patriotic pulse of a unified America as we recount a day of post-election euphoria reminiscent of post-9/11 solidarity. Our discussion calls out Kamala Harris's billion dollar campaign while celebrating widespread support for President Trump. With a passionate defense of American manufacturing, we champion tariffs and initiatives like Mission 2% as keys to revitalizing the economy. Through personal anecdotes, we advocate for genuine patriotism and collaboration, urging a shift away from divisive movements toward a brighter future for the nation.
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Prayers answered, hope restored, the American dream lives. This loud, proud American couldn't possibly be any happier with the results of the 2024 presidential election. My American dream lives, and the American dream of many, many more, is restored. A major step was taken in the unification of America. Safety, prosperity and opportunity are three big priorities for the United States of America, and I am so damn excited to talk about it today the impact on my little family, my small business about it today the impact on my little family, my small business, and just how excited I am to hear about all these damn tariffs. Let me tell you something Everybody struggles. The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it. The choice is completely yours. Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
Speaker 2:If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you. If you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations, uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you. When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense. Most disagreements, they stem from our own insecurities. You are right. Where you need to be Back on time, we can back on time.
Speaker 1:You are right where you need to be. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. What it do, what it hot I'm diggity deal, hot damn. Am I so excited to be back with you? Oh, it's true, it's damn true. Why? Because I love you. I love everybody right now. I love everybody. Oh America, how I love thee.
Speaker 1:Listen, y'all already know I'm a loud, proud American, born and raised loud, proud American. When you come out the womb and you get welcomed to the room with the last name Liberty, oh you better bet your ass, from C to shining C, you're going to find the most patriotic S-O-B in me. Oh me, you understand so. I am born and raised loud, proud American. That's the reason for this patriotic me. You understand. So I am born and raised loud, proud American. That's the reason for this patriotic season. You understand, we doubled down on our business and our plan because we love this country.
Speaker 1:And there was some moments of doubt. There was some extremely dark days. We struggled through four difficult, depressing years. But the end is in sight. The light will shine through the night. I don't know, I don't know why I'm rhyming so damn much, but it's got to be because I'm so damn excited. Oh, you bet your ass. I am excited, ass. I am excited. I'm rambling because I have so many things in my mind, so many thoughts, so many feelings, so many emotions coming straight from the heart. Right now I am so proud, excited and encouraged by this country. We're going to get things rocking and rolling here. We're going to come out the gates hard and fast.
Speaker 1:Let's connect this week to last week. Last week, when I was recording this podcast, I was sitting on the couch side by each okay, instead of side by side, that's for the French people out there listening Side by each, my wife and I and our little baby. For the very first time in both of our lives, we were voting for a president with the thought and direction and hopes and dreams and fears of our little daughter in mind. First time parents voting for an election. I can't think of a time greater in American history where a president had a major or bigger effect on child safety than this election right here. I am confident.
Speaker 1:All through the history of America, the land before time, from the first election to the latest election, people considered the impact on their children, on the next generation, generation. I'm sure that was the case, but this is the first time it was that specific case for me and my wife and I don't feel like there's ever been a more dependent time on child safety and a president than right freaking now, the things that have happened in this country, the things that have been happening right in my own little town, the craziness of litter boxes and bathrooms between grown men being in little girls' bathrooms. All the craziness grown men in women's sports, little boys in little girls' sports all these crazy, absurd things that we never could have envisioned or imagined in the history of this great country. All those things that were at stake. I don't think we've ever had a presidency with a bigger impact on child safety and the future of our next generation. So just that in itself major weight on our shoulders for this election. The overall safety in general of this country.
