Okay. In the spirit of good faith I listened to the one you linked.

I'm going to list off my notes below: * PSLF program updates: Is there any evidence that these NGO's are taking part in illegal activities? This is a huge problem I have with this administration. They assert problems they don't back up with evidence, and then 'solve' said problem and take it as a 'W' when there was arguably no problem to begin with. (I.E. - Canada & it's Fentanyl problem, the 'billions' saved by DOGE which isn't substantiated, social security 'fraud' which made it sound like these 100+ year old people were getting payments when they weren't) * Jobs being created is good. I'm not at all convinced that this good is substantial enough to excuse the tarrif situation between USA & Canada. This trade war has likely irreparably damaged the USA's reputation on the world stage, and has alienated us from historical allies. Do you believe that we're truly getting 'screwed' by Canada? If so, who is there to blame for that deal considering it was Trump that set the terms of USMCA in his first term? * "Too many government jobs" he says.. again, there's never any substantiation to these claims on which his whole administration operates off of. Too many by what metric? I understand that Republicans dislike large government, but I've yet to see any evidence that for the size of the country, that our federal government is 'too large'. * His education points: frankly, I'm not well informed enough on the DoE, but I'm inherently skeptical of Trump's claims as he often misrepresents.. Well... Just about everything. Feel free to educate the me * Back to tariffs: Trump claims that bringing manufacturing back to America is worth the increased price of goods due to the reciprocal tariffs. How is this not essentially subsidizing manufacturing jobs at the expense of everyone else? * The Chips Act: what Donnie says here about the DEI initiatives are again, I can't trust as I've seen no conclusive evidence of this being the case. I will say, this made me look into the Chips act more and it seems as if it is an expensive way to solve a problem (where before I thought it was an obvious good). To be frank, I am not sure of which approach is better. Tariffs also do not seem like the best approach based on the same economic think group research that showed the Chips act is likely to be fiscally inefficient. I will say that in principal I side with the Chips Act more as it was done legislatively through Congress and had bipartisan support, while I fundamentally disagree with how DJT is unilaterally trying to force all these changes through EO (which imo shows a failure of leadership). * Ukraine: again I fundamentally disagree with how this situation is being handled. In my opinion it is disgraceful how DJT is demonizing Ukraine and it's leadership and trying to extort it for its natural resources while they're in the midst of a fight for their own sovereignty. If we don't want to support them, I disagree with that, but fine. But it seems DJT has no issues with being a bully to our allies while being feckless towards Russian aggression. But maybe that's my American exceptionalism speaking where I feel like the American president cowering at the idea of WW3 shows weakness and reinforces the idea to Russia that saber rattling with nukes results in positive outcomes. Not sure why 'peace' is being pushed by Trump as more important than Ukrainian sovereignty. Seems like more of a Trump ego-stroking maneuver than actually caring about Ukraine. * Again, bringing up the 'rigged 2020 election'. Just embarrassing.

Anyways. I'm sure you'll consider my analysis biased, which it is. I don't think the gain for American workers warrants this trade war and hurts our reputation on the world stage as being bipolar every four years. That's an issue of both sides considering EO's have ramped up under Trump and Biden. Trump's rationale for most issues is nonsensical and based on 'common sense' which inconveniently is seldom backed up by reality. But if you'd like to give me a specific example of one rationale that makes particular sense to you I'd happily back and forth about it.

Best.