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I know I’m only echoing the other comments here but sincerely, thank you so much for these periodic impromptu videos. They’re keeping me (loosely) tethered to sanity amidst the nightmare.
This!!! Much of the personal finance sphere is trying to justify/normalize this economic terrorism. This is not normal behavior. Thank you, Chelsea, for giving real analysis.
Nightmare is correct. JFC, so unnecessary.
❤same
It makes me feel so much more sane.
I’ll take a slice of it. What kind of pie? Ask the rock. It’s his favorite kind of pie. Yummy yummy yummy
Canadian here. I love your channel so much, and I appreciate how raw you are. The majority of us feel like the USA has kicked us in the gut. It’s extremely sad.
I think there are more of us who support you friends in Canada than want to see it destroyed, financially or otherwise.
A lot of us feel kicked in the gut too 🙁
The USA has been keeping your economy afloat for decades.
Many of us here in the USA love y’all please know
It’s like, Canadians all know Americans, watch American news, follow American social media. We know how many Americans oppose Trump. We know this is Trump and all the Republicans who are for some reason choosing to support him. None of that, however, un-bruises our intestines.
People forget (or more likely never knew in the first place) that globalization is a core element of promoting and maintaining national security, and global peace more broadly. It ensures that there is an economic incentive for countries to cooperate, compromise, and just generally get along. It is the primary reason why an actual hot war with China has (until now) remained largely impossible, because both sides were dependent on each other for their economic health.
This is just a reminder that this is not only going to make us all poorer…it will make Americans less safe, both at home and abroad.
Such a good point.
It’s the same blindness that makes people claim we don’t need vaccines because polio or measles or whatever “doesn’t exist here” 🙄
you’re right, internationalism and working with others is the point!
China has been allowed to get away with outrageous things for too long. That’s the problem. Bu the issue isn’t globalisation. The issue is that, in the US system, corporations are too powerful. The American govt has been wanting to take action against China for years, but was held back by corporate lobbyists.
@@SamuelBurritoUK How do the actions of the current US administration limit the influence of corporations?
The fact that you always say what you feel with no pandering to either audience or commercial expectations is a superpower.
She’s just speaking truth
Gotta be me!
Amen
❤this
Agreed. Along with the fact that these impromptu videos aren’t sponsored and don’t have advertisements scattered throughout.
The authenticity is refreshing.
Now I’m crying. It’s hard to feel hopeful when money has such a stronghold on our political system.
You’re not alone ❤
I’ll be going about my day feeling okay or even happy about something, and then I’ll remember all the terrible stuff that’s happening because of Trump’s regime and I well up. I thought his first term was bad but this is SO MUCH WORSE.
Sounds like it has a strong hold on you.
@@psycus Time to start working on your compassion
Yeah, maybe you should have made Citizens United an issue when your side was in power, huh?
Partisan fools.
This is the first time I’ve ever been tempted to tell a stranger on social media “you’re so right bestie” but you’re so right bestie. Thank you for being so smart and so angry about this.
Financial advisor: “Are you guys sitting down.”
when you said, “the country i see walking around the streets of New York,” it really drove home to me how many people never see that place. never *will* see that place, can’t afford to see that place. if they’re lucky, they visit it and get a confused snapshot through a tourist’s lens.
i wish i could afford to live in New York, or Seattle, or San Francisco, or Boston. i’ve been lucky to be able to see some of those places as more than a tourist, at least.
but most people in this country can’t afford to access *most of their own country.* and that makes it so much easier to lie to them about what is happening in any of those places.
Yes! My favorite memories of life in this USA have been moments, whether in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, etc., where, whether at a protest, or just eating at a restaurant, I’m surrounded by the diversity (meaning race, but also age, gender, clothing style, whatever), and therefore, the beauty and potential, of what this country could be – everywhere.
If you were fortunate to live in or visit those cities prior to 2020, you’ll have wonderful memories. They’re sadly a shadow of their former selves. Look up before and after photos and you’ll see.
@@user-ln2hg2oe4c 2020 definitely took its toll on my city, but I’m looking forward to the future of it! We’ve been investing in a lot of infrastructure for Seattle and the region, like the light rail expansions to many nearby cities and a new walkable park that connects all the downtown tourist spots together.