Speaker 1:All the illegals that have flooded into this country what is it? 18 million illegals right now, obviously based off of just the things we've seen, these homicides, that these people that are coming over here. They're not all here to start a future. They're here to destroy America. They're here to, in all honesty, as ridiculous as it sounds, to rape and pillage this country. We've seen it countless times already. Think about all those stories, all those people like Lake and Riley, all those just horrific things that have happened in this country. So the vote for our future, for our safety, for the protection of our children. Think about the weight of all of those things. And then I think of myself as a small business owner literally on the verge of either closing or expanding our business. All those things hinged on one result. All those things were dependent on which way the presidential election went. I know that's crazy to say, but it is the God's honest truth. I was beyond fearful for what might happen, for the future of my beautiful little daughter, and I was literally on the verge of closing or doubling down on our business.
Speaker 1:For those of you that are first-time listeners and you're asking yourself what the hell is this guy talking about? Well, share. The Struggle podcast is a podcast that talks about our struggles. We come on here and we share those things that we're struggling with, those things that we, as I'd like to say, are growing through not going through Over the past four years. We have grown through some shit. The truth is, when you are bold enough and you are brave enough to turn on a microphone and to share your soul and your deepest fears and emotions. There is strength that comes to you by sharing those things and there is strength that is multiplied, because a story shared is a story multiplied and a strength multiplied, you understand, by sharing things, being brave enough to express those things. People learn from your fears, people learn from your struggles. They get courage to grow through their own things when they hear you growing through yours. That's the fundamental basis of this podcast. That's why we come on here week after week for 227 consecutive weeks, and we share our souls.
Speaker 1:Now, the meat and potatoes of all this is that this podcast wouldn't be possible if it wasn't brought to you by a little brand called Loud Proud American. That brand just happens to be my own brand, the brand of my family, a brand that represents the American spirit, with an unrelenting commitment to provide only made in American products. We are a patriotic brand. We are a brand that 100% buys into, believes and commits to American manufacturing. We are creating American jobs and we are spreading American love. We are a patriotic brand and over the past few years being on the road, I have been blown away by some of the resistance that we have experienced, some of the negative things that have been thrown at us that have been said about us Considering us a political conspiracy group, accusing us of being racist because of our belief in the American flag.
Speaker 1:I do not know at what point in this great country the American flag became a symbol of hate, but it is disgusting and I'm encouraged that those things I do feel will be going away. I've spoke to many, many people that love our product but say they're afraid to wear our product in their own little town for what people might say. I've talked to many parents that said they've had to go pick their children up from school because they were wearing our patriotic product and they were dress coded in their own school and kicked out of class because they had an American flag on their shirt. So I say this to you if we got four more years of this current administration, it would have been very, very hard for even the most red, white and blue patriotic flag-waving SOB like me and you to continue and remain steadfast in being patriotic. I've made the joke about we might go from a loud, proud American to a quiet, defeated American, because it would be hard to remain patriotic and the truth is I think people would become more and more afraid to be patriotic that they would be bullied, they would be yelled at, shouted at, they would be segregated for being patriotic. So not only would it be hard to find people that are still believing in this country and being patriotic, it would also be hard to find people that were not afraid to stand up to society and show they're patriotic.
Speaker 1:With all those things said, I was going to, or leaning towards, closing our business or massively scaling it back to the point where we only did two or three events a year and I went back to working a full-time job, versus some other news that we'll be sharing with you in the future, based off of our belief in this country and what is now going to happen to my great brand, thanks to President-elect Donald J Trump. So this election, there was so much weight on our shoulders sitting on the couch trying to record this episode of the podcast last week live, with election results coming in, so we could always go back to remember and listen to, to hear and feel the emotion, the fear and the optimism all at once in our hearts and in our voices. So when we go back to last week and we connect the dots, y'all can feel the anxiety right, you can understand, there was a lot of optimism but there was a lot of fear in the same breath, because it just went back and forth based off of what was populating our screen. Same breath because it just went back and forth based off of what was populating our screen. So, as I'm here today, rambling and running hard and fast, showing off great, freaking emotion, it's because I am so proud to be American, I am so unbelievably encouraged by what we saw on our TV screens.
