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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yeah, that's kind of a big difference, though. It's like saying, why should I be scared to fight the rock? He's just like any other person, except much larger. Yeah, that's the scary part. But I guess Trump's people must be confident that they can push China around because they're not just throwing around tariffs, they're throwing some shade.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Thank you, Michael. When we come back, Senator Tammy Duckworth will be joining me on the show, so don't go away. Welcome back to The Daily Show. My guest tonight is an Iraq war hero and Purple Heart recipient who currently represents Illinois in the U.S. Senate. Please welcome Senator Tammy Duckworth.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Well, man, if you cheer for Illinois and New York, that's tough. Yeah. Senator, you're a war hero. You served in Iraq. You sacrificed so much for your country. But you're also a Democrat. Why do you hate America?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yeah, like, you were a war veteran, and then you decided to go to Congress.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
I mean, what was harder, the war or Congress? I mean, it seems very tough.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
But you're in it.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
You're in it right now. I'm in it. Yeah. You used to fly missions in Iraq, right? I did, yeah. You were a helicopter?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
It's better. That's... It's amazing. Yeah. It's better. And you decided to run for Congress, and you won.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yeah. And, um... And, um, so... How are we treating our veterans?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yeah, and why do you do that?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yeah, so what, like, what was the, what was the, would he give any reason for firing?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
And how is that, how is that, okay, we get it. All right. They don't like it. And that's specifically, was it Doge or was it something else?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
But, okay, and that... I don't know. Are these people they can lose, or is it going to run fine? Is it running fine now? What's the situation in the Veterans Affairs?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
OK. And so I'm pissed. OK. Can anyone stop this?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Like, one at a time? Literally one at a time. So there's jobs. There's jobs that were lost, but then there's overall just, like, veteran health care, right?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay, so... Just to put it out there, this is also a guy who arguably a lot of veterans would also vote for at the time. So how do you reconcile that?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay. So... Yeah. So, I mean, I guess the relevant question is, do you think it's changing the opinion of the people who voted for him?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Yay! He's really calling Chinese people peasants. Nobody likes to be called a peasant. Even legit peasants are like, actually, I consider myself more of a agricultural entrepreneur. But yeah, JD Vance called the Chinese peasants a couple weeks ago, and now that the news finally got to their villages by donkey cart, they are pissed.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Was he dead?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
But, like, okay. But, again, the question is, okay, so we all have... Obviously, you know, what kind of preachings are required here? Obviously, the people who didn't like... who didn't want to vote for his president still... We maintain that we shouldn't have voted for this guy. The question is, what about the veterans specifically? Because you're more in touch with that community. Yeah.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Do you feel that there is a change in sentiment that was previously overwhelmingly in his favor? Do you think it's changing a bit, or is it still very much, no, he's doing the right thing, we don't see a problem, the issues are exaggerated? I mean, is that...
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
So sick of these Gen X people.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
You say this, but then it's like... They... He kind of said what he was going to do before he ran. Pete Hegseth was Pete Hegseth before he got appointed against, you know, women in military. They still won. So my question is, is anything that's happened changing the sentiment?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Are you saying that white people can't speak Swahili?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay, I mean that's, that deserves an applause. That's a nice sentiment. I hope you're right because we cover the news every day here and I just feel like nothing changes, moves the needle either way. I do a lot of jujitsu, all the jujitsu guys are like, like a lot of veteran people. So I'm not connected to that community at all. Let me just say the ones I have met are very MAGA.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Right. And on the on the subject of DEI. So another thing you've recently had to you on the front lines of hiring because they had to you were in the Senate when people had to get confirmed. And so you were part of the committees had to have hearings on who to confirm. And so I guess you're kind of on the front lines of this.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Like, I don't know what you want to call this, a backlash against DEI towards meritocracy. And you were you had to basically appoint approve the secretary of defense.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Just give him a chance.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
This is the least... What do you not like about this guy?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
But. You've never planned an outing with group chat before?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