Would highly recommend people who haven’t seen Seattle since 2023 to come visit again 😊
@@user-ln2hg2oe4c Having been to NYC, Boston, and SF in the last couple if years I can assure you they’re largely fine; before and after photos of single blocks in huge cities don’t tell an accurate story of what it’s like to be there.
@@user-ln2hg2oe4c I live in San Francisco. The media portrays a bleak, shitty hellhole that I wouldn’t want to live in, and fortunately I do not. I live in a city where people are trying to take care of each other, and I encounter so much beauty daily. I live in a city where public transit has been invested in better than almost any other metropolitan area in the country, my local pub initiates a weekly public sidewalk pickup, and I can get three steamed pork buns for $4. There are issues here, as with any place in the U.S. in 2025, but we’re a resilient community and people here are working to make things better.
try sharing a home with people like this. its truly one of the most upsetting things ive ever experienced. to watch your parents’ brains slowly leak out of their skull. my mom rarely looks up from her phone, she constantly has an earbud in her ear listening to these lunatics making podcasts in their basement. im grieving my parents and they ARE NOT DEAD. it’s horrifying.
Sending you solidarity hugs. My family has been taking turns staying with my mother to help take care of her while she’s on hospice. She spends a ludicrous amount of time watching Fox news every day. I’ll gently suggest she watch something else but the next day she’s always back to it. And you don’t want to start getting into it with politics because at this stage there’s nothing to be gained from it, so I just keep my mouth shut as much as I can. I can’t imagine wanting to spend your final days immersed in the news but that’s what she’s choosing to do.
@ that sounds like hell on earth to me but that’s just how these people get, so bogged down in anger and hatred. im so sorry your mother isn’t in her right mind for the last moments you have with her. i hope she finds some peace, and i hope you do as well.
@@hannamadethis Thank you and the same to you!
Do you think it’s possible to disagree with someone, politically, without insulting them ?
Why not just focus on why exactly you disagree with their worldview ?
I understand where you’re coming from. Though I haven’t lived with them for many years, I watch my parents and my sister buying into this insanity and the blind allegiance, and I just look at them now and as much as I love them, I more and more find myself thinking “I don’t even know who you are anymore; I feel like you’re a stranger”. As you said, it’s painful. I think what may be even more painful frankly, is that I don’t know that I can ever see them the same way again or respect them in the way I did before. It has just irrevocably changed how I see them.
These people aren’t, “I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face”— They’re full on, “Actually, it’s GREAT that leopards are eating faces! Bring on the leopards!”
And then they’ll turn around and blame immigrants and trans kids for bringing in the leopards.
Either that, it’s “What leopards? There are no leopards, you just have leopard derangement syndrome!” while standing 6 feet from a leopard eating a face. They can’t even get their stories straight anymore because they don’t even care.
Been seeing more and more of “The leopard ate my face, but I’m proud to donate my face for the good of the leopards. You’re unpatriotic and selfish for not wanting your face gored off.”
Okay I’m finally gonna ask: what’s this about leopard eating faces? I’ve seen it everywhere but I don’t understand what leopards eating faces has to do with politics? Sorry, to bother you, I have autism and I’m not good at figuring out what figures of speech mean because I take most things literally and have trouble relating it to things.
Thanks!
@@SP_urbex leopards are wild animals, known for maiming and killing people (eating faces). When you encounter a leopard, you cannot be surprised if it eats your face (maims/kills you). In the context of politics, politicians – and in this case, particularly far right politicians – often campaign on anti-poor, anti-progression of society platforms. When those politicians then start implementing anti-poor, anti-human policies, which inevitably affect everyone, not just immigrants and BIPOC, the people who voted for them cannot claim that they didn’t know leopards eat faces (the leopards being the politicians). I hope this makes more sense to you now
I feel like I’m going insane, everyone keeps saying “the tariffs make no sense” but they make perfect sense if your goal is to cause the economic strife and instability that fascism thrives on. If no one can afford to live beyond the bare minimum they can’t afford to go protest, vote, etc. These policies and rhetoric mirror the past so well with the ideas the right pedals whether it be economic self-sufficiency in the form of isolationism, or this idea of suffering before a national rebirth. They aren’t trying to do anything good for the economy, they don’t care about that, they want people to suffer so that they can maintain power.
Something to keep in mind: all the historical similarities are obvious, but they obfuscate the historical differences. In the past, fascism thrived when external forces foisted economic struggle onto nations, and strong man nationalists became symbols people rallied around as they postured against external forces.