Speaker 1:Y'all, we did it. Oh, my God, oh my God, we did it. Oh, look at him. Yeah, just keep clapping, baby. Okay, you might be the only one in the room, yeah, you might be the only son of a bitch in the room, but you clap, y'all. You want to just do some snaps too? You can snap. Yeah, you can snap, just like you're a little storyteller, like at a coffee shop or something. Look at you snapping, oh, and then back to the clap. He's got the snaps and the claps. Look at him. Oh, so proud of you, you little voter, going out there and voting and leaving your opinion and letting your voice be heard and getting that little sticker that says I voted. I'm proud of you and I'm proud of each and every freaking one of you, regardless of which way you voted. I'm extremely encouraged by the way things went. But if you don't believe what I believe, then that's fine, we can have a conversation about that. That's one of the great things went. But if you don't believe what I believe, then that's fine, we can have a conversation about that. That's one of the great things about America is the ability to have a conversation, free speech, the ability to agree to disagree. You understand, we had those things taken from us in the past four years. Freedom of speech was being taken from us. God bless Elon Musk, which, by the way, I got all my news during the election on X aka Twitter, and I was bouncing back and forth from Newsmax and Fox and it was crazy to see let's just put this out there for a quick second.
Speaker 1:Newsmax called Pennsylvania for the president I would say 20 minutes, maybe 40 minutes, before Fox News called it and Newsmax announced Donald Trump as president-elect, at least bare minimum 30 minutes before Fox went out and made the announcement. Now President Trump gave his speech, which was a great speech, beautiful speech. It was a huge speech. A beautiful speech, very optimistic speech, unified speech, huge. He gave his acceptance speech, everything was kumbaya, rah, rah, rah, and I said I got to see how the other side is living right now. I got to see how the you know mainstream narrative pushing media is living right now.
Speaker 1:And I switched over and they hadn't called it. They still had him at 266 electoral votes and they were literally trying to depict a pathway for Harris to still win the presidency. Listen to this. I'm going to tell you, right now, the wife and I, we stayed up to nearly four in the morning watching this election. I'm going to tell you, the wife was putting the baby down. Newsmax called Pennsylvania for President Trump and I lost it Because I knew at that point, game set, match, it was over and the dawn was back.
Speaker 1:Match, it was over and the dawn was back. The just elations, just the excitement, knowing I'm not going to close my business and my little girl is going to be safe, those things I just I just lost it. And then I could not sleep. I didn't want to sleep. I cried, I smiled, I laughed, I clapped, I lost my lid. We were up till about four in the morning and the next morning they still hadn't called it for Donald J Trump on all the other networks. Pretty crazy. They were still kind of clinging to hope and just hoping that there was a way to fix this election.
Speaker 1:But, as I've been hoping for and praying for is a little rhyme that says too big to rig. You needed this election to be so big that they couldn't mess with it, and you didn't have the benefit of being able to mess with and manipulate mail-in ballots the way you did during COVID, when you made people too fearful to actually go and vote in person. So, which is another funny little thing right there that we need to think about, because we're not turning the clocks back to 2020. But what I'm going to say about 2020 is this Over 10 million people did not come back to vote in this election. Over 10 million people, I think that the Democrats, I think that Harris lost, like I want to say, 15 million votes compared to Biden. Where did those people go, y'all? Where did they go? You know where they went? Back to heaven. Okay, because those people that voted in 2020, they were already dead. Okay, they were already dead. I know personally of someone that their family member received a ballot for a sibling that had passed on years ago. So let's just say this these people didn't all of a sudden just decide the 2024 election was less important than the 2020 election. They were made up, okay, that's why that first election was stolen.