So what do you say to the people who are like, who think that the DEI thing in the military is inappropriate if you can't use DEI categories in the military for hiring.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay. So... He got confirmed, though.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Right.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Party line vote.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Oh, okay. So that brings me to the next question. I mean, you're actually on the front lines of Congress. Yeah. You have to talk to Republican congressmen all the time. Like, what is it in Congress? Are people... Are your colleagues, Republican colleagues, are they seeing the same reality behind closed doors and telling you, like, hey, listen, I know this is crazy, but whatever?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Or are they are they are they drinking? Are they are they true believers drinking Kool-Aid? What's happening in there?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Are they true believers or are they, you know what I mean?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Right.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Sure. So, I mean, you know, again, you have been... You've always kind of... I think you've kind of played with integrity. You've always stood by your word. I do. Yeah. How do you... The Democrats, like... have lost a lot in the last. They don't control any branch of government. They don't control the popular vote. They don't have any cultural momentum.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
At the same time though, saying you're a 5,000 year old civilization doesn't intimidate Americans, because half the people here don't even think the Earth is that old. Also, let's just be real, okay? There's no way Americans are the peasants here. Do peasants have medical debt? Didn't think so. Checkmate, China. But it's not just Chinese officials who are mad.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
So clearly, they were doing something wrong. What should they be doing? What message isn't getting through here?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Just because he said specifically he was going to deport that guy's wife.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Sure. Do you think that message is coming across?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Well, I hope you're right, Senator. Thank you. Thank you so much for coming to speak to me. Thank you for serving our country. Thanks for serving with integrity. And thanks for representing Asian people and Southeast Asian people in America. I really appreciate it. Senator Tammy Duckworth, everybody. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back after this. That's our show for the night.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
China has extremely online losers just like our peasants, and they're mad too.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Now here it is, your moment of Zed.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait, is that, is that Michael Kosta? How did the third whitest host of a daily show go viral in China before the Asian one? That's up. That's... That's... That's the same triangle in everything. Wait, is China watching this? Oh, okay, well, uh, hey, thanks for watching this. Um... Hi, Chinese friends. I don't believe what I'm saying right now.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
I'm just robbing Paramount. Thank you for using this video. I was just talking tough to China. But words are not China's only weapon in this trade war. They're also using, you know, trade.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Welcome to The Daily Show. I'm Roy Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight. TikTok is making offers you can't refuse. America makes Canada an offer it's definitely refusing. And Trump and China are fighting so hard they should just make out already. So let's get right into the latest developments in Trade Wars. My favorite word.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay, so rare earth metals are critical. Well, maybe we should have thought that before we launched a trade war against a country that had them all. I mean, where are we gonna get our gadolinium now, huh? We're gonna buy Congolese gadolinium? That shit's mid. Well, what else are they hitting us with?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Come on, you're not going to accept our Boeing jets? Well, good luck finding another plane with self-crashing technology. Is there anything else?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Oh, no. If Chinese students stop coming to the US, who are Americans going to lose their spots to? Indians? Yeah, yeah, that'll work, yeah, actually. Actually, yes. But look, Americans have to stay strong, okay? I don't wanna hear any whining. Oh no, China's not buying our made-in-America products. Well, suck it up, patriots.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Certain industries are just gonna have to suffer, and that's how it is, because this is war.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay, that. This war has gone too far. Some of our finest, most likable Chinese-Malaysian actors have built a career in Asian-themed movies that depend on the Chinese market, all right? It's called... It's called Crazy Rich Asians, not Crazy Just Getting By Asians. And don't forget, this affects you too, China.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
If you ban American movies, how will you ever find out the ending to all these remakes of movies from decades ago? But as drastic as some of these trade policies are, they're nothing compared to the awesome power of Chinese propaganda. And luckily for China, we all have a Chinese propaganda app on our phones.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
I am getting you that Gucci bag for your birthday. But forget about the designer products because these TikToks aren't just offering cheap Chanel bags. They're offering cheap everything. Do you want to buy laundry pots?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Good news, honey. I am getting you that prefabricated house for Memorial Day. For more on the trade war, we go live to the White House with Troy Iwata.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Okay, Troy, please don't thank the trade war, all right? If tensions keep building, it could be economically devastating.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
They're real if you believe, Ronnie. Okay, but if everyone can afford to get them, are they even really luxury goods anymore?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
It's been two weeks since Liberation Day and we're in a full-blown trade war with China, with tariffs now at 145%, which means the trade war has officially moved from shower to grower. And some people are concerned about this trade war because they want the economy to be good or something. But you know what? Trump is not stressing about it.
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
This is still a huge risk, all right? Is it really worth a market crash just to get a washing machine for 20 bucks? A whole washing machine for $20?
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China Strikes Back at Tariffs by Roasting JD Vance & Selling Out Luxury Retailers | Sen. Tammy Duckworth
When we come back, Michael Kosta visits our new estate, so don't go away. Thank you. Welcome back to The Daily Show. Donald Trump might be in the middle of a trade war, but we shouldn't forget his other wars. Michael Kosta checked in on them just to find out what's going on.