Things are very different this time. How will the populace react to economic distress when the economic distress is self evidently caused *by* the nation’s leader? When fascism arose historically, it was the people ceding power to the state to combat an enemy. But today the people view their own state as the primary enemy.
It saddens me that a lot of people can’t make those dots connect even when they’re laid out, as easily as you just have. I have really been trying with some folks, but they just want to meme on math bad, tell me that’s farfetched etc. It’s free to ask “to whose benefit is math bad?” It’s not farfetched, it has precedent in history more recent than people want to believe.
I just watched a video by Jessie Gender about this exact topic and she delves in to this exact point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0qKHcoFEH0
@@tinfoilslacks3750he wants conditions that will allow him to be a dictator
“it feels like its been 5 years but its been fifty five days.” Same, dude. Same.
Reminds me of what the first Trump presidency felt like but worse. The news cycle is nonstop and there’s always some new, awful thing happening. I can’t believe people voted for this again.
That’s because our minds are just scrambling to try to figure things out and stay off the destruction. I’ve never seen this woman before. So I haven’t been following any kind of her advice. I didn’t even look at my portfolio until the other day and I was surprised that things were holding steady, butthese last few days…
About a third of Americans still think they are fighting the civil war. I don’t know how you even begin to reason with those people
If you find a way, let us know. They are in a cult.
They never stopped. It’s the other side that thought they won. Still do.
It never ended.
You can’t reason with them because it’s not about reason. Like him or not, Trump spoke to a section of the population that felt like they were being ignored for decades. They follow him because all they feel like they have is their faith in him. You can’t reason someone out of their faith.
@@seanwilliams7655 The thing about those people who listen to Trump, they’re not wrong about the fact that the working class hasn’t seen a raise in decades. They’re not wrong that their children will never be able to afford a house. They’re not wrong that the milquetoast neoliberalism espoused by people like Clinton, Biden or Harris does nothing to address rampant wealth inequality. They not wrong about that nagging feeling they have that the system is rigged against them. Is a moron like Trump going to fix any of that? no, of course not, and it’s a little mystifying that they would have such faith in a billionaire of all people to fix the iniquities in our system… But they are correct to see that people like Biden or Harris won’t fix it either.
Just want to put this out there for those willing to consider it—i felt this despair in 2017. I was spiraling. I saw our country slipping away. But the best thing I ever did was start volunteering in my community. Helping where I could in little roles in a few close-knit organizations where I could see the impact of my actions right in front of me, has kept me grounded and sane for the last decade of profound disappointment this country has caused me. It sickens me that we’ve slid into such a darkness that we could see ahead of us in 2016, but never stopped…. But knowing I can be of reliable help to others near me is somewhat of a salve. I cannot recommend it enough, not only for the benefit of society but also for your own spirit and well-being. Please take my advice and volunteer where you can, it makes a world of a difference, and will bring you moments of joy when you need them the most.
Completely agree. I started volunteering at an animal rescue about a month ago because I was feeling helpless and unhappy, and I wanted to not feel that way anymore. I tell you, being around the cats and puppies, helping to find them good homes, pitching in for a nonprofit that needed more hands on deck, has brought me some much-needed joy. I also started volunteering with New York Cares again, delivering boxes of food to families in need. It’s not much, but being even a small part of making someone else’s life easier makes me feel a little less helpless in the midst of all this chaos.
love this
I haven’t expressed this much to those around me, but I’m really freaking scared. I was entering college when COVID started, I grew up in poverty, I was so sure that going to school and entering the workforce would be my way out. And the year I enter it all my loved ones and their livelihoods are in jeapordy and threatened, not just economically, but socially, and literally. It’s really hard to be hopeful when all you’ve experienced is this instability. It all feels very inescapable. I’ve been watching the financial diet since high school and it’s helped me understand so much. Sorry to be a bummer lol, I’m very grateful for these videos
yeahhh. The years i was supposed to be getting my work years in got gobbled up by covid, and my graduation year even got bumped back a year. by the time i graduated, my associates degree became useless! now its a bachelors they want! or a reference! or a cover letter!
Yeah it’s just been hit after hit after hit and I’m pissed that all these old people who don’t understand basic common problems and everyday technology are in charge of us.