Speaker 1:But I'm going to say this we talk about we need to grow through things instead of go through things, and, as difficult as it was and as overwhelmingly challenging as it was, we grew through some stuff over the past four years, and what I'm going to say is this President Trump has learned so much over the past four years. This country has learned so much over the past four years. I think that there's some people in this country that would not have supported a reelected President Trump four years ago, but they've been through hell. They've seen how this country was failing. They can envision another four years of this administration and how bad this country would be. My fear of not recognizing this country was shared by so many people in this country. There are so many more people in this great country that are now optimistic and they're willing to listen. They are willing to talk, to discuss, to work together to unify this country.
Speaker 1:This country is more unified right now than it has been in a long, long time. We needed to go to the depths of hell. Sometimes you have to experience the valley to enjoy the peak. We needed to go through some shit and we have been through some shit. America, we have suffered through some shit. That's a lot of shit. I'm saying shit a lot. Hope y'all aren't offended by my shit talking. The great poet and philosopher Curtis James Jackson once said sunny days wouldn't be special if it wasn't for rain. Joy wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain. That poet and philosopher, also commonly known as 50 Cent y'all. But that's the truth. I don't think that this country would have been so accepting of President Trump if it wasn't for what we have just been through, what we just had to grow through. I think there's a great opportunity for this country to be united and to get back to really what made this country no pun intended great again.
Speaker 1:When I looked at the results of this election and you see the absolute landslide victory for President Trump in areas that people never even expected, he destroyed this election. Okay, he crushed this election, which I'm just going to put this out there to some folks in case you didn't know. The only states where Harris won in this election every single one of those states he won are the only states that do not require a voter ID, so that's a little fun fact for you. Not saying there's any connection there, but there could be. You know a little clinky dinky, but I've never seen that map so red. That tells me that all the people in this country that feel the way I feel that are thinking the way I think. We are the majority, we are not the minority.
Speaker 1:Mainstream media, for the past five, six, seven years, have been trying to control the narrative. Mainstream media has been trying to tell you that you are alone. If you are a patriotic son of a bitch that believes these certain ways, that is, a God-fearing individual that respects certain things, you are alone. You are weird, you are a stranger and you are a bully. You are somebody that should be ashamed of the way you think. Mainstream media has been pushing a narrative where people have been afraid to buck up. People have been afraid to stand up and say how they feel.
Speaker 1:The premise of Loud, proud American this company that we have, that we've founded, formed and built has been stressing the fact that it has never been more important in this country, more critical in this country, to be a loud, proud American than it is right now, because if we don't stand up, we don't buck up, get up and express how we feel and stand up for what we believe in. This country will be taken from us, it'll be stolen from us and we will never get it back. America, we got it back. There is far more loud, proud Americans out there than these woke, crazy lefties that we are seeing all over our news feeds, our social media feeds, our mainstream media feeds. We are not alone. We are not the silent minority anymore. We are the active, loud, outspoken majority. America, you showed that we are not alone. This country still bleeds red, white and blue. This country is still patriotic.
Speaker 1:Like me and you, I woke up feeling oh so optimistic. I went to bed realizing it's time to dream bigger than you ever did before. It's time to hope for and imagine, believe and achieve all those things you ever wanted. That maybe you were shooting too short, cinderella, that it was time to shoot higher than the stars. You understand. I woke up with a new focus on life. I'm telling you this.
Speaker 1:The day after the election, we went out for a coffee. We had to run some errands, we went to Walmart. It was the wife, my beautiful little baby, beautiful little girl, me and my mother. Clearly, I'm wearing a loud, proud American One Nation t-shirt, a loud, proud American hat. I got camouflage shorts on and guess what? I've got red, white and blue American flag hey, dudes on. And I am tiptoeing through the damn tulips of Walmart. I was just so bound for glory, just loving life.
Speaker 1:Our baby was smiling. Little Paisley Rain, she was smiling, counting her blessingsley rain. She was smiling, counting her blessings. She could just feel how positive we were. It was radiating off of us just how encouraged we are about this country and these opportunities. It is literally so affectious that our two-month-old baby could pick up on our positive energy and this negative weight that had come off of our shoulders, stopping in the street to yell and scream and applaud our neighbors, strangers, stopping us having conversations with us. An unbelievable time.
Speaker 1:And I got to say this the last time that I felt that America was thus unified in our direction and in our focus, that I felt that America was thus unified in our direction and in our focus, our commitment to this country, to being patriotic, was on September 12, 2001. As sad and ridiculous as that is to say on September 12, one day after 9-11, on September 12th, one day after 9-11, as down in the dumps, depressed, afraid and scared as this country was, we were unified and we were patriotic. I have never seen so many American flags in all of my life Attached to cars going down the road, everybody buying flagpoles. Those flags were sold out across town on everybody's shelves because they were being flown everywhere. We were patriotic, we were unified. We were going to bring to justice any son of a bitch that was involved in that heinous act. We were going to show everybody you don't mess with us. We have not been as unified as September 12th until November 6th 2024. I'm not comparing the situation here. I'm not saying anything like that. You can't compare to what happened on 9-11. I'm not saying that. I'm talking about the surefire act of a unified country Going to bed.
Speaker 1:I would call it now morning time On Wednesday, november 6th, because I didn't go to bed until after 4 in the morning. But I went to bed and I woke up feeling unified. I saw a red map all across this country, even in the states that voted for Harris. It was just populated areas. They're literally. If you look at the map, there wasn't any states that were just like when you drill into it, where every county, every town was just blue. That didn't happen. There's actually states that were won in every single county by President Trump.
Speaker 1:So this is the most unified this country has been. This is an opportunity, but we didn't become this unified. We didn't achieve this opportunity without growing through some shit. We went through hell. We are hardened by fire. So by going through those things, I think it convinced some people. We need Donald Trump and we need to give him our support. I think that, by this clean sweep that we saw during this election, it is going to force politicians to give him the opportunity. It is going to force people, if they want the opportunity to be reelected, to work with each other. This is what we needed to unify this country, the United States of America.
Speaker 1:Now I get it. There's still some crazy woke individuals out there. I've seen a lot of women that are divorcing their husbands, shaving their hair and committing themselves to never have sex again, to not bear a child with their husband, because of Donald Trump being elected. That's how crazy this movement has been. So let's just be thankful that that nonsense is behind us. Right, go woke, go broke. It's finally happening. Speaking of going woke and going broke. I saw something today that I don't know if you guys realized.
Speaker 1:Harris had a billion dollars to spend on her election A billion dollars. She had a billion dollars to spend. You know what she did with that billion dollars? She gave it to millionaires. She gave millions of that billion to millionaires and she still ended up $20 million in debt. Think about this, guys.
Speaker 1:Harris had a billion dollars to spend on the election, so that right there should show y'all that's how she was going to run this country. Think about it. First off, there was no primary for her to win. The democracy of Democrats was stolen when they rigged your primaries by having everybody vote for Biden and then removing him from being your elected official, your candidate, and they made that decision when there was no more time for a primary. So all the registered Democrats out there did not have the opportunity to go out and speak their mind and vote for who they wanted to represent them in this election. They were forced to have Harris, so she didn't spend all this money on the primaries. I'm trying to think when they finally turned that over to it, was it like September, october or something? It must have been earlier than that August, september, I don't remember but in a few months she had a billion dollars to win this election.