@@chelseashurmantine8153 As an “old” person, I completely understand how you and other younger people feel. It is absolutely criminal how many of my peers are purposely ignorant of the benefits we enjoyed while we were young and into middle age. I am sick of hearing my friends say they worked hard for what they have, ignoring completely the fact that we all benefited from an easy job market and stable economy. And I am sure they are sick of me trying to explain it to them.
“Working themselves into all kinds of pretzels of cognitive dissonance to support things that are directly harmful to them”
Thank you for putting so wonderfully the stupid behaviour I have been trying to explain for a long time. I will for sure use this in the future.
A lot of us are putting the mental picture of the MAGA supporter who hasn’t bailed out together.
These people have given themselves to cult-like thinking because they NEED it. Nuance confuses them and they would rather blame and attack people than admit they aren’t able to deal with something.
A.G.
I’m a German-American living in Germany and I just wanted to hop on here and thank you for providing much needed insight. German mainstream media is not covering the depth of what is actually happening right now, it’s all very surface level and I feel like I’m being kept in a bubble.
Your videos help me a lot with putting things into perspective.
That’s actually a little surprising to me. I was under the impression that Germany tends to be fairly well versed on worldwide news, or at least has news that provides the ability to do so.
That said, the longer you can stay there, probably the better. What do you feel like is missing from your knowledge? I’d be more than happy to try to provide some insight into what’s going on here stateside.
We are informed through US and UK and … media. I have a german newspaper for the local market. No idea whats happening on TV here …
@@Klust413 Guess it depends on what depth you want. It _is_ on the news, sure – but not all encompassing. Not on the level US media will do, albeit possibly a bit more neutral. There are other relevant things like the ongoing coalition talks etc.
@@Klust413 well, there surely is news coverage, but the fact that Trump and his gang are basically ticking off more and more boxes on the fascism scale go pretty unmentioned, except by left leaning media outlets such as TAZ, which is a newspaper I read.
It is very disturbing actually. All we seem to talk about is the economic issues we might be facing but the fact that there’s basically a fascist president in the white house is not being said clearly and definitively.
Germany, too, is experiencing a strong push to the political right, even to right extremism in parts, and it feels a little like the media, economy and especially most political parties, apart from dieLinke (the left) are sort of just slowly accepting this as the new norm, and are in parts actively participating in it, which I find very troubling and also quite scary.
I have dual citizenship (for now) but the centre-right conservative party that won the last federal election is trying to put that in question, too, all in an effort to appease people enough to not vote the far right AfD party come next election.
It won’t work, it never does. It just moves the Overton window further to right and already has.
I hardly follow the German media, but it should be the case that, in addition to the problems caused by Trump, we are also reporting on the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, for example.
It’s enough when the Americans only ever focus on themselves. The world should stop doing this.
I am livid. Not only re: the Market, but the totalitarianism we are moving toward. The people imprisoned without due process. The crops rotting in the fields. The lonely, homebound old people waiting for their cheerful Meals on Wheels visitor who will never come. I am livid. And heartbroken.
How about the 500,000 Americans dead from fentanyl or the tens of millions driven on to welfare from your ‘open border’ and ‘free trade’ nonsense?
I really f*ckin appreciate the empathy you have towards the people who have been, as you correctly state—propagandized. That is a sentiment I can’t get most people to agree to when I talk about it. I feel like it’s an important “2 things are true at once” thing to hold on to.
THANK YOU for calling out the neoliberals that is our current Democratic Party. I keep saying this to be met with major pushback and accusations that I’m a trumpet. It’s made me start to think I’m crazy. Thank you so much for this.
I disagree, first I want to share some faith. Keep the hope. The regressive world wide movement wants to convince you it’s ascendant, in it’s INEVITABILITY.
But this is far more fiction than fact. We are building.
As for the idea that Kamala’s policies would’ve continued the same problems, I think when we talk wealth inequality, that is quite possible, and that’s a big deal. But along other fronts, I think absolutely not. Then, on that the S&P will be the adult in the room, I’m sorry but here you’re just dead wrong. That will not happen. I’m big on “know your enemy well” and believe me, that will not happen. This is more insidious.
Also, fortunately we do not have to have traitor voters. There are many, 35%, of eligible voters who did not vote. Battling that apathy is a higher conversion strategy, then battling the malevolence of traitor voters.
Anyways, keep the faith y’all. And mark your calendars, April 19th!