Speaker 1:She went $20 million in the hole. Do you want to know where some of that money went? She gave $10 million to Beyonce. Gave $10 million to Beyonce to back her as her presidential candidate. She gave $5 million to Megan Thee Stallion. Remember the Democratic nomination night? Megan Thee Stallion went up there shaking her ass all around the stage, which I'm not opposed to ass shaking. Let's just put that out there on record, right, lord? I apologize, but $5 million, dude, that twerking cost her $5 million for Megan Thee Stallion to perform and to back her as her candidate. $2.3 million went to Lizzo. $1.8 million went to Lizzo. $1.8 million went to Eminem. You got to be kidding me. This is proof that you can't bar your way into an election.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking about all these celebrities that promised us they would move if President Trump was elected, like all those ones I just listed, and you can add Oprah and Taylor Swift to that, and there's rumors about Oprah making bank on this endorsement as well. But she had over a billion dollars, guys. She went $20 million in the hole. She would have been in charge of this country. If that ain't scary, I don't know what the hell is. Think about that, If we can just think about the financial decisions that she made over the past few months and the impact that could have had on this country in four years. Just keep that in mind for a second. And then I want to talk to you about a little bit of something called the Trump effect. That's going around, and literally within 72 hours of Donald Trump being named president which he doesn't take office until January 20th the first female chief of staff in the history of this country was appointed. The stock market hit at all-time highs.
Speaker 1:The newest migrant caravan decided to break up and turn around. There was what I think it was like. 3,000 people headed towards this country. Most of them stopped and turned around and said I'm not messing with Trump. New York City decided to stop giving debit cards to illegal immigrants. They stopped that program. The EU wants to buy United States gas, not Russian gas. Think about that difference. Hamas wants an immediate end to the war, russia is ready to speak with the United States, the Taliban wants a new chapter and China wants peaceful coexistence. All of those things happen within 72 hours, and I also read that Trump has already spoken with nearly 70 world leaders in that amount of time.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to go ahead and I'm going to dumb this down to the way I think about things. I'm going to strip this down to a redneck, aka uneducated American according to mainstream media, and I'm going to tell you this comes down to the fact that President Trump is a legit badass. He has street cred. This is no different than prison knowledge. When you're in prison, you just need to have a persona. You need to have a personality and a demeanor that pardon my French says don't fuck with me.
Speaker 1:President Trump has all the street cred. He's the guy in prison that you don't mess with. He's the one that runs the yard. He is the dog that runs the yard. I'm telling you he has four years of experience showing you that he doesn't take no shit and that he means business. When you are nearly assassinated on live television, you get shot in the damn face and you get up with blood pouring across your face, fist in the air, and yell fight, fight, fight. You, sir, are a certified badass, a 1000% legend, the greatest leader in the history of this country. I don't know anybody else that would come up and face fear the way he did. There is a level of accountability and respect that we now have, surely solely only because President Donald J Trump is the man in charge. Some things just fall in line. I could not be happier, I could not be any more proud to be American than I am right now.
Speaker 1:With all that said, I want to address a couple things. There was a lot of people online that had been freaking out about being upset that Trump was elected and that there was this big movement going around online that says I voted for my daughter and you should apologize because you voted against your own daughter and your own kids if you voted for Trump. And there was this huge rant online about that. And my wife actually had an amazing post that she shared and with a beautiful picture of our little girl, and I just want to read that to you for a minute, because there was a lot of people that have been saying that you voted against your daughter, that I went and voted for Harris for my daughter, which I got to say. The only way you could say that that was a move or a vote for your daughter was to say that you were just trying to elect a woman president, like that was the opportunity you were trying to create, even though she was a piss, poor, awful candidate that didn't believe in democracy in the first place and really wasn't there to protect your daughter's rights. So my wife had made a post because we managed to lose a few friends over the election, which is totally fine. But everybody was going around saying I voted for my daughter. So my wife made a post that said I also voted for my daughter's rights.
Speaker 1:I voted for her right to free speech. I voted for her right to practice her religion. I voted for her right to peacefully assemble and protest a tyrannical government, regardless of her political leanings. I voted for her right to bodily autonomy without interference from experimental drug companies mandated by her government. I voted for her to exist as a woman in women's sports, to have a women's bathroom and have a woman's only dorm room. I voted for her right to bear arms. I voted for her right to a secure border and safe streets. I voted for her financial freedom so when she grows up she's not bound by a tyrannical government that overspends. I voted for her innocence. I voted to protect her from gender confusion and chemical castration as a minor. I voted for her right to grow up being raised by her parents instead of being co-parented with the government. That is why I voted for Donald J Trump. We went to the polls and we voted for our daughter, and we went to the polls and we voted for our business.
Speaker 1:And getting back to business is something else I want to kind of tap into, because there's a lot of people that are freaking out online about all these tariffs and I've seen a lot of businesses complaining about these tariffs and I actually read a post today from somebody that said you know, all you Trump voters and supporters don't understand how these tariffs work, that you know $20 t-shirt that you're buying is going to be $50 on the shelf when it comes in from China and it's been taxed by 100%. So you know, good luck buying all these goods. And I've seen people going off about how you know. If you think the economy sucks now and it's hard to get by and to pay your bills now, wait till these tariffs take effect. All this talk about the tariffs and how it's going to crush our economy it's going to crush, you know, the middle class. I am going to crush that bullshit. These tariffs are to even the playing fields. These tariffs are to benefit American manufacturing. These tariffs are to benefit American jobs, benefit the American farmer.
Speaker 1:Listen, I feel like I am more than qualified to speak on tariffs, considering the fact that I am a small business, owner of a business that solely 100% is committed to American made goods. My business has a little, something that we came up with called Mission 2%. It is the core belief and the founding mission of our business Mission 2%. In 1960, 95% of all apparel purchased in the United States was made in the United States. In 1980, 70% of all apparel purchased in the USA was made in the USA. In 1993, 50% of all apparel purchased in the USA was made in the USA. Today, only 2% of the apparel purchased in the United States is made in the United States of America.
Speaker 1:Support the mission, join the 2% of Americans that buy American and support American. Together we can bring back American manufacturing. Mission 2% is to get back even close to where we used to be. Think about it In 1960, 95% of all of our goods, all of our apparel, was made in this country. These tariffs are going to bring back American manufacturing. Do you know what happened? Benefits began to be put in place for these countries to move their manufacturing overseas. These child labor laws that nobody has to pay attention to overseas, the fact that you can pay somebody cents on the hour to work for something, to make something, these unfair labor laws that are taking place. I understand Americans. We get paid for our knowledge, our ability, we get paid high per hour and, to be honest, it's a whole other conversation. We talk about the increase in minimum wage and what that has for an impact on this country and in a small business. So, yes, you pay more for American labor, but guess what? That's the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 1:I'm going to let you in on a little bit of a secret here. To the person that said, that t-shirt that you're buying for $20 is going to be $50, I got news for you Without the tariffs on that t-shirt, that big box store brand that you're supporting, you know what they paid for that t-shirt Cents, absolute cents. That t-shirt might cost them 98 cents. It might cost them $2 and 98 cents because they're making hundreds of thousands, if not millions of them. They're paying cents per hour for them to be done and to be produced. The cost of the product that they're using is dirt cheap and then they're shipping it over here and if they have a total all in cost on that t-shirt of $5 and they probably overpaid for it and they're gouging you their price, gouging you at that price point.
Speaker 1:But when you have little old me and a small town in maine that is buying his products that are made in america, paying american prices, paying for american manufacturing, without the benefit of high volume buying, because I'm not buying thousands of garments I'm lucky if I'm buying hundreds of garments. I'm not buying thousands, if not millions, of garments. I'm buying American goods made in America by American workers. I'm getting them into my own hands and I'm printing on them with my own American time and my own American products and I'm retelling them to you. And guess what? America? I'm making a living, I'm supporting my family and I'm supporting your neighbor's jobs and family. What I want you to really hear is the fact that little old me in small town America is buying at small quantities an American product and still making enough money to live. So when big box store Joe moves his factory back to America and he's making massive quantities of products, he can still make a living and so can all the Americans that are getting jobs working for big box store Joe that moved American manufacturing back to America. There is still money to be made.
Speaker 1:These people do not need to be charging you the price that they're charging you If they're charging you $30 for something which most of these big box stores their T-shirts, their patriotic brands. Let's get hyper-focused on something. There's a lot of patriotic brands out there that y'all support and I'm glad that you support them. But I want to drill in on something. There's a lot of patriotic brands in this country that aren't made in this country. They're coming over from China, they're coming over from Vietnam, from all these other places, and they're charging you $30 for that t-shirt. They're charging you $30 for that t-shirt. Listen, y'all, they don't own that t-shirt for more than $5, dude, they don't. Here I am buying an American made t-shirt, printing on it, pressing on it, doing whatever hell I have to do, and I'm selling that t-shirt to you for $27. And if you buy two of them, I'll sell them to you for $25 each, and I commonly often have things on my clearance rack for far less than that, and I'm still making a living and I'm still making a profit. So I'm buying American made goods and I'm selling to you less than most of these patriotic brands that aren't even buying their patriotic products in this patriotic country.
Speaker 1:I think it's anti-patriotic to have a t-shirt made in Vietnam that says I'm a proud, freaking American on it. That is so ridiculous. It's like buying an American flag made in China. None of it makes freaking sense. What I'm trying to tell you is this they're price gouging you now. They can move all their manufacturing to America and they can still charge the same damn price that they are charging now. They just won't be gouging the living hell out of you that they are right now.
Speaker 1:So don't think, just because you're paying $30 for something, that it's a fair price. They are taking advantage of you. They can buy American, support American and still give you that same damn product for that price. But here's the thing when they move all their shit out of China and they bring manufacturing back over here to America, guess what? All American goods price points come down. It's easier for all of us. It's easier for your old boy, keith Liberty, over here in small town, maine, to redouble down on his business, to revamp his business, to grow his business, to triple his business, because his costs are lower, because we're all playing by the fair game. We're all offering you products made in America and because there's so many opportunities and there's so many choices and so many avenues for American-made goods, we all benefit.
Speaker 1:Take your crybaby tariff bullshit and put it up your ass. I hope Trump makes all these Chinese goods 200% tariffs, because you know what, when they charge you 200%, you can still beat my pricing because you are gouging your customers. Hot damn hallelujah, where's the Tylenol Now? If you want to support an American business, an American brand, you want to support American manufacturing and this little old American right here trying to raise a baby. If you want to support an American business, an American brand, you want to support American manufacturing and this little old American right here trying to raise a baby and to pay bills and keep his family's land. You can find me at the Bangor Mall. That's right, though. It's true. I'm headed to the Bangor Mall.
Speaker 1:This weekend, loud Pride American hits the road again. I will be at the Bangor Mall for two days, saturday and Sunday. This is the first time you can buy Loud, proud American goods in a freaking mall, in a freaking box store. I know this might seem like small-time business, and it pretty much is because you have a mall that's running out of business and all these stores are closing. But the fact that for the first time I'm going to enter a mall and sell my products, there's something validating in my mind for my brand about the fact that you could roll into a mall.
Speaker 1:Because I'm still old school, because I still remember what it was like to get out of school and meet your friends at the main mall and to walk around and to hit the food court and to feel like Billy Badass because you're out shopping the mall with your friends. I still remember those days. So to think for a minute that my wife and I and my baby will be set up in a mall and these young kids are going to be coming in here enjoying themselves, going back to those moments, those memories of getting out of school and spending hours at the mall with your friends, and they're going to be purchasing from me an American-made product from me at a mall, a big box store. You know what I am proud and proud. That is the all-encompassing message of today. I'm proud of my business and where it's headed. I'm proud to be a first-time dad and I'm proud to be American and I'm proud of the fact that this country has taken a major step to being back to being a unified united states of America. Hot damn, am I excited. I hope I properly conveyed my excitement. I hope I properly encouraged you today. I hope that each and every one of you listening are excited about the possibilities. You're encouraged by the opportunities.
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